User talk:LindsayH/Archive4

Thank you

Greetings, although my ban will likely be initiated soon (or sent up to Arbcom) I just wanted to take a moment in my last edits here to thank you for your oppose of my ban. Good luck and happy editing. Kumioko 108.45.104.158 (talk) 03:10, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi! Thank you for editing the cyber ethnography page :) ElodieSF (talk) 22:33, 28 April 2015 (UTC)ElodieSF

Re Catching wrong century text

Hello, LindsayH. You have new messages at Qui1che's talk page.
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Invitation to vote on an article

hello. since you are an editor of the article Ammar ibn Yasir, would you be interested in voting for it to make it a featured article or not? thank you for your time Grandia01 (talk) 13:00, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

I'm afraid i take very little interest in FA; i contribute primarily as a gnome, behind the scenes, and thus it would hardly be appropriate for me to offer an opinion. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 04:36, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Soliciting comment...

Hi! Would you care to review my FA nomination for the article Of Human Feelings? The article is about a jazz album by Ornette Coleman, and the criteria for FA articles is at WP:FACR. If not, feel free to ignore this message. Cheers! Dan56 (talk) 09:49, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm afraid i take very little interest in FA; i contribute primarily as a gnome, behind the scenes, and thus it would hardly be appropriate for me to comment. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 04:36, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

List of pests and diseases of roses

Hello LindayH,
while I agree that the = at the beginning of the row looked strange, I think that they actually provided additional information, showing that the name following was a synonym (I'm just checking that assumption and will try to find a better solution for that list I imported from List of rose diseases). Your clean-up therefore changes the meaning - but probably only for those who come up with the idea that synonyms are meant... ;->
Best wishes, Anna reg (talk) 06:58, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi Anna reg. It's not so much that they looked strange ~ though i think they were unnecessary ~ as that a single equals sign at the beginning of a line is interpreted by the wiki software as a heading, so it then looks for another one at the end of the line. Thus we shouldn't be using them in quite that way.

That said, i think the page looks all right without them, and that the two different species names are synonyms (unlikely, surely) or cause the same symptoms is clear as it is now. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 06:25, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Lucia

Hello LindsayH,

Though we are on different sides of this sad discussion, your comments make a lot of sense, and reflect well on you. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 05:10, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Cullen328, those are very kind words. I trust that this sad issue is moving towards a consensus; ideally, one which will stick. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 15:43, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

RE:Please take care

Ah, I see what you mean. Thanks for informing me I'll be more vial-giant when I'm welcome IP's or users. Crazy131 (talk) 13:42, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Help please :)

Hi there, I can see you've just edited the 7digital article. Can you please read my comments on the talk page and help to answer them. I'd be very grateful, bit of a newbie to Wikipedia.

Thank you in advance

Llamalady28 (talk) 14:15, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi LindsayH

Thanks for your comments re my first (very unsuccessful) attempt at editing a page. I have added as many references as I can to the No fire Zone entry and hope that it is now acceptable.

Regards

Videomarkw (talk) 13:54, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

re 1.43.27.80

Hi LindsayH,
I see that you dropped a few friendly messages on the talkpage at User talk:1.43.27.80#Your reverts edits. I have too, without much result.
They have again been adding unsourced or poorly sourced info to pages, including ignoring an apparently reliable source and using uncited info on a persons (Arthur Stace) ‎ WP bio page as a source to add them to Balmain, New South Wales as being born there. My comments at WP:Australian Wikipedians' notice board#Arthur Stace birthplace etc may be of interest. Regards, ₫220 of ^Borg 14:04, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Wandering albatross

Oops! Sorry about not leaving reasons. I just think that the subspecies D. e. gibsoni is actually a subspecies of the Antipodean albatross - D. a. gibsoni http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/loons/ Green daemon (talk) 11:39, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, LindsayH. You have new messages at I dream of horses's talk page.
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Talkback

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Hey. This is Jaywubba1887. My apologies for the editing errors. I have been using the Wikipedia mobile app and for some reason when I edit some articles, the app, once it saves and processes my edits, will delete large sections of the article by itself. I have no intention of deleting the sections and will edit on the full version of Wikipedia from now on, so this won't happen again. I feel like it is a code error or something on the app version of Wikipedia. Additionally, I'll be more specific with the edit summaries on the regular version of Wikipedia from now on. Sorry again for everything. Jay (talk) 00:32, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Ameraucana page

Lindsay, I hope you get this message, Im a little confused with wiki message system.

