User talk:Jtwsaddress42

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Cavalier-Smith
I've been reading a recent Cavalier-Smith article and making notes at Life origins. --JWSchmidt 22:32, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikiversity Mission
Please help me understand how your use of Wikiversity is consistent with the Mission. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 03:03, 25 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Dave,
 * Thank you for asking. I try to address this issue at the top of my userpage, |User:Jtwsaddress42 Welcome...
 * If I understand the Wikiversity:Mission properly, it says:
 * Wikiversity is a centre for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. Its primary priorities and goals are to:
 * Create and host a range of free-content, multilingual learning materials/resources, for all age groups and learner levels
 * Host learning and research projects and communities around existing and new materials
 * I am using my wikiversity User:Jtwsaddress42 namespace to organize, develop, and archive web-related and open-source academic-related resources, biographical and bibliographic resources, quotations, and other material that can be used to construct educational resources and potential wikiversity projects I'd like to submit.
 * I am also using my user namespace to experiment with the coding possibilities of the wiki system... experimenting with creating galleries, clades, the various templates, etc...
 * I'm also trying to make things modular - so that I and others can construct a variety pages that share common material via transclusions.
 * I have reorganized the space multiple times as I learn more about the possibilities... I've been experimenting...  both with my userpage and the wiki system overall...
 * I hope I am not violating any rules... When I first signed on to this account in 2010 I was welcomed to my user page with a greeting from JWSchmidt that ended with the following conclusion...
 * And don't forget to explore Wikiversity with the links to your left. Be bold to contribute and to experiment with the sandbox or your userpage, and see you around Wikiversity! If you're a twitter user, please follow http://twitter.com/Wikiversity. --JWSchmidt 22:28, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Anyway, I hope this helps to answer you question. If you have further questions or there is an issue, please let me know.
 * Jtwsaddress42 (discuss • contribs) 07:13, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
 * So far, your contributions appear to be using Wikiversity for personal website hosting rather than as a resource that would promote learning with, for, or by others. You currently have more than 1,500 subpages in your user space. Even using automation, it would take more than four hours for anyone to clean up what you have created. In the past, we have blocked users who create this much content without adding value for others. It simply becomes unmanageable. I would have said something before, but I don't spend a lot of time looking at experienced user's content and didn't realize how far out of scope your efforts had become.
 * Regarding the coding possibilities of the wiki system, your efforts would be much better focused on using Wikidata for this rather than Wikiversity. Wikidata is specifically designed for content like this. Content like this doesn't appear to have any value as a wiki page to be edited by others. As a Wikidata item, it can be incorporated into a variety of wikis, simply by adding it to Wikidata.
 * In terms of how this violates Wikiversity policies or procedures, Wikiversity does not duplicate other Wikimedia projects. Please transition this single-item data pages to Wikidata. Thank you. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 15:30, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi Dave,
 * My apologies. I saw that others had customized their user pages and was told it was fine to experiment on the user page and sandbox...  I had no intention of abusing Wikiversity resources.  I saw that there were project boxes for notes, bibliographies, and other such other such resources... I assumed that these were acceptable projects to put together.  I had not submitted to the main wikiversity space yet, since I got caught up in exploring the possibilities, but I had definite intentions to do so once I had something coherent to offer.
 * I'm a bit disappointed that you didn't see any educational value in the material, but I understand. I had a specific set of themes I was hoping to focus on.  Primarily, the origin and evolution of critical stages/structures in the evolution of unicellular and animal biology.  I had hoped to introduce a focus on mechanistic continuity and physiological viability.  I had also hoped to emphasize the role of somatic selective systems in the organization of biological systems.  I was hoping to have the presentation properly sourced and referenced, so that others could make an independent assessment and confirmation of the material.  I was looking forward to seeing what others might have to contribute to the venture.
 * While not an expert of any kind, I have personally spent decades exploring these issues from an academic and scientific perspective and felt that I could initiate a worthwhile project about this using the bibliography I had assembled as a spring board to share the work of scientists and academics with the wikiversity community. I saw my user page as a way to direct people to useful resources...
 * Anyway, your words lead me to believe that Wikiversity is probably not the appropriate space for the kind of intellectual conversation, exploration, and knowledge I was hoping. There is much more that I could say, but I'll leave it at that.  You are free to remove/delete everything if that is your wish.
 * Again, my apologies for whatever trouble I have caused. I know it can't be easy administering a project like Wikiversity.
 * I wish you the best in your endeavors,
 * Jtwsaddress42 (discuss • contribs) 05:04, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Your efforts may have educational value, but the structure would be better supported by using Wikidata for the underlying bibliography entries. Unfortunately, I don't currently have any time to dedicate to helping you with the data migration. You might check with the folks at Wikidata to see if there are easy ways to import the data you have. Once you have the data in Wikidata, you can link to it (transclude it) from Wikiversity. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 01:12, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello Dave,
 * I appreciate the suggestion. You have inspired me to go deeper down the wiki rabbit hole and explore the wikidata, wikisource, and wikiquotes branches... It might take me awhile to figure it out, but I'll see if I can move the bibliographic citations over to wikidata as you have suggested. I may reach out to you for further guidance at some point if that is o.k.; if I get stuck, but I'll see what I can figure out on my own for the time being.
 * Thank you for your time Sir,
 * Jtwsaddress42 (discuss • contribs) 03:05, 1 December 2022 (UTC)