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Invitation to WikiProject TAFI

	Hello, Amanda Smalls. You're invited to join WikiProject Today's articles for improvement. Feel free to nominate an article for improvement at the project's Nominated articles page. Also feel free to contribute to !voting for new weekly selections at the project's talk page. If interested in joining, please add your name to the list of members. NorthAmerica1000 14:35, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Amanda Smalls. You have new messages at Northamerica1000's talk page.
Message added 14:35, 21 October 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:35, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Unexplained revert

Hello, you reverted my edit on Steak with no explanation. I had removed a paragraph which had nothing to do with steak in particular, just meat or beef in general, and I explained this in my Edit summary. The paragraph is silly in other ways, too. The bit about "pork steak" is particularly silly, since it is unusual to call cuts of pork "steaks". It is also wrong that "Christians give up steak, but not fish, for Lent and during the Friday Fast"; this is true for observant Orthodox Christians, but has not been true for Catholics for many decades and was not ever true for most Protestants. Kindly revert your edit, or at least explain your reasoning on the Talk:Steak page. --Macrakis (talk) 17:13, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Amanda Smalls. You have new messages at Yunshui's talk page.
Message added 13:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

I hope it is the correct answer. Skr15081997 (talk) 13:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Purely social posts

Consider avoiding posts such as asking about maths problems or if someone likes a tv show. There is Wikipedia:Reference desk, which is one of the Internet's best kept secrets. I am about to post there. Watch my contribs to see. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:06, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

By the way, you mentioned wanting to work on some jellyfish articles. I made a couple today: Liriope tetraphylla and Botrynema ellinorae We can make more if you like.

Best wishes, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:09, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Do you want to make another article? An I will help out too?Amanda Smalls 14:11, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Sure! I'm off to bed soon, but tommorow looks good. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:12, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Ok!Amanda Smalls 14:13, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Oh and do you want to sign my guestbook?Amanda Smalls 14:14, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for asking, but probably not. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:20, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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Moved from User talk:Yunshui

The Ping template is not working. I think.--Skr15081997 (talk) 14:09, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't think it is either.:)Amanda Smalls 14:12, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

You are learning algebra or calculus?--Skr15081997 (talk) 14:20, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Um, Algebra II, Polynomials.Amanda Smalls 14:22, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

What type of questions actually trouble you?--Skr15081997 (talk) 14:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Just the ones that ask you to multiply the polynomials. I'm good at the adding and subtracting ones.Amanda Smalls 14:29, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

What is (a + b).(a - b)?--Skr15081997 (talk) 14:37, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Isnt it a^2-b^2?Amanda Smalls 14:39, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes it is! Now another one. What is (x^3 - 7) . (x^4 + 8). Please show me how you will solve it?--Skr15081997 (talk) 14:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Do I have to explain it? The answer is X^7+8x^3-7x^4-56.Amanda Smalls 14:50, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes, please explain how you got this result? Can you show the rough work?--Skr15081997 (talk) 14:56, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Okay. I used the FOIL method.( This is my IP)173.78.222.115 (talk) 15:00, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

You are pretty good at multiplication. What exact type of multiplication questions trouble you? Do you face difficulty in solving questions with higher degrees?--Skr15081997 (talk) 15:07, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

I GOT AN A ON THE TEST! Thank you so much! You're the best!Amanda Smalls 15:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

So Amanda is good at learning from Skr15081997, and Skr15081997 is good at teaching Amanda, but Amanda is slightly less good at explaining what she learned from Skr15081997 :) I am glad it all worked out well. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:16, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you again so much for the lovely barnstar.

I am very impressed with your article creations, and would love to see more of the mainspace work that you have to offer.

I am also somewhat concerned that you are being drawn away from being productive, and toward drama and conflicts. It takes a long time to see that many of these discussions are often more complicated than they seem. You may find yourself taking a position and then seeing that you were on the wrong side. It is sometimes better to take no side. On the upside, when you do get involved, you often take a neutral peacemaking position, and that is good.

If you need to get a drama fix, try Shakespeare. :) Wikipedia drama is the worst and lamest kind. Reading it is a waste of life. Getting involved is worse as it draws others in which wastes everybody's life.

