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Hi John,
Just curiosity — where was that photo taken? It made me miss Tucson.
Thanks, Pekinensis 15:37, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
You are correct in your assessment - an editted redirect is not a valid destination for a move. You are also correct that the rename is the right thing to do. The intermediary step is what you botched. Don't bother with it. I've fixed things up for ya. - UtherSRG 18:00, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
Done. Give it a peek and polish it up. -- DanielCD 20:14, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've been on wikiholiday for the past few months and so I didn't see your post. I've been wanting to remove Hawaii ever since WhisperToMe placed it there. The terminology widest interpretation pre-dates my arrival at wikipedia but was appropriated and used by myself and other editors of U.S. regions articles. The hierarchy of terms: always, sometimes, and rarely evolved out of previous article practices and were "formally" institutionalized by WikiProject:U.S. Regions. Unfortunately, the project has largely been a failure, successful in instituting a hierarchy which is largely irrelevant but has not been successful in creating articles which discuss regions from a NPOV, stereotype free, view. Two major polices have been misundrestood 1. broadest interpretation; this was used to justify the inclusion of Hawaii and 2. the use of the Census Bureau Regions as the standard interpretaion of regions when, and only when, one is necessary. Misinterpretation of this policy, or rather a rejection of misinterpreted policy, has lead to the subversion of the U.S. West article and creation of the American West where only one article is necessary. I'm sorry to ramble but I've been so frustrated over these problems. If you are interested in helping reform the WikiProject, please contanct me via my talk page. I have also posted a suggestion on the Southwest talk page regarding your changes. - JCarriker 01:45, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Is it necessary to invent a new template zh-stpl? It doesn't seem that it would be used all that often, and you could just use:
{{zh-stp|s=...|t=...|p=...}}; literally "abcd"
Otherwise, we could have templates for zh-stpP for Postal pinyin, etc. and the number of templates would increase to an unmanageable point. Probably even the "w" templates with Wade-Giles were probably overkill.
-- Curps 18:17, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for moving it to the taxobox! I'm a bit of a newbie at botany articles, so didn't think of it. I'm busy picking through various photos I've taken of native California plants to upload. I suppose the caption should say something like "the plants with the round leaves, with a central stem ..." The stuff tastes pretty good, by the way. :-) Happy editing! Antandrus 04:11, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Discussion moved to Talk:Maize
I notice you've uploaded lots of useful images, including one for okra. It would be nice to have these in wikicommons so that they could be used in wikibooks too. I hope it isn't too much trouble to move all the images. — AlbertCahalan
Thank you for doing the Pork rind/ Chicharrón merge. If I had tried to do it, I know that I'd end up spending hours trying to improve the article as well, so that's the reason that I posted it at WP:DA instead. I'm not sure why, but I seem to be finding more duplicate articles lately, or maybe I have just learned how to look for them. BlankVerse ∅ 16:50, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
I think I understand your intent in paring down the Drumstick (disambiguation) page, but it seems to have lost some information in the process. In particular, when a particular term is not notable enough to have its own article, and where the disambiguator doesn't really tell you what is going on, e.g. drumstick (poultry), it seems to me useful to have some additional information, at least until someone actually writes that article -- and in fact it may not deserve its own article, but only part of "chicken parts" or "chicken cuts" or something. Are there also going to be articles on thigh (poultry), dark meat (poultry), etc.? -- Macrakis 17:47, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Can we get a source for the Lanmao Hui? Pretty interesting addition! ~ Dpr 02:01, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Lupine may be spelled "lupin" in some countries, but it is spelled "lupine" in others, such as the U.S. It'd probably be better to respect local variations in this matter. Thanks for your contributions. Cheers, - Willmcw 05:43, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. I don't know how or why that spelling came about. It's still pronounced "lupin", which is very confusing to budding botanists. Cheers, - Willmcw 01:07, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
Hi - just thought you'd like to know that {{ vegetable-stub}} has been created! Grutness... wha? 3 July 2005 06:17 (UTC)
Hi Pekinensis,
I was wondering how you have "no native language", that doesn't really make sense to me. Thanks. Please reply on my talk page. -- Hottentot
