User talk:Casliber/Archive 53

Problems with Inykhnum

Some overeager user keeps reverting my update on Inykhnum. I simply updated, emended and actualized the article after standards like Penebui, Sehener and such. Would you help me out here? Regards;--Nephiliskos (talk) 09:08, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Persoonia nutans

Hello, Casliber -- I was looking at the article on Persoonia nutans, and I made a few minor copy-edits. I noticed that near the beginning there was an incomplete sentence. I thought about just adding it to the end of the previous sentence after a comma, but I thought that would imply that Robert Brown collected it, and I wasn't sure it was he who collected it in 1802. Can you look at it and fix that? Corinne (talk) 23:47, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

@Corinne: I am pretty sure it was him but not 100%. I have made it a sentence that 'sits on the fence' in that regard for the moment. I will nose around some sources. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:46, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

O.K. Corinne (talk) 00:49, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Yeah it's him. If it was someone else, he'd have noted it in the original source. Added now. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:00, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

O.K. Good. The sentence looks good now. Corinne (talk) 01:11, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Isopogon anemonifolius

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Persoonia terminalis

I just read Persoonia terminalis. It is a very well written article. I just made a few small edits; hope you approve of them. There is one sentence that is not clear to me. It is this sentence which appears in the Ecology section:

• Bees of subgenus Filiglossa in the same genus that also specialise in feeding on Persoonia flowers do not appear to be effective pollinators.

In the same genus as what? Are you saying that there are other bees in a genus (what genus?) that specialise in feeding on Persoonia flowers but this one subgenus does not feed on Persoonia flowers and thus is not an effective pollinator? Or feeds on Persoonia terminalis but is not an effective pollinator anyway? Corinne (talk) 00:26, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

@Corinne: thanks for the edits, they look fine. The "same genus" is Leioproctus, mentioned in the sentence immediately before (i.e. these bees are related to the other bees and in the same genus but do not appear to pollinate the flowers). I thought it was clear - do you think I need to insert "Leioproctus" somehow there...? Or add as footnote? Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:51, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

I changed the sentence slightly. What do you think? If you don't like "that" genus, we can change it back to "the". Corinne (talk) 01:13, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

I like the flow better, but added a comma to highlight the contrastive. My preference is slightly for "the" over "that" but not strongly so. Happy to go with consensus - both @Checkingfax: and @Sainsf: on the issue of "the" vs "that". Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:54, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Regarding the addition of a comma there, I know some editors like a comma before "but", but I generally do not add a comma unless "but" is introducing a clause. Here, what follows "but" is simply a second verb phrase for the same subject ("Bees of subgenus Filiglossa"). Also, a comma represents where a native speaker would pause, and I think most native speakers would not pause there. But it's your article, and it's a stylistic choice, so it's fine. Corinne (talk) 03:09, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

@Corinne: Yes, this is something to look at! I guess "the" would look better; from all that I have read on Wikipedia, "that" looks a bit awkward, while "the", I think, suits to the style of writing. About the second point you raised, it is not just Cas Liber's choice that matters. This is gonna be an FA, so the style used here must adhere primarily to the MoS and not just personal preferences. I do not know the Australian layman, so I guess whichever style goes with the Australian reader should be preferred. Sainsf <^>_{Talk all words} 04:31, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Sainsf I agree. I'd be interested if you could point to something specific in the MoS, though. Corinne (talk) 04:37, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

@Corinne: About this... well, I have never been deep enough into the MoS. I can't particularly suggest anything for the situation at hand - I must skim through it. Meanwhile, I think our friend FunkMonk can help out with this. You see, FunkMonk has often reminded me of many little points of the MoS! Sainsf <^>_{Talk all words} 04:42, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

I think we are interested in MOS:SERIAL. Can you make something of it that could help here? Sainsf <^>_{Talk all words} 04:50, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Heh, sorry, my knowledge about the MOS is mainly restricted to the parts about layout and media. As a non-native English speaker, I always tend to list articles for copy-edit before nominating them at FAC, so I don't trust my English skills entirely... FunkMonk (talk) 04:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Ultimately I think these are minor stylistic issues and there are arguments for each. So not that fussed (on comma etc.) MOS is a guideline anyway. Not policy. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:02, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Cas. What is the FA status on P. t.? Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 00:39, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

How it goes is like this - once an article gets three reasonably detailed reviews resulting in supports and the coordinators haven't noticed any obvious errors, it requires an image review, source review (i.e. check formatting on references that they are consistent), and spot check of sources (i.e. is the material in the article supported by sources...and ensuring there is no copyvio.) Articles with outstanding checks are listed at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#Image.2Fsource_check_requests (as you can see, there is a bit of a backlog). I try and check there and do checks on other folks' from time to time :) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:59, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Crinum pedunculatum

WCSP here regards Crinum pedunculatum as a variety of Crinum asiaticum, as does the (old) Flora of Australia online here. You may know of more recent Australian sources with a position on this issue. Unless there are sources that disagree, I'm inclined to merge the two articles. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:11, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: I think I agree - i was musing on the move of that page to a variety page, but need to review the literature whether anyone has found any differences at all. I have this thing growing in my garden and have mused on wirting about it before. Let me just take a look at the literature to see if there is any merit in having it at a varietal or subspecies page or just merge. Gimmme 48-72 hours....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:52, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Fine, I'll leave it to you (I've just noticed that Commons has it at the var. name). It's interesting to me that you grow it in your garden. There's a plant labelled "Crinum pedunculatum" growing in the temperate greenhouse of the local botanical gardens here in Birmingham (England) – it's very large, about 6-7 ft when in flower; we certainly couldn't grow it outside! I've also seen plants labelled just "Crinum asiaticum" growing in a botanical garden in Malaysia; they were somewhat shorter, but otherwise appear very similar in the photos I have – not that this proves anything. Peter coxhead (talk) 23:50, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

