User talk:6275utpa

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Your blanking of pages
The blanking may be disruptive, please don't handle inactivity this way. Some of the pages you have touched can be deleted, use at the top of the page to request deletion. Some of these blankings may be inappropriate. If there was a resource created by a person with a name, blanking their name now would be inappropriate. I have not yet reviewed all of what you did. The unfilled template pages can be deleted. Please understand that many deletions like that, for a new account, look like vandalism. The use of many edits where one could be done, again, creates more work to review what you are doing. Welcome, but please be careful. I'm reviewing what you did and may tag some pages for deletion. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 22:25, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

My blanking of pages
Please accept my apologies. I have just been hired to clean up and update a list of professors' entries. I see the link for the tutorial and help on editing and I will review these before continuing my job. I assure you that my actions were far from vandalism. More care will be taken in editing future pages. I will be working with these files quite a bit more. I did blank up to 13 professor names and pages. Let me know if you need a list of the professor last names.--6275utpa (discuss • contribs) 04:01, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Learning Opportunities
Hi! I noticed your creation yesterday of the annuity / sinking funds page and related question. This presents several learning opportunities I want to draw your attention to: Learning the intricacies of wiki editing is a challenge, but well worth it. Thank you for sharing your lectures with the world! Let me know whenever you have any questions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 14:30, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) Wiki titles are case sensitive.
 * 2) You can move / rename pages yourself.  On the More menu in the top right there should be an option to Move the given page.  You can use that in the future to move or rename a page.
 * 3) Wikis use punctuation in titles for different meanings.  I removed the ; and replaced it with a -.  This is less likely to cause problems in the future.
 * 4) Wiki links are created using  title  syntax.  So, the new page is UTPA STEM/CBI Courses/Business Algebra/Future Value of an Annuity - Sinking Funds.
 * 5) Subpage links can be created by simply using /.  See the links in UTPA STEM/CBI Courses/Business Algebra using Edit source.
 * 6) The easiest way to create a subpage in the right place is to create the link to the page first using the / syntax, then use that link to create the subpage.
 * 7) In general, resource talk pages are not monitored.  I only noticed this one because it was a new page.  When you need assistance, it's better to ask in the Colloquium.

CBI Courses
Hi 6275utpa!

FYI: I put messages like this "Materials has been removed from the CBI Courses list. The last place I would look for resources on Materials is under Mechanical Engineering. Students need an easy way to find these resources and returning Materials under the course list would do that. As such I disagree with deleting this path." on several of the Speedy Deletes you submitted. Some of the others are "Thermodynamics", "Statics", etc. I was going to delete them per request but I noticed that a UTPA student might not be able to find the "Materials" course for example. So, I suggested perhaps adding these back into the CBI Courses list and keeping these as alternate paths to help students find what they may be looking for. It seems more user friendly. Also, non-UTPA students may wish to work through the courses. What do you think? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 20:36, 5 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, I had entered a message and then deleted it after reading this entry by Marshallsumter. He posed the question well.  I only would like to add that you (6275upta) are probably the most qualified to answer this question. Does it go or should it stay?--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 16:48, 13 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep in mind that I am not sure what the appropriate action is here, but I changed all your deletion requests to something called "proposed deletion". As I understand it, this gives us the "best of both worlds" as they say:  (1) People have plenty of time to rescue the pages, but (2) no action by anybody will eventually lead to deletion.  Is this OK with everybody?--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 12:51, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Let me point out that there was nothing wrong with your placing of a deletion tag on the pages. If you believed them useless, that is, in fact, a nondisruptive first step. A user saw the tag and disagreed. That is normal. This could have gone for a deletion discussion at WV:DR, but that's probably unnecessary. If the proposed deletion tag is removed and anyone still wants the page deleted, thinking it harmful in some way, then, yes, WV:DR becomes appropriate. Meanwhile, it may not be worth a lot of effort. Keep it simple. Thanks for your work to improve Wikiversity, it is appreciated. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 16:29, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

One of your requests is an easy call
I have deleted UTPA STEM/CBI Courses/Biology/Nutrition/Enzymes because it never contained any information. I am inclined to agree with all your speedy deletion requests and requests for deletion, but will hold those just in case somebody disagrees. But the aforementioned delete is an easy call because it NEVER contained any content and because there were no "incoming" links.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 04:26, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Double redirects
When you move pages, this can create a "double redirect," that is, suppose title "A" is moved to "B". When regular users move a page, a redirect is automatically created. If the page is then moved to "C," another redirect is created. Page A now has a double redirect, which will fail.

Part of the job when moving pages is fixing double redirects. As well, if redirects are not needed (check "what links here"), it is part of clean-up to place a deletion tag on the page, it would be, usually,. Leave the redir underneath the deletion tag, it can later be useful, as it should show up in the deletion summary if the custodian operates that way.

If for some reason you create, or think you will create, a lot of double redirects, ask for custodial assistance. They can move resources without creating redirects, and Dave has a bot that can handle multiple tasks. There are also other bots that operate (which is how I noticed your edits). The bot does not, however, tag the probably-not-needed intermediate redirects. This then leaves work for later generations.... Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 13:22, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Temperature Measurement
Just FYI! There's UTPA STEM/CBI Courses/Measurements and Instrumentation/Temperature Measurement and I recently ran across Temperature Measurement. It appears the former is a more updated version of the latter. Should the latter by put up for deletion?

Also, there is Measurements which I did not realize may have been in the first version of this course and have modified it for contemporary use as a course on measurements and instrumentation. It looks like it's unneeded in the current course of the same title above. Any objections to my creating something different with this course resource? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 00:56, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the link to Temperature Measurement. We have had several topics that are duplicated by different instructors. Since this is the same instructor, it would be appreciated if the one that does not reference UTPA STEM/CBI Courses be deleted. Should I place a delete request, or can you delete without the request?

The Measurements link is not related as it does not follow the CBI format. It should remain as it appears to be a broader explanation covering measurements in physics and astronomy.

There is no objection to your creating something with the resource. Please link it when complete so that I can see the result. Thanks.--6275utpa (discuss • contribs) 02:32, 6 August 2015 (UTC)