I mostly spend my time on wikipedia going through ANI and watch the drama there. I have noticed a lot of unclosed threads without activity for months or even years, am I allowed to close them? If so, how can I close a thread? --Mint Keyphase (talk) 05:58, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
HiMint Keyphase, thanks for the message. I would suggest waiting until you have more experience editing Wikipedia before closing ANI discussions. At that noticeboard, people tend to be grouchy and less tolerant of mistakes than usual. Moreover, for threads old enough to be archived, there's often no need to close them – if the discussion came to a clear resolution, an official close may not be needed.
My suggestion would be to first spend some time editing articles, participate in discussions about article content, and when you feel confident, try closing some talk page discussions as non-admin closures (that page has some unofficial but useful advice about when non-admin closures are appropriate). Once you have some experience closing lower-profile discussions, it might be reasonable to try closing ANI discussions.
Hi Mx Granger! I was clicking "Random article" and I found an article that needs improvement, but I'm not sure what kind.
Thomas John Grainge is very short (a "stub"?) and doesn't explain why the subject is notable. It's just a list of his birth, death, place of education, and places of work. His "Compositions" section doesn't list anything specific or explain his influence on other composers.
There are some print sources cited for biographical information, but these sources aren't being cited to explain his importance. I can't find additional information on him online. So it seems like this article maybe doesn't pass the notability guideline for music? But I haven't checked the print sources.
The key guideline here is WP:BEFORE – if you follow the steps there and can't find evidence of meeting either the general notability guideline or the notability guideline for music, then nominating it for deletion sounds reasonable. —Mx. Granger (talk·contribs) 03:46, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the reply and the helpful guidelines.
I found the first reference, British Musical Biography, on Google Books, but confusingly it doesn't contain an entry for "Grainge, Thomas John". I guess there might be different editions, but the citation doesn't specify an edition or publication year.
I didn't find any instances of "Thomas John Grainge" in Google News or Google Scholar. There is one reference to a "Thomas John Grainge" from Google Books in the London Gazette where he's described as an "organist", but it's a brief snippet that doesn't say much else.
I can't find issues of the Gloucestershire EchoorCheltenham Chronicle on Google News or Google Books, only brief mentions of them in other sources. Someone probably could try to find physical copies if they lived in the UK, but I don't.
Hello, how do I change my signature? I know this isn't high on the priority list but I still wanted to try a custom signature anyways. --Mint Keyphase (talk) 23:49, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Mint Keyphase: If you want a signature similar to mine, you could paste text like this in your preferences and check the box that says "Treat the above as wiki markup": —[[User:Mint Keyphase|Mint Keyphase]] ([[User talk:Mint Keyphase|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Mint Keyphase|contribs]]). The first part is the link to the user page, then the talk page, then contributions. Does that make sense? —Mx. Granger (talk·contribs) 15:26, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
HiSirShaunIV, thanks for the message. There isn't really a way to do this. What you can do, if you want, is add a note to your userpage (User:SirShaunIV) mentioning that you've edited anonymously from a particular IP address (see User:PlanetStar for an example of how that might look). Let me know if you have any other questions! —Mx. Granger (talk·contribs) 13:23, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
