User talk:Bfpage/archive/March 2015

Black Cardamom

My edit for Black Cardamom was not a joke. I bought a package of Dried Ammoium (Golden Cock Brand from China)from the Hong Kong Market in New Orleans. It took a long time to figure out what it was. —  Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcward (talk • contribs) 01: 45, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

The embryonic and prenatal development of the male reproductive system (human)

Hi there. A couple comments regarding The embryonic and prenatal development of the male reproductive system (human)

1. Is this an entirely original article or was it split off from an existing article? If the latter, a {{Split to}} should be added to the talk page.
2. The title seems awfully unwieldy. Something like Development of the human male reproductive system would be much preferred per WP:CONCISE and WP:NATURAL

Cheers! --Animalparty-- (talk) 02: 14, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Greetings! Thanks for weighing in on this. The article really isn't about the development of the human male reproductive system across the life span, it is much more focused than that and goes into greater depth from an embryonic viewpoint along with the influences of the chromosomes and androgens in the earliest stages of development.

As for the article being a split, that is a little more difficult to answer. There is an article called Development of the reproductive system. That particular article covers embryonic development of both females and males. It gets somewhat confusing with the hormones acting on males and females in different ways. Additionally, I've compared the two articles:

Development of the reproductive system

• the article covers the development of both sexes
• The title does not indicate whether the topic describes human embryology only
• Most of the article contains uncited statements.
• Last edit February 10, 2015‎
• One external link
• Two topic templates:
  • {{Sex determination and differentiation}}
  • {{Development of urinary and reproductive systems}}
• Three categories
• Unclear referencing style
• One text cited
• Three websites cited
• Absence of “See also” section of wikilinks to relevant topics
• Assessed as a B class article

The embryonic and prenatal development of the male reproductive system (human)

• Unambiguous title, i.e., human versus non-human

• Last edit March 3, 2015‎

• Every paragraph (at least) is referenced. Only 2-3 statements remain uncited because they were uncited when they were incorporated from the Development of the reproductive system article.

• Five external links

• Eight topic templates

• Two Commons categories links/templates

• Consistent referencing style

• Six bibliography entries

• 22 references

• 11 categories

• Assessed as a start article

If this were truly a split, there would be a corresponding article covering the embryonic development of the human female reproductive system. If it were truly a split, then the two split articles should be shorter than the original. I incorporated the referenced information that was available from the article Development of the reproductive system into The embryonic and prenatal development of the male reproductive system (human) sans the info and references dealing with the female development. I am more than willing to accept a better, shorter article title.

   Bfpage | leave a message  02: 47, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

RE: Recent edit to Pro Evolution Soccer 2015

I explained my edit in the edit summary. The content has been removed per WP:GAMECRUFT, the content removed clearly falls under #6: Lists of gameplay items, weapons, or concepts. There is also an archived discussion on the Wikiproject covering this article that supports the removal of this content. The1337gamer (talk) 13: 19, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanation, my apologies and please keep up the good work!

   Bfpage | leave a message  13: 33, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Defenestration

Sorry, you've made a mistake. Both James Forrestal and Gilles Deleuze died a long time ago. 5. 1. 21. 254 (talk) 13: 24, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your explanation. My apologies, sometimes when I review edits they initially appear to be nonconstructive when in fact the error is mine. Keep up the good work on your editing and please know that if I offended you, it was unintentional. Best Regards,

   Bfpage | leave a message  13: 35, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations

	The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
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Edit summary

Your edit summary here baffled me. --Dweller (talk) 12: 45, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

My mistake - I must have had two review windows open and instead giving a 'pass' on your edit I selected an edit summary meant for someone else. I apologize for the inconvenience and waste of your time. Please forgive me.

