Only if the YouTube video is actually about the article subject. The three videos of ceiling fans do not relate to the the resort. You do not link videos of African wildebeest migrations to an article about early Inca silver jewelry techniques.--☾Loriendrew☽☏(talk)15:00, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. I'm trying hard to work my way around the concerns (and mass deletions) of User:Werieth but he/she is simply disagreeing with me and deleting more. This seems to be contrary to the editing protocols of Wikipedia could you please review the "Removed pictures" discussion here:User talk:Werieth and intervene or provide some guidance? E James Bowman (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:53, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for a warm welcoming! Andrew 20:19, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
The thing is is that not every preacher is notable. For example, how much people did she gathered? If you are new to Wikipedia and want to create an article you should use a sandbox icon which is located next to talk.--Mishae (talk) 23:33, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Mishae!
Thanks a lot for the cordial welcoming letter! :)))
Now I shall try to sign this post but if I fail, you will surely know who you wrote to 10 minutes ago.
Спасибо еще раз!
Martin Georgiev (talk) 00:13, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mishae, Luckydhaliwal has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Thanks so much!
I very much appreciate the tips that you have given me! Thanks once again!
i really don't know how to use wikiedia well
can you tell me your e mail
and can you tell me how to make an article
just like your user page and how to add photos from my compuer to an article
hoe you to answer Ali Attebi (talk) 19:23, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
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hi mishae
thank you
I'm from syria
and i speak arabic better than english
so if you cam tell me an email for arabic speaker
it will be great
i want some one to tell me how to write an english article in wikipedia
and how to add my own photos to my article from my laptop Ali Attebi (talk) 20:31, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
all i want to know how to make a lists like that in your user page that named ( contants )
and put photos like your first photo in your page ( russian flag )
i'm really sorry but i think i'm not good at english but i'm trying to make you understand what exactly i want to know it
thank you so much Ali Attebi (talk) 00:14, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Mishae. Reading this: Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources I believe the following paper (ref #9) fulfils the Wikipedia requirements of a reliable source, but I need consensus. Do you agree that the paper is (A) a reliable/verifiable source for this article: Scandrett Regional Park and (B) one source that establishes notability of the members of the Scandrett family it details?
Here: [[1]] is a PDF from the National Historic Heritage Workshop 2004 run by Department of Conservation (New Zealand), New Zealand Historic Places Trust and Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand. It contains links to two PDFs of the presentation [[2]] and paper [[3]] presented by Dave Pearson [[4]], Conservation Architect, Auckland, describing the five year project to restore the historic buildings located on Scandretts Farm (renamed Scandrett Regional Park the following month). It contains a History of the farm, and says "It is the personal history associated with Scandretts farm that sets it apart from other places. Without these associations, the buildings could be in danger of becoming just another group of old farm buildings. The story of the people that lived there brings a place such as Scandretts to life". E James Bowman (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:55, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
Well with the amount of reference being provided and by the way how the other user didn't removed them I can agree that its notable and well written stub. As far as family goes, again, the article is about a park, so keep the reference to a family to a minimum. Thank you.--Mishae (talk) 00:03, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your welcome to the community! I'll check out the resources you sent over and let you know if I have any questions. Glc1066 (talk) 17:47, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
Normally people would say thanks and actually I think I used just that. Plus, whats the difference? You are in, enjoy the project! Cheer up!--Mishae (talk) 00:50, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
Well, some users use the old version, some use the new one. How is it outdated? Can you show me? To be honest with you I used the generic template which I was greeted with in 2009. I checked the others and I think they are no better, however, I did add a policy which probably suppose to be there. Another thing, this is my first time being criticized for welcoming a user and I think such questions should have been left alone. We are here to write articles and improve on them, not being curious of who welcomes whom and in which way.--Mishae (talk) 03:18, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
That's a template that you put if you will need either mine or someone else's help and the reason why its a redirect is not because its an old version, its the way how Wikipedia is. I fixed a template, thanks.--Mishae (talk) 16:24, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
Thank you Mishae for your help , i was already wrote many things and many question then the redactor redirect me on Forum then i come here no one want to help here and show my page so i have references — Preceding unsigned comment added by Belmadani Elmadani (talk • contribs) 17:39, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Instructor Request Page
Thank you very much for your helpful suggestions, Mishae! I'm new to this and appreciate all the help I can get so that I can get my class started. I have read the article you mentioned, but if you have any more reading suggestions, I'd be happy to take them. Best, Pangurban22 (talk) 17:58, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
I find it baffling myself that so many users were not welcomed for 10 years, and their talkpages were empty for such a long time too. You have a good week too and work hard.--Mishae (talk) 02:36, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I have added a new section into Fear of flying today under "September 11 Implications"
For some reason I can see the edit only in my computer and not in any others.
Would you be kind to inform me why is that?
Many thanks!
