User talk:BlackcurrantTea

Cheers

"There is nobody who, having a garden, shouldn’t plant a great number [of black currant bushes] for the needs of their family,” wrote the Abbé P. Bailly de Montaran in 1712. And he added: “Black currant is a fruit that promotes long life in human beings.” Podsolnechnik (talk) 01:04, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Nice quote, and new to me. Thanks! BlackcurrantTea (talk) 03:50, 29 July 2016 (UTC)

Barnstar

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		For emptying Category:Orphaned articles from March 2008. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:58, 5 September 2017 (UTC).	{ }

A cup of tea for you!

Thanks for your help and recommendations. Hope your enjoy this tea. (By the way funny story, (maybe) I'm actually drinking tea while typing this message). Making disambiguation pages appear orange is really helpful! OkayKenG (talk) 04:43, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

(sorry didn't realize you got some tea before) OkayKenG (talk) 04:44, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the cuppa, OkayKenji! As you might expect from my username I quite like tea, and another cup is welcome. I'm glad the orange links help. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 20:31, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Re-draft in your sandbox

Hi, while cleaning up after changes to categories I stumbled across your sandbox. It looks as if it would be well worth merging to the article Martha Clarke, so I updated your sandbox with changes that have been made to the live article since you copied it. I mean no offence and hope this is helpful. I would offer further help if you were a newbie, but you appear to be doing good work already! Kind regards – Fayenatic London 20:45, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Fayenatic! I appreciate the update. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 07:30, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Tzatziki

Where did you dislike the changes and additions I made to this topic? --Mühendis ve bilim insanı yazarı kişi (talk) 04:01, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Mühendis ve bilim insanı yazarı kişi, dislike has nothing to do with it; my decision was based on Wikipedia's standards. The common name for this food in English is tzatziki. That's why the article is called Tzatziki, the infobox is labled 'tzatziki', and the first sentence of the article should begin with a mention of 'tzatziki'.

You removed references, which you shouldn't do without a good reason, or without explanation. Statements require reliable sources; one cannot simply assert that in Ottoman language, the word describes an herb salad, or that a food contains 128 calories per serving without providing a reference for that information. You removed an account of the origins of the name. For all these reasons, I reverted your changes. I hope that clears things up. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 04:44, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, please review sources

The correct percentaje of european heritage comes from the sources that apper in the data from two research published in scientific journals "Reconstructing the Population History of Nicaragua by Means of mtDNA, Y-Chromosome STRs, and Autosomal STR Markers". Retrieved 2019-07-15 and in Salzano, F. M.; Sans, M. (2013). "Interethnic admixture and the evolution of Latin American populations". Genetics and Molecular Biology. 37 (1 Suppl): 151–170. The correct data is 69(please review both reserch). The CIA Factbook source does not shows the source of it data like published census or researchs but the both research about the percentaje where made with scientific method and sources are pubished in scientifics journals. Thanks a lot.GRANADANICARAGUA (talk) 00:28, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

GRANADANICARAGUA, the CIA World Factbook is generally considered a reliable source. If you wish to debate that, please visit the Reliable sources noticeboard (though I recommend you search the archives, first - it has been discussed repeatedly). If you wish to contest its use in the White Latin Americans article, please discuss that on the article's talk page. Thank you. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 00:46, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Arbitration motion regarding Brahma Kumaris

The Arbitration Committee has resolved by motion that:

Remedy 3 of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Brahma Kumaris, "article probation", is hereby terminated.

For the Arbitration Committee, Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 18:33, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Arbitration motion regarding Brahma Kumaris

Markku Savela

Hello, I saw your edit at Crocanthes epitherma, and I wondered how you know that Markku Savela is the editor rather than author of that website. Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨  04:08, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

SchreiberBike, Savela's assembled information and organised it, rather than writing it himself. (It's just as described in the lead of the Editing article.) This is not to minimize or disparage his work in any way: I find his site quite impressive, and a great resource. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 04:34, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

I'm still thinking about this. I think a reasonable argument can be made that you are right, but it is different from the practice I've seen in years of editing articles about taxa. I may bring the question to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life to see what others think. I'll ping you if I do.

Also, I saw at this edit, you changed the URL to remove the section link to the individual species. Why do that, especially without changing the title of the link?

Thanks, SchreiberBike | ⌨  02:29, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

SchreiberBike, that change to a link was unintentional. Thank you for pointing it out. I've looked over my edits and fixed it and two others that I found. I think I'll leave the author/editor fields alone for the time being (but I ask your forgiveness in advance should I forget and change some). Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 20:09, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

I can't get myself worked up about this and it seems that no one else cares much either. I'll try it your way for a while and see how it feels. So, today I used Savela, Markku, ed. (April 25, 2016). "Cryptophasa chionotarsa Meyrick, 1925". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 24, 2020. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike | ⌨  22:06, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Apology

