User talk:Jonkerz/Archive 2
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- Thanks for the invitation, WP Film is a great resource for film-related editing. I'll have to decline as I generally don't organize in wikiprojects for various reasons. Editing in an area is sufficient for me, I hope that makes me an unofficial member ;) Cheers, jonkerz♠ 22:09, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
- That's fine! Just letting you know what resources are available. Keep up the film-related editing! :) Erik (talk | contribs) 22:21, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Villages
Small casing is common with Arabic placenames. There's no problem either way if they are capitalized or not I think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:47, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, thanks. I had a feeling you knew what you did, just wanted to make sure and find out if there is a preferred transliteration on WP, cheers, jonkerz♠ 17:01, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Welcome
Thank You! You're welcome ;) Jarebika (talk) 16:40, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
Mutualism
Are you able to manually perform this split? It needs someone who knows the differences well. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:20, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
- I moved one article to Mutualism (economic theory) and believe it's alright for a bot to move the rest to Category:Mutualism (movement). Feel free to wait for Libertatia to give her/his input as well. jonkerz♠ 23:46, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
Wikituneup
Give me one good reason why you people keep removing wikituneup from the site? The list of wikis page simply states a list of websites that use the wiki software .. How the hell does the site not apply to that????? Irt3hj4y (talk) 15:44, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
- Because Wikituneup does not seem to be a notable wiki. The de facto notability criteria on List of wikis is that the wiki should have a Wikipedia article. Browse the list yourself and you'll see that the only wiki with a red link is Wikituneup -- because the page does not exist. I suggest that you find reliable third-party sources and create the article, then, if the article survive the deletion process for new pages you may add it to the list. That is why your link keeps getting removed, and I'm sure that someone will remove it again very soon. This is the way we avoid the list turning into a big WP:LINKFARM and/or filled with non-notable wikis. jonkerz♠ 16:00, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
The only reason why it's red linked is cause some dink removed it. The article was perfectly setup just like other webpage wikipedia entries. There is some sites on here that are garbage with little internet presence that have live pages on wikipedia. So don't say its because there is no page, cause there was one and it was removed for no reason!!!! Irt3hj4y (talk) 20:59, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
ITC External links
Dear Mr. Jonkerz, I am working for the International Trade Centre(ITC) with the IP address 193.239.220.249. The external links that I have added yesterday have been removed. I wanted to know if there is a way to contribute to Wikipedia pages without incurring into spamming. The relibility and transparency of our intentions hinge on the following points: 1)We are part of the United Nations 2)Our agency's aim is to share data on trade by country and products 3)The link gives direct access to the trade data of the specific product/country 4)No registration is required —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.239.220.249 (talk) 10:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
ITC external links (cont'd)
Hello, I am working for the International Trade Centre(ITC) with the IP address 193.239.220.249. The external links that I have added yesterday have been removed. I wanted to know if there is a way to contribute to Wikipedia pages without incurring into spamming. The reliability and transparency of our intentions hinge on the following points: 1)We are part of the United Nations 2)Our agency's aim is to share data on trade by country and products 3)The link gives direct access to the trade data of the specific product/country 4)No registration is required — Preceding unsigned comment added by Divoc (talk • contribs) 09:41, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Divoc, to begin with, I highly appreciate that you declared your possible conflict of interest in this matter. Regarding the links, I primary made the editorial judgement to remove them since they were added en masse from what looked to be a COI account, not because ITC is a bad resource. In my opinion there is no room for links like these since Wikipedia is not a linkfarm, but other editors may feel different. If you still feel that the ITC links should be placed in the External links section I suggest that you leave a message on the External Links Noticeboard and ask the people active there, because re-adding them right away would probably be seen as link spam by a lot of other editors.
- If you are interested in contributing to Wikipedia I think that adding inline text to articles using ITC as a source is a better solution. jonkerz♠ 16:54, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Major cleanup underway at Kayastha; your help would be appreciated
Greetings, I'm doing a major chop on Kayastha, removing caste puffery, adding proper citations about the controversy of their varna designation, and generally trying to hack out unref, OR, and other unsuitable materials. If you have any chance at all to chip in, it'd be greatly appreciated. Likewise, even watchlisting and keeping an eye out for upset editors removing my (full footnoted) notations about their possible Shudra status (an unpopular topic) would be appreciated. Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:19, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
- Watchlist'd! I'll try to chip in with some gnomish work, cheers, jonkerz♠ 01:24, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Tagging
The next time you come across a problem with an article, instead of tagging it, how about fixing it instead? Tagging merely pushes the problem off to someone else, and creates an unsightly article in the meantime. In my opinion, if you can tag 15 articles in the time it takes to fix 1, that time is much better spent correcting in fixing the single article. Tagging is, in other words, a very poor non-solution to a problem.
