User talk:Sdkb#Quotes

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Hi Sdkb! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy first anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! User:Acer-the-Protogen (talk) 14:37, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

}} Wow... 1 year, and you've done so much already!! Have a cookie. Jimbo said he'd pay{{cn}}. {{Wikicookie}} (Acer's Communication Receptacle | what did I do now) | (PS: Have a good day) (acer was here) 13:55, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

: Cookies on Jimbo tonight babyyy! I'm getting HAMMERED. Panini! • 🥪 00:45, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Question from [[User:Deedady|Deedady]] (20:00, 18 February 2025)

Hello SDKB. I'm new to the editing process and wondering what the next steps are to becoming an auto user and explore creating a page. To date I've made 16 edits. Can you please walk me through next steps? --Deedady (talk) 20:00, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

:Hi @Deedady! I'm not actually sure why you're not autoconfirmed, as your user rights log says you're not, but you've completed the normal time/edit requirement. You could ask at the Teahouse and someone else might know. Regarding creating an article, there is advice at Help:Your first article. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 20:05, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

::Thanks, SDKB and happy adminship anniversary to you! The link for creating my first article will help me along, thank you. I'll connect with the Teahouse and ask about becoming autoconfirmed.

::Thanks, and cheers to you. Deedady (talk) 20:15, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Close embrace and sources

Hi, Sdkb, I saw your edit summary " User:TJRC, is there any reason you didn't just add this source directly to the article? It's better than anything in there currently" in Close embrace. I'm not sure how I stumbled into that article in the first place. I think I was reading Tango, and the part in that article about "open embrace" and "close embrace", and was wondering on the distinction between the two, so clicked through to close embrace.

Once there, I noted the lack of sources, and decided to try to clean it up a little; but as I reviewed that [https://books.google.com/books?id=uyet_cMrfFYC Gotta Tango] book, which talked about "embrace", I realized I was not clear on the various terminologies, i.e. embrace, v. open embrace v. close (or even closed?) embrace. For a non-dancer like me, I realized that, without that knowledge of the material, I could well incorrectly edit the article, and if I did so citing a source, it would appear authoritative, even if I had no way to tell if I was right or wrong.

I decided the best course was to note the availability of the source, in the hopes that someone more conversant with the subject matter could make appropriate edits. TJRC (talk) 23:24, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks, that's good to know! My understanding from my background (mostly in swing and fusion) is that open position is the one where partners are connected by the hands, closed position is the "ballroom hold" where the partners have one hand connection and one arm holding the other person, and close embrace involves chest-to-chest contact. But each style has different terminology, creating some muddling, and the articles at present certainly don't do a good job distinguishing them from each other. Sorting all of it out is certainly a task for whoever wants one! Sdkb ^talk 00:43, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

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Duplicate discussions

A while ago, you created {{tl|Uw-talkfork}}. Does this situation come up a lot? Afaict, there are [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=User+talk%3A+insource%3A%2F%5C%3C%21--+%2ATemplate%3A%5BuU%5Dw-talkfork+%2A--%3E%2F&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=1 no uses of it]. Did you intend to, and then the situation resolved itself, or you found another way? I thought that perhaps it wasn't easy to find, so I've [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere?target=Template%3AUw-talkfork&namespace=&hidetrans=1&hidelinks=1&limit=50 added a couple of redirects]; perhaps that will help a little. (P.S., there is, or at least was, a very active team proposing dozens of unused templates for deletion; maybe you should go subst that one now before it ends up on some backlog list somewhere. Feel free to tag me with it, and complain that I've told you all this before. {{wink}} ) Mathglot (talk) 06:00, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

:Talk page stalker..... was unaware of this existed.... I would personally use this... as is definitely comes up from time to time. Our problem is we have a sea of these type of templates. Should come up with some sort of way to consolidate these so we simply adding a parameter like a x y to identify specific warning templates to get the relevant template. ((Userwarning|parameter here)) Moxy🍁 06:21, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

:That situation comes up all the time! The most recent instance where I encountered it was barely a week ago. It's often easier to explain in the discussion itself, but this template might at least provide wording to do so (similar to {{t|Sofixit}}).

:I suspect it'd be used more frequently if it was added to Twinkle, so requesting that at WT:Twinkle might be a good step. Similar to templates like {{t|uw-ping fix}}, though, the "March 2025" heading it creates is a big minus, since that's a de facto black mark many editors don't want to give newcomers who haven't really done anything wrong. So I really wish Twinkle would allow us to define custom default headers for certain warnings.

:(As for the team going around massacring unused templates, I really wish they'd remember the last part of WP:TFD#REASONS #3 before making their nominations, but I'll fight for it if needed.)

:Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 06:26, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

[[Draft:Eaton DC|Eaton DC]] moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Eaton DC. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources, it needs more sources to establish notability and The edit summary "reference dump " summarises this. We need a referenced article not a headline with references. The title also gives no clue that this is a hotel.

I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page.

