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Thanks for the New Years greetings that included an express statement of your willingness to help my Chicago boosting efforts. You have previously been involved in Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) as the WP:PR reviewer. It is now on the FAC fence with 2 supports and a weak oppose. Feel free to come by this very mature FAC.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:13, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
All the best, and if you get a chance to look at John Diefenbaker, currently at peer review, that would be great.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 02:42, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Might I trouble you to have a look at Sacrifice (video game)? Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sacrifice (video game)/archive1 seems to be lacking in the number of reviewers for the week it has been on. Jappalang ( talk) 03:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for the card, Brian, and all the best to you for the new year and new decade. :) SlimVirgin TALK contribs 11:29, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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<font=3> Thanks again for your helpful peer review and support. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, made featured article today! Ruhrfisch ><>°° and Finetooth ( talk) 05:23, 3 January 2010 (UTC) |
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Thanks for your kind words on Lock Haven. I weighed in on the Heywood FAC. I seem to recall reading somewhere that when the breadfruit plants finally got to the Caribbean they did not work out as well as hoped, but could not find that here, so did not mention it in the FAC. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 18:31, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for your involvement in the development of Arthur Eve which has become a WP:GA in recent months. -- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:03, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Brian, I'm wondering if you have any interest in helping to review Muhammad al-Durrah incident for FAC. The nomination page is here. It has been a difficult article to write for a number of reasons. There are many strongly held POVs, and the wrong turn of phrase can significantly push the POV too far in one direction or another, so the writing suffered because of that (necessarily so, I believe). Also, the media has tended to ignore some of the recent developments in the story, which makes it difficult to evaluate what the majority POVs are. If POV X dominated news coverage of the issue in 2009, was that because it really did become the majority POV, or because most journalists thought it was nuts and didn't bother to offer rebuttal? Impossible to know.
Ideally, we need experienced reviewers who have no view one way or the other, but that is difficult to find. People are who disinterested are often uninterested too, understandably so. I thought I'd ask you because you indicated you'd be willing to help out with reviews, and I know from past experience that you're very thorough. If you can't or don't want to, or are too busy—I believe you currently have an FAC up yourself—I'll completely understand and you should feel free to ignore this request entirely. Cheers, SlimVirgin TALK contribs 14:24, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Brian. Hope you had a good holiday and a nice time in France. I've just sent Rumours to be reviewed and would appreciate one of your dissections. I'm sure you've heard/bought/loved this one. Cheers. PRB88 ( T) 23:48, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments. I've hopefully managed to address your concerns if you'd care to take another look. I didn't believe wife selling was true when I first came across it, but it surely is. -- Malleus Fatuorum 22:53, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering if I could trouble you with a request to copyedit Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, whenever you have time? I think it would benefit from your keen eye (especially since as a film and film technology buff many sections may be a bit hard to understand for the layperson.) I will be at your beck and call if you need a favor :P Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs( talk) 18:18, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Magical Realism Reconsidered! Awadewit ( talk) 19:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your involvement in Wikipedia:Peer review/Jay Pritzker Pavilion/archive2. The article is now listed at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Jay Pritzker Pavilion/archive1. Feel free to come comment.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:18, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Generally, the "no known restrictions" requires further investigation. For the Bains collection, I am in favour of declaring those photos that were created/published before 1922 safely in public domain; basically Bains (as the news agency in possession of those photos) had bought them (hence already published then) or created them to sell to newspapers or journals (self-publishing). Concensus on Commons favours glass negatives held in the Bains collection as public domain, and their assumptions seem sound since the Library purchased those negatives instead of Bains's deposit of a copy. [1] All in all, the Bains Collection photos are likely safe for use. Jappalang ( talk) 13:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I've not gone away after all, so I'm going for FLC today. Thanks for you input.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 16:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I had said tha I was going for FLC in a pre-exising thread at WP:Wagner but I have now made a separae thread there and a WPO.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 11:34, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
I've nommed it for FA. I think it is ready to go. You might want to read my comments in response to yours at PR, especially as regards "articling students"! Thanks for the help. I'm getting ahold of a couple of books on Douglas-Home and will see if he strikes me as interesting.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 23:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Brian. In the PR for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, I was told that the links for the ogg "Flight of the Bumblebee" were broken and to fix them. This is a new subject for me, as I have never used oggs before and do not have sound on my computer, but your name was referrred and here I am. Also, do you know of any other oggs of Rimsky-Korsakov's music that could be used in this article? Again, it was suggested that I ask you. Thanks. Jonyungk ( talk) 23:02, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Let's hear it for the mutineer who got away with one and his chronicler!-- Wehwalt ( talk) 00:28, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Have you had a chance to finish reading the article on Johann von Klenau? Auntieruth55 ( talk) 03:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey wow! I just saw your userpage picture - I didn't know you were such a hunky guy : ) Actually I just came by to thank you for your New Year wishes. I hope you have a Happy New Year and I hope your Christmas was Merry as well. NancyHeise talk 07:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
User:Hunky Guy is not yet registered—Now's your chance to change user name—Seize it!
