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Padshah UtherSRG 2024

You wrote "Since you can't explain in your own words, I see no reason to unblock you"

What own words? What do mean?

What questions should I answer You just decline the unblock request.

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Bharal page entry

I deleted the "s" from Himalayas because the word is singular, Nepalese in reference to the entire mountain range. I've had multiple students (college level) from Nepal. There is only ONE Himalaya. I also changed your "herbs" to "forbs" because GRASSES and other graminoids (e.g, sedges) are herbs as well. Forbs are herbaceous plants that are NOT graminoids, which is what is more appropriate here. YOU may be a software engineer, but I'm a naturalist with broad (Ph.D.-level) expertise in both biology and geology - having worked for nearly 50 years in paleo-environmental and paleo-climate reconstructions, using biological remains preserved in sediments. BeetleBob (talk) 23:05, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Himalayas is the natural language word. Your edit was away from natural language, and changed data without a source. - UtherSRG (talk) 09:20, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How to go forward on this...

On 12 September 2023 you moved the page Russian fascism to Fascism in Russia, as requested by Kpratter at WP:RM/TR. But here it gets tricky: User talk:Kpratter#Blocked as a sockpuppet. But most annoying in this is that it leads to links to disambiguation pages in templates that I can not edit. Templates as {{World topic| prefix= Fascism in |noredlinks=yes}}. How to solve this? Most easy way is to let is point to [[Fascism in Russia (disambiguation)]], what fools the maintenance bots into think that this is not a link to a disambiguation pages. Even when I had the rights to do this, I do not know how to do it. Can you help me with that? The Banner talk 20:13, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What are you asking to be done? - UtherSRG (talk) 21:53, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Replacement of the link Fascism in Russia by [[Fascism in Russia (disambiguation)]] in the template {{World topic| prefix= Fascism in |noredlinks=yes}}. The Banner talk 22:26, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah.... ok, you should ask on Template talk:World topic. They will be able to help you there. - UtherSRG (talk) 23:14, 10 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Serval

You reverted an edit of mine, referencing that the heraldic beast translated into English as the leopard in the title of Lampedusa's novel Il Gattopardo, was really a serval. The Wikipedia article on that Italian novel gives ample sources. Furthermore, it actually links to the serval article. If Wikipedia articles aren't sufficiently credible sources for other Wikipedia articles, what are? Nuttyskin (talk) 03:50, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Use the source that the other article uses. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a reliable source. - UtherSRG (talk) 04:09, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

draft

Hi, did not see that [1] had been created by a banned editor, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:23, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Their puppet names have been quite varied. The key identifier is that almost every edit summary is something like "create new user" or "create new article", etc. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:25, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

will be much more careful, thanks Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:32, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Kibo no shirei-kan (07:01, 19 July 2024)

Is there a page where translation requests are? --Kibo no shirei-kan (talk) 07:01, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, its a set of categories. Looks like the top level is Category:Articles_needing_translation_from_foreign-language_Wikipedias. From there, you should be able to drill down to a language you can translate from. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:12, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for July 19

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Abronia juarezi, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Michael Watkins.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 20:03, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you friendly little bot! - UtherSRG (talk) 20:46, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tags on AfC article

Hello - I saw that you added some tags to a recently published AfC article (Hemaris aethra), and I am a bit confused. You tagged it as needing to be rewritten to meet Wikipedia's quality standards; I looked through the article again and I cannot tell why the article as a whole would need to be rewritten, and there was no explanation on the talk page. If you tell me what the template was placed for so I can try to improve the article, I would appreciate it.

You also tagged it as needing additional inline citations corresponding to the full references. I am not sure what exactly needs to be cited that isn't already - I don't want to overcite, and to be honest, I thought I had done a fairly thorough job with the citations. Is it the two paragraphs in the description section that only have one citation per paragraph? Or the Threats and conservation section?

Also - this may just be me misunderstanding the content assessment system, but it seems like you changed the initial reviewer's assessment of C-class to start-class. Is this because of writing issues or referencing? Is it too short to be C-class?

Thank you! I am new to this process and would appreciate any clarification here. Dicynodont (talk) 00:13, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Compare the article against other C- and B-level species articles. That'll give you an idea what is typical, what is expected, and what isn't. The only qualifying article in the genus is Hemaris thysbe so you may as well start there. Your article doesn't need to be rewritten from scratch, but does need significant reorganization. The Taxonomy section is written in a manner I don't think I've seen any other species article's taxonomy section written. Um... You're right, though... there's only one place where referencing is lacking, so I'll tag it and remove the referencing tags. - UtherSRG (talk) 00:22, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for clarifying. I'll look at some C- and B-class species articles and try to model the article more closely after those. Dicynodont (talk) 03:30, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]