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User:Sergecross73 misrepresented that there was a consensus against creating a dab page. There wasn't. When analyzed, it was the reverse. I've documented his slow-motion edit-war at Talk:Baten Kaitos. He ought to be de-adminned. Skyerise ( talk) 01:36, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Elmidae You edited the pages I created yesterday and turned the taxobox that describes down to the genus level (which is what the page is) and changed them to species boxes that describe down to a species level. The page is one for a genus and not for a species, so I am curious why you would make that change. I am not a professional by any means but am rather making edits that I believe to be correct, so if you could explain why your side would be correct that would be very beneficial. Thanks! Macauley
EDIT: I misremembered the sablicola edits, but my point regarding the Stelligera fungus still stands.
EDIT 2: So on further looking I see that what happened with Sablicola chinensis is that you merged the page with the genus page for Sablicola and changed the taxobox to show a species level, making the species name redirect to the genus page. I don't think this is correct, but would happily be proven wrong. I am new to editing Wiki :)
That all makes a lot of sense now that I've had it explained. Thanks so much for your help, and I'll make sure to use your input in future edits or pages I make!
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The nationality of Tenzing Norgay is Nepalese only. One person can not have two nationality and nationality can not be changed as like citizenship. [1] I hope you will revert your edit. If there is problem including citizenship in infobox, please try to improve infobox; you can't provide wrong information. ~ Yeti Dai ( talk) 16:20, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
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This article is named after the village. Which is located in Jhelum district of Pakistan. Please do not redirect this article. What's wrong with my article.? What should I change if this is a problem? Thanks.
Are you referring to the sentence about how most fish belong to the class Actinopterygii? Somed00d1997 ( talk) 18:49, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
The traditional term pisces (also ichthyes) is considered a typological, but not a phylogenetic classification.- There is no phylogenetically valid "class" 'pisces', and only such a taxon would be presented in position where you inserted it (as the scientific taxon name). -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 19:18, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
Fish are a paraphyletic group: that is, any clade containing all fish also contains the tetrapods, which are not fish. For this reason, groups such as the class Pisces seen in older reference works are no longer used in formal classifications.-- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 19:21, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello Elmidae, so far I have only created articles in the German Wikipedia and am therefore not that familiar with the rules in the English Wikipedia and hope you can help me in this regard, especially your changes to the article about Tisamenus fratercula, which I also wrote in the German original. In the German Wikipedia, articles about species or other taxa are assumed after the introduction that the description is the most interesting for the average reader. The taxonomy usually follows quite far back, as it is more of interest to the specialists and a basic classification already takes place in the taxobox. Is this different in the English Wikipedia? If taxonomy is so important that it is the guiding theme, why are the results of (taxonomic) studies (here the not so close relationship of T. fratercula to T. deplanatus despite great morphological similarity and initially assumed close relationship by Rehn & Rehn) so uninteresting that they do not belong in the article? And are the authors who reassign to genres like Oliver Zompro also so uniterritious that they do not belong in the article/topic? And why is Mr. Hennemann don't have a first name? Is it in the Engl. Wikipedia common links for authors and what are meant here are those who work as taxonomic authors and describe species or other taxa (such as Hennemann, Conle, Brock, Bresseel, Constant, ...), only to be linked if they already have already an own article? Although there is an article about Mr. Zompro, but you have removed the link anyway. In the German Wikipedia, we assume that topics to which an article is entitled should already be linked in order to reduce the need to link from other articles after the article has been created. And how do James Abram Garfield Rehn and his son John William Holman Rehn fit in this? While the above-mentioned have in some cases already described significantly more taxa than J. W. H. Rehn, who no longer worked scientifically after 1939 and will probably not receive an article of his own in the foreseeable future, authors such as Brock or Kneubühler already have such articles in the German Wikipedia. As you may have noticed, I start in the Engl. Wikipedia is just starting out and I appreciate any advice.As you may have noticed, I start in the Engl. Wikipedia is just getting started and I am happy about any advice. Thank you for your answer in advance and sorry for the length and number of my questions.Best -- Drägü ( talk) 20:10, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Could you please move the page Inga feuilleei to Inga feuillei? It's a long-running confusion. Only mods can make this change. Does Wikispecies need to be updated as well? PametUGlavu ( talk) 08:24, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
We have created a page for Romanch, He is an actor from Kerala, India, Seems you have redirected his page to an unknown phrase. Can you please check and solve the issue.
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I corrected errors -- Herobrine7 ( talk).
