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You logged in under your old name; that may affect the reattribution, I'm not sure :( -- Avi (talk) 05:24, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
The DFG offered to send a certificate directly to WIKIPEDIA. Can You please give me an address. I also wrote to the Consulate to give you prove of the EB-1 visa but they are always slow. Happy New Year Uwe Kils 16:03, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Are you interested in becoming an administrator? I'd be proud to nominate you at Requests for adminship, or you can self-nominate. Requests for adminship can be a bruising process (not that I have any specific concerns for you), and I would suggest that if you are interested then you pick a week when you have ample spare time to answer questions.-gadfium 19:03, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Why is the article title plural in this case, when Wikipedia:Manual of Style requires singular titles? This doesn't clearly fall within one of the exceptions. Michael Hardy (talk) 12:18, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
OK. It looks as if most of the links to that article are from a template. I've fixed the template accordingly and it may take 24 hours or so for the correction to appear when you click on "what links here". After that it will be possible to ascertain which links still need to get fixed. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:14, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, Epipelagic. We need a papermail address - this is like an examination in school Uwe Kils 13:31, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
I don't think that Category:Hypophthalmichthys is a nonsensical one. There are many categories which contain 3-4 pages. Explain me why you think that Category:Hypophthalmichthys is a nonsensical one? --Amit6 (talk) 12:20, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Re: Your message to me of today (see below) regarding my contribution to the article "reef fish" which you removed due to alleged copyright violation.
Exactly what do you mean? Whose copyright did I violate? That is original material that I wrote and first published in 1994. I am the sole copyright owner of all the material contributed.
How stupid would it be for me to plagerise a source and then provide active links back to the actual plagerised sources?
If you are in doubt about the source, I suggest you simply use the "contact me" email address on the alleged plagerized source and query me as to whether thhis material has been authorized for contribution to Wikipedia.
Sincerely
William Alevizon, Ph.D. (aka 20cean7)2ocean7 (talk) 19:38, 23 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2ocean7 (talk • contribs) 19:00, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
Yes, thank you for letting me know :) -- Avi (talk) 02:49, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
[[1]] - Could you please address? Much appreciated. Wipkipkedia (talk) 13:11, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, thank you. It's the 3rd time I try to insert some links and nothing. I just wanted to thank you. Shall I try again or shall I wait for some instructions?
Again, THANKS--MontseBL (talk) 12:14, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Ref. Your Answer on 3rd February-
Yes, you are right, the first impression is not very clear, but as you says regarding fisheries and agriculture sector the information is very rich and full of FAO self studies. If you agree with that I can do the link directly to one of this sections better that to the “General information” page instead. Please let me know.--MontseBL (talk) 10:32, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Let's do a thing, in the Spanish Wikipedia there's a section called "Country of the week". If you agree with that I will do a link to that Country, I will look into the characteristics and do the link to the most apropriate sector. Then, you editors decide what to do, to keep it or leave it. Is that ok with you?--MontseBL (talk) 11:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
blockquote> OK then. Let's try. Thanks:-)--MontseBL (talk) 11:25, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Epi, I redirected the page in the effort to fix disambiguation links, the page was listed automatically in the list, I did not go looking for it. Second, I created the page for Leuciscinae when I noticed that the majority of Minnows - " True Minnows " belonged to that particular genus. Leuciscinae was already placed as the sub-family under which the true-minnows are included by someone else, I assure you I did not come up with an obscure category just for the page, I just created the already listed page.
