User talk:GovGuide#top

instructions: answer questions below the specific questions

instructions: answer questions below the specific questions

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why do we need 2 links of the same thing in an article for??

they changed all the improvements for no reason ???

seems better to just use trello

its so incredibly we cant even edit any of the giant mess of wiki

helpful answers are here

More citations needed

Hi GovGuide! I noticed your contributions to :Member of Parliament (Sweden) and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

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Happy editing! Longhair\^talk 22:57, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

File:Information.svg Hi GovGuide! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at :Quora that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia{{Snd}} it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. POLITANVM ^talk 03:59, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

::what edit did i put that change meaning so i can see — Preceding unsigned comment added by GovGuide (talk • contribs)

:::Hi GovGuide, very few of your edits meet Wikipedia’s narrow definition of “minor” edits. They aren’t necessarily incorrect edits, but they aren’t minor. For example:

:::*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quora&type=revision&diff=1035010676&oldid=1033621288 Quora]: Rewriting the lead sentence (and breaking a reference in the “2020” section)

:::*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tourism_in_Indonesia&type=revision&diff=1035017607&oldid=1034173297 Tourism in Indonesia] Renaming headers and reordering sections

:::*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regency_(Indonesia)&diff=1035014382&oldid=1033723433 Regency (Indonesia)]: Changing the lead sentence

:::*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IP_address&diff=1035003575&oldid=1034204640&diffmode=source IP address]: Changing the first two sentences

:::Again, this isn’t saying the edits are wrong (though some have introduced issues), but that they aren’t minor (like fixing a typo or a formatting error, or reverting vandalism). Let me know if you have any questions. Also, you may find Help:Talk pages useful for learning how to indent and sign talk page comments. Best, POLITANVM ^talk 14:10, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

:::Also, please use edit summaries, so other editors can tell what you changed. POLITANVM ^talk 17:16, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

You can add {{tl|Very long}} at the top of articles that you consider to be too long. Immediately after doing so, start a discussion at the article's talk page detailing why the article is too long and where any particular problems are. Mjroots (talk) 05:48, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

File:Control copyright icon.svg Hello GovGuide! Your additions to :Law of Norway have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
• Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
• We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
• If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
• Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 17:59, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

I reverted your edits to cosmic ray and some articles on legal systems. They dropped citations, introduced grammar and spelling mistakes, and made the text less clear. Is there a particular reason you're trying to rewrite the intro to so many articles on legal systems?Citing (talk) 15:06, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

:(actually it looks like you didn't drop citations, I misread a diff)Citing (talk) 18:20, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

:Also I'm not sure what you were doing [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Userspace_draft&diff=prev&oldid=1043039397 here], but if you need to make test edits please use the sandbox or create your own at User:GovGuide/sandbox.Citing (talk) 02:52, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

{{help me-nq}}

I can see several issues here on your talk page about which you might have questions, but you'll need to be more specific.

Also, GovGuide sounds so much like an official or organizational name that i may not comply with our username policy. You should consider changing it. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 02:03, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

:: Let me take a shot at answers to some of your open questions above.

::* The name of a page is changed with WP:MOVE. You should have this as an option under the "More" tab in the top menu of the desktop view. In a lot of cases, you should use the protocol for WP:requested moves rather than just moving something yourself.

::* WikiProjects are created by groups of editors who wish to coordinate work on a specific subset of Wikipedia articles. Some projects become inactive through lack of continuing interest but hang around in case interest picks up again. The talk pages of WikiProjects are a good place to get the attention of editors interested when you don't get any response on the talk page of an individual article.

::* Skins are developed both inside and outside Wikimedia Foundation.

::* Wikimedia.org is a parent organization for Wikipedias in many languages and many other projects. You can set up a global login using instructions at m:Help:Unified login. But Wikimedia is also an open software package that anyone can adopt and adapt for their own use. When not under the Wikimedia.org umbrella, you'll find a separate login will be needed (though some don't enforce login).

::* Accounts cannot be deleted. They can be hidden as explained at WP:VANISHING, but not deleted.

::* The sets of editors who help at the teahouse, WP:Help desk, respond to {{tl|Help me}} requests, and help on IRC channel #wikipedia-en-help have some overlaps, but are not strictly the same people. And they are all volunteers. They work on what they want to work on, when they want to work on them.

::* I don't use the visual editor. It may demand more resources from your browser and the device it's running on, which can make it seem slow.

