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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 21:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Recent addition to List of birds of Alberta

Hi Waterfaux, regarding your recent additions, I have reverted them as crowd-sourced sites are generally not considered a high-quality WP:RS for records of bird sightings, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Birds/Archive 75#Is eBird a reliable source. This list is one of Wikipedia:Featured lists, and so any additions need to be from high-quality sources.

The observations themselves are bit odd too. There are known native species that are similar, and these observations are likely someone mis-identifying them or being unfamiliar with North American birds (Occams razor). For instance, the coal tit [1] - this is a black-capped chickadee. Similarly, the "Eurasian pygmy owl" is almost certainly a northern pygmy owl, the "hen harrier" is likely a northern harrier, and the "red-stained woodpecker" is probably a Lewis' woodpecker, all of which are already listed. This is a good example of why these sources aren't considered reliable.

If you have any questions, please let me know, or you can start a thread on Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds! grungaloo (talk) 20:16, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Use of unreliable sources (birdfacts, birdyfact)

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National varieties of English

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In view of that, please don't change articles from one version of English to another, even if you don't normally use the version in which the article is written. Respect other people's versions of English. They, in turn, should respect yours. Other general guidelines on how Wikipedia articles are written can be found in the Manual of Style. If you have any questions about this, you can ask me on my talk page or visit the help desk. Thank you. OXYLYPSE (talk) 14:58, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@OXYLYPSE: Thank you for letting me know. I am truly sorry for changing the American spelling to the British way of spelling words in the South America article. As much as I like the British spelling, I will respect the different varieties of English used in other articles. --Waterfaux (talk) 16:37, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Copying/translating content within Wikipedias requires attribution

Hi. I see in a recent addition to Quebrada de Las Flechas you included material copied/transleated form the Spanish Wikipedia. That's okay, but you have to give attribution so that our readers are made aware that you copied the prose rather than wrote it yourself. It's also required under the terms of the license. I've added the attribution for this particular instance. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. -- Diannaa (talk) 13:24, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Diannaa: I will make sure that whenever I translate an article from Spanish to English, I should add attribution because it is an requirement. Thank you for giving me the advice. --Waterfaux (talk) 14:27, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Festival de Ancón (Colombia) moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Festival de Ancón (Colombia). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Tavantius (talk) 14:40, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Waterfaux. Thank you for your work on Festival de Ancón (Colombia). Another editor, Tavantius, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thanks for adding more sources to the article. Have a great day!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Tavantius}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Tavantius (talk) 17:22, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Tavantius: Your welcome. --Waterfaux (talk) 17:39, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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