User talk:Sarah GM

Internet Universality moved to Draft:Internet Universality

Internet Universality has been moved to Draft:Internet Universality due to the excessive number of disambiguation links making the article unsuitable for inclusion in mainspace at this time. Please fix the disambiguation links before requesting restoration of the page to mainspace. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:08, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Internet Universality

When you write articles such as Internet Universality please just wikilink words once when they are first mentioned. Once in the lead and once in the body of the article is a good rule of thumb. This article contains 12 links to UNESCO, for example. If you need any further assistance, please get in touch. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:58, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help! Sarah GM (talk) 13:27, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Online hate speech

Hi, I'm Graeme Bartlett. Sarah GM, thanks for creating Online hate speech!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Since this article focuses mostly about efforts to curtail it, it does not cover motivation, or much about freedom of speech.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 03:30, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Sarah GM! Thank you for your contributions. I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! GigglesnortHotel (talk) 20:30, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your warm welcome! Very much appreciated. Sarah GM (talk) 13:28, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your help! It was a silly mistake. Best, Sarah GM (talk) 13:25, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disruptive editing

It's clear you have good intentions here, but you also seem to be looking to use Wikipedia as a platform for activism, which is not permitted. Wikipedia articles are required to remain strictly neutral, and to never advocate for anyone or anything, not even good causes. Please try to make smaller contributions toward articles rather than massive text dumps. Also, since it's become very clear you have a conflict of interest in regards to UNESCO, please suggest edits based on that on the talk page of articles rather than making them directly and follow all other conflict of interest guidelines, and remember that material from them should not be stated in Wikipedia's voice as simple fact. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 04:33, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

sources

Hi would you mind explaining why you have systematically broken a large number of URLS in you sources? This avoids them being accessed, you have sytematically added nowiki code and added spaces to these references. I am having a hell of a job cleaning this up. I hope it is not an attempt to hide copyright violation. Dom from Paris (talk) 17:28, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Domdeparis:I think its a bug in Visual Editor causing this issue, I'll work with Sarah to work out what is going wrong and file a ticket on Phabricator if needed, thanks for trying to fix it. How would adding nowiki around URLs hide copyright violation? Is this a thing people do? John Cummings (talk) 11:53, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@John Cummings: Copyvio checks the URLs that are on the page and if the URLs are broken or hidden with <nowiki> then the tool can't check them. As Sarah has been warned about copyvio and has never replied or posted on any talk page and seems to have ignored the warnings this sets off alarm bells. Users that do not engage in discussion sometimes become problem users. Dom from Paris (talk) 12:44, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Domdeparis: just to let you know that not posting on talk pages doesn't mean that I don't read and acknowledge the comments made by you and others. I simply don't feel comfortable doing so, but always do my best to make things better. Best. Sarah GM (talk) 12:53, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Sarah thanks for your reply. The trouble is that Wikipedia is a collaboratif project that aims to build consensus in editing and editors that do not acknowledge comments on their talk page may just be ignoring them especially when the same problem has been repeated. You might want to read WP:DISRUPTSIGNS especially #4 as this will explain why alarm bells go off sometimes. Dom from Paris (talk) 13:05, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Domdeparis: thank you for explaining, Wikipedia can be more complicated than we would think. I will try to express myself more and am taking into account everything that is said in here. Sarah GM (talk) 13:16, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. You don't have to get into long conversations but just a minimum to reassure other editors that you are not just ignoring what is being said. Happy editing! Dom from Paris (talk) 13:20, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Domdeparis:, thanks for the clarification about the tool and explaining things further, I didn't know that was how it worked, I thought it used a general web search. John Cummings (talk) 13:29, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome, when you run the tool it automatically checks "search engine" and "links in page". This is the explanation at the top of the page "This tool attempts to detect copyright violations in articles. In search mode, it will check for similar content elsewhere on the web using Google, external links present in the text of the page, or Turnitin(provided by EranBot), depending on which options are selected. In comparison mode, the tool will skip the searching step and display a report comparing the article to the given webpage, like the Duplication Detector." Dom from Paris (talk) 13:49, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for the explanation :) John Cummings (talk) 14:10, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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