User talk:Ackatsis

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hi Ackatsis, I saw you hadn't been properly welcomed yet. Welcome! I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian and all that. There's a Wikipedia Tutorial to help you get started, which you might find useful, and Five pillars of Wikipedia is the basic statement of rules on which all other rules are based. You'll probably figure things out as you go along, like I did, but the New contributors' help page is a good place to go if you need help. Feel free to ask me any questions by leaving a message on my talk page (click here). Finally, thanks for contributing to the AfD discussion on Failed predictions I started - now that it's come to a close, you might want to use the guidelines above to help improve the article. I'll try and contribute as well, and I'll keep the Failed predictions page on my watchlist for a while to see how it progresses. See you around! --Grace 09:07, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Loaded Dog

Your article The Loaded Dog has been speedy deleted, because Wikipedia is not the place to copy entire sections from story books. Please see What Wikipedia is not for more information. If you wish to make the text available online, consider contributing it to Wikisource instead. Thanks! Kimchi.sg 13:05, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We can write articles about literary works, but the contents of the works themselves should not be inside the articles, except for quotation purposes. For example, we have an article about Hamlet, but the text of the play isn't in there; instead we store the text of the play at Wikisource. Wikipedia articles are tertiary sources; they should not contain copies of primary sources. Kimchi.sg 13:29, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If the book was published in 1901, it should be public domain worldwide (the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica, which was published even later, is already public domain). Hence you should seriously consider submitting the text of it to Wikisource. It will be made always available and freely sharable, and easier to link to from Wikipedia. Regards, Kimchi.sg 13:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Saint Peter (poem) & A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father

You don't have to log off to remove the prod notices, be open about it. In general, long sections of source text belong in Wikisource, see WP:NPS. Regards, Mr Stephen 15:24, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Literature edits

Hi - the tags for wikisource links are Template:Wikisource, for example, {{wikisource|Scots of the Riverina (poem)}} gives

Articles should be categorised, for example, use Category:Australian poems or Category:Australian novels which are subcategories of Category:Australian literature Regards--A Y Arktos\^talk 00:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Border crossing image

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Your vote on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dragonfly compound eye

Hi Ackatsis!
I was wondering if you could specify your prefence (b/w the two versions) on the dragonfly compound eye FPC nom? Thanks, --Fir0002 08:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Internet Movie Database

I have no issue with depending on IMDb for films that have been released. However, IMDb, in my experience, does not qualify as accurate when it comes to upcoming films. IMDb is similar to Wikipedia in how users contribute information, though there are "qualified" individuals that permit information. Two notorious examples I can recall are Ed Norton listed to be John Bauer for a later episode of 24 Season 5, and another one is Aunt May listed as Carnage for Spider-Man 3. Also, IMDb has posted release years for films that are still in development — have you ever seen a TBA? No, the site, for some reason, picks and chooses release years. In addition, there has been no actual news headline that announced that Ron Howard will be the director (I just re-checked Google News to see if there have been any). IMDb is a follow-up source like Wikipedia; it does not "break" the news. Hope you understand. IMDb's great for cast & crew info post-release since that information is verifiable by all, but before then... it's not guaranteed. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 17:45, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steal This Film (2nd nomination)

Greetings, Steal This Film has been nominated for deletion. I have flagged the article for for rescue Please read the nomination, improve the article and comment on the Afd if you have time. Fosnez 07:05, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Seymour and Danny Miller (fictional character)

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Danny Miller (fictional character)

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Tom Seymour

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Gorton

I can't seem to view the link. But if it came out in 1954, then yes it is public domain and the default copyright provisions cannot apply. Timeshift (talk) 09:21, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Malchik

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DYK for Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

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DYK for Eye Myth

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DYK for Thigh Line Lyre Triangular

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DYK for Patterns of Sexual Behavior

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DYK for Frank A. Beach

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DYK nomination

Hi. I've nominated Elsa Chauvel, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Gonzonoir (talk) 11:57, 3 December 2010 (UTC) I came across the article on new page patrol - lovely work. Gonzonoir (talk) 11:57, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Heritage (film)

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DYK for Elsa Chauvel

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DYK for Greenhide

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DYK for Textbook of Biochemistry

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DYK for Alexander Thomas Cameron

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DYK for Spermalege

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DYK for Cat's Cradle (film)

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DYK for The Dante Quartet

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DYK for The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981 film)

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DYK for I... Dreaming

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dyk

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DYK for Perceptual trap

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DYK for The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World

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Autopatrolled

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DYK for Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.

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DYK for Beau (poem)

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Nomination of Mad White Giant for deletion

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Benedict Allen

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Robert T. Paine (zoologist)

Howdy, I noticed you changed Bob Paine's birthdate from 1933 to 1942. I was curious if you had a source. The cited source references him having an 80th birthday, but if 1942 is correct, he would only be 74. I don't have any info one way or the other, but thought you might. Thanks, --TeaDrinker (talk) 23:53, 14 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, TeaDrinker. That was a complete brainfade on my part -- for some reason, I thought the lede already said 1942, and then I failed to do the maths (it's morning here in Australia, so that's my best excuse). I have changed it back to 1933. Thanks! Ackatsis (talk) 00:06, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, thanks for your work on the article, it looks great! --TeaDrinker (talk) 00:10, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, thanks. Actually, I just worked it out - I copied the birth/death template from Muhammad Ali, which is where "January 17 1942" accidentally came from. Oops! I've removed the birth date, too. Ackatsis (talk) 00:12, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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re: Steelman and Smith

Nice job, I think it is now eligible for a WP:DYK - go for it :) PS. Maybe there is a PD pic out there for us to add to the article? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:54, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you

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No worries! Thanks for getting the ball rolling. Ackatsis (talk) 02:27, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of mammals of Christmas Island

Hi Ackatsis. Regarding the category changes in this edit,[1] Can you please explain your rationale for removing the dependent territory category. I've been on the fence as to whether or not Australia's external territories should be categorized as dependent territories. This is mostly because of its entry at Dependent territory#Australia. Is it correct that Christmas Island is an integral part of Australia? If so, there are several corrections I need to make. If I can be convinced either way, it would help out a lot.

Also, why the sortkey changes? After your edit, List of mammals of Christmas Island is currently being sorted at Category:Lists of mammals of Australia under L for "Lists", instead of C for "Christmas", as it was before. I assume this was unintentional, which makes wonder the possibility that perhaps all your category changes were unintentional, as your edit summary does not mention categorization. Can you please confirm or otherwise explain. --DB1729^talk 19:09, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DB1729, my mistake — I accidentally saved an old version of the article while making a minor edit. I have restored all the content that was changed, including the categories. Ackatsis (talk) 19:27, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for catching the price issue. I managed to miss that specific change when dealing with the rest of that user's poor edits. At the time I thought they were acting in good faith but poor quality, but now I see they were clearly subtly trolling. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 18:54, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Nick, I changed the capitalisation to match the main text of the article. If "Galaxias" is used here as the genus name, then wouldn't it need to be italicised as "Mountain Galaxias (species complex)"? I'm not sure I have seen that. Alas, it's a bit tricky to find examples because most scientific sources capitalise common names by default. Ackatsis (talk) 05:24, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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