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Hello.
Is English your first language?
Curious, 213.246.116.115 ( talk) 20:47, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
PS Thank you for this. 213.246.116.115 ( talk) 21:13, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
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I've been reading the article on Hematite, and I want to put in a link to the letter K that appears in the first line of the section Hematite#Magnetism. I saw that there were many different articles connected to "K", so I wanted to disambiguate K correctly so that it leads directly to the article on Kelvin. I just want to know if K is sufficient. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:41, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I also wanted to put in a link for the word "moment" that appears just below this. I see that there are quite a few possibilities for "moment". Which one is it? Is it "electric dipole moment" or "magnetic moment"? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:45, 14 March 2014 (UTC) I guess it's "magnetic moment", judging from the next sentence. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:47, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I also want to put a link for the word "cation" (in the third sentence of the second paragraph in the section "Magnetism"). It is covered in the section
Ion#Anions and cations in the article on
Ions, but when I put the link
cation, it didn't work.
CorinneSD (
talk) 15:53, 14 March 2014 (UTC) Sorry, I fixed it and got the link to work.
CorinneSD (
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@ Rothorpe: I've been editing the article on Bronze; have only gotten through the first few paragraphs. I think most of what I have done is an improvement, but I am on the fence about one edit in particular and I wondered if you would look at it. It is toward the end of the edits I made. I changed "As ironworking improved" to "As the art of working in iron improved". I know it's more words (so less concise) -- and you know that concision (is that a word?) is important to me -- but I thought "ironworking" brought in a new term that had not been mentioned (nor had "working" any metal been mentioned). Does that sentence sound all right to you now? I'm worried about the repetition of the word "iron": "As the art of working in iron improved, iron became cheaper..." Also, should it be "working iron" rather than "working in iron"? Any thoughts? CorinneSD ( talk) 03:07, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Spinningspark: I have skimmed your User Page and I appreciate your extensive background in science. I have a background in teaching English and writing, so I mostly edit articles to improve sentence structure, word usage, verb tenses and forms, spelling, punctuation and capitalization. I have just a bit of knowledge of some areas of science, enough that I can work on some science articles. I make an effort to avoid changing meaning when I do not know the specific material being discussed. I am writing to ask you about your edit to Copper in which removed the word "instead" with an edit summary saying it set up a false contrast. I think I have some idea of what a false contrast is, but I would like to understand your reasoning in this particular context better than I do. If you will read my comments, and my response to Rothorpe's comment on his User talk:Rothorpe talk page, you will see my thinking on this. My intention is not to argue with you, but to understand and, possibly, persuade you, but if not, then just to learn. I have a different wording that does not use "instead" to propose if I cannot persuade you to my idea regarding "instead". CorinneSD ( talk) 00:37, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Spinningspark: O.K. I don't mind being corrected. But I also think that the kind of explanation for the phrase "bulk corrosion" should be in the article (for the benefit of the average reader). Would you go along with that? CorinneSD ( talk) 14:38, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Hafspajen: I saw your query on Joshua Jonathan's Talk page regarding the difference between these three terms, and I thought it was an interesting question. I decided to read the three articles and see if I could help you. I am not an expert in either psychology or religion. I just like to read and learn. As I was reading the three articles, here and there I saw some things that were included in more than one article, some small areas where the meaning of the terms overlapped, but I also saw differences. I am sure you read the articles yourself, too. I just wonder: were the articles easy or difficult for you to read? I'm just wondering how much of the articles I should copy here to show you where I got my general idea of the differences between the terms. I kind of felt you wanted the differences "in twenty-five words or less", as they say, so I'll do that here, and quote what I think are pertinent lines from the three articles:
It seems to me that " transpersonal" is used mainly in the field of modern psychology to mean "a state of awareness beyond the personal", an awareness of things outside, or beyond, the self.
I would surmise that the people who coined the word "transpersonal" had probably read or studied Buddhist and/or Hindu religions.
The term " revelation" seems to be used more in the field of religion.
The term " enlightenment" seems to have more meanings than the other two terms. In the west, it is used (1) in the secular world and (2) in religion. It is also used (3) to translate concepts that come out of eastern religions.
This last sentence seems pretty close to the definition of "transpersonal".
It seems to me that the term "transpersonal" has a more limited meaning than "enlightenment" (it is a bit difficult to understand from the article on transpersonal precisely what is meant by "transpersonal"), and that "revelation" has a somewhat limited meaning. "Revelation" seems to refer mainly to a brief experience, a direct revealing to humans of the divine, and, secondarily, to the knowledge of the divine that has been received in that experience. "Enlightenment" seems to have two meanings in the western context, one secular (referring to the Age of Enlightenment) and the other (less well known) to a kind of religious experience (William James, etc.), and several meanings coming from concepts in Buddhism and Hinduism.
