User talk:TheWhistleGag

Hello/edit summaries

Hi! It's great to see you uploading new astronomical images. Many of your new images might get reverted, but it's always better to have the choice of a new image than to never see any other options, so It think your images are valuable whether they stay or not. I actually like your Mars picture better, and will try to get it to stay as the main picture sometime soon.

I have one request though-- please leave edit summaries with your edits. They serve two purposes: they make it easier to read the page history and they let other editors know the reasoning behind the change you made. For instance, something like "changed lead image to higher-res image" or "made lead image square-ish". A2soup (talk) 21:09, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, then...

I understand.

I just liked the recency the images showed.

I don't mean to be discouraging-- by all means, keep trying new images if you think they are better! Just leave edit summaries briefly stating why you think the new images are better, so that others can better decide whether to keep them or not. Also, if someone reverts your image but you still think it is better, you can start a section on the talk page about which one should be used so that there can be a proper discussion. A2soup (talk) 21:13, 21 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mars picture

If you want to keep the Rosetta Mars picture, you need to show that it is free to use. I don't know much about this since I don't upload files, but everything you need to know and instructions on what to do are linked in the template under the picture at commons. A2soup (talk) 04:31, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mars

Hi. Mars is the red planet, so it is nice color enhancement, better resolution, please keep the 2007 Rosetta image. This is a better way to discuss the page at least. Thank you! :) --Jc pag 2012 (a.k.a. John Carlo) from Wikipedia 05:52, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, Mars is known as the "red planet" but the actual hue is more orangey. It seems extremely silly to me to artificially turn it red in the lead image just to fit a colloquialism ("red planet") that dates to before it was ever even visited by spacecraft. Let's let it look how it actually looks, not make it look like we want it to. I was wrong, "enhanced" color image was listed by ESA as true color. A2soup (talk) 06:06, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jupiter

Please keep the 2007 image from New Horizons. Thank you! --Jc pag 2012 (a.k.a. John Carlo) from Wikipedia 05:57, 22 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay...

Someone please search up "Mars Rosetta" and find a non-color-enhanced version of Mars. In full. Please do it for me.

Thank you very much.

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Epsilon Canis Majoris

I notice you are moving articles to various star names. Please don't do that, it's very disruptive. Please read WP:Article titles (more specifically, the section WP:COMMONNAME), where it talks about making the title of an article the most commonly recognized name. Adhara is nowhere near as commonly used as Epsilon Canis Majoris, and the other stars you are moving have the same problem. Tarl N. (discuss) 21:50, 7 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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You added a citation to TV Tropes about the website's crash. I am afraid it currently links to no source on the information. It only says "ERROR: Unable to connect to database server!"

Where did you get the information on the loss of pages? Dimadick (talk) 18:57, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That was the source, but I have a tweet as well. I will add it. TheWhistleGag (talk) 19:05, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proxima Centauri

Hello! I noticed you reverted Proxima d's discovery date back to 2019—however I thought the first paper mentioning it was published in 2020. Was there an article or something I didn't see? (I'm not trying to start a dispute I just genuinely want to know what I missed). Thanks! :) Supernova58 (talk) 20:47, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I did not do that; not on purpose. The data was gathered in 2019, but it was released in 2020. TheWhistleGag (talk) 20:49, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ah — no problem; thanks for the clarification! Supernova58 (talk) 21:43, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not mark all edits as minor

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Ah, thanks! It's just become force of habit recently since so many of my edits have been grammar edits. I'll make sure that any substantial edits are not marked as minor in the future. TheWhistleGag (talk) 20:38, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi TheWhistleGag! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Symphony No. 4 (Brahms) that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Not a big deal, but I see that you have been warned about this before. So please be more careful in the future. CurryTime7-24 (talk) 17:25, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks, sorry about that--force of habit. I'll be more careful with it in the future. TheWhistleGag (talk) 17:30, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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