User talk:Doug Weller

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Orphans of the Sky micro-dispute

Hello Doug- I've stumbled into a little spat with an old pal of ours who can be challenging to collaborate with, and wanted to ask your advice on how to proceed. It involves a minor wording change, which, combined with the edit summary provided, I found to be erroneous and reverted. It is a nit-picky little thing, but I find the other editor's attitude a bit difficult. I'm not sure if it warrants posting at ANI or for edit-warring, and I want to avoid warring myself. Would you mind taking a look? Sorry if it's too piddly to bother you with. Orphans of the Sky revision history editor's talkpage history. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Eric ^talk 16:51, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

@Eric: honestly, it's not worth the candle. I sympathise but I would advise you not to take this to the drama boards. You need to find a better field to stand in. I must read the book again, it's got to be too many decades to contemplate since I read it. Doug Weller talk 19:46, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

That's kind of what I thought. I tried a reword of the sentence, so we'll see if that soothes the rash of the contentious. As for the decades, you just provoked a gruesome bit of math reckoning on my part -- I think I read it forty years ago! (insert vomiting and weeping emoji here) Cheers, Eric ^talk 19:55, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

@Eric: that recently? Doug Weller talk 19:57, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Ha! I guess the appropriate reply would be I'm only an egg. Eric ^talk 20:25, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

AfriForum

You added tags to the AfriForum article in March this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AfriForum&diff=next&oldid=886324506 Do you still believe that the article is POV, and if so, can you be a little more specific about which aspects you believe should be amended? I agree that the lead should be rewritten. Do you still believe that the article relies too much on primary sources? I don't see that, so... perhaps you mean something specific when you say "primary sources"? -- leuce (talk) 12:02, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

• Primary source. Sorry, but you've been here for six years or so; you should know this. Drmies (talk) 18:18, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Adenostemma viscosum

Doug, In response to your question involving the source on a this recent posting, if you would like, I can scan the page from the hard copy book, but it is actually available on the web at https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003034128/page/192 if you have access to this. If your question is whether Adenostemma viscosum is an American species it is identified as being native to America on Wikipedia at https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenostemma_lavenia. Adenostemma lavenia is a synonym for Adenostemma viscosum See: https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=38718&print_version=PRT&source=to_print#null If you think it would be helpful to clarity that it is a synonym and create a link to the Adenostemma lavenia wiki page, I could do that. Just let me know. Thanks for your help in getting clear and accurate Wiki postings. ````Geneva11 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geneva11 (talk • contribs) 20:26, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

The point is that the plant is native to the Americas (as stated also in Wikipedia), so (ignoring for the moment the bird argument) in order to arrive in Hawaii (or any of those other places Hillebrand mentions) prior to European contact, there would need to have been contact with the Americas. So it is not a fringe theory as it is substantiated by fairly solid biological identification in Hawaii prior to European contact. That particular Wiki page has as it's specific title that all material there are theories. On the bird distribution, I did not run across that article when I did a cite and topic search on the scientific databases I use, so it was definitely a good catch by you and should rightly be cited as a possible alternate explanation for the dispersion of that species.Geneva11 (talk) 21:41, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for a revdel

Hi Doug. Would you be so kind as to take a look at this diff and consider revdeling it? In my view, it is defamatory to the subject of the article and it also reveals what purports to be some personal details about the subject that I assume not to be legitimately in the public domain (assuming that they are true at all). Thanks. --DanielRigal (talk) 02:34, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Don't worry. Somebody else has already done it. --DanielRigal (talk) 02:50, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

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User box represents the user. I want to know who in en wiki has the best user page in your eyes. I will use that taking permission. Wiki Ruhan (talk) 10:36, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Try asking at Wikipedia:Teahouse. Johnuniq (talk) 11:00, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

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Email me ASAP please

Need to sort out some stuff about your email address. Risker (talk) 20:07, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Newsweek revert

Author did use that headline as seen from the screenshot and she wrote that “(...) Perković began his performance by screaming Ustashe battle cries. Several people in the audience were seen making Nazi salutes (...)" which was false and therefore later removed from the article, in addition to the change of the whole headline. Kolinda Grabar Kitarović isn't mentioned anywhere so I don't know why you mention her. Newsweek themselves issued a correction notice, acknowledging the mistake. Index.hr is, alongside jutarnji.hr and vecernji.hr, a quite reliable source. It's obvious that Newsweek was, in this case, aiming for sensationalism. And from what I see, this isn't their first time. United Union (talk) 21:41, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Dwight York

The website shows good rating and its also not self published. Just curious how its not eligible for citation. https://dailylifestories.storychief.io/malachi-york-the-man-in-the-west-african-spotlight This source.LeungChow (talk) 10:49, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

@LeungChow: You can take it to WP:RSN for more opinions, but I see no evidence of editorial control and it does seem self-published, a personal website owned by Georgiana L. Brown who seems to be the only author. Doug Weller talk 10:56, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

MY bad. I did not notice that (personal website owned by Georgiana L. Brown)LeungChow (talk) 11:00, 2 September 2019 (UTC).

Chekavar are thiyyar

Chekavar are thiyyar and not Ezhavar. Ezhavar exist in South Kerala And chekavar was in North Kerala where thiyyar exist Unniyarcha (talk) 16:49, 2 September 2019 (UTC)