Without more reading, I cannot say more than that. I am sure that Joshua Jonathan can help you more than I can. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:21, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
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Sorry, lack of time has meant sometimes I just go to the article and sort it out. Dougweller ( talk) 19:09, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Dougweller: Yes, I look at your Talk page now and then. I saw that you had fixed one item. That's fine. I don't know if you did anything about the other item. I'll look now. Can you help me disambiguate a link I added in the article on Surat? (You'll see the notification just above this on my Talk page.) I had added it in response to someone who responded to my comment/query on the article's talk page, who said "Surti" is the demonym for Surat. You'll see the discussion on the Talk page of the article. I saw that there were two items at "Surti". I don't really know what I did wrong, so I don't know how to fix it. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:04, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words :-) Sorry I'm a bit late! -- Xavexgoem ( talk) 18:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Fayenatic london: I wonder if you could read the exchange between myself and User talk:Rothorpe regarding the article on Ancient History. (Please read all the way to the end.) In spite of Rothorpe's reassurances, I still feel bad that an editor would quit editing Wikipedia due to my having undone a series of edits. Is there anything that can be done to encourage him/her to continue participating in the collaborative effort that is Wikipedia? I am more than glad to go through each edit and explain my reasons. (And note that editor's response to an earlier compliment, just above.) CorinneSD ( talk) 00:08, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: I've asked an admin, User talk:Dougweller for help on several articles (the questions were not about grammar, and I didn't want to bother you too much). If he deals with an issue at all, he usually deals with it directly at the article, but he has also indicated that he is quite busy. If you have time, could you read my posts to his talk page regarding Burma, Chocolate, and George Raft, all in the past few days. For these three, Dougweller has not replied nor done anything on the article, so either he is too busy or he thinks these are not the type of questions I should post on his talk page. Perhaps you could help. Please respond in the place you consider most appropriate. If you think it best, I will copy my queries and paste them here. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:27, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
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Google images might need to be uploaded. Wikipedia commons has images you can use, or steal from any article. Take the file, and put it into the frame. thumb|left (or right) | Click on the picture you like and you will se file name on top. Put some images om your page. Try to experiment with them. Images can be bigger if you change px - like 300px is bigger then 200px, and right will go to the right, left to left, center in the middle. Hafspajen ( talk) 01:10, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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here and see what happens. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:50, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
O.K. Now I see what the "Munch chicken" template does. (Although what is on the plate doesn't look like chicken to me.) I would probably not put that on anyone's Talk page because I will always cringe at the use of the third person plural pronouns "they" and "them" and possessive adjective "their" to refer to a single person. But thank you, anyway. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:53, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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Oh, my - any Boxes here for you? Anything you like? There is more here-> Wikipedia:Userboxes/Gallery Hafspajen ( talk) 00:52, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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You have to do your brackets yourself. Or copy a ready made. Try now to add that missing bracket ] to the end of the serirs of mystical signs -> <- here Hafspajen ( talk) 19:07, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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I have another question. Sometimes, I would like to put some text (perhaps a quote) into a box on my Talk page (or User page). How can I put text into a box? And can I choose the color of the outline of the box? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:46, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Also if you want many pictures, you can use a gallery. In that case you put the files between the two <gallery></gallery> signs, and no need to use thumb|300px|left|. Just a line -> | between the file and tha caption if you want to add any. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:18, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Matty007: Hello, Matty. Hafspagen says you are a technical genius. Hafspagen has been showing me how to add user boxes and photos to my User page. I have added a few. I have a few questions.
@ Fayenatic london: I'm involved in a disagreement with an editor over the use of the conjunction "while" in the article on Bangladesh. Would you mind reading the exchange at User talk:Rothorpe before looking at the edit history? I had asked Rothorpe for his opinion and this editor, JorisvS, chimed in. Earlier today, out of exasperation, I changed one of the two instances back to "while" and re-worded the other instance to avoid using either "while" or "although". Then JorisvS changed the first instance back to "whereas". I think that is a perfect place to use "while" and that "whereas" is too heavy-handed for that sentence. CorinneSD ( talk) 04:16, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Fayenatic london: On another fairly minor issue, what is the policy and/or best approach when an editor changes AD to CE or BC to BCE? An editor has changed BC to BCE at Vanuatu and added a link. (I know CE and BCE are politically correct, but I still prefer AD and BC.) CorinneSD ( talk) 16:30, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: You might find this long comment interesting. It's under the section heading "Preservation of Evidence" at User talk:Dougweller. Ryan Castle's -- The Captain's -- comment, while long, is well written and interesting, but if you don't want to read every word of his comment, at least read the last section in which he cleverly translates his comment into the language of pirates. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:25, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: I saw your recent edits to Nutmeg, and most of them are excellent. I just wanted to ask you about two of them:
1) I wonder why you changed "that year" to "the same year". I think "that year" is fine, and, since it is only two words, is more concise than "the same year". Only one year is mentioned, so "that year" is not ambiguous, is it? If you don't like "that year", I think "that same year" is better than "the same year".
2) I wonder why you changed "Bandas'" to "Banda's". There is a Wikipedia article on the Banda Islands. It is a group of ten islands in the Banda Sea. I don't see it called "Banda" (singular) anywhere in that article. I don't even understand why the singular is used a little later in the article, before switching back to "the Banda islands". CorinneSD ( talk) 15:55, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
@ IronGargoyle: I see that you have a background in psychology. Yesterday I noticed several edits to Milton H. Erickson, and I wonder if you would mind reviewing them. The last few edits are by User talk:Rothorpe and I don't see any problem with those. I am concerned about the ones before that by Afterwriting. You can see my question to Rothorpe on his user page, but I'll repeat the gist of it here. The editor added "citation needed" tags to this section. I wonder if the anecdotes were taken from one of the two sources mentioned just above them, more likely the first of the two. I tried to find the text of the sources but was unable to find it. If the anecdotes were taken from a source, I wonder whether the wording should have been changed as much as it was in these edits. Also, I think the word "last" in all caps conveys the spoken emphasis better than it does in quotation marks. Perhaps you have access to the sources and could check to see if these anecdotes were taken from either of the two books, and, if so, (a) add the source, and (b) judge whether the changes made by the editor are appropriate or not. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:06, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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I have no way of judging, but I wonder if someone who knows the subject of Hebrew and transliteration of Hebrew into English could review the latest edits to Merkabah mysticism in which an editor changed the spelling of "Merkabah" to "Merkavah". (See also my question about this at User talk:Kwamikagami and his informative reply.) It's not a big issue, but I thought, since the article is titled "Merkabah mysticism", perhaps the change should be reviewed. That's all. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:33, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
