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Merging free software

Hi, I removed the merge tag you placed on free software. While I agree some consolidation of these multiple POV articles is worth considering, these changes are complex. A merge banner on its own messes up the article and doesn't get us closer to finding a way to combine the articles. I ask that you post on the talk page explaining your rationale and how you see the articles being combined before you re-add the merge banner. – Pnm (talk) 01:10, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, but...

...I'm going to revert your last contribution to the article gray wolf, but if you'll talk to me about it on the TALK:Gray wolf, the problem is it's not clear what exactly you meant. Chrisrus (talk) 05:27, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Minor edits

Hi! I'd like to point out that many of your recent edits and not in fact minor and you shouldn't mark them as such. See WP:MINOR. Regards. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK

You are still marking most of your edits as minor, as edits like this one is most definitely not considered a minor one and you shouldn't mislead other users into thinking the change was superficial. —  HELLKNOWZ  ▎TALK 09:35, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

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You can simply undo the edit; that was a mistake. Jarble (talk) 14:20, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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I see you added a globlize tag and reference citation requirement to subject article. I found a reference citation without any problem; but, after working in the field of sanitary engineering for 40 years, I'm a bit puzzled about why you think the article needs a globalize tag. I'll see what I can do about improving the international perspective of the article if you would explain the problem in the article's talk page.Thewellman (talk) 05:11, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

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Bohrok-Kal

Hello. I saw your edit on List of Bionicle characters. May I ask you why you put a link on that page that leads to a character of Lord of the Rings? It has nothing to do with that... --Aris621 (talk) 18:02, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

You can remove it, I guess... I was just thought it was a likely inspiration for the Bohrok-Kal, given the similarity of the names. Jarble (talk) 21:12, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

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Placing a merge tag on a template

Jarble, you placed a merge tag on the template {{technical}}. This is not a good idea. All the 1600-some articles tagged as overly technical got placed in the articles to be merge category, which totally screwed things up for us mergers. I've deleted the merge tag and taken it to Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion which I think is the proper venue for discussing template merges. Thanks, D O N D E groovily Talk to me 04:33, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Fan magazine

Hi. I'm reverting your merge proposal of February 2012 because no rationale was given and the two subjects are differentiated as explained in the text (commercial/for profit nature). There is no support from other editors on the talk pages either. In my experience, use of the discuss parameter (as advised at WP:MERGE) may be more likely to engage other editors. Without this, discussions could potentially take place in separate places, as the default talk location seems to be that of the corresponding article. Thanks for reading. -- Trevj (talk) 11:52, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

OK, thanks for pointing that out. :) Jarble (talk) 16:53, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

The use of distinguish tags on articles about software licenses

Please do not re-add a third time the distinguish tag. The distinguish tag is used when there are articles with deceptively similar titles. As I described the first time you added this to Free software licence, its the lead that should mention Open source licences and how they relate to the Free software licence article. Belorn (talk) 12:49, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

• update* I will try to add this myself. I had forgotten it since last time, but should try to remember it for the weekend. Still, if you feel you have expertise about it, please add it to the article. Belorn (talk) 19:43, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

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WP:Overlinking

Hi Jarble!

Please stop linking ordinary English (or undergraduate logic) terms, such as the logical quantifiers (e.g., "there exists" or "for every"). I reverted your edits to Shapley-Folkman lemma.

Please revert similar edits on other mathematics articles.

Thanks!

Sincerely, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:14, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

I have reverted all of your most recent edits on mathematics, because you have been linking trivialities that add nothing to the articles. You have also failed to describe your edits, and often had no edit summaries, which violates the editing policy. Your edits were not malicious or severe errors, but they do distract readers and waste the time of knowledgeable editors, who have to revert them.

Please ask an administrator at WikiProject Mathematics to remove all your recent contributions, or go through and do it manually yourself.

You need to start describing your edits. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:34, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

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July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Misplaced Pages pages

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Adding links

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Perhaps a disambiguation page will be required for links to "contractile cell", since this phrase appears to have multiple distinct meanings. Do you know which article the phrase "contractile cell" should link to in this case?

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I did not create this article - why am I receiving this notification? Jarble (talk) 17:03, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

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Just wondering what happened here. You accidentally reverted my talk page to a revision from 2009 somehow. Any idea what caused it? Ten Pound Hammer • 23:44, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

I don't know why this happened, perhaps it was due to a server error. You can revert my edit; I just tried to add a link to that page, and something really strange happened. Jarble (talk) 23:59, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Dramatic topography?

