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Ok thanks for letting me know. I'll revise the article as suggested. Mccapra (talk) 20:11, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
Great article on the discourse on comets
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Thank you!Mccapra (talk) 16:32, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for creating Fatima Babiker Mahmoud, Mccapra!
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SamHolt6 (talk) 22:17, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
Hey, I saw your edit to 2 Samuel 23. What makes you think it's been proposed for deletion? I searched at AfD and didn't find anything, and the page is lacking the usual banner that indicates a deletion discussion is going on. Is there some deletion process I'm not aware of? Alephb (talk) 07:46, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I'm SummerPhDv2.0. I noticed that you made a change to an article, List of Berklee College of Music alumni, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. SummerPhDv2.0 11:55, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
I have removed the ((proposed deletion/dated))
tag from Johnny Judge Gallery, which you proposed for deletion, because its deletion has previously been contested or viewed as controversial. Proposed deletion is not for controversial deletions. For this reason, proposed deletion is disallowed on articles that have previously been de-prodded, even by the page's creator, or which have previously been listed on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the ((proposed deletion))
template back to the article, but feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! —KuyaBriBriTalk 19:36, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
Hi Mccapra.
Dear fellow deorphaner. I see you are very active in processing orphan articles. Thank you.
If I may, I would like to offer some suggestions. I see you are putting a large number of articles into attempted categories. It may be possible to actually deorphan a lot of these relatively easily. For example, all the painted-wing fly species articles you tagged as attempted I believe I have been able to deorphan along with many more at the same time, a total of 299. A couple of others I briefly looked at at random, for example, Caroline Gibello could perhaps go into List of women photographers, Juan García Rodenas could perhaps go into List of Spaniards#Literature. Sorry but simply moving large numbers of articles from one orphan category to another orphan category does not really achieve what we need to. My experience is that finding lists can be difficult sometimes due to non-standard naming conventions sometimes, but very often a list can be found. (I often resort to lists, outlines, or indexes, but an information content type article is always better.)
I noticed there are some other species related articles in the attempted categories too. I will try and look at these in bulk over the next couple of days.
Regards. Eno Lirpa (talk) 15:02, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
I managed to de-orphan more than 100 species of Scarabidae beetles by adding links to the article on the genus. My problem with the painted-wing flies was that the genus is enormous and divided into sub-tribes, and although the individual stub articles mentioned the genus, they did not mention the tribe. Therefore I couldn't accurately locate them in the taxonomy. Well done if you've managed to solve that one!
If I tag something as attempted, it's not a statement that it can't be de-orphaned by someone else. It's just a record of the fact that I had a go at it, and for one reason or another, couldn't see what to do with it.
All the best Mccapra (talk) 15:59, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for your additions to this page. However, a number of links you have added are not to CASTLES but to modern châteaux or vineyards. Please ensure that any additions do conform to the notes at the top of the page. Emeraude (talk) 10:36, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
M ok thanks for pointing out.Mccapra (talk) 10:41, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
No problem. I've removed the relevant links. Emeraude (talk) 10:45, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
Looking at the PRODed version of Global Hunger Alliance, its history, and online sources, with the hindsight of 2017, it's rather questionable how real the alliance was. The level of web documentation "expected" for any group claiming to be an organised group was much weaker during 2002-2006 than it is today (excepting the internet-poorer 50% or so of the world). On the other hand, repression against activist organisations could be invoked as a reason why in the 2002 photo (see pattrice jones refs in the GHA paragraph) there are only nine people (presumably pattrice + eight others), to protect the others' identities. It could also be an example of the ephemeral nature of online-supported networking and the frequent growth and disappearance of various networks among activists. At least three well-established groups (internal Wikipedia links in the pattrice jones paragraph) are claimed to have been in the network; they do not seem to have given it much prominence in their own online documentation, but someone interested could contact those three organisations for more wikipedia-acceptable information sources.