You don't seem to understand the issue about possible plagiarism. The worry is not that the cited source has been plagiarised, but that the same text appearing readily on the internet suggests that there has been some copying. The case you should be making is that the search hits for the article text are the result of wikipedia being copied. not the other way round. Just ranting on about "nonsense" in the edit summary does nothing to resolve the situation. From investigating the matter, it seems likely that others have copied wikipedia, but you did not make that point when reverting [ [1]]
Then there is the issue of what is meant by "tameability". Encouraging a wild animal to live alongside humans is one thing, a "tamed" animal has a higher level of interaction with humans. I am not sure that your sources support such a claim. ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 16:12, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
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I saw that my edit (1965 to 1955) was manually reverted and wondered why this was done, as all sources I have found consider the war to have started on 1 November 1955. Shipyard43328 ( talk) 21:31, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
No problem :) Shipyard43328 ( talk) 21:41, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Elmidae, thanks for reviewing my article Miranda Brawn. Please let me know what are your thoughts about it, as I think I verified every sentence of it by reliable sources and I also wrote it from a neutral point of view. Since I published it last week, multiple members of the Wiki community touched and edited it and no one had any issue with the page, however, today it has been tagged as being "written like an advertisement" by User:Giraffer. Please let me know, what do you think, should I, and how could I improve the page if needed? Thanks, DillonPalm ( talk) 15:49, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I'm unsure from where you learned that dolphins are whales, but that is not true. Killer whales are dolphins, orcas are killer whales, and none of the above is a whale. Just the same as red pandas are not pandas, killer, false killer, and pilot whales are not whales. They are all dolphins. Dolphins are not whales either. They are dolphins. WiggleCat ( talk) 12:50, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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If you'd like to input. YorkshireExpat ( talk) 10:02, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
You deleted the murder of a critically endangered animal, critically endangered solely because of anthropogenic causes. This one was murdered in a zoo by a man, and so described in the section of captivity. Your explanation was "it doesn't belong here." Instead of removing content, can you suggest where this noteworthy event should be discussed? Thank you.
The news is flying around the net, is being covered by every major daily and TV outlet in Florida, and will be, according to my editor friend at ABC, on the evening news. Is that enough for you?
This will be my last comment on this page re this issue as per your request. My friend's alert at ABC News, noted above, was accurate. The national network news coverage occurred from 5:41 to 5:43 pm CST on ABC News, including video and comments and the cryptic, "the tiger died." Tomorrow I expect the log of today's page views to explode from the typical 225 to thousands.
Panthera pardus tulliana is the article's name, not "Anatolian leopard" or "Persian leopard", which both refer to it. I was just putting in the article's correct name. 2601:CA:4380:3A20:49C2:D076:AE11:6573 ( talk) 01:43, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Didn't you even look at my response above before you threatened to report me? In fact, why don't you just undo all the other leopard subspecies while you're at it? They've all got the same thing, except for Amur leopard, because I can't get into it right now.
If you'd just try looking at the article I mentioned above. you'd know I'm right.
Why didn't you just ask first before jumping to conclusions? I hate it when people blame me for crimes I didn't commit. 2601:CA:4380:3A20:49C2:D076:AE11:6573 ( talk)` — Preceding undated comment added 03:18, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi Elmidae, hope you're well. I saw your comment on an ANI discussion today, and couldn't help wondering why you weren't an admin; and then I remembered our previous conversation on the topic. My opinion of your suitability hasn't changed, and our need is as large as ever. Have you by any chance reconsidered? Vanamonde ( Talk) 17:45, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
I see you've reverted a lot of new and sourced content added to Guanaco at this edit. Was this by mistake? Best, Tyrone Madera ( talk) 06:06, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Oh- I did not see the Fox was covered already — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wildlifespec ( talk • contribs) 19:19, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Following up on some concerns from the EN Wikt, I was reminded that you'd moved the Kinchaku article to Draft space ( Draft:Kinchaku) in June 2019. Another user nominated that for speedy deletion after it sat there unchanged for several months. Another couple editors then removed the speedy deletion notice, and redirected the page to the mainspace article -- which the same problematic user Mare-Silverus had re-created a couple weeks after you moved the previous article to Draft space.
The mainspace article at Kinchaku suffers from the same complete lack of sources that you pointed out in June 2019. This is also arguably not notable enough for a standalone article, as the content could easily be included instead as part of the List_of_items_traditionally_worn_in_Japan page, where indeed there is already a listing for kinchaku. In my own view, there just isn't enough material to justify a dedicated page.
