This Month in Education: July 2015 edit

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Electric cars edit

I saw your note about Tankanka electric cars. I don't know much about them. If you know more, I hope you can add to the article. Cheers. GangofOne (talk) 05:18, 3 August 2015 (UTC) Hello GangofOne did you mean Kantanka cars?Regards--Rberchie (talk) 17:02, 3 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Right! GangofOne (talk) 18:13, 3 August 2015 (UTC). Ok GangofOne i will add more to the article Cheers--Rberchie (talk) 18:52, 3 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

The value of "drive by" tagging edit

I saw this edit [1] by you and would like to speak to you about the value of splashing a pile of tags on a two-sentence stub and just moving on without actually improving the article.

Let me start by saying that I used to do exactly the same thing. Then it came to my attention that, although it is easy to buzz in with high-speed automated tools and drop a bunch of maintainance tags on a tiny stub, with just a little bit of effort you can fix it yourself and actually improve the content instead.

For example, you added {{uncategorized}}. The article title identifies it as relating to volleyball, and the text says the event will be in Vietnam. So, Category:Volleyball is obvioulsy appropriate at the very least, but as you can see from looking at the article now I was easily able to find several other categories that applied. This article is also evidently part of a series on these championships, so I was able to find a navbox and add it, negating your {{deadend}} tag.

You also added {{stub}} to it. While that is correct, it is obviously a stub, it is much more helpful to at a topic-specific stub tag. I usually do this by guesswork. You can take almost any topic and add it to the stub tag, before the word stub, with a hyphen in between, and it will produce a template. In this case I guessed correctly that {{volleyball-stub}} would be a thing.

So, in a matter of just a few moments I was easily able to rectify all the issues you tagged for. This is obviously more of a benefit for the project than adding so many tags that there is more tagging than content in a stub. Just something for you to think about going forward. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:29, 4 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Beeblebrox I am really grateful for your observation. I am enthused by your suggestions and I think I will consider your suggestions going forward. Regards--Rberchie (talk) 18:35, 4 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Awesome. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:36, 4 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

On a completely unrelated subject edit

 This talk page is becoming very long. Please consider archiving.

Users using tablets or smartphones may have trouble loading a talk page this long. Up to you though. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:30, 4 August 2015 (UTC). Beeblebrox noted regards.--Rberchie (talk) 18:43, 4 August 2015 (UTC) Hello Beeblebrox I have been trying to archive my talkpage but to no success could please help out?--Rberchie (talk) 09:30, 6 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

I will if I can. I see you have one archive page already, but with no content. The simplest method is to simply select the sections you wish to archive, then cut and paste them into the archive page. That's what I've always done, but a lot of users prefer automatic archiving with a bot, details about that can be found at WP:ARCHIVE, or you go straight to User:ClueBot III which has directions on how to let that bot do it for you. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:36, 6 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

ThanksBeeblebrox for your response.--Rberchie (talk) 17:54, 6 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

<l>HS (schools) edit

I've noticed you patrolled a couple of articles of this form lately. There are quite a few, also <l>HS (high schools). You might like to have a look at a discussion that potentially includes them: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IHS (schools). Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 21:15, 4 August 2015 (UTC) Thanks Pol098 I will look it up. Regards--Rberchie (talk) 21:41, 4 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Stub tags edit

Please take care not to add {{stub}} to a page which already has a specific stub tag, as you did at Pontypool Free Press . Thanks. PamD 05:16, 5 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

I have unreviewed a page you curated edit

Hi, I'm Fylbecatulous. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Chandu Yelga, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Fylbecatulous talk 13:32, 5 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Hi,I've reverted your recent [edit] to Labone Senior High School. Please take notice that a page should not be placed in both a category and (its) subcategory. Regards —M@sssly 10:58, 6 August 2015 (UTC) Ok —M@sssly well noted.--Rberchie (talk) 12:23, 6 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Editing another's draft edit

We normally do not edit another's draft uninvited.

Exception: I actually just did, but that was to disable the categories. If you do that, consider leaving a note at their talk to say what you did. If you don't leave a note, that's probably okay too. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:15, 15 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hello Anna Frodesiak sorry I did not leave a not but I did not do that uninvited.User:Celestinesucess actually asked me to do that her. Anyway your concerns are well noted regards.--Rberchie (talk) 16:10, 15 August 2015 (UTC)Reply
I'm terribly sorry. I looked and couldn't find such an invitation. Could you point it out to me? Thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:28, 15 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Indent your posts edit

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: Thanks Anna Frodesiak it was through offline discussion thanks for your suggestion too.
Regards --Rberchie (talk) 18:33, 16 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Raphael

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The bad news is that we've been victims of our own success, there are 100s of resources to add in the list of pages to add. Some of the suggestions are actually lists of resources so both the list and the individual resources need to be added and some are very vague, a lot of this is me not remembering where resources are.

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Hello Mrjohncummings sorry for the late response I have been offline for sometime now. I will take time look it up and see how I can help regards.--Rberchie (talk) 19:04, 25 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi Rberchie
No need to apologise, any help is greatly appreciated :)
Thanks
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I have had a few new articles where I lost a lot of work due to edit conflicts caused by your adding of tags requesting more citations (which is what I was trying to do but now that work is lost). It often takes a series of edits to create new articles. It takes many minutes sometimes to lookup citations. Please wait a while to allow the new article to be created properly before tagging. Your actions are just wasting the work being done by other people to actually improve the article. For example, on North Rockhampton to Emu Park railway line you waited less than 1 minute after the article was created to add your tags. Result: all my citations and wikilinks and other improvements were lost. I realise this is probably not what you are intending by your actions, but it is creating a problem for others. Since I've lost my work on North Rockhampton to Emu Park railway line, perhaps you'd like to help fix it up instead. Also please familiarise yourself with {{inuse}} as I have seen you ignore it on some occasions. Kerry (talk) 22:46, 27 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

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