User talk:Yankeepapa13

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Yankeepapa13! Thank you for your contributions. I am Montanabw and 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:

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Mann Gulch

I'm not going to do a lot of editing over there. I do think it's worth adding in those new graphics that other editor uploaded... just not at such a huge size -- and doing a review of some of the content to add more sources. It is true that the status quo version of the article does need more citations. I think the way forward would be for you to add said citations to the previous version (where the reissue of Maclean is a citation, what the heck, use it if it's correct). Basically, we had a so-so quality article replaced by a not-very-good version, but the solution is to make it an excellent version. May be wise to paste the old version into a user sandbox (ping me if you need to know how to make one) so you can work on it without getting into an editing war in the middle of your work. I only get an email ping if someone posts to my talkpage, so feel free to drop a line there if you want me to look at more stuff. Montanabw^(talk) 21:18, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Yankeepapa13: I've mentioned you at WP:AN in the discussion about protection and CerroFerro. Acroterion (talk) 00:42, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Acroterion: Thank you. Wikipedia has a fascinating process, and I'm strictly a novice here, but not a novice to the Mann Gulch fire.

I think Nyttend (talk) 22:44 is a bit off the mark on his reading of the particulars, to wit "(1) When a page has had recent edits from only two individuals, and neither one's been doing blatant vandalism or anything comparable..." That is not the case here. Montanabw has been the defacto supervisor of this page (or "editor" if it were a newspaper), and I myself have contributed some significant content in congenial collaboration. CerroFerro, on August 28, 2018, discarded my material along with much of the prior material by others. Since this page had previously been quite stable for years, I only check it periodically, and did so this winter to find the total rewrite. I alerted Montanabw who critiqued CerroFerro's massive edits with (to me) astounding diplomacy. In spite of this, CerroFerro responded with nonstop abuse of Montanabw and me.

So call it moral relativism, or even "But Hillary's emails!", I think Nyttend is trying to arbitrarily blame two sides when only one should be blamed.

I just saw your 00:37 remarks at WP:AN and fully concur with them.

Thank you again! Edit: Sorry, I forgot to sign. Yankeepapa13 (talk) 01:12, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Update: @Acroterion, I saw that Nyttend revised his opinion, so all is well again. Yankeepapa13 (talk) 02:28, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just an FYI, the "other editor" had now been blocked for 72 hours. I asked the article be fully protected for a while until things settle down, but an admin can still make edits if there is a consensus to make the change. Now might be a good time to make recommendations as to whether those maps could be included, and if so where. Also, may be worth discussing if any image formatting in general needs to be tweaked. Those kind of edits generally are not terribly controversial. Montanabw^(talk) 17:04, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Montanabw: Thanks very much. I've been watching the drama unfolding from a safe distance. I'll have a look at the maps and their formatting and get back to you with any ideas that might arise.

Also, I received a copy of Maclean 2017, the 25th anniversary reissue. Other than an added foreword and new jacket, it's exactly the same book. The levitation story, with its overtones of mysticism as in almost being lifted to Heaven but then being dropped back to earth only to be struck down with Hodgkin's disease, is unchanged. I'm looking into possibly researching this further. Thanks again! Yankeepapa13 (talk) 22:07, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

May 2019

Hello, I'm Reify-tech. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, American wire gauge, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The addition you made is potentially of interest to Wikipedia readers, but needs to have a good reference to remain in the article. Thank you for your efforts! Reify-tech (talk) 18:40, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]