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Hi, I take issue with this edit, whose edit summary included "Removed unsourced cat tag; information is on Wiliam's webpage." It is not sufficient for a fact to be confirmed on a website if that website is cited to confirm the fact. You should not have removed the tag without resolving the problem. Wikipedia:Categorization#Articles says that categories should be used only for defining characteristics. This guideline is often ignored, but if a fact is insufficiently important to mention in an article then it is too insignificant to use for categorisation. I have resolved the problem by adding a paragraph on Wiliam's education, sourced to his webpage. Verbcatcher (talk) 00:31, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for improving the article. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 03:40, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the information! There is a newspaper article saying the last Adak district student left in 1994 as the base closed, though the district itself didn't close until 1996. - If some article says directly that the closure killed the district, that would be lovely.

I went ahead and archived my 2015 messages. Yes, I've been a bad boy and neglected my archiving :( WhisperToMe (talk) 22:13, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

You're welcome, WhisperToMe! If there is an article like that, it may be hard to find. Local newspapers published in remote places don't often have their own online archives, and are less likely to be archived by other organisations. If you do find one that's been online for a while, or a now-defunct paper that used to be online, look for earlier versions of their site via the Internet Archive. You could also email and ask them directly, but that would involve a certain loss of anonymity. Perhaps a more general piece on the effects of base closures (in a larger paper) mentions Adak.

Other places to look:

• Alaska state legislature records. I only glanced at a couple mentioning appropriations for Adak schools. There may be one that notes the closure.
• the University of Alaska Institute of Social and Economic Research
• This book, which I suspect is self-published may not qualify as a reliable source, but may help with details or provide entertainment.

Good luck! (and thanks for archiving 2015. : ) Now how about the first half of 2016?) BlackcurrantTea (talk) 00:37, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Why are you putting a MEXICAN place into a UNTED STATES box? Are there any secret plans i do not know? Royalrec (talk) 09:25, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Heh, Royalrec, if there are any secret plans I think they'd be the other way round and involve a large wall. I reverted several of your changes to the Tijuana Municipality navbox, as it wasn't working; there's no such thing as a MEX county navigation box, so it results in a red link and no navbox. Then I removed the words "United States" which appeared in earlier revisions and changed the format so it once again displayed the boroughs and cities. If somehow I missed a mention of the US in the current version, please point it out so I can fix it. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 10:14, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

	fatigue detection software doi error
	Hi BlackcurrentTea, thanks for the note. I'm not sure how to correct it but will look into it. I'm also not sure how to respond to you message? Johhankel (talk) 18:22, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Johhankel, this works fine. I would also have seen a message on your talk page because I added it to my watchlist temporarily, or you could use {{u|username}} in your message, replacing username with mine. That would add a notice to my notification page provided you sign your post with the four tildes.

As for the error itself, the first step would be a look at the source(s) where you found the doi. The error isn't showing up now (Headbomb did lot of work on it), and the link leads to a CiteSeerX page with the abstract. I haven't worked with CiteSeerX before, and I'm unfamiliar with how it works. Strangely the official doi site still sees it as an error. Anyway, since it's sort of been taken care of I wouldn't worry too much about it. Thanks for the quick reply. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 01:53, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Dear Sir,

