Ret.Prof

I EDITED WIKIPEDIA

BEFORE CREATING A USER ACCOUNT,

SO I HAVE BEEN HERE LONGER THAN

IT LOOKS.

1. Stay calm and maintain a professional demeanor. Be patient and remain courteous and civil.
2. Avoid conflict, even when you know you are right. Give other editors the benefit of the doubt.  
3. Assume good faith toward your collaborating editors, if not their edits. Assuming good faith is not intended to be self-destructive, but to avoid conflict.
4. Ignore attacks. Not easily done, but a real timesaver. Attacks and counter-attacks are hazardous to your mental health. The best and most frequently offered administrative advice is to move on, and, if absolutely necessary, return the next day.
5. Don't take it personally. Editors make honest mistakes. Communicating our thoughts is not easily done on the Internet.
6. Don't isolate your interpretation. There are many interpretations other than yours. What you read might NOT be what was meant.
7. Don't think of editing as a competition. WE are cohorts, collaborating to improve our thing.
8. Don't edit when angry or upset. Stay off the article and talk page in question. Never let your anger or frustration be the deciding factor in your behavior.
9. Don't forget the human dimension of Wikipedia editing. Keep things in perspective. There is a real, living and breathing, sensitive human on the other side of the discussion.

respectfully taken from Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention

Ray's Rules

1. You and your problems are not the most important thing in the world.
2. Choose your battles. Yield when it doesn't matter, and stand your ground when it does.
3. Keep a thick skin. Don't let criticism discourage you. Instead, let it teach you.
4. You learn more from listening than from talking. "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." (Wilson Mizner)
5. Don’t waste your time arguing with an idiot.
6. Give other people the same respect that you would want from them. (Matthew 7:12)
7. The surest way to drive yourself crazy is to compare yourself to other people.
8. Take the high road, no matter what the other person does. It will benefit you in the long run. (Romans 12:20)
9. Don’t take yourself too seriously: "We share 99% of our genes with mice, and we even have the genes that could make a tail." (Dr. Jane Rogers, Human Sequencing and Mapping Project Manager, Sanger Institute); "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." (Charles de Gaulle)
10. The most important thing is to be able to look yourself in the mirror. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it's right.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

respectfully taken from Ray's Rules

Happy, Happy

Thanks, - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:04, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, Ret.Prof. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 22:07, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:05, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Closure of AfD on Olabisi Akanbi

Hi I believe you have closed this AfD improperly for the following reasons:

• It was only relisted two days ago and should run for another five
• I don't believe you are an administrator and there was no urgent need to close it early
• You expressed a view (not based on policy) in the discussion, and then closed it, which is explicitly not allowed.
• Six editors supported deletion (plus me=7). The article creator and you were the only editors favouring keep. You have explicitly closed against consensus in my view, and this is not acceptable.

For these reasons I'm asking you to undo your close, allow the discussion to continue, and leave it to an admin to close at the appropriate time. Thanks Mccapra (talk) 14:41, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

I have taken the appropiate action and hope the matter has now been resolved. - Ret.Prof (talk) 12:32, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas

− I have enjoyed working on my proposed edits. Thanks for the good advice and helpful suggestions! I wish everyone all the best in the coming year. Enjoy the Christmas, and thanks for maintaining, improving and expanding Wikipedia. Cheers - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:54, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Dorcas or Tabitha?

Hello Professor. Don't know if it matters to you, I just saw that you've contributed to that article. I'll only bother you this one more time. If you want, you can find the current discussion here. It's a bit stuck. I'm not a native speaker and don't know what feels like being the right variant in your area and community, and the online available data is not always clear or the best criterion. Thanks and all the best, Arminden (talk) 11:43, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

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RFA

Hi Professor, I've moved your RFA oppose comment to the comment section as you only said "Comment" and not "Oppose" - If you were outright opposing you're more than welcome to move your comment with the comment changed to oppose, Have a nice Christmas and a Happy New Year, Thanks, Davey2010 (talk) 17:37, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

No problem.- Ret.Prof (talk) 21:05, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Every good wish and blessing!

Happy New Year

Wishing everyone the best for the new year; hopefully we can put the pandemic behind us. — Ret.Prof (talk) 16:44, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Thanks - Ret.Prof (talk) 00:35, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Happy first edit day!

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Wikiproject

Hi, I see you've contributed a lot to Oral gospel traditions, would you be interested in joining a wikiproject on oral tradition? Kowal2701 (talk) 15:42, 25 July 2024 (UTC)