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::::I just reverted [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=591182589&oldid=591181970 this edit] as being a clear violation of [[WP:TPOC]]. --[[User:Guy Macon|Guy Macon]] ([[User talk:Guy Macon|talk]]) 23:07, 17 January 2014 (UTC) |
::::I just reverted [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=591182589&oldid=591181970 this edit] as being a clear violation of [[WP:TPOC]]. --[[User:Guy Macon|Guy Macon]] ([[User talk:Guy Macon|talk]]) 23:07, 17 January 2014 (UTC) |
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Reading this: [[WP:SIGFORGE]] and the lines above it "A distracting, '''confusing''', or otherwise unsuitable signature may adversely affect other users."(emphasis mine), it dosn't seem to me like your username shoudl be "Apokryltaros" but your signature "Mr. Fink". [[User:CombatWombat42|CombatWombat42]] ([[User talk:CombatWombat42|talk]]) 23:10, 17 January 2014 (UTC) |
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- Followup - one of the helperbots already got the report at AIV so there is nothing else to do. Thanks again and now back to normal editing - whatever that is :-) MarnetteD | Talk 23:55, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for helping while I'm maxed out on 3RR. HkCaGu (talk) 06:38, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
- My pleasure.--Mr Fink 15:02, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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I realise that you love your work, but speaking as someone drastically incapable of anything of the kind myself, I just wanted to express my appreciation (as opposed to merely saying thank you). More strength to your eye, arm, and tools! JonRichfield (talk) 09:23, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
Your signature
I thought you should know that your signature does not currently link to your talk or user page, as required. I should add that I like your illustrations and thank you for picking up on the removal of "obsolete" at Spontaneous generation while I was still thinking, "Is this for real?" (I'll blame daylight savings time for my sluggishness.) Novangelis (talk) 03:26, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the kind words, and yes, my signature does link to my talk and user page: I put my surname in it.--Mr Fink 03:51, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
- I should have been more specific: there is no internal link. I'm almost absolutely certain that there has to be a clickable link (you can always get another opinion), plus there are other male users with the same surname[2] on Wikipedia.Novangelis (talk) 04:25, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
- On the other hand, when you put a link on the page the link links to, Wikipedia programming does not put in the link. Otherwise, my signature shows up fine on other talkpages.--Mr Fink 04:55, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
- I should have been more specific: there is no internal link. I'm almost absolutely certain that there has to be a clickable link (you can always get another opinion), plus there are other male users with the same surname[2] on Wikipedia.Novangelis (talk) 04:25, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Article Feedback deployment
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Fossil barnstar
The Fossilized Barnstar | |
For your extremely diverse contributions of paleoart, as well as contributions to the paleontology articles themselves! FunkMonk (talk) 09:36, 5 April 2013 (UTC) |
De-extinction
I appreciate your input. No meanness detected from your comments. I concur that until the de-extinction process actually starts it probably isn't notable until the process gets rolling (if it gets rolling at all). Stylteralmaldo (talk) 12:25, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Your painting style
What is it called? Th4n3r (talk) 19:03, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
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I didn't bother to check because I had no clue where to look as there was no edit summary. I wasn't trying to be rude, I just saw what looked like to me an incorrect deletion and fixed it "with" an edit summary explaining. See Edit summary speednat (talk) 05:10, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Indonesian IP
I've requested page protection for some of the pages (see Wikipedia:Requests for page protection). You might want to add some pages to that list. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 08:12, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
- I'm not familiar with these "Megamen", but the IPs are all from Indonesia. If these "mega-contributors" are known old problems, maybe you should mention it on the RFPP? --Fama Clamosa (talk) 14:29, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up
Thanks for the explanation regarding User talk:125.164.1.8. I wasn't quite sure what to make of their edits, but I'll revert anything I see involving Category:Extinct animals of Oceania in Special:RecentChanges now that I know. Out of curiosity, are they always an IP, or did they have a username at any point? Sophus Bie (talk) 13:32, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
- How odd! I'm surprised I've never run in to them before. Or, perhaps I did, and didn't recognize it. Sophus Bie (talk) 13:57, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
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I don't want to make AIV any more cluttered, so I'm responding here. Please see WP:VAND#NOT. The behavior you are describing includes:
- Disruptive editing
- Harassment or personal attacks
- Lack of understanding of the purpose of Wikipedia
- NPOV contraventions.