Many thanks for your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Whitechapel murders/archive1. I was wondering whether you've run out of steam? If so, I may take it through GAN to get a third perspective. Best wishes, DrKiernan ( talk) 11:32, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, Brian, and thanks also for the encouragement. I'm flagging somewhat to be honest. It's a big topic, and practically every word has the potential to backfire. SlimVirgin TALK contribs 17:30, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello Brian. Thanks for your time and effort re. the WP:PR for this article; very much appreciated. Regards Endrick Shellycoat 19:03, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Brian, I am working my way through the Jay Pritzker Pavilion article and have been trying to think of a different name for the "Controversies" section. The best I have thought of so far is "Disputes", but that doesn't seem quite right. I also thought of Kerfuffles but imagine that is good old AmEng rearing its ugly head - no wait, I see it is BritEng! Anyway, if you (and perhaps your thesaurus) have any better ideas than I (and mine) did, I would be glad to hear them. Am still working on the rest of the FAC comments, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:04, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I have protected Ernest Shackleton for a month. I had noticed some of the vandalism as it is on my watchlist. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 00:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Nice job on the revised article. I took the liberty of restoring the Christian Theodore Pedersen link. The best single piece of secondary-source evidence that this is the same guy is in Jenness, Making of an Explorer, where it is stated (p 141) that C.T. Pedersen, captain of the Herman, was the same man who had bought the Karluk for the expedition. Diubaldo Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic has him as C.T. Pederson; once (in a quote) as C.P Pederson. National Maritime Digital Library "American Offshore Whaling Voyages: a database." has him as C. Theodore Pedersen in 1908 and subsequently as C.T. Pedersen. He is the only whaling captain named Pedersen, Pederson, or Peterson in their database. Dankarl ( talk) 17:53, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello. YellowMonkey ( talk · contribs) recommended you to me. I would appreciate it if you could have a look the the Wally Hammond article. I am considering taking it to FAR and would like any advice. I am aware of a few issues already, but any comments would be gratefully received. Thanks. -- Sarastro1 ( talk) 12:25, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
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<font=3>While James, the God of Earth in this video game, is busy celebrating Sacrifice's promotion to featured article with multiple castings of Bovine Interventions—resulting in a crazed cow as it landed too many times on its noggin—I want to thank you for your enormous help in peer reviewing the game and supporting it during its FAC. Without your suggestions and comments, it would not have made FA! Jappalang ( talk) 03:47, 19 January 2010 (UTC) |
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I have to confess that I do not recall seeing this in my toolbox before - in any case it sounds more like a software issue than something an admin can fix. I have a possible short term solution - you can turn on Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (go to my preferences in the top tabs, then gadgets, then click the second check box for popups and click save at the bottom of the page). This gives a preview of any article when the cursor hovers on the wikilink to it, including the article's size.
