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May 2017

Hello, I'm David.moreno72. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Microbial art— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. David.moreno72 09:15, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

1) What are you talking about? I added a link to the word minion on that picture. 2) when I ask you what the problem is you delete my question from your talk page and state that I am disruptive editing? What are you talking about? Garnhami (talk) 09:21, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) You broke the image file formatting. Twice. See here. Use wp:Show preview to validate your edits before saving. These are "live" articles, if you mess it up, it shows up immediately. Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 09:25, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Ok, I see your point and indeed I failed in editing it correctly, for some reason it did not work. However, I was going to change it back anyway, so there was no intended vandalism. I tried it again on my sandbox and it is not doing what it is supposed to do for some reason. All I wanted was to add the link to the "minion" website in case people do not know what a minion is.Garnhami (talk) 09:31, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Be careful

You are moving too fast.

See wp:images The file name which any changes would call up another image, or more likely a wp:redlink is
File:Minion made with yeast cells.jpg
"Thumb" is how big to make the image. Shouldn't touch that.
The text part is what you would want to change: Minion made with ''S. cerevisiae'' cells on a [[YEPD|YPD]] [[agar plate]]

The original:
[[File:Minion made with yeast cells.jpg|thumb|Minion made with ''S. cerevisiae'' cells on a [[YEPD|YPD]] [[agar plate]]]]
Suggested change: [[File:Minion made with yeast cells.jpg|thumb|[[Minions_(Despicable_Me)|Minion]] made with ''S. cerevisiae'' cells on a [[YEPD|YPD]] [[agar plate]]]]
Which would look like:

File:Minion made with yeast cells.jpg

Minion made with S. cerevisiae cells on a YPD agar plate

Hope this helps. Be sure to test with wp:show preview. Given the past problems, please leave a detailed wp:edit summary. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 09:39, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Bit the picture was ok now: I just added the link to the "minions" wiki, that is everything. You can even see the picture here now (as you placed it) that it is fine? I am still confused and do not get the problem.

However, he clearly said that I might be blocked the next time. I think, when addressed this aggressively, I might just stop and not contribute anymore. I have made a serious improvement to several microbiology topics here, but I think I will not continue when addressed this hostile by certain people (not referring to you). Garnhami (talk) 09:43, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

My apologies on your treatment. David.moreno72 nor I can block you. We have to request that an wp:administrator block. The admins will go through the evidence before blocking. In your case they would (probably) note that your edits were well-intentioned. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

I restored your edit to microbial art here.

I think that David.moreno72 is having a rough day. wp:RCP can be quite aggravating and some people do everything to get under a RCPer's skin. I left him a message. Jim1138 (talk) 09:58, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Ok thanks. Enjoy your day. Cheers Garnhami (talk) 10:00, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. If you have any issues, please let me know on yours or my talk page. You can remove the warnings per wp:BLANKING - also see wp:user pages and wp:talk page guidelines Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 10:01, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Oh, no need to remove discussion from other's talk pages. In my case Lowercase sigmabot III, a wp:bot automatically archives stuff on my talk page. Well most of the time except for some annoying quirks. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 10:05, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Leuven

I just noticed your user page. I spent about three months in Leuven in ~1983. I was working for Dysan setting up an electronics with a Belgium firm (can't remember name). I remember the people as being friendly and the chocolate out of this world. If I spent any more time there, I would have gained 50 kilos. I also worked at Affymetrix making DNA chip synthesizers and other stuff. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 10:51, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Guess what I am eating right now when reading your post and making this one.... haha chocotoff! (kind of chocolade candy) (and to my surprise there does not seem to be a wiki page on this... weird, it is pretty famous) but yes: the chocolade (and food in general) is good and you need to pay attention in order not to gain 50kg. Affymetrix, I know them (just from reading/hearing) as I work in the field of microbiology. Garnhami (talk) 11:30, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

There is Côte d'Or (chocolate) where its spelled "Chokotoff". You made me look on purpose, didn't you? Now I'm looking at my collection of "Congobar chocolate". Sigh... With Trump running the show here, maybe I'll emigrate?

