User talk:LordCollaboration: Difference between revisions

I’m not joking. You could help more than one person here. Your work has improved because you made the good choices. Consider it. BusterD (talk) 14:57, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Start by doing some reading. Visit the user’s talk page and talk to them like a normal person. Maybe tell them something about yourself. Maybe talk about when you got in trouble but you’re still here. Talk about your willingness to consider my offer. Why would you be helping anyway? Ask yourself first. Agreeing isn’t all ribbons and rainbows (for either of you). I suspect we’re dealing with an actual human being, not an LLM. But if I cut the editor loose and they go back to abusive behavior, I’ll have my own choices. One way or the other, I owe you a favor for merely considering it. Not sure exactly how we’ll keep track. Wikipedia thanks you. I’ll give you a few hours to think about it. Glad to answer questions. BusterD (talk) 15:12, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, User:CoffeeCrumbs has offered to help as well if everyone likes the idea. Might take some pressure off everybody. BusterD (talk) 15:55, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Buster, thanks for encouraging me on this, I think this would be good for both me and Baangla if it works out. I read through that article and made a post on their talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Baangla#Mentoring LordCollaboration (talk) 15:55, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You are a natural. Honest, direct. I’m impressed. BusterD (talk) 15:59, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I could not be more pleased how you’ve done here. Now just stay on today’s lesson. Do the WP:5P reading as well. Let’s not talk about editing. Let’s talk about learning something new. For now, I have some huskies requiring immediate service. BusterD (talk) 16:30, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much BusterD, I will focus on that for the day. Have a good walk! LordCollaboration (talk) 16:35, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good day! Think about a subject matter which would interest both Baangla and yourself and make it a project for the two of you. Start with an existing stub if possible. Talk to me about it here. Then mosey over to their talk and look at what we’ve accomplished in a few hours. If you agree in principle, I’ll create a signature section where all three of our sigs appear on the same line. At that point, it’s entirely on all three of us. BusterD (talk) 11:57, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing: if this ends badly, it’s not anybody’s fault. Accept that possibility now. I’ve seen some pretty gruesome and disappointing stuff. BusterD (talk) 14:42, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you think Lanai/related pages would be a good start? Definitely not a stub, but seems like we could probably find some more recent information to add to it or recent topics. I wanted to give them leeway in deciding. And thanks for steering away from contentious topics. LordCollaboration (talk) 15:14, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Low-profile stubs are excellent locations where a mentorship may work without interruption. I’m sure there are many Hawaii-related stubs to work on. As a long-time user in good standing, you have access to WP:The Wikipedia Library. You will find a mountain of useful sources there, available for free. I have a newspapers.com account via the library so I can help if you need it.

Immediately under the Wikipedia logo in the upper left corner of every page, there’s a link called Random article. I highly recommend this method of finding some unusual subjects for improvement. While many subject matter WP:Portals are now deleted, [Portal:Hawaii]] is active, so that might be a place to browse island-related topics. A nice category tree and many links. As it turns out, I lived in Honolulu when I was a child. BusterD (talk) 15:50, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]