Welcome to my Talk page!

If you want to discuss something, yell at me for something I did, or slap me with a fish, this is the place. I'm active on weekdays, but I still come through and check my Talk page on weekends occasionally. Either way, I'll get back to you eventually unless I mysteriously go missing, spontaneously combust, or the universe ends. If none of those three things have happened yet, then expect me to reply within a few hours!

Jersey Wooly

I look forward to seeing your photos of this breed! I have a book that has some information on the breed that can be added to the article as well but just haven't gotten around to adding it yet. Recon rabbit 20:23, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

They are up on the page now :D ApteryxRainWing (talk) 12:21, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps too puzzling?

"Yap Central Station" for Talk and "Crimes I am responsible for" for Contributions are perhaps too puzzling for other editors to understand. I recommend you change to Username|Talk|Contributions. David notMD (talk) 14:27, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aw no fun allowed :(

but I fixed it so we're good now I hope ApteryxRainWing | Talk | Contributions 14:35, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Better David notMD (talk) 00:02, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Nancy Mace Talk Page

Luke Elaine Burke has given you a pack of Toblerone bars! Chocolate promotes WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Toblerone bars are wonderfully delicious! Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a pack of Toblerone bars, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

You handled that argument with the individual on the politician talk page with grace, and kindness! Wishing you the best, L.E. Rainer 15:43, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the goodness of Toblerone bars by adding {{subst:Toblerone for you}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

L.E. Rainer 15:43, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aw, thank you! ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 15:51, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you are getting pinged or see any more messages from you know-who, I would suggest just ignoring them, as it will never be worth your time (in regards to this issue I guess, but I doubt any further messages will be unbaised and unrelated)! L.E. Rainer 00:52, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article quality

See Wikipedia:Content assessment for how articles are quality- and completeness-ratings on their Talk pages. (Redout is Start). Stubs and Starts are clearly not what they could become, but that is not grounds for deletion. Movie, book and game articles allow for descriptions of plot or gameplay without referencing, because as you asked at Teahouse, that information is from what the article is about. 'Original research' would be things like proposing that what happened in an author's life shaped the book's plot or character. Or you as an article editor comparing one video game to another. David notMD (talk) 14:45, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding welcomes

Hi there, thanks for being a friendly face and taking the time to welcome some of the newcomers recently
Just a small reminder about adding signatures to welcome messages, as I've noticed you've been manually inserting welcomes without adding your signature: using Twinkle can make the process easier, as it automatically adds your signature at the end. Including your signature helps let newcomers know who welcomed them and who they can reach out to if they need help, so it'd make sense to include it.

Thanks again for being apart of the Welcome Committee! Synorem (talk) 13:21, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

on my end, my signature shows up. Does it not appear for you? As for Twinkle, I don't trust myself with Wikipedia bots yet, I've only been here for a few months ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 13:37, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's too early yet

But at some point you might want to consider Wikipedia:Growth Team features/Mentor list. Happy editing! Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:45, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I took a look at it and it sounds pretty interesting, but I am not sure how that would work with my schedule. Believe it or not, I'm only 16 and I have to put up with all the typical woes of being a high schooler such as exam season and my computer attempting to melt itself ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 16:33, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Welcomes

Hey! I noticed you've been welcoming new users, which is always good - though you may want to be a bit more discerning with your welcomes. For example, GuardantDigitalComms (whose username is against username policy as an WP:ORGNAME, and whose first edit was a COI edit to Guardant Health), an ideal welcome may have been Template:Welcome-COI. Try to focus on welcoming constructive contributors and checking their contributions prior to welcoming them, and if their contributions are problematic, using a more appropriate welcome informing them of policy. I've done the exact same thing before, so it's not a huge deal! I just wanted to let you know. Twinkle, if you use it, has a wide variety of welcome templates for more potentially problematic users. I'd suggest using that in the future. jellyfish ✉ 17:48, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright thank you. I admit that i've been a bit careless when welcoming people, I just look for redlinked talk pages and bluelinked contrib pages in the user creation log and leave the template message there, it's nice mindless work. I'll keep an eye on what exactly has been contributed from now on ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 17:50, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's all completely fine! I'm of the opinion anyone who's not a blatant vandal or otherwise WP:NOTHERE individual should be welcomed. It's just a matter of pointing out things in Wikipedia policy that may not be obvious to a newcomer, especially WP:COI, WP:NPOV, WP:RS/WP:OR, etc.! Helps get them off to a stronger start. :) jellyfish ✉ 17:51, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I made a sort of template-ish thing I copy and paste into new users' talk pages. What do you think of it? does it provide the information a new user would need? I wrote it in a way where you can give it to a user without them having any contribs ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 18:31, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. It looks good, personal, and non-mechanical. Regarding the contribs thing, it is generally/commonly agreed upon not to welcome users without any contribs. Again, nice work with the message. It covers everything that a newcomer might need. If you are not fond of pre-existing templates, I suggest making similar message for COI, and autobiography editors. —usernamekiran (talk) 19:05, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright. I'm not against templates per se, but I am absolutely too dumb to use WikiText and I have no idea how to submit a template for review. I'll definitely make some other templates on that subpage for COI, autobiography, SPAs, etc. ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 19:21, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Usernamekiran I added some other templates to the list, what do you think? the only thing I really changed was the intro paragraph for each one ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 12:44, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed with what Kiran said! Looks good, and keep up the good work. :) jellyfish ✉ 19:12, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! It's nice to know that I'm finally doing something helpful here :D ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 19:22, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, ApteryxRainWing,

