User talk:Rinkle gorge

Welcome!

Hello, Rinkle gorge, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The five pillars of Wikipedia
Tutorial
How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, visit the Teahouse Q&A forum, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 01:07, 3 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Rinkle gorge, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Sarah (talk) 00:46, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

October Horse

Rinkle, this was a little trigger-happy. Even if you disagreed with the change, the link was relevant to topic and the IP's edit summary shows as much. We shouldn't issue warnings for good-faith, constructive editing. Haploidavey (talk) 17:50, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, sorry. I incorrectly thought that the IP editor had performed vandalism by equating Proto-Indo-European religion with the act of horse sacrifice. Had I looked more closely I would have seen that this was a constructive edit and not vandalism. Thanks for noticing my mistake, I'll be more careful next time. Rinkle gorge (talk) 18:16, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No worries; everyone makes the odd mistake, and this one's all done and dusted. Best regards, Haploidavey (talk) 18:32, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to adoption

Hi! You are now enrolled at my adoption school. Your official 'adoption page' is located at User:Pol430/Adoption/Rinkle gorge.

My adoption school works in a similar way to a conventional education course. Your adoption page is the Wikipedia equivalent of your exercise book. I will set you a series of assignments—there are 7 in total. The assignments will start with a list of material to read through; once you have read this, I will post a number of questions for you to answer, on the subject(s) you have just read about. I will review your answers and provide you with feedback. When you have answered all the questions and any followup questions, you will receive a grade for that assignment. Your assignments will be graded, with a grade from A* to C. If you do not complete an assignment to a satisfactory standard, you will be asked to re-sit that assignment. In your first assignment (which I have already assigned to you) you will learn about The Five Pillars of Wikipedia.

Once you have completed all the assignments satisfactorily, I will set you a final examination. Once you pass your final exam, you will receive your graduation certificate. Depending on your grades throughout the school, you may graduate with one of three honors! See the adoption school main page for more info.

Please leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions. Pol430 talk to me 14:51, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Rinkle gorge. You have new messages at User:Pol430/Adoption/Rinkle gorge.
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Pol430 talk to me 17:39, 11 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Pol430 talk to me 10:45, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rinkle gorge, I have posted your questions for the second assignment, at your adoption page. Good luck! Pol430 talk to me 20:09, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Pol430 talk to me 21:49, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rinkle gorge, Assignment three is up at your adoption page and I have added the questions. Continue in your own time. Good luck! Pol430 talk to me 15:54, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good to see you back! I noticed you have finished your copyright assignment. I will review your answers and answer you questions shortly :) Pol430 talk to me 17:00, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All done :) Pol430 talk to me 23:25, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Next assignment is up! :) Pol430 talk to me 20:33, 31 May 2012 (UTC) [reply]

Hello, Rinkle gorge. You have new messages at Jim1138's talk page.
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Your rollback request

Hi Rinkle gorge, I have granted rollback rights to your account in accordance with your request. Please be aware that rollback should be used to revert vandalism/spam/blatantly unconstructive edits, and that using it to revert anything else (such as by revert-warring or reverting edits you disagree with) can lead to it being removed from your account...sometimes without any warning, depending on the admin who becomes aware of any misuse. If you think an edit should require a reason for reverting, then don't use rollback and instead use a manual edit summary. For practice, you may wish to see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback. Good luck. Acalamari 22:33, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Acalamari, and I appreciate the guidance. Rinkle gorge (talk) 03:29, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

June 2012

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is invited to contribute, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Francis Bacon, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found here. The Determinator p t c 03:55, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Huggle mishap, sorry! Rinkle gorge (talk) 03:57, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Rinkle gorge. You have new messages at CapMan07008's talk page.
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Looks like there was some friendly fire when fighting vandalism. No hard feeling. :) The Determinator p t c 03:59, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Rinkle gorge. You have new messages at User:Pol430/Adoption/Rinkle gorge.
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Pol430 talk to me 10:03, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In answer to your question...

As I've archived the last assignment, I thought I'd respond here. When I say not too liberally, I mean the the CSD criteria are worded quite specifically and are narrowly construed. It's difficult to put into words, but good editorial judgement is required in interpreting the CSD criteria. Don't worry about it too much, just refer to the CSD policy or ask me (or someone else) if in doubt. Multiple criteria are fine. You can use multiple CSD criteria if more than one criteria applies -- in fact, Twinkle has a CSD multiple option which makes multiple tagging easier! Congratulations on your rollback rights, how are you finding Huggle? :-) Pol430 talk to me 20:30, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I think that clarifies my CSD question pretty well. I'm trying to phrase my understanding in a way that demonstrates my understanding, but like you said, it's difficult to put into words. My first impressions of Huggle are that it saves me an incredible amount of time and provides excellent options for communicating with editors that I have used rollback on. I have found myself cross-editing with Huggle running and Wikipedia open in a browser, especially for checking actions I've made in Huggle. I've also started using Twinkle, so I've got a lot to learn. If all goes well, I'll be leaving a talkback for you after posting this message. Rinkle gorge (talk) 20:44, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Great stuff, talkback received! For the record, I wasn't criticizing you understanding of CSD, you nailed your last assignment (apart from a couple of tiny slips) I just wanted to labor the point that the criteria are very specific -- often frustratingly so! Huggle is good tool, I still fire it up occasionally, when the vandalism alarm goes off! I'm glad you've found Twinkle, it will come in handy during the next couple of assignments. Assignment 5 is ready whenever you are by the way. Enjoy! Pol430 talk to me 20:56, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Of course! I'd never take any of your comments as negative criticism. I appreciate that you're bolstering the specific nature of CSD. I'll get started on the next assignment whenever I can pull myself away from recent changes. Rinkle gorge (talk) 21:00, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! I told you, you're becoming a Wikipediholic! ;-) Pol430 talk to me 21:05, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Rinkle gorge. You have new messages at User:Pol430/Adoption/Rinkle gorge.
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Pol430 talk to me 16:53, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Going away