I am constantly editing the page Alavi Bohras. To be frank I am not fully acquainted with the editing rules. And it is difficult to remember it all the times. I thank you for cleaning up the matter. I assure you to read the rules and then edit accordingly. --NoorAlavi (talk) 04:59, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Dear BlackcurrantTea , i just want to answer about your question about multiple account. No i have only 1 account as under my name. but the images i gave away could come from any source such as my brother my mom my dad my friend or person who request me to photograph something they want to and i am agreed to photograph for them but under my copyright and usage term. if they use for education and knowledge it ok but when ever they use it for commercial use without my permission or release for image then that would be case of next step of law. i also gave away a lot of thing not just pictures for others. So dont give a conclusion until you get an answer about what you have question about me from me. if there are any other question please feel free to do so. have a good day. --Trisorn Triboon (talk) 09:45, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Trisorn Triboon. It's ok, I saw this on your talk page; you don't need to post a copy here. I'll answer you there. Let's keep the conversation on your talk page, so it's all in one place. Thanks, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 05:33, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your advice in return i give you those good cookies that you give to us in your user talk welcome, thanks a lot. Naturista2018 (talk) 09:12, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the cookies! BlackcurrantTea (talk) 11:47, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Dear User, Thanks for the tip. Please be advised that it is a great sin you don't say or write Radiallahu anhu after the name of Muslim Sahaba and Alaihiwas salam after the name of the Great prophet Muhammad (SAW). Viper32007 (talk) 10:35, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Hello BlackcurrantTea. I added the wikilinks because I created a redirect to the article. That is the reason. Tajotep (talk) 03:05, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for explaining. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 03:07, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Looks like you've been stalking me :-) ... cool! Thanks for the edits to the articles I've written. Graham87 16:20, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Glad to help! It's an interesting collection. I always appreciate your taking the time to explain screen readers, so it's a favour returned. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 02:56, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Sandbox is a free and personal page. Auréola (talk) 05:52, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

For making things to eventually go onto Wikipedia. It is not a webhost. It is not a free place for you to paste things you want to create that don't involve the English Wikipedia. You do not have any "free and personal" space here. --Tarage (talk) 21:13, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

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Got it and replied. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 11:20, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Hello, BlackcurrantTea. Thank you for your message on my talk page.

I am aware of the policy on verifiability, and my changes to serious articles almost always include a reference. I admit that I was a tad idle in not including a reference on Ulster Protestants. I felt that it was wrong that the Methodists were not mentioned in the main body of the article and that, given that the infobox did mention Methodists, my edit was simply bringing alignment. I should really have done some searching on Google Books to find some reference to how Methodism came to Northern Ireland.

With the edits to Fleabag and Johnny B Goode, it is worth pointing out that most articles on popular culture do not have many references. Wikipedia has an article on virtually every TV series, radio series, band and film - and most of these articles are light on references. This is also true of many of the articles on hobbies; for example, there is a lengthy article on knitting with hardly any references and not even a warning tag to say that the article needs more references. I've been on Wikipedia for many years and this just seems like an established custom now. No one seems to be making any effort to police those articles for verifiability.

Part of the issue is that reliable sources (as usually defined on the serious articles in Wikipedia) do not normally discuss subjects such as TV series or knitting. If administrators were to be strict in enforcing the line "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it", a lot of articles would have to be deleted entirely.

I hope that you understand me here. I understand the importance of verifiability as a policy on Wikipedia, but I was just following a long-standing custom that this policy is not enforced much on the less serious subjects. Best wishes Epa101 (talk) 07:41, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Epa101, thank you for your thoughtful response – and for adding references to those articles. Because I fix CS1 errors, I may pay more attention to references than most editors. I know that many articles are short on references, reliable or otherwise. I don't see this as a desirable state of affairs for any topic. I realise there are subjects for which sources are scarce. Sometimes when they exist, they're inaccessible. At the Wikipedia Library there are requests that can't be fulfilled despite the best efforts of dedicated editors. Those aren't the sources I had in mind when I left the message on your talk page.

I'm sure you want to improve Wikipedia, otherwise you wouldn't be editing. You say that verifiability's not often 'enforced'; I see it as something that shouldn't need to be. A missing reference in that knitting article may not have the potential for harm one in a medical article might, but isn't it nicer to have it than not?

Imagine yourself as an interested reader who's not an editor (yet). Isn't it more fun to know where the information came from? Of course you can look around online for yourself. But perhaps there's an odd old book that wouldn't show up in a search, or an obscure Dutch website that Google's algorithm won't show you until page 14 of the results, and because there are thousands of us here someone will have found those sources, and they're right there for you. Isn't that brilliant? Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 10:32, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi, BlackcurrantTea. That is all understood. I shall try to include a source wherever I can. As you've spotted, I did find some sort of source for the Ulster Methodist and Fleabag cases but not for the Johnny B. Goode case. Good to talk to you. Epa101 (talk) 18:30, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Regarding [1], actually, I think ANI might have been protected at the time, and Mbs was not autoconfirmed. Someguy1221 (talk) 23:14, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Right, of course. I remember how labyrinthine the noticeboards can seem, and knew that wall of text on the talk page wasn't going to do them any good. I wasn't thinking of the time requirement for autoconfirmed, and didn't look at their history closely. That's rather more drama than most editors manage on their first day. Thanks, Someguy1221. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 04:38, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing that Arthur Hughes ref. Just came back to it after it was doing my head in last night trying to get rid of the error message. Curdle (talk) 10:02, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Curdle, error messages can do that! Glad I could help. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 10:42, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello. Your account has been granted the "pending changes reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on pages protected by pending changes. The list of articles awaiting review is located at Special:PendingChanges, while the list of articles that have pending changes protection turned on is located at Special:StablePages.

