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Hi! Some users have been working hard on Category:Pages with broken reference names.
Here you added a new reference mccarthy2 but didn't define it. This has been showing as an error at the bottom of the article. "Cite error: The named reference REFNAME
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help page)." Can you take a look and work out what you were trying to do? Thanks --
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This was corrected, but unfortunately to the wrong original reference. I have repaired that problem now and everything seems to be in order. Please let me know if I have missed something. Oggmus ( talk) 07:34, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you very much. The problem, which I am aware of, but do not always remember(!), has been fixed. Oggmus ( talk) 12:26, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks. Will fix that up. Oggmus ( talk) 11:19, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks. Done! Oggmus ( talk) 11:38, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Oggmus -- I decided to transfer our discussion to your Talk page since it is not directly related to the Karoo article. Have you thought about writing your drafts in your Sandbox? It's at the top of your page. I haven't used it simply because I don't write articles, but you could use it. I also thought I'd mention something I have found helpful. If you click on "Preferences", then click on the "Gadgets" tab, you will see several sections of lists with small boxes at the left that you can click to select. If you go down to "Editing" and click on "wikEd", and then Save, you will see a new toolbar at the top of each editing window, when you are in Edit Mode, even if you are just editing a WP article. I believe it will also be available when you type drafts in your Sandbox. The nice thing about it is that, in Edit Mode, references are highlighted in one color (a kind of lavender-gray), picture captions are highlighted in another color (I think it's lime green), and notes to editors are highlighted in a third color (I think it's salmon, or pinkish-orange). The text of the article thus stands out, as it is in regular black letters on a white background. So you can focus on the text, or the references, etc.
I notice at the top of the Sandbox window that there are tutorials to show you how to use it. There's also a bar to click if you want to submit a new article for review. I don't know if you can select the editor you want to review what you've written or not. I'd be glad to proofread and make suggestions for improvement in sentence structure, organization, etc. (I have an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and taught for twenty-seven years before retiring), but I'm not very good at judging references. There are many editors who are experienced in reviewing new articles. Two editors I have found very helpful are Dougweller and Fayenatic london. I would go to either of them if you want someone to review articles or if you have questions about references and sources or about Wikipedia policy. You can ask me or Rothorpe if you have questions about grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, sentence structure, word usage, etc. If you have questions about etymology, I recommend asking Kwamikagami or Lfdder. If you have questions about geology or physics (which you probably won't have, since those are your fields), I recommend asking Vsmith or 0x0077BE. (Just put User talk: before the user name in the search bar to get to that user's talk page.) That's all for now. Best regards, CorinneSD ( talk) 19:05, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much CorinneSD. I will try that in future. Great advice. Oggmus ( talk) 04:57, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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Done Oggmus ( talk) 18:31, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi, sorry, I won't be around the next while. Please ask at the Teahouse or another editor for help; or browse Commons help. There's a friendly wizard (software) to help upload images, so the actual mechanics of it are easy. The harder bit is dealing with permissions. Quickly, there are 3 routes: 1) the owner uploads the file, giving permission for their own work - that way it's all easy. 2) They upload it to Flickr (etc), checking the box for "CC-By-SA-3.0" giving everyone permission to use it freely. You reference the Flickr page and all is well. 3) They give you permission to use it on Wikipedia. You upload it to commons, and get them to fill in an OTRS ticket giving Wikipedia permission. The ticket is sent to a team of volunteers who check the ticket is ok and allow the image to stay. You then use the image.
What you can't do is upload someone else's file, say someone told you it was ok, and try to use it: it will be deleted and you get a pile of warnings. All the best, Chiswick Chap ( talk) 16:21, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks very much. I agree. Oggmus ( talk) 09:25, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hey, your work on the "Geography of South Africa" article has been really great. I just wanted to thank you for it! OmgItsTheSmartGuy ( talk) 20:18, 31 January 2015 (UTC) |
Thank you very much. I'm greatly honoured. Oggmus ( talk) 11:10, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Regarding a recent edit: hopefully you understand that converting styles of spelling, such as British to American or vice-versa, can be quite contentious. Generally there is no problem fixing a few exceptions where there is a predominant style, but do tread cautiously. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 23:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
That makes it a lot clearer. I had based my opinion on finding a banner that stated that the article I was looking at was specifically written South African English and contributors should bear this in mind (or words like that). I therefore assumed that unless stated otherwise Wikipedia uses US spelling.
But going through the "Altruism (biology) article again I notice that although a variety of different spelling conventions have been followed by different contributors, the original article was probably written using British spelling (judging by the opening remarks at the beginning of the article). I will therefore reverse by conversions into US spelling and restore the British spelling that I had altered in the section that I have been editing.
Thanks for all your help and advise. Oggmus ( talk) 08:04, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for sending me a thank you. So many times I go through my editing on Wikipedia thinking that there isn't even one person who notices what's going on… But you did and I think you for it. With much appreciation,
A great pleasure Oggmus ( talk) 17:02, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Citing yourself:
I am sure your article KOESLAG, J. I990. Koinophilia groups sexual creatures into species, promotes stasis, and stabilizes social behavior. Journal of Theoretical Biology I44:I5-35. Would count as a WP:RS how ever I can find no source that uses "koinophilia" to mean anything except Averageness. If you mean it to be something else third party review (even a negative one) would be needed.
Publications that use the term "koinophilia":
Selection of important articles that cite the Koeslag 1990 paper
Please help expand Averageness.
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Also if this [1] is you you need to say so. J8079s ( talk) 02:31, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Oggmus, I've noticed that you are adding geological information to articles about various regions/provinces of South Africa. Could I perhaps tempt you into contributing to Draft:Geology of South Africa as a "topic summary" article? IMHO it is one of the most fundamental missing articles about SA. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 09:48, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Dodger67, Thank you for inviting me to contribute to this article about the geology of South Africa. While I have a fairly good idea about the geology of the south-western, central and mid-eastern portions of the country I feel completely at sea about the Bushveld and Low Veld regions. Even Namaqualand and Bushmanland I find difficult to understand in a way that I would be able to explain it to others. I'd simply be copying and pasting from a geology book (i.e. plagiarising) without any understanding of what is going on in these regions. I have written as much (in full, and summarised) as I know about the Cape Fold Belt, the Karoo Supergroup, the Vredefort Dome, Drakensberg, the Great Escarpment and the Witwatersrand and Witwatersrand Basin. I am sure that much of that can be copied into the new article which brings all of these topics together, which is an excellent idea. Oggmus ( talk) 14:06, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Oggmus, I am from the Afrikaans Wikipedia and have "discovered" your amazing work on articles about the Cape Fold Mountains, Table Mountain, the Karoo Supergroup etc, as well as your spot-on illustrations. I just want to say I really enjoy your preciseness and I am now translating some of these articles. Really nice work! Burgert Behr ( talk) 21:34, 24 February 2020 (UTC)