User talk:Mgjertson
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- Hey, thanks for the introduction! I'm not new to wikipedia in the slightest, I spend most of my time using it haha. I've read pretty much any policy page front to back multiple times, I'm just now starting to actually edit. I forgot about the tildes on talk pages though haha. I mostly use the visual editor for talk page replies and similar things, so I usually forget if I use the source editor haha Mgjertson (talk) 16:48, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
A WP-article about Stephen Gjertson
For people with a lot of their career pre-internet, google is not always your best friend. Your first hurdle is to find some WP:GNG-good sources. Consider digging at [1]. WP:PAYWALLed sources are fine, WP:OFFLINE sources too.
Via WP:LIBRARY I've found two articles that looks quite helpful from the WP:N perspective,
- STEPHEN GJERTSON. American Artist; Oct1983, Vol. 47 Issue 495, p52-99, 10p by Hathaway, Annette LeSueur
- Rejects d'Art, El-Hai, Jack, Minnesota Monthly; St. Paul Vol. 40, Iss. 12, (Dec 2006): 72-79.
Hope this helps some. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:11, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
Articles versus pages
Hi Mgjertson. The main content on Wikipedia is an article, not a page. Page is a social media term which has no meaning here. Please use articles,when talking about articles not pages. Thanks. scope_creepTalk 20:04, 8 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hey, thanks! I wanted to call them articles but I didn't know if that was correct, so I just went with the most basic term I could think of that would get the idea aross Mgjertson (talk) 00:56, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
G11 declined
Hello, just to let you know -- I declined your G11 tag on Uruk GNU/Linux because the page is not exclusively promotional, as required by the criterion. The points you made in the tag seem valid, but the page's content is not promotional to the point of being eligible for speedy deletion. You are welcome to take the page to WP:Articles for deletion if you think it should be deleted. Thanks, Giraffer (talk) 21:04, 5 March 2025 (UTC)