User talk:EttoreGreco

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Wavevolution etc.
I've noticed that you've been working on a series of "articles" on what appear to be your own original ideas. Wikiversity is for educational resources, and your articles might be such, if placed within some educational structure. For example as a student study in the field of Cosmology or the like, a creative paper with your own ideas, something might be possible. But a number of aspects of the pages are puzzling to me. You have placed two templates at the beginning, and. The Criticism template makes no sense because the pages have no Criticism section. The SSS template is a redlink. Because you call these "articles," it's looking like they may have been copied from another wiki, such as one of the encyclopedias. If they were deleted there, and you wish to work on them here, that may be okay, but there is a good possibility that they don't belong in mainspace, at least not at the top level.

If "Wavevolution" is some recognized concept that I just never heard of, you could show this and a mainspace resource by that name might be appropriate. Otherwise, probably not. At the other extreme, you could have these pages in your user space here, for your own work and study.

Further, you have versions of these pages in other languages, and other pages not in English. This is the English Wikiversity, and pages here should generally be in English (except you might have pages in your user space in other languages). There are other language Wikiversities, and if there is no wikiversity for a language, beta.wikiversity may be used. Please let me know what's going on with these pages, and I may be able to assist you. Thanks. --Abd 03:36, 25 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Given that you have been editing without responding to this, I've moved all the pages you created to your user space, you can see them in your contributions list, and they should still be on your watchlist. If you need any of these files deleted, adding a deletion tag to the top is better than just blanking. A deletion tag might look like this for one of these pages: --Abd 17:33, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

German Wikiversity
Hi EttoreGreco, I see you've created new material written in the German language (Wavevolution in German and Commutalism in German). That's great, but pages like these may be more suitable and useful at the German Wikiversity. Ideally, all pages at this wiki, the English Wikiversity, are written in the English language. Material in other languages than English might be deleted. Please let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Mathonius (discuss • contribs) 03:05, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

user:EttoreGreco/Wavevolution in Italian
This page belongs in the Italian Wikiversity. You should place it there. The three wavevolution pages can be interwiki links in languages. Thanks for your understanding. - Sidelight12 Talk 00:56, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

I moved your German page to your userspace here User:EttoreGreco:Wavevolution in German, please put it in the proper language wikiversity. And put future edits in the proper language wikiversity. - Sidelight12 Talk 01:02, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The page can now be found at User:EttoreGreco/Wavevolution in German. Mathonius (discuss • contribs) 07:06, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Your recreation of Wavevolution
In 2011, acting as a custodian, I moved your page with this title to your user space, informing you on this talk page. In 2013, you recreated the mainspace page without discussion; that page is not appropriate for Wikiversity mainspace, my opinion. I copied the content to User talk:EttoreGreco/Wavevolution. Please do not recreate your content in mainspace without discussion. You may continue to develop the page in your user space, or discuss moving it back to mainspace here, or on my talk page, among other options. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 20:51, 23 February 2014 (UTC)


 * The article Wavevolution has again been moved to User:EttoreGreco/Wavevolution. Please discuss and gain consensus before moving this content to the main article space.  Otherwise, you are welcome to continue development of this content here in your userspace without further discussion.  Thanks!  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:23, 24 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Commutalism has been moved to User:EttoreGreco/Commutalism for the same reason. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:28, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Dave, to assist this user, the older revisions from what you deleted should be restored, so that the user may pick which revision to restore, or may merge the content. Thanks. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 19:04, 24 February 2014 (UTC)


 * History restored. Thanks for the reminder.  -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 19:11, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

EttoreGreco, the files you created in mainspace have overwritten the files that were previously in your user space. To see the versions as they were in your user space, see
 * Wavevolution. This will load the old user space version, as I moved it from mainspace in 2011. If you press the edit tab from this display, and save it, you will revert the file to the older version (which looks more developed to me). You may, of course, pick pieces from this and pieces from that, but that's much more complicated! Entirely up to you!
 * Commutalism. The same. There is a Template:Criticism at the top of that page. Since the page is in your user space, feel free to remove that.

If the page is to be in mainspace, concerns about the neutrality and suitability of the essays for Wikiversity would need to be addressed. Generally, we allow development of pages with even far-out fringe ideas to exist in user space. We are more careful about how things are presented in mainspace. These pages were moved to give you freedom to develop the ideas.

This time, redirects were left to your user pages, so that off-wiki links to those articles will work. Those redirects might be deleted at some point, as we clean up mainspace; if you manage any off-wiki links, I suggest that you make them point to the user space pages. Some people also worry about Wikiversity being used for "web hosting," but my view is that as long as the pages have some educational purpose, and are not spam, or otherwise a problem, they may be hosted here.

Thanks for understanding what we are doing. Please do not create fringe materials in mainspace (a page name without any space prefix like User:) without cooperation from knowledgeable Wikiversity users. Ask if you need help. It is possible that these two pages could be moved back to mainspace, but probably not under those page names. Right now, my priority is that you be able to work on these without hindrance, while at the same time we are cleaning up mainspace. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 19:55, 24 February 2014 (UTC)