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Happy editing! Toastskat (talk) 07:18, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Regarding your edit and source [1]. Are there any other reliable (additional) sources for Malta/Sicily and African continental shelf? Almost all sources describe Malta and Sicily as part of Europe continent. Even map in Wikipedia [2] based on usgs.gov. At the moment, I only see one source that describes your theory - Pauline Galea from Physics Department, University of Malta. Simply one source is not enough to describe the country as African, if hundreds of other sources describe as European. Additional reliable sources are needed. Subtropical-man (✉ | en-2) 21:42, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That USGS map is misleading and it should be deleted. The map used in the article African Plate is actually a more accurate map:

People often confuse political geography with physical geography. In political geography or cultural geography, Malta, Sicily, Cyprus, Armenia, Madeira, and the Canary Islands are all parts of Europe. In physical geography though, Cyprus and Armenia are parts of Asia; Malta, Madeira, and the Canary Islands are parts of Africa; Sicily is mainly a part of Africa.

In terms of continental shelf, Malta and Sicily sit on an extended African continental shelf called Tunisian Plateau. It can be clearly seen on the map used in the article Southern Europe (light blue area):

In terms of tectonic plates, somewhere on northern Sicily marks the boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. So technically, you could argue that Sicily can be considered a transcontinental island (similar to Iceland) instead of of an outright African or European island.

Link: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Topography-bathymetry-map-of-the-Tyrrhenian-Sea-and-Calabrian-regions-Major-structural_fig1_307694676 N. Mortimer (talk) 04:06, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there. It isn't necessary to "fix" redirects that are working just fine. Please see WP:NOTBROKEN. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 10:18, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment. I only edit those redirects with no chance of being split into different articles. The main purpose of thoese redirects is to remind other editors about potential new articles. N. Mortimer (talk) 03:25, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, N. Mortimer, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. I happened to notice the changes you made to the Notability guideline page Wikipedia:Notability (people) in good faith, but they did not improve the page and have been undone. Changing the existing style on the page which does not actually improve the page for the reader is covered by Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Retaining existing styles, and covers such things as changing templates such as {{short description}} from first letter capitalized, to first letter uncapitalized (or vice versa). Similarly, the Redirect editing guideline says, § Do not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken, and covers things like changing WP:GNG to WP:Notability#General notability guidelineWP:GNG in this edit. Please make sure that each edit represents a concrete improvement to the page, and are not merely expressions of your personal preference in matters of style, like choice of optional capitalization, use of discretionary blanks in section headings, preference for shortcuts in links to policy and guideline pages or fully spelling them out, and other, similar matters. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 21:35, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. I looked at some of your earlier edits, and I noticed a pattern of changes to guideline pages that involve issues of MOS:VAR, WP:NOTBROKEN, or WP:NOPIPE; a couple were WP:DABSTYLE issues. Some of them made the page worse, and have been undone. For example:

• WP:No original research (diff) – addition of a comma in a section heading broke incoming links
• WP:NOTE (disambiguation) (diff) – unnecessary addition of a pipe from [[WP:Note that]] to [[WP:It should be noted|WP:Note that]]
• WP:Wikipuffery (diff) – change of {{for}} to {{For}} and change of pipe value of MOS:PUFFERY to WP:Manual of Style/Words to watch#Puffery{{!}}MOS:PUFFERY; this is a particularly egregious example of making a simple, piped redirect worse.
• WP:It should be noted (diff) – {{redirect}} to {{Redirect}}, and pipe value of WP:SAID to WP:Manual of Style/Words to watch#Synonyms for said|WP:SAID</nowiki>; it was better before.
• WP:BIO (disambiguation) (diff) – [[WP:BIO]] to [[WP:Notability (people)|WP:BIO]] in violation of WP:DABSTYLE
• WT:WikiProject Biography (diff) – template capitalization, and pipe value of WT:BIO to WT:Notability (people){{!}}WT:BIO
• Wikipedia talk:Notability (people) (diff) – template capitalization, and pipe values of WT:WPBIO to WT:WikiProject Biography{{!}}WT:WPBIO, and of WT:BIOLOGY to WT:WikiProject Biology{{!}}WT:BIOLOGY
• Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines (diff) – replacement of shortcut with full pagename in piped {{See also}} with no change to rendered page
• Wikipedia:Notability (people)/Subnational politicians (diff) – replacement of shortcut redirect [[WP:POLITICIAN]] with [[WP:Notability (people)#Politicians and judges|WP:POLITICIAN]].
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia essays (diff) – replacement of [[WP:ESSAYPAGES]] with [[WP:Project namespace#Essay pages|WP:ESSAYPAGES]]

There were a more of these in non-guideline pages, such as in Mu (mythical lost continent), Lost lands, The Lost Continent, Extraterrestrial life, and others. Going forward, please stop making the following types of changes to guideline pages or articles, including:

• capitalization changes of templates, such as {{short description}} or {{Redirect}} in violation of MOS:VAR
• adding or changing piped link values, when the link was already working before your change, per WP:NOTBROKEN or WP:NOPIPE
• adding or subtracting optional blanks from section headers, per MOS:VAR
• edits to disambiguation pages not in line with Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages (WP:DABSTYLE).

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about any of this. There are lots of things that need doing at Wikipedia; if you need some ideas, you can try the WP:Task Center. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 00:12, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]