I designed and built the first chip synthesizer at Affymax, it's parent company. Later I designed and built this one which was used for years. It was only a "stop gap" machine. Hah! It appears to have been modified and decorated a number of times here. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 00:05, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Nice! haha, you are right, it is from côte d'or , but it is a very famous candy, so I was thinking that maybe a specific page was made, but it seems not. Maybe I'll have to make a picture of one and put it on the wiki because now it is a bit weak, the attention it gets haha. The chocotoff is a small candy shaped piece of chocolate that is soft on the inside and it is the type of candy that you can keep eating. You usually buy it in a bag of 250 or 500 grams and before you know it you ate the entire bag in 1 take. So you are a type of engineer I guess? Or chemist? Since you design(ed) chips like that? Yeah, Trump.... I dunno... It is weird. The strangest thing , for me, is that when I heard Clinton was going to run (and not Bernie) I got this feeling Trump might even win... He is completely nuts in my opinion and not able to lead a country, but Clinton was too much of what people revolted against (and I also doubt she is really what you want.... the stories you hear or read about her and what happened... and it does not matter whether or not the russians "opened" them.. most of them seem to be true or there seems to be something wrong in the end and that is not ok)Garnhami (talk) 05:03, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Apology

Hi Garnhami. After reviewing the edits I can now see that a number of them were in error. I sincerely apologise for my error. Happy editing David.moreno72 12:34, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

No problem. Good luck Cheers, Garnhami (talk) 12:36, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Continuation from Jim1138's talk page

• Reply from user talk:Jim1138#question on redirects Jim1138 (talk) 18:05, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

You are most welcome!
If the article is active that would be problematic. If not too active you could copy to your sandbox. If others edit during the meantime, you would have to resolve those.
You can add an {{under construction}} template {{under construction |placedby= Garnhami |comment= ***A note. Maybe what you are doing and how long it will take*** }} to the section or article. Add "nosection=yes" if the whole article is being worked on, or "section=yes" if at the top of a section. If the article is heavily edited, you might get objections or find the template simply removed. Many might ignore the template. If the article is edited a fair amount, using under construction just on a specific section would seem preferable. I often see the template added w/o the placedby or comment. which is annoying. Note, I find the under construction templates rather strange. I tend to review a large amount of edits and trying to remember to check back on the ones under construction is difficult. Hence my dislike. Most others probably don't care too much.
Try using wp:Show preview. You can edit a section or the whole article and see the updates. Good for checking one's work and preventing adding burden to the servers with lots of edit diffs. However, you won't have an incremental undo. So, getting one piece fixed with a few show previews and then saving might be a good bet.

My talk page gets inundated and archived fairly quickly. If you wouldn't mind, please keep this discussion here? That way you will have this info here and not have to hunt through my archive which is some 48 pages. I keep useful reference links on my talk page. It's too unorganized and I can't find what I want...
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The ping and signature must be saved at the same time with a single "Save changes" or it will break. If you are unsure, just add another ping and signature. To further confuse things: yo, re, and others will work in place of ping. The ping shows up as "@Jim1138". You can also use any link to my talk or user page such as [[user talk:Jim1138]] {{ut|Jim1138}} or be tricky and hide it with a pipe: [[user:Jim1138|.]] ~~~~ (which shows up only as a "." but would still activate notifications). Ignore the nowiki stuff btw. If someone leaves a message on your talk page, they may or may not be wp:watching your page, so a ping is in order. You can ping multiple people: {{ping|Jim1138|Garnhami|Bozo}}

Thanks again for your work! The wp:teahouse or wp:help desk are useful places to ask questions. Especially the more complex or subtle issues which may be over my head. If you are having problems with someone, see wp:dispute resolution (DR). If you need an wp:admin, for medicine, I recommend Doc James. Other admins I would suggest are Ian.thompson, Oshwah, Diannaa, Drmies (helpful, but a bit brusque and doesn't put up with nonsense). Too often, admins are mostly inactive. Hope this helps more that just being confusing! Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 18:05, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

@Jim1138: ok thanks! I'll read it a few times more just to see what it all means! haha. Lots of information!