I will copy your query to the Village Pump Technical too - imagine someone there will know what is going on. Sorry not to be of more help, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 13:30, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Brian, I am hoping I can pique your interest in reviewing my article on the Donizetti opera L'ange de Nisida. I have requested a peer review here. It started out on a whim to make a stub for a red link, but I quickly became fascinated by this unperformed opera and its backstory. I'll be more than happy to knock an item off the PR backlog as a return favor. Thanks! -- Andy Walsh (talk) 21:23, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I've responded to your suggestions to the List of Gunsmoke television episodes. Care to take a second look? Jimknut ( talk) 00:32, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks again. I'm going to archive the peer review now and go for featured list status. Jimknut ( talk) 01:51, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia | |
...the Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia is bestowed upon
Brianboulton for bringing content review of an ethereal calibre to Wikipedia: Along thy wild and willow'd shore |
Ling bling: Thank you for the double honour (Harrison lookalike/Superior Scribe). I will endeavour to live up to the second, though the first may be beyond me (and him, indeed). Brianboulton ( talk) 09:52, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
![]() | This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
![]() | This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Thanks for the New Years greetings that included an express statement of your willingness to help my Chicago boosting efforts. You have previously been involved in Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) as the WP:PR reviewer. It is now on the FAC fence with 2 supports and a weak oppose. Feel free to come by this very mature FAC.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:13, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
All the best, and if you get a chance to look at John Diefenbaker, currently at peer review, that would be great.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 02:42, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Might I trouble you to have a look at Sacrifice (video game)? Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Sacrifice (video game)/archive1 seems to be lacking in the number of reviewers for the week it has been on. Jappalang ( talk) 03:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for the card, Brian, and all the best to you for the new year and new decade. :) SlimVirgin TALK contribs 11:29, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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<font=3> Thanks again for your helpful peer review and support. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, made featured article today! Ruhrfisch ><>°° and Finetooth ( talk) 05:23, 3 January 2010 (UTC) |
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Thanks for your kind words on Lock Haven. I weighed in on the Heywood FAC. I seem to recall reading somewhere that when the breadfruit plants finally got to the Caribbean they did not work out as well as hoped, but could not find that here, so did not mention it in the FAC. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 18:31, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
![]() | This user helped promote Arthur Eve to good article status. |
Thanks for your involvement in the development of Arthur Eve which has become a WP:GA in recent months. -- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:03, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
.
Hi Brian, I'm wondering if you have any interest in helping to review Muhammad al-Durrah incident for FAC. The nomination page is here. It has been a difficult article to write for a number of reasons. There are many strongly held POVs, and the wrong turn of phrase can significantly push the POV too far in one direction or another, so the writing suffered because of that (necessarily so, I believe). Also, the media has tended to ignore some of the recent developments in the story, which makes it difficult to evaluate what the majority POVs are. If POV X dominated news coverage of the issue in 2009, was that because it really did become the majority POV, or because most journalists thought it was nuts and didn't bother to offer rebuttal? Impossible to know.
Ideally, we need experienced reviewers who have no view one way or the other, but that is difficult to find. People are who disinterested are often uninterested too, understandably so. I thought I'd ask you because you indicated you'd be willing to help out with reviews, and I know from past experience that you're very thorough. If you can't or don't want to, or are too busy—I believe you currently have an FAC up yourself—I'll completely understand and you should feel free to ignore this request entirely. Cheers, SlimVirgin TALK contribs 14:24, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Brian. Hope you had a good holiday and a nice time in France. I've just sent Rumours to be reviewed and would appreciate one of your dissections. I'm sure you've heard/bought/loved this one. Cheers. PRB88 ( T) 23:48, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments. I've hopefully managed to address your concerns if you'd care to take another look. I didn't believe wife selling was true when I first came across it, but it surely is. -- Malleus Fatuorum 22:53, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering if I could trouble you with a request to copyedit Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, whenever you have time? I think it would benefit from your keen eye (especially since as a film and film technology buff many sections may be a bit hard to understand for the layperson.) I will be at your beck and call if you need a favor :P Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs( talk) 18:18, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Magical Realism Reconsidered! Awadewit ( talk) 19:44, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your involvement in Wikipedia:Peer review/Jay Pritzker Pavilion/archive2. The article is now listed at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Jay Pritzker Pavilion/archive1. Feel free to come comment.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 03:18, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Generally, the "no known restrictions" requires further investigation. For the Bains collection, I am in favour of declaring those photos that were created/published before 1922 safely in public domain; basically Bains (as the news agency in possession of those photos) had bought them (hence already published then) or created them to sell to newspapers or journals (self-publishing). Concensus on Commons favours glass negatives held in the Bains collection as public domain, and their assumptions seem sound since the Library purchased those negatives instead of Bains's deposit of a copy. [1] All in all, the Bains Collection photos are likely safe for use. Jappalang ( talk) 13:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I've not gone away after all, so I'm going for FLC today. Thanks for you input.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 16:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I had said tha I was going for FLC in a pre-exising thread at WP:Wagner but I have now made a separae thread there and a WPO.-- Peter cohen ( talk) 11:34, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
I've nommed it for FA. I think it is ready to go. You might want to read my comments in response to yours at PR, especially as regards "articling students"! Thanks for the help. I'm getting ahold of a couple of books on Douglas-Home and will see if he strikes me as interesting.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 23:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Brian. In the PR for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, I was told that the links for the ogg "Flight of the Bumblebee" were broken and to fix them. This is a new subject for me, as I have never used oggs before and do not have sound on my computer, but your name was referrred and here I am. Also, do you know of any other oggs of Rimsky-Korsakov's music that could be used in this article? Again, it was suggested that I ask you. Thanks. Jonyungk ( talk) 23:02, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Let's hear it for the mutineer who got away with one and his chronicler!-- Wehwalt ( talk) 00:28, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Have you had a chance to finish reading the article on Johann von Klenau? Auntieruth55 ( talk) 03:08, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey wow! I just saw your userpage picture - I didn't know you were such a hunky guy : ) Actually I just came by to thank you for your New Year wishes. I hope you have a Happy New Year and I hope your Christmas was Merry as well. NancyHeise talk 07:06, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
User:Hunky Guy is not yet registered—Now's your chance to change user name—Seize it!
