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I will try to review it this weekend. Cheers. -- Niwi3 ( talk) 00:34, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Neelix, thank you for your hard work on this but you may not be fully aware of the scope of Soviet divisions in general. This ru:Шаблон:Стрелковые дивизии СССР is the list of Soviet infantry divisions only, for the Second World War only. An approximate count would be five hundred regular rifle divisions, many formed twice or thrice during the war (or up to four times), a hundred and third odd Guards Rifle divisions, a hundred cavalry divisions, at least fifty artillery divisions, and dozens of anti-aircraft divisions etc. Then there are the two hundred motor rifle divisions, fifty-sixty tank divisions, maybe fifteen artillery divisions, fifty plus mechanised divisions, twenty or thirty Strategic Rocket Forces divisions, and sundry others postwar. This excludes Aviation Division which has a list of two hundred or so air divisions. Take a look at List of Soviet Union divisions for a semi-complete list of Second World War divisions only. Thus would you mind considering taking down your list until at least some of the redlinks are installed? Kind regards and many thanks, Buckshot06 (talk) 02:13, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Neelix, I am having problems with my Watchlist and notification set up. Up until last Sunday I was receiving email notifications anytime a change was made to any article on my Watchlist. This past week I have been checking my email daily, but saw not Wiki notifications for article changes. Due to other work, I haven't had much time to work on Wikipedia until night. I went into my Watchlist and found out that a great deal of changes had been made to several articles on my Watchlist, yet I did not receive any notifications of these changes. I have already checked my settings on Wikipedia and nothing has been changed. When I have a few minutes free at work, I try to check my school email, mostly to see if there are any Wiki changes. I don't usually have time until I get home to go on Wikipedia itself. As such, these notifications are really important and have been a great reminder system up until now. Please advise!!!! Thanks, Madscientist2007 ( talk) 02:23, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Neelix, I have another question for you. This time it has to do with a formatting change that was proposed by one of my classmates. The same classmate then wrote back later with a concern regarding his proposed changed and suggested that I contact an OA. Please see below:
Here is the idea: When the article opens up, most of what I see is a super long "contents box" that kind of overwhelms me. And, as I scroll through the article, I hit the major sections, sub-sections, and sub-sub-sections and I can't really tell what is a "sub-section" and what is a "sub-sub-section". (If I look real close, I can see that the font size is very slightly smaller, but it is hard to tell.) So, one idea is the make the sub-sub-sections just "indented bullets". This will help to visually separate sub-sections from sub-sub-sections and also will take the sub-sub-sections out of the contents box (making it much shorter). To illustrate this, I did a copy/paste of part of your article into my "sandbox3". Click this link to get to it: Jim892/sandbox3 Good luck thinking through this. Note that I replaced the sub-sub-sections (that have 4 equal signs on each side) with a "*" at the beginning of the line and then bolded the sub-sub-section text. Then, I added two ":" at the beginning of each block of text below the sub-sub-section. The editing required to do the indenting is a little tedious, but might be worth it for the visual effect.
Here is the concern:You are correct. The "TOC limit" just changes what displays in the Contents Box. You can do the "TOC limit" and the indenting/bulleting together or do just one and not the other. They won't interfere with each other. Now, one concern I have about my own suggestion on the indenting and bulleting... You might want to check with an Online Volunteer concerning my approach to be sure it doesn't violate Wikipedia's style guidelines or something. I got a comment on my own article about "bolding" items in a list, so I'd hate for you to do all that work and then find out it isn't "legal" to do it that way.
I like the idea that he put together in his sandbox ( Jim892/sandbox3). I think that it would help enhance my group's article ( Molecular-weight size marker). However, I do not want to go through and make the changes only to find out that it is against Wikipedia guidelines, especially since my class is coming to a close on 12/14. Any advice/suggestions/feedback would be appreciated. Thanks, Madscientist2007 ( talk) 17:49, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, and sorry I didn't come to your talk page in the first place. I think my point was that although the hatnote may be discouraged by WP:NAMB, the object of the exercise is to help the reader. If a reader is looking for one of the 1880s footballers via the dropdown search, they might well guess, but end up at the wrong one. Without the hatnote, we're not giving them any help in finding the one they're really looking for. OK, they can guess that typing just Joe Smith into the search box might work, but with the hatnote, we're giving them an obvious link to the dab page where the description should get then to the right one. Anyway, that's something we can disagree on, and I'm not ready for an edit war about it.
