User talk:Lavalizard101/Archive 1

January 2016
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Reference errors on 12 February
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March 2016
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Synonymies
Your edit that you labelled as "Cryptodira cannot be the synonym of Cryptodira because they are the same word created at the same time by the same person thus are equal and not synonyms" This is a biological synonymy, it has nothing to do with words or whatever in language. It is to demonstrate when the name Cryptodira came into being within the synonymy. Particularly since in the case of Cryptodira there are older unavailable names.

April 2016
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Changes to taxonomy
Please stop making changes to taxonomy on stem-tetrapod pages without discussing them on Talk. You are making assertions about what groups belong where in your edit summaries without adding citations in the articles. Furthermore, you have on several occasions falsified the results of phylogenetic analyses to fit where you think a taxon should be placed. A cladogram is the result of a computer analysis, not a diagram showing where things "should" belong based on some other source. You also added Wendiceratops to the cladogram on Centrosaurinae. That analysis was published several years before Wendiceratops was discovered. You need to either completely re-write the cladogram to follow a published result that included this taxon, or not include it, you can't simply plug it into where it "should" go without introducing original synthesis. Thank you. Dinoguy2 (talk) 12:00, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Self redirects
Hello! You may not have realized it, but you've added Circular redirects on some articles, which results in links going to the same page. (e.g. both Andrognathidae and Platydesmidae both redirect to Platydesmida, since there is so little content on each family). In many cases this is unwarranted, see WP:SELFREDIRECT for more info. Cheers, --Animalparty! (talk) 18:40, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Disruptive editing in taxonomic articles
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Dinoguy2 (talk) 19:36, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Stop hand nuvola.svg You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by inserting unpublished information or your personal analysis into an article. Dinoguy2 (talk) 20:08, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

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April 2016
You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours for edit warring and violating the three-revert rule, as you did at Elpistostege. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Katietalk 21:00, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Unsourced changes to Elasmobranchii
Hello, I've reverted because they made the article worse rather than better. The problem is that you changed a taxonomic list without updating the sourcing information. The result is a list that comes from no-one-knows-where that falsely claims to come from Compagno 2005. If you haven't read the guidance at WP:VER, you really should. I may revert other similar edits if I come across them.

Try not to be discouraged, think carefully about your edits, read the guidance, and ask if you don't understand what is expected of a wikipedia editor. Someone has already dropped a bunch of useful links for you in the first thread on this page.

TuxLibNit (talk) 12:47, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Unsourced changes to Damselfly
Hi, I see you have now twice tried to make unsourced changes to this article, and that you have been making similar unsourced changes to other articles, as per the above message. Please read about Verifiability and Reliable sources, both of which are central pillars of Wikipedia.

I have no idea what you may meant by your edit comment, but unsourced changes are simply not acceptable.

If you can't see why sources might be needed for changes to taxonomy, consider this: suppose an editor (let's call her Valerie) decides she knows taxonomy and starts to update an article. She believes that horses (family Equidae) are descended from a group of dinosaurs (Order Saurischia), and accordingly marks all the horse articles as Clade Dinosauria, Class Reptilia. Valerie believes that WP:RS are not needed for changes to taxonomy, so she feels entirely justified in inserting these changes in all the articles. What she should have done is to use reliable sources, and she would not have seen the need to make those particular changes; and if she had found a genuine taxonomic change, she would have been able to justify it by citing her sources. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:46, 8 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Note that according to §WP:PROVEIT in the WP:VER page I linked to last time, "Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source." When challenged don't argue, identify your source (like Chiswick Chap did).  Until you do there is no basis for further discussion.
 * TuxLibNit (talk) 23:43, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

On taxonomy edits
I noticed that you have been involved in a number of disputes over taxonomic classifications. It is advisable to adhere to the community consensus. This is why Template:Automatic taxobox exists; feel free to use it. Lythronaxargestes (talk) 03:26, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Santana and Crato Formation date ranges
There is uncertainty in the dating of both formations. Martill et al. (2007) describe the Crato Formation as being somewhere between the late Aptian and early Albian, and that it is "some 10 mya" older than the Santana Formation (i.e. not a well-defined gap in time). Martill (2007) notes that there is no strong support for either Aptian, Albian, or even Cenomanian ages for the Santana Formation. Lythronaxargestes (talk) 18:38, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Reverting your edits
I am not sure what you were trying at Prionoceridae with this - I hope you are aware of the zoological convention that authors are in brackets when the species is originally described in a different genus. Also you changed some of the species name endings which essentially makes the binomial incorrect. I am not sure of the value of putting in red-links, these are extremely obscure species and there is not much of a chance that anyone is going to be making species entries of any value. Shyamal (talk) 11:37, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Please use reliable sources for taxonomic edits
Hi. I see that you recently deleted the tribe Tetropini from the Lamiinae article. If you had done research, you would have found that there is in fact a tribe Tetropini, containing the genus Tetrops. You seem to be making numerous edits without making use of reliable authoritative sources, and good intentions aside, you run the risk of making errors such as this one when you do not use due diligence. I'm not asking you to stop editing, but please do not edit without knowing for a fact that the edit is in keeping with the recognized taxonomy. Dyanega (talk) 19:25, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Titanopteryx
It is inappropriate to overwrite preexisting pages the way that you have done at Titanopteryx. Titanopteryx is a noted former name for a dinosaur species, and other pages which discuss it refer to this page as a redirect to its article. If you're going to overwrite that redirect you need to make sure to fix those incoming links by checking the "what links here" tool, which you can find along the menu at the left when you're viewing the page. I've already fixed this for you but please check for incoming links if you overwrite any more redirects.