I just wanted to say I’m sorry for those edits I made and you’ve probably been hearing things about me. I apologized to them I don’t expect any of you to believe me or not hate me anymore but I just wanted to try to apologize. I made those edits because I thought they deserved to be what they were but I guess I was wrong. I’m no Wikipedia editor if you guys want to block or shut me down I’d be happy to delete my profile, again I’m sorry for the trouble I caused thank you. 0Detail-Attention215 (talk) 22:08, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, 0Detail-Attention215. Apology accepted. I don't hate you at all. Editing Wikipedia's not for everyone. There are indeed quite a few rules, and that takes some getting used to. Sometimes it requires a bit of effort to work within the rules, and to not take things personally. Please try to remember that on the other side of each username or IP address, there's a person. Thanks, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 13:08, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Disambiguation talk pages

Please don't create a talk page for a disambiguation page just to add {{WikiProject Disambiguation}} - see the documentation page for that template. The disambiguation WikiProject can identify its pages by their dab categories. Thanks. PamD 05:55, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for letting me know. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 06:22, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

WP DAB

Hi! There's no need to create dab talk pages if all they're going to contain is {{WikiProject Disambiguation}}. You can see the template's documentation. There's no need to worry about any you might have already created. – Uanfala (talk) 09:47, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Uanfala. I stopped after seeing the message immediately before this one. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 09:54, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Ah, how silly of me! Sorry, when I come whining to somebody's talk page I normally check in case it's all been resolved, but I never imagined that somebody else would have noticed (and cared for) such an obscure issue. – Uanfala (talk) 10:19, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Without people who pay attention to the more obscure bits, this place would fall apart.^MANDY BlackcurrantTea (talk) 11:12, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Editing conflict?

I think we just simultaneously edited the page on the Mbempa effect and got an editing conflict? I am new here so I hope nothing went awry...Nomenenus nescio (talk) 16:28, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Don't worry, Nomenenus nescio, that happened to me earlier. I use the back button and copy all the changes (because if I stay on the edit conflict screen, they vanish), paste them into a text editor, then go to the revision history and look at the changes the other editor made. Sometimes they've fixed exactly what I was fixing! If not, I go back and add my changes. It doesn't often happen in articles, but on noticeboards it can be a problem.

I'm about to leave a note on your talk page, so if you have any questions for me, just wait a few minutes, then post them there. That way we can keep the conversation in one place, on your talk page. Thanks, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 17:03, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Valencian language

Hello, I had to revert your last edit because the previous user had made quite a mess (see my comments in the edit history). See if you can enter your changes once again. Sorry. Taurus Littrow (talk) 18:42, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Taurus Littrow, I was wondering what had happened. Thanks for letting me know. I'll take care of it. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 18:52, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

Scientology

Not sure what the point of your warning was as I've been editing most Scientology articles for many, many years. As a reminder, you should check people's edit histories before placing such messages. Laval (talk) 11:12, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

I looked at the last several pages of your edit history, and saw that you'd recently edited articles related to Scientology. There's no record of your ever having been alerted to the discretionary sanctions. That's why I left you the notice. If you prefer not to receive them in future, you can add {{Ds/aware}} to your talk page noting the appropriate areas. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 12:05, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Getting back into things

Hey! Chances are you wont remember, but in the earlier months of this year you helped me with a lot of things relating to wikipedia. I haven't used wikipedia for months, and I know this likely isn't the best place to ask, but I wanted to know if you had any advice for how to start using wikipedia again. The main reason I stopped is because I grew bored of trying to find articles to edit, so I wanted to know if you had suggestions on what to do with wikipedia. I really doubt you'll be able to help haha, but thanks in advance, SnazzyInfinity (talk) 20:50, 10 November 2020 (UTC)

Welcome back, SnazzyInfinity! I see I already suggested WikiProjects and you've met SuggestBot. One quick and easy thing you can try is clicking the 'random article' link until you find something that interests you. What kind of work do you like to do or want to do? BlackcurrantTea (talk) 08:14, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Well, I found Suggest bot disappointing to be quite frank. I use to use the random article for a little while but it typically takes a while for me to find one to edit. I do however find articles like dead ends and other "special pages" quite interesting to work with. SnazzyInfinity (talk) Special:Contributions/SnazzyInfinity 15:31, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Now that I think about it, I like adding templates like Template:Underlinked to things through twinkle or whatever the tool is. SnazzyInfinity - Chat? 16:59, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Since you like working with special pages, take a look at WP:Database reports. Some reports are purely informational (Most edited articles last month), and some are things that don't need to be fixed (the pages in WP:Database reports/Articles containing links to the user space that are linked to the user space because they've been nominated for deletion). Then there are reports such as WP:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations - most of those do need to be cleaned up, and they're pretty easy to fix if you've an eye for detail. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 15:13, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

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Happy Holidays (and thanks for the previous help!)

Hello BlackcurrantTea: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, SnazzyInfinity (chat? • what I've done) 18:45, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

Thanks, SnazzyInfinity. I'm glad I could help. Best wishes to you, and have a happy new year! BlackcurrantTea (talk) 20:54, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Danny Ranes and Brent Koster

Could you accept this draft into an article please? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Danny_Ranes_and_Brent_Koster --Kinkel Loukaitis Brazill (talk) 00:04, 25 December 2020 (UTC)