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I think I've finished updating the mpox outbreak articles to use the new name. One remaining task is to update the clade naming. There is some text referring to clades I and II but most uses the old naming. I've been able to find that the 2022-23 outbreak has been identified as clade IIb (see BMJ and PMC 9997665). I'm feeling a wee bit out my depth on how best to update particularly the main mpox, monkeypox virus and 2022–2023 mpox outbreak articles. The latter has a "Cases per country and territory" table with a clade column that is mostly empty and unsourced. I think that column should probably be removed. Most of the country/region-specific articles have text like "caused by the West African clade (type) of the monkeypox virus" and I don't know quite the best word-order for redoing that with the IIb naming. Would it be "caused by monkeypox virus clade IIb" or "caused by clade IIb of the monkeypox virus". Both forms drop the "(type)" and I guess most readers won't know what a clade is. The clade article I link is fairly general. Do we need one on viruses or is that ok?
Anyway, hope you can give some advice and maybe look at updating the main three articles and I'll update the other country articles if you can suggest good replacement text. I think the BMJ article could be a good source for the "IIb" fact, but maybe there are better? -- Colin° Talk 19:29, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
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Is that everything? Best. Graham Beards ( talk) 10:34, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi Graham. I saw that you reverted my earlier edit to Gram stain, which I made in the interests of consistency throughout the article. Your edit summary says "There are both uses now in the article", but according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style, "Where more than one style or format is acceptable under the MoS, one should be used consistently within an article". Excluding usage at the beginning of sentences (where it will always be capitalised, whatever the format used), 'gram-negative' appears 12 times in the article with a lowercase 'g', and only twice with a capital 'G'. I therefore propose reverting back to my edits, as this is in line with the capitalisation used elsewhere in the article, and as used consistently in both Gram-negative bacteria and Gram-positive bacteria. My edit only makes two changes, but changing consistently to a capital G would necessitate many more changes to Gram stain, as well as 34 changes to Gram-negative bacteria and 50 changes Gram-positive bacteria, and would therefore require some kind of consensus to be reached on the three articles' talk pages. Do you object to me reverting the page back to the way I edited it? CLW ( talk) 08:39, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello @ Graham Beards: How are you? I wonder if you can help me. I worked on this article with SpinningSpark in 2019. I noticed you commented on the FA review of the article in 2020 at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom/archive1. I am planning to take Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom through FA and wonder if it ready for FA review. It been through a quite heavy copyedit in 2020 and wonder if that has made any difference to the quality of grammer and text. scope_creep Talk 16:10, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
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Graham, now that Nonmetal (chemistry) has failed FAC could you assist me to address your outstanding concerns regarding the article? I believe these have to do with:
On #2, yes. Nonmetals in chemistry refer to the chemical elements; nonmetals in materials science is a broader concept encompassing nonmetal materials i.e. those lacking metallic properties including polymers (e.g. proteins, DNA, plastics, rubber); ceramics (metallic and nonmetallic elements bonded together): semiconductors (e.g. gallium arsenide); and composites (having two or more distinct components, usually a matrix material and reinforcing fillers). Some examples from the literature are:
That does not mean that in materials science the chemists’ idea of a nonmetal is not used. The difficulty arises with regard to the broader conception of nonmetals in materials science as per my examples.
On #4, I’m not wedded to that table and would be happy to consider any alternatives. For example I could add a traditional stair-step dividing line between metals and nonmetals, if you feel that would help.
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Dear Graham Beards,
you reverted my addition of hairlessness as a charactaristic of humans, which (I think) makes them stand apart from other primates with the comment "Humans are covered with hair except for the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet". I am very much aware of this fact... Yet, if you had followed the link I put in my change ( Fur#Mammals_with_reduced_fur) you would have seen, that species with 'considerably reduced amount of fur' are called hairless. Compared to other primates, this is obviously the case for humans, which are also given an example for hairlessness in the linked section. Maybe the term 'naked' is less misleading? I'd love to hear your opinion on this.
