User talk:JerryL2017

Welcome to Wikidata, JerryL2017!

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that you can edit! It can be read and edited by humans and machines alike and you can go to any item page now and add to this ever-growing database!

Need some help getting started? Here are some pages you can familiarize yourself with:

• Introduction – An introduction to the project.
• Wikidata tours – Interactive tutorials to show you how Wikidata works.
• Community portal – The portal for community members.
• User options – including the 'Babel' extension, to set your language preferences.
• Contents – The main help page for editing and using the site.
• Project chat – Discussions about the project.
• Tools – A collection of user-developed tools to allow for easier completion of some tasks.

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask on Project chat. If you want to try out editing, you can use the sandbox to try. Once again, welcome, and I hope you quickly feel comfortable here, and become an active editor for Wikidata.

Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 15:03, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

A description

Hi JerryL2017, thanks for working on descriptions. BTW, they generally wont include an article in English: [1]. Help:Descriptions probably mentions it.
--- Jura 19:41, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks Jura, I hadn't spotted that, apologies. I will know for next time. I will also fix those I have just added an article to. Thanks again JerryL2017 (talk) 20:14, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

Share your experience and feedback as a Wikimedian in this global survey

Hello! The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey. We want to know how well we are supporting your work on and off wiki, and how we can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will directly affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation. You have been randomly selected to take this survey as we would like to hear from your Wikimedia community. The survey is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40 minutes.

Take the survey now!

You can find more information about this survey on the project page and see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support editors like you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this privacy statement (in English). Please visit our frequently asked questions page to find more information about this survey. If you need additional help, or if you wish to opt-out of future communications about this survey, send an email through the EmailUser feature to WMF Surveys to remove you from the list.

Thank you!

WMF Surveys, 18:57, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Reminder: Share your feedback in this Wikimedia survey

Every response for this survey can help the Wikimedia Foundation improve your experience on the Wikimedia projects. So far, we have heard from just 29% of Wikimedia contributors. The survey is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40 minutes to be completed. Take the survey now.

If you have already taken the survey, we are sorry you've received this reminder. We have design the survey to make it impossible to identify which users have taken the survey, so we have to send reminders to everyone. If you wish to opt-out of the next reminder or any other survey, send an email through EmailUser feature to WMF Surveys. You can also send any questions you have to this user email. Learn more about this survey on the project page. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this Wikimedia Foundation privacy statement. Thanks!

WMF Surveys, 01:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Member of the Royal Society

Hello JerryL2017, about the Royal Society, in my opinion, there's no need to indicate twice that John Lubbock is a RS fellow ; either "member of", either "Award" should do, best regards, --Pierrette13 (talk) 07:44, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

  Pierrette13 So I agree that there shouldn't be both, in this case, but an FRS is very much an award.  You are nominated, you can't apply.  Membership of the Royal Society doesn't really mean anything, as I don't think you can't be a member and not a Fellow.

Hello Jerry, I agrre with Pierrette13. To state in WD that a person is fellow of RS and that he has, as award, to be fellow of RS, seems redundant. I suppose everybody knows that to be fellow of the RS is an honor. --Ferran Mir (talk) 09:17, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello @JerryL2017, Ferran Mir:, I always indicate member of RS as an honor, I think it should remain in Honors and could disappear from "member of". Best regards, --Pierrette13 (talk) 09:43, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Hello again @JerryL2017, Ferran Mir:, I forgot to tell you about one thing. Royal Society as an honor doesn't appear automatically in the infobox Biographie2 (have a look there Kathleen_Lonsdale on the French Wikipedia. It should in my opinion, as well as D Sc or MBE... Thank you for your attention, best regards, --Pierrette13 (talk) 09:57, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry about adding those incorrect population stats, I ran a script to add the raw population figures yesterday, before adding qualifiers today (once I had figured out how to do it), and I forgot to correct the entry for Milton on my spreadsheet. Thanks for reverting, and sorry for making the same mistake twice! Cheers, PinkPanda272 (talk) 20:23, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

I eventually found the correct Milton, it's actually this one: Milton (Q3577138) in Dunbartonshire (there seems to be about 5 in Scotland alone!) PinkPanda272 (talk) 20:27, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

PinkPanda272 No problem at all. I’ve visited the Milton on Tiree, there’s only about 3 houses there! JerryL2017 (talk) 13:20, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Deprecating Scottish Listed Bulding statements

The approach you took to Dennis Head Beacon (Q77222880), Dennis Head Old Beacon (Q5258500), North Ronaldsay, Dennis Head, Old Lighthouse, Remains Of Keepers' Houses, West House (Q17571007), North Ronaldsay, Dennis Head, Old Lighthouse, Remains Of Keepers' Houses, East House (Q17571004) in deprecating the Historic Environment Scotland ID (P709) Listed Building statement was wrong, I'm sorry to report. In short, deprecation is for statements which are not & have never been true. Clearly it is true that this listing existed in the 1971-2018 period. So we want to be able to represent that fact, as well as show that the current truthy value is that the subject is now either not covered by a heritage designation, or is part of a scheduled monument.

So where a listing has been withdrawn, the correct course of action is to provide start & end dates, and end cause, for the withdrawn listing, keeping its rank as normal; and to add a new statement with preferred rank for the current status - which will be either <no value> if the thing is no longer listed, or the Scheduled Monument ID & heritage status for those listings withdrawn because they had dual designations. I've amended all four to follow this pattern.

This set of four items are, in other ways, a bit of a mess, for the reason that from the perspective of the Listed Building record, Q77222880 is the parent and has as children Q17571007, Q17571004 and Q5258500, whereas from the Scheduled Monument perspective Q5258500 is the parent and has Q17571007 and Q17571004 as its children. That's all a bit screwed up, and I might at some point come back and rationalise it: in essence the HES Listing and Scheduled Monument records cover exactly the same three assets - the lighthouse and two keepers cottages - but our items have been formed by imports of HES main listings and component listings, which result in a klien bottle type mess. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:00, 9 May 2021 (UTC)