Kazvorpal

Previous talk has been archived at User_talk:Kazvorpal/2006-03-14 -- all history, including the part I pasted in here for continuity, is also included there.

DYK

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--Gurubrahma 17:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm actually quite proud...--Kaz 18:43, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Titan beetle

Thanks for your improvement to this article. My only question is about the length of the grub - you state it as "perhaps as much as one foot long" which is twice the length of the adult. Do you have any reference for this? Is it usual for a grub to be larger than the adult? Richard W.M. Jones 20:31, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, beetle grubs are frequently longer than the adult forms, "june beetle" larvae can be twice as long, for example. They both lose mass while they pupate, and become shorter and thicker as adults. In this case, I was taking the text from a Titan Beetle article, let's see if I can find it...[1] here's one reference to the larvae. --Kaz 00:17, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Australopithecus anamensis

Do you have a citation for the edits you made? Neat stuff! - UtherSRG (talk) 19:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

It's in an Associated Press article, here's a link to a mirror of it: [2] --Kaz 21:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Acronym Redundancy Syndrome

Hah! That's funny...probably shouldn't keep it though. -- Scientizzle 23:41, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I'd just gotten the letters backward, it's not ARS Syndrome, it's RAS Syndrome --Kaz 23:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

I think that actually makes it slightly funnier. Thanks for clearing that up...Acronym Redundancy Syndrome had neologism written all over it, but RAS syndrome, a subject I'd not seen before, looks mighty entertaining. -- Scientizzle 23:50, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

I like my version more, that's probably why my subconscious came up with it...--Kaz 23:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Turtles

Hi, I just noticed your good edit to the turtle evolution section, and am hoping you have some good resources for this. Do you know if the extinct families listed in the turtle article are complete and correct? I want List of Testudines to be the next WP:AAR featured list, and don't have the resources to check them out. Also, what information would you suggest adding to the table (it will be seperate from the current table). All I can think of at the moment is "fossil range". Thanks --liquidGhoul 05:10, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

paleo-template

Would it be acceptable to use your paleo-template for creatures of Skull Island? They are fictional, but they deserve some sort of template. Example pages: Vastatosaurus rex, Venatosaurus saevidicus. Bibliomaniac15 19:41, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I don't think it'd hurt anything. Once we finish up the paleo template a bit more, perhaps we can make a second version for fictional animals, in case there's some confusion when people use the "what uses this template" link. But for now, go ahead and use it. --Kaz 20:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

star trek template project

could you please remove the "star trek template project" link from the template, and the pages that it has been substituted into, as it isn't an appropriate place for such a notice? it should go on the talk pages for those articles, if you want to advertise it. --Gnewf 06:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Categorisation

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Measures

FYI, metric measures are used by 192 out of 193 countries, 95% of the world's population, and over 80% of the world's English-speaking population. You shouldn't be requiring the rest of the world to follow your US-POV minority imperial usage - MPF 10:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, and 192 out of 193 countries (though, oddly enough, there are over 200 countries out there, so this is strange math) are socialist, and yet that economic system is self-destructive and nonsensical. What the hordes of authority-worshipping proles tolerate is irrelevent to what's right. A binary system of measurement, with key measures arbitrarily established where it's most convenient for the common user makes more sense than a base 10 system of measures which are easy for bureaucrats to convert, but nearly useless for everyday people.

But that's all irrelevent, because there are more native English language-speaking people in the United States than ALL OTHER COUNTRIES COMBINED. This means that, if you want to play a numbers dick-swinging game, the English-speaking Wikipedia should use the system which is used by the majority of natively English-speaking readers...which is the English system, not the lame Metric system.

Note that the reason most countries use the metric system is that it has been FORCED upon them by their sociopathic bureaucrats, in those socialist governments I mentioned earlier. The one country where people are FREE TO CHOOSE their system have stuck to the English. And what people choose who are free to do so reflects most accurately what is best for them, not what other people are FORCED by bureaucrats to use. --Kaz 17:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

BepiColumbo

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On the main page now. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 01:03, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

List of basil cultivars

Just thought you might like to know that List of basil cultivars is nearing the end of what looks like a successful candidacy to be a featured list! It's evolved a bit since you first wrote it, but I'm sure you'll recognize your work if you haven't dropped by in a while. Waitak 13:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Your Opinion

I've noticed your edits on some pages we've both taken an interest in and I was looking for your opinion. I can't seem to convince Jayjg to let me contribute to the Israeli Settlements page and I thought you might want to take a look at the dispute. MarkB2 02:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

We should all strive to be the former, not the latter

The latter should be forbidden, really... — Omegatron 22:56, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

hoplophobia

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Money bomb

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Are you always this impolite when someone is courteous enough to point out a problem with an article? --Orange Mike 16:26, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Are you always advocating censorship? You ask if I'm impolite when someone "points out a problem with an article", yet as I said in my "impoliteness", it's the trick of trying to censor information wholesale, because of some alleged technical problem or factual error in a specific subset of it, that is poor editorship, implying a POV bias. You could have simply changed the article to correct the small objection you had, and yet you nominated it for deletion, instead, actually a more involved process, implying you prefer the wholesale censorship over simply fixing the problem. --Kaz 16:36, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

