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Image revert on Markhor
Hi, Quisqualis! Thanks for recognizing that the image I reverted was probably a better choice for the speciesbox. I was quickly trying to go through this IP vandal's random edits, and a few turned out to be questionable. – Rhinopias (talk) 06:28, 24 February 2017 (UTC)


 * @ Rhinopias: I see where you removed the too-dark dwarf caiman photo. The current one is far better, especially as a thumb. Keep up your good work.--Quisqualis (talk) 07:48, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Red links
I've noticed that you've been removing a lot of red links, usually with the argument (per edit summary) that they are red links. While some of these removals were fine and you made the correct choice, others were clear matches of WP:REDYES. Among others, this includes virtually all vertebrate species, many inverts, many plants, etc. The summary in the WP:RED editing guideline says: "Do not remove red links unless you are certain that Wikipedia should not have an article on that subject". Regards, RN1970 (talk) 02:51, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Is there nothing wrong with creating a red link? I have had them promptly reversed.--Quisqualis (talk) 03:08, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It depends: As I mentioned, some of your red link removals were entirely right. Compare these
 * Bad red link: – you were entirely correct in removing this red link. Being a DOD spokesman is not sufficient to make a person notable (WP:NOTABLE) and finding enough reliable sources for an article for him would be difficult. Starting articles for living people have particularly high requirements (WP:BLP).
 * Good red link: – here we have a species where plenty of sources are available and it is likely that an article will be created in the future (in fact, I just did and it could easily be expanded as several additional WP:RS sources are available). This can be said about almost all vertebrate species, many (but not all) invertebrate species and many (but not all) plants.
 * You're obviously not required to do a search for WP:V sources every time you remove/add a red link; common sense is usually enough to judge its validity and even if misjudging (it happens to everyone) -- it's easy to correct. There are borderline cases where it is less obvious if a red link is valid. Unless it is a field I know I usually stay away from the borderlines, but that's my personal choice and you may prefer another approach in those. RN1970 (talk) 04:23, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. I seriously believed it was responsible editing to remove them, that the software had already detected them and added them to some list. I am happy to leave the valid ones. I redlinked the CEO of Bechtel Corporation and it was reversed immediately. Now I am curious why.--Quisqualis (talk) 05:04, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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 * Pardon the intrusion, but these ridiculous messages constantly appear on talk pages. Aside from the amusement value, why do they appear? Aren't they highlighting some sort of bug within WP software? (One would guess the bug would somehow be fixed by now.)--Quisqualis (talk) 19:59, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Brendan Bechtel
Hello Quisqualis,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Brendan Bechtel for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

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Well, bust my britches! Some kind saviour has stepped in to add a MSM citation. It's an article now. Many thanks to the saviour.--Quisqualis (talk) 22:37, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

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 * Fixed, thanks.--Quisqualis (talk) 20:38, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

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Brendan Bechtel updates
Hello. I made an edit request to update the Brendan Bechtel article you created recently. These are straightforward edits to update and clarify a few bits of information. Care to review? As an employee of Bechtel, I will not be editing the article directly. I'm pinging you on your Talk page in case you did not see the edit request. Thank you. CM at Bechtel (talk) 19:38, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

Kalimpong Edits
I would agree to disagree to your recent comment about the changes I made in Kalimpong page. I am specifically referring to the addition of a gallery.

Kalimpong happens to be one of the three ecological hotspots in India. As such there is a range of plants and flowers that are found here which are not found elsewhere.

Hence I believed for a person who is interested in Kalimpong, these photos would make sense.

Kalimpong is also known for its cactus nurseries, photos of which was also added in the gallery.

However I find the tone of your comment a bit condescending and I no more wish to contribute or rather "clutter" Wikipedia or Wikimedia Commons.

I am removing the gallery with immediate effect.


 * @Subhrajyoti07, I believe that a person interested in Kalimpong would gain little from your photos. It is fun to take many random photos on a visit, but to upload the lot to Wikipedia Commons without descriptive filenames or any sort of image description is wasteful of resources. Clearly, you did not realize that the plants you photographed were not native to Kalimpong, or even the Old World, as you had no idea that you were shooting plants from South America, Europe, South Africa and just about anywhere but India. I guess you visited a botanical garden there, and I'm glad you were kind enough to take down your photos.--Quisqualis (talk) 08:50, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

@Quisqualis - I do not know how much you are familiar with Kalimpong or your sources basis which you have formed your opinion. Let me explain one more time why the pictures were put in that page and why I felt that they enhances the visitor's knowledge and experience.