I really do sincerely appreciate what you said back at Talk:Seahorse#Medicine?, but, the IP still insists on refusing to listening anyone else has said, beyond insulting and belittling me with inane strawmen, including a threat to fantasize about my sex life.-- Mr Fink ( talk) 04:08, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Ward20: Did you see the latest edit to Richard Proenneke? An editor removed "amateur" from "an amateur naturalist", so now it reads, "Richard Proenneke was a naturalist..." (See our discussion of March 12, 2014, on the best phrase to use.) What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:08, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Heidimo: and @ Remark knights: You might be interested in a recently started but long-running controversial discussion regarding the use of the words "medicine" and "medicinal" at Talk: Seahorses#Medicine?. I have contributed two admittedly long-winded comments. I invited Epipelagic (a member of the Wikipedia Marine Biology project) to weigh in, and he/she has, but the other editors are far from reaching consensus. My comments seem to have affected the IP editor(s) not at all. I feel that if the IP editor has his/her way, the logical extension would be to remove the word "medicine" from the WP article on Traditional Chinese medicine! It looks like, so far, other editors have held the line. But you might like to read the long exchange and weigh in. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:39, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: I recently learned how to put photos on my User page and then discovered a lot of beautiful photos in Wikimedia Commons. (The only way I have figured out how to get to those photos is to type in "Wikimedia Commons" in the search box, then go down to a section where it mentions "Featured Photos" and "Quality Photos". I click on one of those, then browse the photos.) Have you seen the ones I have put on my User page? Note that you can click on any photo to enlarge it and see it more clearly. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:13, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: You really have to look at the images on User:Apokryltaros's User page. He painted all of them. I think they are fabulous. With his permission I've added one of them to my User page. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Apokryltaros: I have recently learned how to put pictures on my User page (see large section with many examples posted by Hafspajen on my Talk page). After the first row of pictures on my User page, I was hoping to squeeze three pictures per row. I reduced the size, and saved it. When I looked at it, there were three pictures in the second row, but I noticed that the pictures themselves are quite small and the gray border around each picture is quite large. Can you tell me how to reduce the size of the gray border and increase the size of the actual picture? I'd still like to have three pictures in a row, but I want the pictures to be larger. Thank you. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Hafspajen: Can you help? (Read just above this.) CorinneSD ( talk) 01:07, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Hafspajen: Hafspajen, did you make changes to User:Apokryltaros's User page? It was not Apokryltaros who was asking you for help with pictures. It was me. I had asked Apokryltaros for his help, but then thought I'd ask you, too. Sorry for the confusion. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:27, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Apokryltaros: I put one of your pictures on my User page. It's the one of Therizinosaurus cheloniformis. It was really hard to select only one of your pictures. (Please let me know when your book comes out.) I hope I attributed it correctly. If there is anything you want me to add, please let me know. (I'm going to add the link to the article in a minute.)
I found the article on Therizinosaurus cheloniformis and read it. I made some minor copy edits, including some "clarification needed" tags and notes to editors (which you might be able to resolve). I wanted to ask you to help me with one thing, or at least give me your advice. Normally, I like seeing English measurements (miles, feet, inches) in addition to metric measurements (and I know how to add conversion templates), but when it is just one meter/metre, as it is in the second paragraph under "Phylogeny" (I think), it comes out as 3.28 feet. I suppose most people know that a meter/metre is a little more than three feet, so perhaps the conversion template is not necessary, but I'd like to put the equivalent in feet. However, for people like me who grew up with feet and inches, 3.28 feet doesn't help to convey the length very much. I wonder, (a) would it be acceptable to provide an equivalent as 3 feet X inches? and (b) if so, could you help me figure out what 3.28 feet would be? I know it's roughly 3 feet 3 inches, but if I could get it even more specific than that, I'd like to. But I'm terrible at doing math. That's why I'm asking you. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:53, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: Didn't know if you knew about this. Kwamikagami gave me this information about a week ago. I wanted to save it so that I can find it when I need it. Put in "Google Ngram Viewer" in WP search box. Enter word in search box. WP article opens up. (Not sure if I need to go to another site to actually use Google Ngram Viewer; will look now. Do you know?) My follow-up question: O.K. Thank you. At Google Ngram Viewer, where do you actually "plug in" variants? Kwami's answer: In the search window at top. There should be an example there. No quotation marks, separate w unspaced commas. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:37, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
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I recently learned how to put pictures on my User page. Hafspajen showed me how to do it (see above on this Talk page). Over the last few days I've been adding more pictures. However, there is something I want to do regarding the formatting that I haven't been able to do, and Hafspajen seems to be busy. After the first row of pictures (which has only two photos because it's next to the Userboxes), I want three photos per row (except for the long picture of a forest in Germany at the bottom). I notice that the photos in the second row, the one of the birds and the next two photos, have a wide gray border around them. I want to make the gray border narrower and the photos bigger, but I don't know how to do that. I really want those three photos to be on one line, but I don't want them too small, either. So the gray border has to be narrower.
Also, can you tell me whether I need both "gallery" and "gallery widths= heights= perrow=" at the beginning of each new gallery, or only one of those? CorinneSD ( talk) 14:41, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Josh Parris: I saw your work a few months ago on the article on Mining, so I thought I'd ask you to review the article on Bauxite. I made a few minor edits, but I have some questions about some sentences in the section on "Formation". I just left the questions on the Talk page of the article. While there, I saw some other comments left a while ago. One, under the heading "Tech Talk", complains that the article appears to be written for other minerologists, and I kind of agree with that. Another, under the heading "Sorting of the Production Trends Table", mentions a problem sorting entries in that table. I also noticed that there seems to be no logic to the order of countries in that table. Perhaps you could fix the table. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:26, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Fayenatic london: You might be interested in a discussion regarding the pronunciation of Aram Khachaturian's name taking place on the Talk page of the article. I put in two cents a while ago but after being told that it had nothing to do with the discussion, I bowed out, but have been following it. It's not even approaching a resolution. I think you might be needed here. CorinneSD ( talk) 14:32, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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I have recently begun adding photos that I have found on Wikimedia Commons and in articles to my User page. I have tried to attribute each photo as best I can. The last photo that I added was of a Malaysian fern. (I found it toward the bottom of the article on Fern.) I tried to put the User name in a link but it has stayed red. Have I done something wrong? Can you help me with it?
