User talk:Rjjiii/Archive 2023

Barnstar for you!!!

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		For your contributions to Wikipedia talk:Good Article proposal drive 2023 and for putting up with my disillusionment. Etrius ( Us) 21:04, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Lol, okay and so I do not know all of the wiki-etiquette for this but thank you, sincerely, not for the star so much but for the work you're putting in, and taking my rambling into consideration, and but also I do not feel that I have "put up" with you. Take care, Rjjiii (talk) 04:15, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!!!

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		For your participation and help at Wikipedia:Good Article proposal drive 2023. It wouldn't have been such a success without you. 🏵️Etrius ( Us) 22:54, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

I feel like I keep coming back here, lol 🏵️Etrius ( Us) 22:54, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Lol, thanks! Rjjiii (talk) 16:31, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of K-Meleon

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DYK nomination of Leroy Chollet

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Thanks for your help!

Thanks for your help over at Jesse Marcel! It looking much better than when we started! I know you mentioned being busy this month, but once we get Marcel to GA, I'd love if you could take a look at Roswell incident. It needs a lot of work, but your input would be greatly valued. Feoffer (talk) 00:53, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

It's no problem. And yeah, it's looking good. I just need to sit down this weekend, check through it, and update the template to passed. I'll take a peek at Roswell incident, but it's a much weirder topic from a Wikipedia perspective. I'll leave some input there, but likely won't get nearly so involved. Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 05:13, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Leroy Chollet

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NBA stats, including that of Leroy Chollet

Good day, @Rjjiii. I do not know what your level of interest is in the NBA and professional basketball, but your interest is evident enough that you spent significant time and effort expanding the Leroy Chollet article. He was a man with quite the interesting life story, wasn't he? Thank you most absolutely for your efforts on that page, and for having elevated the article to both a Good Article and a DYK nomination. Those are no small feats on Wikipedia, especially doing so with the same article.

Among the expansions you added were that of his career basketball stats. I gave the stats a polishing so that they could be more greatly up to Wikipedia's standards for basketball stats; this included splitting up certain stat tables per league, adding cumulative career averages, and adding his NBA playoff stats. On the note of NBA stats, there are an abundance of NBA player pages that are completely void of stat tables detailing such stats.

I was reaching out because, if you happen to be interested in generating stat tables in articles without such, then I assembled this list of BAA, NBA, and ABA player pages without stats tables. As well, this list is a WNBA equivalent. I have a goal of the English Wikipedia having stat tables for all such player articles. (As of recent, I have especially been active with uploading the stats for players in the NBA's earlier history.) If this is something you are interested in helping out with, while removing entries from these two lists as you post their respective stats (no pressure, of course), that would be highly appreciated.

Thank you, and feel free to contact me, help with the lists, or give feedback at any time. Mungo Kitsch (talk) 08:06, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

@Mungo Kitsch: Thanks for the kind words! And thanks for cleaning up the article; I was not certain, what the expectations were for formatting the data. I'll take a look at the list, but don't know if I'll be much help. Good luck with the project, Rjjiii (talk) 09:11, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Confirming ping

Just a quick note to confirm that I received your ping from here. Thank you for that, but I doubt I can add much more to the discussion without unhelpfully repeating my earlier comments. I have - once again - learned that WP:COAL is an excellent essay. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 14:41, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

@JoJo Anthrax: 100% understandable. Thanks for the message, and the essay does look like sound advice. Have a pleasant weekend, Rjjiii (talk) 02:28, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

Nationalism and archaeology

I don't know if you are aware of this but if you have anything to add to it I'd appreciate it. I should have done more after I created it but cancer operations and treatment got in the way. I still hope to do more in the year or so I have left, but I've got a lot of other articles that need fixing. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 11:04, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Forgot, great work on the Giant skeletons article Doug Weller talk 11:05, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

I'll take a look later this week. An accurate small article is still useful, regardless. And I didn't know you were dealing with that; I hope you get everything you need out of this last year. And regarding Giant skeletons, thanks for the kind words and also for digging up sources. Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 17:31, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. And I intend to live longer then that. Doug Weller talk 18:49, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Sorry if I misread your message then, and good luck with the treatment, Rjjiii (talk) 18:55, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

I don’t think you did. I just intend to beat the prognosis, and of course they aren’t expected to be accurate. Partially by keeping strong through doing 5k a day on my treadmill. Doug Weller talk 20:49, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