Well, its definitely not a systems fault since all of the versions of Mac or PC would have seen your edit just fine. I can see your both edits to that and other sections just fine. Go to "View history".--Mishae (talk) 15:48, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your note, I believe I was able to complete the article with references. I appreciate you reaching out, though. BTW, your user page looks nice!
Thanks for your message and welcome to my IP adress. I am an established editor on wikipedia for quiet some time and this is my account, however I mainly use my account to create articles and mainly use my IP for occasional editing. But thanks anyway for your message. Best wishes to you! Taeyebaar (talk) 19:41, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, my bad. I never know if its a former IP of a user who was here a long time, or its an IP address of someone new.--Mishae (talk) 19:43, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
Hey, Mishae, I noticed that you moved this page to Christopher Oakley (historian) earlier today, but left the original title as a redirect. Were you planning on doing something with the original? I ask because, if not, it should probably be moved back, or the disambiguation page moved on top of it; there's no need to put (historian) in there if there's no disambiguation page or other Christopher Oakley pages at that title. Thanks! Writ Keeper⚇♔05:09, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello and thank you for the welcome - I have written an article
Hello Mishae,
In the spirit of full disclosure I am an employee at Woodland Scenics, a company in Linn Creek, Missouri. There is a current article posted to Wikipedia, and we would like to expand it. We believe we are notable in the industry and have "several independent reliable sources that include substantial information about our company." However rather than edit that particular page, I am creating a draft expanded article in the Sandbox, as suggested in the FAQs for Organizations. I want to make sure our information remains unbiased. I am not an experienced contributor to Wikipedia, am learning the ropes, so to speak, and would gladly welcome any feedback/assistance I can get from seasoned wiki editors.
I have written the draft article to request for submission, and it is in my Sandbox. I want to get an opinion as to whether you think it is okay. I have read the resources and I think I have complied with all the requirements.
Is this something you can do? And, I have a particular question...
Many of the sources cited in the draft are from national model railroad and hobby retailer publications, local and regional newspapers, etc. However, many are not available online, so including a substantiating link is not possible. I do have hard copies of these sources, but do not know what to do beyond that point. Help?
Thanks, Mishae! I have most of that information on the hard copy of the articles. Will include it in the reference information and submit the article for review. Again...thanks so much for your help. Mitch Mitch2018 (talk) 21:44, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. As this is a BLP, more stronger sources are required to assert notability.
Hi Mishae! Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia. So I am currently in a class that requires myself and my group members to improve a Wikipedia page. We have chosen to work on History of breakfast. On the talk page, we have listed some future plans we have to change the site. We would greatly appreciate it if you could provide us with some input about our plans, and what you think would be good changes to the page.
Hi Mishae! Thank you so much for the welcome message and for letting me know how to sign my name... I appreciate the help. I hope I can become an expert at using wiki as well as making edits to articles etc, as all this is new territory for me. Thanks again! Mtee87 (talk) 01:27, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Mishae. I'm curious what you're working on these days? I know I can look at your contribution history, but I thought I would ask you instead. Are you working on food subjects or biological subjects? Both?
Also, I see from your talk page that you at first had some difficulty with the ways of Wikipeida, but now you're a mentor and a welcomer. That's pretty cool.
Thanks. Considering that I have autism its sometimes hard to get into a routine, but as time went by me, just like any person in the world learns how to behave... Its good that you asked me about my interests in Wikipedia and truly there are many. Lets say, I write articles about anything... I started out with games, but then realized that majority are already covered (and I don't like edit conflicts) :) So, I decided to write about insects, and not one but many. Currently I work on biographies, and for more info you can check my userpage, its well organized though. :) Take care,
Okay, you're totally misinterpreting. If a prod is not contested after 10 days, then the article can safely be deleted by an admin. If it is removed before 10 days, then it can instantly go to AFD without a waiting period. The AFD discussion then stays open for 7 or more days. There is nothing in that that says that you have to wait 10 days after a contested prod. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?)20:16, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Well, that's what I assumed it ment. There is backwards interpretations. The thing is, is that the seven days wasn't up yet and I get an AfD on day 2.--Mishae (talk) 00:32, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hola Misha! I see you answered something but I could not see it... I don't understand how to use this well... :(
Can you please help me put up some photos of my sculptures and me on the page? I sent you my email, can you please answer me there?
Thank you again so much.
Wikipedia has added a message on my page about "conflict of interests" because I edited some things about my exhibits. I imagine that you are very busy with many issues but please if you can help this to go away I would be very grateful.