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I have the article on Howard Florey up for review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Howard Florey/archive1. If you could take a look at it, it would be greatly appreciated. It could use a reviewers with some medical knowledge. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:06, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
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A long time ago, you said the Mars Society article is not up to FAC standards yet. I've made several attempts to polish the prose and ensure text-source integrity, but, unfortunately, the article is still pretty short as it is hard to find additional sources on the topic. What do you think about the article now? ( link to article) CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 13:45, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
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First let me thank you in words (I already clicked the "Thank" button) for your kind reversion of Fabrickator's reversion of my edit in the Pathology article. It has actually been remarkably rare that a reversion of a perfectly good edit of mine has itself been quite rightly reverted, so, besides thinking "Yippee!", I also thought, "Great minds think alike".
I see you have 30, 000 edits and were once an Admin, which is all the more reason I think you might be able to advise me about how to deal with Fabrickator. I'm sorry to say that he or she has been following me around Wikipedia for months, reverting perfectly good edits of mine, like the one you re-reverted so kindly. He even admitted just today on my talk page that he believes he should revert good edits that in his personal judgement only improve the article slightly. Here's a complete quote with bold font added by me to the key part:
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It's not for me to decide who is right or wrong here, if indeed there is any wrongdoing. Anyone is allowed to make edits, however small, to most articles, and anyone is allowed to revert them. We have policies that cover how editors are expected to interact, which include assume good faith, the three revert rule and hounding. If either of you believe these, or other policies have been, contravened, you can choose not to get involved and move on, or report to the admins' noticeboard. Short reports – with diff's – are more likely to receive attention than walls of text. Since you asked for my advice, I suggest you simply disengage with one another because this would be the for best for the project. Graham Beards ( talk) 09:22, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
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There is a debate at talk:Scientific method#Stemwedel quote to which you may wish to contribute. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 14:04, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2024 The link invited me to vote. I have no clue. Are you allowed to advise me how to vote? You seem like a good egg, so I'll probably do what you suggest. Polar Apposite ( talk) 22:53, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
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I think I've finished updating the mpox outbreak articles to use the new name. One remaining task is to update the clade naming. There is some text referring to clades I and II but most uses the old naming. I've been able to find that the 2022-23 outbreak has been identified as clade IIb (see BMJ and PMC 9997665). I'm feeling a wee bit out my depth on how best to update particularly the main mpox, monkeypox virus and 2022–2023 mpox outbreak articles. The latter has a "Cases per country and territory" table with a clade column that is mostly empty and unsourced. I think that column should probably be removed. Most of the country/region-specific articles have text like "caused by the West African clade (type) of the monkeypox virus" and I don't know quite the best word-order for redoing that with the IIb naming. Would it be "caused by monkeypox virus clade IIb" or "caused by clade IIb of the monkeypox virus". Both forms drop the "(type)" and I guess most readers won't know what a clade is. The clade article I link is fairly general. Do we need one on viruses or is that ok?
Anyway, hope you can give some advice and maybe look at updating the main three articles and I'll update the other country articles if you can suggest good replacement text. I think the BMJ article could be a good source for the "IIb" fact, but maybe there are better? -- Colin° Talk 19:29, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
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Is that everything? Best. Graham Beards ( talk) 10:34, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi Graham. I saw that you reverted my earlier edit to Gram stain, which I made in the interests of consistency throughout the article. Your edit summary says "There are both uses now in the article", but according to Wikipedia:Manual of Style, "Where more than one style or format is acceptable under the MoS, one should be used consistently within an article". Excluding usage at the beginning of sentences (where it will always be capitalised, whatever the format used), 'gram-negative' appears 12 times in the article with a lowercase 'g', and only twice with a capital 'G'. I therefore propose reverting back to my edits, as this is in line with the capitalisation used elsewhere in the article, and as used consistently in both Gram-negative bacteria and Gram-positive bacteria. My edit only makes two changes, but changing consistently to a capital G would necessitate many more changes to Gram stain, as well as 34 changes to Gram-negative bacteria and 50 changes Gram-positive bacteria, and would therefore require some kind of consensus to be reached on the three articles' talk pages. Do you object to me reverting the page back to the way I edited it? CLW ( talk) 08:39, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello @ Graham Beards: How are you? I wonder if you can help me. I worked on this article with SpinningSpark in 2019. I noticed you commented on the FA review of the article in 2020 at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom/archive1. I am planning to take Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom through FA and wonder if it ready for FA review. It been through a quite heavy copyedit in 2020 and wonder if that has made any difference to the quality of grammer and text. scope_creep Talk 16:10, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
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Graham, now that Nonmetal (chemistry) has failed FAC could you assist me to address your outstanding concerns regarding the article? I believe these have to do with:
On #2, yes. Nonmetals in chemistry refer to the chemical elements; nonmetals in materials science is a broader concept encompassing nonmetal materials i.e. those lacking metallic properties including polymers (e.g. proteins, DNA, plastics, rubber); ceramics (metallic and nonmetallic elements bonded together): semiconductors (e.g. gallium arsenide); and composites (having two or more distinct components, usually a matrix material and reinforcing fillers). Some examples from the literature are:
That does not mean that in materials science the chemists’ idea of a nonmetal is not used. The difficulty arises with regard to the broader conception of nonmetals in materials science as per my examples.