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Akane Yamaguchi

Hello. Help improvements. Thanks you. 2402:800:6344:6610:E9CA:3119:3C88:9387 (talk) 03:30, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

I think most articles on here could use some help and improvement. The only sport I know much about though is basketball. Good luck, Rjjiii (talk) 03:31, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

The IP spammed messages like this to a couple of dozen user talk pages. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:33, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

@Redrose64:, thanks for the explanation. I figured it was something like that but I didn't want to assume something negative and also didn't want to spend time investigating. Rjjiii (talk) 14:59, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

DYK nomination for Book of Roads and Kingdoms

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Old-hands and rookies

Nice, that a 'rookie' knows where to find this guideline, to help two 'old-hands'. Thanks, and regards, Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 07:52, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

It's no problem. I had had that page up for something else just before heading to the Teahouse, and I know the Manual of Style is somewhat of a labyrinth. Rjjiii (talk) 16:26, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

1930s Canadian "Ezekiel's Wheel" UFO?

Hey Rjjiii, I was editing a completely different article that supposedly had no connection to UFOs, but.. funny story!

Have you ever heard anything about an "Ezekiel's Wheel" being reported in 1930s Canadian newspapers? Apparently, 13 years before Kenneth Arnold, there may have been a brewing legend of an apocalypic Japanese airplane that was cited over Canada.

Here's a link to the relevant article, any wisdom from you much appreciated: Talk:Wallace_Fard_Muhammad#Tracking_down_"Mother_Plane"_UFO_incident? Feoffer (talk) 09:47, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

@Feoffer: I think you're on track with language. Edward J. Ruppelt coined UFO to have a more specific language than "flying saucer" which as you say goes back to 1947. So WFM would not have used that language.

A general kind of religious/sci-fi combination of things in the sky wouldn't be completely anachronistic though. 1933 would be contemporary with Richard Sharpe Shaver who (understandably) had something halfway between a religious experience and a mental breakdown after he was persecuted as a socialist, lost his brother, became an alcoholic, was forcibly institutionalized, found out his wife died over the phone, had his only child taken by his remaining family to protect the kid from Shaver, and finally went on the run. Shaver's stories after he goes on the run are filled with both strange beings and flying craft.

The mother plane sounds interesting, but I may pass on digging into it. I have too many other articles that I'm working on at once on here. Good luck, Rjjiii (talk) 16:42, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Book of Roads and Kingdoms

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اجمالي حسابي في جميع الانشطة ورقم الحوالة 81.91.26.7 (talk) 21:06, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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August 2023 Good Article Nominations backlog drive

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Make one for me

Can you make a Player Profile Header For At least one of these NBA Players For Me? I dont know how to edit a page, its complicated, so can you make one for me Please???? Alt least for one of these players. Allen Iverson, Kyrie Irving , or Anthony Davis. JwillWiki454 (talk) 09:54, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

JwillWiki454 are you familiar with the "sandboxes" or "userspace" on Wikipedia? You're welcome to draft a page or a section of a page within your userspace which are just pages beginning with User:JwillWiki454/. I've gone ahead and opened up a sandbox page at User:JwillWiki454/sandbox. You can create multiple sandboxes if you need them. Just type in or link to a not yet existent page in your userspace like User:JwillWiki454/sandbox2 or User:JwillWiki454/Iverson's crossover. You can use these to work at your own pace and tinker without people reverting your changes and then merge the content into the main article when it's ready. Hope that helps, Rjjiii (talk) 02:59, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey! Saw it too late to comment over there, but just wanted to say thanks for your help on citations over in the Teahouse!! Remainsuncertain (talk) 00:51, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