   Bfpage | leave a message  12: 48, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

No worries - and it wasn't me ;-) Just popped up on my watchlist. --Dweller (talk) 12: 51, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

... for help on the Schiozophrenia situation. See User talk:Thnidu#Ping. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13: 49, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

I watchlist Schizophrenia, a Featured article, and we've discussed this matter at Talk:Schizophrenia. I was watching the editor out of concern that someone less wise than yourself would respond ... just as they did. IMO the situation calls for more sensitivity than two editors before you showed. (And we're so far doing fine back at the article :) [1] SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13: 56, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Use STiki carefully

Before reverting an edit, read carefully. Thanks --115ash^→(☏) 13: 56, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello! What I saw and 'thought' I reverted didn't look anything like the editing diff page you alerted me to. I think that I might be going too fast with STIki and reversions might be occurring before mine that I miss. Today, I had to stop, leave the STiki interface and go over the editing diffs a little more slowly to understand that there is a time period, a lag or a refreshing problem that takes my reverts past where they were intended to take place. I thank you for bringing this to my attention. I think I will open up an editing diff window alongside of STIki to see exactly when my reverts are applied and then correct the speed at which I work with Stiki so I don't fly past the corrections someone has already made. This happened twice today. Thank you again and I apologize for any damage or waste of time that my ineptitude may have caused you. Best Regards,

   Bfpage | leave a message  14: 08, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

No worries! Humans make mistakes. I've just read your userpage and it's very interesting that you comprehended your personal life. Good luck! --115ash^→(☏) 14: 26, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Govind Pasare

Hi Bfpage. This is reference to the edit I made on the page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govind_Pansare. Firstly, the said person is not a living person. And I tried to add citations, It failed repeatedly. I'd be obliged if you revert back the changes, and add the following as the citarion. Or guide me to the steps where I can learn to add it myself. Thanks

http://m.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/pansare-killing-five-bullets-were-fired-at-communist-leader/article6945267.ece/ —  Preceding unsigned comment added by Catchpranshu (talk • contribs) 20: 11, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

I added the citation for you. Please feel free to revert any edits that I made by mistake. Thank you for creating the article. Happy Editing.

   Bfpage | leave a message  23: 19, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Recent edits to North Shore Country Day School

Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edits because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you!    Bfpage | leave a message  13: 15, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

You seem to keep removing a sourced list of this school's headmasters... Please either explain why the page is better without this information or if this change was done in error, revert it to its previous state. Thanks! —  Preceding unsigned comment added by 131. 227. 54. 91 (talk) 01: 23, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

For elementary/primary and middle schools, reliable secondary sources are usually too limited for notability according to wikipedia editing policy: WP:SCH. Elementary schools are not considered notable to include in Wikipedia, along with listing of elementary staff.

After a more careful review of the article, I have tagged it as being promotional in nature, 'spam' if you wish. This is easy to correct. Simply remove 'puffery' and 'weasel' words as described in this section of wikipedia policy: WP:Spam, WP:puffery, WP:weasel. It looks like you had a good writer, someone who originally generated this article for you and these issues are easy to fix.

   Bfpage | leave a message  13: 05, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

This school educates students through grade 12, so it qualifies as a degree-awarding secondary school. Accordingly, per WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES and its very long history, it would almost certainly survive any attempt to delete the article. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06: 41, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

I believe you, certainly, especially since I was unaware of the WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES - which means, then, that in this case, they have a free licence to include whatever promotional language they wish. Are you also saying then, in general, if an article is very notable it will also survive though it were filled with promotional language and puffery? (Still just trying to learn here....) At least, from now on, I won't even bother tagging such school articles. I've been reviewing a lot of edits to school articles in my attempts to master STiki and there is a tendency to list notable alumni also without references. I appreciate your communication on this. I will withdraw the nomination so I don't waste the time of other editors. I consider you a reliable source and invite your instruction whenever possible.

   Bfpage | leave a message  13: 51, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

New update on Youtube and Saint Francis

Bfpage,

When a youtube video is a video of the event taking place that is referenced, no better reference could possibly be available. Unless you think that the video is faked, please stop removing these references from pages. Qowieury (talk) 16: 30, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

Friend,

It is not worth the trouble or time to spend any more energy on this. Feel free to retain whatever Youtube references you prefer - add more if you feel this strongly about it. Now, are you going to find references for all those other statements in the article? Should unreferenced statements be removed? How about I just leave you alone about this?

   Bfpage | leave a message  13: 51, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

GA

Hey Bf for an article to become GA it must pass peer review. The instructions for this are here Wikipedia:Good article nominations. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22: 41, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

I think I followed the directions...we'll see if I did it right. Thanks and good luck.

