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I have been on the ride Starship 3000 where you get stuck to the wall due to the force of the spinning of the ride. Is this the best example tthat of how someone can experience Hypergravity? Luwychocki13 ( talk) 13:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Orenburg1 and welcome to wikipedia. I hope that you have a good time here and enjoy editing. In regard of your recent edits to the article Planet Earth, you changed "summer" to "spring" in several sections and "6 months" to "4 months" in the case of Penguins in the Antarctic. Would you be able to explain the rationale for your edits please? Sincerely, Antarctic-adventurer (talk) 12:39, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
I should have put a note. I reverted edits by IP's 70.239.11.123 & 76.205.81.217 made on 8th and 11th November 2010. It seems that there is a person out there who persistently changes "spring" to "summer" on various pages and also likes to mess with dates. From the pattern of edits I suspect that they are also using IP's 76.205.88.228, 76.205.90.138, 76.205.82.239 and 70.239.10.245 which are all in the same geolocation and possibly some others.
I undid your edit to Diamond Star. I can not understand why you made it. Would you care to explain it to me? I'll keep your talkpage watched. Debresser ( talk) 21:43, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your copy-editing there. Also perhaps help to get these Harvnb references quite right. Si Trew ( talk) 07:57, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Orenburg1, I've reverted your edit to Saniwa as I couldn't see an explanation for why you reverted the article back 4 days. All the information seemed to me to be referenced, reliable and well-written so I was wondering why you removed it? I was made aware of it as some of the information you removed is currently referenced on the Main Page in the DYK section. If you have any questions, please leave them on my talk page. Regards, Woody ( talk) 12:08, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Orenburg1, I just wanted to let you know that there is a discussion regarding your tagging at the GOCE. The tagging comes at a time when the Guild is holding a drive, and has resulted in a huge dent in the Guild's efforts. Cheers. -- SMasters ( talk) 01:14, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Very glad that your typo hunt spotted the error "altough" in Queen's Logic. Thanks. Tigerboy1966 ( talk) 13:50, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
For your copyedit of the History of the Republic of Ireland page. Much appreciated.
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Hi! As my English teacher says "we all need an editor". So I thought I'd point out that on your user page, you've misspelled "prejudice".
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I'd be happy if you'd contribute more to the Lego Ninjago: The Series article. Your original help was great, thanks. I posted some suggestions on the discussion page as well.
If you want you can watch more episodes of the series on youtube. I believe a user named XmasToys has several uploaded.
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I see you reverted Praetorian3005 ( talk · contribs) at this article. He is/was a sock of the then blocked Imperator1974 ( talk · contribs) who has edited/created a number of articles with similar content. Dougweller ( talk) 10:02, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
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Comma or no comma. Thanks for highlighting this: it seems that opinion is divided on the matter. I'll try to get a consensus at the Project page. Tigerboy1966 14:55, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there. Well done with all the spelling corrections. Sad to say, this is a false positive - almost incredibly, the source URL is spelt wrongly. I've left a note with an archive link on the talk page and will try to sort it out if I get a chance. For now, I've reverted it to the right-wrong (old) spelling. Hope this helps. Best wishes DBaK ( talk) 17:05, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
When you undid the vandalism at Richardson's ground squirrel, you reverted to another, also-vandalized version. -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{ Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 20:22, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi: I removed those lines about Steve Kern & Mick Cornett from the Metropolitan Library System (Oklahoma) entry simply because I don't think they contribute to the entry. My intentions weren't to dismiss these issues or to censor them but I don't think that they add anything helpful/informative to this article. I think there are venues online in which this content can be shared, but I don't think a Wikipedia article about Metropolitan Library is the best one for this information. I look forward to hearing your feedback. Tspindle ( talk) 14:22, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
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Can you tell me why you removed the orphan tag from Udokan mine when there is still no articles that link to it?-- Zayeem (talk) 18:25, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
It was a lot of work to translate it from Hungarian wiki page, and search many references n English language books of academic historians, it contained a lot of basic informations (such as goverments ). It is close to vandalism with very hypocritical insufficient grounds (like sockpuppet stubes etc....)-- Tumbsder ( talk) 18:36, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Orenburg1 ( talk) 18:52, 15 March 2015 (UTC) Can you point out concrete way, which parts are not neutral? Exactly? You can found them in the books of the references. We can edit it, if they differ from the references. I'm curious. Thank you!-- Tumbsder ( talk) 19:02, 15 March 2015 (UTC) If you don't like the grammar, you can correct it. -- Tumbsder ( talk) 21:53, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
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Please fix this article for just a reason .. because at writing out this article it was unfinished drafting information which i'm emphasized to gathered or make an additional scope for that mentioned article. i am requesting you to refix this article urgently — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patrick F. Matre ( talk • contribs) 11:13, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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On my, according to two people here, *random* use of punctuation in my article edits:
There has been a general decline, particularly in American culture, since, shortly after the advent of the Internet (that word, by the way, is ALWAYS capitalized), and particularly, the 'World-Wide Web', in what used to be considered, 'good' English grammar. But a trend towards degeneration has been firmly set in place - mainly due to ignorance of the rules of the language, and, sheer laziness of attitude and that, mainly in punctuation, spelling, syntax, grammar, etc. This, I well remember, was predicted early on by veteran computer users, and, in particular, those who were writers. This trend, of course, is due to the influx and influence of the general populace, which, seemingly all at once, introduced a 'lowest-common-denominator' policy on textual communication, by people who, typically, were not at all familiar with keyboards, namely typewriters, as used in textual communication of any kind. This has affect the comprehension and interpretation of said communications, to such a degree, that, more than 80% of all Internet-originated, textual communications sent by, even close family members, are misunderstood by the receiver, and another 80%, of any given message's content, is not correctly interpreted.
Punctuation, is the 'flavor' of a statement, or clause, as it relates to the previous, and the following statement or clause. As the eye perceives any good artwork, you are being guided - sensibly, and rationally through it, by way of proper punctuation. See how easy, and conversational that was to read? Now, try this:
"There has been a general decline particularly in america since shortly after the advent of the internet which by the way is always capitalized and particularly the world wide web in what used to be considered good english grammar a trend towards degeneration has been firmly set in place mainly due to ignorance of the rules of the english language mainly in punctuation spelling syntax grammar and etc." No, I wouldn't want to have to read it again, either.