Finally, if you must make your views known, please ensure that you comment on the edits and not the editor. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:09, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Don't worry, I wont cause drama. I'll even work on an article right now!Amanda Smalls 19:10, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Ah, yes. Scarus scaber, a nice start! :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:12, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

Shakespeare is awfully difficult to read for 20th and 21st century teenagers. When I was 14, we had to study Twelfth Night, supposedly a comedy!, for English GCSE, and we focused on the scenes with Malvolio because they might be more amusing. They turned out to be deadly dull. (In A-level Latin we studied Ovid's Metamorphoses, which suffered because the teacher, a Cambridge graduate incidentally, failed to properly explain that the various events were supposed to be witty or whimsical, and instead just made the class plough through the whole work translating its meaning literally in a stony-faced sulk. I understood some of the humour, but some of my classmates were left thinking it was the worst work of literature ever.)

Amanda, you might actually find Twelfth Night interesting to read, because the plot is perhaps the most famous early exposition of "gender reversal" (in the acting sense) in the English language. It must have caused huge confusion in Shakespeare's own day, since women were not allowed to act on the stage, thus the parts of boys pretending to be girls, and girls pretending to be boys, and girls as girls would all have been acted by boys who could pass as girls on stage. Complicated!

Twelfth Night was a comedy, supposedly, so perhaps one of Shakespeare's formal dramas would be a better thing to read for drama? Well perhaps not; Tolkein is partly based on Tolkein's dissatisfaction with some of Shakespeare's work, so just watch a good Tolkein-based movie instead.

If you want to read real drama enacted as comedy (real political satire at its ugliest), get a translation of anything by Aristophanes. WARNING, the sexual and vulgar references are about a dozen per page! And it's nearly 2500 years old, which shows there's nothing new... --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:38, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

New fish

Chaetodontoplus mesoleucus

Pretty nice fish, right? Feel free to start it if you like. (You can steal a taxobox from Chaetodontoplus caeruleopunctatus and swap in the right info.)

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:10, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Very nice pretty fish!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:57, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

@Anna Frodesiak: It's absolutely a nice fish!Amanda Smalls 12:05, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

On/off archive

Hi Amanda! I see that you have the same problem with the OneClick-archiver that I had at first. :) The "click area" is so dangerously close to the scrolling bar and I almost archived an entire talk page once. Very embarrassing! So I asked around and found out that there is a way to turn of the script when you don't need it (which is not very often). You simply put two // in front of the script. That turns it off. To turn it on again you just remove the slashes. You can look at my js page User:W.carter/common.js how it looks now that my archiving is currently turned off. Cheers, w.carter-Talk 15:55, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the information! I will definitely look into it!Amanda Smalls 15:59, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Jimbo

Amanda, when I advised you to stay away from Jimbo's talk page I was serious. You're 14 and far too innocent to read some of the stuff said there!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:48, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld: Sorry, I understand now.Amanda Smalls 12:07, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

I just want to say that you are about my age when I first learned about words like those. With your new knowledge though you can learn not to use the word, and identify when your friends first start using it so you can tell them that it is not okay. Don't feel sorry to have taken away something new here. =) - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 14:27, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

I had heard of the C-word before, but never knew what it meant. Actually, I hear it all the time because half of my friends are bad people.Amanda Smalls 17:55, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. I find them to be very insightful.Amanda Smalls 14:29, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

No problem ^-^ - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 14:31, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld: I also want to say that this is the reason why words insulting people shouldn't be thrown around carelessly here on Wikipedia. No we cant protect everyone but in general it is best to keep your cool and remain civil or at least try to. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 14:31, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Where are you from Amanda?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:40, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld:Valrico, Florida. Why?Amanda Smalls 15:42, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Why not concentrate on getting it to WP:Good article status? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:26, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Honestly Amanda, try to focus on the fish if it interests you and find somebody at the fish project to help guide you, you're really asking the wrong people in Eric and myself! Good luck! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:56, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes, good thinking Dr. Blofeld! See how nice Dr. Blofeld is with his WP:Good article suggestion? Sure, he tried to cut 007 in half, but that was just business, (and frankly, Bond had it coming). Amanda, consider joining some Wikiprojects. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. Good community spirit, lots to do, etc. Most of us are already members at several. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:05, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Question

Is Amanda Smalls your real name? I am a bit worried that you might be giving out too much personal information that could be used against you by the wrong people. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 22:25, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

I encourage you to read WP:YOUNG regarding personal information. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 00:03, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 44, 2014)

Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, the world's first national park Hello, Amanda Smalls. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: National park Previous selections: Ice hotel • Central America Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:05, 27 October 2014 (UTC) •