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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Ocean temperature, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Stratification.

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Fixed. --Cyfal (talk) 06:59, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Cyfal. I saw you reverted my edit of the short description of the Cantino planisphere. The reason you give is interesting: "it is not a planisphere but a map". If you check the definition of "planisphere" in Wiktionary, the first meaning is "Any representation of part of a sphere on a plane surface", which is practically a synonym of map.

Regrettably, the authors of the entry planisphere in enwiki have taken the general word and applied it to only one of its specialized meanings, that of certain astronomical instrument. That entry is more aptly named Carte du ciel mobile in French and Planisferio celeste in Spanish.

The Cantino planisphere, like the Teixeira planisphere, the Caverio map and the Map of Juan de la Cosa, is a nautical planisphere, which is defined by Webster as "the projection of the terrestrial globe on a plane for navigators' use".

That said, I am happy with the current short description. The previous one, which called this map the "Earliest surviving map showing Portuguese geographic discoveries in the east and west" was completely wrong.

--Hispalois (talk) 14:18, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Hispalois,

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. I must admit I've only looked into Wikipedia's Planisphere article; but Webster's entry planisphere shows also that this term does not only refer to a "star chart analog computing instrument" but is in a more general sense, too. However, I don't really understand why you wrote that "Earliest surviving map showing Portuguese geographic discoveries in the east and west" was completely wrong ―isn't that stated in the article itself, the first sentence of the second paragraph?

Anyway, I think the current shourt description is the best one, because it's easy to understand – planisphere is a somewhat uncommon word.

--Cyfal (talk) 15:54, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is a polite request. Please stop your interference. Do not revert the edit I have made. Opcouk (talk) 13:59, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Opcouk, instead of simply reverting, you should discuss your contributions, if you have been reverted by two different users. The things you said on Talk:Pentax 6×7 do not convince me. Also please note that in principle all contributions to Wikipedia must be properly sourced, see WP:VERIFY. Simply claiming that you are authorised by the trade mark is not sufficient at all – on the contrary, this would be a case of WP:COI which is strongly discuraged in Wikipedia. --Cyfal (talk) 18:44, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"...not these two, and I doubt these have ever been called godfather of Britpop."

It is not exactly a crazy claim that Lennon and McCartney, and specifically their work in The Beatles is hugely inspirational to the entire genre of Britpop. Oasis, and Noel Gallagher specifically cited Lennon and McCartney as primary influences, Noel Gallagher is widely thought of as the face of Britpop.

I don't think it's a crazy claim. Catgiraffe (talk) 21:56, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My personal opinion is: Of course the Beatles hugely influenced not only Britpop, but whole generations of musicians; I only doubt that someome have ever called them "godfathers of Britpop". Anyway, my personal opinion doesn't count in Wikipedia – maybe I'm wrong –, but in all cases, especially if challenged, Wikipedia's verifiability policy requires that you give a source for such claims. Hope that helps you to understand why I reverted your text. Of course I think it would be OK if your insert a sentence like "Britpop musician Noel Gallagher cited Lennon and McCartney as primary influences" in addition with a source. --Cyfal (talk) 08:33, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Is that so? I move the article with the summary make room for the article. Short after that you remove links with the summary the article does not exist. If you would just wait a bit when you see that someone else is working on that, you wouldn't have to put all the links back in now. Killarnee (talk) 02:14, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In principle you are right, but I didn't expect that you were creating the Palmbach article. I should have concluded that from your edit summaries, though, that was my fault. --Cyfal (talk) 02:20, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nonexistent Russian? he's here.

But it doesn't matter, I translated the Russian article and worked it up to an article of, I hope, ENWIKI standard. All the best, and do be careful with those spiky edit-comments as they're very hard to undo! Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:20, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Chiswick Chap,

Maybe my edit-comments were a bit confusing but they were not spiky: I never said Korotich doesn't exist in the Russian wikipedia but I said "replaced non-existing interlanguage link by local link". The problem was that {{ill|Alexander Korotich|ru}} would link to https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Korotich if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Korotich wouldn't exist - and that page in the Russian Wikipedia does not exist. You can find these false links listed here with the remark "The corresponding foreign language page does not exist". Hope that makes my edit comments clearer.

BTW, thank you for creating Alexander Korotich in the English Wikipedia!

All the best --Cyfal (talk) 17:43, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]