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Nomination of Where is Kate? for deletion

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Not that you will likely ever need to do this sort of thing again, but {{Highlighted date list}} does not require sequential parameters; you could have just removed |item6= and |date6=. The more you know! Primefac (talk) 12:18, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

@Primefac: Thanks, I did not know that! Had not seen this template before, it's not very intuitive and I'm used to templates like these being strict on things like this. Seeing as I may want to clean up our eclipse coverage more, this is very helpful :) ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 14:18, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

Mushroom Kingdom

Hey, sorry that you're having trouble with Mushroom Kingdom as a subject. Have you considered maybe looking into Peach's Castle? If so, I could help out with getting sources for that. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 18:32, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

@Cukie Gherkin: I'm currently not really convinced that Peach' castle has more potential than an article on the Mushroom Kingdom as a whole. The GamesRadar article is very good, but what else is there you think? I've written a pretty good section on the castle in Super Mario 64 once, so maybe there's more potential than I think, see: User:Maplestrip/List of Super Mario 64 levels. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 07:25, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

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just a minor thing, but is noting that it was one of "the few pure grass-types of its generation" worth it when out of 10 grass types, 6 are pure grass (the exceptions being the hoppip line and celebi)? cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 14:49, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

@Cogsan: Well the source is talking about it from the perspective of gen 1 and gen 2 combined. I wasn't quite sure how to phrase that. Gold/Silver/Crystal are a pure mix of all 251 Pokémon, after all. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 15:27, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

eh, fair enough

something like "In its debut, the line was praised for being pure Grass-type following Generation I's Grass-type roster being predominantly dual-typed, being considered better than Tangela, Bellossom, and the Sunkern line, then the only other pure Grass-types." would be too wordy and hard to understand without at least a lot of workshopping cogsan _{(nag me) (stalk me)} 16:20, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

@Cogsan: Made a small fix to it. Always fine to workshop these sorts of things more of course. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 16:28, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

This is the way - LGBT/LGBTQ/queer for the concept, not the term

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This is what needs to happen, right? Still keen on it? Bluerasberry (talk) 21:43, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: Yes, I still want something along these lines to happen, though I sadly do not have the energy or expertise to make it happen myself. It would be a lot of work. "LGBT (initialism)" (or a variation thereof) should really happen, at least, though I failed to convince enough people myself. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 06:45, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

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If you are interested in sf and African topics

Have you read my Małe zielone ludziki? _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 03:32, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

@Poitrus: This is extremely cool, I hadn't seen it. Wish there was a translation available. When it comes to my scifi reading I'm still going through lots of American works right now, but I would love to read more world-scifi like this. It's a nice article; it was originally translated by Oliwiasocz? Very good copyedit. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 10:25, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

There are very few translations of anything into English, actually. I could count the Polish sf books translated into English on my two hands probably. Oliwiasocz translates a bunch of stuff from Polish, yes (it's part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Intertranswiki/OKA). Anyway, the book is available as an ebook legally for few bucks, and could be machine translated. I'd not expect to see it ever translated professionally, at least by a human (maybe by AI in the near future when all stuff will be AI translated, we will see this in a decade or two IMHO). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:49, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

@Poitrus: Well, you writing these English-language articles might help slightly. We can always hope. Fan-translations would be awesome too, of course. You might know how enormous the market of Japanese-to-English fan-translations is, haha, though sadly Poland isn't quite so popular. Unless your name is Stanisław Lem or Andrzej Sapkowski. Still, anyone could translate Cyberjoly Drim it seems to me, and put it up online... I sure hope LLM-translations are not going to take over everything like that. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 19:01, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

Having looked at this problem for more than twenty years (when I first became aware of it), and now familiar with its history, I don't think anything but LLM can help. English publishers have a rock-hard if not fully rational dislike of translations (probably because their native market is so large; I am curious how it looks for Spanish and Portuguese); whereas those for smaller languages (Polish, German, Czech, etc.) are much more open to translations because those markets can't produce enough local works to satisfy demand. I created my first articles about works of one of the best Polish sf writers (Jacek Dukaj) years ago, and they still haven't been translated. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 00:59, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

