User talk:Keahapana/Archive 17

Rejuvenate WikiProject Skepticism

Hello - my name is Susan Gerbic (Sgerbic) and I'm writing to you because at some point you joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism. This might have been months ago - or even years ago. With the best of intentions the project was created years ago, and sadly like many WikiProjects has started to go dormant. A group of us are attempting to revitalize the Skepticism project, already we have begun to clean up the main page and I've just redone the participant page. No one is in charge of this project, it is member directed, which might have been the reason it almost went dormant. We are attempting to bring back conversations on the talk page and have two subprojects as well, in the hopes that it might spark involvement and a way of getting to know each other better. One was created several years ago but is very well organized and a lot of progress was made, Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism/Skeptical organisations in Europe. The other I created a couple weeks ago, it is very simple and has a silly name Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism/Skepticism Stub Sub-Project Project (SSSPP). This sub-project runs from March 1 to June 1, 2022. We are attempting to rewrite skepticism stubs and add them to this list. As you can see we have already made progress.

The reason I'm writing to you now is because we would love to have you come back to the project and become involved, either by working on one of the sub-projects, proposing your own (and managing it), or just hanging out on the talk page getting to know the other editors and maybe donate some of your wisdom to some of the conversations. As I said, no one is in charge, so if you have something in mind you would like to see done, please suggest it on the talk page and hopefully others will agree. Please add the project to your watchlist, update your personal user page showing you are a proud member of WikiProject Skepticism. And DIVE in, this is what the work list looks like [1] frightening at first glance, but we have already started chipping away at it.

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Skepticism/Participants page has gone though a giant change - you may want to update your information. And of course if this project no longer interests you, please remove your name from the participant list, we would hate to see you go, but completely understand.

Thank you for your time, I hope to edit with you in the future.Sgerbic (talk) 07:11, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Language templates

Hello. Thank you for the many detailed articles you have contributed on Daoism and related topics! Your contributions tend to include a lot of Hanzi and romanised Chinese, which is fine, but I'm not sure that you are aware of MOS:LANG. In the future, please format Chinese text and transliterations with {{lang|zh|...}} and {{transl|zh|...}} respectively, as I have done in this diff. Among other things, this adds metadata that makes Wikipedia more accessible for people using screen readers. On a side note, I think the readability of some of the articles you have written would benefit from moving some of the detailed linguistic information into footnotes. – small jars tc 15:50, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello small jars (excellent user name!). Thanks for your suggestions and I apologize for being slow replying. Yes, I'm aware of MOS:LANG and MOS:ZH, but don't use the full language templates because in my situation (worsening health problems IRL) they're a waste of limited time. I greatly appreciate you and other editors who have added appropriate templates into articles I've written. Thanks also for mentioning putting linguistic and lexicographic information about Chinese words into endnotes, however, I've had some non-Sinophone readers of en.wikipedia thank me for including it in other articles. If you're interested, I've just uploaded a new article on Shengtai and would appreciate any suggestions or criticisms. Best wishes, Keahapana (talk) 00:02, 24 November 2022 (UTC)