I understand what you mean with the highly edited pages. I'll see what the best option might be, maybe I'll wait a few more months before really editing the article completely. Garnhami (talk) 18:30, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Got your notification, it worked! What a day. I just made another eight liter batch of nectar for hummingbirds, hooded orioles, and a few other interlopers. Five kg of sugar - it's syrupy. Every hour or two a spotted towhee sits outside and trills until I throw him a peanut. After mating season, he can't sing anymore and probably goes hungry. Speaking of hungry, what chocolate are you indulging on at the moment? I need an excuse to visit my nearest Godiva Chocolatier. Jim1138 (talk) 19:12, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

@Jim1138: 5kgs of sugar? What? How much are you making? lol Is it really needed for them to survive or you just do it to attract them so you can watch them in an easier way ? You seem to know your birds! I am not really an expert on them, but I do enjoy watching them! Today I ate regular white chocolate (which is actually not really chocolate, but ok, lets call it a technicality haha). Enjoy your trip to the Godiva store. If it was me, I would most likely enter with a small list of things I would like to buy and end up going outside with way too much ! Garnhami (talk) 19:43, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

We buy about 450 kg of sugar a year. Use ~13-18 kg / week at peak season and 2-3 kg /week off season. It is for viewing and showing off. That much sugar would support at least 1,200 birds full time. Probably have a larger number of daily visitors, maybe 2,500-4,500 individual birds during peak season. Hummingbirds are usually very territorial and won't tolerate another except for mating and raising their young; males don't help. These are recent photos https://1drv.ms/f/s!Ajzp9H2J5N1LhAzsHNevWGo1U21K this is nowhere near peak. Most are Anna's hummingbird, a fair number of Allen's hummingbird, and one Costa's hummingbird It is off season for Costa's. The Allen's are quickly increasing their range. Probably due to home gardens and hummingbird feeders. That is my home-brew tube-feeder. The round red feeders only had six holes. I drilled an additional 12-18 holes. The one photo -583 has 21 birds on it. If I forget to feed them, a lot of them would die. So, making sure the feeders are OK is a source of anxiety. Jim1138 (talk) 21:55, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

@Jim1138:Amazing or hardly to believe haha...... was my first response when I read that. So many birds!!! I do not get it, this is just near your home? I assume you have a gigantic garden than? Or ? Wow ! Amazing! I love nature and animals, but where I live I am already happy with a few birds, insects and the toads I see! Garnhami (talk) 22:01, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

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@EdJohnston:That is why I already made a post on the talk page of the other person. He removed some stuff that should not have been removed (especially the references, the page already lacks in this so removing the few good ones makes no sense). I even provided sources/links and I was even able to link it with another wikipedia page. I find it a little bit strange. However I do find it useful to have your comment because it does contain some interesting things I did not yet knew that might be useful since I have already corrected a few other edits that were faulty.Garnhami (talk) 22:08, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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Hello. I removed the references you added from the lead and record table, as it’s not common practice and the fight is referenced in 'Professional boxing career'. Thanks. — ².O.^Boxing 22:21, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

=> Hi @Squared.Circle.Boxing: Ok, I get that, but you can not just remove references in the text. Normally every statement is supported by a reference! The problem with Persoon her page is exactly the lack of references. So keep them in the text. In the tables, you can remove them (although, I find that strange too as now not every fight is supported by a good reference).Garnhami (talk) 22:24, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

For a reference on the matter, you can visit regularly updated boxing pages such as Anthony Joshua, Canelo Alvarez, Andy Ruiz Jr. and Floyd Mayweather Jr.. Their leads do not have references. The reference for BoxRec that you added is necessary as that is not expanded upon in the main article. Apologies for removing the reference with her date of birth, that was a mistake. Thanks. — ².O.^Boxing 22:31, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean with leads? You mean the introduction of the pages? @Squared.Circle.Boxing:? If this is the case: they are wrong? Any statement should be verified with a reference. If you write an introduction on someones page and do you use good references, it is bad science. Wikipedia holds no value if the statements are not referenced. If you do not mean this with leads, I am not sure what you mean. If you mean the tables: ok, perhaps it is a custom not to do it.Garnhami (talk) 22:34, 11 November 2019 (UTC) EDIT: I guess you ment with lead the piece of text above a table? Indeed, you are right then!

