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		Thank you for your contributions on the article for botanical explorer Julien Marnier-Lapostolle. -Wil540 art (talk) 21:26, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar, Wil540 art. --Rosiestep (talk) 11:36, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Rosiestep,

I hope you’re doing well. I’ve been working on creating a Wikipedia draft for Jayd Poels, a young Belgian field hockey player. I’ve prepared a neutral, verifiable draft with references from HLN, Le Soir, EuroHockey, and official league sites, and I’ve included an infobox with his club and international career.

Since this is my first draft submission, I would really appreciate your guidance in reviewing it and making sure it meets Wikipedia’s standards before I submit it for review.

Here’s the draft page I’ve prepared: Draft:Jayd Poels

Thank you so much for your time and support!

Best regards, Granchini

--Granchini (talk) 12:10, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Granchini and welcome to Wikipedia.

I moved the information you pasted on my talkpage to the draft space you started on January 22, 2026: Draft:Jayd Poels. In the future, don't paste an article (or part of an article) on someone's talkpage. Keep edits regarding the subject on the subject's page. The way to notify someone that you'd like them to look at an article (or draft article), is to wikilink it, such as this: Draft:Jayd Poels. You'll be able to tell if you didn't wikilink it correctly if the link is redlinked such as this, where I'm introducing a typo: Drdft:::::Jayd Poels.

Regarding initial guidance about the draft: the current version needs significant improvement to establish the subject's notability. Specifically, familiarize yourself with these policies: Notability (sports), biographies of living people, reliable sources, and verification. The current version also needs to be put in the correct format for an encyclopedic article. There are 161 examples of that here: Category:Belgian male field hockey players.

I noticed that you declared a conflict of interest with the subject (Jayd Poels), ergo, if you haven't already, you should familiarize yourself (and comply) with this conflict of interest policy.

Regarding further comments about the Jayd Poels draft: the volunteer editors at Articles for Creation (AfC) will provide that once you submit it for review. I don't participate in the AfC discussions, so it won't be me.

In the meantime, I left a welcome message on your talkpage with additional helpful information for new editors. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:57, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you're also working on the Jayd Poels draft on your userpage, in addition to Draft:Jayd Poels. Your userpage isn't meant for content writing, so I recommend that you move the info either to Draft:Jayd Poels or User:Granchini/Jayd Poels.

Here are instructions for how to move a page. Hope this is helpful. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:13, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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What's Wikipedia bio --EmiYfmania (talk) 11:37, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi EmiYfmania and welcome to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has millions of biographies. If you browse this category and its subcategories and sub-subcategories, you'll be quite impressed: Category:Biographical works. Here is a link to the "wikiproject" for editors who are interested in working on biographies, and you're welcome to join it. The notability guideline for biographies is here. If your interest extends to biographies of living people, you should also acquaint yourself with these guidelines. In the meantime, I left a message on your talkpage with some information for new editors to help get you started. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:24, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

story · music · places

Still on vacation, so missed some interesting stories, such as about Jubilant Sykes. Richie Beirach, jazz pianist, is still on as I write this. Which of his music samples would you have chosen? - I met five shy cats in three places yesterday-;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that's a tough one to answer. I listened to most of these (not all the way through for each one, but enough to get a sense of who Richie was). Didn't care much for the piano and duet solos. Did enjoy the quartets and ensemble pieces. Thanks for sharing; liked learning about him. Hope you're having a great vacation, G. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:43, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, great vacation! Back home. Pics uploaded to 23 Jan. - Tamás Vásáry today, who began his career with a Mozart concerto at age 8. - Tough to make a choice. The piece that I chose in the story isn't on youtube (but on facebook), and I liked all I checked out, so went by the choice of the FAZ obit. We have now the NYT but I can't see it. If you do feel free to add. (Some quotes were already added by others but I wasn't too impressed.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:37, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Today some 1510 carving from St. Valentin. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:55, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A shape poem, no less. I'm going to show this to my granddaughter, who has started writing poetry. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:51, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! - Giants today, RD Helmuth Rilling and OTD Friedrich Cerha 100. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:13, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I made Rilling my story today, - I listened to one of his talk concerts in Frankfurt, not sure if Sendesaal, nor which music, I think it wasn't Bach. Long ago. If you turn to the video, I picked my response to arbitration (2013): "Ich steh hier und singe" ([Rage and jump,] I stand here and sing). No cantatas during Lent, so I wanted something different ;) - I like that you hear the altos well, in that five-part texture. The movement with the quote begins at 51:22, the first (repeated) word is Trotz (defiance). - I finally uploaded another cat, on a wall (that you don't see, just by me being eye to eye with the cat while standing). I took two more of the same, one at the table looking down on face and tail, the other jumping from the wall, but strangely without legs. Let me know if you want those also. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:44, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes; would love to see them. And this one is gorgeous. Tomorrow! --Rosiestep (talk) 20:50, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