All of these things are specifically listed in Wikipedia:Vandalism as not vandalism. AIV is meant to handle clear-cut cases of plain vandalism or spam that do not require discussion. The behavior you're describing warrants at least some level of community discussion to resolve, so it's not appropriate for AIV. —Darkwind (talk) 20:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
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Might, you want to join "sci.bio.paleontology"?
You seem to be interested in paleontology. Might you want to join, the newsgroup sci.bio.paleontology?--Mr.23 (talk) 23:12, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
What? You don't have a program? Use Google Groups.--Mr.23 (talk) 03:29, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Oh. One more thing; ignore the spam, and try to stick to the on-topic discussion.--(Mr. 23) (annoy) 11:49 31st May 2013 (UTC)
- Sure thing. I'll probably lurk for a while, though.--Mr Fink (talk) 16:00, 31 May 2013 (UTC)posters).
- And, if you see any posts, under the name "Thrinaxodon"; that's me. Try to ignore that, (unlike some other posters).--(Mr. 23) (annoy) 17:29, 31st May 2013 (UTC)
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Category:Birds of Azerbaijan
Hi.
I am putting this category by using IUCN reference. I do not see the justification for erasing this category. Otherwise all other country categories should also not likewise stay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.224.24.19 (talk) 14:29, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- Not all of those articles specifically state that said bird lives in, is a migrant/vagrant species in or even mentions Azerbaijan.--Mr Fink (talk) 14:34, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- I would urge youto check each IUCN reference in each article, before automatically erasing it. There is a Category:Birds of Azerbaijan for a reason. And please do not empty this category.
- Then would it kill you to write about which locations and or habits each bird is found in Azerbaijan rather than haphazardly spamming the articles with the category like a spambot?--Mr Fink (talk) 14:40, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
- Hi. I don't think I violated any Wikipedia rules by using a credible reference in each article which states that the particular species is native to Azerbaijan. (And not just migrating species or accidental travellers). I was not spamming and nor is it or was my inention. I edited too fast withouth putting an edit summary, sorry about that and for any other misundarstandings. But when citing sources, will you at least allow the category to stay. Or should the categories be restricted to continents only, instead of countries, which is the case in many of these articles? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.224.24.19 (talk) 14:49, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Table help
For each of your tables, I think you need to remove the lines of code before and after the actual sortable table code (which begins with {| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: 100%; font-size: 95%;"
). I'm not sure what this code is, but for some reason it's making your tables appear next to each other rather than above and below each other. Smokeybjb (talk) 16:10, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
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The Dodo is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Its external appearance is evidenced only by 17th-century paintings and written accounts that vary considerably, so its exact appearance is a mystery. Little is certain about its habitat and behaviour. Subfossil remains show the Dodo was about one 1 metre (3.3 feet) tall and may have weighed 10–18 kg (22–40 lb). It is presumed that the Dodo became flightless because of the ready availability of abundant food sources and a relative absence of predators on Mauritius. The first recorded mention of the Dodo was by Dutch sailors in 1598. In the following years, the bird was preyed upon by hungry sailors, their domesticated animals, and invasive species introduced during that time. The last widely accepted sighting of a Dodo was in 1662. Its extinction within only about a century of its discovery called attention to the previously unrecognised problem of human involvement in the disappearance of entire species. The Dodo achieved widespread recognition from its role in Alice in Wonderland, and it has become a fixture in popular culture, often as a symbol of extinction and obsolescence. (Full article...)
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Elephant
If you see my contributions, you can tell, it was not an attempt at vandalism nor was it intended. I made a minor change to the page and somehow wiki messed up --Muhammad(talk) 23:23, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
On being gentle
Hi Apokryltaros. Would you mind being a bit more gentle with newbies? Otherwise we might lose potentially valuable contributors, such as this one. Thanks. --Epipelagic (talk) 09:30, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
- It would help a great deal, also, if the newbies made more effort to distinguish themselves from delete-happy vandals before they throw fits, too.--Mr Fink (talk) 15:10, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree :) --Epipelagic (talk) 17:49, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
Template
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I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).
