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Hafspajen I left a note for Vsmith on his talk page at User talk:Vsmith#Patience Wright, and he replied, but, before I do any combining, I thought I'd ask you what you thought since Patience Wright was a sculptor. If you want to do the combining and/or adding "citation needed" tags, please feel free to do so. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:39, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Rwood128 and Rothorpe What do you think of this edit to New Hampshire, and the edit summary? [1] Maybe the statement about same-sex marriage can't be said to be an example of a libertarian spirit, but I think the statement about N.H. being the only state that does not require adults to wear seatbelts while driving is. (I don't know much about libertarianism; I'm just assuming it means a spirit of letting people do what they want to do as much as possible.) If no introductory sentences are included, it can sound just like a list of unrelated facts. What do you think?
We would like to have a group discussion on Skype text chat with everyone on the FC team. In a few days, User:Go Phightins! will contact you privately to coordinate this. Please let him know about your availability if you are willing to participate. Thank you. Gamaliel ( talk) 16:14, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
I just finished reading and copy-editing most of the Gian Lorenzo Bernini article. I noticed that there are two pictures of the Fountain of Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiume, or something like that) in the article. Do you want both of them? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:22, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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WPPilot I just saw the two photos of your wonderful cat and read what you wrote under the photos about her passing. I don't know when this was, but I just wanted to say how sorry I am. It sounds like you and your cat had a great friendship, and that you took really good care of her. I hope you will get another cat. I am also sorry that you and Hafspajen aren't getting along. I hope it is a temporary thing, and that things will change in the future. Best regards, CorinneSD ( talk) 17:05, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Have you looked at the Louis M. Haffen article? It outlines the scandal lightly referred to in the Bluemner article, caused by Haffen's favouring Garvin over Bluemner who was the real designer of the Haffen Building. Rothorpe ( talk) 02:23, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
I think I found an artist for you you might like. Oscar Bluemner. Article needs copyed, though. -- Hafspajen ( talk) 08:20, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. I will read the article shortly. This particular painting is somewhat dark, but I like some of the others that are in the article. His use of color is similar to Robert Delaunay's.
CorinneSD ( talk) 15:25, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, I just read the article on Oscar Bluemner and made a few copy-edits. In the two block quotes in the section Oscar Bluemner#Later years, I found a number of typographical (spelling) errors. In the second quote, one of them has "[sic]" after it, indicating, as you know, that that is the way it appeared in the original, but none of the other errors have that. I tried to check the text of the first quote (NYTimes) but couldn't get access to the entire article. Can you find the original text in the source for both quotes? If you can, I'd be glad to point out the errors, here, and you can compare to the original.
Joshua Jonathan and Hafspajen See on-going discussion in response to my request for help at Wikipedia:Village Pump (technical)#Red X next to image files in Edit Mode. This started at about the same time JJ re-did my talk page. Is there anything you might have done, JJ, that might have caused this? I'm happy about the page; I'm just trying to figure out how to get rid of the red X's. Rothorpe said he sees the red X, too. Note that it's only in edit mode. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:11, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Apokryltaros and Vsmith Have you seen this editor's user page? User:KDS4444 He creates some fantastic graphics. CorinneSD ( talk) 14:11, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
KDS4444 If you haven't seen the comments just above this, bask in them now. I asked a kind of rhetorical question, but you could probably answer it (if you want to). I've pinged you, though, because I was just looking at the article Rhombohedron, and I noticed that in the table in Rhombohedron#Special cases, there is no illustration for a General rhombic prism. Also, below the table, there are four bullets, each item expanding on one of the columns in the table. However, there is no bullet for the fifth column, General rhombohedron. Very puzzling. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:01, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just started reading the article on Frans Hals. In the first paragraph in the section Frans Hals#Biography is the following sentence:
This sentence has two instances of "his", and the previous sentence mentions two males: Frans Hals and Karel van Mander. I'd like to clear up any possible confusion as to who each "his" refers to. Am I right in thinking "his" in "His Mannerist influence" means van Mander's Mannerist influence, and that "his" in the phrase "in his work" means Frans Hals' work? If I am right, I would re-word this sentence:
or even this more concise version:
What do you think? Rothorpe What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:16, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Looks like our friend is in trouble. Sca ( talk) 01:51, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 and Rothorpe I wonder if you would review the latest group of edits to Ginger. [2] While there were perhaps too many instances of "also", I think some adverbs improve sentence flow and make the writing more interesting. With no modifiers, writing can sometimes sound dull. I'm wondering if you want to revert the whole lot, and then make selected edits, or revert a few individually. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:45, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Please be advised that your revert to restore deleted unreferenced content in the lead section of the Gertrude Bell article breaks Wikipedia rules. Content that has been deleted as unreferenced cannot be restored without providing an adequate reference or references. Your edit summary was inaccurate - there is no content in the body of the article that contains the deleted claim. Tiptoethrutheminefield ( talk) 01:58, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out my double negative -- I've edited the passage and added a suitable edit summary. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 21:01, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Hallo Corinne. I've changed one of the parameters of MiszaBot for the moment, to see if it works. If it does, a lot of threads will be archived one of these days. NB: it is also possible to configure your archives to have an archive for each year, andit's even possible to have a separate archive archive for each month. How about those options? Best regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 08:49, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I suggested a re-wording of a sentence at Radiocarbon dating to Mike Christie a few days ago – see User talk:Mike Christie#Radiocarbon dating, starting from the short line, "I see the sentence you just added." There were a few permutations of the sentence, with me trying to word the sentence so that it expresses the right thing but is also a well-constructed and concise sentence, and Mike was very nice about my suggestions. Then, before I made the change to my new version, I read the sentence again in context (which I had only done briefly when I first saw it in the edit history), and I thought perhaps the way it was now written was better, even though less concise, and I said so to Mike. He said he "marginally prefers" the way it is now. My question to you is (a) do you also prefer the way it is now, and (b) if so, which word do you think is better, "jointly" or "collectively"? Or do you want to suggest a different wording? By the way, the article was just promoted to FA, and Mike was the editor who did the most work on it. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
I see a lot of pages in which images have captions with the phrase "close-up on". (The latest I noticed was in Asparagus racemosus.) Maybe this is an age thing, or perhaps a trans-Atlantic difference, but it grates on me; I would write "close-up of". I'd be interested in your view. Peter coxhead ( talk) 11:14, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
I wonder if it is given as an alternate ...While we're on the topic of cross-Atlantic differences, see alternate vs. alternative. Alakzi ( talk) 19:45, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt I'm almost finished reading the article on the Chaldean Oracles. In the second paragraph in the section Chaldean Oracles#State of the text, it mentions a W. Kroll. I'm wondering if this is Wilhelm Kroll. Is there any way you could determine this? If it is Wilhelm Kroll, I'd like to write the name out in full and link it to the WP article. Also, shouldn't there be a reference there? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:57, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Joshua Jonathan I just finished reading and copy-editing the article Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (which I read because of a painting at FP). Then I just started reading the article on one of his sons, Dirck Jacobsz. In the section Dirck Jacobsz#Career, I saw his father's name, Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, with a period at the end of "Cornelisz". Since I had just finished reading his article and had not seen his name – or any name – written with a period even once, I thought it was a typo, so I removed the period. Then, right after that, I read,
I see a period after "Gerritsdr." and after "Dircksdr." Then I noticed the period after "Jacobsz" in the title of the article. Now I'm totally confused. Where is the period correct, and needed? What does the period signify? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:54, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Hijiri88 I've been reading the exchanges on John Carter's talk page and on Catflap08's talk page. I don't know what all the disagreements have been about since I haven't looked at the articles being discussed, and I don't want to get involved, but I just want to say that I'm sorry you've been having all this trouble, and I'm sorry John Carter refuses to remove that comment you inadvertently posted on his user page (which, I agree, looks somewhat like a talk page). I read your comment, and it isn't such a terrible comment that you should feel embarrassed about it. If you don't get anywhere with the complaint you're lodging, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. The few people who see it might not even realize that it was posted in error or might think that John himself doesn't care to tidy up his user page. Anyway, he says that he's semi-retired, so probably will retire at some point. In the bigger picture of life, this is a small thing. Turn your attention to happier things, less stressful pages, and more pleasant editors. Your edits, not an occasional error like this, will speak for themselves. Best regards, CorinneSD ( talk) 00:04, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
You may be interested in this: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#dabs.com. Rothorpe ( talk) 18:08, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Joshua Jonathan Joshua, my talk page looks fine (did you see the box that displays the current phases of the moon that I added?), but I wanted to make the sentence, "You are welcome to continue discussions that have already been archived" a little smaller. I went into edit mode but couldn't see where to change the font size. Also, why do you have the hidden sentences ("Welcome to my talk page", etc.) above that? Couldn't we delete that? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:37, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just read what you wrote on your talk page. It is well-written, and more organized than what you wrote when you were really upset about ten days ago. I could not tell, though, whether it was a "farewell" statement like the one Yngvadottir posted on her talk page or just an organized defense of yourself. I hope it is not a farewell statement. I would be very upset if it were. Please - do - not - leave - Wikipedia. If it is just an organized defense of yourself, I guess I can understand why you wrote it, but I'm wondering if something has happened that I don't know about that made you feel that you had to write it. Have you been banned in some way? Please tell me what has happened.
I know your feelings have been hurt, but perhaps you will be able to get past that. You know you have many friends on Wikipedia. Have any of the friends who did not come to your defense earlier apologized to you for not doing so? I know Xanty did, but I don't know about any others. (You don't have to tell me who.) I don't think you need to defend yourself any more. You've already done that very well, with plenty of links and diffs. Just edit in the way you like to and on the articles you like to work on. I even think you could enjoy working on Signpost again. I look forward to seeing more featured picture nominations and to reading your comments on other nominations. I also look forward to helping you write and improve articles. Best regards, CorinneSD ( talk) 16:59, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
How are you supposed to discuss things when the only answer is always: please discuss things on Skype.
