User talk:Lembit Staan/Archive 7

Discuss in the Talk Page?
You edited the template questioning the notability of Naked Giants, the band has been referred and reviewed by Billboard, Allmusic, and The Seattle Times. Also, the band has worked with notable people such as Steve Fisk, Car Seat Headrest, and Ron Gallo. They are also on a major label. If you could explain the notability issues in the talk page that would greatly aid my ability to improve the article. Bkdb44 (talk) 02:33, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Natureium. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Test article (food and medicine), and have marked it as unpatrolled. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

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Natureium (talk) 21:29, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Test article (food and medicine) moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Test article (food and medicine), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Britishfinance (talk) 21:32, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * If US FDA is not reliable source for you, then you are free to request a RFC. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:53, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Lion Versus
Hi. I'm confused about this revert with edit summary "not in the sources cited." The language I changed it to was: "...a project of former members of...Nashi". The source says: "Some of the prominent projects of former Nashi activists are StopHam..." at p. 322. The source doesn't say "...launched as a subproject of...Nashi", the language you changed it to. "Former Nashi activists" means they weren't part of Nashi when they started StopHam. What am I missing? Levivich ? ! 00:51, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I put the source back and changed prose to match the source closer. I trust that resolves it but please let me know if not. Thank you. Levivich ? ! 01:11, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

Double plural
Why did you restore the references section? The article has no references, so why does it need a section header with no content? 208.95.51.53 (talk) 13:23, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Because this is a special section: articles must have references and it is an extra reminder that something is wrong. And it will save time to these good men who will add references.
 * By the way, if you want to edit wikipedia seriously and talk to people, get yourself user name, so that next time you edit from different IP I will know I am talking to you. If you are just fooling around, just accept that experienced wikipedians know what they are doing with your edits. Of course you may ask questions, out of curiosity, which is good, and I did answer you, but just don't start reverting people, as many brave IP editors do, you will be blocked from editing, after wasting several wikipedians' time.
 * In any case, your edits aimed at improving wikipedia are very welcome, despite by a bit grumbling tone. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:47, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Information orange.svg Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors. Thank you. 208.95.51.53 (talk) 19:23, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my experience shows I cannot expect a good faith from a random IP. Still, I answered you question, I did not insult you, I just warned you about typical bad behavior I see from IPs 90% of the time when I revert them. Also, if you don't want to have a user name, it means you don't respect other wikipedians, you only respect your whim to create communication inconvenience for others. May be yours is a good, decent IP and in the future I will respect you, but I simply cannot remember it for longer than a week.  Staszek Lem (talk) 21:24, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

Cells scaffolding
Hej, I have just found your request for clarification here: Special:Diff/745361938 and I'd like to inform you I have added some explanation for the term: Special:Diff/881751621. I hope it meets the readbility level required by WP, but feel free to correct, if needed. I'd like to expand my note into a separate article, alas I'm not familiar enough with that branch of science. Wszystkiego dobrego. :) --CiaPan (talk) 16:22, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Lem
Moved to Talk:Stanisław Lem's fictitious criticism of nonexisting books. Staszek Lem (talk) 01:16, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Historia i fantastyka
I just stubbed this and realized we don't have an entry for his interview with Lem... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:39, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Nationalization in Poland
Could you confirm that you are ok with hook alt 2? Would be a shame if this is rejected from DYKing... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 05:03, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem
Done and DYKing. Through I am not sure if the best title is the 1st or 2nd edition? Do comment on talk if you want to move it. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 11:14, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Balog (genus)
Dear Staszek Lem! Hungarian nobility consisted of kindreds (clans, in contemporary Latin term: genus plural genera) until the early 14th century, somewhat similarly to the Polish heraldic families. Most of the later noble families originated from these kindreds, so the definition of the Balogs as "family" is incorrect and not confirmed by the sources. Consequently, I reverted your move to rename the page. --Norden1990 (talk) 21:54, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * - What about other entries in Category:Hungarian nobility which are called "... family" ? Staszek Lem (talk) 21:58, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I do not understand. What entries do you mean? --Norden1990 (talk) 22:07, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Just look into the category. Entries like Dávid family, Hoyos family, see more yourself; "family", not "genus". By the way, why "House of Iturbide" is in this category? Staszek Lem (talk) 22:11, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Several medieval noble families came from the "ancient" kindreds, which had disintegrated by the early 14th century. For instance Báthory family originated from the Gutkeled clan (or genus), alongside other families. There is a category for Hungarian genera. House of Iturbide --> it's obvious error, they did not belong to Hungarian nobility. --Norden1990 (talk) 22:19, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

