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Happy editing! I dream of horses (talk page) (Contribs) Remember to notify me after replying off my talk page. 20:03, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"History" or "Discovery" section first

Hey, thanks for moving the "History" or "Discovery" section to the top of several articles such as in Plesiosaurus and some of the ornithopod dinosaurs, but remember that moving entire sections of pages can affect the placement of images, links, and possibly several other stuff, so maybe sometimes it's best to check the "show preview" of your edit to see if the images (or other important things) are placed where they belong, and don't ruin the structure of the article. For example, this edit of yours at Plesiosaurus somehow ruined the structure of the article, since there are too many images in one side, and those images belong to the "Discovery" section, which, if placed in the next section, is not relevant to what it's talking about. Overall, thanks for doing the section moves because in most articles about prehistoric animals this is how it should be; first mentioning how the animal was discovered, and then mentioning the anatomy of the animal, not the other way around. Anyways, just remember what I said above about the placement of things so that the structure isn't ruined. JurassicClassic767 (talk | contribs) 18:00, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Dead links in refs

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RfD listing

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Selecting redirects for discussion

Hi Vaporwaveboyfriend. I advise you to be more cautious with your selection of redirects for discussion. For example, your Rfd nomination for Vitol'd Karlovic Tseraskiy. Your rationale seems uninformed. Please always use Special:WhatLinksHere first. -- Rfassbind – talk 06:14, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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hi i just wanted to say i like your username

it is very cute :) Qster2323 (talk) 08:56, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Changing citations unnecessarily

re LGBT symbols citation edits.
You changed the citation for "The Origin of the Male and Female Symbols" on 21 February 2021. It was reversed on the same date. You made the same change again on 3 April 2021. The original citation was again restored. You are deliberately contradicting WP:CITEVAR, which states: "...editors should not attempt to convert Wikipedia to their own preferred style, nor should they edit articles for the sole purpose of converting them to their preferred style...." Please stop manipulating citations to suit your personal preference. I don't know if you're doing the same in other articles, but I am now formally notifying you of WP:CITEVAR. Ignorance is not bliss. Pyxis Solitary (yak). L not Q. 18:38, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Melitea

I'm not really sure there's a need for a Melitea article like you requested [1]. Per hdl:10088/977 "The name Melitea Péron & Lesueur, 1810, has never been used for a scyphozoan since its original publication, although it was misspelled Melitaea by Gistl, 1848. Both Mayer, 1910, and Kramp, 1961, fail even to mention it in their comprehensive works on medusae." So per the ICZN that's still enough to make Melitea Lamouroux, 1812 an invalid junior homonym, but I'm not sure that Melitea Péron & Lesueur, 1810, while potentially available, is notable enough for Wikipedia if there's been nothing written about the genus and no contemporary works seem to list it (I've searched.)? I can't even figure out what to redirect it to -- its type species was Melitea purpurea, which seems to have been transferred to both Orythia and Rhizostoma in the early 1800s, but I haven't seen any mention of this species in the past hundred years, at least searching online? Maybe some books will have more information, though. Umimmak (talk) 22:40, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article requests for invalid names.

I'm not really sure I see the benefit to you requesting so many articles for invalid taxa? Wikipedia generally doesn't find junior synonyms, junior homonyms, and the like to be notable... so if you know that, say, Merinthichthys is no longer considered a valid name I don't see why you would request an article for it. At best it would just be a redirect to Moringua with a {{R from alternative scientific name}}. Umimmak (talk) 22:39, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An article you requested has been created

An article you requested, Dais glaucescens, has been created. If you have any particular information or references pertinent to the article, just let me know so I can incorporate it. Let me know if there are any other articles you believe are important to create. Fritzmann (message me) 23:57, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mayu Island has been created

Last year you requested an article about Mayu Island (known as "Double Island" in 19th-century English-language sources). Just wanted to let you know that I've created the article and will probably add more information soon. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 21:49, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In case you're interested, I've now expanded the article with more details about the island and its history. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 20:52, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Merger discussion for Murder of Sarah Payne

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Too many species

I noticed that you added 46 species of the genus Actinidia to WP:PAR, including some that are not acccepted by POWO. May I ask why you want these articles created? Abductive (reasoning) 05:43, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I second the question and also am wondering why, if you have an interest in plants, you do not learn how to add plants to Wikipedia yourself? I see that you have added quite the list of plants "found in the Maya Forest" to WP:PAR, 15 of them to be exact. If you need someone to help you figure out how to build plant articles I would be willing to help you learn. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 21:23, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Minor and not-so-minor edits

Hi Vaporwaveboyfriend! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information.

You seem to be marking all of your edits as minor, and very few of them are. Please stop. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 11:09, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello

I noticed you edited some health-related articles recently; thanks for that. It doesn't look like it's your main area of interest, but I wanted to say that a bunch of us hang out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. It's a good place to ask questions about finding good sources for medical content or writing style. Feel free to put the group's page on your watchlist, or stop by to say hello if you ever need any help. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:16, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Overburdening WP:WikiProject Plants/Article requests

You have recently mass-added a whole bunch of Argyranthemum species to WP:PAR, including, in a separate edit, Argyranthemum jacobaeifolium, which is not an accepted species. Back in September and October 2023, I and another editor asked you for an explanation of this behavior, which you did not respond to. As you can see from looking at the history of WP:PAR, most requests languish for years, and even if an article gets created, there is no reason to believe that was due to its listing on WP:PAR. The editors at WP:WikiProject Plants are well aware that only about 20% of the 360,000 accepted species of plant listed by Plants of the World Online currently have articles. So, when users make a request for an article they need to have a very good reason for why Wikipedia needs an article on that particular plant, and refrain from overwhelming the editors with an indiscriminate list of every species in a genus. Abductive (reasoning) 05:46, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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