Project Editor Retention edit
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Weekly instructions
- - Open the recipients talk page and click on 'New section' (I usually use "Editor of the Week" as my section title, but that's not normative), you'll want to post the Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Recipient notification template into the new section. This template is mostly self-explanatory, and I have found that contrary to the instructions, unless I missed something, you don't actually need to use a special diffs template for any diffs found within the nomination statement.
- - For the "briefreason" field, I usually began with the word 'your' so that the resulting sentence will make better sense
- - Fill out the template and save it on the nominee's talkpage.
- - Remove that editor's entry on the accepted nominations page
- - Add their name to recipient listing @ found here. Save the new diff #
- - Go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Accepted nominations and create a new EddyBanner
- - Go to the Hall of Fame and remove appropriate ((<---)) from previous week and ((--->)) from current week.
- - Go to Template:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Project main page and change the date at the bottom of the page
- - Go to Nominee's talk page and add {{{subst:Template:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Project main page}}} within the Award, just under the "userbox creator" which places it off to the right side allowing space for Congrats!
- - Once recipient responds, add it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Recipient response
- - If the recipient is an editor that displays "topicons", add Template:Editor of the Week topicon to the top of their user page
Whenever I begin to wonder if what I do around here is worthwhile, I go to this page and remember all the smiles and good feelings that the Eddy Awards have brought to people over the years. It really uplifts my spirits. Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 22:49, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
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Who is Buster7 edit
I am a continually learning member of the Wikipedia experience. I have lived in America for 72 years. I was taught by BVM nuns and Franciscan priests. I have been finding my way around the many nooks and crannies of Wikipedia for almost 14 years now. One of many interests has always been articles about the Flemish language. "Ik spreek nan oud Vlaamse taal. Assek da schrijf is het azo. Oaad au goed, eh, vriend!". I also monitor articles relating to the region of my birth (which was once known as the Low Countries). Promoting and prolonging whatever it is that Wikipedia tries to be has become important. Maybe it is the concept of something living into eternity or maybe it is just trying to write a good, clear, concise sentence. Whatever it is, I'm still having fun! I promise to listen to the voice that speaks to greatness in myself and in others. I have been facilitating the Editor of the Week program for over 10 years. I am a Baháʼí. I believe it is possible for human behavior to improve and develop and grow, especially in arenas where we are required to interact with each other. Making a positive, non-political contribution to the planet is essential to Bahai practices and a bedrock of my Faith. I strive to be the best editor I can be. I am not a perfect editor. I have learned from past mistakes and, more than likely, I will make more down the line and learn from them. Early on, I became weary of the drama. When polarized, ultra-critical edits are thrown back and forth and minuscule differences are given the third degree, articles and talk pages end up being an alternating collection of challenges that rarely praise and mostly criticize the topic and the editors involved. My constant hope is that the environment of Wikipedia will become calmer and more balanced, and that collaboration will become the focus of all editors, now and to come. While some of the more troublesome arenas are political, the focus is not. The focus should always be OUR READER, or stated more distinctly, OUR VISITOR. Quite simply, I want to be left alone (not bothered) by vindictive editors, to enjoy the pleasure of WikiLife at some non-toxic level of article/essay creation...to enjoy the unspoken bond that can exist between editors...to enjoy giving out awards. No emotional see-saws, tension, protagonists, provocative provocateurs. I reject the drama of untimely name-calling and sarcasm ladened replies...even when I myself engage in them. I work to see barriers dissolve in the face of mutual respect and humanity.
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WP:GAIV Guide to administrator intervention against vandalism
WP:AIV For reporting continuous vandalism
- Vandalizing articles is easy. The challenge is to create one!
- Vandalism Only Accounts usually get blocked rather quickly. Any child can vandalize. The Real Challenge is to create an article.
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation/housekeeping#Dealing with disruptive editors Suggestions on dealing with disruptive editors
Writing an article edit
- Use reliable, independent sources (WP:RS) to include significant encyclopedic information.
- Use self-published sources as rarely as possible, and only for common uncontroversial information.
- Avoid all qualifiers for knowledge, quality, size and success (WP:NPOV, WP:PEACOCK).
- Avoid trivial listings, tedious boring details, and vague PR speak with no tangible facts.
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- From User talk:Mast Cell: More generally, the reason I first got involved with Wikipedia—and a governing principle in my decade-plus here—has been to make Wikipedia a vehicle of accurate, high-quality medical information, and to limit the harm caused by medical misinformation here. I don't think I anticipated a situation where the President of the United States, and his political enablers, would become the primary vectors for medical misinformation, nor where simple opposition to blatant medical misinformation & lies would be treated as a partisan act rather than as a basic expression of this site's founding principles. (Of course, I never dreamed that these people could turn the simple use of face masks, during a deadly global pandemic, into a partisan wedge issue either. Live and learn.)
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