Concerning the Ameraucana page. I did put verifiable information and I did cite it. The history portion of the page was taken from the Ameraucana breeders club history section, it was written by one of the "actual creators" of the breed. Since the Ameraucana breed has been around for only 30 years. Most if not all of the handful creators of the breed are still alive, most are current members of the Ameruacana breeders club.

There is not a breed of fowl that has been so misrepresented as the Ameraucana breed. Putting actual,verifiable, and accurate information is crucial to help the breed. Educating people because a chicken looks like an Ameruacana doesnt mean its an Ameraucana. There is still a lot of inaccurate information on the page, and Ive seen the sources of that information and they are wrong according to what the "actual creators" of the Ameraucana say. And they have posted their information online.

I mean come on, there can be no higher verifiable source then the people who actually created the breed. Unlike other breeds that were created 100-200 years ago, We are fortunate enough to have the creators of the Ameraucana breed still alive today, and we can get the absolute verifiable truth. I believe the information given by the "actual creators" of the breed should bare more weight than some website that describes the Ameraucana in their image. I will edit the page again and I will cite every sentence if I have to so it doesn't get deleted.

I will do what you say and put verifiable truth

Thank you for letting me know what type of information is required on a wiki page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Csr326 (talk • contribs) 18:14, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Csr326 ~ guess what? I got your message! Once you're used to it, the wiki system of talk pages is pretty intuitive ~ talk about the article on the article's talk page, ask questions or other communication with other editors on your talk page or theirs. So, well done.

One of the biggest problems that Wikipedia (we often abbreviate it WP around here, just so you know) has, at least in mine opinion, is that we use what might be called wiki-ghetto language. What i mean is that we say things that you might think mean one thing but actually they mean something else, something specialised to WP. Verifiable and verifiability are two words we use that way. If you look at this page it will tell you about what we mean. Essentially, what we're saying is that everything we write must be accessible by other people, readers of the encyclopeadia, should they have the ability and access. What it boils down to is that what we say must have been published somewhere that it can be looked up ~ books, magazines, on-line, other media ~ in other words, we are republishers, in a way, of what is already out there.

What this means, in the case of Ameraucana in the particular, is that the recollections of the creators of the breed are useless for our purpose, unless they have been published elsewhere and, ideally, recognised as reliable and accurate. To pick an example of silliness, it's no good me writing in the article about my brother-in-law that he was ill at a certain point and that's why he did what he did, if i base it simply on his having told me so. That would be what we call WP:OR ~ Original Research ~ which we do not do; it is contrary to the aims of the encyclopaedia.

I hope that this helps. If you have any further questions, please ask. As it happens, i am shortly going off-line, but i will look back in over the next days and see, and i'll take a look at the article too, to see how that's going and if i can help out. Hey, thanks for caring. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 20:11, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Ameraucana page

Lindsay I was wondering can posting pictures of the accepted color varieties to go along with the description be possible? If so how would one go about doing that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Csr326 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Arthur Irawan

Please see Draft talk:Arthur Irawan. The article should link to a website that shows he has taken the field for a fully professional team. Until then, we should go by the verdict of the last AfD, from September 2012. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:41, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Your feedback is welcome

Hey, your feedback is welcome here: Talk:Michael Kors (brand), whether the brand should have its own article, separate from the designer. Tinton5 (talk) 22:49, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Patron saints of occupations and activities

I am convinced that this page has too many wikilinks to the point where this is becoming a problem. So why can't I remove some? The page WP:OVERLINKED is actually very vague about what to do about this. I am reverting your edits in good faith. Rubbish computer 00:02, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Rubbish computer, i have replied to you on the talk page, and invite you to self-revert. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 02:25, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Okay. Rubbish computer 10:52, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

How we can buit pages about Romania regions when Hungarians delete all content ?

