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Wasn't me Porygon-Z 18:55, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

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Atsme (talk) 08:24, 7 July 2019‎ (UTC)

Ah thank you. Although it is rare, It does have a good amount of info behind it. Not to mention we can merge the denno senshi porygon episode to the porygon article. I you can help me that would great. Also I have hatched Porygon and encountered multiple in the wild, so I'm not sure that's right. Porygon-Z (talk) 04:33, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Happy to help. My first suggestion is to read Wikipedia:Notability (video games). If you need to modify the context or direction of the article, or even if you need to rename the article, that can be done. Make a list of reliable sources in your sandbox you can use to cite the material and establish notability. ^Atsme _Talk 📧 12:01, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

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Sorry for the untimely response, but gumshoe also means agent, not the totem Pokèmon gumshoos, funny thing is that I am a avid pokemon lover, just like you Keep in touch Gumshoe97 (talk) 11:33, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

I saw you article on porygon, and it is a shame it didn't get published, but can I help you make it better, and then lets see if it gets published! Gumshoe97 (talk) 19:42, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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Sorry I couldn't respond, i had been blocked as a false positive. BTW i can help you Gumshoe97 (talk) 20:09, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

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I have submitted your draft for review!Gumshoe97 (talk) 21:36, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh thank you! I hope it gets accepted! Porygon-Z (talk) 12:05, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

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How have you been, I have good news, the draft has been accepted into wikiproject pokemon! but I am still waiting for the article to be reviewed. Gumshoe97 (talk) 01:35, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Oh my hecc! Thank you! I've tried twice to no effect. How do you do it? Porygon-Z (talk) 03:55, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

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I have some bad news, the article is not going to be reviewed for 4 months! and at first they had told me that it would take 2! Another silly thing I found was, that it said there about 3k articles waiting to be reviewed, and then I look at the list of editors reviewing the articles, and there were about 4k editors (not that i counted) reviewing the articles. Gumshoe97 (talk) 00:19, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Damn. Well I guess it will happen sooner or later. Can I see the final product at least? UB Blacephalon (talk) 03:54, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks again, Cap'n! I'll try my best! UB Blacephalon (talk) 13:09, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

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I'm going to WP:IAR, and start a WP:DISCUSSFORK here rather than add to Wikipedia:Teahouse#Borax.

If you're interested in chemistry and haven't signed up to Periodic Videos, you really should.

My gut feeling from reading boron is that any synthesis might involve a fair bit of trial and error. For the electrolytic method: what voltage? what concentration? what electrodes? and the result sounds meh. The thermal method described by Prof. Poliakoff (borax + Mg powder) looks more straightforward (and fun), but I'd want a fume hood and glasses, and would experiment on under one-gram scale. I'd recommend a crucible, an iron tripod, a pipeclay ring and a Bunsen burner. Work out the stoichiometry of the reaction, and use the reactants in those proportions. Do take care: several chemists lost bits of themselves trying something for the first time.

One thing you can safely try with borax is the borax bead test, now hopelessly obsolete. I was taught it, purely as a demonstration, in the 1960s. It was never much use except for some first row transition elements, which can give pretty colours. Your first tests will almost inevitably produce beads in disappointing shades of black. Where that article says tiny, it means tiny (probably submilligram). Narky Blert (talk) 21:52, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Well I only have limited resources because I have crystal sodium tetraborate (I don't know how much I got it from chemistry kit but it seems like a good amount) and I want elemental boron out of it but through household means. And I have subscribed and watched almost every video they posted. UB Blacephalon (talk) 04:55, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

As a former ChemNerd who somehow managed to not lose bits of himself or his residence, I am really concerned. I've known at least two experienced, professional chemists who were not so lucky. One owned a retail chemical business that he managed to burn down when he made a simple mis-calculation. The other was a university professor who blew up his lab. I've known amateurs that have lost limbs. While NB is clearly right in stressing limitation on size, please don't rely only on short, imprecise, discussions (that are out of scope for an encyclopedia's talk pages, BTW) when contemplating an experiment that can endanger your life and that of others. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 17:04, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

I am not so worried about my life because if I know what's going to happen and I know the result, I will take to it accordingly. I do know quite a bit of knowledge about most chemicals and if i don't, i will look them up somehow. For instance a video told me to either use HCl acid ( which I previously know as a chemical that will melt fingers off) or boric acid (which I'm not familiar with so if I have to, I will research it so I know what I'm handling). I'm also 17 and know the chemistry of the periodic table by heart. Read my userpage for more info about me. UB Blacephalon (talk) 20:12, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

