Dr. Blofeld, I know you're the busiest contributor to Wikipedia, but I was wondering if you could please review one of my many articles nominated on the GAN page. I always appreciate your input and suggestions, and it would be a privilege to have you review the article of your choosing. As always, your reviews are greatly appreciated! If you so choose, let me know which one you've selected to review. Thanks again! -- Caponer ( talk) 21:16, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
That's not exactly true any longer!! There's some people putting in a lot more daily work than I do! Sure, I'll reserve one for tomorrow.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:19, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello DB. I am watching the second season of Shakespeare Uncovered. The episode about King Lear had some clips from King Lear (1971 USSR film) which were fascinating. Sadly they didn't show any clips from Ran (film). While thinking about AK's version I remember an interesting coincidence. The makeup and wig that Tatsuya Nakadi wore was similar (very IMO) to that worn by Sir (Albert Finney) in the film version of The Dresser. Now I don't think AK was copying that film, but, as TD was released in 83 and R in 85 I remember being stuck by the similarities at the time. If you haven't already seen it you should add The Dresser to your list. Cheers. MarnetteD| Talk 22:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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This might need to wait a bit--have tried going to Lantern and it seems the site is having issues no matter what portal you try; search just spins out right now. We hope ( talk) 14:25, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
No worries, I wasn't going to ask at all but as they said a film about him with some big actors was going to be made I thought it would be worth it. Enjoy the weekend!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:28, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
1937
1935
That one looks good.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:34, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Precious again, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:25, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Aw thankyou Gerda, great to see him as TFA isn't it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Doc! You created the {{ Mansi Township}} template in 2010, and I created the Gasha disambiguation just now. The template contains an entry leading to "Gasha", so I wanted to add it to the dab and fix the link accordingly. However, I have no idea what all those entities in the template are. Am I right to assume they are all populated places in that township? Would you be so kind as to correct the link so it no longer points to the disambig, please? Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); February 2, 2015; 18:36 (UTC)
I thought Rich Farmbrough was sorting out the dab links for all of the Burmese templates?♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:14, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
I think this is something that could be done properly at the graphics lab to make it look the way you intend it. This is something I could try, but would not do as well as the folks in graphics. Hope you don't think I've let you down on this one! We hope ( talk) 03:14, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hi.. I would like to inform that one of your article Tsarap River is this time in the news. MehrajMir (Talk) 14:49, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know Mehrajmir13!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:08, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Congratulations, Doctor, on yesterday's TFA! It's a fine article. I know you've got a lot of these under your belt, but it still must feel good each time. Regards, Bede735 ( talk) 18:09, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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I have put this article up for peer review again, since it failed FAC. Please have look at Wikipedia:Peer review/Shah Rukh Khan/archive2. Thanks, BollyJeff | talk 15:30, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you again for all your help during the GA and PR reviews of the Gary Cooper article. Throwing caution to the wind, I nominated the article as a featured article candidate. I would very much appreciate one last review and assessment when you have the time. Regards, Bede735 ( talk) 14:21, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I see that you reviewed the Olivier article. You might want to share the article with your Hoffman collaborator. I think it demonstrates how the highest praise can be expressed neutrally. All the best! -- Ssilvers ( talk) 18:52, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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The article is ready for reviewing,
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Thanks for passing it, doc. I will open a peer review in a week's time after I have expanded the article further. One thing — In the FAC review of
Chandralekha, Bollyjeff said that he did not want to see
Behindwoods.com in the article. Here there are around 35-40 references from Behindwoods.com. I can find other RS's to replace some of the sources, but, I can't remove all of them. What should I do then?
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@ Bollyjeff: At that time, the website was starting to develop. But now, it has its own awards ceremony called "Behindwoods Gold Medal Awards". It has been going on for the past two years (2013 and 2014). You can learn about the awards ceremony here. They also conducted a film festival for IIT Madras. — Ssven2 speak 2 me 14:04, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
It appears that Bouncin' with Bud and Bouncing with Bud are the same song. The 1947 date seems to only be from Jazzstandards.com. Ardric47 ( talk) 17:23, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Redirect one then!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
I have restarted to work on this project with this [1]. You and Rosie may like to work on it. -- Nvvchar. 15:57, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm afraid I don't think that's a good idea Nvv. I'm not DYK orientated any more, I tend to focus on just a couple nowadays. I have some books I need to be cracking on with for GA too. I don't mind doing the occasional one though. Thankyou for your expansion of the Indian one. I think cleaning up the odd Indian city or district or national park/temple article is a good idea though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:10, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
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For promoting Enthiran to GA status. — Ssven2 speak 2 me 05:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC) |
Ssven2 Thanks but I definitely don't deserve that one! All I did was make some minor copyedits. It's rare that I'll review an article and not spot any major issues. I could have nit picked but that's better done at PR.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:39, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Would you like to comment here as there is a discussion going on. Its Wp:Own case. Pls, help.— Prashant 07:16, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I'd rather stay out of that one Prashant. All I'll say, as I said recently at the SRK FAC, is that Bollywood articles in general I think tend to be more sugary than Hollywood ones. A large part of it I think is the film critic system in India where I strongly suspect that some of the reviewers, particularly ones like Taran Adarsh are paid to say those things or there is some sort of corruption involved in film reviewing. Threatening to delist a bunch of Krimuk's FA's because you disagree with him on Chopra though is a bit immature don't you think?♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:37, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Well, I just answered his questioned as according to him something, which is also present in his edited articles, is fluff. So I said If that is a fluff then, the same thing is present in your article. I just answered his question. I just want equality for all the articles. Either convert all Bollywood articles as Chopra's or Convert Chopra's like those female heroes and Cinema Legends, who have contributed much to Indian Cinema.— Prashant 10:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
There's more to add but I've been busy for the last few days uploading at Commons. I have quite a few news clippings set aside at Newspapers.com. There are 3 non-free photos in the article-the dining room, the Cub Room and the photo of some of the Stork Club's gifts. Have been thinking that one should probably go and that one should probably be the main dining room. Have my eye on a postcard sent out by the Club from the days when it had live entertainment. Billingsley dropped the entertainers and just kept a live band for a long time because he realized the real entertainment of the place was people coming out to be seen and people watching them. All in all, I think this would work now for GA; also think there might be enough to add to consider trying FA with it. This has been one of my projects for some time, as you can see by when I made my first edit to it :) We hope ( talk) 22:19, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Have just dragged the paragraph into my sandbox. :) We hope ( talk) 14:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Do you know anyone here with a Fold-3 subscription? This is a nice photo of Elliott Roosevelt and it appears to be from the Army Air Corps, which would put it in the public domain. I don't want to sign up for a subscription just for the photo because it takes it away from someone who works on military-related articles. photo. You have to have a subscription to download it. We hope ( talk) 17:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
...to the Kentucky Derby. Or at least a relative sharing the surname! Blofeld!. And youcan't say Neigh! Montanabw (talk) 02:16, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Haha! Thats's an evil horse!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:06, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
I have opened the peer review for the film. Please do suggest any changes that I should make before I go for FAC. — Ssven2 speak 2 me 03:52, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
My proposed Wikimania talk "How To Pick Up More Women" is here. I was hoping that you might give this some thought? Do you have an evil plan? Shall we get rid of the men with a terrible weapon? More seriously.... do you have suggestions of what we can do more of/less of/ etc or is it insolvable and just amusing to talk about. No rush Victuallers ( talk)
Eric might have some suggestions on that one! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:50, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Dr. Blofeld! Since you've been so supportive of A Trip to the Moon and other articles about Georges Méliès, I thought you might be interested in joining a discussion about how best to cover his pioneering films on Wikipedia. I've started the discussion here: Talk:Georges Méliès filmography#What about the redlinks?