(Guess you can call me JohnUffish.) Kazvorpal, there are further similar attempts to Moneybomb by User:Elonka after I have built on your fine foundation. Note that User:Orangemike, who had initially weakly supported Elonka, has in my experience always come to a reasonable solution after both sides have expressed concerns. Since you are a primary editor, I thought you might want to consider commenting at WP:COIN#Moneybomb (you might also see Talk:Moneybomb#Third opinion). Thanks for your improvements to Wikipedia. John J. Bulten 18:10, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

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Beelzebufo DYK

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--BorgQueen (talk) 15:17, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

• I left some good comments about this article and it's hook while it was in the "DYK Waiting Room". I love that you made a mock-up showing size comparsion. Fun article. Ribbit. -- House of Scandal (talk) 16:56, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

your comments

Please do not make comments such as "deleting things instead of fixing them is bad editing". Your edits were unsourced, unsubstantiated, and non-neutral POV, and they needed to be reverted. As for whether deleting things is bad editing, deleting is the most important kind of editing. I should know, I'm an editor in real life as well. ⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 18:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I will make such comments, because they are true. We are not editing a print magazine here, although if you wipe out "unsources" information in a print publication instead of having researchers verify it, you are incompetent. When valid, useful information is imperfect in wikipedia, the solution is to fix it, not delete it. To do otherwise IS bad editing. It is either lazy, PoV, or in some other way negative. Too many editors impose their PoV by lawyering away information they don't like. The policital stances of all nine justices are UNIVERSALLY acknowledged. There is no serious debate over whether Ginsberg is Liberal, or Thomas is Conservative. To pretend otherwise is absolutely laughable, and leads me to suspect that it's PoV that is the motivation for your censorship, not simply laziness. Either way, it is bad editing. --Kaz (talk) 19:48, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

In fact, your motivation is also called into question by your contradictory excuses for deleting, rather than fixing, the information you are trying to censor. You claim, in the edit, that "the political leanings are already mentioned"...and yet, now, you are claiming they are unsubstantiated and non-pov. These are mutually exclusive arguments. What's more, the ENTIRE GRID is mentioned elsewhere...the grid is a summary of the information, to make it quickly and readily accessible. Do you have some reason to think that the universally accepted political leanings of the nine justices should not be readily accessible? --Kaz (talk) 19:56, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

You do realize that you were disagreeing with two different people? The person who said the political leanings were already mentioned is me. The person you were talking to above is SWATJester. Just because Swatjester and I both believed it was better not to have the column does not mean we agree on why or we somehow coordinated the edits. Magidin (talk) 22:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Civility, reliable sourcing, and NPOV are rules on this project. They are not negotiable. Edit warring is likewise unacceptable. Please stop doing so, or you will be blocked from editing.⇒SWATJester ^{Son of the Defender} 20:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Define edit warring in a way where my attempts to fix the ostensible objections is warring, yet your wholesale deletion and failure to seek compromise is not. --Kaz (talk) 20:16, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

D'Artagnan

I have reverted your addition of the unorthodox "formatting rule" hatnote to this article. It's unnecessary (thousands of articles that have names that would begin with a capitalized letter only at the start of a sentence follow this "formatting rule", e.g. the many science and math topics named for John von Neumann). It's irrelevant that the way the hatnote was worded, no meaning could be construed from it—the hatnote is superfluous and the "rule" regarding the capitalization of the "D" is perfectly implied by the name's usage in the article. Robert K S (talk) 20:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Makes sense. --Kaz (talk) 20:15, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Um. Wow. Really? Thanks. One gets so used to battling people over silly things, it's really refreshing when someone agrees with you right off the bat. I think I'm going to have to lie down now. :-) Robert K S (talk) 20:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

My goal is to present the best, most complete information, not to defend some specific stance...more editors need to be that way. --Kaz (talk) 20:26, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Ur-organism

Hi, I have recently raised some questions concerning the definition of the term "ur-organism" at Talk:Ur-organism as part of a merge proposal (see also link1 and link2). I was wondering if you could provide some much-needed help in this area. Thanks so much, -Thibbs (talk) 21:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Wayne Bell

Noticed a picture of what I assume is you at Wayne Bell. If so, would you like to help me improve the article (and probably WWIV article)? /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 02:33, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Unnecessary redirects

Hey there. Looking up David Letterman, and of course typing in david letterman, I noticed one of my pet peeves: an unnecessary redirect at David letterman. The thing is that MediaWiki automatically redirects between titles with homogenous initial capitalisation and thus those redirects are not needed. Since you established that redirect in 2005, I did a quick check to see whether or not you are still an active Wikipedian, and immediately stumbled upon another such redirect you recently created at Chaste tree (to be sure: the redirect at Chaste Tree to Vitex agnus-castus is valid and indeed necessary). I guess that many are not aware of how the MW search engine works and so there are probably a million such unnecessary redirects, and it's certainly no biggie but I decided to drop you a few lines to let you know. user:Everyme 08:29, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Nanobe