As you know Kalimpong is a hill station in the state of West Bengal in India. A majority of the visitors who frequent this page I presume are the travellers who seek to gain more information about their place of visit. A large portion of those visitors are from the state of West Bengal and other states of India. As you have very kindly noted that many of the flowers and plants are not endemic to India or the "Old World". The reason being majority of India is a hot, humid and temperate climate. These so called flowers and plants belonging to other parts of the world grow in this hill station precisely for its comparatively colder climate and is rare in this part of the world.

And that's why it may be of interest to those travellers who do not see these flowers in general.

These flowers grow in abundance in Kalimpong and not limited to some Botanical garden.

You are passing off your mere opinions as facts and that I find as unfortunate.

I have taken down the gallery not because I agree to what you said, but simply because your condescending and negative know it all attitude as an editor is what I disliked.

I do not have any issue if there is a genuine error. But the problem is your delivery of the message is rather crude and unwarranted.

Anyways this discussion is not going anywhere and I do not intend to continue this communication any further. But pl do lighten up.Subhrajyoti07 (talk) 15:07, 29 June 2017 (UTC)


 * @Subhrajyoti07 The fact of your inserting numerous photos of nonindigenous plants without captions or even the potential to have captions into the article, as a commentary on its unique climate, did give me pause. This kind of photo "dump" isn't in accord with the mission of Wikipedia, as WP and Commons are not repositories of people's snapshots, but useful resources for the benefit of others. Even with captions and supporting text, such a gallery would, I think, comprise an undue emphasis on the climate in what once was a balanced article. I am sorry that my annoyance shows to the point that you have been offended, but, at this stage in the life of Wikipedia, such misunderstanding of the point and purpose of Wikipedia still shocks me.--Quisqualis (talk) 15:24, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Nicktoons
I reverted further; I assume "On January 4, 2008 Nickelodeon Announced that NickMusic will shut down and That N ending it's 7 year run on Hand. On February 9, 2008 with a Peppa Pig Episode Daddy Gets Fit then the final sign off" never happened because it made absolutely no sense.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 03:43, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Your Teahouse response
Don't forget that fair use photos can also be used, which would be on Wikipedia, not Commons. For "infobox person" you might have been right since for a living person fair use would be hard to justify.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  20:36, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Claudia Forte


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deaths
Are 1 per 1000 of all deaths. Not per year. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16409147 Best Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:10, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Varicocele
FYI On your last edit, you inadvertently removed the last char of the previous I replaced it. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 07:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Rayamajhi
Not mine, sorry. This one I've never edited. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:40, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
 * No trouble at all. Happens to the best of us. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 06:06, 7 November 2017 (UTC)

Filmography terminology
From your past edits, I thought you might have an interest in this topic: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers -Jason A. Quest (talk) 04:36, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

shabby
you link evidence of my "shabby"tiding up of the mess that was, yet your evidence is the whole page. I get the picture that you think any words joined together makes a paragraph, well you are quite wrong — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgdyason (talk • contribs) 07:38, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * I have looked at the part you highlight, and I think it looks a lot better than what it was, don't you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgdyason (talk • contribs) 08:12, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * ok, so I have done as you bid, 'looked' at the above English, but alas I do not see what you see, maybe that's because we have different eyes? what'd'ya'reckon? so please be the educational person you make assertions at being and please be explicit by quoting the exact instances of my uses of a non-English alphabet ecetera for right now your reiteration of nothingness suggests you are merely a troll and offer expletives as your explanation by which I mean your words are hollow, empty, vacuous, meaningless. this now causes me to offer you something of an undignified attack toward your person with as much venom as I could muster and I've had good and thorough practice. so, troll, "please explain?" ˜˜˜˜ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgdyason (talk • contribs) 14:37, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Mgdyason, you are turning into a troll. The edit I requested that you revert was reverted by another editor. This discussion has ended.--Quisqualis (talk) 15:44, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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"Unconstructive edits to Khabib Nurmagomedov"
No Tiramisu could be located unfortunately.

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Thank you for fixing ...
... my comment about Red Barber, and giving it its intended meaning. 72.106.157.238 (talk) 03:01, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

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Saturday Night Massacre
Hi,

I changed the lead in this article to conform with the "use/mention distinction" issue described at WP:UMD: the article is not about the phrase "Saturday Night Massacre", but about the incident itself.