Hmm - is that an excuse to try to dam every river? a bit on the hyperbolic like the Hydro PR machine during the dams controversies of 50 - 30 years ago methinks.... trust you have a sense of humour or we have got off to a bad start ... SatuSuro 14:08, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

I didn't change any of the wording - I only added a couple of relevant links to other articles. What biased statements did you notice in the article? Jarble (talk) 14:11, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, never mind, to explain would take ages, about to get off - if its links, It is that I didnt read your edit history properly, my sincerest apologies, just somewhat apprehensive about the subject area - have fun, I'll get out of your way - cheers SatuSuro 14:16, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

BTW, do you know how to enable automatic notifications for replies to discussions? (I was wondering how you knew that I had replied to this discussion - is there a script that I can use to keep track of discussions like this?) Jarble (talk) 21:34, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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Your duplication tags

Hi, Jarble. I'm not understanding your duplication tags, such as these: There are plenty of articles that duplicate text because the text is relevant to more than just one article. And duplicating in part is standard because WP:Summary style advises that some of the text be summarized in one article while pointing to a link where a different article deals with the topic more extensively. Even the tag you're applying to articles says, "Please discuss this issue on the talk page and conform with Misplaced Pages's Manual of Style by replacing the section with a link and a summary of the repeated material..."

And even when articles share more text than just the summary, it's still fine as long as it's not too excessive. I notice that the tag links to Misplaced Pages:CFORK. But see what Misplaced Pages:CFORK#Related articles says. So pretty much, I don't even understand why the tag you're using exists. Duplication should only be an issue when there is extensive duplication or simply duplicate articles. 46.165.208.13 (talk) 09:33, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Should this tag only be used in cases of extensive duplication (i. e., copying several paragraphs of text)? I noticed that the article Animal nutrition duplicates much of the text of the article Nutrition. Jarble (talk) 15:10, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Jarble, like I stated above, "There are plenty of articles that duplicate text because the text is relevant to more than just one article." Above, I also extended that to articles that share more than just the WP:Summary style text. Your continued use of the duplication tag still doesn't seem completely correct because, from what I can see, the articles are applying WP:Summary style. However, some of their sections are pointing to sections of other articles where the section isn't even going over anything new -- that is, they aren't extensively elaborating on the topic; as such, in those cases, the tag may be okay to use. But it just seems like a useless tag to me because so many Misplaced Pages articles have a small, meduim or large overlap. The duplication tag could apply to most of the articles on Misplaced Pages. Whatever the case, it definitely shouldn't be placed at the top of articles; it's a section tag, at least the one you're using, not a "whole article" tag. I'ved asked another editor to weigh in here -- Kiefer.Wolfowitz -- the one who talked to you about WP:OVERLINKING. It seems that you run into formatting issues, as in the correct way to format things, at times, and I believe this to be one of those cases. 46.165.208.13 (talk) 18:40, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Just in case you are wondering what happened with Kiefer.Wolfowitz not weighing in, unless you don't care or saw the discussion on his talk page, see this. 46.165.208.13 (talk) 00:37, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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Overlinking again

Please stop doing this and read WP:OVERLINKING as you were asked earlier to do. Thanks. And explain your edits when they aren't just linking, etc. Dougweller (talk) 16:45, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Which of my recent edits are considered to be unnecessary linking? I'm not sure which of my links are considered "relevant" and which ones aren't. Do you mean creating multiple links to the same page on a single article? Jarble (talk) 17:08, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi, Jarble; not questioning that your wikifying of "war on women" on the Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy was a good faith edit - you seem to have adopted the usually gnomish habit of expanding wikilinks in general. In this case, however, the phrase was a quote, and the WP:MOS guidelines, also at the overlink section, prohibit wikilinks within quotes - too much danger that the wikilink adds meaning, and quotes are always supposed to stand on their own. You also seem to have inadvertently encouraged some tendentious edit warriors.--Anonymous209.6 (talk) 00:12, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

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I willingly explain why I called you a waste-maker. I spotted many mistakes besides the infamous inexperienced user. Some mistakes are so severe that a user with thousands of edits is not expected to make these in quantities over one percent (except for mistakes which are immediately corrected).

