User talk:SimLibrarian

Hello, SimLibrarian,

Thank you for going back to fix articles with problems that were noted years ago. Many editors focus on creating new articles or fighting vandalism, not cleaning up mistakes that have hung around for years so thanks for putting in the time on less glamorous but absolutely necessary tasks like these. It's noted and much appreciated! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:35, 7 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much!! The encouragement is really welcome! SimLibrarian (talk) 02:59, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

	The Minor barnstar
	Thanks for your work making short descriptions and minor ce's :D — Ixtal ⁂ (talk) 08:29, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Awwww thank you so much!!!! It ain't much, but it's honest work. SimLibrarian (talk) 08:06, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there - do you have any on-going interest in this project? Just happened by your profile and thought I ask. I have some ideas if it's something you're interested in. - Scarpy (talk) 17:03, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Yes, I'm still interested in this project. What are you thinking about? SimLibrarian (talk) 18:55, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Good Day Sir/Ma

Please, sir, you messaged me on my previously deleted page and I sent an email to you as well pleading that I need the page published please sir/ma I need your help.

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HI SimLibarian,

Good day Sir/Ma please I really need your help, a recent page of mine was rejected well because of a conflict of interest you specifically messaged me on this and I think you guys did the right thing but still, I need a page like that to be published I know you can help me publish the page that's why am messaging you please can you help?

You may find that {{cvt}} is a better fit than {{convert}}. See my changes on top of yours at blue-eyed black lemur. Cheers! - UtherSRG (talk) 10:45, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see, thank you! That's going to come in handy. SimLibrarian (talk) 05:03, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Archive at User:SimLibrarian/talkarchive1

https://cevio.fandom.com/wiki/KIRUNE

A bit of golden bomber news :) 47.189.13.184 (talk) 09:35, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

SimLibrarian, I noticed you took out seven of references to the NYC fancy grocer Balducci's in film, television and a play. But you didn't take out one reference, to a song. This doesn't matter at all of course. But 1) why take out those seven but leave one? 2) Why take out those references at all? They seem to me to show the cultural impact of the store in the 1980s, in particular describing it as a place that signifies wealth or a kind of sophistication. HighAtop94 (talk) 17:39, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The one reference I left had a citation. Per MOS:POPCULT, pop culture references must have a citation to be included in a list like this. I probably should have removed it as well due to the quality level of the citation. SimLibrarian (talk) 17:47, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've noticed that you remove broken external links from articles. As an alternative to removing broken external links, I prefer to try to replace them with an archived version from the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org To try to find an archived version, you can paste the URL into the search box, or you can rewrite the external link using {{cite web}}, and then run https://iabot.toolforge.org/index.php Eastmain (talk • contribs) 21:16, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I'll do what I can to incorporate archive links. SimLibrarian (talk) 21:39, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi SimLibrarian, I am looking to work with the Wikipedia community of editors to suggest objective edits to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) article to help address the style and tone issues highlighted for this article, as well as the issues noted around primary sources. I have a COI as AFSP is my client, so I will not be making edits directly. I was wondering if you would be willing to take a look at my suggested edits for this article, and if you agree, help with implementing the edits.

I have drafted a rework of the first lead section of the page to address the tone issues and added additional 3rd party sources. Please see the updates in more detail below. We are looking to provide updates for the majority of the page to answer the issues in full, but will break them up by section to allow for easier reviewing.

I also left a note about this on Talk:American Foundation for Suicide Prevention! Thank you!

Suggested New Page Copy:

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that advocates for research and education around suicide. Based in New York City, it is the largest private funder of suicide prevention research,^[1]having awarded more than $24 million in research grants.^[2] The stated goals of the foundation are to educate the public about mental health and suicide prevention, support survivors of suicide loss, fund scientific research, and advocate for public policies around mental health and suicide prevention.^[3] In addition to the national headquarters in New York City, the foundation also has a Public Policy office in Washington, D.C., as well as local chapters in all 50 states in the U.S., the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. ^[4]

Through its local chapters and volunteer network, AFSP provides local communities with support services for survivors of suicide loss^[5], educational programs for schools^[6], workplaces^[7] and other places in the community, and awareness and fundraising events such as the Out of the Darkness Walks.^[8]

The Public Policy office uses volunteer Field Advocates to support mental health and suicide prevention legislation and policies at the federal, state and local level.^[9]

JAustenFan (talk) 19:06, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Thank you for considering me. I'm sorry, but fully managing COI edits is well outside my area of experience. I can make a couple of suggestions to improve your proposed edits:

* The first sentence should describe the fundamentals of what the organization is as its first priority (in this case, a US-based non-profit organization), not what the organization does (advocacy mission).