So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.
What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.
The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.
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I am sorry
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done something like I did on User talk:SummerPhD. I promise to stop disrupting others in the harmful way. I was like "Oh man I should not have said that". Honestly, I didn't mean to hurt anyone. I was just trying to reason with SummerPhD, not to antagonize with SummerPhD. Hopefully it settles well between you and me. All I want to say is that I am truly sorry. Batman194 (talk) 19:32, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
- Apology accepted, it would also help if you also apologized to SummerPhD, too.--Mr Fink (talk) 19:42, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the cleanup in Orthoceras (orchid). I'd generally prefer titles for a genus name used for both plants and animals to be a DAB, but I try to be conservative in moving animal genera away from an ambiguous base title. I feel more competent to judge plant genera as not important enough to deserve the base title than animal genera. I glanced at Google results for Orthoceras and the cephalopod seemed to dominate, so I'm not totally comfortable establishing Orthoceras as a DAB. What do you think about making Orthoceras a DAB, and moving the cephalopod genus to something like Orthoceras (mollusc)? Plantdrew (talk) 06:11, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
I don't know why you reverted my changes to Grizzly bear. They certainly aren't vandalism. Binomial or trinomial names are supposed to be in italics. Why do you think only the subspecies part should be in italics and not the genus and species part? Dger (talk) 22:02, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Bell Miner
I am curious, do you have a source for your information that:
- (Bell Miners) were given their common name because they feed almost exclusively on the dome-like coverings of certain psyllid bugs, referred to as "bell lerps," that feed on eucalyptus sap from the leaves. The "bell lerps" make these domes from their own honeydew secretions in order to protect themselves from predators and the environment.
This is followed by the line:
- They are also very likely to be named after their bell-like call.
Most Australians will subscribe to the second meaning, given that they are almost universally known as Bellbirds.
I assume you also realise that the word 'miner' here is a corruption of the word 'myna', and does not refer to the habit of the birds of 'mining' the bell lerps but to their similarity (or to be more accurate, the similarity of their cousins, the Noisy Miner) to the mynas of India.
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- That was the explanation I had heard from a Nature documentary on Australian wildlife, i.e., that they were "mining" the sugar-domes of the bell lerps.--Mr Fink (talk) 15:30, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
- I don't think that that's really a very satisfactory source. Especially when it is wrong. I think that the explanation should be removed from the article, unless you have a reliable and checkable source.
- 221.219.154.205 (talk) 12:45, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
- I've formally proposed removal of the explanation at Talk:Bell_Miner.
- 221.219.154.205 (talk) 13:37, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
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I have reverted your removal of an IP's comment at Talk:Coconut oil as it was not clear why you removed it. - SummerPhD (talk) 23:41, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
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RE: Mudpuppy
In this case I'm not sure about this (I'm not familiar with scientific classifications). In both articles, Necturus and Proteidae, it is said they are "Mudpuppies". © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 21:23, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
- I think you know more what you are talking about, so, I think there's no problem if you redirect the page and the talk page. © Tbhotch™ (en-2.5). 21:35, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
Re: Behemoth
Thank you for the thankyou, and thank you for your great artwork! Have you ever depicted a Tiktaalik, or fishapod? I'm interested because I'm, hmmm, related to User:Bishapod. Sort of. Bishonen | talk 14:55, 27 October 2013 (UTC).
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Requested paper
Send me an email and I'll reply with the remaining placoderm paper you requested. John M Baker (talk) 21:29, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
- You have multiple requested papers still waiting to be downloaded on WP:RX. Please mark them when you downloaded them. OhanaUnitedTalk page 23:33, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
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Adorf/Vogtl.
Would you kindly undo the name change you made from the official Adorf/Vogtl. to the non-existant Adorf/Vogtl- I think then you need to fix the change that Emmausbot then did.
Adorf Museum gives you plenty of examples of the official spelling as does de:Adorf/Vogtl.. We all have bad day! -- Clem Rutter (talk) 23:21, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
Your talkpage
I stumbled upon your talkpage and read the history, noticing that you often delete comments.