Taxonomically they are Cyprinidae, I posted a reference and an external link in case you want to verify, I saw most of the individual pages for true minnows are stubs and decided to point it to the sub-family they are all included in. Your objection has been noted, As per your instructions I will Revert my re-directs back to the page, a word of notice thought- those pages directing to the Minnows page would show up back in the list of disambiguation pages requiring links [2] and someone else will make similar changes. You can help by re-directing the pages away from the Disambiguation page. I regret any inconvenience in the mean time. Thank you.--Theo10011 (talk) 00:27, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Epipelagic, Thanks for your help at Adi Da. I followed your advice and participated in an agreement of no editing without consensus there. In the past week I have spent many hours on the talk page doing something near 100 entries there [[3]] in order to make polite, clear and concise statements regarding my concerns over NPOV. Once my concerns were clarified here: [[4]] , an argument that took me several hours to put together, Tao2911 went ahead and without consensus made substantial changes to the article [[5]] adding in his summaries that they were per me, but they weren't. I tried a revert [[6]] but was undone by Goethean [[7]] I felt this meant that our agreement was off and that we were now being bold. I then tried to make edits for more neutral language [[8]] , [[9]] , [[10]] , [[11]] , [[12]] , with a discussion at Talk much like Tao2911 did with his edits, [[13]] . I was then, or course reverted, accused of vandalism on the talk page with a whole section titled "David Starr vandalism" [[14]] threatened with being reported to admin [[15]] I plea for consensus [[16]] other editors agree with me [[17]] [[18]] [[19]] Tao disagrees [[20]] Tao then says the editors are agreeing with him, that he made the changes for me, and that he can work with people , but he's sick of repeating himself to me, [[21]] Instead of addressing the issues raised, Tao2911 propagandizes, and generally discusses the subject of the article and continues accusations of vandalism, [[22]] And then this bit of uncivil commentary [[23]] At this point, after many many hours over the past week of trying to edit the article I am frustrated and feel totally abused. I have yet to be able to make a single edit to the article without invoking an edit war from Tao2911. I feel that Tao2911 is a tenditious editor who is bullying and taking ownership of the article. He pretends to want consensus at times, but will not allow me to edit. Period. He himself though has basically edited at will over the past week without consensus. [[24]] I feel that I am making a good-faith gesture to bring neutrality into some fairly biased additions and have the consensus of other editors. I also feel that I have been as fair as can be expected in the face of insults, threats, and accusations by Tao2911.
Would you be willing to add your opinion as to our behavior at Adi Da and also any ideas as far as how to resolve our dispute? It would be very much appreciated. David Starr 1 (talk) 02:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
First off, spare me your arrogance of pretending to know who I might be – you don't; and I don't know the person you're referring to personally. I merely seem to concur with other users who don't think the image is appropriate there. Secondly, as a precaution, don't act like you're [WP:OWN|owning] the template. I'm not accusing you of it, though reverting edits purely because you like it isn't reasonable. Thirdly, before you reinstate the image, I ask you to justify its use on the template.
The argument of it not adding much to the template is valid, though other templates use purely illustrative templates as well. Other than that, the image is pretty limited, showing specifically an angler, which is too specific for a broad template on fishing in general. I wouldn't have a problem if it was used on a template just referring to angling (except for the next point…). It may not be an argument that the cartoon image is pretty ugly, but it also feels very much out of place when compared to the other fishing templates, which use real-life images of fisher(wo)men or fishing vessels. Your image doesn't fit into the subject.
Please partake in discussion before just reverting the edit again. You may want to look for more suited images as well. Don Cuan (talk) 16:31, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic,
you reverted my change to coral reef on the grounds that I had changed British English to American English, but I don't believe I did. I have never heard of phosphorous being a British spelling of phosphorus, and the phosphorus article doesn't mention it (compare the aluminium, caesium, sulfur articles, all of which talk about the Brit/Yank differences). However, phosphorous is a real word, but it's an adjective rather than a noun, meaning "containing trivalent phosphorus". --Trovatore (talk) 19:08, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
This edit to Sustainability is in extreme violation of wikipedia's policy for civility. I feel that the concerns I voiced about the content you proposed to add the the article were legitimate. The type of comments you made are not only against policy but highly inappropriate and do not contribute to the collaborative process of writing an encyclopedia. Please apologize. Voiceofreason01 (talk) 19:33, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Epipelagic/Archive 2010 - Thank for your participation and support in my recent successful RfA. Your confidence and trust in me is much appreciated. As a new admin I will try hard to keep from wading in too deep over the tops of my waders, nor shall I let the Buffalo intimidate me.--Mike Cline (talk) 08:50, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Epipelagic aka Geronimo20 - I’ve just completed drafting my first WP essay in my user space: Creating A Better List. As of yet it is not linked anywhere except through the ((Essay)) template. My ultimate objective is to move this essay to the project space, but at this point, that is premature without some feedback from fellow editors. As such I would appreciate your opinion on the essay, especially on two points. 1) Have I made any statements contradictory to WP policy or guidelines? 2) Are there additional examples that could be included to demonstrate my points more effectively?
