User talk:Karlfonza

December 2015

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Speedy deletion nomination of Edgerton Park Conservancy

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I don't want to put a damper on your enthusiasm so I'd like to point you at voy:, Wikipedia's sister project where some of your material would be very welcome. Have a peek at voy:New Haven. Regards, Bazj (talk) 13:26, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Conophytum bilobum

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Conophytum bilobum requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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I have removed the speedy deletion tag. Might I suggest cropping and re-uploading the photo, so it's clear which plant is C. bilobum without the need for an elaborate caption? Choess (talk) 03:07, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More is not always better

I see you have been adding images to a lot of articles. I suggest that you should be more selective. Each image should add some useful information to an article. If an article already has many images, every additional image should add some information that is not already covered by the existing images. If this is not the case, it should not be added. Captions should directly relate to, and should usually describe, the image. Captions like "Pineapples are high in vitamin C" or "Mangos are a sweet fruit" are not appropriate, because the caption describes something that the image does not illustrate.--Srleffler (talk) 07:07, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I endorse this comment. Please read WP:NOTGALLERY. Taxoboxes normally have only one image, unless there are very good reasons for more (e.g. males and females of a species are different in appearance). Peter coxhead (talk) 14:14, 22 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Mammillaria perezdelarosae) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Mammillaria perezdelarosae, Karlfonza!

Wikipedia editor Animalparty just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

I added a more complete taxobox for you. A quick shortcut is to copy and paste the taxobox of a related species, (e.g. Mammillaria elongata) changing only the species name, authority, etc.

To reply, leave a comment on Animalparty's talk page.

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December 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia! Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent uploads, such as the file you uploaded at Dionysus, did not appear to be constructive and has been or soon will be deleted. Please read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The quality of the image is very low - and the result almost meaningless. Please refer to wikipedia's policy on images in articles. I see others have made similar comments, above. Haploidavey (talk) 11:29, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Grace farms

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January 2016

Please do not remove speedy deletion notices from pages you have created yourself, as you did with Grace farms. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion, which appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. John from Idegon (talk) 06:02, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Grace farms

I boldly moved your article to draft space to give you time to work on it. I would highly suggest you get an experienced editor to review it before returning it to mainspace. John from Idegon (talk) 06:47, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks! I'm done for now, how do I move it out of draft space?

Peace, Karl

replied at Draft talk:Grace farms. John from Idegon (talk) 20:54, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

January 2016

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Texaco, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. Sundayclose (talk) 03:11, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

February 2016

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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive, until the dispute is resolved through consensus. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges. Many of the images and/or links you have been adding have been removed by various other editors on numerous grounds..."offtopic", "self-promotion", and "no encyclopediac value" are the common themese of these complaints. Please take a step back and make sure each image you add truely adds something novel to what is already in the article from the perspective of enhaving reader understanding of the topic. DMacks (talk) 17:10, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Spammy links, especially inside image captions

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:33, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Echeveria nodulosa

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Unremarkable miscellaneous

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Chopsticks and Thai food

Hi there. Thai people don't eat with chopsticks unless they're eating Chinese, Japanese, or Korean food. Thais traditionally eat with their hands but nowadays mainly use spoons and forks. - Takeaway (talk) 19:12, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Images

Hi, Karl, I don't want to be rude but I couldn't help noticing that a high percentage of the images you've added recently have been deleted (by many different editors) as irrelevant, unencyclopedic, or not necessary for explaining the topic of the article in question. Given that you are not a newbie editor, you ought to be aware of these factors before you edit. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:12, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

February 2017

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Please refrain from uploading disruptive images with no encyclopedic value. It is considered vandalism. Thank you. $ɱ$ (talk) · vbm · coi) 16:05, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Primary colors

I reverted your changes at Primary colors, because your assertion that red, yellow, and blue "cannot be made by mixing other colors" and that that's why they are the chosen primaries makes no sense. Please explain on the article talk page where you're getting this, and maybe we can converge on a better (and sourced) way to put it. Dicklyon (talk) 23:46, 25 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I should have said in painting, printers use different colors that they mix.

The second one is more reputable because it's an edu, but the first one is more to the point and just a better looking website. [1], [2]

The second one doesn't support your point, and the first is nonsense: "the fundamental rule is that there are three colors that cannot be made by mixing other colors together" is completely outside the usual definitions of primary colors, which is that they are a pretty arbitrary set of colors that you'll mix other colors from. Dicklyon (talk) 05:44, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've learned it five times, once in elementary, again in middle and high school, then in college, and now again after college, so I'm pretty sure it's true that in painting, primary colors traditionally red, blue and yellow. I'm seeing now that's you're right, and I'll update my definition to say that primary colors are the colors that produce other colors. Since magenta is used as a primary color in printers, and also because with watercolors you can mix any two colors to make another color. Here are five more sources.

http://kidzone.ws/science/colorwheel.htm http://color-wheel-artist.com/primary-colors.html https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/primary%20color http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory https://www.gopaintingcompany.com/general-information/color-wheel/

Here's an article that confuses the point, and says red is not a primary color, but if you look into it, magenta is made up of red and blue, thus it is made up of traditional primary colors (red and blue). However, any three colors on a color wheel that an equilateral triangle would point to can be primary colors. http://johnmuirlaws.com/art-and-drawing/color-theory Wikipedia itself says this here under the definition of magenta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magenta

I think a better definition might be that primary colors are any colors from which the entire color spectrum can be derived. Traditionally, these colors are colors on a color wheel such as blue, yellow and red. Any three colors on a color wheel that an equilateral triangle would point to can be primary colors. White can used to create different shades of the same color. White and is classically defined as the absence of color, and black is also regarded as the absence of color or absorption of all colors.

I had to revert you again, as what you added about being able to get a whole spectrum from a set of primaries is also false. In general, it's a good idea to read the article, and if you think something is missing, find and consult some reliable sources instead of just trying to describe what you remember from school. Lots of people were taught, or remember, stuff that's not quite right. That's why we have WP:V and WP:RS. Dicklyon (talk) 22:52, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Here, I started a discussion: Talk:Primary_color#Primaries_in_art. Please indent your reply paragraphs like this by starting with a colon, and finish up with four tilde's (~'s) which will expand into a timestamped signature. Dicklyon (talk) 23:40, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright problem on Echeveria nodulosa

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Karlfonza, you have been warned various times (dating back to 2015) on this talk page and in other talk pages like Talk:Primary color/Archive 1#Primaries in art about making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. I understand you are a photographer, and perhaps you are contributing in good faith. But please note that anytime you add an image to an article, it has to be relevant to the content. If you are simply mindlessly inserting images without reading nor considering the article itself, other editors can reasonably suspect that they are promotional in nature. Any claims you make has to be supported by reliable sources, otherwise they would be considered as original research, in which they are not allowed. Please do not do so again, or you may lose your editing privileges. Thank you for your understanding. Alex Shih ^Talk 03:57, 7 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Guitar Chord Chart Spam

Please stop adding fingerings for guitar onto articles about chords. They have nothing to do with guitars, and make a lot of assumptions about tuning and instruments. They are unhelpful in these articles. Majneeds2chill (talk) 23:08, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Wednesday June 8, 11am-5pm: New York Botanical Garden - Environment of the Bronx - Editing Wikipedia for Beginners

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