* "Having awarded..." should specify at what time this number was true (e.g. "as of 2023".

* "Through its local chapters and volunteer network, AFSP provides local communities with support services..." is a level of wordiness that smells promotional. It's less likely to be flagged if shortened, e.g. "AFSP employees and volunteers provide support services..." -- This also avoids having "community" twice in one sentence.

If you aren't able to get the edits made soon, let me know and I may be able to find time to research COI edit procedures, as this is an important topic. SimLibrarian (talk) 05:38, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! I appreciate your edits and we'll be sure to make updates. We will definitely let you know if we can't find a COI editor. Appreciate your offer to help! 160.72.110.130 (talk) 17:55, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your note that the section on the closure of the Guide needs to be improved, I have made a number of additions in reference to changes brought about due to WWII. I believe that your note is therefore no longer necessary. Albert Isaacs (talk) 01:39, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the improvements you made. It seems like there are still some sections that aren't encyclopedic in tone and are rather editorial without being referenced or quoting from a source (ex. "The arrangement of the timetables is even more higgledy-piggledy than before"; "the overwhelming impression is of a poor, cheaply produced publication"), but I don't know enough about the Guide to be sure how to change it appropriately. SimLibrarian (talk) 04:19, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments, but I do not resile from what I said earlier. If you get a chance to look at Bradshaw's you'll see that the negative comments that I made do stand up. Frankly, in its last years, the arrangement of the TT was just a mess! I really suggest that the changes that I made remain!Albert Isaacs (talk) 00:25, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion-based descriptions like "higgledy-piggledy", unless referenced from another source (e.g. "described by John Smith as 'higgledy-piggledy' in his review"), are not appropriate language in an encyclopedia, no matter how higgledy-piggledy you or I believe the work to be. Please carefully review Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. SimLibrarian (talk) 01:33, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

thanks very much for changing as you have the phrase - when I have encountered the usage on wikidata I turn into a dalek with a silencer. Your edits are truly appreciated! JarrahTree 05:17, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for the thanks! Cleaning up the data one zap at a time... SimLibrarian (talk) 06:00, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for all those minor edits to cleanup several articles. ww2censor (talk) 16:42, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for the recognition! It's always encouraging to know someone out there is happy about cleaner articles. SimLibrarian (talk) 04:09, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest the Country Gazette album 'Live at McCabe's' isn't a real live recording. Listen to the audience. They're inaudible except between songs. Further, I detect 'wall of sound' studio shenanigans regarding the singing. There are many albums out there claiming to be live, but they aren't. I haven't been able to find any confirmation of my speculation, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Probably the best way to find out would be to ask Alan Munde himself - but one needs Wonder Woman's 'golden lasso of truth' to make sure he's honest - I suggest they did appear live at McCabe's, and maybe that concert was recorded, but the version on the CD has significant studio embellishments. William.Forrest (talk) 18:18, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Unfortunately, I only edited this article in passing and I've never listened to this band, so I don't have any views about the album. That's an interesting question, though, and I hope you can find some way to answer whether it was really a live recording! SimLibrarian (talk) 04:08, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you tell us about st.cinnia's miracles? And where her Church Now? Please. Justin B Tomy (talk) 18:44, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm sorry, I don't know anything about this. SimLibrarian (talk) 18:46, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 16:13, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for your contributions! :) xRozuRozu (t • c) 04:33, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed your edits at CGS Sonadia and two others. You can always suppress the automatic DISPLAYTITLE by using |display title=none on {{infobox ship begin}}. As regards the reason why the automatic styling failed, my money is on "CGS" not being on the list of recognized ship prefixes. Don't quote me though, YMMV. ;) Paradoctor (talk) 02:07, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for your help! I didn't have time today to dig deeper into the problem so I went for a revert and tactical retreat. SimLibrarian (talk) 03:32, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear SimLibrarian,

Thanks for working on this Page. Hoping you could teach me! Specifically, how to add to the list of Pugwashites - Rudi Lemberg.

It's already been good reading your Talk page - gaining understanding of good practice, like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Coincidentally this week I'll be meeting up with the Lifeline Australia, Sydney book manager and I saw their Wiki page could be up dated.