I hope it all right that I have added so many photos to my User page. They are just pictures I like to look at. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:30, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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20:54, 14 April 2014 (UTC)@ Hafspajen: Hello, Hafspajen! I just skimmed your Talk page and I just love, love, love all the beautiful pictures! It's a treat for the eyes. Where do you find them? Are they only from Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia articles, or are they from Google Images, or what? I also like the poems and the humor. You seem like a delightful person.
You seem to be interested in botany, and I wonder if you could take a look at the latest edit to Hyssopus officinalis. I believe it was I who placed a "clarification needed" tag there back in November, and someone has removed the tag and selected one of the two options. Since I don't see any source, I just want to be sure it is correct. (If it is, I'll ask further whether you think the phrase "the two components" can be deleted; I don't think it's necessary.) CorinneSD ( talk) 23:26, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
P.S. I've been adding pictures to my User page. What do you think of them? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:27, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Hyssopus officinalis will be 20-30 cm high, and no more than 15-25 cm wide. 60 cm sounds like a monster-bush to me. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:02, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you were a contributor on the Stevia page and was hoping you might have some feedback on some information I would like to include on the Stevia wiki page. I wanted to include some information regarding a fermentation technology that produces a range of steviol glycosides, using sustainable, low-cost carbohydrate feedstocks, which can be sourced from virtually anywhere on the planet. Do you think this information is appropriate and if so, would I be able to fit this under History/Use, which should probably have more subsections (History, Use, Chemistry). Also, under "commercialization", do you think it would be appropriate to add some names of companies who produce biosynthetic Stevia (the actual plant). Thank you so much for your time!
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@ Hafspajen: and @ Sminthopsis84: Can you help answer Presto808's questions? Presto808, thank you for asking me, but I mainly edit articles to improve syntax (sentence structure), grammar, verb forms and tenses, word usage, punctuation, and spelling. I have pinged two experienced editors who have some background in botany and so would be better able to answer your questions. CorinneSD ( talk) 14:55, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
I only plant the plants- don't know much about this. PaleCloudedWhite might know thought... Hafspajen ( talk) 15:53, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
A God place to find images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mattes/Favorite_files/Images/Class_A Hafspajen ( talk) 18:46, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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I think the category at the bottom of this page about Philosophy comes with some of these userboxes, automatically. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:48, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
WEll, this one. I will put it on your userpage. If the category appears there you got your reason. (you can remove it later if you are Not interested in philosophy-.) Hafspajen ( talk) 23:54, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for the encomium, much appreciated. Darjeeling? Lapsang souchong? Earl Grey? Rothorpe ( talk) 21:25, 16 April 2014 (UTC) |
Thank you for the cup of tea! I like all of those. Which do you like? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:03, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: What kind of tea do you like? CorinneSD ( talk) 01:10, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Fayenatic london: Fayenatic london, User:74.192.84.101 was quite active until about a month ago, including actively mentoring User:Bladesmulti, then suddenly stopped participating (see last few entries on User talk:74.192.84.101). Bladesmulti also disappeared at about the same time but just returned, saying he had been traveling and had taken a break from WP. I don't know the customs of WP regarding this, but is there any way you could send an e-mail inquiring as to what happened to 74? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:05, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I wasn't sure what to do about "Orthodox". If you think it should be capitalized, go ahead, but I didn't want to get into that controversy too.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:13, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I changed it because "that" flows better than "which" which sounds old-fashioned and stuffy. In any case, I urge you to read Wikipedia:Vandalism wherein you will learn that my changing "which" to "that" is not, let me repeat that -- not -- an example of vandalism. I hope you were just having a bad day when you changed it and aren't this way with everyone who makes tiny changes your text. Wait, this isn't your text -- this is Wikipedia's text. Say, have you read the page on Wikipedia:Ownership of articles? Rissa, copy editor 02:02, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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I just learned from another editor how to insert characters for other languages (in the drop-down menu at "Insert" below the edit window) and I saw the option for Math and logic symbols. I had been looking for the little circle that is the symbol for "degree(s)" as in "32 degrees Fahrenheit" and was happy when I saw it. However, even though I click first at the place where I want to insert it, whenever I click on it, it is inserted right after the last letter in the Subject/headline I had typed, not in the body of my comment. I had earlier noticed the same thing happening when I tried to insert an en-dash or em-dash from the punctuation below the edit window. Why is this happening? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CorinneSD ( talk • contribs)
@ Hafspajen: Thank you so much for these beautiful photos! Where did you find them? I didn't see them when I was search in Wikimedia Commons photos. I guess if I put them on my User page I have to attribute them (as I did the others), to the photographer. CorinneSD ( talk) 13:58, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi CorinneSD
I notice that the Karoo article still has the banner Relies largely or entirely upon a single source....Please help improve this article..., when in fact it has 37 references, and a large number of links to other Wiki articles, and has undergone major revision, and hopefully makes more sense than it did before. It now makes clear that there is a geographic area that is known by the general public, tourists and cartographers as "the Karoo"; then there is the enormously large geological structure that is called the "Karoo Supergroup" which no one confuses with the geographic area called the Karoo (other than that the geological structure has derived its name from the Karoo, without intending to define what is the Karoo); and then there are the two botanical, or ecological "biomes" that bear the name "Karoo", which are easier to to confuse with the geographic Karoo, as is apparent from the discussion on the Talk page.
Would you mind having a look at the single source banner and judge whether it is still appropriate, and have it removed if you agree that it is indeed misplaced. Oggmus ( talk) 12:31, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hello.