Thanks in advance for your review and feel free to make any editorial changes you think would enhance the essay. Please provide comments here, as I am asking several editors to comment and would like to keep them all in the same place--Mike Cline (talk) 00:17, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I don't know whether it's that organised against common sense. The issue was first noticed at WT:MOS, which has recommended the after-punctuation method for some time, in contradiction to FN. I went and changed FN boldly so that it's consistent with the MoS, and met resistance. I think the small superscript argument is strongest, since publications that use the before-punctuation system are invariably (like Nature) those that use normal font, normal position ref tags.
Christopher Parham, bless his heart, seems to have in-built genes against any form of change at all. It's very annoying. He pops up all over the place to resist progress. Tony (talk) 08:05, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic, I wonder, if you have a spare moment, would you look over a new article, a BLP I Just created? This guy is a designer so it's outside your and my areas of expertise, but I do trust your judgement. The refs are a bit of a mess; I am not so good on formatting those. I don't know what else needs fixing, but please let me know if you see anything amiss, or please go ahead and fix things yourself if they are simple and fast to do. I intend to try for a DYK with this so I want to try to make it look decent. Many thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 20:48, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Your criticisms are very welcome. I was looking to hear that kind of thing, so thank you. If I can't make a case for him being notable enough then the article is not worthwhile. Many thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 00:13, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
I note your rv, which is fine, but a few points. 1. Yes, it needs to be sourced. 2. I think it needs to be reworded, since I work on related subjects and it doesn't even make logical sense to me. 3. It's grammatically incorrect (I think - because as I said, it doesn't logically compute - should be functionS (?). And finally, 4. Does this really need to go in the introductory paragraph? While it may be an important point, the intro generally should only have the most important information about the subject, with details that follow in the body. Cheers Arjuna (talk) 00:49, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm aware of the issue involved. Both article titles existed previously, with the one without the "s" redirecting to the other. When I was covering this year's Classic for my newspaper, I realized that the official style of the title is without the "s," but our article had it with the "s" with the proper title redirecting. Since I couldn't use the good ol' Move button, I did the manual method, with the intent to go back later and get an admin to fix the edit history. As I am not an admin, I can't do it myself, sorry. I have fixed all the Wikilinks from other articles, except those on talk pages and such. I think the title of the tournament may have originally been with an "s", but when ESPN took over the tournament they may have changed it. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 00:21, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
With respect to the EL at Biodiversity, you've made some (I feel) rather harsh and unjustified claims in your edit summaries and your comments. Simply put, we're not a link farm, and there is no obligation to include every link that exists. If you feel strongly about a link, by all means make a case for it based on its suitability under the external links guideline. However, please note that this particular link was added without any explanation whatsoever, by an editor whose only edit was to add said link. We certainly do not keep ELs in articles simply because someone happens to have posted them; there is no "free pass", and the onus is on editors to justify why a link deserves to be included, not the opposite. --Ckatzchatspy 21:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
You reverted an incorrect image, it was explained the vessel is NOT Danish and she is NOT a freezer trawler. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Buttonbanger (talk • contribs) 03:17, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your welcoming words. I just created my userpage so you may see my fields of interest.Scarabaeoid (talk) 16:48, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Sorry for deleting. I was editing the article Mullet and noticed the picture of a cod. I didn't realize it was a template. --Buster7 (talk) 03:47, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello Epipelagic. Could you have a look at Bottle_trap and provide me with some comments? Thanks.Scarabaeoid (talk) 17:25, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
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The cherry or seema salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) is a salmon of the western Pacific. It is anadromous. How was including it in the list of Pacific salmon not constructive? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_salmon Kilgore Rosewater (talk) 04:04, 2 March 2010 (UTC) I am referring to the page on fish migration which lists the "five species of Pacific salmon" as examples of anadromous fish. I added the Cherry salmon, you removed it... Kilgore Rosewater (talk) 04:42, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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Wow, I was just checking out the work you have been doing at the Sustainable fisheries and I am very impressed, thanks for doing such great work. SaltyBoatr (talk) 16:03, 17 March 2010 (UTC) |
Thanks Epipelagic. Anyway I am glad it worked. Invertzoo (talk) 12:35, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
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First you delete the picture of a fisherman first you said it wasn't recreational and now you are saying something different. It is not self promoting becuase who would promote themself with a picture of a bowfin. This picture is more representative of a recreational fisherman than any other picture that is up there. Please do not delete. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lord Clarence (talk • contribs) 04:28, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
Wow Wikipedia is not a place for dishing it out talking about that photo being a beefcake picture of me. You have no idea who I am so you should not make assumptions. I do believe it contributes something to the article and I will discuss in the fisherman forum we will let the others decide wether or not it should be in the article because you obvioulsy take a lot of ownership in this page and have an issue with me. I could construe you as edit warring because you have no grounds to say that I am missrepresenting fisherMAN in the article. (talk) 01:09, 21 March 2010 (UMD)
Hi Epipelagic. You removed my newly added Image:Taiwan 2009 SuHua Highway Fixed Net Fishing FRD 6865.jpg from Fishing net. Your comment made perfect sense to me. After all, that was a page about 'net', and my image does not really show net.
