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Copepods!

Hey! I've been doing a bit of work on copepods (specifically those of the genus Calanus) recently. Do you want to help in creating some species articles? I figure that they would pique your interest. RileyBugz^{私に叫ぼう}_私の編集 17:42, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Here's a useful website for it: [1]. RileyBugz^{私に叫ぼう}_私の編集 17:56, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Hey RileyBugz I'm inactive but would really try to do that when I get active! Adityavagarwal (talk) 09:22, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CXLVIII, August 2018

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Jill Valentine

Hi. I noticed you commented at Jill Valentine's FAC1, which was a long time ago, so I understand if you don't want to get involved again (or even remember commenting in the first place). But JV's FAC3 was dismissed on the basis that I hadn't contacted previous commentators, so I've gone through all previous FACs and "peer reviews" and tried my best to address any issue which had ever been raised. I'm happy with the article as it is now (in that I believe it meets the featured article criteria), but I'd appreciate any feedback from any previous commentator. Is there something I could improve before renominating? Would you be into commenting at FAC4? I'd ideally like to address every issue anyone may have before renominating, so the FAC can be as uneventful as possible. ;) I'd appreciate your feedback, if you have the time. Cheers. Homeostasis07 (talk) 00:55, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Homeostasis07 Hey I was inactive due to quite a lot of work; although, let me know when you have an FAC4 for it and I would give my support! Adityavagarwal (talk) 09:20, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. It will probably be early September before I renominate, so I'll let you know. ;) Homeostasis07 (talk) 17:22, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Yeah :) Homeostasis07. Adityavagarwal (talk) 14:11, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hey

Sorry for disappearing on you for over a year. Between repeatedly falling ill and Wikipedia-related stress, I decided to abstain from Wikipedia for a bit, then by the time I meant to get back into action, real life had dumped a series of messes in my lap resulting in having literally no time to do any wikiwork. My apologies. :( AddWittyNameHere (talk) 00:15, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

AddWittyNameHere Great to see you again! I do understand now what a long wiki break is like, as I have been away from quite a while myself. It was supposed to be a hiatus of about a month but, unfortunately, I have not been able to get back since November. I might be back in about a week and get done with getting Seychelles parakeet to FA along with FunkMonk and then start/continue with other things on Wikipedia. By the way, I always wondered how you performed redirects on moth articles (the hows/to dos/what not to dos), so I could seek your help on that and start with redirects on the sidelines while contributing to extinct species with FunkMonk. Adityavagarwal (talk) 10:00, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Great to see you again as well! Yeah, unexpectedly-long wiki breaks are rather frustrating, aren't they? Nice to hear you might be back soon, though. FA, eh? Good luck! I've never gone for a GA or FA myself, as I tend to be far too busy doing all sorts of gnoming on Lepidoptera-related articles to do much content work at all, much less in-depth content work like that. When I get around to content work at all, it's usually species-stubs and the likes, or adding an additional few lines of content to existing stubs.

Redirects on moth articles? Well, some help there would be nice, I won't deny that... Most of it is fairly straightforward work, though as with everything Wikipedia, exceptions and unusually complex or complicated cases do exist. ::Since it'll likely be a few days at minimum before you can return, I'll see about writing up a quick guide for the more common, non-complex work in advance (and the couple of more common complex cases), with links to the relevant places. Exceptional cases are probably best dealt with/explained as you come across them, though I'll write up a couple of lines on how to recognize you're dealing with an exceptional case while I'm at it. AddWittyNameHere (talk) 17:13, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

AddWittyNameHere Thanks a bunch for you help on redirects! :) I would be much grateful as your advice would make it much easier for me to start with redirects. I used to look at your enormous contributions on redirects (through your contributions page) but was able to understand little as to how to get along with doing redirects. So, I always postponed trying redirects and after a while of postponing I completely forgot about trying them out. I instead started contributing to GAs, Anti-Vandalism, etc. but now I guess I could finally learn redirecting (one of the tougher tasks, besides ITN and FAs, on Wikipedia as I see it). :P Adityavagarwal (talk) 09:30, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

You're probably the only one who sees GAs as a "lesser"/"easier" task than redirects. :P Though you're not entirely wrong. It's not so much that redirects are hard in and of themselves as it is that they're one messy ball of exceptions upon exceptions upon exceptions with specific instructions scattered across the place. Doing basic redirect work is very easy, doing mass redirect work in an area as huge yet specific as Lepidoptera is quite complicated. I'm dumping some basic instructions below. I'm still working on writing out a more detailed step-by-step thing that takes into account the many exceptions. Trying to do so in a manner that's both comprehensive and doesn't reach the length of a novel is...difficult, saying it mildly. (My first attempt at writing out "what redirects should exist for moth-related articles and what complications may you run into", which is only a small portion of the task, hit a whopping 2500 words. I've so far shaved it down to about 1600.) AddWittyNameHere (talk) 23:31, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

• On this note, ready for the parakeet? FunkMonk (talk) 16:50, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

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