Is English your first language?
Curious, 213.246.116.115 ( talk) 20:47, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
PS Thank you for this. 213.246.116.115 ( talk) 21:13, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
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I've been reading the article on Hematite, and I want to put in a link to the letter K that appears in the first line of the section Hematite#Magnetism. I saw that there were many different articles connected to "K", so I wanted to disambiguate K correctly so that it leads directly to the article on Kelvin. I just want to know if K is sufficient. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:41, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I also wanted to put in a link for the word "moment" that appears just below this. I see that there are quite a few possibilities for "moment". Which one is it? Is it "electric dipole moment" or "magnetic moment"? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:45, 14 March 2014 (UTC) I guess it's "magnetic moment", judging from the next sentence. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:47, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
I also want to put a link for the word "cation" (in the third sentence of the second paragraph in the section "Magnetism"). It is covered in the section
Ion#Anions and cations in the article on
Ions, but when I put the link
cation, it didn't work.
CorinneSD (
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@ Rothorpe: I've been editing the article on Bronze; have only gotten through the first few paragraphs. I think most of what I have done is an improvement, but I am on the fence about one edit in particular and I wondered if you would look at it. It is toward the end of the edits I made. I changed "As ironworking improved" to "As the art of working in iron improved". I know it's more words (so less concise) -- and you know that concision (is that a word?) is important to me -- but I thought "ironworking" brought in a new term that had not been mentioned (nor had "working" any metal been mentioned). Does that sentence sound all right to you now? I'm worried about the repetition of the word "iron": "As the art of working in iron improved, iron became cheaper..." Also, should it be "working iron" rather than "working in iron"? Any thoughts? CorinneSD ( talk) 03:07, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Spinningspark: I have skimmed your User Page and I appreciate your extensive background in science. I have a background in teaching English and writing, so I mostly edit articles to improve sentence structure, word usage, verb tenses and forms, spelling, punctuation and capitalization. I have just a bit of knowledge of some areas of science, enough that I can work on some science articles. I make an effort to avoid changing meaning when I do not know the specific material being discussed. I am writing to ask you about your edit to Copper in which removed the word "instead" with an edit summary saying it set up a false contrast. I think I have some idea of what a false contrast is, but I would like to understand your reasoning in this particular context better than I do. If you will read my comments, and my response to Rothorpe's comment on his User talk:Rothorpe talk page, you will see my thinking on this. My intention is not to argue with you, but to understand and, possibly, persuade you, but if not, then just to learn. I have a different wording that does not use "instead" to propose if I cannot persuade you to my idea regarding "instead". CorinneSD ( talk) 00:37, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Spinningspark: O.K. I don't mind being corrected. But I also think that the kind of explanation for the phrase "bulk corrosion" should be in the article (for the benefit of the average reader). Would you go along with that? CorinneSD ( talk) 14:38, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Hafspajen: I saw your query on Joshua Jonathan's Talk page regarding the difference between these three terms, and I thought it was an interesting question. I decided to read the three articles and see if I could help you. I am not an expert in either psychology or religion. I just like to read and learn. As I was reading the three articles, here and there I saw some things that were included in more than one article, some small areas where the meaning of the terms overlapped, but I also saw differences. I am sure you read the articles yourself, too. I just wonder: were the articles easy or difficult for you to read? I'm just wondering how much of the articles I should copy here to show you where I got my general idea of the differences between the terms. I kind of felt you wanted the differences "in twenty-five words or less", as they say, so I'll do that here, and quote what I think are pertinent lines from the three articles:
It seems to me that " transpersonal" is used mainly in the field of modern psychology to mean "a state of awareness beyond the personal", an awareness of things outside, or beyond, the self.
I would surmise that the people who coined the word "transpersonal" had probably read or studied Buddhist and/or Hindu religions.
The term " revelation" seems to be used more in the field of religion.
The term " enlightenment" seems to have more meanings than the other two terms. In the west, it is used (1) in the secular world and (2) in religion. It is also used (3) to translate concepts that come out of eastern religions.
This last sentence seems pretty close to the definition of "transpersonal".
It seems to me that the term "transpersonal" has a more limited meaning than "enlightenment" (it is a bit difficult to understand from the article on transpersonal precisely what is meant by "transpersonal"), and that "revelation" has a somewhat limited meaning. "Revelation" seems to refer mainly to a brief experience, a direct revealing to humans of the divine, and, secondarily, to the knowledge of the divine that has been received in that experience. "Enlightenment" seems to have two meanings in the western context, one secular (referring to the Age of Enlightenment) and the other (less well known) to a kind of religious experience (William James, etc.), and several meanings coming from concepts in Buddhism and Hinduism.
