User talk:Elmidae

Opinion?

Hi, I saw your cleanup tag on tube zither and agree, it will happen. This article was a long time in the making, until I got sick of working on it. Can you tell me your impression of it? Do I need to chop it down smaller? Jacqke (talk) 03:05, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

I fixed the malformatted references and removed tag.Jacqke (talk) 11:19, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Jacqke, it's an impressive article with all the trimmings - I can't see any obvious areas that would require improvement :) One thing - there's a fair few links to Wordpress blogs in the references, which do have a tendency to flare up like a Christmas tree if you have one of those scripts enabled that highlight "generally unreliable" sources; as in, blogs generally do not make great encyclopedic references. So that might become a point of criticism, but I appreciate that this kind of material may not be easy to find in more mainstream sources. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:54, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Stirling engine Other developments

I don't understand. It's a new type of engine, very different from the alpha, beta, gamma types. Because on these types of engines, a volume of gas is used in all four phases of the Stirling cycle. Whereas on my new type of engine, these four volumes of gas are transferred from chamber to chamber to undergo the four operations of the Stirling cycle.Using an exchanger instead of a regenerator is a completely different approach. It's quite an evolution of the Stirling engine. Of course I hope that the new type of engine will be developed, but for this to happen a commercial company must be interested in the subject. Wikipedia is not an opening of knowledge as I thought. You have purely removed the subject — Preceding unsigned comment added by Normandajc (talk • contribs) 16:41, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

@Normandajc: as an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is NOT a platform to generate interest. We merely document what the world has already taken an interest in, as demonstrated by reliable, independent coverage. As soon as multiple unconnected Someone Elses have written and published something about a subject, we can cover it; not before. That is Wikipedia's notability concept. In short, we don't rustle up the interest, we document it once there IS interest. Which does not yet appear to be the case here. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:43, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Black marlin - Restored Hemingway quote

I re-posted the Hemingway quote from his 1937 novel To Have and Have Not. Do literary references and quotes relating directly to subject matter violate Wiki Rules? --Lord Such&Such (talk) 16:54, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

@Lord Such&Such: No, quotes are fine - if they are suitable at the current article state! The point of the article is to give an overview of the species, starting with description and distribution, then taxonomy, usually followed by ecology and human use, conservation assessments, and cultural significance. Once these basics are covered, we can add frills - local names, appearances in popular culture, and quotes. With black marlin we are nowhere near yet the state where the article needs a big, dominating literature quote of peripheral importance. That's like creating a stub on a notable politician and then, before the biographical and career material is covered, putting in half a page of song lyrics where they are mentioned by name once. In short, it's an issue of due weight at this stage of the article. Please leave this out until the rest of the article can support it. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:43, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Perhaps you can show the passage from due weight, which you offered as defense for deleting the Hemingway quote, that supports your position. None such is apparent. The quote is indubitably apropos, by any standard, and not as you assert "a big, dominating literature quote of peripheral importance." Perhaps it will stimulate interest (perhaps your own interest) in providing what you consider "the basics" for the article.

Your use of the word "frill" with respect to the passage from a Nobel Laureate in Literature, which I believe adds a engaging dimension to this article (in a 116 words), is inappropriate. Please assume Good Faith.--Lord Such&Such (talk) 16:36, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

@Lord Such&Such: well, I disagree that the quote is appropriate for such a short article. If you will, propose it on the talk page and we'll see what others think about it. BTW, you putting extra effort into taking offence at the word "frill" does strengthen my impression that you don't understand the issue of article balance; a quote from a joint travelogue by Einstein, Eisenhower, and Gandi would be a frill in this context - a late-stage optional extra that could be added after the basics are taken care of. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:52, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

The Black marlin article - and the quote you find offensive - remained on the page for six months without being molested, enjoying over 200 visits to the site per day. It seems that you, not I, need to defend your persistent removal of the quote.