I'd greatly appreciate your thoughts and advice!-- Lemuellio ( talk) 04:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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That's an unusual comparison LOL The Herald but appreciated all the same. There should certainly be more love on wikipedia, at times it seems dominated by hostile people who assume bad faith..♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:25, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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Didn't you get the message JodyB? You're not welcome here. Don't you dare prod and template me.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:49, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
If you'd taken the liberty to treat me as a person instead of some random idiot I'd have told you that a redirect to the modern hospital would have been a better idea and some mention of the old city hospital there would probably be more appropriate than a separate article on what was there before. As it is you've wasted time opening an AFD. Try working with people instead of against people and things might run a bit more sweeter around here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:54, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Now that the redirect was placed and I understand that old article was misnamed, I have closed the AFD. Thank you for your kindness. JodyB talk 13:58, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
You're most welcome JodyB, thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Okay so since the old ref for Juan Cotumba is just a dead link now, I was going to add a ref from sports reference for him-but I can't even find him on there. Is there another name for him or something? (I hate to put a unsourced tag for someone like that to be honest) Wgolf ( talk) 19:15, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Wgolf: Try the web archive thing or BBC.There's other sources like [3] with other info.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:19, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! Got it now! Wgolf ( talk) 19:20, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm glad to note your interest in the Mary Celeste article. In the stub that you have just created for The Ship That Died, you include the line: "A feature film was made in 1955 by Ealing Studios, entitled The Ship That Died of Shame. This 1955 film has nothing to do with the Mary Celeste, and I wonder why you thought to mention it. It could confuse people into believing that there was a connection. Brianboulton ( talk) 22:54, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Oh, really? I thought I caught a BFI source in searching earlier and took for granted it was also about the Mary Celeste. I shall remove it, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:58, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Louis Jourdan passed yesterday. So many memorable performances. RIP LJ. MarnetteD| Talk 21:50, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Ah that's a pity, yes, I was amazed he was still alive, in fact I was wondering if he had somehow passed and it not reported. I think his best performance actually was in The Paradine Case but his best role has got to be Octopussy. I had a feeling it would be this year or the next! He was probably the suavest actor in any film I've seen, he was the living embodiment of wealth and status wasn't he! There's really not many Golden Hollywood stars left now. I keep expecting Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland and Christopher Lee to go soon, Douglas and Havilland are only the two real major Golden Hollywood stars I can think of which are still living.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:59, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
SchroCat Perhaps there'll be stuffed sheep's heads to devour at his funeral after party :-)! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:01, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't think he did actually travel on a plane for the Hobbit, I thought they filmed his scenes in England, I might be wrong though. Not seen him in Dracula, I didn't like the 1958 film Gigi on first viewing, I found Chevalier irritating, but he's since grown on me so I may watch it again at some point. Jourdan was also particularly good in The VIPs. Letter from an Unknown Woman and Madame Bovary to a lesser extent too, there's still quite a lot of roles particularly in 60s I've not seen though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:04, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
I began going through Doris Day's filmo, I've reached around 1955 so far I think, haven't quite come to Julie yet which she did with Jourdan. I got distracted as ther'e so many others to watch haha! Irma la Douce (which Jourdan narrated) I've been meaning to watch for a while, one of the few Billy Wilder films I've not seen! Actually in looking there's more Wilder films I haven't seen than I'd realised. I have a few on DVD like Witness for the Prosecution which I've not seen yet!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:16, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Yes MD, I see Lizabeth Scott also died last month. Enjoyed her in Elvis's Loving You recently.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:29, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
@ MarnetteD: Rhonda Fleming and Danielle Darrieux are still alive too. Darrieux posing naked for a painting in Lovers of Paris was a breathtaking sight (although being 1957 we didn't see too much)! an exquisite film, Duvivier really was one of the greats.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:05, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
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@ Victor Lopes: Nobody said it does. But he seems to be notable if you care to spend a few minutes researching him. I'll remove your prod as I don't do them.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:51, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
The 1904 photos should be OK for you to upload under the same license as we did for The Tower House and I believe the older interior images for Althorp. I've found some more Ritz photos at Geograph UK and can look at Flickr next. Then it would be off to old books at Archive.org and Google. ;) We hope ( talk) 19:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
@ We hope:I'm not sure, the Tower ones are form 1885, it's difficult to claim 100 years after life of author on ones from 1904, just 11 years afterwards. How about plans from 1904? It's got lots of the original plans in the other book I have too! I'll scan them later in the week. Flickr might have some modern interior ones on CC 2.0 license. [4] ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:46, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Re: Construction photos of the Ritz- This is Fireproof magazine and it was published in Chicago. The photos appeared in the October 1905 issue. We hope ( talk) 21:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
In the UK I can only see snippets of that :-( Can you upload any from there?♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Surprise! :) We hope ( talk) 02:34, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
That's great!! Well done!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:18, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
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Congrats and thanks WH! A well-deserved GA!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:36, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
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Evening Doc, Yet another request for PR help, I'm afraid, although this one comes with an ready-made opportunity for a pun or two while comparing the subject matter to the content and prose! It concerns the Great Stink, a relatively brief event in London history that has had a beneficial effect that we all enjoy to this day. The PR can be found here, if you have the time to spare. If you don't, no worries! Cheers – SchroCat ( talk) 23:24, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Great job! It's one of those articles which seem to have Smellovision, I can almost smell the stink in glancing at it hehe! I'll try to give it my full attention tomorrow, cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:28, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Kamal Khan's dead! :(, may he eat sheeps eyes in heaven... Louis died on valantines day!-- Lerdthenerd wiki defender 10:24, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Marnette and myself have a lengthy discussion on him above Lerd, you're rather slow on the uptake!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:32, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Have just stumbled onto a 1903 issue of Country Life with some very nice interior photos from that era. Country Life pages 53-59. Viewing this at Google UK and don't have any notice that it is still copyrighted--one can download the entire magazine. The article is from the July 11, 1903 issue-any interest in some of these photos? We hope ( talk) 14:58, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Sure! Good find!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:01, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