- Placing tags is, in itself, not a means of improving the encyclopedia: It is only a means of asking other people to improve an article that you cannot or will not improve yourself. (from WP:OVERTAGGING)
Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:29, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for adding the reference. I was about to WP:SOFIXIT using the same source as you but ran into an edit conflict when saving the changes. Fixing is superior to tagging, I agree with that, but when it comes to the decision of leaving an article unchanged or tagging I think it's a small net-gain to tag it. I'll read WP:OVERTAGGING and perhaps reconsider my stance. jonkerz♠ 05:42, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
- I see that you've reffed the other Community Board articles. That speaks volumes for you in my book. Thanks, and my apologies if I was too brusque earlier. Beyond My Ken (talk) 08:08, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
- No worries, and thanks a lot! jonkerz♠ 08:15, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
- I see that you've reffed the other Community Board articles. That speaks volumes for you in my book. Thanks, and my apologies if I was too brusque earlier. Beyond My Ken (talk) 08:08, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for adding the reference. I was about to WP:SOFIXIT using the same source as you but ran into an edit conflict when saving the changes. Fixing is superior to tagging, I agree with that, but when it comes to the decision of leaving an article unchanged or tagging I think it's a small net-gain to tag it. I'll read WP:OVERTAGGING and perhaps reconsider my stance. jonkerz♠ 05:42, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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- Done! I wish you the best of luck with your study, jonkerz♠ 01:23, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks so much. cooldenny (talk) 01:27, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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I was wondering if you could tell me how to add a signature to the information I added? Thanks for the welcome! kld (talk) 18:50, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
- Signatures are not used in body text of articles as it would make the text look messy due to the hundreds, sometimes thousands, signatures. This is why I had to remove your signs from Hybrid (biology) (but don't forget that your contributions still are higly appreciated!). The only things that are signed on Wikipedia are comments on user pages and the articles' discussion pages and so on.
- The way contributors are attributed is by listing them in the article history (click on "View history" to see it), this is sort of a signature and it is done automatically when you save a new revision.
- I hope this answered your question, otherwise just ask again and keep up the good work, cheers, jonkerz♠ 02:19, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. Thank you for your welcome. I'm a user in Chinese Wikipedia. And this is my user page:[1]. Nice to meet you!--靖天子 (talk) 11:46, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Nova (operating system)
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- Thanks! jonkerz♠ 15:24, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you, Jonkerz, for your helpful edit adding a useful category to the WP:FA quality article, Lord of the Universe. Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 18:08, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
- No problem, I've added Category:Documentary films by decade to articles like crazy the past week ;) jonkerz♠ 22:44, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Re:
Hi Jonkerz, thank you for your welcoming message. Is there a way I could "sign" my previous anonymous edits, so that I see on my profile what I have edited? Thank you. Vlasich (talk) 13:18, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- Unfortunately there is not way to sign anonymous edits, but it's possible to list all edits made by an IP with the Special:Contributions function (click here for an example). If you want to follow up on the pages you have edited you can add them to your Special:Watchlist; that way all the changes will show up automatically in list format. I hope this help, otherwise just ask again! Cheers, jonkerz♠ 13:47, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
Untitled section
Thank you! Evenrød (talk) 09:14, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
A beer for you!