But I really wish you hadn't renamed them all contrary to the relevant naming conventions. By WP:NCSP#Association football (soccer), footballers of similar names are dabbed by nationality, or if that doesn't work, by birth year. Using middle names runs counter to the advice at WP:NCP#Middle names and initials against doing so just for disambiguation, and removing (footballer) from the article title makes it impossible for the reader using the search box to even spot the footballers. I realise you've got far more experience than I have in working with disambiguations, but the logic of renaming the correctly titled (per NCSP) Joe Smith (footballer born 1886) to Joseph Edward Smith, apparently for reasons of length of disambiguator, and renaming one of the 1889 births with vital years and the other with middle name, escapes me. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 21:37, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, I've reverted your recent edit to the above article since these things have already been discussed at the FLC. some similar lists are: List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Allan Donald, List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Kapil Dev and List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by B. S. Chandrasekhar. Regards, Zia Khan 04:11, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Neelix! This is the last day for my molecular class at Johns Hopkins and I just wanted to say thank you for your help as an online ambassador with our on-going Wiki project! Your suggestions and peer reviews were very useful and provided the guidance we needed to transform our stub article. Again, thanks for your help! Juanquina Thomas ( talk) 03:03, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
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Greetings, nice to meet a wikipedian interested in GLAM. Almost simultaneously, I left a message on Nikkimaria's page. As you are interested in outreach on linguistics, I think you would be more appropriate for my contact. For starters, where shall one go for information, FAQs, tips and advices ? Shall I talk with Wikipedia:GLAM/Connect#Online_Volunteers first ? --- Ktsquare (talk) 03:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC) P.S. Obviously Wikipedia:GLAM/About provides a page of overview but is something going on for W:GLAM in Canada ? -- Ktsquare (talk) 04:05, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
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Well, thank you for the address which I could not find. This is an excellent example for why the city of Las Vegas is not the primary use of Las Vegas. According to the county assessors office, that address, are you ready for this, is actually in Henderson, Nevada which is a totally different city. Another clear cut case where Las Vegas is used to describe anything in the entire valley. So while Las Vegas Valley is accurate, it is not the most precise, but clearly it is not wrong like saying it is in the city of Las Vegas is! Vegaswikian ( talk) 23:55, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Someone has recreated the Miss Asia Pacific World 2012 pageant and the other articles of the same subject that your merged per consensus in an AfD. -- BabbaQ ( talk) 13:24, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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Besides John Smith (Ohio politician born 1735), who else meets the description "John Smith (Ohio Senator)"? I can't find any on the disambiguation page. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 20:54, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Neelix- I don't understand why Treasury (Coin) Note has been renamed Coin Note? (not asked in a snarky or aggressive way). It's actually known as a Treasury Note in numismatics (per the title on the bill itself). The reason "coin" is sometime added is to differentiate it from a broader category of Treasury Notes issued during the War of 1812. I'm concerned calling it a coin note is not using it's most popular and well known name. Thanks.- Godot13 ( talk) 04:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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I don't understand why you had to meddle with this list. It was, after all, a featured list. That does not mean that it cannot be improved, but the changes you have made have IMO reduced the impact of the list, especially to the casual visitor. The first two paragraphs have gone; they were not redundant but were there to give the reader quick information about what the CCT is and does, without having to go to a separate article. FL criteria states that the lead "introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria". It no longer does so. The photographs were of course duplicated, but they were there to give an immediate impact to the casual reader, and maybe to draw him/her in to look further. Lists should not have emboldened material in the first sentence; and by doing this you have lost the link to the CCT. I accept that the See also section was not necessary, but I do not see the point of the major changes you have made to a list that had been found acceptable at the highest level. -- Peter I. Vardy ( talk) 10:50, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the images. But I cannot agree with you about the absence of info about the CCT in the lead. CCT is part of the title, and very few people know what it is and what it does. I intend to oppose the appearance of the list in its present form on the front page, and I will spell out the objections that I have made above at WP:TFLS -- Peter