User talk:Chuck Marean

Hi there, and welcome to Wikiversity! I saw How to clean a toilet and presumed it was a joke, but it's actually a valid piece of information. :-) Would you be prepared to slightly tone down the over the top bits (like wearing safety goggles) and have it as part of a whole section on hygiene? Thanks. Cormaggio talk 13:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Looking over your version (the page creation), I see one problem with it: you added Category:Anthropology and Category:Sociology. The resource has nothing to do with those categories, except in the vaguest way that any human activity may have something to do with these fields, and we don't categorize resources based on that. Or would we have every page have Category:Knowledge? Other than that, great resource! If there are problems with it, they can be fixed. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 17:44, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Don't worry, but Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume I nominated for deletion
A new user, as first edit, nominated this review of the book for deletion, see Requests for deletion. I looked at your history and just want to make sure you know that
 * You are welcome here regardless of your history elsewhere, as long as you are civil and cooperative here.
 * We almost always can find a way to keep resources. Having that book review in mainspace with that title probably doesn't fit the way we are now organizing wikiversity. However, my strong understanding is that there is a place for this on Wikiversity, it's just a question of where.
 * So don't be disconcerted if the page is moved.
 * If there are problems with excessive "plagiarism" (I rather doubt it, but someone might claim that), that can be addressed.
 * Again, you hadn't contributed for a long time, so welcome back. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 03:07, 2 June 2014 (UTC)


 * As you may have noticed, the deletion closed with keep, I just archived that at Requests_for_Deletion/Archives/13. Meanwhile, archiving that reminded me that the page should be moved. So I did so, it is now at: Biographies/Reviews/Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume I. I added some information about the review on the page I created to "carry" your review: Biographies/Reviews.
 * I see you have not edited since 2011, when you created this review. You could do more like it, if you like, such as Volume 2, placing them as I placed this one. Work like what you did is very unlikely to be deleted. It may get organized, that's all. In the extreme, now, if something is remotely educational, we may move it to user space. Wikiversity is for learning by doing. Thanks for your work on Wikiversity, I hope you choose to come back, even if only occasionally. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 16:27, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
 * A user in the deletion discussion pointed to an AN discussion on Wikipedia. That was irrelevant here, but it does show your Wikipedia situation. The link was badly formed, this would be a correct one. That comment, my opinion, was improper there, having nothing to do with deletion. Further, there is no sign of any bad faith editing here, and bad faith was not a reason for the community ban, rather, continued cluelessness about how to participate nondisruptively on Wikipedia.
 * What I personally find tragic (not "funny") is that nobody there suggested you learn to edit and work collaboratively here, where it's part of our mission, "learning by doing." In fact, you have done fine here. It is possible that you could even draft Wikipedia articles here, or review existing articles for problems. (Others could propose they be transwikied to Wikipedia, or can follow up on suggestions here.) Properly done, this is a path that could eventually lead to unban on Wikipedia. It would simply take time and patience, and, in the meantime, you are learning. I am certain that, writing that book review, you learned much about Mark Twain. And anyone reading it is likely to do so as well, and even more if someone reads the book and improves the review. (In which case comments should probably be signed.)
 * We can function for "learning by doing" precisely because we don't expect work here to be perfect. And we don't have encyclopedic limitations regarding original research or notability or anything other than what is needed for content to be legally hosted. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 17:20, 31 August 2014 (UTC)