• the link Arab terrorist is red, so it is not evident, what do you expect the article and redirect to be about. To me, it is ambiguous: one can mean either real-world terrorism originated in Arab countries, or some stereotypical depiction of a male Arab terrorist, like Essex girl or so. Attempt to rely on a red link was a mistake.
• a botched wikification (first link). You know yourself why it was botched, but it remained uncorrected until my intervention.
• unlike the previous case, this botched wikification unlikely may remain unnoticed after saving or on preview. The only explanation why this mistake was possible is that you do not use preview and, even after saving, do not look on sections changed by yourself.
• one edit with two changes, and both were wrong. First, a clueless pseudo-wikification of George Ritchie. If a dab page lists a person in question, then a correct (disambiguated) link must be inserted. If it does not, then you should either insert an own disambiguated link (if you feel that a person has some notability apart of his near-death experience), or do nothing. The link to a dab page has absolutely no merit in this context. Second, your spelling corruption in Betty Eadie which, though, was fixed by your subsequent edit (but producing an unneeded redirect in the process).

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Please, do not create redirects to redirects, even to redirects under discussion (technically not redirects). Your "Arab terrorism" will:

• immediately become to subject WP:CSD#G8 is the case of deletion, and
• will behave unpredictably otherwise.

Incnis Mrsi (talk) 20:32, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

I didn't create the redirect - it already existed, but it redirected to a different page. Jarble (talk) 20:34, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Agree, you technically did not create it. You did not make worse a thing which already was bad. But I do not understand your intention with this page. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 20:40, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

I don't have any ulterior motives - I just hope that the debate over the "Arab terrorist" redirect will be resolved soon. It might be best to delete this redirect (or perhaps turn it into a disambiguation page) so that all current links to this redirect can be re-targeted. (This particular redirect created more controversy than I thought it would - I wasn't trying to offend anyone.) Jarble (talk) 20:49, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

A disambiguation page? I did not think about it, really. Yes, in that case your action become a correct one; but you should propose it at WP:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 September 21#Arab terrorist, not here. I am slightly paranoid about "waste-making" and does not always think about creative alternatives. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 21:14, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

A summary of my intentions: I believed that "Arab terrorist" was synonymous with "Islamic terrorist", but I was incorrect this time. I won't mind at all if someone deletes the redirect (since it is somewhat ambiguous and confusing). Jarble (talk) 20:49, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

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Template:By whom

Read over that template. Using it this way is wrong, and I reverted as such. As the template says: Do not use this tag for material that is already supported by an inline citation. If you want to know who holds that view, all you have to do is look at the source named at the end of the sentence or paragraph. It is not necessary to inquire "By whom?" in that circumstance. 2001:648:2FFC:1112:A80C:EAFF:FE22:B990 (talk) 07:14, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Clarify it yourself

Please stop adding clarify spans to the Haxe article. If you think it needs clarification, find citations for the same and add it yourself. Also stop describing each language you link to in the See Also section. That is entirely unnecessary since I have provided headers under which they are listed. -- Tom Jenkins

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Globalize tag

Re this: You know, I thought someone was going to put it up. And I'd certainly like to have that in the article too. But there doesn't seem to be much out there from other countries ... this, from Ontario, didn't come up until I was several Google pages deep, and as you can see it draws a lot of its content from the American material. Daniel Case (talk) 06:51, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Update: Someone's removed it ... I think their edit summary has a point, actually. Daniel Case (talk) 14:38, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

I didn't mean to sound so curt, but I have to ask you, did you even look for non-U.S. sources before you added this tag? Also, you could have brought this up on the talk page, or asked Daniel directly. A tag like this should have come only after you thoroughly explored other options. I'm not trying to sound like a dick here - I'm just trying to give you some pointers. Joefromrandb (talk) 04:36, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Idolatry_and_Christianity New move proposal

Hi, You commented at the start of the year on a proposal to move this article, which failed. I've now set up a different proposal at Talk:Idolatry_and_Christianity#Discussion, & your comment would be welcome. Johnbod (talk) 13:03, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Breaking changes

Hello Jarble,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Breaking changes for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, Wikipedical (talk) 02:50, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

The page should redirect to a Wiktionary article - I think there's a template for such pages (but I don't remember the template's name now.) Jarble (talk) 02:51, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

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Adultery

You placed merge tags on the Adultery and Extramarital sex articles but did not, as far as I can see, start a discussion on it. Please do so, or remove the tags. FWIW, I think they should be merged. Drmies (talk) 03:38, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

A discussion has already been started: see here. Jarble (talk) 04:21, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

• That's from years ago. When you place a tag like that, and you mean it, it is best to start a new discussion. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 15:52, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
  • I've started a new discussion now. Jarble (talk) 17:38, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
    • Excellent--thanks. Drmies (talk) 18:35, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

