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I've ignored the guidelines for granting 'templateeditor' and given it to you given the special circumstances involved. Please don't make any sweeping changes to high-profile templates. Please read Wikipedia:Template editor, and, in particular, the section on abuse. Good luck, and thanks for fixing HTML issues! Reaper Eternal (talk) 12:59, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Talk page header

Please don't add the talk page header to talk pages. It's just a very wasteful use of space. I would like to see it deleted altogether, but there are cases where there are archives that it lists. If a talk page doesn't have any archives, it has no value whatsoever. Greg Bard (talk) 20:08, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Greg, I've never had a Wikipedia talk with someone before and do not know whether to respond here or on your own talk page.

• Question: I believe that talk pages may encourage discussion, and that is a good thing. Of course, I don't actually know and will defer to other's better judgment.
  • I've looked at the archives, and some support wider use but there is no consensus. See 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
  • The current Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines state There is no need to add discussion warning templates to every talk page, or even to every talk page that contains a discussion which doesn't help determine when or why they should be used. See 7
• As for taking up space, I'm wondering if the entire header could be made invisible on a per-user basis (i.e., via CSS customizations) as it is done for other notices.
  • Perhaps Wikipedia should have a novice/expert toggle that could be applicable to numerous notices?
• As for consistency, I've noticed some projects use it religiously, while other are haphazard and some never at all.

Dpleibovitz (talk) 22:40, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

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Go for it, I just closed this discussion. When you are done, move it to the 'ready for deletion' section in WP:TFD/H. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 21:25, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Emergic cognition

I deleted the Emergic cognition page for you. Usually for this purpose, we use the speedy deletion templates - next time you can just tag the article with {{db-g7}} if you're the only editor of the page. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 04:24, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

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this is wordsighn. I just joined project wiki boxes and i cant find myself on the members list can you help? Wordsighn (talk) 13:06, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

@Wordsighn: You are certainly listed in the large category of Category:WikiProject Userboxes participants, but page to here to see your userid. Dpleibovitz (talk) 16:05, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Ways to improve 1007 in philosophy

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Ways to improve 1073 in philosophy

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Ways to improve 1079 in philosophy

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Ways to improve 1142 in philosophy

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Ways to improve 1257 in philosophy

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Sense of wonder

I have just expressed support on its talk page for the merger of Sense of wonder with Wonder (emotion).PopSci (talk) 19:56, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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Category: Pejorative terms for people

I've performed one revert, but thought I'd open a discussion before doing any more. I would argue that this category shouldn't go onto a disambiguation page that has no entry that counts as a pejorative term. If I was browsing the category and followed a link to such a DAB page, I would be rather confused. And I'm actually thinking that disambiguation pages shouldn't go in such a category at all, since they are by definition not content pages. You should just include articles that actually describe pejorative terms. What are your thoughts? -- Fyrael (talk) 20:55, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

I agree that a pejorative definition entry should be added to all such disambiguation pages, not merely the categorization of Category:Pejorative terms for people - I have already started doing so, and will fix the others. Technically, each term (pejorative) could have its own article, which I have less time to do, and it is too similar to Wiktionary so would be deleted unless more substantial - I am not an etymologist. However, I am concerned with both positive stereotypes and negative ones (pejoratives), and I think the categorization is a good way of indicating that a term could be problematic. Dpleibovitz (talk) 17:12, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

I understand what you're trying to accomplish, but please, please do not do that. Disambiguation pages are not meant to list every possible meaning or even dictionary definition of a term. They just exist to guide readers toward a topic that we have an article for and is ambiguous with what they searched on. Absolutely do not start making mass changes to disambiguation pages without first reading WP:DISAMBIG and WP:MOSDAB. Otherwise you will just cause other editors to revert a lot of changes. -- Fyrael (talk) 04:41, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Please go back and remove all of the dictionary definitions that you've added to disambiguation pages. I started to go through them, but it's taking a very long time. -- Fyrael (talk) 22:59, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

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Bad category application

Hello,

Category:2 (number) is about the number 2 - aka the article 2. It's not for any article that vaguely involves two of something, or about concepts that apply to 2. So most if not all of your additions don't make any sense. For example, 2 is an even number, but even numbers are not two (diff). A binary star has two of something, but 2 itself is not a binary star.

On a side note, there's a de-facto AFD open concerning the "Mindless" page you created at Talk:Mindless (film) - your page doesn't really comply with what a disambiguation page is for. SnowFire (talk) 14:38, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

The "Mindless" page seems to be resolved as other things within Wikipedia named mindless have been added.

The Category:2 (number) page should be more explicit in what should go in there, but note that by your logic, almost all preexisting entries would also be eliminated. For example, a Category:Duets involves 2 people, but 2 itself is not a duet. I thought Category:2 (number) was to categorize anything related to the number 2. I was also trying to be consistent with Category:1 (number) and Category:3 (number).