   Bfpage | leave a message  05: 02, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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Psyscho-cybernetics

Hi, You reverted a couple of my edits on the above page on the grounds that there was no ref for a statement I've added. I've added a ref, and reinserted the sentence. You also re-added at the same time a sentence that I'd removed which had no reference, and was an expression of some previous editor's opinion. Why did you do that? I've left it in for the moment, but I do think it should be removed. Thanks. DaveApter (talk) 11: 53, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello, I must have 'caught' you right in the middle of what you were doing and so didn't see the end result. I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion over what happened. I have lots of trouble with unreferenced statements by other editors all the time. I routinely remove them because without a reference, a statement really is just an opinion, you are right! When I revert edits, sometimes the program goes beyond just the most recent edit and reverts the one before it, too. Maybe that is what happened. It's great you figured out what my mistake was and you fixed it for me. Thank you again. Wikipedia needs editors like you!

   Bfpage | leave a message  13: 07, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, and thanks for the barnstar! DaveApter (talk) 17: 26, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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   Bfpage | leave a message  22: 54, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Please stop editing for brevity

Edits like this are not constructive. You made the sentence ungrammatical. And this change made the sentence more confusing. 24. 215. 92. 54 (talk) 00: 30, 9 March 2015

Thanks for your input. That's what I get for trying to do a mobile edit while riding in the car.... I'll go back again and take another crack at it. Best Regards,

   Bfpage | leave a message  01: 01, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Mariel Garcia

I was trying to reword it into a section as it sounded like she was dead so I put it as she is a former model instead of a was. Anyway yes I know about how there has to be refs also. Wgolf (talk) 17: 42, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Great! Keep up the good work.

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Capstans...

Hi Bfpage Just getting into editing. Having some trouble adding an image. I see you reverted the link to "Capstans on a tall ship.pdf in Capstan Equation. Is that because the file is missing or is there a copyright problem? Will try again. Also, I would like to write an article about Josephson Voltage standards. These are mentioned peripherally in several existing Wikipedia articles but there is not a definitive article on the subject. I have been involved with the development of these standards for 25 years and as such have written numerous primary research and review articles on the subject. These publications were written as contributions of the US government and are therefore not subject to the copyright requirements of the journals they were published in. My question: To what extent can I cut and paste from my own writing in these published papers to create an article for Wikipedia? EE483597 (talk) 01: 06, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello again. I don't think I did the revert. I'll take a look at the edit history and see what the problem might be. As for creating an article on the topic you mention, there is a policy about publishing original research. I'll try to get back to you on that also.

   Bfpage | leave a message  01: 56, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Bfpage My JVS article would not be original research. It would source review papers and original research some of which is mine. Still having trouble adding a photo to Capstan Equation. Is there some thing wrong with this line (go to edit to see it):

File:Capstans on a tall ship.pdf

An example of holding capstans and a powered capstan used to raise sails on a tall ship.

What does the red mean - something wrong I assume. I can see the photo in the Wiki library so why can't may edit find it? EE483597 (talk) 21: 05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

One thing I do know is that a pdf file is not recognized by Wikipedia as an image. Also, you have to make sure that this is a file that you created yourself you cannot upload copyrighted images.

   Bfpage | leave a message  21: 09, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

pdf was the problem. Uploaded a. png and all is OK. No copyright problem. My photo with permission of ship owner Thanks EE483597 (talk) 22: 41, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Yikes! If you did not take the picture it is not your picture to upload. If the picture was created by someone else, Wikipedia has to have written permission from the person for the picture to be used. A verbal communication between you and the person who owns the copyright is not sufficient proof that the picture is okay to use on Wikipedia.

   Bfpage | leave a message  22: 45, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Editor's Barnstar

Thank you for the Editor's Barnstar, Bfpage - though I know certain users did not appreciate my edits. Hope you have a good day 77. 99. 12. 140 (talk) 21: 11, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

   Bfpage | leave a message  21: 15, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Beetles

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Looks like fun. I will add my name. BTW, I've never gotten an invite to a project before. You beetle people seem pretty motivated!

