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Notability of Sebastian Cole

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Apiology (thanks)

Hi KDS4444! Thanks for your appreciation. I'm trying to go through all the "-logy" pages and check the etymologies, but that will take a while... Cheers --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 11:16, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Sebastian Cole again

Hi, KDS4444 - You might mention to Mr. Cole that, if he really wants, he should look in to the WP:OTRS system. As it stands, he's won an AVN award, so he's WP:N notable. Unless there's something defamatory or a copyvio in his article, it probably won't get deleted. -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 17:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, SatyrTN. I figured as much and will let him know. --KDS4444 09:53, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Sebastian Cole

I have nominated Sebastian Cole, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sebastian Cole. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.  – iridescent 16:03, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

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Diplazium

Hi, I stumbled across your question to Jaknouse (talk · contribs) about the classification of the fern genus Diplazium. I looked this up in the Smith 2006 paper (now cited there) and found out that: (1) Diplazium is probably paraphyletic (which means that it may well be split up or expanded in the future, although as far as I know this hasn't happened yet), and (2) the family Woodsiaceae as recognized in Smith is quite possibly paraphyletic, although Smith 2006 considers the evidence to not yet be clear (even if it is to be split, one has to know how to split it). Given this, I'm not sure there are any clear answers (one way or the other), and if so wikipedia should just note the uncertainty and try not to take a position too much one way or the other. Of course, if there is published data which is newer/better than what I'm basing this on, it might change things. Kingdon (talk) 16:13, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


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HS1

Don't know where you are getting your info on the HS1, but it's almost entirely wrong. HS1 is not new, it's been in ECE Regulation 37 and in production for many decades. It is not a replacement at the design or service level for H4 or any other bulb type. It is not "the standard bulb for new two-wheeled vehicles" in the USA or any other country. The H4 is not "older styled" than the HS1. The base keying differences between P43t (H4) and PX43t (HS1) have nothing to do with pins or sockets. Please try to contribute only factually accurate, verifiable information supported with appropriate citations to Wikipedia; in this case the information is very simple to get so there's really no reason to substitute what appear to be random, half-informed guesses. 20:26, 17 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.26.89.104 (talk)

I understand your indignation. My apologies. Here is at least one of my sources: http://www.boschindia.com/content/language1/html/7812.htm. Perhaps you should consider notifying this manufacturer that their information is wrong as well. Thanks. -- KDS4444Talk 02:16, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

The error was not the manufacturer's, it was yours. The information you found applies only to India, which very recently began phasing in the application of ECE Regulation 37. The text on the page you found described a market situation in India, not a state of the technical art in general. Even there, "new" is not accurate; HS1 bulbs were in wide use in motorcycles in India the last time I was there scrutinizing the local mobile lighting industry five years ago. It seems the page you found is out of date. Nevertheless, my objection remains: please don't just parrot what you think you understand of a website you happen to find. If you do not know enough about the subject to be sure whether what you found is accurate at all, and/or is accurate in the whole world or only in a particular part of it, please raise the issue on the talk page. Thanks. 17:05, 23 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.30.139.239 (talk)
And now you are just being a jerk. KDS4444Talk 19:14, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Criticality accident

I put some references on the talk page you might like to include in the article!

--Stone (talk) 20:18, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

I Read some articles on the Tickling the Dragons Tail experiments and was always wondering who might be that stupid to pile up enough material that it becomes critical, but after reading I found out that some times things go a little wrong and if you deal with normal' stuff you say ooops and every thing is OK, in nuclear chain reaction experiments you see the blue flash. Buy the way do you know the film where one guy steps up in front of a party, opens a case and smashes two uranium or plutonium spheres together above his head?
Your article came up on a watch list User:AlexNewArtBot/ChemistrySearchResult of chemistry related articles and I always do a little incoming inspections on the new article there (except the BLPs).