There is, also, probably something else to consider. That is, your personal familiarity or unfamiliarity, with the language and how you learned to speak it, and, how you read it. If you're under about the age of 30, then you, and those before you, are speaking it differently. Your 'discontinued use' of - what used to be required adeptness in - the intricacies of English grammar, doesn't make my memory, and my retention of it, wrong. Good writing should resemble, even mimic, oral conversation. Punctuation gives a string of ideas, or a clause - or a string, or a progression of clauses - clarity, and sensibility. See that? If you didn't quite catch it, read it again.
According to Strunk and White, a certain amount of 'literary freedom', is granted to the writer, who may wish to use it as a literary 'device', or, in such a way as to emphasize something, which, may not present itself, readily, to the reader. Punctuation should present, properly, the idea proposed, in a way that fits, and suits, the desired, chosen way of expression of the writer. The way it is written and punctuated, depends on the content, dialect, phraseology (British, or American) emphasis of content or idea, and, even local colloquialism.
DO NOT criticize, or otherwise reprimand me, for my application of something, that is going to assist you, in the understanding, and readability, of each idea, as it occurs, and is presented, in a way that, in the end, makes your reading experience, one, of better, overall comprehension. Now, read that rather lengthy sentence again - this time, with no punctuation. Have fun. DO NOT try to minimalize my level of continued, and, continuing education, unless, you are quite well-prepared to assert comparisons. If, at this point, you didn't quite catch what I just said, read it again. If all else fails - I'll do the writing; you, do the reading. Wikidalien ( talk) 00:42, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Orenburg1, Wikipedia only has one page for a Westphal article, while there are actually two Westphal's with one being a neighbourhood located in Dartmouth, NS and the other being a separate community outside Dartmouth, NS. I was wondering if you could help me gather sources so we could get the Westphal community up on Wikipedia and have it show on Google Maps. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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Hi. I removed the squirrel image because it was wrongly described - as my edit note said. I didn't intend to delete anything else, so have removed the image again keeping that other data. Thanks for spotting my editing error. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 20:58, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Orenburg1, How are you? I don't think we have spoken before. Yip is thr short answer. When Feichtner was captured after the war, he had to write some homework they called it, by TICOM, which is essentially all the stuff he did while he was working as a Luftwaffe officer. As part of the Germany surrendering unconditionally, German soldiers had to offer all the information they had to whoever in the allies wanted it. TICOM and a British outfit CSDIC sent teams in to capture and interrogate important Germans who were involved in the intelligence side of things. Feichtner was one of those captured. So it is his homework you are reading. He was very busy Luftwaffe officer. I have other homework examples, e.g. Otto Buggisch who was also captured and Hans Rohrbach who was a brilliant mathematican and crypanalyst, one of their best and did important work after the war. He wrote a 98 page homework document on a solving the O2 strip cipher, which is dense mathematical treatise and too long for Wikipedia really, which is unfortunate. All these documents are in the public domain and have been cleared for use by Wikipedia, and Diaanna. regards. scope_creep ( talk) 10:03, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contributions to the article on Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. It has been among the favorite articles which I have written because it tells that Puerto Ricans have made positive contributions to the United States. The fact is that Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico when Puerto Rico was still a Spanish Colony and therefore he was not an American citizen.
As a matter of fact Puerto Rican citizenship was first legislated by the United States Congress in Article 7 of the Foraker Act of 1900. When Puerto Ricans were granted a limited citizenship in 1917, by the Jones Act, they didn't have to give their Puerto Rican Citizenship. On November 18, 1997, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, through its ruling in Miriam J. Ramirez de Ferrer v. Juan Mari Brás, reaffirmed the standing existence of the Puerto Rican citizenship. The CIA World Fact Book, states that the nationality of Puerto Ricans is not "American" but, in fact, "Puerto Rican."
Not only that, he was proud of being a Puerto Rican and referred to himself as an "Afroborinqueño" which means "Afro-Puerto Rican". He became a member of the "Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico" and became an active advocate of Puerto Rico's and Cuba's independence from Spain.
Let's go by the true facts, this being an encyclopedia. We can not re-write history to our liking. Now, thank you once more for your good-faith editing. Tony the Marine ( talk) 02:18, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
Iam public figure..i need wikipedia..please create for me آرمان عفیفه ( talk) 19:41, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for correcting my poor typing on the above. I see Watermillock came straight back. He has played around not usually flatteringly with this biog for some years under Watermillock and other usernames. Charlbury4 ( talk) 23:44, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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Tree of Life editors are making a respectable showing in this year's WikiCup, with three regular editors advancing to the third round. Overall winner from 2016, Casliber, topped the scoreboard in points for round 2, getting a nice bonus for bringing Black mamba to FA. Enwebb continues to favor things remotely related to bats, bringing Stellaluna to GA. Plants editor Guettarda also advanced to round 3 with several plant-related DYKs.
A March 2019 paper in PLOS Biology found that Wikipedia page views vary seasonally for species. With a dataset of 31,751 articles about species, the authors found that roughly a quarter of all articles had significant seasonal variations in page views on at least one language version of Wikipedia. They examined 245 language versions. Page views also peaked with cultural events, such as views of the Great white shark article during Shark Week or Turkey during Thanksgiving.
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Dippy is the most famous dinosaur skeleton in the world? (1 April)
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On 23 May, user Prometheus720 created a talk page post, "Revamp of Wikiproject Biology--Who is In?". In the days since, WP:BIOL has been bustling with activity, with over a dozen editors weighing in on this discussion, as well as several others that have subsequently spawned. An undercurrent of thought is that WP:BIOL has too many subprojects, preventing editors from easily interacting and stopping a "critical mass" of collaboration and engagement. Many mergers and consolidations of subprojects have been tentatively listed, with a consolidation of WikiProjects Genetics + Molecular and Cell Biology + Computational Biology + Biophysics currently in discussion. Other ideas being aired include updating old participants lists, redesigning project pages to make them more user-friendly, and clearly identifying long- and short-term goals.
