User talk:Helpful Raccoon

December 2023

Hello, I'm Geardona. I noticed that you recently removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Geardona (talk) 20:00, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Your summary cleared up the issue. Thank you for your help on building a better wikipedia, it is greatly appreciated. Geardona (talk) 20:23, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

January 2024

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to 2016 United States presidential election in Iowa—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 02:49, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I removed the background information because it was not relevant to the 2016 presidential election in Iowa. It might be relevant to the national election page, but including background about previous national elections is confusing for a page about a particular state. I think readers would wonder how this information relates to Iowa. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 03:38, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

If the issue is that I didn't cite the dates of the caucuses, I can add a citation or remove that sentence, but I figured it was unnecessary because the dates are cited later in the section. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 04:51, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

i agree to delete this article Evan jenkins (talk) 19:26, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

User: Luizi99633def and User: Okoye Sunday

Howdy.

Don’t forget about WP:CSD#G11 if you’re spotting user pages on the NewUsers log, that are just promotional and nothing else. WP:NOTHERE and WP:SPA might be worth your time, if you’re on the NewUsers log a lot. You’ve got the right idea, your Blanking of Luizi’s just… jumped out at me, is all.

Thanks. MM (Give me info.) ^(Victories) 22:02, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Makes sense. I thought Okoye Sunday's page was a good-faith attempt to create an article and Luizi99633def's page was too short to worry about, but I see that U5/G11 speedy deletion would have been better. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 22:15, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Online chat

Adding to what I said on Talk:Online chat: in the past few days I have made contributions to instant messaging and text messaging (and SMS) to make them more on point and easier to understand, although there remain some info that blend the lines. We need to properly distinguish these to readers, and I think the existence of online chat only makes everything worse. That's why I strongly support merging that to the synchronous article. But again as mentioned all these articles (+videotelephony and even Voice over IP) will all have to be linked to each other so that they are clearly laid out and understood. Sucrehypsy (talk) 18:35, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

I agree that the differences are very unclear. For example, does text messaging count as synchronous CMC even though it might not use the internet? Helpful Raccoon (talk) 19:04, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm leaning on saying no (considering SS7), but I wouldn't be against the idea if that's decided upon.

Currently I am trying to clean up instant messaging which is a big mess itself (lots of unreferenced content for example). I just removed a big table that was very out of date and thus inaccurate. I'm sadly gonna be busy from tomorrow onwards, but yeah that article is in serious need of a cleanup/revamp and I'll probably put a hatnote and talk page note. Sucrehypsy (talk) 19:15, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Also I just saw that there's a private messaging article even, and LAN messenger too. Do we really need all of these? It only makes things extra confusing. --Sucrehypsy (talk) 19:41, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

These are at least discrete concepts. I don't see what's wrong with these being separate articles. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 19:50, 5 August 2024 (UTC)