OK-From 2 issues of Country Life: 1903-
1899-
Cheers! Not much room for images now though with the plans!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Let me round up the usual suspects-eBay and Billboard. :) We hope ( talk) 19:07, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hang on-will get to that--meantime we have people who are trying to SD a 1913 film poster which has a Pre-1923 license File:An Indian’s Loyalty.jpg ://// We hope ( talk) 22:48, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
LOL, I initially read that as a 1913 film poster having an STD :-)!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:54, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Looks great, can you shade out the black strip in the background on the left though?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:27, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Have just viewed the trailer--at the YouTube link provided by the uploader and at IMDB. Both are more recent copies, as they both were done to sell the film on home media. Both mention "the director of Moonstruck," which is a long way from 1962. Think this has to go also. We hope ( talk) 20:03, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
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Can I, perchance, interest you in a peer review of Camille Saint-Saëns, dear Doc? I'm hoping to get the old boy up to FA standard, and comments at PR will be greatly appreciated, if you have time and inclination. – Tim riley talk 17:07, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Having difficulty concentrating on prose on here at the moment but will try to look at it within a few days after I've finished looking at Schro's!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:57, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
The article Patrick Fairweather has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
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Do you realise how annoying it is when somebody removes a source from an article, even if a dead link without bothering to replace it, and then plasters unsourced tags on it and then some busybody comes along with deletion prod lecturing me on WP: Referencing for beginners within just hours? It's bloody irritating Kharkiv07 and pure laziness. Why would you think an ambassador to a country would not meet notability guidelines? Why is a bit of decent research not a better alternative to deletion? It's irresponsible. It's not the first time you User:Wgolf have done this sort of thing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
My apologies for somebody else deleting a reference, however I'll have you know I did a fair amount of research on the guy but missed the one book that mentions his name. I'll cede that in this situation I may have been in the wrong, but also note that it was in accordance of the references for BLP and not notability guidelines. Just add one of those books and remove them. Kharkiv07 ( talk) 21:44, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
One book? There's over a dozen books documenting him in google books. And I'd guess in Albanian newspapers archives there'd be many sources on him. The last deletion prod on an ambassador I had thrown at me was Mohammed Ali al-Ahwal BTW... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:46, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Okay. I apologies. I made a mistake but I assure you it was in good faith. Kharkiv07 ( talk) 21:53, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
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On your user page you even have a user box which states "This user loves Tagging pages for problems". No decent editor here is going to assume good faith in somebody who has that box on their user page.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:02, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Kharkiv07: Now a start class article. If I wasn't here it would have been deleted out of your sheer ignorance of the topic. In future please try to improve articles and research them before prodding. Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:48, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Dr. B: Victuallers and I have developed a proposal for a talk to be presented at Wikimania 2015. It's titled, How to pick up more women... -- as in more women editors and more women's biographies. Examples include the Edit-a-thon blitz during WikiWomen's History Month and the "new articles" work underway by WikiProject Women Writers. The Wikimania talk proposal review process has begun and there's no guarantee that this proposal will be accepted. That's where you come in. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. Ultimately, we hope you add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal which signifies you'd be interested in the talk if you were attending it (it does not commit you to attending Wikimania). Thank you! Rosiestep ( talk) 22:44, 22 February 2015 (UTC) |
Since you asked. However that page is on more the pages of more than fifteen other users so I'm not certain if I'm just overthinking this or what. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 05:27, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that. No credible editor though is going to have it on their user page!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:02, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Yuck, template removed. I've prodded this, but would love to see it kept. Dweller ( talk) 13:36, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Dweller Why is deletion always the preferable option here though? I'm sick of doing all of the work. Why wouldn't a nice "Can you expand this?" talk page message suffice instead of a prod? I created many many short stubs in the old days on here, and you betcha most of them are notable and need expansion. I'm already having thoughts about continuing editing here and this sort of thing is not exactly convincing me to do otherwise.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:19, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
You've done a great job with it. It can't be far off DYK territory. -- Dweller ( talk) 14:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Somebody recently prodded Patrick Fairweather too...♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Dweller can you move the page back to Der Weg nach oben? Thanks.
Can you tell us where you got the photo from? We really need a link for it and the page it's on, if possible. Otherwise the source will be in question and it could end up at FFD. List them on the file page and I'll archive them at Wayback Machine, so they'll be permanent. I believe we can FUR and license this after you list the links. We hope ( talk) 14:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
You may wish to update the geography section of that article. It includes places in the civil parish of Porthleven, which was created or expanded after the 1823 date of the cited reference. Cheers, Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 19:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
As you have previously commented on one or more of nominations of the lists of scheduled monuments in Somerset, I wondered if you would be kind enough to take a look at the List of scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor which is now nominated at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor/archive1?— Rod talk 21:18, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
Based on our communication I posted a ban appeal which was rejected ( diff). To be honest, I was certain that I will be indeffed during this appeal, but I was probably lucky this time. Anyway, I just wanted to keep you informed about something we both discussed. All the best.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 23:58, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Oh well, you tried. I still think it's ridiculous that they're confusing Albanian issues with general Serbian articles. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:56, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
How to measure the size of an article on Wikipedia? In Enthiran's PR, you mentioned that the article has decreased to 146 kbs from 166 kbs (it may have decreased even more so). How to find out the article's size like that?
