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Infobox color

Hello! How are infobox colors managed? For infobox deity, if Greek is added in "type" parameter, green appears, yellow for "Hindu", "pink" for "Roman"! Haoreima (talk) 11:56, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

There is a page "Infobox" on En wiki that goes over the basics. Infoboxes are a way of life for some editors on En wiki! We often copy theirs. Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:42, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Except I can't copy off other's exams when I am sitting mine, or I get a big fat doughnut. (AKA a 0) --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 03:10, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Brij Kishore Sharma "Tara"

For request undeletation So please read this full When the deletion tag added in the wikipedia page I research about him and get more sources about him now I have added all sources now you can review that page now the page has good references and I removed wrong references which are not reliable and I want to say something that when you click first reference you have to create an account to see it but don't fear about it because it is the official website of Government of India and after creating an account you have to reclick it and you will get his imformation which is reliable and notable because it is the official website of India and to make this process I have added achived link Thankyou 2405:201:3000:4110:A1AD:41DB:7329:2F1E (talk) 06:53, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Extension of block

Hey Macdonald-ross. May I ask why you extended the block on 90.129.223.232 to one whole month? The user of an IP can change, as you know, and just because they making bad changes for half an hour does not mean they're going to be making bad changes repeatedly over a month. --Ferien (talk) 15:26, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

The user was completely out of control, and I judged he needed much longer cooling-off period. Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:28, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Deleting pages at RfD

If you're going to close a page currently at requests for deletion, please remember to close it. Also, please try not to delete pages at RfD where you have been involved in the discussion. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 11:15, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

You also forgot to close this one today: Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2021/User:Krasheduzzamanrafi. If you don't know how to close RfDs, it's relatively simple. Add {{archive top}} (substituted) to the top of the page and {{archive bottom}} (also substituted) to the bottom of the page. Below the archive top part, put {{deleted}} or {{kept}} depending on the consensus, or just say "Quickly deleted" if you have quickly deleted the page, and sign your message. Thanks, --Ferien (talk) 16:34, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Please take a glance...

Hello Macdonald-ross,

when you have the time, can you take a glance at Circadian clock. I started with internal clock, but later moved the article. As I understand, most of these clocks are circadian. Thank you. --Eptalon (talk) 10:40, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

• Serves me right for not checking. We now have two pages, one called Circadian rhythm, the other called Circadian clock. I'll merge them tomorrow. They are on virtually the same topic. The one bright spot is that so does En wiki! The distinction between rhythm and clock is almost meaningless, because both need to be covered in the article. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:32, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

• Didn't get it done today, but will work on it tomorrow. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:08, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Carom billiards

I've put this discussion on the talk page of Carom billiards. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:40, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Hope Tala

Hi again! I'm going to take a look at billiards in a moment, but I noticed that you deleted Hope Tala, an article currently at RFD. While I agree that articles obviously not meeting the scope of the project should be deleted, I felt that Hope Tala had a legitimate reason to be included on the project. She is getting quite a bit of attention and significant coverage in the UK and is scheduled at a major festival in France later this year. Do you think that that article is recoverable so that it can be worked on? Best, Griff (talk) 18:37, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Well, it seems to me that if the biog being discussed on En wiki is kept, then we should do likewise. We can safely follow En in cases of specialised expertise. The present status of the En wiki draft is "waiting for review". Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:07, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Star system

I've put this discussion on the talk page of Star system. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:51, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Osmoregulation

Hello, I've noticed that you're interested in biology topics, so I was wondering if you could review the article on osmoregulation that I expanded. Thanks! Lights and freedom (talk) 21:21, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Well, you couldn't have chosen a more difficult topic! Macdonald-ross (talk) 05:47, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Changing what I say

Could you do me a favor and not edit what I say. It is one thing to correct an edit to an article or fixing an error in how something is rendered ( [blah]] instead of [[blah]] ), but to edit my opinion on a matter is entirely different even if it is just poor spelling/typos. --Creol(talk) 18:33, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

I do apologise. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:23, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Category:Female scientists

An editor has requested deletion of Category:Female scientists, an article you created. We appreciate your changes, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Please comment on the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2022/Category:Female scientists and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also change the article during the discussion to address the nominator's concerns. But you should not remove the requests for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you very much. Lights and freedom (talk) 22:35, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

• Gave opinion on RfD. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:31, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

I need your opinion

Hi, I noticed your watchfulness relating to my recent edits. So, could you look at this edit? Did not I go too far this time? 85.193.211.12 (talk) 19:59, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

OK, my thoughts are these:

1. In general, a word like "abysmal" would be changed as you suggest. But this is a direct quotation of something published elsewhere. In that case, we leave the words unchanged. Sometimes the word can be explained after the quote, or in a footnote. Sometimes a quote can be shortened by using ... where words have been left out.