You also have not provided any sources for your new article. Please add a source when you have a moment. Thanks. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:27, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Copyright problem on Simolestes
I have removed the material you included in the above article that you copied from the copyright web page http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/s/simolestes.html. Unfortunately, for copyright reasons, the content had to be removed as it does not appear to be released under a compatible license. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:50, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

March 2017
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Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Hoplocercidae a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Requests for history merge. Thank you. Steel1943 (talk) 21:15, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Carboniferous Peirod listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Carboniferous Peirod. Since you had some involvement with the Carboniferous Peirod redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 21:23, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

July 2017
Hello, I'm Peaceray. I noticed that you recently removed content from Ceratopsia without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Peaceray (talk) 22:41, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for using the edit summary on Ceratopsia. Helioceratops still lists Ceratopsia as its suborder but lists no family. Would you please consider correcting that to Archaeocersatopsidae for consistency? Peaceray (talk) 16:27, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Ranks in taxonomy templates
Hi, it's always good to see more taxonomy templates being created, but the rank has to be the Latinized form. Parts of the autotaxobox system may appear to work with English names for ranks in a taxonomy template, but some features don't work correctly. There's a list of accepted Latin ranks and their English equivalents here, which you may like to bookmark if you create a lot of taxonomy templates. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:00, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Just to remind you again that ranks in taxonomy templates must be Latin. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:22, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Automatic taxobox usage
Hi Lavalizard101. I've just converted some of your uses of to  because it's the more appropriate template to use on monospecific genera articles where the species should be displayed (see relevant speciesbox documentation here). The automatic taxobox template should be used for taxa above species (see this documentation), and when the automatic taxobox template was used with a binomial parameter the page was added to this cleanup category. This is because taxon should be used instead of the binomial parameter with the speciesbox template, like to Diarthrognathus. Or, they can be split into genus and species (see this doc). I've just recently started learning this template system also—it's a lot to figure out! – Rhinopias (talk) 18:58, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Kunminia
I understand your point with this, but until it has reliable sources confirimng it, it isn't ready for the mainspace. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 05:51, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

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Eurasian magpie
I reverted this GF edit for the following reasons. Race is not a synonym for species (first change), it's never been restricted to humans, and its application to animals doesn't have the baggage that it does when applied to humans. If you think I'm wrong please discuss on the article talk page, cheers Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:57, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

IPBE
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 * User:SQL WP:IPBE literally states to place this template on the bottom of the talk page in the summary at the top. So the Wikipedia policy page is contradicting itself.Lavalizard101 (talk) 10:20, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Deletion discussion about Rhopalodontidae
Hello, Lavalizard101,

I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Rhopalodontidae should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Rhopalodontidae.

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

Thanks,

Natureium (talk) 13:55, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

IP addresses
Just an FYI: you say different computers on the same network will have different IP addresses over at User talk:MoleseyKid. That might be true in your example, but it's certainly not true for anyone using a router; they'll all be exposed to the outside world with only the address of the router. Checkuser might be able to see my external address of 150.181.142.168, but it has no way of knowing that there are dozens of computers using that address. In short, there can easily be multiple legitimate users on the same IP. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 14:07, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Blocked for sockpuppetry

 * I don't understand this at all. I thought you were desiring to be a serious editor. Drmies (talk) 21:30, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Unblock under SO

 * I won't decline this because I declined the last request and have not run a CU, but this is not even kind of close to the complete list of sock accounts that have already been publicly confirmed, as recently as the end of November (just a little bit over two months ago), and has crossed onto Commons. Furthermore, the user created numerous hoax paleontology articles with many socks, in good-hand-bad-hand fashion, added bogus negative info to biographies, and admitted above that they did it compulsively and because they thought it would be fun. They should not be allowed to edit at all, but if they are they should be strictly banned from paleontology and biographies. This request does not seem to be in good faith and should be declined. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:39, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

