User talk:Adamdaley/Archives/2020/December

Nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject Newcomer and Historian of the Year awards now open

G'day all, the nominations for the 2020 Military history WikiProject newcomer and Historian of the Year are open, all editors are encouraged to nominate candidates for the awards before until 23:59 (GMT) on 15 December 2020, after which voting will occur for 14 days. There is not much time left to nominate worthy recipients, so get to it! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:45, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Are you running AWB?

Hello Adamdaley. Please stop your recent run of edits on Talk pages involving white space-only changes. Are you running Automated Wiki Browser by any chance? I notice that of your last 500 contributions in the last week or so, 473 of them all have the same edit summary, "Cleanup", with no specific indication what you are actually doing. In addition, for a bunch of them that I spot-checked, every one of them has MOS:VAR violations involving insertion or deletion of white space, which in no way improves the page (and in a few, rare cases, makes it worse due to indentation corruption in the wikicode). If you are using AWB, please be aware that *every* edit with your name on it is your responsibility; it doesn't matter who wrote the rule, or if they made a mistake or not, or if AWB was targeted to the right article or not; your edit, your responsibility. If you are running AWB, please modify your edit summary to make that clear. Thank you, Mathglot (talk) 21:46, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

@Mathglot: --- No. I am not running AWB. I was told that I could put any summary I wanted since I was not "indicating" my edits. It is a simple "cleanup" since most article talkpages have been neglected. So therefore I "clean up" those WikiProject Banners. I may as well quit since I am being "limited" editing from several other people on wikipedia. Adamdaley (talk) 06:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Adam, wow, that's a lot of edits for not running AWB, you must be very dedicated, indeed! We can use that level of industry and passion here. There's no need to quit; let's think about what sort of thing you enjoy doing here, and concentrate on those, or maybe even find some new ideas or new ways to contribute. Are you open to that? Also, not sure what kind of "limitations" you have in mind, but there are certainly a lot of articles in need of improvement, is that something you'd enjoy? What are your interest areas, what kinds of articles would you like to edit? What brought you to Wikipedia in the first place? Let's see if we can parlay that into something that needs doing, that you'd also enjoy. Mathglot (talk) 07:29, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Voting for "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" closing

G'day all, voting for the WikiProject Military history "Military Historian of the Year" and "Military history newcomer of the year" is about to close, so if you haven't already, click on the links and have your say before 23:59 (GMT) on 30 December! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC) for the coord team