I wrote known facts, i given refences, all are reverted by Borsoka and romanian nationalists. I i wrote Crisana was a romanian region too, that Hungarian is reverting all, if i wrote Oltenia was taken from Hungary by Wallachia the romanian nationalist are reverting ? I am done with that page, what is wrong with wikipedia? There are no administrators, because that guy is sending me rules to read that he breaks , i made him idiot, i hope they ban me to save me from his hate and stupidity. The only source good for him will be „ romanians are albanians and they wore given refuge in Transylvania”. What to build when no reasons are given, that is vandalism. Vasile iuga (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 06:04, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks very much...

...for your support over at my RfA. I shall do my best to be worthy of it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:37, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

My RfA

Pavlov's RfA reward Thank for !voting at my recent RfA. You voted Support so you get a whopping three cookies, fresh from the oven! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:49, 16 July 2015 (UTC).

My pleasure; i can't say the 'crats misread it, but i would have preferred a different result. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 21:39, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

COI work

Hi - I saw your post at the ANI thread that I generated about Elvey, that you had read everything and gone down some rabbit holes too. I am very aware that each of us walks around locked in our own heads, and have been looking for feedback on my COI work. I know I have made some mistakes and can come across too stridently at times, but what concerns me the most are the things I don't know that I don't know. So while your review is fresh, if you have any impressions or feedback you would like to give me, I would be open to hearing them. If not, that is of course fine too. (I'm asking a few other people who have gotten involved in that thread as well) Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 14:21, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Jytdog; my apologies, i had no intention of giving this a week before i replied. I have seen you around a few places, and on AN and ANI a time or two as well. I am not sure that i can add anything to your own self-knowledge as you express it above. I suppose, when i see your name, my thought would be along the lines of, "A bit pushy or strident, wants his own way, considers he is right more frequently than he should." By the last phrase, i don't mean that you are wrong but, as an illustration, there are one or more users who arrive at the drama boards on occasion with the basic message "i say this person is a sock, you need to block them because i say so; trust me", to which my untyped-out reply is "no, i don't trust you, you are five or six letters or numbers on a screen". On the other hand, as i look at what you do, you work in far more contentious places than i; perhaps you need that sort of temperament to succeed there; you can easily see i am gnomic and don't get into conflict because people don't ~ much ~ fight over comma faults and correct wlinks. Once i give it some thought, as i have done, i don't see any issue with you or your editing that you are not aware of and more than likely working on yourself. Again, sorry for the delay, though i've not had much to add; see you around! Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 09:16, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

That is very helpful, especially the untyped response part. Thanks for taking the time! Jytdog (talk) 12:26, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Cat anatomy

Thanks for your editing. In Cat Anatomy, the title of "Mouth" was instead "Moutdkkdkh" which I think my daughter may have accidentally changed; so I then it changed back. I'm not sure how it eventually came out but appreciate the look. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manchester9 (talk • contribs) 16:39, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello, Manchester9. Thanks for your message. I see that one of the three IPs i reverted was actually putting the article back to how it should have been; if that was you, undoing what your daughter did, thank you for it ~ and i apologise for the unuseful editing message i left you. I'll now go and leave you a welcome message on your talk page; it has lots of links and helpful places to look. I hope you'll stick around. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me or follow the advice on in the welcome. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 07:43, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

