User talk:CodeTalker

Look, I understand that the ants in A Bug's Life are fictional ants, but I just wanted to make it clear that they were based on a certain common species of ants or something, but maybe not, but which ant species would you say could've been a more realistic inspiration for these ants, despite them being fictional, because there are honestly many different types of ants like Argentine ants, Black garden ants, Carpenter ants, Field ants, Fire ants, and Pavement ants, and these were just the most common ones I could think of, but do you think the ants (despite having only four limbs, and mammalian eyes) were possibly based on Field ants or something? because they were a little bigger than Tuck and Roll the pill-bugs, and Francis the ladybug, but smaller than the other characters. or are they more realistically based on a smaller common species of ants? I'm not asking if they are real ants, I'm asking what they are possibly based on is all. Brayden Lockhart (talk) 22:15, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for the source, but The King in Yellow is also cited in the Fear & Hunger page, can I use it alone? ToxinDemon (talk) 21:51, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

@ToxinDemon I'm not sure what you mean. I don't see any mention of the King in Yellow on the Wikipedia page Fear & Hunger. I do see a mention of a character called "Le'garde/The Yellow King from the original game"; is that what you're referring to? There's no indication that this character has any relation to the King in Yellow from Chambers's stories. In any case, you can't use a Wikipedia article as a source for another Wikipedia article (see WP:CIRCULAR). You would need to find a reliable source that explicitly states that the "Yellow King" character is based on Chambers's character. CodeTalker (talk) 22:31, 13 August 2026 (UTC)

Look, as much as the characters from A Bug's Life are fictional characters, and aren't supposed to be a certain species, I have a question, How many characters are allowed to be classified as exact species? because It's only Hopper, Dim, and Gypsy who have their likely exact species revealed, specifically a Carolina grasshopper, a European rhinoceros beetle, and a Gypsy moth, how come the others can't be compared to real species, Just curious is all. Brayden Lockhart (talk) 23:35, 17 August 2026 (UTC)

@Brayden Lockhart, that's a good point. I don't think that those three characters should be identified with an exact species either, unless there is a source that supports that identification. At a quick glance I don't see such sourcing. I don't have the time right now to investigate the issue in more detail. Supposing that those links do not comply with Wikipedia standards, they should be removed, rather than adding more links that don't comply. If you want to investigate those links and remove them if there is insufficient sourcing, that would be fine. CodeTalker (talk) 04:46, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Look, I understand that the ants aren't meant to be certain ant species, but even though their likely ant species basis was never mentioned, what exact species might be the closest match to them? minus their number of limbs, and colorization? and what exact species of butterfly, or moth caterpillar could be a possible match for Heimlich? and don't worry I will not add them to the A Bug's Life page, I'm just putting these in my inspiration notes to myself instead, if that's fine, although, Francis seems like a Seven-spotted ladybug to me for example, just naturally. Brayden Lockhart (talk) 23:25, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

I honestly have no idea. I am not an entomologist and have no special expertise in identifying insect species. There are over 6000 species of ladybugs, so even if I see a resemblance between Francis and one particular species, there may be another species with a closer resemblance that I am not familiar with. You may want to find a web site devoted to entomology where you can ask these questions of someone with more expertise in the area. CodeTalker (talk) 23:56, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Oh, well, Just in case, here's a list of ant species, just in case, pavement ants, Argentine ants, black garden ants, fire ants, harvester ants, and Formica ants, and as for caterpillars, well, here's my list of green caterpillars, tomato hornworm, cabbage white caterpillar, black swallowtail caterpillar, Eastern tiger swallowtail caterpillar, spicebush swallowtail caterpillar, cecropia caterpillar, Emperor caterpillar, polyphemus caterpillar, promethea caterpillar, and white-lined sphinx caterpillar, now, even though these are not all the species of ants, and caterpillars in the world, I'm only asking for one species each for comparison, and like I said before, I'm not putting these into the A Bug's Life page, I'm just saving these two likely exact species to my files instead, so what's your closest guesses? and also, I know you're not an entomologist, but all you have to do is guess, that's all. Brayden Lockhart (talk) 00:10, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