Many thanks for your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Whitechapel murders/archive1. I was wondering whether you've run out of steam? If so, I may take it through GAN to get a third perspective. Best wishes, DrKiernan ( talk) 11:32, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, Brian, and thanks also for the encouragement. I'm flagging somewhat to be honest. It's a big topic, and practically every word has the potential to backfire. SlimVirgin TALK contribs 17:30, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello Brian. Thanks for your time and effort re. the WP:PR for this article; very much appreciated. Regards Endrick Shellycoat 19:03, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Brian, I am working my way through the Jay Pritzker Pavilion article and have been trying to think of a different name for the "Controversies" section. The best I have thought of so far is "Disputes", but that doesn't seem quite right. I also thought of Kerfuffles but imagine that is good old AmEng rearing its ugly head - no wait, I see it is BritEng! Anyway, if you (and perhaps your thesaurus) have any better ideas than I (and mine) did, I would be glad to hear them. Am still working on the rest of the FAC comments, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:04, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I have protected Ernest Shackleton for a month. I had noticed some of the vandalism as it is on my watchlist. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 00:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Nice job on the revised article. I took the liberty of restoring the Christian Theodore Pedersen link. The best single piece of secondary-source evidence that this is the same guy is in Jenness, Making of an Explorer, where it is stated (p 141) that C.T. Pedersen, captain of the Herman, was the same man who had bought the Karluk for the expedition. Diubaldo Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic has him as C.T. Pederson; once (in a quote) as C.P Pederson. National Maritime Digital Library "American Offshore Whaling Voyages: a database." has him as C. Theodore Pedersen in 1908 and subsequently as C.T. Pedersen. He is the only whaling captain named Pedersen, Pederson, or Peterson in their database. Dankarl ( talk) 17:53, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello. YellowMonkey ( talk · contribs) recommended you to me. I would appreciate it if you could have a look the the Wally Hammond article. I am considering taking it to FAR and would like any advice. I am aware of a few issues already, but any comments would be gratefully received. Thanks. -- Sarastro1 ( talk) 12:25, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
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<font=3>While James, the God of Earth in this video game, is busy celebrating Sacrifice's promotion to featured article with multiple castings of Bovine Interventions—resulting in a crazed cow as it landed too many times on its noggin—I want to thank you for your enormous help in peer reviewing the game and supporting it during its FAC. Without your suggestions and comments, it would not have made FA! Jappalang ( talk) 03:47, 19 January 2010 (UTC) |
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I have to confess that I do not recall seeing this in my toolbox before - in any case it sounds more like a software issue than something an admin can fix. I have a possible short term solution - you can turn on Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups (go to my preferences in the top tabs, then gadgets, then click the second check box for popups and click save at the bottom of the page). This gives a preview of any article when the cursor hovers on the wikilink to it, including the article's size.
I will copy your query to the Village Pump Technical too - imagine someone there will know what is going on. Sorry not to be of more help, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 13:30, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi Brian, I am hoping I can pique your interest in reviewing my article on the Donizetti opera L'ange de Nisida. I have requested a peer review here. It started out on a whim to make a stub for a red link, but I quickly became fascinated by this unperformed opera and its backstory. I'll be more than happy to knock an item off the PR backlog as a return favor. Thanks! -- Andy Walsh (talk) 21:23, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
I've responded to your suggestions to the List of Gunsmoke television episodes. Care to take a second look? Jimknut ( talk) 00:32, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks again. I'm going to archive the peer review now and go for featured list status. Jimknut ( talk) 01:51, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia | |
...the Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia is bestowed upon
Brianboulton for bringing content review of an ethereal calibre to Wikipedia: Along thy wild and willow'd shore |
Ling bling: Thank you for the double honour (Harrison lookalike/Superior Scribe). I will endeavour to live up to the second, though the first may be beyond me (and him, indeed). Brianboulton ( talk) 09:52, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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