Ritchie333

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October music

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Truckin.....

Thank you for appearing on my watchlist again! Yesterday brought a timely promotion of Helmut Bauer (bishop) to the Main page on the day when pieces from Mozart's Requiem were performed for him. - In places, you may be interested in a cat or two. Always check out music ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:49, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

I made Leif Segerstam my big story today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Today, I learned of the passing of Phil Lesh, one of my favourite bassists of all time and a key member of the Grateful Dead, so I decided to fix up his article for WP:ITNC. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:24, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

That's great! - Happy whatever you celebrate today, - more who died, more to come, and they made the world richer. Greetings from Madrid where I took the pic of assorted Cucurbita in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:06, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Declined speedies in Admin Elections

Hello, your 'Declined speedies' lists in WP:ADMINELECT discussions are definitely helpful. But it might do good to clarify that they were generated by a script and was not personally vetted. 👍 Ca ^{talk to me!} 13:04, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

As one of the candidates, I wanted to thank you (Ritchie333) for taking the time to run the script and post the output for all the candidates. I think it is completely understandable that no analysis was attempted of the output as that would be a lot of effort for you. Leaving it to either the candidates to comment, or interested parties to do their own research is sensible. Thanks, MarcGarver (talk) 16:03, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

I've just written a post explaining this at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:26, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

Question from U+12399 (01:05, 3 November 2024)

Hello, How are you. I'm literally after creating this just so i can fix some pet peeves of mine.

Nice to meet you Richie, I'm not expecting to become a wiki expert or anything. But would love some feedback on my recent edits (i clicked on minor edit checkbox by mistake). Otherwise I hope to create a Good article someday. would be kinda cool.

Could you explain how edits work? are they basically submitted for review to a panel? users with high scores? And if i were to create a page, do i basically own it? and have to screen new edits or something?

Apologies for all the questions, feel free to ask me any.

Cheers. 𒎙

P.S. Do I get to join a secret club now? lol --U+12399 (talk) 01:05, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I'm not sure what the issue is here, but once you make an edit to the encyclopedia, it is automatically added to the article and stored as the latest revision. The only exception to this is if the article is protected against editing, but you'd get a message saying this at the time. It's possible your edit may get reverted at some point later (this happens to everybody once in a while, including me, and is a normal part of the editing process) but again you'd get notified if that is the case. Certainly, this edit, confirming Claude Shannon's appointment to the Royal Irish Academy, is a good edit.

Your user page can contain a short bit about what articles you like to edit, and what motivates you to participate in the project. I personally wouldn't put in any personal information, or anything you don't mind being distributed all over the internet. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 13:11, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Question from Ajones85 on Child protective services (20:06, 7 November 2024)

how do i report dcfs in missouri --Ajones85 (talk) 20:06, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

@Ajones85: This is an encyclopedia. It is not a general help forum. You may want to look at Wikipedia:Alternative outlets for other options. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 23:41, 7 November 2024 (UTC)

Brighton meetup: 23 November

Hi! There's a Wikipedia meetup in Brighton on 23 November. Would be great to see you if you if you can make it. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 17:07, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Waterloo station

Your denialism that Waterloo is located in South London, even if you have removed central, is in conflict with the facts. We know that Waterloo in its entirety is located in the London Borough of Lambeth, while that article speaks for itself and clearly states that it is a south London borough. --Epsom Badboy (talk) 17:33, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

It's also in Travelcard Zone 1, which is a shorthand for "central London", certainly in terms of fare prices. I also removed the location entirely as a compromise, because this doesn't seem to be anything worth arguing about. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 18:11, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

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BGerdemann (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

The Yes Album

Hi Ritchie333. I don't mean to be argumentative, but would you mind checking your reversion of my recent edit to The Yes Album and explain a couple of things? First, i didn't add Discogs as a source, so referring to WP:RSDISCOGS in your summary is a bit...insulting, especially as Discogs is still there as a reference in the exact cite you reverted; maybe you intended to remove it altogether? Second, far as i can tell you have put back an incorrect CS1 template, as "Cite AV media notes" is used to create citations for print liner notes from albums, DVDs, CDs and similar audio-visual media (quoting from its documentation), not an external website such as Discogs. I'd be grateful if you'd either explain mine error or check your action ~ Lindsay^Hello 11:34, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Oh right, I missed that the discogs link was hidden away in a reference template, so I mistakenly assumed you'd added it. I seem to remember having a discussion about this particular factoid years ago with Martinevans123 about some obscure Italian pressing; however as I don't think we've got a really good source to show that this is a vital piece of information for the article, so I'm mindful of removing the whole paragraph from the article. Actually, I've just done that; as this is supposed to be a good article, the sourcing should be of a sufficiently high standard in the first place. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:39, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't remember ever previously discussing this... but it's quite possible. I see no problem with using images of covers or labels at discogs as sources. I'm assuming that label for Side 2 actually matches the track sequence when the record is played? But in this case the details might be classed as unwanted trivia since, as far as I know, they are a bit inconsequential. No strong view. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:48, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Removing the whole thing was probably the best solution ~ though it's trivia and not essential, it is still amusing that the title was printed incorrectly on the album cover itself; be nice if we had an RS to verify it ~ Lindsay^Hello 11:59, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Like I said, I tend to trust images at discogs (the can be used as lead images in infoboxes after all?) and can't really see how or why they could be easily faked. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:07, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

I think the more salient point is if the only place you can find the information is an image on discogs, you might wonder why no other sources have bothered to cover it. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:12, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

Because it's muso trivia lol. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:39, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

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Question from Starlife4me (13:41, 19 November 2024)

Hi! I'd like to create a wikipage about the 500 Year Plan. This is a plan that would put humanity on track to obtain 3 objectives by the end of 500 years. These objectives are: 1 billion people living on Mars, the Moon, and Ceres each Average life span of a person is 300 years long with the health and vitality of a 40 year old for most of that time All necessities of life (shelter, food, water, oxygen, education, healthcare, etc are free)

I want anyone to be able to edit the plan so that we can come up with achievable goals and milestones via crowdsourcing.

How do I go about doing this? I'm not sure how to proceed.

Thank you! --Starlife4me (talk) 13:41, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

I seem to have missed this question the first time round, but my general advice would be to not create an article on a topic until you've had some experience in updating or improving existing articles first. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:21, 26 November 2024 (UTC)