--Stone (talk) 13:13, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I agree that the seeming margin of error combined with the high cost of such errors makes nuclear chemistry an "interesting" place to be. The idea of a demon core and of tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon are both romantic and vividly accurate representations of this delicacy. I wish I could read the full text of the first reference article you gave me, the one by P.S. Harris from 1961-- sadly, it appears to only be available to people with institutional or personal memberships (I don't suppose YOU have access to the article??). It is so frustrating to want more scientific/ historical information only to be hindered by a price tag! KDS4444Talk 14:02, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey! Guess what?? Someone found and gave me a copy of the required article today and I am thrilled! Thank you again for pointing this out to me and for placing the original article request. Am dancing on the air. KDS4444Talk 05:38, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh, also, I do not know the name of the movie you are referring to, but it sounds very interesting. KDS4444Talk 05:38, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Citation

Krashlandon (talk) 14:49, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

requested article

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Thanks, GabrielF (talk) 02:39, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

I have now downloaded the article-- and can't thank you enough! Much obliged. KDS4444Talk 02:45, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Except that it's the wrong article... Damn. KDS4444Talk 09:45, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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Tesseraction Games

I commented on your AFD. I suggest the article be deleted and all relevant information be merged with the article on their game. Which interested party did I interact with, by the way? Krashlandon (talk) 15:21, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Ooooo, now, I hate it when this happens: I tried to retrace my footsteps to the reference to Tesseraction Games on your talk page, but could not find it there... Which means I very well might have seen it mentioned (and disparaged) on someone else's talk page and then later, when writing my proposal for deletion, recollected that it was you. But it seems there is no evidence to support this belief, and now I am left wondering who it was that led me thus. So my apologies for mistaking you for whoever else it actually was, but my thanks for adding your voice to the discussion anyway. I guess the old gray matter is more thin that I realized. KDS4444Talk 15:07, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

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Hi, I have just had to revert your edit on Cutty Sark because in the process of doing it you deleted 95% of the page (it went from 26kb to 2kb, so maybe my percentage figure is wrong, but you'll get the idea <g>) Not quite sure how you did this without spotting it but, regardless, feel free to go back in there and re-enter whatever your edit may have been. It'll still be there in the history and so if you really did intend it you can copy/paste from that to save a bit of typing. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 17:32, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Yikes! I had no idea! Thank you for undoing me-- I will try to replace my previous rather-small modification with greater care. But more importantly, how does this stuff happen?? I've been on Wikipedia for three years and this has happened to be twice in the past month! I suspect something in Windows is to blame. In any case, thank you and well done. KDS4444Talk 01:44, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Pamphlet

Thanks for the image at Is the School House the Proper Place to Teach Raw Sex?, but are you sure it's licensed properly? I see that you put it under a CC public domain license, but wouldn't the original still be in copyright? Roscelese (talkcontribs) 16:29, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

I have wondered about this sort of issue myself for some time... If I generate an image of a copyrighted image, is the image I generate also considered copyrighted? And I do not know the answer to that question. Do you?? KDS4444Talk 17:22, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm fairly sure that an image of a copyrighted cover is copyrighted. (On the other hand, merely taking an image of a two-dimensional non-copyrighted work does not constitute artistic input sufficient to create copyright. Learn something new every day!) It could conceivably be fair use, so if you want to go about doing that, more power to you. Roscelese (talkcontribs) 17:29, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Well, then, let's see if it stands, shall we? I think there's also a method of claiming fair use of a copyrighted imaged based on the unique, unreproduceable nature of the image and the idea that the information contained in the image could not be generated in any way other than using the original image itself (the Wikipedia article on the Mediterranean dromon contains an image that is justified on these terms, I believe). In either case, I think there might be a fair use argument. And the article certainly lacks completion without having the image of the pamphlet included with it. KDS4444Talk 17:40, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
I agree. The license on the image would still have to be changed, though. Roscelese (talkcontribs) 17:45, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

By the way, how'd you get the cover? Do you have a copy of the pamphlet? Roscelese (talkcontribs) 21:19, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

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Volodymyr Konovalchuk

Why did you proposed that this article be deleted? He was a Ukrainian footballer who played at top level from 1990-99.Ceriy (talk) 13:01, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I proposed it for deletion because, as I noted in my comments, the article included no citations and no explanation as to why this individual was at all notable. As it stands, the only reference now in the article is one in Ukrainian, not English. Perhaps an article about his individual belongs in the Ukrainian Wikipedia and not the English one-- a citation in a foreign language is not verifiable to an English-speaking audience, and therefore is of limited use here. Would you consider moving the article? KDS4444Talk 06:42, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Blue Jay