Curious as to your thoughts. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:30, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
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HI!Elmidae, thank you for rescue my poor grammar in Human identical sequence, English is not my mother tongou. The main content of this entry is only supported by one article published in 2022. [1]
By the way, I am not a member of this research group, and there is no conflict of interest with this article.
I have a few ideas for improving this entry: 1.why did delete information about Host identical sequence? In the Discussion of this article [1], the author has put forward this concept:I think this entry can be proved by more following scientific research articles, so I redirect it here.
Accordingly, these identical sequences, termed here as "host identical sequences (HIS)". There are also similar sequences between the genomes of SARS-CoV-2 and their potential hosts including bat,64 Malayan pangolins,65,66 ferrets, and cats.67
2.Human identical sequence ont only share in human and coronavirus, but also other RNA virus (list in Supplementary materials 6 of this article) So I don't think it's appropriate to list all the sequences in the form of a list, maybe it can move to "list of human identical sequence in coronavirus" or "list of host identical sequence between human and coronavirus"?
In particular, HIS was found within other more than 100 pathogenic RNA viruses, including HIV,61 Ebolavirus,62 and Zika virus,63 indicating a common phenomenon that pathogenic viruses share identical genomic sequences to their hosts.
3.Now these sequence listed matching rate is 100% of ~20 bp, According to the author, 95%(1 mismatched base), 90%(2 mismatched) matching rate sequence still have approximate NamiRNAs properties. Maybe this list can be expanded by following research. -- Htmlzycq ( talk) 08:41, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hey!! Please have a look at this diff and this on the resp. talkpage. I think that this change on main page is not ok in view of its present title, but didn't want to edit war. What do YOU think? – BhagyaMani ( talk) 09:32, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
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I added Chhattisgarh specifically as a state in India to which this species is a native. This makes it easier for people to find this tree species when looking for trees native to the region. So, this edit is helpful for readers. Not sure why you marked the change as 'unnecessary'. Kindly provide more details.
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Hello Thank you for fixing my edit on Breviceps at first i believed Breviceps pentheri was the same species or a subspecies of the Breviceps adspersus i believed this due to https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Breviceps_adspersus this page listing it as a synonym for Breviceps adspersus and multiple other sources doing the same thing but after further research i found that those sources where outdated and found this https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Brevicipitidae/Breviceps/Breviceps-pentheri which confirmed your point thank you for fixing my mistake Massimo510 ( talk) 06:03, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
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I don't understand. Lots of the pop culture stuff for the Axolotl isn't even important or beneficial to the species. Some of them don't even have sources, such as the first one. I get the Minecraft one because it's raising awareness for the species extinction, but the trivia fact for Bojack Horseman and some of the others isn't important. There needs to be a guide so that editors will know what is credible and not waste their time because to me, this feels more people being nickpicky based on opinions rather than being factual. 68.62.155.13 ( talk) 21:11, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hi. Could you do me a favor and move Hemipenthes seminiger back to Hemipenthes seminigra? The genus is feminine, and ITIS has an incorrect spelling. This one is pretty straightforward. Thanks. Dyanega ( talk) 16:24, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
While I have no real clue as to what you mean by "interesting case of an OR WL.." (Orwell?), the case is most interesting in that I am entirely convinced that Stephenson talked about just what the link " information wants to be free" you disliked points to. Or can you give me an alternative interpretation? -- Kku ( talk) 12:36, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Hey I’ve kinda gotten into an edit war with you, but you seem like a pretty cool person and I think we just got off on the wrong foot, I’m looking to amend relations with you and improve my editing capabilities. Could you look at the “hatchet” and “spiked smasher” portion of the stomatapod wiki under “claws” to see if my sources are adequate as well as the “green sunfish” “aquarium” portion as I added more sources. Thanks, I hope we can get off on the right foot this time! Realfakebezalbob ( talk) 12:12, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello Elmidae! I saw you reverted my edit recently. If the case is about over referencing, I will lessen the reference. But I want to add some information because the species is endemic to Manipur. So, I was just putting it's Manipuri translation like every other articles used to do. Thanks! -- Haoreima ( talk) 06:47, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
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Hi Elmidae this is Sams321, i have created article Acting Ka Bhoot did not review till now can you please review my article, that will appreciate me to create new articles 😊. Thank You Sams321 ( talk) 15:41, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
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Wow! Great job! Indeed be proud of that! :) I found the refence for Pusch, 1942, but I'm stymied on determining who Pusch is. I'm tracking my hunt at Talk:List_of_authors_of_names_published_under_the_ICZN#Pusch. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:37, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi there. Did you actually check the reference before you restored it? It's a grammar blog. Are blogs now considered a reliable source? Not only that, the blog clearly shows that the scholarly references – including the OED – all say that Canada goose is correct. The only ones who suggest that the "adjectival form" might be "more correct" (on grammar grounds alone) are grammarians. And they do not name birds! MeegsC ( talk) 08:31, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
