User talk:ApparatumLover

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Speedy Delete

Speedy deletion nomination of 38zu.cn

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, introducing inappropriate pages, such as 38zu.cn, is not in accordance with our policies. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. The page has been nominated for deletion, in accordance with Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion.

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It's clear you are not here for the right reasons. I'm not sure what you were doing with User talk:Baconbutterz but it's inappropriate and there is no need to CSD pages like User:Tttumul and User:BbBrock. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 01:25, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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ApparatumLover (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I am here to build an encyclopedia. I try my best to improve pages. I CSD'd those user pages because one was empty and the other did not talk about improving Wikipedia. And me editing Baconbutterz's talk page? He created an article about a non-notable character and uploaded images without explaining where they came from and did not put a license on them, so I was just talking to him about it saying that Wikipedia is not for that. ApparatumLover (talk) 05:01, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

I completely fail to see how the sum of these edits has anything to do with uploading problematic images. You would certainly have been right to make a text statemewnt explaining the problem, and possibly with removing any such images from his/her userspace, or tagging the images, but no more. And a blank user page isn't speedy deletable, nor is a page consisting of 2 lines of text about the person himself/herself. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:24, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

The edit that you were talking about was just some really dumb thing I was doing with Baconbutterz. The edits I made that talked about the problematic images were not saved. The blank page once contained content, but it was cleared by the user, so technically it meets G7. The other page meets U5 because it is not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. If you don't think I help improve articles, see my edits to Webdriver Torso. ApparatumLover (talk) 18:31, 8 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

Too much of this account's focus seems to be playing around. Not enough encyclopedic work in order to justify unblocking. only (talk) 10:26, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

My days of playing around on Wikipedia are OVER. If you administrators un-block me, I will expand stubs and fight vandalism and spam. I will fix article issues, nominate articles for deletion if they do not meet Wikipedia's policies, and insert reliable sources. I promise will build an encyclopedia just like everyone else. ApparatumLover (talk) 18:11, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I have consulted the blocking administrator, and we have agreed to give you another chance, on the basis of your assurance that you will continue your constructive work (of which you have already done some) and not your playing around. (Note: The blocking administrator has said "I hope that editor understands why listing the user pages of new editors for deletion is particularly inappropriate. I can't imagine a worse way to scare off new editors.") The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:01, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Recent changes to Amoebozoa

Your edits to the taxobox on Amoebozoa are well-intentioned, but not very helpful. The use of unranked taxa and the inclusion of authorities were a deliberate attempt to discourage users with a weak understanding of taxonomy and nomenclature from introducing casual changes to the hierarchy. As you may know, there are many taxonomic systems, and Wikipedia has not adopted a standard. As a result, users will sometimes see a name or rank in the taxobox that does not match the one that happens to appear in a given textbook, and they will alter part of the taxobox accordingly. Sometimes, this results in absurdities (duplication of names at different ranks, inconsistencies between rank and authority, or the mixing of taxa from separate classification schemes). This has been a constant irritant on many of the protist pages.

It was hoped that the inclusion of authorities would help to slow down this rate of mutation, by rooting high level taxa in a particular system, so that we don't have silly edit wars between Protista and Protozoa, Eukarya and Eukaryota, Unikonta and Amorphea, etc. If a user wants to change a taxon, he also needs to change the authority, which requires some thought about the system being used, and whether there is internal consistency in the hierarchy shown.

The use of unranked taxa was intended to avoid similar unproductive disputes, such as the (deeply uninteresting) question of whether Eukarya/Eukaryota is a Domain or an Empire, or the earlier silliness on Amoebozoa about whether that taxon is a Kingdom or a Phylum. Note that unranked high level taxa are a standard in some important systems, notably the one used by Adl et al. 2005, and Adl et al. 2012, and endorsed the International Society of Protistologists.

So, unless you have a reasonable objection, I would like to revert your changes. Deuterostome (talk) 16:01, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've thought about it some more, and now think you were right to remove the authorities, per Template:Taxobox/doc (subsection on Authorities). As you say, the higher level taxa are linked to pages in which authorities are provided, so I guess that's sufficient.

I still think it is better to leave high-level taxa unranked, as is done (with admirable consistency) on the German Wikipedia protist pages. However, until there is some sort of consensus about that on Wikipedia, it's not worth insisting on.Deuterostome (talk) 20:46, 3 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion declined: User:Veggies/Sandbox

Hello ApparatumLover. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Veggies/Sandbox, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A user sandbox is normal and useful, and it is not necessary that the main user page exists. Also, when you speedy-tag a page, you should notify the author. When the speedy template expands on the page, a notification template is automatically generated towards the bottom of the box for you to copy across. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:21, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File:Radon

Hi ApparatumLover, regarding your comment at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 February 19#File:Radon.jpg, I wanted to point you in the direction of the relevant policy. The question of whether or not to retain the image is not one of "editorial discretion", rather, it is one of whether or not it is appropriate for us to use this image under a claim of "fair use". Wikipedia:Non-free content discusses our policy in this matter. This policy explains the issues at hand and, in particular, the Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria policy gives the criteria that images used under a claim of fair use must meet in order to be accepted at Wikipedia. It is more than just a matter of whether the image looks good. --B (talk) 20:20, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Doubt:

I wonder why is your computer infected with malware if it is a mac?
aGastya ✉ let’s talk about it :) 05:48, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you think that only Windows computers get malware, you are wrong. Macs have a malware problem too. I scanned my computer with Sophos, and it detected a lot of malicious files. —ApparatumLover (talk) 00:20, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! I did not know that.
aGastya ✉ let's talk about it :) 05:47, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Archiving

Hi I hope you remember but it's been a few months and I see you've been getting back into things here but I wanted to say that you can consider archiving your talk page if you want to put those notices and warnings away. Those are old news now and there's no reason to keep that kind of stuff around if you don't want it. Happy editing otherwise! =) Ricky81682 (talk) 11:26, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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