   Bfpage | leave a message  22: 19, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Can you help me?

I read your profile on the teahouse and you sound like the right person to help me. I realize you are very busy but I'm hoping you can find time to assist me. I read something about you being able to find the resources to get an article approved so I am hopeful that together we can make my article complete. He is on a radio program in the UK that I listen to weekly. During one program while he was away, his fellow presenters challenged us to send in information that could be used on a Wikipedia page. We wanted to surprise him with it. Anyway, the article is about Alastair Greener and apparently the resources I have used are not appropriate ones for Wikipedia. Was hoping that you could help me with this article. It's important to us. Thanks. KatieCollins (talk) 05: 51, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

That sounds like a fun challenge! Let me get back to you...

   Bfpage | leave a message  14: 26, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Here is the strategy on finding reliable sources that establishes this persons's notability. First you can go to his 'official website', which by iteself is NOT a reliable source. But on his website he lists lots of experiences, roles that he has had in theatre productions, voice-over and other sorts of jobs. Here is the clincher: at least one or better two or three of those jobs needs to have been reported in a newspaper, magazine or in some other source NOT generated by him, his twitter account, his blog or any other source that was/is produced by him. See how that works? Someone is notable not because they say that they are, someone is notable and may have an article about them if their notability is established by others. You can't use twitter, facebook or Youtube to prove that someone is a notable person. My best bet for you at this point is to find newspaper reviews of him and his work. Magazines are good, too. Even another television program NOT produced by him on which he is interviewed is considered al good source. Let me know how that goes for you. Are you pretty good at searching Google? Don't forget to search under Google news and Google Scholar.

Best Regards,

   Bfpage | leave a message  14: 38, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Useful

That's a useful message, is there a template for it? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09: 15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Are you referring to the good faith revert message?

   Bfpage | leave a message  13: 39, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Thankyou

Thank you for the nice intro into wikipedia. I'll do my best to be a good editor. Caltropdefence (talk) 17: 01, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

How nice!

What a nice reply. You are welcome and let me know if you need help. Best Regards,

   Bfpage | leave a message  17: 02, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

BLP vio

Hi Bf. This rambling BLP violation can in no way be a AGF revert. Best, -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 18: 07, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Like I mentioned below, according to the instructions, training, website and template messages, test edits and jokes are grouped with Good Faith edits - not really my call since I'm using the STIki program. I have seem the edit histories of others and some are much stricter than I am. For more comment see below message.

   Bfpage | leave a message  18: 51, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

NO AGF here

• Good catch but no way a good faith edit. Quis separabit? 18: 38, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Good faith edits encompass all of the joking and test edits according to the wording, templates and 'training' that comes with STIki. I know by reading the editing histories of others using this same program, they are a little stricter and would probably tend to agree with you. How do you judge the 'good faith' of some fifth grader? This whole day has been a repair job in response to unattended school classrooms, computer labs and libraries. They can't even spell their vandalism correctly. I find plenty of vandalism, for sure but there is something totally weird about today's batch of 'unconstructiveness'.

   Bfpage | leave a message  18: 48, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Page edit The information recently added concerning Katy Freels Wikipedia pages were from the source references Katy Freels and Sean McBride themselves. I do not know how to change that to make the references valid. Thanks! DatGameDoe —  Preceding unsigned comment added by DatGameDoe (talk • contribs) 19: 15, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

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PID

If we are going to get PID to GA we will need to use high quality secondary sources.

This for example "Strandell A, Lindhard A, Waldenström U, Thorburn J, Janson PO, Hamberger L (November 1999). "Hydrosalpinx and IVF outcome: a prospective, randomized multicentre trial in Scandinavia on salpingectomy prior to IVF". Hum. Reprod. 14 (11): 2762–9. doi:10. 1093/humrep/14. 11. 2762. PMID 10548619. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)"

Is a primary source from 1999.

This is a list of review articles from the last 5 years [2] Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17: 36, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Got it....busy now...

   Bfpage | leave a message  17: 42, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

a comment

Good afternoon.

