User talk:CYSYork

Your submission at Articles for creation: York Civic Trust (March 31)

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SwisterTwister talk 18:03, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:York Civic Trust has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:York Civic Trust. Thanks! SwisterTwister talk 23:08, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: York Civic Trust (April 13)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by TheSandDoctor was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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TheSandDoctor (talk) 17:59, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello! CYSYork, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! TheSandDoctor (talk) 17:59, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: York Civic Trust (June 11)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Kvng was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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~Kvng (talk) 17:29, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Draft:York Civic Trust concern

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Your draft article, Draft:York Civic Trust

Hello, CYSYork. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "York Civic Trust".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. TKK! bark with me! 22:11, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

York Civic Trust page additions

Hi CYSYork. I note your recent additions to the York Civic Trust page. I'm Assuming good faith of these additions, but I note from your editing history that you are primarily concerned only to topics which relate to the Civic Trust. I may be off the mark here, but if you are a member/organiser of the YCT I would strongly encourage you to read the Wikipedia policy on conflict of interest and avoiding editing things which break this. If I am correct, please try to avoid editing COI pages and perhaps add in pertinent references to the talk page of those concerned, or be sure to make any edits follow a neutral point of view. I think some of the recent edits to the York Civit Trust page promote it un-necessarily and this could be argued to be no longer neutral. I will be editing the recent additions to try and make sure that they agree with this important point. Thanks for contributing to the Wiki, if you need to chat to me drop a message on my talk page or tag me in any posts. best wishes. Zakhx150 (talk) 18:01, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Your username and conflict of interest

The username is fine, thanks ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:56, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "CYSYork", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87". Please also note that Wikipedia does not allow accounts to be shared by multiple people, and that you may not advocate for or promote any company, group, organization, product, service, or website, regardless of your username. Please also read our paid editing policy and our conflict of interest guideline. If you are a single individual and are willing to contribute to Wikipedia in an unbiased manner, please request a change of username, by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, choosing a username that complies with our username policy. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:10, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

New message from ToBeFree

Hello, CYSYork. You have new messages at ToBeFree's talk page.
Message added 15:59, 28 May 2020 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:59, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

YCT

Hi again. Ok, in answering your query I do understand now that you personally aren't YCT, which is fine, but you must understand that you have noted that you are close to the subject and we are watching it's changes closely so that they don't unduly create any imbalance in the article. That said, please don't wholly upload the information to the page again. I understand these edits were made in good faith, but I spent a couple of hours cutting and cleaning up from last time - as the admin mentioned in the discussion on their page: "Please propose further changes on the talk page of the article (by clicking "Talk" above the article, and then "request corrections on or suggest content" in the orange box)". I, and others, will endeavour to add them in so the article isn't lacking. Please note that every claim must be sourced, but we need to avoid too many references to the YCT website itself - this isn't a secondary source (see the official guidance here). Note also that neutrality is King on the Wiki - see the guidance here on what words to watch when you are adding in content.

Also - let's keep all future conversation here on this page, rather than bouncing about on all the other talk pages. You can tag me in an edit by using the following format: place these words "ping|Zakhx150" inside a doubled pair of curving parentheses. I'll then get tagged. Start a new line in the conversation by putting a Colon at the start of your line below my text here. Zakhx150 (talk) 10:48, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

((ping|Zakhx150)) I hope I'm doing this right. Apologies, if not. You're being very helpful and I'm sorry this has taken up so much of your time. I have partly rewritten and restructured a potential York Civic Trust page, cutting out what looks like subjectivity and have put it in my sandbox. Are you able to look at that and perhaps use it? If not, let me know what I should do. ThanksCYSYork (talk) 11:31, 29 May 2020 (UTC)CYSYork

Ah, almost. Do exactly that but use the squiggle ones rather than the round ones - {. To add more lines to this conversation, you can see I've added two colons, so on your next response start it with three colons and the text will keep rendering beneath each other - it keeps it easy to read as a conversation. Right, to business. I've looked at the sandbox and I can use bits of it, but some of it looks like pieces that I had already removed. For example, it doesn't need a bibliography because some or all of these texts could be used as actual references. There are also bits of information that are very tangential to the subject of this encyclopedic article, e.g. "and John Snow, who was Queen Victoria’s anaesthetist, and also one of the fathers of British epidemiology – it was he who noticed the significance of the link between the polluted water taken from the Broad Street pump in London and the 1854 cholera outbreak in Soho." - in the current version I had culled everything after 'Jon Snow' because he was the subject of his own Wikipedia article and all of that subsequent information is the sort of stuff that would appear on his separate page. I'm sure it is is true, and it is no doubt of note, but that's not necessarily how a Wikipedia article works. The existence of John Snow as a Wikilink (so highlighted in blue) is sufficient to flag this link between the two subjects. Equally, the external links section doesn't need to exist here, as Philip Jackson is already referenced as a Wikilink in the article, the YCT website is in the infobox etc. I'm currently on a research day, but over the weekend I'll read through this in detail in compared with the live version and add in anything that is pertinent and referenced (the charity number jumps out for one) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zakhx150 (talk • contribs) 12:04, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

@Zakhx150: The term 'curly brackets' is UK usage which is why I misunderstood - sorry about that. Thanks for the guidance - I should have thought of the wikilink thing myself - and for agreeing to read over the amended content of my sandbox. Hope you enjoy your weekend!CYSYork (talk) 13:16, 29 May 2020 (UTC)CYSYork

As I work in York, I think the inability of me to describe the bracket was me being daft rather than an Americanism. All good now. Have a great weekend.Zakhx150 (talk) 14:31, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

@Zakhx150: Hi. Hope you enjoyed the last of the warm weather over the weekend. Did you manage to read my rewritten version of the article? Any views on it?CYSYork (talk) 10:33, 3 June 2020 (UTC)CYSYork

@CYSYork: Howdy again. Firstly - apologies for the massive block text message, but I thought I'd may as well try and respond fully. Ok, I've had a careful read of the article in your sandbox and, as far as I can see, the current version of the YCT page already retained most of the referenced points after the concerted editing of a fortnight ago. The rest of this original response here moved to here

note

Thanks for the ping and the detailed analysis :) I'd say conduct-related discussion best happens here, while content-related discussion is more useful for wider input at Talk:York Civic Trust, even when discussing a specific user's sandbox content. Zakhx150, if you could separate the beginning of this discussion (conduct) from the latest messages (content; should be moved to Talk:York Civic Trust) somehow, that might help to find consensus. I understand that this will be tricky, but I'm sure that you'll find a good way to do that. :) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:00, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Howdy. I've never really come across that differentiation on talk pages before. I've moved the latest discussion point, which is substantively about content, to the talk page in the hopes this is what you meant. Zakhx150 (talk) 14:21, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

User page disclosure

Hi CYSYork,

first of all, thank you very much for creating a sandbox draft and discussing this with other editors. This is almost perfect, although I would recommend discussing it on the article's talk page, not on specific users' talk pages.

But this is not why I'm writing. While I am, in parallel, discussing the situation with Benyon4, I'd like to request the creation of User:CYSYork, your user page. Would you mind:

• Creating your user page with a short sentence that describes your connection to the York Civic Trust, and
• Adding a short statement to it which explains that you are aware of the "meatpuppetry" section of the sock puppetry policy, and that you are, as far as that term is applicable to volunteers, a coworker of Benyon4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log).

Thank you very much in advance and best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:06, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

@ToBeFree: The discussion did get a bit dispersed - sorry about that - but thanks for the kind words. The text of the York Civic Trust page is now in your fellow editor's hands and the page will be amended by him/her over the weekend, I believe. I've suggested to user Benyon4 that it should be left with me and your colleague rather than have several of us spending time on it. Hope you agree.

I'll do as you suggest with my user page. Thanks for the guidanceCYSYork (talk) 13:25, 29 May 2020 (UTC)CYSYork

Thanks ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:30, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Offer

Hi - as another denizen of York, an administrative colleague of ToBeFree and a reasonably experienced Wikipedian, I thought I'd just drop you a note to offer assistance if needed. Let me know if you want any help with a draft or anything. Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 00:59, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

This is very kind, Girth Summit, thank you very much for this offer. I can warmly recommend it. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:01, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer Girth Summit. I'm waiting to hear from the editor who was going to look at my rewrite before doing anything more.CYSYork (talk) 10:37, 3 June 2020 (UTC)CYSYork