PatriciaRomanov

August 2020

Wikipedia is not a web host for holding personal web pages unrelated to work on building the encyclopaedia. You are, of course, welcome to make contributions to the encyclopaedia, in line with Wikipedia policies and guidelines, but if your purpose is to write a personal web page, then you would be better advised to use one of the many web sites which do provide that sort of service, such as a social network site or a web hosting service. JBW (talk) 10:20, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

I guess that was my intro page. Whats wrong with that?PetriciaRomanov (talk) 10:28, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

I checked other people's wikipedia USER PAGE before creating mine. whats wrong with it. Was*

Hello, Petricia. Here are a few comments stemming from what you have said.

Unfortunately, many people come to Wikipedia intending to use it as a blog, a social media site, or a free web host, none of which is what Wikipedia is for. Those people most often start out by creating one or more pages in user space or user talk space which just contain personal stuff about themselves, unrelated to work for Wikipedia. Very few people who are going to make constructive contributions to the encyclopaedia start out that way, so what you did looked very much like as though you were here for the wrong reasons. However, I now see that you have started making edits to articles, so I have restored the deleted version of your user page. You can see it in the history of the page, here, if you click on the link "09:42, 7 August 2020". You are free to restore that old version of the page if you like.

Luckily, I often go back to user talk pages I have recently edited, to see whether the editor in question has responded to what I wrote, so I saw you comments above. However, there is no certainty that anyone will do that, so there is a risk that messages you post may never be seen. If you post a message on a talk page and you want a particular editor to see it, there's a way of getting an automatic notification to that editor, so that they know about your message. There are several slightly different versions of how to do it, but here is one. At the beginning of your message post {{ping|.....}} but with the name of the editor you want to notify in place of the dots, so for example if you are writing a message to me then write {{ping|JBW}}. Make sure that you also sign your post by putting ~~~~ at the end of your message. If you do that the editor will get a notification of your message. Important: That does not work unless the "ping" and the ~~~~ are both in the same post, so for example if you do the ping and forget the ~~~~ then it's no use going back and adding ~~~~ in a separate post. What I do in that situation is delete my whole message and then re-do it with the ~~~~, but other people have other ways of dealing with it.

I see that you tried to nominate an article for a deletion discussion, and got confused as to how to do it. Sometime maybe I'll advise you about doing that, but I don't have time now.

I hope you have a successful time as a Wikipedia editor, and I'm sorry that I contributed to your first experiences here not being as positive as they should have been. JBW (talk) 21:29, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

By the way, I have noticed that in your original user page you call yourself "Patricia", not "Petricia". Is "Petricia" in your user name a mistake? If so I can rename your account to put it right if you like. Let me know if you want me to do that. JBW (talk) 21:33, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

@JBW: I get it. The part about using Wikipedia as personal blog. I do not intend to do anything like that. I just wanted a light start. Plus I didn't really had much to say. so that's settled. Also, Yes Petricia was a typo. Its Patricia. I just couldn't figure out how to fix it. If you can help, That'd be great.

Also " I see that you tried to nominate an article for a deletion discussion, and got confused as to how to do it. Sometime maybe I'll advise you about doing that, but I don't have time now." Help is welcomed :) PetriciaRomanov (talk) 01:04, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

1. Change of user name. I will rename your account for you, but I thought it best to warn you that when I do, if you then try to log in under your old user name you will get a message telling you that you have entered the wrong user name or password. That's no problem, as you just have to log in with the new user name, and still the same password as before, but I thought it better to warn you before doing the renaming, as otherwise you might not realise why you couldn't log in. Once I see that you've replied to this message so that I know you've read it, I will do the renaming.
2. Deletion nominations. When I first started editing I found nominating a page for deletion discussions really confusing and difficult, as there are several different stages that all have to be done. After I had gone through that confusing process I don't know how many times, and sometimes got it wrong, I found that there's a way to get all the steps done automatically, using a tool called "Twinkle". You may already know something about Twinkle, but if you don't I'll tell you in a minute.

I don't know how much you already know about the various kinds of deletion nomination, but I'll give you a few basic ideas about them. One of them is speedy deletion. It's easy to do a speedy deletion nomination, by simply adding the relevant tag to an article, but Twinkle will automatically do other things for you, such as informing the creator of the page. However, speedy deletion applies only in a few very specific situations, which are defined at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, and if you nominate a page for deletion for a reason not covered by one of those criteria your nomination will almost certainly be rejected: that's what happened to your nomination of Sam Mizrahi. Another kind of deletion nomination is Proposed deletion, commonly abbreviated to "PROD". The main limitation of that is that it is only for deletions that nobody at all objects to, and if anyone at all objects, whether for good reasons or bad, the proposal is rejected. Also PROD is only for articles and files, not other kinds of pages. Putting a PROD on an article is not much more difficult than a speedy deletion nomination, but again Twinkle makes it a bit easier. To nominate a page for deletion if it doesn't qualify for either of those methods, you usually have to start a deletion discussion, and that is where Twinkle really helps, because doing it all by hand is, as I said above, confusing and error-prone.

Twinkle also does loads of other things, apart from deletion nominations. You can read all about it at Wikipedia:Twinkle if you like, but I will tell you the minimum you need to know in order to use it to nominate pages for deletion discussion.

To use Twinkle you need to set it up in your preferences. Click the "Preferences" link right at the very top of the page. In the page that comes up, select "Gadgets". In the "Browsing" section of the page that then comes up, check "Twinkle". Click on "Save". That sets up a basic version of Twinkle on your account; there are various options you can try out, but I suggest to begin with you don't worry about those.

Once you've got Twinkle set up, you can use it for many things, including all the different kinds of deletion nomination. I don't use the default user interface for Wikipedia, but if you do use it then Twinkle shows up as "TW" in the tabs near the top of the page, and if you click on that you get a drop-down list. In that list "CSD" is "criteria for speedy deletion", and "XFD" is for a deletion discussion. If you click on "XFD" you get a box with a drop down list of types of deletion discussions at the top, but you don't normally need to worry about that because it automatically selects the right one for the page you are on, such as "AfD (Articles for deletion)" if it's an article. Fill in the reason you think the article should be deleted in the box, and click "Submit Query". Only if you have struggled with doing the process the long way can you appreciate how much easier that is.

I hope that will be of some help to you. Do let me know when you have read this, and I will go ahead with the renaming. Also, let me know whether you prefer to be renamed to "PatriciaRomanov" or "Patricia Romanov". JBW (talk) 21:27, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

This [Deletion nominations] was really helpful. Thank you so much. And PatriciaRomanov would do. I've noted. Next time if it shows any error., I'll understand that my username is changed. I'm saving this one. thanks once again.PetriciaRomanov (talk) 16:00, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

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Account renamed

I have renamed your account from PetriciaRomanov to PatriciaRomanov. JBW (talk) 21:45, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Thanks.PatriciaRomanov (talk) 05:14, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

October 2020

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  MER-C 16:42, 8 October 2020 (UTC)