I got a degree in chemistry 50 years ago and had a career in information technology in order not to blow myself up, because I had seen too many explosions in the chemistry lab. I never tried to extract elemental boron, which, being a light metalloid, is funny stuff. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:31, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Oh I agree! I'm trying to extract boron from crystal borax (I think) and the chemistry of boron is quite fascinating! I got my borax from a chemistry kit but I don't know how to get pure boron from it. I'm not expecting much but hey, some is some. I would like to know if the more Am I put in a plastic bag, first, am I safe, and second, how dangerous is it? UB Blacephalon (talk) 14:43, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

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ToE: Heh, yeah. Show this to other people! UB Blacephalon (talk) 16:31, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

I don't understand. -- ToE 01:37, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Note that both an IP user and I attempted to address your last question shortly before the section was archived. -- ToE 01:41, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

ToE::I understand that you attempted to answer my question and I thank you for helping. And now I get the reason why the answer is the way it is. I just said that because I've heard others say it's 0 or 1. I thought maybe if I show it to other people, maybe they'll get it too, ya know? UB Blacephalon (talk) 21:01, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

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Of course but im not that good at Wikicode so I hope thats okay! UB Blacephalon (talk) 00:46, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

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Thank you. I will definitely try these features out as soon as possible. Thank you for your concern! UB Blacephalon (talk) 13:29, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

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Edit to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

Hey! I reverted your edit to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet because, while I do agree the region will probably be based on Spain (my suspicions come from the trailer and the starter names, 2 of which have partial meaning in Spanish), Nintendo has not confirmed that yet, and neither have RSes. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 02:27, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

@Blaze Wolf Hi! Well why don't we say that its most likely that it will be based in Spain or the Iberian peninsula? Or something to the effect of "we don't know for sure, but we think its going to be based in Spain" kinda thing? UB Blacephalon (talk) 12:59, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

(your ping failed) Because Wikipedia doesn't speculate things. See WP:CRYSTALBALL. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 13:15, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Blaze Wolf Oops lol. Hmm...Then why don't we ask Gamefreak or Niantic? I bet Niantic would give us a wierd answer.... UB Blacephalon (talk) 15:00, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

(to ping me you use curly brackets instead of square brackets, like this: {{u|Blacephalon}} ) We could, however game companies usually won't tell us stuff like this until they're ready to reveal it to the public. Also, they probably wouldn't even answer us. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 15:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Blaze Wolf Sorry, it's been a while since I talked to people on here! Anyway, I could talk to Niantic through Pokemon GO, but like you said I probably wouldn't get very far. Guess we just have to wait and see, huh? UB Blacephalon (talk) 15:10, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

I- what? How on earth would you be able to talk to a company like Niantic through a game they made? Even then, Niantic has nothing to do with these games. They've only made Pokemon GO (I don't think they had anything to do with Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee). Gamefreak has pretty much always handled the mainline Pokemon games (with the exception of BDSP which was handled by Ilca) ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 15:14, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

The same way you can complain to them, except this time I would pick General Questions. Even still, I don't think I would get anywhere with them but Ill still try. Since this is a mainline game, the trailer was one of the weirdest trailers due to it not giving us much info. UB Blacephalon (talk) 15:26, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Oh. I don't think they respond to those, if at all. And like I said, Niantic probably wouldn't even know the answer because they have nothing to do with gen 9. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 15:27, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Well they would have to include Gen 9 pokemon at some point in Pokemon GO but who knows when that'll be. UB Blacephalon (talk) 16:09, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

That will probably be after Gen 9 comes out. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 16:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

As a side note, an answer provided privately does not count as a reliable source, because it is not verifiable. So emailing a company for an answer wouldn't work. It needs to be public at a minimum, and ideally published in a reliable source. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 19:47, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes that is true (unless for whatever reason you work at a company that is deemed an RS and you email the company and then write an article about that answer, but then that would probably be a COI). ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Huh. So then what can we say about it then? Nothing? UB Blacephalon (talk) 12:57, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

For the time being, you are correct: nothing. Wait until a reliable source publishes something about it. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 20:12, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Aww....God only know when thatll be. UB Blacephalon (talk) 13:07, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from Loveneetsingh123 (15:52, 21 March 2022)

hi i need to create a page for advocate general of police .Ima a government employee of state government and authorised to create page on behalf of advocate general of punjab, India

Pleasew guide how can i do that --Loveneetsingh123 (talk) 15:52, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

Loveneetsingh123 I'd advise going into the sandbox tab next to your talk tab. There, you can hopefully create your own page if you have enough evidence and citations. UB Blacephalon (talk) 12:03, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

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Hi .. I want to change of images of actor shafi sir kindly help me to edit images. I have wonderful pics of shafi sir --M786R (talk) 13:02, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

M786RTo Edit or add images, go into the source code. If there are other pictures there, You can add or change them to your pictures using that same code with your file. UB Blacephalon (talk) 12:01, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Question from DorisLangBismuthLover on Neodymium acetate (00:51, 5 April 2022)

Dear Blacephelon,

I want to ask you how should I layout a chemistry equation in an article. 

