User talk:Kowal2701

Long ago

I used to get help from now departed template helpers in the early stage of a range of projects.

I have asked SMcCandlish for help to check - in case I got it all wrong. It has been a very long time since I used to work on the quality/importance materials. Apologies if I have made a mess.

I must say I am quite confused as to why anthropology and literature are being considered joint sponsoring projects. I am also disappointed that other eds have not helped you set things up, the lack of collaboration at that point seems to be missing something. Please make sure that at some stage you reverse engineer other similar sized taskforces, to get a sense what else is needed. The psychiatry task force https://wiki.eso.workers.dev/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Psychiatry_task_force is a good example of what appears a well organised task force. JarrahTree 13:52, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much, that looks great. It's okay I don't mind doing most of the boring stuff like tagging. I was thinking of moving it to its own wikiproject as out of all the articles tagged so far, practically none had the WP:Anthropology banner, and we have a decent amount of editors. I think I'm starting to get the hang of WP:AWB Kowal2701 (talk) 15:00, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Is it worth creating more categories for importance? Kowal2701 (talk) 15:04, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Re: importance, I am not sure, if it was to rise to a project rather then task force, importance is needed, some task forces dont include importance. The relative low level help you have been not given for simple project architecture (quality/importance and so on) is reflective of the reduction in collegiality some have noted - and even quit altogether because of... Keep the faith, and take care, we live in interesting times. JarrahTree 06:55, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Lol maybe, be very careful, your edits are not linking and the numbers are not relating to the project articles but to wikipedia as a whole - you need to get help, so to speak.JarrahTree 08:17, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

@Sadads sorry to ping, would you be able to help if not too busy? We can go back to your talk page if you'd like to keep discussions in one place Kowal2701 (talk) 08:25, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Template editors with experience in helping create the required tweaks are the ones to seek out - I could be wrong.

https://wiki.eso.workers.dev/wiki/User:Funandtrvl

https://wiki.eso.workers.dev/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sammi_Brie

come to mind, for no particular reason of order of choice

but the list is large - https://wiki.eso.workers.dev/wiki/Special:ListUsers/templateeditor

I may completely misunderstand, but the template tweaking me thinks is what makes things work... JarrahTree 08:50, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

I looked at the assessment categorisation for WikiProject Psychiatry. It uses additional assessment parameters in {{WikiProject Medicine}}, e.g. Talk:Alfred Adler is assessed for Medicine as importance=Low, but psychiatry-imp=high. I think you will either need to assess each article for its importance to oral tradition, or delete the assessment categories.

I have tweaked Template:WikiProject Anthropology to populate the quality assessment categories for now.

According to the article Folklore, that topic includes oral traditions, so I have added WP:WikiProject Folklore as a parent, but it is inactive. Have you considered reactivating that project instead of creating a new task force? – Fayenatic London 21:36, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Folklore is a subset of oral tradition rather than the other way around, so it wouldn’t really make sense. Also folklore covers oral and literate folklore, and we’re interested in oral folklore among other things. I’m happy to do assessments once tagging’s done, although there’s an error atm which means I can’t log in to use AWB. Tbh we’re looking at moving it to its own WikiProject as we have a lot of members and practically none of the articles tagged had Wikiproject Anthropology banner previously, so we’re just bloating their categories with articles outside of their scope Kowal2701 (talk) 08:22, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Sorry for not responding sooner, it looks like you got it fixed -- clearly I am not in a good place to work on this right now. Sadads (talk) 11:13, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

That’s okay, no worries, sorry for wasting your time Kowal2701 (talk) 13:05, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Oral tradition articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1			22	23
FL						2	2
GA		2	2	1		83	88
B	2		1	6		463	472
C	1			9		913	923
Start	3	2	3	16		1,732	1,756
Stub	1		2	3		715	721
List	1			9		148	158
NA					34		34
Assessed	8	4	9	44	34	4,078	4,177
Unassessed						82	82
Total	8	4	9	44	34	4,160	4,259
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 18,390			Ω = 4.62

Assessment is now working. This table will be updated daily. – Fayenatic London 16:25, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much Kowal2701 (talk) 18:02, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london Hi, no worries if you're too busy, but we'd like to move this to a WikiProject, I can have a go at doing this but I'm wary of creating a mess for others to clean up. Would you be able to help at all (or volunteer to help when I inevitably balls it up lol), again absolutely no worries if not Kowal2701 (talk) 17:02, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Well, from the category point of view, the only category that would need renaming is Category:Oral tradition taskforce articles, as your assessment categories do not specify "task force" or "WikiProject" in their name (although they do have a link that should ideally be updated).