They can get pretty meaty that's for sure. I've seen them used as street plantings here. I'll go into my garden this afternoon and take and upload some snaps. Sometimes it's nice living in a frost-free climate.....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:30, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

There's a pertinent note about the C. asiaticum group "mess" at the bottom of the New South Wales Flora Online entry for Crinum pedunculatum [1]--Melburnian (talk) 01:36, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

I have also found this. Interesting read but not adding a huge amount...I saw the "mess" comment and chuckled. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:23, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

And also this. Both seem to regard pedunculatum as a taxon distinct from asiaticum. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:12, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Also recognised in Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory and Census of the Queensland Flora 2013--Melburnian (talk) 22:54, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Cool - trying to find some other material...but hard. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:03, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Persoonia laxa

Hook question. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:11, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. GTG. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:20, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

James Murray (physician)

Thanks for popping by, and you were right about the hyphen. His (great) grandson is currently starring here, should you care to drop in. Cassianto^Talk 21:10, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Isopogon anethifolius

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Your GA nomination of Isopogon anethifolius

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Garamond review

Wow, thanks for all the feedback! It's clear to me that I need to add a lot more general explanation (this is an amateur interest, but as you may have gathered it's something I'm quite interested in) and am working on this now, and also on upgrading some of the references.

I've also put in a gallery with a few pictures that wouldn't fit in the main body of the article as viewed on a normal desktop screen, and am looking into adding a timeline to keep facts a bit clearer. (This is something I've put in my rewrite of the Bembo article, which I've also been getting ready for a GA nom, to give you some idea of what I'm planning.)

I've jotted some notes in the GA nom page about plans, but I wouldn't bother taking another look just yet until I've got everything you flagged up cleaned up. Blythwood (talk) 15:49, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

I think I've now finished rewriting the text. Rereading the sources has given me ideas for a few extra pictures as illustrations, but some example pictures of some of the more difficult things to visualise (like how punches and matrices work) are now in the gallery. I've added a timeline, which is maybe duplicating the prose text, but I hope provides a good reference given how much content there is in the article now. Blythwood (talk) 22:15, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

@Blythwood: sorry about delay - will get to it soon. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:07, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks once again for the review! Peer review page and DYK page created now if you wanted to ping whoever you had in mind. (I've again jotted down a few thoughts on FA etc on the talk page of the article.) Blythwood (talk) 13:47, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

Scale leaf image

Hi Cas. I defined scale leaf on w:Wiktionary but I would like to post a couple of images with the definition. Can you upload a couple of images to the Commons that show a scale leaf? Ping me back. PS: Please edit the Wiktionary def for scale leaf to suit your taste! Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 08:04, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Okay. Will take a look (and maybe take some photos) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:12, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Cas. Any luck? Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 00:37, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Overjustification of your Talk page

Hi Cas. All the posts on your Talk page justify left/right wall to wall after a soft line break. That is because near the top of your page your archive styling has an unclosed div> tag.

If you want the justification to cease after the archive box and not run all the way down the page, simply add a </div> tag right after the |} which will close the {{archive box}} template.

Currently, this is the line that starts the justification:
<div style="font-family: Arial, san-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">

And, this is where you want to stop it:
* [[User talk:Casliber/Archive 53|Archive 53]]: January 2016 –
|}

So, add a closing div tag like this:
* [[User talk:Casliber/Archive 53|Archive 53]]: January 2016 –
|}
</div>

Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:03, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Okay -thanks and done :) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:16, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of James Murray (physician)

Hello! Your submission of James Murray (physician) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. I think this DYK is without any major issues but I provided a couple of comments you may wish to review before it is marked as ready to go. I am also declaring that, like you, I am currently entered into the Wiki Cup Drchriswilliams (talk) 10:10, 31 January 2016 (UTC) Drchriswilliams (talk) 10:10, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK template

Thank you for your information.

BTW, since it has been mentioned, any news about the visit counter? I've noticed it has been broken since at least 10 days ago...--Alexmar983 (talk) 12:22, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

No idea - sorry. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:35, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Move template from userspace to main template space

Hi, Casliber! I hope you can consult me on the matter. There are current templates {{HSLtoRGB.R}}, {{HSLtoRGB.G}}, and {{HSLtoRGB.B}}, which redefine a color from defined in the HSL color space to that very color in the RGB color space. I have constructed templates that do the conversion from the HSV color space to the RGB space: User:R8R Gtrs/Template:HSVtoRGB.R, User:R8R Gtrs/Template:HSVtoRGB.G, User:R8R Gtrs/Template:HSVtoRGB.B, and User:R8R Gtrs/Template:HSVtoHEX, which collects the data obtained from the previous three templates. They could be useful for other editors, and I think it would be a good idea to transfer them to the main template space; what is the procedure? Of course, I could simply copy and paste the code, but that would ruin the histories of changes.--R8R (talk) 15:04, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

@R8R Gtrs: Hmm, my guess would be either post on the Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) page or find a parent graphics help page in wikipedia space that might be a page to give it context. Something like Help:Using colours maybe? Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:50, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Soon after I posted the question here, Checkingfax resolved the issue on my talk page. Thanks for your trouble!--R8R (talk) 08:24, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Unhelpful edits

Hi Cas. I see most of these eight edits as being unhelpful. I almost did a rollback on all eight. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 18:52, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Here's the thing. The IP is right in one sense that new species should be introduced to text by their full binomial name...though one could argue if we're talking about hybridising it is obvious they are from the same genus. Having terminalis subspecies in the taxobox possibly the better option, and linking to frost is ok. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:45, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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You make my day

Every time. Xender Lourdes (talk) 16:26, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

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Take the Lead! contest

Casliber, I loved the idea of this contest, but sorry, I've been less impressed by the implementation. I wouldn't come here to crib about it only you said on the contest talk page that you were considering repeating it.

