User talk:13Scorpio

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Couple of things

I noticed you have only edited/contributed to Bloodhound LSR, and that your edits do not seem to be those typical of a new user. Do you have any previous experience within Wikipedia, and do you have any connection to the project or any other aspect, such as the college? Also you linked South Africa - it's not normal to link major geographic areas, see WP:OLINK. Sometimes it is done, and it's not doing any harm in this instance. Thank you.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 01:11, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(reply copied from User talk:Rocknrollmancer#Reply to welcome message)

Thanks for the welcome message on my Talk page and the tips - it's so hard to know where to look when trying to work out how to get started on Wikipedia. I'm not likely to be a frequent contributor as I don't have time, but I have been a fan of the Bloodhound Project for some years and was surprised the page was so out of date when I looked at it while they were doing high speed testing, so thought I would set myself a project of bringing it up to date. Not sure why my changes don't look typical but I do a bit of writing for my job, so maybe that's why.13Scorpio (talk) 11:46, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for replying to my Talk page; it is normal on Wikipedia to concentrate the message/reponses into one location, so I have copied the content to here, leaving the original in-situ, as is my preferred habit of non-deletion of any message. I, too, looked in on LSR after recording the BBC coverage and watching some time after; where a new (or new-ish) user makes major changes, it flags up as either previous experience, either under straight (non-logged in) IP address(es) or under a different user name. Also new users often make a sequence of multiple, small edits, and/or leave errors. Where none of these are present, and there is only one article, it attracts extra scrutiny.

I noticed you have not answered the questions above: do you have any connection to the project, external contractors, or the college? Members of the public cannot be expected to understand the internal workings of Wikipedia, I understand perhaps (a notional) 10% of it - if I'm unsure I can request advice, or just ignore the situation and forget about it. The problem is, anyone having connections, business, personal or family are discouraged from making changes directly, instead the preference is to suggest changes at the article's Talk page, and make a declaration of any connection.

This is a custom-composed, hopefully polite message to ascertain the next steps of advice, if any - I haven't checked the changes you made in minute detail (as I'm snowed-under in my non-Wikipedia life) but they are complex and it appears you have deleted prose (text) and references; some refs are not dead but are reverting to a homepage. This ref you deleted in this change: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/03/bloodhound-ssc/ is now at https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/bloodhound-ssc/ ; you might not have found "33%", but just delete that bit. Another reference I found in Wayback machine. If you have checked them and they are not responsive they should not be deleted - there are technical solutions, often. When an inexperienced user deletes content and references, important stuff can be lost.

Wikipedia is a collaborative effort and is not a news organisation and often things don't get updated in real time, often they do.

To conclude, if you could please disclose any connection then I should be obliged.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 18:12, 1 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have now had the opportunity to trawl through just some of the changes you made, restoring some content and deleted references; I have concentrated on the lede (lead, intro) section only thus far. This is intended to be a (comprehensive) summary of the developments to date; it should not need any further changes. Any reader looking for more in-depth info can go to sections. As such it should stand now without any need for change.

Please do not make any more changes until the questions above have been answered. These relate to conflict of interest editing. Thank you.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 14:45, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your messages and apologies for not replying before - I've been really busy. I totally understand your concerns but no, I don't have any connection with Bloodhound other than being a fan. I'll have a look at the changes when I have time, and to try to learn from your edits, but to be honest I don't really have any more time to commit to editing the page anyway. I just thought it deserved to be brought up to date.13Scorpio (talk) 18:11, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for that. I, too, am just passing through spasmodically consequently a bit tardy, just trying to remember oustanding things as I am involved in other stuff and don't want to be distracted. rgds, --Rocknrollmancer (talk) 17:04, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]