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Let me have a look--if I don't find them now, I'll keep looking. Sometimes you can get musician photos from Downbeat and Metronome covers when they're listed on eBay. File:Frank Sinatra Metronome magazine November 1950.JPG File:Metronome January 1946.JPG These are two from Metronome. What we can get from either of the magazines depends on what people have to sell. :) We hope ( talk) 16:29, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't aware of these. I will look at them later and see where is best to use them.— Rod talk 07:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Will look at it after work today. Thanks! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 14:54, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
The Ritz London Hotel - I'll take a look at its redlinks, especially the women's bios, as Women's History Month starts in a nanosecond and I'll pretty much only be working on that project through early April. I gotta see if the Ritz book contains anything which would parlay into a nice article in this connection. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:26, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Great - I'll do the tagging when I have a moment. Haven't been quite so active as usual lately. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 17:24, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
So what's the problem this time? I've sourced Mann this time around, which most people accept as a "legitimate" biography. Yes, it supports Bowers' statements, yes, it depicts Tracy as a bisexual, yes it portrays Hepburn as a likely lesbian, yes, it assumes the relationship between Tracy and Hepburn was exaggerated. Do you mean that this biography is by default also "trashy" because it supports statements made by the Bowers' reference? I'm missing the point with your criticism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Holanthony ( talk • contribs) 18:33, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
There's just far too much "he confirmed it, "he didn't", "he disputed this" etc. It reads as a load of nonsense. Where is the actual proof? How reliable are the claims, really?? I really think the article is better off without even mentioning it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:36, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
But wasn't that just the point? That the rumours were claimed to be unsubstantiated? And when I illustrated that these are sentiments conveyed by other biographers as well, even before Bowers' "tell-all" you called it "nonsense"? To my knowledge, Mann's biography has never been refuted and is accepted as "legitimate" Why shouldn't it be a relevant source any less than say James Curtis' book, that has been cited ad infinitum in the article? The talks surrounding the "gay issue" have been circling around these two for decades and since there are reports galore about it out there from reputable sources, it seems shortsighted to act like nothing and pretend it never existed. Holanthony ( talk) 20:13, 25 February 2015 (UTC)Holanthony
No, as they sort of cancel each other out! Most of the Hollywood actors at one time had a gay rumour or something reported about them and I'm sure most of us can well imagine that many of them at times strayed or did things when drunk. What would make it noteworthy and encyclopedic? Now somebody like Cary Grant, there's extensive coverage documenting the "Was he gay?" issue, not Tracy, at best it's one or two sensationalist writers or a writer agreeing with another that Tracy was bisexual. I just google book searched Spencer Tracy bisexual and it turned up one very brief mention in a book and a magazine comment saying "it's ridiculous". Where's the extensive coverage documenting it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:21, 25 February 2015 (UTC) Well, isn't the fact that acknowledged biographers actually do mention that Tracy was bisexual and Hepburn gay a point worth mentioning? By that it is no longer a wild "sensationalist" rumour someone's posted on a blog or in a forum on the net, it actually carries some weight to it as one can presume there has been some research and substance put into the matter. The fact that Mann brings it up I think is worth a mention. Holanthony ( talk) 23:25, 25 February 2015 (UTC)Holanthony
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For having loads of Barnstars. Enjoy this excellent mock-chocolate confectionary! Irondome ( talk) 21:06, 25 February 2015 (UTC) |
Thanks!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:07, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
I just started working on Pocahontas (1910 film) and I found the play was adapted by Lloyd Lonergan from Lydia Sigourney's poem... which is strange because I have a half-finished article about the school she attended - East District School - at age 4. It is actually Sigourney's writings which helped me rectify the errors in the East District School (i.e. not built in 1798), but it is weird to have so many threads of history become inter-twinned. Have you noticed this in your writings? 55 of 1087 films down... I wonder how many more interconnections will come up. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 22:20, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Excellent work ChrisGualtieri on the old films!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:11, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Doc, I think it would be, with expansion. There's the history of the house before it was turned into a hotel to build on and also more, if possible, on the filming of The Haunting there. If sources can be found for either or both of these, it shouldn't be a big problem to go to GA. There may also be some newspaper and magazine stories that would help us here. We hope ( talk) 17:30, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Doesn't look like it. Please add as much as you can from it! We can then look into seeing if there's more on the architecture.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
You're welcome! — LlywelynII 15:12, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Doc, Many thanks for your help on the Great Stink. The article is now at FAC for further consideration, should you wish to partake further. Many thanks! - SchroCat ( talk) 16:08, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
As you know, I've been working on this artice. Can I seek your advice on an image issue? The lead image is File:Mary Celeste as Amazon in 1861.jpg, a photographic copy of an 1861 painting. I would have thought this fell squarely under the PD-art licence, but the image page is not satisfied (see red text). Can you tell me what is being asked for? Many thanks. Brianboulton ( talk) 23:03, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Fixed BB.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:15, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi there,
Yesterday I made a suggestion on how Rationalobserver could work toward redeeming herself on Coffee's talk which Coffee endorsed and pinged Rationalobserver. See: Some good can come It involves a kindly offer by jbmurray to help Rationalobserver learn about evaluating sources for historical narrative writing, as she'd had brought up criticisms of "source integreity" on Talk:Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck) and in various places about the same subject regarding Donner Party on multiple pages recently. I still think this is a good idea, especially given the effort jbmurray made in an effort to aid her. What do you think? EChastain ( talk) 15:52, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
I think everybody really needs to realise that ultimately most of us are here for the same reason, and anything which distracts us from building it is is merely a distraction. Rationalobserver certainly needs to avoid commenting on other editors so much and focus on content, which I think you can see from a few of her articles she's quite capable of writing. But most of us here at times should probably follow that advice and not let certain things get to us so much. I don't know Coffee, nor do I have anything personal against him, but if he has a habit of imposing blocks without thought and feels happy doing that then at times he's going to get a reaction and encounter difficulty. Admittedly I even thought his block of Knowledgekid was unwarranted in that particular instance, however annoying he often is. I didn't see him say anything I thought was grossly uncivil or blockable in that particular instance (unless I missed something); he's said things previously I thought were trolling and blockable and he wasn't even warned.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:39, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
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You have been involved in preliminary discussions about splitting the article on Lhasa into two: one on the small city and one on the larger prefecture-level city. This is to invite you to contribute to the discussion at User talk:Aymatth2/Lhasa (prefecture-level city)#Proposed move. Please feel free to invite anyone else you feel would be interested. Thanks, Aymatth2 ( talk) 23:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Dr. Blofeld, I know you're the busiest contributor to Wikipedia, but I was wondering if you could please review one of my many articles nominated on the GAN page. I always appreciate your input and suggestions, and it would be a privilege to have you review the article of your choosing. As always, your reviews are greatly appreciated! If you so choose, let me know which one you've selected to review. Thanks again! -- Caponer ( talk) 21:16, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
That's not exactly true any longer!! There's some people putting in a lot more daily work than I do! Sure, I'll reserve one for tomorrow.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:19, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello DB. I am watching the second season of Shakespeare Uncovered. The episode about King Lear had some clips from King Lear (1971 USSR film) which were fascinating. Sadly they didn't show any clips from Ran (film). While thinking about AK's version I remember an interesting coincidence. The makeup and wig that Tatsuya Nakadi wore was similar (very IMO) to that worn by Sir (Albert Finney) in the film version of The Dresser. Now I don't think AK was copying that film, but, as TD was released in 83 and R in 85 I remember being stuck by the similarities at the time. If you haven't already seen it you should add The Dresser to your list. Cheers. MarnetteD| Talk 22:53, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