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Bare URLs

Hi, Jarble. Would be willing to stop adding bare URLs? Adding bare URLs is not good...per WP:Bare URLs...and others are having to clean up after you, as seen here. The Google Books tool that was pointed out to you here is easy to use. All you have to do is put in the URL link and it generates the templated-formatted citation for you. Consider using it. 199.229.232.42 (talk) 21:42, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Your clarification requests

Things like this need no clarification. The sources are right there for you to see. They don't have to be mentioned in the text. Looking at your contributions, you've been consistently adding tags that are meant to clarify things...but you've been adding them in places where clarification is not needed. In fact, most of your clarification requests, this and this one being two more examples, make no sense. Looking at your talk page, you've been addressed about your use of such templates before. I don't mean to be rude, but if you don't know when is the correct time to use them, you shouldn't be using them. You need to read the templates so that you can get a better grasp on using them. I'm going to undo some of your clarification requests that don't make any sense. Only "some" because I'm not about to go too far back into your edit history and I can't edit semi-protected articles as an IP. But any that I come across in the future (ones you or someone else added), I will also remove if they don't make sense. 199.229.232.42 (talk) 01:26, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

• Here, the article does not explain what "free oxygen" refers to, so I added the clarification template (because it would be better if the article could explain it in more detail.) In this article, I thought that it would be better to use more precise terms than "around the same time last year". A year from now, "last year" will refer to "this year", so it would better to specify the year in absolute instead of relative terms. (Otherwise, this wording could create some confusion in the years to come.) Jarble (talk) 01:48, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

The tag "clarify span" has nothing do with telling us what "free oxygen" is; that tag shouldn't be used for that. And the article doesn't have to clarify what "free oxygen" means other than linking to a Misplaced Pages article about it. But there is no Misplaced Pages article on it. There are a lot of scientific terms/a lot of scientific wording in Misplaced Pages articles that readers won't initially or ever completely understand. Just like there isn't an article for "free oxygen," there isn't a Misplaced Pages article for most of those terms. And even if there were, it wouldn't mean that we should link to all of them...considering that doing so would be WP:OVERLINKING if too many are in an article. Readers have the option of researching these terms. But I see your point about clarifying what is meant by "free oxygen"; you should make a note of it on the talk page of that article, asking someone who can explain it to explain it in the article (like in parentheses right after the wording is mentioned, and only once of course).

In the other diff, a date was mentioned. The wording "around the same time last year" told readers the exact or just about the exact time without being redundant with any part of the original date. There's no significant confusion there. That's you having wanted the month, day and year noted for the second date, like they are noted for the first. But all readers need to know is that the decline happened since the same month last year. After you added the clarification tag there, that line went through three revisions, as you might have already seen. The good thing that came out of your tagging that line is that now it's specified as having happend since the same month last year. 199.229.232.42 (talk) 02:22, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

You're obviously right about the "around the same time last year" wording not having been the best or good wording, and that its meaning could have gotten lost in the next year if not updated, even if "November last year" had been used, so I retract that part of my comment (about that edit not having made sense). But some of your other "Who?," "Whom?," "Where?," "Clarify," etc. tags have been problematic. So just think them through better in the future. And do read the template pages for them. 199.229.232.42 (talk) 02:45, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

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Decency & morality

Hi Jarble,

I noticed you tagged Decency for a possible merge into morality. I thought I'd check with you here before talking it to the talk page. I'm not sure what the rationale behind this merge proposal is. What did you think the two articles had in common? I can't see any relation at all between the two—decency is a topic in sociology and morality is a topic in philosophy or religion. If you want to pursue this though we should discuss it on the talk page of one of the articles; I just wanted to check it wasn't a mistake. Thanks! —Noiratsi (talk) 09:54, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hello, I'm Glenn L. I removed an edit that you recently made to Saul that seemed link right back to "Saul."so was redundant. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Glenn L (talk) 04:25, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Petrarch/Plutarch

This is really very old, but I'd like to ask you. On 7 November 2011, you added to Petrarch: "Not to be confused with Plutarch" and to Plutarch: "Not to be confused with Petrarch". And the question is, why did you do that?--94.65.29.101 (talk) 02:24, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

It's because the names could easily be confused, and the illustrations of Petrarch and Plutarch also look similar on each page. Jarble (talk) 02:29, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

In case you didn't notice, I took the liberty of removing them, and I beg you not to put them back again without a conversation, as the relevance is not immediately apparent to everyone. Thank you!--94.65.29.101 (talk) 02:33, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

