User talk:Villaida

Hello, I'm JohnLaurensAnthonyRamos333. I noticed that you recently made an edit to 126th Coastal Defence Brigade in which your edit summary did not appear to describe the change you made. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. JohnLaurensAnthonyRamos333 (talk) 01:03, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, good to know. I'll keep that in mind for future edits. Villaida (talk) 21:21, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Villaida! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 18:33, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. Good to know.

Thank you for telling me. Villaida (talk) 18:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Ok. Thank you. Villaida (talk) 22:10, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you edited some health-related articles recently; thanks for that. A bunch of us hang out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. You're welcome to join us if that's an area of editing that interests you. It's a good place to ask questions about finding good sources for medical content or writing style. Feel free to put the group's page on your watchlist, or stop by to say hello some time. There are other groups for other subject areas. You can usually find them listed at the top of the talk page on your favorite articles. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, try not to be too general when categorizing articles. For example, don’t put Football Club Les Aigles du Congo in Category:Football and Category:Kinshasa but Category:Football clubs in Kinshasa. Instead of using your best guess to categorize uncategorized articles, try to find similar related articles to see how they are categorized. Thanks. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 08:33, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok.

Thank you for telling me. Villaida (talk) 13:04, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	The Minor barnstar
	Congratulations! 14 novembre (talk) 20:38, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you?

(I don't know how I got it but good for me!) Villaida (talk) 16:38, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Villaida You got it thanks to your helpful contributions! Kind regards 14 novembre (talk) 🇮🇹 17:59, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Villaida. I see that you're quite active at Category:Uncategorized from March 2024‎‎ (and similar categories). Thanks for that: nobody could take on that task alone. That being said, I'm concerned by some of your categorizations. The first thing I've noticed, is that you often categorize articles using container categories or really high-level categories. This doesn't really solve the categorization problem, it just punts the problem to whoever cleans up the high-level categories. For instance, you recently categorized Budderside in Category:Music and Category:Hard rock. Both are container categories so they shouldn't include individual articles besides the main articles such as music, Index of music articles and hard rock. I've re-categorized it in Category:Hard rock musical groups from California and Category:Musical groups from Los Angeles. This is much more precise and thus more useful to the reader. (I wanted to add a category of the form Category:Musical groups established in XXXX but there's conflicting information on the article so I left it out for now). My advice for this problem is to always check that the category you've just attributed to an article doesn't contain a more precise subcategory. My second concern about your categorization work is somewhat unrelated. Once an article leaves the backlog of uncategorized articles, it's relatively rare that editors add categories since many are unfamiliar with the existing categories. So when we do categorize an article for the first time, we should make sure that it's categorized in as many relevant categories as possible. For instance, any biography should at the very least be in a year of birth cat, a year of death cat (or the living people cat), an occupation cat, a nationality cat but frequently, you can add things like alma mater cats, position cats (for sportspeople), teams played for cats (for sportspeople), instrument played (for musicians), year of establishment/disestablishments (for organizations) and so on. To figure this out, you can always look at the categories that have been assigned to similar articles. Also, it is sometimes hard to categorize an article because we're unfamiliar with the subject. My advice in this case is to let someone else handle that article. There are multiple people working on this backlog with different areas of competence. Someone will get to it eventually. Sorry for the wall of text. I'm humble enough to avoid saying "follow my lead" but if you put Category:Uncategorized from March 2024 (or any monthly category) you can see on your watchlist who is actively working on the backlog and you can check out their work (editors like Wikishovel, Lenticel, WereSpielChequers among many others). Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 20:45, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying-sometimes categorizing pages can get *slightly* confusing.

The wall of text is okay- I think it might have helped me understand the entire categorizing process better. I'm willing to try to help out with possible repair for the possible annoyance I might have created for anybody else, or possibly not categorize for a while so I don't make it worse.

I usually put year of birth/year of death, along with occupations and whatever year various companies were established as categories, and if I have absolutely no idea what an article is about I will feel more inclined to leave it alone. (Also I don't touch the templates because I don't understand how to categorize those which is probably wise.)

Thank you again for the advice, and I will do my best to catch myself in the future so I don't end up doing it again. Villaida (talk) 21:42, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well it certainly wasn't my intention to discourage you from working on that backlog. I just think there are simple ways of improving your categorization work and I hope you stick around with this advice in mind. Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 22:11, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! I did not realize that I did that by mistake, so my bad. Thank you for telling me.

I will do my best to fix the problem as soon as I get around to it. If it has not already happened, I'm considering replacing whichever source that was circular with the "citation needed" template, or reversing my edit so then it doesn't get in the way of others (and so that a person who finds a good source can stick it in). Then, I can try to find a different source that is not circular to replace it.

Thank you again-- you and other Wikipedia editors are great at helping out and explaining all sorts of stuff.

Enjoy your day or night (whichever qualifies). Villaida (talk) 15:38, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I just wanted to let you know that your recent edit here wasn't the best practice.

Ok. Good to know. Villaida (talk) 17:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also is there a help page or whatnot that explains template usage? Villaida (talk) 18:28, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt it. Usually, you want to look on each template's documentation page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:43, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Thanks for the tip. Villaida (talk) 21:50, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:06, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yum.

Thanks!

(happily consumes)

That was good. Villaida (talk) 15:21, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]