User talk:Omphalographer

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Two deletion requests
I reverted your template requests on Stylized_drawing and Operating Systems/PPC because I think both MIGHT need discussion first. IMHO you should use the template (at the TOP of the page) and then post a notice on Requests for Deletion (as described at Requests for Deletion.)

Of the two pages, the strongest case for deletion is the ultra-short definition at Operating Systems/PPC. I am not qualified to judge Operating Systems, but if it is a quality page, that might justify the existence of a stub like Operating Systems/PPC... or perhaps we should just move the definition at the stub into Operating Systems. Also, a suggestion has been made for merging Operating Systems with Operating system.

My knowledge of standard procedure here is rudimentary. Step in if I am in error. Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 07:07, 19 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I didn't place the speedy deletion requst on Stylized drawing. User:Billinghurst did. I think that page actually looks like viable educational content, although I'm not an artist so I can't vouch for its accuracy.
 * Operating Systems/PPC was me, though. Operating Systems (as well as its twin, Operating systems) is an unusable mess of half-written pages, with most of the important halves missing, which is why I'd like to try to merge any usable content to Operating system and get rid of the rest.
 * The /PPC subpage is entirely useless, though. It's barely even a sentence long, none of the other subpages in the resource mention anything technical about PowerPC, and the topic isn't even particularly relevant to a course on operating systems. PowerPC is a type of computer processor, not an operating system, and it's one which has largely faded out of use after Apple stopped using it in their computers in 2005. I've probably already put more effort into this explanation than the original author did into the page. :)
 * Going through a full deletion request is a fairly heavyweight and slow process here, and I'd prefer to reserve that for larger deletions like the one I've currently got posted for the Web Page resource. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 17:49, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * @Omphalographer Agreed. Deletion requests are heavyweight and slow. Most of the time it is easier to fix things than to delete them, or use and let time take care of the "discussion". -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:07, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * @Guy vandegrift It's up to you. If you think discussion is necessary, we can discuss. The approach would then be to convert the speedy to a . Ideally, you would start the discussion, since you decided discussion is necessary. But Omphalographer could also start the discussion.
 * I had looked at Stylized drawing. It didn't seem out of scope to me. Operating Systems and Operating systems need to be merged and retained somehow, perhaps as a landing page similar to Biology. Operating Systems/PPC has no value. I've replaced it with an Advise link to Wikipedia. That will get deleted automatically after 30 days or so.
 * Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 02:03, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Since Omphalographer seems to be an active and competent editor, I will follow his lead and plan for the dismantling and removal of most of Operating systems and Operating Systems. But instead of using the, I will just move them into draft subspace of Operating system, i.e., Draft:Operating system/Operating Systems and Draft:Operating system/Operating systems.  This will not only get them out of mainspace where they do harm, but also give current and future editors infinite time to salvage anything worthwhile in these pages.  Let me know if either of you are unhappy with this resolution and I will revert and do whatever you wish.  Links to these draft space pages (and a comment) will be placed on Operating system--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 05:59, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Problems at Web_Technologies/2021-2022
There appear to be difficiculties with an ongoing college course that is using Wikipedia. Please join the conversation at
 * Request_custodian_action -Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 23:54, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Five astronomy pages deleted or proposed for deletion
I just took care of Cosmic circuits, Entities/Astronomy, Intensity astronomy/Quiz, Sources/Astronomy, and Wanderers/Quiz. --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 06:40, 19 December 2022 (UTC)


 * That works, I guess. I'm slowly working through a huge spreadsheet to sort out everything Marshall worked on.
 * Let me know if you'd like me to split out all the quiz subpages. There's a lot of them, and they're all fairly similar in quality. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 06:59, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Don't bother splitting out the quizzes. I salvaged one and moved it into a discussion about the need for a huge quizbank here. In fact, I don't even think my proposed quizbank should even reside on Wikiversity.  Instead it should be hosted on  https://www.myopenmath.com. --Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 08:17, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

reversion
your reversion made no sense to me.

https://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AOpen-source_domestic_robots#senseless_reversion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iik68a1ztMU

Inner and outer peace to you. Michael Ten (discuss • contribs) 18:07, 23 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Replied on the talk page. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 18:30, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Possibly invalid fair use
Hi! As a part of Requests_for_Deletion I made some lists and I noticed that 75 non-free files were used only outside the main namespace. I tried to exclude those that were used in user pages of Marshallsumter or Kizer because there is a deletion request going on for those pages.

Perhaps you could check a few of them and see if there is a problem or not. On Wikipedia there would be but I'm not sure if Wikiversity would allow. 40 of the files are used on one page so they are either all okay or all bad. The list are at User:MGA73/Sandbox. --MGA73 (discuss • contribs) 08:43, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment
I meant to ping you at Colloquium, but I had forgotten your username and could not find where/when we discussed the issue before. :/ I'm glad you saw it. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:10, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Have you contacted phab about Colloquium?
Hello, per special:diff/2594380, all pages in the collection namespace are deleted via Bot action (please see the deletion log for full record). I think we are ready to move to the next step. Have you already contacted to phab about this matter? MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 02:27, 2 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Not yet! I'll do so in a bit. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 04:48, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Done: T354159. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 06:58, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

When tagging deletion to templates
Please use the noinclude tag. It should be done like. Without the noinclude tag, the deletion template becomes part of the template, and all pages where the templates are used will be included as deletion candidates. I will wait for a while to see if anyone wants to use them. By the way, unused templates are automatically listed at Special:UnusedTemplates, so we can easily track them without tagging. Thank you for checking the templates. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 08:09, 3 January 2024 (UTC)


 * The templates I've been tagging have all been unused (and unlikely to be used, because they're full of broken links referencing Wikipedia content), so accidental transclusion of the deletion template shouldn't be an issue. I'll adjust my deletion nomination script to prevent that from happening in the future, though. Omphalographer (discuss • contribs) 20:43, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Decent work
You are doing decent work here in helping clean up the low-quality or subminimal material that is only too plentiful. Did you consider entering something into your user page, to make it no longer redlink? (Disclaimer: I subjectively very much dislike redlinked user page, so this is to some extent an egoistic-hedonistic/selfish suggestion, not based on any policy.)

Moreover, someone else indicated you had a different account here. Would you consider linking yourself to that account? I think it would increase your standing, unless it is a tarnished account.

Whatever your decision, thank you very much for helping to clean up the English Wikiversity! --Dan Polansky (discuss • contribs) 09:42, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Invitation to discuss page deletion policy
A discussion that might interest you has been started at Requests_for_Deletion. -- Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 18:24, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Deletion of WikiJournal preprints
I noticed you put Draft:WikiJournal Preprints/Modern medicine as an evolutionarily distinct entity from Allopathy up for deletion. I was involved with the founding of the WikiJournal of Science. It has always been my understanding that WikiJournal editors decide what goes into their portion of Wikiversity, and nobody has made any proposals to the contrary. For that reason I removed your prod template.--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 02:57, 5 March 2024 (UTC)