Seven of the eight prizes were to be picked randomly; after the event it's announced that all eight will be. So no judgement on merit - a relatively trivial improvement to a lead has as good a chance of winning as an in-depth quality job. This is an incentive to send in loads of entries with not much work done on each, as more entrants would realise next time round. Not the way surely to achieve the real improvements in lead quality that we would like to see?

I realise you will be very busy with Arbcom at present, but others could have been asked to help. If you do re-run the contest I'd suggest recruiting a panel of judges, drawing up some criteria of merit for them to judge by, and rewarding merit as well as quantity. Nonetheless, all credit to your initiative that got some attention to 600 leads this past month: Noyster (talk), 21:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC) (Not myself a contestant)

@Noyster: When I was looking over all the entries I found myself thinking, "how on earth am I going to rank these to find the best one?" But you're right. I reserve the right to do a 180 again and pick a winner. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:31, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

You will find I have made a comment on the contest talk page that needs a response. I do not think the distribution of prizes by ballot is a good idea. I benefited in this instance but would like to have seen a fairer distribution of prizes. As to picking the best lead improvement, you could require each contestant to indicate which one or two of their entries they thought was the best, and restrict the final adjudication to those articles. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:20, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Persoonia moscalii

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Persoonia laxa

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

haha

when i was doing my fieldwork in Indonesia it wasnt so much the tense as gender, my late sponsor/whatever could never get the hang of he/she, as in Indonesian it is just the one word, in turn I was always getting the tense mixed up. A great pair. Hope we do see you over here for whatever excuse, sometime. JarrahTree 02:41, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/2015 Corsican protests

Cas Liber, I thought I'd let you know that the nominator had responded to your review. Since that response didn't include a new suggested hook to replace the problematic ones, either a suggestion could come from you or I suppose you could point out that without a satisfactory hook, you wouldn't have any option other than to close the nomination... BlueMoonset (talk) 01:45, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Aah that's right. Isaw this while on my phone and forgot about it. Will take another look now. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:12, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

There have been a couple of hook suggestions made, responding to your request at WT:DYK. I am concerned by the suggester's comment that the Background section is confusing; if it is, is this article ready for DYK to begin with? BlueMoonset (talk) 04:29, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

See my note there - I can understand why. Have a read and see if you agree. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:57, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Honestly, having puzzled my way through, I think the writing is the problem: it's just not very good at explaining what happened. Take the first Background sentence: Over the past several decades, Corsican nationalism has been calling for the island's recognition as a nation since French annexation. What is "Corsican nationalism"? A party? A movement? Something else? And "as a nation since French annexation" would lead one to believe that the annexation occurred several decades ago, not nearly two and a half centuries. Is this a modern independence movement? It seems that way to me, so why not say so. And why not explain the political situation to start with: Genoese control for over 400 years, moves toward a republic in the 1750s, but the French take over in 1768 after Genoa cedes control in the Treaty of Versailles that year. Basically, unless you click on every single wikilink and read up on it, and then click on wikilinks in the linked articles, you don't have any idea what happened. The same thing with the second sentence: I assumed the referendum took place after the 2014 cease fire, when it was actually conducted in 2003. So I guess I don't agree: I don't think this article is ready for prime time. I think it ought to get a thorough copy edit before it is passed through to the main page. On a technical point, DYKs can't pass as long as there are bare URL refs, and the article has one now (FN3). BlueMoonset (talk) 08:23, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

I guess I was giving them the benefit of the doubt - I too was puzzled by the first sentence and had to read it a few times (and click links) before I understood. So I am happy to concede that as the more i think of it, it is describing a complex situation but it should be presentable in clearer sentences. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:50, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

	Brianhe RfA Appreciation award
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Thanks for your support

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Good Article (GA) review needed for Planned Parenthood

Hi Cas. I nominated Planned Parenthood for Good Article three months ago. Can you drum up somebody to review it? G.O.C.E. reviewed it yesterday and spruced it up a wee bit. It has been stable for a long time. Many thanks. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 21:30, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for James Murray (physician)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

still an arb

huh? - Does anyone drink in Sydney any more, or are we all locked out? Privatemusings (talk) 00:04, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

We-ell, only a problem at 3am...and that ain't me any more.....we haven't had a meetup in a wee while....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:27, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 28, 2016

Cas, I'll get to this one today. Let me know how it looks. - Dank (push to talk) 16:41, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

@Dank: looks ok. thanks! Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:33, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Precious again, your "last banksia for a little while"!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:51, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

... and today's painter! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:03, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ficus rubiginosa

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A brownie for you!