I am moving the discussion here becuase that was Ironholds talk page. U2 is an Irish rock band, it is my favourite band ever and Bono is the lead singer of the band. They are amazing. Miss Bono [hello, hello!]16:23, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
Now I got it. However, even if you would have been his relative, I don't think you would have violated COI rule as long as you write in neutral point of view, and provide verifiable references. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong though. I, for example, am a son of a notable scientist, and wrote some sub-stub articles related to his friends (which turned out to be notable as well). However, as a side note, I wrote them just like any other articles (i.e. basic references, neutrality, etc.) Either way, I would to apologize if my comparison might have been personal for you. If so, please except my apologies.--Mishae (talk) 23:57, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
It seems that I made a big mistake adding info to my page Laura Figueroa and an embarrassing tag was added. I do not plan to make this mistake again. I will send you my information instead, ok?
For example, my Exhibits are:
1999 Aires de Bronce. Club de Industriales, Mexico City, Mexico.
2000 Aires de Bronce. Instituto Cultural Domeq, Mexico City, Mexico.
2000 Aires de Bronce. Representación del Gobierno del Estado de Quintana Roo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2004 Aires de Bronce. Jockey Club Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico.
2009 Complejo Cultural Universitario, Puebla, Mexico.
2011 Memoria del Aire. Centro Cultural Puerto del Aire, Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, Mexico.
2011 Distintas Maneras. Casa de la Cultura, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.
2011 Recopilando. Instituto Cultural Poblano, Puebla, Mexico.
2011 Proala. Centro Cultural Tres Marias, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.
2011 Espacio del Arte Televisa, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
2012 Aria Equestre. Galleria d´Arte Contemporaneo EticoAtelier, Brescia, Italy.
2012 Aria Equestre. Galeria Ermanno Pini Arte. Pontevico, Italy.
2012 43a Rasegna d´Arte de lAssociazione Academia del Gàmber,
Gambara, Italy.
2012 Mostra d´Arte "Sagra d´Autunno", Bassano Bresciano, Italy.
2013 ArAnimA Art Exhibit, Chateau de Goulaine, Nantes, France.
2013 HORSES. Galería Archè nel Tempo, Roma, Italy.
2013 ArAnimA Exposition au profit de Notre Planète, Hôpital d´Alençon, France.
2013 The Horse in Art . Society of Equestrian Artists. Mall Galeries. London, England.
2013 ArAnimA Exposition au Profit de Notre Planète. Hôpital d´Argentan. Argentan, France.
2013 ArAnimA Exposition Évolutive au Profit de Notre Planète. Caen, France.
2013 Giornata Del Contemporaneo, Galeria Arché Arte nel Tempo. Rome, Italy.
I also belong to other Artist Associations and Galleries so that my info can be verified.
ArAnimA in France
The Society of Equestrian Artists
The International Equine Artists in the US
Centro Cultural Mizrahi
Arché Arte nel Tempo Gallery in Italy
Pini Arte in Italy
It would be great if she added some images. I am not good at this and I don´t understand how it works. can I send YOU the images?
There is a link to a place I uploaded some images of me:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/LauraFigueroa333
Maybe this helps. Or please tell me what to do... I have many photos of my sculptures.
Thank you!
Hola Misha, I hope that you are good.
I am not happy with the comments that Timtrent person is writing about me. I feel insulted with her aggressive attitude. And the tag looks bad for me.
I thank you for everything that you have done and for believing in my work.
Laura — Preceding unsigned comment added by LauraFigueroa333 (talk • contribs) 22:23, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Mishae. Seeing this, I am wondering if you are aware of the WP:Dead link page and what it advises in the case of dead links. For the case you tackled, since all of the links except the zooschool.ecsd.net link do not have archived versions at Internet Archive, I consider it one of the exceptions to not removing dead links. Flyer22 (talk) 18:25, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page. You don't have to reply there about this if you want to reply to me. When I comment on an editor's talk page, I usually check back to see if that editor has replied and/or I briefly put that editor's talk page on my WP:Watchlist so that I will know if that editor replied. Flyer22 (talk) 20:25, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello there,
Hello Mishae, Eduemoni has given you a shining smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shining Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy! Eduemoni↑talk↓12:03, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Sites
Hello Misha,
Could you help me to add these as References on my Laura Figueroa page? maybe they help.
www.equestrianartists.co.uk
The Society of Equestrian Artists, United Kingdom
www.aranima.com
Association Internationale des Artistes Animaliers et Paysagers, France
www.internationalequineartists.com
The International Equine Artists Organization, United States.
www.arche-arteneltempo.com
Gallery ArchèArte nel Tempo, Rome, Italy
Gallery Pini Arte Modernacontemporanea, Italy
The Classical Dressage contests were organized by:
www.anccemex.com
Asociacion Nacional de Criadores de Caballos de Pura Raza Española.
Also, do you think that more information about me as an artist with references could be added?
Awarded for your work last month creating articles for Russian ballet dancers and other Russian people associated with ballet. Thank you! Dkreisst (talk) 02:12, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
An article on an academic that just gives their position and refers to Gogle Scholar for the h value is not really sufficient. I know you have considerable experience here, so you must know this.