By the way, I noticed you just removed the following exchange from your talk page, a note from Proteus last March:

Humpback Whale

I noticed you undid my addition of the reference to Star Trek IV as trivial - unfortunately that maybe your opinion and hence I have undone the edit. Star Trek is a major motion picture series which has a large fan base and for it to devote a large part of the movie to the potential extinction of this species is IMHO not trivial! Proteus (talk) 17:40, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

...sorry, I don't have the stamina to get into the inevitable edit war with another fanboy ramming their favourite work of fiction into articles. I'll leave it to someone else to undo. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:31, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

--Lord Such&Such (talk) 16:59, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

@Lord Such&Such: it's called "archiving", dipshit. If your intention is to become another 'fanboy' so annoying that I have to start ignoring you, you have another think coming. Stay off my talk page from now on and confine your petty attempts at sandbox fighting to the article talk page. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:14, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Ronaldo3401

I have already reported him as a possible sockpuppet of Alvrix3108. He recently tried to make a WP:BROTHER excuse on my Talk page. Just thought I’d inform you. Jalen Folf (talk) 18:19, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

@JalenFolf: Thanks. We might still have to drop a note at 3RR if he keeps it up with the episode redirects, as a short-term solution. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:22, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

*Bare* minimum

Hi, I'm trying to sort out a bunch of circular redirects for List of female scientists before the 20th century. You just undid my edits, saying that it didn't meet the bare minimum. I wholly agree that it's slim for a stub, but I'm at a loss for what else to do. I'm not the author of the pages and I see the one sentence description as being better than several articles that simply link to that list (from that list). They were all created by the same user. Should I nominate them for deletion instead? There is very little information about these people available on the internet, just a couple of articles/books that repeat the same information again and again (how little we do know about women in science in the medieval times!). Thanks in advance for your advice. User:Karitxa (talk) 02:20, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

@Karitxa: The thing with stubs is that they are intended to be the basis for a full article somewhere down the line. If the source situation is really so restricted that there is just this single source, with very little information, then it is clear that the stub will never be expanded, and the subject is better treated within a larger article. Hence these minimum coverage rules.

If there is not enough material to sustain an article or even a stub, then I would just remove the circular link at List of female scientists before the 20th century but leave the redirect in place. The main function of redirects is, after all, that someone who types the name into the search bar can come to some reasonably related material - which here is the list article, and that at least has a single reference for the entry. But that single reference is not enough to justify a standalone article. - Sotira (physician) seems to just make a viable minimum stub since we have the required "multiple" (well, two) references that deal with slightly different aspects. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 04:00, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Squala Orphan

Hi, I saw you recently reviewed Squala Orphan as an article that could be in mainspace. However it has been pointed out on Discord that from the second paragraph onwards its an copy of Guru (rapper). I would like to let you know that I'll be moving it back to draftspace unless you have serious objections. Asartea ^{Talk | Contribs} 15:30, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

@Asartea: Oy. I remember vaguely wondering about that and assuming it was another artist alias. Clearly not a good assumption :p Thanks for following up. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:44, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Help/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tzahi_(Zack)_Weisfeld — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.12.237.17 (talk) 15:49, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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"Beautiful" squirrels

Hi there Elmidae. Thanks your good-faith edit on Irrawaddy squirrel: where you undid my revision 992071018: "let's keep it NPOV please". Actually, the epithet "Beautiful" is not my opinion, it's the term used to refer to the group of squirrels in the genus Callosciurus! 🤣 --Pakbelang (talk) 13:24, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

@Pakbelang: oops! I was not aware of that :) Hence the quotation marks, I see. Please feel free to reinstate; I see the other species in the genus all got the moniker as well. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:07, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

@Elmidae: Okay, no worries! --Pakbelang (talk) 23:02, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Undeleting a page

Hi, you proposed this AFD Discussion. Recently there was a lot of news surrounding Naum Koen.

New coverage since the deletion:

• apparently he holds an Israeli citizenship and his original name is Nachshon Nachshonov, which he changed few years ago in the past his name appeared in a lawsuit filed by a diamond dealer against the Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan.
• There is lots of coverage of him being the broker for the deal selling 50% of Jerusalem FC to a Sheikh in UAE
• According to multiple articles he is the founder and financial backer of the Jewish Community Center in Dubai.
• His bid on Israir airlines

P.S. I also see there is quite a lot of coverage mentioning him in Hebrew press when searching for "נאום כהן".

I have saved the original deleted page in my user space here.

