User:Valereee

The motto of the mongoose family is "Run and find out."

About me

This user pledges to adhere to
Old-Fashioned Wikipedian Values.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 6 months and 21 days.

This user has adopted the typo "dilemna" to nurture.

This user has adopted the typo "aquaintance" to nurture.

This user has adopted the typo "restauranteur" to nurture.

This user has adopted the typo "chaise lounge" to nurture.

This editor is a Looshpah Laureate of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix, Errata Sheet, and Author's Signature.

I love Wikipedia and have been editing for years; for nearly a decade, I edited without logging in unless making a particular edit required me to do so. I'm particularly interested in food issues, including local artisanal foods, food writers, and food history, and in biographies and works of women and people of color, but on a regular basis some other topic sets off an edit binge.

I have an alt account User:TrainerValereee which I created so I could demonstrate editing without all the extra buttons.

To Do and Done

Food and drink articles lacking references.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex?prefix=Valereee&namespace=2&hideredirects=1

Something I liked so much I had to steal it

From WhatamIdoing in this arbcom case:

This is prompted by what Clayoquot said about statements like "trans women are not men" being WP:FRINGE: This is a Wikipedia:By definition problem, because the accurate answer depends on the definition you are using at the time.

This is easy enough to understand when the subject isn't controversial. Wikipedia editors meet some definitions of 'cats', as shown in this table:

The differing definitions of cat

Typical definitions for the average cat
member of Felis genus	Cats	Cats	Not cats
member of Felis domesticus species	Cats	Not cats	Not cats
demands attention at inconvenient moments	Cats	Cats	Cats
difficult to herd	Cats	Cats	Cats

and nobody is irritated or upset if someone says "I spent all day on Wikipedia herding cats! I talked to so many editors".

But if we were to do exactly the same exercise over the differing definitions of male/female/man/woman – biological sex (male=makes sperm during reproductive years), genetic sex (including, but not limited to, chromosomal sex), anatomical sex (internal and external genitalia), gender identity, gender role, gender expression, etc. – or make a statement based on the Wrong™ definition, it will irritate or upset editors who feel strongly about this subject (no matter which POV they hold dear).

In particular, there is an expectation among most of the editors who edit in the GENSEX area that gender identity is the One True™ Definition. When you believe there is a single acceptable definition, then all the others will look like WP:FRINGE to you.

Tools

• Google books wikipedia citation tool: http://reftag.appspot.com/
• {{subst:Uw-ewsoft|Article|Additional text}} produces Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be repeatedly reverting or undoing other editors' contributions at Article. Although this may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is known as "edit warring" and is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, as it often creates animosity between editors. Instead of reverting, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page. If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to be blocked from editing Wikipedia. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a block. Additional text
• Going to need this and not be able to find it: quotes and spacing
• Citing contents of media template: {{Cite AV media}}
• {{linktext|WORD}} for a link to wiktionary
• search spam blacklists [1]
• Columns: {{div col|colwidth=30em}}{{div col end}}
• paywallreader.com
• https://archive.ph/
• Template:Contentious topics/table
• https://search.creativecommons.org/
• https://citer.toolforge.org/
• Template:AE sanction

Tips

• Undisclosed paid editing study: [2]
• Reliable Indian sources from User:Cesdeva (copied from an AfD post for Bibhusita Das) In case you are still interested: the two big news RS in India are 'The Times of India' (TOI) (except for entertainment coverage, which is for-pay spam per WBG) and The Hindu. After that you have the New Indian Express, The Economic Times, The Telegraph and the Hindustan Times. There are some decent regionals such as the Deccan Chronicle etc. I'd put Firstpost and The Business Standard on the list too, but some may not agree.
• User:Usedtobecool/PSN guide to sources on Nepal
• ANI advice: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Barkeep49&oldid=988670136
• Closing at AE: Special:Permalink/1026882611#closing at AE
  • Example
• If you go to the contributions page for an IPv6 and and type /64 onto the end of it, and then hit enter, it’ll bring up all contributions for a range. TonyBallioni 7:35 pm, 8 October 2019, Tuesday (1 year, 10 months, 2 days ago) (UTC−4) at User talk:TonyBallioni/Just block the /64
• Wikipedia:Editing restrictions/Placed by the Wikipedia community
  • Closing example
• Arb enforcement sanction notice from admin
  • And log
• Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Principles
• OED
• To move a draft over a redirect:
  1. Use Special:MergeHistory to history merge the redirect into the draft
  2. Move the draft to the old redirect
• interwiki links: prepend a colon and the abbreviation for the applicable project (as defined in meta:Interwiki map), so for example you can link c:Commons:Download tools like [[:c:Commons:Download tools]]
• PSHAW hanging up: if you get a PSHAW error (hopefully you're on chrome), hit "inspect", go to "console", and copy/paste whatever error message you're gettin' there.
• Edit notices Wikipedia:Editnotice#Creating editnotices

Expertise

• Indian news organizations: WP:NEWSORGINDIA
• Nepali sources: Usedtobecool
• Nigerian sources: Celestina007 User:Celestina007#List_of_Nigerian_Reliable_and_Unreliable_Sources
• UPE: GeneralNotability
• Singaporean sources and foods: Justanothersgwikieditor
• Transgender/nonbinary: Tamzin per Special:Diff/1031095452
• Italian foods: JackkBrown
• Transliteration searches: Cunard, especially Chinese

Reminders

Users who don't want to be called they:

• Rgloucester Special:Diff/1032769346
• Spy-cicle Special:Diff/1036811979
• Trappist the Monk Special:Diff/1036315175

COI

I have a minor COI with three articles I have edited:

This user has publicly declared that she has a conflict of interest regarding these Wikipedia articles:

• Laura Resnick
• Mike Resnick
• Sydney Morton
• Raymond Madachy