User talk:Yaklib

July 2021
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 * This was a false positive. I tried to strike it out but apparently I don't know how to use the strikethrough templates. &mdash; NormalPerson7 (talk) 10:28, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
 * See WP:OWNTALK; once anything appears here its in the version archive, but you're welcome to delete messages from your own talk page.  If anyone is looking at your history down the road, they'll still see it, and its assumed you read it, but you can clean house as you like.  We prefer archiving over deleting.  Personally I do some of both at my own talk page. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:26, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

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Project Climate Change
Hi, you sure look enthusiastic, ! Welcome to the climate pages. There are a bunch of us with a common interest in climate, and we've organized a bit of our work at WikiProject_Climate_change. You've been bulk editing rather fast. Please consider spending a little time saying hello at the project talk page and letting some of the regulars look over your work. If you have BIG BIG changes in mind, its nice to give the project a bit of a heads up first. Someone else may have input on what you plan to do. We do things by WP:CONSENSUS here, and if anyone disagrees they'll revert a change(s). Then it will be up to you to start a discussion using the article talk page and the outcome of those discussions will determine what goes in the article. That process is called Bold, Revert, Discuss. So welcome to the climate pages, and catch your breath for a day or two while the rest of us catch up! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:35, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * @NewsAndEventsGuy. No problem. The page has a lot of climate jargon, often taken out of context, that makes it hard to understand. It needs simplifying and updating. Yaklib (talk) 10:46, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * No argument there! Thanks for caring.  Have you added yourself to the list of participants at the project page?  That's optional, but there's a good group right now, and we get more done by working together. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 10:50, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Totally agree - as a layperson the tipping points and related articles are tough for me to understand - hope you can continue. Chidgk1 (talk) 07:18, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Just an FYI, I think they were patched together when prior eds saw some abstract text and cut and pasted their favorite jargony scary bits, but without really trying to write a cohesive article about the subject. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 09:03, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

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 * I see you've improved. One of the things to keep in mind is that WP:close paraphrasing is also not allowed. You wrote:
 * Sciences warns that if polar ice continues to melt, forests are decimated and greenhouse gases continue to rise to new levels - as they currently do each year - a tipping point will be passed
 * With the source saying: "If polar ice continues to melt, forests are slashed and greenhouse gases rise to new highs—as they currently do each year—the Earth will pass a tipping point."
 * What you've done is replace a few words. Appropriate paraphrasing requires more: you also need to change the structure of the sentence. This is easy if you keep in mind that Wikipedia requires a dispassionate tone. Words as slashed/decimated are typically too informal. 'as they do each year' is also a bit of flourish that isn't quite suitable for the dispassionate tone that Wikipedia should have. FemkeMilene (talk) 13:05, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

Tipping points
Morning. I've again removed the claim that extreme weather indicates tipping points are nearing. The source you provided did not make this claim. Yesterday, I asked to to start a discussion before reinserting claims. Could you please do this in the future? A few further requests and tips:
 * Could you please provide page numbers if you cite works with ~more than 10 pages? That makes it easier to verify. Yesterday, somebody asked you to provide a page number for the IPCC report in the lede.
 * Could you please engage or acknowledge talk page discussions before continuing? It's difficult to keep up with you.
 * The style of editing you use is more appropriate for a newspaper than an encyclopedia. You often use structures like "X reported that" or "Y said that". A lot of newer editors do this, and it's not that big a deal. The reason we try to avoid this is that we want to avoid stating facts as opinions. If you attribute a statement to a certain person, it comes across as their opinion. In science articles with enough secondary sources, we can avoid those statements altoghether. See WP:WIKIVOICE. Femke (talk) 08:29, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Kudos for edits on ‘’Lucky (memoir)’’
Kudos for your work on the ‘’Lucky (memoir)’’ article. After the revelation of a false conviction, the article went back and forth between editors maintaining the status quo, and editors wishing to change “memoir” to “fiction” and place such words as ‘rape’ and ‘trauma’ in scare quotes, diminishing their validity. Your work incorporated the revelations into the article in a way that explained a new understanding of events, and maintained the trueness of the author’s recollections. Willondon (talk) 19:49, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Close paraphrasing
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Blocked as a sockpuppet
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