User talk:Alawa

You're welcome. By the way, I reformatted all the references in the TEA article and since you are doing a lot of referencing in articles (which is great!), there are a few style guidelines I thought I might tell you about.

• Normally we don't provide the naked URL of a site, but link the title to it. So, for example, instead of: TITLE http://www.example.com, we use [http://www.example.com TITLE] which formats as TITLE.
• Punctuation should always go before the footnote;
• The footnote should be snugged up right against the text preceding it, and there should be no spaces between references (so it's^[1][2][3] rather than; ^{[1] [2] [3]}
• We often use Wikipedia:Citation templates for ease and formatting consistency. You just grab the code and fill out the parameters you need, deleting those you don't and place the citation template between ref tags. For example, a book reference you might use:

<ref>{{cite book
  |last = Doe
  |first = John
  |title = Title of Book
  |publisher = Doe Publishing
  |location = Chicago
  |url = http:///www.book.com
  |edition = 3rd
  |year = 2009
  |isbn = 0-000-000-0000
  |accessdate=November 15, 2009}}</ref>

See the end of this post for how this formats;^[1]

• The most common ones are {{cite web}} {{cite news}} {{cite book}} and {{cite journal}}; and
• Finally, you can add to the editing buttons above the edit screen a button that gives you a drop down menu of citation templates and which provides a really time saving interface for filling them out. Just go to your preferences, go to gadgets, and in Editing gadgets, put a checkmark in "refTools, adds a "cite" button to the editing toolbar for quick and easy addition of commonly used citation templates." Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:46, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

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I've responded to your message. If there's anything more I can try to help you with, please don't hesitate to ask. Take care~ ♪ daTheisen(talk) 23:19, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

I think the best route would be to redirect greensword to Argyroxiphium grayanum and place a dablink on the top of the article that links to the now extinct A. virescens. One of the reasons I made greensword redirect to Argyroxiphium is that green/silversword hybrids are sometimes observed, and that may need to be addressed in the article if greensword redirects to A. grayanum. I'll leave it up to you to decide.TDogg310 (talk) 04:24, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

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I guess the article really isn't a stub anymore, with the additions you have made to it. Feel free to remove the tag. It's good to see someone else to contribute to articles I created.TDogg310 (talk) 03:23, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Just to give you a heads up, I made a number of changes to this article and rearranged some things. Fuhghettaboutit reverted a big bunch of my edits before you made your most recent ones so I had to undo those as well, but I think I put back all the ones that were good. One thing, you should be aware that zipcodezoo and even ITIS are not always good sources (in fact zipcodezoo is usually pretty bad). I've dealt with ITIS myself and while they are better about getting things right to begin with, once something bad gets in it's very hard to fix it. KarlM (talk) 07:30, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Sorry if I made it sound like you'd written a bad article; I was just expressing my irritation that Fuhghettaboutit had reverted all of my edits, scattered throughout the article, when s/he could have just pasted back in the paragraph they thought deserved to remain. In the grander scheme of things, the corrections are pretty minor, mostly clarifying things that were vague or gave the wrong impression (the individual flower heads hang down, but this is the same as the silverswords, and the original wording kind of implied that the flower stalk was horizontal; it can grow up to 2 m tall, like the cultivated one in the original picture, but in bogs where most individuals live, they're under 30 cm tall; and it has a fairly wide range, on almost all of the bogs on West Maui and several on East Maui). But I've had previous experience with another article that was placed on DYK for information that was blatantly wrong; I don't know if the DYK was part of Fuhghettaboutit's motivation, but it irks me when inaccuracies are included on the front page. Also, I certainly didn't mean that the species isn't notable - it's pretty damn neat - just that the fact that it's at the end of Argyroxiphium's range of variation doesn't mean much, given that it's both closest to its ancestor and a small genus to begin with.

Apologies again for coming off in a bad way, and keep editing! KarlM (talk) 03:10, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Please don't subst: redirect templates, such as {{R to scientific name}}, as you did (for example) here. If you look at the page text you inserted, you'll see it includes template category links that are not intended to be used in the main namespace. Also, it includes category links that may change in the future, and will be automatically updated if you transclude the template, but not if you subst: it. In future, just type {{R to scientific name}} instead of {{subst:R to scientific name}}. Thanks. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:44, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out. I'll follow your instructions, hoping the meaning will resolve itself. I don't understand templates very well, yet they seem to be central to good wikipedia practice. Lots to learn.Alawa (talk) 00:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

On December 18, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mauna Kea silversword, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 19:42, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

On December 22, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Argyroxiphium grayanum, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 11:42, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

I thought my hook was many times better. The one on the front page has no punch; almost nonsensicle, as if "moisture-adapted" plays off of "also includes drought-adapted mountain plants" as an opposing extreme. C'est la vie. It's on the main page no matter how it got there. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:15, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

I have a question about your dyk hook here. Perhaps you could clarify. Regards, —mattisse (Talk) 20:55, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

On January 28, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Project Exploration, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 00:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

On April 2, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Walter Lappert, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Royalbroil 00:03, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

On April 24, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nora Okja Keller, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 16:02, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Looks good! Aristophanes68 (talk) 17:23, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello! Your submission of Heritage railways in Kauai at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Mjroots (talk) 09:29, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

On June 4, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Heritage railways in Kauai, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

— Rlevse • Talk • 06:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

I've just discovered your fine work on the following articles:

• Argyroxiphium grayanum
• Heritage railways in Kauai
• Mauna Kea silversword
• Nora Okja Keller
• Walter Lappert

Would you be interested in helping to improve at least one of these to Good Article status? Let me know. Viriditas (talk) 10:38, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, Alawa. I contacted Dr. Blofeld, who had added the img to the article, and asked for assistance regarding the comment at dyk. Awaiting his response. --Rosiestep (talk) 20:30, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi there Alawa - I just saw your message at Template talk:Did you know#Communication strategies, and I've left a reply there for you. — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 16:40, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

There has always been a backlog on DYK. I think your comments about the process would work better on the DYK talk page, not in the review. Viriditas (talk) 05:16, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

You are probably right. I looked at it. It's pretty crazy there right now.

It might help if you move your comment out of there. That area is supposed to be used for comments about the hook, not meta-comments about the process. Viriditas (talk) 12:17, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

done. Alawa (talk) 15:12, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

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Hi Alawa, there are a few issues with your nomination of Herb Kawainui Kane. Could you see my comments at T:TDYK? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:36, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

• I do appreciate the review. Discussion at the DYK page. Alawa (talk) 01:15, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

The Duplication Detector is fairly easy to use, but also fairly easy to mess up. It is also quite rough. When you enter two websites, for example a Wikipedia article and a source, into the fields at the top of the page it will automatically look for text that is the exact same. It tends to show some false positives, so you would have to look at the surrounding text to see if it is a close paraphrasing or not. Also, it would be best to click the "remove quotations" box before comparing the two, as it will deal with some of the more serious false positives. For best results, you should use the exact address of the current revision. For example, just entering this will not work as well to prove/disprove close paraphrasing or copyvio because the contents will change from time to time; you should instead enter this, which never changes and is thus more reliable. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:50, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. MRG hasn't given any feedback yet at the nom, sadly. Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:05, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

On 13 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Herb Kawainui Kane, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Herb Kawainui Kane died on the 36th anniversary of the launch of the Hōkūle‘a, a voyaging canoe he designed? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

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I fail to see the DAB error, which is a simple reference to justify changing the status of the book to "published" from "forthcoming". Alawa (talk) 16:02, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

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