Without more reading, I cannot say more than that. I am sure that Joshua Jonathan can help you more than I can. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:21, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
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Sorry, lack of time has meant sometimes I just go to the article and sort it out. Dougweller ( talk) 19:09, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Dougweller: Yes, I look at your Talk page now and then. I saw that you had fixed one item. That's fine. I don't know if you did anything about the other item. I'll look now. Can you help me disambiguate a link I added in the article on Surat? (You'll see the notification just above this on my Talk page.) I had added it in response to someone who responded to my comment/query on the article's talk page, who said "Surti" is the demonym for Surat. You'll see the discussion on the Talk page of the article. I saw that there were two items at "Surti". I don't really know what I did wrong, so I don't know how to fix it. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:04, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the kind words :-) Sorry I'm a bit late! -- Xavexgoem ( talk) 18:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Fayenatic london: I wonder if you could read the exchange between myself and User talk:Rothorpe regarding the article on Ancient History. (Please read all the way to the end.) In spite of Rothorpe's reassurances, I still feel bad that an editor would quit editing Wikipedia due to my having undone a series of edits. Is there anything that can be done to encourage him/her to continue participating in the collaborative effort that is Wikipedia? I am more than glad to go through each edit and explain my reasons. (And note that editor's response to an earlier compliment, just above.) CorinneSD ( talk) 00:08, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: I've asked an admin, User talk:Dougweller for help on several articles (the questions were not about grammar, and I didn't want to bother you too much). If he deals with an issue at all, he usually deals with it directly at the article, but he has also indicated that he is quite busy. If you have time, could you read my posts to his talk page regarding Burma, Chocolate, and George Raft, all in the past few days. For these three, Dougweller has not replied nor done anything on the article, so either he is too busy or he thinks these are not the type of questions I should post on his talk page. Perhaps you could help. Please respond in the place you consider most appropriate. If you think it best, I will copy my queries and paste them here. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:27, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
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Google images might need to be uploaded. Wikipedia commons has images you can use, or steal from any article. Take the file, and put it into the frame. thumb|left (or right) | Click on the picture you like and you will se file name on top. Put some images om your page. Try to experiment with them. Images can be bigger if you change px - like 300px is bigger then 200px, and right will go to the right, left to left, center in the middle. Hafspajen ( talk) 01:10, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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here and see what happens. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:50, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
O.K. Now I see what the "Munch chicken" template does. (Although what is on the plate doesn't look like chicken to me.) I would probably not put that on anyone's Talk page because I will always cringe at the use of the third person plural pronouns "they" and "them" and possessive adjective "their" to refer to a single person. But thank you, anyway. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:53, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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Oh, my - any Boxes here for you? Anything you like? There is more here-> Wikipedia:Userboxes/Gallery Hafspajen ( talk) 00:52, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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I have another question. Sometimes, I would like to put some text (perhaps a quote) into a box on my Talk page (or User page). How can I put text into a box? And can I choose the color of the outline of the box? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:46, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Also if you want many pictures, you can use a gallery. In that case you put the files between the two <gallery></gallery> signs, and no need to use thumb|300px|left|. Just a line -> | between the file and tha caption if you want to add any. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:18, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Matty007: Hello, Matty. Hafspagen says you are a technical genius. Hafspagen has been showing me how to add user boxes and photos to my User page. I have added a few. I have a few questions.
@ Fayenatic london: I'm involved in a disagreement with an editor over the use of the conjunction "while" in the article on Bangladesh. Would you mind reading the exchange at User talk:Rothorpe before looking at the edit history? I had asked Rothorpe for his opinion and this editor, JorisvS, chimed in. Earlier today, out of exasperation, I changed one of the two instances back to "while" and re-worded the other instance to avoid using either "while" or "although". Then JorisvS changed the first instance back to "whereas". I think that is a perfect place to use "while" and that "whereas" is too heavy-handed for that sentence. CorinneSD ( talk) 04:16, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Fayenatic london: On another fairly minor issue, what is the policy and/or best approach when an editor changes AD to CE or BC to BCE? An editor has changed BC to BCE at Vanuatu and added a link. (I know CE and BCE are politically correct, but I still prefer AD and BC.) CorinneSD ( talk) 16:30, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: You might find this long comment interesting. It's under the section heading "Preservation of Evidence" at User talk:Dougweller. Ryan Castle's -- The Captain's -- comment, while long, is well written and interesting, but if you don't want to read every word of his comment, at least read the last section in which he cleverly translates his comment into the language of pirates. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:25, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: I saw your recent edits to Nutmeg, and most of them are excellent. I just wanted to ask you about two of them:
1) I wonder why you changed "that year" to "the same year". I think "that year" is fine, and, since it is only two words, is more concise than "the same year". Only one year is mentioned, so "that year" is not ambiguous, is it? If you don't like "that year", I think "that same year" is better than "the same year".
2) I wonder why you changed "Bandas'" to "Banda's". There is a Wikipedia article on the Banda Islands. It is a group of ten islands in the Banda Sea. I don't see it called "Banda" (singular) anywhere in that article. I don't even understand why the singular is used a little later in the article, before switching back to "the Banda islands". CorinneSD ( talk) 15:55, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
@ IronGargoyle: I see that you have a background in psychology. Yesterday I noticed several edits to Milton H. Erickson, and I wonder if you would mind reviewing them. The last few edits are by User talk:Rothorpe and I don't see any problem with those. I am concerned about the ones before that by Afterwriting. You can see my question to Rothorpe on his user page, but I'll repeat the gist of it here. The editor added "citation needed" tags to this section. I wonder if the anecdotes were taken from one of the two sources mentioned just above them, more likely the first of the two. I tried to find the text of the sources but was unable to find it. If the anecdotes were taken from a source, I wonder whether the wording should have been changed as much as it was in these edits. Also, I think the word "last" in all caps conveys the spoken emphasis better than it does in quotation marks. Perhaps you have access to the sources and could check to see if these anecdotes were taken from either of the two books, and, if so, (a) add the source, and (b) judge whether the changes made by the editor are appropriate or not. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:06, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