Do you think there is now enough notability now to bring back the page? Shemtovca (talk) 23:15, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

@Shemtovca: honestly, can't tell. That was a complex AfD discussion, and I couldn't say how it would play out with new sources. But good faith recreation of an article is always an option if the source situation is perceived as having changed sufficiently. I would suggest you try recreating the page, with the new sources, and put a note to that effect into the edit summary as well as on the talk page (also feel free to link here), and we'll see how it goes. Worst case is another AfD, which is a good source assessment forum. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:36, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

@Elmidae: thank you for your response and advice. Shemtovca (talk) 14:52, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

References

New Page Patrol December Newsletter

Hello Elmidae,

Year in review

It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by Rosguill who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to JTtheOG and Onel5969 who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to John B123, Hughesdarren, and Mccapra who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by DannyS712 which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.

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Acca sellowiana

Hi. You have reviewed my edits in the past. I wanted to ask if you know how to rename an article. I am trying to do that for the article Acca sellowiana - see the talk page for an explanation. thanks PametUGlavu (talk) 16:04, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

@PametUGlavu: done - usually you'd just move it, but page mover rights are needed if you want to swap titles between an article and a redirect. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:13, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Album Notability

Hi! You recently undid my revisions to the Put Strength in the Final Blow, which I understand, but I'd like to ask why another one of their albums such as The World (U.S. Bombs album) hasn't been deleted. Thanks! SnazzyInfinity (chat? • what I've done) 18:35, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi ,, can you see this article History of Baghdad 1831-1917,,, Thank you,, Hamaredha (talk) 20:57, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

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Happy New Year!

	Happy New Year!
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Allium paniculatum subspecies

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:102443-3

This page has multiple synonyms. Where should the synonyms redirect to? Starzoner (talk) 22:05, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

@Starzoner: we shouldn't have a separate article for the subspecies at all - generally subspecies are treated in the species article, unless there is an unusually large amount to say about the subspecies (e.g. Asiatic lion), and that apparently is not the case here. So all of these should be redirecting to the species article, Allium paniculatum: subspecies, synonyms for the species, and synonyms for the subspecies. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:16, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Pandanus andamanensis

Regarding this, when I search on POWO, I screwed up, and get a completely different species. What is going on? Starzoner (talk) 23:33, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

@Starzoner: Not sure what you did to end up there - where did the species name come from? Are you sure this shouldn't be Pandanus andamanensium (which itself is a synonym for Pandanus leram? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:50, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

I just pasted Pandanus andamanensis into POWO and I got the entirely unrelated species. This was http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/. Starzoner (talk) 01:08, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

@Starzoner: I'm pretty sure that's just an artifact of fuzzy search term matching. Can't find the species in any reference list; I suspect it's a misspelling of "andamanensium", and as such should be redirected to Pandanus dubius. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 01:27, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

anyways, I fixed it. Starzoner (talk) 17:14, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Milankovich's theory

I've closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Milankovich's theory revisited and moved the bit to be merged to Milankovich's theory. Good luck! - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 18:46, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Much obliged! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 19:06, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Cheetah

Where is the source which say Cheetah is native to Iran? I don't see any. Sources only say that cheetah was distributed to Iran. TolWol56 (talk) 15:27, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

@TolWol56: Cheetah#Historical_range. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:34, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

It says that the animal originated in Africa and later went to other areas, ranging from the Arabian world to India. But it lost its presence in these parts of the world due to hunting and now found in Iran. The word we are using is "native" and it is problematic because "native" generally means "indigenous", "originated in a particular place", etc. [1] and the sentence is not supported by source either. Can we use a better word than "native"? "Resident" or "resides in", might be better. TolWol56 (talk) 15:50, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

@TolWol56: not sure where you get that interpretation from, but unless it is specifically stated that a species was artifically introduced to a location by humans (which is not the case here, and you won't find any sources that say so), the description "native" is correct. Cheetahs have been present in Iran from pre-human times; that makes it part of their native range. And it doesn't even depend on human presence - by your definition, no human population could ever be called "native" to any place except east-central Africa... --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:59, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

And since you seem to be aware of Asiatic cheetah and all the sources therein, I really don't know what you are arguing about here. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:05, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Haggard Edit

Thanks for the edit removing section on how some of Haggard's own writing may support the idea that he was not racist. Here's what I agree with: that the intro sentence was inappropriate -- "However, Rider's own writing at times appears to bely claims of racism." -- as it was an opinion without any cited source.