Both you and I have tagged Kovatch for speedy deletion, but the page history shows nothing. I've retagged it, but do you know what's happening? — Pekinensis 01:18, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Ah, I see! I don't usually interact with parts of Wikipedia that change that quickly, or with vandals that actually repeat their vandalism. Anyway, I should have realized what was going on, rather than imagining a database glitch. Thank you. — Pekinensis 01:36, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Pekinensis - could you check I've got the correct Chinese character at Yew, please? (my browser doesn't display Chinese characters at all, so I copied it by positional guesswork) - thanks, MPF 16:58, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your input on User:FrancisTyers/Fuck the Border, just wondering if you'd had any more thoughts on the matter, please drop by the talk page if you think of anything - FrancisTyers 09:20, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi Pekinensis - just thought I'd clarify my re-insertion of 8m as small at Khat, my general use is to say 'small' for trees from 6-15m, 'small to medium size' for 15-25m, 'medium-size' for 25-35m, 'medium to large' for 35-45m, 'large' for 45-60m, and 'very large' for anything over 60m (right up to 110m). I'm not always fully consistent, but 8m is definitely 'small' in my book! - MPF 10:55, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing it up. I have been watching this page for a while since I am growing Xanthosoma for the first time this year. I was going to wait for someone else to fix it, but it is a pet peeve of mine when people indiscriminately delete large sections that they don't like. I just created a Sockpuppet to revert the Deletionist damage. The dramatic was intentional so they may remember to be more careful before using their delete key (In my main account I maintain balance and respect for Wikipedian contributions). I always like to see content improved, moved to a new article, or related to the main article better before the mass deletions. Seeing the edits now, they were obviously just concerned with one aspect of that section. Perhaps in the future they will act in a more measured manner. Glad you got a laugh. 03:49, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
I may have not understood the translation - would you please go check on what I've done ( chuño)? I got the idea that picana was a side dish to other Christmas dishes. Please correct any mistakes, and thank you for translating that most interesting article. -- Mothperson cocoon 21:40, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
You seem to be quite knowledgeable about agronomy to me. Would you like to help establishing and improving the Agronomy portal? You can find its present incarnation at
Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Agronomy --
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Thank you, Im not sure of what else is needed to talk these stupid banner off of this page could you help me with that, everything i said thus far i have backed up with audio
god bless you. -- Mothperson cocoon 17:06, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Cripes - I'd forgotten that. I take it you know Mel? -- Mothperson cocoon 17:14, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! I'm thinking that myself (as I suspect my morning suggestion of Mauritania Railway is likely to be overlooked =)). If this is an area of interest of yours, by the way, please feel free to flesh this out however you like; it's spun off from the Africa Collaboration of the Week, and the week's definitely ticking away! All the best, Dvyost 06:25, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. I tried to do what I could for the article, given the information that was already on the page. Also, I tried to reduce the POV by saying that "it is claimed by his website that...", instead of simply saying he has it. I still dont know what to do about the template at the top, though. Look and decide if it should be removed. Journalist 21:43, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Snake gourd or serpent gourd is variusly known in India (e.g., in Bengal it is called Chichinga) while pointed gourd is called potol there and parwal in North India. The site [3] shows pictures of all the varieties available worldwide. The page on Trichosanthes may be made into a Redirection page with links pointing to snake gourd and pointed gourd. Supten 05:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi Pekinensis - hope you won't mind, I've changed the position of the commons links back, as having them above the species list made the layout even worse with a huge gap above the species list (see pic). I agree there's a problem with positioning the commons links, it might be worth raising it with someone who knows how to design the commons link template better (I don't, unfortunately) - MPF 21:34, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
If you have a minute could you add the Chinese for Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center? I have no idea in this regard and notice you've done it elsewhere. I'm actually attempting to greatly expand the Chinese space program category; check my main page if you're at all interested. Thanks. Marskell 10:53, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
User:Omegatron/Tablenamespacespam — Omegatron 01:07, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
The suspicion for all (raw) edible Aquatic plants needs to be emphasised on the plant pages, as confirmed by the stanford links. would you please do some correction on my english, too? http://www.stanford.edu/class/humbio103/ParaSites2002/fasciolopsiasis/fasciolopsiasis.html
greetings m. -- 87.193.4.244 01:07, 21 September 2005 (UTC) Ps: maybe you know about water mimose, also ? looking forward to read, m.