Hi there. I'm afraid I had to remove this statement since it wasn't supported by the source, an article on extending the limits of light microscopy that did not discuss the size limit of life at all. As a comment on the idea, it might be true but I'd be doubtful since electron microscopes have been around for a long time and these can easily resolve such small structures. Tim Vickers (talk) 16:16, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Did you not read the actual text, Tim? The electron microscope is useless for confirming the activity of life, because the conditions required to use one kill whatever you're examining. Electron microscopes can't be used to observe things real-time, but only to take still pictures of dead stuff. You can't watch a bacterium or nanobe grow and live, you can only coat one in gold and examine its corpse. --Kaz (talk) 16:23, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

File:Open.primaries.gif

The text in File:Open.primaries.gif is inaccurate. South Carolina does not register voters by party, so there is no such thing as a registered Republican. Carolina wren (talk) 19:46, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

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Evony

You accused me of censoring the page. Your sources for your edit are:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evony&action=edit#cite_note-guardian150709-5 which is a link to editing the wikipedia page for Evony.
• http://www.mechscapeworld.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11014 and http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/3301096/Evony-Copying-RuneScape.html which are forum posts.
• http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en___US360&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=evony+%22not+really+free%22 which is a Google search.
• http://www.gossipgamers.com/evony-hands-on-review-formerly-civony/ which appears to be a gaming site. This one appears to be closest to an RS, but I've never seen it before, so I'm a little wary.
• http://www.nerdnology.com/post/2009/10/12/Why-Im-leaving-Evony.aspx which is a blog.
• http://bbs.evony.com/showpost.php?p=766049&postcount=8 which is a forum post.

None of those are reliable sources AFAIK, and so cannot be used to support the information you insist on including in the article. See WP:RS.

You stated in your edit summary Real editors FIX things, instead of just censoring them whole cloth.

Presumably you are a 'real' editor and I am not. I don't particularly care about what ideas you have about what 'real' editors do, but I suggest a real editor would find reliable sources, instead of using a handful of unreliable sources to support a hatchet job. Also, you're supposed to comment on content, not the contributor. See WP:NPA.

You also said That's probably why you are on probation for engaging in petty edit wars.

Well, again, comment on content, not the contributor, and quite frankly I have no idea what this means, Wikipedia has no probation system AFAIK. Geoff B (talk) 20:47, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

If you were a real editor, you'd know that the source rules are not absolutes that must be adhered to on every page, but are generally only brought up for highly questionable claims, or unusually volatile topics, or when someone is wanting to lawyer the page to censor data.

Since these claims are fairly mainstream and the topic is simply some little web game, that leaves either you wanting to hide information, or you being such a lame amature that you don't actually understand how to apply the rules.

• If someone's source for a reasonably common cookie description links to a blog recipe, you don't delete the entry, because it's no big deal.
• If it's an especially noteworthy cookie, you might put a tag suggesting a better source.
• If someone is posting a claim that Obama used to get bad grades in high school, then you might put up a cite demand and watch to ensure that it's fixed or removed in a timely fashion. It's an important page, but not a terribly important claim.
• If someone claims that George Bush was once in the Klan, you would certainly remove it until a valid source is cited. It's an important page, AND a very significant claim.
• Then again, if you don't like the fact that your favorite politician was once charged with corruption, you might bring up every single technical objection to any mention of it in the article, always DELETING the text instead of fixing or tagging it...that's called lawyering, and it's the real reason half the rules exist. To censor.
  
  As far as I can tell, YOU are simply some lamer who is confusing that hierarchy of criteria with real editing. Either that, or you're shilling for Evony.

You are being a perfect example of really BAD editing...you are claiming a PARTIAL objection to a large block of text, and then removing the thing whole cloth. No tags, no removing ONLY the parts with tertiary sources, no actually taking ten seconds to FIX your objection yourself...just removing ALL of it. The Guardian isn't a valid source? Links directly to the information presented, as with the bullet list isn't a valid source? Nonsense. It's as if you deleted "the website's primary color is green" with a link to the website (which turns out to be green), claiming lack of a secondary source.

If you have a problem with an article, FIX it, or TAG it, unless it's a very important claim AND article. Don't turn into some anal-retentive git who lawyers even minor fluffy-bunny pages. And, if ever at all, ONLY remove EXACTLY what is supposedly violating a guideline, not the ENTIRE section that happens to contain it.