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incidentally, referring to the posting above, where in MoS does it say that foreign language refs are not permitted? They regularly occur even in FAs Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:01, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Got your messages. With regard to the second item first, I did not intend to suggest that foreign language references should not be permitted in the English Wikipedia, but when the only reference in an article is in a foreign language that I (and most English Wikipedia users) cannot read (in this case, Ukranian, I believe), then the reference does not seem to meet the criterion of being verifiable-- and therefore the article might be better located in (and restricted to) a wikipedia of that language specifically rather than in the English one where the reference (again, the only reference) is in a foreign tongue that English speakers cannot verify. Please let me know if that makes sense. It made sense to me at the time. As I re-think it, I still feel that way. You?? And Blue Jays... We are capitalizing them now? I missed that somehow in the ornithological literature. My bad. Sorry. KDS4444Talk 16:25, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

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Stern good article status

If you weren't aware of the open issues at Talk:Stern/GA1 I'm just letting you know. I'll try and make corrections so that it will pass the best I can unless you get there first. Brad (talk) 03:40, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

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Are you still interested in the addressing my points at Stern? Sp33dyphil "Ad astra" 06:24, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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My bad, totally-- didn't know exactly what I was doing, thought a cut-and-paste would do the job but did not consider the effects on page history. This aught to be corrected... Any chance you have already done this??  :-) KDS4444Talk 19:18, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

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The Devil in Drag

I've deleted and restored, there shouldn't be any non-visible edits now. What, if anything, do you think should be done about the article? It's by an author even I have heard of, and although it's self-serving on the part of the translator, it's not actually spam. Nevertheless, there is no assertion of why the play, as opposed to its author, is notable, it's basically a plot summary. I don't think it can be speedied, so it's probably AfD or nothing. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:49, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Jim: I've been mulling this over in my mind for more than a week now, giving it probably far more attention than it deserves. But I now have some settled thoughts, and wanted to share with you:
1.) The article has been moved to "The Devil in Drag" as opposed to its original title, "The Devil with Boobs." As ridiculous as the latter is, it appears that it is the actual title under which the play has been produced in the U.S. Weirdly, I happen to live just a few short blocks down the street from the Open Fist Theater Company which is one of the companies which has actually produced the play (and done so under its "boobs" title). "The Devil in Drag" is not a play by Dario Fo— "The Devil with Boobs", however, is (ugh) and this means the article should probably be re-titled/ moved back to its original location under "The Devil with Boobs" (I have never done such a move backwards— do you know how?).
2.) I have found no evidence as yet that the play is noteworthy as a stand-alone piece, and even less evidence that the translator warrants any notability. I wonder, though, as a play written by a Nobel prize winner, if it does not deserve an article for reasons of authorship alone. My guess is that it probably does (even if the play itself is rather ridiculous and even if it is an insignificant piece of literature, which I am not altogether certain it is).
If these things make sense to you, then it would probably be best if the article were moved back to "The Devil with Boobs," and then left as it is (without further deletion consideration/ discussion). For now. But I look forward to your thoughts— please get in touch. Thank you! KDS4444Talk 01:19, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Moved back to Boobs, otherwise just an mos fix; it's not bad enough for deletion, so I'd leave untagged Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:52, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

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Done and done. I am very grateful! KDS4444Talk 23:25, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

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Though I had given up all hope, yes, the request is still open. can u help?? KDS4444Talk 19:14, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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Barack

I realize I'm about four months late, but I just replied to your comment on the Talk:Barack page. There are at least three examples where given names redirect to a biography. hbdragon88 (talk) 05:10, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Stage Q

