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Old stuff to resolve eventually
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Categories are not my thing but do you think there are enough articles now or will be ever to make this necessary? Other than Finger billiards and possibly Carrom, what else is there?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:12, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Sad...[edit]How well forgotten some very well known people are. The more I read about Yank Adams, the more I realize he was world famous. Yet, he's almost completely unknown today and barely mentioned even in modern billiard texts.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:47, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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Some more notes on Crystalate
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Some more notes: they bought Royal Worcester in 1983 and sold it the next year, keeping some of the electronics part.[3]; info about making records:[4]; the chair in 1989 was Lord Jenkin of Roding:[5]; "In 1880, crystalate balls made of nitrocellulose, camphor, and alcohol began to appear. In 1926, they were made obligatory by the Billiards Association and Control Council, the London-based governing body." Amazing Facts: The Indispensable Collection of True Life Facts and Feats. Richard B. Manchester - 1991wGtDHsgbtltnpBg&ct=result&id=v0m-h4YgKVYC&dq=%2BCrystalate; a website about crystalate and other materials used for billiard balls:No5 Balls.html. Fences&Windows 23:37, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
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No one has actually objected to the idea that it's really pointless for WP:SAL to contain any style information at all, other than in summary form and citing MOS:LIST, which is where all of WP:SAL's style advice should go, and SAL page should move back to WP:Stand-alone lists with a content guideline tag. Everyone who's commented for 7 months or so has been in favor of it. I'd say we have consensus to start doing it. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 13:13, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
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You post at Wikipedia talk:FAQ/Copyright
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That page looks like a hinterland (you go back two users in the history and you're in August). Are you familiar with WP:MCQ? By the way, did you see my response on the balkline averages?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 15:54, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hee Haw
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Yeah, we did get along on Donkeys. And probably will get along on some other stuff again later. Best way to handle WP is to take it issue by issue and then let bygones be bygones. I'm finding some interesting debates over things like the line between a subspecies, a landrace and a breed. Just almost saw someone else's GA derailed over a "breed versus species" debate that was completely bogus, we just removed the word "adapt" and life would have been fine. I'd actually be interested in seeing actual scholarly articles that discuss these differences, particularly the landrace/breed issue in general, but in livestock in particular, and particularly as applied to truly feral/landrace populations (if, in livestock, there is such a thing, people inevitably will do a bit of culling, sorting and other interference these days). I'm willing to stick to my guns on the WPEQ naming issue, but AGF in all respects. Truce? Montanabw(talk) 22:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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The sentence at MOS:LIFE "General names for groups or types of organisms are not capitalized except where they contain a proper name (oak, Bryde's whales, rove beetle, Van cat)" is a bit odd, since the capitalization would (now) be exactly the same if they were the names of individual species. Can it simply be removed? There is an issue, covered at Wikipedia:PLANTS#The use of botanical names as common names for plants, which may or may not be worth putting in the main MOS, namely cases where the same word is used as the scientific genus name and as the English name, when it should be de-capitalized. I think this is rare for animals, but more common for plants and fungi (although I have seen "tyrannosauruses" and similar uses of dinosaur names). Peter coxhead (talk) 09:17, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
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Note to self on WP:WikiProject English language
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Finish patching up WP:WikiProject English language with the stuff from User:SMcCandlish/WikiProject English Language, and otherwise get the ball rolling. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 20:22, 17 August 2016 (UTC) |
Excellent mini-tutorial
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Somehow, I forget quite how, I came across this - that is an excellent summary of the distinctions. I often get confused over those, and your examples were very clear. Is something like that in the general MoS/citation documentation? Oh, and while I am here, what is the best way to format a citation to a page of a document where the pages are not numbered? All the guidance I have found says not to invent your own numbering by counting the pages (which makes sense), but I am wondering if I can use the 'numbering' used by the digitised form of the book. I'll point you to an example of what I mean: the 'book' in question is catalogued here (note that is volume 2) and the digitised version is accessed through a viewer, with an example of a 'page' being here, which the viewer calls page 116, but there are no numbers on the actual book pages (to confuse things further, if you switch between single-page and double-page view, funny things happen to the URLs, and if you create and click on a single-page URL the viewer seems to relocate you one page back for some reason). Carcharoth (talk) 19:10, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
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You had previously asked that protection be lowered on WP:MEDMOS which was not done at that time. I have just unprotected the page and so if you have routine update edits to make you should now be able to do so. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 06:42, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
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Ooh...potential WikiGnoming activity...
