User talk:Macdonald-ross

Words

Every now & then we get editors changing words on the basis of their ideas on what is simple. Words also have to be accurate (we are an encyclopedia).

Big: certainly simple and popular with children, but a term almost never to be used about living things. Is a giraffe bigger than an elephant? Think about it. It is almost always better to use a more exact word, such as longer, heavier. Is a star big? Does that mean its apparent size or its intrinsic size? Ditto stars being bright.
Rich: not a good word because it is ambiguous. A cake can be just as rich as a person. However, only a person can be wealthy, so prefer that word. Neither word is on the extended list of simple words, incidentally, so use the more precise word.
Very: another childhood favourite. In spoken English it is an intensifier, but it has almost no function in prose. It may be the most frequent word copy editors cut out as redundant.
Die: we all die, but species become extinct.

Now here's the tricky bit. Technically, a species which is not extinct is extant. Extant is the opposite of extinct. However it is a very rare word, and we use the common word "living". So we talk about living species. It sounds natural, and is right for us.

Animal: that includes jellyfish and beetles. If you mean mammals, say so.
Rare: an essential word in ecology, and supported by definitions in the literature. Steaks can also be rare, but that would not be good to use on Simple.

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Deleting user talk pages

I noticed that you deleted some user talk pages recently. User talk pages are not to be deleted if they have ever had any legitimate talk on them. They can be deleted if the only content they've ever had was vandalism, copyvio, advertising, and the like, or if it's not for an IP and the user doesn't exist. If they've ever had any of the normal things talk pages are used for, they should not be deleted. --Auntof6 (talk) 21:12, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

restore article to draft

hi can you change the article that u have just deleted Amee to Amee (draft), that is my effort. Thanks

Hamoon Hemmat

Hello dear manager, if you can delete article quickly, I think it was really wrong for me to create it, and I apologize for creating it.--منع الواقع (talk) 11:12, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Or move it to my draft.--منع الواقع (talk) 11:13, 25 February 2021 (UTC)