Seen these? http://www.wisconsingazette.com/on-stage/tis-the-season-on-wisconsin-stages.html http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2012/11/29/holiday_stops_plays_.php http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=37572 Cheers, LeadSongDog come howl! 16:23, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Highbeam has: "P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD," STAGE Q AT THE BARTELL THEATRE, THROUGH NOV. 22, 204-0306.(DAYBREAK). The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI). (November 2003)

also: THEATER FOUNDATION SUES BARTELL OWNER COMPANY ACCUSED OF DRAGGING ITS FEET ON SALE OF THE THEATER TO SIX PERFORMING GROUPS THAT PERFORM THERE.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN) The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) (May 2, 2003)

and: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-147276856.html

but this is likely your best bet. LeadSongDog come howl! 03:32, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Hmm. Looks like I may have enough here to justify an article after all. The article on highbeam.com doesn't mention StageQ as far down as I was able to read. Does it eventually? Nothing like being the target of Catholic moralizing to earn notability. Thank you for all your help on this! KDS4444Talk 23:11, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Well, those were all on Highbeam, but yes, they all eventually mention it. The passing mentions such as show notices won't really establish notability, but they don't hurt to bolster it or to flesh out the article once it has been established. You might want to take the 7-day trial membership on Highbeam, or apply for one of the memberships they donate to Wikipedia. LeadSongDog come howl! 04:50, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

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Scallop diagram

Please could you create a new version of File:Scallop Diagram2.svg where the whole image has been rotated 180°, but with the text the right way up, in order to better match the photograph immediately below it on the article page? Thank you in advance. Nice diagram. nagualdesign (talk) 00:37, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Yes, I can. KDS4444Talk 01:20, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

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Done. To quote Ru Paul: "How do I look?" KDS444 (talk) 03:52, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there, i just saw your edits. There are a group of editors on this page who will likely revert you shortly. If you have time to get involved in a talk discussion on the page it would be very helpful, as I have been alone trying to bring some rational balance to the page for over a year without success. I even tried to get some rationality into a separate page (User:Oncenawhile/Definitions of Pogrom), which was speared by the same group of editors. Oncenawhile (talk) 19:36, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

I take it you mainly mean my removal of the reference to the 38CE "pogrom" in Alexandria (I didn't think most of my edits were much other than stylistic or informative, but this particular one certainly was). It was, of course, unsourced to begin with, and though I initially was only going to add a citation-needed tag, the (in my mind) ridiculousness of using the term in that context made me take the bolder step of simply removing it as the creative thinking of some new editor who was not familiar with the Wikipedia process of substantiating claims, especially controversial ones like that. I do understand, however, that the topic of pogroms is a very sensitive one, and that rationality can be a difficult voice to maintain in the face of so much historic carnage, especially if one feels personally connected to that history (which, other than as a student of history, I do not). I will have a look at the talk page you mentioned and see what I can see... I DO know that I AM rather personally connected to my work here on Wikipedia, and having it undone sometimes does cause me to lose a certain amount rationality, which is a character flaw of mine, I admit. Thank you for giving me heads-up on this. I do appreciate the notification. KDS4444Talk 04:11, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Re your edit request on Wikipedia talk:Village pump (all), that page transcludes the contents of Wikipedia:Village pump (policy), Wikipedia:Village pump (technical), Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals), Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab), and Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous). There is nothing there to edit directly. If you use the section edit links on Village pump (all) it should take you right to the correct section on the appropriate one of those pages, or you can go to the appropriate village pump and edit the discussion from there directly. Anomie 21:33, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Luminous flux units

Thanks for the table you added to Luminous flux. There is something missing though: you don't say what units are used for luminous flux in this table. The values are only useful if their units are specified.--Srleffler (talk) 03:42, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

I thought that the units were a given, as the lumen is the SI unit of measurement of luminous flux. But I have modified the table to account for this. Please let me know if you'd be willing to remove the factuality-disputed tag. Thanks! KDS4444Talk 03:58, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I removed the tag. Units are never a given. Values of physical quantities always need to have their units specified. SI is not the only system of units, and even within SI the units could be a multiple (klm, mlm, etc.)--Srleffler (talk) 04:11, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

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  • Thanks for the links. I tried to reword it because before it said that the mercaptanes and amines were generated by breakdown from urea which is chemical impossible.--Livermorium (talk) 03:22, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