@Piotrus: LLMs are not going to change those market conditions, though, and when it comes science-fiction, people are probably more likely to just read another American author rather than a machine-translated Polish author. One thing that seems to get the world-market interested is adaptations, though, be it Solaris or The Witcher. I think there's lots of ways these countries can grow their international presence. But it's very hard. For now I'm just glad that I know Polish sci-fi is a thing at all, thanks to you. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 09:04, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I am not sure about this. People read fanfiction, ebooks, and more and more of LLM content anyway - and LLM is getting better. I think we are going to see a trend of people becoming more accepting of LLM meeting better and better LLM content meet one day. Also, cultures converge, and English publisher dislike of translation is not common in other parts of the world. Now, this is subjective, but I grew up in Poland, surrounded by a ton of English translations, as well as some from Russian and various other languages. Once I moved to US and became interested in what is in the bookstores there, I was shocked it's 99.9% English, with no translations from other languages. Today in Polish bookstores, for example, if I look at, let's say, sf section, it is usually divided into two halves: one is for Polish authors, and the other for translations. English translations account for maybe 50-75% of the latter, but it is still common to find stuff translated from other languages. (You mention the Witcher; one of my to-do projects is to write/translate articles about some Russian/Ukrainian Witcher "fanfiction" by serious writers - I wonder if Sapkowski gave them permission - that got published in book format and got published in Polish/Russian/Ukrainian and probably few more languages (but not English); see also a rare interesting Russian sf book translated to English that is semi-fanfiction, of LOTR: The Last Ringbearer - this one you can actually read in English, translated by humans - but you cannot buy it due to legal reasons :). PS. Translations from Japanese are an interesting exception, but they are pretty recent and riding on the gigantic wave of anime/manga popularity. They are just a tip of the iceberg of international sci-fi that most English readers don't even know exist. Seriously, it is quite weird that actually English speakers have access to the smallest amount of international sci-fi (b/c it is not translated into English, unlike Polish, German, Russian, etc.). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:36, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

@Piotrus: I've looked a little bit at Dutch scifi, but sadly haven't quite gotten into reading stuff from my home country yet. It's a mix of English-to-Dutch translations and Dutch originals here as well, though I like to eye the non-translated English section. I want to learn French to at least increase my perspective a bit more, but learning languages is of course not easy. I think I had seen your The Last Ringbearer article before, btw; you and Chriswick did a great job on that! I'll note that the 40 year history of anime fan-translations, and perhaps 30-year history of manga fan-translations, is nothing to scuff at. It can serve as an inspiration: all you need is a community with members interested in putting in the work. Then again, seeing as even the international audience for Russian film and animation is pretty small, I imagine finding a community interested in Polish books would remain very tiny. It's a shame. Still, I don't have much input either way while I haven't even read the most famous ones yet. I did watch Solaris, but it's not really my kind of movie ^_^; ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 13:02, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Interesting. Seems we don't have an article on that (Dutch science fiction, just the category for Category:Dutch science fiction). Good source: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/benelux

Re: "I imagine finding a community interested in Polish books would remain very tiny". That's a very interesting argument that I have trouble understanding, despite hearing it from others. First, Polish books are not particularly different from non-Polish, outside occasionally featuring Polish characters, locales and history. Second, for sf readers in particular, featuring exotic stuff is common. The assumption that sf readers or fantasy readers can read about Mars, or Middle-earth, but not Poland or Korea is something I have trouble grasping. I can imagine some other reasons, such as suspicion of translation quality, or xenophobic prejudice against stuff that is "foreign", but frankly, this is a topic that needs to be researched by scholars to make us understand why so few books (not just Polish, this is true for all languages I am familiar with, with, as I said, recent exception of Japanese) are translated into English (if there is a study on this, I haven't seen it). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:39, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

@Piotrus: I was actually thinking the opposite problem here. Polish books are not particularly different from non-Polish books, and because of that, a community dedicated to Polish translations doesn't have a specific appeal to it. This is one of the big advantages Japan – and recently Korea – have. The other problem is that people's reading tastes are segmented in different ways. Scifi versus thriller versus historic literature; teen versus young-adult versus adult; etc. Unless it's a certified classic or has been adapted into a visual medium, the audience will be relatively niche. Some awards help of course. But as to why American publishers have so little interest in translations that they don't even exist, I have no clue. ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 09:28, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

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Thank you, Suyash! That is very thoughtful :) ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 17:47, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

