Jonny Nixon

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Deaths in 2017

Great job mate on the progress on Deaths in 2017! Looking forward to the progress ahead old friend! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 09:16, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

William Margold

Hi, Jonny. Please remember to use the {{recent death}} template only when an article is getting a lot of edits from different editors. In spite of the name of the template, its purpose is to warn readers that there might be conflicting edits, not to point out that the person died recently. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:36, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

John Hurt, etc.

When you update an article to show that a person has died, please go through the entire article to update the verb tenses. Take a look at the changes I just made to John Hurt for some examples of what needs to be done, and feel free to ask any questions you have. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:24, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Of course, I had forgotten to update the page as I was working on the English Wikipedia. Thanks. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 03:26, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Quick deletion of Conor McGregor

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adding stub template

What's up with adding stub templates to moderately long articles, like Bert Parks? I seriously doubt that article needed a stub template. Angela Maureen (talk) 09:07, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @September 1988: That article is still fairly short. Besides that, though, articles can be marked as stubs not only when they're physically short, but also when there's a significant amount of info left out. If you look at the enwiki article, you'll see quite a bit more information. The info in many articles here would be only enough for the lead section in other Wikipedias, and such articles here could reasonably be tagged as stubs. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:24, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

I second that, Auntof06, thanks. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 05:06, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Welcome Back

Welcome back old friend! Letting you know how great it is seeing you back in action creating awesome new articles! Cheers. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 06:35, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I appreciate your kind words, Lenin. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 06:49, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Kimberly Hamilton

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Quick deletion of Brenton Tarrant

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Ignore this, someone removed the redirect and made a highly offensive page. IWI (chat) 01:16, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Mountaineer articles

Hi, Jonny. Thanks for your new articles. I wanted to let you know that I changed the verb tense in the three articles about mountaineers from "As of 19 April 2019, it is thought that" to "As of 19 April 2019, it was thought that". That's because encyclopedia articles always use past tense for statements associated with a date. If they used present tense, the statement would become outdated after only a day. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:24, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Of course, my mistake, thank you for fixing it. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 08:52, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Deaths in 2016

Hey Jonny! This has always been the one regret I face to this day and that is not completing Deaths in 2016. That time period I took a period off for nearly half a year and just seeing how incomplete the page is starting at Deaths in July 2016 and beyond is heartbreaking. I was aiming at filling out the entire Deaths in July 2016-Deaths in December 2016 and as this year progresses to create the articles within those pages. I was wondering once I commence this task if you could help me maintaining it? --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 06:09, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Absolutely @TDKR Chicago 101: I'd love to! I believe I also mentioned it to you a while back now. I look forward to helping out. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 06:12, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Excellent! I'm currently filling out Deaths in August 2016 and will continue the progress in the other pages. I'll start creating the pages once all Deaths articles are filled out. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 16:55, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Great! It may take time but I think we can accomplish this. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 09:54, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Ellen Gibb

Hi Jonny Nixon,

I saw a headline somewhere about the death of the oldest person in Canada. I cannot find any reference to it here. Can you help? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 19:24, 8 June 2019 (UTC) https://globalnews.ca/news/5365752/canada-oldest-woman-dies-114/

Hi there, on the English Wikipedia "Ellen Gibb" redirects to the en:List of Canadian supercentenarians article. So perhaps, by Wikipedia's standards, she isn't notable enough to have her own entry, aside from a redirect :/. Thanks, —Jonny Nixon (talk) 19:48, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Welcome Back

Great to see another great Wikipedian back at work! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 07:24, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, mate. Good to be back, I've had a busy schedule as of late. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 10:01, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

James Irwin

Help to expand the James Irwin's article. ArionEstar (talk) 13:11, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Heads Up

On WikiData John Davies (swimmer) and David Greetham (textual scholar) are listed as deceased, but I cannot find any reliable sources confirming this. I've added their entries on March 24 in Deaths with the hidden brackets <! name -->. Side note: great work on your recent articles! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 16:09, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! —Jonny Nixon (talk) 16:14, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

• I've also created List of deaths from the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic to keep track of COVID-19 related deaths. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 15:33, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Long overdue especially given your constant article creations/edits. Thank you for expanding this great Simple Wiki! Hope to hear from you soon! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 14:57, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Danke, mate. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 00:06, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

undid

reason I undid was there was a huge red link message. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:07, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

