User talk:Fama Clamosa/Archive 2

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IP hopping, block evading contributor from Indonesia
36.74.192.0/19: They have not used this range since August 16, and there's useful edits coming from that range. 36.74.184.0/21: blocked for one week. 125.164.0.0/18 is already blocked; the block wears off tomorrow. The top 4 edited articles/category are already semi-protected. I have also today protected Category:Prehistoric canines, Stereotypes of animals, List of catgirls, and List of fictional marsupials. -- Diannaa (talk) 02:33, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks a lot. Every small obstacle counts.  In the end, I suppose, persistent reverting is the only thing that works. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 15:51, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, and it actually does work, so please be patient. -- Diannaa (talk) 19:37, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Expanding Earth
The edit was split. The large reversion made by VFP was not. Florian N (talk) 14:31, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

You should see this
See. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Absolutely, we are the cabal. :P --Fama Clamosa (talk) 14:18, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Some More Wiki-Watercooler Gossip
It looks like that Indonesian IP tries very hard to come up with the most stupidest ideas to make a category out of, like "prehistoric aquatic organisms"? Either way, thanks for helping stem the latest outbreak.--Mr Fink (talk) 15:55, 29 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks, and yes, I can see no indications (1) it cares whether those edits are reverted or not or (2) that there is a reason to AGF (after all). It's all so silly, random, and immature.  All there is to it is reverting I suppose. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 16:06, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

User:Template:Archaeoceti
You can just tag it as db-housekeeping since you made it by mistake and it's uncontroversial. I've done this for you. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:36, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. Yet another template in my vocabulary then. :) --01:27, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Symphysis menti
Clarification tag referred to "Mysticeti". Suggest link and/or explain. Kind regards, Lesion  ( talk ) 00:05, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Mysticeti redirects to Baleen whale, and the latter is mentioning Mysticeti and explaining the word's etymology. I'm not sure I understand the problem. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 03:20, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Size comparison image on baleen whale page
Hi. The term "great whale" includes the sperm whale, not just baleen whales. It also traditionally excludes the two species of minke whale. There also appears to be a mistake in the labeling. Minke whales (labeled blue) don't get that size. It should be labeled a Bryde's whale. SHFW70 (talk) 19:00, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for correcting my English. Baleen whales are often referred to as the "great whales".  My caption didn't say this is correct, just that it is common.  The illustration is not mine, I simply found it on Commons.  A assume your are correct and maybe it should be removed and replaced.  (P.S. Don't miss my comment on Talk:Baleen whale.) --Fama Clamosa (talk) 16:24, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Basilosaurus
Fama Clamosa (love your username btw), amazing work on the amazing creature Basilosaurus.

It's time to remove the ugly More footnotes template. I went through all the refs and found four unused refs.
 * &#35;1:

Listed but never used:
 * Barry Cox, Colin Harrison, R.J.G. Savage, and Brian Gardiner. (1999): The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life. Simon & Schuster.
 * Haines, Tim & Chambers, Paul. (2006) The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life. Canada: Firefly Books Ltd.
 * Keyes, I. W. (1973). "Early oligocene squalodont cetacean from Oamaru, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7 (4). doi:10.1080/00288330.1973.9515482. Retrieved August 2013.
 * Thewissen, J. G. M. (editor). The Emergence of Whales: Evolutionary Patterns in the Origin of Cetacean. Plenum Press, New York and London, 1998. ISBN 0-306-45853-5
 * &#35;2
 * "Gingerich et al. Sanders" should probably read "Gingerich et al. 1997" (listed as Gingerich, P. D.; Arif, M; Bhatti, M Akram; Anwar, M; Sanders, William J (1997))

jonkerz ♠talk 20:42, 12 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks and done. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 03:41, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

