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Thanks for helping me in understanding the Wikipedia editing process and policies!

Alyssaditalian (talk) 22:55, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Foreign Service officers

Obviously, there are bigger fish to fry on the USAID page now than the "FSo" thing, however shocking it seemed at the moment, so let it pass. Whatever.

I see that among the instances supporting that form were its use in The New York Times. Well, if there's one silver lining to the ongoing Musk-Trump-Rubio thing, it's the thought that a day may come when I will never have to see their use of "U.S.A.I.D." in print again. Gad! Jsryanjr (talk) 23:01, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure why you posted the above here. If you've got concerns about the article United States Agency for International Development, you should discuss them at Talk:United States Agency for International Development. If you've got concerns about Foreign Service officer, you should discuss them at Talk:Foreign Service officer. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:07, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Italian American Museum of Los Angeles

Hey, I noticed you've been working on cleaning up the article (good for you!). You may have noticed that I've been doing a little work on it as well. Looks like our COI editor has calmed down, so I figured it'd probably be safe for me to lose my ability to act in an administrative capacity vis-a-vis the editor. I have a question, though, about the Events section. Without additional context as to what the event is about, I don't think it's noteworthy. If the event had a Wikipedia article, I'd feel differently, but just because something is sourced doesn't mean it should be included. What do you think? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:06, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bbb23: To be completely honest, I was just doing what I did kind of because I lacked anything else better to do at the moment and not because of any particular interest in the subject matter. I figured I see what I could source (even if the sources weren't the greatest) so that others could then look things over a figure out whether what to do next. When I started working on that particular section, I tried to use what was already there and see what might work. To me personally, though, most of those events didn't really seem to be much to write about (certainly not major enough to generate anything other that coverage in niche press or local type sources), but I could understand how someone interested in that particular genre (museums in general or ethnicity museums in particular) might feel differently. Perhaps WP:WikiProject Museums might be a good place to ask for input, but if others feel the content is not worth mentioning at all or perhaps only worth being treated sort of as a "discography" for a museum, I wouldn't have any problems with that. FWIW, I was probably going to step back from the article anyway today so that others could have go at it. The COI editor seems to have figured out how to use the talk page to ask for changes; so, I was thinking it would be better to le them go through that for awhile. This is probably a longer and more rambling response than you were looking for: so, my apologies for that. Brevity isn't a strong suit of mine anyway, but especially not so early in the morning. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:57, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the belated response. I've been a bit distracted lately, mostly IRL. I don't mind long responses as long as they're readable, and yours is. I've kind of lost interest in the article and the COI editor.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:53, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
​ As long as the COI editor continues to follow WP:COIADVICE, things will most likely be OK; if, on the other hand, they try to color too much outside the lines, some adminstrator will likely take their crayons away. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:55, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I agree it's odd - along with the username - but it's not really up my alley.--Bbb23 (talk) 22:54, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

About the image uploads

Hello, I unerstand that my images were unsourced - I was just using them for the sandbox page temporarily. I assumed they'd auto delete after a couple days based on the notifications I was getting but I don't know if that's actually the case. How can I remove them manually? I don't want to keep them up if they violate Wikipedia's policy. Let me know KebBadErikSteveJobs (talk) 22:25, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi KebBadErikSteveJobs. You can request that the files be speedily deleted per WP:G7; just go to each file's page, click "edit" and add the syntax {{db-author}} to the top of the editing window. Once you've done that, add an edit summary, click "Show preview" to check your work and finally click "Publish changes" if everything seems OK. An administrator will delete the file shortly thereafter.
Finally, if you're looking for images to use for testing things in your sandbox, Wikimedia Commons hosts lots of images that should be OK from a licensing standpoint and that will work in your sandbox. Be careful, though, when using images of living people, particulary if you're doing so in a way that might be a problem per WP:BLPIMAGE, since WP:BLP applies to all Wikipedia pages, including user sandboxes. A good generic image like the placeholder images in c:Category:Persons placeholders in English tend to work fine for testing purposes in one's user sandbox. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:41, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I've tagged all my images with that syntax. Thank you for the help, I won't upload unsourced images in the future. Have a nice day KebBadErikSteveJobs (talk) 22:53, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Drspsingh25 (05:34, 22 February 2025)

hello what to write in about me so that not deleted --Drspsingh25 (talk) 05:34, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Drspsingh25. There's some information posted on your user talk page that contains blue links to Wikipedia information pages you might find helpful. Did you at look at any of those pages? It looks like you're trying to create a userpage, but you're not doing so in accordance with Wikipedia's user page guidelnes. Please take a look at Wikipedia:User pages#What may I have in my user pages? because it explains the type of content considered OK for one's user page. Please also take a look at Wikipedia:User pages#What may I not have in my user pages? because it explains the type of kind of content not considered OK for one's user page. A user page isn't like a free personal website where we can post whatever we want; rather, it's something Wikipedia lets us borrow and use for free, but only as long as we do so in accordance with Wikipedia's user page guidelines. -- Marchjuly (talk) 10:12, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Marchjuly
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