Here are a few questions -- some of them because I'm a new user: 1) What does "rv" mean? The only thing I could dig up as possible is revert / vandalism, which doesn't make sense based on what I've read of that definition. 2) What does "OR" mean in this context? 3) How could the primary sources I used (quotes from Haggard himself) be appropriately used in this context / theme in your mind?

Thanks!

Hi Eachthighearn, excuse the jargon - lots of abbreviations sneak in :) "rv" was just meant to be a shorthand for "revert", I don't think there's an official shorthand (although "rv/v" is often used for reverting vandalism, as you say). WP:OR is kinda in general use, and refers to original research - i.e., something that the editor has come up with themselves, or at least something that is presented as a personal observation or conclusion.

I agree with you that Haggard frequently presents his non-European protagonists in what we might call an egalitarian way, but to be added to the article, that needs to be something that someone else expressly concluded and published - not you or me. Some piece of critical writing or literature analysis would be the best type of source for this. As for Haggard's own writing, I'd say what we could use is if he had specifically commented on this topic at some point (as in, commenting on his own writing and how he saw these protagonists), but again, it would have to be an explicit commentary, not an interpretation we make of the source material itself. - By the way, please remember to sign your comments on talk pages, using four tildes, thus: ~~~~. This will attach a time stamp and signature. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:35, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks Elmidae -- this feedback helps. --Eachthighearna (talk) 01:54, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Nominated for deletion: Japanese White

On my article Japanese White, you marked it for deletion, saying "not being recognized by any breeders association presumably indicates that we should not have an article about it." From this, I am getting that breeds not recognized by the American Rabbit Breeders Association or the British Rabbit Council shouldn't have there own Wikipedia page. One thing I have thought of is to create a page that tells about the breeds, and redirects would be created to link the breeds to that page (for example, Toyota Noah MU Concept links to Toyota concept vehicles (2010–2019), so Japanese White would link to the communal page for rabbits breeds not recognized by those 2 groups. Please give me feedback on that idea. Thanks! DestinationFearFan (talk) 16:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi DestinationFearFan, I don't really know. I am going off the usual procedure we use for dog breeds, of which there are so many ill-defined ones that we had to start imposing a criterion of "officially recognized by the big associations" to deal with the flood of badly sourced stubs. I don't know what the consensus is for rabbit breeds, that's why I asked about it in the AfD. Going off List of rabbit breeds, I'm getting the impression that was intended to be a list of blue-linked entries only (i.e., only those that have separate articles) but it has started to get fuzzy at the edges - there's several entries at the bottom that are redlinks, and are not officially recognized. - So maybe there's room for a list of unrecognized breeds? You might just give it a go. Asking for some input at Talk:List of rabbit breeds might also be a good idea. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:11, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thank you for your feedback and opinion! I appreciate it. DestinationFearFan (talk) 21:15, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

I have found some pages that aren't recognized by the ARBA or the BRC (Altex rabbit, Armenian Marder, Bauscat rabbit, Blanc de Popielno, and some other ones). Based on this, would my article Japanese White be helpful, or is it still nominated for deletion? I hope we can keep it, but its up to you. DestinationFearFan (talk) 21:39, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

@DestinationFearFan: Interesting - that would indicate we don't enforce that condition for rabbits. OR, nobody has bothered to check recently. I would suggest you add the above comment to the AfD discussion; at this point it's not up to me but to all who wish to comment, so more information is good! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:42, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thanks again! DestinationFearFan (talk) 21:46, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Stirling Engine Free Piston Animation

Hi, I made a contribution with permission from the copyright owner, but I'm not sure about why it was classified as spam. I thought the design details would be interesting as a real-world example of a free-piston machine in production. Based on your comment below about Stirling Engine and documenting "what the world has already taken an interest in", here is an example of LNG Industry Magazine covering the product/design: https://www.qnergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LngIndustryQnergy.pdf. Is there any changes you would like made to the contribution? — Preceding unsigned comment added by JBaczuk (talk • contribs) 16:52, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