These are wiki editing basics that you need to learn ASAP. --Kaz (talk) 19:13, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and you got an 3R Edit War tag stuck on your user page. THAT is the probation I'm talking about. You run around reverting stuff blindly, some lame, overenthusiastic wannabe, and end up in danger of having your edit privileges suspended. Again, you desperately need to learn how to be a REAL editor. --Kaz (talk) 19:19, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

The links to your 'sources' are there. None of them are reliable, so the info cannot be included. I knew you'd bring up the possibility of shilling for Evony (so much for WP:AGF eh) but unfortunately my removal of pro-Evony comments shits all over your insult. Find some reliable sources and then it can go in. Ad hominem won't save you. You also need to read WP:NPA I think. Judging by your actions, 'real' editors rely on unreliable sources and repeated personal attacks. I don't think I want to be a 'real' editor in that case.

As for that 3RR tag on my user page I put it there. LOL! Geoff B (talk) 20:09, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

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Conspiracy Theory and Pareidolia

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Exactly. I took a long, hard look through Google and I could not find any books or scholarly sources which connect conspiracy theory directly with pareidolia, explaining the connection. Binksternet (talk) 21:17, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Theodicy and optimism

In Catalan or Spanish when we use the word "optimismo" we, 99% of times, are using it in the mood related sense. According to the correction you have just made in Leibniz article, I could thing that in English it is just the reverse. Nevertheless, maybe I should not take "classic" in the sense of usual or common? --Auró (talk) 22:50, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

No, in English, something is "classic" when it's used in the older sense. The term was first used to mean "most efficient" first. --Kaz (talk) 03:41, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for the information.--Auró (talk) 23:00, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

List of Tea Party politicians

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Coral

Hi Kazvorpal. Thanks for your contribution to Coral. However, you have added an entire section to a GA-level article without providing a single citation. Can you please provide some reliable sources so the article can retain its GA status. Thanks. --Epipelagic (talk) 05:16, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

• I commend you for leaving me a message. There are too many bad editors out there who, if they aren't going to take the time to add the sources, will just delete the information for being unsourced, even when it's obviously true. — Kaz (talk) 14:08, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK

Hi, would you mind if I nominated Catalaphyllia for DYK (or were you planning to do it)? Thanks, Matty.007 17:02, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

• I'd love it if you nominated the page, and that's probably better than doing it for myself. — Kaz (talk) 19:58, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, it is at Template:Did you know nominations/Catalaphyllia. I had to remove a section I couldn't find a source for, but feel free to restore it if there is a source I missed for it. Thanks, Matty.007 11:04, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Catalaphyllia

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

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Your eyes, please

You set up Prelude to Axanar as a redirect to the article Star Trek: Axanar now at AFD. As the latter film has not yet begun filming, and even with its press pushing at WP:GNG, guideline WP:NFF suggests that we not have an article on it until actual filming can be verified. However, my own research shows the short prequel film does meet WP:NF through release and coiverage, so I just completed THIS. I invite you to look as I wish to overwrite your redirect with this new article. And too, the article on the released prequel will give us an acceptable target for the film article currently at AFD. Thanks, Schmidt, ^{Michael Q.} 08:34, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Media mention

Another article of yours has drawn a fair amount of attention. Maybe not the best kind, but the authors have read in your article a kind of distillation of the spirit of St. Louis. Fishal (talk) 21:41, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, a friend of mine pointed that out to me. It's a website that's known for its petty toxicity, so I'm proud that they hate the article. I'd be worried if they praised it. Their approbriation is almost purely of the childish, superficial, anti-intellectual nature, more seeking something to attack than of any critical value or noteworthiness...so it's little more than a casual chuckle.

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Hat styles

Hi Kazvorpal, how about adding kalpak and bashlyk to List of hat styles. ? Thanks. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 15:20, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

If I get a chance, I will, but you're also welcome to add them before I get around to it. Lists are for everyone to edit, just like any other article. Remember, the single most important guideline for a wikipedian is be bold.

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April 2015

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I've been editing Wikipedia for over a decade, and one thing we understood back then is that you don't have to source non-controversial information. The idea that every single clause not footnoted should be removed comes from dishonest people wanting to censor true information by wikilawyering it away. Removing non-controversial information entirely, rather than putting a "citation needed" flag on it or fixing it, is the sign of a bad editor. — Kaz (talk) 14:46, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Friedrich Hayek

Could you please provide source for your recent claims on the article about Hayek? --AnulBanul (talk) 14:56, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

Certainly, and thanks for being a good enough editor to ask. Too many just delete material instead of adding a , adding the reference for themselves, or at least asking. It comes from the ugly tendency of a few editors to use wikelawyering as an excuse to censor information they don't like, but it's spread to infect too many common or rules-obsessed editors. — Kaz (talk) 16:08, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

WP:NOR

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"Blue" raspberry, WP:NOR, WP:3RR