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This might need to wait a bit--have tried going to Lantern and it seems the site is having issues no matter what portal you try; search just spins out right now. We hope ( talk) 14:25, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
No worries, I wasn't going to ask at all but as they said a film about him with some big actors was going to be made I thought it would be worth it. Enjoy the weekend!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:28, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
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That one looks good.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:34, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
Precious again, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:25, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Aw thankyou Gerda, great to see him as TFA isn't it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Doc! You created the {{ Mansi Township}} template in 2010, and I created the Gasha disambiguation just now. The template contains an entry leading to "Gasha", so I wanted to add it to the dab and fix the link accordingly. However, I have no idea what all those entities in the template are. Am I right to assume they are all populated places in that township? Would you be so kind as to correct the link so it no longer points to the disambig, please? Thanks!— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); February 2, 2015; 18:36 (UTC)
I thought Rich Farmbrough was sorting out the dab links for all of the Burmese templates?♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:14, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
I think this is something that could be done properly at the graphics lab to make it look the way you intend it. This is something I could try, but would not do as well as the folks in graphics. Hope you don't think I've let you down on this one! We hope ( talk) 03:14, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hi.. I would like to inform that one of your article Tsarap River is this time in the news. MehrajMir (Talk) 14:49, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know Mehrajmir13!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:08, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Congratulations, Doctor, on yesterday's TFA! It's a fine article. I know you've got a lot of these under your belt, but it still must feel good each time. Regards, Bede735 ( talk) 18:09, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
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I have put this article up for peer review again, since it failed FAC. Please have look at Wikipedia:Peer review/Shah Rukh Khan/archive2. Thanks, BollyJeff | talk 15:30, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thankyou Caponer!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:15, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Thank you again for all your help during the GA and PR reviews of the Gary Cooper article. Throwing caution to the wind, I nominated the article as a featured article candidate. I would very much appreciate one last review and assessment when you have the time. Regards, Bede735 ( talk) 14:21, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I see that you reviewed the Olivier article. You might want to share the article with your Hoffman collaborator. I think it demonstrates how the highest praise can be expressed neutrally. All the best! -- Ssilvers ( talk) 18:52, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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The article is ready for reviewing,
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Thanks for passing it, doc. I will open a peer review in a week's time after I have expanded the article further. One thing — In the FAC review of
Chandralekha, Bollyjeff said that he did not want to see
Behindwoods.com in the article. Here there are around 35-40 references from Behindwoods.com. I can find other RS's to replace some of the sources, but, I can't remove all of them. What should I do then?
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@ Bollyjeff: At that time, the website was starting to develop. But now, it has its own awards ceremony called "Behindwoods Gold Medal Awards". It has been going on for the past two years (2013 and 2014). You can learn about the awards ceremony here. They also conducted a film festival for IIT Madras. — Ssven2 speak 2 me 14:04, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
It appears that Bouncin' with Bud and Bouncing with Bud are the same song. The 1947 date seems to only be from Jazzstandards.com. Ardric47 ( talk) 17:23, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Redirect one then!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
I have restarted to work on this project with this [1]. You and Rosie may like to work on it. -- Nvvchar. 15:57, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm afraid I don't think that's a good idea Nvv. I'm not DYK orientated any more, I tend to focus on just a couple nowadays. I have some books I need to be cracking on with for GA too. I don't mind doing the occasional one though. Thankyou for your expansion of the Indian one. I think cleaning up the odd Indian city or district or national park/temple article is a good idea though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:10, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
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For promoting Enthiran to GA status. — Ssven2 speak 2 me 05:54, 11 February 2015 (UTC) |
Ssven2 Thanks but I definitely don't deserve that one! All I did was make some minor copyedits. It's rare that I'll review an article and not spot any major issues. I could have nit picked but that's better done at PR.♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:39, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Would you like to comment here as there is a discussion going on. Its Wp:Own case. Pls, help.— Prashant 07:16, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
I'd rather stay out of that one Prashant. All I'll say, as I said recently at the SRK FAC, is that Bollywood articles in general I think tend to be more sugary than Hollywood ones. A large part of it I think is the film critic system in India where I strongly suspect that some of the reviewers, particularly ones like Taran Adarsh are paid to say those things or there is some sort of corruption involved in film reviewing. Threatening to delist a bunch of Krimuk's FA's because you disagree with him on Chopra though is a bit immature don't you think?♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:37, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Well, I just answered his questioned as according to him something, which is also present in his edited articles, is fluff. So I said If that is a fluff then, the same thing is present in your article. I just answered his question. I just want equality for all the articles. Either convert all Bollywood articles as Chopra's or Convert Chopra's like those female heroes and Cinema Legends, who have contributed much to Indian Cinema.— Prashant 10:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
There's more to add but I've been busy for the last few days uploading at Commons. I have quite a few news clippings set aside at Newspapers.com. There are 3 non-free photos in the article-the dining room, the Cub Room and the photo of some of the Stork Club's gifts. Have been thinking that one should probably go and that one should probably be the main dining room. Have my eye on a postcard sent out by the Club from the days when it had live entertainment. Billingsley dropped the entertainers and just kept a live band for a long time because he realized the real entertainment of the place was people coming out to be seen and people watching them. All in all, I think this would work now for GA; also think there might be enough to add to consider trying FA with it. This has been one of my projects for some time, as you can see by when I made my first edit to it :) We hope ( talk) 22:19, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Have just dragged the paragraph into my sandbox. :) We hope ( talk) 14:26, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Do you know anyone here with a Fold-3 subscription? This is a nice photo of Elliott Roosevelt and it appears to be from the Army Air Corps, which would put it in the public domain. I don't want to sign up for a subscription just for the photo because it takes it away from someone who works on military-related articles. photo. You have to have a subscription to download it. We hope ( talk) 17:55, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
...to the Kentucky Derby. Or at least a relative sharing the surname! Blofeld!. And youcan't say Neigh! Montanabw (talk) 02:16, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Haha! Thats's an evil horse!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:06, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
I have opened the peer review for the film. Please do suggest any changes that I should make before I go for FAC. — Ssven2 speak 2 me 03:52, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
My proposed Wikimania talk "How To Pick Up More Women" is here. I was hoping that you might give this some thought? Do you have an evil plan? Shall we get rid of the men with a terrible weapon? More seriously.... do you have suggestions of what we can do more of/less of/ etc or is it insolvable and just amusing to talk about. No rush Victuallers ( talk)
Eric might have some suggestions on that one! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:50, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Dr. Blofeld! Since you've been so supportive of A Trip to the Moon and other articles about Georges Méliès, I thought you might be interested in joining a discussion about how best to cover his pioneering films on Wikipedia. I've started the discussion here: Talk:Georges Méliès filmography#What about the redlinks?