Thanks for the welcome! :) Damidalla (talk) 22:13, 1 September 2011 (UTC) |
Thank You Very Much
Hi, Jonkerz! Thank you a lot for helping me improve the "Liu Yun (Actress)"article, and thanks for the "capnote" and redirecting thing. It was may careless mistake to have forgot to capitalize the letter "Y". Thanks very much anyway. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nnu-12-05090410 (talk • contribs) 13:17, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
- I'm happy to help! Wikipedia needs more content creators, keep up the good work, cheers, jonkerz♠ 13:24, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
Super-old Squanto
Thanks for your help in correcting the Squanto infobox. I can't believe I didn't see that solution! (And LOL at being 431 years old...) dogman15 (talk) 06:39, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
- My pleasure! I couldn't figure it out at first either :) jonkerz♠ 18:49, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Babcock Borsig Service
Hello Jonkers. I followed your right suggestion and I added the references correctly requested from you. Sorry for the long time, but I had to find by myself the sources without having the possibility of translating them. Actually I translated the English voice from the original voice in German language, but in that voice there are no sources.
As you have much more experience then me, would you please notice the same lackness also to the original voice here listed [2] ? This way somebody could possibly translate in the right way the sources in German from the English voice. Thanks --Gabriele1972 (talk) 13:31, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
- Look at the German page now, you should be able to see the corresponding German template if you're logged in. The German Wikipedia uses Flagged revisions (a system in which all edits have to be marked as patrolled before they become visible to non-logged in readers), so you have to use this link if you're not logged in or if you want to view the page in Google Translate. A German Wikipedian will hopefully mark the edit as patrolled within a few hours. jonkerz♠ 14:39, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for all your contributions identifying articles for WikiProject Film! :) Erik (talk | contribs) 14:13, 27 October 2011 (UTC) |
- Thanks :) and thank you too for all your contributions :) jonkerz♠ 14:18, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you :D
Thank you for giving me useful tip for categorization and warm welcome! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahcthebest (talk • contribs) 04:02, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
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- Thanks :) Keep up the good work, jonkerz♠ 01:28, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
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- Thanks, I love cookies :) jonkerz♠ 06:57, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
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Nigeria
Dear Jonkerz; Hope this meets you well? I want to commend you on you good work; however I am sure you are mistaken in some areas. 1. There are a lot more Christians than Muslims in Nigeria. Where did you get your own information from? Please check reliable sources like the World Bank Data-set or surveys carried out by The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics for this information. You probably got your information from the CIA website; that information is false. 2. Nigeria is not an Arabic country? I believe the language that you are aiming for is Hausa. Why don't you write in that language and not Arabic? 3. In the Article on USA, France, Germany and the UK; you don't have pictures of Negroes burning during the days of segregation and slavery and you don't have a picture of the horrors of the World Wars. Why is it that you try to stereotype us by having a picture of a starving girl during the long forgotten Biafra War? Most Nigerians don't even know about that war. Shouldn't that be on another page? Why did you not put up the pictures of the second largest man-made structure (once the first)"The walls of benin": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Benin or even :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungbo%27s_Eredo or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbani_Darego, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oluchi_Onweagba? Do you really mean to say that picture you have selected is more relevant than all these? Is this really how you reported for other countries? 4. There are a lot of Modern scenes in Nigeria. Why choose the ones you have here? This is the article people will look at when learning about Nigeria. You don't have to lie; why don't you tell the truth and give honest journalistic views and stop stereotyping? Finally If you don't have information from a reliable source, just don't talk about the issue. There have been many Kingdoms in Nigeria not just the Benin Kingdom; there was the Oyo Kingdom, the Hausa Caliphate and the Igbos had a flourishing and specific dynasty. I hope you will live up to the expectations of honesty, professionalism and goodwill. Please correct your article. Thank you, Have a good day. Tolu77.98.14.205 (talk) 03:07, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Tolu, I've actually only made one edit to that article, and it was a minor correction, so I'm not the best person to talk to. I also noticed that you posted this message to the article's talk page; that is a much better place and I hope that you'll get answers to your questions there. Best of luck, jonkerz♠ 20:54, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
A brownie for you!
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- Thank you for the kind words and the delicious brownie! I'll try to follow Wikibook's Cake Brownie recipe once I got all the ingredients ;) jonkerz ♠talk 00:07, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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I appreciate your looking in at My Lady's Lips. I came across it through cross checking its author's talk page when another of his improvable stubs had been sent to AFD. After getting that one fixed up,[3] I came over to fix up My Lady's Lips [4] so it would not itself be the subject of an unneccessary deletion discussion. Best, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 22:50, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
- Great job on the article! And all the other stubs you have saved over the years too; I really appreciate that you are a real WP:SOFIXIT guy :) cheers, jonkerz ♠talk 23:06, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Some falafel for you!
