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Your recent editing history at List of cryptids shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
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I suggest you stop now before you are banned. Slatersteven ( talk) 15:42, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
According to Help:Minor edit you MUST NOT mark as minor edits "Adding or removing references, external links, or categories in an article". DuncanHill ( talk) 22:20, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
It would be helpful to other editors if you made edit summaries when editing articles. As that page says
It is considered good practice to provide a summary for every edit, especially when reverting (undoing) the actions of other editors or deleting existing text; otherwise, people may question your motives for the edit. Edits that do not have an edit summary are more likely to be reverted, because it may not be obvious what the purpose of the edit was.
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To avoid accidentally leaving edit summaries blank, you can select "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" on the Editing tab of your user preferences, if you have created an account.
DuncanHill ( talk) 22:27, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Why are you removing articles from valid categories? DuncanHill ( talk) 21:52, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
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I noticed that you have been removing what appears to me to be legitimate categories from prehistoric cat articles. Specifically I'm curious why you're taking out the discovered in categories such as [2] this seems valid and the catagory you replaced it with does not convey the same information. I see above that you've already had an extensive discussion about this. Cheers. Crazynas t 17:41, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi, in edits such as this you are removing the geographical categories from a page. Can you explain what your reasoning is for this (e.g. with links to any relevant wikiproject guidance/discussion)? DexDor (talk) 21:23, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Kb03. I noticed that you recently removed content from
Feral cat without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate
edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the
sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on
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Since you participated in the rfc earlier in the year, I am letting you know of another rfc to merge List of cryptids. Which ever way the wind blows you are welcome to join in. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 07:54, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
Binomials are italicized, on WP as elsewhere, so
this was the opposite of "cleanup". See
MOS:LIFE,
MOS:ITALICS,
MOS:ORGANISMS. If you've removed italicized binomials from other infoboxes and {{
Italic title}}
from articles with similar names, that needs to be undone. —
SMcCandlish
☏
¢ 😼
17:24, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi. Please stop undoing many of the links in the cats categories, they have been stable and long-term category links and to change these would take a multi-editor discussion at one of the main cat pages. Please create a discussion if you've like at one of those and please give me a ping. Thanks. Randy Kryn ( talk) 15:58, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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This month we're joined by Jts1882, who is active in depicting evolutionary relationship of taxa via cladograms. Part of this includes responding to cladogram requests, where interested editors can have cladograms made without using the templates themselves. How did you come to be interested in systematics? Are you interested in systematics broadly, or is there a particular group you're most fond of? As long as I can remember I’ve been interested in nature, starting with the animals and plants in the garden, school grounds, and local wood, and then more general wildlife worldwide. An interest in how things are classified grew from this. I like things to be organised and understanding the relationships between things and systems (not just living things) is a big part of that. Biology was always my favourite subject in school and took up a disproportionate part of my time. My interest in systematics is broad as I’d like to comprehend the whole tree of life, but the cat family is my favourite group. What's the background behind cladogram requests? I see that it isn't a very old part of the Tree of Life Well I can’t take any credit for the cladogram requests page, although I help out there sometimes. It was created by IJReid and there are several people who have helped there more than me. I think the motivation is that creating cladograms requires a knowledge of the templates that is daunting for many editors. It was one way of helping people who want to focus on content creation. My main contribution to the cladograms is converting the {{ clade}} template to use a Lua module. The template code was extremely difficult to follow and had to be repetitive (I can only admire the efforts of those who got the thing to work in the first place). The conversion to Lua made it more efficient, allowed larger and deeper cladograms, plus facilitating the introduction of new features. The cladogram request page was recently the venue for discussion on making time calibrated cladograms, which is now possible, if not particularly user friendly. What advice do you have for an editor who wants to learn how to make cladograms? The same advice I would give to someone facing any computer problem, just try it out. Start by taking existing code for a cladogram and make changes yourself. The main advice would be to format it properly so indents match the brackets vertically. Of course, not everyone wants to learn and if someone prefers to focus on article content there is the cladogram request page. Examples of cladograms Jts1882 has created, showing different proposed clades for
Neoaves