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Looks like you didn't complete your AfD nomination at Manyang. Just wanted to drop you a note in case something went wrong with the nomination. Monty845 03:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Monty— thanks for the message. I needed a couple of minutes to complete the nomination— if you look now, I think you will see that it is complete (though please tell me if it is not!!) Thanks! - KDS4444Talk 03:38, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Yep, looks complete now, sorry if I jumped the gun on messaging you about it. Monty845 05:38, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
You did just a little, but no harm no foul, and all is well (I hate that I can't just press one button and do it all at one go just for this reason!) KDS4444Talk 06:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
You can actually, check out WP:Twinkle. Using it, you can enter your deletion rationale, and it then tags the article, creates the discussion, and adds it to the AfD log. The big downside is you can't preview the deletion discussion, which may be desirable when adding a more extensive rationale as you did in this case. Monty845 13:13, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Re your message - you are most welcome, it was sincerely meant. BTW I just checked out your userpage and saw you wrote the article on the Cecil Kelley incident. I remember looking for the medical info on this extraordinary accident for ages and was well pleased to see an article - and such a good one - get written. All the best, Plutonium27 (talk) 18:29, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

I wonder what the odds are of someone noticing and commenting on one of my pictures AND reading the article I (largely though not exclusively) wrote on poor Cecil Kelly? Hm. Seems small to me! And all the more flattering for that. I consider the Kelly article to probably be the best written and best researched (and, really, the most important) of the 50-odd articles I've put together for Wikipedia. If you were going to read anything I had written, I would have chosen that article. Needless to say, seeing your username made me think about it again for a bit... All that plutonium! So, thank you. I am very pleased the information was useful and interesting for you! KDS4444Talk 00:44, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

About Alexa and WP:Notability:

I've kludged a fix into place. I clarified the sentence in WP:Notability a bit to compensate for the material I stripped from the Alexa article. I also adjusted the link to point to the Toolbar section on Alexa Internet so that people can read about its limitations (in the current revision) up front. Hope that helps some. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. Danny Sepley (talk) 22:16, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

You know, I was just thinking the other day about this issue and was remembering that I had not checked back to follow up on it nor to see if you had ever read or responded to my remarks about the link to the Alexa article. How very nice it was to discover your comment here on my talk page this evening-- when you set a hundred wheels in motion on Wikipedia some of them will keep turning long after you have failed to check on their rotation or inertia. So three things, then: first, an apology from me for not checking back on this with you: I was remiss in my editorial duties, and you have prompted me to finally finish the job. Second, I have now gone back and looked at the article in question, and I now see nothing at all amiss-- it seems you seamlessly fixed the problem I had spotted, for which I will now express my (third item) thanks to you, Danny. I appreciate you taking my inquiry with such seriousness and pursuing me to make sure all was, in the end, well. Which it is. KDS4444Talk 02:40, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey, don't apologize! It really was out of your hands (and in mine) at that point. You're very welcome; I'm just glad that I didn't leave much to be desired. (The formalism of some Wikipedians scares off the general public sometimes.) I also appreciate your patience; thank you for holding out for me. For want of a better parting shot, live long and prosper. Danny Sepley (talk) 07:57, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
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Hi! I assume you've read the new rules for posting Morning277 reports, right? --Rschen7754 08:47, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Damn it... There are new rules? I just finished racking up five or six new Morning277 deletion nominations and sockpuppet investigations. Please point me to the new rules so I can be more on top of this infernal mess. And thanks for asking— I did not know. KDS4444Talk 08:50, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Well, unfortunately we are no longer able to handle them at SPI, since SPI just isn't designed to handle spamming meatpuppets. We're trying to find a new home for the reports, in userspace or somewhere. --Rschen7754 08:56, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Let me know if there is anything specific I can to do help out. Also: I thought meatpuppets were collections of newish editors who come on to Wikipedia to get involved in article disputes and the like— I get the idea that the distinction between meat and sock is that the latter is supposedly derived from a single person (is that distinction correct? Is there anything more than that?). I also get the idea that there is no context for submitting meatpuppet suspects since they can't really be traced back to a single user account anywhere. Has anyone considered having a "Morning277 Suspects" page set up with a list of criteria and summary administrative execution of the easily convicted who offer no defense? Am curious. KDS4444Talk 09:09, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Well, since we're positive that these are multiple people, they are technically meatpuppets, and CU confirms this and thus is nearly worthless here. That doesn't mean that we can't still block them; we certainly can, but it's technically not sockpuppeting and thus SPI isn't the best place; also, the mass numbers of accounts just couldn't be handled by our system. --09:13, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
...And in the end I suppose it doesn't really matter much, does it: since most Morning277 accounts (including those I just reported) are abandoned once they have met their sinister purpose, formally deleting them or blocking them isn't likely to be noticed by anyone, even the account creators. Maybe I should just stick to addressing the articles themselves and leave the associated user accounts to wither on their own (and not bother SPI with them— sorry about that!). KDS4444Talk 09:22, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
An argument could be made that if the account isn't blocked, G5 isn't available. —rybec 23:11, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
Ah, so. Then what is to be done? Anything? I am very interested in following most current and correct procedure if/ when it has been ordained. KDS4444Talk 02:14, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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POTD