@Squared.Circle.Boxing:, just a general remark, the pages of the boxers you gave are not that good when it comes to the use of references. Look at the page of Albert Einstein for example for a good way to do it Albert Einstein. See how the first sentences are immediately followed by references. This is how it should be! Garnhami (talk) 22:41, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, the introduction, lead section. I’ve always wondered why the pages never have references but I suppose this passage from WP:BLP would explain it; "We must get the article right. Be very firm about the use of high-quality sources. All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be supported by an inline citation to a reliable, published source."

Maybe because the achievement is not likely to be challenged? I’ll bring it up on the WP:WikiProject Boxing talk page and see what people have to say. — ².O.^Boxing 22:53, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

@Squared.Circle.Boxing: Maybe it is just a habit? And somewhat of a "tradition"to do it like that and old habits are hard to change. For example, the wiki pages in my native languages are extremely poorly sourced (there are almost never references added!). The English wiki is a bit better when it comes to using references, but still, I read a lot of pages with heaps of text without a single reference.... I think it is just because people are not used to it. They still feel that wiki is more of a "book" type of place rather than a science type of place. If you publish a scientific paper , you really have to put references after pretty much every sentence. This is also why, in general, scientific pages here (pages with a science topic) are often better in terms of references because the people writing them are scientists and know about how to correctly refer to sources.

I will give another remarkable example Asthma => look at how pretty much every(!) sentence is followed by a reference! This is because the people editing this pace are almost are scientist (and the one really doing it, checking up every day, is an MD). You do have a point of course: for non scientific articles (like the boxers) it is harder to get good quality sources because you rely on newspapers and other internetpages (not on scientific journals), but it still must be possible to get some reliable sources to, for example, proof the data of birth of the boxers or to support some general statements in the introduction part (e.g. their boxing profile on the boxrec website or their own website with some date about their bio) Garnhami (talk) 08:40, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

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lead no references

I saw your question elsewhere. The lead should be a summary of what is below, and as far as it is that, summary of referenced things below, it should NOT have references cluttering the text. Exceptions: facts that are not mentioned and referenced below, and quotations. Hope that helps. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:30, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt well I find this a strange thing and it seems this is not really a general rule kept for most articles (especially science related ones). But ok, if this is the general consensus, I will follow it.Garnhami (talk) 14:35, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Just as a comment, please check WP:LEAD and tell me where it stays you can not add references in the lead. I know you stated and yes, I know many others state this, however, I still have NO proof as to where you get this information from. I quote from the WP:LEAD article: "The notability of the article's subject is usually established in the first few sentences. As in the body of the article itself, the emphasis given to material in the lead should roughly reflect its importance to the topic, according to reliable, published sources. Apart from basic facts, significant information should not appear in the lead if it is not covered in the remainder of the article. As a general rule of thumb, a lead section should contain no more than four well-composed paragraphs and be carefully sourced as appropriate." Now tell me again where it says there should be no sources?Garnhami (talk) 14:46, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Please don't ask me, - I don't go by such guidelines, but by trial & error & what makes sense to me. Perhaps others will know. The passage you quote says nothing about ref requirements. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:56, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

I looked at that article now - first time. It is a good example. The lead has no references, only the one about the average duration, which is probably not in the article elsewhere. If you just follow that good example, and let others do the same, all should be fine. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:59, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt yeah, I am not blaming you. It is just a general remark I had. Wikipedia is not doing a great job when it comes to references and styles. Almost all the articles related to "hard" science have good sources in the lead. Also articles about important people often have good references in the lead. Sadly articles that are not in that area have a very bad style of sources. Another comment: the article is a featured article, but that means (in general) it is well written, in terms of style and has reference, however (!) it does not mean the references are really good or have been checked. 90% of those references are not publicly/easy available and how many people are experts in that field/topic do you think that bother to check them? Not too many.... Anyway, I will just follow your advice, although I do not completely agree with it as I do not see why a lead should not have references.Garnhami (talk) 16:42, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Removed format parameter from cites