@JBaczuk:, sorry about the spam bit, that was a bit harsh - I was cleaning up after a shark image spammer and kind of in the swing :[ The main issue is that is likely not an image you can use on Wikipedia because it is not correctly licensed. You uploaded it on Commons as "own work"; that's apparently untrue, as you are not the copyright holder. If there is explicit permission from the actual creator/owner, then they will have to assert so by direct communication with Commons (there's a template option for that). Also, be sure that you or they are aware what licensing under CC BY-SA 4.0 actually means: anybody will be free to reuse, adapt and modify the image for any purpose whatsoever, including commercial. That may not be what you had in mind. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:21, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

@Elmidae:, I just checked and they don't want to grant that license, thanks for your patience in working with me on this, I've not contributed hardly at all on Wikipedia (though I use it plenty).

@JBaczuk: in that case, I would ask you to go to the page on Commons (here) and nominate the image for deletion, so that it doesn't stay around under the wrong license and possibly gets used by someone else. You can do that by using the "Nominate for deletion" link (left sidebar, bottom entry under "Tools") and clarifying in the comment that you are the uploader and that you wish to remove the image due to the licensing situation. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 19:14, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Discussion

Dear Elmidae thank you for taking care of the page about Stefano Fantoni. I am new to Wikipedia. I have seen that you put a tag about the Lead and the Plot being too long. In the meanwhile several other users have modified the article reducing its length. Do you think that the two tags can be removed now? Best regards Rfantoni (talk) 23:18, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

@Rfantoni: Lead seems good to me now. I also removed the "plot too long" tag, which didn't make sense in the first place - that's meant for works of fiction with plot summaries, not biographies! Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:36, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

A bit of an explanation I can give you

That tag with the CSD was meant to just simply remove all the IP addressed. When the page was restored, the act also restored an IP edit that created the page pure hoaxes and was previously deleted, hence why I tagged it there. As for mass creating the blank userpages, I kept them there as I rather start stuff in my userpage and move it to draft or mainspace. It was never meant to attempting to usurp another's creation. Starzoner (talk) 01:39, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Well, it's hard to take serious any explanation for why pre-generating then renaming an empty stub is more useful, in any respect, than starting a new draft from scratch (indeed it's a little more work). And then doing it 1k+ times! Anyway, I suggest not carrying on with that, now that it has drawn criticism. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 03:04, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for your hard work! BertoHuste 19:15, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	Thanks for making a poetic argument. Levivich harass/hound 05:48, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Hee hee. I absolutely plan to get some mileage out of that one... --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:30, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Light on the Ichthyology Categories

Hi, Hope you are well, I see that you undid some of my category creations. I would like to undo what you did to Betta albimarginata by removing "Taxa named by Ng Peter Kee Lin". Mr Ng is a Betta specialist and by the Category last count, he had named eleven species not including albimarginata. He even has his own page. There seems to be some question how many species you must name to get a category that does not show up in red. Any help in that direction would be most helpful. Thanks for helping me make Wikipedia better and more informative. Phil Fish (talk) 23:29, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

@Phil Fish: the discussion at the wikiproject is probably the best location to sort out this issue. If the scientist is notable enough to have their own article and there are more than a handful of species that would go into the category, then I think it is well justified; sorry if I reverted something like that. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:17, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Just wanted to clear that with you! I feel that if I want to know the information, then other people probably do as well. I'll continue on with my additions and thanks for all the feedback.Phil Fish (talk) 00:32, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Names

Actually, the anon IP was correct. We use the IOC names for bird articles on Wikipedia, so the updates in the latest version of the IOC list — blue-billed teal in place of Hottentot teal and fynbos buttonquail instead of Hottentot buttonquail is correct. Here's the link that shows these updates. I'm going to change them again in the List of birds of Madagascar article, and hope you won't be rolling me back too! ;) Please ping me if you have any questions. MeegsC (talk) 18:02, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

@Meegs: oops - small sample bias on my part. The ones I checked were of this type: [2] - where the editor changed the name of a cited source inside a citation template; plus a couple of this type, where they removed correctly applied "offensive" terms. Whereas the plain list changes were of course correct. My bad, and one reason why I don't usually go near mass rollback. Will revert and then clean up manually. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 18:10, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