I'm willing to help keep the assessment links working. I think you should first ask at WP:COUNCIL for approval; you can also ask there for help any other guidance required. – Fayenatic London 20:08, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, I've asked the council Kowal2701 (talk) 20:36, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

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Duplicate

Hi, could you please fix up all the pages in Category:Pages using WikiProject banner shell with duplicate banner templates? If the page already has {{WikiProject Anthropology}} then you should just add |oral-tradition=yes rather than adding a duplicate banner. Thank you — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:46, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Yes, sorry, only realised halfway through Kowal2701 (talk) 19:50, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting those. Would also be nice if the closing braces }} could be put on the same line, but that is much less important — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:55, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Yeah idk why it’s separate, it might just be what AWB’s doing Kowal2701 (talk) 08:07, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

ENIAC

How is ENIAC part of Anthropology/oral tradition project? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 22:46, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Also Gemini 6A. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 01:25, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

They’re not, I have no idea why they’re tagged. I was tagging articles that mentioned oral tradition or oral history. I’ll untag them Kowal2701 (talk) 07:39, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

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I removed the IP comment that wasn't allowed to participate in the discussion, and your reply to them about GS/AA was also removed. Hope you don't mind. Cheers KhndzorUtogh (talk) 14:07, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

No that’s okay, no worries Kowal2701 (talk) 14:08, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Draftifying tips

Hi! When you move an article from mainspace to draftspace, you shouldn't blank the redirect afterwards – it is better to tag it with {{db-r2}} instead so that an administrator can delete it. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 19:06, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, sorry about that, won’t happen again Kowal2701 (talk) 20:10, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

No worries, just advice to make it more practical! There's also User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft.js that can be useful if you don't want to do it by hand. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 22:50, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

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Hey, i figure it'll be easier to have one discussion rather than spamming random talk pages.

As you noticed, I just made some changes to the west africa sections on the africa page. You were right that there was a lot of weird writing and unsourced assertions. I'll keep trying to work on it as I go, and if I get time/can find full texts of the Obenga books will do Congo as well. Overall I think these sections are probably longer than they need to be. There's plenty of little detail that doesn't really belong in an overview article, which IMO should focus on large-scale changes like breakups of empires, religious spread, climate changes, major economic changes etc. Catjacket (talk) 20:22, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Yeah these sections are being written for Draft:Postclassical Africa and Draft:Medieval Africa, once that's done we can trim and condense them down, they're just sitting in the History of Africa article for the time being, otherwise it'd be empty. Sorry, I just left a message at Talk:History of Africa Kowal2701 (talk) 20:34, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Do we really need all these pages? A history of Africa, and a postclassical africa, and a medieval africa, and a west african history, etc.... I think we'd be better off focusing things into fewer articles. Easier to maintain and navigate, considering how hard it is to ensure well-sourced and appropriately contextualized and caveated writing for African history, where sources are so few and far between. Catjacket (talk) 21:07, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Should I copy the edits I just made to postclassical Africa? Catjacket (talk) 21:08, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Idk, for Asia there's History of Asia, History of East Asia, etc., but no time period articles. Also for Europe you don't have History of Western Europe etc. Maybe we should instead be focussing on making the regional history articles be general history, rather than just summaries of various countries' articles. Idk tho, I quite like writing in detail and then condensing that, and having time period articles mean that writing isn't wasted, but it might not be best for the encyclopedia. A good thing about having time period articles is that we can use them as a base to then copy relevant info over to the modern day country articles' history sections which are in dire need of writing Kowal2701 (talk) 21:35, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