Dpleibovitz (talk) 17:33, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Then yes, some entries should be removed from those categories. Category:0 (number) is a good example of the kind of articles that should be in these numerical categories - articles like Parity of zero, Leading zero, etc. that are actually talking about the mathematical concept. Or, for one, 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ⋯. SnowFire (talk) 19:54, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Would you think it useful to have a new Category:2 (related things), Category:2s, or something like that as well? (of course also for zero, one, three, ...). Personally, I would rather extend the allowed contents of the category to "notable twos". Or perhaps, extend an existing subcategory. Note that the article 2 does talk about dichotomies, binary stars, etc., so such numerology is important/notable to many - and perhaps are examples of what is meant by the concept 2. Should we move this discussion to Category talk:2 (number)? Dpleibovitz (talk) 21:05, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Maybe, but nobody ever watches Category talk pages in my experience. You may want to ping a related Wikiproject or board so that people know there's even a chat going on if you want more input.

In general, articles / categories on "related things" were okay in "early Wikipedia", but started getting zapped after 2006 or so. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Number of the Beast (occurrence) and the like, which listed a bunch of media / works / fiction / quotes / etc. that referenced 666. I suspect 2 would have the same problem, except it'd be even larger - the number of articles / categories that have 2 of something is truly dizzying. Not really defining enough for a category, IMO. That said, I could be wrong; if you think there's merit to a category, go ahead and advocate for it, but I'd definitely recommend running it past someone else first, and/or nailing down EXACTLY what will qualify for it. Wikipedia talk:Categorization might not be a bad place to ask. SnowFire (talk) 21:30, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks - I added my 2 nickel's worth (no more cents in Canada).Dpleibovitz (talk) 22:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Not a binary relationship

Set membership is not a binary relationship. Paul August ☎ 18:57, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I changed these to Category:Binary operations. Dpleibovitz (talk) 19:07, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Not a binary operation either! Please stop assigning cats you don't understand. Paul August ☎ 19:09, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

You are right in that it is not a strict binary operation on sets, but it is in the less than strict Category:Binary operations which includes all operators with arity 2 and need not be restricted to sets. Or is that cat specifically for set theory? Note that the term "binary operator" is also used in computing (my background). See Operator (computer programming) Dpleibovitz (talk) 19:19, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Well, yes I was supposing that that cat was for mathematical objects. Paul August ☎ 03:39, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

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Urgent request

Please take a break in creating new categories and new redirects, until it becomes more clear whether there is any consensus for what you created so far. You might consider writing full articles though, because with your background you should have plenty of access to reliable sources in your field of study. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:28, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

OK. I assume I can continue to categorize existing redirects (or articles) to existing categories, or should I stop that too? Dpleibovitz (talk) 17:57, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

I assume so too. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:51, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

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SSIM (disambiguation)

Hi Dpleibovitz, to quote MOS:DABMENTION, "If the topic is not mentioned on the other article, that article should not be linked to in the disambiguation page, since linking to it would not help readers find information about the sought topic". I agree that many things are listed on disambiguation page that are not mentioned in Wikipedia, and if editors don't remove those items, than the pages quickly lose their usefulness. Leschnei (talk) 19:19, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

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Hello. I strongly apologise to bother you, but if you don’t mind, Id like to ask you a favor. It seems that there are some errors in the articles Shadow biosphere and Desert varnish. The citations from them: Carol Cleland, a philosopher of science at the University of Colorado (Boulder), argues that desert varnish, whose status as living or nonliving has been debated since the time of Darwin, should be investigated as a potential candidate for a shadow biosphere; It has been suggested that desert varnish should be investigated as a potential candidate for a "shadow biosphere". I am almost certain it is a kind of misinterpretation or very poor paraphrasing, because the source materials clearly say that according to some scientists the Desert vanish could be a possible product (or effect) of hypothetical microorganisms, but not them themselves. For example: And a promising example is provided by the desert varnish proposed as a target by Cleland and backed by David Toomey in Weird Life. "No laboratory microbiologist has been able to coax bacteria or algae to make desert varnish," he states. "It is also possible that the stuff is the end result of some very weird chemistry but no one has been able to reproduce that either." So yes, these sites could provide proof of the shadow biosphere's existence, he argues, (Life on Earth… but not as we know it); Cleland speculates that a microscopic form of life may have been producing desert varnish for eons, but scientists simply haven't figured out how to detect it (Is desert varnish a pathway to detecting 'alien' life?); also, according to the sources Darwin wasn’t really wondering if it is living or nonliving, but rather biological or not - it’s not the same thing, the citation from the second one of the sources I previously mentioned: Although some scientists have claimed they solved the mystery, Cleland said nobody has really proven what causes it since Darwin himself puzzled over those dark patches of varnish in the 1800s. "He himself was wondering if they were biological," Cleland said. "He might be the first person who wondered if they were biological." Could you please take a look on it, and corect these sentences, please? You’re a much more experienced user than me, and additionally I don’t speak English very fluently, so wouldn’t want to make any mistake. I’d be very grateful for your help. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Jojnee (talk) 00:30, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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