User talk:VGPaleontologist

Hi!

Welcome to Wikidata. I have tried to make an item for one of the entities Q114777153. Thoughts? Trade (talk) 15:48, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

In all honesty, you put more effort into one entry than I have in most of mine. Keep up the great work, and if you can keep up a quality anything resemblant of this, you're clear to make as many pages as you like. I would also recommend editing other Backrooms pages, such as levels 0-9. Anyway, you're doing a great job, and I hope to see more of your work in the future. VGPaleontologist (talk) 16:30, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks!

Smilers (Q114777153)

I can't help but notice that Backrooms Wiki (Q114816938) describes them as being yellow, not beige. I guess that Backrooms Wiki (Q114816938) is wrong?--Trade (talk) 02:17, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Do you mean Skin-Stealers? Smilers aren't any (known) color. Either way, based on the image I'd say Skin-Stealers are beige, if that is an accurate picture, that is. VGPaleontologist (talk) 02:22, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

So about survival difficulty (Q114815700).

• Only a select few users can create properties
• Proposed properties have to be voted on by the community
• There are likely not going to be support to create a in-universe property dedicated to a single creepypasta

Your best bet would be to use has characteristic (P1552) instead. See Q112734101#P1552 for an example how it can be done--Trade (talk) 02:34, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. VGPaleontologist (talk) 02:44, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

I've added the survival difficulties to the items. Except Electrical Station because there doesn't seem to be any--Trade (talk) 03:03, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! VGPaleontologist (talk) 17:07, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

I've made items for some of the Backrooms video games. Feel free to add or make new items if you wish. --Trade (talk) 22:33, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Lots of new lexemes

I see you're creating lots of new lexemes. This is great, but mind the following:

• Please try to add sources to the lexemes you create. Some examples of sourcing include external identifiers, references via described by source (P1343) or described at URL (P973), or via usage example (P5831) examples of the word in use that have sources attached to them.
  • This especially goes for lexemes in fictional or endangered languages, since people may not know where to look for more information about them and you presumably speak neither of them.
• If you're creating an English lexeme, you may find the Lexeme Forms tool useful.
• Please do not create lexemes with language translingualism (Q7834564); while invalid ID (L747199) might be used across languages (and by the way, on my system it renders as a black flag), its behavior will nevertheless differ across languages, and when that behavior is describable/observable somewhere for one language and you can properly describe it for that language, then it might get a separate lexeme.
  • This also goes for emoticons (no matter what language might be assigned to them), since they too might be used across languages, but their behavior will nevertheless... (see main bullet point).

Mahir256 (talk) 21:58, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks VGPaleontologist (talk) 21:59, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

@Mahir256: Let me disagree with using "en"-code for this black flag - there's nothing "English" in it. --Infovarius (talk) 21:18, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Also please do not add transliterations of words as lemmata; they generally belong as statements using appropriate properties given that the languages themselves are generally not written entirely in transliteration. Mahir256 (talk) 14:53, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Okay, can do. VGPaleontologist (talk) 14:54, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Recreation of deleted item

I have deleted Q117992520 because it appears to be a recreation of deleted item Q117847250 . This means that we have already made a decision that this entity does not satisfy our notability criteria. Please do not recreate deleted items, as they are likely to be deleted again immediately, and your account may be blocked. To appeal this decision, see Wikidata:Guide to requests for undeletion. Bovlb (talk) 23:35, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

👍 VGPaleontologist (talk) 00:11, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Names

Not sure what you want to achieve, but neither name (P2561) nor short name (P1813) were correct statements in ibuprofen (Q186969), Montanin (Q27107381), and polytetrafluoroethylene (Q143252). It has been agreed many years ago that regular chemical names are not to be added via name (P2561) statements, there are too many languages, too many names in each language. We are waiting for multilingual datatype, however, I don't think that even then, this datatype will be used for regular, i.e. non-systematic names. As for now, names of chemical entities are to be placed as labels and aliases (the only exception is for acronyms and for INNs). About polytetrafluoroethylene (Q143252) – teflon is not a short name (P1813), it is a brand name (of a product, not in fact of a polymer) that has been appelativized and is used to denote also a polymer. If you wish to link items with lexemes, please, find another way to do it, because using name (P2561) or short name (P1813) for chemical entities simply won't work. Allowing this to happen will soon result in people adding hundreds, if not thousands, of different names for each chemical entity.