The four standard dictionaries we’ve consulted, reflecting popular usage, list “Canada goose” as the common name for the North American bird, though two of them include “Canadian goose” as a variant usage.To whit: [3] - we could put that in the lede if you prefer. It is also easy to find plenty of publications using the synonym, e.g. [4]. This is well justified. -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 08:56, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Can you stop edit the page.I was try to improving the page.If I done I show you. DaikinInverter789 ( talk) 08:25, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
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Respected sir, I have uploaded a picture on Aryan valley of Ladakh which has been deleted by you from that page , But that pic is still available on wikipedia . Please delete it permenently . I want that pic name " arryan valley men dancing " pic to be deleted immediately as soon as possible Minaro123 ( talk) 09:10, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
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I own these copyright and please delete these pic as soon as possible . I am felling nervous about my privacy . Minaro123 ( talk) 09:23, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
I was worried that you had writen to another user and asking him to delete or Merge Aryan valley of Ladakh with Brokpa . The aryan valley of Ladakh is a geographical area here brokpa live and it has a thousand of year history as independent kingdom and it was added into ladakh by a king of maharaja . Please have a patience ,i am looking for more reliable referencee about its geographical history . Please don't delete it or merge it ,please don't waste my lot of research and work Minaro123 ( talk) 19:35, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
I saw those edits yesterday and looked into them but couldn't assess them as obviously wrong--it's not my field. I did look for some community interaction on it but found none. Drmies ( talk) 17:41, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
being a described recently extant species in reliable taxonomic sources is the threshold for notabilitywith a sentence or two on why. That would be item 1. I only put in extant because I know there is more disagreement on species identified by fossils. I personally think all species should be included, but carving out recently living species may help lower the hurdle a little. That's language that could be tweaked with folks who are more familiar with that side of things though too.
I don't know why you use slang languages against me. This wasn't the first time you did. If you have disagreements talk in a civil and mature way. Just because I added something without sources doesn't mean I'm "making shit up". This is false accusation. Another time you supported another users edit stating "He's your trusted and he knows what he's doing" (or something like that) even when he deleted sourced content which I tried to restore, but refuse to trust my edits every time. I don't know why you're always against me, if I've done anything to displease you, I apologize to you. I really do. I don't want any beef with anyone in the Internet, specially not in Wikipedia. As for the recent edit, the species I added, I did read about them in books and articles or watched in documentaries. I can still provide links of videos and weak sources but Wikipedia doesn't allow videos as evidence or articles of other languages. I removed them anyway since you and the other user complained about it. But to remove the species do you have to remove all the other edits I made? The other user also did the same, that's what I said, you don't need to do that. Ishan87 ( talk) 14:04, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
I was trying to edit pages that you improved and leaved the message "exclusively non-constructive, WP:POINTy, or trolling edits", especially on the pages Datum (disambiguation), Etymology (which I gave a message for after your improvement), and Purple heron. I never like this message; what were you trying to do with it? And also, why? Leave me a message soon. 2607:FEA8:FD04:8132:3085:9554:1F37:BF97 ( talk) 23:19, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
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RE: (Undid revision 1118619518 by Citizen127 (talk) not an improvement. "Species X from [period] of [location]" is standard phrasing to refer to "occurred in [location] during [period]"). Wikipedia is not a forum for technical speech by highly skilled and educated experts. It's intended for the general public. The sentence that you are defending, "Several species of extinct Saiga from the Pleistocene of Eurasia and Alaska have been named," is confusing to the general public. I am almost entirely certain that the general public is not very comfortable with the term "Pleistocene," and putting it in a position that is usually occupied by a geographic, or demographic modifier is confusing. For it to be understandable to the general public, there has to be a temporal qualifier. It was confusing to me when I first read it. I'm confident that it will be confusing to most others that read ❤️ Citizen127 ( talk) 12:56, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
Hello Elmidae, I'm Tds018 and I've been contributing to the giant guitarfish article. Why did you exactly remove my content from the description? It may have been a lengthy amount, but I believe the Misidentification page was fundamental to article and you took out all my content. This article is for my biology project, and it genuinely means a lot to me. Thank you. Tds018 ( talk) 18:23, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
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User:Sergecross73 misrepresented that there was a consensus against creating a dab page. There wasn't. When analyzed, it was the reverse. I've documented his slow-motion edit-war at Talk:Baten Kaitos. He ought to be de-adminned. Skyerise ( talk) 01:36, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi Elmidae You edited the pages I created yesterday and turned the taxobox that describes down to the genus level (which is what the page is) and changed them to species boxes that describe down to a species level. The page is one for a genus and not for a species, so I am curious why you would make that change. I am not a professional by any means but am rather making edits that I believe to be correct, so if you could explain why your side would be correct that would be very beneficial. Thanks! Macauley
EDIT: I misremembered the sablicola edits, but my point regarding the Stelligera fungus still stands.