When a "list of birds of ___" article states that its taxonomy (which includes common names) is from a source other than IOC, it's wrong to change from those names to the IOC names. You could add a note saying that IOC calls the bird "xxx", with a citation of course. The lists in which I reverted the changes of Hottentot to blue-billed teal cite Clements. I expect the Clements team to make the change themselves in the next (overdue) update, and I will fix the lists at that time. Craigthebirder (talk) 22:48, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

@Craigthebirder: thanks for checking! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:10, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Barnahus stub

I have now updated a page that you marked as a stub a few years ago, Barnahus, and was wondering if you'd be willing to take another look and un-stub it, if it's ready for that step. Thanks in advance. --Hipersons (talk) 11:45, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

@Hipersons: definitely no longer a stub at that length! It may still be a bit heavy on the primary references, so I'd leave that one in for the time being in the hope that further secondary coverage will be added. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:34, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

remove external link in text

Hi.

I was just wondering why you removed the external link from the Imperial woodpecker page. VertNet is an enormously important scientific resource, but it somehow does not yet have a wikipedia page, so I thought including a link was important.

Did this violate some wikipedia standard? I admit that I do not know most of these. Should I instead put the link under External links?

Thanks for any advice. Wiki.phylo (talk) 22:56, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

@Wiki.phylo: yes, we try to avoid direct links to outside sources in the text body itself. The reference that is attached to that statement already contains a link to VertNet, and this placement (inside references) is how external links are by preference provided. It seems like the reader would easily get to the site through that reference, and no extra link would is necessary. - Maybe consider setting up a short article on VertNet, though? As an NSF-funded project with at least two peer-reviewed description papers (that I can see), it's certainly a candidate for its own article. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 01:36, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the feedback.

I feel like a link to the VertNet homepage (providing an overview of the database) is useful in itself (in addition to the result of a search, which is currently on the page). But it sounds like that is frowned upon so I acquiesce.

I instead added a citation for the VertNet publication itself.

Thanks again for your advice; I don't really know what I'm doing! Wiki.phylo (talk) 02:24, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Blood pheasant

Hey! Did you see the 7,600+ bytes added to this page a few hours ago? Some of this consists of redundant hyphens, and I think that much of this was copy-pasted from a blog, but am not sure. Please have a look. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 16:22, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

@BhagyaMani: looks like the copyvio report [3] is for an older part of the article that is now mirrored on that blog (so it's a circular flag). The newly added stuff seems to have been freshly composed from the sources given, as far as I can tell. My guess is the hyphens are an artifact from writing this on a word processor with automated hyphenation and then straight pasting. Crappy writing though... I'm going to kick that into shape a little now. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:27, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Ostrich

Hello there,

I'm sorry if I have added an unnecessary edit to this page. I was doing this as an assignment for a college course, and I have put in the effort to edit such information. It would have been so nice of you to ask me to take it off the page myself, and I would have done it so politely... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoon1588 (talk • contribs) 16:23, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Replied on talk page. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:08, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

removing "over-referencing"

Re: your revision of the Lucille Thornburgh article, removing "over-referencing": I am a editor who often writes about underrepresented groups and topics, such as women. In order to ensure that all statements I make in an article are verifiable, I cite every sentence that makes a factual claim. The Citation overkill page does not list this as a harmful practice, and in fact, the Citation underkill page suggests that citing all factual statements is a valid choice. Please let me know what criteria you used to justify removing the "over-referencing" in this article; if there is no such criteria, please do not remove valid references from articles in the future. Skvader (talk) 02:11, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

@Skvader: ("citation overkill" is about a different issue - piling on multiple (generally weak) citations when one or a few good ones will do.) There is no policy or guideline that explicitly speaks against sourcing half a dozen sentences in sequence to the same source, as you seem to like to do; the only crucial criterion to consider here is really text-source integrity, and as long as that is maintained, there is nothing that prevents you from going overboard. It is however near universal practice to bundle multiple instances of the same inline cite in direct sequence into a single instance at the end of the section/paragraph, for the reader's sake. A good general consideration is not to indulge in anything that would be chucked out of a Good or Featured Article, and that would be one of the first things to go. But, as I said, I can't force you. Feel free to reinstate, but don't be surprised if the next editor to happen by does the exact same thing as me (and I will certainly continue to do this by default, too). --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 03:35, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Eastern Rosella