It is true that notability under WP PROF depends mainly of the extent to which the person is an authority, and this is generally determined by such things as distinguished positions, major prizes, and citations to their publication, but some details are necessary for a satisfactory article.
What I hope, is that you've been entering the first sentence and intend to come back and finish. If so, it will avoid confusion to use an {{underconstruction}] tag at the top. That's what I do. DGG ( talk ) 01:14, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Most certainly. You see, the under construction tag gives me only a week, and I will probably need more than that.--Mishae (talk) 01:19, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Hey Mishae! Remember me? Hope everything is going well - I've been on a break from Wikipedia, but I'm back. I noticed you left me a message on my talk page back in August here. It was a long time ago, but in case you didn't find an answer, I left you one XD Apologies if my reply covers things you already know - you seem to have become way more experienced since I disappeared. Cheers, ~SuperHamsterTalkContribs07:06, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
Ways to improve Mietek Jaroniec
Hi, I'm Kudpung. Mishae, thanks for creating Mietek Jaroniec!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Plerase add more sources to this BLP.
Hi, dumb question maybe, but did you mean to post this at WP:AIV or WP:ANI? No disrespect intended if you meant AIV--it just seemed an atypical place for such a report (I say cautiously, noticing that you have 8x the edits that I do...) Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 01:55, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
The guidelines you quote say nothing about it being "okay to include CVs". An independent description of someone's career would be allowed as a reference, but not if he wrote it himself, which he obviously did! Deb (talk) 23:07, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi Misha, I edited this a bit. The edit summary got garbled a bit (I clicked "enter" by accident). The article needs some clarifications (like "Gordian Knot", which is a mythical event and surely Youssef wasn't there over 2000 years ago :-) and some independent references for the awards and such (and some rewards need to be explained what they actually are). Also, he lead could be a bit more informative than what I just made out of it. Perhaps a Google search would turn up more sources? --Randykitty (talk) 17:41, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Mishae. Although your English is very good in general, I think you do need to be careful not to react aggressively when people give you advice; you sometimes appear to misunderstand them and that is not their fault. I can tell you a little more about the reasons for the "legal threat" policy, because I was here on wikipedia when it was first introduced. We had a contributor at that time who was a lawyer in real life and already had a reputation outside this project. She took offence at something that was said to her and accused the other contributor of casting doubt on her professional qualifications and said she would take him to court. It was a ridiculous threat as he hadn't even done anything wrong, but it was frightening for him. So this rule was introduced. It is an effective rule, because from time to time we get people coming on here who make empty threats and it is unpleasant for others; if they behave like that, we can block them. It doesn't mean that every time anyone mentions the law on copyright, they are threatening you. They are trying to help you by explaining the details of the laws we have to obey. I realise that you face many difficulties, but you should try to learn not to react like that as it makes you look bad and will make people less inclined to help you. So please do be careful how you address people. Deb (talk) 13:01, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
Well, frankly speaking, you can't take anyone to court just because someone is in doubt or in denial of someone's career or expertise in someone's field! Like its not a denial of a specific historical events like Holocaust for which many countries can pursue legal measures up to 10 years in prison (Russian maximum penalty, which was introduced in 2010). Either way, thanks for explaining the situation, and do except my apologies for any aggression. You see, (if you would read my userpage), I have condition of autism and cerebral palsy both of which can make me hostile and/or aggressive toward others. Sometimes, because I am from another country (Russia), I can't write a concise or grammar issue free text sometimes. I do appreciate any help, and as you seen I sent you many thanks for grammar fixes, but do bear in mind, that my aggression have nothing to do with editors or editor conduct, its sometimes just me not knowing how to react in certain situations (if not my disabilities I won't be aggressive at all (or it would have much more at minimum), or the other my obsession lets me create many article on notable people, which Wikipedia was in need sometimes 10 years ago. :)--Mishae (talk) 15:04, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
"he have"
Hi. Can I give you one pointer to improving your articles? The phrase "he have" is never grammatically correct in English. What you should put in its place depends what you mean, but in most cases it would be "he has". Deb (talk) 12:01, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
applies to individual animals, not to species-- and anyway, all species are considered notable here. Acupalpus carus needs a reference, but we don;t delete on that basis either. DGG ( talk ) 22:18, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
What is the difference between individual animals and species? Plus, its odd, so when there is a bio it needs an immediate reference otherwise it will be deleted especially if its BLP, but when it comes to animals Wikipedia forgets about Verifiability rule????--Mishae (talk) 22:22, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
(talk page stalker)Well, here's an example: my pet dog named Rosie is an individual animal; C. l. familiaris is a species. So, an article written about my Rosie would fall under the "animal" category of A7; an article written about C. l. familiaris would not. As for BLP, BLP is a special policy when it comes to real people because posting false things about real-life people on Wikipedia can cause real-life harm to them; things like animal species and the like can't, so there's much less urgency attached to it. Writ Keeper⚇♔22:28, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
