User talk:WritingMan

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Work by User:Taeseop

This student inserted what appears to be an interim work product into article space. I moved it into draft space. Please monitor and advise the student. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:35, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:The Murder on Via Bel Poggio

Hello, WritingMan. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "The Murder on Via Bel Poggio".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 10:49, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Feedback

I left you feedback here. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:11, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

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WritingMan (talk) 22:27, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

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WritingMan (talk) 22:24, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Meetup/Grunwald/Istanbul/ICSLS 2019

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Created in the wrong name space. This is in article space, not Wikipedia: space.

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physicist article

Hi @WritingMan:! this is alie from our WikiEdu class. Just a heads up that I shared your wikipedia user name with the scientist on twitter working mainly on German > English translations and researching solid state chemists, physicists etc. I don't have her Wikipedia user name but hope she might respond on your talk page if that helps any with the research/references list. If you like when the article is done goes live, I think you can advertise it to the Women in Red Project since they'd be very interested in the content. This is where they keep the master list for new articles re: women in physics. Nanobright (talk) 01:28, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Haneda Airport Access Line Plan for deletion

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--Woches (talk) 22:59, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Bundled images

Hi, Writing Man.

You're probably not the right person to contact about this, but I think you know who is the right person, and I'd like you to pass a message along to one of your colleagues.

Over the past year, I've encountered a large number of extremely narrow, specialized articles on topics in chemistry. They've all been written by MIT (graduate?) students over the past decade, apparently as a course requirement for a large number of courses.

Almost all of them tend to bundle multiple images together when they needn't do so. For example, File:Carbene-1.png and File:AlkyltrifluoroboratesBatey2002.svg each include two (somewhat related) different reaction sequences in a single image file.

Future editors may (and indeed I do) want to rearrange the article text to separate discussion of the two reactions. But such editors cannot move the discussions to far-separated places in the article without editing the image files to separate the two logically separate parts of the image. Switching "editing mode"s like that is annoying and unpleasant, particularly when it shouldn't be necessary in the first place.

I know that Wikipedia's ability to float separate image files together is not great, but the drawbacks to {{multiple image}} are often overstated. Moreover, most bundled images I've seen don't need to float at all — they are or should be marked |frameless|center! Keeping them together then requires no special effort.

Please ask your colleagues to stop teaching the students to bundle images, and instead teach them to unbundle images as much as possible.

Thanks, Bernanke's Crossbow (talk) 02:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Dear Bernanke's Crossbow,

I am not a chemistry professor, and although I used to have my graduate students (from various disciplines) write or update articles on Wikipedia, I have not done so for many years, although I don't know if any of those students were chemistry students. It sounds as though a professor or two in the Chemistry Department is having students do this, or perhaps their embedded writing instructors. I suggest you contact someone there.

best,

Writing Man WritingMan (talk) 12:58, 5 June 2024 (UTC)