I'd greatly appreciate your thoughts and advice!-- Lemuellio ( talk) 04:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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That's an unusual comparison LOL The Herald but appreciated all the same. There should certainly be more love on wikipedia, at times it seems dominated by hostile people who assume bad faith..♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:25, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
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Didn't you get the message JodyB? You're not welcome here. Don't you dare prod and template me.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:49, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
If you'd taken the liberty to treat me as a person instead of some random idiot I'd have told you that a redirect to the modern hospital would have been a better idea and some mention of the old city hospital there would probably be more appropriate than a separate article on what was there before. As it is you've wasted time opening an AFD. Try working with people instead of against people and things might run a bit more sweeter around here.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:54, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Now that the redirect was placed and I understand that old article was misnamed, I have closed the AFD. Thank you for your kindness. JodyB talk 13:58, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
You're most welcome JodyB, thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:59, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Okay so since the old ref for Juan Cotumba is just a dead link now, I was going to add a ref from sports reference for him-but I can't even find him on there. Is there another name for him or something? (I hate to put a unsourced tag for someone like that to be honest) Wgolf ( talk) 19:15, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Wgolf: Try the web archive thing or BBC.There's other sources like [3] with other info.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:19, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! Got it now! Wgolf ( talk) 19:20, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm glad to note your interest in the Mary Celeste article. In the stub that you have just created for The Ship That Died, you include the line: "A feature film was made in 1955 by Ealing Studios, entitled The Ship That Died of Shame. This 1955 film has nothing to do with the Mary Celeste, and I wonder why you thought to mention it. It could confuse people into believing that there was a connection. Brianboulton ( talk) 22:54, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Oh, really? I thought I caught a BFI source in searching earlier and took for granted it was also about the Mary Celeste. I shall remove it, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:58, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Louis Jourdan passed yesterday. So many memorable performances. RIP LJ. MarnetteD| Talk 21:50, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Ah that's a pity, yes, I was amazed he was still alive, in fact I was wondering if he had somehow passed and it not reported. I think his best performance actually was in The Paradine Case but his best role has got to be Octopussy. I had a feeling it would be this year or the next! He was probably the suavest actor in any film I've seen, he was the living embodiment of wealth and status wasn't he! There's really not many Golden Hollywood stars left now. I keep expecting Kirk Douglas, Olivia de Havilland and Christopher Lee to go soon, Douglas and Havilland are only the two real major Golden Hollywood stars I can think of which are still living.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:59, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
SchroCat Perhaps there'll be stuffed sheep's heads to devour at his funeral after party :-)! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:01, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
I don't think he did actually travel on a plane for the Hobbit, I thought they filmed his scenes in England, I might be wrong though. Not seen him in Dracula, I didn't like the 1958 film Gigi on first viewing, I found Chevalier irritating, but he's since grown on me so I may watch it again at some point. Jourdan was also particularly good in The VIPs. Letter from an Unknown Woman and Madame Bovary to a lesser extent too, there's still quite a lot of roles particularly in 60s I've not seen though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:04, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
I began going through Doris Day's filmo, I've reached around 1955 so far I think, haven't quite come to Julie yet which she did with Jourdan. I got distracted as ther'e so many others to watch haha! Irma la Douce (which Jourdan narrated) I've been meaning to watch for a while, one of the few Billy Wilder films I've not seen! Actually in looking there's more Wilder films I haven't seen than I'd realised. I have a few on DVD like Witness for the Prosecution which I've not seen yet!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:16, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
Yes MD, I see Lizabeth Scott also died last month. Enjoyed her in Elvis's Loving You recently.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:29, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
@ MarnetteD: Rhonda Fleming and Danielle Darrieux are still alive too. Darrieux posing naked for a painting in Lovers of Paris was a breathtaking sight (although being 1957 we didn't see too much)! an exquisite film, Duvivier really was one of the greats.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:05, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
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@ Victor Lopes: Nobody said it does. But he seems to be notable if you care to spend a few minutes researching him. I'll remove your prod as I don't do them.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:51, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
The 1904 photos should be OK for you to upload under the same license as we did for The Tower House and I believe the older interior images for Althorp. I've found some more Ritz photos at Geograph UK and can look at Flickr next. Then it would be off to old books at Archive.org and Google. ;) We hope ( talk) 19:19, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
@ We hope:I'm not sure, the Tower ones are form 1885, it's difficult to claim 100 years after life of author on ones from 1904, just 11 years afterwards. How about plans from 1904? It's got lots of the original plans in the other book I have too! I'll scan them later in the week. Flickr might have some modern interior ones on CC 2.0 license. [4] ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:46, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Re: Construction photos of the Ritz- This is Fireproof magazine and it was published in Chicago. The photos appeared in the October 1905 issue. We hope ( talk) 21:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
In the UK I can only see snippets of that :-( Can you upload any from there?♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Surprise! :) We hope ( talk) 02:34, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
That's great!! Well done!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:18, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
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Congrats and thanks WH! A well-deserved GA!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:36, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
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Evening Doc, Yet another request for PR help, I'm afraid, although this one comes with an ready-made opportunity for a pun or two while comparing the subject matter to the content and prose! It concerns the Great Stink, a relatively brief event in London history that has had a beneficial effect that we all enjoy to this day. The PR can be found here, if you have the time to spare. If you don't, no worries! Cheers – SchroCat ( talk) 23:24, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Great job! It's one of those articles which seem to have Smellovision, I can almost smell the stink in glancing at it hehe! I'll try to give it my full attention tomorrow, cheers.♦ Dr. Blofeld 23:28, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Kamal Khan's dead! :(, may he eat sheeps eyes in heaven... Louis died on valantines day!-- Lerdthenerd wiki defender 10:24, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Marnette and myself have a lengthy discussion on him above Lerd, you're rather slow on the uptake!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:32, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Have just stumbled onto a 1903 issue of Country Life with some very nice interior photos from that era. Country Life pages 53-59. Viewing this at Google UK and don't have any notice that it is still copyrighted--one can download the entire magazine. The article is from the July 11, 1903 issue-any interest in some of these photos? We hope ( talk) 14:58, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Sure! Good find!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:01, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
