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Please follow these, and I should be able to get on the same page with you, or sort things out. --Thenewguy34 (talk) 22:15, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Confirmation?[edit]

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Despite confirming my account, I am not considered "registered". I remember seeing something about having to "wait 4 days before being registered". Does that have to do with me not being registered yet? --Thenewguy34 (talk) 12:04, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

See Autoconfirmed, which takes 4 days and 10 edits. Dru of Id (talk) 12:17, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Spoiler[edit]

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I notice that Template:Spoiler has been consistently deleted, yet the reason has also been archived beyond my reach. Why was this template deleted? I was going to copy what I have in my sandbox, but since the deleted template is protected, I cannot do it. Why is this? --21:52, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

There was a TFD discussion which resulted in the template's deletion. The content of it appears to be preserved at Wikipedia talk:Spoiler/old template. Robert Skyhawk ^{(T C)} 22:34, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Joseph Kony Face.jpg[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition[edit]

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Why does wikipedia lack proper categorization? For example, Template:Multiple Issues not categorizing something into clean-up when you insert the "cleanup" section into the template? --Thenewguy34 (talk) 13:49, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Try using WP:TWINKLE's tagging tool. It is much easier than doing it manually. Or, add the catogory manually - eg. add [[Category:articles needing cleanup]]to the bottom of the article. Mdann52 (talk) 15:46, 22 July 2012 (UTC) Mdann52 (talk) 15:46, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Archaeplastida in Protist article[edit]

Hi, Thenewguy34. I responded to the question you raised in Talk:Protist. Essentially, there's nothing wrong with talking about archaeplastids in the protist article (most are arguably protistan, as the term is commonly used), but you're quite right that it's wrong (or at least very confusing) to put them in the taxobox under "Protista Haeckel, 1866", as if the group were formally placed within the old biological kingdom. Deuterostome (Talk) 14:00, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Teenager[edit]

There is nothing wrong with this term. It's precise and refers to an age range. "Youth" "Young" and the other substitutions you are forcing into articles by edit warring are less precise. Would you please stop it? Thank you, Antandrus (talk) 13:26, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am making this edits because they are not accurate within this time period. Adolescence itself did not exist as a concept before World War II and using these terms within the articles I have tried to change them in are historically misleading.

Let me give you another example of where this might be more problematic: if we wrote an article using the term "teenage" to refer to Jesus of Nazareth would that not be reverted? In regards to that time period, Jesus would have been an adult at age 13, when adolescence starts in modern culture. The question of an article like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is no more different; the term "teenager" is misleading, as it is gives a misleading impression of what Mozart's life was like when he was in that age range. A scholar would never settle for the usage of the term "teenager" in this time period due to it belonging to another time period, and given that Wikipedia is a site that attempts to follow scholarly standards, why would we be any different? --Thenewguy34 (talk) 13:32, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You are trying to restrict articles to an MOS:INUNIVERSE vocabulary and concepts, which is specifically discouraged by Wikipedia policy. This affectation is inappropriate in a contemporary encyclopedia, just like restricting analysis of Shakespeare's plays to Elizabethan English would be inappropriate. If you persist in this affectation you will receive warnings from multiple editors, and will soon risk being banned from Wikipedia. Please stop making these changes, and undo any you have already done. Reify-tech (talk) 14:20, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Help me[edit]

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Eve Teschmacher currently redirects to Superman (1978 film). However, Eve Teschmacher also makes a number of appearances in the show Supergirl, and may have made a couple of cameo appearances in some of the comics. What would be the appropriate template to put onto the article Superman (1978 film) to indicate that Eve Teschmacher should no longer redirect to this article, but should instead be made into its own article? --Thenewguy34 (talk) 15:21, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Follow this link and now you can be able to edit it directly. –Ammarpad (talk) 19:18, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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