I've moved it to Wild fisheries and Littoral zone instead. I think the image now makes more sense in its new homes. What do you think? Thanks. Fred Hsu (talk) 06:54, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
Template:Coastal management is wonderful. Much thanks for improving/replacing my attempt at collating the links in a template (which I've now prod'd for deletion). Have a good weekend :) -- Quiddity (talk) 20:51, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
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You left a note on my user page concerning a contribution I had supposedly made to the longline fishing article. I see no such contribution in the history of the article, my own history, nor do I recall making same or even having ever read the article. The closest I've come to discussing fish is challenging a rather sweeping claim about bowfin. I wonder if you wouldn't mind showing me where I wrote about longline fishing. Thanks. HedgeFundBob (talk) 01:21, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic. I wonder if you could do me a favor if you are not too busy. There is a brand new user, a scientist who lives in NYC not far from me, and who I am sure will become an excellent editor. His user name is User:Enviromet. He has written two articles on copper so far.
He is a fairly good writer, but he is so new that he has not quite got the hang of Wikipedia tone and prose style yet. One of the articles picked up two tags, which it may or may not deserve. You are such a fine writer I was hoping you can take a quick look at his articles and perhaps be able to tell him what needs adjusting in his approach to writing for Wikipedia. I personally find it hard to put into words exactly what is wrong with his articles, because it is not glaringly obvious. Mostly I think he does not quite understand how to write a good lead and also how exactly to write for an encyclopedia. Could you let him know what you think? I already told him I would ask you to comment if you can find the time. I will be away for 3 weeks starting April 14th. Many thanks for anything you can do. Best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 12:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
Back in March, you made an edit to Aquaculture that included a bad reference. Here is the diff: [25] Please fix it. Lfstevens (talk) 19:09, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
:) Eusebeus (talk) 11:48, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Saw your edit and removal to my talkpage ... I did want to ask if you had actually read the full reasoning, both in the block notice and the block log ... nothing was WP:PUNISH as I don't believe in that, it was pure preventative, especially if you read the reasonings. (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 12:24, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
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Apologies for a long delay in asking this but I have only just come across Traditional fishing boats and the use of the photo that I took back in 1972 of the coracles fishing below Cenarth. In your edit of 4th July you have assigned names to the two fishermen which was not part of the metadata of the original image. I don't doubt that the names are correct but I would be grateful if you let me know the source of this information so that I can update the metadata on the image file on Commons. Many thanks. Velela Velela Talk 10:52, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
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Epipelagic, you appear to be using Twinkle to engage in an edit war over the use of an image, further inappropriate use of twinkle may result in you being blacklisted or blocked. I have also rolledback your warnings posted by TW at User talk:Lord Clarence. Gnangarra 01:31, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
Please note that I've responded to your comments on the Tuna,Thunnus, and the Northern, Southern, and Pacific bluefin Tuna pages. Thanks! XXVII (talk) 00:17, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you erased the ((fishing techniques)) just tagging it as deprecated. Could you explaine me exactly what you mean? You see I created the article trabucco about a giant historical construction which people used not only for fishing but often as place to inhabit. I created the above mentioned template to show, where necessary, fishing tecniques in those article not immediately related to fishing tackle, and it correctly match this criteria. Regards, --Theirrulez (talk) 11:03, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
