User talk:Machinegunjimmy

Hi Machinegunjimmy, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Our intro page provides helpful information for new users—please check it out! If you have any questions, you can get help from experienced editors at the Teahouse. Happy editing! Hikingboii (talk) 02:08, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Hey there thanks for the info. I have been reading up on policies and learning so this is helpful. Machinegunjimmy (talk) 02:35, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Machinegunjimmy. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily in collaboration.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.

Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.

If you work from reliable, independent sources, you shouldn't go far wrong. WP:RSP and WP:RSN are helpful in determining if a source is reliable.

If you find yourself in a disagreement with another editor, it's best to discuss the matter on the relevant talk page.

I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Hipal (talk) 15:28, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Aquillia gens when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:23, 22 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi Machinegunjimmy. Thank you for your work on Runa (HR software). Another editor, Klbrain, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thanks for creating this page for a small Mexican company reaching WP:NCORP through sustained coverage in a range of sources.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Klbrain}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Klbrain (talk) 09:46, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

The article Sergei Polevikov has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:NPERSON, WP:CRIME, and WP:1E. Article appears to be primarily about a single criminal matter rather than enduring biographical notability. 14 out of 18 references concern that one criminal case and are concentrated around four contemporaneous dates: arrest, plea, sentencing, and the SEC settlement, which does not show sustained independent coverage. The remaining four references of non-crime material appear to rely substantially on primary, affiliated, or obscure sourcing. Under Wikipedia:Notability (people) policy, a perpetrator should have a standalone article only where the victim is a renowned national or international figure, or the crime is unusual or historically significant enough to have sustained coverage beyond contemporaneous reporting. Neither appears to apply here.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time.