User talk:RoundSquare

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A question about the BLM-notice thingy (moderately important)

Hey,

I like the saying of BLM. I want to put the notice on my wiki user page saying that i know that black lives matter. How did you do that? Please tell me :)

Thanks, I'm_here_to_help_you I am Being Here to Help You (talk) 16:46, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @I am Being Here to Help You:! The BLM message on my user page is a userbox. The way you'd put that user box on your user page is by copy and pasting the information in curly brackets on this page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_Black_Lives . I hope this helped, if not, feel free to send me another question. RoundSquare (talk) 17:35, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@RoundSquare: Wow! Thanks! That helped a lot. I'm checking it. :) I am Being Here to Help You (talk) 14:42, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@RoundSquare: And how did you add the "This user has been on Wikipedia for ____ years __ months and __ days" userbox? I can't find the link to that. I am Being Here to Help You (talk) 12:11, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@I am Being Here to Help You: Hello. Here is the link to that userbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_Wikipedian_for RoundSquare (talk) 19:50, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! I am Being Here to Help You (talk) 07:54, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A question about your talk page (unimportant)

Why do you delete your discussions in your talk page? :) Just asking, nothing important or serious. :) I am Being Here to Help You (talk) 16:48, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@I am Being Here to Help You: Hello! I did not delete my talk page discussions so much as archive them. I did this to remove the clutter and make my current talk page area more clear. The old discussions are still viewable on a different page, User talk:RoundSquare/Archive 1, which is now linked at the top of my talk page. RoundSquare (talk) 17:37, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wow! Nice! I like the way you organise things. :) I am Being Here to Help You (talk) 14:43, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Hello @RoundSquare:,

Here I have for you a thank you message, which I wanted to add as a "barnstar" but I don't have the option to — it's not showing here.

So, anyway, thanks for the information you gave me on userboxes. I am Being Here to Help You (talk) 12:13, 27 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@I am Being Here to Help You: You're welcome! Also, by the way, this seems to be the proper way to give someone a barnstar, if you still want to do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars#How_to_give_a_barnstar .

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Michigan 20th House District

Can you edit Michigan 20th house district page as you have done for other house districts? Thanks! Nja2195 (talk) 02:42, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Nja2195: Hello. I plan to update all the Michigan house districts eventually, including the 20th district. Because of your request, I'll try and update the 20th district sometime tonight. RoundSquare (talk) 02:58, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sheldon Neeley

I'm trying to update the page for Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley, curious why you changed it back. Thanks! Denden922 (talk) 17:22, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Denden922: Hello. I reverted your edit to Mayor Neeley's article because it removed Neeley's name at the beginning of the article for no apparent reason. I saw that you later tried to put the fact the he only attended Saginaw Valley State University, and did not graduate, in his infobox after this first edit. It is not a bad idea to include that piece of information in the article, but it'd be better to include it in the body of the text than in the infobox. RoundSquare (talk) 17:28, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'm trying to indicate that Mayor Neeley ATTENDED SVSU but does not have a degree from there. Not sure how best to do this, I'm new to editing Wikipedia pages. Denden922 (talk) 17:38, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Denden922: Like I said earlier, you'd want to add that information in the body of the article. Try to write a sentence in the article that states that, and then add an inline citation to back up the claim. To learn how to use inline citations, look at this resource: Wikipedia:Inline citation. RoundSquare (talk) 17:41, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Denden922: By the way, what sources indicate to you that Neeley merely attended SVSU? Official sources I can find, like this link indicate that Neeley received a bachelor's degree from SVSU. RoundSquare (talk) 17:44, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your help on this. I don't want to ADD anything, I want to correct the perception that Mayor Neeley GRADUATED from SVSU. If you go to his official website https://www.cityofflint.com/department/mayors-office/ and his campaign website www.Neeley4Mayor.com they have it correct. Somewhere, someone years ago said he graduated from SVSU and that is incorrect. I work for the Mayor and we are trying to fix this. Denden922 (talk) 22:59, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Denden922: Hello. Appropriate sourcing was the most important thing you were lacking in the previous edits. Thank you for providing sources to back up the information. I will edit the article properly for you. Also, if you work for Mayor Neeley and are editing the article for Neeley, then I recommend you check out Wikipedia:Conflict of interest to make sure you do not violate Wikipedia's guidelines. RoundSquare (talk) 23:05, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Joseph Pomeroy Root