Kazorpal: there is no botanical reference or scientific citation for Rubus leucodermis as the "blue raspberry". This is likely a marketing term represented in the references you chose as spam and WP:NOR. The content you have tried to add is also original and not supportable by a reputable WP:SECONDARY source. Lastly, please do not edit war; your reverts today on Raspberry put you into WP:3RR from which you may be blocked from further editing. Thanks. --Zefr (talk) 18:44, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Zefr, there is no NEED for a botanical reference or scientific citation for rubus leocodermis being CALLED Blue Raspberry. There need only be the fact that some people call it that. This is one of the basic premises of Wikipedia, that it covers normal things, not just scientific things. In fact, the general guideline for naming conflicts is that the commonly used name be chosen, not the technically correct name. One of the MANY other basic Wikipedia guidelines you seem to be unaware of is that non-controversial content does not need to be heavily footnoted at all, much less by secondary sources. The cold, hard fact is that some people DO refer to leucodermis as blue raspberry. That botanists don't is irrelevant. That it may have originated with marketing is not only irrelevant, but may actually SUPPORT its inclusion. Deleting non-controversial information because you don't like the footnotes is bad editing. It is irresponsible. Don't be a bad editor. Grow up and learn some of these important core concepts of Wikipedia. Oh, and no, my reverting your wrongful reversion ONE time is not 3RR. What's more, tag-teaming with a friend or sock-puppet doesn't protect YOU from 3RR, which essentially you've already hit. Again, grow up and learn how to be a GOOD editor. — Kaz (talk) 21:37, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

List of Zeppelin songs

Hello there. I'm notifying you that an article you created, List of Led Zeppelin songs written or inspired by others, was recently nominated for deletion. The nominator is supposed to notify you, but as far as I could tell, they did not. FYI. Its at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Led Zeppelin songs written or inspired by others. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 16:22, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Do you have a source for this?

([3]) The way you write it, it comes across as WP:OR --Dweller (talk) 16:35, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Pig Latin: We're not supposed to use YouTube clips as references in the article, but you can see the 1938 scene where Moe teaches Curly pig Latin here, starting at the 60 second mark. It's referenced in the Tassels in the Air article, as well. Likewise, you can see the 1934 example here. Note that this is a non-controversial point, where there is no doubt it occurred, and where it's not an important topic, nor is the claim problematic. Therefore it doesn't rise to the level of needing hard citations in order to be included. — Kaz (talk) 16:49, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

I don't doubt they spoke in Pig Latin in the films. I meant the bit where you said "It may have been popularized by", which seems to be your opinion, currently. --Dweller (talk) 17:02, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

I'll change it to "perhaps the earliest example of modern pig Latin", which until someone finds an earlier example, it is. This lets the reader draw his own conclusions. — Kaz (talk) 17:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

The point is that with "perhaps the earliest", you - and therefore Wikipedia - have still stated your own thoughts, rather than reporting what a secondary source says. We can't do that. Just state the facts - that there's use of Pig Latin in films from xxxxxxxxx... --Dweller (talk) 10:29, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

There needs to be a way to state the fact that it's earliest example found. Search for yourself, there is no known mention of the modern variation of Pig Latin anywhere, before it's referred to in the Stooges videos. —Kaz (talk) 14:56, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Okay, I've rendered this irrelevant, by finding an earlier version. — Kaz (talk) 15:21, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Recent article tagging

I've noticed that a new editor put several tags on an article you created without explaining why. [4] It's not obvious whether this was an attempt to discredit the article or done in good faith, but I thought you should be made aware 03:27, 1 March 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.143.229.242 (talk)

Kaz, I apologize for a big revert on your edits to Edgar Allan Poe. If I had more time, I'd fix it myself, but I see many problems with integration of the new information -- minor stuff like quotation marks on story titles, but also things like reference style matching the article, and seamless transitions ("The same year..." Which year?). I hate to do something so drastic to an established editor like yourself, but I get cautious with this featured article which gets such heavy visitation. If I have time tomorrow, I'll try to address these concerns myself. Again, my sincere apologies, and I hope not to have offended you. --Midnightdreary (talk) 02:20, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Three-hand effect

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What's Module:Multicat supposed to do? Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:22, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

• I'm using it to practice lua, but ultimately it will let you add multiple categories to an article at once, instead of having to type [category:blah] repeatedly for each one separately. — Kaz (talk) 02:39, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

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Anarchism

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Civility

Thank you for improving the section title for Exposition (narrative)#Incluing. However, please leave an edit summary for each edit, so other editors will understand what you are trying to do. And please be civil per WP:ESDOS. You did not need to call me a "douchebag" in the edit summary for this edit.—Anita5192 (talk) 19:11, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

You exercised irresponsible editing, by removing the edit entirely instead of fixing the typo. A typo is not valid justification for censoring an article, nor is "didn't explain", in and of itself. — Kaz (talk)

Cyberpunk

Hello. I took an interest in your Cyberpunk article in advance (barely) of its DYK appearance and made quite a few fixes. There are still some large issues however. Here is the comment I left on Talk there:

• I recovered material in the Novel section that was not displayed due to a faulty ref tag set. There are problems: the narrative about selling and not publishing the novel now seems self-contradictory or maybe redundant. Was it not published because the publisher "regained his sanity and decided not to release it", or because the ending was not changed as requested? Also, several claims lack anything I could find in your citations so I had to add citations needed tags. Can you address these issues prior to the DYK appearance? RobP (talk) 16:08, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