I. Vardy ( talk) 14:17, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't know how this works, but I'm just going to put this. How are you so smart? My email is personadabes@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.141.141 ( talk) 20:47, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Neelix. I am new to editing and participating on Wikipedia. I've read many articles but never contributed to any. I am apart of the Molecular Biology course through Johns Hopkins, so I am getting involved and trying out editing in Wikipedia via this course. It is an exciting and cool thing to learn how to do and I'm enjoying it so far. I'm looking forward to learning more about Wikipedia via you and this course. Thank for your willingness to assist! Tmckenne ( talk) 01:59, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix! My name is Martin and I am a student at John Hopkins University taking an online course (Molecular Biology). I've always thought Wikipedia is awesome, and I look forward to making a contribution to the site in the next coming months! Martinhyou ( talk) 18:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix,
I note you added a "genera belonging to the Ptychopariida" infobox to Yunnanocephalus, and probably to other Ptychopariid genera as well. You have every right to do so, but I do have doubts about its usefulness, as the number of Ptychopariid genera is so staggeringly big, that anybody will lose its way. It also becomes extreme bulky and may easily utterly dominate articles. I realise you included only a few genera so far, but I suppose you intend to expand as you at it to articles. In general, I would say infoboxes for genera per family are of more use, but not in the case of monotypical families like the Yunnanocephalidae, in which case the genus and family articles are merged and a "families belonging to the Ptychopariida" infobox could be useful. - Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 16:59, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Ah. I see. I guess preventing an orphan is not the best argumentation to have an infobox at all. I had a look at Brassicicephalus, and I think it is lacking much information and it is flawed as well (the monotypicallity). Dunno if you feel any need to improve it. If you would tell me you mailaddress, I will send you the information that is in the Treatise (already made the excerpt). My mailaddress is "jachthuis22 at kpnmail dot nl". If you think it is difficult to make it into layman's language, you can have a look at Yunnanocephalus, Angelina, Conocoryphe, Eoredlichia or many other pages, how I do it. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 10:07, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
I found another source from 1988 that is useful, and it seems to concur that Brassicicephalus is not monotypic, and also says it needs to be suppressed because it is the jr. synonym of Exigua, quite the other way around as in Sepkoski (which I could not check as the link did not work). Perhaps Exigua is unavailabe. Global Names Index on this and and the next page provides multiple generic authors, but according to the notation, the first two would be plants, and it is not clear if the third is a plant or an animal, and it also lacks a publication year. So this is in itself inconclusive. Jell and Adrian (2002) list Brassicicephalus LOCHMAN, 1940 [pulchellus] Bonneterre Dol, Missouri, USA; PLETHOPELTIDAE; UCAM [j.s.s. of Exigua, fide ROBISON, 1988]. Another assignment is Brassicicephalus wolfensis Lochman, 1944. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 11:02, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
I guess we better keep this discussion in one place, I posted a response on my talk page. Regards, Dwergenpaartje
Hi Neelix, I am a student at Johns Hopkins University, and in our Molecular Biology course, we have an opportunity to edit a article in Wikipedia. I find Wikipedia very resourceful, and I am looking forward to contributing to it. This is my first time editing in Wikipedia, and will appreciate any advice/help you can provide. Best regards. SabFernMB ( talk) 23:20, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Randel with the Johns Hopkins University/Molecular Biology, Section 82 (SP14) education program. I've never done editing with Wikipedia, but I'm learning quickly. Thank you for being one of our ambassadors for the program. Crandel5425 ( talk) 16:09, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix,
My name is Luyao Kevin Xu. Thank you very much for being the ambassador for our class (JHU, AAP, Molecular Biology SP14). I am looking forward to talking with you throughout this assignment.
Best, LX Luyao Kevin Xu ( talk) 03:20, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hey Neelix! My name is Adam and I, as well, am part of the Molecular Biology course at JHU. Wanted to stop by and say hello. Hope all is well! BigA726 ( talk) 15:13, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix! I too am in the Molecular Bio class at JHU and just wanted to say hi. Thanks for the help in advance for this upcoming seamster. Jhayes21 ( talk) 19:54, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Neelix! I'm also a student in the Molecular Biology course at JHU. I've never edited a Wikipedia article before. I look forward to working with you on this project. -- Jocelyn Munson ( talk) 23:01, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix,
I'm another student in the spring 2014 Molecular Biology course at John Hopkins. Thank you for being our online ambassador. I look forward to furthering my education in molecular biology and wiki!