On #4, I’m not wedded to that table and would be happy to consider any alternatives. For example I could add a traditional stair-step dividing line between metals and nonmetals, if you feel that would help.
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Dear Graham Beards,
you reverted my addition of hairlessness as a charactaristic of humans, which (I think) makes them stand apart from other primates with the comment "Humans are covered with hair except for the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet". I am very much aware of this fact... Yet, if you had followed the link I put in my change ( Fur#Mammals_with_reduced_fur) you would have seen, that species with 'considerably reduced amount of fur' are called hairless. Compared to other primates, this is obviously the case for humans, which are also given an example for hairlessness in the linked section. Maybe the term 'naked' is less misleading? I'd love to hear your opinion on this.
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I have the article on Howard Florey up for review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Howard Florey/archive1. If you could take a look at it, it would be greatly appreciated. It could use a reviewers with some medical knowledge. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:06, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
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A long time ago, you said the Mars Society article is not up to FAC standards yet. I've made several attempts to polish the prose and ensure text-source integrity, but, unfortunately, the article is still pretty short as it is hard to find additional sources on the topic. What do you think about the article now? ( link to article) CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 13:45, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi Graham Beards, I see I'm here for the same reason as CSC just above. I've spruced up prostate cancer and am hoping to take it to FAC soonish. If you've got the time and interest to give it a read, I'd very much appreciate any comments/criticisms you might have. Thanks for all you do! Ajpolino ( talk) 07:13, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
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I was checking the taxonomy of viruses when I saw that the naming of articles and templates related to viruses was done according to the ICTV classification method. Has there been a discussion and consensus for this type of classification? Pereoptic Talk✉️ 07:13, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Dear Sir,
First let me thank you in words (I already clicked the "Thank" button) for your kind reversion of Fabrickator's reversion of my edit in the Pathology article. It has actually been remarkably rare that a reversion of a perfectly good edit of mine has itself been quite rightly reverted, so, besides thinking "Yippee!", I also thought, "Great minds think alike".
I see you have 30, 000 edits and were once an Admin, which is all the more reason I think you might be able to advise me about how to deal with Fabrickator. I'm sorry to say that he or she has been following me around Wikipedia for months, reverting perfectly good edits of mine, like the one you re-reverted so kindly. He even admitted just today on my talk page that he believes he should revert good edits that in his personal judgement only improve the article slightly. Here's a complete quote with bold font added by me to the key part:
Polar Apposite ( talk) 15:49, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
It's not for me to decide who is right or wrong here, if indeed there is any wrongdoing. Anyone is allowed to make edits, however small, to most articles, and anyone is allowed to revert them. We have policies that cover how editors are expected to interact, which include assume good faith, the three revert rule and hounding. If either of you believe these, or other policies have been, contravened, you can choose not to get involved and move on, or report to the admins' noticeboard. Short reports – with diff's – are more likely to receive attention than walls of text. Since you asked for my advice, I suggest you simply disengage with one another because this would be the for best for the project. Graham Beards ( talk) 09:22, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
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There is a debate at talk:Scientific method#Stemwedel quote to which you may wish to contribute. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 ( talk) 14:04, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2024 The link invited me to vote. I have no clue. Are you allowed to advise me how to vote? You seem like a good egg, so I'll probably do what you suggest. Polar Apposite ( talk) 22:53, 12 February 2024 (UTC)