::* The ratio between Wikipedia editors and Wikipedia readers is very lopsided - there are likely many more than 100 million people who use Wikipedia on a regular basis and fewer than 10,000 active editors.

::* We don't really have any conception of "best users", much less a ranking for them. Using crude metrics like edit counts is also not an agreed-upon measure of contributions. You can probably find a list of editors ranked by number of edits somewhere, but I'll decline to find it for you because it is so easily misinterpreted.

::* To see new information, there is a feature called WP:watchlists and another facility called WP:recent changes. You can set up a watchlist and preferences to be informed if a change is made to an article on the list. Recent changes is more of a firehose, since the volume of changes is so high.

:: I have the impression that you wish to organize this, your user talk page, according to your own preferences, which are not the ones most of us consider standard. This is allowed, definitely, but you'll likely be disappointed if you expect every other editor who wishes to send you a message to figure out your scheme and abide by it. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 02:56, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi GovGuide, I'm another "random user"; we all are. It's a volunteer project, and you should see above your edit window (or maybe in some other position, since you're probably using Vector): "Any work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone—subject to certain terms and conditions". I came here after seeing the AN/I section, and had a look at your edits to judge. I thought that reordering and splitting up the aspects in the introduction was a good idea, but that one wording change and one omission were undesirable, and I went ahead and removed the second link on examining magistrate. I don't know how VizEd does wikilinks (links to other Wikipedia articles), but I wondered why you hadn't made that second occurrence into plain text yourself; possibly you haven't figured out how to do and undo those links yet? In any case, you should not simply reinstate your changes; that's called Edit warring; however, I will say that both you and {{U|Citing}} could do with using edit summaries to explain why you made or undid changes. It's hard to see the wheat from the chaff when all you have is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge&diff=1043044510&oldid=1042136350 diff] of someone's change, or what the objection was when [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge&diff=next&oldid=1043044510 the edit summary is just an automatically generated "Revert ..."].

I'm glad to see that {{U|jmcgnh}} has responded to some of your questions; they've got some that I wasn't sure I understood, but I'll add on the log-in thing that the Wikimedia Foundation implemented automatic unified log-ins (SUL) for all editors a few years ago, so you shouldn't need to re-register or even log in again when you go to another WMF site; except I notice that I sometimes need to refresh or even log in again on one of the WMF's central planning wikis. I would have tried to interleave my answers with your questions, but since jmcgnh didn't, I'll put my other notes down here too, with apologies.

• I think you mean :Template:Update and possibly :Template:Missing information? There's a list of these templates at :Category:Cleanup templates, but it's considered impolite to just go around tagging articles for problems; if you can, fix the problem, or at least specify on the talk page what the exact issue is. Note this fake that appears on several user pages:

{{ambox|type=content|text=An editor thinks something might be wrong with this page. They can't be arsed to fix it, but can rest assured that they've done their encyclopedic duty by sticking on a tag.
Please allow this tag to languish indefinitely at the top of the page, since nobody knows exactly what the tagging editor was worked up about.}}

• If I understand you correctly ... part of being a worldwide general-use encyclopedia is including all the words the reader may use for what they want to look up, which may vary from place to place or may have changed over time. It's a good idea to collect these at the beginning of the article so that the beginning of the article comes up in a search, even though it may make the beginning of the article look clunky.

• On good sources to use, maybe this page will help: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. (We have a vast number of reference pages in the Wikipedia: space. I remembered seeing that one, and found it by looking at the main Wikipedia:Reliable sources page.)

• The Visual Editor is slow because it's a horrible piece of software. It's faster and less buggy than it originally was, and some people say it makes editing tables easier, but after that I run out of polite things to say.

• I had to look up Trello. That's apparently for making lists? WikiProjects are more than that, including one of the ways to learn about people proposing an article for deletion when it's on a topic of interest to you, and a good place to ask specialized questions about a field, but I'm one of those people who don't participate in them :-) This is the kind of question you might ask at the Teahouse if jmcgnh didn't cover it. In general, part of the ethos here is to keep discussions on-wiki; many editors are very leery of our IRC and Discord channels for that reason.

Hope that helps a bit; I have to go to bed now :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 11:31, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Please stop making rapid-fire edits to the introductions of so many articles. You've introduced several errors and could find your account blocked.Citing (talk) 03:22, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

File:Information icon4.svg There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:GovGuide making frequent careless edits, not responding to talk. Thank you.Citing (talk) 04:10, 8 September 2021 (UTC)