Please be sure you don't welcome editors who are blocked. You welcomed a few today. Some were blocked AFTER you posted your Welcome message so those are okay but some were already blocked when you welcomed them. You can tell whether an editor is blocked because there is usually a message to that effect on their User talk page or look at their Contributions and there should be a big pink message at the top if an editor is blocked with the reason why they were blocked. I know you work fast when welcoming editors but please consider checking both of these pages first. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:27, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

is it possible that they were blocked as I was pasting my message in? all the talk pages I left templates on had the generic "leave the first message on (user)'s talk page" ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 20:05, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

Hello, ApteryxRainWing,

I read your user page about wanting to be a storm chaser and your question about tornadoes. It might be very engaging for you to get to know the editors at Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather. The editors who work on weather, particularly tornadoes, hurricanes and storms, are very active and really have their own community on Wikipedia. If that's a subject that interests you, you could probably get some good ideas from them on articles that could use some copy editing and attention. Good luck! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:37, 14 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We'd love to have another editor helping out, most weather editors are inactive in the winter months because, well... winter. All of the other editors at WPW are super friendly aswell, and would love to guide you through writing/editing weather articles. :) E_F⁵ 21:24, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@EF5 I already think I'm in WPW, if I did it right. I'm bad with the source editor so I'm not sure if it worked. Do you guys have a list of articles that need work? Also, since I can upload my own photos to commons, do you guys perhaps want any good photos I get this chase season? I'm spending my whole spring break off school with some buddies and we're gonna go to Little Rock and wait for the weather to try something. ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 21:32, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ApteryxRainWing: Ah, found it (Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather/Article requests), go crazy. :D E_F⁵ 17:25, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thank you. When chase season finally comes around, I'll see if I can get any good images to upload for you guys too. Even if I don't see a tornado worthy of an article, maybe you guys can use it as a generic "this is what a tornado looks like" type thing ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 17:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! I mean, y'never know when/if a tornado will hit, but I'm sure you'll get some good photos. :) E_F⁵ 17:34, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry, me and my friends will try as hard as three dipshits in a Rav-4 can possibly try to get some good pictures. ApteryxRainWing🐉 | Roar with me!!! | My contributions 17:38, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A Megalodacne for you!

Cmrc23 ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ has given you Megalodacne!
Megalodacne promote Wikilove and hopefully this one has made your day much better.
Spread WikiLove by placing Megalodacne on other user's talk pages by adding {{subst:Megalodacne}} to their talk page.
Happy editing!

This is the closest thing to a dragon I could find in the templates list!

As a weather enjoyer myself (see this userbox I created), I would like to thank you for your assistance with WikiProject Weather. Happy editing! Cmrc23 ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ 16:05, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Aw you're welcome! I'll try my best to be useful, me and some buddies are planning to take spring break off and go chasing in the ArkLaTex area, so we might be getting some images the project may be interested in. Apteryx!🐉 | Roar with me!!! 🗨🐲 18:31, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thought this was funny

Hi. I don't edit very often, but I do frequently stalk the teahouse and noticed your appearance...which is hilarious to me since I have a RainWing OC called Opteryx. Completely unrelated and named after the Archaeopteryx because I didn't know what to name it by. What a coinicidence to see your username. Lampyscales (🐍 | C) 00:48, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

haha that's actually kind of cool. I tried to make my OC's name unique but I guess that didn't work out. I just wanted something fancier than "Kiwi" so I went for its scientific name. is Archaeopteryx some kind of dinosaur? Apteryx!🐉 | Roar with me!!! 🗨🐲 13:34, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Archaeopteryx is one of the earliest avian dinosaurs, yes. Lampyscales (🐍 | C) 15:12, 21 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays :)

Happy/Merry Chrismahannukwanzaakah. Not sure what sure what seasonal holiday you celebrate, so I mashed em together.

Happy Festivus, if that's what you're into.

Shovel Shenanigans (talk) 18:22, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]