Editors FunkMonk and Jens Lallensack had a very fruitful month, collaborating to bring two dinosaur articles to GA and then nominating them both for FA. They graciously decided to answer some questions for the first ToL Editor Spotlight, giving insight to their successful collaborations, explaining why you should collaborate with them, and also sharing some tidbits about their lives off-Wikipedia.
1) Enwebb: How long have you two been collaborating on articles?
2) Enwebb: Why dinosaurs?
3) Enwebb: Why should other editors join you in writing articles related to paleontology? Are you looking to attract new editors, or draw in experienced editors from other areas of Wikipedia?
4) Enwebb: Between the two of you, you have over 300 GA reviews. FunkMonk, you have over 250 of those. What keeps you coming back to review more articles?
5) Enwebb: What are your editing preferences? Any scripts or gadgets you find invaluable?
6) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-wiki?
Get in touch with these editors regarding collaboration at WikiProject Dinosaurs!
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The WikiCup, an annual editing competition, is now in its fourth round. Casliber, consistent participant since 2010 and winner in 2016, is currently dominating Group A with 601 points. Largely responsible is the successful Featured Article nomination of Masked booby. The other remaining Tree of Life participant, Enwebb, is participating in her first ever WikiCup. In this round, she has a grand total of...5 points. But with the recent Featured Article nomination of Megabat, she stands to gain 600 points if successful. As it stands, though, it appears that at least one ToL editor is headed to the fifth and final round of 8 contestants, which begins September 1. Thus far, all participants in the WikiCup have generated 17 Featured Articles, 116 Good Articles, 16 Featured Lists, and 57 Featured Pictures. The Good Article Nominations backlog has been reduced as well, with 286 Good Article Reviews. |
For this month's editor spotlight we're joined by
Charlesjsharp, a longtime contributor to Wikimedia Commons with a plethora of featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 1) Starsandwhales: How long have you been editing Wikipedia, and how did you get interested? How did you begin your journey of photographing wildlife?
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extensive list of favorite images. Which animals have been the most exciting for you to photograph?
3) S&W: Many articles under ToL have requests for people to add images that can go unanswered. What can the community do to improve the coverage of different organisms on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to images?
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4) S&W: What advice would you give to people new to photographing wildlife?
5) S&W: What would the Tree of Life community be surprised to learn about your life off-wiki?
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Firstly, WikiJSci can be a complementary system for FA review (getting external review, input, and validity). When an Wikipedia article is nominated (via WP:JAN), journal editors go out to non-Wikipedian academics and researchers who have published on the subject on the last five years and invite them to give feedback comments (e.g. Peripatric speciation and Baryonyx). The resulting changes can then be integrated back into the Wikipedia article.
Getting more editors involved in Wikipedia is always a high priority. WikiJSci can also be a way to encourage new people to contribute articles (especially on missing/stub/start topics). An example of an article that was written from scratch by a group of non-Wikipedians is Teladorsagia circumcincta. This not only resulted in a new Wikipedia page on an underdeveloped topic, but introduced the idea of Wikimedia contribution to a group of people who had previously never considered it.
The journal can be a way to get multimedia content reviewed or encourage contribution. The same approach could be easily adapted to sounds (e.g. frog mating calls) or videos (e.g. starfish feet motion). It also allows for tracking of those images in new articles via Altmetric ( this example has >200, which is bananas). There aren't any biology examples in WikiJSci yet, but the sister medical journal has published a few summary diagrams, photography, and image galleries. Examples include this gallery by Blausen Medical or the diagram of cell disassembly during apoptosis.
For those interested in other Wikimedia sister projects, there's also broad scope for interactions with the WikiJournals. Perhaps peer reviewed teaching resources could be useful to sit alongside sets of Wikipedia articles and be integrated into Wikiversity courses (like this or this)? Can sections of Wikidata & Wikispecies be peer reviewed? What are the potential avenues for integration with WikiCite, WikiFactMine, Scholia, etc.? Currently, WikiJSci is aiming to be very flexible and try out different formats so long as they can be externally peer reviewed. For more info, see the 2019-06-30 Signpost article and the current sister project proposal. |
1) Enwebb: You're very prolific with DYKs, with over 2,000 nominations credited (in fact, I'll highlight which DYK nominations this month were yours below). What made you become so involved in this part of Wikipedia? Why should Tree of Life editors nominate articles for DYK?
2) Enwebb: I noticed that your DYK nominations reflect a diverse array of flora and fauna, from trees, marine invertebrates, birds, fishes, and mammals. How do you decide what to work on?
3) Enwebb: Which of your Wikipedia accomplishments are you most proud of?
4) Enwebb: What motivates you to keep contributing? What's your 10,000 ft view (pardon the non-SI) of the community and Tree of Life?
6) Enwebb: How did you first become interested in natural history?
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Issue 35, July – August 2019
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets
a set of criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the
criteria. This adds a
How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life ( 5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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Issue 36, September – October 2019
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Good morning Orenburg1, with regard to oldid 927812825 rollback, I wish to suggest to end the section titled " In art", with the following statement:
It recalls Genesis 8:11–13, the announcement of peace after the human martyrdom of a Saint son of God like Domitilla, or of the enemies of Noah.
Logos is identified with Jesus Christ God and therefore would be appropriate to mention the Holy Spirit God'presence in the Early Christian art and architecture. The latter WP article sources that this historical period extends from the 2nd century to 550 at the latest. Hence, it concerns the Catacombs of Domitilla, which is dated to the fifth century CE.
I ask uniquely to add the sentences highlighted in the Italic font, but -in my modest and argumented opinion- it is highly possible that early Christian martyrs understood and believed all what I am going to summarize. This is an additional reason to mention the "Holy Spirit God as a dove" in Pre-existence of Christ#In art.
While we have God the Father and God the Son depicted with a human-divine male body (both of them), the Holy Spirit God is depicted as one or more holy animals, whose feminine or masculine sex is not specified. it's a very relevant difference. With the artistical and unusual choice of depicting a Divine Person with a common animal and not with a human and sexuated body, we note that early Christians thought the Holy Spirit to be God, but also something of radically different than the other two Divine Persons, who are represented as humans. This artistical choice for a holy place -like a burial- is uniquely possible because of the existence of multiple biblical references to this transubstantiaton of the Holy Spirit into an animal form, e.g. in the Pentecost narration. Differently from Indians in respect of cattles, we don't know early Christians worshiped any dove as being God, even if they had a respectful behavior for animals. So we can suppose they didn't think a dove was the "animal body" of the Holy Spirit God (an aniamal substance), nor that any dove was the corporeal house of an Holy Spirit (like Indians did), but that the Holy Spirit chose to "use" a common dove to appear to humans or that god the Creator gave life to a single animal specifically for that purpose.
