User talk:Notgain

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@Notgain: When proposing a merger, it is best to direct all discussion to one talk page, typically the talk page of the target article. Hence I directed discussion to Talk:Individual psychology § Merge proposal, April 2018 regarding your proposal to merge various articles into Individual psychology. Thanks, Biogeographist (talk) 14:25, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Biogeographist: Thanks. Notgain (talk) 03:34, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am looking at the new page that you created, Timeline of coaching psychology, and I noticed at least a couple of issues.

First, when you copy content from another Wikipedia article, you need to clearly state in the edit summary of the target article that the content is copied, unless you were the sole author of the content in the source article, per Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Otherwise you make it look as if you are the author of the text when you're not. For example, you didn't provide attribution in your edit summary for the text "While no one person can be clearly identified as the originator, Graham Alexander, Alan Fine, and Sir John Whitmore all made significant contributions." But this text is copied from GROW model and you are not the author of it.

Second, you should pay attention to the citation style when copying and pasting citations. The citation style of all citations within a page should ideally be the same, per WP:CITEVAR. You copied and pasted (again from GROW model) Harvard-style citations ({{harvnb}}) without converting them to inline citations; in addition to creating varied citation styles within the same page, this created author-date citations that don't link to anything when one clicks on them, leaving the reader with incomplete citation information (in this case: Alexander 2010 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFAlexander2010 (help); Fine & Merrill 2010 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFFineMerrill2010 (help); Whitmore 2009 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFWhitmore2009 (help); Whitmore, Kauffman & David 2013 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFWhitmoreKauffmanDavid2013 (help)).

There are other errors as well, but I will assume that you are still working on those. Biogeographist (talk) 15:55, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Biogeographist: That Timeline of coaching psychology is a work in progress. I'm looking at the List of timelines and the relevant policies. The text pasted from GROW model was a mistake and I already removed it. I can make a note on the talk page for any text reused from within wikipedia as per Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia if I didn't in the edit comments so we have a log of it. I was going to fix up the citations in bulk. Notgain (talk) 16:39, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome. The above will help you with formating. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:43, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Doc James: Thank you. Notgain (talk) 00:26, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The article The Coaching Psychologist has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Non-notable journal. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG.

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You added wikilinks with underscores here and here. I changed those underscores to spaces, but in the future please remember that spaces are preferred to underscores in wikilinks in article space, per Wikipedia:Page name § Spaces, underscores, and character encoding. Biogeographist (talk) 16:22, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• @Biogeographist: Thanks for changing those for me. I appreciate your wisdom and attention to detail. Notgain (talk) 11:55, 24 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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