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- Happy to help :) jonkerz ♠talk 22:18, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
We are Hong Kongers, we hate Chinese mainlanders!
Why can't I make a redirect to locust? Many people call Mainland Chinese 'Locusts' in Hong Kong!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.78.20.46 (talk) 01:41, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for adding my middle initial to the Futures Studies Project. I only started using the middle initial after Peter Bishop appeared on Fringe so I often forget it... RealFuturist (talk) 17:00, 3 February 2012 (UTC) |
- Thanks, but this barnstar does not belong to me as I only changed the sorting order of two categories. The editor who added your middle initial (here and here) was no other than you yourself :) Maybe I can return this barnstar and get one for good detective work instead? ;) jonkerz ♠talk 05:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
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Marie Paradis
Thanks for your answers on the help forum. I've added the page numbers for the reference to Marie Paradis now, but my copy of the book is very different from the archive.org version you found, and the story is on different pages. I've put the page numbers as per my book in, but perhaps the archive.org version is more available and a better reference? Ross-c (talk) 13:00, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- It would be great if you could change the page numbers to the archive.org version as it's available online, and then add an url parameter to the citation template. Of course, offline sources can always be used, but a link to the book online is always neat. jonkerz ♠talk 13:24, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- Done. Hopefully correctly :) Ross-c (talk) 18:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- It looks great :) Thanks for taking the time to expand stubs and reference unreferenced articles. jonkerz ♠talk 23:06, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
- Done. Hopefully correctly :) Ross-c (talk) 18:25, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
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I'm constantly amazed at how many people don't have any clue about this: [5]. DMacks (talk) 21:00, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
- I know, it's crazy, I cannot even remember not knowing ctrl+f :) Do you know <key dependent on OS/browser>+E? It's almost as useful, at least on WP :) jonkerz ♠talk 16:06, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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I just wanted to let you know that the pic is ready for the sublingua DYK nom. Feel free to pass it now. Thanks for the review. – VisionHolder « talk » 15:53, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Done! Great article! jonkerz ♠talk 15:57, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Lol... all those delays only to have the pic stripped when it hits the queue. Sorry about that. – VisionHolder « talk » 00:40, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ouch :( well, at least the article passed GAR, congratulations on that :) I hope to see more articles from you in the future. jonkerz ♠talk 00:53, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. :-) – VisionHolder « talk » 00:58, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Ouch :( well, at least the article passed GAR, congratulations on that :) I hope to see more articles from you in the future. jonkerz ♠talk 00:53, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
- Lol... all those delays only to have the pic stripped when it hits the queue. Sorry about that. – VisionHolder « talk » 00:40, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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New project key ?
Howdy - just a query; I wanted to know what this does - I wasn't able to fathom it out. Cheers - TB (talk) 18:48, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- Howdy! Projects' main pages and are sorted this way to make them easier to find (articles are sorted in the same way, for example Botany in Category:Botany). The use is not obvious for categories containing only a few pages (like Category:WikiProject Red Link Recovery), but take a look at Category:WikiProject Organized Labour to see that it's actually quite useful. jonkerz ♠talk 11:10, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, indexing! Cheers. - TB (talk) 16:26, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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poster fair use rationale.
