User talk:SwainsonTimbo

dropping of middle name from "William John Swainson" on simple.wikipedia

Just as an FYI, I have completed the rename of pages and links on simple wikipedia for the rename of "William John Swainson" to "William Swainson" (including wikidata). Good catch! Fabrickator (talk) 06:34, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well done. Thank you for doing this much appreciated. One down many to correct. Now that you have done the simple one, how about attempting this one? My knowledge of Wikipedia is about zero. It might take me an number of years of frustration to get my head around what I have to do. SwainsonTimbo (talk) 21:43, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it has been changed. Is this your work? if so thank you very much for taking the time to make the change. All of Williams' descendants will greatly appreciate the correction. Very much appreciate it. SwainsonTimbo (talk) 22:00, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, not me, I was in the middle of writing a response to indicate that I was declining your invitation, explaining that I felt simple wikipedia was likely to be overlooked, and more importantly, if I did things wrong, there would be less messed up.

I'm not sure how how such tasks will get "propagated" to other language versions. There's also the issue of the citogenesis effects on non-WMF sites, i.e. numerous sites that are not part of WMF that have added the middle name (there is an enwiki page about citogenesis incidents, which might help to convince owners of third-party sites which have succumbed to placing an undeserved trust in wikipedia. ;-) Fabrickator (talk) 22:28, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for your help SwainsonTimbo (talk) 23:52, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removing the links that use the incorrect Name William John Swainson

The incorrect name has been removed -- Thank you. Is it now possible to fix all the links that are associated with the incorrect name. I have found over 300, all related to the birds, fish etc. Is it possible to have "Category:Taxa named by William John Swainson" correct with the correct name of William Swainson. I am very very new to this. Thanks Tim Swainson SwainsonTimbo (talk) 01:22, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]