No problem, Remainsuncertain; Wikipedia itself handles citations in a really basic way so there are quite a very different solutions to citation formatting. If you have any confusion about {{rp}}, shortened footnotes, any of the citation templates or whatever, feel free to ask. Rjjiii (talk) 02:47, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! Actually, would you mind taking another look at the Davis citations on Portrait of Madame X and let me know if I've done them right? There are other citations with the same issue, just want to make sure I'm using Template:Rp correctly before I fix them. Remainsuncertain (talk) 21:28, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Remainsuncertain, yes that's how {{rp}} is meant to be used. A few references have different page numbers in the {{cite xxx}} template, which is confusing. Rjjiii (talk) 02:51, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Ah, didn't catch that - thanks again!! Remainsuncertain (talk) 02:42, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, it never hurts to have somebody take a second look over your work. And these multiple citation systems are pretty messy. The Wikimedia Foundation came up with something they called "book referencing" that would have natively supported citing different parts of the same source. By the time they started beta testing, volunteer editors (like us) had already made a good twenty or so templates. It looked like they would just be adding one more solution to the pool of conflicting options, so they shelved it. Good luck, Rjjiii (talk) 03:03, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you for this well presented article. The first time I came across Piri Reis was in the early 1970s in Robert Charroux's rather sensational Histoire inconnue des hommes depuis cent mille ans (first published 1963). Fortunately, as you show, a lot more serious scientific research has been undertaken since then.--Ipigott (talk) 10:01, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks, Ipigott for the kind words and the link. I'm from a different generation but had a somewhat similar introduction to Piri Reis. In the late 90s, my first exposure was combing through a spooky Atlantis website on the family PC, then reading Fingerprints of the Gods inside a deep south strip mall library between the karate studio and video rental. It turns out, that there are somewhat more reliable sources out there. Rjjiii (talk) 04:17, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

DYK for Piri Reis map

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		Hook update
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DYK for Ängelholm UFO memorial

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refbegin change

Hello Rjjiii - What does {{refbegin|20em}} mean? How is it different from {{refbegin|3}}? TwoScars (talk) 16:20, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi TwoScars, "20em" gives the width of the columns, and "3" gives the quantity of the columns. The 3-column (or however many number of columns) method is being deprecated for flexibility. On a small screen, a 3-column display can result in a very narrow area to display text that affects readability. 30em is the default. If you are trying to get more columns, you can use a lower width (15em and 10em are used on some pages). I hope that clarifies. If not, feel free to ask further questions, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ(talk) 17:21, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. TwoScars (talk) 18:50, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

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Submitted Ellery Queen for peer review

Just wanted to let you know that I have submitted Ellery Queen for peer review. Jack234567 (talk) 23:47, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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DYK for Night of the Living Dead

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		Hook update
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A barnstar for you!

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Zoonosis

I hear your concerns at AE. I can't respond further there because of word limits. Lab leak and zoonotic theories are not equally likely. "Unknown" is the language of several sources and is not principally about lab leaks - but rather uncertain aspects of timing, intermediate host, etc. Jps and I are having a more fruitful exchange than before along these lines on the article talk page, which I invite you to join too. Sennalen (talk) 04:57, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

I would not describe our exchange as "fruitful". The best I can say is that you acknowledge that others have seen your advocacy as being to create a WP:POVFORK. But there does not seem to be any attempt to address those concerns other than to insist that this is not what you are doing. I have nearly given up. jps (talk) 20:46, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@ජපස: I think we have both gained some understanding of each others' priorities and motivations, even if we haven't reached total agreement. I just started a new thread on the article talk about how we could address it. Sennalen (talk) 03:54, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I am surely below the word limit, and will link this discussion from AE if you like. I'll decline on the invitation though; COVID seems like a very easy topic to burn out in. Take care, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 06:43, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Wad el-Mahi

Rjjiii, I asked you an either/or question at the nomination, and your "no" response is ambiguous—I can't tell whether that means FuzzyMagma didn't address the issues (or left at least some unaddressed), or if there are no problems remaining to be dealt with. Can you please clarify? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:33, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: no, his changes[1] did not address all of the concerns raised at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#coda. Those changes address 1 of the 3 passages that I noted and they did not address the passages that dying noted under Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#wad_el-mahi. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 06:38, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Rjjiii. I appreciate the clarification. I've marked the nomination for closure due to the ongoing issues with the article. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:25, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome BlueMoonset; I realize that my initial response was spare enough to be confusing. I was hesitant to comment much about the situation while the nominator had several ongoing disputes. I think that declining the DYK was the right choice and am hopeful (especially after their recent apology/explanation) that the nominator can eventually resolve the issues and maybe bring the article back to DYK as a GA. Thanks for reaching out, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 06:39, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for posting all those history books :)

That's some really good reading material, much appreciated :) Allowed for the nuking of one "history.com" reference (which I gather is not considered an RS anymore, though I might be wrong on that). -- SashiRolls ^{🌿 · 🍥} 22:04, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

And thank you for improving the sourcing and patience with me, Rjjiii (ii) (talk) 03:46, 10 December 2023 (UTC)