User talk:Mkikoen

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:28, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Frag Dolls

I've converted this back to an article and added citations to news sources. If you need help with any women-related articles generally, Megalibrarygirl is a good editor to know as she is a professional librarian with a far wider range of sources available than I have at my disposal. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:28, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: I do appreciate that sir. Thank You. While I don't have a lot of time on my hands right now as I'm going back to college in 5 days from now. If I ever get any free time on my hands and need any help with writing / editing articles about women like sexism or any other major problems bringing them down (even though I'm still very ignorant when it comes to sexism and many types of women problems in this subject as I still have to eventually do more vigorous research), I will definitely follow your suggestion to check out Megalibrarygirl as she sounds very professional who's way more experienced than I am on these challenges. If I need any other assistance on Wikipedia, I'll contact you first. --Mkikoen (talk) 15:45, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: As for adding the signatures to my comments after my final sentence in the paragraph. Yeah, I'm still fairly new to that. I don't edit wikipedia articles on a frequent basis as I only do it very occasionally when I'm in the right mindset, it's still going to take me a while to remember that I have to sign my messages. Since I'm using the Wiki Editor, all I have to do besides typing 4 tildes characters is just click on the signature symbol in the toolbar. I almost wish there was a way to enable an option for the system to auto-sign my messages every time so I don't have to ... at least for a logged in user but I'll probably get used to it soon. One question, I'm just curious, is there any way for a logged in user to enable any additional security options in their account preferences? I just want to make sure that my account is secure and see if there's any additional security settings for me (besides two-step verification unless Wikipedia is prone to getting many accounts hacked) to turn on if I find the protection necessary. I've never gotten used to the account preference interface yet as it seems its either missing some features and a lot of the settings are still advanced for me to understand. *sigh* Just forgot to sign my signature at the end. This is gonna take a while. --Mkikoen (talk) 16:14, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

There's a background program, SineBot, that will sign your post for you if you forget. As for two-factor authentication, it's only available for accounts with advanced permissions such as administrators (since those are really the only sort of accounts that crackers go after). Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 16:18, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: Thanks. I requested for someone to run SineBot for me since I know nothing about software / website programming for me to run it myself but the request was denied because an Oversighter Primefac said "SineBot already (usually signs posts when the signature is left off. So there's nothing for you to do/request." If that's true, that's nice but I'd like for the SineBot system to eventually be implemented as a option in the preferences for logged in users to enable or disable it if they want their signature to be automatically signed completely by the bot, or if the SineBot system isn't infallible, then there should be something that could sign it automatically since I have no prior experience with code programming.

I have to admit I'm baffled why SineBot hasn't signed the above post, it's certainly active. And to be honest, given that pretty much everyone is familiar with adding comments to a thread on Facebook or Twitter via a mobile these days, there certainly isn't any excuse for having some sort of analogous user interface on top that can just act as a nice front end. Indeed, there is a project called Structured Discussions that is exactly this, but development seems to have been put on hold. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 20:32, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: 100% Agreed. To be completely honest with you, I do think it's pretty stupid and redundant to have to "sign" your own messages with these signatures in order for your username and/or timestamp to appear using an analogous user interface (which I think is still too sophisticated or confusing many times). I personally find many parts of the user interface not only a bit too sophisticated with preferences and features that are too technical for me to understand, and the GUI in many ways looks similar to the one used on Reddit (God knows I despite that interface at least back when I was still using it in 2017 as it was way too over-simplified with almost nothing obvious to click on or navigate to a specific area as it was very difficult for newcomers to use - now I know they redesigned it so I can't comment on the new one yet but I might have to check it out). Anyway, just like you said - many social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other sites automatically display your username and timestamp all the time when you make a new post or comment. This part of Wikipedia really needs to be modernized soon since it honestly just makes sending out messages and other technical parts of Wikipedia just more complicated then it should be for newcomers who aren't programmers. I just hope that Wikipedia might eventually become more easier for regular web searchers (non-programmers) like me to use without having to keep inputting so much specific source code to type certain functions in order to cite a page or something. I guess I'll keep on waiting and just see what happens man. --Mkikoen (talk) 03:17, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

@Ritchie333: One last thing, I apologize for ranting as I don't usually write rant messages directly to admins unless the person is very open to suggestions and feedback. However, I also don't understand why Wikipedia displays the time in a 24 hour clock as I can never read that type of time format whatsoever but there's no way to change the time format as far as I'm concerned. So I also hope that's another thing they might implement in the future because not every one can read military time. Since the internet has existed pretty much ever since the World Wide Web was introduced in 1994, You would think that because it's already 2018, most if not all websites should be programmed to automatically display your username and timestamp whenever you send out a message or comment towards someone if the site uses that functionality but apparently not everyone thinks outside the box to come up with such obvious simple solutions to not only increase efficiency, but also to save time since this is a little bit of a slight learning curve for me. Okay that's enough posts I'm making for today. --Mkikoen (talk) 03:23, 16 August 2018 (UTC)