User talk:Arlo Barnes

use 'new section' please.

Antimatter weapon

On 21 February 2021 you made a comment at Talk:Antimatter weapon about refocusing the article on fiction. I just removed most of the real-life content as original research, which was largely unreferenced and for which I could not find a single reliable source. You can improve the finctional content now, provided you do not make an indiscriminate WP:IPC list. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:43, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

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Anarchism

Hi Arlo Barnes,

I saw your work on articles related to anarchism and wanted to say hello, as I work in the topic area too. If you haven't already, you might want to watch our noticeboard for Wikipedia's coverage of anarchism, which is a great place to ask questions, collaborate, discuss style/structure precedent, and stay informed about content related to anarchism. Take a look for yourself!

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Adaptogen talk topic

Hello - on my talk page, you said, "You reverted my edit with the message "A talk page is not a blog or social media site for nonsense", but I don't see what's nonsensical about indicating a topic-relevant primary source about which secondary sources suitable for mainspace might be found. Isn't that what talk pages are useful for?"

I reverted this edit because you did not follow WP:TALK guidelines to propose a specific improvement to the article, with a WP:RS source. The rule is "article talk pages exist solely to discuss how to improve articles; they are not for general discussion about the subject of the article."

1. there was no proposal for improvement offered
2. there was no WP:RS source provided
3. the commercial website you provided suggests you believe it is a reliable source of information about adaptogens (it is not; it's spam nonsense) and is WP:PROMO, i.e., the main intent of the website is to sell products. Zefr (talk) 02:40, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

I don't believe it's a reliable source or I would have put it in the article. But then, I think an 'adaptogen' is a meaningless woo-marketing buzzword, and the site is an example of a particular bee buzzing that tune. The fact that a famous person is involved is really the only reason I think it is a notable development as far as the subject of the article is concerned. Arlo James Barnes 03:04, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Mostly agree. Your response indicates you saw the conspicuous woo nature of the website, but your comment about Anderson isn't a basis for notability. I don't think there's any scientific training in her career history that would indicate she knows anything about adaptogens or nootropics (or why they're actually not effective), other than being gullible and selfish enough to use the terms for deceiving her fans and customers to market her products. Zefr (talk) 03:15, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

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Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 16:04, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

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Please stop adding the "annotated link" template to random pages you aren't otherwise involved in editing

The {{annotated link}} template gives almost universally terrible results, because short descriptions and see also section annotations have completely unrelated and largely contradictory criteria. A good short description is almost always a bad see-also annotation, and vice versa. Trying to use a tool designed for one purpose for a different purpose for which it is completely unsuited is a distracting waste of time for yourself, other editors, and readers. If you want to add annotations to see also sections, please write your own manual annotations which are appropriate and relevant to the context. There is no consensus for the mass adoption of this template, and doing so in a bot-like fashion (cf. WP:MEATBOT) as you have been recently doing is disruptive to the Wikipedia project. –jacobolus (t) 21:10, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

'no consensus for mass adoption' is different from being 'contrary to consensus' and from 'caus[ing] errors an attentive human would not make', so I don't see how the bot page is relevant. Using a first-approximation label for a link doesn't prevent editors (myself included) from replacing it with a better manual string, but does reduce the number of unlabelled links in see-also sections. It also reveals articles that should have a shortdesc but don't yet. Please don't assert that my editing activities waste my own time, which after all can only be spent by myself; however, I would be happy to work with specific feedback like you provided in the edit summary for your reverts/revisions at geodetic astronomy and Transverse Mercator projection. Arlo James Barnes 21:25, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Unlabeled links are completely fine. There is no consensus that see also links should be annotated. Readers can usually figure out what a link is about from the title, and where they can't, clicking links is easy and free. In my opinion bad annotations are significantly worse than no annotations at all.

The reason to not have either bots or human "meatbots" making mass changes is that such changes are onerous to revert and extremely disruptive to have edit wars about. See Wikipedia:Fait accompli. If you want to make large-scale changes, it should not be done without editor consensus.

Nobody cares if you want to add annotated links on an article you worked on extensively. It's easy to revert to un-annotated links, manually write annotations, etc. on that one page, it's easy to discuss on the local talk page to determine local consensus, and uninvolved editors will defer to your judgment if you worked on the page heavily.