The "distinguish" template isn't supposed to point out relevant articles - it's supposed to be used to identify similar-sounding names that could easily be confused. The names "Petrarch" and "Plutarch" could easily be confused by anyone who was unfamiliar with either of these people. Jarble (talk) 02:37, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

No, when I said "relevance", I didn't mean the relevance between the articles, but the relevance of the template.--94.65.29.101 (talk) 02:47, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

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Hatnotes

Your use of {{distinguish}} to point users to anal retentiveness does not seem to follow the correct use of the template. None of the pages where you added this has a title that sounds remotely similar. Please let me know if I've misunderstood. JFW | T@lk 23:03, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

The titles don't sound similar, but the usage of the template does not need to be restricted to homonyms: for example, Commonwealth of Nations could be easily confused with Commonwealth of Independent States, even though these two phrases are pronounced differently. Jarble (talk) 00:20, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

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Overzealous disambiguation

Please be more careful in your disambiguation work. You are creating way too many "see also"'s and links that are either not helpful to the reader or plain misleading by linking vaguely related subjects. A See also section or hatnote should only be used when it is quite obvious that a reader might be looking for a different topic of the same name, not when two topics are kinda sorta related. I just reverted you here, and I had to revert your edits multiple times in the past due to overlinking and adding too many/unrelated see also links. Please be more conservative with your editing. --Conti|✉ 11:55, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

I occasionally use the redirects here template to prevent similar-sounding phrases (and page titles) from being confused. I often use the "Redirects here" and "About" templates for page titles that could potentially be confusing, even when those page titles are not homophones or homonyms. I'm not sure if there's a specific Misplaced Pages policy against using the "redirects here" template for page titles that are not homophones, though. Is the use of "see also" or "redirects here" templates specifically disallowed by Misplaced Pages for any of the reasons you mentioned here? Jarble (talk) 18:00, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Also, I think it's unlikely that the use of "redirect-distinguish" templates would be considered misleading. This template is specifically intended to distinguish page titles with similar names, without implying any relevance between the two topics. I have used disambiguation hatnotes to distinguish pet and petting, which can have different meanings in different contexts. Jarble (talk) 18:03, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

This is not about what exactly the rules say, this is about common sense: No one is going to type "Animal porn" into Misplaced Pages while looking for an article about furries. In addition, we do not have an article on "furry porn" either, so you direct readers to a subsection of an entirely unrelated article that begins with the sentence "According to four different surveys, 14–25% of the fandom members report homosexuality, 37–52% bisexuality, 28–51% heterosexuality, and 3–8% other forms of alternative sexual relationships." Now, is that the kind of information anyone who would ever enter "Animal porn" into the Misplaced Pages search would be looking for? Granted, whoever enters that term into the search box is probably not going to find whatever he's looking for anyhow, but: The answer is a very clear no, and as such, the redirect notice simply makes no sense. In general, please read Misplaced Pages:Hatnote for some examples and rough guidelines.

I have reverted edits of yours multiple times in the past for similar reasons. Please be more careful when adding links and hatnotes and the like. Stop for a second and think if those liks would actually be useful for the reader who is searching or clicking on a particular term. If the user ends up in a completely different topic, don't link it. --Conti|✉ 00:51, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

unreferenced section

Please stop adding {{unreferenced section}} tags. They are very unhelpful (at least in the sections you placed them). —Ruud 22:35, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

I have only placed these tags in lengthy sections that are actually unreferenced - why are they considered unhelpful? Jarble (talk) 23:08, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Also, I noticed that you removed the disambiguation tags from a page in . Why did you decide to remove these tags, instead of disambiguating the ambiguous links? Jarble (talk) 23:10, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

I was really just trying to identify sections of articles that had no references - I don't really understand why this isn't considered helpful. Jarble (talk) 23:14, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

1) Most articles already had an banner saying the referencing of the whole article should be improved, there's no need to duplicate that for each section 2) You added the banner to multiple sections of each page. {{unreferenced section}} should be used if there is a single section that has noticeably worse referencing than the rest of the article. If there's more than one, one banner at the top will suffice (see WP:TAGBOMB). 3) Some of the sections only contained source code. The problem here probably isn't in the fact that the code is unreferenced but in that it's there in the first place (see MOS:CODE). 4) {{unreferenced section}} is terribly unspecific and often added by people who haven't actually read the article, but merely note a lack of footnotes. It's better to attach {{citation needed}} to specific sentences you think should require additional referencing. —Ruud 14:05, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

