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Hi, its me again, apparently I am having a nightmare, but this editor just edited my Nebria species, by using AWB and putted orphan tag on, even though he saw it as a huge genus (I guess he saw). Can you please come [ here], and discuss it with him and me, plus he was warned several times about wikify tags, and even got a final warning for 3-revert-rule violation! Can you please revert any changes that this editor have made to any of my insect related stub articles. Here is an example: Nebria dahlii, and I think there will be more next day!-- Mishae ( talk) 02:05, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
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O.K, so you know how much I am obsessed with navboxes? Well today I discovered that I can add {{ Lepidoptera}} template to any of my butterfly related articles, and {{ Coleoptera}} to all beetle related ones! So is {{ Anura}} for frogs. I hope consensus wont be too concerned about it? That way, no matter how big the navbox is, it will still be concise, in a way that moving back wont bring back the opened navbox! Your thoughts? Just to let you know, the same thing is going on on Vietnamese and Ukrainian Wikis, I think its time for us to do it too! Otherwise, I don't understand the reason why users would create such navboxes, and don't use them?! Check this one out, see what you think: Elachista atricomella-- Mishae ( talk) 04:54, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
I have found a large template in this article above, {{ Myotis nav}}, which I changed to {{ Myotis}} in all other articles, I also removed taxonomic rank from it, but left it in the {{ Chiroptera}}, which I found as of today.-- Mishae ( talk) 05:50, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Another question, on the article above, I added some sections and putted IUCN as the main source of info. I also updated the source from 2006 to 2008 (or 2012), question is: Should I now remove the source, since its the same as I am referencing to?-- Mishae ( talk) 02:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Ryan, one technical point. I am far from an expert on tables, but I am not a big fan of using the percentage mode in width. I think I understand why it is used, and a real expert might point out that fixed with can be a problem on small screens, or maybe on mobile devices. Maybe someone needs to create a hybird, but I want to show you why I am not a fan:
Many people have 15 inch monitors. On that size monitor, the table looks great:
How, I also have a 20 inch monitor (and some people have much wider monitors.) Look what happens on a 20 inch:
The table is very stretched out, and hard to read. -- SPhilbrick (Talk) 14:45, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the help guys. Here's a question, is it absolutely necessary for the table to be indented from the text on both sides or is there a way for the table's margins to be the same as the margins for the text? Ryan Vesey 15:17, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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I thought you were trying to take a wiki-break... Go Phightins ! 21:15, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm asking you to create the last four pages here.
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I realized there is 2 different templates for Spiders that all mean the same thing, what I mean by it is this:
Should I nominate bottom one for deletion? The top one takes less space.:)-- Mishae ( talk) 05:01, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
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Me and user Stemonitis are in conflict again! Last week I wrote 30+ articles about isopods but I decided not to add {{ Italic title}} and "name" in a taxobox, reason for not adding "name" was due to the fact that:
As far as italics go, the title is wikified from the start, therefore its unnecessary addition that I even want to discuss on a forum, and if consensus will agree I will remove it. Infact, I was writing majority of my articles like that, and no one, NO ONE secretly add it, or issue a concern about it! 2 Days ago he was concerned of me using a Global Species Database or Globalspecies.org that from his point of view was missinformative. I discussed it with him, and even asked for second opinion, in both of which I was proven to be wrong. So I came to understand that its time for me to remove the missinformation which I did today, after he gave a link where I didn't found anything and came to the conclusion "if that species can't be found there, then he need to give me another link, or explain it to me a bit further". So today I decided to remove it my way out of fear that he will delete them (and he did threaten to do it). Then I realized that he decided to go and do it himself, while I was about to write to him about my missunderstanding and continue the conversation. I never expected that user Semonitis will be a self righteous individual, and will cause this sort of problem in our relationship, which was already strained, but his impatience doesn't improve it, and as I mentioned above, angers me!