Did you REALLY step in shit? WTF were you doing? Did you get an infection?
If you have a minute, could you take a look at the article Yuan (surname) - I've put it up for peer review (see Wikipedia:Peer review/Yuan (surname)/archive1). I hope to make it a model for expanding other Chinese surname articles. Since you've contributed to the Chinese surname article, I would really appreciate your suggestions. Yu Ninjie 21:57, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
I do not want to make an issue of it either, but I am curious as to why you think my user name constitutes a violation of Wikipolicy. Lao Wai 09:17, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
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G'day Pekinensis,
Sorry for the late reply regarding cucumber greens. I honestly have no idea if they're edible. I haven't heard anything that suggests they're poisonous, so my first inclination would be to see what they taste like and go from there. Mind you, eating plants that you're not absolutely sure about can make you ill or dead, so just because I'd do something doesn't mean that you should. ☺
All the very best,
zen3 me yang4, Pekinensis? ni cong2 nar lai2? zhong guo?
I wanted to thank you for providing the Wiki-introductory materials to me (a 7-month belated thanks; but thanks nonetheless!). I also had two hopefully brief, non-invasive questions. I've read a lot of Wiki-materials, but I still can't figure out how to do two things:
1.) I have completely rewritten the subtelomere entry and provided my own (ghetto-fabulous) diagram, so I would like to remove the Wikipedia notations at the top which proclaim that the article "needs to be introduced better" (it was literally *only* bullet points previously; see the undeleted section i left untouched after my entry) and the suggestion that it be "cleaned up". I feel my new upgrades obviate the need for these warning banners, but i cannot figure out how to petition for their removal. Help!
2.) I have noticed that when one looks up heyoka on wikipedia, the most significant meaning (that of a sacred clown in indian culture) is buried within the title of a rock band. I promise I'll write a proper Wikipedia entry for the concept of a "sacred clown" in Lakota culture if you let me know how I can petition to have that be a separate entry and not an oh-by-the-way footnote to some french rock group.
sorry for spamming your user talk page...and thanks for your help!
Could you PLEASE stop making redirects of specific species to their genera? it becomes EXTREMELY annoying if you try to make a species article and it redirects to a genus article because you have to sort out all the common names and things like that. Species articles should NOT be redirected to genus articles simply because they're not the same! The info there doesn't apply to every single species. Just PLEASE stop.-- TheAlphaWolf 00:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Ok, don't make articles for every single species known to man. Fine by me. I never suggested that should be done. However, redirecting species articles to ones that are NOT about the specific species is just wrong. If I search a species, I want to know information on that species. Not on the genus, not on the family, not on anything else. I want the information specific to that species and nothing else. It is utterly useless and annoying if people want to know something specific to one species and are redirected to the article for the genus instead. People are not stupid. Stop treating them like mindless idiots who don't know how to perform a search. If they want to find information on the genus, they search for the genus, not the species. You're just making everyone's life harder, including yours.-- TheAlphaWolf 22:47, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
The problem is that you haven't been doing that. Take the Amaranth article for example. The only piece of information about most if not all the species you redirected to the genus article is their common name(s). It's the same story with many of your other redirects. I've only come across a few genus articles that did have a short description of different species. The rest had no information about them. -- TheAlphaWolf 16:57, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
No no no. You're missing the point. As I said earlier, I'm not advocating making one-sentence stubs for every single species known to man. That's stupid. If there isn't enough info for an article, its best to not make it. But making hundreds of redirects to one article that ISN'T about the subject matter is pointless. Ok, you can find the common name after looking through a list of species and their common names. Wow. How useful.