Thank you for your help in raising South Park: The Stick of Truth to Featured Article Status! Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 23:02, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you again :)

Thank you again for this DYK credit :) Xender Lourdes (talk) 01:29, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Ficus rubiginosa

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Michael Hordern

Whato Cas, the above which I've been working hard on over the last few months has now been entered at FAC. If the subject grabs you enough I'd be most grateful for any input you may have to offer. Thanks. Cassianto^Talk 17:42, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

@Cassianto: Indeed. There soon. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:54, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2016)

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Cold

Can you kindly fix references to your contributions in the history section? I could not add from my book source beyond the 17th century as the text given in the google url [2] is only upto page 29. In case you are able to get hold of this book you could add more. Thanks. --Nvvchar. 15:11, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

That's weird - half the book disappeared from google....I can see different bits but I think the article needs reorganising. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:25, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Google Books puts caps on reading copyrighted material, and limits the amount you can see once you've read a certain number of pages or viewed something more that a few times; they also show different pages depending on which country you're in. (This is why I oppose including GBooks links in articles; it confuses readers, who try to verify the sources and get dead links.) You can sometimes get around it by installing Hola and changing your apparent country to the USA, which has laxer copyright laws, or by using multiple browsers. ‑ Iridescent 19:43, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

That seems to kick in rarely and with no rhyme or reason really...Thanks for the tip on Hola....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:18, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Hairy panic

It's in the news but ITN has refused it. I'm not sure if you're involved in the GA cup or some other drive but this seems a good candidate for promotion, one way or another. I'll put it on my watchlist and chip in but the topic could use a local expert, please. Andrew D. (talk) 07:55, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Interesting. I did see the story and had meant to expand but have been sidetracked. Oh well, I'll take a look. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:28, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

given the alternative name "poison panic" and that it is fatal to sheep in large quantities under certain conditions, what chemical in the plant is the poison? Mjroots (talk) 22:42, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

No idea....will take a look later. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2016)

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Congrats on the Four Award for Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca!

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca. Wugapodes (talk) 05:15, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Thx Wugapodes! Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:55, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Scoreboard

Can you point me towards the scoreboard you used for the stub/core contest? I need to copy it for the Welsh one. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

At Wikipedia:Stub_Contest/Entries and Wikipedia:Stub Contest/Scoreboard Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:55, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Cheers Casliber.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:06, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Echinopsis spachiana

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

An advice

It seems that depending of demographic targeting of a topic an article could be written or look too liberal or too conservative as User talk:ParkH.Davis shows for example. Have you notice that? In my specific case I'm part of the discussion about Talk:Peyton Manning and we are going to nowhere. I think a more varied brainstorm in talk pages from different kinds of editors would help. What are your thoughts about that? Leo Bonilla (talk) 04:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Getting more opinion is always good. Check out WP:RFC, also BLP noticeboard. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:46, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. Leo Bonilla (talk) 05:23, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Good luck. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:43, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

:)

Thank you for this too. Feels great :) Xender Lourdes (talk) 16:21, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Hygrophorus russula at DYK

Hello! Your submission of Hygrophorus russula at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Espresso Addict (talk) 22:12, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Vincent van Gogh

I suppose no go good youtube link goes unpunished, so asking for a favour; have a big project going [3], and would appreciate a view from you. Bit shameless, but any observations, insights, help appreciated. Kinks fan requests go straight to the pile, [ahem]. Ceoil (talk) 09:30, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Sure, gimme a sec. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:21, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Panicum effusum

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Wikiproject Sea Monsters resturns

El wikiproyecto Sea Monsters ha vuelto, Como no entiendo muy bien el ingles, escribire en español, puedes traducir el comentario.--SmokeDJ (talk) 20:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Puedes comenzar a mejorar el wikiproyecto, y ahora contara sobre criptidos y montruos de las profundidades.--SmokeDJ (talk) 20:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

English translate

You can start the WikiProject, and now is made for sea cryptids and monsters of the depths/profund.--SmokeDJ (talk) 20:23, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Pictor

I don't know if you are the one who deserves credit for the article on Pictor, but, if so, congratulations. I intend to read it through soon, but just now I was looking at the images, and I have a question. In the de Lacaille drawing (well, I should say the c. 1756 drawing) of the constellation showing the easel and palette, Canopus is shown to the right of the easel. In the photograph of the night sky showing the constellation, the bright star, which the caption says is Canopus, is to the left of the line drawn to show the constellation. I'm just wondering why Canopus is on the right in the diagram and on the left in the photograph. Corinne (talk) 00:12, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Some star charts (celestial globes) were done in reverse, as if one were on teh outside of some imaginary globe, and were hence backwards. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:50, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Oh... That explains it. Thank you. Corinne (talk) 01:09, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2016)

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I need help

If you are not the indicated person to ask for help, please forgive me. There is a huge mess here. And I think I have a perfect solution for the conflict, but I don't know what to do. I might make a draft copy of the part of the BLP in dispute but I don't know where I can publish it. What can I do? Leo Bonilla (talk) 21:45, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

You can either do it on the article talk page or in your sandbox and invite comment. Link once you've done it. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:00, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

• Thank you so much. Leo Bonilla (talk) 05:05, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Banksia aculeata

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DYK for Ficus neriifolia

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:02, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter

One of Adam Cuerden’s several quality restorations during round 1

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2016 GA Cup-Round 1

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup - Round 1 Greetings, all. The 3rd Annual GA Cup has officially begun, and you can start reviewing your articles/reassessments now! However, sign-ups will not close til March 15th if anybody (who wishes to sign up) has not signed up yet. We currently have 1 group of 33 contestants in Round 1, and we will have 16 Wikipedians left in Round 2. Please be sure to review this information and the FAQ if you haven't already, If you have any questions, please ask us here where all of the judges (including our newest one, Zwerg Nase!) will be answering any questions you may have. You can also feel free to ask us on our talk pages/send an email to us (information is here). Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletters, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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DYK for Hygrophorus russula

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:02, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Talk page for Chengjiangocaris

The talk page automatically redirects to Talk:List of Chengjiang Biota species by phylum which I assume you didn't intend. I'm in over my head on this article.

Any help appreciated.