In any case, I think the merge that I've done should be uncontroversial. Boud (talk) 23:12, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you for your efforts to de-orphan articles. I am impressed by your wiki-fu on articles I had attempted previously and failed to deorphan. Happy editing! ~Kvng (talk) 14:52, 6 December 2017 (UTC) |
Wow thanks a lot! Very much appreciated!Mccapra (talk) 15:00, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi, and thankyou for the additions. However you omitted to provide sources for these. Please could you take care to add a reliable source for each addition you make, in whatever article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:13, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi there! Could you please explain to me your process for de-orphaning articles. I have seen a couple of them and frankly don't understand. Cheers, --SVTCobra (talk) 03:23, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
I also wanted to thank you for your efforts in de-orphaning company/corporate articles. That has to be mind-numbing work; great job. Kuru (talk) 15:37, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi, the list Index of Sri Lanka-related articles is expanded into ((TopicTOC-Country-Sri Lanka)). Is it ok to work there? --AntanO 06:36, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know, if you see an article that duplicates the content of another article again, like in Original 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, you can nominate it for speedy deletion under criterion WP:A10, so the duplicate article can be dealt with quickly instead of having to wait a week or more when WP:PROD is used. Thanks. Iffy★Chat -- 15:45, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
There be way too many Big Creeks ... :) Vsmith (talk) 22:11, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
While I appreciate your effort to include orphaned articles in Wikipedia, I think that in most cases 'See also' sections are not the right place to do this. – Editør (talk) 10:11, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, although your effort is commendable, are you aware that the links that you "de-orphanize" of Mozambican sports team are for teams that do not actually exist? I hope to get the time some day to delete all those phony articles, but maybe you could also do some background checking...anyway, good work! Teixant (talk) 05:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
No problem, I didn't realise these were the same castle. I won't contest the deletion, let it go through! Deathlibrarian (talk) 04:31, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello. I had to remove the wikilink you added to the above page as it was uncited and did not apply to the sentence in question. The boats sent to Yeyriney Gulf returned the same nautical day and did not have to work their way through the ice, whereas all the boat cruises cited were both long (14-22 days) and had to make their way through the ice (as mentioned in the article). ST1849 (talk) 16:24, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello Mccapra. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Yogaisan Castle, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: not recently created, and plausible redirect title. Thank you. —Kusma (t·c) 14:23, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Hello again. I created Lisyansky Peninsula and added a wikilink to Yeyriney Gulf to it so the article would no longer be an orphan. ST1849 (talk) 20:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Regarding your edit of Sazerac Company, please don't insert links to other articles for the just sake of avoiding having orphaned articles alone. The addition of that link lowered the quality of the company article, because the Sazerac Company is a large company that makes many brands. It is not appropriate to highlight one minor brand in the article about the company just to avoid the poor-quality article about that brand from being an orphan. The company's other products are not given equal treatment in that article, and many of those are more notable than Crown Russe. —BarrelProof (talk) 04:07, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
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Dude, you de-orphaned Buffalo Readings (and with it, all the B's!). I've been staring at that one for fricken weeks. Well done! ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:18, 22 March 2018 (UTC) |
Thanks for creating European enclaves in North Africa before 1830, Mccapra!
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Ithink I’ve been blocked by mistake. When I try to edit a message comes up saying “Editing from 213.205.240.0/20 has been blocked (disabled) by Drmies for the following reason(s): too much vandalism here, including a handful of socks”. I’ve never vandalised anything, or been accused of vandalising. Not sure how I’m involved in this. Thanks.
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That block now only affects non-logged-in editors; you should be ok to edit now. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇 14:16, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for resolving this quickly.Mccapra (talk) 15:18, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I'm TJRC. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, List of people of Korean descent, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 05:53, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
Hello. Help add link for Maureen Wroblewitz. Thank you. 125.214.51.223 (talk) 08:31, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
The Phil Drummond article appears to be missing the AfD comment page. It is not included in the proposed deletion tag. Wanted to let you know. -AuthorAuthor (talk) 04:10, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
Drummond is notable as a producer, at least for Xpansions who did go on TOTP. If it reads like a vanity article, feel free to strip out all vanity and promo lang. Note, the article does indeed still have a lack of WP:RS, and I don't find anything of value on Google; this is strange, as you'd think an act with a #7 UK single should at least have been written about in Sounds/NME. So if you want to AfD this article for lack of RS, go ahead, at least as a way of drawing possible editorial improvement out of the woodwork. But consider the quick prod objected to. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 13:42, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
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Congratulations on the addition to Wikipedia of your relly nice, and very well-written article on Galileo's letter to Castelli.
I have some extra detail which I think is worth adding to the section on the Inquisition, along witn a few minor corrections. There is, however, one statement in that section which puzzles me: "The Holy Office examined Lorini's copy of Galileo's letter to Castelli on 25 February 1615 at the house of Robert Bellarmine." What is the source for this? I have a searchable e-book version of Blackwell's Galileo, Bellarmine, and the Bible. The only references to a date of 25 February in that work are on pages 21 and 120. The first of these is the date of the 18th session of the Council of Trent in 1562. The second is the date of a meeting in 1616 at which the pope was informed of the censures by the theological consultors of heliocentrism and geodynamism, and at which he instructed Bellarmine to order Galileo to abandon his support for them. Bellarmine's meeting with Galileo on the following day (26 February, 1616) is the only event I can find referred to in the book as taking place in Bellarmine's house.
I also think we need to be more cautious in what we take from Alison Abbot's note in Nature. I'll raise my concerns about this on the talk page
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I'm sure your edit to the article Susan Shacter was well-intended; thus you may like to know that I've taken the article to AFD. -- Hoary (talk) 01:37, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
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Is there a reason you don't use Twinkle for AfD nominations? It's significantly faster and easier. power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:23, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, you helped look at references in the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Soleman Shah and so I kindly ask for your input with the author of that article's other creations, all up for AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gesudaraz I, which all also appear to have Arabic references. There are quite a few articles. IWI (chat) 20:31, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
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Thank you Mccapra for your hard work in verifying the non-English references within both Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syed Soleman Shah and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gesudaraz I. It is very much appreciated. Fish+Karate 09:37, 20 December 2018 (UTC) |