User talk:The Shadow-Fighter

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It is good to see someone else interested in biology articles. Lion is a Featured Article, which means all facts in it are referenced, so placing new material needs referencing. Also it is a very large article, more material should only be added if really important. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:54, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Lion again

I removed the mane bit. Do you have a reference for 3 in. teeth? That is a good bit of information to add as it is more precise. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:58, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Animal Face-Off

Stop adding descriptions of the "hypothetical battle(s)" from this show in articles on animals as if it represented common facts. Postdlf (talk) 22:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Please stop adding episode information for episodes that do not exist. Unless you can provide solid evidence that they do, please refrain from adding them. If you continue to add fake episode information, you will be considered a vandal and dealt with accordingly. (Iuio (talk) 05:40, 11 June 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Animal articles

Stop adding unsourced changes to articles. Your edit to Asiatic Lion, which claimed that they prey on European Bison, is facially incorrect as they don't have any overlapping range. You have also been seemingly arbitrarily changing the conservation status of various species. You need to add an edit summary for every edit to explain your changes, and you should not make any changes that you can not reference to a reliable source. Failure to do this will result in your changes being reverted and may result in this account being blocked if inappropriate and disruptive edits continue. Postdlf (talk) 14:32, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Are you a vandal?

Please do not wrong edits like this one--Altaileopard (talk) 15:22, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Kodiak_Bear, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. --Enric Naval (talk) 23:26, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Please don't add unsourced information like you did here. The end of that section has different information on the comparative size of bears, and it's sourced. --Enric Naval (talk) 23:26, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ABOUT THE SHADOW-FIGHTER

The Shadow-Fighter is my 9-year-old son, who is nuts about big cats and popular music genres, among other things. I decided to give him a "trial run" with a Wikipedia account, and as you can see he's been on a bit of a learning curve; in addition, I have not supervised his edits as closely as I had intended.

However, he is abashed at the comments above, which I have told him I think are appropriate, and he wishes to apologize and let it be known that he is not a vandal. For my part, I have instructed him to refrain from further substantive edits until I can begin teaching him how to cite sources. (If anyone has any advice on texts or other sources on big cats that are both authoritative and age-appropriate, we would appreciate it; unfortunately his major source right now are three "Wildlife Fact File" ring-binders from 1991, and these are in many cases outdated.)

Please continue to render constructive advice or gentle guidance to this very intelligent and well-meaning future Wikipedian. A. Groff (talk) 16:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmmmm, okay... 9 years is perhaps a bit young but we will see. I was even younger when I started my interrest in big cats and other animals. First off all: I am not a native speaker and it is difficult for me to write in not scientific language. So excuse my mistakes. To the point: I can try to have an eye on his edits. I do not know anything about this book, that you metioned above, but there are often bad references like dubious internet pages or newspapaer articles used in the english wiki. So the most important thing is that he gives the source of an edit as a reference:

A reference is given for example like this:

The tiger does not occure on Borneo[1].


If you have further questions, you can ask o my talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Altaileopard (talk • contribs) 20:49, 21 May 2008


Same here, I'll try to keep an eye on his edits. And don't worry about those warnings. If you start editing stuff, you will do mistakes once in a while and people will come to your talk page and tell you about it. It's a normal part of editing wikipedia. If someone makes you a very harsh comment for something you did, you can leave a message on my talk page or ask an experienced editor for advice before answering. --Enric Naval (talk) 22:31, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 ISBN 0-8018-5789-9



[edit] MORE ABOUT THE SHADOW FIGHTER

Though I shouldn't really say that because I'm The Shadow Fighter myself! Anyway, thanks for the updates. I hope you guys like it here, too! As my Dad (A.Groff) said, I am a big fan of big cats. So, Postdlf, you're into Okapis, huh? They're closely related to giraffes and Zebras. My favorite animals are are Tigers and Snow leopards. Yes, I can see why you would think 9 is young, but I've just got to Wikipedia, and I'm just getting started. And yes, Altaileopard, I'm not a vandal, as my Dad said earlier. By the way, I love the place so far. I hope you guys like being a "special" Wikipedian! See ya! The Shadow-Fighter (talk) 22:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Caspian tiger vandalism

Sorry, but This is vandalism!--Altaileopard (talk) 09:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] REPLY TO ALTAILEAPARD

Hey, Altaleopard (or can I just call you Leopard for short?)! How's the Leopard (you) doin'? Yes, I can Totally see why you would think that thing about the Caspian Tiger is vandalism. It's just that on the Caspian tiger Artical there were two pictures of a captive Caspian tiger, and when I saw that one of them was in color, I thought that picture was so recent, it couldn't be extict so soon, and the pictures (particulary the one in color, of course) made me think they had to at least be extinct in the wild. Sorry! The Shadow-Fighter (talk) 21:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but that is vandalism. You can not make an edit without a refernce only because of what you think. I woud appreciate to see your account deleted. You are a either vandal, stupid or just to young.--Altaileopard (talk) 06:56, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Alta, shadow is very young, 9 years, according to comments on this talk page. Please notice that he has made some good edits, so I don't think he is a vandal. --Enric Naval (talk) 16:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Just a quick point

"I'am not at all into soft genres. I think the worst genre ever is Folk, and the only folk band I've ever heard of is The Wailin Jennys."

How does that make sense? you dont like folk, and you've only ever listened to one folk band :P.

It's not a criticism, just found something amusing. I've sent Altaileopard a message asking him to be nicer and not make personal attacks; my apologies that you got that kind of reaction from an established wiki-editor :). Ironholds 19:59, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Sorry if I was a bit unfriendly, but there are a lot of nasty users and IPs in the engl. wiki, which try destroy correct informations. It is not always fun to check every week hundreds of edits and find out for every new user if he is a vandal or only unprofessional. --Altaileopard (talk) 14:57, 3 June 2008 (UTC)




[edit] TO ALTAILEOPARD

BLOW, BLAST, BOTHER, AND BLAST AGAIN!!!!! Why does everybody think '9' is so young??!!!!!! Yes, I was just about to go right round the bend with that reply you shot at me that day, Altaileopard, but I guess I can exept your apoligy. (What I'm about to say is kind of a joke) I guess that your little 'punishment' that you got was me sending Ironholds and Enric Naval to stop you (I didn't really do that, they actually did it themselves, but they were kind of helping me out, so I'm just putting it that way, and adding a battal-like twist). Oh, and I forgot that actually I'm 9 1/2, not 9. Oh, and once again, can I just call you The leopard for short? Once again, have fun being a 'special' wikipedian! The Shadow-Fighter (talk) 21:00, 4 June 2008 (UTC)