You know, your talkpage is yours, and you're totally right to delete anything you want (as long as you don't misrepresent anyone, of course). If you do not want ugly comments to remain in your talkpage (neither do I!), you are allowed to move the discussion to the talkpage of whoever started it.
I would have done the same if I were in your shoes--I too might one day get so focused on the questions of whether each comment deserved to be on my talkpage, and not see the big picture of how not friendly my deletion edits looked like.
It's just that, to some people, deleting unreplied comments without edit summaries will give some people a bad first impression of my willingness to reach agreements.
I probably shouldn't be minding your business in such a way, but I already wrote 4 paragraphs and don't want to delete it, you know. 135.0.167.2 (talk) 19:29, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
- I appear to delete a lot of edits on Wikipedia because I spend at a minimum of seventy-five percent of my time here undoing vandalism edits: I don't give edit summaries because I use the Twinkle "(TW)" application to revert vandalism edits, which does not permit me to give summaries. And some of the time, I often undo edits on other users' talkpages that I assume is harassment. *shrug* At the very least, I think I can be forgiven when an anonymous editor writes a title of "Donald Trump Told Me To Tell You You're Fired." Either way, if I've made a mistake, it can always be reverted.--Mr Fink (talk) 23:07, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
- I always wondered what Twinkle is... does it removes additions the same way as direct editing except it doesn't give edit summaries? 135.0.167.2 (talk) 23:25, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
- When you click "Rollback Vandalism," yes, it doesn't permit edit summaries. When you just click the plain-old "Rollback" or "revert to this version," then it brings up a new window for an edit summary.--Mr Fink (talk) 23:30, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
- Ok, I can understand why anyone may use that to keep control of the talk page they own. I was just a little uncomfortable with what message it sends to people who don't know better. The most notable revert I think was [3]... someone who sounded like a completely lost newcomer to Wikipedia was looking for an explanation, but instead got reverted and given this response. Then he/she posted something I can't even understand [4], (poor English maybe) but what's clear is he/she was made upset. Even if you suspect that IP is someone else who has vandalized, it doesn't hurt to assume good faith with that harmless comment.
- Maybe talkpage comments should not be responded to in such a way, unless we double check the comment was an deliberate attack. Personally I think even deliberate attacks should be responded with some understanding--there are few admins on Wiki who haven't made one, but this is my irrelevant opinion. 135.0.167.2 (talk) 00:18, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
- When you click "Rollback Vandalism," yes, it doesn't permit edit summaries. When you just click the plain-old "Rollback" or "revert to this version," then it brings up a new window for an edit summary.--Mr Fink (talk) 23:30, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
- I always wondered what Twinkle is... does it removes additions the same way as direct editing except it doesn't give edit summaries? 135.0.167.2 (talk) 23:25, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
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Change to Woolly mammoth
I reverted article Woolly mammoth to an edit made that does not include personal opinion about "how money should be spent" on something. The Edit summary may have suggested that I was responding to your edit, which I was not. FunkMonk is abusing his privilege as a major contributor to this article, and I suspect that in escalating to the admins, you may be involved. I'm sorry about this, but I thought I'd give you forewarning. Leptus Froggi (talk) 15:54, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
- Dude, it doesn't even matter what I think, when the content was approved by several experienced Wikipedia reviewers. FunkMonk (talk) 06:51, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
My Cold
Mr. Fink, Thank you so much for the soup suggestion-sounds great. I had some viral bug for two weeks before I caught this awful cold. My ears are clogged and my head fogged. The soup sounds like it my open me up. I appreciate it! Regards, GetAgrippa (talk) 18:51, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Megalania image
Hi, I guess that you are the author of this image [[5]], that someone else has uploaded to Commons. Did you have permission for this?--Rextron (talk) 04:32, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- That person didn't ask for permission to post it. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.--Mr Fink (talk) 04:38, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- No problem, by the way I found another illegal upload of your art ([[6]]), and I requested the deletion too.--Rextron (talk) 04:46, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks again.--Mr Fink (talk) 04:48, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, this person don't want to stop, he has upload another of your images with another account: [7] (not to mention that he make erroneus editions in articles about fossil cetacans).--Rextron (talk) 16:35, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Jaguariba