• Thanks for fixing what I'm guessing was my typo. I think it can safely be seen as self-evident that when he says "recovered his sanity" he was being self-deprecatingly ironic, trying to make it clear he was glossing over some unfortunate story...which he actually went into years later, in the other quote. — Kaz (talk) 17:24, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Cyberpunk (novel)

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DYK nomination of Dianthus plumarius

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DYK Cahokia Woodhenge

Thanks for the comments. I've reworded the hook some per your suggestion. That article has been sitting in an embryonic stage in a sandbox since about 2013, when I went on an extended wikibreak (most of the last 5 years), about time I got around to finishing it, lol. After tweaking it the other night and posting it, I realized it was almost time for the solstice and decided to DYK nom it, synchronicity, haha. Heiro 21:34, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I'm glad you did. I lived a few miles from Monk's Mound until I moved to Atlanta last year. I'd noticed that redirect and wished to fix it at some point, but of course I always have fifty things I intend to get around to. I've had some tabs open for articles I wanted to make for months, and am just getting around to them, myself. It's astonishing how many unmade articles there are in the genres of older music, horticulture, fishkeeping, paleontology, and monetary theory. I just added the first song registered for US copyright, The Kentucky Volunteer, and one of the first rock & roll songs, Crazy About My Baby Oh, and by odd synchronicity, I have one open to remind me to make Silkhenge, an article for the bizarre web-building phenomenon. — Kaz (talk) 21:52, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

I know what you mean. When I first started editing the coverage of US archaeology stuff was dismal to say the least and the Mississippian culture was almost nonexistent except for a few major sites and a bunch of NRHP (a wikiproject was doing most of that and they just covered the basics, mostly about them being NRHP sites, lol) related articles. Heiro 22:05, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Agreed! I actually made the Monk's Mound and Mound Builders articles, though that was a dozen years ago. But even for back then, I was shocked they were missing. — Kaz (talk) 22:07, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Awesome! I've worked on both of those articles over the years, especially the mound builder one. It's too bad I didn't get to the woodhenge article sooner. It would be cool to see at DYK tomorrow for the actual solstice, it's been approved but it's so far down the queue I doubt that would happen, lol. Cheers, Heiro 00:44, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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DYK for The Kentucky Volunteer

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Precious

encourage people to read

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Thanks...Weird box, but I love it! —Kaz (talk) 22:24, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

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I am boggled by how wrong you are. The image description on its page says "Original sketch of a silkhenge structure, by moi." In other words, I drew it myself. I also tagged it "own work" and released it GFDL. How much more permissiony could it get? — Kaz (talk) 17:27, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

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WP:NPA

Could you kindly refrain from making personal remarks, especially in edit comments. I don't agree with your action, but that's an editing decision which can discussed: indeed, earlier discussion would have been desirable. But I strongly resent the remark about myself. If an edit is large and out of place, it is appropriate for any editor to remove it: size is no obstacle. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:52, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Then be a more responsible editor. Wholesale removal of large sections because have some criticism is wikilawyering, one of the most extreme forms of bad editing. Be a responsible editor and fix objections you have, instead of censoring whole swaths. It smacks of some agenda that involves hiding information you don't like. — Kaz (talk) 21:59, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Examining your uploads...

I've recently been adding {{information}} blocks to uploaded media, to help get them transferred to commons:

It would be much appreciated if you could "claim" the following:-

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• File:Red.savina.450x.jpg
• File:Thai.hot.75x.jpg
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These are own work? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 10:58, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Days per year

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You've been asked before not to restore unsourced material, please respect policy

WP:UNSOURCED makes this perfectly clear. You should also know better than to call other editors names, especially in edit summaries. I'm sure you know about WP:AGF. Doug Weller talk 11:26, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

The reason you have to deal so much with better editors criticizing you, so that even on your own page you have to complain about "vulgarities", is that you are a bad editor when you wikilawyer articles. This isn't name calling, it's an observation of fact. And, ironically, that is me assuming good faith, as the alternative would be that you're not a bad editor per se, but malicious and machiavellian, deleting non-controversial information you don't like, when it could better be fixed or tagged.