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 01:13, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)

Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that Cas Liber (submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Ooops...

Hi Casliber- Sorry about the FA oversight. I think the bot didn't register it because it was missing the "#" at the beginning of the entry. I've sent out a notice of acknowledgement for bringing in the first FA of the 2016 Wikicup...--Godot13 (talk) 16:07, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Aawww, and here i was planning a stealth attack on the leaders....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:11, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

WikiLove

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Invitation

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• The project would benefit from WikiGnomes such as yourself to patrol food and drink articles! North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:15, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Banksia aculeata

The article Banksia aculeata you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Banksia aculeata for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of FunkMonk -- FunkMonk (talk) 21:02, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Persicaria decipiens

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:01, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Neosilurus hyrtlii

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2016)

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DYK for Parsonsia straminea

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:01, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Banksia sceptrum

—♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 00:07, 10 March 2016 (UTC) 12:01, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Suzanne Duigan

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 12:02, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Overflow of your User page

Dear User:Casliber. Your User: page is on overflow, and appears at Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded (see the corresponding talk page). As a result, some parts of your page are not correctly displayed. Perhaps, you should consider splitting this page. Best regards. Pldx1 (talk) 15:32, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Ok, good idea. Will see what I can do.....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:09, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Dear User:Casliber. IMO, you could only link to {{/Articles}} and {{/DYK}} instead of transcluding them. Best regards. Pldx1 (talk) 21:50, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Oh yes...that was on my to do list....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:39, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Tortotubus

Hi there. Just a heads up about your DYK nom of Tortotubus. A great hook and nice article, but it looks to me like it was forked from Ornatifilum on 3/2, based on some recent research, so doesn't qualify as it hasn't been expanded fivefold. Is there something I'm not taking into account? Sorry about that. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 20:49, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2016)

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FYI

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Thanks for that, no worries _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 12:18, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK

Hi: It's unclear if you are withdrawing the nomination or not at Template:Did you know nominations/Tortotubus. Could you please take a moment to clarify the matter there. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:56, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

What I meant to imply was that I wasn't fussed if it wasn't passed. I didn't regard it as necessarily my place to withdraw it as such. It was closed subsequently Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:27, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK Queue 5 issue

Cas Liber, Queue 5 was promoted with an incorrectly formatted hook; the Kankakee Mallow does not have the required space after the ellipsis, and needs to.

If you could please fix this, it would be greatly appreciated. And you might want to make a habit of checking for such formatting issues when promoting preps to queues, because I've caught quite a few at prep recently but I'm not on often enough to catch them reliably: things like the parentheses around "(pictured)" not being italicized when they should be, and that missing space after the ellipsis as happened this time. Many thanks, and thanks for doing so many prep to queue promotions. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:48, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: done, and yes I'll be more careful Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:48, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you!

Here is a cupcake to thank you for taking the time to review Sexuality after spinal cord injury and help it get to featured status! delldot ∇. 16:50, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK: Strugnell's haiku

Can you help on this please? After my DYK was correctly promoted to queue 5, some editors took it upon themselves to change the hook, without notifying me as the hook creator that they were doing so, and got the hook changed so that it is now incorrect. See here. I have relisted the original DYK request. Can you either (ideally) allow the DYK to go through with the originally promoted hook ( ... that Strugnell's Haiku adumbrate cherry blossoms, hair loss and pub opening times?) or elkse get it withdrawn from queue 5. Apologies for the short timescale here but I have only just fiound out. It seems extraordinary that once the hook has been promoted it can be subject to third-party alteration. thanks, --Smerus (talk) 23:50, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Sorry Smerus. On now. Been out. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:22, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Ta muchly anyway - the offending word has been suitably replaced.--Smerus (talk) 14:51, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Lunch in Australia

Hello, Cas Liber -- Please see User talk:Sminthopsis84#Lunch in Australia] and User talk:AustralianRupert#Lunch in Australia. Do you have time to help with the Lunch article?  – Corinne (talk) 14:26, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Michael Laucke article

@Checkingfax and Casliber: Hello @Casliber: I just keep hearing such great things about your work at Wikipedia. So I am hoping you can once again drop by the Michael Laucke article. We've done lots of good edits since you last visited. I know you are so busy, but thanks anyway in advance if you can find a little time. very best wishes, Natalie --Natalie.Desautels (talk) 19:52, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Natalie.Desautels. Cas Liber just finished up a gracious and capable GA review on my behalf. Are you asking him to review Laucke's article? There is a GA review process and Laucke's article is in the queue and moving to the top. BlueMoonset will help us through the process too.

Cas Liber: Thank you for the enormous effort you put up with to get Planned Parenthood through the GA gauntlet. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 20:20, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Natalie.Desautels, Checkingfax, I would respectfully suggest that now is not the best time for a GA review to start, given the current instability in the article. Unfortunately—and I didn't realize this when I put the nomination back in circulation earlier today—articles must be stable when a review commences. Indeed, one of the "quickfail" criteria is The article is not stable due to edit warring on the page. I don't think it's likely that the nomination will be picked up for review before several days have passed, which is a good thing, as it will give the article time to settle back into a stable editing environment. Cas Liber, even if you are inclined to take this on, please wait to do so. (If you do decide to make significant edits to the article, of course, that would preclude you from reviewing it.) Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:57, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Ok, I will hold off for a bit until things are settled. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:34, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK queues empty, but preps full

Cas Liber, if you see this and all the DYK queues are still empty, please promote at least one. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:57, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

Ok, can do. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:07, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2016)

Critic by Lajos Tihanyi. Oil on canvas, c.1916. Hello, Casliber. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Critic Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Lunch • People Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 21 March 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