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GAB^gab 09:09, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, GAB! BlackcurrantTea (talk) 09:16, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Filter of this type doesn't work. Somebody added Ireland without citations.Now article is ridiculous. The fact somebody edited many times isn't sufficient to qualify. Thank for your attention. You should delete Ireland aand you solve this problem. Thanks again.33Hudsonbay33 (talk) 04:10, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

33Hudsonbay33, thanks for letting me know. I've removed Ireland. In the future, the best way to get something like this fixed is to post on the talk page - which I see you did - and use an edit request. With that you can ask that the unsourced information be removed, or, if you find a source for it, ask that the reference be added. Edit requests are added to a queue which will often receive a quicker response than posting to an individual editor's talk page like this one. Thanks, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 08:54, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

ETA was classified as a terrorist group by Spain, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and the European Union, but not for you or for english Wikipedia. All very coherent. --Goldorak (talk) 18:10, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

User:BlackcurrantTea, thank you for the edits to Cindy Mi. Much appreciated. I agree with all your stylistic changes; your version is better. Thanks! -Philippe (talk) 02:35, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome, Philippe. Thank you for following the COI procedure. I understand that requesting edits and waiting for another editor's assistance might be frustrating, and I appreciate it. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 04:26, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Not at all. As a former employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I strongly support the COI policy and am mostly pleased to see editors like you respond to requests for assistance. Thank you for promptly answering those calls. Best wishes. -Philippe (talk) 12:00, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Hello, there have been a series of edits at Carl Eduard von Bismarck page, would you help keeping an eye on it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Friedrichsruh-Aumuhle (talk • contribs) 11:46, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Friedrichsruh-Aumuhle, I took a quick look at it. If it's an ongoing problem, you might want to request page protection for the article. I noticed you undid my revert of the IP's edit.

1. The edit removed references. Wikipedia relies on reliable sources. Removing references to reliable sources is not helpful.
2. The edit added titles which we do not use. Please review the Manual of Style, especially the section on titles.
3. Please sign your talk pages posts with four tildes (~~~~).

I don't know how long you've been here, as you seem familiar with some Wikipedia policies and guidelines, but not all of them. I'll put an automated welcome message on your talk page with lots of helpful links. As I'm about to log off and I'm not sure when I'll next be editing, please visit the Wikipedia Teahouse if you have questions or need help. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 13:07, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

I don’t know why you reverted my edit but China Eastern has ended service CDG-Kunming service and the ref is no longer needed to stay. 172.223.6.230 (talk) 15:10, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

No pressure. It seemed weird to me, but I suspected that it had something to do with pending changes. Greetings.--EdgarCabreraFariña (talk) 23:11, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

My 4th report of the day, should have had it waxed. Thanks. Robvanvee 13:48, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

I see you recently accepted a pending change to March 8 that did not include a direct source.

You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages are no longer exempt from WP:V and direct sources are required for additions. For details see the edit notice on that page, the content guideline and/or the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide. All new additions without references are now being either reverted on-sight or in some cases where the patroller is especially motivated, immediately sourced. I've gone ahead and un-accepted this edit and backed it out.