That's a bit funny. Like O.K. humans have feelings but animals don't? Sorry, but I wonder if people from Animal Humane Society or the like do come here? If they do, they might get disappointed and you know, how animal right activists are (I am excluded from that list). Don't take it as a threat though, just my opinion, or rather imagination.--Mishae (talk) 22:34, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
More to the point, though, animals can't read Wikipedia articles about themselves and feel alarm at all the false things it claims about them, and animals can't appreciate any negative impacts to their credibility/reputation as a result of other people reading and believing false claims. (Okay, yes, I guess there are some plausible scenarios wherein harm comes to an animal because of false things on Wikipedia, like if someone posts unsourced allegations that pitbulls are always dangerous, it could cause some pitbulls to be abandoned or something. But that's a bit of a stretch, and c'mon, at some point, they're just dogs.) Writ Keeper⚇♔23:22, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Well, I personally not a dog lover, but some people might take it the wrong way, and therefore be offended by the article. I care less though, but considering the current world we live in there was cases when some animals get killed because of the false believe. For example: Someone says that all the wolfs are dangerous because they eat our cattle. O.K., that might be true. Yes, there were cases when a sheep was eaten by a wolf, and there was many tales that we tell out kids how wolfs are evil and so on. The fact is, is that that sheep was bleeding and that's why the wolf ate it. Mean time, the humans wiped out a big chunk of Gray wolf population claiming that it feeds on its unattended livestock. Now, correct me if I am wrong, but is not it suppose to be shepherds job to see where their livestock is? All what I am saying is that the article must be verifiable even if it is about an animal species and should be treated no differently then any other. Its a bit of an unconstructive leeway here, when it comes to animal related articles. Speaking or animal and species differences Wikipedia have articles related to notable horses. Their names are displayed all right, or is it an exception?--Mishae (talk) 23:49, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
To be sure, verifiability is important for every article, regardless of subject, and any false information could be potentially hazardous if acted upon. While animal articles certainly aren't any less prone to this as any other type of article, all I'm saying is that they're not extraordinarily more prone to it, either. The reason that BLP is a thing is that articles about living people are extraordinarily more prone to it, and that's why BLP is a special-case rule. And yeah, of course there are some individual animals that are notable; for example, I don't think anyone would argue that, say, Secretariat isn't notable, or that it should be deleted under A7. The point is simply that A7 is a two-step process: the first step is determining whether the article falls under one of the specific categories that A7 applies to, and the second step is determining whether there is a valid claim of significance. An article like Secretariat's qualifies for the first step, since it's about an individual animal, which is one of the categories. But it doesn't qualify for the second step, since winning the Triple Crown is a valid claim of significance, and so Secretariat's article could not be deleted under A7. An article about a species, on the other hand, doesn't qualify for the first step, as it's not an individual animal, and there's no other category that applies, so it still can't be deleted under A7. Writ Keeper⚇♔00:13, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
So when it comes to animals, what category does apply? Like, there should be a policy regarding unsourced animal articles. However, maybe there are not many sources that species articles can use. For example, its perfectly fine for a species articles to use ARKive or Fauna Europaea and sometimes specific sites that have to do with species' habitat such as Ground Beetles of Ireland and Zin.ru (since we are talking beetles here). Mean time, sites like ZipcodeZoo, Arctos, BugGuide and even ITIS are considered to be dubious even though that both Encyclopedia of Life and ITIS are used as part of a taxobox on both Russian and Ukrainian Wikipedias. There cases such as here, that an article can't be referenced and therefore can be misleading and dubious. Like, I can use Carabidae of the World, but I heard that Wikipedia consider it to be dubious as well, not to mention that its under maintenance as of yesterday.--Mishae (talk) 01:56, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
Alexander Titov (conductor)
Hi Misha, I've disambiguated all existing links in Wikipedia that referred to Alexander Titov the conductor, to Alexander Titov (conductor). So now there are several articles that link to Alexander Titov (conductor), which I also found on your to-do list. I thought you might want to know, in case you're still interested in creating it. Azylber (talk) 02:37, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Many thanks! Yes, in the mean time I have finished with some other notable conductors from United States and Russia alike, so yes, Titov will be tomorrow if not next week! By the way, feel free to go through my biographical articles since I don't I sometimes feel that I don't rate them properly.--Mishae (talk) 02:40, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, sorry that I didn't have time to thank you for your previous message too. Consider that I am thanking for both.--Mishae (talk) 22:54, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your note on my page. Well, firstly, amongst the Wiki Project Opera group, we generally accept entries in Grove as being "the" source. Therefore, my ref to the translation specifically refers to Grove by page (I have a copy of course, so it was the first thing that I consulted). Secondly, even with my relatively limited French, any definite article (i.e. "The") in French would appear as "La" before a feminine noun (in this case "Juive") and before a masculine noun, it would appear as "Le", although I don't know what the masculine form would look like here. But the feminine plural would surely be "Les Juives" ("Juive" + "s"), there being no specific masculine nor feminine form of the plural "the" in third-person French.