So, my problem here is that he added this template and "name =" in almost every article! I was glad that I removed it, since I don't see a point for it. Now though, I am worried that he might threaten to block me or enter into an edit war with me! Can you please come to his talkpage and didcuss it further between me and him?-- Mishae ( talk) 02:03, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
name=
parameter were very much of secondary importance in my edits. (The fact that Mishae "doesn't see a point for it" is also irrelevant; there are reasons, even if Mishae cannot see them.) The real purpose of the edits was to remove a series of significant errors introduced by Mishae – applying the wrong names for families, claiming occurrences of European narrow endemics over wide swathes of Asia, linking to non-existent external web pages, etc. No-one is edit warring (unless you count Mishae's subsequent pointless edits). Mishae seems to have utterly misunderstood the purpose of my edits, which is unfortunate, because they have all been clearing up the mess Mishae left behind. --
Stemonitis (
talk)
18:10, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
name=
ensures that the title is italicised even:
name=
parameter is one solution that works, and that removing that markup is pointless. In fact, you have yet to provide a good reason for doing so, whereas I have endeavoured to show you the reasons for keeping them. And please note that I always said it was a minor issue, and is not enough to warrant an edit on my part. (By the same logic, undoing it does not of itself warrant an edit.) The rest of your comment I simply cannot follow; you seem to see us as much more hostile than is actually the case. I don't think anyone is actually threatening to block you, and if they were, it would be for violations of policy, not because of some vendetta. In fact, the whole issue seems to be a storm in a teacup; you are angry, but there's really no cause for it. --
Stemonitis (
talk)
22:27, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
name=
, I have an extra line to write the article on. On the other hand I do agree that maybe thats minor since Wikipedia have unlimited amount of space for articles. But thats leads to another point:name=
, species=
, then binomial=
, and then title of the article, that will be minus one thing to worry about. As far as {{
italic title}} goes, I don't know if I said it earlier or not, but the current template is pointless, and here is why (to add to the previous list):binomial=
which have 2 of those. As a result binomial=
already have 2 of them, so it transforms it onto a title, therefore, the title is italicized already because of the italicized binomial=
. Get the picture?--
Mishae (
talk)
23:27, 30 November 2012 (UTC)Hi! I am Guy Macon, and I am a dispute resolution volunteer at WP:DRN. At Ryan Vesey's request, I am stepping in here to see if I can help.
When I deal with a dispute, I usually ask a few peripheral questions before addressing the dispute itself. Right now I have four questions.
[1] Does everyone involved want my help? I can help even if one party does not want to be involved, but it requires a completely different approach from a dispute where both parties want to work with me.
[2] Is this primarily a dispute about article content or user conduct? My experience has been that talking about both at the same time doesn't work very well, so I deal with one first and then see if I need to deal with the other.
[3] Are there any other users or any other Wikipedia pages that are involved in this dispute?
I should mention that this is also a bit of a test to see if one or more of the parties in the dispute does something like not answering, answering a question I didn't ask and ignoring the one I did ask, using the answer as an opportunity to engage in a personal attack, posing a long, rambling reply instead of just answering the question, etc. I can deal with any of these, but everything goes more smoothly when I get answers that are concise and to the point. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 02:02, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
name=
, which in my opinion were pointless. He insists that he does it in addition with another edit while I don't. If I see that he does it, since I dson't have a revert tool, I add an edit by removing his {{
Italic title}} and name=
. On that, user Stemonitis accuses me of poitless edits, and sometimes reverts it by igniting what I see as an edit war. He denies it, but I have a feeling that that what he is doing.
name=
was always secondary to the main purpose, which was to remove misinformation, or to amend categories. I, for one, have not made edits simply to alter the mechanism of italicising the title. I do think there are good reasons for changing it, but only as part of a more substantive edit. Thus, my actions cannot realistically be construed as "igniting … an edit war". Given that, I cannot understand where Mishae's feelings of persecution come from. Mishae seems to think that I am out to block him; that is simply not the case. I don't understand what Mishae means by "which then turned into a user content"; as far as I'm concerned, we're still talking about the content. I don't believe that Entomologist2 "said he might consider [the articles Mishae created] for deletion"; he was merely suggesting a better use of everyone's time. There is of course no policy against mass-producing taxonomic substubs, but experience suggests that they are unusually error-prone and laborious to maintain. I would second Entomologist2's advice (and it is just advice) that more in-depth articles on the more important taxa would be better than minimally informative articles on a larger number of taxa. I have had a look through a number of article histories, and I cannot find a single example of an edit which would give Mishae cause for complaint. The only direct reversions have been when Mishae added links to non-existent external web-pages (e.g.