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I have no way of judging, but I wonder if someone who knows the subject of Hebrew and transliteration of Hebrew into English could review the latest edits to Merkabah mysticism in which an editor changed the spelling of "Merkabah" to "Merkavah". (See also my question about this at User talk:Kwamikagami and his informative reply.) It's not a big issue, but I thought, since the article is titled "Merkabah mysticism", perhaps the change should be reviewed. That's all. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:33, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
I really do sincerely appreciate what you said back at Talk:Seahorse#Medicine?, but, the IP still insists on refusing to listening anyone else has said, beyond insulting and belittling me with inane strawmen, including a threat to fantasize about my sex life.-- Mr Fink ( talk) 04:08, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Ward20: Did you see the latest edit to Richard Proenneke? An editor removed "amateur" from "an amateur naturalist", so now it reads, "Richard Proenneke was a naturalist..." (See our discussion of March 12, 2014, on the best phrase to use.) What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:08, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Heidimo: and @ Remark knights: You might be interested in a recently started but long-running controversial discussion regarding the use of the words "medicine" and "medicinal" at Talk: Seahorses#Medicine?. I have contributed two admittedly long-winded comments. I invited Epipelagic (a member of the Wikipedia Marine Biology project) to weigh in, and he/she has, but the other editors are far from reaching consensus. My comments seem to have affected the IP editor(s) not at all. I feel that if the IP editor has his/her way, the logical extension would be to remove the word "medicine" from the WP article on Traditional Chinese medicine! It looks like, so far, other editors have held the line. But you might like to read the long exchange and weigh in. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:39, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: I recently learned how to put photos on my User page and then discovered a lot of beautiful photos in Wikimedia Commons. (The only way I have figured out how to get to those photos is to type in "Wikimedia Commons" in the search box, then go down to a section where it mentions "Featured Photos" and "Quality Photos". I click on one of those, then browse the photos.) Have you seen the ones I have put on my User page? Note that you can click on any photo to enlarge it and see it more clearly. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:13, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: You really have to look at the images on User:Apokryltaros's User page. He painted all of them. I think they are fabulous. With his permission I've added one of them to my User page. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Apokryltaros: I have recently learned how to put pictures on my User page (see large section with many examples posted by Hafspajen on my Talk page). After the first row of pictures on my User page, I was hoping to squeeze three pictures per row. I reduced the size, and saved it. When I looked at it, there were three pictures in the second row, but I noticed that the pictures themselves are quite small and the gray border around each picture is quite large. Can you tell me how to reduce the size of the gray border and increase the size of the actual picture? I'd still like to have three pictures in a row, but I want the pictures to be larger. Thank you. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Hafspajen: Can you help? (Read just above this.) CorinneSD ( talk) 01:07, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Hafspajen: Hafspajen, did you make changes to User:Apokryltaros's User page? It was not Apokryltaros who was asking you for help with pictures. It was me. I had asked Apokryltaros for his help, but then thought I'd ask you, too. Sorry for the confusion. CorinneSD ( talk) 18:27, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Apokryltaros: I put one of your pictures on my User page. It's the one of Therizinosaurus cheloniformis. It was really hard to select only one of your pictures. (Please let me know when your book comes out.) I hope I attributed it correctly. If there is anything you want me to add, please let me know. (I'm going to add the link to the article in a minute.)
I found the article on Therizinosaurus cheloniformis and read it. I made some minor copy edits, including some "clarification needed" tags and notes to editors (which you might be able to resolve). I wanted to ask you to help me with one thing, or at least give me your advice. Normally, I like seeing English measurements (miles, feet, inches) in addition to metric measurements (and I know how to add conversion templates), but when it is just one meter/metre, as it is in the second paragraph under "Phylogeny" (I think), it comes out as 3.28 feet. I suppose most people know that a meter/metre is a little more than three feet, so perhaps the conversion template is not necessary, but I'd like to put the equivalent in feet. However, for people like me who grew up with feet and inches, 3.28 feet doesn't help to convey the length very much. I wonder, (a) would it be acceptable to provide an equivalent as 3 feet X inches? and (b) if so, could you help me figure out what 3.28 feet would be? I know it's roughly 3 feet 3 inches, but if I could get it even more specific than that, I'd like to. But I'm terrible at doing math. That's why I'm asking you. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:53, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: Didn't know if you knew about this. Kwamikagami gave me this information about a week ago. I wanted to save it so that I can find it when I need it. Put in "Google Ngram Viewer" in WP search box. Enter word in search box. WP article opens up. (Not sure if I need to go to another site to actually use Google Ngram Viewer; will look now. Do you know?) My follow-up question: O.K. Thank you. At Google Ngram Viewer, where do you actually "plug in" variants? Kwami's answer: In the search window at top. There should be an example there. No quotation marks, separate w unspaced commas. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:37, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
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I recently learned how to put pictures on my User page. Hafspajen showed me how to do it (see above on this Talk page). Over the last few days I've been adding more pictures. However, there is something I want to do regarding the formatting that I haven't been able to do, and Hafspajen seems to be busy. After the first row of pictures (which has only two photos because it's next to the Userboxes), I want three photos per row (except for the long picture of a forest in Germany at the bottom). I notice that the photos in the second row, the one of the birds and the next two photos, have a wide gray border around them. I want to make the gray border narrower and the photos bigger, but I don't know how to do that. I really want those three photos to be on one line, but I don't want them too small, either. So the gray border has to be narrower.
Also, can you tell me whether I need both "gallery" and "gallery widths= heights= perrow=" at the beginning of each new gallery, or only one of those? CorinneSD ( talk) 14:41, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Josh Parris: I saw your work a few months ago on the article on Mining, so I thought I'd ask you to review the article on Bauxite. I made a few minor edits, but I have some questions about some sentences in the section on "Formation". I just left the questions on the Talk page of the article. While there, I saw some other comments left a while ago. One, under the heading "Tech Talk", complains that the article appears to be written for other minerologists, and I kind of agree with that. Another, under the heading "Sorting of the Production Trends Table", mentions a problem sorting entries in that table. I also noticed that there seems to be no logic to the order of countries in that table. Perhaps you could fix the table. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:26, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Fayenatic london: You might be interested in a discussion regarding the pronunciation of Aram Khachaturian's name taking place on the Talk page of the article. I put in two cents a while ago but after being told that it had nothing to do with the discussion, I bowed out, but have been following it. It's not even approaching a resolution. I think you might be needed here. CorinneSD ( talk) 14:32, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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I have recently begun adding photos that I have found on Wikimedia Commons and in articles to my User page. I have tried to attribute each photo as best I can. The last photo that I added was of a Malaysian fern. (I found it toward the bottom of the article on Fern.) I tried to put the User name in a link but it has stayed red. Have I done something wrong? Can you help me with it?