The same city
Hi Staszek,

So you are from Białystok, like me :-) I see that your English is very advanced. Here, in Poland, almost everyone learns English, but almost no one speaks. Some of them have been learning English for 20 years, but can't say even simple sentences. Several years ago I decided to switch to English, still living in Poland, only to be "born again" in a second language. And indeed, it works. But the transition took many hours a day for five years :-) And even though I have no talent for languages, English is my passion now, and I am entirely self-taught. I prefer American English because it is more common on the Internet and to me sounds better. Correct American pronunciation is to me crucial, and maybe I already sound like natives. Of course I can speak English but I would not say that I am fluent. As for Stanisław Lem, I used to read his books, which were part of my childhood :-) Vikom talk 17:09, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Mieszkam w Stanach już ponad 20 lat, jednak niektórzy wikipedyści wciąż narzekają na moją angielszczyznę :-(. I am taking it easy, because it was never my intention to gain a perfect command of English, neither in speaking nor in writing; I am leaving this to my children :-). Staszek Lem (talk) 20:00, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Now everything is clear except for one thing: I expected your response in English, not Polish. But at first you wrote only one sentence, in Polish. It wasn't until later that you added two sentences in English. So let me describe my first impression:-)
 * We are in the English Wikipedia, right? In addition, you are an autoreviewer, extendedconfirmed, patroller, reviewer, rollbacker, and have made over 49 000 edits. This is impressive! Your Polish sentence was perfect, but you could have easily written: Then, why didn't you do it? I am shocked. What was the reason? Were you afraid that I might find some mistakes? I am only a self-proclaimed copy-editor who still learns English. You may well find mistakes in my discussions, which are readily available. By the way, if you find any, show no mercy and point them out. I will be very grateful :-) I wrote: "the transition took many hours a day for five years". Now I will confess that "many hours a day" means actually "10 to 16 hours a day". I know, it sounds crazy :-) However, I have never used any textbooks! It would be too boring.
 * Native speakers, especially well educated, rarely make mistakes, but they are not perfect, and some mistakes are typical for them. For example they often say: "often times", "the reason is because", "didn't used to be". And misplaced modifiers, like "He only died last week", are very common. Besides, there are also illiterates, who are native English speakers. Whenever I have a problem with expressing my thoughts in English and ask a native speaker to help me, he or she usually has exactly the same problem.


 * Now I see your text in English. Hmm, I thought that we had more in common. This is life. Regards :-) Vikom talk 04:37, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

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 * You may like to have a look at WP:3RR again, specifically the part "whether involving the same or different material". I am not necessarily a fan of bright-line rules, but the community has agreed upon it. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:35, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * In any case, the comment each time I removed a different piece of unreferenced text is clearly wrong. stwalkerster (talk) 19:45, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * What is wrong in removing different non-related unreferenced texts? It is not that I was removing different pieces of the same text chunk. This of course would look ugly. Staszek Lem (talk) 19:48, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, the policy says "the 3RR says an editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material". I was not reverting "same or different text; I was removing different pieces sitting there tagged since March 2018. Under your interpretation a rogue page owner may effectively block any edits of a article. Staszek Lem (talk) 19:54, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * , I'm commenting here because I value your contributions. I'd like to point two things out before this gets potentially problematic.
 * Although an experienced editor may not consider it to be necessary, reading the above-linked guide to submitting an unblock request may make you reconsider the request. Removing it yourself instead of having an administrator decline it may be beneficial, but I am not in a position to ask you to do so.
 * The German term military night may be relatively unfamiliar here, but it has an article here too.
 * Finally, I'd like to thank you for being a constructive editor who happened to make a mistake and is very likely able to learn from it. I make errors too. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:58, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I guess I'll need to have a closer look as the unblock request was now accepted with an apology by the blocking administrator. Please disregard my advice. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:06, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

I'm not saying the unblock was unjustified; I believe it to be justified mainly because Staszek Lem is very unlikely to continue reverting. I'm questioning the reason given for the unblock, however, as it does not seem to have been a mistake.