You have recently unedited an edition of mine in ""BRÔA DE AVINTES" entry reporting VANDALISM. If you did that IN GOOD FAITH then I assume you must know well the target subject as well as the language. But let me talk a little bit about about me and my motivations: I am an internet user since 1992 (imagine!). I use Wikipedia since it started on a daily basis. It's been improving dramatically. The articles translated to English from other languages (and vice-versa) with automatic translation softwares, however, are quite poor... I am sure you agree. I do not have normally the time to engage as an Wikipedia editor. This time though I've decided to give it a go. Why did I do that? Well, like yourself, I also know the topic and I, moreover, am bilingual (a huge privilege, I know). The core content of the entry was left unchanged. Minor alterations in British English were introduced. In good conscience and FAITH I therefore decided to Undo your undoings at: "Undid revision 650627787 by Bfpage (talk)". I sincerely apologise if this may, in any way, hurt your GOOD FAITH intentions. Background and Disclaimer: I am, as I said, bilingual BRITISH-ENGLISH (please note: British English, NOT American)and Portuguese. I also have full command of French and Spanish. I am now residing in Portugal. I am lecturing and I know the culture. I moreover have many Portuguese relatives, friends, co-workers, students, etc. I am an above average (by anywhere in the World standards) educated person, which I can certify to Wikipedia head office if required. On March 9th, after reading the English entry for "Brôa de Avintes" - most certainly an automatic translation, I assumed - from the Portuguese entry, having also read the headlines where it says that, and I quote: "This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article does not cite any references or sources. (March 2013) This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; try the Find link tool for suggestions. (January 2013" (end of quote) I've decided give a small contribution to the promotion of Portuguese traditional cuisine abroad by improving, just a little, a tiny bit, its English verbiage. Nothing of the core content was altered. Today, though, I found out that all my correction were annulled, and more my editing were considered under the OFFENSIVE epithet of "VANDALISM". I'll be looking forward to, IN GOOD FAITH, hear from you soon. Meanwhile I will keep record/pdf of the present page and of this comment for future reference. Kind Regards. TSS. TSSWikip (talk) 18: 55, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello again and thank you for visiting my talk page. Have you been editing under this username: User talk:93.108.50.46? That is the username of the person who was edit I reverted on the article that you mention above. When I went to the talk page of the user listed above, I did not see any mention of vandalism. There is a large red word that says "vandalism' in the editing difference window. This word is presented as an option to the editor who is reviewing the change to the page. I did not choose that option, even though it appears in bright red letters.

As for insulting you unintentionally, I am very sorry. I would never call into question your skill or mastery of this or another language. It is good for Wikipedia to have you here helping to make the articles that are. The last thing I ever wanted to do is discourage you from doing this. Please keep on doing the good job that you are going during. Also, it is more typical to add it under one username instead of two, although I don't have a problem with that I was just confused thinking I might be talking to two different people.

As for getting your corrections annulled, please don't be discouraged. Out of all the writing that I have done on Wikipedia my changes have been annulled over 320 times! When that happens to me sometimes I get irritated, but I usually end up doing an even better job of writing just to show the other person that I do know what I'm doing. I am communicating with you in good faith because I believe in you and that you will be a good editor. If I irritated you, I am sorry I did not mean to do that. You are not a vandal and you did not commit vandalism. I think you should keep working on that article, it needs your help to get better. Best Regards,

   Bfpage | leave a message  19: 20, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Addendum: you might not want to type in all capital letters because to some people that seems like shouting.

Message from User: 108. 29. 158. 133

Hi, I am looking to apply a searchbot to the article I am working on, but offline like you suggested. Is there a way to do this? I drafted an article that was twice deleted for sentence transgressions that were less than 3% of the entire article, then was told i was writing a textbook, after having the article edited from the 3rd draft to a set of class notes. I want to write a article on the subject, not a timeline, but keep getting tripped by the bots. Can you make a suggestion going forward? —  Preceding unsigned comment added by 108. 29. 158. 133 (talk) 00: 09, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Also, when using the talk page, how do you start a new entry? I selected new section, but it was appended to the last message?? —  Preceding unsigned comment added by 108. 29. 158. 133 (talk) 00: 12, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

First, let me recommend that you register with a username that you pick out. When you register a username the editing window will slightly change for you and be come just a little easier to use. Pick a very benign name, possibly some combination of surnames and then it will be easier to recognize you and help you out as you edit.