Hi Rinkle Gorge, I'm sorry but I have to go away with work at short notice, so I won't be able to take you through the final exam yet. I will be back on the 20th July, if you are still up for it then. I'm sure you keep yourself entertained on Wikipedia until I get back! :) Pol430 talk to me 19:58, 21 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ganso

Apologies, your edit said he played for Cardiff City, hence why I attempted to revert. Feel free to change, been trigger happy with vandalism warnings this evening. Lemonade51 (talk) 22:30, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thanks for your contributions! SwisterTwister talk 02:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your work isn't done until it is checked...

lest you work wrong. When there are rapid edits/reverts you can easily pick up the wrong version. 24.28.17.231 (talk) 01:12, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mentors

Hi, have you heard anything about Pol430? Did they ever come back from being out of the Country? He was my mentor and we were still working on my assignments."Selene Scott (talk) 10:43, 20 August 2012 (UTC)"[reply]

Hello Selene Scott! You know, when Pol430 told me (he/she?) they were leaving for a month, I decided to take a break from Wikipedia. I had been getting rather addicted to Huggle for a while. It's been almost three months since our mentor left. It's strange, they made a couple of edits on the 5th and 6th of August, but other than that they're pretty gone. I'm glad that you've moved on to a new mentor, and I really like the formatting on your user page, looks great! Let's try to collaborate on a Wikipedia project sometime -- it would be fun to work in tandem with someone for a while. Rinkle gorge (talk) 07:59, 15 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I would love to do that with you. Thanks for the barnstar. I noticed you did very well on all of the assignments, and an A on copywrite!, wow, I didn't do well at all on that one and in fact still don't really know what to do when it comes to that part of it. I haven't really found another mentor. When I started out I had two, but Pol was the only one who worked with me. Then after he/she disappeared I tried to work with the other on my user page. They just did it for me instead of teaching me how so that was a bit disappointing. Anyway, let me know what you'd like to try doing. I'm pretty much open to anything. "Selene Scott (talk) 14:51, 27 September 2012 (UTC)"[reply]

Yeah, I got rather nerdy about studying for those tests, and I was sorely disappointed when I realized I wouldn't be finishing up with Pol. Although, who knows, they might come back some day. I can imagine that after being active on Wikipedia for so long it would be nice to up and leave on an extended break. In terms of working together on a project, I think it would be fun to choose an article to improve, maybe from C to B class? I don't know how hard that is because I've never tried it, but I'd like to give it a shot, and with two people we might make quicker work of it. I'd prefer something outside of my usual areas of interest, mostly to learn something new but also to maximize neutrality. I'll think about it. Do you have any suggestions? Rinkle gorge (talk) 23:08, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello you two! I'm back (sort of)! Rinkle, I hope you don't mind me addressing both of you on your talk page? I'm so sorry I had to abandon you both like that, but my life tends to turn in six month circles. I can have plenty of time on my hands for six months, and then have to shoot off at short notice for long periods of isolation... Anyway, I'm about at the moment and have looked in on both your progress. I am extremely pleased that both of you have continued working on Wikipedia in my absence and rightly proud of what you have achieved. Rinkle, I see that you have continued to develop your skills, and you were at the end of your adoption course anyway, so I have chosen to 'graduate' you (somewhat belatedly) from the program. Naturally, I will be on-hand if you ever want my help or advice. P.S. Thank you for the kind words on your userpage! Selene, if you're still around and would like to finnish off your adoption program then I'm happy to do so? Pol430 talk to me 18:30, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Page Curation newsletter

Hey Rinkle gorge. I'm dropping you a note because you used to (or still do!) patrol new pages. This is just to let you know that we've deployed and developed Page Curation, which augments and supersedes Special:NewPages - there are a lot of interesting new features :). There's some help documentation here if you want to familiarise yourself with the system and start using it. If you find any bugs or have requests for new features, let us know here. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 12:51, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	In recognition of your graduation from the Pol430 adoption course, Summa Cum Laude, I award you this barnstar. Pol430 talk to me 18:56, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And in recognition of your two A* grades, I award you "a pint"... Pol430 talk to me 18:58, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats!

Good job graduating with top honors "Selene Scott (talk)"