But adding these links to large numbers of pages in a drive-by fashion is inappropriate and disruptive. You should seek project-wide consensus before undertaking such mass-editing activities; if the community were to decide that such annotated links should be widely added, it would be easy to get an actual bot to do it, but I expect you'll get considerable pushback from people who think it's a bad idea. That is, I do not expect community consensus would support such edits. –jacobolus (t) 21:51, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Bots can't exercise judgement or make exceptions in the moment, so I doubt I would pursue that course. I'm also wary of the admittedly fuzzy line between stewardship and WP:OWNership, but I'll cool it with the template additions until such time that the details of your concerns are clearer to me. Do you know of some talk archives which might help provide context? Arlo James Barnes 22:12, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

From what I can tell you are just blanket adding annotations to all of the links in the see also sections of many particular pages, even when the majority of those annotations are not useful in context. I'm not seeing evidence of "judgment" or "exceptions": I haven't seen any cases where you e.g. wrote half of the annotations manually and used the template only for annotations which were appropriate. In general, the annotations resulting from your edits were, in every one of the handful of pages I looked at, generally unhelpful for readers. I only reverted a few of these on pages I'm otherwise watching, because doing mass reversion of someone's changes across many pages is more than I have time or energy for, but I would generally support the reversion of all such edits.

I'm not sure what you mean about stewardship/ownership: we're talking about one editor (you) making mass edits across many articles in a drive-by fashion, and another editor (me) disputing that this has enough project-scale consensus to be a supportable activity. –jacobolus (t) 23:13, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Hello Arlo and Jacobolus, just going to offer an uninvolved comment from a friendly talk page watcher. Arlo is a good faith editor who I have done some collaboration with, and I found that they are very easy to work together with, and have a block free history. Never any drama! No offense Jacobolus, but I feel like you are coming on a bit strong here. I reviewed some of Arlo's edits regarding their use of annotated links, and although I understand that you disagree with some, it seems to me that many are actually helpful for the readership of the encyclopedia - especially those who might be unfamiliar with a topic in the See also sections. It doesn't really matter if Arlo has not edited an article where they added an annotated link, they are free to do that (I think that's what they mean by stewardship v. ownership) but that's just a hunch. Anyways, it's almost Thanksgiving here in the U.S., so I am wishing you both a happy rest of your day, and I'm thankful that such an amazing resource as Wikipedia exists in the world. Cheers to you both. Netherzone (talk) 00:32, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't doubt Arlo Barnes's good faith, and hope it doesn't seem otherwise.

I generally come fairly strong at bot-like editing that I disagree with. My overall opinion is that bots and bot-like human editing are only moderately useful in aggregate and in particular cases often harmful. I have had multiple bad experiences in the past with bot-like human editors who created literally thousands of hours of clean-up for others and then refused to help with it or even acknowledge the problem, which leads me to err on the side of telling people to stop making large-scale edits and seek consensus first, instead of just going ahead with them and waiting for complaints later.

In this particular case, the harm of useless annotations in each single case is relatively minor, but the benefit of even the most excellent possible annotations is also quite minor (I'm frankly not too enthusiastic about the concept of see also sections at all). If a human is going to be looking through see also sections, I'd much prefer they take the time to skim the article for redundant links, think through whether everything in the see also section is really necessary to include at all, and then consider what type of annotation would be beneficial for a reader. In my opinion a single thorough and careful manual effort like that is of much better use to the project than a couple dozen semi-automated edits wrapping all of the links in {{annotated link}}. But frankly almost any other kind of productive editing activity would be of still higher value than even that. –jacobolus (t) 01:58, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi Jacobolus, it sounds like we are seeing this thru different lenses. If I'm not mistaken, it seems you are seeing this thru the lens of an editor and your preferred behavior thereof, and I am seeing this thru the lens of what would be useful to readers of the encyclopedia (not necessarily editors). Diversity is necessity I guess; I don't really see any harm done by Arlo. Anyways, happy thanksgiving to you. If you celebrate I wish you and yours a wonderful feast. Netherzone (talk) 03:22, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

I personally think that adding annotations drawn short descriptions in a semi-automated way across a wide swath of articles is generally (mildly) harmful to readers and to the project. In my opinion short descriptions are nearly always at least somewhat confusing and typically fairly unhelpful when (mis)used in the context of see also sections. Adopting short descriptions for this additionally creates tension where editors start trying to improve their fitness for see also annotations at the expense of making them worse for their original purpose. –jacobolus (t) 05:20, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

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