Angels, which are created invisible and incorporeal (and therefore without sexuation), are created at image and similitude of the Holy Spirit God, which is the same divinity, but of a different substance than God the Father and God the Son.
Any comment is courtesy appreciated, Micheledisaveriosp ( talk) 11:04, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? ![]() Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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We're joined this month by long-time editor Plantdrew, who's currently engaged in streamlining the taxonomic structure of Wikipedia articles via the automated taxobox system. How did you become a Wikipedian? What are your particular interests (besides the obvious of "plants")?
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Hi, I am going to be making a major change to the List of fugitives from justice who disappeared that will mostly likely be good for it. Can you help me with this? If so I will let you know what help I will need. Davidgoodheart ( talk) 01:33, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for cleaning up after me. :-) Robby.is.on ( talk) 09:09, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi I am new to adding info to Wikipedia. I see that you removed my edit and stated it was inappropriate. The info that I added is 100% correct. When you use the term inappropriate are you saying that it is because I have put something in the wrong place? I don’t know how to add he info in it’s correct section, and tried for many hours to do so. I added it at the top of the page so hopefully some kind soul would either show me how to do it, or add it for me. I saw no option to assist in doing this. In this sense the use of the word “inappropriate isn’t really the case. Unfortunately the meaning of this word these days implies that there has been some wrong doing on someone’s part. I assume that you do not think that I have done something or behaved in some way inappropriately. Perhaps you can clarify this. Also I have some info to add to the Walter Koenig filmography. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, perhaps you would be good enough to help me. If you do respond to this message, I must confess I don’t know how to look up to see the reply. It is only by chance that I saw that my post had been removed. As I said I am a complete newbie to trying to edit. Please remember that at some point in time it was everyone’s first attempt.
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I'm sorry for my revert on Maxim Dlugy. Although your initial edit was clear, I didn't see the simple point. Quale ( talk) 09:10, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Given that you've edited the page on collective intelligence, I'm reaching out to request that you provide feedback on the draft of a new page for "General Collective Intelligence /info/en/?search=Draft:General_Collective_Intelligence CognitiveMMA ( talk) 14:52, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, I have noticed you "correcting" the spelling of pronomial to pronominal, however the former is not incorrect, they are just two similarly spelled words that mean the same thing. (Although until now I had never heard of the latter word.) I don't see any benefits from these changes. But perhaps you do, so I just wanted to give you the opportunity to explain why pronominal is preferable over pronomial. AquitaneHungerForce ( talk) 09:06, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
Sorry sir I don't know alibaba marjinaa article edit suckpuppet. I very sorry please don't block me please I have a promise next time I not editing suckpuppet please I very very sorry ध्रुविल९०१२ ( talk) 08:19, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
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May God shower you with all the goodness in the world. May you be blessed with all that you have dreamt about. Merry Christmas. RAJIVVASUDEV ( talk) 14:54, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hello there! Can I suggest if I can change the sentence of Virgin Atlantic fleet
" Virgin Atlantic operates an all widebody aircraft from Airbus and Boeing, composed of Airbus A330-200, Airbus A330-300, Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 787-9. The airline also has Airbus A330-900 on order."
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@ Orenburg1:, okay then.. thanks for your response! :)) Cornerstone2.0 ( talk) 07:48, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
If you have a moment, could you revert the IP's edit to this article? I can't seem to make them understand that they cannot add unsourced "soon to be published" information to Wikipedia articles, and they just keep restoring it. I've filed an edit warring report. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 07:40, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
@ Beyond My Ken:, I did not have internet access yesterday as I was travelling but I see Black Hawk has reverted it. Regards Orenburg1 ( talk) 06:43, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Ah, sorry I missed that there was a mistake in the title. Terasail [✉️] 15:58, 16 June 2021 (UTC) @ Terasail: No probs. Regards. Orenburg1 ( talk) 16:03, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
What does CE mean in the edit summaries? Just brushing up on my abbreviations knowledge is all?!. -- Vaati the Wind Demon ( talk) 15:48, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
For some reason my browser will not spell check edits to Wikipedia, but will on other sites. *shrug* 174.86.237.161 ( talk) 08:24, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
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I have been on the ride Starship 3000 where you get stuck to the wall due to the force of the spinning of the ride. Is this the best example tthat of how someone can experience Hypergravity? Luwychocki13 ( talk) 13:18, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your contibution in mprotect of India Education Program. Feel free to write Pranav Manghat ( talk) 06:55, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Orenburg1 and welcome to wikipedia. I hope that you have a good time here and enjoy editing. In regard of your recent edits to the article Planet Earth, you changed "summer" to "spring" in several sections and "6 months" to "4 months" in the case of Penguins in the Antarctic. Would you be able to explain the rationale for your edits please? Sincerely, Antarctic-adventurer (talk) 12:39, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
I should have put a note. I reverted edits by IP's 70.239.11.123 & 76.205.81.217 made on 8th and 11th November 2010. It seems that there is a person out there who persistently changes "spring" to "summer" on various pages and also likes to mess with dates. From the pattern of edits I suspect that they are also using IP's 76.205.88.228, 76.205.90.138, 76.205.82.239 and 70.239.10.245 which are all in the same geolocation and possibly some others.
I undid your edit to Diamond Star. I can not understand why you made it. Would you care to explain it to me? I'll keep your talkpage watched. Debresser ( talk) 21:43, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your copy-editing there. Also perhaps help to get these Harvnb references quite right. Si Trew ( talk) 07:57, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Orenburg1, I've reverted your edit to Saniwa as I couldn't see an explanation for why you reverted the article back 4 days. All the information seemed to me to be referenced, reliable and well-written so I was wondering why you removed it? I was made aware of it as some of the information you removed is currently referenced on the Main Page in the DYK section. If you have any questions, please leave them on my talk page. Regards, Woody ( talk) 12:08, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Orenburg1, I just wanted to let you know that there is a discussion regarding your tagging at the GOCE. The tagging comes at a time when the Guild is holding a drive, and has resulted in a huge dent in the Guild's efforts. Cheers. -- SMasters ( talk) 01:14, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Very glad that your typo hunt spotted the error "altough" in Queen's Logic. Thanks. Tigerboy1966 ( talk) 13:50, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
For your copyedit of the History of the Republic of Ireland page. Much appreciated.
