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Country American

Hi, I noticed you deleted most of the blank American ethnicities articles with titles. If you want to delete all of them, you missed Welsh Americans, British American, Dutch American, Multiracial American, and Portuguese American. If you don't want to delete them, that's okay too. Thanks. Naddruf (talk) 15:31, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. They had all been previously discussed and deleted (more than once). Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:44, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi. These have popped up again from one user such as Manx Americans. Can they all be deleted? --IWI (talk) 16:16, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

@ImprovedWikiImprovment: I see zero value for a dicdef article. I am keen for deletion. Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 16:20, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

@Camouflaged Mirage: Should we highlight this in a more public venue like WP:AN? --IWI (talk) 16:28, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

@ImprovedWikiImprovment: Let me talk to the editor first I guess. See what is their motives? Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 16:30, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

I may have missed one in verifying this but I don't think any of this sort of article have actually been deleted at Rfd. I think you are confusing them with Categories which were. Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2013/American actors by ethnicity and Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2014/Categories showing mixes of national ancestry. Articles like Manx Americans on the other hand would be a legitimate stub. -Djsasso (talk) 18:44, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Admin's Barnstar
		Because although I know your primary objective is building an encyclopedia, you keep the Wiki ticking with your regular deletions, helping us stay on top of things. Keep it up! Yottie =talk= 08:43, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Chinese sparrows...

I was just doing a small page on it (done now, enough for a stub). Wasn't there a simliar campaign to eradicate flies in Japan (Tookio), or was that just some side effect of building a megacity?--Eptalon (talk) 09:56, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

Delete request

Can u please delete Rettai Roja, Rajamagal, Nachiyarpuram and Endrendrum Punnagai (TV series), as these articles are obtain from English Wikipedia.. Ppkalabika (talk)

Sir also Gokulathil Seethai (2019 TV series) has copied one from English Wikipedia Ppkalabika (talk)

This one is now acceptable, having been edited by one of our regulars. Macdonald-ross (talk) 13:33, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Protection of this page

Please re-consider the protection duration of this page. Administrators, by nature of the role, may receive messages/requests for assistance that come from non-autoconfirmed users. Indefinite semi-protection should be used only for sustained heavy vandalism with no other alternative option. en:Wikipedia:Protection_policy#User_talk_pages recommends that in cases where protection is applied to severe vandalism or abuse, a link to an unprotected subpage is left to allow good-faith comments from other users. Chenzw  Talk  13:03, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Agree with Chenzw. As an admin, you will have many interactions with users who are not autoconfirmed. I would at least consider shortening the duration of the protection, if not unprotecting. --IWI (talk) 15:40, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Delete request

Please delete Segunda Guerra Mundial Space chinedu (talk) 13:40, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Space chinedu: I've deleted the page. In the future, it's more effective and efficient to tag the page with the Quick Delete template: {{QD}}. Operator873^talkconnect 13:55, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Important note

I am alerting you to this AN post. A new account is claiming to be you (and this may well be the case), but if not you should indicate so as soon as you see this. Thanks, --IWI (talk) 15:20, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Having got a temporary password, I have replaced it with what I hope is a permanent password. This is my first edit under my original handle. Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:51, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Glad to see you back! :) --IWI (talk) 11:56, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes, it was strange to be wearing a different 'suit'... Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:25, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/2601:81:4300:7E00:14A9:D2A8:9A3C:1423

Are they useful. Close to an A2 I guess as the 1st line is a rephrasing of title, but there are some empty sections but are blanked. It's seems to me to be an A2? Advices will be appreciated :) Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 17:12, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Well, if they have no content they can be deleted. If they are direct unsimplified copies of En pages they can also be deleted. Personally, I would only allow biographies to list country categories where the person has got citizenship, and the page can prove it. You have indicated a number of "format" pages where the user has indicated they wish to fill in later the details. I think they could be put forward for RfD if the user does not fill them out. When we discussed this before, the consensus was that we would try to keep our categorisation to a minimum. Biographies on En wiki can have over 200 categories attached, and that seemed to be rather opposed to our approach. It may be an area where we should have a another discussion. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:40, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the in depth answer. They aren't unsimplified, or rather the copied section is simple enough I guess. Yeah, the pages are early creation, so I didn't want to tag immediately, some I note that Djsasso had expanded, I will keep a tab on the others. I agree 200 categories are way too much, for me I think around 3-4 is sufficient for most (birth / death, country and profession). Regards, Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 09:02, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Pintipanda

