User talk:Pseudofusulina

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Hello, Pseudofusulina, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Werner Schreyer. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! mgiganteus1 (talk) 11:03, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you, Mgiganteus1, for the useful information. Is there a page with templates and directions for how to put the code in for references in bibliographic style? I tried to copy everything from the Friedrich Seifert article, but I got inexplicable error messages. I would like the references in the Schreyer article to appear as in the Seifert article. Thanks again for the help. Pseudofusulina (talk) 20:01, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Also, this help me banner has external links. It is disconcerting to try to post and be told to enter a CAPTCHA because you are adding external links when you are not adding external links. The external links in this banner are not necessary to the use of the banner. Pseudofusulina (talk) 20:05, 30 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The external link is to a chat system where you can ask your questions directly. Also, there are more people than Mgiganteus1 who answer s. --19maxx (talk) 20:08, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

I see what it is, but thank you for explaining the purpose of the link. I understand that by using the tag, other users may answer the. I am not complaining about that? I think it is tricky to use the help me tag with the external link, as it is not clear that help me is what contains the external link until you post or preview it. A user should not have to enter a CAPTCHA when standard coding is adding an external link. Pseudofusulina (talk) 20:18, 30 December 2011 (UTC)


 * There are various templates used for citing sources, accessible through your editing toolbar (see picture):
 * 1) cite web
 * 2) cite news
 * 3) cite book
 * Hope this helps! If you need further help just drop line on my talk page :-) benzband  ( talk ) 20:13, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Benzband. Pseudofusulina (talk) 20:20, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your help on the Nicole van Dam article
Thank you for your help on the Nicole van Dam article. I didn't understand that was what was needed, so I am GRATEFUL for your input Artmaestro (talk) 01:46, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome.

Some information: basically wikipedia articles are encyclopedia articles, meaing they are prose that tells about something. Such as, this woman is an artist, she uses these techniques, her works are here and there, she was influenced by so and so, her education is such and such. It's not advertising, trying to hock products. It's not a press release to drum up interest. References are like references anywhere else: they give the reader enough information to find the source for himself. It's not a complete life story, either, it's about the most important points, presented based on their relevancy to establishing the notability of the subject. It should not repeat the same points.

If you go to the main page and click on one of the Did you know articles you will get a general idea of the tone used for an encyclopedia article and how basic short articles look on wikipedia. I've only written a few. Usually I send mine from my IP address and ask someone to load it for me. That way, if you have major errors another more experienced wikipedia editor will catch them and usually correct them for you. This might be a better path for you to take for future articles until you get the hang of how wikipedia works. Pseudofusulina (talk) 02:59, 5 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you again. You really have put a tremendous effort into the article and to providing me the help references above, and it is GREATLY appreciated.  It was very generous of you to spend so much time, and I realize how hard you must have worked on it. Artmaestro (talk) 19:29, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Sorry if I offended…
… but I wasn't talking to or about you in my comments at Talk:Nagartha—so please don't think they were aimed at you.

Personally, I think you've put some real effort into trying to make something useful out of the initial poor start, and that User:199.29.247.14's comment of "Thanks for creating Category to this Article" was rude (as if that was all you'd done to help him out!).

In my response to User:199.29.247.14/User:Sureshnj, I didn't want to make any assumptions that you'd stick around and keep improving Nagartha; after all, we're all here as volunteers. If you do, though, that'd be great—even if he doesn't appreciate it, I most definitely will.

Thanks for all the hard work you've done so far! Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 08:58, 22 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I think if someone made a real effort, you would not thank them by saying how bad the article still was. Pseudofusulina (talk) 18:47, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Break from en.wikipedia
It's vacation time. Pseudofusulina (talk) 18:47, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
I think you should come back. (I've been following the Nagartha discussion) Please do :)

Noopur28 (talk) 04:02, 1 February 2012 (UTC) 


 * Thank you, Noopur, so cute.
 * I'm taking a vacation, and I work full time, so I can't edit a lot. I don't like to see that every article on every two square blocks of America is notable, then the same authors try to delete any article on a notable South Asian topic. And the caste articles on en.wiki are so bad, I think people would appreciate someone putting a few facts in them, instead of telling editors their English is bad and Indian sources are no good. It would be so much better to correct the bad English than to criticize.
 * I see you are from Gujarat. I know almost nothing about the Gujarati (except, of course for the most famous!), but if you write anything or find articles about the Shi'a Ismaeli population there, I might be able to help. Pseudofusulina (talk) 15:40, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Question about reversion on Dal Khor
Hi Pseudofusulina! I don't understand why you reverted the change of to  on Dal Khor. Could you please tell me what "these refs don't use the term" means? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:08, 10 February 2012 (UTC) GoingBatty (talk) 02:23, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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Dal Khor
I was wondering if you had seem my last comment on the AFD? Google did their thing and jiggled IP's so I got a preview of the page on the book in question. It does not support the content at all. I took a screenshot of the page if you want further clarification. Darkness Shines (talk) 02:11, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * This is your personal battle with TopGun. I'm no longer participating. Feel free to use the rope. Pseudofusulina (talk) 02:13, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It is not a personal battle, sorry to have bothered you but I had assumed you were interested. Take care. Darkness Shines (talk) 02:40, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Acacia reficiens
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My RfA
Pseudofusulina, thanks again to a very special editor for your support and coaching at my RfA. I very much hope we will stay in touch in the future.

Be among the first to see my L-plate! – Fayenatic L (talk) 21:56, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Question about nts
Can someone explain the meaning of this edit to me? Thanks for the help.

I didn't ask at the article talk page, because the edit itself does not appear directly related to its topic. Pseudofusulina (talk) 06:16, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * When you click on the "Species described" column header, the table is supposed to sort itself by number of species. The magic hides some extra data in the table to make the sorting work - "I want the reader to see the text "approx 11,000", but I want the sorting code to behave as if it said just "11000". There's more detail on this at Help:Sorting. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:44, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
 * No, that's enough detail. Thanks for the very clear explanation. Pseudofusulina (talk) 16:42, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Violation of interaction ban
Do you have any thoughts to spare about Darkness Shines nominating Pak Watan for deletion (an article which is clearly of interest to, and has been contributed from TopGun; see article history, as well as Talk:Pak Watan to see who got to that article first and who entered in later). Nominating an article for deletion, while having knowledge that the article is contributed by someone with whom there is an interaction ban is gaming the system. I also see that Darkness Shines has participated in an AfD on some school article, which was nominated by TopGun. The interaction ban is being violated. I believe a topic ban on Darkness Shines for Pakistan-related articles (or articles which TopGun edits) is warranted. See this for more input. Thanks, Mar4d (talk) 04:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I do believe that a topic ban for Darkness Shines on Pakistan related articles is just a matter of time. His anti-Pakistani biases are clear. However, as long at TopGun keeps shooting his own foot off, it's not going to happen. Yes, Darkness Shines is also gaming the system. I did not catch that. But I have spent enough time on this. Pseudofusulina (talk) 06:56, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

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