South Korea

When I edit the name "South Korea" to "Republic of Korea" in some South Korean president's pages or famous South Korean people in Wikipedia, the administrators change it back to "South Korea OmgWeegeetime (talk) 10:08, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi OmWeegeetime. You are right, i see that you have changed South Korea to the other. If i may, i'd like to suggest you learn to use (make a habit of using) an edit summary ~ this link has some information about them ~ with every edit you make, that gives people the opportunity to see what you have done and why; i had to look at quite a few of your edits to see why some of them were done, and i then did not revert them, but other editors may not bother looking. If i can help, please feel free to ask. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 13:24, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Reference Dog Food Selector in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_food

Dear Lindsay,

I am writing to enquire you about the reasons to ban the reference to Dog Food Selector (http://dogfoodselector.com/) in the Wikipedia article about Dog food. I would like to know why do you think it isn't a reliable source. I'm a DVM and I write articles for this web page. I was only adding well founded information to Wikipedia with a valid source. So, if you point me the reasons that lead you to delete the reference I would thank you very much.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards.

--Dora Mancha DVM 17:49, 2 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dora Mancha Vet (talk • contribs)

Hi Dora Mancha Vet. I have looked back at the edit i made, and i see that i wasn't banning the site (apart from anything else, i don't have the power to do that; i am, like yourself, a simple editor with no extra abilities); what i actually did was remove the reference template you had added because it was very incomplete and did not give the reference. If you look at the diff, which shows what i did, here, you can see that the only information was the reference name (Dog Food Selector), but there was no link to the website (url=) or title (title=) or any of the other parameters. To make that template work as a reference, it would need to look like this:

<ref name="Selector">{{cite web|url=www.somewebsite.com|title=Dogfood Selector|accessdate=1 November, 2015}}</ref>.

I could not do that, as i didn't know the website or any other information. Feel free to add it back; if it passes as a good reference, i'm sure no one will take it out. Thanks, and cheers, Lindsay^Hello 08:51, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much Lindsay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dora Mancha Vet (talk • contribs) 17:20, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Malan page

Hi Lindsay, thanks for the note about removing that speedy delete on Malan Musings. I'd noted on the main page for the person there was a section talking about it & it seemed odd to have a whole page just for that column. I was actually planning to reach out for some help since then, since it turns out there's a single account that does nothing but create & edit pages about Malan. Not only his main but several now for each separate project he does, including one on a vanity autobio movie. This is one area of Wikipedia I'm not familiar with, if you could give me some guidance on where I can look in to bringing some attention in to what appears to be a personal account designed to create multiple pages to publicize someone that'd be great. If not I'll work it out, and thanks for reaching out.  :) JamesG5 (talk) 09:04, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi JamesG5; i would suggest that you ask that user ~ i had noticed that he edited the page about Malan himself as well, but not anything else ~ if he has a conflict of interest, and point him to WP:COI, if he's not sure or refuses to answer. In addition, if you weren't aware of it, that is a good place to go for advice, as is WP:COIN. To be fair, i think it's almost certain that someone editing Malan Breton has a COI since, to my eyes at least, it appears to be a big vanity project page. If you want to WP:PROD or WP:AFD Malan's Musings for notability and peacockery i certainly wouldn't protest the action; it was simply the speedy i didn't think it met. So, other than that, thanks for replying; please ask if i can help in any other way, and i daresay we'll bump into each other again; cheers, Lindsay^Hello 09:12, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Subcomandante Marcos

Hi Lindsay.! I really appreciate the information you kindly given me. I previously was told that was the way to do it and I have being doing that every time, but what you told me has all the logic, since it is the same page. From now on when I put the page name I will do with out "[[ ]]". I get it.! It is when is not the page when is to be done the "[[ ]]" to link to other pages. Thank you.! :) Trinity Abbey comment added by (Trinity Abbey (talk) 03:30, 18 December 2015 (UTC))),Trinity Abbey (talk • contribs) 11:53, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

78.26's RFA Appreciation award

	The 78.26 RFA Appreciation award
	Thank you for the participation and support at my RFA. It is truly appreciated. I hope to be of further help around here, and if you see me doing something dumb, you know where to find me. Again, I thank you. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 01:36, 24 December 2015 (UTC)