Do you have any personal projects or goals you're working towards on Wikipedia? As I said I like organisation and systems. So I find efforts like the automated taxobox system and {{ taxonbar}} appealing. I would like to see more reuse of the major phylogenetic trees on Wikipedia with more use of consensus trees on the higher taxa. Too often they get edited based on one recent report and/or without proper citation. Animals and bilateria are examples where this is a problem. Towards this I have been working on a system of phylogeny templates that can be reused flexibly. The {{ Clade transclude}} template allows selective transclusion, so the phylogenetic trees on one page can be reused with modifications, i.e. can be pruned and grafted, used with or without images, with or without collapsible elements, etc. I have an example for the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (see {{ Phylogeny/APG IV}}) and one for squamates that also includes collapsible elements (see {{ Phylogeny/Squamata}}). A second project is to have a modular reference system for taxonomic resources. I have made some progress along this lines with the {{ BioRef}} template. This started off simply as a way of hardlinking to Catalog of Fishes pages and I’ve gradually expanded it to cover other groups (e..g. FishBase, AmphibiaWeb and Amphibian Species of the World, Reptile Database, the Mammalian Diversity Database). The modular nature is still rudimentary and needs a rewrite before it is ready for wider use. What would surprise your fellow editors to learn about your life off-Wikipedia? I don’t think there is anything particularly surprising or interesting about my life. I’ve had an academic career as a research scientist but I don't think anyone could guess the area from my Wikipedia edits. I prefer to work on areas where I am learning at the same time. This why I spend more time with neglected topics (e.g. mosses at the moment). I start reading and then find that I’m not getting the information I want. Anything else you'd like us to know? My interest in the classification of things goes beyond biology. I am fascinated by mediaeval attempts to classify knowledge, such as Bacon in his The Advancement of Learning and Diderot and d’Alembert in their Encyclopédie. They were trying to come up with a universal scheme of knowledge just as the printing press was allowing greater dissemination of knowledge. With the internet we are seeing a new revolution in knowledge dissemination. Just look at how we could read research papers on the COVID virus within weeks of its discovery. With an open internet, everyone has access, not just those with the luxury of books at home or good libraries. Sites like the Biodiversity Heritage Library allow you to read old scientific works without having to visit dusty university library stack rooms, while the taxonomic and checklist databases provide instant information on millions of living species. In principle, the whole world can now find out about anything, even if Douglas Adams warned we might be disinclined to do so. This is why I like Wikipedia, with all its warts, it’s a means of organising the knowledge on the internet. In just two decades it’s become a first stop for knowledge and hopefully a gateway to more specialised sources. Perhaps developing this latter aspect, beyond providing good sources for what we say, is the next challenge for Wikipedia. |
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Hoax taxon sniffed out after nearly fifteen years |
Cross posted from the Signpost ![]() On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member Rextron discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year. [1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others?
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I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit.
This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus
I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either.
My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher.
The fact that wikipedia exists free of profit motive and free for everyone really is something special and I encourage everyone to donate a few dollars to the cause. |
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Hoax taxon sniffed out after nearly fifteen years |
Cross posted from the Signpost ![]() On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member Rextron discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year. [1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others?
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Spotlight with Mattximus |
![]() This month's spotlight is with Mattximus, author of two Featured Articles and 29 Featured Lists at current count.
I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit.
This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus
I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either.
My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher.
The fact that wikipedia exists free of profit motive and free for everyone really is something special and I encourage everyone to donate a few dollars to the cause. |
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on (Conothoa) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
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Hey, so this cats: caracal, serval, clouded leopard, Sunda clouded leopard and all the lynx are big enough to be considered a big cat, why dont you add them???? Sorry for bad english. Rogerio980Pizza ( talk) 23:08, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
But they are big enough, can you just put that think that i added: A more liberal and expansive definition of the term includes species outside of Panthera including the caracal, serval, clouded leopard, Sunda clouded leopard, and sometimes the several lynx species, although these added species also do not roar. Just to remind people, please. Rogerio980Pizza ( talk) 23:08, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
This channel of big cats says that the lynx, caracal and serval are big cats. I thought it was official because the channel is too famous. And, the eurasian lynx, the canada lynx, bobcat, caracal and serval are actually big compared to normal cats, they really are big cats. Rogerio980Pizza ( talk) 23:08, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
ok, i will leave just a note on the page at least about this cats. Rogerio980Pizza ( talk) 23:08, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
hi SilverTiger12, i notice you have been removing the cats wikiproject from a large number of fictional cat/book talkpages! the thing is, the scope of that project is "This project deals with the creation and editing of articles related to cats, including both real and fictional cats." so just wondering what your reasoning for this is?
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A tag has been placed on Category:Cats in comic strips requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 18:29, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your thorough review of Talk:Freshpet#Request Edits February 12 2021. I know there were a lot of requests! Do you happen to have time to finish up? #8, #9, #10 of the requests which remain unreviewed. Also, could you consider the following:
I posted this on the Talk page for the article as well, so it would be public for everyone, but wanted to reach out to you here as well.
