User talk:PythonSwarm/Archive
July 2020
Please stop your disruptive editing.
- If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant noticeboards.
- If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Scratch (programming language), you may be blocked from editing. drt1245 (talk) 15:29, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Your signature
Please alter your signature as it does not comply on at least two criteria with WP:CUSTOMSIG/P
- It does not make it easy to identify your username,
- It impersonates another user (there is a usr account with the name Void (talk · contribs)). Nthep (talk) 16:46, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
User pages
If an editor wishes to add a userbox to their user page they are free to do so; you, however, should not be taking the liberty to do so on their behalf.-- Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 17:47, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
I see you recently made a request for protection. However, the page hadn't been edited in over a week, so your request was quite stale and I declined it. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 07:29, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
A note from the Captain
Howdy hello! I see that you recently left this message on a users talk page; which seems, frankly, excessive to me. Those warnings are generally for article space, and you jumped right to the highest level of warning, without even discussing it. At any rate, I would caution you about editing articles on polices, guidelines, and essays. Their content has usually been heavily workshopped over the years to a state of community agreement. Also, your account is very new. I would suggest you spend time editing the actual encyclopedia before trying to get involved in the backend at such a fundamental level. If you need some help on finding articles to edit, or resources, let me know :) CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 07:23, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
- Seconded. Take the advice above and stick to developing meaningful and appropriate content contributions. Considering that many of your own edits have been reverted as factually incorrect perhaps it would be appropriate to add the same warning message to this page too? Nthep (talk) 11:03, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
Taking things a little more slowly
Hi there. I'm the checkuser who granted you IPBE consistent with our usual practices. There have been some concerns expressed both on English Wikipedia and in other projects that you're moving too quickly without having a good understanding of the expectations for these various projects.
It is really important to pay attention to the constructive criticism being provided to you by experienced editors, and that you demonstrate in your edits that you have absorbed those lessons. At this point, you don't have enough knowledge to recognize that some of your edits, particularly on policy pages or noticeboards, aren't correct. (Example: your edit to the [[Wikipedia:Oversight}|Oversight policy]] was incorrect because there really is a separate function used to "hide" revisions that is technically different from the oversight tools. I would not expect a new user to know this.) I am going to suggest the following:
- Avoid editing policy/guideline pages. Instead, start a thread on the talk page to initiate a conversation about your proposed c
change. It's quite possible that your proposal may have already been considered.
- Read a lot. Read over previous entries on noticeboards before posting on them so that you have a better idea of how the applicable rules or policies are applied in practice. That will help you to fine tune your requests and reduce the likelihood that your request will be denied.
- Ensure that content additions are well-referenced.
- Avoid editing featured articles, which are usually very carefully negotiated consensus articles. If you feel there is a real need to modify a featured article, start a discussion on the talk page.
- Consider using the Teahouse to ask questions about application of policy/guidelines, and how-to questions.
- Many newer editors find that it's useful to follow Recent Changes to develop their skills in understanding what kind of edits are considered "good", "bad" etc. It is a good entry point to editing Wikipedia. Note, take your time here too.
- (Adding) It's important for you to know that if there are a lot of concerns about your editing (especially if you are blocked for editing in a way that is considered disruptive, and definitely if you are blocked for sockpuppetry), your IPBE permission may be removed. This would seriously impact your ability to participate.
- Below, I'm going to add a welcome template that has some useful links for newer users.
The same principles also apply to other projects. Take your time, read a lot to learn the practices on that project, and ask questions to ensure you're on the right track. Generally speaking, avoid spending more time editing the "project" pages rather than the content pages. I don't have any control on how your activities on other projects will be perceived or handled, and some projects are much firmer in ensuring that users closely follow processes.
I hope you will find this information helpful. Risker (talk) 19:17, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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