User talk:Rimmel.Edits

I joined the wikipedia during its golden age. Prior to 2007 there was a good balance between anabolism and catabolism. Very sadly, there was an unanticipated sea change in the wikipedia's baroque and contradictory policies in 2007, which changed the balance, and made it much too easy to delete articles. There are charts that display this sea change.

The volunteers who found it enjoyable exercise to add new content, create new articles, or add the necessary paragraphs to improve existing articles and keep them up to date, no longer found it enjoyable to be end up in wrangles with quality control volunteers, who were growing not only more nit-picky, but also often, malicious and personal. Anyone who has been called to defend the content they spent hours working on, is sure to have encountered passing comments from quality control volunteers who are functionally illiterate. It is exhausting. Most people who were happy adding new content during the wikipedia's golden age started to defect, without really being replaced.

Since you seem to be a smart person, and you are a University student, for whom it would be good experience, I am going to urge you to stop concentrating on simple copy editing, and nominating articles for deletion, and instead work on adding new content and/or helping to keep existing articles up to date.

As I wrote in the AFD you recently initiated, I started working on the wikipedia when it had less than ten percent as many articles as it has now. I started thousands of articles. Sadly, unlike during the wikipedia's golden age, when lots of people would work on articles, when I look at the contribution histories for most of the articles I started I see dozens of edits have been made to the article's metadata, changing which templates it used, which categories it was included in. But no one else had done any actual work on those article's actual content.

You found one good additional reference for Bright Leaves. That one additional reference, included properly, in the modern way, would probably have been enough so that any other impatient people, who didn't see that McElwee was a highly regarded film expert, wouldn't have a concern with the article.

No offense, but I am going to ask for userification of the other article you nominated for deletion. Geo Swan (talk) 13:37, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

NOt to scold, but it's always best to be more diligent and pro-active in a search for reliable sources covering film. The article's talk page offers a link to Metacritic which itself lists 20 reviews in reliable sources. Hint: The Find sources template assigned by AFD is not always the best search tool. A quick withdrawal and close will eliminate lots of spankings. 07:21, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi Rimmel.Edits! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

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	Congratulations! You have completed the Wikipedia Connection challenge! Please reply with your favorite candy so I can reward you for your hard work. Keep it up :] ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 23:39, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Twix! Rimmel.Edits Talk 23:54, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Do you like Tootsie Rolls? ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:54, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Only if they're vanilla. Rimmel.Edits Talk 02:28, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Meow

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On 1 July 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ruthie Tompson, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ruthie Tompson was offered a job by Walt Disney while working at the riding club where he played polo? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ruthie Tompson. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Ruthie Tompson), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Hey! It was fun meeting you and Kevin (not sure what his username is) in San Diego. See you around. :) II | (t - c) 16:28, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

@ImperfectlyInformed: It was nice meeting you as well! The conference was great. :) (Btw, Kevin is SuperHamster) Rimmel.Edits Talk 13:05, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

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I see that you contributed to this article. It has been nominated for deletion. You can comment here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liza Koshy (actress) -- Ssilvers (talk) 04:55, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

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Methinks I see an heavenly Host Of angels on the wing; Methinks I hear their cheerful notes, So merrily they sing. Let all your fears be banished hence, Glad tidings I proclaim; For there's a Savior born today And Jesus is his name. Lay down your crooks and quit your flocks, To Bethlehem repair; And let your wandering steps be squared By yonder shining star. Seek not in courts or palaces; Nor royal curtains draw; But search the stable, See your God extended on the straw. Then learn from hence, ye rural swains, The meekness of your God, Who left the boundless realms of joy, To ransom you with blood. The master of the inn refused A more commodious place; Ungenerous soul of savage mold And destitute of grace. - from William Billings, "Shiloh"

Happy editing, into 2019 and beyond! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:05, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I'm User:Nealstimler I'm been working with [The Cleveland Museum of Art] on their CMA Open Access initiative and Wikipedia engagement. I wanted to reach out to you and the Ohio Wikimedians User Group to see if you would be interested to create a WikiProject for The Cleveland Museum of Art. You'll find that images from The Cleveland Museum of Art have been added already to Wikimedia Commons and the Sum of All Paintings . I'd like to engage the Ohio Wikimedian User Group to build the Wikiproject with me and build a further collaborative partnership between the museum Wikimedians in Ohio with article campaigns, Wikidata visualizations or other projects that users may want explore. Thank you for your consideration and time. Nealstimler (talk) 20:14, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

 You are invited to join the discussion at meta:Movement Charter/Affiliates by Region/North America. You have been nominated by User:RightCowLeftCoast, with meta:San Diego Wikimedians User Group, to be a region selector for North America (Canada, and the United States) for the Movement Charter selector committee. If you accept your nomination, please indicate it on the page. If you do not accept your nomination, please remove yourself from the list of potential selectors. Thanks in advance for your time regarding this nomination, and thanks for everything you have done so far on a Wikimedia project. RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 22:19, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

@RightCowLeftCoast: Thank you so much for thinking of me! Life has gotten in the way of me being actively involved in the community for some time, so I wouldn't have been best suited for this role, but I appreciate the thought. I hope the LeftCoast is treating you well! Rimmel.Edits Talk 22:51, 15 October 2021 (UTC)