And therein is the crux of your bad editing, illustrated by the WP:Unsourced article that you linked to, itself. It explicitly states that "in some cases, editors may object if you remove material without giving them time to provide references; consider adding a citation needed tag as an interim step". And if you were sufficiently competent to have really read not only it, but other content on such topics, you'd know that the criteria for when to instantly remove center around how controversial either the information or the topic are. An article about some silly paranormal hypothesis, pointing out that it's popular as a trope in movies, is far from controversial. Especially a simple set of examples easily verified, some of which anyone even vaguely familiar with pop culture instantly knew when perusing said list. No, when you wikilawyer articles, using minor issues to remove information wholesale instead of either fixing it or adding tags suggesting fixes, you are being a bad editor. It's just that simple. You should actually learn from the many people who complain about your abuses, not whine about it at them. — Kaz (talk) 15:30, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Nonsense. I've replied to your comments about me on my talk page where I'd like the names of the "better editors" and some of the alleged "many people who complain about my abuses" (I hope you agree that is a personal attack and shows lack of good faith - and will offer proof that you're right). The text you refer to about what types of comments I'll remove from my talk page is about 11 years old, added when I became an Admin after reading other Admins' talk pages. All Admins get nasty comments on their talk pages from time to time, it goes with the territory. I prefer to just have my page automatically archived, including the critical stuff, but there are limits. And bad editors don't get elected to the Arbitration Committee twice. Doug Weller talk 11:40, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

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You added unsourced commentary to an article. I reverted it as unsourced commentary and would do it again. You should have a source for material you are adding and cite it when you add it. You know this. Whether or not the source you later added is reliable (currently disputed by a third editor) is a separate issue.

My revert does not make me a "bad editor" and this was not "Wikilawyering". I do not appreciate the pejoratives.[5] You boldly added commentary. I reverted it as unsourced. Rational discussion is the next step. - SummerPhD^v2.0 19:15, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

No, what you did was exactly bad editing. What you appear not to understand is that while it'd be ideal if everything were sourced, the only stuff that needs to be removed without sourcing is controversial claims. It is precisely wikilawyering to immediately remove material that is not even faintly controversial. Instead, a good editor adds a citation_needed tag, or any of a dozen other measures. The idea that everything should be immediately removed comes from corrupt editors who seriously want to censor information they know to be supported. A Clinton supporter regarding his sexual assault and rape accusations, or a Bush supporter regarding the Salon.com article alleging cocaine use, et cetera. If you don't want to be a bad editor, don't imitate the bad editors who set the unacceptable precedent of removing anything over the slightest imperfection. — Kaz (talk) 00:08, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Clinton and Bush are living individuals and bad examples here. If you added poorly sourced allegations of criminal activity to either article, I'd remove them without a second thought and give you a WP:BLP warning.

Unsourced interpretation of creative writing is always controversial in my book. For decades, the obvious non-controversial interpretation of Fahrenheit 451 was that it is about censorship. I was taught that interpretation 2.5 times (once in middle school, in passing in high school and as part of a lit survey class as an undergrad). What the heck, that's what it's obviously about: written during the McCarthy era, with literal book burning by an oppressive government in a dystopian future. The author said no. While it was influenced by then current events, his major topic was media destroying creativity.

If you have new material to add, cite a source. Please note that your addition has now been reverted by two editors independently, with both asking that you cite a reliable source for the material. The "bad editors" seem to be piling up here.

If sticking to Wikipedia's pillars and requiring a source for material that I dispute is "Wikilawyering", I'm finding difficulty in interpreting WP:WIKILAWYER as saying that, especially the bit about "being a stickler about Wikipedia policies/guidelines and process does not make an editor a wikilawyer". - SummerPhD^v2.0 02:06, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

You are actually proving my point, in each of your arguments. "Clinton and Bush are living individuals and bad examples here. If you added poorly sourced allegations of criminal activity to either article" No, you see, it is a hard fact that those allegations were reported in the most solid secondary sources. But wikilawyers would find the slightest flaw in the general guidelines (which is what we have in wikipedia, not hard rules) and censor information they knew to be true, using them. Bad grammar, a poorly formatted reference link, any vague anomaly they could find would result in whole paragraphs being removed. But then newbies showed up and accepted this corruption as the way Wikipedia is supposed to be run, and bad editors like you were born, who do not fix problems, do not mark them for others to fix, but actually remove information that has a valid place in an article.

"Unsourced interpretation of creative writing is always controversial in my book." Yes, because you're a bad editor. You may want to look into that.

"For decades, the obvious non-controversial interpretation of Fahrenheit 451 was that it is about censorship. I was taught that interpretation 2.5 times (once in middle school, in passing in high school and as part of a lit survey class as an undergrad)." If you would remove such information from the Fahrenheit 451 article today, it'd show you not only to be a bad editor, but an abysmally incompetent one. The correct way to deal with such data would be to say exactly that academics and schools have taught for years that the book is about censorship, ideally including who said it and what they said. But to also include the author's comments, and discussion from other academics who follow his line of reasoning.

"If you have new material to add, cite a source. Please note that your addition has now been reverted by two editors independently, with both asking that you cite a reliable source for the material. The "bad editors" seem to be piling up here." Yes, it's an epidemic of relative newbies, who are stuck at a level of incompetence that infected Wikipedia because of the wikilawyers. As long as you instantly remove any edit that lacks a source, instead of using the ubiquitous citation_needed, you are a bad editor.—Kaz (talk) 03:17, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

If you add contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced, it should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion. I can assure you I will do exactly that, every time and warn the editor. If they restore it without a solid source or discussion, I remove it again. As necessary, the "bad editors" called admins are quite willing to block the editor. You see, such material requires a high degree of sensitivity, and must adhere strictly to all applicable laws in the United States. That's not "lazy", "incompetent", that's policy. As a "newbie" here, working on my 15th year with no blocks, editing restrictions, interaction bans, etc., I seem to be doing a remarkable job of flying under the radar.