OK-From 2 issues of Country Life: 1903-
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Cheers! Not much room for images now though with the plans!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:51, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Let me round up the usual suspects-eBay and Billboard. :) We hope ( talk) 19:07, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Hang on-will get to that--meantime we have people who are trying to SD a 1913 film poster which has a Pre-1923 license File:An Indian’s Loyalty.jpg ://// We hope ( talk) 22:48, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
LOL, I initially read that as a 1913 film poster having an STD :-)!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:54, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
Looks great, can you shade out the black strip in the background on the left though?♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:27, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Have just viewed the trailer--at the YouTube link provided by the uploader and at IMDB. Both are more recent copies, as they both were done to sell the film on home media. Both mention "the director of Moonstruck," which is a long way from 1962. Think this has to go also. We hope ( talk) 20:03, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
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Can I, perchance, interest you in a peer review of Camille Saint-Saëns, dear Doc? I'm hoping to get the old boy up to FA standard, and comments at PR will be greatly appreciated, if you have time and inclination. – Tim riley talk 17:07, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Having difficulty concentrating on prose on here at the moment but will try to look at it within a few days after I've finished looking at Schro's!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:57, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
The article Patrick Fairweather has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
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Do you realise how annoying it is when somebody removes a source from an article, even if a dead link without bothering to replace it, and then plasters unsourced tags on it and then some busybody comes along with deletion prod lecturing me on WP: Referencing for beginners within just hours? It's bloody irritating Kharkiv07 and pure laziness. Why would you think an ambassador to a country would not meet notability guidelines? Why is a bit of decent research not a better alternative to deletion? It's irresponsible. It's not the first time you User:Wgolf have done this sort of thing.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
My apologies for somebody else deleting a reference, however I'll have you know I did a fair amount of research on the guy but missed the one book that mentions his name. I'll cede that in this situation I may have been in the wrong, but also note that it was in accordance of the references for BLP and not notability guidelines. Just add one of those books and remove them. Kharkiv07 ( talk) 21:44, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
One book? There's over a dozen books documenting him in google books. And I'd guess in Albanian newspapers archives there'd be many sources on him. The last deletion prod on an ambassador I had thrown at me was Mohammed Ali al-Ahwal BTW... ♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:46, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Okay. I apologies. I made a mistake but I assure you it was in good faith. Kharkiv07 ( talk) 21:53, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
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On your user page you even have a user box which states "This user loves Tagging pages for problems". No decent editor here is going to assume good faith in somebody who has that box on their user page.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:02, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
@ Kharkiv07: Now a start class article. If I wasn't here it would have been deleted out of your sheer ignorance of the topic. In future please try to improve articles and research them before prodding. Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:48, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Dr. B: Victuallers and I have developed a proposal for a talk to be presented at Wikimania 2015. It's titled, How to pick up more women... -- as in more women editors and more women's biographies. Examples include the Edit-a-thon blitz during WikiWomen's History Month and the "new articles" work underway by WikiProject Women Writers. The Wikimania talk proposal review process has begun and there's no guarantee that this proposal will be accepted. That's where you come in. Please review our proposal and give us feedback. Ultimately, we hope you add your name to the signup at the bottom of the proposal which signifies you'd be interested in the talk if you were attending it (it does not commit you to attending Wikimania). Thank you! Rosiestep ( talk) 22:44, 22 February 2015 (UTC) |
Since you asked. However that page is on more the pages of more than fifteen other users so I'm not certain if I'm just overthinking this or what. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 05:27, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that. No credible editor though is going to have it on their user page!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:02, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Yuck, template removed. I've prodded this, but would love to see it kept. Dweller ( talk) 13:36, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Dweller Why is deletion always the preferable option here though? I'm sick of doing all of the work. Why wouldn't a nice "Can you expand this?" talk page message suffice instead of a prod? I created many many short stubs in the old days on here, and you betcha most of them are notable and need expansion. I'm already having thoughts about continuing editing here and this sort of thing is not exactly convincing me to do otherwise.♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:19, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
You've done a great job with it. It can't be far off DYK territory. -- Dweller ( talk) 14:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Somebody recently prodded Patrick Fairweather too...♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Dweller can you move the page back to Der Weg nach oben? Thanks.
Can you tell us where you got the photo from? We really need a link for it and the page it's on, if possible. Otherwise the source will be in question and it could end up at FFD. List them on the file page and I'll archive them at Wayback Machine, so they'll be permanent. I believe we can FUR and license this after you list the links. We hope ( talk) 14:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
You may wish to update the geography section of that article. It includes places in the civil parish of Porthleven, which was created or expanded after the 1823 date of the cited reference. Cheers, Carlossuarez46 ( talk) 19:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
As you have previously commented on one or more of nominations of the lists of scheduled monuments in Somerset, I wondered if you would be kind enough to take a look at the List of scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor which is now nominated at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor/archive1?— Rod talk 21:18, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
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Based on our communication I posted a ban appeal which was rejected ( diff). To be honest, I was certain that I will be indeffed during this appeal, but I was probably lucky this time. Anyway, I just wanted to keep you informed about something we both discussed. All the best.-- Antidiskriminator ( talk) 23:58, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Oh well, you tried. I still think it's ridiculous that they're confusing Albanian issues with general Serbian articles. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:56, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
How to measure the size of an article on Wikipedia? In Enthiran's PR, you mentioned that the article has decreased to 146 kbs from 166 kbs (it may have decreased even more so). How to find out the article's size like that?