EDIT 2: So on further looking I see that what happened with Sablicola chinensis is that you merged the page with the genus page for Sablicola and changed the taxobox to show a species level, making the species name redirect to the genus page. I don't think this is correct, but would happily be proven wrong. I am new to editing Wiki :)
That all makes a lot of sense now that I've had it explained. Thanks so much for your help, and I'll make sure to use your input in future edits or pages I make!
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The nationality of Tenzing Norgay is Nepalese only. One person can not have two nationality and nationality can not be changed as like citizenship. [1] I hope you will revert your edit. If there is problem including citizenship in infobox, please try to improve infobox; you can't provide wrong information. ~ Yeti Dai ( talk) 16:20, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
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This article is named after the village. Which is located in Jhelum district of Pakistan. Please do not redirect this article. What's wrong with my article.? What should I change if this is a problem? Thanks.
Are you referring to the sentence about how most fish belong to the class Actinopterygii? Somed00d1997 ( talk) 18:49, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
The traditional term pisces (also ichthyes) is considered a typological, but not a phylogenetic classification.- There is no phylogenetically valid "class" 'pisces', and only such a taxon would be presented in position where you inserted it (as the scientific taxon name). -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 19:18, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
Fish are a paraphyletic group: that is, any clade containing all fish also contains the tetrapods, which are not fish. For this reason, groups such as the class Pisces seen in older reference works are no longer used in formal classifications.-- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 19:21, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
Hello Elmidae, so far I have only created articles in the German Wikipedia and am therefore not that familiar with the rules in the English Wikipedia and hope you can help me in this regard, especially your changes to the article about Tisamenus fratercula, which I also wrote in the German original. In the German Wikipedia, articles about species or other taxa are assumed after the introduction that the description is the most interesting for the average reader. The taxonomy usually follows quite far back, as it is more of interest to the specialists and a basic classification already takes place in the taxobox. Is this different in the English Wikipedia? If taxonomy is so important that it is the guiding theme, why are the results of (taxonomic) studies (here the not so close relationship of T. fratercula to T. deplanatus despite great morphological similarity and initially assumed close relationship by Rehn & Rehn) so uninteresting that they do not belong in the article? And are the authors who reassign to genres like Oliver Zompro also so uniterritious that they do not belong in the article/topic? And why is Mr. Hennemann don't have a first name? Is it in the Engl. Wikipedia common links for authors and what are meant here are those who work as taxonomic authors and describe species or other taxa (such as Hennemann, Conle, Brock, Bresseel, Constant, ...), only to be linked if they already have already an own article? Although there is an article about Mr. Zompro, but you have removed the link anyway. In the German Wikipedia, we assume that topics to which an article is entitled should already be linked in order to reduce the need to link from other articles after the article has been created. And how do James Abram Garfield Rehn and his son John William Holman Rehn fit in this? While the above-mentioned have in some cases already described significantly more taxa than J. W. H. Rehn, who no longer worked scientifically after 1939 and will probably not receive an article of his own in the foreseeable future, authors such as Brock or Kneubühler already have such articles in the German Wikipedia. As you may have noticed, I start in the Engl. Wikipedia is just starting out and I appreciate any advice.As you may have noticed, I start in the Engl. Wikipedia is just getting started and I am happy about any advice. Thank you for your answer in advance and sorry for the length and number of my questions.Best -- Drägü ( talk) 20:10, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Could you please move the page Inga feuilleei to Inga feuillei? It's a long-running confusion. Only mods can make this change. Does Wikispecies need to be updated as well? PametUGlavu ( talk) 08:24, 21 August 2021 (UTC)
We have created a page for Romanch, He is an actor from Kerala, India, Seems you have redirected his page to an unknown phrase. Can you please check and solve the issue.
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I corrected errors -- Herobrine7 ( talk).
