Satellite5Editor

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Hello, Satellite5Editor! Welcome to Wikipedia! You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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Thank you for these helpful resources! I am excited to contribute and will read through them throughout the day. Trying to do a signature here, apologies if I mess it up. Satellite5Editor (talk) 15:54, 26 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Saying hi from the Teahouse, with an offer of Wiki-Friendship :P

Latest comment: 7 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hi I'm Chelsea! I read the Teahouse most days, to continue to learn how everything works around here. I'm around the same stage of editing as you: I know how to copyedit, tag things for maintenance, and use talk pages.

I appreciated what you said about getting geared up to learn about sources/citations- I've reviewed all the relevant docs myself, and am pretty familiar with how various citation styles look in Wikicode, but haven't started practicing doing it myself yet. It would be cool to have a casual buddy around here to occasionally check in with on each other's User Talk pages along the learning journey!

To that point, I popped over to the page you had flagged on the Teahouse as needing more eyes- I'm sure more experienced editors than I will have good answers to your overall questions. I went and did further cleanup for the short term, stripping the confusing text down to the most simplistic interpretation available.

While trying to see where this garbled text entered the page, though, I discovered that a user pasted it all in at once a few years back- if you scroll in Edit History down past our recent edits, there was a ~+1425 size addition to the page, from a user who seemed to navigate to the page via the "Suggested Edits- Write a Short Description" tool.

Assuming good faith, the editor was trying to improve the article after finding it through the shortdesc link, but they made a lot of confusing and unsourced changes at once. It looks like the article was a pretty short but straightforward unsourced bio up until that point, so it may become necessary after the community weighs in to revert back and remove the 2 paragraphs you flagged entirely, as they seem to have come from nowhere.

I am on mobile right now, which is a bit unwieldy to comment in places like the Teahouse, but after I leave this direct communication for you, I'll also open a thread on the article's talk page to summarize my concerns and then circle back around from a real computer.

One of the reasons I bothered investigating despite being on my phone was that the chunks of text you found sounded, to me, like they could be copy-pasted from a formal bio on the university's site or elsewhere (albeit then all kind of scrambled up, with sentences pasted over one another). What I discovered makes me *more* concerned about copyvio, so I'll make sure to follow this through and do a proper check on where the heck this article section came from, lol.

Have a great day, nice to "meet" you and hope to touch base soon! Chiselinccc (talk) 21:06, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed and kind message. It’s definitely only made me more excited to continue contributing to see how helpful and nice everyone around here is. I appreciate your time looking into the issue I raised and look forward to seeing how it plays out. I happily accept your offer and it is nice to meet you as well! Satellite5Editor (talk) 21:52, 3 March 2024 (UTC)Reply