Hi Mac. I found this subject in some Turkish news sites under this online alias and also his personal name Tuna Akşen, so I don't think he is a hoax. Also, I remember seeing some claims of notability in the actual page, even though they were pretty ridiculous. Personally I don't think he's notable, but somebody else might be able to chime in through an RfD. Could you possibly reconsider? Sorry for the trouble. – Aranya (talk) 14:55, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Well, he's not on the enWiki list of YouTubers, so it suggests that he's not really notable. An editor would have to show that he was. Macdonald-ross (talk) 16:21, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of list of Nigerians

• You deleted the page i created without a consensus. Linking me to a Where people can't easily see and know. I just tried to copy the act of English Wikipedia. Tbiw (talk) 16:17, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

OK, restored. Macdonald-ross (talk) 16:08, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Cheers

Hi - thanks for reverting, I hadn't really read it properly. Having spent 16 years on en.wiki I've only really started working on simple.wiki in earnest in recent months. A lot of the time when I change those I do so for the sake of plural agreement, but the original way was easier. Just a reflex reaction. Catch you again soon I hope. Bobo. 18:07, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Quick look at new article?

Hello Macdonald-ross, I felt like I needed to create predator-prey equations. They seemed to have been found in the 1920s, and I have had to do with them perhaps once. Can you have a quick look and see if I forgot anything important? - As always, giving the equations, or a mathematical treatise is not so important; explaining the concepts/ideas behind them is. Thanks. --Eptalon (talk) 11:37, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

• Yes, this is a standard idea in ecology. I haven't heard the phrase "pork cycle" before. Where does it come from? Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:30, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

• The phrase "bony fish" does not usually include sharks, which have a cartilaginous skeleton. Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:05, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, Volterra used the term "sélaciens", which seem to be Elasmobranchii today. If I look at the image there, I see a shark. So, is there an English common name for the group?- My bad...--Eptalon (talk) 11:14, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

I have rephrased. Would it be reasonable to get rid of the name Elasmobranchii, if there is no English common name for the group?--Eptalon (talk) 11:29, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Er, read this first: not often do I get a question on systematics! 'Selachian' is a member of the Selachii, which is a term for the elasmobranch order containing modern sharks. (Dictionary of Biology ed Abercrombie et al). Selachians appeared in the Jurassic, and have the characteristic rostrum (snout) which overhangs the mouth. Elasmobranchll is the overall term for the biological class which includes skates and rays and all sharks. It is a subclass of the Chondrichthyes. Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:35, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Fix as you see fit. I can only reproduce what I read. From Dewp, the original quote (in French) seems to be: Cela prouve pendant la période 1915–1920, où la pêche était moins intense à cause de la guerre, un accroissement relatif de la classe des Sélaciens qui, particulièrement voraces, se nourissent d’autres poissons. Les statistique inclinent donc à penser qu’une diminution dans l’intensité de la destruction favorise les espèces les plus voraces. (in an reprint of the work by Éditions Jaques Gabay, 1990, ISBN 2-87647-066-7, it seems to be on page 2.)--Eptalon (talk) 12:11, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

• The page does look OK now, I think. Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:38, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Deletion of a page on RfD

During your mass deletion of pages by 2a02:c7f:14dd:d500:6d94:ad15:bf04:e405, you deleted a page that was on Request for Deletion (Emma Tate (voice actress)) - This is the RfD. All votes were for keep, so do you think you could restore that page? Thank you, and have a great day. ShadowBallX (talk) 15:05, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Thank you: done! Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:08, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Quadd21 Undeleted

Hello There! [Quadd21] was deleted immediately just posting may i know what may be your reason? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NatelieamericaPR (talk • contribs)