If you feel my removing your unsourced analysis is so horrible (and justifies calling me a bad editor, lazy, incompetent, etc.) and that removing unsourced controversial claims about living individuals is somehow Wikilawyering, I invite you to meditate on WP:NPA and WP:BLP before considering whatever other action you feel is necessary to free the project of the menace I represent.

If, OTOH, you want to simply vent about being another innocent victim or WP:NOR, that's a shame. It's not my job to find sources for material you add and that's unlikely to change. - SummerPhD^v2.0 05:30, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Diatonic scale

Dear Kazvorpal, you recently edited the Diatonic scale article, adding that "It may seem odd that diatonic scales are actually heptatonic". This reflects a previous change that I had modified, that "the Greek word diatonikós (διατονικός) [...] essentially means 'through whole tones'". I had deleted the word "whole", because it is not clear that the Greek τονος meant whole tones.

You probably mean that it is odd that diatonic scales are not whole tone scales. Greek diatonic scales, however, have been heptatonic (including semitones) from the start, which probably mean that the Antique Greek word τονος did not mean whole tones. I added the reference to the tension of strings to indicate what the probable origin of the word was.

Il view of this, there is nothing odd in the diatonic scale being heptatonic. We cannot begin discussing the original meaning of Greek words (and of their modern English counterparts) in this article, and I propose to delete your recent addition quoted above. I won't do so without your advice, however. Without further news from you before, say, 48 hour, I'll consider that you tacitly agree. — Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 21:13, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

I had meant that if one thinks of heptatonic meaning "seven tones", then it can feel like "di-atonic" means "two tones". In explaining music theory to people, I've had that question raised more than once. I suppose it'd actually be biatonic, but "di" sounds like "two" to someone who doesn't differentiate between Greek and Latin. Like Polyamory vs polyphilia or multiamory. —Kaz (talk) 22:01, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

You will have seen that another user reverted your edit today. I must confess that I wouldn't have imagined that you refered to a confusion between "diatonic" and "ditonic". [The Latin would be "bitonic", not "ditonic", I think.] Note that the Greek δίτονος means a major third (two tones), and that "ditonos" is used today by some musicologists that I know more particularly to denote a Pythagorean major third. This all is interesting and should perhaps figure in the article, but not in the section on History, more probably in the lead or, better still, in the Diatonic and chromatic article. I let you see to that. — Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 07:28, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

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Only source? It took me ten seconds to verify his filmography on IMDB. — Kaz (talk) 21:01, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

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Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors, which you did not do on Elizabeth I. Thank you. DrKay (talk) 06:18, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

I assume it because you have a history of deleting whole swaths of information fo technicalities, a bad editing practice called wikilawyering. Like to keep information you don't like out of some feudal monarchy's articles. —Kaz (talk) 22:48, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

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On my talk page, you said: I made a good faith edit on Cauliflower, containing accepted, non-controversial, mainstream information. You may have had an objection to one of the many references I used, but that did not justify deleting it all, wholesale. Blanket removal of valid information, instead of fixing flaws, is a kind of wikilawyering that is bad for Wikipedia. You should not engage in that kind of behavior, it is abusive and unacceptable.

Your edit here was promotional to diet fads, unscientific blogs as sources, and frankly full of nonsense. Read WP:MEDRS which guides source (and content) selection for topics on human diseases, health and nutrition. There was little "valid information" in your edit not already provided in the nutrition section of the article. Learn sourcing and do not use blogs, healthline, eatingwell, keto diet or other unscientific sources. Zefr (talk) 18:22, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

You are wrong, in many ways disappointing in an editor who, while newer than myself, has been around a while. First, some of the information in that article was unarguably true. For example, Cauliflower is 98% water, and 60% of its carbs are from fiber, which is not accessible as calories to human beings. Likewise, that it's used by people on those diets, in fact is central to replacing certain starches, is an unchallenged fact not included anywhere in the article. None of those details are even arguable, and all of them are valid in the article. Even if low carb diets were complete nonsense, that they use cauliflower would be worth including. But whether those diets are sound is a matter at worst up in the air for debate, not something definitely settled against them. You're sounding a bit cultish and biased...which is often the underlying when an editor deletes information wholesale in a wrongful way as you did there. You need to learn more about proper editing on Wikipedia, rather than posting incompetently threatening tags to a user's wall to support your bad edits. You could, at most, have challenged some of the sources...though certainly not all...and fixed specific details that you considered arguable. But there is no question that some of it was sound and worthy of inclusion, and removing that was an unsound abuse. — Kaz (talk) 19:36, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

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Nomination of Night After Night with Allan Havey for deletion

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I have extended the article of the series, Doomlands a bit.

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