2. "Used" instead of "employed" is good, in this context. But the sentence is far too long, and needs to be broken down into two or three sentences. Try putting a full stop after U.S. and adjusting the rest of the sentence. Also, you see I write U.S. with full points after each letter. That's a formality which does not increase difficulty, but shows respect for the traditional way of writing used in most books. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:26, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

A thought added later. It's quite time-consuming to edit properly, so choose your time wisely. Don't try to do something complex until you have time to do it well. I see a lot of editing which has been done too quickly. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:42, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Wow. I am really impressed with you response. So I corrected the article (hopefully) according to your suggestions. Though I have no idea if I have met your expectations. Thank you :-) BTW, do you see anything wrong or unnatural in my English? 85.193.211.12 (talk) 22:47, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

I've adjusted your page Human rights in Uzbekistan to illustrate how to do it in Simple English. Move into the active tense whenever possible. Oh, goodness, I see we don't have a page titled "Active tense". How did that happen? Maybe it's called something else. I've put in a link. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:00, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Active voice? Oh, definitely. I even felt that something was wrong. Now I see that instead of "this edit is made after consulting with...", I could have written: "I made this edit after consulting with...". Thank you for pointing this out. I really appreciate your advice. 85.193.211.12 (talk) 20:55, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think it's usually called active voice. There is an article for that (voice (grammar)), but it mostly talks about the passive voice. Lights and freedom (talk) 06:23, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

@User:Lights and freedom A very good link. Thanks :-) 85.193.211.12 (talk) 20:55, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

I don't think Earth was demoted from GA

You removed the good article tag from Earth: Special:PermanentLink/7619721 but I think it was still supposed to be a good article. It was promoted here: Special:PermanentLink/1672992 after this discussion: Wikipedia:Proposed good articles/Archive 6#Earth 4, and I don't see any evidence that it was demoted. Lights and freedom (talk) 23:51, 22 May 2022 (UTC)

Apparently I did that, and my comments were put on the talk page. The core of it was the explanation of why the Earth goes round the Sun, which is inadequate. Apparently, from my comment, I thought it had been delisted. Sorry. Macdonald-ross (talk) 05:58, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

(But it should have been delisted, because that is a very serious complaint)! Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:58, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Father's day

Hi, Can you please hide this edit because it contains bad and offensive language, thanks. Kiro Bassem (talk) 19:43, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

It's just vandalism, we don't hide that. Obscene language against a person would be different. Others will read this, and they can make their own minds up. I think hiding bad edits is a last resort, but thank you for taking an interest. Macdonald-ross (talk) 19:54, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Eemian

I think Eemium should be Eemian. Lights and freedom (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Threat

Do you think you could attempt to simplify the article threat? A few issues stood out:

• "A threat is basically a declaration of intent to cause punishment or harm or loss on another." - the words "declaration" and "intent" make it hard to read
• "one that is promises harm that cannot or will not actually be inflicted." - mainly the word "inflicted"
• "To encourage compliance" - the word "compliance"
• "The threat part may be implied, yet effective." - the words "implied" and "effective"

Maybe changing from passive voice to active voice would help? Lights and freedom (talk) 05:32, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

I didn't think it was that bad, except for the introduction, which I re-wrote. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:40, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

It's good now. I just thought, if the article doesn't use simple words, what's the point? Lights and freedom (talk) 15:47, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Well, yes! Macdonald-ross (talk) 16:38, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Web host violation

Does this wiki have a webhost violation policy? I think this page should be deleted. What do you think? This user tried to create this article in several wikis. He is blocked in bnwiki for x-wiki spamming. —Yahya (talk • contribs.) 13:41, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

So long as the article is in one if his sub-pages {User:forward-slanting slash) it does not appear on the general wiki as a page. If the user is not using the facility at the present, maybe no problem. But the point about his block may be relevant. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:49, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