I see you have been uploading some posters to the african films. The justification for fair use you included was "to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration". I am not sure that that is actually the case, what commentary was provided via the poster or using the poster? It seems it was soley for illustration? Gaijin42 (talk) 15:20, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Which poster are you referring to? I've only uploaded one related to African films, File:Les Accords de Bella DVD cover.jpg, with the rationale "Serves as 'cover art' to identify the article's topic" which I copied from another cover art rationale. jonkerz ♠talk 15:29, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- Is it actually a DVD Cover? In any case, I see two licensing templates on that file, and the first one is talking about the poster, and included the text I found above. I think there is likely some issue that needs to be resolved at a policy/guideline level regarding fair use, if the second license justification is allowed(for illustration), but the first is not. i will try to find an appropriate venue. Gaijin42 (talk) 15:34, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
- It seems that this has been discussed before, and is currently allowed, so ignore me :) [[6]] Gaijin42 (talk) 15:39, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Re:Endemic animals
You are right, I wasnt paying enough attention. One thing though: we probably have 100s of articles on Australian endemic Lepidoptera, so if you want to do it properly you should add that cat to all of those. Sorry for removing the cat. Ruigeroeland (talk) 14:43, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
- No problem; I'll add as many as I can find once I've set up the category tree. Cheers, jonkerz ♠talk 15:13, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
See the note from User talk:Freecine at the foot of my talk page. I am inclined to accept it, sort of, can't see any motive otherwise. But it contradicts the sources. What do you think? Aymatth2 (talk) 14:50, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- After looking into it, I think the year/runtime/country should be 2010/78/France/Senegal. We can trust the author to know these specifics, and they are backed up by a few sources such a [7] (2010/78), [8] (2010/80), and [9] (2009/80). I think your version of the Alassane Diago article is better. The author naturally has a COI here and has removed the part about his father three times; I guess WP:UNDUE is the only possible reason to not include it. jonkerz ♠talk 15:26, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- That makes sense. I will tidy up the articles. I don't think the bit about his father is critical in a short bio, so will leave it out. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 15:45, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- After looking into it, I think the year/runtime/country should be 2010/78/France/Senegal. We can trust the author to know these specifics, and they are backed up by a few sources such a [7] (2010/78), [8] (2010/80), and [9] (2009/80). I think your version of the Alassane Diago article is better. The author naturally has a COI here and has removed the part about his father three times; I guess WP:UNDUE is the only possible reason to not include it. jonkerz ♠talk 15:26, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for my barnstar!!! :-) Beth Holmes 1 (talk) 09:02, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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Accidents
I think Stunt#Stunts that have gone wrong should be merged into the new article and a {{main} linked in it. Much of the stunt article is a list anyway and ought to really be full of prose.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:09, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
- I agree, good job on the article :) jonkerz ♠talk 07:41, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Sister project links
Which edit did you disagree with and what links were broken?--Wikien2009 (talk) 15:46, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
- I didn't revert because I disagree with your changes, but because they broke the template on pages without a parameter. Give me a moment and I will setup a sandbox to show what was broken. Brb! jonkerz ♠talk 15:53, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I edited this article fairly heavily today. You have done a lot of work on this article, I can see. Hopefully I did not make complete mess. But if you have suggestions or objections, then revert or discuss. Thanks. --Smokefoot (talk) 03:28, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
- Howdy! No problems, and thanks for notifying me. I went ahead and removed the commented out sections. They were unreferenced anyways (and fyi not written by me). Cheers, jonkerz ♠talk 04:17, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
National cinema navigation templates
In a discussion a while back, you offered to blitz these from film and actor articles, etc. Did you get anywhere with that, as I notice a lot are still showing? --Rob Sinden (talk) 09:05, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
- Never did, because I never got any replies. Looking back at the discussion, I think it's OK to remove them anyway: only one editor thinks that they should stay on some articles (not based on any actual guidelines) while four editors think they should be removed (per WP:NAVBOX, MOS:FILM and WP:BURDEN). They clutter the page and, imo, are useless and ugly. I am typing this out for editors who may visit my talk page once the War on Templates has begun. I'll try to start in the next few days. jonkerz ♠talk 00:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. I've been removing them manually when I see them, but it's an arduous task! They really don't serve any more purpose than a link to a Cinema of XXXX page would... --Rob Sinden (talk) 08:03, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
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Just added quality assessment and importance to the {{WikiProject Endangered Languages}} template, thanks to your good example. That image you chose is certainly much more dynamic than a disappearing white square ... and inspired me to action :)
assess the article quality and importance!