DYK for Lynx (constellation)

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:03, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page ⋅

Just to let you know that if you want to fix Wikipedia:Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page, you need to make changes at WP:Featured articles because WP:FANMP is generated each day by a bot from the latest version of WP:FA. If you don't fix WP:FA, then any changes at WP:FANMP will be overwritten (as I discovered the hard way some years ago!) I added your change to WP:FA yesterday, so all is well. Yours, Bencherlite^Talk 00:15, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Good to know/thanks Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:21, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Calostoma cinnabarinum

I was just reading the article on Calostoma cinnabarinum. In the last paragraph of the article, it says that the Otomi people in Mexico "reported that immature specimens of C. cinnabarinum, known locally as yemitas". Since part of that word looked familiar, I decided to look into it. I knew yema meant the yolk of an egg, so yemitas would mean "small egg-yolks". When I went to the Spanish Wikipedia and did a search for "yema", it led me to a substantial article that had nothing to do with egg-yolks. Apparently, a yema is a kind of bud at the end of tree or shrub branches. See [4]. This is a meaning I had not known about. Then I did a search for yema in the Spanish Wiktionary and found an entry containing not only several definitions but two photos, one of which is a plant bud and one a photo of egg yolks. See [5]. I think it's pretty clear that the Otomi were using a Spanish term, but I wonder whether they were thinking of the tree bud meaning or the egg yolk meaning. If you can figure it out, perhaps it would be interesting to provide a two-word definition right after yemitas (or link it).  – Corinne (talk) 02:56, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Interesting - will have a look later Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:13, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Telescopium Herschelii

Hello! Your submission of Telescopium Herschelii at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! SSTflyer 05:10, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Planned Parenthood and Jozef Raskin

Hi Cas. Per your suggestion I submitted Planned Parenthood for DYK. What is the next step?

I also submitted Pater Jozef Raskin for DYK. If you have any pointers, please let me know. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:25, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

posting there Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:31, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Cas. OK. Put up an ALT5. The other hooks are because there is a misconception that PP is strictly abortions. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 12:02, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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I get good free access to loads of journals via university, but will maybe look at what they have to offer. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:31, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2016)

The Gates of Hell sculpture by Auguste Rodin, an example depicting the concept of the gates of hell Hello, Casliber. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Gates of hell Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Critic • Lunch Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 28 March 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

DYK for Gomphidius

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:13, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK suggestion

Hi, in November 2014 you nominated an article I had expanded (Pedro de Atarés) and I wanted to suggest someone else. The instructions for nomination are quite complicated, so maybe you can take care of it if you think it's worth it. Ángela Ruiz Robles is the article. Today, the Google search main page (Spanish version at least) has a doodle that refers to her since she is considered a pioneer of the electronic book. She was born 121 years ago on this date. Regards, --Maragm (talk) 05:17, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

@Maragm: sorry but it has to be expanded within a seven day period and by fivefold, or otherwise be a new article less that seven days old....interesting topic though. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:36, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Four years ago ...

wildflowers and birds
... you were recipient no. 75 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

Back then, we talked about Reger's Requiem. I dream of improving that to FA by the centenary of his death in May, after yesterday's. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:54, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Ok, will take a look, but am no classical music expert. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:38, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

FAC is now open, and it may be even more helpful to see what an "outsider" understands. I tried to follow your pre-FAC advice, by adding. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:44, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Wiktionary etymology

Hi Cas. Would you be interested in adding the etymology for Spermatophyta on Wiktionary? Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 08:05, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Hmmm, will take a look later. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:37, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Boise National Forest

Hi there. Had an email informing me of your message on my talk page. Did you want me to comment on this FAC? I've read it and can see a handful of mistakes. If I'm right, it'll need one more support to get FA status.Singora (talk) 01:45, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Telescopium Herschelii

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:28, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

2016 GA Cup-Round 2

WikiProject Good Articles's 2016 GA Cup - Round 1 Greetings, GA Cup competitors! Wednesday saw the end of Round 1. Sainsf took out Round 1 with an amazing score of 765. In second place, MPJ-DK earned an astounding 742 points, and in third place, FunkMonk received 610 points. In Round 1, 206 reviews were completed, more than any other year! At the beginning of March, there were 595 outstanding nominations in the GAN queue; by the end of Round 1, there were 490. We continue to make a difference at GAN and throughout Wikipedia, something we should all be proud of. Thanks to all our competitors for helping to make the GA Cup a continued success, and for your part in helping other editors improve articles. We hope to see all remaining users fighting it out in Round 2 so we can lower the backlog as much as possible. To qualify for the second round, you needed to make it into the top 16 of participants. Users were placed in 4 random pools of 4. To qualify for Round 3, the top 2 in each pool will progress, and there will also be one wildcard. This means that the participant who comes in 9th place (all pools combined) will also move on. Round 2 will start on April 1 at 0:00:01 UTC and end on April 28 at 23:59:59 UTC. Information about Round 2 and the pools can be found here Also, remember that a major rule change will go into effect starting on April 1, which marks the beginning of Round Two. Round 1 had an issue brought up in the rules, which we are correcting with this clarification. We believe that this change will make the competition more inherently fair. The new rule is: All reviews must give the nominator (or anyone else willing to improve the article) time to address the issues at hand, even if the article would qualify for what is usually called a "quick fail" in GA terms. To avoid further confusion, we have updated the scoring page, replacing the term "quick fail" with the term "fail without granting time for improvements". We expect all reviewers to put a review on hold for seven days in cases such as these as well, in order to apply the same standards to every competitor. The judges will strictly enforce this new rule. Good luck and have fun! Cheers from Figureskatingfan, 3family6, Jaguar, MrWooHoo, and Zwerg Nase. To subscribe or unsubscribe to future GA Cup newsletter, please add or remove your name to our mailing list. If you are a participant still competing, you will be on the mailing list no matter what as this is the easiest way to communicate between all participants.

