User_talk: Bricman12

Hi Bricman12,

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Thank you Bricman12!

Oops! It looks like you accidentally approved a bad edit in while patrolling recent changes just now. That's okay though; you're still learning. I undid a batch of your recent patrols, to play it safe and have those edits reviewed again. I just want to make sure no bad edits were accepted while you're still learning your way around RC patrol.

If you haven't already, read our article on How to Patrol Recent Changes and give it another try! I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about patrolling. And remember, if you're not sure what to do, just press the "skip" button and you'll do fine :)

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Oops! It looks like you accidentally approved a bad edit in while patrolling recent changes just now. That's okay though; you're still learning. I undid a batch of your recent patrols, to play it safe and have those edits reviewed again. I just want to make sure no bad edits were accepted while you're still learning your way around RC patrol.

If you haven't already, read our article on How to Patrol Recent Changes and give it another try! I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about patrolling. And remember, if you're not sure what to do, just press the "skip" button and you'll do fine :)

The Patrol Coach

Thank you!! I appreciate the Thumb's Up on How to Create a Flower Pattern in Microsoft Excel very much!

hi can you edit my talk page and put a color

Oops! It looks like you accidentally approved a bad edit in while patrolling recent changes just now. That's okay though; you're still learning. I undid a batch of your recent patrols, to play it safe and have those edits reviewed again. I just want to make sure no bad edits were accepted while you're still learning your way around RC patrol.

If you haven't already, read our article on How to Patrol Recent Changes and give it another try! I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about patrolling. And remember, if you're not sure what to do, just press the "skip" button and you'll do fine :)

The Patrol Coach

Thank you for the thumbs up! Keep up your great work patrolling!

no sorry that why i ask you

as soon as you find out how to please let me no

Thanks for your edits on Maintain a Good Daily Routine (Tween Girls). Good call undoing that vandalism - cheers!

How are you liking wikiHow so far? Do you have any questions about patrolling, or anything else? Happy to help if so - welcome to the community!

Hi Bricman12, thanks a lot for the thumbs up! I appreciate them.

And have a great weekend.

Thanks for fixing "inch" back to the way it was. I had changed it because I was worrried that some people might confuse "feet" and "inches", but after I thought about it, it only makes sense if it's "inches". I used have trouble remembering which was which and I came up with a way to remember it - "inches" has two syllables, so it gets "two" little marks and "feet" has one syllable, so it gets 'one' little mark.

Hi,

Thanks very, very much for the Thumbs up on Create a Uniform Spiral Pattern in Microsoft Excel and Create a Flower Pattern i n Microsoft Excel -- they're very much appreciated!!

I just patrolled your edit to Breed Mealworms. Thanks for making the page better!

Hi Joshua,

I do not recall creating any destructive articles, but maybe I am misremembering something. Which one of my articles are you referring to and what is wrong with the page? Please let me know as soon as possible.

Hey Joshua!

I saw your article on How to Remove Gum from a Car Window - looks like you've got a range of helpful methods there, and it's awesome you tackled a requested topic. Have you had to get your hands sticky in that kind of removal before? I don't know if you have kids, but I can imagine that it's something parents might find themselves needing to do quite a lot!

I hope you don't mind - I did a little bit of editing to help it meet the guidelines in our Writer's Guide. Can you take a look here and let me know what you think? I hope you like it, but don't worry if not - no changes on wikiHow are irreversible, and you're welcome to edit on it more, too.

How did you like writing your first article? Thanks for taking the time to share your advice!

I just chose your article on how to Remove Gum from a Car Window to be a Rising Star. That means it is one of the best new articles on wikiHow. Congratulations, and thanks for the great contribution!

P.S - Congrats on the Rising Star for How to Remove Gum from a Car Window! Nice work, I hope you keep contributing :)

Also, I hope you can get back to me about that page soon so we can address the issues and I can learn from my mistakes.

Hey Joshua,

Welcome to wikiHow! Congrats on getting a rising star for your very first article here. That's pretty impressive...not many people do that!

I saw your note to Adelaide. Not sure what she did, she's a great contributor around here. Maybe that note was sent to the wrong person? Do you remember what the edit or article was that you had noticed when you wrote that note? Would love to help track down the person who did it so they can get some much-needed feedback.

Oh, ok! Thank you for getting back to me. I do the best I can here, but please do not hesitate to let me know if you do see any issues with my contributions. I definitely need the feedback and would be happy to address your concerns.

No prob Joshua - glad the edits were helpful! I'm always curious to hear - what brought you to wikiHow? I'm glad you found us here - looks like you're off to an awesome start!

Sweet, that's really good to hear! Yeah, I know I'm biased, but I do think the wiki aspect here makes us a more solid resource, especially over time. I'm glad you decided so too :)

What kinds of topics are you most interested in here?

Hi! Thanks for your help behind the scenes at wikiHow. You are getting stuck into everything! Oh and congratulations on your rising star for your very first article! That is so rare!

Hannah x:)

I am also at school at the moment but secondary school. Are you at university or college?

Hannah X:)

Really! I play the tenor drum in a pipe band! What band do you play for? I might have heard of it.

Hannah x:)

Thanks for the thumbs up!

That's great to see, Joshua! Gotta love the Google trends graph - they can be really fascinating when you track interest in all sorts of topics and aspects of popular culture. Thanks for sharing that one - and neat to see wikiHow on the rise!

Nice to see you around editing more! Hope you've had a good week so far. TGIF right? :)

I have actually heard of the name! Have they maybe gone to the world championships over here in Scotland before? I haven't heard of those people though. Have you possibly heard of my band, Deeside Caledonia? I play in the Grade 4 section; I'm a bit too young (13) to play in the big Grade 2 band! Is your band Grade 1, 2 or 3?