When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit for review" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 09:41, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks for your note and your contributions to NPP, @Velella. The hotel is clearly notable, given the many independent reviews from RSP-greenlit sources cited in the article. It is a very short stub at present, yes, but there is no minimum required length for Wikipedia articles, and stubs' presence is a net positive — they provide a small bit of information to readers seeking out the topic (which is better than nothing) and they provide a skeleton for other editors (or the creator) to expand later (consider that getting an article launched is often the hardest step). If our goal is to ultimately have featured-quality coverage of every notable topic, even the shortest stub where there was previously nothing is a step along that path. I added a bunch of references to store them for later use as I expand the article — you'd be justified in adding an {{t|Excessive citations inline}} tag to reflect that they should be spread out as the article is developed, although I've always found that tag a bit silly in that it adds more clutter than it flags.

:Regarding {{tq|The title also gives no clue that this is a hotel}}, I also found the name rather odd — it seems more like a restaurant than a hotel! Is there a different title you'd find more suitable? Our general practice with businesses is to use the common name, which in this case is "Eaton DC", and I can't find anything else in the article titles policy that'd justify changes on the basis of a name not giving an impression of a business's type. The topic of the article is explained in the first sentence and the short description, which are the normal places to do so.

:Given the above, I am going to reverse the draftification. I'll also start to expand the article a bit as a good-faith gesture. But I hope I've explained why I would not have draftified it had I come across it in the NPP feed, and I hope that you will refrain from doing so for similar articles you may come across in the feed in the future.

:(One last note: Your message contradicts itself, which I presume is due to your use of a template. Please be cautious about this in the future, particularly with newer editors who may not realize the source of the contradiction. I've never had any issue with templating regulars, but you are ultimately responsible for the communications you sign, templated or not; when a template does not fit your intended message, you should modify it or write out your note.)

:Good luck with your patrolling and best wishes, Sdkb ^talk 17:33, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Question from [[User:Kingster Golden|Kingster Golden]] (10:08, 8 March 2025)

How do I create a Wikipedia page? --Kingster Golden (talk) 10:08, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

:@Kingster Golden, see Help:Your first article. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 16:22, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Rachel Parkinson

Rachel Parkinson is a musician based in Melbourne, Australia. Kingster Golden (talk) 22:30, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

:Hi @Kingster Golden. It's not clear what you're asking. If you are trying to write an article about Parkinson, please review Help:Your first article. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 02:48, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

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"Your first article" Hatnote

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NPP

Hi. Are you still in for the project I linked you to? You left a message on the talk page and I replied. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:18, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

:Link to discussion. Yes, still happy to participate. Sdkb ^talk 05:13, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

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Substack

Hi Sdkb, nice to meet you! I saw that you are interested in journalism and part of related projects like WP:WPNEWS. I was hoping that you would take a look at the edit request that I posted about Substack here. If you think it would help the article, would you mind implementing the changes?

Thank you, LS4Substack (talk) 18:17, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Question from [[User:Anthony Vick|Anthony Vick]] on [[Wikipedia:Contact us]] (12:41, 8 April 2025)

Hello, I'm trying to create my wiki page --Anthony Vick (talk) 12:42, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

:Hi @Anthony Vick! We discourage that. See Wikipedia: Autobiography. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 13:27, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from [[User:SigmaBoy2011|SigmaBoy2011]] on [[User:SigmaBoy2011]] (11:02, 11 April 2025)

Make a title page and find out when the school was built and other significant events that have happened there --SigmaBoy2011 (talk) 11:02, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

:@SigmaBoy2011, do you have a question? I'm not an AI that you can just ask to write an article (and if I were I'd still need the name of the school). Sdkb ^talk 14:18, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

::Catonsville middle school, 21228, catonsville,maryland. sorry i was late to respond, i lost my phone SigmaBoy2011 (talk) 10:58, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

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Quotes

You undid my addition of a quote to the lead of Akira Kurosawa. I think that was a mistake. The lead for William Shakespeare (a Featured Article) rounds out with the following from Ben Jonson: "not of an age, but for all time". The lead for James Joyce has the following from the man himself: "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal." That's also a Featured Article.

So I think it's entirely appropriate to have the Kurosawa quote in the lead, but won't press the issue until consensus has been reached. Charlie Faust (talk) 14:59, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

:Thanks for reaching out! I'll add on to the note I left on the talk page before I made the revert so that we can centralize discussion there. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 16:11, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

Question from [[User:Blackcole.44|Blackcole.44]] (18:49, 11 May 2025)

How can I make my editing better --Blackcole.44 (talk) 18:49, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

:@Blackcole.44, the Help:Introduction tutorial has lots of useful tips and advice. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 00:41, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Merger discussion for [[AN/SPN-46(V)1]]

File:Merge-arrows.svg An article that you have been involved in editing—AN/SPN-46(V)1—has been proposed for merging with AN/SPN-46. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. — TadgStirkland⁴⁰¹ (Tadg^Talk) 21:49, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

:I edited that article only as part of an AWB run, so you may want to be a little more selective in your notices. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 21:57, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

::Apologies. I wasn’t sure from the edit history comment exactly how automated your use of AWB was in that edit. Please forgive the intrusion. — TadgStirkland⁴⁰¹ (Tadg^Talk) 04:13, 17 May 2025 (UTC)