User talk:Tropical Storm Angela/Archive 8

Yellowjacket

Hi, Angela. This article needs some simplifying and copy editing. Here are some notes:

complex words/phrases: predatory, mistaken, lance, barb, throughout

The second sentence says "In other English-speaking countries". Other than what?

"known simply as wasps" - better to say that they're called wasps

They are located throughout" - located is used for things that are stationary, not usually when talking about the areas an animal is native to. A better way to say this is to say that they are "native to" the places, with a link to Native (ecology).

--Auntof6 (talk) 06:50, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Cow killer

Angela, please simplify more when you adapt articles from enwiki. In this article, you not only left some complex words, you also changed the meaning in one place. The enwiki article says "Over 400 species occur in the North American southwest". You said "They are especially found in the North American Southwest." Those don't mean the same thing.

The enwiki article says "Mutillidae can be found worldwide". You said that they're native to planet Earth. If a species lives all over the world, you don't use the phrase "native to".

The complex words you used were: resemble, dense, scarlet, queens (in this sense), drones (in this sense)

Are you using any kind of readability checker? I'd like you to start using one to help you with this. Let me know if you need help finding one. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:49, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

Two articles userfied

Hi, Angela. I just userfied two articles you created because they weren't simple enough.

User:September 1988/Executive Order 13769

complex words/phrases: admitted, suspend/suspended, resumed, indefinitely, directs, exceptions, exempted, dual nationals, pending, litigation, detained, revoked

Also, what does the term "on condition" mean?

I changed suspend to stop, admitted to let, directs to tells, revoked to taken away and detained to held. I'm looking for the meaning of on condition. Angela Maureen (talk) 05:35, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

The term on condition means "provided that" or "with the promise that".

Then I don't think it makes sense as used in the article. You might want to look at the actual text of the order to see what it says. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:13, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

I linked dual nationals using nationality. I also changed exceptions to exclusions. Angela Maureen (talk) 22:35, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

When you change "indefinitely resumed" to "for the time being stopped", you have to change the word order: "stopped" s/b before "for the time being".

You changed "exceptions" to "exclusions": exclusions isn't simple, either. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:13, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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I removed exclusions; I also put stopped before for the time being.

I removed on condition due to it not making sense. Angela Maureen (talk) 07:14, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

User:September 1988/Executive order (United States)

complex words/phrases: issued, full force of law, overturned, lack

other notes: article doesn't say what an EO is, just that it's issued by a POTUS

--Auntof6 (talk) 03:01, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

I changed it so that the article now says what an executive order is. Angela Maureen (talk) 17:12, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

That's good, but complex terms remain. Also, I missed one because it was originally misspelled: statute. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:22, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

I changed overturned to reversed. Angela Maureen (talk) 22:44, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

"Issued" still remains. Also, "force of law" is still complex, even without "full". --Auntof6 (talk) 06:13, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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Are these articles ready for mainspace? Angela Maureen (talk) 11:07, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

I removed force of law from this article. Angela Maureen (talk) 07:01, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

User blocked

I have blocked the IP user who was attacking your user page. Wikipedia editors do not have to put up with abuse from others. Keep up your good work. --Peterdownunder (talk) 23:31, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Your only warning to user 68.149.125.146

Angela, I don't think an only warning was called for here. The user used rude language, but it wasn't bad enough for an only warning. There's a difference between what this user said and the way our recent homophobic editors have been talking about physical violence. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:46, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Your qd request on Eric Lindros

Hi, Angela. I declined the qd request on this page because it did have a claim of notability. With sportspeople, just the fact that they played in certain leagues makes them notable. (Note that it's the league, not the team.) If this is the only indication of notability for someone, you have to make sure that a team they played for was in a qualifying league at the time he/she played for them. That's because teams can change leagues, so a team that's in a qualifying league today might not have been when a player played for them, or vice versa. This makes it tricky to determine notability for sportspeople. Fortunately, there's usually something else to support notability so we don't have to research all of that. You might like to look at en:WP:NSPORT, which has more info on this. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:42, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Warnings

Angela, please look at User talk:Alex the wikiguy. User Crasstun had left level-1 and level-2 warnings on the page on June 6. Then on June 13 you started over with level-1 again. Why? You should have continued with level-3 instead. It's only with IP editors that we have to start the warning levels over after some time passes. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:42, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

I apologize for that. I'm gonna be more careful in the future with warnings. Angela Maureen (talk) 09:50, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

No problem. He ended up with a full set of warnings anyway, and is now blocked. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:00, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Your comments at Simple talk