Perhaps you can recruit a few more folks to join in? Djembayz (talk) 03:52, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
- Awesome ;) Actually, I only refined the category; the image was changed by OwenBlacker. But I'll definitely assess a few articles! jonkerz ♠talk 04:08, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Misandry merger discussion
Hi Jonkerz, would you mind if I reformated your discussion point to reflect the "traditional" discussion response format, ie:
Oppose - (Your text goes here)
Thanks! Ebikeguy (talk) 13:52, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
- Done! To be honest, I think the discussion is unnecessary, because they are obviously two different concepts, but well, well :) jonkerz ♠talk 14:03, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi How can I update my information without it being reverted as it is old and outdatedAlechabannew (talk) 17:00, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
- You will need references (3rd-party websites, books, newspaper articles, etc.) to verify the content; you can read more about references at Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners. Try to write in a more encyclopedic tone. For example, "Considered one of the hottest Hispanic heartthrobs in the entertainment industry", which you added here, is not encyclopedic and sounds very promotional, so avoid sentences like that. You are free to remove unsourced material if it is false. Also keep in mind that it is generally frowned upon to edit articles about yourself on Wikipedia, due to the conflict of interest, so you must be extra careful with your contributions! Questions? jonkerz ♠talk 17:16, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
JEL codes CFD
Hi Jonkerz
I have closed CFD 2012 September 11 discussion on JEL codes as no consensus.
My closing rationale includes some suggestions on how to take this forward, which I hope you may find helpful. And if they are not helpful, please ignore them! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:41, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comments. I agree with your rationale and in hindsight I guess I should have seen it coming. In a few weeks, I'll probably proceed with re-nominating one or at most two categories at the same time, and if successful, use that outcome as a precedent for future nominations. jonkerz ♠talk 17:04, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hindsight is always 2o-20 vision, isn't it ? :)
- It's up to you how to proceed, but I suggest that if the follow-JEL question is not resolved first, then it is likely to be be rehashed in multiple debates, with possibly inconsistent results. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:20, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- I think it's pretty clear that these categories goes against multiple guidelines, but all editors do not agree ;) I'm afraid you're correct that an RFC is the way to go, and I'll look into it in a few weeks or so. jonkerz ♠talk 19:19, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- I was preparing for a long, long discussion before a very judicious person intervened. So, I guess we're both disappointed, right? In any case, I pass along a few added thoughts from this rough draft that never made it to RFC edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thomasmeeks/Rough_draft2&diff=513928952&oldid=513913933.
- Have a good weekend. P.S. You certainly don't have to, but I'd appreciate your informing Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Economics of future such proposals, as you did a 10 days ago. Also commendable IMO was your reexamining your own position in light of discussion and reflection. I try to do the same. It's the old principle of charity thing. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 21:41, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
- Ending the JEL CFD was probably for the best, I think we would have been able to continue that discussion forever :) I'll notify WP:ECON as well as leave a comment on your talk page once I've set up the RFC, best wishes, jonkerz ♠talk 03:35, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
- OK, thx. By coincidence, I'm currently working on a response to BHG's comment on my talk page, which might complement your concerns. Please feel free to comment there or on what follows from it if avoiding parallel ongoing discussions would be an advantage. There might be much more consensus in the end than earlier discussion suggested. So I hope anyhow.
- P.S. Per User talk:Thomasmeeks#Category:Urban, rural, and regional economics, on further thought, it might be a good idea to run my proposed RFC by you 1st for your comments, if any. BW, Thomasmeeks (talk) 13:03, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
- I've replied at your talk! jonkerz ♠talk 14:34, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
- Ending the JEL CFD was probably for the best, I think we would have been able to continue that discussion forever :) I'll notify WP:ECON as well as leave a comment on your talk page once I've set up the RFC, best wishes, jonkerz ♠talk 03:35, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
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- Sounds interesting :) jonkerz ♠talk 03:38, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
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Evolution of the hippocampus
Hi -- just to explain what I did, I'm the author of most of hippocampus, but I actually wasn't aware of the existence of that subarticle until I saw the link you added. When I looked at it, I saw that it was full from top to bottom of false information -- clearly whoever wrote it had a very weak understanding of evolutionary relationships. The few correct things essentially duplicate info that is already in Hippocampus#Evolution. So it seemed like redirecting is the most useful action at this time. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 15:07, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
- Hi! I very much agree and was thinking about doing the same. I added the link mostly to make editors aware of the article. It looked very much like a school assignment. Cheers, jonkerz ♠talk 15:14, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
- By the way, the only reason I found the article is because Special:Random is my start homepage in Firefox :) jonkerz ♠talk 15:19, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
- Ah, all I ever get from that is articles about train stations. Anyway, nice that we're on the same page. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 15:42, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
- By the way, the only reason I found the article is because Special:Random is my start homepage in Firefox :) jonkerz ♠talk 15:19, 31 October 2012 (UTC)