All the pages in the Days of the Year project have had pending changes protection turned on to prevent vandalism and further addition of entries without direct sources. As a pending changes patroller, please do not accept additions to day of year pages where no direct source has been provided on that day of year page. The burden to provide sources for additions to these pages is on the editor who adds or restores material to these pages. Thank you and please keep up your good work! Toddst1 (talk) 00:23, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Toddst1, thank you for telling me. It would help quite a lot if that were in the pending changes notice. I realise that might mean an admin having to update each one, but it could save many explanations to reviewers who are unaware and reminders to those who forget. (With luck I won't be one of those.) Thanks again, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 02:36, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Good idea! I'm not sure how to create such a message for pending changes. Edit notices are easy. I'll check in to it. Toddst1 (talk) 14:29, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

I think it's done in the edit summary (or its equivalent) when pending changes protection is applied. The ones I looked at were protected by Wizardman six years ago with notes about 'Frequent subtle vandalism' and 'adding own names as birthday events'. It might be good to have updated notices in any case, to make it clear that the protection's been reviewed recently. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 21:07, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello BlackcurrantTea - are you able to help with Template talk:Redirect-several#Edit request ? I've not edited a template before and TBH don't know where to start. Thanks, Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 13:38, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Shhhnotsoloud, I think that should be a separate template. It looks as though none of the current ones fit exactly, so a new one will need to be created. I don't think it will be too difficult because code from other templates can be used, however I don't know when I'll start on it. I want a bit of time when I can concentrate. You're in no hurry, I hope. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 00:35, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for any help you can give - and there's absolutely no hurry! Regards, Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:03, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello BlackcurrantTea,

Could I please know the reason why my last edits were reverted? I cited it from a reputable book, publisher, translator, with a foreward by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. What else is required to keep the information on wikipedia? 14:42, 20 March 2020‎ BlackcurrantTea talk contribs‎ 5,777 bytes -2,492‎ Reverted 2 pending edits by DHUKTOPGYAL to revision 946446578 by BlackcurrantTea: rv good faith non-NPOV edit undothank [automatically accepted]

Thank you, DHUKTOPGYAL — Preceding unsigned comment added by DHUKTOPGYAL (talk • contribs) 14:54, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello, DHUKTOPGYAL. Your edits were reverted because they were not written from a neutral point of view. There's also a problem with tone, or how you are expressing what you want to say. For example, you wrote,

It quick spread everywhere like a wild fire, bringing joy and happiness to everyone.

The neutral part of that, in an encyclopedic tone, could be "The news spread quickly." Not "like a wild fire", and not "bringing joy and happiness to everyone". If the source mentions particular celebrations, you might write something like, "According to (author's name), in (city name), 5,000 people celebrated with feasts lasting three days", making it clear where the information comes from.

Try to sound calm and unemotional, not like you want to convince readers of anything. You're telling them what these books say about the subject, that's all.

I hope this makes things clearer for you. Writing about religion and spiritual matters can be tricky, and it's not an area of expertise for me. People at WikiProject Religion and WikiProject Buddhism may be able to help you. You might also want to request copy editing for your writing; the Guild of Copy Editors is the place for that. For general questions, the people at the Teahouse are experts at helping people who are new to Wikipedia. Happy editing! BlackcurrantTea (talk) 16:17, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you! I will take it as a positive feedback. I shall review and repost.

DHUKTOPGYAL (talk) 20:13, 20 March 2020 (UTC)DHUKTOPGYAL

Thank you for notifying user:HermioneJapardi about the "RfC on removing people lists from Chinese zodiac articles" on Talk:Rat (zodiac). I was going to do so myself, but saw that you had already done so. I decided not to also leave a message, out of concern for pressuring an apparent twelfth grader into getting involved in Wikipedia editorial politics. But, thank you for giving HermioneJapardi a fair chance to fight to preserve fledgling contributions to Wikipedia. Dcattell (talk) 13:12, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Dcattell, it seemed only fair. She's putting so much work into them, and it could be discouraging for anyone to have all those contributions deleted (should the RFC end that way), let alone a new editor. She seems to have a lot of energy, and I hope that she'll find other areas of Wikipedia as interesting. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 01:52, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Cheers, Dcattell (talk) 14:34, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

If you continue changing section headers I'll have to report you to the Arbritration Committee. Reyk _YO! 09:27, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

I pmormise I'll stop. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 09:55, 23 March 2020 (UTC)