here: File:Los Canarios, restaurant cat waiting.jpg and File:Los Canarios, restaurant cat off the wall.jpg - the latter seems unwilling to watch. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:12, 18 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I like them very much. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:35, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Today something new: a 100th birthday of someone alive, György Kurtág! In 2004 I was there when he and his wife played for the Rheingau Musik Festival where he was the featured composer. They played as the 2019 DYK said, on an upright piano, - listen, the last piece was the same. - More pics uploaded, enjoy. Butterfly. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:10, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Three good things today: 1) story about a woman, 2) from a GA by SusunW, 3) cat uploaded. Without asking, here's a close-up of another beauty showing no legs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:26, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Another good news: I began the first of two planned compositions by women composers, Quatre instants. The other will come later in Feb as meant for Easter. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:44, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I detect some symmetry. Yours: four songs by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Mine: the new article I began yesterday: Finnish reformer/politician, Hedvig Sohlberg. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:41, 22 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I’m a avid reader of Wikipedia but I feel like I should try editing some sources that im interested in, but I don’t know where to start or even begin my part, do you perchance have any good suggestions or advice to start? --Fisherystar (talk) 04:57, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fisherystar and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm glad you are interested in becoming an editor!! To get you started, I just left a message on your talkpage with a lot of helpful information/links for newcomers. Review that stuff and you should feel ready to start editing the articles that interest you. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:49, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I made this account to change, or someone else to change a page about the House of Saxe-Gessaphe, the House of Gessaphe leads to a page about the Assaf Dynasty in Turkey. But I would still like to find out to edit pages for inaccuracies and what the rules are to follow to ensure accuracy. --Mattthaaeeus (talk) 19:50, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mattthaaeeus and welcome to Wikipedia. I left a message on your talkpage with some information and links for new editors, which might answer a lot of your questions regarding how to edit Wikipedia. Specifically regarding ... rules ... to follow to ensure accuracy ...: add a reliable, secondary source that substantiates the edit you make to the Saxe-Gessaphe and/or Assaf dynasty pages. Thanks for wanting to edit Wikipedia; just by showing up, you are already a valuable member of our community. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:55, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I was working on my first draft article and when I accidentally navigated away from it it disappeared! How do I find it? I had been working on it for several hours. --Spanicboys (talk) 22:54, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, gosh, Spanicboys, that is a total bummer. Unfortunately, you didn't save any of it on Wikipedia, so you must have deleted it.

Here is a link to all of the edits you've made so far: Special:Contributions/Spanicboys. As you can see, the only edit that you published (saved) so far was your message to me. :(

This is your sandbox, where you can draft articles; it's a redlink at the moment as you haven't written anything there yet.

In the meantime, I left a message on your talk page with links to guidance on how to edit. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:16, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, and that is a total bummer! Spanicboys (talk) 18:40, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an area or a kind of forum for knowledgeable 'opinions' in Wikipedia? --Rogerphilipps68 (talk) 14:04, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rogerphilipps68 and welcome to Wikipedia. There are multiple off-wiki areas that serve as a forum for knowledgeable 'opinions' in Wikipedia, e.g., Wikimedia-l. There are also a plethora of Telegram groups, the most general of these being Wikimedia General chat. In the meantime, I left a [[message on your talkpage with some helpful links for new editors. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:00, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How do I create a page about an Artist? Thanks --PissaMoo (talk) 14:27, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi PissaMoo and welcome to Wikipedia. Here is info on creating your first article. Here is info regarding notability requirements for artists. In case the artist is a person and they're alive, this and this is info regarding biographies of living people. I also left a message on your talkpage with additional helpful info for new editors. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:10, 15 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there! I signed up for Wikipeda to know what it's all about and getting to contribute to sources that im interested in. I've already started doing the small recommended tasks to get started. But is there a way to find things I can edit topics more closely related to what I am interested in (I think the recs are very general tbh) :)

Just wondering and appreciate any help.

P.s. How long have you been on Wikip? :) --Fortune26a (talk) 11:19, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fortune26a and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm happy to learn that you want to contribute. We need you!

Keep at the small recommended tasks over the next few weeks — but know that it isn't required. It's meant to help you learn how to edit. While doing those small tasks, tart noticing other things on the page that needs fixing, e.g., a missing comma, a typo.