Second, new users are under GREAT scrutiny with their first edits or writing. Unless you do something perfect, chances are your every addition and subtraction will be reverted. This is almost guaranteed if it is large amounts of text you are moving around.

I don't recognize how you are using the term 'applying a searchbot' to an article you are writing.

To leave a message for someone at the bottom of their talk page, you scroll down to the last message on the talk page, it will be right before the message that you want to write. On the last message on the talk page, you will see that it has a title. Next to the title you will see the word "Edit". Click on the word "edit". The editing window will then open up. Scroll down in the editing window to the very last line of the message. Double space. Then type these characters in: == The title of my message == .

I actually understand what you're talking about. I've taken textual information from a source and converted it into a chart myself. It is sometimes hard to describe this process to another editor but it can be very valuable.

If you need a place to practice your editing let me know I can create a sandbox in which you can experiment. Lots of times, I will insert things into my sandbox to see what it looks like when it is loaded onto a page on Wikipedia, but not in article space. Then about five seconds later I delete the whole thing so that doesn't stay in their for someone to destroy or label is vandalism.

If you really want to get this up in a place on Wikipedia where you can work on it with some chance of not having it disturbed before you have it in something of a final form, I am open to you emailing me your text and having me putting it into an appropriate place on Wikipedia with all sorts of notes and explanations that this is a practice piece and that other editors would be so helpful as to let you work until you feel your text is ready.

You may want to try to do some easy edits before you take on something so monumental. If that something you would like to try to do minor copy editing problems. In this way you will begin to build up the reputation of your username as not being an editor accidentally or on purpose blundering around on Wikipedia accidentally destroying the work. This is not what I think you're doing or this is not even what I think you're going to do but there is this little hump that you have to get over before the other editors will leave you alone long enough so that you can write your material.

   Bfpage | leave a message  11: 44, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your assists in making the text back into an article, I'll leave it to you since watching the moves and edits is so frustrating after putting it all in order so that the tale could be better understood. But, I defer to your greater experience with this... CaptJayRuffins (talk) 21: 18, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Please jump right in. I am concentrating more on the formatting and setting it up. I also tried to get the article into what I thought was a chronological order and of course I may have gotten it wrong. If you want some major sections moved around, let me know. You can add 'wiki-links'. When you open the editing window, you put brackets around words that will lead to other articles. It looks like this [[Los Angeles]]. Wikilinks will integrate your article into the rest of the encyclopedia.

   Bfpage | leave a message  21: 25, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Just to say

Well, thank you so much! --Iztwoz (talk) 22: 54, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Masala Dosa For You

	Editor Award
	Have some Masala Dosa CosmicEmperor (talk) 17: 33, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Yum! That seriously looks seriously delicious! Recipe?

Your new best friend (if you feed me.),

   Bfpage | leave a message  17: 54, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

FeedMeNow

I am so hungry for that Masala Dosa! —  Preceding unsigned comment added by Koopa24 (talk • contribs) 19: 01, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Just answering a note you left

I took your advice re: editing offline and being patient with the editors. I resubmitted the draft with lots of references and now am looking for help resolving any issues that didn't appear before. If you can take a look at Draft: stentorians and give me a heads up as to what's not acceptable, I'd be grateful for the help. If this is the wrong place, apologies, I tried to answer in Tea:Talk but couldn't find the post... CaptJayRuffins (talk) 20: 24, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

You should probably watch as I edit this a bit.....keep refreshing the page to see the changes and jump in and edit when you can. The article has to read like an encyclopedia article. All the references are going to be a great help.

   Bfpage | leave a message  20: 33, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for your help!

Hi Bfpage, thanks for taking a look at my article. Yes, I'm a research assistant to the creator of the questionnaire. All my references are from peer reviewed journals in sleep medicine/anesthesia. I believe I only have 4 primary resources in my article and the rest (18) should be secondary/tertiary sources. Is that not enough to establish notability?

Thank you! Lambbchops (talk) 13: 19, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I think it does!