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Hi! As my English teacher says "we all need an editor". So I thought I'd point out that on your user page, you've misspelled "prejudice".
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I'd be happy if you'd contribute more to the Lego Ninjago: The Series article. Your original help was great, thanks. I posted some suggestions on the discussion page as well.
If you want you can watch more episodes of the series on youtube. I believe a user named XmasToys has several uploaded.
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Comma or no comma. Thanks for highlighting this: it seems that opinion is divided on the matter. I'll try to get a consensus at the Project page. Tigerboy1966 14:55, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
You must have a keen eye to have spotted it, but I really appreciate your help on improving the article. Thank you very much! Kind regards, -- Lecen ( talk) 10:07, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi there. Well done with all the spelling corrections. Sad to say, this is a false positive - almost incredibly, the source URL is spelt wrongly. I've left a note with an archive link on the talk page and will try to sort it out if I get a chance. For now, I've reverted it to the right-wrong (old) spelling. Hope this helps. Best wishes DBaK ( talk) 17:05, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
When you undid the vandalism at Richardson's ground squirrel, you reverted to another, also-vandalized version. -- I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{ Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 20:22, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi: I removed those lines about Steve Kern & Mick Cornett from the Metropolitan Library System (Oklahoma) entry simply because I don't think they contribute to the entry. My intentions weren't to dismiss these issues or to censor them but I don't think that they add anything helpful/informative to this article. I think there are venues online in which this content can be shared, but I don't think a Wikipedia article about Metropolitan Library is the best one for this information. I look forward to hearing your feedback. Tspindle ( talk) 14:22, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
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Can you tell me why you removed the orphan tag from Udokan mine when there is still no articles that link to it?-- Zayeem (talk) 18:25, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
It was a lot of work to translate it from Hungarian wiki page, and search many references n English language books of academic historians, it contained a lot of basic informations (such as goverments ). It is close to vandalism with very hypocritical insufficient grounds (like sockpuppet stubes etc....)-- Tumbsder ( talk) 18:36, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Orenburg1 ( talk) 18:52, 15 March 2015 (UTC) Can you point out concrete way, which parts are not neutral? Exactly? You can found them in the books of the references. We can edit it, if they differ from the references. I'm curious. Thank you!-- Tumbsder ( talk) 19:02, 15 March 2015 (UTC) If you don't like the grammar, you can correct it. -- Tumbsder ( talk) 21:53, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
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On my, according to two people here, *random* use of punctuation in my article edits:
There has been a general decline, particularly in American culture, since, shortly after the advent of the Internet (that word, by the way, is ALWAYS capitalized), and particularly, the 'World-Wide Web', in what used to be considered, 'good' English grammar. But a trend towards degeneration has been firmly set in place - mainly due to ignorance of the rules of the language, and, sheer laziness of attitude and that, mainly in punctuation, spelling, syntax, grammar, etc. This, I well remember, was predicted early on by veteran computer users, and, in particular, those who were writers. This trend, of course, is due to the influx and influence of the general populace, which, seemingly all at once, introduced a 'lowest-common-denominator' policy on textual communication, by people who, typically, were not at all familiar with keyboards, namely typewriters, as used in textual communication of any kind. This has affect the comprehension and interpretation of said communications, to such a degree, that, more than 80% of all Internet-originated, textual communications sent by, even close family members, are misunderstood by the receiver, and another 80%, of any given message's content, is not correctly interpreted.
Punctuation, is the 'flavor' of a statement, or clause, as it relates to the previous, and the following statement or clause. As the eye perceives any good artwork, you are being guided - sensibly, and rationally through it, by way of proper punctuation. See how easy, and conversational that was to read? Now, try this:
"There has been a general decline particularly in america since shortly after the advent of the internet which by the way is always capitalized and particularly the world wide web in what used to be considered good english grammar a trend towards degeneration has been firmly set in place mainly due to ignorance of the rules of the english language mainly in punctuation spelling syntax grammar and etc." No, I wouldn't want to have to read it again, either.
There is, also, probably something else to consider. That is, your personal familiarity or unfamiliarity, with the language and how you learned to speak it, and, how you read it. If you're under about the age of 30, then you, and those before you, are speaking it differently. Your 'discontinued use' of - what used to be required adeptness in - the intricacies of English grammar, doesn't make my memory, and my retention of it, wrong. Good writing should resemble, even mimic, oral conversation. Punctuation gives a string of ideas, or a clause - or a string, or a progression of clauses - clarity, and sensibility. See that? If you didn't quite catch it, read it again.
According to Strunk and White, a certain amount of 'literary freedom', is granted to the writer, who may wish to use it as a literary 'device', or, in such a way as to emphasize something, which, may not present itself, readily, to the reader. Punctuation should present, properly, the idea proposed, in a way that fits, and suits, the desired, chosen way of expression of the writer. The way it is written and punctuated, depends on the content, dialect, phraseology (British, or American) emphasis of content or idea, and, even local colloquialism.