Thank you , DorisLangBismuthLover --DorisLangBismuthLover (talk) 00:51, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

DorisLangBismuthLover Just use => (an equal sign and a greater than arrow) for equals. Its almost lie a normal equation. Like H2 + O2 => H2O +O. UB Blacephalon (talk) 14:14, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much! DorisLangBismuthLover (talk) 20:00, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

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Be my pal. Tell me, am I a good man?” --Return to Monkey Island (talk) 17:38, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

You are only as good as a man as you say you are. Your opinion matters too! UB Blacephalon (talk) 12:02, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

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I am still hoping to publish Mabel Brailsford entry on Wikipedia. I have corrected all the marked errors. How can I get it up on Wiki? --Wendytibbs (talk) 16:09, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

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Zygarde and Blacephalon UB Blacephalon (talk) 23:00, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from Augnablik (11:39, 15 June 2022)

Hello, Blacephalon ... I didn't know we got mentors. Does this mean we're paired forever? ;)

I'm very new to doing Wikipedia editing, so I may find out answers to a few questions that have arisen for me so far, but one that I'm particularly curious about is making comments. I know when I've looked at other articles in Wikipedia that I've sometimes seen a comment like, "Reference needed," but when I tried to make that very comment in an article on deforestation, I could find only a feature called INVISIBLE COMMENT ... and sure enough, it was invisible when I reviewed my edits before publishing. Can you shed any light on all this? --Augnablik (talk) 11:39, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

It appears that the article I think was scrapped. Not sure though, but if you can find the person who did that you can ask him. UB Blacephalon (talk) 23:02, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from Augnablik (11:43, 15 June 2022)

Another question ... these little side tabs on the right side of my screen are in the way of my seeing everything on the lines of the text. I can't find a way to move the side tab away from the margin. Is there one? Surely this must be something many Wikipedia editors would like to know. --Augnablik (talk) 11:43, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

What does it say? UB Blacephalon (talk) 23:12, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from Augnablik on Language demographics of Quebec (12:42, 15 June 2022)

I hope I'm not overusing you today, but so many questions keep coming up. I edited 3 articles and after this last one I got a most maddening message saying that some program called ClueBot removed all my edits. Since there was a way to find out why, I went and checked out why this happened. I disagree with almost all, if not all, the reasons given.

Do some authors attach this bot to their articles so they'll be less likely to be overridden?

I hope I can put my edits back and avoid ClueBot doing this same thing all over again. --Augnablik (talk) 12:42, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Asked and answered at Teahouse. David notMD (talk) 20:12, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

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Hello,

our page has a wrong image that urgently needs to be deleted. We tried speedy deletion however no help. Please gudie. --SubhashreeJ (talk) 16:20, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

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Thank you for the welcome, Blacephalon. I look forward to your answers to my questions at some point. Meanwhile, I did get quite a bit of help in the Teahouse. --Augnablik (talk) 07:48, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from Visualrefraction (14:19, 21 June 2022)

Hello, I'm looking forward to participating in Wikipedia. I am a bit overwhelmed. I want to create a page that I think will be considered COI. I am mentioned on a page, and I want to create a link from the page I'm mentioned on to info about myself and my project. Most of the other people mentioned on the page have links to themselves and or their projects and were backed by large companies with publicists. I was and am independent. I have publications that have featured my work and have won quite a few awards. I was the first woman to receive a nomination in this award. Do you have suggestions on how I proceed? --Visualrefraction (talk) 14:19, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

Question from Deedeemegadoodoo1989 (05:08, 25 June 2022)

Hi why do I exist --Deedeemegadoodoo1989 (talk) 05:08, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

What kind of question is that? You exist because of fate! UB Blacephalon (talk) 22:59, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from Fawaze Beya Jafar (15:01, 18 July 2022)

Hi I want to create my player profile as a football player... What can I do --Fawaze Beya Jafar (talk) 15:01, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

If you are an actual football player you can center it around that. If you want to become one you can alter you bio to say that. UB Blacephalon (talk) 23:07, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from P.0.01853T.7x on User:P.0.01853T.7x/sandbox (08:43, 19 July 2022)

Hello what is mentor? --P.0.01853T.7x (talk) 08:43, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

A mentor is someone who can help you with things like editing Wikipedia and other stuff. UB Blacephalon (talk) 23:05, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from Alexandrov Zalotov (08:35, 28 July 2022)

Hello Blacephalon, I would like to know if it is possible, and if so how to add a demonym for a city --Alexandrov Zalotov (talk) 08:36, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

To do that, simply follow grammar rules. Depending on what city your naming of course. Like New York would be a New Yorker. UB Blacephalon (talk) 23:09, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

Question from UnpopularFusionist (23:46, 18 August 2022)

Hello Rusty4321! Also hello Blacephalon!