Thank you! NJ0220 ( talk) 19:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
I filed a complaint at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Edit_warring_on_Panthera_pardus_tulliana against this idiot. You might want to defend your case when the admins come around. Ddum5347 ( talk) 03:12, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the notification, I was getting tired of sitting on the article... luckily, that kind of behavior is indefensible and unacceptable so I hope it will end soon. Although meatpuppetry and/or sockpuppetry might be a concern. -- SilverTiger12 ( talk) 03:27, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for your contributions to and suggestions for this article. - Ghost1590 ( talk) 14:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
I am leaving this message to let you know that the article Tjololo that you tagged for Proposed Deletion was removed by another user, and they failed to leave a note on your talk page about it, and their reason for doing so was inaccurate. As you were not informed, I have taken it upon myself to leave this here so you may consider perusing Articles for Deletion instead, as adding a new PROD is not permitted. Kind regards, -- Tautomers( T C) 08:17, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I see you reverted my change regarding speciesbox. Per Template:speciesbox#Monspecific_genera, speciesbox should be used over automatic taxobox in cases with monotypic species, which appears to be the case here. Porqaz ( talk) 02:22, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
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For being a voice of reason on that talk page. I have described the article as the worst article on Wikipedia for five years, and I'm aware of what a pain it is to deal with. Honestly, I think it should be deleted since it's basically just speculation and synthesis of sourcing, but if there are people who are willing to work on making it less bad, I'm fine with that as well for now :) An AfD would be a pain and would be easier to deal with once all the sources have been cleaned up anyway. TonyBallioni ( talk) 22:49, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
I really do not know who is that guy your talking about, i would appreciate if you gave me more info of him. "This isn't the place to debate the supposed naturalness of ligers". I was asking to debate n my page. And am not asking weather their natural or not, am ask if its fine for them to exist considering that Humans breed with Neanderthals and the fact that the eastern coyote was the result f crossbreeding between Coyotes and Wolfs. Panthera hybrids are no different as in all three cases its between species of the same genus. And you have to remember that natural\unnatural=\=good or bad. I suppose yo shouldn't brush your teeth as that's unnatural, right? And at some point ligers possibly did happen: https://markgelbart.wordpress.com/tag/tiger-x-snow-leopard-hybrid/ .People also thought that Brown bear and Polar Bear hybrids where unnatural as they did no happened in the wild, and look now, there are starting to hybridize. Not to mention there is evidence that lions crossbreed with snow leopards, who are closely related to tigers. "and sterility is in fact considered unhealthy" the fact that its considered doe snot mean its true. Also, female ligers are always fertile, male usually are sterile but their is a small percentage for them to be fertile. There was the case of a fertile mule in Texas. And ive seen lots of male sterile Ligers that appear to be fine. And the reason why am making this debate is so people can get the right information so we can make sure the page does not misinform the viewer. I've tried to change the page multiple times so i could present the correct information but it appears that unless i can convince them otherwise, Wikipedians wont let me make the changes. Many Wikipedians are so biased towards reading articles that they never question if the articles in question are factually correct or if they contain outdated information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 56FireLeafs ( talk • contribs) 05:19, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
You may have noticed that a novice editor added refs as WP:BAREURLS to pages. S/he's been doing this to other pages not about cats as well, despite multiple calls to learn to WP:CITEHOW and in disregard of the quality ratings of those pages. Would you please help to keep especially FA and GA rated pages free of bare urls ? -- BhagyaMani ( talk) 07:03, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
Do you also see the block logs on your watchlist ? The first that the guy is blocked for 31 hours, and the 2nd that block is extended to 2 weeks after review. -- BhagyaMani ( talk) 22:20, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey: hope you are well!! Once you have time, please comment at the Bengal tiger RfC by a new kid on the block. S/he has <10 edits on the page itself, all withOUT adding a new reference, but > a dozen edits on talk page + ~dozen on my talk page about Bengal tiger + 36 edits at ANI complaining about me re same tiger. You and I and lots of others I know would rather use 60 edits for contributing sth. useful, won't we? Cheers – BhagyaMani ( talk) 08:47, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
Refer to [4] for discussion. BhagyaMani has not reverted so I assume they take no issue with my edits either. Groovehx ( talk) 16:37, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Peru in South America? – BhagyaMani ( talk) 18:46, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
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In response to you undoing my edits, I really do not know who is that guy your talking about, i would appreciate if you gave me more info of him. "This isn't the place to debate the supposed naturalness of ligers". I was asking to debate n my page. And am not asking weather their natural or not, am ask if its fine for them to exist considering that Humans breed with Neanderthals and the fact that the eastern coyote was the result f crossbreeding between Coyotes and Wolfs. Panthera hybrids are no different as in all three cases its between species of the same genus. And you have to remember that natural\unnatural=\=good or bad. I suppose yo shouldn't brush your teeth as that's unnatural, right? And at some point ligers possibly did happen: https://markgelbart.wordpress.com/tag/tiger-x-snow-leopard-hybrid/ .People also thought that Brown bear and Polar Bear hybrids where unnatural as they did no happened in the wild, and look now, there are starting to hybridize. Not to mention there is evidence that lions crossbreed with snow leopards, who are closely related to tigers. "and sterility is in fact considered unhealthy" the fact that its considered doe snot mean its true. Also, female ligers are always fertile, male usually are sterile but their is a small percentage for them to be fertile. There was the case of a fertile mule in Texas. And ive seen lots of male sterile Ligers that appear to be fine. And the reason why am making this debate is so people can get the right information so we can make sure the page does not misinform the viewer. I've tried to change the page multiple times so i could present the correct information but it appears that unless i can convince them otherwise, Wikipedians wont let me make the changes. Many Wikipedians are so biased towards reading articles that they never question if the articles in question are factually correct or if they contain outdated information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 56FireLeafs (talk • contribs) 05:19, 16 January 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 56FireLeafs ( talk • contribs)
Hello, would you be able to review red panda for FAC? I think we just need one more review. We already have two content reviews, an image review and a source review. Thanks. LittleJerry ( talk) 13:20, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
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Hi SilverTiger12: please have a brief look at these earlier versions of the two probable merger pages: 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Panthera_leo_melanochaita&oldid=860922252 and 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Panthera_leo_leo&oldid=861740256 >> if we consent to use these as entry points for merging, then it'll be just a matter of moving a few paragraphs from the other pages. -- BhagyaMani ( talk) 22:17, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
I also suggest merger of these two articles- Himalayan Wolf and Mongolian Wolf. The two wolves are same subspecies now. Both are also called the Tibetan Wolf which had a separate article/page previously. Ishan87 ( talk) 07:22, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, SilverTiger12. I am a newbie, and would like to learn something from you. You reverted my edit on Cheshire cat. The reasoning is "not notable". Is it not a subjective criteria? Virtually the same piece is living on this page " /info/en/?search=Any_Road" for quite some time. May be you would like to either revert that section too, or educate me, why this piece is not valid on Cheshire cat page. Thanks. -Anil1956 I am waiting for your answer. It would educate me. Thanks. -Anil1956
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Why the reverts? It is reliably sourced via WP:RSPSS.