And again, you're treating people like they're stupid. First off, if people know the scientific name for something, they more than likely know the common name, and they know about the binomial system. Even if they don't, most people will try searching one or the other words if both words together don't show any results, so they'd be taken to the amaranth article. Secondly, it's easy enough to search both words and then click one of the results (which would be the amaranth article). Heck, I just tried it with Amaranthus crispus, and I get more information right now than if it had redirected me to the amaranth article. Not only do I get the amaranth article as a result, I also know from the results that their range includes britain, ireland, palestine, and israel. Something which I wouldn't know if the species redirected to the amaranth article.
One last point is that merging articles like that discourages people from starting new articles. There are many newbies that are starting articles, and they may not know how to get around the redirect, so they don't start a new article. Or even members that have been here for a while may forget to redirect the other common/scientific names to the new article they created, and then you have a mess where searching "white amaranth" leads you to the amaranth article, but searching "Amaranthus albus" leads you to it's own article.
As for your last paragraph, I'm sure it does apply to other things, but I don't know of any specific examples so I'm not going to worry about that. I'm just talking about redirecting species to the genus article (or genera to family, etc).-- TheAlphaWolf 00:45, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to say that I'm impressed by the bar graph technique that you used for the graph on the Root vegetable page. Nice work! Waitak 11:00, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I was revisiting the article today and noticed the questions you left back in 2005.
Hi. Um, I'm pretty sure piped links are preferred over redirects... Hit me up if you want me to find the policy, and thanks, -- Rockero 17:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Does thishelp?
"Most especially, there should never be a need to replace [[redirect]] with [[direct|redirect]].
Some editors are under the mistaken impression that fixing such links improves the capacity of the Wikipedia servers. But because editing a page is thousands of times more expensive for the servers than following a redirect, the opposite is actually true."
-- TheAlphaWolf 01:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
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I and seglea were puzzled that you moved the talk page of Wavy-leafed Soap Plant before you moved the article. Perhaps you are not aware that moving the talk page is one of the options on the dialog for moving the article. Doing them together avoids confusion.
seglea was upset that you had changed it from its common name. I actually favor listing most plants under their binomials (see the link I left on Talk:Chlorogalum pomeridianum), but it's always a good idea to at least mention it on the talk page a while before you do it, so that no one is blind-sided and any substantive objections can be voiced.
It's also a good idea to at least change the first sentence so that it mentions the new name first (I went ahead and did that).-- Curtis Clark 03:44, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm not entirely certain why you have de-categorized Lamiaceae and Gesneriaceae from Lamiales. Explanation? MrDarwin 13:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I saw your comments on the talk page of buffalo (or maybe it was bison; not sure).
Anyhow, I do linguistics and socio stuff, my biology is limited to "Keep Piling Cookies On Green Platters" (you know: kingdom, phylum, canus...etc.). The Arawak page was recently edited to place buffalo in the Caribbean. The edit removed caribou if I recall correctly. I have no idea whether either of these species could be placed inthat location, but I am feeling extremely skeptical of a universe (probably an alternate universe) in which buffalo roam the Greater Antilles.
Oh biology guy, canst thou help shed light upon these dark matters? :-)
later -- Ling.Nut 16:40, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I saw you made the disambiguation page for Cowslip. Is Caltha palustris known as a Cowslip in the US? (I assume that's where you are). I've double-checked in various sources for UK and European flora, and they've confirmed that in the UK cowslip only refers to Primula veris, whereas Caltha palustris is the Marsh marigold. I think it would be useful to put this geographical information on the disambiguation page, to avoid confusion. Jasper33 19:21, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
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Can you please not redirect species to their genus? Only species to species, or genus to genus, please (where alternative names exist) - otherwise we end up with lots of circular redirects that confuse readers and obfuscate the state of articles. Thank you. Samsara ( talk • contribs) 11:27, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
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