Now, Before I add my "close enough" guessed species of insects that likely inspired some of the characters from A Bug's Life to my personal list, Just in case, here's a list of ant species, just in case, pavement ants, Argentine ants, black garden ants, fire ants, harvester ants, Formica ants, and carpenter ants, and as for green caterpillars, well, here's my list of green caterpillars, tomato hornworm, cabbage white caterpillar, black swallowtail caterpillar, Eastern tiger swallowtail caterpillar, spicebush swallowtail caterpillar, cecropia caterpillar, Emperor caterpillar, Luna caterpillar, polyphemus caterpillar, promethea caterpillar, and white-lined sphinx caterpillar, And even though you're not an entomologist, I decided to help you out with how many species I could find that might be close enough, but like I said before, I'm NOT adding these to the A Bug's Life page, Just to my personal files for myself instead, if that's fine, anyway, even though these characters are fictional, and aren't meant to resemble any specific species, what exact species of ant, and green caterpillar could be the most possible comparisons to Flik the ant, and Heimlich the caterpillar each? minus the number of limbs, and their certain color choices? Just curious to what guesses you could come up with, nothing personal, I hope. Brayden Lockhart (talk) 21:00, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello. As I see it, you already warned User about this earlier, so I wrote to you. . Since User continues Edit war, I also warned them about that. But they insist, that the cannot starting edit war or violate 3RR rule, because they involved in discussion and trying to reach consensus. They really believing that edit war cannot be good faith and only consist from reverts without comments. Although, many or their edit is just returning of their edits with minimal changes in text or edit comment. They even insist, that me onesidely in edit war with them. Can you help me to explain this to the user? Because I just give up in this and doesn't want to be involving in this anymore Solaire the knight (talk) 21:46, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Please stop removing Benzion Netanyahu from the history section. ~2026-48490-53 (talk) 22:08, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

He spoke polish and fits the criteria to be included. Cut it out ~2026-48490-53 (talk) 22:10, 6 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I am modifying Alpöge page to make it accurate with respect to his number theoretic achievements, as there were important omissions in the previous version. I notice you keep undoing my changes. I left you in reply precise references regarding the changes I proposed. Feel free to add those to the references, but I suggest you stop undoing my changes without checking those references first. ~2026-49458-35 (talk) 01:58, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

The references supporting those edits are as follows: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01768, https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proofs-probe-the-limits-of-mathematical-truth-20250203/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04468 https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09311 ~2026-49458-35 (talk) 02:05, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-49458-35, thank you, but you don't need to send the references to me, you need to add them to the article when you make the changes to it. Make sure that each statement that you add to the article is followed by a properly formatted reference that supports it. Note that per WP:BURDEN, it is your responsibility to add the references when you make changes to the article. Asking other editors to find or evaluate sources and add the references to your changes is not how things work here.

You can refer to Help:Referencing for beginners and the pages that are linked from it to see how to add references. Note that of the four sources you mention, only the second one is really useful. The others are primary sources and have limited value, since most of Wikipedia's readers are not qualified to evaluate an article in a mathematical journal and determine whether it supports the claims that you are making. The Quanta Magazine article is a good secondary source however. CodeTalker (talk) 02:25, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

OK, excellent, you are right, I should have done it myself. Now all the desired changes are done. ~2026-49458-35 (talk) 02:50, 13 September 2026 (UTC)

You can grant the benefit of the doubt to newbs for some considerable time, but eventually one's patience tends to run out. Despite the plea of please don't bite the regulars, said chomping eventually tends to occur. See No. 1 MinorProphet (talk) 14:53, 14 September 2026 (UTC)

Just so you are aware, that IP you've left a message to about their edit on aforementioned article is a persistent vandal who has constantly made the same disruptive edits since the mid-2010s. The article has just come out of being semi-protected for about a year after the same disruptive vandal (whose IP address keeps changing) edit-warred several times for several years and thus far has absolutely refused to cease and desist. I am strongly of the opinion an edit filter will need to be put in place, because enough is enough. Loyalmoonie (talk) 23:02, 17 September 2026 (UTC)

how do i add sources Elibeatle (talk) 18:58, 26 September 2026 (UTC)