   Bfpage | leave a message  00: 57, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi Bfpage, thanks for the offer on submitting for me but this project is not time sensitive. I just want to make sure that I don't get into any trouble over Wikipedia policy! Lambbchops (talk) 12: 56, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

I think you are good to go! Nice job and I hope you do more writing and editing....I'm supposed to be recruiting more women editors.

   Bfpage | leave a message  14: 15, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Question about concensus...

When I first looked at the 2015 Dallas City Council elections it was like this. It was tagged for speedy deletion but I judged that it would be better as a redirect than deleting it. I looked at Talk:2015 Dallas City Council elections and didn't see much to indicate that it needed saving or deleting. I don't have an opinion if it should be merged or separate but the minor consensus at Talk:Dallas mayoral election, 2015#Nothing special or Notable about regular City Council elections in any city and other remarks on the page seem to me to indicate that there should be one article on the election rather than two. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 11: 55, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Excellent response and you have cleared up my questions. You 'took a snapshot' of the situation, made an assessment of consensus at that same time, and made your decision. It seems like a pretty straightforward process. Thanks for your time. Best Regards,

   Bfpage | leave a message  12: 20, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for saying so. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 06: 22, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

made a new preface

got it together and resolved the opening to the Draft: Stentorians... CaptJayRuffins (talk) 23: 58, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Just Trying to add content

Thank you for your note. That wasn't meant to be puff. It seems to me that I was simply relaying back what the press was saying. It seems to me that Apple is continually getting a free reign on fluff and that any time a smaller company gets any praise for real technology efforts, they get rolled back? How can we get this right? HuskyMoon (talk) 00: 30, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Animal attacks

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Funny

not everyone likes my new article

   Bfpage | leave a message  15: 22, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for your assist, what are the protocols here?

Does dosa masala's count, or is there some other code that reflects gratitude, aka the roman style, apply.... CaptJayRuffins (talk) 22: 28, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

You are incredibly lucky. I just happened to be the one that passed your page and it is now pretty safe from being deleted. Just keep working on it to make it better.

   Bfpage | leave a message  22: 33, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Thats Great! Thanks for shepherding me thru this, I was absolutely sure the Bots would get me!! —  Preceding unsigned comment added by CaptJayRuffins (talk • contribs) 00: 46, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Category: Pelvic inflamatory disease

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To save your efforts

I've noted your recent edits on section heading spacing and your referral to WP:MOS - think you may have misread about readability - which refers to space above the heading. The para on main page refers to the equal signs used and states that it does not matter if there is a space (which you are inserting) or not - usually consistency is a consideration - also most pages use the 'no space' between the signs and the text. all the best—Iztwoz (talk) 05: 49, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your kind words and intentions regarding the editing that I do to correct spacing. If what you are saying is true, and of course it may very well be, then the designer of the WikiEd program that I use to make the edits has also misread about readability since the insertion of the spaces after section titles is designed to be part of the semi-automated feature of the program. Inserting spaces between the equal signs could probably be a feature that doesn't need to be part of the program. Of course the editing for spacing inserts spaces within sections of text other than only after or before a heading. The editing feature to 'correct' the spacing doesn't only insert spaces between the equal signs either. I personally have difficulting using the editing window on occasion and have found the application of WikiEd to help me visualize the layout of the article much better.

I know most of your work involves content creation and so I am quite flattered that you would take the time to leave me such a kind and considerate note on my talk page with the intention to save me time and effort. I've learned a lot by following the editing that you do and I consider your opinion to be something I should especially attend. With appreciation,

   Bfpage | leave a message  09: 32, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Ref style

Please use the ref style already used in the pelvic inflammatory disease article. Not sure what ref Sternak is? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10: 30, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

I'll go back now and do that. I was going to use the ref style that I am most used to.

The problem with a shortened reference like this: <ref name=Mit2013/> is that there doesn't seem to be a place for the page number.

I've applied a template, but feel free to edit regardless what the template says....

   Bfpage | leave a message  10: 37, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

This gives a ref style WP:MEDHOW and yes there is room for page numbers. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12: 01, 30 March 2015 (UTC)