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I completely rewrote Dumb Friends League using only independent refs to address your concerns in your proposed deletion, and have removed the prod tag. Schazjmd (talk) 23:30, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
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Could you please explain why you reverted my edit at Bengal cat? Reversion of good faith edits w/o good reason is very poor etiquette. -- Hadal ( talk) 23:27, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
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... I've taken a stab at my talk page. But don't expect miracles. E Eng 09:00, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
I understand what the lede is supposed to do, but the information on the cat's dimensions (length and weight) are quite literally a copy and paste from the Description section. It's redundant. Chumzwumz68 ( talk) 03:27, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Mr SilverTiger12, I understand you are at the origin of the removal of the "list of kakapo" page. While I may understand the concerns you had about this page, it has definitely notability value for the community for numerous reasons:
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Thanks for the read, I hope you take the appropriate measures in either restoring the page or merging it with the kakapo page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PasquiDerder ( talk • contribs) 07:54, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
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I added columns Jagupardess, Ligress, and Tigoness; and added
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Hi, I just wanted to ask about your reversion of my edit including extra information about tortie point ragdolls, that they aren't the same as calicos. I may be new, but as others have pointed out, I don't think reverting good faith edits without reasoning is particularly good etiquette. -- AnteaterStim ( talk) 10:12, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
do you have a want to control everything??
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You reverted my edit without leaving a reason, nor attempting to improve what was there. Can you please explain your action? Thank you. CTR1874 ( talk) 02:30, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
If I don't hear back from you soon I will restore my edits. They were valid and sourced and contributed to the article in a substantive way. CTR1874 ( talk) 16:18, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
These are not reliable sources and should not be cited on Wikipedia. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 19:59, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
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Why are you removing articles from valid categories? DuncanHill ( talk) 21:52, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
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I noticed that you have been removing what appears to me to be legitimate categories from prehistoric cat articles. Specifically I'm curious why you're taking out the discovered in categories such as [2] this seems valid and the catagory you replaced it with does not convey the same information. I see above that you've already had an extensive discussion about this. Cheers. Crazynas t 17:41, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi, in edits such as this you are removing the geographical categories from a page. Can you explain what your reasoning is for this (e.g. with links to any relevant wikiproject guidance/discussion)? DexDor (talk) 21:23, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Kb03. I noticed that you recently removed content from
Feral cat without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate
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Since you participated in the rfc earlier in the year, I am letting you know of another rfc to merge List of cryptids. Which ever way the wind blows you are welcome to join in. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 07:54, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
Binomials are italicized, on WP as elsewhere, so
this was the opposite of "cleanup". See
MOS:LIFE,
MOS:ITALICS,
MOS:ORGANISMS. If you've removed italicized binomials from other infoboxes and {{
Italic title}}
from articles with similar names, that needs to be undone. —
SMcCandlish
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Hi. Please stop undoing many of the links in the cats categories, they have been stable and long-term category links and to change these would take a multi-editor discussion at one of the main cat pages. Please create a discussion if you've like at one of those and please give me a ping. Thanks. Randy Kryn ( talk) 15:58, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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Inspired by a March 2020 post at WikiProject Medicine detailing the growth of Featured Articles over time, we decided to reproduce that table here, adding a second table showing the growth of Good Articles. Tree of Life articles are placed in the "Biology" category for FAs, which has seen a growth of 381% since 2008. Only two other subjects had a greater growth than Biology: Business, economics, and finance; and Warfare. Percentage Growth in FA Categories, 2008–2019, Legend: Considerably above average, Above average, Average Below average , Considerably below average, Poor
*subset of natural sciences Unsurprisingly, the number of GAs has increased more rapidly than the number of FAs. Organisms, which is a subcategory of Natural sciences, has seen a GA growth of 755% since 2008, besting the Natural sciences overall growth of 530%. While Warfare had far and away the most significant growth of GAs, it's a clear outlier relative to other categories. |