WP:OVERLINKING yet again

Jarble, when I reverted you here with a very clear explanation about why, I should not have had to revert you here. But at least the links were placed within a quote of a reference that second time, whether you realize it or not. I don't understand what it is that you don't understand about the WP:OVERLINKING guideline. I and others have had to repeatedly revert your overlinking and have repeatedly advised you not to overlink (for example, in the #Overzealous disambiguation section above, one such editor, as you know, mentions repeatedly reverting your overlinking), and yet you continue to do it. You want to know what WP:OVERLINKING is. The WP:OVERLINKING section explains what it is. For example, linking to the Sexual stimulation article and then linking to penile stimulation can be overlinking/needless linking since the penile stimulation link takes people back to the Sexual stimulation article. Usually, the Sexual stimulation link will be all that is needed in such a case. WP:OVERLINKING notes that repeating links may be appropriate under certain circumstances, which makes the repeated links not necessarily overlinking. But repeating links are not appropriate in the instances that I have reverted you on. Linking to redirects side-by-side, or very close to each other in another way, when those redirects take the reader to the same article, for example? That is WP:OVERLINKING. Flyer22 (talk) 14:28, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

The circular links that I created were completely unintentional - I wouldn't have created them if I had realized that they would link back to the same page. Jarble (talk) 01:23, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

At the time when I made these edits, I actually didn't realize that I was creating links to a page that was already linked. Some redirects to the same page have different names, and that makes it difficult to tell whether the two redirects actually link to the same page. I know that the creation of multiple links to the same page on one article is discouraged, but it's not always easy to tell how many links there are on one page to another specific page - I usually don't count every single link to a specific article on before adding a new link, since this would be very tedious. Jarble (talk) 01:27, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Also, to prevent problems like this in the future, I think a Misplaced Pages bot should be created to automatically remove circular links (which tend to be distracting and misleading at times). Jarble (talk) 01:26, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Also, I wasn't aware that making unintentional duplicate links was considered a form of vandalism, and I'm a bit surprised by the harsh criticism that I've received for these relatively insignificant mistakes. Can users really be banned from Misplaced Pages for making minor stylistic errors such as these? Jarble (talk) 01:31, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Jarble, I don't mean to come off harsh about any of this or to make you feel unwanted on Misplaced Pages, if I have. I don't believe that's the intention of most of the other editors above who have criticized some of your editing either. My intention is to be stern on this matter, and here's why: The reason that the criticism has been or has seemed harsh at times, from most of the people who have commented on your talk page about these things, is because we have had to revert you on these matters repeatedly even though we've pointed you to the guidelines or other behavioral pages (once or more than once) that we are abiding by. You sometimes create redirects that aren't needed, and that is made worse when you add that redirect to an article where it's already linked under its primary name (more so how you add the redirect). You sometimes add disambiguation hatnotes, "clarify" or "span" tags that are not needed (I'd never even seen editors use the "span" tag until you started using it; you're still the only editor I've seen use that tag thus far), and I'm not sure how to get you to understand when these things are needed and when they are not needed (though the "span" tag, which looks messier than the other tags, is never needed, in my opinion). The matter can obviously sometimes be subjective. But we've discussed your adding unnecessary headings and/or subheadings, and I think you'll be better about that from now on. So let's talk about tags that you sometimes add. I'll use the "vague" tag as an example. Sometimes, text is vague because sources are vague or because there are too many examples to list without turning the text into a WP:LINKFARM and/or wordfarm without links. Look at Template:Which. It states: Use good judgment when deciding whether greater specificity is actually in the best interests of the article. Words like some or most are not banned and can be useful and appropriate. If greater specificity would result in a tedious laundry list of items with no real importance, then Misplaced Pages should remain concise, even if it means being vague. If the reliable sources are not specific—if the reliable sources say only that "In some countries..."—then Misplaced Pages must remain vague.

I'm asking you to try to be better about these things. When you are reverted because sexual stimulation is already linked in an article, then it goes to reason that it's still linked in that article when you add a different term that you've also redirected to the Sexual stimulation article. I wouldn't call the sexual stimulation matter a circular link, by the way. A circular link is when the link keeps you on the same article instead of taking you to a different one. See Help:Self link.