Porcellio siculoccidentalis). There is no edit war, and Mishae's concerns that I might "threaten to block [Mishae] or enter into an edit war with [Mishae]" are entirely unfounded. --
Stemonitis (
talk)
09:38, 1 December 2012 (UTC)name=
are removed by me, no big deal! If I put missinformation somewhere remove it without adding them, is it that hard?! I think I should lieve the isopod project just because of all this mess that is going on between me and Stemonitis.--
Mishae (
talk)
15:48, 1 December 2012 (UTC)Hi everyone, as all of you know, I get in a lot of hot water on this site, which is probably my fault, but here is the thing: Just recently I edited this article and the whole hell went loose! Imediately (a second after my edit) I receive a warning, that accuses me of unconstructive edits, following by my reply, which I think was a bit harsh. Could someone resolve this issue for me as well? I just have a feeling I might get blocked for my missunderstanding.-- Mishae ( talk) 02:16, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
I just got back from a customer site in another state -- I was able to access my VPN and do a few edits in between meetings and such, but not to give this my full attention. It's 3AM here, but after I get some serious snoozing in I will get back to this. I just wanted you to know that I have not forgotten you. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 10:47, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
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I added a quote to Anastasia Myskina. Question is, how come the quote template is not working as it should? I tried everything and unfortunately made a ton of edits. Can you help me, please?-- Mishae ( talk) 02:08, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
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Your actions were clearly not supported considering the statements at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Is it about time to reinstate the blurb? Ryan Vesey 20:26, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, its me again, apparently I am having a nightmare, but this editor just edited my Nebria species, by using AWB and putted orphan tag on, even though he saw it as a huge genus (I guess he saw). Can you please come [ here], and discuss it with him and me, plus he was warned several times about wikify tags, and even got a final warning for 3-revert-rule violation! Can you please revert any changes that this editor have made to any of my insect related stub articles. Here is an example: Nebria dahlii, and I think there will be more next day!-- Mishae ( talk) 02:05, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
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O.K, so you know how much I am obsessed with navboxes? Well today I discovered that I can add {{ Lepidoptera}} template to any of my butterfly related articles, and {{ Coleoptera}} to all beetle related ones! So is {{ Anura}} for frogs. I hope consensus wont be too concerned about it? That way, no matter how big the navbox is, it will still be concise, in a way that moving back wont bring back the opened navbox! Your thoughts? Just to let you know, the same thing is going on on Vietnamese and Ukrainian Wikis, I think its time for us to do it too! Otherwise, I don't understand the reason why users would create such navboxes, and don't use them?! Check this one out, see what you think: Elachista atricomella-- Mishae ( talk) 04:54, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
I have found a large template in this article above, {{ Myotis nav}}, which I changed to {{ Myotis}} in all other articles, I also removed taxonomic rank from it, but left it in the {{ Chiroptera}}, which I found as of today.-- Mishae ( talk) 05:50, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Another question, on the article above, I added some sections and putted IUCN as the main source of info. I also updated the source from 2006 to 2008 (or 2012), question is: Should I now remove the source, since its the same as I am referencing to?-- Mishae ( talk) 02:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
Ryan, one technical point. I am far from an expert on tables, but I am not a big fan of using the percentage mode in width. I think I understand why it is used, and a real expert might point out that fixed with can be a problem on small screens, or maybe on mobile devices. Maybe someone needs to create a hybird, but I want to show you why I am not a fan:
Many people have 15 inch monitors. On that size monitor, the table looks great:
How, I also have a 20 inch monitor (and some people have much wider monitors.) Look what happens on a 20 inch:
The table is very stretched out, and hard to read. -- SPhilbrick (Talk) 14:45, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the help guys. Here's a question, is it absolutely necessary for the table to be indented from the text on both sides or is there a way for the table's margins to be the same as the margins for the text? Ryan Vesey 15:17, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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I thought you were trying to take a wiki-break... Go Phightins ! 21:15, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm asking you to create the last four pages here.
