User talk:MisterShafXen

Creating new edo pages

Please remember to add a link in the EDO page when you create new edo pages. I see you've created a couple of empty edo pages. You have anything coming up to the edos you created pages for? FloraC (talk) 13:22, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

MisterShafXen, thank you for your efforts to improve the wiki.

If you have been creating pages from the “wanted pages” list, it may be best to stop doing that, and to instead work on adding more content to the already-existing pages in Category:Stubs.

I have recently added a little blurb to Xenharmonic Wiki:Conventions explaining why “wanted pages” can be misleading and what other things to do instead.

I want to reiterate that I am thankful for your efforts and appreciative that you are here. I’m just trying to help you put your enthusiasm and good will to the best use.

Kind regards,

--BudjarnLambeth (talk) 23:31, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Budjarn has a great point. So far you've created a bunch of edo pages with only infoboxes. We all wonder what you have to say about those tunings, but if you don't have anything to say yet, I'd like to ask you to do us a favor to stop creating new pages for now cuz we don't have many volunteers to fill them with real contents. FloraC (talk) 18:14, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Any chance we'll have a talk? FloraC (talk) 19:25, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Sure! MisterShafXen (talk) 16:54, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

To create an infobox

To create an infobox with the visual editor, find insert on the same line as the save changes button. Click insert → template. Enter Infobox Interval in the text box (if it's an interval page), and click insert. To create an infobox in the source editor, simply enter {{Infobox Interval}}. You may use the SandBox page to experiment with editing. FloraC (talk) 17:00, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

It doesn’t show me the insert thing, I don’t know why. MisterShafXen (talk) 13:14, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Here are screenshots of the process in the visual editor.

Click on the image to zoom in.

As Flora said, to experiment with editing, please use the page SandBox.

--BudjarnLambeth (talk) 03:44, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Now I understand… I am using mobile. MisterShafXen (talk) 12:45, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

Uploading pictures

You pictures aren't properly rotated, and it's generally not great to have to click a link to see it. Why not typing them down in plain text? FloraC (talk) 14:23, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

I’ve tried putting it in plain text. Someone else suggested putting pictures instead. I can’t seem to rotate it properly, it’s so annoying. MisterShafXen (talk) 14:41, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Notice

I received many complaints about your conduct on this wiki. Your contributions have been considered unhelpful due to a massive lack of context. We asked you to provide context to your notation to various edos like what purpose they served and what method was used. There's still no answers. I think in general you can do us a favor by using your user namespace (pages of the form User:MisterShafXen/[Title]) more. The main namespace isn't where you put your idiosyncratic stuff without explanation. More specifically we ask you to

• not create new equal tuning pages and interval pages until you have some substantial human-made contents (not machine-generated contents) to add.
• not upload handwritten pictures.
  • get some digital formatting tools.
• keep your notation solutions to your user space.

Finally, if you add links, pls add them in the proper section. Don't just carelessly put it in the intro. FloraC (talk) 20:50, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

Sure! I’m still learning… I will be putting in my reasoning for my notation in the next few days. MisterShafXen (talk) 18:47, 3 February 2025 (UTC)

Notice regarding temperament pages

The established practice on the wiki is to not create pages for individual temperaments before their technical data is recorded on a family page, and in general to not create pages for individual temperaments without there being cause for a greater exploration of a temperament than is available on a family page like Escapade family. In the case of your page, Sharpquart (which has since been deleted because the temperament interpretation come up with for that generator already exists, as Chromo), you did not provide this sort of exploration. You displayed a fundamental misunderstanding of what a temperament is (by declaring a generator of "exactly 53.5 cents"), as it is explicit that temperaments are not the same thing as scale structures. If you wanted to record on the wiki a scale family generated using that generator, it would be better served in the form of a Scala file like many pages on the wiki are.

You are not obligated to understand the mathematical concepts presented on the wiki, but only if you are not to claim any one of the ideas you place on the wiki to be an instance of such a concept. You are obligated to explain what xenharmonic interest, however niche, your ideas might possess, or to express them in a way where it seems plausible that they have such interest. I understand that you may think of the wiki as being created by people doing much the same thing you are, and the preponderance of often unhelpful temperaments doesn't help to dispel such notions. However, even if the people who wrote up most of the contents of the temperament family pages were like you in mind (and I don't believe they were, the quality of their contributions notwithstanding), the current wiki holds itself to a higher standard than it once had, and all you would be doing is adding to, rather than ameliorating, the wiki's problem.

Some people believe that you should receive a temporary block on the wiki; I will not act on that on my own initiative. Therefore, consider this a warning. --Lériendil (talk) 16:15, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

To add on to Leriendil’s message: There is probably no material needing to be added on the wiki which can be added by someone without significant knowledge of xenharmonic theory (i.e. comparable to or beyond what the wiki catalogues) or significant knowledge of performance practice. hkm (talk) 19:15, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the warning. Please note that I consider myself to be an adventurous beginner on this wiki. MisterShafXen (talk) 12:54, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Formatting

Pls take some time to learn basic wiki formatting at Help: Editing. Don't burden others to finish up what you leave out like this. FloraC (talk) 14:45, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me where to find the formatting guide! MisterShafXen (talk) 12:52, 4 April 2025 (UTC)