I believe I have an area I can submit a lot of legitimate data to Wikipedia for, including many references to independent sources. There are a number of authors within the fields of both astrology and astronomy who have been publishing seminal works in their fields for decades. I do not personally *know* them or have personal connections with them, but I am familiar enough with their work to be able to cite and connect their work for encyclopedic use on Wikipedia. I am surprised many of them do not have an existing page, since some of their titles have been cited for years and continue to be cited by others in the expansion of both of these fields. I am wondering if either of you (Rusty4321 or Blacephalon) have any advice on creating these specific kinds of articles (both for authors and their written/produced works). I am reading through Wikipedia documentation and following as many guidelines as I can, but I would also like to see if either of you have advice since I see you are listed as my mentors. Thank you --UnpopularFusionist (talk) 23:46, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

@Rusty4321: Pinging Rusty for the user. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 13:17, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

The only thing I can say is that you'll need to cite every source you can find in the article. Hope this helps! UB Blacephalon (talk) 23:04, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

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Hello. How can I write a biography about someone? --Rocky Maps (talk) 08:46, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

You will need a lot of sources to do that. Make sure accuracy and credibility are main sources. UB Blacephalon (talk) 05:13, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

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Contractions

Regarding [1], see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations#Contractions. Wikipedia does not use contractions in articles. They are a more informal writing style than Wikipedia uses. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:45, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter But this isn't part of the article as its a list. It also should be in our own words so it doesn't look like it was ripped straight off of Bulbapedia. UB Blacephalon (talk) 18:46, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists are articles and the same rules apply. If the text is based on a copyrighted source then making contractions is an insignificant change which can hardly be called rewording. It must be changed far more and it is not a valid excuse for making contractions against the manual of style. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:08, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

That makes sense. It just feels... off putting it in that style. UB Blacephalon (talk) 20:25, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Hi. I see in a recent addition to some Pokemon list articles you included material from webpages that are available under a compatible Creative Commons Licence. 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. Regardless of the copyright issue, adding unsourced in-universe content to Wikipedia articles is not a good idea. That's what Fandom is for.

Bulbapedia is not compatibly licensed, so it's not okay to copy from there. To do so is a violation of our copyright policy. — Diannaa (talk) 14:45, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

So I have to source it. Alright that's fine. I'll just source IGN which is reliable according to wikipedia. UB Blacephalon (talk) 17:45, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Also you have to not copy from Fandom unless the copying is properly attributed. This can be done via the use of templates such as those listed at Template:Creative Commons text attribution notice. Each individual webpage you copy from requires such a template. Also, no copying at all from websites that are not compatibly licensed. Please let me know if you have any questions. — Diannaa (talk) 18:22, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

I've actually gotten this from a Google Docs page I've done. I've combined every entry into my own words. Does that still count? UB Blacephalon (talk) 23:56, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Sourcing and notability on lists of Pokémon by generation (e.g., List of generation I Pokémon)

Hello Blacephalon,

The lists of Pokémon by generation articles contain a large volume of information in the 'notes' column which appears to not be sourced and/or below the threshold for notability due to being detailed in-universe information.

I have opened a discussion in the teahouse before making any changes to avoid edit wars and agree on the appropriate actions for these articles. See https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse#Notes_in_the_lists_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_generation_(e.g.,_List_of_generation_I_Pok%C3%A9mon) [which will likely be included in archive 1198 if this link is no longer active].

As you are one of the people who has contributed strongly to these articles over the years (see https://xtools.wmcloud.org/authorship/en.wiki.x.io/List_of_generation_I_Pok%C3%A9mon , https://xtools.wmcloud.org/authorship/en.wiki.x.io/List_of_generation_II_Pok%C3%A9mon , etc. which list you amongst the top authors of these pages' content), I want to keep you informed so that there is a consensus for any significant changes to these page moving forwards.

Best regards, Shazback (talk) 16:28, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

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I have done so, though I'm unsure if i did it correctly. Please check if done right. Thank you. UB Blacephalon (talk) 18:52, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

No, that's not right. The correct way to do it is via your edit summary, like I did here. — Diannaa (talk) 19:15, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Oh it's supposed to go in the edit summary not the actual article? UB Blacephalon (talk) 15:35, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Correct. — Diannaa (talk) 17:13, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Ahh Ok. Thank you! UB Blacephalon (talk) 02:21, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Blacephalon. You forgot to sign your edit here and here. On some pages, your edit will not be followed up with a signature unless you use the ~~~~. Example: AfD discussions and wikiproject pages. Though your sign will appear if you reply to someone. Jeraxmoira (talk) 12:10, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Jeraxmoira.

Whoops! Thanks for catching that. I was aware that even if you dont put it it will still sign it for you. UB Blacephalon (talk) 21:02, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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