User talk:Tropzax

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Re:categories boxes

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Slow down!

Hi, Tropzax! I'm delighted to see you're enthusiastically embracing editing on Wikipedia, but you need to slow down and learn the basics before you start leaving posts like the ones on talk pages such as Talk:Downton Abbey. It's not appropriate for one editor to assume the role of arbiter of what is/is not correct. What you need to do is start by reading some of the basic articles you were referred to, and to learn about reliable sources. You have left a couple talk page posts about checking the IMDB for information about the credits in Downton Abbey, but seem unaware that the IMDB data is submitted by viewers, is riddled with erorrs, and that Wikipedia does not regard it as a source for cast or other credits. You're at a point right now where you need to talk less, and pay attention to how editing is done. Start by finding an article that needs improvement, the work on learning to edit it. Let other experienced editors help you, and you'll soon learn how things work. --Drmargi (talk) 21:54, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Eh, cheers. Just one user had read the *arguments* and asked, because to her I am a reliable resource on Downton Abbey, for me to just review the individual discussions and give my own final judgement/ knowledge. With IMDb, I didn't want to have to refer to it but there aren't many sources for things which aren't press released and need clarification. In any case it was just to have all the final say's in one place, for others to edit if/when needs be. Delete it if you want, I've since realised it probably wasn't necessary and that most of the issues had been resolved. You seem to be an active and experienced, wise user so could you give me a headcheck whenever you see fit. --Tropzax (talk) 15:01, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

No problem. I think I understand what you were doing now. Your motives were right; we just need to work on execution. There is no final decision or absolute standard for anything in an article, so your section compiling what you labeled as "final decisions" is inappropriate. But that's fixable. Please take a bit of time and read two files: WP:CONSENSUS and WP:RS. Nothing is ever the final word on anything on Wikipedia, both because our knowledge is fluid and because consensus as to what is correct/accurate/verifiable, etc. can change. I'll see if I can find the post asking you to weigh in and add a few thoughts, which should help. I'll also remove my comments from a couple talk pages in the meantime. The big thing is, right now, you may be reliable to your friends on Downton, but reliable here is very different. Step back and make sure you have a handle on how reliable sources and consensus work, and life will be easier. You can drop a message on my talk page any time you have a question; I'm happy to help you through the early days. We were all new editors once. --Drmargi (talk) 17:45, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

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RE: Allowed to put about a living person?

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I'm sorry, I keep forgetting but I do then go back into edit and add it. I'll write it on a post-it on my screen, eh? --Tropzax (talk) 17:32, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

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Sitting on Walls

In regard to Sitting on Walls, I have to admit that either due to the sound recording or the actress's accent, I can't understand half the dialogue (and there isn't that much of it). But I'm kind of curious to know what it is. Here's what it sounds like to me:

"It wasn't often sind around here, but when it was, it was beautiful. Sometimes, we'd go play at the (rack/rec/wreck?). ... Papa ... wouldn't be scared of such mosey and drew. Ah, ... ten o'clock ... foreign, pound. But there was one thing, whenever it was sunny, that we never compromised on, sittin' on walls."

This is not meant to make fun of anybody -- I really would like to know what she is saying. (Also, this film is supposed to be about life in the 1970s, but I can't tell how the 1970s come into it.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:04, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

I think she's saying "it wasn't often sunny around here, but when it was, it was beautiful. Sometimes we'd go play at the rec (short for recreational ground), take our bikes up to the estate to get (Milly? may be a nickname) and Drew. Or, take the 10' o clock 84 (a bus?) to/into town. But there was one thing, whenever it was sunny, that we never compromised on... Sitting on walls.

I assume because it's set in the North of England she's emphasised her own accent. The 1970's bit I think, from whay the description says, is that being a kid was simple and innocent as sitting on walls appears to be the thing they care about most.

Thanks. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 14:43, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

That's just what I think. Maybe ask on the video, I may not be right. --Tropzax (talk) 16:24, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

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Marcos Danilo Padilha

Sorry, the Brazilian news was reporting our datetime (1:15 a.m.) not the actual datetime in the place of the crash (10:15 p.m.). Thank you for fixing that. MYS77 ^✉ 13:03, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Infamy of 2016

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Iridescent

Hi. Can I politely ask you to just stop trying to pick a fight with this user? Admins really don't delete articles for fun, on the contrary, they get a lot of grief and hassle over this. If you really want the text of the deleted article, I can pop it in your userspace as a sandbox. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 17:44, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

OK, see she started it by deleting it without warning, and without any other user discussion. I'm sure that's not an accepted thing, so you can't defend it. That's what set the tone, and if she read anything I posted she'd notice that I was asking why it got deleted. It was nothing like a duplicate page, so that can't be it. If it's against Wikipedia policy and you can show that, that's OK, but she didn't. She ignored it all, like a sleazy politician pretending problems don't exist until they get hidden. Now she's having someone else talk to me? You seem good, and I try to be nice to good folk, so could you go ask her for me, in return? (Mate, I was not trying to pick a fight, I was using the tone she established within a conversation she prompted, becoming more angry at her when she ignored me) Tropzax (talk) 23:45, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

I have restored the draft to User:Tropzax/Infamy of 2016. As you can see here, the article was tagged as a duplicate of an existing topic by Gilo1969; Iridescent merely agreed with the speedy nomination and deleted it, which he is allowed to do per the guidelines. "Note that once tagged with this notice, this user page may be deleted at any time if it unquestionably meets the speedy deletion criteria." Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:10, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Ways to improve Stag Hill, University of Surrey

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I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Consider providing reliable sources to strengthen the page's verifiability.

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Meatsgains^(talk) 00:16, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Stag Hill, University of Surrey

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DYK for Stag Hill, University of Surrey

On 7 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Stag Hill, University of Surrey, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a steel statue (pictured) at the entrance to the University of Surrey's Stag Hill Campus was strength-tested before being placed to ensure it could bear the weight of students attempting to climb it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stag Hill, University of Surrey. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Stag Hill, University of Surrey), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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