User talk:John Cummings/Archive 18
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Your GA nomination of Black and Tans
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Black and Tans you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of AirshipJungleman29 -- AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:43, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Per WP:GANI, you are required to be a major contributor to an article, which you are not for Black and Tans. I am thus removing the nomination from the article talk page. You are welcome to renominate with the consent of the major contributors. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:44, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Black and Tans
The article Black and Tans you nominated as a good article has failed 
; see Talk:Black and Tans for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of AirshipJungleman29 -- AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:05, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi AirshipJungleman29 thanks very much but there appears to be something broken, there is no GA nomination info on the talk page and the link you included is red. John Cummings (talk) 05:32, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- See the above section. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:37, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
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--Lajmmoore (talk 08:55, 26 January 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Minimum Speciesbox parameters for full functionality
Hi, when you create a {{Speciesbox}}, as at Glossina haningtoni (which I've fixed), you need to complete either |taxon= or |genus=+|species= (not both). Although by default, the WP:Automated taxobox system picks up the taxon name from the page name, it doesn't have full functionality, e.g. the page title isn't italicized. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:02, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Peter coxhead, thank you very much for explaining it, I thought leaving it blank autocompleted it correctly, I'll go back over the articles I've created and add in the correct bits for genus + species. Thanks again, John Cummings (talk) 17:22, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hi again Peter coxhead, looks like you fixed them all already, thanks so much :) John Cummings (talk) 17:58, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Peter coxhead, thank you very much for explaining it, I thought leaving it blank autocompleted it correctly, I'll go back over the articles I've created and add in the correct bits for genus + species. Thanks again, John Cummings (talk) 17:22, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
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Your edit to Glossina fusca has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to contribute your work appropriately. For legal reasons, Wikipedia strictly cannot host copyrighted text or images from print media or digital platforms without an appropriate and verifiable license. Contributions infringing on copyright will be removed. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Diannaa (talk) 22:54, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- In case it isn't clear, the problem with the source you used (which would anyway need to be cited) is that on p. ii it gives the copyright as "CC BY-NC-SA 3.0", but Wikipedia doesn't allow "NC" material to be used.
- Tsetse flies are clearly important and should be covered here. You need to paraphrase (but not closely) and cite. My experience is that in species descriptions it's hard to avoid quite close paraphrasing because there is a standard terminology that biologists use, but it can be avoided in other areas. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:52, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- I expanded Glossina fusca a bit, hopefully to show how it can be done. I don't intend to do any more – tsetse flies are not an interest of mine! Peter coxhead (talk) 11:09, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- Dear Diannaa and Peter coxhead, I deeply appreciate your help with this. I've been working with an expert on the topic to create these new articles and it seems the rephrasing got missed with this particular article. Thank you for your work in fixing this issue, I've rephrased the info about the subspecies. John Cummings (talk) 11:49, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for doing that. And sorry for the earlier templated message; the high volume of reports at CopyPatrol right now precludes the use of more personalized messages. Diannaa (talk) 12:00, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Diannaa no worries :) John Cummings (talk) 12:10, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for doing that. And sorry for the earlier templated message; the high volume of reports at CopyPatrol right now precludes the use of more personalized messages. Diannaa (talk) 12:00, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- Dear Diannaa and Peter coxhead, I deeply appreciate your help with this. I've been working with an expert on the topic to create these new articles and it seems the rephrasing got missed with this particular article. Thank you for your work in fixing this issue, I've rephrased the info about the subspecies. John Cummings (talk) 11:49, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- There are two ways you could handle referencing to The continental atlas of the distribution of tsetse flies in Africa in the Glossina fusca article. One is to just use a single named reference to the whole work, with the page indication given as "pp. 50, 58–59". (You need p. 50 because that's where the authorities for the subspecies are.) The other, which I prefer, and I think is more helpful to readers when different page ranges are used for different information, is to put the work in the Bibliography section, and then use
{{sfnp|Cecchi|Paone|de Gier|Zhao|2024|p=...}}or{{sfnp|Cecchi|Paone|de Gier|Zhao|2024|pp=...}}for each page/pages you have used. But which you use is up to you, but please always include the pages. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:40, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- I expanded Glossina fusca a bit, hopefully to show how it can be done. I don't intend to do any more – tsetse flies are not an interest of mine! Peter coxhead (talk) 11:09, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
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