User talk:TheSmartPersonUS1

Hello. This is TheSmartPersonUS1. And this is my talk page. If I am not active, leave your section on the talk page and put it on your watchlist.

I will archive my talk page every 50 sections. This is my first talk page.

If I have left you a message: please answer on your talk page, as I am watching it. If I have been active and have not yet responded, please place {{Talkback|your username}} on my page as I may have missed your response.
If you leave me a message: I will answer on my talk page, so please add it to your watchlist. If I notice that you have been active but have not responded, I may place {{Talkback|TheSmartPersonUS1}} on your page in case you have missed my response.
Please click here to leave me a new message.

Archives

Archive 1

Welcome!

Welcome!

Hello, TheSmartPersonUS1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ~~~~, which will automatically produce your name and the date.

If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or click here to ask a question on your talk page. Again, welcome!

– Fayenatic London 20:48, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for June 7

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Ashtray, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Dealer (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:18, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

About Wikia

Wikia is classified as a user generated source, which we fails our reliable sourcing standards. As a general rule of thumb, if a source has "wiki" anywhere in the name (including Wikipedia) or it operates on the Monkeys on typewriters principle (like Wikipedia or Wikia), it's not a reliable source. Non-primary Professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources are preferred (with academic sources generally beating out journalistic sources, and tertiary sources usually beating secondary sources). Ian.thomson (talk) 15:29, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for telling me. TheSmartPersonUS1 (talk) 22:35, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Go to WP:RS see our sourcing policy in exhaustive (exhausting) detail. I've been editing WP for more than a decade, and it's only hit me recently how strange and wonderous it is. 15+ years. More than 10 million editors in that time. More than 5.6 million articles. 130,000 active editors in the last 30 days. Nobody checks on who these editors are, and nobody assigns tasks to any editor and nobody reports to anyone else. We just follow our policies and try to achieve consensus. Primarily because of the anonymity of editors, WP:RS is one of those critically important policies. -Arch dude (talk) 18:04, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for June 18

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Ashtray, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Table and Receptacle (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:33, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Original Wikipedian

Category:Original Wikipedian, which you created, has been nominated for deletion. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_July_2#Category:Original_Wikipedian. – Fayenatic London 20:48, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Template:Original Wikipedian

Template:Original Wikipedian, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Original Wikipedian and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Template:Original Wikipedian during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. – Fayenatic London 10:42, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A request for your help

Hello, TheSmartPersonUS1!

I am enlisting your aid! As one of Wikipedia's premier grammar experts, I am asking you to help close a Request for Comment that you are uninvolved in. I cannot possibly think of someone as knowledgeable in this field than you and thus am asking for your help.

If you have never closed a discussion before, the following links may be helpful:

So what do you say? Are you willing to close this grammar-related discussion? ―Matthew J. Long -Talk-^☖ 23:37, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. From America, TheSmartPersonUS1 ^(TSPUS1) (talk) 01:53, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure#Wikipedia talk:Did you know#RfC: Commas in DYK This is the debate. Thank you! :D ―Matthew J. Long -Talk-^☖ 04:04, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@MattLongCT:

Done. From America, TheSmartPersonUS1 ^(TSPUS1) (talk) 00:15, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Did you know#RfC: Commas in DYK

Hello. I have reverted your close of the RfC at the following discussion per objections from a number of users that the close did not take into account the comments of all sides, and that the closing opinion reflected the opinion of the closer instead of being based on the discussion. Thank you and happy editing. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 02:26, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Narutolovehinata5, my apologies to everyone involved. I just closed this right now as No consensus. ―Matthew J. Long -Talk-^☖ 22:17, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

i love me soem fired chikne

fired chikne for lief Luststan20 (talk) 13:41, 25 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Luststan20: Yayy! I really needed a cookie! Wait, is this a fried chicken flavored cookie? I like this even more! From America, TheSmartPersonUS1 ^(TSPUS1) (talk) 02:58, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Openlydialectic

I have seen a few weeks ago you had a run in with a user that goes by Openlydialectic regarding too many citations. This user accused me of vandalizing Nadia Murad's Wikipedia page in October because I removed a photo that depicted her as an Osama bin Laden looking bearded Arabic man and she is 100% female. He promptly reverted my change and accused me of vandalism. If anything he is sexist depicting a womans rights activist in this manner, insisting I was the one who was wrong. His change was shortly axed again and the page locked from editing because of him. Today there is a correct photo of the woman who looks nothing like a bearded Arabic man. He can be seen tagging others for editing things for political reasons on his page, yet this seems just as political to me, putting down a woman who fights for rights in an area of the world where they are struggling for such rights but showing her as being a man. But it turns out he now has been banned for having sock puppet accounts, so he was in the wrong after all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RobotWillie (talk • contribs) 20:44, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reminding me. From America, TheSmartPersonUS1 ^(TSPUS1) (talk) 00:03, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi people Maya514 (talk) 16:25, 27 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2019 election voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:23, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]