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Kirby nonsense

Hi. I agree that we should give more weight to the planetary-geologist use of the term 'planet', rather than bowing to the IAU's political definition, but the Kirby et al article is blatant bullshit. For example, Proteus and Pallas are planets, despite not being round. Vesta is a planet, despite contradicting Stern's position that there is only one planet in the asteroid belt. Haumea, Iapetus, Mimas etc. are not planets, according to the definition (they're not spheroids), but are listed as planets regardless and counted as planets by Stern. Maybe Kirby doesn't know what a 'spheroid' is? And a bunch of bodies are listed despite not being solid and therefore not rounded under there own gravity, contradicting Grundy who's name is also on the article. I wish Stern would put his name on something competent, but meanwhile this isn't it. — kwami (talk) 21:21, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of 4th millennium in fiction for deletion

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Nomination of Far future in fiction for deletion

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I found you!

Waiting for the next installment of a favorite YouTube channel of mine, I began going through old ones. I started to look up references to subjects brought up here on Wikipedia. When, this old YouTube video author suddenly starts mentioning having begun an article, I rapidly pause, find article in question: go to history, go early on: and find that your name here is.... Serendipitous?

This is amusing, just in the last week I had an argument with a long time friend of mine, over the value of the word 'serendipity'. He hates it. Likens it to "zip-atee-doo-dah", as worthless and curses Horace Walpole's name for inventing it. This all starts because I say something he said was 'serendipitous', obviously not understanding my meaning he says "what's serendipitous?", knowing the word, or believing he did, he wasn't asking the meaning, he was asking what about what he had just said was so.

I continue that just because it is some neologism, even an onomatopoeic term can certainly be imbued with a preciseness not definitive of any other word, maintaining exacting qualities of meaning, for which no other word could be employed in the circumstance.

Serendipity is more than simply a 'happy coincidence', it is when a sort of happenstance graces your path in suchwise that one finds where providence involves itself with the aligning of the universe to an occasion that you're fleetingly a part of.

Anyway happy to cross ways with you Parallax Nick, Nibiru cataclysm is still well explained in it's origination as a hoax and your Melancholia review is as insightfully interesting to watch as your other videos. The narration has a soothing timbre I've found not anywhere else on more popular videos.

To make this solicitation legitmate, I just in the past few hours put an 'update needed' inline citation in the article for Andromeda galaxy - Early on after claiming sources from 2018 & 2019 that it is comparable to the Milky Way in size. Just a spaced line and a beginning paragraph later it cites a 2014 reference that Andromeda has twice as many stars as the Milky Way galaxy. It's just not parsed well in presenting those two disparate tidbits of information.

All the best regards, _Nagelfar (talk) 03:56, 4 October 2020 (UTC) (i.e. "traverses by 'finger'-nail", the ship from Norse lore)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:13, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

October 2020

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4th millennium

Please explain why you merged 4th millennium and several other articles into Timeline of the far future. I see no consensus to implement this change. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:03, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Talk pages of converted redirects

I saw that you converted several articles (e.g. 4th millennium) into redirects and that you also converted their talk pages to redirects. Redirects can have standalone talk pages and existing talk pages shouldn’t be converted into talk-redirects.

See WP:PROMERGE for example, where redirects from merged only have their WikiProject tags converted to "redirect" class while keeping the old discussions. There's rarely a reason to delete talk page discussions outside of WP:TPNO and WP:UP#CMT. — MarkH₂₁^talk 17:53, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

@MarkH21: I copied and pasted the discussions and posted them in the Talk:Timeline of the far future archive. Serendi^podous 18:34, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Although that doesn't lose the actual comments, I think that’s somewhat inadvisable as it distorts the context of the original comments (e.g. which article the comment was originally intended for, which comments were pre-existing on the talk page at the time, which comments were ongoing discussions, etc.) and also causes complications if the article is recreated / the redirect conversion is contested, as had just happened at 4th millennium. The context distortion is particularly bad for comments that refer to their original articles as "this article needs ...", "the infobox here is ...", etc.