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This month we're joined by Jts1882, who is active in depicting evolutionary relationship of taxa via cladograms. Part of this includes responding to cladogram requests, where interested editors can have cladograms made without using the templates themselves. How did you come to be interested in systematics? Are you interested in systematics broadly, or is there a particular group you're most fond of? As long as I can remember I’ve been interested in nature, starting with the animals and plants in the garden, school grounds, and local wood, and then more general wildlife worldwide. An interest in how things are classified grew from this. I like things to be organised and understanding the relationships between things and systems (not just living things) is a big part of that. Biology was always my favourite subject in school and took up a disproportionate part of my time. My interest in systematics is broad as I’d like to comprehend the whole tree of life, but the cat family is my favourite group. What's the background behind cladogram requests? I see that it isn't a very old part of the Tree of Life Well I can’t take any credit for the cladogram requests page, although I help out there sometimes. It was created by IJReid and there are several people who have helped there more than me. I think the motivation is that creating cladograms requires a knowledge of the templates that is daunting for many editors. It was one way of helping people who want to focus on content creation. My main contribution to the cladograms is converting the {{ clade}} template to use a Lua module. The template code was extremely difficult to follow and had to be repetitive (I can only admire the efforts of those who got the thing to work in the first place). The conversion to Lua made it more efficient, allowed larger and deeper cladograms, plus facilitating the introduction of new features. The cladogram request page was recently the venue for discussion on making time calibrated cladograms, which is now possible, if not particularly user friendly. What advice do you have for an editor who wants to learn how to make cladograms? The same advice I would give to someone facing any computer problem, just try it out. Start by taking existing code for a cladogram and make changes yourself. The main advice would be to format it properly so indents match the brackets vertically. Of course, not everyone wants to learn and if someone prefers to focus on article content there is the cladogram request page. Examples of cladograms Jts1882 has created, showing different proposed clades for
Neoaves
Do you have any personal projects or goals you're working towards on Wikipedia? As I said I like organisation and systems. So I find efforts like the automated taxobox system and {{ taxonbar}} appealing. I would like to see more reuse of the major phylogenetic trees on Wikipedia with more use of consensus trees on the higher taxa. Too often they get edited based on one recent report and/or without proper citation. Animals and bilateria are examples where this is a problem. Towards this I have been working on a system of phylogeny templates that can be reused flexibly. The {{ Clade transclude}} template allows selective transclusion, so the phylogenetic trees on one page can be reused with modifications, i.e. can be pruned and grafted, used with or without images, with or without collapsible elements, etc. I have an example for the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (see {{ Phylogeny/APG IV}}) and one for squamates that also includes collapsible elements (see {{ Phylogeny/Squamata}}). A second project is to have a modular reference system for taxonomic resources. I have made some progress along this lines with the {{ BioRef}} template. This started off simply as a way of hardlinking to Catalog of Fishes pages and I’ve gradually expanded it to cover other groups (e..g. FishBase, AmphibiaWeb and Amphibian Species of the World, Reptile Database, the Mammalian Diversity Database). The modular nature is still rudimentary and needs a rewrite before it is ready for wider use. What would surprise your fellow editors to learn about your life off-Wikipedia? I don’t think there is anything particularly surprising or interesting about my life. I’ve had an academic career as a research scientist but I don't think anyone could guess the area from my Wikipedia edits. I prefer to work on areas where I am learning at the same time. This why I spend more time with neglected topics (e.g. mosses at the moment). I start reading and then find that I’m not getting the information I want. Anything else you'd like us to know? My interest in the classification of things goes beyond biology. I am fascinated by mediaeval attempts to classify knowledge, such as Bacon in his The Advancement of Learning and Diderot and d’Alembert in their Encyclopédie. They were trying to come up with a universal scheme of knowledge just as the printing press was allowing greater dissemination of knowledge. With the internet we are seeing a new revolution in knowledge dissemination. Just look at how we could read research papers on the COVID virus within weeks of its discovery. With an open internet, everyone has access, not just those with the luxury of books at home or good libraries. Sites like the Biodiversity Heritage Library allow you to read old scientific works without having to visit dusty university library stack rooms, while the taxonomic and checklist databases provide instant information on millions of living species. In principle, the whole world can now find out about anything, even if Douglas Adams warned we might be disinclined to do so. This is why I like Wikipedia, with all its warts, it’s a means of organising the knowledge on the internet. In just two decades it’s become a first stop for knowledge and hopefully a gateway to more specialised sources. Perhaps developing this latter aspect, beyond providing good sources for what we say, is the next challenge for Wikipedia. |
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Cross posted from the Signpost ![]() On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member Rextron discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year. [1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others?
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I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit.
This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus
I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either.
My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher.