The page was QD'ed as advertising. When it was recreated just a little later, I re-deleted...--Eptalon (talk) 19:15, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Apple Day

Why did you delete Apple Day from the Apple article? Do you think it is too trivial or because it is pretty much just a UK event (according to the English Wikipedia).Kdammers (talk) 02:20, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Basically because it is never to my knowledge ever "celebrated". It's an advertising gimmick which has no real resonance with the public. These special days are just about ignored by every normal person. We still grow quite a few varieties, and they don't ripen at the same speed, nor are they on sale at predictable times. Marketing of apples, like much else, is limited to what the supermarkets will stock. Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:30, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

January 2021

Can You Please unprotect Your User page. I Want To Have My User Page Just Like Yours Kat885 (talk) 17:42, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

No, that would not be wise. You can copy useful items by using the highlight then control copy routine. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:56, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Okay Kat885 (talk) 20:36, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

	Merry Christmas Macdonald-ross
	Hi Macdonald-ross, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas (if you celebrate it)/holiday season and a very happy and healthy New Year, Thank you for all your contributions to the Simple English Wikipedia :),    --IWI (talk) 22:07, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Talk:Digicodes (India)

Was the content on this page, an editor and I talking about why the dispute tag was used, if so, please restore the talkpage, and after the RfD, it can be deleted. This is to reference the use of the 'disputed' tag in the article space, for the duration of the AfD discussion. Thank you. --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:13, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Eptalon See above --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:31, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

Is mating a simple article?

Hi Macdonald-ross. I was recently looking at the article mating and I found it to be complex, and I noticed you had written most of it. Do you think this article is simple? I know you are an administrator here so I assume you are a judge of article standards. The concerns I had included what I thought was complex phrasing ("some definitions limit the term to", "other definitions extend the term to"), somewhat unexplained uses of words ("fusion" of gametes, "internal fertilization" and "external fertilization"), and the word simultaneous. I want to better understand how to write in Simple English, but this article seems rather similar to the normal Wikipedia article. What do you think? Naddruf (talk) 02:39, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

I remember a discussion we had long ago. If a topic requires terms for accuracy, they should be used. Some fields of modern science cannot be talked about without precise terms. Of course modern science is not simple! Simple English was designed by someone who was not a scientist, 100 years ago, and does not contain concepts which have been discovered since. All I can say is that the pages on biology are as simple as they can be. Anything less, and they would not be science at all, and one does sometimes get that kind of criticism from specialists! We cannot guarantee that a science topic can be made simple. We do try, however. Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:38, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Later thought: One has to remember that, on the one hand, we may have young children as readers. On the other hand, we do have university students as readers, foreign language readers and sometimes genuine experts as readers! Whatever we do, some will not be entirely satisfied. Always, some fields of knowledge are better edited than others. That reflects the uneven skills of the group of regular editors. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:53, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Can I edit the article to simplify sentence structure and define words that may not be defined?Naddruf (talk) 17:07, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Naturally, and you don't need anyone's permission. Macdonald-ross (talk) 17:18, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Your delete of Wikipedia talk:Verifiability

There is no requirement that talk page content be in English. I ran the content through Google Translate and it turned out to be nothing helpful so deleting the page was reasonable, but the fact that it wasn't in English wasn't a reason to delete it. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:11, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

QD G4

Previous QD history cannot be used to justify a QD G4 deletion. G4 applies only to articles that are substantially similar to previous articles discussed (and voted for deletion) at RFD. The deletion policy explicitly excludes quick deletion as a reason to apply G4.

If an article meets some other criterion, then that other QD criterion should be used, otherwise it goes to RFD. Chenzw  Talk  05:04, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Please Stop Deleting My Articles Kat885 (talk) 15:22, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

(User now blocked indefinitely)

Hello

Hello Macdonald-ross My article is translated from French Wikipedia I'm just a fan and a writer. I don't know him personally. There are Arabic and French wikipedia. He is a professional actor in Tunisia. You can consult administrators or users from Tunisia. is spam or advice. Best Regards --ChrisMat2020 (talk) 22:36, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

What other wikis do is up to them. Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:53, 3 January 2021 (UTC)