Best regards,
Cindy Atwell Catwell99 ( talk) 01:36, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi! My name is Jennifer Huh (androidhu) from Molecular Biology class at JHU. It's nice to meet you. Thank you for being our ambassador Androidhu ( talk) 02:32, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix! I'm Lisa, and I'm also with the Molecular Biology class at JHU. Thank you for helping us, looking forward to working with you. Lisawisa ( talk) 03:50, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
You're objectively wrong, you can't support someone's right while actively working against their best interests. There are plenty of other categories these people could be in that are more accurate, like Anti-prostitution feminism (for example), but I should know better than to try and make constructive edits to sex work related articles that go against Wikipedia's prohibitionist stance. Best of luck! 184.161.25.16 ( talk) 04:37, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Sorry if my previous message was a bit abrupt. It has been a long fight, generally losing fight, to stop prohibitionist POV slanting of sex work articles. I'll assume good faith and accept that your reversions were based entirely upon the lack of an edit summary, as stated in your edit summary. Based on that, I have reinstated the edits with a summary, so there should be no issue now. As mentioned before, here are some more appropriate categories for anti-sex work activists:
Again, best of luck. 184.161.25.16 ( talk) 05:02, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
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I will try to review it this weekend. Cheers. -- Niwi3 ( talk) 00:34, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi Neelix, thank you for your hard work on this but you may not be fully aware of the scope of Soviet divisions in general. This ru:Шаблон:Стрелковые дивизии СССР is the list of Soviet infantry divisions only, for the Second World War only. An approximate count would be five hundred regular rifle divisions, many formed twice or thrice during the war (or up to four times), a hundred and third odd Guards Rifle divisions, a hundred cavalry divisions, at least fifty artillery divisions, and dozens of anti-aircraft divisions etc. Then there are the two hundred motor rifle divisions, fifty-sixty tank divisions, maybe fifteen artillery divisions, fifty plus mechanised divisions, twenty or thirty Strategic Rocket Forces divisions, and sundry others postwar. This excludes Aviation Division which has a list of two hundred or so air divisions. Take a look at List of Soviet Union divisions for a semi-complete list of Second World War divisions only. Thus would you mind considering taking down your list until at least some of the redlinks are installed? Kind regards and many thanks, Buckshot06 (talk) 02:13, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Neelix, I am having problems with my Watchlist and notification set up. Up until last Sunday I was receiving email notifications anytime a change was made to any article on my Watchlist. This past week I have been checking my email daily, but saw not Wiki notifications for article changes. Due to other work, I haven't had much time to work on Wikipedia until night. I went into my Watchlist and found out that a great deal of changes had been made to several articles on my Watchlist, yet I did not receive any notifications of these changes. I have already checked my settings on Wikipedia and nothing has been changed. When I have a few minutes free at work, I try to check my school email, mostly to see if there are any Wiki changes. I don't usually have time until I get home to go on Wikipedia itself. As such, these notifications are really important and have been a great reminder system up until now. Please advise!!!! Thanks, Madscientist2007 ( talk) 02:23, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Neelix, I have another question for you. This time it has to do with a formatting change that was proposed by one of my classmates. The same classmate then wrote back later with a concern regarding his proposed changed and suggested that I contact an OA. Please see below:
Here is the idea: When the article opens up, most of what I see is a super long "contents box" that kind of overwhelms me. And, as I scroll through the article, I hit the major sections, sub-sections, and sub-sub-sections and I can't really tell what is a "sub-section" and what is a "sub-sub-section". (If I look real close, I can see that the font size is very slightly smaller, but it is hard to tell.) So, one idea is the make the sub-sub-sections just "indented bullets". This will help to visually separate sub-sections from sub-sub-sections and also will take the sub-sub-sections out of the contents box (making it much shorter). To illustrate this, I did a copy/paste of part of your article into my "sandbox3". Click this link to get to it: Jim892/sandbox3 Good luck thinking through this. Note that I replaced the sub-sub-sections (that have 4 equal signs on each side) with a "*" at the beginning of the line and then bolded the sub-sub-section text. Then, I added two ":" at the beginning of each block of text below the sub-sub-section. The editing required to do the indenting is a little tedious, but might be worth it for the visual effect.