Hannah x:)

Strange! Thanks for letting me know. I removed the copyright flag.

Oops! It looks like you accidentally approved a bad edit in while patrolling recent changes just now. That's okay though; you're still learning. I undid a batch of your recent patrols, to play it safe and have those edits reviewed again. I just want to make sure no bad edits were accepted while you're still learning your way around RC patrol.

If you haven't already, read our article on How to Patrol Recent Changes and give it another try! I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about patrolling. And remember, if you're not sure what to do, just press the "skip" button and you'll do fine :)

The Patrol Coach

Thanks for the thumbs-up Bricman! Thought I would do a spot of categorizing before school!

Thanks for rolling back that edit on Use MS Excel Shortcut Keys!

Hey man! Thanks for the advice, I thought the photos were a bit too shabby quality wise and denied them. But I did read the article you suggested and it did significantly help grasp the app better. So thank you for that. May your articles become rising stars.

I just chose your article on how to Travel with Pets by Car to be a Rising Star. That means it is one of the best new articles on wikiHow. Congratulations, and thanks for the great contribution!

Heya! Just wanted to check - have you hear about the new NAB and article approval process yet? If not, you can check out Jack's announcement about it here. If you write more great new articles, you'll see a notice about it before the piece is boosted, so I thought you'd want to know what's up :)

Wow, good catch noticing and removing that subtle spam on Approach Women in the Daytime. We actually get a lot of "dating site" spam but they're pretty sneaky like that! Good edit. Kudos!

Ugh. Yeah, it's pretty awful. Thanks for getting rid of it as you see it.

By the way... If you by any chance have some time to spare over the next few days, I'm looking for a few detail-oriented people to help test our origami articles. I think you'd be really good at it, so if you're interested, here are the details: wikiHow:Community Quality Review

I see that you verified one of our articles! What did you think?

Yeah I noticed we often said the same thing :)

Wow! Sounds like a nice present!

Hey - since you did an amazing job on the origami star box, I was wondering if you'd be willing to test Fold a Japanese Brocade. It's a more involved project but from what I saw from your box origami, you're probably one of the few people who can actually make this work. Let me know!

I went ahead and deleted Play-the-Scale-on-Bagpipes for you. If you have a request like that and nobody else has made a significant contribution to the page, feel free to just send it over! I hope you do decide to write the article again in future though! :D

I'm guessing you're a bagpipe player? What do you think of How to Tune a Solo Bagpipe?

Oh nice! I knew Hannah was Scottish, so I guess the bagpipes are right up the cultural alley, so to speak! How did you get into them?

Definitely - if there are gaps in that article, it'd be awesome if you could improve it! :)

Wow, Joshua, congrats on being featured in our Community Achievements! You are awesome. Please keep contributing!

Good question about the nude pastels. Our general policy is to avoid nudity, though some images do seem acceptable as long as they are appropriate for the article. For example, a picture of a nude painting on an article about painting nudes seems acceptable to me. So I guess it's a judgement call, but if you want to play it safe, voting to reject it is probably the way to go.

I won't, worry not :P Part of my role here is to recognize everyone's awesomeness, though, which I honestly love doing! Yourself included! :)

Just saw your question from a few days ago: "Will that be a replacement for community images where it shows that multiple people verified it?"

It won't replace it, but rather, supplement it...Anyone can upload an image of the finished product, but that doesn't mean it's officially verified. My job is to mediate that process and only verify when I trust that the person who posted the picture actually followed our steps :)

Thanks for your edits on Make a Netflix Heart. Wow, what a weird topic! I see from the site that there's a whole range of different origami projects that folks are using the Netflix sleeves for. How curious! :)

I don't think the wikiHow article itself is really advertising - just an unusual craft. I wonder if it's actually going to become obsolete eventually, with more and more people moving to streaming instead of DVDs. Those Netflix envelopes must be going out of style, hah!

Hahah no worries - the title definitely gave me pause, too!! Pretty weird craft either way, I have to say :P

Hey! Just wanted to check in :) Did you get that origami paper you ordered? Eager to see what comes of it!

We're close to having reviewed 100 articles in two weeks. I'm really excited to keep the momentum going because at that rate we could actually verify a lot of craft articles on wikiHow.

Do you like to cook? I opened up some kitchen articles for verifying, too. Take a look: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kufE87R3-sk5NFFwW6sj6L-svJJMdokTZjhTONozBlo/edit#gid=1993676192

Hey Joshua, quick update! I just did a tally of our origami list and realized we have reviewed almost 80% of them! Just 39 to go, out of 173. I re-ordered the list to put the ones that still need reviewing at the top, so if you have any time to test one or two of those, that would be amazing :)

Also, since you're one of our first quality testers, I wanted to get your opinion about a question I asked in the forums here about minimum monthly requirements. Take a look and please respond there if you get the chance!

Hi again :) Just wanted to let you know that an article you verified, Make a Paper Origami Fox, is going to be featured on Feb. 28! Thanks for testing it to make sure it's accurate. That played a big role in its getting chosen for featuring.

Heya Joshua!

I'm not sure if you ever check in on our forums, but in case you haven't seen it -- I was wondering if you might be interested in joining this small project? The idea is to take care of some places around the site where articles call for "calling 911" - and instead making it more universal to people in all countries (not just the US). No worries at all if it isn't up your alley, but I just thought you might be interested. If you are, check out the forum thread! :)

Sure thing, Joshua! I think we'll probably tackle some more internationalization projects like that soon, so I'll keep you in the loop :)

Hey, Bricman12!

Thanks for helping out with Article Reviewing! You’ve been doing great work in the Origami category! In total, you’ve reviewed 5 articles! We really appreciate the work you’re doing! Keep it up!

Keelan