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Why exactly did you move all the pages like 700s to 700s (disambiguation)? We don't generally include "(disambiguation)" in page titles unless there's another page or redirect we want to distinguish it from (i.e. unless there's a primary topic).--Kotniski (talk) 07:58, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

In my opinion 700s should refer to the decade, and should be the primary topic, as 1840s or 620s are assumed to refer to the decade so should 1500s, articles such as 1200-1209 could be moved to 1200s (decade} as 1900s, 2000s and 2100s already have, and the century should be refered to as the 13th Century or 21st Century. I also would like to propose a merge, that the BC centuries and decade DABs be merged with standard so 700s (disambiguation) would read:

{{Decades|7}} 700s may refer to:

The period from 700 to 799, almost synonymous with the 8th century (701–800)
The period from 700 to 709, known as the 700s decade
The period from 799 to 700, almost synonymous with the 8th century BC (800-701 BC)
The period from 709 to 700, known as the 700s BC

I dont want to make too many changes at once without consulting further with other users, you are free to both make suggestions and/or revert, I will post more Ideas soon– Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 17:37, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

This was much discussed at one point - it was decided (and hopefully will remain so) that expressions like "1500s" should not link directly to the decade, since that's at odds with English usage (those expressions, with two zeros at the end, nearly always refer to a period of 100 years, not one of 10). Usage with 2000s and 2100s (and possibly also 1900s, but no earlier than that) is different - these particular expressions seems commonly refer to a decade.--Kotniski (talk) 17:42, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Hmmm, I never knew about that, how about the merger idea though, no, maybe, if not I'll just revert my changes and restore the original order of things. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 17:47, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

The page moves you have engaged in seem to be generally incorrect in terms of disambiguation policy, see WP:MOSDAB, WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. If a usage is rare, then it is obviously not the primary topic for that usage, and creating links to disambiguation pages is only going to confuse readers. Furthermore, it is impermissible for a "Foo" title to redirect to a "Foo (disambiguation)" title, which means that all of those "Foo (disambiguation)" titles will now need to be moved to their corresponding "Foo" titles, which will spur a large number of primary topic debates resulting in the inevitable determination that the primary topic for these pages should be what it already was. I suggest you undo all of these moves before you create a lot of unnecessary work which will distract editors from other repairs that need to be made. bd2412 T 20:07, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

OK I screwed up, I can not fix them now as I am at work and could get fired for it, I thought the decade was a primary topic, but I was wrong, I need to correct my mistake ASAP, but i do not get home for another six hours, please remove my proposed page move templates at the talk pages 500s and 500s BC, and I will move everything else to its origional spot either tonight or tommorrow morning when ever I have free time, my appologies. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 22:33, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. A few hours more of waiting won't hurt anything, and this being a wiki, everything is rather easily fixable. Cheers! bd2412 T 22:55, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Done!, Thank You, I have a new understanding of the DAB tag now, and will not make the same mistake again. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 04:36, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Excellent! As a reward for your improvement in this direction, I am going to assign you a task (for on Wikipedia good work is always rewarded with additional work). I hereby designate you the disambiguator of the disambiguation page Phoenix. A handful of new incoming links are added to this page every month; most are intended to go to Phoenix, Arizona, a few to Phoenix (mythology), and the rest are scattered among the possibilities. Your mission is to occasionally check the articles linking to that page and clean up errant links. There is no better way to learn about disambiguation then by doing it. Also, you might want to look into using AWB for large-scale repetitive tasks. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:37, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Alright :), now how exactly should I start, with the what links here button, I just want to verify before I make a mistake, I'll be checking the WLH for redirects, and other pages pages that have links that land on this DAB page, and it is my job to direct them to there proper location, example: if someone wants to link it to Phoenix, Arizona I should make sure it says [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], [[Arizona]] and not just [[Phoenix]], [[Arizona]] which would take it to the DAB page instead of its intended article. If so I understand, if not am I on the right track? – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 18:16, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

That is correct. It is fine for a redirect to point to a disambiguation page if the redirect is iteslf similarly ambiguous. For example the common misspelling Pheonix points to Phoenix. However, a page containing a link to Pheonix is doubly in need of repair, because the link is both ambiguous and misspelled. Links to The Phoenix tend to be intended for The Phoenix (newspaper), which is often used as a reference for music reviews. Intentional links to the disambiguation page are also fine so long as they are routed through Phoenix (disambiguation), to make it clear that the disambiguation page itself is the target. An example is at HAL 9000, which notes that a fictional computer observed that the word "Phoenix" has many possible meanings. bd2412 T 19:12, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Perfect, Thank You, I am looking forward to becoming a disambiguator for this the name of my city and the name of myself, I love when I can properly organize things, I work part time at a library because of my organizational skills, though I'll admit I can never come up with my own organizational methods I'm terrible at that, but when it comes to following a system after I get the hang of it nothing is ever out of place, I can put anything alphabetically, numerically or chronologically without any hindrance, I will not let you down. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 19:46, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I have also added the following to my watchlist, all are from the WLH, and I will review a few of them tonight after work to see if any improper links have been added. :)

– Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 18:45, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Your application at Wikipedia talk:AWB/CP

Hello Phoenix B 1of3. Please enable Wikipedia email in Special:Preferences. If you will be using AWB, people should be able to get in touch with you. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 05:59, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

I have now added and confirmed my email address, I want you to know that I dont entirely like to have my email public, who exactly will be seeing and contacting me from now on? – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 17:54, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

You can always get a single-purpose email address just for wikipedia email. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:18, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

That is a good idea, I think I will try that, thank you :) – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 18:29, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Map of cranes

I removed the map you added to Crane (bird) as it was basically entirely wrong. There are no cranes in South America, New Zealand, the Sundas or many of the areas on the continents they do exist on. Perhaps your source was referring to all the order as opposed to just the family? Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:41, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

The source said Cranes and Allies, so your right, if you explain which other areas are Sundas or others I can fix it, you are free to contribute to that or any map of mine if you see something wrong.

Perhaps I will move this to the order of the Gruiformes, and make a new map for the cranes themselves. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 02:50, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

The only map I have is hardcopy, and it is tricky to explain verbally. I may simply make one myself if I have the time. I'm a bit dubious about your source, for example you've coloured in Fiji, Polynesia, the Galapagos and Hawaii in the nightjar range map, which is wrong. I don't have a map of their global distribution, but if you remove those it looks about right. I don't wish to sound to complainy - range maps are good and always approximate, but if you can go to a library to hunt down the Handbooks of the Birds of the World you'd find better sources. Sabine's Sunbird talk 03:16, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I will search for that book, I work at a library and will be there tommorrow, I will fix and change anything you tell me to, as you are indeed an expert on birds, and I just a guy who enjoys making maps, Thank You for your good eye and support. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 03:19, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

I have fixed the nightjar range map, and will work on renaming the crane map to Gruiformes, just keep suggestions coming, I want to make these as perfect as possible. :) – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 03:27, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

It's a series, more likely to be at a University Library (but if your library has it then awesome! And if it doesn't you should try and convince them to get it because it is awesome!). Question though, if the range map of the of the nightjars is Nightjars and allies - does that mean Nightjars and Whip-poor-wills and others in that family, or the order that also includes the potoos, frogmouths and owlet-nightjars? For example Owlet Nightjars are found in Tasmania but true nightjars are not. As with the cranes the map might be better for the Caprimulgiformes. Cheers. Sabine's Sunbird talk 03:29, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Potoo, frogmouth, pauraque, poorwill and oilbird are briefly mentioned on the page, could there ranges interfear with the accuracy, do I need to make a separate map? – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 03:34, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Like I said, it sounds like the map refers to the whole order, if you can find a source for the individual family then that is good, but otherwise be careful. Note that we split the nightjar family into two on Wikipedia (the nightjars and eared-nightjars) and only one of those families is found across the entirety of Australia, the eared nightjars, which is not the same family as the nightjar article that you have added the map too. The difficulties of working with modern bird taxonomy I'm afraid. Even I have dificulty keeping up!

Some more quick fixes or thoughts - pigeon and flamingo looks fine (pink for flamingos- inspired!), swifts should not be in New Zealand (they are rare vagrants here), parrots should not be in the Falklands or South Georgia but should be on two of the Sub-Antarctic islands of New Zealand (Auckland Islands and Antipodes Island), owl looks okay, Herons should be in the UK and Ireland as well as Newfoundland. Sabine's Sunbird talk 03:43, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Wow, I guess I didn't realize how complex these range maps really are, I will focus on correcting the ones I've got before I start another one. Alot of these creatures seem to be found less in places I would expect and more in places I wouldn't, but mother nature has never been an pefectly organized, nor evenly distributed system – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 03:59, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to the fascinating and often bizarre world of biogeography! Not to mention the Byzantine labyrinth that is bird taxonomy. If you're feeling brave check out the recent break up of what used to be called the Old World warblers. At any rate, good on ya for being a good sport about all the complexity! Oh, and thanks for the barnstar! Sabine's Sunbird talk 04:16, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

And Thank you for being such a kind, patient and helpfull wikipedian, sharing knowledge and advise, I am almost done fixing the most of the changes you recomended, I will be signing off soon as I have work in the morning, but I look forward to to working more alongside you in the future, this help is very much appreciated. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 04:22, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Map of Trogons

From your newer maps, there shouldn't be any trogons in Madagascar and they only just make it to the US, the line shouldn't come in so deep or so thickly. I also question the value of sticking the Apodiformes range map in the swift article. Sabine's Sunbird talk 21:07, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Oops, that one was an error, adding Madagascar, that one was by the fault of me not triple checking my work, twice is not enough for me. I am reexamining the hardcopy map closely to fix the range in North America, I am going to make a new map for just the swifts soon, I will remove the current one, as I dont yet have an availible map of just them, my library did not have the book we discussed, I found a comperable one, but it is not availible for checkout, thus I can not work with it from home, I'm going to visit Barnes and Noble when I get a chance to. If there are any other mistakes to talk about, contact me here and I am happy to change and correctthem. :) – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 01:07, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