You don't seem to understand the issue about possible plagiarism. The worry is not that the cited source has been plagiarised, but that the same text appearing readily on the internet suggests that there has been some copying. The case you should be making is that the search hits for the article text are the result of wikipedia being copied. not the other way round. Just ranting on about "nonsense" in the edit summary does nothing to resolve the situation. From investigating the matter, it seems likely that others have copied wikipedia, but you did not make that point when reverting [ [1]]
Then there is the issue of what is meant by "tameability". Encouraging a wild animal to live alongside humans is one thing, a "tamed" animal has a higher level of interaction with humans. I am not sure that your sources support such a claim. ThoughtIdRetired ( talk) 16:12, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
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I saw that my edit (1965 to 1955) was manually reverted and wondered why this was done, as all sources I have found consider the war to have started on 1 November 1955. Shipyard43328 ( talk) 21:31, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
No problem :) Shipyard43328 ( talk) 21:41, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello, Elmidae, thanks for reviewing my article Miranda Brawn. Please let me know what are your thoughts about it, as I think I verified every sentence of it by reliable sources and I also wrote it from a neutral point of view. Since I published it last week, multiple members of the Wiki community touched and edited it and no one had any issue with the page, however, today it has been tagged as being "written like an advertisement" by User:Giraffer. Please let me know, what do you think, should I, and how could I improve the page if needed? Thanks, DillonPalm ( talk) 15:49, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I'm unsure from where you learned that dolphins are whales, but that is not true. Killer whales are dolphins, orcas are killer whales, and none of the above is a whale. Just the same as red pandas are not pandas, killer, false killer, and pilot whales are not whales. They are all dolphins. Dolphins are not whales either. They are dolphins. WiggleCat ( talk) 12:50, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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If you'd like to input. YorkshireExpat ( talk) 10:02, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
You deleted the murder of a critically endangered animal, critically endangered solely because of anthropogenic causes. This one was murdered in a zoo by a man, and so described in the section of captivity. Your explanation was "it doesn't belong here." Instead of removing content, can you suggest where this noteworthy event should be discussed? Thank you.
The news is flying around the net, is being covered by every major daily and TV outlet in Florida, and will be, according to my editor friend at ABC, on the evening news. Is that enough for you?
This will be my last comment on this page re this issue as per your request. My friend's alert at ABC News, noted above, was accurate. The national network news coverage occurred from 5:41 to 5:43 pm CST on ABC News, including video and comments and the cryptic, "the tiger died." Tomorrow I expect the log of today's page views to explode from the typical 225 to thousands.
Panthera pardus tulliana is the article's name, not "Anatolian leopard" or "Persian leopard", which both refer to it. I was just putting in the article's correct name. 2601:CA:4380:3A20:49C2:D076:AE11:6573 ( talk) 01:43, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Didn't you even look at my response above before you threatened to report me? In fact, why don't you just undo all the other leopard subspecies while you're at it? They've all got the same thing, except for Amur leopard, because I can't get into it right now.
If you'd just try looking at the article I mentioned above. you'd know I'm right.
Why didn't you just ask first before jumping to conclusions? I hate it when people blame me for crimes I didn't commit. 2601:CA:4380:3A20:49C2:D076:AE11:6573 ( talk)` — Preceding undated comment added 03:18, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi Elmidae, hope you're well. I saw your comment on an ANI discussion today, and couldn't help wondering why you weren't an admin; and then I remembered our previous conversation on the topic. My opinion of your suitability hasn't changed, and our need is as large as ever. Have you by any chance reconsidered? Vanamonde ( Talk) 17:45, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
I see you've reverted a lot of new and sourced content added to Guanaco at this edit. Was this by mistake? Best, Tyrone Madera ( talk) 06:06, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Oh- I did not see the Fox was covered already — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wildlifespec ( talk • contribs) 19:19, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
Following up on some concerns from the EN Wikt, I was reminded that you'd moved the Kinchaku article to Draft space ( Draft:Kinchaku) in June 2019. Another user nominated that for speedy deletion after it sat there unchanged for several months. Another couple editors then removed the speedy deletion notice, and redirected the page to the mainspace article -- which the same problematic user Mare-Silverus had re-created a couple weeks after you moved the previous article to Draft space.
The mainspace article at Kinchaku suffers from the same complete lack of sources that you pointed out in June 2019. This is also arguably not notable enough for a standalone article, as the content could easily be included instead as part of the List_of_items_traditionally_worn_in_Japan page, where indeed there is already a listing for kinchaku. In my own view, there just isn't enough material to justify a dedicated page.
Curious as to your thoughts. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │ Tala við mig 18:30, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
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HI!Elmidae, thank you for rescue my poor grammar in Human identical sequence, English is not my mother tongou. The main content of this entry is only supported by one article published in 2022. [1]
By the way, I am not a member of this research group, and there is no conflict of interest with this article.