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I realized there is 2 different templates for Spiders that all mean the same thing, what I mean by it is this:
Should I nominate bottom one for deletion? The top one takes less space.:)-- Mishae ( talk) 05:01, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
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Me and user Stemonitis are in conflict again! Last week I wrote 30+ articles about isopods but I decided not to add {{ Italic title}} and "name" in a taxobox, reason for not adding "name" was due to the fact that:
As far as italics go, the title is wikified from the start, therefore its unnecessary addition that I even want to discuss on a forum, and if consensus will agree I will remove it. Infact, I was writing majority of my articles like that, and no one, NO ONE secretly add it, or issue a concern about it! 2 Days ago he was concerned of me using a Global Species Database or Globalspecies.org that from his point of view was missinformative. I discussed it with him, and even asked for second opinion, in both of which I was proven to be wrong. So I came to understand that its time for me to remove the missinformation which I did today, after he gave a link where I didn't found anything and came to the conclusion "if that species can't be found there, then he need to give me another link, or explain it to me a bit further". So today I decided to remove it my way out of fear that he will delete them (and he did threaten to do it). Then I realized that he decided to go and do it himself, while I was about to write to him about my missunderstanding and continue the conversation. I never expected that user Semonitis will be a self righteous individual, and will cause this sort of problem in our relationship, which was already strained, but his impatience doesn't improve it, and as I mentioned above, angers me!
So, my problem here is that he added this template and "name =" in almost every article! I was glad that I removed it, since I don't see a point for it. Now though, I am worried that he might threaten to block me or enter into an edit war with me! Can you please come to his talkpage and didcuss it further between me and him?-- Mishae ( talk) 02:03, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
name=
parameter were very much of secondary importance in my edits. (The fact that Mishae "doesn't see a point for it" is also irrelevant; there are reasons, even if Mishae cannot see them.) The real purpose of the edits was to remove a series of significant errors introduced by Mishae – applying the wrong names for families, claiming occurrences of European narrow endemics over wide swathes of Asia, linking to non-existent external web pages, etc. No-one is edit warring (unless you count Mishae's subsequent pointless edits). Mishae seems to have utterly misunderstood the purpose of my edits, which is unfortunate, because they have all been clearing up the mess Mishae left behind. --
Stemonitis (
talk)
18:10, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
name=
ensures that the title is italicised even:
name=
parameter is one solution that works, and that removing that markup is pointless. In fact, you have yet to provide a good reason for doing so, whereas I have endeavoured to show you the reasons for keeping them. And please note that I always said it was a minor issue, and is not enough to warrant an edit on my part. (By the same logic, undoing it does not of itself warrant an edit.) The rest of your comment I simply cannot follow; you seem to see us as much more hostile than is actually the case. I don't think anyone is actually threatening to block you, and if they were, it would be for violations of policy, not because of some vendetta. In fact, the whole issue seems to be a storm in a teacup; you are angry, but there's really no cause for it. --
Stemonitis (
talk)
22:27, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
name=
, I have an extra line to write the article on. On the other hand I do agree that maybe thats minor since Wikipedia have unlimited amount of space for articles. But thats leads to another point:name=
, species=
, then binomial=
, and then title of the article, that will be minus one thing to worry about. As far as {{
italic title}} goes, I don't know if I said it earlier or not, but the current template is pointless, and here is why (to add to the previous list):binomial=
which have 2 of those. As a result binomial=
already have 2 of them, so it transforms it onto a title, therefore, the title is italicized already because of the italicized binomial=
. Get the picture?--
Mishae (
talk)
23:27, 30 November 2012 (UTC)Hi! I am Guy Macon, and I am a dispute resolution volunteer at WP:DRN. At Ryan Vesey's request, I am stepping in here to see if I can help.
When I deal with a dispute, I usually ask a few peripheral questions before addressing the dispute itself. Right now I have four questions.
[1] Does everyone involved want my help? I can help even if one party does not want to be involved, but it requires a completely different approach from a dispute where both parties want to work with me.
[2] Is this primarily a dispute about article content or user conduct? My experience has been that talking about both at the same time doesn't work very well, so I deal with one first and then see if I need to deal with the other.
[3] Are there any other users or any other Wikipedia pages that are involved in this dispute?
I should mention that this is also a bit of a test to see if one or more of the parties in the dispute does something like not answering, answering a question I didn't ask and ignoring the one I did ask, using the answer as an opportunity to engage in a personal attack, posing a long, rambling reply instead of just answering the question, etc. I can deal with any of these, but everything goes more smoothly when I get answers that are concise and to the point. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 02:02, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
name=
, which in my opinion were pointless. He insists that he does it in addition with another edit while I don't. If I see that he does it, since I dson't have a revert tool, I add an edit by removing his {{
Italic title}} and name=
. On that, user Stemonitis accuses me of poitless edits, and sometimes reverts it by igniting what I see as an edit war. He denies it, but I have a feeling that that what he is doing.