As for vandalism, you have not committed any vandalism that I know of. See WP:Vandalism. And as for banning, no, since you are acting in good faith and are an otherwise productive editor, you would not be banned for making these mistakes or for making edits that are contested instead of mistakes. WP:BAN is also different than WP:BLOCK. Flyer22 (talk) 02:32, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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Stop overlinking

You've been asked many times, so now I'm telling you: Stop overlinking. Stop and think for a moment whether linking an article from another makes any sense or not. I just reverted this edit of yours. Have a look at it: The article talks about roleplaying anthropomorphic animals in a pen and paper roleplaying game. And you link the term "animal roleplaying" to Animal roleplay, which is an article about erotic sexual role-play. What on earth has a variation of a pen & paper RPG to do with a form of erotic, sexual roleplay?

You have to stop and think before you create a link or a hatnote. Seriously. --Conti|✉ 16:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

You make a good point here. I'll see if there's anything I can do to improve the animal roleplaying article to discuss animal roleplaying in other contexts (like the one mentioned in the roleplaying game's article). Jarble (talk) 17:04, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Again, the same issue, this time here. A section about fur fetishism (the physical attraction to fur) is linked by you to Furry fandom#Sexual aspects, the sexual aspects of a fandom. I'm telling you this with my admin hat on: Stop it. Stop and think if a link to another article makes any sense. Just because they happen to have the same words in it does not make them related, and two concepts with similar words can be entirely unrelated. The next time this happens, I'll ask for input on what to do about your careless overlinking at the administrator's noticeboard. --Conti|✉ 21:15, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Horse anatomy article

Jarble, just an FYI that the Horse anatomy article is intended to be an overview, the greater detail should be in the spinoff articles where they exist. Thus, don't take detail OUT of stallion and insert it into Horse anatomy; it works the other way around. Your other cleanup is generally helpful and your improvement of links has been useful. Montanabw 00:18, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Programming

Programming

Hello, Jarble. When you changed Programming from a redirect into a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:

A code of honor for creating disambiguation pages is to fix all resulting mis-directed links.

Before moving an article to a qualified name (in order to create a disambiguation page at the base name, to move an existing disambiguation page to that name, or to redirect that name to a disambiguation page), click on What links here to find all of the incoming links. Repair all of those incoming links to use the new article name.

It would be a great help if you would check the other Misplaced Pages articles that contain links to "Programming" and fix them to take readers to the correct article.

Also, technically, if this term does not have a primary topic, the disambiguation page should be entitled Programming rather than Programming (disambiguation). Therefore, it would be appropriate for you to propose to move the page to the shorter title.

Thanks. R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:24, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Creating disambiguation pages

Hey again, Jarble. I'm concerned about you creating redundant/unhelpful disambiguation pages; you need to stop doing that. The Sexual activity disambiguation page you created, for example, was a mess. That's not meant to be offensive; that's simply the case. It was somewhat redundant to the Sexuality disambiguation page, except that the Sexuality disambiguation page obviously covers more aspects of sexuality, which is why I redirected it back to the Sexuality page. The Copulation redirect was similarly redundant. We don't need all these disambiguation pages pointing to the same things, with only a few differences. Furthermore, "copulation" is generally synonymous with "sexual intercourse," as explained in the Sexual intercourse article, and at Talk:Copulation where WP:Consensus is that it should redirect to the Sexual intercourse article. Redirecting it to the Mating article would have also been a better option than creating a disambiguation page for it. It is not synonymous with the wording "animal sexual behavior," for example. Still, it is more synonymous with sexual intercourse than mating. All of that is why I reverted your creation of a Copulation disambiguation page. As WP:PRIMARYTOPIC states, "Although a word, name or phrase may refer to more than one topic, it is sometimes the case that one of these topics is the primary topic. This is the topic to which the term should lead, serving as the title of (or a redirect to) the relevant article. If there is no primary topic, the term should be the title of a disambiguation page (or should redirect to a disambiguation page on which more than one term is disambiguated)."

That's why the Sexual activity disambiguation page you created previously (and originally) redirected to Human sexual activity; most people will no doubt be looking for human sexual activity under that title instead of non-human sexual activity under that title. You need to realize when your disambiguation pages are depriving readers of being redirected to the article they are expecting to see when they click on a Wikilink. Generally, people (more often those unfamiliar with how Misplaced Pages generally works) are not expecting to be redirected to a disambiguation page when they click on an un-disambiguated Wikilink; they are expecting to go to an article. For this reason, disambiguation pages should only be created when necessary; WP:PRIMARYTOPIC goes over that. Most of these redirects have existed for years at the same target for valid reasons; you are now disturbing those redirects on what seems to be a whim. And most definitely, no disambiguation page should redirect to another disambiguation page. Flyer22 (talk) 16:36, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

The purpose of disambiguation pages is to prevent this type of confusion in the first place: editors may not always agree about which meaning of a term is its "primary meaning", since this is often subjective. Disambiguation pages can often be useful because they ensure that links to an ambiguous word or phrase will always point to the correct article about this topic. (Also, whenever a redirect page links to another redirect page, the redirect will be fixed automatically by a Misplaced Pages bot, so there's nothing wrong with creating a redirect to another redirect page.)

