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Also, I replied to your post at Talk:Cicada#Incorrect reference to adult cicadas eating. Thank you again. Pseudonymous Rex (talk) 02:42, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

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Citation needed for addition to Anti-predator adaptation

Hi, thanks for your work. Could you please add a reliable source for your addition to this article. Thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:32, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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Flying Fish

Per your edit summary, actually Wikipedia doesn't use American English. See MOS:ENGVAR. Justeditingtoday (talk) 15:58, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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Secondary sources

This is a secondary source. Why the tag? [1] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:08, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

You are absolutely correct. I didn't have access to the journal at work. (I have university library access but not at my workplace.)I assumed (my big mistake!) that it was a report of a study, not a meta-analysis.

IAmNitpicking (talk) 01:36, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Ah no worries. By the way this is an interesting article Sci-hub Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:56, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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"and here" - GeoCities?

In the Scriptures section of the article is a sentence fragment "and here" with a reference to a GeoCities page--not a valid Internet Archive link, just a link to the Wayback Machine itself (Reference 25). Does anyone know what this is supposed to be, or should it just be deleted? IAmNitpicking (talk) 21:58, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

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Protection from nationalists

Does this article need to be protected from the apparently very large number of extreme nationalist coffee-drinkers? IAmNitpicking (talk) 15:03, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

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Regarding your recent edit and comments on article John_C._Dvorak: Hello. This is a message to let you know that you have made an edit summary that did not appear to be appropriate, civil or otherwise constructive, and it may have been removed. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Also, I am not aware of any "edit war" occurring with that page, as you say, other than a recent malicious removal of the content (his height from the Infobox) by an anonymous IP user, which has been reverted. FCGreg (talk) 05:11, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Some IP editor kept changing Dvorak's height to make him seem short. It got reverted, he(?) lowered it again. How is that not an edit war? IAmNitpicking (talk) 12:13, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Daisy

I noticed your revert of my edit on Chicory. I only edited because it appears on the lists of articles with disambiguation links as Daisy points to a disambiguation page - lots of plants known as daisy around the world. Do you know the specific one the link should point to?— Rod ^talk 14:30, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Why does "daisy" need to be a link at all? IAmNitpicking (talk) 18:54, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Happy for you to remove the wikilink.— Rod ^talk 19:19, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Tilde expansion

Regarding your frustration, wiiting ~~~~ in the middle of sentences is at least one of the more-easily solved oddities of WP. View source of my comment to see how:) DMacks (talk) 14:55, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Granted, it just surprised me, since I can't see a use case for ever actually signing in mid-sentence. Thanks. IAmNitpicking (talk) 16:59, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Re: Your edit to Project MKUltra.

I have reverted your edit. The definition of defenestration is "the action of throwing someone out of a window," per Merriam Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary. Not "going out of a window." There is no consensus that Frank Olson was thrown out of a window. Self-defenestration or autodefenestration is the act of jumping, propelling oneself, or causing oneself to fall, out of a window. So, yes. It would mean "murdered." ExRat (talk) 16:35, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

LNG price hikes

Hi IAN, there seems to be a gap in the price description on the LNG page, which only describes market indexed, whatever that is. Spot prices have influenced the gas market, both for heating and for electricity, leading to the 2021 United Kingdom natural gas supplier crisis among others. Can you help clarify where the spot price increase would go? TGCP (talk) 21:39, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

I'm not Ian - are you taking the initials of my nickname? IAmNitpicking (talk) 13:36, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Yes IAmNitpicking, I merely used those initials, sorry about that. I am referring to your edit here - what do you suggest to include the worldwide price hike? TGCP (talk) 19:31, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

The thing is that "Ian" is a Scottish name, equivalent to Russian "Ivan" and English "John". Since that is not my name, I was confused. I have no particular opinion on the coverage of recent price changes. Wikipedia being an encyclopedia (and not a news service), I am in no particular hurry to add recent events to it. IAmNitpicking (talk) 00:48, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

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Revert

Hi! Check the link in [2]. Now it's broken again. Wikisaurus (talk) 15:24, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of common or similar words in English and Persian

Hi IAmNitpicking. When you nominated the article List of common or similar words in English and Persian for deletion earlier today, you missed a couple of steps in the process. I've fixed it for you and added my own rationale for deleting the article. The debate is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of common or similar words in English and Persian. Best, Pichpich (talk) 23:29, 1 May 2022 (UTC)

I followed the exact procedure at Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. Either that's wrong, or it's really unclearly written. Thanks, Pichpich.IAmNitpicking (talk) 00:04, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Tardigrade Quantum Entanglement

Hi IAmNitpicking. Did you read the paper? That a complex organism can be reduced to such a state that it can maintain quantum entanglement is worth mentioning. It is not "unsuprising" they can survive it because quantum mechanics is a very poorly intuited arrangement. Commonly people conflate things about "macro" and "quantum" physics and this seems to be what you are doing. When I completed my Quantum Field Theory credit there was a whole section on how to avoid the empirical pitfalls of trying to apply a non-Hamiltonian approach to quantum mechanics. Please give a better reason for removing this interesting and well referenced facts other than that you don't like it. TardigradeEntanglement — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.171.255.147 (talk) 21:47, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

I took my undergrad quantum course back in the '80s. Your reasoning seems to be, "Since I can't understand the math, anything that happens is surprising." There is no reason whatever that quantum entanglement would kill anything. It's worth mentioning that I could trivially entangle you with a particle on the other side of the world (in a thought experiment) using a Schroedinger's Cat scenario. IAmNitpicking (talk) 04:31, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

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