Here is the concern:You are correct. The "TOC limit" just changes what displays in the Contents Box. You can do the "TOC limit" and the indenting/bulleting together or do just one and not the other. They won't interfere with each other. Now, one concern I have about my own suggestion on the indenting and bulleting... You might want to check with an Online Volunteer concerning my approach to be sure it doesn't violate Wikipedia's style guidelines or something. I got a comment on my own article about "bolding" items in a list, so I'd hate for you to do all that work and then find out it isn't "legal" to do it that way.
I like the idea that he put together in his sandbox ( Jim892/sandbox3). I think that it would help enhance my group's article ( Molecular-weight size marker). However, I do not want to go through and make the changes only to find out that it is against Wikipedia guidelines, especially since my class is coming to a close on 12/14. Any advice/suggestions/feedback would be appreciated. Thanks, Madscientist2007 ( talk) 17:49, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, and sorry I didn't come to your talk page in the first place. I think my point was that although the hatnote may be discouraged by WP:NAMB, the object of the exercise is to help the reader. If a reader is looking for one of the 1880s footballers via the dropdown search, they might well guess, but end up at the wrong one. Without the hatnote, we're not giving them any help in finding the one they're really looking for. OK, they can guess that typing just Joe Smith into the search box might work, but with the hatnote, we're giving them an obvious link to the dab page where the description should get then to the right one. Anyway, that's something we can disagree on, and I'm not ready for an edit war about it.
But I really wish you hadn't renamed them all contrary to the relevant naming conventions. By WP:NCSP#Association football (soccer), footballers of similar names are dabbed by nationality, or if that doesn't work, by birth year. Using middle names runs counter to the advice at WP:NCP#Middle names and initials against doing so just for disambiguation, and removing (footballer) from the article title makes it impossible for the reader using the search box to even spot the footballers. I realise you've got far more experience than I have in working with disambiguations, but the logic of renaming the correctly titled (per NCSP) Joe Smith (footballer born 1886) to Joseph Edward Smith, apparently for reasons of length of disambiguator, and renaming one of the 1889 births with vital years and the other with middle name, escapes me. cheers, Struway2 ( talk) 21:37, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
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Nefarious: Merchant of Souls is a 2011 American documentary film about modern human trafficking, specifically sexual slavery. Presented from a Christian worldview, Nefarious covers human trafficking in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia, alternating interviews with re-enactments. Nefarious was written, directed, produced and narrated by Benjamin Nolot, founder and president of Exodus Cry, the film's distributor. Nolot travelled to 19 countries to collect the film's content. Interviewees in the film include Agape International Missions founder Don Brewster, former prostitute Annie Lobert, and Swedish Detective Superintendent Kajsa Wahlberg. Laila Mickelwait (pictured), Exodus Cry's Director of Awareness and Prevention, screened the film in several countries in an attempt to persuade governments to make laws similar to Sweden's Sex Purchase Act, which criminalizes the purchasing rather than the selling of sex. Nefarious has won a variety of film awards, including the Honolulu Film Award for Best Screenplay, the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival Best Documentary Feature Award, and the Indie Fest Feature Documentary Award of Excellence. ( Full article...)