I agree that regional history articles (and period history articles) should be focused as much as possible on wide-view historical patterns rather than detais of the history of a certain state or people. Improving the quality of the existing pages should be the priority (especially given the endemic problem in West African history of unsourced assertions, poor sources, or seemingly reliable sources like Delafosse who actually just invent stuff). If you want to write in detail and then condense you should be writing on country pages and then transposing to the general pages, removing unnecessary detail. Doing it the other way would give us a bunch of country history articles that repeat the same thing and don't have the country-specific detail that people would be looking for when they go there. Catjacket (talk) 08:47, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Agreed, but I was trying to reperiodise and rewrite Ancient Africa, Medieval and early modern Africa, Colonial Africa, and Postcolonial Africa. I agree that for country articles it should be only the country specific bits, and ideally sources that cover the history of that country would be used. Only the bits in the present-day territories would be moved over to country articles, and then expanded on, for instance in Republic of Congo, the focus is on Kakongo, Ngoyo, Vungu, and Loango, rather than Kongo.

The regional history pages are generally quite poor imo, History of West Africa looks like it’s turned into West Africa, shouldn’t the cultural history section be the main focus of the article? Kowal2701 (talk) 10:21, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Yeah you're probably right, it's overcrowded. If you want to slim down History of West Africa, put something in that page's talk page. As long as there isn't pushback, then you could move all the non-history sections to the main West Africa page, similar to what I did for Mali Empire and History of the Mali Empire.

I think working to improve Ancient Africa etc. is a noble and productive mission to set for yourself. It's not one I'm particularly interested in undertaking tbh. I just don't think that we can look at Africa as a monolith in any of these periods, with the possible exception of the colonial period, and therefore those pages are subtly and unintentionally perpetuating the very dumb idea that Africa is one single place. My ideal world would be a condensed and efficient History of Africa article with very long and well-structured pages for the history of West, South, East Africa etc. The fewer pages there are, the easier it is to make sure each one is relatively up to date with constantly changing scholarship and free of bad/outdated/colonial sources. But I recognize that there is a demand for history of "Africa" as a unitary concept, so I'm not going to worry too much about it.

All that being said, if you would like help with specific sections, such as the West Africa work I did the other day, I'm happy to provide it. If these pages exist then they should be as high-quality as possible. Catjacket (talk) 12:15, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Agreed that the regional articles are more important, and continental history articles prior to 1800 seem anachronistic. Also pan-Africanism does sort of lend itself to the homogenous stereotype. I don't know the solution. Could it be to have History of West Africa until 1250, Medieval West Africa (ie. 1250-1800), History of North Africa until 1250, Medieval North Africa, and then have Early modern Africa (1800-1935/45) and Africa since 1935 or 1945. Ancient Africa would redirect to a disambiguation page, History of Africa until 1250. Idk that's probably too many articles. Kowal2701 (talk) 21:01, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

That could be a valid solution, but you'd need a whole taskforce to put all that together. I'm not sure it's worth it. Catjacket (talk) 13:25, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Also see Talk:History of Africa#Periodisation, it's the best I've got thus far for a periodisation (with 1500 as an internal break in Medieval Africa) Kowal2701 (talk) 20:36, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

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Please do not blank my talk page without asking. Northern Moonlight 00:53, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Im really sorry about that, I just meant to blank the welcome message Kowal2701 (talk) 07:32, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

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Hello! Seeing your comment in Talk:Turkey, you should be able to access Wikipedia Library. Did you try doing the initial set up? Bogazicili (talk) 17:26, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Yeah I use the Wikipedia Library loads but some of the entries on Oxford Research Encyclopedia are locked Kowal2701 (talk) 17:37, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Yeah you are right, I was just going to come back and say that myself. I thought it would be unlocked, but it isn't. Oxford Research Encyclopedias database seem very high quality actually. Bogazicili (talk) 17:42, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Actually, looks like there's a technical issue [1]. So access might be restored later. Bogazicili (talk) 17:45, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Oh nice. Yeah they're so useful, the only publisher the Wikipedia Library is missing imo is Taylor and Francis books/Routledge. Countless times has it had the perfect and only source on a topic. It's got 200 upvotes at Suggest a collection so hopefully it gets added soon. Kowal2701 (talk) 18:03, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

They have good overview sources, I use Taylor and Francis/Routledge books often. Bogazicili (talk) 18:20, 12 December 2024 (UTC)