Heads Up
Our mutual nemesis is apparently trying out a new schtick It looks to be even more annoying than its normal schtick of mass-spamming pages with inappropriate categories.--Mr Fink (talk) 04:35, 30 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Sigh, a new gimmick in his/her repertoire. I've been deleting "in popular culture" sections before, so I guess I will be deleting a few "Popular Culture in Ground Sloth" sections too. ... *sigh* --Fama Clamosa (talk) 10:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Alas, indeed. Thank goodness for Twinkle, though.--Mr Fink (talk) 16:58, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Publisher vs work field in citations
Hello, thanks very much for the reference you added to Brenda Fassie. However, the work field is better than the publisher field for newspapers like The Independent, because the former field puts the newspaper title in italics (which is the standard formatting in this situation). I only discovered this minor issue relatively recently myself. Graham 87 03:39, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointers, Graham. I'll try to remember it. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 07:49, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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Recent revert on Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
It's just personal retribution against me, ain't it? Blah, whatever.
 * So you are from Belgium? --Fama Clamosa (talk) 18:59, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Ha, no such luck, no.--CEngelbrecht (talk) 19:36, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I saw it necessary to report you for vandalism against Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. You may dislike the topic and feel it's off the rockers, but you can't let personal distaste trash an entire Wiki article. If this idea is wrong, a balanced presentation, including various imagery, will only support that at length.--CEngelbrecht (talk) 18:54, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Just stop! --Fama Clamosa (talk) 19:01, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:CEngelbrecht making false accusations of 'vandalism' and sockpuppetry.. Thank you.  Neil N  talk to me  19:57, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
I can only assume from this contentious claim that you think you have wider consensus than might be found on the subject's talk page to arbitrarily remove illustrative pictures and text. Can you point me to that "community consensus on a wider scale" which endorses your deletions? If you fail to do so, I will reinstate the edits you have removed, and hope you will take the time to argue for the deletions you wish to propose. Alfietucker (talk) 18:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Even to an AAH advocate, it should be apparent that AAH is FRINGE. Notwithstanding all the ARGUE or the CONSENSUS on that page, it should be apparent to you that there is no general acceptance of AAH.  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and should describe AAH as FRINGE.  Any "alternative views", if mentioned, should be described as FRINGE too. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 19:03, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Even allowing that AAH is "fringe", it is the encyclopaedia's job to present the arguments of that hypothesis (indeed, to give a reasonably full exposition of its subject), and then debunk them. What you appear to be doing, on the contrary, is deleting material without discussion. btw WP:POV, which I assume you are referring to in this edit comment, applies to comments or slants provided by the WP editor, not to published opinion which is duly credited as was the case of the text you deleted without discussion. Will you now be so good as to provide the "community consensus on a wider scale" you claim you have? Alfietucker (talk) 19:11, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * There is no need for a "community consensus" and it is certainly not "the job" of Wikipedia to "present arguments". AAH is FRINGE and it should be described as such.  And that is it.  Please stop POV-pushing Wikipedia. A place anyone can edit is not your venue. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 19:23, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * "A place anyone can edit is not your venue." With due respect, you appear not only to misunderstand Wikipedia policies, but even its ethos - let alone to ignore the fact that I have been editing here since 2006 and, I dare say, have earned considerable respect for my work here. Further, I can only assume from your latest reply that your claim that you have "community consensus" is itself based on an assumption - you are very welcome to put it to the test if you so wish; either that, or come to the talk page as I have previously suggested. Alfietucker (talk) 19:34, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * "Community consensus" again? Have you been pushing a POV since 2006?  Should I waste the rest of my life arguing on "that" talk page?  Just accept that AAH is FRINGE and should be described as such. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 19:48, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * It was you - not I - who first linked to this policy with your edit comment here: if you don't like what it says, I suggest you read the policies you link to more carefully. Alfietucker (talk) 19:56, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm ChicXulub. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Phlaocyon yatkolai, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. ChicXulub (talk) 12:01, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi. Fine with me. (FYI: I'm an autoreviewer.) --Fama Clamosa (talk) 12:10, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

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Typo?
It looks as though a copying error may have crept into your Huxley quote. Are you sure he said "I myself always learned sometimes by lecturing" rather than "learned something"? Cheers from a lecturer who always learned something, Awien (talk) 13:42, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

That's the quote as I found it. I found it in Primate Anatomy (Preface page xiii, pdf page 14). Also note the sic in the quote. Fama Clamosa (talk) 16:02, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you for asking.


 * Not sure if this will come through, but the original was indeed "learned something", as can be seen in the facsimile:


 * https://archive.org/details/a588317300huxluoft


 * Awien (talk) 17:30, 7 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, it came through - p. vii Awien (talk) 17:37, 7 May 2015 (UTC)


 * OK, I stand corrected. Again, thank you. Fama Clamosa (talk) 03:28, 8 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Not your fault the quotation had got messed up before it reached you. But now it's fixed, the sic can go.


 * (Also, just for the record, whoever added that sic in the first place put it in the wrong place - it should come right after the incorrect word that one is quoting correctly from the source. And if we're going to be totally perfectionistic, there actually is a small hiccup in Huxley's syntax: the to at the beginning of the second sentence, "and to those . . . ", shouldn't be there. That's the sort of trivial slip that it's considered appropriate to correct without comment, rather than call attention to with a sic).


 * Your friendly neighbourhood pedant, Awien (talk) 12:13, 8 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Again, thank you for pointing all this out. When I think about it, it's a bit embarrassing to (1) invite people to use inline citations ("Please...") and (2) fail to deliver that on the same page. :P Fama Clamosa (talk) 16:17, 8 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Perfick! (H.E. Bates, The Darling Buds of May, passim).