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Hi Orenburg1, Wikipedia only has one page for a Westphal article, while there are actually two Westphal's with one being a neighbourhood located in Dartmouth, NS and the other being a separate community outside Dartmouth, NS. I was wondering if you could help me gather sources so we could get the Westphal community up on Wikipedia and have it show on Google Maps. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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Hi. I removed the squirrel image because it was wrongly described - as my edit note said. I didn't intend to delete anything else, so have removed the image again keeping that other data. Thanks for spotting my editing error. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 20:58, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Orenburg1, How are you? I don't think we have spoken before. Yip is thr short answer. When Feichtner was captured after the war, he had to write some homework they called it, by TICOM, which is essentially all the stuff he did while he was working as a Luftwaffe officer. As part of the Germany surrendering unconditionally, German soldiers had to offer all the information they had to whoever in the allies wanted it. TICOM and a British outfit CSDIC sent teams in to capture and interrogate important Germans who were involved in the intelligence side of things. Feichtner was one of those captured. So it is his homework you are reading. He was very busy Luftwaffe officer. I have other homework examples, e.g. Otto Buggisch who was also captured and Hans Rohrbach who was a brilliant mathematican and crypanalyst, one of their best and did important work after the war. He wrote a 98 page homework document on a solving the O2 strip cipher, which is dense mathematical treatise and too long for Wikipedia really, which is unfortunate. All these documents are in the public domain and have been cleared for use by Wikipedia, and Diaanna. regards. scope_creep ( talk) 10:03, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you for your contributions to the article on Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. It has been among the favorite articles which I have written because it tells that Puerto Ricans have made positive contributions to the United States. The fact is that Schomburg was born in Puerto Rico when Puerto Rico was still a Spanish Colony and therefore he was not an American citizen.
As a matter of fact Puerto Rican citizenship was first legislated by the United States Congress in Article 7 of the Foraker Act of 1900. When Puerto Ricans were granted a limited citizenship in 1917, by the Jones Act, they didn't have to give their Puerto Rican Citizenship. On November 18, 1997, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, through its ruling in Miriam J. Ramirez de Ferrer v. Juan Mari Brás, reaffirmed the standing existence of the Puerto Rican citizenship. The CIA World Fact Book, states that the nationality of Puerto Ricans is not "American" but, in fact, "Puerto Rican."
Not only that, he was proud of being a Puerto Rican and referred to himself as an "Afroborinqueño" which means "Afro-Puerto Rican". He became a member of the "Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico" and became an active advocate of Puerto Rico's and Cuba's independence from Spain.
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Thank you for correcting my poor typing on the above. I see Watermillock came straight back. He has played around not usually flatteringly with this biog for some years under Watermillock and other usernames. Charlbury4 ( talk) 23:44, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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Tree of Life editors are making a respectable showing in this year's WikiCup, with three regular editors advancing to the third round. Overall winner from 2016, Casliber, topped the scoreboard in points for round 2, getting a nice bonus for bringing Black mamba to FA. Enwebb continues to favor things remotely related to bats, bringing Stellaluna to GA. Plants editor Guettarda also advanced to round 3 with several plant-related DYKs.
A March 2019 paper in PLOS Biology found that Wikipedia page views vary seasonally for species. With a dataset of 31,751 articles about species, the authors found that roughly a quarter of all articles had significant seasonal variations in page views on at least one language version of Wikipedia. They examined 245 language versions. Page views also peaked with cultural events, such as views of the Great white shark article during Shark Week or Turkey during Thanksgiving.
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Dippy is the most famous dinosaur skeleton in the world? (1 April)
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Issue 33, March – April 2019
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On 23 May, user Prometheus720 created a talk page post, "Revamp of Wikiproject Biology--Who is In?". In the days since, WP:BIOL has been bustling with activity, with over a dozen editors weighing in on this discussion, as well as several others that have subsequently spawned. An undercurrent of thought is that WP:BIOL has too many subprojects, preventing editors from easily interacting and stopping a "critical mass" of collaboration and engagement. Many mergers and consolidations of subprojects have been tentatively listed, with a consolidation of WikiProjects Genetics + Molecular and Cell Biology + Computational Biology + Biophysics currently in discussion. Other ideas being aired include updating old participants lists, redesigning project pages to make them more user-friendly, and clearly identifying long- and short-term goals.
Editors FunkMonk and Jens Lallensack had a very fruitful month, collaborating to bring two dinosaur articles to GA and then nominating them both for FA. They graciously decided to answer some questions for the first ToL Editor Spotlight, giving insight to their successful collaborations, explaining why you should collaborate with them, and also sharing some tidbits about their lives off-Wikipedia.
1) Enwebb: How long have you two been collaborating on articles?
2) Enwebb: Why dinosaurs?
3) Enwebb: Why should other editors join you in writing articles related to paleontology? Are you looking to attract new editors, or draw in experienced editors from other areas of Wikipedia?
4) Enwebb: Between the two of you, you have over 300 GA reviews. FunkMonk, you have over 250 of those. What keeps you coming back to review more articles?
5) Enwebb: What are your editing preferences? Any scripts or gadgets you find invaluable?
6) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-wiki?
Get in touch with these editors regarding collaboration at WikiProject Dinosaurs!
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The WikiCup, an annual editing competition, is now in its fourth round. Casliber, consistent participant since 2010 and winner in 2016, is currently dominating Group A with 601 points. Largely responsible is the successful Featured Article nomination of Masked booby. The other remaining Tree of Life participant, Enwebb, is participating in her first ever WikiCup. In this round, she has a grand total of...5 points. But with the recent Featured Article nomination of Megabat, she stands to gain 600 points if successful. As it stands, though, it appears that at least one ToL editor is headed to the fifth and final round of 8 contestants, which begins September 1. Thus far, all participants in the WikiCup have generated 17 Featured Articles, 116 Good Articles, 16 Featured Lists, and 57 Featured Pictures. The Good Article Nominations backlog has been reduced as well, with 286 Good Article Reviews. |
For this month's editor spotlight we're joined by
Charlesjsharp, a longtime contributor to Wikimedia Commons with a plethora of featured pictures on English Wikipedia. 1) Starsandwhales: How long have you been editing Wikipedia, and how did you get interested? How did you begin your journey of photographing wildlife?
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extensive list of favorite images. Which animals have been the most exciting for you to photograph?
3) S&W: Many articles under ToL have requests for people to add images that can go unanswered. What can the community do to improve the coverage of different organisms on Wikipedia, especially when it comes to images?
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4) S&W: What advice would you give to people new to photographing wildlife?
5) S&W: What would the Tree of Life community be surprised to learn about your life off-wiki?
* An example of cumbersome code: getting the layout of my responses to your questions. So dated, and no online spellchecker. |
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![]() ![]() Guest column by Thomas Shafee ( Evolution and evolvability), Editor in Chief of WikiJournal of Science
Firstly, WikiJSci can be a complementary system for FA review (getting external review, input, and validity). When an Wikipedia article is nominated (via WP:JAN), journal editors go out to non-Wikipedian academics and researchers who have published on the subject on the last five years and invite them to give feedback comments (e.g. Peripatric speciation and Baryonyx). The resulting changes can then be integrated back into the Wikipedia article.