EFEM article deletion

User:Macdonald-ross Hello Sir quick question why did you delete article EFEM with 17 refereces could you please stop abusing with your privileges this artist is notable and now i will call all administrators in talk page to see if this article has criteria you cant do this https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFEM92.105.153.188 (talk) 22:20, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) IP editor - First this is not misuse of any administrator rights. Secondly back in May this article was brought up as a request for deletion Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2022/EFEM and it was deleted per policy as you can see in the RfD. If the article does not have reliable and trustworthy sources then it does not meet the criteria needed to be on Wikipedia. Lastly stating that an admin has abused their privileges and stating you are gonna have other administrators come to this discussion can be seen as violating the policy of assuming good faith. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 22:29, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

I think you are wrong this artist has reliable, trustworthy sources if you think Albanian press are not reliable you are wrong many of this tv news sources has wiki already they are all reliable before it was deleted because of Racism So he has Albanian Wikipedia already and he has wikidata but his name sometimes does not show on google because it has many business Similar name as restaurant company and others now i can tag here many wiki that has less niformations then this artist please do not use your privileges just because you can Kepp the article because it meets the criteria he is public figure in albania kosovo Nord macedonien Montenegro 92.105.153.188 (talk) 22:47, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

check this please is in english just ju can search for for rtv21 on wikipedia he is on this and you can also read in englsih http://en.rtv21.tv/efem-publikon-kengen-e-re-shake-it/ 92.105.153.188 (talk) 22:51, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

This was not a one person decision. This was a decision made by the community here on Wikipedia. You can ask to have it go to Wikipedia:Deletion review to request review, however, since it is already on there with a consensus of delete as well, and based on the references you listed I personally do not see this status changing. I would encourage you to not push this as the exact same things you are saying here you said under a different IP. I say this because of what words and references you are giving match word for word. This can immediately get you blocked. At this point I will not respond any further as this should now go to an admin. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 23:00, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

You can already see there was also 3 people for to keep it but Unfortunately was deleted could you sugest this article what should be diferent for this article to meet criteria on your opinon what should be changed thank You 92.105.153.188 (talk) 23:13, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Go to WP:DRV if you have a problem with deletion. It was deleted based on consensus. The argument of basing notability on the number of sources is invalid unless it meets one of the notability criteria. BRP ^ever 23:28, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

could you please list for me one notability criteria which one is more important which you consider, for example searching in google the name of the artist and if it shows nothing, then this means is not notable ? because press in Albanian langue google doesn't detect it this is the problem

Thank You 92.105.153.188 (talk) 00:22, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

I cannot do that. Criteria is set by community after community consensus.-- BRP ^ever 00:42, 7 July 2022 (UTC)

Sources for medicine articles

Hi Mac. I think you've worked a lot on medical articles, or so it seems from the award on your talk page. On enwiki, they have strict requirements for the sources at en:WP:MEDRS, so much that I'm scared to edit them. A lot of medical articles here have no sources at all. Do we have to follow that guideline, or can we use websites like Mayo Clinic and National Institutes of Health instead? Lights and freedom (talk) 03:56, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

We can use NIH and Mayo Clinic as sources happily. Probably En has formed their system to prevent the huge commercial interests from getting their foot into En pages. Nevertheless, we need to be aware that medicine is perhaps the most critical topic with respect to advertisements. Incidentally, pages which describe how the body works are not really medical pages, just general information which everyone should have. Pages that describe illnesses and above all treatments are where the advertisement issue may be a live one. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:22, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

Okay thanks. Lights and freedom (talk) 06:25, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

@Lights and freedom When you use those sites they have their sources used (typically at the bottom or where the portion of the article ends) and you can dive into those and use those as sources if you wanted to as well. PDL^{Talk to me!}_{OMG, What have I done?} 06:50, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

It seem that sources on this wiki don't need to be in Simple English - am I right? If so why not just use the same en:WP:MEDRS sources the enwiki article about the subject uses? Chidgk1 (talk) 16:57, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

Obviously, there is a reason, and the reason is: to be meaningful, a source has to be accessible to the reader. "Accessible" means it can be found, read and understood by the user. Ask yourself whether the average Simple reader is going to cope with sources which (I assure you) tax the best medical students at university level. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:06, 7 August 2022 (UTC)