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Mathematics
Why did you revert me without an explanation on the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Evropariver (talk • contribs) 15:32, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello Fama Clamosa! Thanks for the edit in the leatherback turtle section! IT WAS VERY HELPFUL!!!!!! LOVE YOU, BYE! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 191.122.32.73 (talk) 19:28, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

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Concerning The Indonesian IP Vandal
You think we should have Stereotypes of animals page-protected to stymie the Indonesian IP Vandal's predations?--Mr Fink (talk) 17:42, 16 December 2015 (UTC)


 * We probably should, but, as always, I'm not sure it will make much of a difference. That kid will discover girls or something sooner or later, then we can clean-up the place. *sighs* --Fama Clamosa (talk) 17:46, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

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Sea salt
If you can disprove what I said about sea salt, I would like to hear it. In addition I did not do any 3RR. Have a good day. --Tarhound21 (talk) 12:54, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Please stop your edit warring, if you have objections to my edit you can explain them on the talk page rather than blindly reverting my edits. --Tarhound21 (talk) 22:02, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Removed cite
The DOI 10.4236 belongs to OMICS Group, a predatory open access publishing company currently being pursued by the Federal trade Commission for fraudulent practices around its journals. It is not a WP:RS. That's why I removed it. I have cleaned up a lot of these (and others have also helped); we now have no citations in Wikipedia to a couple of the worst predatory publishers but there is a lot more to do. Guy (Help!) 20:25, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Oops, my bad: this one is Science Research Publishing, a smaller but much more unambiguously fraudulent publisher. Point stands though. Cheers, Guy (Help!) 20:26, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

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NO
NO — Preceding unsigned comment added by ReachOut Wireless (talk • contribs) 08:27, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

The information is misleading. Lucy does not have a walking giant akin to humans rather than animals we see today. This is not like my opinion dude its like science. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ReachOut Wireless (talk • contribs) 08:31, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

66.87.153.218
Ban request submitted. Thanks for reverting him all over the place. - Denimadept (talk) 10:04, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

regarding christmas island
i used census data that was in the article to make the graph. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.198.13.119 (talk) 16:46, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Here's an example
http://www.worldometers.info/geography/continents/ But basically much of the world uses the five continent model. The US does not because they (wrongly) insist on naming their country America. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Capleri (talk • contribs) 17:19, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

AAH rewrite tag
Hi, as you put a rewrite tag on the AAH article, would like to hear from you which elements need to be improved. To me, except a few points of disagreement (e.g. lede image which has been removed), the balance and the reliability of the current article are OK -- short sections for Thesis and History, a detailed Reception acknowledging its overwhelming rejection / silence, and a Further Research showing independent developments, all contents reviewed by secondary RS. ChakAzul (talk) 10:36, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think we agree on most points. My tag is probably redundant as, by now, most POV-pushers are gone and you are actually cleaning-up the page.  In my view, Wikipedia should describe AAH as controversial but still not pseudo-science. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 17:15, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

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WHAT??????????
Excuse me but, Why you call me sock!? — Preceding unsigned comment added by V620 Cephei (talk • contribs) 19:53, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

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A goat for you!
Hi, I came across your hand arches image you created a few years ago. I really like the image, and was thought it would look cool on a T-shirt for my occupational therapy program fundraiser. What would I need to do in order to have permission to reprint your image on a t-shirt? Thanks!

Shmorg84 (talk) 02:12, 3 October 2017 (UTC) 


 * Hi, that illustration is published under a free license, so you can use as you wish. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 03:20, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

May 2019
Do not revert without explaining why you are doing so. It is extremely rude and disruptive. Quote the guideline or policy that you believe applies. 46.208.236.176 (talk) 20:12, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

Phallus indusiatus
Thank you, it was just a mistake, best regards, Naturista2018 (talk) 10:52, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Why every edit i made in Wikipedia since becoming active again has been reverted? (Akmaie Ajam)
Hello, Fama Clamosa. Why you revert my edits? All my edits have been reverted by various users. Why? Why Fama Clamosa? (Forwarded to every user that reverted my edits since becoming active again)

This is Akmaie Ajam. Please answer this. Thanks.


 * I did link to WP:ENGVAR when I reverted you. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 17:52, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Land of Punt
Sorry to complain, but the edits you reinstated were pov. The editor removed material using academic sources calling them pov. For instance the author of one of the books was Ian Shaw (Egyptologist) writing in a Cambridge University Press book still used several times in the article. In fact they wiped out the entire Arabian Peninsula section. I think I probably added quite a bit of that and I avoid fringe like the plague. This seems to be pov editor. See and - note the focus on the Horn of Africa. Any chance of self-reverting? I really don't want to get into an edit-war. Doug Weller talk 12:46, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ I identified the IP as pov and reverted it, but I didn't read the details carefully. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 12:56, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated. I expect Dalhoa (apologies for not giving you a permalink will be back, but it'll be easier to deal with him if he reverts again. I hope! Doug Weller  talk 14:30, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Honorifics
Hello - your recent edit of has been reverted as it breaches MoS. Please review  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:9313:B900:C501:3B5E:927A:2FE8 (talk) 19:34, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

unexplained removal of sourced content
Why do you follow my edits and remove all the content without any explanation? 14.36.226.183 (talk) 17:55, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

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