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Hi, I've reverted your recent edit to the above article since these things have already been discussed at the FLC. some similar lists are: List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Allan Donald, List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Kapil Dev and List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by B. S. Chandrasekhar. Regards, Zia Khan 04:11, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Neelix! This is the last day for my molecular class at Johns Hopkins and I just wanted to say thank you for your help as an online ambassador with our on-going Wiki project! Your suggestions and peer reviews were very useful and provided the guidance we needed to transform our stub article. Again, thanks for your help! Juanquina Thomas ( talk) 03:03, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
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Greetings, nice to meet a wikipedian interested in GLAM. Almost simultaneously, I left a message on Nikkimaria's page. As you are interested in outreach on linguistics, I think you would be more appropriate for my contact. For starters, where shall one go for information, FAQs, tips and advices ? Shall I talk with Wikipedia:GLAM/Connect#Online_Volunteers first ? --- Ktsquare (talk) 03:57, 26 December 2013 (UTC) P.S. Obviously Wikipedia:GLAM/About provides a page of overview but is something going on for W:GLAM in Canada ? -- Ktsquare (talk) 04:05, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
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Well, thank you for the address which I could not find. This is an excellent example for why the city of Las Vegas is not the primary use of Las Vegas. According to the county assessors office, that address, are you ready for this, is actually in Henderson, Nevada which is a totally different city. Another clear cut case where Las Vegas is used to describe anything in the entire valley. So while Las Vegas Valley is accurate, it is not the most precise, but clearly it is not wrong like saying it is in the city of Las Vegas is! Vegaswikian ( talk) 23:55, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
Someone has recreated the Miss Asia Pacific World 2012 pageant and the other articles of the same subject that your merged per consensus in an AfD. -- BabbaQ ( talk) 13:24, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi Neelix- I don't understand why Treasury (Coin) Note has been renamed Coin Note? (not asked in a snarky or aggressive way). It's actually known as a Treasury Note in numismatics (per the title on the bill itself). The reason "coin" is sometime added is to differentiate it from a broader category of Treasury Notes issued during the War of 1812. I'm concerned calling it a coin note is not using it's most popular and well known name. Thanks.- Godot13 ( talk) 04:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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I don't understand why you had to meddle with this list. It was, after all, a featured list. That does not mean that it cannot be improved, but the changes you have made have IMO reduced the impact of the list, especially to the casual visitor. The first two paragraphs have gone; they were not redundant but were there to give the reader quick information about what the CCT is and does, without having to go to a separate article. FL criteria states that the lead "introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria". It no longer does so. The photographs were of course duplicated, but they were there to give an immediate impact to the casual reader, and maybe to draw him/her in to look further. Lists should not have emboldened material in the first sentence; and by doing this you have lost the link to the CCT. I accept that the See also section was not necessary, but I do not see the point of the major changes you have made to a list that had been found acceptable at the highest level. -- Peter I. Vardy ( talk) 10:50, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the images. But I cannot agree with you about the absence of info about the CCT in the lead. CCT is part of the title, and very few people know what it is and what it does. I intend to oppose the appearance of the list in its present form on the front page, and I will spell out the objections that I have made above at WP:TFLS -- Peter I. Vardy ( talk) 14:17, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
I don't know how this works, but I'm just going to put this. How are you so smart? My email is personadabes@gmail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.141.141 ( talk) 20:47, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Neelix. I am new to editing and participating on Wikipedia. I've read many articles but never contributed to any. I am apart of the Molecular Biology course through Johns Hopkins, so I am getting involved and trying out editing in Wikipedia via this course. It is an exciting and cool thing to learn how to do and I'm enjoying it so far. I'm looking forward to learning more about Wikipedia via you and this course. Thank for your willingness to assist! Tmckenne ( talk) 01:59, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix! My name is Martin and I am a student at John Hopkins University taking an online course (Molecular Biology). I've always thought Wikipedia is awesome, and I look forward to making a contribution to the site in the next coming months! Martinhyou ( talk) 18:17, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix,