I actually agree that removing the whole "pets" section on the eastern rosella page is the right thing to do, so I've thanked you for that. I would have done that myself but assumed (me being new to wiki editing) someone would get annoyed and revert it. It doesn't need to be there, it's based on opinions and very biased, uneducated, unscientific and self-interested ones at that. So - thanks. Leafhopper123 (talk) 03:35, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

@Leafhopper123: but please keep in mind that one unsourced statement is as unverifiable as the next - whether it comes from a random person or an expert. If you wish to add material to the article, it MUST be sourced. I have therefore reverted your newer addition as well [4]. I am aware that the short paragraph currently in the section is unreferenced as well - I haven't removed it in the hopes that someone might still provide the source. But that doesn't mean that new, unreferenced text can be considered an improvement. Note that there's no requirement for the sourcing to consist of scientific studies - a popular book on parrot-keeping, or failing that a reputable website, would do nicely. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 14:52, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Arapaima gigas

Hi. You recently rolled back my addition of “paiche” to the introductory section of this page. The justification, in caps, was that this should only include English common names.

- Paiche is used as a common name elsewhere in that page (see under distribution) - A search for Paiche re-directs to that page. - I was prompted to make this addition after seeing Paiche on sale in my local supermarket (in Australia). I believe that this is from farmed Arapaima in Asia.

A English speaker might reasonably want to look up Paiche on Wikipedia. Spookpadda (talk) 23:21, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

@Spookpadda: In the lede (the starting paragraph) we only list common names that are in use in English. Can you imagine what the lede of lion would look like if we listed all (or even some) of the 300+ local names for the species there? If the name is in use otherwise and that can be documented, it can be covered in the article body, as it is. - Note that this is really usage-dependent. If look at Arapaima, you will see that the name is listed in the first sentence there because it is used as a market name for any species in this genus. That is also were paiche redirects to. Assigning it to a single species here is like assigning trepang to a specific sea cucumber - as a market name it does not apply to a particular species. It does as a local name for that species, but that's not in common English usage. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 23:33, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Your opinion about Pogoń and Pahonia

@Elmidae: Hello, I noticed that you reverted Лобачев Владимир's edit in the article of Pogoń, who reverted mine and Onel5969's edits in which we made it as a redirect page. There is an intensive discussion whenever Pagonia/Pahonia/Pogoń/Vytis/Waikymas (various names of the coat of arms of Lithuania in other languages) is the same thing, so your support in this discussion would be very welcome: HERE. Also, I reported the Belarusians pushing of propaganda HERE as they try to separate Pagonia/Pahonia/Pogoń from the Republic of Lithuania and to falsely prove that the modern Lithuania is derived from Samogitia (Duchy of Samogitia), while Belarus is the primary inheritor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (it is a pure propaganda as it is scientifically known that this state was created by the Balts, not Slavs). So if you have a strong opinion in this topic, please participate in this discussion and in mine report of such actions to the administrators of Wikipedia. Best regards, -- Pofka (talk) 18:42, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Bateleur

Why? Based on the given etymology, a profession, it shouldn't be capitalised; it's not named after the aircraft. 86.83.56.115 (talk) 01:28, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Did you edit the Chevrotain edit that I just posted?

Hi Elmidae,

I am very new to interacting with people on this site though I've been editing for 14 years here on Wikipedia. I hope I am contacting you, Elmidae, a person? I was in the teahouse trying to post a questions and something weird happened.

I'd never been to the teahouse and was posting a question but something got messed up.

Do you know what happened? Or can you advise me in any way? I'm pretty confused.

If you did fix my Chevrotain edit, thank you very much. It needs fixing.

Is this how we can communicate with other people editing on Wikipedia? I got some notification from someone else but was not sure how to respond?

I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks very much.

Kris Wood

Kristinamwood (talk) 13:37, 23 April 2021 (UTC)