User talk:Clegs
Your input is needed on the SOPA initiative
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Community input required: lowering delist bar at FPC
You are receiving this because of your current or past association with the Featured Pictures project. Following on from several cases where closers did not observe the prescribed minimum votes required for a delisting, there is now a motion to entirely dismiss the requirement for a minimum. Please participate in the discussion as wide-ranging changes may arise.
Link: Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates#Delist procedure changes Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 14:24, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Moving a page
For your future reference: When an entity changes its name, as happened with
Hi, I've added an alternate version to the Featured Picture Candidate: The "New" Blue Marble. As you have already voted at the nomination (linked above), could you please give some feedback or show a preference between the original or the alt? Thank you for your time. Dusty777 (talk) 21:15, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Hadji Ali
Hi Clegs, this is just to let you know that I have uploaded a restored version of the image nominated at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hadji Ali. This notice is being delivered to you as you previously voted / commented at the nomination page. Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Majas
I noted that you struck your oppose at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Majas. Perhaps, for better clarity, you could state your current position at the nom page if possible? Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:17, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Clegs,
You mention on the featured picture thingy, "Also concerned about possible canvassing." is there anything I can do to help ? I hear it's bad stuff. Penyulap ☏ 12:48, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Your rollback request
Hello Clegs, I have granted rollback rights to your account in accordance with your request. Please be aware that rollback should be used to revert vandalism/spam/blatantly unconstructive edits, and that using it to revert anything else (such as by revert-warring or reverting edits you disagree with) can lead to it being removed from your account...sometimes without any warning, depending on the admin who becomes aware of any misuse. If you think an edit should require a reason for reverting, then don't use rollback and instead use a manual edit summary. For practice, you may wish to see
I would like to know what extra information is conveyed by the image of the male crab at
- Stemonitis, thanks for the reply. We recently had this discussion at WP:OWN. Can you think of any way your concern (too many pictures in too short an article) could be addressed? We've tried to lengthen the article, but none of us are carcinologists, and what we did write you reverted. I'm out of ideas, short of a request on a WP project page that I don't know about to help out. Clegs (engage in rational discourse) 07:55, 12 April 2012 (UTC)]
Aha, so that's the hidden agenda! WP:FPC wants to include the image to maintain its featured status, even though the image is not useful at the article. That is the wrong reason for including an image. Whoever it was that said the difference in dorsal aspect was significant is mistaken. You yourself said "To my uneducated eyes, they look the same"! As I have said elsewhere, if a second image were to be included (and I don't think it should be), then the image in question would not be the first choice by a long way. A ventral image would be more useful, or one of the animal in its habitat. (The main picture is very good photographically, but is somewhat artificial in its setting.) I haven't seen any worthwhile addition of text, so I don't know what you're referring to there: who are the "we" you mention? The only other reason suggested at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/File:Pachygrapsus marmoratus 2008 G1.jpg is that "the partial camouflage here brings valuable EV". If that were so, then this would be the main image instead, and the same problem recurs with the current first image, and that would still ignore the fact that the camouflage is not mentioned in the text at all, so the image would not be illustrative.
I will reiterate that this has nothing to do with article ownership; I merely revert unhelpful edits, and I would hope that you would do the same. Additions of unreferenced text should not be accepted; additions of superfluous images should not be accepted. I am more than happy for any editor to make improvements to the article (it is hardly Wikipedia's finest work, although it's a fair enough start), but the edits that have been attempted so far do not improve the article. I am pursuing Wikipedia's core policies, while it is now clear that the addition of the second image is for all the wrong reasons – not exactly
- If you would read a little further down the nomination, you would see that I voted keep after the difference was pointed out. My statement still remains--current consensus is that the image makes a valuable contribution to the article, and your personal opinion in defiance of consensus is irrelevant. I can respect that you do not personally want the second image in the article; I cannot respect an edit war to keep it out. Clegs (engage in rational discourse) 08:49, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
If the difference had to be pointed out before it was clear, then the image is useless. Any such difference is not mentioned in the article, and if it were, the ventral dimorphism would be a far better choice (and indeed an image of the important ventral sexual dimorphism in this species is used to illustrate the difference at crab – it is not a phenomenon unique to this species). Your "consensus" consists of about three in favour, and two against, and that from an audience biased towards Featured Pictures and their widespread inclusion (sometimes to the detriment of articles). I don't count that weak, misinformed, majority as a great consensus, and nor should you.
Contrary to your assertion, this is not a question of my personal tastes, but one of genuine encyclopaedic value. You should have noticed by now that I have added a second image to the article, against my better judgement. This one actually shows the animal's ecology in a good in situ image. I hope this will be enough to demonstrate what encyclopaedic value really is. The second image now shows the adult from a different angle, allowing a better understanding of the overall form (the dorso-ventral flattening, the position of the chelipeds in life, etc.). It also shows it engaging in feeding activity (probably), and thus also demonstrates its choice of prey. It may not be such a technically excellent picture, but for the purposes of illustrating the article, it is massively better than the second dorsal aspect. --Stemonitis (talk) 09:29, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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Accept reason: I have temporarily granted you IP block exemption, to allow you to edit despite the block on your IP. Happy editing. Salvio Let's talk about it! 12:30, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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I hope this will enhance your editing, and allow you to edit successfully and without disruption. Salvio Let's talk about it! 12:30, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Clegs, I have just revoked your IP block exemption, because I don't think you need it any longer. If I am wrong, feel free to shoot me an e-mail or ask for an unblock on your talk page. Happy editing. Salvio Let's talk about it! 13:16, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- Will do. Thanks for all your hard work. Clegs (engage in rational discourse) 22:48, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
RfC WP:FPC
Hello, some time earlier, you commented/voted on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pythagoras similar triangles proof. The file is renominated at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Pythagoras similar triangles proof simplified with many issues addressed. Your comments about the new version would be appreciated.--Gauravjuvekar (talk) 15:47, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Followup RFC to WP:RFC/AAT now in community feedback phase
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