When a list is written normally (without line breaks between each item), my screen reader JAWS will tell me how many items are in each list (for example by saying "list of 6 items"). When that list is separated by line breaks, JAWS will announce it as six lists of one item, so it will say "list of 1 item, item 1, list end; list of 1 item, item 2, list end ...". This is also true of other screen readers, and occurs because MediaWiki finishes the HTML list when it encounters a line break. If you need the spacing between list items, add "<br/>" to the end of each list item, as I've just done. Graham87 06:41, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for formatting the references section, but was there reason for the see also section that linked back to the article? [26] Jujutacular T · C 19:31, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Epipelagic. Thank you very much for endorsing the Geography Barnstar award that Casliber awarded me a few days ago (for my work on the abyssal plain article). This is the first time I have received any sort of award from the Wikipedia project, and it really means a lot to me. I have been working hard on this project, and it is nice to be noticed. Your vote of confidence in my abilities provides me with a modicum of reassurance that my efforts to date are actually helping to improve the Wikipedia project. Please let me know if I can ever be of assistance to you in some way. DiverDave (talk) 02:34, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
I feel as though I am being bullied out of Wikipedia when all I do for the most part is qualitatively improve articles by adding citations. I have a group of malign editors that have formed a cohort against me. They have searched really hard to find a few matters of dispute out of my 20,000 or more edits that I have made to this Project. I would appreciate some of your time.
B9 hummingbird hovering (talk • contribs) 10:20, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Epipelagic,
Hope you are doing well. The editor I have spoken to you about before, Mila, has added some underwater images she took in Kona, in the Hawaiian islands. She asked me what kind of fish this might be, but I have no idea. Do you have any idea? Many thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 00:38, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help Epipelagic. Also I wanted to show you this strange association between a nudibranch and a goby species:
http://www.seaslugforum.net/message/2131
I apologize for our guys giving grief to your guys! Invertzoo (talk) 00:30, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Yeah! Tell your guys to lay off using our guys for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Dealing with the thuggy crabs is bad enough without all the the fish chomping going on. Tell 'em that vegetarianism is good for your health and longevity! Look at those 100-year old carp! Invertzoo (talk) 13:54, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
What's your take on this partnership? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37353877 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.68.204.141 (talk) 14:54, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Template:Sport fish topics requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>((transclusionless))</noinclude>).
Thanks. Terrillja talk 03:28, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Epipelagic
Enjoyed working with you, but as you can see from the following exchange posted on the "coral reef fish" talk page, I will choose to spend my time elsewhere.2ocean7 (talk) 03:18, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Jamie: On what basis do you suggest that the link you removed (http://www.coral-reef-info.com/coral-reef-fishes.html) does not conform to the established guidelines for adding external links? These guidelines state (Under "What should be linked"):
"Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues..."
The link that you removed certainly conforms with the above. I am the author and sole copyright holder of that material, reworded from material originally published in my book "Pisces Guide to Caribbean Reef Ecology" published in 1994 and referenced numerous times in this article (ref #13). The page to which you removed the link definitely fits the Wikipedia criteria "contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues". The material is also not readily available to most Wikipedia users as the book is out of print.