I have a few ideas for improving this entry: 1.why did delete information about Host identical sequence? In the Discussion of this article [1], the author has put forward this concept:I think this entry can be proved by more following scientific research articles, so I redirect it here.
Accordingly, these identical sequences, termed here as "host identical sequences (HIS)". There are also similar sequences between the genomes of SARS-CoV-2 and their potential hosts including bat,64 Malayan pangolins,65,66 ferrets, and cats.67
2.Human identical sequence ont only share in human and coronavirus, but also other RNA virus (list in Supplementary materials 6 of this article) So I don't think it's appropriate to list all the sequences in the form of a list, maybe it can move to "list of human identical sequence in coronavirus" or "list of host identical sequence between human and coronavirus"?
In particular, HIS was found within other more than 100 pathogenic RNA viruses, including HIV,61 Ebolavirus,62 and Zika virus,63 indicating a common phenomenon that pathogenic viruses share identical genomic sequences to their hosts.
3.Now these sequence listed matching rate is 100% of ~20 bp, According to the author, 95%(1 mismatched base), 90%(2 mismatched) matching rate sequence still have approximate NamiRNAs properties. Maybe this list can be expanded by following research. -- Htmlzycq ( talk) 08:41, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hey!! Please have a look at this diff and this on the resp. talkpage. I think that this change on main page is not ok in view of its present title, but didn't want to edit war. What do YOU think? – BhagyaMani ( talk) 09:32, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
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I added Chhattisgarh specifically as a state in India to which this species is a native. This makes it easier for people to find this tree species when looking for trees native to the region. So, this edit is helpful for readers. Not sure why you marked the change as 'unnecessary'. Kindly provide more details.
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Hello Thank you for fixing my edit on Breviceps at first i believed Breviceps pentheri was the same species or a subspecies of the Breviceps adspersus i believed this due to https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Breviceps_adspersus this page listing it as a synonym for Breviceps adspersus and multiple other sources doing the same thing but after further research i found that those sources where outdated and found this https://amphibiansoftheworld.amnh.org/Amphibia/Anura/Brevicipitidae/Breviceps/Breviceps-pentheri which confirmed your point thank you for fixing my mistake Massimo510 ( talk) 06:03, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
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I don't understand. Lots of the pop culture stuff for the Axolotl isn't even important or beneficial to the species. Some of them don't even have sources, such as the first one. I get the Minecraft one because it's raising awareness for the species extinction, but the trivia fact for Bojack Horseman and some of the others isn't important. There needs to be a guide so that editors will know what is credible and not waste their time because to me, this feels more people being nickpicky based on opinions rather than being factual. 68.62.155.13 ( talk) 21:11, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
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Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size. [b]
In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).
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Hi. Could you do me a favor and move Hemipenthes seminiger back to Hemipenthes seminigra? The genus is feminine, and ITIS has an incorrect spelling. This one is pretty straightforward. Thanks. Dyanega ( talk) 16:24, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
While I have no real clue as to what you mean by "interesting case of an OR WL.." (Orwell?), the case is most interesting in that I am entirely convinced that Stephenson talked about just what the link " information wants to be free" you disliked points to. Or can you give me an alternative interpretation? -- Kku ( talk) 12:36, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
Hey I’ve kinda gotten into an edit war with you, but you seem like a pretty cool person and I think we just got off on the wrong foot, I’m looking to amend relations with you and improve my editing capabilities. Could you look at the “hatchet” and “spiked smasher” portion of the stomatapod wiki under “claws” to see if my sources are adequate as well as the “green sunfish” “aquarium” portion as I added more sources. Thanks, I hope we can get off on the right foot this time! Realfakebezalbob ( talk) 12:12, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello Elmidae! I saw you reverted my edit recently. If the case is about over referencing, I will lessen the reference. But I want to add some information because the species is endemic to Manipur. So, I was just putting it's Manipuri translation like every other articles used to do. Thanks! -- Haoreima ( talk) 06:47, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
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After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
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Hi Elmidae this is Sams321, i have created article Acting Ka Bhoot did not review till now can you please review my article, that will appreciate me to create new articles 😊. Thank You Sams321 ( talk) 15:41, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
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Wow! Great job! Indeed be proud of that! :) I found the refence for Pusch, 1942, but I'm stymied on determining who Pusch is. I'm tracking my hunt at Talk:List_of_authors_of_names_published_under_the_ICZN#Pusch. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:37, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hi there. Did you actually check the reference before you restored it? It's a grammar blog. Are blogs now considered a reliable source? Not only that, the blog clearly shows that the scholarly references – including the OED – all say that Canada goose is correct. The only ones who suggest that the "adjectival form" might be "more correct" (on grammar grounds alone) are grammarians. And they do not name birds! MeegsC ( talk) 08:31, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