Particularly since someone has already restored one of the articles, I will restore the talk pages to their original context. They should remain in their original context even if they eventually become redirects. — MarkH₂₁^talk 05:02, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Also, copy-paste moves of content like here (and whichever edits correspond to the other half of the content move) requires links by Wikipedia's copyright requirements, as described by the guideline Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Please keep that in mind for future content moves like this!

To be clear, I don't disagree with the actual merges / redirect conversions. These are just some procedural issues with how these particular moves were done. — MarkH₂₁^talk 05:26, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Far future in religion

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Slenderman

I searched google and bing and could not find not one single artie that a group of kids stabbed or sacrificed anther kid. I you have other fact that can be proved I tink you should have to source them. If there were other cases related to Slenderman that would also have been a national news story. Slenderman is a whole myth and story goes you have to give up something you love. Well the kids in Wisconsin gave a attempted murder no other cases are real that have other kids in jail. Frankly kids as young as 15 don't commit brutal murders based on stupid myths. Scott ivlow (talk) 18:44, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Commas

"The English-speaking world overwhelmingly uses commas to separate thousands, not points. Frankly I'm a bit surprised you do, since you're from New Zealand. Is New Zealand an exception?"

It was me, the Portuguese-speaking world uses points, and my version of the Viewcount tool shows them like that. But that was a quick fix. igordebraga ≠ 21:34, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

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Once in 800 years

Serendipodous, could you have a look in here?[1] Exciting, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

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Proxima B

I just heard your discussion on Event Horizon; sorry about the disillusionment you had to suffer but I'm glad to know you're still providing intellectual content to the world. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:30, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

@Chris troutman: I'm not disillusioned; I still edit Wikipedia frequently. I simply don't want Wikipedia to be the focus my energy. :) Serendi^podous 03:55, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Nine years!

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Top 25

As "Top 25 writer emeritus", I don't know if you'll ever show up to do another list someday, but you're welcome. In any case, some overtly sensitive person tried to erase what you wrote about the deceased Duke of Edinburgh. igordebraga ≠ 20:12, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

What do you mean "remove data visualization"? We started to transpose the weekly Reports, but Eliasdabbas still puts the chart in the main Top 25 page, thus whenever I update I need to move the image to the relevant page. But if it's another thing, elaborate. igordebraga ≠ 14:27, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Just the regular weekly pages, as I decided to take a suggestion and just start transcluding instead of replacing the whole WP:TOP25 page. (thus, here's where the last chart went) igordebraga ≠ 15:18, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Peer review

Hello Serendipodous, As Ceres (dwarf planet) is now at GAN, I've archived the peer review. Best wishes, Amitchell125 (talk) 18:57, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

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Ceres reverts

Hi, a quick check of User talk:Daniel.Cardenas/Archive 3 shows this editor has a pattern of edit warring. Hopefully my message on the talk page will help stop his reverts. Regards, Amitchell125 (talk) 07:13, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi. Just noticed your revert. I appreciate the work you're doing bringing the article back up to GA and FA. I wasn't able to resolve some of the discrepancies in the lit e.g. reg. the composition and internal structure. However, when I catch errors, I should be able to fix them. If you want to put the article on hold while you work on it, please tag it with {{under construction}} so that other editors know to leave it alone for the time being.

As for what I'm doing there, I've been editing this article for years, and am the reason it was up for GA in the first place. I've been fixing grammatical and factual errors, and improving some rather convoluted prose. If you have an issue with what I'm doing, please address them individually, rather than reverting wholesale. If the article includes factual errors, it does not deserve to be a GA. Let's work together to improve it, rather than edit-warring over making it worse, shall we?

As for undoing the work you've done to get it to GA, errors should be corrected. So if at GAR someone asks why there's a hyphen somewhere, you could explain why there's a hyphen, rather than deleting it to create an MOS violation, and then edit-warring over fixing it because the error was introduced during GAR.

I suppose I could list all problems at the FAR, but that would be a waste of effort for everyone. — kwami (talk) 02:35, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

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