I note you added a "genera belonging to the Ptychopariida" infobox to Yunnanocephalus, and probably to other Ptychopariid genera as well. You have every right to do so, but I do have doubts about its usefulness, as the number of Ptychopariid genera is so staggeringly big, that anybody will lose its way. It also becomes extreme bulky and may easily utterly dominate articles. I realise you included only a few genera so far, but I suppose you intend to expand as you at it to articles. In general, I would say infoboxes for genera per family are of more use, but not in the case of monotypical families like the Yunnanocephalidae, in which case the genus and family articles are merged and a "families belonging to the Ptychopariida" infobox could be useful. - Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 16:59, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Ah. I see. I guess preventing an orphan is not the best argumentation to have an infobox at all. I had a look at Brassicicephalus, and I think it is lacking much information and it is flawed as well (the monotypicallity). Dunno if you feel any need to improve it. If you would tell me you mailaddress, I will send you the information that is in the Treatise (already made the excerpt). My mailaddress is "jachthuis22 at kpnmail dot nl". If you think it is difficult to make it into layman's language, you can have a look at Yunnanocephalus, Angelina, Conocoryphe, Eoredlichia or many other pages, how I do it. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 10:07, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
I found another source from 1988 that is useful, and it seems to concur that Brassicicephalus is not monotypic, and also says it needs to be suppressed because it is the jr. synonym of Exigua, quite the other way around as in Sepkoski (which I could not check as the link did not work). Perhaps Exigua is unavailabe. Global Names Index on this and and the next page provides multiple generic authors, but according to the notation, the first two would be plants, and it is not clear if the third is a plant or an animal, and it also lacks a publication year. So this is in itself inconclusive. Jell and Adrian (2002) list Brassicicephalus LOCHMAN, 1940 [pulchellus] Bonneterre Dol, Missouri, USA; PLETHOPELTIDAE; UCAM [j.s.s. of Exigua, fide ROBISON, 1988]. Another assignment is Brassicicephalus wolfensis Lochman, 1944. Dwergenpaartje ( talk) 11:02, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
I guess we better keep this discussion in one place, I posted a response on my talk page. Regards, Dwergenpaartje
Hi Neelix, I am a student at Johns Hopkins University, and in our Molecular Biology course, we have an opportunity to edit a article in Wikipedia. I find Wikipedia very resourceful, and I am looking forward to contributing to it. This is my first time editing in Wikipedia, and will appreciate any advice/help you can provide. Best regards. SabFernMB ( talk) 23:20, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm Randel with the Johns Hopkins University/Molecular Biology, Section 82 (SP14) education program. I've never done editing with Wikipedia, but I'm learning quickly. Thank you for being one of our ambassadors for the program. Crandel5425 ( talk) 16:09, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix,
My name is Luyao Kevin Xu. Thank you very much for being the ambassador for our class (JHU, AAP, Molecular Biology SP14). I am looking forward to talking with you throughout this assignment.
Best, LX Luyao Kevin Xu ( talk) 03:20, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hey Neelix! My name is Adam and I, as well, am part of the Molecular Biology course at JHU. Wanted to stop by and say hello. Hope all is well! BigA726 ( talk) 15:13, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix! I too am in the Molecular Bio class at JHU and just wanted to say hi. Thanks for the help in advance for this upcoming seamster. Jhayes21 ( talk) 19:54, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Neelix! I'm also a student in the Molecular Biology course at JHU. I've never edited a Wikipedia article before. I look forward to working with you on this project. -- Jocelyn Munson ( talk) 23:01, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix,
I'm another student in the spring 2014 Molecular Biology course at John Hopkins. Thank you for being our online ambassador. I look forward to furthering my education in molecular biology and wiki!
Best regards,
Cindy Atwell Catwell99 ( talk) 01:36, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi! My name is Jennifer Huh (androidhu) from Molecular Biology class at JHU. It's nice to meet you. Thank you for being our ambassador Androidhu ( talk) 02:32, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Neelix! I'm Lisa, and I'm also with the Molecular Biology class at JHU. Thank you for helping us, looking forward to working with you. Lisawisa ( talk) 03:50, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
You're objectively wrong, you can't support someone's right while actively working against their best interests. There are plenty of other categories these people could be in that are more accurate, like Anti-prostitution feminism (for example), but I should know better than to try and make constructive edits to sex work related articles that go against Wikipedia's prohibitionist stance. Best of luck! 184.161.25.16 ( talk) 04:37, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Sorry if my previous message was a bit abrupt. It has been a long fight, generally losing fight, to stop prohibitionist POV slanting of sex work articles. I'll assume good faith and accept that your reversions were based entirely upon the lack of an edit summary, as stated in your edit summary. Based on that, I have reinstated the edits with a summary, so there should be no issue now. As mentioned before, here are some more appropriate categories for anti-sex work activists:
Again, best of luck. 184.161.25.16 ( talk) 05:02, 18 February 2014 (UTC)