The four standard dictionaries we’ve consulted, reflecting popular usage, list “Canada goose” as the common name for the North American bird, though two of them include “Canadian goose” as a variant usage.To whit: [3] - we could put that in the lede if you prefer. It is also easy to find plenty of publications using the synonym, e.g. [4]. This is well justified. -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 08:56, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Can you stop edit the page.I was try to improving the page.If I done I show you. DaikinInverter789 ( talk) 08:25, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
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Respected sir, I have uploaded a picture on Aryan valley of Ladakh which has been deleted by you from that page , But that pic is still available on wikipedia . Please delete it permenently . I want that pic name " arryan valley men dancing " pic to be deleted immediately as soon as possible Minaro123 ( talk) 09:10, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
Please delete these file below [1]
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I own these copyright and please delete these pic as soon as possible . I am felling nervous about my privacy . Minaro123 ( talk) 09:23, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
I was worried that you had writen to another user and asking him to delete or Merge Aryan valley of Ladakh with Brokpa . The aryan valley of Ladakh is a geographical area here brokpa live and it has a thousand of year history as independent kingdom and it was added into ladakh by a king of maharaja . Please have a patience ,i am looking for more reliable referencee about its geographical history . Please don't delete it or merge it ,please don't waste my lot of research and work Minaro123 ( talk) 19:35, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
I saw those edits yesterday and looked into them but couldn't assess them as obviously wrong--it's not my field. I did look for some community interaction on it but found none. Drmies ( talk) 17:41, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
being a described recently extant species in reliable taxonomic sources is the threshold for notabilitywith a sentence or two on why. That would be item 1. I only put in extant because I know there is more disagreement on species identified by fossils. I personally think all species should be included, but carving out recently living species may help lower the hurdle a little. That's language that could be tweaked with folks who are more familiar with that side of things though too.
I don't know why you use slang languages against me. This wasn't the first time you did. If you have disagreements talk in a civil and mature way. Just because I added something without sources doesn't mean I'm "making shit up". This is false accusation. Another time you supported another users edit stating "He's your trusted and he knows what he's doing" (or something like that) even when he deleted sourced content which I tried to restore, but refuse to trust my edits every time. I don't know why you're always against me, if I've done anything to displease you, I apologize to you. I really do. I don't want any beef with anyone in the Internet, specially not in Wikipedia. As for the recent edit, the species I added, I did read about them in books and articles or watched in documentaries. I can still provide links of videos and weak sources but Wikipedia doesn't allow videos as evidence or articles of other languages. I removed them anyway since you and the other user complained about it. But to remove the species do you have to remove all the other edits I made? The other user also did the same, that's what I said, you don't need to do that. Ishan87 ( talk) 14:04, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
I was trying to edit pages that you improved and leaved the message "exclusively non-constructive, WP:POINTy, or trolling edits", especially on the pages Datum (disambiguation), Etymology (which I gave a message for after your improvement), and Purple heron. I never like this message; what were you trying to do with it? And also, why? Leave me a message soon. 2607:FEA8:FD04:8132:3085:9554:1F37:BF97 ( talk) 23:19, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
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RE: (Undid revision 1118619518 by Citizen127 (talk) not an improvement. "Species X from [period] of [location]" is standard phrasing to refer to "occurred in [location] during [period]"). Wikipedia is not a forum for technical speech by highly skilled and educated experts. It's intended for the general public. The sentence that you are defending, "Several species of extinct Saiga from the Pleistocene of Eurasia and Alaska have been named," is confusing to the general public. I am almost entirely certain that the general public is not very comfortable with the term "Pleistocene," and putting it in a position that is usually occupied by a geographic, or demographic modifier is confusing. For it to be understandable to the general public, there has to be a temporal qualifier. It was confusing to me when I first read it. I'm confident that it will be confusing to most others that read ❤️ Citizen127 ( talk) 12:56, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
Hello Elmidae, I'm Tds018 and I've been contributing to the giant guitarfish article. Why did you exactly remove my content from the description? It may have been a lengthy amount, but I believe the Misidentification page was fundamental to article and you took out all my content. This article is for my biology project, and it genuinely means a lot to me. Thank you. Tds018 ( talk) 18:23, 5 December 2022 (UTC)