As a former Professor of Marine Biology who spent over 30 years researching coral reef fishes and published over 30 peer-reviewed articles on that topic in international journals, I find it incredibly surprising that you took it upon yourself to make such a change to this article, which I helped to develop over the last 6 months. Surely, you can find more appropriate ways to spend your time as part of the Wikipedia "spam police". All you are accomplishing here is to discourage contributions from qualified authorities.2ocean7 (talk) 16:49, 7 June 2010 (UTC)'
I was passing by Coastal fortifications of New Zealand a few weeks ago and nominated it as a GA. The review has been put on hold, but unfortunately I know next to nothing on the topic. As you are the main contributor you may like to take a look. Cheers, Adabow (talk) 11:11, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
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The article has been reviewed at GAN, and is nearly there! I can do some of the more technical/MoS stuff, but can you add some more inline citations? Thanks Adabow (talk) 19:17, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. Just to say thanks for your efforts with the plankton template. Although I've been staring at it for months now, I didn't really pay attention and properly notice it until today. Anyway, nice work. Cheers, --PLUMBAGO 08:45, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for the quick "catch"! I'm embarassed to have left it in such messy condition: I'm glad you fixed it so quickly! :) SteveStrummer (talk) 20:33, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your adjustment and suggestion Epipelagic. I will go over the lead again. Granitethighs 11:54, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
I and many other editors have had similar experiences with John as your own, but he's convinced himself of his own righteousness and won't listen to anything you or anyone else tells him about his arrogant attitude. "If you don't like it, then wikipedia may not be for you" is a quite typical response. But he doesn't quite ever go far enough to justify an RfC, so the only way I've found to deal with him is to pretend that he doesn't exist; it's far too frustrating trying to make intransigent boneheads see sense. Malleus Fatuorum 15:47, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Please do whatever you can w respect to John I will support it. I feel like my hands are tied as far as editing. I wouldn't be surprised if he blocked me indefinitely for imaginary infractions weeks after the fact. Richmondian (talk) 05:10, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent message on my talk about the tone I used when helping improve the Paul the octopus article in July. I want to formally apologise for communicating with you in a way that disturbed you, even though I stand firmly by my position on the content issue. I hope I shall do better in future. Best wishes, --John (talk) 15:18, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Please do not leave Wikipedia, Epipelagic. You are a superb contributor. I am in awe of the excellent articles you write, and so many of them, all of such high quality. Invertzoo (talk) 15:47, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello again Epipelagic, I thought you might like to read this also:
Hi John, because it seems to relate directly to our recent conversation, I thought you might be interested to read this very brief Wikipedia Signpost news piece[27], which is about a Harvard study of communication norms on Wikipedia.
To quote the abstract of the paper: "These norms speak to the intentional stance and communicative behaviors Wikipedians should adopt when interacting with one another." The study contrasts "supportive communication" with "defensive communication", and explains that "Supportive behavior/climates are characterized by non-judgmental description, problem orientation, spontaneity, empathy, equality, and provisionalism. Their 'defensive' opposites are evaluation, control, strategy, neutrality, superiority, and certainty."
The study concluded that in the majority of the material examined, "Supportive" communication was the Wikipedia norm.
Thanks and best wishes, Invertzoo (talk) 13:18, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, Epipelagic. I've just come across this article, which you created years ago. It's still unreferenced, but I know nothing about him. Can you help? Thanks, Markiewp (talk) 06:48, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hello Epipelagic! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot notifying you on behalf of the the unreferenced biographies team that 1 of the articles that you created is currently tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 938 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the ((unreferencedBLP)) tag. Here is the article:
Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:38, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you reverted the change to the lead. As the article refers to Coastal Forces of the Royal Australian Navy, the lead is misleading if we talk about the Royal Navy. The lead could be rewritten to reflect what the article is about. IMO, the first sentence does not make sense referring to the Royal Navy, as the article is about or should be about the Royal Australian Navy. I will seek some feedback from Wiki experts. Regards Newm30 (talk) 11:20, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