Hi KDS, if you want File:Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodite adult-en.svg or another image on the MP you just need to ping me. I'll pretty much always (unless there's a good reason) prioritize images which are requested for the MP. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:19, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

What the heck: sure. Put me in as K.D. Schroeder. Also, while I have your attention, does "MP" mean... "Main Page"? Or does it stand for something else? (er, I dunno... like... "Manual Portal"? "Miscellaneous Photographs"? "Man-made Pyrotechnics"?) Wikipedia is full of initialisms and I wanted to be sure. And if MP does mean "Main Page", does this mean that you have the personal ability to determine what gets placed there? (Such powers! If so, I am in awe). Lastly, the second image I created that also made it through FP candidacy, File:C elegans male.svg, is actually a better overall image (of the male version) of the same species of creature— if I were to choose, I'd consider the it to be more worthy of highlighting than the hermaphrodite. In any case, I look forward to your response! KDS4444Talk 18:05, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
  • Either one is fine, so I'll schedule the male (though this means the hermaphrodite will be at least a year, as the same article should generally not be given a bolded link in Picture of the Day more than once a year). MP in this case means "main page", right. Sorry about that, force of habit.
I've been selecting the Picture of the Day since January 2013. Howcheng (who replied to your post at that long-dead discussion) was handling it before then, but he seemed to be quite busy so I offered to step up. It's actually not that much power, as we're limited to choosing extant featured pictures (not ones which haven't passed) and have to consider the community's reaction. Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (NSFW) is one which would most certainly not go on the MP, for instance, even though it is a featured picture. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:42, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
You know, I would have no problem abdicating the hermaphrodite image from the POTD lineup altogether. Having the male being highlighted is an honor all its own, and the hermaphrodite, while still a pretty neat picture, is repetitive of the worm theme anyway. Plus I know there's a huge backlog of images for POTD, and I don't see any reason to crowd it with that. You can consider me taken care of.
(...Also, I heard the Fisherman's wife preferred the younger octopus. As one would (!).) KDS4444Talk 12:21, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
  • Har har. The "worm theme" isn't an issue, as a year or so is more than enough time between two similar images. Some subjects have multiple FPs (USS Arizona being one of them). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:23, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

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Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:C elegans male.svg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 13, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-10-13. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:59, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

You are a dream! Thank you! I will be letting my mom know to look for it on that day! KDS4444Talk 07:05, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
And let me compliment you on writing the caption for the image— I just made a few minor adjustments, but it read like a pro already. Well done. KDS4444Talk 12:12, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed you did not like the way I wrote the article Stephen Bustin, because you stated that " Wikipedia citations are supposed to be about the article content, not citations to its subject's work." I am posting here because I wanted to know exactly which sources in this article shouldn't be there. Jinkinson (talk) 14:23, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Got your message. Basically (though not definitively) any reference that has Bustin as an author shouldn't be used as a citation for an article on Mr. Bustin. As the article stands right now (Oct. 7 2013) this would include numbers 3,5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. The references in the article should consist of secondary sources— that is, sources in which Bustin's work is discussed, not primary sources— those in which Bustin himself helped generate. Please let me know if this makes sense, and if not then I will see if I can elaborate. KDS4444Talk 19:10, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
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