Just a quick heads-up - you added an infobox to this article, which already had one. I don't know how that happened, but if you are doing it automatically or semi-automatically, you should check your scripts.Brianyoumans (talk) 15:35, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Brianyoumans: I was trying to move the infobox up a few lines because it was in the wrong place before. Seems I accidentally duplicated in the process. Thanks for fixing it and letting me know. RoundSquare (talk) 16:50, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Christian Günter English translation

Hello, I have just expanded the English article on Christian Günter as a translation from the German version. If you have any further suggestions, don´t hesitate to edit or contact me on my talk page. Thank you in advance. Wiki User 730 (talk) 16:44, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Wiki User 730: I do not know why you would contact me about the Christian Gunter page. I know nothing of sports. Perhaps you meant to contact someone else? RoundSquare (talk) 17:25, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vis-a-vis Nauru

Hi, given the close relations between Nauru and Australia, I suggest checking Australian news and government sources for information. Sources that may help include ABC News, The Sydney Morning Herald and other Australian newspapers such as The Age and Australian Financial Review, Trove and possibly the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Just a hunch. Cheers, Will Thorpe (talk) 04:03, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Willthorpe: Yeah, you're right. I have been able to find more sources about Nauru since I've written that request, and now that I think about it, they are all pretty much Australian and New Zealand sources. Trove has been useful, particularly its collection of Pacific Islands Monthly. These are useful for some info about Nauru, especially election info, but unfortunately are kind of lacking when it comes to biographical info about individual politicians a lot of the time. RoundSquare (talk) 04:11, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Help Wanted

Thank you for rating my article for Jake Bissaillon!! Is there any chance you could take a look at my drafts for Draft:David Tikoian and Draft:John E. Aldridge. It would be greatly appreciated. I'm also pretty new to Wikipedia so ay feedback would help. 4/16/2024 12:33AM EST User:Thatchmomo

@Thatchmomo: Hello. I'm sorry, but I've never been involved in the Articles for Review process, so I probably won't look at your drafts. However, in terms of feedback, one thing I can tell you off the bat is that in infoboxes, for people currently in office, it's not the convention to put the end-date of a term if it's in the future. Look for example at the article for Joe Biden. Officeholder infoboxes have a feature where if you don't put an end-date to their term, it will display "Incumbent". You're not utilizing this feature if you put a future end-date in in their term of office.

Also, when you're starting a new topic on a talk page, make sure to press the "Add topic" button, not "Edit". The "Add topic" button will automatically add things like your name, and a timestamp. It will also let others reply easier. RoundSquare (talk) 05:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ahhh that makes sense lol. thanks Thatchmomo (talk) 05:09, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Incidentally

If you're gonna tinker with my Marquis indices (yes, plural), it'll be much more efficient to save a PDF of the original book locally instead of constantly checking archive.org.

(Took me over a year to realize that.) DS (talk) 13:49, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DragonflySixtyseven: Thanks for the tip! I wouldn't have thought of that. RoundSquare (talk) 16:33, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and - in the later editions of Marquis, they would sometimes save space by saying "see entry in [previous edition]" or equivalent. Not all those editions are on archive.org, but some of them are available via Hathi Trust (although I haven't yet figured out how to download a PDF of the complete Marquis for a given year, instead of just one page). DS (talk) 19:34, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

WP:US State Legislatures

Hi RoundSquare. Thanks for tagging these categories. I've started adding tags for state legislator bios and so far have excluded members of pre–statehood legislatures as I am unsure whether they fall under the project's remit, eg Category:Members of former territorial legislatures of the United States. Is this the correct approach or should they in fact be included? Regards. Jevansen (talk) 23:22, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jevansen: I've noticed your work sub-categorizing the American legislators and American politicians categories. They've been in need of it for the longest time, it's crazy to me that's actually being changed. Good job.

To answer your question, I'm not 100% sure, but I'd think they would fall under the State Legislature scope. A similar question was discussed a while ago on the talk page for the WikiProject. While the discussion was about currently existing territorial legislatures, I think it can be generalized to past ones. Personally, I've been tagging pages related to past territorial legislatures as within the WikiProject's scope. Perhaps the issue warrants its own discussion, but for now, I'd say the ruling is yes. RoundSquare (talk) 00:13, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick response. I'll take a look at that previous discussion as a starting point. Jevansen (talk) 00:20, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]