Note about removal of infoboxes

Hiya! I've noticed that you've been reverting my infobox and commons additions on the following pages: John Ventimiglia and Brad Fittler. As Wikipedia, especially Simple Wiki, is known for being a platform to build upon and improve each other's work and I'm mainly here to contribute in every positive way possible, I would like to welcome this opportunity to learn more about any guidelines and policies here on Simple Wiki that I may not have been previously aware of? For example, I always under the impression that as long as edits are done in good faith and to help improve an article, they shouldn't be reverted. Instead, we should (1) discuss the issue(s) in the problematic article's talk page (2) the talk page of editor who has made what you may have personally deemed 'faulty' edits talk page. I noticed you haven't done any of that and went straight to reverting my edits. I would welcome either resolution to help us come to a consensus. That way, we can resolve the issue and avoid it from propping up again. Also, as you created the article, anyone's welcome to make helpful edits and if you wanted to add more info (as the info in the article you've created are quite sparse), you could have built upon it. As you seem to have been with the community much longer than I am, I'm happy to learn what were the reasonings behind those reversions, and would appreciate it to be clarified and resolved. — Infogapp1 (talk) 14:30, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Jonny Nixon is right. An info box that contains only the subject’s name, birthday, and photo is pointless. We’re adding info boxes for the sake of adding info boxes. Info boxes are not required in every article. When an article is a stub, the info box is generally unnecessary because all the relevant information is available in the couple of paragraphs of text. I’m not sure why you’re taking his removal of the info boxes so personally. You’re telling him that he could have expanded the info box instead. If the info box can be expanded, why didn’t you do that from the outset yourself? Basically, you’re saying his only option is to keep it as is or expand it. Well he chose an option that also exists and you disagree with.

remember the BRD cycle: bold, revert, discuss. You were bold in adding the info box. He reverted. Now you discuss. You’ve added an extra revert in there.

You’re also basically saying in your change summaries that people can’t remove it unless they discuss it with you. Sounds like ownership. Only (talk) 15:37, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

My suggestion was to either expand the infobox itself, instead of completely discarding someone else's work (especially when it's not even a vandalism- and even vandals get notified as to what they did wrong. There was none of those followed in this case. A note in the summary saying 'it was lazy' or 'pointless' didn't provide any objective context as to what's missing and how it can be improved. When I reverted the edit, I added more information and not just revert without any context. The reason why I'm leaving this note is that there were notes either in the article's talk page, or my talk page so we can avoid this issue again. As far as I know, infoboxes don't have any minimum information requirement, but I'd be happy to read any additional documentation I may have missed. I have been adding infoboxes here in other stubs under the impression that they're not only helpful for the user's experience, but for the overall improvement of the articles. If those were not helpful, I didn't receive any memo earlier on hence I am discussing as I would prefer for it to be resolved and for such issues to happen again. — Infogapp1 (talk) 15:56, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

My personal preferences and opinions here are irrelevant. I'm here to help improve Wiki and abide by the community policies and guidelines - again, not opinions. If any of the admins told me earlier on that adding any of these infoboxes to stub articles were unhelpful, I would have stopped immediately and focused most of my contributions in other productive avenues or ways. However, my only concern is that none of these was present in these two aforementioned articles: no discussions, no talk page notes, etc. Hence I am bringing up this dialogue and have those resolved, so they don't happen again. I'd be happy to help honour any guidelines brought up to me, as I'm only concerned about unholding any policies and guidelines in place in this community. — Infogapp1 (talk) 16:17, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Anyway, I'm here exclusively to make helpful and productive edits. As you both have been here much longer than I have, you ultimately know better as to what's right or wrong. So now if you both are telling me the rule is that to don't add any infoboxes to stub articles, I would gladly honour that moving forward if that's the policy. As always, I simply would have appreciated if I was informed earlier on to save everyone involved their precious times, hence this discussion. Also, as for the 'extra' revert, I didn't simply reverted the previous edit. I've actually added more information in the infobox. Hope that clarifies. — Infogapp1 (talk) 17:18, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Per en:Wikipedia:DISINFOBOX, I am not against infoboxes in general. Wasn't in an attempt to be "disrespectful" either, I was just stating that the infobox is lazy, reason being that adding one that basically only contains minimal information is practically worthless on a page that is already a stub. Generally when I create a page, I assess whether or not the article is long enough to have a massive infobox on the page. Stub pages often contain all the information an infobox, which are not a requirement of biographies, already have. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 22:04, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Fair enough. This is exactly why I've opened this conversation because then I would continue what I'm currently doing without any context what others are on about. If the article had more information - which is usually the case for the places I add infoboxes on, I would have gladly added more information like I usually do with my other edits. But since it's a stub, I was simply added the information that was available on that stub. For example, was just browsing another random article to work on, and noticed this. Being a stub, had an infobox in it. Forgive me if I'm such a stickler for details, but I simply want things to be black and white, as I simply want to keep my edits productive and be respectful of other people's time. If admins have somehow established that all stubs shouldn't have infoboxes, I wouldn't have a problem following such policy at all...but seeing other stubs having infoboxes as well simply sends a mixed message and creates unnecessary confusion. — Infogapp1 (talk) 14:54, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hiya again. Came across this resource today EN:Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Infoboxes. I have to admit, I wasn't aware of these guidelines before and honestly thought I was doing the community a favour adding them and I didn't know it can get controversial, haha so I appreciate when more experienced editors inform me where I did wrong, so I can immediately fix them (like I did here). — Infogapp1 (talk) 16:28, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Copy/paste moves

