User talk:Lfstevens/2019 Archive

Teddy (musical)

Hi there - I'm assuming that this edit, restoring Teddy (musical) back into a sort of Son Of Fiddler on the Roof, is an error or a Wikipedia system malfunction? Otherwise it's a touch baffling: the originator had included the FOTR material but then removed it ... at least I think that is what had happened ... yup, I'm officially confused ... Cheers! DBaK (talk) 12:42, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

No idea what's going on. I'll ce it again. Lfstevens (talk) 21:01, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Brilliant, many thanks. Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:25, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Woman-Identified Woman

Hi Lfstevens, thanks for your recent edit to The Woman-Identified Woman. I think you were on the right track, especially with your removal of editorializing words like "shrewdly" and so on, so bravo for that. Also, I think cutting down the section "Political implications" is the right way to go. Unfortunately, cutting it down without supplying any sources for the changes doesn't really help. In the end, I reckoned it wasn't an improvement because any new material should be sourced, and it wasn't. I've commented on the article Talk page, at this discussion, and look forward to hearing your thoughts there as well. Mathglot (talk) 09:52, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Greetings and...

Greetings Lfstevens, I see that you've removed the copyedit tag I placed here but can't see that you've solved any of the issues... or am I missing something? Regards, --Technopat (talk) 23:28, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! I removed the tag because the article is subject to deletion, because it is unsourced. Once that is corrected, it would then be reasonable to copyedit it. Lfstevens (talk) 03:17, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request for Abraham Lincoln

In the "assassination" section on the Abraham Lincoln page, I suggest that the words “According to eyewitnesses, his face was fixed in a smile when he expired” should be changed to “According to some accounts, at his last drawn breath, on the morning after the assassination, he smiled broadly and then expired”. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.18.220.81 (talk) 21:41, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll take a look. Lfstevens (talk) 23:04, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

A recent edit to Abraham Lincoln

You recently changed many references in the Lincoln article from this to this. Your changes engendered multiple redlinks in the references section. Another editor changed the content back to its pre-redlinked form. I am not familiar with the referencing style that you added to the article of:

<ref name="Randall19472"><cite class="citation book">[[James G. Randall|Randall, James Garfield]] (1962). [https://books.google.com/books?id=DHUqAAAAYAAJ ''Lincoln: The Liberal Statesman'']. Dodd, Mead. [[Amazon Standard Identification Number|ASIN]] [//www.amazon.com/dp/B0051VUQXO B0051VUQXO].</cite></ref>

I was wondering what this style is called and if it is listed somewhere among the various cite templates or Cite styles... Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 07:14, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

At the moment I'm feeling a bit sabotaged. I've never seen the <cite class="citation book"> syntax before and had no intention to use it. I don't know who/what to blame. Maybe visual editor? Thanks for getting rid of it. Lfstevens (talk) 07:27, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

I didn't revert it, another editor did. I don't use VE, but that sure sounds like a possibility. Maybe you should report this bug at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback, Mediawiki VisualEditor/Feedback or Phabricator/Visual Editor. Heh, something that has saved me countless times form publishing my errors is taking a look at my edits in Preview. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 17:55, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Filed feedback. TBD. Lfstevens (talk) 01:46, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

February 2019

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I apologize for my unintentional mistake and for the trouble it caused. I had thought the material was acceptable. As I approach my 50,000th edit, I will continue to try and make WP better. Lfstevens (talk) 00:43, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Apology accepted. but Please be more careful! There's a bot watching all the time. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 05:19, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

pending del

hi; what does "rem tag pending del" mean? Kingtd1 (talk) 20:50, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. It means remove tag (in this case copyedit) pending the article's deletion. Lfstevens (talk) 22:21, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Wallace Leo Jenkins

Can you explain why you felt the need to delete a default sort and uncategorized tag when in fact it was uncategorized? MensanDeltiologist (talk) 07:40, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. The deletions were inadvertent. I'm tempted to blame visual editor, but that would be lame. My apologies. Lfstevens (talk) 08:39, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

• appreciated. MensanDeltiologist (talk) 14:50, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

"fewer subclauses and big words
... you were recipient no. 1900 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:13, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing!

copyvio-revdel

Hello Lfstevens, you removed the copyvio-revdel template from Medagama National School before it had been reviewed by an administrator. See the note at the bottom of the box. I've reverted your edit. An administrator will eventually do their review and normally they will remove the template when they are done. Gab4gab (talk) 04:52, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

I removed the violation so I removed the tag. I will remove the copyedit tag, which is what attracted me in the first place. No reason for anyone else to waste their time on this trivia. Lfstevens (talk) 05:06, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Help help

Plz semi protect my community page named 'Orh' from vandalism, its my humble request to you from the bottom of my heart..pepoles removing information from it, without any talk...plz OdRajput (talk) 00:11, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi OdRajput. Unfortunately, I an not an administrator and cannot protect pages. You can request protection on this page: Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Lfstevens (talk) 00:44, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Membership renewal

You have been a member of Wiki Project Med Foundation (WPMEDF) in the past. Your membership, however, appears to have expired. As such this is a friendly reminder encouraging you to officially rejoin WPMEDF. There are no associated costs. Membership gives you the right to vote in elections for the board. The current membership round ends in 2020.