Regardless, we are not talking about more than one woman in the title of the opera, which when reviewing the synopsis, the story clearly relates to one Jewish woman - hence La Juive. I checked with the Holden Penguin volume, and it is the same in translation. I hope this makes sense.
All the best, Viva-Verdi (talk) 00:58, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
PS: My apologies! I hadn't gone back to read the article's text, so NOW I see what you mean! It is of course The Jewess - only two "s"..! Viva-Verdi (talk) 01:04, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Assume you saw my error note above. The opera is about the principal character who is a Jewess. It could have been called "Rachel", I suppose, and indeed there are other Jewish characters - but she is the focus. Viva-Verdi (talk) 01:21, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Oh, I thought you knew that this was about the operaLa Juive by the 19th C. French composer Halevy. And both Grove and Holden spell is standardly in England with 2 x "s", so that "Jew" can mean just a man, whereas "Jewess" refers to a female Jew. Viva-Verdi (talk) 04:12, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Mishae. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Natalya Antonova, for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:
remove the text that looks like this: {{proposed deletion/dated...}}
save the page
Also, be sure to explain why you think the article should be kept in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. If you don't do so, it may be deleted later anyway.
Hello in the first place English is not my first language so it may have some problems trying to explain, so I apologize. I am editor page vevo in English and this week members no autoconfirmed are adding false information that harms the accuracy of the information used in this web site, so I ask for privacy lock this page is increased to prevent recurrent vandalism.---The sun2013(talk)
Yeah, well as one editor said: if you did something and your edits haven't got reverted or you didn't got a warning or ban that means its O.K. to do it, but I still want to be on the safe side. :)--Mishae (talk) 20:11, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
I was about to suggest it. Like honestly, won't you agree that the bigger the article the more people will want to read the minimum?--Mishae (talk) 17:45, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
I have autism, so, that's why I am so patient. My brain always calculates every edit, manually before I save it. If there is an edit conflict I just repaste my copy, and then add the previously deleted stuff due to it (if any). Although, saint-not saint I sometimes make mistakes too.--Mishae (talk) 22:05, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Mishae: Again, I want to stress there's no personal animosity when I propose an article for deletion. I think (or hope!) that I am just neutrally instituting Wikipedia policies. I am concerned, however, when you say that the "Quality of encyclopedia wont suffer just because someone is not notable." I believe WP:NOTABILITY is one of the basic elements of the WP:FIVEPILLARS of Wikipedia: it is the notability guideline that makes Wikipedia an encyclopedia, not an mass of data or a soapbox or a means of self-promotion. If we allow articles that are not notable, Wikipedia will turn into a Craigs List of ads for amateur bands, or a blog for crackpot ideas. The line has to be drawn somewhere, so many of the Projects have detailed where the line is drawn between what is allowed and what is not. WP:NMUSIC is the one for music. Sometimes it can be cruel when you delete something. I've seen pages deleted that are earnest memorials for a dead relative who was a nice member of the community but did nothing special. There are other places for that on the net; it's just not on Wikipedia. Also, I wanted to stress that I don't think you were being promotional when you created the Nakamichi page; I was just saying that one reason there is the policy about WP:RELIABLESOURCES is that sources directly related to the individual/subject can not always be trusted. People make up things on their resumés all the time. We need to be reasonably critical about the sources we use. That should involve being critical about whether to create a page or not. I have seen your name around on Wikipedia, so when I checked your edits, you clearly have many more than I do. But I do hope you've learned a bit more not only about notability guidelines, but also about why they are there. I think it's good you're starting to consider articles for deletion, though I warn you to be prepared for an occasional tough discussion (some users can be tough if their page has been nominated, or if they think the nomination was unwise). But I think you've not been properly nominating the pages you've nominated: the AfD tag does appear on the page, but I've checked and the nomination does not appear on the log: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion. Have you followed all the instructions at WP:AFDHOW? (Note that if you use WP:TWINKLE, you can more easily do the nominating.) Finally, about checking in the library. I am not in Japan now, but have access to a university library with a decent Japanese section. I sometimes go there to check on Japanese sources for articles on more obscure topics. (One of the problems with Wikipedia is the tendency to emphasize online sources, so sometimes articles get nominated for deletion because people couldn't find anything on the net, even though there are plenty of print sources. This is especially the case with older subjects like medieval samurai or old military figures; it's much less the case with contemporary figures like Nakamichi.) So I can check on Nakamichi when I can, though that might not be for a few days. Given my experience, I doubt I will find anything, but I can give it a try. Michitaro (talk) 14:29, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Well, I am sorry if my comment was, lets say, not nice. I don't use Twinkle, since I thought its for reverters only, and I am not that. Another thing to mention: Please understand that I am not here to create a soapbox out of encyclopedia. Just like you I am here to create an encyclopedia, with maybe less knowledge on my part. You see, different guidelines require different assets of notability. For example I wrote a lot of articles related to athletes and their criterium says that the athlete who played at least one game is notable. Luckily for athletes there are many online newspapers, so with this field I have 0 issues. When it comes to scientists for example, I need to make sure that they have a ton of peer reviewed journals or a high h-index. But, there are no such thing as h-index for musicians??? And majority of them don't have much of the coverage. I have the same issue when it comes to writers, artists and photographers. Like, National Geographic, is a great reference for photographer's bio, but what if he is not a part of NGO, what's then? Same thing is with writers. Like, there is a bio of every writer on Amazon.com but I don't use it as a reference since I know that its not it. Some Wikipedians say its perfectly fine to use Amazon link, but I still think that its as bad as writing a promo. Sometimes Wikipedia keeps an article on a non notable person simply because the other language have it. The reason why I wrote it is because I thought that maybe Japanese language Wikipedia will have even more in debt coverage, but as time went by they didn't wrote a single thing, therefore I need to condemn that she is probably not notable (yet)--Mishae (talk) 21:21, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Before deleting a citation because of a deadlink, please check the archive sources for a copy. For example, the citation that you deleted from the Pre-Tridentine Mass article, had several perfectly good archive copies available.