name=
was always secondary to the main purpose, which was to remove misinformation, or to amend categories. I, for one, have not made edits simply to alter the mechanism of italicising the title. I do think there are good reasons for changing it, but only as part of a more substantive edit. Thus, my actions cannot realistically be construed as "igniting … an edit war". Given that, I cannot understand where Mishae's feelings of persecution come from. Mishae seems to think that I am out to block him; that is simply not the case. I don't understand what Mishae means by "which then turned into a user content"; as far as I'm concerned, we're still talking about the content. I don't believe that Entomologist2 "said he might consider [the articles Mishae created] for deletion"; he was merely suggesting a better use of everyone's time. There is of course no policy against mass-producing taxonomic substubs, but experience suggests that they are unusually error-prone and laborious to maintain. I would second Entomologist2's advice (and it is just advice) that more in-depth articles on the more important taxa would be better than minimally informative articles on a larger number of taxa. I have had a look through a number of article histories, and I cannot find a single example of an edit which would give Mishae cause for complaint. The only direct reversions have been when Mishae added links to non-existent external web-pages (e.g.
Porcellio siculoccidentalis). There is no edit war, and Mishae's concerns that I might "threaten to block [Mishae] or enter into an edit war with [Mishae]" are entirely unfounded. --
Stemonitis (
talk)
09:38, 1 December 2012 (UTC)name=
are removed by me, no big deal! If I put missinformation somewhere remove it without adding them, is it that hard?! I think I should lieve the isopod project just because of all this mess that is going on between me and Stemonitis.--
Mishae (
talk)
15:48, 1 December 2012 (UTC)Hi everyone, as all of you know, I get in a lot of hot water on this site, which is probably my fault, but here is the thing: Just recently I edited this article and the whole hell went loose! Imediately (a second after my edit) I receive a warning, that accuses me of unconstructive edits, following by my reply, which I think was a bit harsh. Could someone resolve this issue for me as well? I just have a feeling I might get blocked for my missunderstanding.-- Mishae ( talk) 02:16, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
I just got back from a customer site in another state -- I was able to access my VPN and do a few edits in between meetings and such, but not to give this my full attention. It's 3AM here, but after I get some serious snoozing in I will get back to this. I just wanted you to know that I have not forgotten you. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 10:47, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Ryan, working on a radio station article and a previous owner is listed as "John and Marcia Arrington, Jr.". Obviously, they mean John is the Jr. not Marcia (this is a 1942 text). I am unsure how to write this correctly. I am leaning toward writing it as "John Jr. and Marcia Arrington", but that looks wrong. What do you think? - Neutralhomer • Talk • 06:51, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
I am letting you know that I have proposed a merge of Chili burger to Chili con carne. Being that you participated in the AfD, I'd be interested in your thoughts. The discussion is at
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15:20, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
It was suggested that Hamburger might be a better target, and I was implored to allow that as a possibility. Therefore, I've moved the discussion to Talk:Chili burger#Merger proposal to allow for this. Please accept my apologies if it seemed that I was advocating for one solution over another. ˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 16:17, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
On 12 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jeremy Boreing, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that producer and screenwriter Jeremy Boreing met future writing partner Joel David Moore by helping move Moore's couch with his pickup truck? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jeremy Boreing. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Casliber ( talk · contribs) 08:03, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension.
Not sure how to correct it for DYK, but we ended up moving the article title again, to 1950s American automobile culture, removing the apostrophe, per the talk page discussion there. If you could clean it up at the DYK, that would be helpful. Glad to see it promoted, btw. Here soon, I will need to review one or two I suppose. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 02:16, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I added a quote to Anastasia Myskina. Question is, how come the quote template is not working as it should? I tried everything and unfortunately made a ton of edits. Can you help me, please?-- Mishae ( talk) 02:08, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I haven't paid much attention, but I see issues brewing including perhaps the reintroduction of material that was found to be problematic. Thought you might take a look. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 18:37, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
If you read [1] you might notice that it does not fail verification of the shooter father's school. Now that CNN is saying 30, what do you propose is best to do with the source? 2010 SO16 ( talk) 20:21, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Your actions were clearly not supported considering the statements at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Is it about time to reinstate the blurb? Ryan Vesey 20:26, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for removing the insult, just beat me to it. AutomaticStrikeout ( T • C) 02:27, 15 December 2012 (UTC)