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Welcome!

Hello, Jackasskidzify, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as ER 406, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may soon be deleted.

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April 2011

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Please stop altering the conservation status of animal articles away from those given in the latest version of the IUCN Red List. This wastes other people's time. --Stfg (talk) 21:20, 16 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

  Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Pygmy sperm whale. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. --Elekhh (talk) 21:32, 16 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize pages by deliberately introducing incorrect information, you may be blocked from editing. --Stfg (talk) 09:03, 20 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Beware original research

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Hello Jackasskidzify. Thank you for stopping changing the conservation status in animal articles as I requested. It's good that you're now working on adding content to articles.

Unfortunately, there is still a problem. Wikipedia has a policy of no original research, which means that everything we say needs to be documented in a reliable published source. This is our way of making sure that we don't say things that sound plausible but are actually wrong. Any claim you make in an article can be challenged, and if you can't show where you got it from, it can be deleted. Some cases:

  1. Long-tailed Hopping Mouse: User:Mgiganteus1 was right to revert your first edits here for the reason he gave at the time, but what you wrote about the owl pellet made me suspect you might be on to something, so I researched it, found some sources and wrote them up. In doing that I was giving you some belief, and it was very disappointing to see it wasted and the same wrong information put back in. Please will you consider restoring it, or giving your agreement to my doing so?
  2. Darling Downs Hopping Mouse: You are right that the Paradise Parrot is extinct and the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat is Critically Endangered (note spelling), but what is your source for the statement that many animals from that area have either gone extinct or become CE? (Over the history of the earth, almost everywhere will have had lots of extinctions, but what singles Queensland out for special mention about this?)
  3. Barbary lion: You inserted "It is beleived that the Barbary Lion may have inspired The Sphinx at Giza". I've researched this and find no evidence. Where did you get it from? (The theory that comes most often is that its head depicts that of a pharaoh).

If you want any assistance with any of this, please let me know. But please could you take care to avoid "original research". Thanks. --Stfg (talk) 12:32, 22 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Your contributed article, Sea reptile

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Hello. I have removed the CSD tag from your article and redirected it to the page marine reptile because it appears to be the same thing.James500 (talk) 00:47, 28 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of J. Edward Hopkins

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Last specimens of long-tailed hopping mouse

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Hello J. Some sources say 1901 and some say 1901-02, so I've rewritten the sentence to acknowlege both views. We aren't really able to determine which is accurate. Can you accept that way of describing it?

The IUCN reference (ref 2 in the article) does say "very few".

"The long-tailed hopping mouse was mainly gray in colour with small pink ears and big eyes with long hairy pink tail about two inches longer than its own body." Where did you get so much detail? The article really needs a citation for it.

Regards, --Stfg (talk) 09:38, 10 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Robert von Beringe

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I've removed the speedy deletion tag and pointed out to Pstanton that it won't be a hoax when Google Scholar gives over 200 hits for Robert von Beringe. But, if you do want to create articles, you really must learn how to give citations for them and how to do wikilinks, and take care over grammar and spelling. Otherwise you're just making work for other people. Let me know if you want help with citations. --Stfg (talk) 08:57, 7 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

Your contributed article, Digit(Gorilla)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sane Smith

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A tag has been placed on Sane Smith requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article, which appears to be about a real person, individual animal(s), an organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, does not indicate how or why the subject of the article is important or significant: that is, why an article about it should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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See the guidelines for specific types of articles: biographies, websites, bands, or companies. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 09:29, 28 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Deletion discussion about Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Los Angeles, California)

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Hello, Jackasskidzify, and thanks for contributing to Wikipedia!

I wanted to let you know that some editors are discussing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Los Angeles, California) whether the article Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Los Angeles, California) should be in Wikipedia. I encourage you to comment there if you think the article should be kept in the encyclopedia.

The deletion discussion doesn't mean you did something wrong. In fact, other editors may have useful suggestions on how you can continue editing and improving Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Los Angeles, California), which I encourage you to do. If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the Help Desk.

Thanks again for your contributions! Night of the Big Wind talk 15:40, 29 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of SMITH (Graffiti Legend)

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File Copyright problem

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Problems with upload of File:Long Tailed Hopping Mouse.jpg

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December 2011

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  Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from Sane Smith, a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Click here to contest this speedy deletion and appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the page's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. Funnyfarmofdoom (talk to me) 05:48, 12 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

D. s. sumatrensis

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Hi there! You may not be aware that your recently created article on D. s. sumatrensis is, in effect, a recreation of an an article of this sub-species, which was previously merged back into the main article on the Sumatran Rhinoceros. Since there doesn't appear to have been a consensus to recreate stand-alone articles for these sub-species, I propose merging D. s. sumatrensis into the main article. If you disagree with this, may I suggest that you discuss this with other editors on the main article talk page. If it is decioded to retain the stand alone article, it will need to be provided with reliable sources to support the text.--CharlieDelta (talk) 19:30, 17 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Merge discussion for D. s. sumatrensis

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  An article that you have been involved in editing, D. s. sumatrensis , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. CharlieDelta (talk) 19:36, 17 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Blocked

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You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Nick-D (talk) 09:53, 14 January 2012 (UTC)Reply