Thanks, Figbird on Gadigal Country, Sydne Figbird (talk) 09:58, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Figbird I'm glad to help, thank you for wanting to contribute! It looks like Rudi Lemberg already has an article you've made an edit to, so adding him to the list of other Pugwashites should just involve adding a link to his article in the "Other Pugwashites" section in the article Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. If you're used to using the Visual Editor, you'll need to use a little bit of markup language when you edit the template containing the list of Other Pugwashites. You'll see that each entry looks like this:

* [[Ana Maria Cetto]]

The asterisk makes the bullet point before the name in the list, and the double square brackets create a link to the article with that name.

Ideally, you'll want to add a source to Lemberg's article indicating his Pugwashite status.

Please let me know if this doesn't actually answer your question! SimLibrarian (talk) 19:24, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, SimLIbrarian!

Success, added his name, thanks for your advice and encouragement.

And I have two sources for his Pugwash status that I plan to use as citations on the Wiki page for Rudi Lemberg;

I'm rusty on source editing and look forward to reskilling that I expect will be valuable here as I want to add some sub-headings, including a sub-bio for Hanne Lemberg, a fine artist.

I'll be watching some tutorial videos and keep trying. Figbird. :) Figbird (talk) 08:11, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Figbird You're welcome, I'm glad I could help! I'd offer assistance with adding sources, but it's outside my direct experience. It sounds like you're finding good resources for it. Best of luck continuing to expand the page! SimLibrarian (talk) 05:27, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @SimLibrarian! I'm Marshall Miller; I work in the Product+Technology department in the Wikimedia Foundation. I saw in my Recent Changes feed that you have been adding lots of article descriptions lately. Thank you for your hard work! I work with the teams who build that feature, and I was hoping to hear a bit about why you like adding article descriptions, how you choose which articles to add them to, how you proceed through them quickly, and if you have any thoughts on how the workflow could be improved. Please let me know if you can! I'm also happy to answer any questions you have. MMiller (WMF) (talk) 18:35, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MMiller (WMF) Of course, I'm glad to help! The short answer is that editing short descriptions is quick and easy to do on mobile. I do a lot of my editing on my phone while lying in bed, or waiting for water to boil in the kitchen, etc. as a "productive" alternative to social media. In the Wikipedia app, it's easy to find articles that need a short description. Given how many people use mobile devices to access Wikipedia, I think short descriptions are a neglected area for article improvement and ensuring Wikipedia is as user-friendly as possible.

To edit them quickly, I've been going through articles alphabetically (by incrementing each letter in the search bar), since the search results show short descriptions. For most articles, I copy-paste some element from the first sentence of the article to the short description box and make adjustments to fit the character limit and other style rules. This takes under 30 seconds for the average article.

I don't have any thoughts on how to improve the short description editing experience itself in the iOS app, but improvements to the search feature would be helpful for the way I've been working down the alphabet. Any given search term only provides 24 results, so working down the list can require adding more and more guesswork letters to make sure I "get everything" for a certain start to a search term. (For example, my search bar right now is "Chiesa de", and I'll have to try "Chiesa dei", "Chiesa deg", and "Chiesa del" separately.)

On desktop, I think it's easy to miss short description editing since Shortdesc helper is an optional gadget. In Firefox on PC, it also fails to load in some circumstances -- off the top of my head, it usually doesn't show up after saving edits to a page from the visual editor.

Please let me know if there's anything I can try to give more details on! SimLibrarian (talk) 07:10, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello! I work with Felidae Conservation Fund and was recently notified that the current wikipedia page for the Bay Area Puma Project is inaccurate. I am not sure who added what information, but since you were the last contributor on the article, I was wondering if it's possible for you to make some corrections? The project being described is actually the https://www.santacruzpumas.org/ project. I am not sure how to edit this myself, but if the title and sources could be updated to reflect the actual project that would be awesome! Thank you in advance. Benfelidae (talk) 17:52, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Benfelidae ! Thanks for letting me know about the problem with this article. It's definitely scrambled up between the BAPP and SCPP, but I'm not familiar enough with either project to be sure which parts are accurate. It looks like the projects are fairly similar in intent and location. For example, footnote 2 cites Felidae Conservation Fund's site regarding the BAPP. Could you possibly give me more info on what is wrong here so I can edit the page correctly? Thanks! SimLibrarian (talk) 03:43, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! @SimLibrarian

Yes, in the first paragraph any thing that mentions BAPP should be replaced with Santa Cruz Puma Project. We are also no longer partnered with the project, so Felidae can be replaced with Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. The citations involving The BAPP can probably be left (the information on mountain lions in the area is correct), but it could also be recited with info from the Santa Cruz Puma Project. Thank you so so much!! 2600:382:8092:349:58AD:D253:7E2A:15CF (talk) 16:07, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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