User talk:Chris Capoccia

Thank you for all of your help! I just have a couple of questions.

Hi Chris, I have been working on the Bioelectricity Wikipedia page with my colleagues and I really appreciate all the help that you have provided us in making the page more suitable for Wikipedia. We have put in citations in all the places that citations have been requested and also responded to the suggestion to merge with Biomagnetics (which we do not agree with and put our statement in the appropriate talk page a couple of weeks ago). I am wondering if you'd be willing to remove the two tags on the top of the page that indicate the need for the citations (which we have put in) and the suggestion for the merge (which we don't agree with and no one else has added to the conversation)? I really appreciate your help with our efforts to make the field of Bioelectricity more available for the general public to learn about and to hopefully enrich and inspire lives through learning.

Best wishes and many thanks,

Tiadeeharrison (talk) 15:55, 29 May 2018 (EST)

Thanks

Thanks Chris for all your great editing for wiki.

Bot cleanup on Levantine Arabic

Hi, You did a "clean up" on the Levantine Arabic but I'm not convinced by it's results:

• Links to worldcat (generated by Wikipedia's citation tool) were removed
• ISSN were removed
• Many refs lost all meaningful information, for instance:
  • Abboud-Haggar, Soha (2011-05-30). "Dialects: Genesis". Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_eall_com_0088. was changed into "Dialects: Genesis". doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_eall_com_0088. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Palva, Heikki (2011-05-30). "Dialects: Classification". Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_eall_com_0087. => "Dialects: Classification". doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_eall_com_0087. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Borg, Alexander (2011-05-30), "Cypriot Maronite Arabic", Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill, doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_eall_com_0076, retrieved 2021-10-13 => "Cypriot Maronite Arabic". doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_eall_com_0076. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Shahin, Kimary N. (2011-05-30). "Palestinian Arabic". Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_eall_com_vol3_0247. => "Palestinian Arabic". doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_eall_com_vol3_0247. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

I don't want to check each modification one by one but this looks like a massacre more than a clean up.

Can I revert your edits? A455bcd9 (talk) 09:51, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

(It also added some "page needed" tags that don't make sense, like when the whole book is cited to give its reference.) A455bcd9 (talk) 09:52, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

• Worldcat URL is redundant to oclc parameter. ISSN is redundant when there are already more precise parameters like DOI. Brilonline URLs are redundant to DOIs although I do need to fix up those as they should have been transformed by the bot into cite book with all the correct bibliographic info.  — Chris Capoccia 💬 12:00, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

  Thanks!

  Some dates were removed, for instance:

  • Wardini, Elie (2011-05-30). "Lebanon". Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_sim_001001.
  • Became:
  • Wardini, Elie. "Lebanon". In Edzard, Lutz; de Jong, Rudolf (eds.). Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. doi:10.1163/1570-6699_eall_SIM_001001.
  • Or:
  • Salem, Elise (10 August 2017). "Lebanon". In Hassan, Waïl S. (ed.). Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199349791.013.19.
  • Became:
  • Salem, Elise (2017). "Lebanon". In Hassan, Waïl S (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199349791.013.19.

  Is there any reason for that?

  I think I only use Wikipedia's integrated citation tool (I put the doi and it generates the citation) so I expected that tool to export citations in the correct format. A455bcd9 (talk) 14:39, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

I really wasn't sure what to do with the dates for all the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics citations. The Brill page says stuff like "First published online: 2011" for them, do we really know what the date is for these? for The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions, normally print books are cited by year alone. Also when you follow that DOI, it says "Print Publication Date: Oct 2017… Online Publication Date: Aug 2017", so the only thing consistent is the year.  — Chris Capoccia 💬 14:58, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

For Brill the date was generated by Wikipedia's citation tool when I entered the URL. So I guess somewhere on the page or on a database the date "30 May 2011" is given? A455bcd9 (talk) 15:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Demographics of sexual orientation

Just wanted to inform you that user Crossroads is engaging in edit waring and may invite you to talk page if he reverts again.Foorgood (talk) 02:13, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Chris, don't you think it's a bit odd that Foorgood wants to single out this one statistic from a large database? And claim that the US has the most MSM in the world based on a dataset that excludes the world's most populated country, China? Crossroads ^-talk- 05:18, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

all i wanted to do was fix up the formatting of references. not actually qualified or very interested in trying to edit content or research review articles to decide what claims should be made.  — Chris Capoccia 💬 17:40, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

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When it's one author

Hi, Chris Capoccia. I saw this[1]. So when it's one author, "last1" and "first1" should also be used? Or is this done for uniformity? I thought when it's just one author, "last" and "first" are the default. GBFEE (talk) 19:20, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

i'm not writing these entries by hand. for the book, using the Wikipedia:RefToolbar to fill in from the Google URL. For journal articles, mostly from DOI.  — Chris Capoccia 💬 13:54, 24 December 2021 (UTC)