The fact that wikipedia exists free of profit motive and free for everyone really is something special and I encourage everyone to donate a few dollars to the cause. |
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Cross posted from the Signpost ![]() On August 7, WikiProject Palaeontology member Rextron discovered a suspicious taxon article, Mustelodon, which was created in November 2005. The article lacked references and the subsequent discussion on WikiProject Palaeontology found that the alleged type locality (where the fossil was first discovered) of Lago Nandarajo "near the northern border of Panama" was nonexistent. In fact, Panama does not even really have a northern border, as it is bounded along the north by the Caribbean Sea. No other publications or databases mentioned Mustelodon, save a fleeting mention in a 2019 book that presumably followed Wikipedia, Felines of the World. The article also appeared in four other languages, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, and Serbian. In Serbian Wikipedia, a note at the bottom of the page warned: "It is important to note here that there is no data on this genus in the official scientific literature, and all attached data on the genus Mustelodon on this page are taken from the English Wikipedia and are the only known data on this genus of mammals, so the validity of this genus is questionable." Editors took action to alert our counterparts on other projects, and these versions were removed also. As the editor who reached out to Spanish and Catalan Wikipedia, it was somewhat challenging to navigate these mostly foreign languages (I have a limited grasp of Spanish). I doubted that the article had very many watchers, so I knew I had to find some WikiProjects where I could post a machine translation advising of the hoax, and asking that users follow local protocols to remove the article. I was surprised to find, however, that Catalan Wikipedia does not tag articles for WikiProjects on talk pages, meaning I had to fumble around to find what I needed (turns out that WikiProjects are Viquiprojectes in Catalan!) Mustelodon remains on Wikidata, where its "instance of" property was swapped from "taxon" to "fictional taxon". How did this article have such a long lifespan? Early intervention is critical for removing hoaxes. A 2016 report found that a hoax article that survives its first day has an 18% chance of lasting a year. [1] Additionally, hoax articles tend to have longer lifespans if they are in inconspicuous parts of Wikipedia, where they do not receive many views. Mustelodon was only viewed a couple times a day, on average. Mustelodon survived a brush with death three years into its lifespan. The article was proposed for deletion in September 2008, with a deletion rationale of "No references given; cannot find any evidence in peer-reviewed journals that this alleged genus actually exists". Unfortunately, the proposed deletion was contested and the template removed, though the declining editor did not give a rationale. Upon its rediscovery in August 2020, Mustelodon was tagged for speedy deletion under CSD G3 as a "blatant hoax". This was challenged, and an Articles for Deletion discussion followed. On 12 August, the AfD was closed as a SNOW delete. WikiProject Palaeontology members ensured that any trace of it was scrubbed from legitimate articles. The fictional mammal was finally, truly extinct. At the ripe old age of 14 years, 9 months, this is the longest-lived documented hoax on Wikipedia, topping the previous documented record of 14 years, 5 months, set by The Gates of Saturn, a fictitious television show, which was incidentally also discovered in August 2020. How do we discover other hoax taxa? Could we use Wikidata to discover taxa are not linked to databases like ITIS, Fossilworks, and others?
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![]() This month's spotlight is with Mattximus, author of two Featured Articles and 29 Featured Lists at current count.
I think I have a compulsion to make lists, it doesn't show up in my real life, but online I secretly get a lot of satisfaction making orderly lists and tables. It's a bit of a secret of mine, because it doesn't manifest in any other part of my life. My background is in biology, so this was a natural (haha) fit.
This experiment was just to see if I could get any random article to FA status, so I picked the very first alphabetical animal species according to the taxonomy and made that attempt. Technically, there isn't enough information for a species page so I just merged the species into a genus and went from there. It was a fun exercise, but doing it alone is not the most fun so it's probably on pause for the foreseeable future. Note: Aporhynchus is the first alphabetical taxon as follows: Animalia, Acanthocephala, Archiacanthocephala, Apororhynchida, Apororhynchidae, Apororhynchus
I would recommend getting a good article nominated, then a featured list up before tackling the FA. Lists are a bit more forgiving but give you a taste of what standards to expect from FA. The most time consuming thing is proper citations so make sure that is in order before starting either.
My personality in real life does not match my wikipedia persona. I'm not a very organized, or orderly in real life, but the wikipedia pages I brought to FL or FA are all very organized. Maybe it's my outlet for a more free-flowing life as a scientist/teacher.
The fact that wikipedia exists free of profit motive and free for everyone really is something special and I encourage everyone to donate a few dollars to the cause. |
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on (Conothoa) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Pichpich ( talk) 22:44, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey, so this cats: caracal, serval, clouded leopard, Sunda clouded leopard and all the lynx are big enough to be considered a big cat, why dont you add them???? Sorry for bad english. Rogerio980Pizza ( talk) 23:08, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
But they are big enough, can you just put that think that i added: A more liberal and expansive definition of the term includes species outside of Panthera including the caracal, serval, clouded leopard, Sunda clouded leopard, and sometimes the several lynx species, although these added species also do not roar. Just to remind people, please. Rogerio980Pizza ( talk) 23:08, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
This channel of big cats says that the lynx, caracal and serval are big cats. I thought it was official because the channel is too famous. And, the eurasian lynx, the canada lynx, bobcat, caracal and serval are actually big compared to normal cats, they really are big cats. Rogerio980Pizza ( talk) 23:08, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
ok, i will leave just a note on the page at least about this cats. Rogerio980Pizza ( talk) 23:08, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
hi SilverTiger12, i notice you have been removing the cats wikiproject from a large number of fictional cat/book talkpages! the thing is, the scope of that project is "This project deals with the creation and editing of articles related to cats, including both real and fictional cats." so just wondering what your reasoning for this is?