Getting more editors involved in Wikipedia is always a high priority. WikiJSci can also be a way to encourage new people to contribute articles (especially on missing/stub/start topics). An example of an article that was written from scratch by a group of non-Wikipedians is Teladorsagia circumcincta. This not only resulted in a new Wikipedia page on an underdeveloped topic, but introduced the idea of Wikimedia contribution to a group of people who had previously never considered it.
The journal can be a way to get multimedia content reviewed or encourage contribution. The same approach could be easily adapted to sounds (e.g. frog mating calls) or videos (e.g. starfish feet motion). It also allows for tracking of those images in new articles via Altmetric ( this example has >200, which is bananas). There aren't any biology examples in WikiJSci yet, but the sister medical journal has published a few summary diagrams, photography, and image galleries. Examples include this gallery by Blausen Medical or the diagram of cell disassembly during apoptosis.
For those interested in other Wikimedia sister projects, there's also broad scope for interactions with the WikiJournals. Perhaps peer reviewed teaching resources could be useful to sit alongside sets of Wikipedia articles and be integrated into Wikiversity courses (like this or this)? Can sections of Wikidata & Wikispecies be peer reviewed? What are the potential avenues for integration with WikiCite, WikiFactMine, Scholia, etc.? Currently, WikiJSci is aiming to be very flexible and try out different formats so long as they can be externally peer reviewed. For more info, see the 2019-06-30 Signpost article and the current sister project proposal. |
1) Enwebb: You're very prolific with DYKs, with over 2,000 nominations credited (in fact, I'll highlight which DYK nominations this month were yours below). What made you become so involved in this part of Wikipedia? Why should Tree of Life editors nominate articles for DYK?
2) Enwebb: I noticed that your DYK nominations reflect a diverse array of flora and fauna, from trees, marine invertebrates, birds, fishes, and mammals. How do you decide what to work on?
3) Enwebb: Which of your Wikipedia accomplishments are you most proud of?
4) Enwebb: What motivates you to keep contributing? What's your 10,000 ft view (pardon the non-SI) of the community and Tree of Life?
6) Enwebb: How did you first become interested in natural history?
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Issue 35, July – August 2019
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Tree of Life subprojects and task forces by start year and whether currently considered active or not This month saw a vanishingly rare occurrence for the Tree of Life: a new WikiProject joined the fold. WikiProject Diptera, however, is also unusual in being a classroom project. Whether or not this project will stay active once the semester ends remains to be seen. It does not bode well, however, that WP:WikiProject Vespidae—a creation from the same instructor at St. Louis University—faded to obscurity shortly after the fall semester concluded in 2014. WikiProject Vespidae is defunct and now redirects to the Hymenoptera task force of WikiProject Insects. Since 2014, the Tree of Life has seen a string of years where one or zero projects or task forces were created. The only projects and task forces created since then are WikiProject Animal anatomy (2014), Hymenoptera task force (2016), Bats task force (2017), WikiProject Hypericaceae (2018), and now WikiProject Diptera (2019). The year 2006 saw the greatest creation of WikiProjects and task forces, with fourteen still active and the remaining six as "semiactive", "inactive", or "defunct". |
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My article is not vandalism. I award you this in advance so that you may please stop reverting my edits. DrapalDragon ( talk) 16:04, 16 October 2019 (UTC) |
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By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured: Did You Know (DYK)What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines:
The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page) Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK. Good Article (GA)What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets
a set of criteria. This adds a How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article—you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article! Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you. Featured Article (FA)What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the
criteria. This adds a
How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted. Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC. Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA. How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT. Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life ( 5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA. |
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Issue 36, September – October 2019
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Good morning Orenburg1, with regard to oldid 927812825 rollback, I wish to suggest to end the section titled " In art", with the following statement:
It recalls Genesis 8:11–13, the announcement of peace after the human martyrdom of a Saint son of God like Domitilla, or of the enemies of Noah.
Logos is identified with Jesus Christ God and therefore would be appropriate to mention the Holy Spirit God'presence in the Early Christian art and architecture. The latter WP article sources that this historical period extends from the 2nd century to 550 at the latest. Hence, it concerns the Catacombs of Domitilla, which is dated to the fifth century CE.
I ask uniquely to add the sentences highlighted in the Italic font, but -in my modest and argumented opinion- it is highly possible that early Christian martyrs understood and believed all what I am going to summarize. This is an additional reason to mention the "Holy Spirit God as a dove" in Pre-existence of Christ#In art.
While we have God the Father and God the Son depicted with a human-divine male body (both of them), the Holy Spirit God is depicted as one or more holy animals, whose feminine or masculine sex is not specified. it's a very relevant difference. With the artistical and unusual choice of depicting a Divine Person with a common animal and not with a human and sexuated body, we note that early Christians thought the Holy Spirit to be God, but also something of radically different than the other two Divine Persons, who are represented as humans. This artistical choice for a holy place -like a burial- is uniquely possible because of the existence of multiple biblical references to this transubstantiaton of the Holy Spirit into an animal form, e.g. in the Pentecost narration. Differently from Indians in respect of cattles, we don't know early Christians worshiped any dove as being God, even if they had a respectful behavior for animals. So we can suppose they didn't think a dove was the "animal body" of the Holy Spirit God (an aniamal substance), nor that any dove was the corporeal house of an Holy Spirit (like Indians did), but that the Holy Spirit chose to "use" a common dove to appear to humans or that god the Creator gave life to a single animal specifically for that purpose.
Angels, which are created invisible and incorporeal (and therefore without sexuation), are created at image and similitude of the Holy Spirit God, which is the same divinity, but of a different substance than God the Father and God the Son.