Angela, I want to explain why I removed the section you wrote at Simple talk about our homophobic vandal(s). I'm going to be very careful with what I say, for reasons I will explain. I've been deleting the user pages of those vandals because they left inappropriate personal information on them. Note that I am not saying what the information was, and I am not saying what kind of information it was. Certain types of personal information are not allowed to be posted or even mentioned. We just refer to it as "inappropriate personal information" so that there is no direct clue as to what it was. I removed your comments because they revealed that information. I would explain more if we were talking in private, but that's all I can say in public. If you discuss the information that was left, please do not be any more specific than I am being in this message. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:07, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Auntof6, I promise to be more careful when I use Simple Talk. I ain't intentionally revealing the information. I'll never do that ever again. Angela Maureen (talk) 10:12, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Auntof6, I do not believe that putting one's birthday on their user page is "inappropriate personal information." You are allowed to share that kind of information about yourself on your user page. If the person is a minor, we would discourage them from putting that out there, but there is nothing in policy that bans you from putting your birthday on your user page. Only (talk) 12:59, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

It's not the birthdate per se, but what it tells you. If a minor posted their birthdate (including the year), that would identify them as a minor. My understanding is that identifying onesself as a minor is not allowed. I was trying to keep this hypothetical, but you're making that hard. --Auntof6 (talk) 16:49, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

We discourage them from sharing that information, but it is not necessarily against policy for them to post their birthday. Usually we only start to worry when it's someone under 13 (which this user wasn't). If I am wrong, please show me where in policy it says "minors cannot identify themselves as minors" or "minors cannot post revealing information about themselves." I don't know why you think we need to keep this "hypothetical"; we're not revealing what the exact information was by saying they posted their birthday. Only (talk) 18:33, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Articles on history of pizza and sushi

Angela, I userfied these articles because they weren't simplified enough from the enwiki articles. I'm also not sure they're needed, because Pizza and Sushi each have history sections. Please simplify these more and make sure each article is significant enough to justify separate articles. If not, you could add to the existing articles. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 20:47, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

This is embarrassing! I have five articles on which I've gotta work. I wouldn't knowingly put complex words or terms in articles. Angela Maureen (talk) 20:54, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

That's a concern of mine when I look at your articles. If you don't knowingly include complex words, that implies that you don't know how to tell what words are complex. What can I do to help you figure that out yourself instead of relying on someone to tell you which words are complex? The info I've given you in the past about that doesn't seem to have helped. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:07, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

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Suggestion

Since you're talking again about becoming an admin, I thought I'd mention something. It may not be a good idea to use words like gonna, gotta, ain't, wanna, etc. Those are not standard English words. Many people whose English is not good won't understand them, and it would be important for people to understand you if you become an admin. It would be good if you use standard English. Just thought I'd mention it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:16, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Sushi and History of sushi

Angela, you need to reconcile your new article History of sushi with the history section in the main Sushi article. There is different information in the two places. I don't think we need to have all the information in both places, so I suggest doing one of the following:

• Combine the contents of the separate history article into the history section of Sushi. Then either redirect the history article or, preferably, delete it.
• Combine the content of Sushi#History into the history article. Then put a {{main}} template at Sushi#History.

I'd prefer to see the information in the main article instead of a separate one, because there is relatively little in total, but that's just one person's opinion.

The same issues exist with the pizza article you're working on, so I'll wait until you know how you want to resolve this before I look at that one any more. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:00, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Dhanteras

Hello Angela. I've recently started patrolling New changes in the simplewiki, especially since I live at GMT + 3 so I'm probably online earlier than many (or most) anglophone Wikipedians. When I saw Dhanteras had been created with only a single line of meaningless lower-case characters and the page name was unfamiliar to me, I checked w:Dhanteras. The topic looked so notable, I chose to copy its lead paragraph plus Infobox and edit them quickly into a good start for that page. Only when I returned to New changes did I see your nomination for QD. What else, if anything, am I to do now and in similar future situations? Thanks, -- Deborahjay (talk) 09:02, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Deborahjay: Thanks for salvaging the article. If you see an article nominated for QD, you can remove the QD template if you correct the issue for which it was nominated. The article as it is right now still needs some simplifying: some of the sentences are a bit long, and there are some complex words and phrases including lunar day, imparted, and rid. If you haven't read them already, the pages Wikipedia:How to write Simple English pages and Wikipedia:How to copy from another Wikipedia might be helpful. Also, please remember to give attribution when you copy text here from enwiki. Wikipedia:Transwiki attribution explains how to do that. Thanks again, and feel free to ask any questions you have about this. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:21, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Advice appreciated; done. -- Deborahjay (talk) 08:16, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Quick deletion of Cheetos

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Hi September. Obviously, that's a bad tag on my part. It's been fixed. Sorry. --Gordonrox24 | ^Talk 03:13, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Fixing dates

Hi, Angela. When you fix dates, like you did in this edit, please spell out the whole name of the month. In general, abbreviations of anything should be spelled out. For more information on acceptable date formats, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Dates. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 05:52, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Need help to link other wikis