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A tag has been placed on Category:Cats in comic strips requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz Read! Talk! 18:29, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your thorough review of Talk:Freshpet#Request Edits February 12 2021. I know there were a lot of requests! Do you happen to have time to finish up? #8, #9, #10 of the requests which remain unreviewed. Also, could you consider the following:
I posted this on the Talk page for the article as well, so it would be public for everyone, but wanted to reach out to you here as well.
Thank you! NJ0220 ( talk) 19:45, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
I filed a complaint at /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Edit_warring_on_Panthera_pardus_tulliana against this idiot. You might want to defend your case when the admins come around. Ddum5347 ( talk) 03:12, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the notification, I was getting tired of sitting on the article... luckily, that kind of behavior is indefensible and unacceptable so I hope it will end soon. Although meatpuppetry and/or sockpuppetry might be a concern. -- SilverTiger12 ( talk) 03:27, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
I just wanted to thank you for your contributions to and suggestions for this article. - Ghost1590 ( talk) 14:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
I am leaving this message to let you know that the article Tjololo that you tagged for Proposed Deletion was removed by another user, and they failed to leave a note on your talk page about it, and their reason for doing so was inaccurate. As you were not informed, I have taken it upon myself to leave this here so you may consider perusing Articles for Deletion instead, as adding a new PROD is not permitted. Kind regards, -- Tautomers( T C) 08:17, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi. I see you reverted my change regarding speciesbox. Per Template:speciesbox#Monspecific_genera, speciesbox should be used over automatic taxobox in cases with monotypic species, which appears to be the case here. Porqaz ( talk) 02:22, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
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For being a voice of reason on that talk page. I have described the article as the worst article on Wikipedia for five years, and I'm aware of what a pain it is to deal with. Honestly, I think it should be deleted since it's basically just speculation and synthesis of sourcing, but if there are people who are willing to work on making it less bad, I'm fine with that as well for now :) An AfD would be a pain and would be easier to deal with once all the sources have been cleaned up anyway. TonyBallioni ( talk) 22:49, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
I really do not know who is that guy your talking about, i would appreciate if you gave me more info of him. "This isn't the place to debate the supposed naturalness of ligers". I was asking to debate n my page. And am not asking weather their natural or not, am ask if its fine for them to exist considering that Humans breed with Neanderthals and the fact that the eastern coyote was the result f crossbreeding between Coyotes and Wolfs. Panthera hybrids are no different as in all three cases its between species of the same genus. And you have to remember that natural\unnatural=\=good or bad. I suppose yo shouldn't brush your teeth as that's unnatural, right? And at some point ligers possibly did happen: https://markgelbart.wordpress.com/tag/tiger-x-snow-leopard-hybrid/ .People also thought that Brown bear and Polar Bear hybrids where unnatural as they did no happened in the wild, and look now, there are starting to hybridize. Not to mention there is evidence that lions crossbreed with snow leopards, who are closely related to tigers. "and sterility is in fact considered unhealthy" the fact that its considered doe snot mean its true. Also, female ligers are always fertile, male usually are sterile but their is a small percentage for them to be fertile. There was the case of a fertile mule in Texas. And ive seen lots of male sterile Ligers that appear to be fine. And the reason why am making this debate is so people can get the right information so we can make sure the page does not misinform the viewer. I've tried to change the page multiple times so i could present the correct information but it appears that unless i can convince them otherwise, Wikipedians wont let me make the changes. Many Wikipedians are so biased towards reading articles that they never question if the articles in question are factually correct or if they contain outdated information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 56FireLeafs ( talk • contribs) 05:19, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
You may have noticed that a novice editor added refs as WP:BAREURLS to pages. S/he's been doing this to other pages not about cats as well, despite multiple calls to learn to WP:CITEHOW and in disregard of the quality ratings of those pages. Would you please help to keep especially FA and GA rated pages free of bare urls ? -- BhagyaMani ( talk) 07:03, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
Do you also see the block logs on your watchlist ? The first that the guy is blocked for 31 hours, and the 2nd that block is extended to 2 weeks after review. -- BhagyaMani ( talk) 22:20, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
Hey: hope you are well!! Once you have time, please comment at the Bengal tiger RfC by a new kid on the block. S/he has <10 edits on the page itself, all withOUT adding a new reference, but > a dozen edits on talk page + ~dozen on my talk page about Bengal tiger + 36 edits at ANI complaining about me re same tiger. You and I and lots of others I know would rather use 60 edits for contributing sth. useful, won't we? Cheers – BhagyaMani ( talk) 08:47, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
Refer to [4] for discussion. BhagyaMani has not reverted so I assume they take no issue with my edits either. Groovehx ( talk) 16:37, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Peru in South America? – BhagyaMani ( talk) 18:46, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
