User talk:Blythwood/2017/September

Shortcuts to WP content policy please

Hi Blythwood thanks for your review of Wiveton Hall Please can you point me to the relevant WP content policy as it will be useful in the future. Ad copy and the content policy specifying a source must have a credited author whose credibility we can assess. That last will be particularly useful I think . Cheers Hmcst1 (talk) 22:21, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Petalophyllum page

Thank you for the improvements to the Petalophyllum page!

Georgialh (talk) 22:52, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of American Greatness

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• @DrStrauss:, aargh, what a mess. This started out as a decent article but it rapidly became a warzone of biased/COI editing and I lost interest. I can't face recreating it, but just as comment, it's often worth looking at copyvio articles in case you can revert to a functional version. Blythwood (talk) 04:18, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for reviewing

Just wanted to thank you for reviewing and contributing to Dissotis rotundifolia. For future reference, what exactly is a taxonbar and should I add it to plant articles I start? Pagliaccious 12:39, 20 September 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pagliaccious (talk • contribs)

Third opinion request to dissolve user dispute

Hello Blythwood,

as I found you to be a member of the Wikiproject Statistics, I would like to ask you to state your pov on an article related to probability.

In the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice

I am about to change the term average to expected value for throwing a 6 sided dice. My pov is that expected value is the proper term, User Oknazevad assumes average is the suitable term.

Could you please have a look at the Talk page related to the article? It would be nice if you state on the Talk page, which term > expected value or average would you prefer?
Da Vinci Nanjing (talk) 20:25, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Breitachklamm

Hello, thanks for adding additional information to my recent de -> en translation of "Breitachklamm". Since English is only my second language, please feel free to correct or improve the text. Regards from Stuttgart, Germany, --Pjt56 (talk) 18:59, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

beetle names

Many thanks .Here is the position Actenicerus (Actenicerus) siaelandicus (O. F. Muller, 1764) in Fauna Europaea so should be redirected. Will you fix this please.Not sure how.

Cartodere bifasciatus is C. bifasciatus in wikispecies and Cartodere (Sub genus Aridius) bifasciata (Reitter, 1877) in Fauna Europaea so only the gender is incorrect.Since Fauna Europaea accesses the distribution and the Fauna Europaea nomina are accepted by most I will use this from now on. So many new placements now many of them temporary. Thanks again and best regards Robert aka Notafly (talk) 16:05, 24 September 2017 (UTC) PS More to add to these stubs. If you find more errors or inconsistencies please let me know

Spintharus

Hey just a heads up, the wikidata page you edited, Spintharus (Q3966783), seems to have been about a different Spintharus than the Corinthian architect. Umimmak (talk) 01:39, 30 September 2017 (UTC)