ReJoin Wiki Project Med Foundation

Thanks again :-) The team at Wiki Project Med Foundation---Avicenno (talk) 05:34, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Help with an article

Dear Lfstevens, I noticed you edited the page Sequenom, relating to genome sequencing. As I'm a new user and just getting to grips with Wikipedia I would really appreciate help with creating a page for a genetic sequencing and research start up (called Sano Genetics) that I'm working with. I want to avoid COI where possible, so would be really grateful if you would have the time to write a brief page up about the company or if you could help point out where I went wrong with the original page. You mention that you mainly do copy-edits, so if I sent the original text would you be able to make it conform to Wikipedia's standards? Any help would be really appreciated, I know it's work for you so if you don't have the time or energy please ignore! Either way, best wishes and thanks for reading this - Clarealev (talk) 11:57, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. I usually don't do company promos, but if this case is special, I'd consider it. You can send me your stuff and I'll take a look. Best wishes! Lfstevens (talk)

Ah thanks so much! What's the best way to send it over? - Clarealev (talk) 09:20, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

Send me the 3rd party links for your refs and a link to your draft (in your sandbox?) Lfstevens (talk) 07:16, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Ok! Here's the link to my sandbox, which has the draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clarealev/sandbox

Here are the 3rd party links:

News sites:

https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/cambridge-firm-bakes-ethics-into-its-genomic-platform-9069057/

https://www.genomeweb.com/genetic-research/uk-genomics-research-startup-sano-genetics-raises-500k

https://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/startups/cambridge-genetics-startup-raises-%C2%A3500k-seed-cash

Non-news sites:

https://seedcamp.com/sano-raises-500000-to-make-personalised-medicine-a-reality/

https://www.crunchbase.com/search/principal.investors/field/funding_rounds/num_investors/heterogeneous-seed--195e1fe7

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1718220D:LN

Brief mentions: https://www.uktech.news/need-to-know-2/tech-in-the-east-the-april-may-2019-round-up-20190612

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/last-week-in-venture-sky-watchers-afro-beat-streaming-and-gene-data-privacy/

https://www.businesscloud.co.uk/news/sano-genetics-cambridge

Thanks so much for your help, let me know if there's anything else you need and what you decide! - Clarealev (talk) 08:46, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Looks good! Made a few minor edits Lfstevens (talk) 18:06, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! Are you able to submit it, or do I need to go back to the person who deleted it? Sorry again for being so new at all of this.- Clarealev (talk) 19:40, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

I didn't realize that it had been deleted. I encourage you to communicate with that editor and avoid a repeat of that experience. Lfstevens (talk) 21:04, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Copyediting

Hallo, Thank you for copyediting Anna Freeman, but there are a few problems:

• Date format used in lead is "born", not "b."
• Lead should duplicate content, so birth date should be in "early life" as well as in lead.
• Why did you remove the unresolved tag saying that copyediting to change slanted quotes is needed?
• I don't see that she started lecturing in Switzerland that year in any sources - where did you see this?

PamD 04:44, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! I checked the MOS and b. is ok, but only outside the lede. OK, then! I'm guessing it's OK to duplicate, but not required (didn't see anything definitive). I removed the tag because I did the ce. Happy to hit it again if needed. Looks like you've taken the article over. Good! Lfstevens (talk) 07:14, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

But you hadn't done the specific bit of copyediting mentioned in the tag: did you read it? And as a regular copy-editor, don't you know about using straight quotes? PamD 09:54, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Are you curious, attempting to educate me, or asking me to do something? Please clarify. Lfstevens (talk) 17:58, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Curious why you removed an unresolved tag, attempting to educate if you didn't know that slanted quotes are a problem, asking you not to remove unresolved tags. PamD 05:35, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

I pulled the tag because I was satisfied with my ce. Didn't notice the quotes. That issue is not really a ce question. Slanted is slanted. Lfstevens (talk) 21:59, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Paarijatham (2008 TV series)

Hi, this article is not proposed for deletion since 2016 and has a reference, thanks Atlantic306 (talk)