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DYK Queue 1 needs replacement hook

Cas Liber, I'm afraid one of your hooks (on Welwitschiaceae) was removed from Queue 1, and since Fram doesn't tend to replace hooks he's removed (I have asked that he do so, but we're a little over four hours away from Queue 1 moving to the main page so he may not see the request) I'm hoping you can move a hook from prep to queue if it hasn't been done by the time you see this: I've suggested a candidate in my post to the relevant section (WT:DYK#Removed article spun off from older one from Queue1 (next hook on main page!)).

Ok, will go there. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:55, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

I'm afraid Fram has a point about the article: according to DYK rules, the material in new articles must all of it be new, not taken from pre-existing articles. However, he has missed the part of the rules that says that if any material is copied from other articles, it must be 5x expanded. According to my calculations, 955 prose characters of text was copied; that means that the article would have to be 4775 prose characters long; it is a long way from the current 2142 prose characters, but if you would like to pursue the nomination further and expand the article that much in the next several days, I'd be willing to reopen the nomination for you. Please let me know. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:50, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Ok, just give me a few hours to look at the sources to see if expandable. I recall it being a bit difficult. I will let you know one way or the other then. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:55, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Just happy to let it slide/be rejected. I'd have to ferret around for a stack of material and I am not confident I will find enough. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:00, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Okay, good to know. Sorry it didn't work out. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:35, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Take the lead!

You will remember the Take the lead! contest which was held in January, and the fact that I was among the winners. Since then I have heard nothing from Wikimedia UK, but all the other winners appear to have done so as I see a communication from WMUK on their talk pages around March 4th. Actually I did not see one for Doc James, but he has confirmed to me today that he has received his prize. I wonder what happened to mine? I did change my Wikipedia email address a few months ago but I doubt they would have sent anything direct to my old email account without checking with me first. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:09, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Hmmm, weird. Send @Richard Nevell (WMUK): an email. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:29, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping. We had @Cwmhiraeth:'s email on record from a previous competition win, so I assumed it would be the same address; a lesson not to make assumptions. I've got Cwmhiraeth's email so we'll sort it out. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 10:49, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your help, the matter is being resolved. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:45, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

My user page

Sorry for my ignorance. I received a message my User Page is being reviewed. Why exactly???

Thanks for your help. Leo Bonilla (talk) 19:44, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Oh don't worry, that just means someone checked it as ok. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:26, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much!!! Leo Bonilla (talk) 01:06, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Vaxxed

Since the majority of the edit warring is being done by established users, this page should either be fully protected or left unprotected. Problematic edits from unregistered users, who are the only ones now restricted from editing the page, aren't the issue. 108.16.82.233 (talk) 23:23, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Unless they are users editing as IPs to evade scrutiny or edit war. Making an account would be prudent in these situations as the subject discussions can become prolonged. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:24, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Ok makes sense. Your perspective is different than mine because I know I'm not one of the other editors but you do not. I'll just leave it to the others then. 108.16.82.233 (talk) 23:43, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Do you have an opinion on the content of the Vaxxed article? It seems to me to be 1-sided, biased, and subjective. No one seems to want to engage on the talk page. They just revert my edits which are an attempt increase the quality of the article.Conzar (talk) 00:53, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

This day's This Special Day's article for improvement (day 1, month 4, 2016)

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DYK queues empty

Cas Liber, in case you have time before 12:00 UTC (about five hours from now), it would be great if you could promote a prep or two to queue, so that we don't miss the next scheduled main page update. Thanks as always for doing so much heavy lifting. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:52, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Overflow at your talk page (cont.)

Dear User:Casliber. Perhaps you already know that your user page User:Casliber is on overflow and has appeared at Category:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded. As a result, your subpage User:Casliber/DYK is not transcluded but only linked at your main page. Since I am really sure that you want to help us for emptying this maintenance category, I have replaced {{User:Casliber/DYK}} by [[User:Casliber/DYK]] in your user page. This amounts to acknowledge what is actually occurring. Obviously, any other help in our maintenance task would be welcome. Thanks in advance. Pldx1 (talk) 08:52, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

@Pldx1: Yeah thanks for that, the page was done many moons ago by Phaedriel, now retired. Will look into some other designs. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:54, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Straus Street

Hi, I wonder if you can help me here. A new editor just made a mess of the spelling of this page, and I have no idea how to revert it. The man's name was Nathan Straus (see [[6]]), but is often misspelled Strauss. Any help you can provide to undo these edits would be appreciated. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 20:21, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Bad timing. Just about to head out the door...just looked, is it just a case of spelling though? Surely just removing a bunch of 's's...? Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:25, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Oh I see - page move. My bad Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:25, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Gonna be in the car for an hour. Will catch up then. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:27, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2016)

A pecan pie Hello, Casliber. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Pecan pie Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Gates of hell • Critic Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 4 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

DYK overdue

Cas Liber, I realize the odds are that you've already gone to sleep, but in case you're still around we badly need a prep-to-queue promotion at DYK. The main page should have updated over three hours ago but wasn't because there's nothing in the queues. There are two preps filled, and that's it at the moment. If you see this, anything you can do would be appreciated. Many thanks. (I'm going to see if I can find someone else, but you're the first admin I've contacted.) BlueMoonset (talk) 15:26, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the updates. I'm hoping we get some more preps filled soon. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:16, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Some dim sum for you!

Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. North America1000 09:13, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Teleost FA

Hi, would you be able to review Teleost. LittleJerry (talk) 19:30, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

@LittleJerry: yeah I started while I was on my phone somewhere. Will do. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:58, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Turbinellus floccosus

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Turbinellus floccosus you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of J Milburn -- J Milburn (talk) 18:20, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2016)

Various foods in a delicatessen in Rome, Italy Hello, Casliber. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Delicatessen Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Pecan pie • Gates of hell Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:08, 11 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

GA mess fix request

Cas Liber, I'm hoping you can help me clean up a mess in the GA space: we've had a new editor, W5nio (186 edits, of which 28 have been deleted) doing drive-by approvals of GA nominations: three in eight minutes today, and a couple more along with other problematic GA-related edits, all in seven minutes, on April 6. Here's a link to the user's history. I have posted to this user's page noting the issues with his or her actions, and requesting that no further GA-related edits are done. However, a clean-up is still needed.

I was hoping you could delete the following three review pages, all created by W5nio, so we can get genuine reviewers in:

• Talk:New England Patriots/GA1
• Talk:North Carolina Highway 98/GA1
• Talk:Jet Airways/GA1

The New England Patriots review is especially problematic: the nominator has been waiting since last August(!) for a review, and the most recent reviewer—who never started the review after opening the page—had withdrawn and I'd requested a speedy delete that had taken over two days to be done … only to have this non-review (not a single word of comment!) further delay things. (This would be the oldest unreviewed nomination by four months, and thus bound to be taken up by a legitimate GA Cup competitor in a day or two, if it hadn't been scooped up by W5nio. It's why I noticed him in the first place.)

A basic chronology:

• April 6, 18:32 to 18:39: W5nio attempts a drive-by nomination at Talk:Naruto (reverted soon thereafter); attempts to pass Talk:Toby Creek on its talk page even though Sainsf has it under review at Talk:Toby Creek/GA1 (this is reverted by someone else); creates Talk:Jet Airways/GA1 and says it's passed, though he doesn't do an actual "pass" step on the article talk page ("Includes everything about the airline the authors could get info of."); and adds a "GAR request" template to Talk:Eiffel Tower, though the article is not a GA and the last GA review was on January 1, 2014, so a reassessment is not appropriate
• April 11, 15:49 to 15:57: W5nio creates Talk:North Carolina Highway 98/GA1 and says it's passed, though he doesn't do an actual "pass" step on the article talk page ("Has a great information, and has all the information you can get about the highway!"); then twice edits someone else's existing review, Talk:Book embedding/GA1, to add a "passing" template to that page (since reverted), and ends with creating Talk:New England Patriots/GA1 and saying it's passed, again without actually passing it or saying a single word about the article.

Please let me know whether you can delete these three pages for me. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:27, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: all done and calibrated. All three articles are still unreviewed and in queue. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:08, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Cas Liber. I've just adjusted the three talk pages accordingly, so they will all be available for new reviewers. Fingers crossed that they get picked up by experienced and prompt reviewers this time around, especially the poor New England Patriots article, which has had the most awful luck so far. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:29, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Four Award for your impressive quality improvement on Persoonia terminalis !

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Persoonia terminalis. — Cirt (talk) 04:24, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Records page getting too big

Not sure if it's just me, but it's getting harder to edit Wikipedia:Four Award/Records -- maybe it could be split up into smaller subpages?

— Cirt (talk) 04:38, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Hmmm, it's not particularly big -104kB not too different from manay large articles. thx for award BTW. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:41, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Ah ok, I thought most talk page archives are set between 100kB and 250kB, okey. And you're welcome, BTW ! — Cirt (talk) 12:24, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Anopterus glandulosus

On 12 April 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anopterus glandulosus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Tasmanian laurel (pictured) can flower in autumn after flowering in spring? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anopterus glandulosus. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Semi-Protection

Good Day may i request of semi-protection of The Voice (U.S. season 10) for autoconfirmed users only. Thank u Channel1235 (talk) 02:47, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

done - this would have been heavy going for a while otherwise I can see....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:22, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Turbinellus floccosus

The article Turbinellus floccosus you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Turbinellus floccosus for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of J Milburn -- J Milburn (talk) 17:01, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Casimir Christoph Schmidel

Please continue.Xx236 (talk) 06:14, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

@Xx236: Finding sources is tricksy....but am happy to try for a subject that shares my first name :) Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:41, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

WP policies consulting

Hello again. Thanks for always response my questions in a serious and polite way. I have a couple of questions about creating a page. I didn't have the number of answers I'd have liked in my WP:RFC here but the few state I could create a main page about the documentary, but I don't want to clash with the WP:NPP and give' em tons of explanations as it happened in Talk: Peyton Manning. I'm new creating WP pages so I don't know the more practical way to do it. Snow Rise was helping me but he told me he was very busy and he can't response right now, so I'll look for help anywhere else until he's able to answer. Thank you. Leo Bonilla (talk) 22:54, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Ok, what you do is make a page in your sandbox about the documentary. The critical step is to make sure you have at least two independent sources reviewing/mentioning/discussing the subject and you should be fine. Start at User:Leo Bonilla/sandbox

Thanks!!! Leo Bonilla (talk) 14:36, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

Queue 1 fix needed

Cas Liber, it looks like the New York Subway hook was promoted without the proper spacing after the ellipsis. Can you please fix it so that there is a space between ellipsis and "that"? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:18, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2016)

Debt is the amount of money that is owed or due. Hello, Casliber. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Debt Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Delicatessen • Pecan pie Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:07, 18 April 2016 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •