User talk:Gene-va/Archive A

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Babylonian Armor! I am The Earwig and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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The Earwig ^{(User | Talk | Contributions)} 21:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Adoption

Thank you The Earwig. I'm new - and it's great to have you around. I would also like to 'accept' your adoption offer - as it seems you have quite an extensive resume (to me at least). Hope we can be friends.Babylonian Armor (talk) 22:01, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Excellent! We can get started right away. I'll help you write an article. It seems that you're interested in the Western Leafcutting Bee, so how about we work on that? The Earwig ^{(User | Talk | Contributions)} 22:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou Babylonian Armor (talk) 22:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

The article looks good now. With some external links, references, and some more changes, we will have ourselves a nicely-done first article! The Earwig ^{(User | Talk | Contributions)} 23:41, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

		Award of First Success
		Your first article. You may have had the help of an excelent adopter, but still. In only a few hours, you showed the strength, dedication, and skill of an excellent Wikipedian. You are an asset to the community. Seriously, out of 48,310,811 users, only 122,731 have made substantial contributions to Wikipedia in the last thirty days. And you're one of them. The Earwig (User | Talk | Contributions) 00:20, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Western Leafcutting Bee

Hi. I made some small changes to the article, and I'm telling you about them here so you know what I did, and you will know about these more specific things about Wikipedia in the future.

1. I changed the species in the taxobox from ''M. perihirta'' to '''''M. perihirta''''', or essentially changed it from italic to bold and italic. The reason for this can be seen here.
2. I made the words "Western Leafcutting Bee" at the beginning of the page bold. The reason for this can be seen here.
3. I added a "see also" section consisting of two links. You can read about see also sections here.
4. Sometimes, you want to use the same reference twice in an article. I did that here so I can teach you an important thing to know when citing your sources. See this page to read about using references more than once in an article.
5. I added categories to help people find the article better. You can read about categories here, even though you probably know a good deal about them.
6. I created a talk page for the article, telling people who look at it about talk pages (using the standard talk page header) and a notice informing people that the article is within the scope of WikiProject Arthropods.

Take a look at the Wikipedia Guide to Layout, which tells you basically everything I told you. You can see link for a difference page showing you everything I did. Thanks! The Earwig ^{(User | Talk | Contributions)} 01:04, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou - it is certainly nice to have someone care enough to notify another user about their page's edits. I will look out for these things next time I am writing an article - which hopefully will be tomorrow. Anyways-thankyou.Babylonian Armor (talk) 01:26, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Venezuela

Hi! After looking through your contributions to see how you're doing (and by the way, you've done amazing for a new user here), and noticed your comment on Venezuela. This is probably a good opportunity to explain about page protection. You obviously know what it is, and if you were wondering how to request that a page be protected, click here.

I responded to your comment on my talk page: nothing extreme, just a small reply. In the future, I will place the template {{tb|The Earwig}} on your userpage, which basically tells you that you have messages on mine.

Oh, and one more thing: Riven is today's featured article! (You remember Riven, right? It's the sequel to Myst.) The Earwig ^{(User | Talk | Contributions)} 02:46, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

I saw that! I knew you would be happy. I would like to talk over skype in the morning to muse over my new series of articles on the golden asters. I will now go read your messages. Babylonian Armor (talk) 02:48, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Prairie golden-aster

The article is completed - I added categories - stub notice - external links - references - the inbox and the general information.Babylonian Armor (talk) 11:26, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Book

Earwig- I have a new article under construction. Actually, several new articles. Please read them! Babylonian Armor (talk) 13:11, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Article complete - Giants, Monsters & Dragons, An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend and MythBabylonian Armor (talk) 13:30, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Good work on the articles. I see you have already completed four different pages, all of which show an excellent understanding of Wiki format. I quickly tagged a few of them with {{orphan}} because few or no articles actually link to them. This way, someone from WikiProject Orphanage will come and fix them.

In other news, I'm unsure if your article Giants, Monsters & Dragons, An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend and Myth actually meets the guidelines for inclusion. See this page for information on the notability of books.

Finally, I noticed that you placed a talkback notice on my userpage. This is my far a very useful tool for communication, but there's one problem. When you place "talkback" on someone's page, you need to put it on their talkpage, otherwise they won't get the message saying that they have messages. The way you did it, I actually have to go to my userpage in order to see that you placed talkback on it. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. The Earwig ^{(User | Talk | Contributions)} 14:12, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Thankyou. I will look into your suggestions. I would like to talk with you over skype if possible. I will look into the notability in a few moments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Babylonian Armor (talk • contribs)

Hmm, I'm not sure that Skype is possible right now. Sorry. The Earwig ^{(User | Talk | Contributions)} 14:20, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

At what time might you be available for a conversation? Babylonian Armor (talk) 14:22, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

You mean on Skype? Well, unfortunately, I'm doing something later today, so that won't be possible. What was it you wanted to ask me? The Earwig ^{(User | Talk | Contributions)} 14:30, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

I wished to ask you about using twinkle - but I can figure it out on my own. But thankyou for caring. Babylonian Armor (talk) 14:31, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 15:01, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello sinebot. I have made a mistake indeed. Luckily, I changed it, but thanks for being a good Samaritan. Babylonian Armor (talk) 15:03, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Good Job?

What do you mean by creating another sandbox for me and saying "Good Job"? Aaroncrick^{(Tassie Boy talk)} 00:19, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

I thought you had the makings of a good article. So I said good job. I'm sorry if I offended you. Babylonian Armor (talk) 00:24, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh ok I get you now, thanks :) Don't worry you didn't offend me. Sorry if I came across as offended, all the best - Aaroncrick^{(Tassie Boy talk)} 04:00, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Just an irrelevant question, but where did you find my user name? cheers Aaroncrick^{(Tassie Boy talk)}

Eupeodes americanus vs. Metasyrphus americanus

Hi! I just noticed that you appear to have changed the genus on this page from Eupeodes to Metasyrphus. As it turns out, after doing some research, I discovered that Metasyrphus is actually a synonym for Eupeodes, and that Eupeodes is actually the preferred name. No harm done— trust me, I encounter the same problem with all of the species of earwigs— I just wanted to let you know that I put the genus back to it's preferred name. For my source on this, see Wikipedia's page about Eupeodes. In the taxobox, at the bottom, it says "synonyms."

Also, just wanted to let you know that the common names aren't supposed to be capitalized fully, only the first words are. For an example, see the article on the Tawny earwig, which I wrote. I'm fixing it on your other articles, too. The Earwig ^{(User | Talk | Contributions)} 03:14, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

I see - I'm sorry - it's just my resources say otherwise. No harm dome - whats the difference between them anyways. Babylonian Armor (talk) 11:45, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

WYAS

When you add a {{Prod}} to an article you must give a reason - see wp:PROD. I have removed the tag you added to this disambiguation page. PamD (talk) 14:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I did not realize it was a disambiguation page. Thankyou for your service. Babylonian Armor (talk) 15:23, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Regardless of whether it was a disambiguation page, a PROD must always include a reason! PamD (talk) 22:32, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Thank you...

...for the Barnstar. It's nice to know that the work is appreciated. JimVC3 (talk) 21:55, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Removing others' comments from talk pages

as you did at Talk:Markel Hutchins is not appropriate. Qqqqqq (talk) 16:42, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I did not realize it was comments, as it seemed that QQQQQQQ was all over the page in a SPAM form.

Ah. Well, Qqqqqq's my name. Happy editing! Qqqqqq (talk) 16:53, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Would you care to explain...

why you removed my comment from User:Wrestlinglover's talk page here? ♥Nici♥Vampire♥Heart♥ 12:06, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I am sorry, I meant to post some sort of small apology to that. I was patrolling vandalism, and saw some vandalism, but accidentally clicked the rollback link for your comment. I am extremely sorry.

It's ok, we all make mistakes. :) I was just confused about it. Just a suggestion here, but if I rollback someone's comments or a good edit accidentally, I tend to undo myself (not rollback), with an edit summary something like "accidentally hit rollback button. Sorry". Perhaps you could do the same, just to avoid messages like this on your page? Keep up the good work. ♥Nici♥Vampire♥Heart♥ 13:48, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

:-) I'll take the advice to heart. Babylonian Armor (talk) 13:50, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Did you mean to do this?

? → Dylan620 (Toolbox Alpha, Beta) 13:29, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

No. I had the spellcheck and my vandal filter open, and I rolledback something, only to put it back whilst correcting the spelling... Thanks for being a good wikipedian. Babylonian Armor (talk) 13:32, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Ah, ok. Good vandal fighting work, BTW! → Dylan620 (Toolbox Alpha, Beta) 13:36, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi, regarding this; you really dont need to correct spelling errors or grammatical mistakes on talk page or other discussion pages like deletion discussions. In article space it absolutely is an issue and should be corrected on sight, but on those type of pages it isnt necessary. See WP:TPO. Happy editing, Nableezy (talk) 18:05, 5 July 2009 (UTC)