The instructions on the deadlink template say: Please also consider doing a search for an archived copy of the dead link and thereby avoiding using the tag altogether. This is of course the best solution when you find a dead link. You also might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Linkrot#Repairing a dead link, which has more detail. Take care, and thanks for your work creating Heteroptera articles. --Bejnar (talk) 03:21, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Hey! Just dropping you a note: You can find the instructions for AfD here. Let me know if you get stuck on anything partway through. I know that I royally mangled AfD submissions for the longest time before I got the knack of them. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)04:14, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
To: Mishae E, nice work on lots and lots of pages. I was showing my girlfriend all the pages you did (one was of her but I wont say which one). I live in Miami and email me if you want a penpal from USA, suggestions in English, or if youre just bored. jonathan.4077@hotmail.com
It looks like you are doing some great work on species-related articles. I noticed that you created both Helladia adelpha and Dolichoctis rotundata two years ago, although they seem to refer to the same species. How would you recommend clearing up this issue? Your help would be greatly appreciated. As a side note, you may wish to consider archiving your talk page, as its length may prevent users with slow computers from contacting you. A "how to" guide is located here.
I just cleared up the issue, I forgot to rename Helladia adelpha into Dolichoctis rotundata when I created Dolichoctis rotundata article. In reality both Dolichoctis and Helladia genuses do exist, so, no, they are different species. The sites are different and so is the color of the species along wiith size. I think you accidently give me one wrong insect to compare with and since I wrote many, it will be difficult for you to give me the right one. I'm planning on archiving my page eventually, but right now I have classes to attend.--Mishae (talk) 03:46, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Mishae, there was an article at the International Business Times about an independence of Lviv Oblast. I has to agree that it looks real, yet it does not correspond the reality. I am disputing the issue on the talk page of the article about February riots. I apologize for ambiguity. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 15:07, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
every time you do it you end up blanking a bunch of content. is there not a better system? like putting up a tag warning that the article is undergoing a series of edits? every. single. time. it's driving me nuts.--Львівське (говорити) 18:32, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
yeah that's the one, maybe do that? i'm not ripping on you, you do a lot of great work and its appreciated - we just need a better cooperating system here (like you said, it goes both ways)--Львівське (говорити) 19:04, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
Impressive! I use two screens to combine information. Still, I find such tasks to be tedious and cumbersome, so I congratulate you on your talents. TGCP (talk) 19:08, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Nichiren Shōshū - Questionable authenticity of a photo
I'm an inexperienced editor wondering if a photo on Nichiren Shōshū, Taiseki-ji and Dai Gohonzon conforms with Wikipedia's standards. I don't think that it meets the guidelines of burden of proof, reliable sources, and original research. It's from Wikimedia Commons, which lists the source as a non-authoritative webpage. Whether the image is what that webpage claims has not been demonstrated, especially with any credible sources. This has been discussed at length on Talk:Nichiren Shōshū in the last section and it appears that we have reached an impasse. What is your opinion, please? If you think I'm correct, then should I seek mediation / dispute resolution? Scandiescot (talk) 06:51, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Thank You! But after five years and over a hundred edits, don't you think you're welcome is a bit stale. But thanks all the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Axelssj99 (talk • contribs) 22:56, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
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TThanks for the welcome, Mishae! It was so nice to find your welcome msg on my talk page, I felt at home and taken care :) And yes, I do have a question for you: I'm fond of (and postgraduates too :) contemporary architecture and I'ld love to create an article but -- although I've read Your first article -- being a newcomer, I'm very hesitant... How can I know what might be needed in the contemporary architecture field? how can I know if the quality of my article is acceptable BEFORE uploading it? can I submit it to an editor for a first look and advises? As of now, I've only found a couple of inaccurate informations and I have corrected them -- but, just to be sure, I have copied/pasted the right info from another wiki article... Should I be more brave and try to write myself? can I be mentored somehow? Sorry for asking so many questions but I'm a newbie, you know...