The kingfisher map - Kingfishers are found on both the main islands of New Zealand. Sabine's Sunbird talk 19:05, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Fixed, Thank You. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 19:40, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Your AWB request

Thanks for enabling Wikipedia email, which I had requested for your AWB application. Since I normally check out a user's talk page when someone applies for AWB, I have to notice that you've received quite a bit of advice from other editors that suggests you may not have mastered our system yet. Though you do meet the edit count required for AWB, would you consider withdrawing your application now and trying again in three months? Generally people who use AWB are assumed to be very familiar with all of WP's editing practices. Otherwise they may inadvertently (and in good faith) start making a bunch of changes which others find surprising. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 22:16, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Please note, if this request is granted, I intend to personally mentor this user as they adjust to AWB usage. Cheers! bd2412 T 22:25, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

That is a certainly fair and understandable, I will apply again when I have more experience, I know I have in my past made many many mistakes on this website, I think I violated almost every guideline at least once, I'm not a quick or sharp learner, I'm a little slow, a few more months may be all I need to become a professional in the area, maybe then I will be ready. And I will be more than happy to have BD2412 as a mentor. :)– Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 02:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

That is a reasonable solution. Whenever you are ready, I will be around. Cheers! bd2412 T 04:04, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

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Redirect loops

Per Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Special:DoubleRedirects do you still need the test redirects listed here? Rich Farmbrough, 14:20, 27 November 2011 (UTC).

No, they are no longer needed, thank you for asking though, you may delete them, they were an experiment of mine of no encyclopedic value, I was just curious of how something can become a loop so easily. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 16:56, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

That's cool. We have all created stuff like that at some time - curiosity is good. Good work with the range maps. Rich Farmbrough, 18:13, 28 November 2011 (UTC).

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AFD repeat

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Death Valley Driver Video Review (6th nomination) An AFD you participated in last month is at AFD again. Dream Focus 00:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

South Sudan border

Where do you get that border for South Sudan? I find it really annoying knowing that the border on this file is the correct border, as I took it from the svg version of it? –Spesh531, My talk, and External links 06:15, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

The border might have changed in the last few months from when I copied my personal template of world subdivisions, I will use the new one from now on, and fix the old. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 01:27, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

here is the same border as mine, shown on the file you use, back in July 2011. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 01:31, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, because I found it annoying for when people still add the older South Sudan border, even with the newer one updated. Is this where most users get the border from? –Spesh531, My talk, and External links 01:42, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

I cant speak for anyone else, but what I have done for myself, is taken little bits of pieces from various maps, mainly this one as a base template for most of my maps, I do so in order to uniform the base colors, so color coding and line removal becomes an easy task, some of my most popular maps, namely this one use the same map base, and unfortunately, the old South Sudanese border. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 02:59, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Deer - three questions/remarks

Hi,

What kind of deer live in central Africa?
According to the mule deer map, the "hole" is North America is a little oversized - is it necessary at all?
Wouldn't it be good to add Australia as many species of deer have been imported there, see here. --KnightMove (talk) 13:35, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

My map was based exactly on a map from The Encyclopedia of Animals: a complete visual guide, by Fred Cooke and Jenni Bruce, on page 190. I have released this map into the public domain, thus you are free to assist by fixing the map, but the Central African arm must remain, I will remove the greater sonoran desert grey circle, and I will research on Australia. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 18:43, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. However, still I don't know what deer live in Central Africa?! Mouse deer is not a deer. --KnightMove (talk) 12:43, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Zoroaster

Thanks for reverting yourself there. I don't think we should be adding his date of death anywhere either. Dougweller (talk) 07:03, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I was reading through a book by John Macquirre called "Mediators between Human and Divine", it had calculated he lived from 628-551 BC, I had missed a side note in the introduction saying these dates are not accurate but only estimates, I caught it shortly after I had added it to wikipedia, then quickly erased it. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 17:17, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Years

Hi, since your name's down on this project, I'm just writing to let you know that there's a discussion going on at the moment on how to format events – and in particular, events that go on for multiple days – on year pages. Your input would be appreciated. — Smjg (talk) 18:24, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

OK, I would be glad to contribute. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 18:33, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

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The article List of Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2010s (U.S.) has been renominated for deletion

Dear Phoenix B 1of3, I just wanted to let you know that an AfD, in which you participated in during October 2011, has been reopened for discussion. Please express your opinion again in the current discussion. Thank you. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 03:14, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

I'm opting to stay out of the discussion, I am quite done rescuing articles for the moment, but thank you for notifying me. – Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 04:14, 17 January 2012 (UTC)