I'm not sure how the end result was journalistic rather than encyclopedic. Clearly "encyclopedic" sounds like the preferred goal for an encyclopedia; can you recommend how to best achieve both goals -- or at least, how did my rewrite make it "journalistic"? Understanding that, I can probably come up with an appropriate revision myself. Regards, NapoliRoma (talk) 05:31, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually, it read like "journalistic storytelling", in the way the sentence began by setting a scene, rather than "x is a ...", which is more "encyclopedia-style".--Quisqualis (talk) 05:40, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Accusation of edit warring
I have replied to your comment on my talk page. —Brigade Piron (talk) 20:08, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your help
Thanks for helping me also the congo issue was my fault I initially thought they got confused with the other congo I looked at the source given properly and I was in fault. Arsi786 (talk) 19:11, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

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Reverting for lack of Citations
Hey Quisqualis! I noticed you reverted edits by 68.46.226.6 adding the jury outcome in the article about Rebecca Zahau for lacking citations. We should probably WP:AFD for new edits, and take an additive approach if possible. It turns out: everything about the edit was objectively accurate and there were multiple news outlets reporting on it. I was about to add the same thing myself! --Elephanthunter (talk) 19:26, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

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Negative behavior
What you do is not for the best of Wikipedia. Regarding some of the reverts you did on my recent edits:

Crocodilia: Somebody else has already undone the unnecessarily revert you did, and no further comments are required.

Paulinella: "(Undid revision 837676074 by 84.210.7.162 (talk) material removed without explanation)" I didn't remove any material. I ADDED material, source and all.

Lamprey: "(Undid revision 837705496 by 84.210.7.162 (talk) The cited source in no way supports the edit) (undo) (Tag: Undo)" Now that's not true. The source claim exactly what I wrote. Anyone who feel the need to check it out themselves will notice that what you say is simply not correct.

Charophyceae: (Undid revision 837678859 by 84.210.7.162 (talk) failure to cite any sources). It wasn't a "failure", I simply didn't add any sources because I assumed it was common knowledge. If you feel it needs citation, there is a function called "citation needed".

Then you wrote the following on my talk page: "You seem to have a strong aversion to the use of the Edit summary. Such behaviour implies that you believe your edits to require no justification. This may not be the case."

Such comments are unacceptable. If an edit improves the article, that's all the justification you need. For the future, if you want someone to use the edit summary, do it as a friendly suggestion, not as a personal insult. Using the edit summary is not mandatory last time I checked. According to the Wikipedia rules, it is not required, and I see it as an opportunity and an offer people are free to use if they like. The edits speak for themselves for those interested, and comparing selected revisions are piece of cake. Should the rules require it, I will do it. Until then, I may or may not use it, depending on the situation, not because someone random tells me to. 84.210.7.162 (talk) 23:11, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

be careful
You must be out of your mind.. You keep writing wrong information of Kafanchan because of your selfish religion purpose.. Kafanchan is not under any emirate..he is only known as sarkin Hausawa just as we have Sarkin Kaninkon and Sarkin Fanstwam .. So please stay away from making wrong information about Kafanchan it seems like you were paid to do this but am warning you for the first and last time.. Don't cause problem in Kafanchan because this can cause a religion crisis in Kafanchan. And I've requested you be blocked from Wikipedia also Dankafanchan (talk) 12:58, 24 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Your habit of repeatedly adding unsourced material to Wikipedia will get you in trouble. I have requested administrator intervention more than once regarding this behaviour, and will do so again if it is warranted.--Quisqualis (talk) 17:06, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

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Links
That was not a reference, but a link. Fixing an obviously wrong link does not require any references. I hope you agree that it was wrong? My very best wishes (talk) 21:07, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

wp:AIV and 68.234.97.114
was last warned 8 October '18 and the time before that was 14 September 2016. Just a suggestion, but you might want to retract your AIV report. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 09:51, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Reverted short description at Leaverite
Hi Quisqualis, You reverted my short description at Leaverite without explanation (no edit summary). Please let me know why. (Please ping with reply). Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter (Southwood) (talk): 06:40, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Dore Schary
Hello, When I added WP California to the page I assumed whoever added WP Religion was justified in doing so and applied ratings to it. From what you say it ought to be removed.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 18:57, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

About adding word 'Chhatrapati' before name of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Firstly you should learn to spell word rightyly.Its word 'ENCYCLOPEDIA' not 'Encycopedia' then tell us to know about the difference between Encyclopedia and encomium. पुष्पक देसाई (talk) 03:37, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

Addled mandible? More like addled brain.
Sorry to have wasted your time trying to work that out. It was a fail on my part - I pull the templates from my userspace and the template I use is addled egg - so I simply didn't insert the correct term. Oops. Fixed now. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  06:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Code examples
Hi there. I noticed you helped at the Teahouse giving a user advice on how to add sections. First of all, thanks for helping out! Then, just as a tip: When demonstrating code that might legitimately be used on a page, try to contain it to the section, for example by wrapping it in the cot and cob templates which will create a box with the content rendered inside it (you can use to keep the box uncollapsed). I just added such a box to that section of the Teahouse for you. Regards So  Why  10:02, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Also, in case of headings, you probably should use the template to generate output that looks like headings but is not treated by the software as such. Regards  So  Why  10:08, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Excellent advice. I learn something new about WP every day! Thank you, SoWhy.--Quisqualis (talk) 16:13, 12 December 2018 (UTC)