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In response to you undoing my edits, I really do not know who is that guy your talking about, i would appreciate if you gave me more info of him. "This isn't the place to debate the supposed naturalness of ligers". I was asking to debate n my page. And am not asking weather their natural or not, am ask if its fine for them to exist considering that Humans breed with Neanderthals and the fact that the eastern coyote was the result f crossbreeding between Coyotes and Wolfs. Panthera hybrids are no different as in all three cases its between species of the same genus. And you have to remember that natural\unnatural=\=good or bad. I suppose yo shouldn't brush your teeth as that's unnatural, right? And at some point ligers possibly did happen: https://markgelbart.wordpress.com/tag/tiger-x-snow-leopard-hybrid/ .People also thought that Brown bear and Polar Bear hybrids where unnatural as they did no happened in the wild, and look now, there are starting to hybridize. Not to mention there is evidence that lions crossbreed with snow leopards, who are closely related to tigers. "and sterility is in fact considered unhealthy" the fact that its considered doe snot mean its true. Also, female ligers are always fertile, male usually are sterile but their is a small percentage for them to be fertile. There was the case of a fertile mule in Texas. And ive seen lots of male sterile Ligers that appear to be fine. And the reason why am making this debate is so people can get the right information so we can make sure the page does not misinform the viewer. I've tried to change the page multiple times so i could present the correct information but it appears that unless i can convince them otherwise, Wikipedians wont let me make the changes. Many Wikipedians are so biased towards reading articles that they never question if the articles in question are factually correct or if they contain outdated information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 56FireLeafs (talk • contribs) 05:19, 16 January 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 56FireLeafs ( talk • contribs)
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I don't get how would Landorus be irrelevant as a link on the White Tiger page. Its Therian Forme is inspired by the White Tiger, so why did you remove it? -- Keyacom ( 💬 | 🖊) 19:43, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Bit confused by your changes to my recent edit at Tiger. Firstly, it now diverges from the reference I used, you seem to have removed the trinomials, and it is perfectly possible to have a trinomial junior synonym for a species. Secondly, you removed {{ Species list}}, the correct use of which italicises the binomials (and trinomials), as well as making the authorities small. YorkshireExpat ( talk) 20:45, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
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Hi SilverTiger12: please have a brief look at these earlier versions of the two probable merger pages: 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Panthera_leo_melanochaita&oldid=860922252 and 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Panthera_leo_leo&oldid=861740256 >> if we consent to use these as entry points for merging, then it'll be just a matter of moving a few paragraphs from the other pages. -- BhagyaMani ( talk) 22:17, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
I also suggest merger of these two articles- Himalayan Wolf and Mongolian Wolf. The two wolves are same subspecies now. Both are also called the Tibetan Wolf which had a separate article/page previously. Ishan87 ( talk) 07:22, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hello, SilverTiger12. I am a newbie, and would like to learn something from you. You reverted my edit on Cheshire cat. The reasoning is "not notable". Is it not a subjective criteria? Virtually the same piece is living on this page " /info/en/?search=Any_Road" for quite some time. May be you would like to either revert that section too, or educate me, why this piece is not valid on Cheshire cat page. Thanks. -Anil1956 I am waiting for your answer. It would educate me. Thanks. -Anil1956
Hi,
Why the reverts? It is reliably sourced via WP:RSPSS.
Thank you :)
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FWIW, you can typically tell pretty easily when a business has conducted a PR campaign since part of that work involves publishing promotional material through widely recognized PR outlets, like PR Newswire. Seppi333 ( Insert 2¢) 11:15, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
I completely rewrote Dumb Friends League using only independent refs to address your concerns in your proposed deletion, and have removed the prod tag. Schazjmd (talk) 23:30, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
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Could you please explain why you reverted my edit at Bengal cat? Reversion of good faith edits w/o good reason is very poor etiquette. -- Hadal ( talk) 23:27, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
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... I've taken a stab at my talk page. But don't expect miracles. E Eng 09:00, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
I understand what the lede is supposed to do, but the information on the cat's dimensions (length and weight) are quite literally a copy and paste from the Description section. It's redundant. Chumzwumz68 ( talk) 03:27, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
Mr SilverTiger12, I understand you are at the origin of the removal of the "list of kakapo" page. While I may understand the concerns you had about this page, it has definitely notability value for the community for numerous reasons:
As such, I would ask you to return the page to wikipedia, or at the very least provide me the PDF of the last version of the page, so that at the very least I can follow it on my side and at least keep the info and share it with the (numerous) people interested in it.
Thanks for the read, I hope you take the appropriate measures in either restoring the page or merging it with the kakapo page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PasquiDerder ( talk • contribs) 07:54, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
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I added columns Jagupardess, Ligress, and Tigoness; and added
you reverted these edits saying "Uncited"
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>>> Webclouddat ( talk) 06:19, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to ask about your reversion of my edit including extra information about tortie point ragdolls, that they aren't the same as calicos. I may be new, but as others have pointed out, I don't think reverting good faith edits without reasoning is particularly good etiquette. -- AnteaterStim ( talk) 10:12, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
do you have a want to control everything??
>>> Webclouddat ( talk) 03:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
You reverted my edit without leaving a reason, nor attempting to improve what was there. Can you please explain your action? Thank you. CTR1874 ( talk) 02:30, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
If I don't hear back from you soon I will restore my edits. They were valid and sourced and contributed to the article in a substantive way. CTR1874 ( talk) 16:18, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
These are not reliable sources and should not be cited on Wikipedia. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 19:59, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
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