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Lavender Town sources

Hello @Maplestrip! Lavender Town is an older article which you originally authored. I am not questioning its notability, it definitely is. However, some of the sources present as problematic, particularly this one from Gawker, which is a WP:BLOG and really should not be used under any circumstances (see WP:GAWKER). About half of the remaining sources are WP:MREL, however Valnet is to blame for this. If you get the opportunity at any point to improve the sourcing in this article, so it can retain WP:GA, that would be great! If you would like any help with this, I would happy to oblige, as I often review video games article in my capacity as a new page reviewer and AfC reviewer! Thanks! 11WB (talk) 20:43, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi @11WB:, good to see someone working on the article! When I originally composed it, I didn't expect there to be enough quality sources for it to ever quite reach GA-status, so I'm surprised to see it has passed a GAR. If I had better sources to cite the article with, I would've used them at the time. Finding reliable sources has only gotten harder for me over the years, so I'm afraid I can't be much help. I've really let this article go live its own life now. Best of luck improving articles yourself :) ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 09:14, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

I have had a look and apart from one listicle, I have not been able to find anything else that can be used reliably. I think the pond has run dry for sources on Lavender Town at this time. My only issue, despite it actually being a decently written page, was the source from Gawker. The article, much like most Pokémon articles on Wikipedia, is very well written. I note you have AP, which shows you have created high quality articles. Thank you for your contributions to the project and happy editing! 11WB (talk) 17:25, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

SFE

Take a look at their articles about comics, https://sf-encyclopedia.com/category/comics , and try drafting a short entry. I would be happy to review it, edit for style compliance and then we can submit it and see what happens. If they accept it, you can probably submit future entries without my mediation. I'd recommend choosing a clearly SF-themed webcomic to start with. The ones I am somewhat familiar with are few (Girl Genius, Sluggy Freelance, and Outsider (no Wikipedia article yet); I'd certainly be happy to co-author entries on these for SFE.

One minor thing to note is that SFE contributors are identified by real names (initials in the articles but deanonymized here: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/contributors ). No need to write a bio, and I guess they don't vet the information, so you can probably use a pseudonym if desired. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:37, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Thank you! I will draft one or more entries this week, try to get the hang of their style, and see what I come up with. I'll use Wikipedia's email function to send you my drafts when I got any. This is very exciting! ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 13:44, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Glad you like the idea; I hope it works out! I recommend emailing me at my name (p... k...) dot gmail; I check that email faster than the Wikipedia one. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:02, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Congrats

[M] :) _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:09, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Thank you so much for bringing me in touch with David! I'm really excited to see my writing on the website, and I'm excited to work on more entries in the future. I accidentally did a "reply" instead of a "reply all" in the email-chain; I didn't intend to exclude you or John Clute from our conversation. Though it's mostly boring technical things like the works section so you're not missing much. If you ever want to talk to me about anything like this, feel free to email me! ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 10:47, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

My pleasure, I am enjoying reading up about the cool webcomics. Any chance you'll cover Sluggy Freelance and the Outsider one day? The first one is reasonably well known; the second I think is a hidden gem (pure space opera is rare, and this one even has elves in space trope I like; if you end up covering it, I'd suggest cross-referencing Crest of the Stars and Eldar :) My third favorite, Girl Genius , already seems covered (in the author's bio). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:32, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

@Piotrus: I'm unfamiliar with The Outsider, but this looks good, I should check it out! I'm focusing on particularly famous/significant ones for now, but there's a ton of personal favorites I could write about as well. Sluggy Freelance is an interesting issue: I have to cover it, but I haven't read it in years and when I first read it I didn't care for it at all ^_^; – Next authors I plan to cover are David Willis (It's Walky/Dumbing of Age), Jennifer Diane Reitz (Unicorn Jelly), and Dan Shive (El Goonish Shive). Where I go from there, who knows. I should probably do Schlock Mercenary and Narbonic. Oh, and use this as an excuse to read Unspeakable Vault of Doom and get Munchkin in, as originally planned :p ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 13:43, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

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"Biology in fiction" question

@Maplestrip Apologies for posting in the wrong section! And thank you for your answers. Clm2527 (talk) 11:33, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

No worries, @Clm2527:, I for one did not mind at all, and there was no indication that that page was intended to be 'closed'. In the future, you can always create a new talkpage section on an article, and tag people you think might be interested. Oh, and your edit on the article looks nice, good work :) ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 12:28, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

@Maplestrip Thank you! Clm2527 (talk) 14:22, 30 March 2026 (UTC)