User talk:Phil Bridger/July 2022 – September 2022

You're mistaken

Sorry, but "majority", which is the subject, is NOT singular when used with a collection of individuals; colleagues are individuals whereas WP editors would be a group. You shouldn't have reverted me, but it's not a biggy. Atsme 💬 📧 12:40, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy?

You removed my prod of Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy. I will not take it to AfD because I think established professors are noteworthy. However, I do not think this guy actually meets any of the eight stated criteria at WP:PROF. He may have met one or more of the criteria at WP:NAUTHOR, but if so it's not clear to me and it's certainly not supported by any sources I can find. Therefore I do not understand your edit summary, which said "contest deletion - clearly passes both WP:PROF and WP:AUTHOR". Would you please explain your reasoning? I would like to be able to justify notability for other professors as the need arises. In particular, how can we find and include references to reliable sources that support your conclusion? (courtesy ping: user:Damerell). I'm willing to work with you and Damerell on this if there is something I can do. -Arch dude (talk) 14:52, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A search for academic papers written by other people about his work, such as this one finds a lot of reviews of his books, which count towards WP:PROF#C1 and WP:AUTHOR. Phil Bridger (talk) 15:30, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A belated reply

I only just saw your very reasonable question here: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Md._Shah_Newaz_Chowdhury. The article was in completely different shape when I voted and the lede suggested he was a student. I support the keep. CT55555 (talk) 23:10, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Solimões Formation

@Phil Bridger Hello, I noticed you redirected the page to the Pebas Formation, but you didn't provide a source. According to many sources, they are different formations. Patachonica (talk) 14:55, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't actually create the redirect, that was Andrew Dalby, but I contested speedy deletion of the redirect on the basis of sources such as this. I have no particular interest in geology, so I would suggest creating a separate article for this if the consensus (maybe at WikiProject Geology) is that most reliable sources regard this as a separate formation. I doubt that I will be taking part in any discussion. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:47, 22 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I saw sources similar to the one that Phil Bridger links to, but I agree that other sources treat the two formations as distinct. This isn't the only case where geologists aren't consistent over time, or with one another, in the assigning of formation names. An article about the Solimões Formation would solve this problem.

The Portuguese pt:Lista de unidades estratigráficas do Brasil doesn't help, because it doesn't list the Pebas Formation. Andrew Dalby 20:26, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is it possible that this formation is, or was in the past, usually known in English as the Pebas Formation but in Portuguese as the Formação Solimões? Phil Bridger (talk) 19:56, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrew Dalby: Why did you make the redirect in the first place out of curiosity? Patachonica (talk) 21:19, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Patachonica: Having encountered the Pebas Formation in a news report, I was writing a brief Latin article about the Pebas Formation: sources for this appeared at that time to be few and recent. I came across sources that implied the two formations were in some way identical, and older sources that named the Solimões Formation only. I had the impression that a link would be helpful, given that we had no article about the Solimões Formation (which, if there really is some link or overlap between the two, would define it and thus would be more helpful still). Andrew Dalby 14:11, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Aviation accidents and incidents in fiction

Per your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of aviation accidents and incidents in fiction, I thought you might like to see where things are going with Draft:Aviation accidents and incidents in fiction. Cheers! BD2412 T 19:36, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

RFC regarding rules on paged for districts and councils

Hi. As a respected Wikipedian would you be able to visit the RFC at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography and give your opinion?Davidstewartharvey (talk) 06:12, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

September 2022

Hello, Phil Bridge, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Mosvi2014 (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. User: Screwfixed (talk) 07:25, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What on Earth makes you think that? And please at least get my name right if you must throw around such spurious warnings. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:28, 6 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ironically, this editor was just blocked as a sockpuppet. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:25, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]