User talk:Timtrent

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Draft xx network

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Xx_network

Hi Timtrent. Thank you for reviewing my xx network article draft. Can you explain to me how articles from important newspaper and media such as Wired, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Cointelegraph are considered low quality sources? Also you are saying I have too many sources, but a previous reviewer told ne I didn't have enough sources. So according to you I should choose max 3 sources? Thanks again. I will work on it until aporoved so it would be really appreciated if you could guide me to an approval for this article on which I already spent so much time and effort. Jstrob (talk) 17:04, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jstrob Once a fact is cited then it is cited. More is overkill. More than three is Citekill

Excessive referencing is bombardment.

Redeploying the excess or keeping only the best is pragmatic. But reviewing before we know the sources you truly will be using is fruitless. Does that help? 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 18:16, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks I will go through all my sources and try to keep only the best. Jstrob (talk) 03:55, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I went through all sources and tried to keep the best and most relevant. Can you tell me if it's now better please? Jstrob (talk) 04:51, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jstrob Most assuredly more usefully referenced, though press releases are not helpful and investopedia is deprecated too. The great thing is twofold.

you can work on it while it is submitted
the next reviewer can see your reference choice clearly

Thank you for the hard work. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 08:47, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good morning Timrent, thank you so much for your help! Jstrob (talk) 13:49, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Draft Eberhard Kranzmayer

Dear Timrent, thanks for reviewing this first draft. I took your comments, thank you, and rewrote https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Eberhard_Kranzmayer Just in case you'd like to take a look, oh, but I see, you don't normally do that. Anyhow, thank you! MinTrouble (talk) 03:16, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MinTrouble Fresh eyes are always better. Thank you for working hard on the draft. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 07:31, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

👍 MinTrouble (talk) 23:05, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BTW I appreciated your article on working with academic wikipedians. It should be offered in several languages. I think you got the right impression. How so? When I get notifications I brace myself for something really bad. Just like now when you just responded on this talk page. How so? It takes only one instance of severe wikihounding and a conflict-resolution-wise ill-equipped admin who mirrors the Wikihounder's view and it's rien-ne-va-plus. Lifetime blocks come so easily in some languages (dewiki and svwiki I can attest to) that you wonder how much power is vested in some roles... It's particularly weird when such case is used in another wiki for an immediate lifetime block. I guess multilingual authors were not considered much when this system (great in many ways) was set up. Anyhow, wanted to say that your recommendation of how to work with academics is, in my mind, given Wikipedia's restrictions, likely the only way forward. And,as you rightly say, Wikipedia needs them. MinTrouble (talk) 23:17, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MinTrouble You are welcome to translate it into any language you can work well enough in. Academe and Wikipedia are so very different it is easy for the academic to become bewildered.

Thank you for your very positive feedback.

I ought to have responded more fully this morning, but I was about to leave for a long drive in bad weather. After a review I am always standing too close to the draft. A fresh set of eyes brings a different interpretation, sometimes, and the draft becomes better. Even the we do not need it to be perfect, just 'good enough'. Perfection comes over time, or, perhaps, never! 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 23:39, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, je suis d'accord. Ha det bra och tackar! MinTrouble (talk) 23:44, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:32, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring

Hey. To clarify, I have no interest in the content dispute. I just saw the edit warring through recent changes. OXYLYPSE (talk) 15:31, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@OXYLYPSE Understood. I felt you might be a calming voice, however. This topic is getting out of hand by the minute 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 15:38, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems all I achieved was moving the content dispute to user talk pages, which is probably more of a hindrance than a help. A comment of your tone was probably more appropriate in hindsight. OXYLYPSE (talk) 16:15, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@OXYLYPSE ordure, as they say, happens. Sometimes we are lucky, other times not so much. one or the other needs to drop the stick. Being correct is not the same as being right. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 17:28, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@OXYLYPSE I have tried, at User talk:Axad12#Jim Gamble to offer what guidance I am able. I try my best to be as even handed as I am able when I see editors in stressful situations. Often I am somewhat successful. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 17:41, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

I think I have done what was asked sir. Is this much better? :) TheOtherWrexham (talk) 20:35, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TheOtherWrexham I imagine you have, but you have not lined to anything to give me a clue 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 22:12, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Help improve the project

Hi, I have a big request for you. I created a project a long time ago. It was rejected because of the sources. SafariScribe suggested what to improve and I did so. I wanted him to check if the project is good but I guess he doesn't have much time. I noticed you on SafariScribe in the discussion and decided to write, would you help me take care of the project? Please. Gordonwg (talk) 14:23, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gordonwg I help take care of Wikipedia. I'm prepared to see what you have in mind. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 14:36, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, here is a link to the page. There are many sources from the Segebrecht page, I have written permission from the author of the page to use all the information from his page. I also have an original Segebrecht military book and the same information is written in it. Sorry for my poor English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Willfried_Segebrecht Gordonwg (talk) 14:44, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gordonwg

Done by commenting on the draft. Thank you for asking me. Good luck. You have work to do. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 14:52, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really understand all this technically ;) But I'll try to change it. Thank you for such a quick and nice reaction and comment. Can I ask when I start making changes? Gordonwg (talk) 15:11, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]