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Let me have a look--if I don't find them now, I'll keep looking. Sometimes you can get musician photos from Downbeat and Metronome covers when they're listed on eBay. File:Frank Sinatra Metronome magazine November 1950.JPG File:Metronome January 1946.JPG These are two from Metronome. What we can get from either of the magazines depends on what people have to sell. :) We hope ( talk) 16:29, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't aware of these. I will look at them later and see where is best to use them.— Rod talk 07:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Will look at it after work today. Thanks! -- Rosiestep ( talk) 14:54, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
The Ritz London Hotel - I'll take a look at its redlinks, especially the women's bios, as Women's History Month starts in a nanosecond and I'll pretty much only be working on that project through early April. I gotta see if the Ritz book contains anything which would parlay into a nice article in this connection. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:26, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Great - I'll do the tagging when I have a moment. Haven't been quite so active as usual lately. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa? Lo dicono a Signa. 17:24, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
So what's the problem this time? I've sourced Mann this time around, which most people accept as a "legitimate" biography. Yes, it supports Bowers' statements, yes, it depicts Tracy as a bisexual, yes it portrays Hepburn as a likely lesbian, yes, it assumes the relationship between Tracy and Hepburn was exaggerated. Do you mean that this biography is by default also "trashy" because it supports statements made by the Bowers' reference? I'm missing the point with your criticism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Holanthony ( talk • contribs) 18:33, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
There's just far too much "he confirmed it, "he didn't", "he disputed this" etc. It reads as a load of nonsense. Where is the actual proof? How reliable are the claims, really?? I really think the article is better off without even mentioning it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:36, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
But wasn't that just the point? That the rumours were claimed to be unsubstantiated? And when I illustrated that these are sentiments conveyed by other biographers as well, even before Bowers' "tell-all" you called it "nonsense"? To my knowledge, Mann's biography has never been refuted and is accepted as "legitimate" Why shouldn't it be a relevant source any less than say James Curtis' book, that has been cited ad infinitum in the article? The talks surrounding the "gay issue" have been circling around these two for decades and since there are reports galore about it out there from reputable sources, it seems shortsighted to act like nothing and pretend it never existed. Holanthony ( talk) 20:13, 25 February 2015 (UTC)Holanthony
No, as they sort of cancel each other out! Most of the Hollywood actors at one time had a gay rumour or something reported about them and I'm sure most of us can well imagine that many of them at times strayed or did things when drunk. What would make it noteworthy and encyclopedic? Now somebody like Cary Grant, there's extensive coverage documenting the "Was he gay?" issue, not Tracy, at best it's one or two sensationalist writers or a writer agreeing with another that Tracy was bisexual. I just google book searched Spencer Tracy bisexual and it turned up one very brief mention in a book and a magazine comment saying "it's ridiculous". Where's the extensive coverage documenting it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:21, 25 February 2015 (UTC) Well, isn't the fact that acknowledged biographers actually do mention that Tracy was bisexual and Hepburn gay a point worth mentioning? By that it is no longer a wild "sensationalist" rumour someone's posted on a blog or in a forum on the net, it actually carries some weight to it as one can presume there has been some research and substance put into the matter. The fact that Mann brings it up I think is worth a mention. Holanthony ( talk) 23:25, 25 February 2015 (UTC)Holanthony
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For having loads of Barnstars. Enjoy this excellent mock-chocolate confectionary! Irondome ( talk) 21:06, 25 February 2015 (UTC) |
Thanks!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:07, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
I just started working on Pocahontas (1910 film) and I found the play was adapted by Lloyd Lonergan from Lydia Sigourney's poem... which is strange because I have a half-finished article about the school she attended - East District School - at age 4. It is actually Sigourney's writings which helped me rectify the errors in the East District School (i.e. not built in 1798), but it is weird to have so many threads of history become inter-twinned. Have you noticed this in your writings? 55 of 1087 films down... I wonder how many more interconnections will come up. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 22:20, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Excellent work ChrisGualtieri on the old films!♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:11, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Doc, I think it would be, with expansion. There's the history of the house before it was turned into a hotel to build on and also more, if possible, on the filming of The Haunting there. If sources can be found for either or both of these, it shouldn't be a big problem to go to GA. There may also be some newspaper and magazine stories that would help us here. We hope ( talk) 17:30, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Doesn't look like it. Please add as much as you can from it! We can then look into seeing if there's more on the architecture.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
You're welcome! — LlywelynII 15:12, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Doc, Many thanks for your help on the Great Stink. The article is now at FAC for further consideration, should you wish to partake further. Many thanks! - SchroCat ( talk) 16:08, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
As you know, I've been working on this artice. Can I seek your advice on an image issue? The lead image is File:Mary Celeste as Amazon in 1861.jpg, a photographic copy of an 1861 painting. I would have thought this fell squarely under the PD-art licence, but the image page is not satisfied (see red text). Can you tell me what is being asked for? Many thanks. Brianboulton ( talk) 23:03, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
Fixed BB.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:15, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi there,
Yesterday I made a suggestion on how Rationalobserver could work toward redeeming herself on Coffee's talk which Coffee endorsed and pinged Rationalobserver. See: Some good can come It involves a kindly offer by jbmurray to help Rationalobserver learn about evaluating sources for historical narrative writing, as she'd had brought up criticisms of "source integreity" on Talk:Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck) and in various places about the same subject regarding Donner Party on multiple pages recently. I still think this is a good idea, especially given the effort jbmurray made in an effort to aid her. What do you think? EChastain ( talk) 15:52, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
I think everybody really needs to realise that ultimately most of us are here for the same reason, and anything which distracts us from building it is is merely a distraction. Rationalobserver certainly needs to avoid commenting on other editors so much and focus on content, which I think you can see from a few of her articles she's quite capable of writing. But most of us here at times should probably follow that advice and not let certain things get to us so much. I don't know Coffee, nor do I have anything personal against him, but if he has a habit of imposing blocks without thought and feels happy doing that then at times he's going to get a reaction and encounter difficulty. Admittedly I even thought his block of Knowledgekid was unwarranted in that particular instance, however annoying he often is. I didn't see him say anything I thought was grossly uncivil or blockable in that particular instance (unless I missed something); he's said things previously I thought were trolling and blockable and he wasn't even warned.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:39, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks Frankie!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:50, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
You have been involved in preliminary discussions about splitting the article on Lhasa into two: one on the small city and one on the larger prefecture-level city. This is to invite you to contribute to the discussion at User talk:Aymatth2/Lhasa (prefecture-level city)#Proposed move. Please feel free to invite anyone else you feel would be interested. Thanks, Aymatth2 ( talk) 23:51, 28 February 2015 (UTC)