LOL - fishing and the military? I bet you don't even know here Oxford is! :) RewlandUmmer (talk) 11:26, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for welcoming me to the WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing. I appreciate it. Farjad0322 (talk) 22:34, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey there Epipelagic. Your last edit to Overfishing messed up the formatting, so I thought you should know. In addition, the "Addendum" section seems a tad unencyclopedic. Could you figure out a way to incorporate the quote, or better yet, a summary of the quote within the text somehow? Thanks a bunch! WDavis1911 (talk) 05:14, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to thank you for the sectioning of the Fishing television template; I decided that perhaps I could benefit the site by becoming a logged-in user, as well. Perhaps next time I'll have learned enough to make a similar edit, should the need arise. If I may comment, your above-mentioned thoughts of "bowing out" of Wikipedia and the reasons for that train of thought are spot-on; then again, that's a working example of human nature. Why can't life be as simple as it seems to be for the oceanic fauna? Guillaume0320 (talk) 02:04, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hi, regarding your comment on meditation, and the revert of Yworo please source those items within the next week or so, else we will just have to assume it needs it get commented out, until a source is found. In Wikipedia, the hypothesis that someone knows it is not enough. Thanks. History2007 (talk) 13:28, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I find myself in a very similar position currently at the Eido Shimano page as I once did at Adi Da. Biased editors with admin support bullying opposition with specious arguments. I wonder if you'd mind taking a look?Tao2911 (talk) 18:47, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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Hi there. Thanks for your recent edit to my interference with the Fishing trawler page. I do feel I have to say that I was a little taken aback by the tone you took on the edit history page in your comment. It seemed uncalled for. I also can't agree that the only remaining vessel of her kind, of what was once one of the largest fishing fleets in the world, could be described as 'rather unremarkable' either. However, I recognise and agree with what you said regarding 'showcasing' and realised that, although I was trying to make a genuine contribution, it probably did come accross as such. I have therefore removed the sentence regarding Ross Tiger from the 'side trawler' section. There is no other mention of individual vessels for types and as such there shouldn't be mention of her. Regards, Dave Ornsby —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.29.85.51 (talk) 22:08, 4 November 2010 (UTC) Some chaps stuck it back tho! I shall meddle no more! Ha :P —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dornsby (talk • contribs) 22:16, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for taking out the overlinking that I recently added to fishwife. Two of those were clearly wrong; sorry I forgot to check them. - Fayenatic (talk) 14:09, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi! Since you do a lot of AV work using TW, do you want me to request rollback? It's a lot faster than twinkle, and you can use them simultaneously. Please answer on my talk page or leave a ((talkback)). Thanks. --T H F S W (T · C · E) 18:56, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the nudge Epipelagic. I've not lost interest - every now and again the real world comes crashing in though. Still plenty of unfinished business to do on WP but it may be the New Year before it is tackled. Seasonal greetings to you and best wishes for the coming year ... Granitethighs 22:09, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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Please do not use edit summaries to attack or insult another editor.
"Why do you always have to know better." [28]
If the editor is creating problems in the article, the problematic edits can be reverted then discussed on the article talk page, and the problems with the user can be reported at various venues after giving warnings on the user talk page.
--Kleopatra (talk) 00:22, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm in the middle of lots of edits of coral reef. You're a fantastic editor, but is it really necessary to make changes such as shifting spelling from American to English while I'm in the middle of the task? I'm getting edit conflicts which really slow things down. I appreciate your tolerance while I struggle through. Lfstevens (talk) 04:16, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
I will work my way through your objections. See Talk. Lfstevens (talk) 01:34, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your edit to the article on Unintended consequences. At the time time tags were put in, they were justified. The tags prompted people to make improvements. I think you are right that they are no longer needed.
This article is probably a good example of the tags doing a good job.--Toddy1 (talk) 11:05, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Epipelagic,
I hope I'm doing this right, I'm just learning how to get around Wikipedia.
Here is a suggestion for a change that might improve the Bubble Ring article, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_ring
In the article, it describes the spin of a bubble ring like this: "The ring of air as well as the nearby water spins poloidally as it travels through the water, much like a flexible bracelet might spin when it is rolled off a person's arm." The quote is correct, but it would be more accurate if it was changed to read "The ring of air as well as the nearby water spins poloidally as it travels through the water, much like a flexible bracelet might spin when it is rolled off a person's arm (except the spin is in the opposite direction as when a bracelet is rolled off in this way.)"
Thanks! David Whiteis owner at http://www.bubblerings.com DavidWhiteis (talk) 19:24, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Please consider signing up for the 2011 WikiCup; WP:WikiCup/2011 signups. Best to just sign up before January 1st, then drop out if it is not to your liking, because there are no late sign-ups allowed. Abductive (reasoning) 05:24, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
May I enquire as to why you started a new ANI thread in the middle of the page? (I guess it could just have been a mistake, though the '+ new section' button at the top of the page rarely malfunctions in that way...) ╟─TreasuryTag►sheriff─╢ 11:48, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:Commercial mollusc topics has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji 16:01, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
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