What's more: Lexeme:L1117714 is not correct, name such as '(1R,2R,6S,7S,8R,10S,11S,12R,16R,18R)-6,7-dihydroxy-8-(hydroxymethyl)-4,18-dimethyl-16-prop-1-en-2-yl-14-undecyl-9,13,15,19-tetraoxahexacyclo[12.4.1.01,11.02,6.08,10.012,16]nonadec-3-en-5-one' can be used as an alias in a WD item for searching purposed, but is not a valid (correct) IUPAC name. Such name would be: (1R,2R,6S,7S,8R,10S,11S,12R,16R,18R)-6,7-dihydroxy-8-(hydroxymethyl)-4,18-dimethyl-16-prop-1-en-2-yl-14-undecyl-9,13,15,19-tetraoxahexacyclo[12.4.1.0^1,11.0^2,6.0^8,10.0^12,16]nonadec-3-en-5-one. Italics and superscript are required parts of the name. Wostr (talk) 16:31, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata for Web

Hi, just a tip. There's a Chrome extension that allows you to quickly pair Wikidata items with identifiers. I will recommend you use it with Rationalwiki. Feel free to ask if you need help with the extension--Trade (talk) 01:40, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Unfortunately, since I am editing using a computer that is controlled by my work, I cannot download a majority of Chrome extensions. However, I appreciate the suggestion. VGPaleontologist (talk) 14:05, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Merging items

Thank you for your work in maintaining Wikidata. I have a small suggestion to improve your future work. If you notice that two items are duplicates, please merge them instead of blanking one of them as you did with the item Q8882873. External sites use Wikidata identifiers, so it is important that we preserve the chain of references. We do this by making one item a redirect for the other. In particular, item ids are intended to be a permanent identifier, so we never reuse them for another concept. See Help:Merge for more information on how to merge items, and consider installing the Merge Gadget. Thanks!  —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 16:05, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

birth and death information

Hi. With something like Edward N. Fishblatt (Q120486024), it is better to leave birth and death information empty if you don't know them. We should be reserving the unknown values for when research has been done and has been unable to determine this information; rather than put in your thoughts, we should put in the facts. If you want to put this person in a place and time, then look to use the floruit field, and you can add a location as a sub-property as required. At enWS we will pick up the fl. data automatically, and replace it when there is birth and death data known. Thanks.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:18, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Voice of America

Hi VGP,

is your list of VOA journalists complete in terms of coverage?--U. M. Owen (talk) 13:10, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Telepathy

You are not a telepath. You cannot judge what causes another person to have a given opinion or emotion.

Because the question of what motivates participants in "Q115748580" is a fraught one - a) there are statements in reliable sources to the effect that the participants' motivations are socially unacceptable and politically extreme, b) the participants themselves deny that they have those motivations, and c) if those were in fact their motivations, then it is highly plausible that they would lie - it would be best if we not make any definitive statements as to what their motivation is or is not. As such, I have removed all such statements from the entry. DS (talk) 15:48, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Digraph "lexemes"

Both of the OED entries for 'sh' and 'th' refer to them as digraphs but clarify that they are in fact nouns. Why did you change/remove both of these pieces of information? Mahir256 (talk) 15:25, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

Oxford Dictionary tracks the nouns, while these are digraphs. They are two seperate things. I added them as digraphs, and the nouns should be their own phonemes. Digraphs are closer to letters, as they form phonemes in a language and are not countable or uncountable but instead are used simply in place of letters; and nouns are not principally used for denoting phonemes. VGPaleontologist (talk) 15:29, 24 January 2024 (UTC)