User talk:Asheiou/Archives/Archive 1

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On the review queue

I have a hard time explaining this to a newbie whenever I try to, but what I'm trying to say is I appreciate your enthusiasm and copious free time to write, but I have to warn you Wikinews is...rather deprived of contributors — I'm the only one who's reviewed in days, and that's not unusual, so submitting multiple articles to the review queue at once does pose the risk of some going stale. It's not prohibited, but it can be a bad idea depending on how much effort you would lose if some went stale, which happens to all of us. Heavy Water (talk) 19:44, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

If some of them go stale, they go stale. I can definitely lower my output if it's going to be an issue, though! @Heavy Water Asheiou (talk) 19:48, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

I just intended it as something to be aware of; it's good you're not "in love with your articles" as one admin likes to say. Heavy Water (talk) 22:31, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm planning to do some WN:OR in a few weeks, but as far as I'm aware that kind of thing has a much longer shelf life. It's going to be an interview with the creator of Include Mx, which I think should turn out quite well. Asheiou (talk) 22:54, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

Award

The Exceptional Newcomer Award may be awarded to newcomers who display exceptional enthusiasm, skill, and boldness beyond their experience. I hereby present Asheiou with this award for exceptional initial contributions, including an exclusive interview. Heavy Water (talk) 02:29, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

I think I've seen you around The Other Place before, perhaps at UAA. Heavy Water (talk) 02:29, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

I've done a bit at UAA, yeah, makes sense! Thank you for the award! Asheiou (talk) 13:20, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Cats

When creating cats, please add the links to whatever sister projects have a relevant page (which can often be found through Wikidata, though Wiktionary is never on Wikidata), add the cat to Wikidata, use a recent image, and create a mainspace redirect, like West Midlands (county), so it can be easily linked to from mainspace.
And note we don't have the concept of a "primary topic" like en.wp does, so we would use a disambiguation (create Template:Mainspace disambig/[PAGENAME] and transclude it onto the disambiguation page and add __DISAMBIG__) if there are at least two cats or potential future cats by a name. Heavy Water (talk) 15:28, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the information, I'll keep it in mind for the future. Asheiou (talk) 15:31, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Oh, and it's helpful for the sysop who fills the category if you provide a list of articles to go in it on the talk page with {{fill this category}}. Heavy Water (talk) 16:18, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Indeed, what Heavy Water says is helpful. Wikinews does not have many active administrators, so any help is appreciated in making our 'jobs' easier. It may not have been mentioned before, but our rule-of-thumb is three articles (published) before a category it justified. So don't go on the notion of 'notability' you may have gleaned from Wikipedia. Wikinews has a slightly different standard. SVTCobra 01:35, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Test Incubator

Hi, we are working on a test project at Wikimedia Incubator of Wikinews Sylheti language edition.

• At Wikinews headlines section we have added your audio (it is our first time audio testing)

Please let us know how we are doing, any feedback is welcome! --ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 08:12, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi, the layout of this looks very cool! Thanks for choosing my audio to test with :) Asheiou (talk) 09:39, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello!

I'm happy to welcome you here to English WN! Please let me know if I can help you in some way!--Bddpaux (talk) 21:19, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! Happy to be around. Asheiou (talk) 21:36, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Calendar on your site

Hey, Ash, I wanted to ask, what tool are you using for the calendar on your website? I would like to replicate something of a similar functionality on mine, so. •–• 05:50, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

My website is built on WordPress, so it's just a WordPress plugin called My Calendar. Very useful little tool! Ash Thawley (talk) (calendar) 17:09, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Re: England: Labour win Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections

Hi, nice news. :) I've checked Wikipedia, added mug shots of the four MPs (two outgoing, two incoming). Gryllida (talk) 22:33, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Re: Palestine -- protests photos

There is a seemingly appropriately licensed image in Flickr:

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Perhaps you may want to import those via flickr2commons?

https://flickr2commons.toolforge.org/

They'd go into Category Category:Photographs by Alisdare Hickson

Please let me know if you need any help with the upload or adding these photos to the article. Gryllida (talk) 22:52, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

These have already been uploaded to commons :) I have taken one of them and put it on the article. Including the others in a gallery section may be a good idea, but I'm currently quite ill so I don't have the energy to do it myself. Thanks for getting in touch! Ash Thawley (talk) (calendar) 00:35, 24 October 2023 (UTC)