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My user name, "Presearch", has many possible meanings. I use it because it is similar to "Research," which is needed for writing good Wikipedia articles (just no original research!). Pluralism interests me: some of what I do for Wikipedia might perhaps be called pluralism research, which shortens to p-research, or presearch. More broadly, the word "presearch" has been used for many years in many ways, with 3000+ hits in Google Book in 1980s and earlier, some going as far back as 1981, 1957, or even 1946.
This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 7 months and 26 days.
On 11 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Teresa de Jesús (film), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Teresa de Jesús, an eight-hour television/DVD mini-series about St. Teresa of Ávila, won the 1985 Spanish TP de Oro for Best National Series? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 17 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dhammapada (Easwaran translation), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Easwaran's Dhammapada states that the joy in the Buddha's message is "that he has found a way for everyone, not just great sages, to put an end to sorrow"? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 8 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gita Dhyanam, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Gita Dhyanam, known as the Invocation to the Bhagavad Gita, compares the Upanishads to cows, and claims that God's grace can make the dumb speak? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
CalmerWaters 00:45, 8 June 2011 (UTC) 12:02, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for this new article Victuallers (talk) 12:03, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Self-Efficacy (book)
On 24 December 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Self-Efficacy (book), which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that "hardly a single aspect of life" lacks deep consideration in Bandura's 1997 book Self-Efficacy, "one of the most significant books of the last 50 years," according to reviewers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Self-Efficacy (book).You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 20 June 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Love Never Faileth, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Easwaran's Love Never Faileth seeks to "bring to light ... volcanic forces (pictured) that work far, far below the surface strata of consciousness"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Love Never Faileth. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Thanks from Wikipedia and the DYK team Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
On 8 January 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Conquest of Mind, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Easwaran's Conquest of Mind gives advice on how to become a skilled juggler in controlling one's mental "likes and dislikes"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Conquest of Mind. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 9 August 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Krishna Prem, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that former British fighter pilot Ronald Nixon became widely revered as a Hindu saint and was hailed as a "great soul" by Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Krishna Prem. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 7 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joel Moskowitz, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a lawsuit brought by Joel Moskowitz forced public release of mobile phone radiation safety guidelines prepared by the state of California, earning him the James Madison Freedom of Information Award? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joel Moskowitz. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Editors are expected to be reasonably cooperative... and to be responsive to good-faith questions. Try to treat your fellow editors as respected colleagues with whom you are working on an important project.
Explain yourself. Not sufficiently explaining edits can be perceived as uncivil, whether that's the editor's intention or not. Use good edit summaries, and use the talk page if the edit summary doesn't provide enough space or if a more substantive debate is likely to be needed.
and also told to
Be careful with user warning templates. Be careful about issuing templated messages to editors you're currently involved in a dispute with [as well as to] newcomers.... Consider using a personal message...
See HERE-1 for one highly civil editor explaining to a recurrently uncivil editor why indiscriminate templating is wrong (see also HERE-2). Furthermore, Wikipedia's Editing Policy page (WP:EP) states:
Be helpful: explain your changes. When you edit an article, the more radical or controversial the change, the greater the need to explain it.
Preserve information: fix problems if you can, flag them if you can't. Try to preserve information. As long as any of the facts or ideas added to the article would belong in a "finished" article, they should be retained and the writing tagged if necessary, or cleaned up on the spot.
Disruptive editing is a pattern of edits, which may extend over a considerable period of time or number of articles, that has the effect of
disrupting progress toward improving an article, or
disrupting progress toward the fundamental project of building an encyclopedia.
Signs of disruptive editing (according to the same page include a:
Campaign to drive away productive contributors: act counter to policies and guidelines such as Wikipedia:Civility, Wikipedia:No personal attacks, Wikipedia:Ownership of articles,... etc. on a low level that might not exhaust the general community's patience, but that operates toward an end of exhausting the patience of productive rules-abiding editors on certain articles.
and another sign is:
Does not engage in consensus building: repeatedly disregards other editors' questions or requests for explanations concerning edits or objections to edits;
model for remedies, though these steps do not necessarily have to be done in this sequence. In some extreme circumstances a rapid report to WP:ANI may be the best first step; in others, a fast track to a community ban may be in order. But in general, most situations can benefit from a gradual escalation, with hope that each step may help resolve the problem, such that further steps are not needed.
Wikipedia Etiquette
"Do not hesitate to let the other person know that you are not comfortable with their tone in a neutral way" (WP:EQ)
From WP:BRD_misuse: "There are essentially two ways to misuse WP:BRD: being an Edit ninja (or Revert ninja) and being a Filibusterer.... If the advice suggested doesn't work then... [a backup is to] seek outside community support elsewhere."
Wikipedia: "Do not impose Wikipedia style guidelines on sources that are cited or quoted" (from WP:PEACOCK)
Researchers citing themselves: "If an editor has published the results of his or her research in a reliable publication, the editor may cite that source while writing in the third person and complying with our neutrality policy" (WP:NOR); "Editing in an area in which you have professional or academic expertise is not, in itself, a conflict of interest. Using material you yourself have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is notable and conforms to the content policies" (WP:COI)
WP:OWN states that "if someone else is claiming 'ownership' of a page, you can bring it up on the associated talk page, appeal to other contributors, or consider the dispute resolution process." Examples of ownership attitudes include "please do not make such changes or comments without my/his approval."
Including references on talk pages?: It is possible to generate multiple lists of references by inserting ((reflist|close=1)) - see Template:Reflist#Multiple_uses. Each reference section will be renumbered, starting with 1. This allows the talk page reference section to appear immediately below the text that generates it. Failure to include an argument, such as "close=1", will lead to simple duplication of the most recent previous instance of a reference section.
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To delete user subpages (see guideline): Insert template ((db-userreq))
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Cites
When making cites, might I (Ogress) suggest https://reftag.appspot.com/ ? (be sure to check the box for ref=harv). It does all the work. All you do is plug in a Google Books link. It autoformats everything:
parsed format after sticking that into the website and hitting "format":
((harv|Murti|2013|p=))
((cite book|ref=harv|last=Murti|first=T R V|title=The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Madhyamika System|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mmvzSw2igPUC|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-02946-6))
There. Now just replace harv in ((harv|Murti|2013|p=)) with sfn and you get ((sfn|Murti|2013|p=)). That makes a ref without needing tags! Here's page 15 cited:[2]. Then stick the second one in the bibliography!
References
^Paul Graham (2008, March). "How to Disagree." Accessed 27 Dec 2009.