Hello. Please do not move articles by copy and pasting. The "move" tool should only be used, which in this case will need the redirect to be deleted by an admin. Thank you, --IWI (talk) 08:59, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

@ImprovedWikiImprovment: G'day, it wouldn't allow me to move it for whatever reason. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 09:13, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

By the way, I moved it because the English Wikipedia's article on the topic is called "Social justice warrior", which means this wiki should follow suit. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 09:16, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

 (change conflict)  G'day :)! Yeah the reason is that the redirect has more than one revision and needs deleting by an administrator before it can be moved. In future just tag the redirect for QD or ask an admin to move it at WP:AN. Moving by copy and pasting causes issues if not fixed with the page history not being preserved. Yes I agree it needs moving, but it can't be done until an admin deletes the redirect. Thanks, --IWI (talk) 09:18, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Oh I see, I hadn't realised there was already an article on the matter. I thought it was only just created. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 09:46, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Yeah an IP editor created a duplicate at the correct title, which is currently a redirect awaiting deletion so the old page can be put at the correct title. Regards, --IWI (talk) 09:52, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For creating a large number of high quality articles. Your work is greatly appreciated; keep up the great changes :) Regards, --IWI (talk) 16:25, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Cheers, legend. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 01:00, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

No problem mate :) --IWI (talk) 16:19, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

	Merry Christmas Jonny Nixon
	Hi Jonny Nixon, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas (if you celebrate it)/holiday season and a very happy and healthy New Year, Thank you for all your contributions to the Simple English Wikipedia :),    --IWI (talk) 22:09, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Merry Christmas, cobber. —Jonny Nixon (talk) 13:06, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Editing

I can see you’re editing a lot now. Keep going and happy editing! DJéxplîćît (talk) 18:37, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Agreed! Keep up the good work @Jonny Nixon:! --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 05:34, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks fellas! —Jonny Nixon (talk) 05:39, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Quick deletion of Natalia Dyer

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RfD nomination of Category:Cardiovascular disease deaths in Australia

An editor has requested deletion of Category:Cardiovascular disease deaths in Australia, an article you created. We appreciate your changes, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

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Helping with a research project in Simplification

Hello Jonny Nixon,

I'm reaching out to you because I am working on a research project on simplification and am looking to collaborate with domain experts.

A quick introduction: I am a researcher interested in text simplification and am working towards publishing a resource in text simplification based on Simple Wikipedia (quite a rich encyclopedia). We believe this resource, which we will make public, could be valuable to educate and increasing awareness of text simplification.

Some colleagues and I are looking to collaborate with domain experts in the creation of the resource. We've secured some budget for our research project, so there's the possibility to remunerate a few experts that would work with us.

I do not mean to spam you, so feel free to disregard/delete if you feel this is inappropriate (and I apologize). On the other hand, if you are interested, please feel free to reach out, either directly on Wikipedia or by email (phillab@berkeley.edu) and I would be happy to tell you more.

Thank you, and sorry again if you feel this is inappropriate,

Philippe Laban

You can check my previous academic publications (one of which is on Simplification) on this website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fR5t200AAAAJ Philippelaban (talk) 00:17, 6 November 2022 (UTC)