Also, for many disambiguation pages that you deleted, it isn't always clear what is the "primary meaning" of a particular term. The word "programming" sometimes refers to computer programming, but it can also refer to radio programming or television programming. The "primary meaning" of a term is often subjective, and can reflect an editor's bias toward a particular subject that they happen to be familiar with. When an editor creates a link to the word "programming", it may refer to either computer programming, radio programming, or television programming. A computer programmer might consider the term "computer programming" to be the primary meaning of the term, whereas a television programmer might consider "television programming" to be the most important meaning of the term. Jarble (talk) 16:57, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

While editors may not always agree what is a primary meaning, WP:PRIMARYTOPIC exists for a reason; it exists because what is the primary topic is usually very clear, such as by analysis done in this discussion. It exists to keep you from doing what you have been doing when creating disambiguation pages. If what is the primary topic were generally subjective, then WP:PRIMARYTOPIC would not exist. If you don't understand why some of the disambiguation pages you have created are problematic, then I don't know what else to state to you about it. It's similar to the problem you have with overlinking. And with your overlinking, other problematic ways you alter links, and confusing or needless tags you add, I and others are often having to clean up after you. And I honestly don't know what to do about that. You have created Copulation (disambiguation); I fail to see how it is too helpful, since it mentions two terms that are already covered by the Copulation redirect, two terms that are not common among the general public, and links to "All pages with titles containing 'Copulation'" and "All pages with titles containing 'Copulatory'"...even though those two links show that they barely link to any articles. Disambiguation pages are not supposed to exist to point readers to every possible usage of a term. Again, read WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Only when there is no primary topic, should the term be the title of a disambiguation page (or should redirect to a disambiguation page on which more than one term is disambiguated)." The term "copulation," as seen by every definition entry about it, clearly has a primary topic. That the term "sexual intercourse" usually refers to humans makes it no less valid that the Sexual intercourse article, or, at the least, the Mating article, is the primary topic for the term "copulation." And for anyone looking for copulation among non-human animals, the Sexual intercourse article clearly points readers to the Animal sexual behaviour and Mating articles, and discusses sexual intercourse among non-human animals. It's very easy for me to state that most people will not be looking for "copulatory tie" or "copulatory plug" under the title Copulation. Programming is a completely different matter, which clearly has no primary topic. I was going to state that we'll see how the Copulation (disambiguation) page you created goes; and by that, I mean if it lasts or not. I was going to state if it is moved to Copulation, just like Programming (disambiguation) was moved to Programming today, then I will again un-disambiguate the page. But you went ahead and moved it there yourself, and I restored the page as a redirect to the Sexual intercourse article. And again, this discussion should be had at Talk:Copulation instead of here on your talk page or at Talk:Sexual intercourse. Flyer22 (talk) 18:18, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Still, the primary topic of the copulation redirect page is unclear, since the vast majority of links to this redirect page are about non-human animals instead of humans. In that case, it doesn't make much sense to redirect it to sexual intercourse, since that article discusses humans almost exclusively. Misleading redirects like this one should be avoided whenever possible, and redirecting to a disambiguation page would certainly be better than redirecting to the wrong article. Jarble (talk) 18:28, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Given what I stated above, I fail to see how redirecting Copulation to the Sexual intercourse article is a misleading redirect. However, I would be fine with it being redirected to the Mating article, just like the spelling variations of "copulation" redirected to the Mating article:. But that should be discussed at Talk:Copulation first, especially since redirecting Copulation to the Mating article has been changed back to redirecting it to the Sexual intercourse article more than once. Flyer22 (talk) 18:45, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Jarble, the best way to handle controversial disambiguation and page creation is to put a move request on the page(s) in question and let the people who care all comment there. It's slower, but the result tends to stick. Montanabw 19:14, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

How can I add a move request for a specific page, then? Jarble (talk) 19:18, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

redlinks and junk

Please stop. Don't convert arbitrary phrases to redlinks, nor links to disambig pages. Use a redlink only if an article at that title is likely. Dicklyon (talk) 01:05, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

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