Any comment is courtesy appreciated, Micheledisaveriosp ( talk) 11:04, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
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In an interesting turn of events, this month's guest column is by my alter-ego, Elysia (Wiki Ed): *Puts on Wiki Education hat* Hi everyone, I'm Elysia and I work for Wiki Education. You may know me as Enwebb. I got a request last month to let you know how Wiki Education is intersecting with the Tree of Life subprojects. As one of Wiki Education's major goals is to improve topics related to the sciences, leading to our Communicating Science initiative, we end up supporting quite a few in the biological sciences. Here are the TOL-related courses active this term: What is the impact of student editors in Tree of Life? ![]() Altogether, these 16 courses have 347 student participants. As the end of the semester hasn't come yet, these numbers are still growing, but these students have:
Some of our best student work this semester (of any kind, not just biodiversity) has come from Agelaia's Behavioural Ecology course—you may remember this as the course that created WikiProject Diptera. The students have several Good Article nominations, including Dryomyza anilis, Anastrepha ludens, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Drosophila silvestris, Drosophila subobscura, and Ceratitis capitata. And while long-term participation from students is low, there's always the chance that we'll discover a Wikipedian. I had never edited before my Wikipedia assignment in 2017 and I'm still here nearly 20,000 edits later! After I poked around in the beginning of the semester, I had the realization that not many people write Wikipedia, and very few of those have a special interest in bats. If I didn't stick around to write the content, there was no guarantee that it would ever get done. Why are species articles suitable for students? Writing about taxonomic groups is a great fit for students, as it keeps them away from areas where new editors traditionally struggle. The notability policy is generous towards taxa, and there is little danger of a student's work getting removed for lack of notability; this is to be expected when students write biographies. Students may struggle with encyclopedic tone for biographies and stray towards promotional writing, but this is much less common when writing about a shrew or algae! Additionally, we're never going to run out of species to write about. Students have a bounty of stubs and redlinks to pick from. Creating a new article or expanding an existing one also takes a fairly predictable structure, with plenty of articles that students can model after. Don't students just create messes for volunteers to clean up? Our sincere hope is that, no, they don't, and we take several steps to try to minimize the burden on volunteer labor. With automatic plagiarism detection, alerts when students edit a Good or Featured Article, and notifications when students edit an article subject to discretionary sanctions, we try to stay ahead of problems as much as possible. We also review all student work at the end of each term. Ian, Shalor, and I are always happy to receive pings alerting us to student issues that need to be addressed. |
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We're joined this month by long-time editor Plantdrew, who's currently engaged in streamlining the taxonomic structure of Wikipedia articles via the automated taxobox system. How did you become a Wikipedian? What are your particular interests (besides the obvious of "plants")?
What projects are keeping you busy around the 'pedia at present?
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What's your background like? How did you come to have a special interest in biology?
What's something that would surprised TOL editors about your life off-wiki?
Anything else you'd like us to know?
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Hi, I am going to be making a major change to the List of fugitives from justice who disappeared that will mostly likely be good for it. Can you help me with this? If so I will let you know what help I will need. Davidgoodheart ( talk) 01:33, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for cleaning up after me. :-) Robby.is.on ( talk) 09:09, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi I am new to adding info to Wikipedia. I see that you removed my edit and stated it was inappropriate. The info that I added is 100% correct. When you use the term inappropriate are you saying that it is because I have put something in the wrong place? I don’t know how to add he info in it’s correct section, and tried for many hours to do so. I added it at the top of the page so hopefully some kind soul would either show me how to do it, or add it for me. I saw no option to assist in doing this. In this sense the use of the word “inappropriate isn’t really the case. Unfortunately the meaning of this word these days implies that there has been some wrong doing on someone’s part. I assume that you do not think that I have done something or behaved in some way inappropriately. Perhaps you can clarify this. Also I have some info to add to the Walter Koenig filmography. I don’t want to make the same mistake again, perhaps you would be good enough to help me. If you do respond to this message, I must confess I don’t know how to look up to see the reply. It is only by chance that I saw that my post had been removed. As I said I am a complete newbie to trying to edit. Please remember that at some point in time it was everyone’s first attempt.
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I'm sorry for my revert on Maxim Dlugy. Although your initial edit was clear, I didn't see the simple point. Quale ( talk) 09:10, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Given that you've edited the page on collective intelligence, I'm reaching out to request that you provide feedback on the draft of a new page for "General Collective Intelligence /info/en/?search=Draft:General_Collective_Intelligence CognitiveMMA ( talk) 14:52, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, I have noticed you "correcting" the spelling of pronomial to pronominal, however the former is not incorrect, they are just two similarly spelled words that mean the same thing. (Although until now I had never heard of the latter word.) I don't see any benefits from these changes. But perhaps you do, so I just wanted to give you the opportunity to explain why pronominal is preferable over pronomial. AquitaneHungerForce ( talk) 09:06, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
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May God shower you with all the goodness in the world. May you be blessed with all that you have dreamt about. Merry Christmas. RAJIVVASUDEV ( talk) 14:54, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
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Hello there! Can I suggest if I can change the sentence of Virgin Atlantic fleet
" Virgin Atlantic operates an all widebody aircraft from Airbus and Boeing, composed of Airbus A330-200, Airbus A330-300, Airbus A350-1000 and Boeing 787-9. The airline also has Airbus A330-900 on order."
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@ Orenburg1:, okay then.. thanks for your response! :)) Cornerstone2.0 ( talk) 07:48, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
If you have a moment, could you revert the IP's edit to this article? I can't seem to make them understand that they cannot add unsourced "soon to be published" information to Wikipedia articles, and they just keep restoring it. I've filed an edit warring report. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 07:40, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
@ Beyond My Ken:, I did not have internet access yesterday as I was travelling but I see Black Hawk has reverted it. Regards Orenburg1 ( talk) 06:43, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
Ah, sorry I missed that there was a mistake in the title. Terasail [✉️] 15:58, 16 June 2021 (UTC) @ Terasail: No probs. Regards. Orenburg1 ( talk) 16:03, 16 June 2021 (UTC)
What does CE mean in the edit summaries? Just brushing up on my abbreviations knowledge is all?!. -- Vaati the Wind Demon ( talk) 15:48, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
For some reason my browser will not spell check edits to Wikipedia, but will on other sites. *shrug* 174.86.237.161 ( talk) 08:24, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for the fixes of "fourty" to "forty" at List of US Navy ships sunk or damaged in action during World War II. I thought you might want to know, since the quotes on your user page are so good (and I thought you might appreciate a pedantic note), that Wikipedia style is to have no quote marks for quotes in boxes. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike | ⌨ 17:19, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
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