Hi. Why did you remove the format parameter from the cites in this edit?--SaskatchewanSenator (talk) 21:45, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi SaskatchewanSenator, "I" did not do it, the tool I used did it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_current_world_boxing_champions&diff=938799579&oldid=938760939&diffonly=1 and read: "m (Alter: title. Removed parameters. | You can use this tool yourself. Report bugs here. | via #UCB_Gadget)" => it is something that happens automatic when you use the tool to update citations. For me you can add it back, but whenever someone will update the page using the citation tool, it will be removed again. Perhaps you can report it as a bug?Garnhami (talk) 21:52, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with that tool, so I'll leave it to you to report a bug.--SaskatchewanSenator (talk) 22:02, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

It's not a bug. It is intentional. The parameter is mostly redundant, although there doesn't seem to be consensus to remove it.--SaskatchewanSenator (talk) 22:21, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi SaskatchewanSenator, yeah, I did not know. I simple use that tool once in a while to update articles. Anyway, it will happen again if others use it, so not sure it is useful to add that information again.Garnhami (talk) 22:25, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

User:Christianideas

Dear @Garnhami: I'm not very familiar with en:wp, could you please help to stop vandalism going on by User:Christianideas? He started with this on de:wp. Vandalism occurrences:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faustina_Kowalska&diff=prev&oldid=941635599
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Divine_Mercy_Sunday&diff=prev&oldid=941630731
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Divine_Mercy_image&diff=prev&oldid=941625652
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Divine_Mercy&diff=prev&oldid=941618513

The recently uploaded image is here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Jesus_I_Trust_in_You_Translations.jpg Maybe a deletion on commons will be the solution?--Pinin (talk) 20:18, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

hi Pinin, yeah, I saw it as well, too bad: I also do not really know how to report him or do something about it. I would just keep track of the pages and delete it when he adds it. I think he will get the message soon and stop posting it. If he doesnt, someone will finally stop hom from doing it, no worries.Garnhami (talk) 20:20, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

April 2020

Hi there - Wikipedia relies on reliable sources to verify information, especially about living or recently deceased people. You didn't provide a source for your changes to the Raymond Van Gestel article, and I couldn't find one either. If you have a reliable source please let me know and we can change the article. Please let me know if you have any questions. GiantSnowman 06:27, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

hi Giant, I have checked it with some other sources and yes, most likely it is 92 goals and not 94, but sources are a bit contradicting in this one. I will keep it as it is for the moment. I have also improved the English article so perhaps you can check it. It is based on sources in Dutch as there isnt a lot in English available.Garnhami (talk) 07:30, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I've cleaned up the article grammar/formatting etc. GiantSnowman 11:32, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Giant, I noticed you removed the "Mon" part from his name, but I have placed it back. He was known as "Mon" by most people, short for his offical name Raymond. Lots of the sources for example will refer to him as "Mon". Not sure there is a better way to put it somewhere, but I would not just remove it.Garnhami (talk) 11:48, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Such nicknames should not be used per WP:MOSNICKNAME. GiantSnowman 11:49, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Giant, ok, but should it not be mentioned somewhere? As you can see, several sources do call him Mon.Garnhami (talk) 11:53, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

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Taxobox parameters

The image parameter in a taxobox has to be a plain file. See, e.g., template:Taxobox#Images. We don't put redundant information in captions, so in an article about a species, we don't put the species name (what else would it be?) Peter coxhead (talk) 20:23, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Peter coxhead Ah, I see what you mean now. Ok, you can change it. But I usually put it there if there are 2 pictures just to differentiate between the 2. For 1 picture, I get it, but for 2 pictures it seems more logical to have a caption as well to seperate the pictures more.Garnhami (talk) 20:31, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

See, e.g., Araneus diadematus for how you would distinguish multiple images. I wouldn't have changed the caption if I hadn't needed to fix the image parameter value, which had put the page in an error-tracking category; it's just a tidying. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:40, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

I agree it would look better if the first image could be labelled, e.g. "Female", but it's not clear what sex it is. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:50, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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