How do i put a list of languages on the Type 56 assault rifle like the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_56_assault_rifle has Български, Bosanski, Deutsch, Español, Français, Hrvatski, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, Bahasa Melayu, Nederlands, 日本語, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, Polski, Русский, Shqip, Suomi, தமிழ், Türkçe, Українська, Tiếng Việt, and 中文 AZ2001 (talk) 23:36, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)@AZ2001: The list of languages is not actually part of the article - rather it is part of the sidebar which is part of the actual namespace configuration of the wiki. Therefore, you can’t add a list of languages directly to the article, although an administrator can modify them through MediaWiki:Sidebar and a global Wikimedia sysadmin can completely remove them by modifying a setting in the external configuration files. —Glendales 00:07, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Or maybe what AZ2001 was asking was how to link the article here with the article in other languages. That is done in Wikidata, which can be accessed either on Wikidata itself or through "Add links" in the sidebar of the article. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:30, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Complexity in Remember Me (movie)

Complex words and phrases: coming-of-age, stick around, show up, confronts, confessing/confess, pans (a camera), released widely

--Auntof6 (talk) 07:08, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

I removed almost all the complex phrases. Is that good? Angela Maureen (talk) 17:16, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Pretty good! The only comment I have is that "confront" doesn't mean "meet". --Auntof6 (talk) 18:37, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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Formatting dates

Hi, Angela. I noticed that you changed the way dates were written in some references, for example in Shaft (movie) and Gordon Parks. For future reference, months should be spelled out, not abbreviated, so I spelled them out in those two articles. In general, it's better not to abbreviate things in most places here. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:18, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Revert

Hi, Angela. I think this revert was by mistake so I reverted it back. Thanks-BRP ^ever 18:50, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Anne Meara Stiller

Instead of QDing this page, I redirected it to our existing article. However, I don't see anything there that was a hoax. What information did you think was incorrect? --Auntof6 (talk) 00:02, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

The IP editors put 1927 as Miller's birthdate. They said she had died in 2014 instead of 2015. Angela Maureen (talk) 00:11, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

That is easily fixed, and doesn't make the whole article a hoax. It might even have been an honest mistake. To be deleteable as a hoax, you need more than small details to be fake. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:57, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

A Happy New Year of opportunities

...in 2019, dear Angela Maureen, with all my best wishes for sharing knowledge by contributing here! -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 15:11, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

TDKR

You seemed to support the idea of TRKR becoming an admin; were you aware of the current request for adminship for him? IWI (chat) 15:45, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, I was. Angela Maureen (talk) 17:13, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

As long as you’re aware of it, that’s as much as I intended. IWI (chat) 17:18, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @ImprovedWikiImprovment: Be careful, IWI. The fact that you started the RFA, combined with mentioning that this user seemed to support it, could still look like canvassing. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:15, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I realised that afterwards, Auntof6. That's why I clarified it wasn’t my intention. IWI (chat) 18:38, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

@ImprovedWikiImprovment:Saying you didn't mean it to be canvassing doesn't mean it wasn't canvassing. Part of the page on canvassing says that "Vote-stacking: Posting messages to users selected based on their known opinions" is inappropriate, and that's what you appear to have done here. It doesn't have to be intentional to be canvassing. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:44, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

@Auntof6: I’m not exactly denying canvassing, just acknowledging that I may have made an error in sending this message, and that there was no ill intent. I won’t do this in the future anyway. IWI (chat) 19:55, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Attribution

Hi, Angela. You seem to be forgetting to include attribution for articles you create. If you use an enwiki article as the basis of one here, attribution is a legal requirement. Please remember to include it. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:45, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

How can I include attribution when Djsasso might have made it impossible for me to include it? It's gonna be really hard for me to include that. Show me how to include the new attribution. Angela Maureen (talk) 03:35, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

How has User:Djsasso made it impossible? --Auntof6 (talk) 04:07, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

I don't know how to use the new attribution unlike the old. I'm used to the old attribution, not the new one. Angela Maureen (talk) 06:06, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Not knowing how doesn't mean it's impossible. It has to be done, or we can get in legal trouble. I'm not sure what the new way is, because I haven't transwikied any articles lately. Why don't you ask Djsasso? --Auntof6 (talk) 06:14, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Non existing articles

How are you reverting it when these tournaments don't exist like seriously. Matt294069 (talk) 03:05, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Blank lines before stub templates

Please stop removing the second blank line before stub templates. We put two blank lines before these templates so that their text output is visually separated from whatever is before it. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:17, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

UK-bio-stub template

You might not have known, but new stub types (and their related templates and categories) have to be approved at Wikipedia talk:Simple Stub Project before being used here. The template you created for UK biographies was not approved, so I have deleted it and its two redirects. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:21, 8 March 2019 (UTC)