That is incorrect, my IceIguana13 account was originally thought to have been a sock of User:Lapitavenator, but was found not to have been, instead it was matched to me (the correct owner of that account) not Lapitavenator. Lavalizard101 (talk) 13:04, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I'll look into that. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:28, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
 * This appears to be correct, the account is mis-tagged, it seems to have been an oversight after splitting Lavalizard101's set of accounts from Lapitavenator. My apologies, I'll correct that. Courtesy ping . Still investigating, I'll comment further in a bit. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:37, 7 February 2019 (UTC)

That is also incorrect, if its to do with the IP's from my university, then I am one of 50 first year students studying palaeontology, many of which use Wikipedia, so I cannot be able to control all 50 students to not edit Wikipedia anonymously just so that I can complete the Standard Offer (I have asked several of them if they wanted to be editors and they said they already edit anonymously so you're checks could have brought them up as if they were me and I, as well as you, would be none the wiser). All the time I am at university I will be unable to complete the Standard offer if this is not taken into account as admins may see people on my course who edit anonymously and think its me.Lavalizard101 (talk) 19:52, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

please see above comment. Lavalizard101 (talk) 19:53, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

, please see above comment. Lavalizard101 (talk) 19:54, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I've reviewed both the CheckUser and behavioral data again. Taking into account all of the factors here, it is my view that it is likely that you are editing logged out. I personally would not feel comfortable unblocking you at this time. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:08, 9 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Following up on 's decline: this block involves private information outside the scope of Checkuser. If you wish to appeal further you must contact the Arbitration Committee and follow their advice. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 13:46, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

unblock under SO (2nd SO attempt)
Background:Six months ago I attempted the standard offer for the first time only to be told that Checkuser and/or behavioural evidence showed that I was editing while logged out when I wasn't. When I tried to explain why the evidence may lead to incorrect conclusions I was told that as this involved private information outside the scope of Checkuser (probably the fact that at the time I was at university which would probably would've needed proving) I would need to appeal to the Arbitration Committee. I at the time was going to appeal to the Arbitration Committee, however I became busy with assignments and didn't have chance to. A few weeks later when I was less busy I thought that I would attempt the Standard Offer again as it would mean that I spent most of it at home thus it would mean that the likelihood of Checkuser and/or behavioural evidence showing that I was editing logged out when I wasn't was slim. As such the unblock request follows below this. Lavalizard101 (talk) 15:26, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

After thoughts not important to the main unblock request: The reason the Checkuser evidence may have matched six months ago was because (if down to the IPs) the IP range that my computer was on was used by the university in all buildings (as they were on the same Wi-Fi), if its browser used then all the computers in the university all use the same browser whereas when I am on my laptop I use a different browser I do use the same browser as the laptops when on my phone but haven't logged onto my phone with this account in over a year but have used my phone to edit with the Waterwhale12 account (before it got blocked a year ago and linked with me obviously).

Reasons behavioural evidence may have matched six months ago : the edit history of the IP range used by the university indicates at least one editor with an interest in palaeontology which is not a surprise that there are people who edit Wikipedia as this university is one of the only two universities in the UK that offer palaeontology as a course. Looking at the edits themselves: i see one edit where one of the IPs linked to a discussion I was involved in which without context could seem like it was me that did that edit. But when my edit count is taken into account (8665, excluding this one) it isn't surprising that given the sheer amount of edits I have that an unrelated editor with an interest in palaeontology who goes to the same uni as me would eventually come across an edit to a discussion i was in (especially given the fact that before my block i was often found commenting on unblock requests). I do admit that one of the other similarities may seem striking: the familiarity with automatic taxoboxes, I know it seems highly unlikely that an unrelated editor on the same range also knows about automatic taxoboxes but given the universal use of them on Wikipedia by articles on animals it is again not surprising that eventually any editor with an interest in animals (both alive and extinct) would come across automatic taxoboxes and utilise them (I've even told course mates that it makes things easier to use them). The only other similarities that appear to me are the use of italics and not using edit summaries/using the basic edit summaries. These are easily explained as being both too common to really say anything (i.e. most people don't use edit summaries/use basic edit summaries) and most people interested in animals should know that italics should be used for genus and species scientific names.

Fell free to reply if you need any more information, or have a question.Lavalizard101 (talk) 15:26, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

I would also prefer if it was an administrator other than Ivanvector as he has declined three unblock requests and I have seen that declining multiple times is frowned upon. Lavalizard101 (talk) 18:07, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
 * That's true, I did, I hadn't noticed that today. I didn't decline your next-to-most-recent request and I did not look back further than that, but you're right that I shouldn't have declined the most recent request. Nonetheless, that doesn't change the fact that you must appeal to the arbitration committee; Yamla has advised you of the same. We're not saying you cannot be unblocked, only that we do not have the authority to do it so your request cannot be processed. Please email the committee, they will advise you on next steps. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 20:06, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

User has engaged in block evasion as, from September, 2019 until May, 2020. When caught, they went out of their way to deny the sockpuppetry. --Yamla (talk) 13:49, 25 May 2020 (UTC)