Hi! Send me a wikimail and you will get the second fossil article, too. Thank you, -- Doc Taxon (talk) 17:16, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
ANI
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
Don't worry, you are not the subject, Irishfrisian is. I just thought you ought to know. Op47 (talk) 00:02, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
- FYI - I accidentally hit rollback on your ANI post. That was purely a fat-finger error and your post has been restored. My apologies for that. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 01:06, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
Pampus argenteus
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
-- 70.50.148.122 (talk) 01:12, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Fossil papers
They are ready OhanaUnitedTalk page 07:01, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Killer Whale
Apokryltaros, it has become clear at this point that the discussion at Talk:Killer Whale is an attempt to violate WP:COMMONNAME due to WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Consensus cannot violate the rules, so there is no point in further conversation. Do you think that it would be appropriate to collapse the thread? 76.107.171.90 (talk) 14:02, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
- That would probably be the best course of action, at the very least we should bring this up to see if they persist.--Mr Fink (talk) 16:38, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
While I’m here I might as well address another issue. I noticed that your drawing of Slimonia has a prodigious set of claws. The article, as well as the fossils, and illustrations (other than yours) seem to indicate that Slimonia’s chelicerae were actually quite small. Also, Slimonia’s body appears to have been shaped more like a modern scorpion’s (with an anterior bulge and a more distinctive “tail region”) while your eurypterid has a gradual taper. While I’d prefer not to look the gift art in the mouth, I’m also somewhat concerned that the illustration could give the reader the wrong idea about Slimonia’s morphology.
In zoology I was taught that a eurypterid’s claws are its chelicerae, while a scorpion’s chelicerae are its mouthparts and its pedipalps are its claws. When I read the article and saw the illustration (which seems to contradict it) I became quite confused and I had to spend the better part of two hours refreshing my memory of chelicerata before I was able to sort the whole mess out. Would you object if I were to remove your illustration from Slimonia and place the picture of the fossil into the info box? Understand that I’m not taking issue with its artistic quality, only with its accuracy. 76.107.171.90 (talk) 04:13, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
- I swapped it out now, now that you pointed the inaccuracy to me. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to ask, and I will update the reconstruction accordingly.--Mr Fink (talk) 04:45, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks. 76.107.171.90 (talk) 04:49, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Type species (Walliserops)
Hello, I like to reflect on your undoing of my edit of the Walliserops article.
- Firstly, this kind of swift edits motivated by "It should be done like this", doesn't work very well with me psychologically: it upsets me.
- Secondly, I would like to know where it says it should actually be done like this.
- Thirdly, if it says so somewhere, it introduces a repetition of information, which I think is silly.
- Fourthly, I have created, extended from stubs to substantive and overhauled hundreds of trilobite articles, and never indicated the type your way and always my way and this is the first time anyone corrected it.
Kind regards, -Dwergenpaartje (talk) 18:46, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
- If making a separate mention of the type species was unnecessary as you claim, then there would not be a feature for it in the taxobox template in the first place. Furthermore, it is, in fact, important to make mention of the type species that way, especially if it was originally described under an invalid synonym.--Mr Fink (talk) 19:29, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Why such a strong reaction?
Why are so reacting so strongly against the IP editor who posted on the Elephant talk page? I know about the history with Colbert, but you seem to be making quite the bad faith assumptions about this user. LadyofShalott 22:24, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
- I had a lot of aggravating experiences dealing with some of the various Stephen Colbert trolls who have been trying to insert "elephant population epidemic" bullshit.--Mr Fink (talk) 22:30, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
- So show the link of me inserting the tripling claim into any articles on elephants. I would like to see. 67.182.171.189 (talk) 22:33, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
Appropreateness of signature
Reading this: WP:SIGFORGE and the lines above it "A distracting, confusing, or otherwise unsuitable signature may adversely affect other users."(emphasis mine), it dosn't seem to me like your username shoudl be "Apokryltaros" but your signature "Mr. Fink". CombatWombat42 (talk) 23:10, 17 January 2014 (UTC)