User talk:Rhole2001

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Drafts
Hi Rhole2001!

Welcome to Wikiversity!

If you're interested, there are Draft:History, Draft:Paleontology and Draft:Zoology which you are welcome to contribute to! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:05, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! --Rhole2001 (discuss • contribs) 07:34, 21 April 2018 (UTC)


 * And, Draft:Evolution! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 11:40, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

And thank you again. --Rhole2001 (discuss • contribs) 03:17, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Autoconfirmed user
Hi Rhole2001!

It looks like you are ahead of the editing curve before becoming an "Autoconfirmed user". The policy is apparently limiting the number of pages you can create until your account has been active for four days from registration. You are not a "Vandal". I checked to see if I can change your user groups to "confirmed user" since I'm a custodian but so far nada. There is a way to do it but I haven't found it yet. Sorry! Still working on it. It appears that in 14 more hours you can create more pages. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 21:23, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you kindly. In the help section it doesn't state there's a four day waiting period, or that there's a "creating new page" limit for newcomers. I was going to give it some time, really figuring there was a delay. Yes, I know I'm not a vandal (I hope), but I do understand the software has to treat me potentially as such. It can't distinguish between that and "excited newcomer". I'll deal! I did get the impression that only autoconfirmed users can be made confirmed, so that's not surprising. Again, thank you for your kindness. --Rhole2001 (discuss • contribs) 21:32, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Animal Phyla
Thank you for your recent contributions on animal phyla. This looks like it will be an excellent resource. But there are also some licensing and other issues we need to deal with.

1) Please do not copy page content to a new page. Under CC-BY-SA licensing, all previous editors of the page must have their contributions recognized. This is covered by the page history. Moving content to a new page loses that history. Instead, we must move the page, and then build the new page in its place. The process for correcting this is quite complicated. It requires deleting the page, restoring the old edits, moving the page, and restoring the new edits. The pages are now updated with correct history.

2) There's no advantage to naming pages "List of". I realize that's the title it had before, but if it's animal phyla, it should be animal phyla, particularly as it expands into a full learning project rather than simply a list. Likewise, there's no advantage to having the full name in the subpages. The table is just a table, unless another name would be better.

3) Titles can either be Sentence case or Title Case, but not both. See Naming conventions. I am assuming your preference is for Title Case, so I have named the page Animal Phyla, and the subpages as Animal Phyla/Table and Animal Phyla/Quiz.

4) The source for the content that Animal Phyla came from needs a reference. It seems unlikely that you wrote this content yourself this afternoon. Wherever it came from must be credited, and for this amount of content, it must also be openly licensed.

There aren't too many rules around here, and at your pace, you should run into most of them by the end of the week. :-) Let me know whenever you have any questions. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 22:53, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your continued help.
 * You're correct in that it's not original. I took the list wholesale from the table in question, with a few edits, and just turned it into an actual list. It was simple reformatting on my part, so I figured it really should have the same history. That's why I felt it could stay on that page. Copying the table-format version to another page was an effort to keep that format around for those that preferred it, but not have it clutter up the "main" page with duplicate information. It wasn't really an attempt to move the original page data. I see that could be very confusing, and understand why it shouldn't be done. Perhaps my biggest fault was not putting that on the discussion page?
 * And yes, For the title of the page, I simply followed on. I didn't like it, but wasn't sure what to do about it yet. I do like Title Case.
 * I've added a "reference" at the bottom to the identical table-version on Wikipedia. I also added as a reference a book that I know contains the same information (where I learned it before I saw the table).

Who gets to be a geologist?
Hi Rhole2001!

Who gets to be a geologist? can go into Draft:Sex integration, or Draft:Paleontology under a section title such as Geologists or Paleontologists, or under such a section title in Draft:Geology. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:17, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Animal Phyla
Hi Rhole2001!

Your zoology resource Animal Phyla appears to be well-developed and ready for learners! Would you like to have it announced on our Main Page News? --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 23:00, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * If appropriate, sure, we can go for it. I've been busy with other projects this past week. Sorry for the delay in response.