 * addition 1 – revert 1
 * addition 2 – revert 2
 * addition 3 – revert 3
 * addition 4 – revert 4

But well, in the end, this is just me trying to justify my above advice, hoping not to look too bad myself. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:25, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * , well, shit happens. Anyway, I will not edit the article until the OP has chance to answer in the article talk page. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:52, 30 May 2019 (UTC)


 * ToBeFree, hah! I appreciate that. Perhaps I shouldn't be so trusting. I won't re-block, but I will note it in the block log. El_C 21:34, 30 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Staszek Lem, feel free to use the talk page (I have unblocked the other user now to be even-handed), but please do not edit the article itself in any way for 60 hours. Looks like my incompetence is your good fortune. El_C 21:48, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of link language wrapper templates (June 2019)
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Antonio Zamora article - when wikilinking you better check where the link leads
Just to clarify, I noticed that the wikilink to the Cycle basis page had been removed, without any mention; I thought that maybe it was in error, or you hadn't seen the single sentence on that page referring to SSSR. I am aware that the SSSR link goes to a disambiguation page, and then onto the Cycle basis page, but thought that would at least make it clear where it was intended to refer to. The only reason I added the wikilink to the Cycle basis page in the first place was that it uses a citation from Zamora. However since SSSR unfortunately doesn't have a page of its own I will leave it off. Ray3055 (talk) 21:01, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Сolumnar basalt listed at Redirects for discussion
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Null Result/Nullus Resultus
Hello. May I ask why you removed this bit from the Null Result page?

"The term is popularly given as the translation of the scientific Latin nullus resultarum, meaning "no consequence", but this is actually grammatically incorrect and not the phrase's origin. The correct Latin would be nullus resultus."

The Latin matter had already been discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Null_result#Nullus_Resultarum

I will change it back in the meantime.

Thank you, Issacus Issacus Divus (talk) 01:03, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Ok...
(moved from my talk page to Talk:Null result)

Your edit to Hasanaginica
I restored your edit to this article. It was caught in-between a few edits by an IP editor that were not improvements and got mass reverted. Sorry about the inconvenience. Best, Jip Orlando (talk) 21:23, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Your revert to Hanlon's razor
Hi, how do you figure that this is correct?

Screenshot DJ Doena (talk) 19:35, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
 * See Talk:Hanlon%27s_razor. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:05, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

A goat for you!
Thank you for taking the Boy next door argument to RfD - I hate to be insistent like that, and thank you for being civil. Cheers!

‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalencia ᐐT₳LKᐬ  12:50, 4 September 2019 (UTC) 

About your move at Black Oceans
I don't think we should move articles on books to English title if no official English title exists? (If you reply here, please WP:ECHO me, TIA). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:59, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * We better discuss the issue at WT:TITLE. Let me peruse this guideline first. Staszek Lem (talk) 16:34, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Even more relevant: Naming conventions (books). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:21, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
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Talk:Ore Mountains
Hi Staszek, thank you for your interest in the Ore Mountains debate. Reading your comment, it sounds as if you are in favour of keeping the English name rather than moving to the German name. If so, you need to vote Oppose rather than support. HTH. Bermicourt (talk) 17:32, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Apologies
My apologies for the erroneous warning. I didn’t realize you made a mistake. --IanDBeacon (talk) 15:55, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Question
Hi, Staszek

I have a question to you (Polish is my native language but I do not speak English pretty well). Could you see here? What do you think about this transtaltion from PLwiki? Currently I am having hard time to get this article better because of I can not write in English in literary way and I do not know mechanism of ENwiki quit good which is other than on Polish Wikipedia. Anyway the article is nearly already. Could you help me improve the three references and describtion of the photos? Cheers Dawid2009 (talk) 21:29, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

I will see what I can do. Which three references are you talking about? Staszek Lem (talk) 18:43, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * pl:Najświętsza Maryja Panna Królowa Polski/User:Dawid2009/The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland - 5, 9, 10 - This is my translation from PL and these references do not work. Dawid2009 (talk) 19:36, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I am very thankfull for your work and your dedicating time with good faith. You even made categories which do not exist on Polish Wikipedia. You surprised me with so much improvement. Best regards for you ! Dawid2009 (talk) 20:59, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

A Stanislaw Lem Reader
Thanks, this was on my list of articles to create :) I've added one more academic source, I think we should be able to expand it into a WP:DYK :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:23, 16 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I do not like WP:DYK. I am editing for fun, not for glory of wikipedia. Staszek Lem (talk) 19:30, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Requested move
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Notability of Professor Tarantoga
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DYK for A Stanislaw Lem Reader
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ANI topic
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New Page Review newsletter December 2019


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