When you feel ready to edit an article that actually interests you, go for it! You can start today.

How to find them? Let's pretend that you're Swiss, and you are interested in working on Swiss articles, but you don't know which ones need a small fix. Find the broadest category: Category:Switzerland. Click on a subcategory: Category:Swiss people. Click on a sub-subcategory: Category:Swiss people stubs. If you click on each person's name, you'll see that some have templates at the top indicating that something needs fixing or improvement, e.g. Ernest Francillon, Lucien Gautier, Fritz Gegauf, Raphaël Martinetti, Karl Meier.

Another way to find things to fix or improve is to look for all articles needing one thing in particular. I started editing Wikipedia in June 2007, so here's the category for articles that have been tagged since June 2007 that would benefit from someone's attention: Category:Clean-up categories from June 2007.

All of this is to say that clicking through Wikipedia's categories is the key to finding stuff. Once you're ready to create a new article. Find the category that it would fit in, open a dozen the articles in that category (separate tab for each one), and see how the articles look. What headers are common? What types of references are common? What does the first sentence commonly look like? The first article I created was Book League of America, a defunct American book publisher. Before I created it, I found this category, Category:Defunct book publishing companies of the United States and looked at more than a dozen of the articles in that category, which gave me a lot of info, e.g., I needed to find a lot of references and they had to be reliable sources, etc.

Hope this was helpful. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:32, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

why is copy editing so harddd --Scarleyyyy (talk) 17:47, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Scarleyyyy and welcome to Wikipedia. Like everything else in life, when you're new at something, it's harder than when you gain experience in it. To help you along, here is some basic information about copyediting, and here are some additional helpful links for new editors. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:51, 19 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi I want to write about my self in wikipedia how can I write --Ex brigedier Dr Jagtar Singh (talk) 18:59, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User:Ex brigedier Dr Jagtar Singh. Nice to hear from you again (here is a link to our conversation from last month). Please don't try to create an article for yourself. Read these to understand why: WP:BIO and WP:AUTOBIO. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:25, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I am an honorably retired, disabled veteran and am running for political office. I was hoping to gain some insight on how to establish my own page so that my potential voters may be able to learn about me. Thank you so very much! --ErnieBrummitt (talk) 23:00, 20 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi ErnieBrummitt and welcome to Wikipedia. I see that your question was asked and answered at The Teahouse. So in the meantime, I left a message on your talkpage with additional helpful information for new editors. --Rosiestep (talk) 00:17, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rosie I'm new here and would like to request your guidance. I want to ensure I contribute to Wikipedia correctly. I have a Conflict of Interest (COI). I would like to create a biography about my work for consideration, which now includes recent peer-reviewed research in the British Psychological Society(BPS) journal and several commercially successful projects.

I am aware a version of a page was deleted over 10 years ago, and I want to make sure this new version meets all notability and neutrality standards now my work has evolved. I plan to use the 'Articles for Creation' (AfC) process. Could you advise me on the best first step to avoid any issues with this and so I follow and respect all guidelines. Thank you. Leon C Mitchell (talk) 00:40, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Leon C Mitchell and welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not try to create an article for yourself. Read these instructional pages to understand why: WP:BIO, WP:BLP, and WP:AUTOBIO. If you are notable enough to have a Wikipedia page, then it falls on other editors to create it (specifically, people who do not have a conflict of interest, e.g., family members, etc.).

I'm an Administrator on English Wikipedia, so I have access to deleted pages. I searched for a deleted version of Leon Mitchell, Leon C Mitchell, and Leon C. Mitchell but none exists under these variations. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:12, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the clear guidance and i look forward to learning more about Wikipedia. I will continue to build a list of sources as a foundation for now. Thank you. Leon C Mitchell (talk) 01:37, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rosie. "I've noticed there was a 2010 deletion for a New Zealand hockey player of the same name. Just to clarify, I am the British author/director and researcher. There is no link with myself to that individual. Thanks again. Leon C Mitchell (talk) 01:58, 21 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Note: 2 Salukis's mentor Clovermoss is away.

Thank you for mentoring, and stepping in for my primary mentor! I suspect there might be an Edit War about to happen on Democratic backsliding in the United States. Without warning, another editor removed content that was well cited, claiming it was original research. It's not.

I've started a new Talk entry, but want to better understand the arbitration process should it come to that. How do I make sure the entry remains if the dispute continues? Thanks! --2 Salukis (talk) 02:39, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi 2 Salukis. Here's info regarding edit warring. Its "See also" section provides additional avenues of engagement should a dispute continue. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:27, 23 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]