16:49, 6 April 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Architect77 (talk • contribs)
Thank you, Mishae! I will stay in touch and ask you more questions when I'll know better what I would like to do :) Talk you soon.Architect77 (talk) 16:34, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Mishae. This is Michitaro. I noticed you recently created the article Tsuneo Tanaka, but it has some problems I wanted to discuss with you. First, it seems the article is referring to different people under the same name. First, Tsuneo Tanaka 田中常雄 was appointed ambassador to the Philippines in 1988 [5], and did receive a Presidential Citation (not a Global Voluntary Service award--that is the name of his NPO) in 2010 (plus an even more important Order of the Golden Heart with the rank of Grand Cross (Maringal na Krus) in 2013 [6]). But as you can see in the photo of Tanaka here, he is not the same person who is the ecologist at Villefranche (see his photo here). Moreover, the Google Scholar page you reference seems to be referring to many different T. Tanakas. The ecologist's own list of articles only lists 35 [7] articles. It is also highly unlikely that a marine ecologist has published on leukemia and robotics. Please note that Google Scholar is usually just the result of a Google bot doing searches, and thus comes up with many inaccurate results. Since the part about the scientist is quite suspect (and it's not certain if any of these Tanakas are notable), I would suggest cutting all the parts in the article that are not about the ambassador. Michitaro (talk) 23:56, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
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Dear Mishae, how are you doing? you may recall me, you advised me a month ago. Thank you again :) I'm writing you because something strange is happening in the page Neo-Futurism. As you remember, this is one of the (few) articles I have edited until now. Now somebody is deleting paragraph after paragraph... It was an interesting page but I think that his next step will be to terminate it: he has already deleted almost everything in less than two weeks. Too bad, I liked that article :( The last msg in the talks is now asking for help of an administrator suggesting that the guy is using multiple addresses to accomplish a proposal of deletion that it was reverted and that he may have a personal reason to do so... Dunno... Can you have a look? Architect77 (talk) 01:11, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
I'm American. My grandfather was born in Russia/Ukraine - probably somewhere around Odessa, although information on this is hard to come by. I've edited a number of articles in the past, but this is the first time I've tried to create a new one. It hasn't gone live yet. You'll find it on my talk page. I welcome your comments. Regards...Jack Orion (talk) 05:02, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
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Wiki Loves Monuments, the world's largest photography competition, will be taking place in Pakistan this September.
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Start taking photos of the sites enlisted here and upload them in September to be eligible for national and international prizes.
From the recent AFD discussion I got that you are interested in writing bio articles about physicists. Instead of looking for new articles to create you might be interested in having a look at the huge collection of stubs on physicists. Many of them are in a really poor state and could use some TLC. This goes particularly for those bio article identified as "mid" and "high" importance for WP Physics.TR08:44, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
2014 Mastung bus bombing
Hi Mishae, i will do my best to help you (deewan 00:51, 13 June 2014 (UTC)) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aashah86 (talk • contribs)
Wikimedia Community User Group Pakistan is organizing an edit drive for Pakistani Wikipedians on Pakistani Cultural Heritage throughout the month of July.
Top three contributors will be given a gift pack containing Wikipedia merchandise.
Hi, I rarely see the weekdays used with the dates and the Manual of Style hardly mentions them. I think that might be because in most cases it is not important what day of the week it was. --Jaellee (talk) 22:34, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Nothing to be ashamed about at all, there are lots of rules on Wikipedia and not everybody is expected to know all of them! The thing is that you know now and you have learnt from it so won't repeat the same mistakes again, and that is all that we ask! GiantSnowman15:23, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Convert ranges
When you want the convert template to show a range with dashes, please just use a hyphen, for example:
Thanks @Johnuniq:, but I did exactly that. Some conversion ranges it doesn't convert by an unknown to me reason, so I either leave a mess or I don't do anything with them. :(--Mishae (talk) 13:41, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
It doesn't matter, but if you want to check it out, here are the details:
When convert was added in this edit, the dashes that were in the article were retained, but the first used an en dash while the second had U+2500 box drawings light horizontal. The result was that the first convert worked while the second did not.
In this edit, the dash was again preserved, but again it was incorrect as U+2212 minus sign had been used.
Thanks for your suggestion @Johnuniq: but I only use the hyphen (-) sign. Somebody before me used a different parameter and I am sorry if I overlooked it. So far, I am doing good though.--Mishae (talk) 02:38, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