You have to reference the article, not one sentence. Lfstevens (talk) 00:19, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Umar Bago

thanks for the adjustment (Wazirinbida (talk) 21:47, 27 July 2019 (UTC))

Thanks for noticing. Lfstevens (talk) 00:52, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks

	Thx!
	Hello Lfstevens, Thank you very much for improving the article "Zinsland". Muchly appreciated. T.davina (talk) 06:26, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! Lfstevens (talk) 06:56, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your skilled editing

Lfstevens - I appreciate you taking on the UH West Oahu article for editing. It was a lot to process and I wondered if anyone would have the patience to wade through it. Mahalo again, 3Kapolei

Thanks for noticing! Lfstevens (talk) 22:04, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

punctuation

Where you wrote Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno I changed it to Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno. It is standard to use en-dashes rather than hyphens in that situation, and that is codified in WP:MOS. En-dashes are also used in ranges of pages or of years or of letters of the alphabet, etc. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:36, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! Lfstevens (talk) 17:48, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

VisualEditor bug

Hello, wanted to let you know that some sources copied over from Reservoir computing to Types of artificial neural networks didn't come along correctly (can be seen from the <sup>[[Reservoir computing#cite%20note-2|[2]]]</sup> markup). You'll need to open up VisualEditor on the original article as well to copy the refs. (Saw it because we're testing a filter to catch edits like these and wanted to let you know) – Thjarkur (talk) 19:47, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! Lfstevens (talk) 03:19, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Ways to improve Pommerman challenge

Hello, Lfstevens,

Thanks for creating Pommerman challenge! I edit here too, under the username Doomsdayer520 and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-

Thank you for your new article on the Pommerman challenge, but note that it is currently an "orphan" meaning that no other Wikipedia articles link TO it. This makes the article tough to find for interested readers. For tips, follow the links in the notice at the top of the page.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Doomsdayer520}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.

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---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 19:51, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing! Lfstevens (talk) 02:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Copy editing

I noticed that you've been doing a lot of copy editing and removing a lot of improvement tags. Many of your contributions have been very good. However, looking at some of your recent edits, I am concerned that you are becoming careless. For example:

[1]

• changed "grew up with his three sisters" to "grew up with three sisters", making the sentence more confusing.
• changed "he took the opportunity to advertise" to "he pitched". "Pitch" has many meanings, and its use here makes the meaning of the sentence unclear.

[2]

• removed the "lead too short" tag but didn't expand on the lead.
• removed the "grammar" tag without making any changes; for example, you didn't change "declared guilty for the harassment" to the correct English "declared guilty of the harassment"

[3]

• changed "She was engaged with her six-year-long best friend" to "She married her six-year-long best friend". This is still poor English - the correct phrase is "She married her best friend of six years."

So, if you would take a little more time over your edits and not remove tags unless you have actually made improvements, I would really appreciate it.Deb (talk) 13:03, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the thoughtful comments. Indeed, I have been burrowing through a host of short articles recently. I will endeavor to be more careful. Lfstevens (talk) 00:24, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Income inequality in the United States

Hi. There's like, nine of the Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> errors on that article and I don't know where to start. I mean, I do, but started the repair and then thought of just restoring a previous version. My final thought was to chime in here. Dawnseeker2000 04:41, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

@Dawnseeker2000: Thanks for noticing. Obviously, I'm making a bunch of changes. I'll clean everything up. Lfstevens (talk) 05:58, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post feedback.. just wanted to say as a wikipedia reader/viewer, I appreciate your comments, efforts, and perseverance on the Income Inequality talk page.

2019 US Banknote Contest

	US Banknote Contest
	November-December 2019
There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons. In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate. If you do not want to receive invitations to future US Banknote Contests, follow the instructions here

Sent by ZLEA at 23:30, 19 October 2019 (UTC) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk)

Research Interview Request

Hello, Lfstevens. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.— Etchubykalo (talk) 11:04, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

@Etchubykalo I would be interested to participate, but would appreciate knowing more of the provenance of this study and how the interview material would be used. Lfstevens (talk) 17:41, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Clarification requested

I would like to request some clarification for this edit of yours. Are you intending to delete Patdeep? If so, then why isn't there a deletion template? ωικιωαrrιorᑫᑫ1ᑫ 13:00, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi @WikiWarrior9919. No, I'm not intending to delete it. But unsourced articles are subject to deletion at any moment. Instead, I was encouraging others to provide proper sourcing for the material. Until this is resolved, it makes no sense to distract diligent WP copyeditors to work on something that may vanish even before they finish. We have plenty of properly sourced pieces that are desperately seeking copyediting for them to devote their attention. Lfstevens (talk) 16:48, 18 November 2019 (UTC)