Wikipedia talk:Adopt-a-user

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New award

Can you all please contribute at here Thank you F9T 18:46, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Watch page

Good evening,

I've created a script to track new users seeking to be adopted.

Every 20 minutes, my bot queries In category since and edit the page if needed.

So, adopters can watch this page to immediately (well... with at more 19 minutes 59 secondes lag) know there is someone to adopt.

• The page on the French Wikipédia fr:WP:NEW
• The demo page User:Dereckson/AdoptMeList
• The {{User...}} template documentation
• The code used

Do you want I also maintain this page here?

If yes, what the {{User}} template do you prefer?

--Dereckson (talk) 20:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Some suggestions:

• I can't see anyone opposing this proposal; if so, they can do so at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval. I suggest you just go ahead and post a request for approval at that page.

• Unless your bot offers additional value, other editors may ask why the link to the category page isn't sufficient. After all, that will have the same names as the list that your bot creates. I suggest that you add, to the new subpage, that date that the adoption request was made (that is, the date that the bot copies the name from the category to the page); this would give editors a sense of who has been waiting the longest to be adopted, which is something the category page does not do.

• I suggest that you put the list of editors seeking to be adopted on a subpage, such as Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User/Adoption requests, with a link from the page Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User to that subpage.

• It's not clear why you're asking about a User template; the short answer is that it's not clear why anyone has to change anything that they're doing right now. So any templates now in use will continue in use. No new templates should be needed (if I'm missing the point as to why a new one is needed, please specify.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 15:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the category does tell you who has been waiting longest; it's ordered by date the template was added, so the people at the top of the list have been waiting longest. --Sopoforic (talk) 06:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't read the fine print. One reason I didn't was because there are inconsistencies - not all requests are listed under the number "2", so not all requests are in fact being chronologically listed. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:48, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Look User:Dereckson/AdoptMeList, it's very useful to have the link to the Special:Contributions, so we can immediately see what kind of contribs the newcomer makes. There is no need for a new template, I ask what the ideal format to print the user.

Mdnavid (talk · contribs · count · logs · email) (since 2007-12-15 18:27:10) seems great but maybe too long? --Dereckson (talk) 17:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Lectures

Kim Bruning has proposed doing some lectures on various topics on IRC to help out the newer users. Adopters, you might consider giving a lecture, and you might want to let your adoptees know about them once a date is set in case they'd like to attend. Planning is happening at Wikipedia:Lectures (and in IRC in #wikipedia at the moment). --Sopoforic (talk) 06:07, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Redesign implemented

I've finally gotten around to implementing the redesign I proposed ages ago. The affected areas are the main page and the adoptees' area. My single goal was to simplify everything so that the potential adoptees could more easily see what they needed to do to get adopted, and I think that I've made good progress for that. Certainly the old main page was a terrible mess of userboxes and too-long instructions.

Anyone who thinks they can improve it should of course feel free, but I do ask that you try to keep down on the clutter. --Sopoforic (talk) 06:24, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Someone who really needs help

Florentino floro could really use some help, and I think adoption might be the only way he could be a constructive member of Wikipedia. A quick look at his talk page and his bio here on Wikipedia should help explain. Beeblbrox (talk) 03:13, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

I have also dropped by his talk page and suggested he ask to be adopted Beeblbrox (talk) 03:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Help on criteria

Hello,

I wish to adopt somebody. I exceed all the criteria on the home page of the Adopt-a-user project, except one: I was blocked for 2 days for personal attacks on 4 February this year, breaking the criteria for blocks. However, I feel that I have reformed, and I do not have any more issues (I think, but most of you would too, I suppose) with this. Can I be allowed to adopt? _contribsSTYROFOAM☭1994^TALK 00:45, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Of course! We've all made mistakes in the past, goes the cliche. And I'm sure you'd make a wonderful adopter. Master of Puppets _{Call me MoP!☺} 22:57, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Getting adopted

I put a notice on my user page seeking adoption, but no one has responded. Do I have to actively seek out someone to adopt me, or do I just wait until I get noticed? Ecoleetage (talk) 18:09, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I think it's better to wait passively, because other people might get annoyed. Someone is bound to come by you. STYROFOAM1994^{Don't age bias me!} 19:24, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm afraid you're probably not ready to adopt yet. You have less that 25 edits in mainspace and talk, and most of your other edits are to user pages and user talk pages. You should probably wait a little while to familiarise yourself with with Wikipedia a little more. There are a large number of processes and situations that can come up, which your adoptees might need help with, but that are rare enough that you won't necessarily encounter them right away. For this reason, we prefer that editors have at least 500 edits before adopting other users. If I may, I would recommend joining a wikiproject and working with them on some articles--that will help you to get experience both with the collaborative aspects of editing and the processes that typically come up--e.g. AFD, GA and WP:FA. Once you've got a little more experience, feel free to come back here and adopt. We'll be happy to have you, when you're ready. --Sopoforic (talk) 21:14, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Question

When you put a notice on your userpage to get adopted, is your name put on a list somewhere, or do you just hope someone stumbles upon your userpage?

Youre dreaming eh? (talk) 23:07, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, you're automatically placed in Category:Wikipedians seeking to be adopted in Adopt-a-user. CattleGirl ^talk 23:46, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Question

I would like to adopt a user but I was blocked back in january for having a multi-user account. Can I still adopt? RC-0722 ^247.5/1 20:10, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, the guidelines state that nobody should have had no blocks in the last six months, but I don't see that it should really stop you. You seem to meet all of the other criteria. Also, the guidelines suggest that if you choose to nominate a co-adopter then this would definitely not be an issue. Hope this helps. Reece (Talk) (Contributions) 17:45, 6 April 2008 (UTC)