User talk:HJ Mitchell

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Feel like mentoring a FAC?

Hello HJ,

I am hoping to submit Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey shortly. I saw on the list of mentors that you like fixing prose. It has already been through the GOCE and I don't think the individual sentences are the main problem. I feel it is not telling the story in a coherent way but is more like a lot of notes thrown together.

Although we have our project style guide none of the other "Greenhouse gas emissions by ...." or "Climate change in ....." country articles have yet been submitted to FAC.

So I am looking for big picture ideas mainly, such as how to organize the article to present the subject in a digestible way, although if you spotted specific points of course I would fix them too.

This would be my first (and probably only as I know it takes lots of work) FAC - I tried for a featured list before but gave that up due to a list related thing which is not relevant to a normal article.

The reason I think this is timely is that I am pretty sure Turkey will ratify the Paris Agreement this year so it would be nice to have the article as a sound starting point for anyone, such as journalists, who are interested in what Nationally Determined Contribution Turkey will submit to COP26.

Regards

Chidgk1 (talk) 18:47, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Chidgk1, I'd be happy to have a look at the prose. Just bear in mind I only have a passing knowledge of greenhouse gases from A-level geography (and that was ~15 years ago!) and essentially none when it come to Turkey in particular. It might be Wednesday or Thursday before I can give it my full attention, but if you can wait that long I'll put any queries on the talk page. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 19:34, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

Great. Your level of prior knowledge is exactly that of my target reader. So if you cannot understand something then I need to explain it better. Feel free to bomb the article with "clarify" or any other tags. Chidgk1 (talk) 11:43, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

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Plenty of backlog

I have applied for the autopatrolles rights. But it seems there are plenty of backlogs. Can you have a look at it. Regards Kichu🐘 ^Discuss 16:38, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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Deblocking

How times change. I was distinctly surprised earlier today to happen upon two blocks by you within a fairly short period, because that seemed like a remarkable coincidence. I still remember the time when not a day went by without my seeing dozens of your blocks for 1001 days, whereas now I rarely see you around at all. However, I am not here to chat about such trivia, so on to business.

I am in fact here to comply with the terms of your red note near the top of this page, by leaving you what I hope you will regard as "a polite note explaining what [I] did and why". I have reverted a block you placed on Squigle ducky, for vandalism on my talk page, as I believe the block was mistaken. The editor had posted a message on my talk page saying "i just wanted to say thank you for restoring the vandalism". Obviously that looks like trolling, but in fact I think it was just an unfortunate choice of words for a well-intentioned message. The editor had been trying to constructively edit an article in the face of persistent vandalism by one or more people using an account and IP editing. I stepped in and blocked the IP and reverted to a pre-vandalism version of the article. I think what Squigle ducky meant by "thank you for restoring the vandalism" was probably something like "thank you for reverting the vandalism" or "thank you for restoring the good version from before the vandalism". JBW (talk) 15:58, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

JBW, your note is very polite and explanatory so thank you! I'm always in favour of fixing a mistake quickly rather than waiting for the bureaucracy. I'm still around and still making 1001-day blocks; just not as much as I once was. Real life is busy these days and I have even less patience for the politics than I used to, so I mostly just write articles and block vandals. It's good to hear from you. I hope you're keeping well. Hopefully we'll get to have a pint again before too long! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:00, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, I know that you are still reasonably active, though nowhere near as much so as you were for a brief period back in about 2010 or so. However, I think my failure to see your editing is probably only partly because you are around less, and partly, perhaps more, because my own focus of activity has shifted, so that I am less often in the right place to see what you have been doing. I don't actually remember in what context I used to keep seeing your blocks, but it may have been when I used to spend large amounts of time using Huggle to deal with vandalism. I haven't used Huggle now for goodness how many years. JBW (talk) 23:57, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

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Why did you ban user KingFun626? He was a legit user and never vandalized the site.

Thanks!

Hey I don’t know if this is appropriate but wanted to thank you for stepping in on a deletion earlier today. Someone had created a page, well, of me, and I didn’t appreciate it.

It was pretty stressful, mainly because I have zero experience with wiki beyond reading it, and couldn’t figure out what to do. Not sure how it happened but I did see you were able to delete it. So thanks very much!

(Again sorry if this breaks protocol) Imissdisco (talk) 05:10, 3 March 2021 (UTC)