User talk:MichelleGalaxyProject

February 2025

Hello, MichelleGalaxyProject. This is your user talk page; the purpose of this page is notification and communication with other Wikipedia editors. It is not a workspace for articles in progress or for self-promotion. Please use your user sandbox or the draft article space to practice editing or to create new articles. Thank you. DACartman (talk) 17:45, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I *was* using my sandbox. I had put the information in my sandbox "User page" right? So why was it deleted? MichelleGalaxyProject (talk) 17:53, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So your user page and sandbox are different pages. Your userpage can provide some information about yourself, your editing interests and such, but is not a place for drafting articles. Your talk page is for discussing your edits and contacting you on Wikipedia matters. Your sandbox is a separate page within your userspace. TornadoLGS (talk) 20:42, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply! And thank you for not deleting this while I figure this all out! I have deleted it from my Sandbox and created a draft page here instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Galaxy_(computational_biology) MichelleGalaxyProject (talk) 23:01, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Contested deletion

This page should not be speedily deleted because I relocated to the section Wikipedia suggested. --MichelleGalaxyProject (talk) 17:46, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

We don't allow people to promote here. You'll live. DACartman (talk) 17:47, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not a promotion - that is your assumption. I am merely a Wikipedia "newbie" looking to find a place to draft an article to share with coworkers before submitting for publish reviewing. MichelleGalaxyProject (talk) 17:57, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Michelle, I have declined the speedy deletion nomination, because the page is clearly a draft for an article, not "misuse of Wikipedia as a web host", which is the speedy deletion criterion which was cited. However, the draft does have an unmistakably promotional tone to it, not enough to justify immediate deletion, but enough to make it unlikely, I think, that it will be accepted as an article without very substantial rewriting. The whole page gives the impression of being aimed at conveying to potential users of the software that it does a good job. That is incompatible with Wikipedia's aim to present all subjects from a neutral point of view.

You should also read Wikipedia's guideline on conflict of interest begore doing any more editing, and particularly take note of the parts concerning disclosure. JBW (talk) 21:53, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback. Wikipedia's largely impartial content is what makes it so useful, in my opinion, so I will review the guidelines and wording mentioned. That said, this page hasn't been seriously updated in over 10 years - so for an open-source software project that is updated daily, so there is a great deal more the platform does now which is factually true. I have no plans to remove content that may be unflattering but is still factually true. MichelleGalaxyProject (talk) 22:06, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Links to user pages and sandboxes

Please do not introduce links in actual articles to user pages or sandboxes, as you did at Galaxy (computational biology) . Since these pages have not been accepted as articles, user pages, sandboxes and drafts are not suitable for linking in articles. and such links are contrary to the Manual of Style. These links have been deleted, please do not re-add any such links, thank you - Arjayay (talk) 11:08, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for spotting - typo error addressed in this content change https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Galaxy_(computational_biology)&oldid=1277917882 MichelleGalaxyProject (talk) 13:15, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]