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I stumbled upon Category:Editnotices whose targets are redirects and there are ~100 pages whose pages have been moved, but the editnotices are still targeted to the redirect page. Seems like a great, and sort of fun, WikiGnoming activity for a template editor such as yourself. I'd do it, but I'm not a template editor. Not sure if that's really your thing, though. ;-) Cheers,
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Don't forget to deal with: Template talk:Cquote#Template-protected edit request on 19 April 2020. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 14:48, 20 April 2020 (UTC) |
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Not sure the ping went through, so noting here. Just spotted where a now-blocked user moved a bunch of animal breed articles back to parenthetical disambiguation from natural disambiguation. As they did it in October and I'm only catching it now, I only moved back two just in case there was some kind of consensus change. The equine ones are definitely against project consensus, the rest are not my wheelhouse but I'm glad to comment. Talk:Campine_chicken#Here_we_go_again. Montanabw(talk) 20:14, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
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[edit] UnresolvedFYI, it looks like your key has expired. 1234qwer1234qwer4 21:57, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
- Aiee! Thanks, I'll have to generate a new one when I have time to mess around with it. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 22:32, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
German article on houndstooth, Border tartan, and related patterns
[edit] Unresolvedde:Rapport (Textil) is an interesting approach, and we don't seem to have a corresponding sort of article. Something I might approach at some point. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 22:11, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Post-holidays note to self
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might benefit more users if they were also listed at Wikipedia:User scripts/List. That's the go-to place where I get all my scripts from... Huggums537voted! (sign🖋️|📞talk) 05:14, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
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Current threads
[edit]Happy New Year, SMcCandlish!
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SMcCandlish,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Volten001 ☎ 03:37, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
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Volten001 ☎ 03:37, 1 January 2026 (UTC)Unit conversions - MoS
[edit]Hi, do you have a quick answer to this MoS question: As a non-scientist I am constantly frustrated by general articles written by scientists only for scientists to understand. Case in question, temperatures given only in Kelvin on articles of general interest. Are idiots like me expected to do their own conversion to units they can relate to such as °F and °C? Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 01:49, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- Units should generally be converted, when they are on a scale that is sensible for the target unit. Small Kelvin measurments are not going to be useful in F or C, as light-years will not be in mi or km. But the "more scientific" unit should be linked to at first occurrence in the article, so someone not very familiar with the unit can get a better sense of it easily. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 03:07, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks :) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:08, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
- PS: To clarify what I meant: To the typical reader, -0.00000031 °F and -0.0000031 °F are nearly indistinguishable and about equally unrelatable, despite being different from each other by a factor of 10; and same with 38,442,839,277,250 Km versus 3,844,283,927,725 Km. So "extreme conversions" of this sort from simple Kelvin or light-year measurements are not actually helpful to readers. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 10:03, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
- I understood. I was simply referring to the annoying instances in such (hypothetical) cases where a school kid or someone stupid like me is looking up the temperature on Venus (which is converted) to be told in Kelvin when they could far more easily relate to something like 464 °C; 867 °F on the other planets. Not using our excellent conversion templates is either laziness or scientific snobbery ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:48, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
- That, and K isn't a particularly appropriate unit for something that equates to +464 °C, anyway. K is most appropriate for very, very, very cold, near absolute zero. (Or maybe K has very, very hot uses, too, but I don't run into that, as far as I recall. If so, maybe convert to K, for the few who would want it.) — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 19:40, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
- I understood. I was simply referring to the annoying instances in such (hypothetical) cases where a school kid or someone stupid like me is looking up the temperature on Venus (which is converted) to be told in Kelvin when they could far more easily relate to something like 464 °C; 867 °F on the other planets. Not using our excellent conversion templates is either laziness or scientific snobbery ;) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:48, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
- PS: To clarify what I meant: To the typical reader, -0.00000031 °F and -0.0000031 °F are nearly indistinguishable and about equally unrelatable, despite being different from each other by a factor of 10; and same with 38,442,839,277,250 Km versus 3,844,283,927,725 Km. So "extreme conversions" of this sort from simple Kelvin or light-year measurements are not actually helpful to readers. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 10:03, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks :) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 14:08, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
Template:Use X English nominated for merger with Template:Use English variant
[edit]Hi there,
I am inviting you to discuss the merger at TfD because you are the author of {{Use X English}}. Your comments are welcome. Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2026_January_13#Template:Use_American_English Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 09:43, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
The article Subrace has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
"subrace" does not occur in either Race (biology) or Fantasy trope, and deletion would allow the Search function to reveal uninhibited results (45 other mentions in Enwiki).
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January music
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Thank you for improving article quality in January! - 20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:27, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 72
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Issue 72, November–December 2025
- Renewed partnerships
- Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science
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Thank you for improving article quality in February! - My story today is again about Percy Grainger (FA by Brian Boulton), this time with a video that surprised me. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:12, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
Today's main page features four biographies I helped to bring there, two women and two men, three opera singers (one pictured) and an actor, - a record for me, I believe ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:55, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Continental toy spaniel (disambiguation)
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- Good to take out the trash. :-) — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 06:22, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 73
[edit]Issue 73, January–February 2026
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March thanks
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Thank you for improving article quality in March! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:20, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:56, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
Listing for discussion of Template:BCA 2006
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Template:BCA 2006 has been listed for discussion, which may result in the template being merged or deleted by consensus. You are invited to comment on the proposed action at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 10:25, 31 March 2026 (UTC)