I hope it all right that I have added so many photos to my User page. They are just pictures I like to look at. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:30, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
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20:54, 14 April 2014 (UTC)@ Hafspajen: Hello, Hafspajen! I just skimmed your Talk page and I just love, love, love all the beautiful pictures! It's a treat for the eyes. Where do you find them? Are they only from Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia articles, or are they from Google Images, or what? I also like the poems and the humor. You seem like a delightful person.
You seem to be interested in botany, and I wonder if you could take a look at the latest edit to Hyssopus officinalis. I believe it was I who placed a "clarification needed" tag there back in November, and someone has removed the tag and selected one of the two options. Since I don't see any source, I just want to be sure it is correct. (If it is, I'll ask further whether you think the phrase "the two components" can be deleted; I don't think it's necessary.) CorinneSD ( talk) 23:26, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
P.S. I've been adding pictures to my User page. What do you think of them? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:27, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Hyssopus officinalis will be 20-30 cm high, and no more than 15-25 cm wide. 60 cm sounds like a monster-bush to me. Hafspajen ( talk) 00:02, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you were a contributor on the Stevia page and was hoping you might have some feedback on some information I would like to include on the Stevia wiki page. I wanted to include some information regarding a fermentation technology that produces a range of steviol glycosides, using sustainable, low-cost carbohydrate feedstocks, which can be sourced from virtually anywhere on the planet. Do you think this information is appropriate and if so, would I be able to fit this under History/Use, which should probably have more subsections (History, Use, Chemistry). Also, under "commercialization", do you think it would be appropriate to add some names of companies who produce biosynthetic Stevia (the actual plant). Thank you so much for your time!
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@ Hafspajen: and @ Sminthopsis84: Can you help answer Presto808's questions? Presto808, thank you for asking me, but I mainly edit articles to improve syntax (sentence structure), grammar, verb forms and tenses, word usage, punctuation, and spelling. I have pinged two experienced editors who have some background in botany and so would be better able to answer your questions. CorinneSD ( talk) 14:55, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
I only plant the plants- don't know much about this. PaleCloudedWhite might know thought... Hafspajen ( talk) 15:53, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
A God place to find images https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mattes/Favorite_files/Images/Class_A Hafspajen ( talk) 18:46, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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I think the category at the bottom of this page about Philosophy comes with some of these userboxes, automatically. Hafspajen ( talk) 23:48, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
WEll, this one. I will put it on your userpage. If the category appears there you got your reason. (you can remove it later if you are Not interested in philosophy-.) Hafspajen ( talk) 23:54, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for the encomium, much appreciated. Darjeeling? Lapsang souchong? Earl Grey? Rothorpe ( talk) 21:25, 16 April 2014 (UTC) |
Thank you for the cup of tea! I like all of those. Which do you like? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:03, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Rothorpe: What kind of tea do you like? CorinneSD ( talk) 01:10, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
@ Fayenatic london: Fayenatic london, User:74.192.84.101 was quite active until about a month ago, including actively mentoring User:Bladesmulti, then suddenly stopped participating (see last few entries on User talk:74.192.84.101). Bladesmulti also disappeared at about the same time but just returned, saying he had been traveling and had taken a break from WP. I don't know the customs of WP regarding this, but is there any way you could send an e-mail inquiring as to what happened to 74? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:05, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I wasn't sure what to do about "Orthodox". If you think it should be capitalized, go ahead, but I didn't want to get into that controversy too.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:13, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
I changed it because "that" flows better than "which" which sounds old-fashioned and stuffy. In any case, I urge you to read Wikipedia:Vandalism wherein you will learn that my changing "which" to "that" is not, let me repeat that -- not -- an example of vandalism. I hope you were just having a bad day when you changed it and aren't this way with everyone who makes tiny changes your text. Wait, this isn't your text -- this is Wikipedia's text. Say, have you read the page on Wikipedia:Ownership of articles? Rissa, copy editor 02:02, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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I just learned from another editor how to insert characters for other languages (in the drop-down menu at "Insert" below the edit window) and I saw the option for Math and logic symbols. I had been looking for the little circle that is the symbol for "degree(s)" as in "32 degrees Fahrenheit" and was happy when I saw it. However, even though I click first at the place where I want to insert it, whenever I click on it, it is inserted right after the last letter in the Subject/headline I had typed, not in the body of my comment. I had earlier noticed the same thing happening when I tried to insert an en-dash or em-dash from the punctuation below the edit window. Why is this happening? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CorinneSD ( talk • contribs)
@ Hafspajen: Thank you so much for these beautiful photos! Where did you find them? I didn't see them when I was search in Wikimedia Commons photos. I guess if I put them on my User page I have to attribute them (as I did the others), to the photographer. CorinneSD ( talk) 13:58, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi CorinneSD
I notice that the Karoo article still has the banner Relies largely or entirely upon a single source....Please help improve this article..., when in fact it has 37 references, and a large number of links to other Wiki articles, and has undergone major revision, and hopefully makes more sense than it did before. It now makes clear that there is a geographic area that is known by the general public, tourists and cartographers as "the Karoo"; then there is the enormously large geological structure that is called the "Karoo Supergroup" which no one confuses with the geographic area called the Karoo (other than that the geological structure has derived its name from the Karoo, without intending to define what is the Karoo); and then there are the two botanical, or ecological "biomes" that bear the name "Karoo", which are easier to to confuse with the geographic Karoo, as is apparent from the discussion on the Talk page.
Would you mind having a look at the single source banner and judge whether it is still appropriate, and have it removed if you agree that it is indeed misplaced. Oggmus ( talk) 12:31, 9 May 2014 (UTC)