FYI, I would again like to reach out to you to participate in the FC section. I think that you would be a big help. I have been active in it since 2011 and Adam has been after me to contribute since then. The project is open to everyone, and other editors have already included you in the group, please participate, your an honest and clearly good hearted person, and I did not ever mean to offend anyone, but my objective is the creation of a publication that honors this site, and I have been told that my efforts have been successful. Kaizen - talk→ WPPilot 19:09, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I usually have my screen enlarged to 150% (it's a small screen), so when I look at the article on Pali, there is a lot of blank space in the lead. Even when I reduce it to 110%, there is still quite a bit of blank space. Does the layout of the lead, infobox, illustration, etc., look all right to you? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:40, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 and Rothorpe Which wording do you prefer? See this edit to Straightneck squash: [8] I prefer the first wording. The new wording has too many adjectives in a row before the verb. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:59, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe and Joshua Jonathan What do you think of these edits to the article on Druze? [9] CorinneSD ( talk) 21:35, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
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I don't quite understand what is your question regarding Belarusian Baroque. Can you clarify? Thanks, Renata ( talk) 13:09, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Renata Sure. First, let me copy the comment I left on Vsmith's talk page. Then I can see it and will clarify it:
My concerns are small ones:
1) I guess the edit itself was all right, correcting the spelling of "Belarusian", but "Belarusian Baroque" is a red link, and I wonder whether it should stay as a red link. I notice that there is a brief mention of the baroque in architecture in a town in Belarus in the article Nesvizh in the section Nesvizh#Main sights.
Would it make sense to make the link at "Belarusian Baroque" lead to this section of the Nesvizh article? If not, should it be de-linked?
2) If you put "Belarussian" in the search bar, it leads to a page with a list of articles. At the top of the page it says, "There is a page named "Belarussian" on Wikipedia." However, there isn't a page named "Belarussian" on WP. There is one on "Belarusian". Shouldn't that spelling be corrected to "Belarusian"? CorinneSD ( talk) 20:34, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen and Gerda Arendt What do you think of starting a new newsletter as an alternative to Signpost? It could have a different focus, a different philosophy, even a different timetable for publication. Perhaps focusing on art and culture. Any ideas? CorinneSD ( talk) 01:02, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Portal:Featured_content User:WPPilot -
Hafspajen You might consider adopting a whole new approach on WP. I'd like to suggest that you leave off seeking support on most things. Instead of asking for anything – support, approval, agreement – instead of frequently defending your point of view, take charge of something, like Signnpost. Assume a leadership role. Behave as if you were the authoritative voice, with the attitude that you know what you are doing. Unless I am mistaken, I don't believe anyone was elected leader on Signpost or anywhere else. Why always ask for support and approval? I encourage you to have a greater, and much-deserved, confidence in your opinions about things. Only ask for help from those you consider reliable and on things you really need help with, such as proofreading or finding a source or image. If you feel confident about your knowledge, opinions, and contributions, you will feel less need to defend yourself. You can completely ignore difficult editors. At the first sign of difficulty, don't even engage in conversation with them. I'm really encouraging you to be more assertive – polite, but confident and assertive. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:27, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Yes, I've just seen Adam experiencing the joy of working with Ed17 (as I did). Xanthomelanoussprog ( talk) 05:58, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith A few months ago I received "pending changes reviewer" rights. I've only used it a few times. When there is an edit that I don't want to accept, I've been clicking on the red "Rollback Vandal" (because the edits I've seen look like vandalism or test edits), and it works, but I'm wondering whether that is the best thing to do. Would it be better to click on "Revert" in the very top line where it gives you the choice to "Accept" or "Revert" the edit? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:37, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I thought Lake Baikal was in a rift valley, where two tectonic plates were pulling apart. Then I saw this map in the article on Tannu-Ola Mountains:
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I thought if two plates are pulling apart, there wouldn't be mountains around the rift. I see the lake itself is in a kind of flat area, but there are a lot of mountains around the lake. Are those very old mountains that will flatten out as the plates continue to pull apart? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:47, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Kwamikagami I was reading this exchange at User talk:Cplakidas#Philotheou and I wanted to ask you if that was correct, that the Georgian language has no stressed syllables. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:42, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, what was it that Renate did in response to your inquiry? Sca ( talk) 12:24, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
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Apokryltaros What do you think of the recent edits to Walleye? [11] While I think some are all right, others I think were better before the edits. I like "at age three or four" better than "between three and four", and I like "the small amount of yolk" better than "a small amount of yolk". I don't know about the others. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:40, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe and Rwood128 I'd like your opinion on this edit to Loren Eiseley: [12] In American English, the "to" is not needed nor used. This may be a case of British vs. American English. However, since Loren Eiseley was American, I think the article should be written in American English. Is there a significant difference, in your eyes, between:
To me, the second one suggests that it is up to 1970, or perhaps the early 1970s, and if you look at his works, he published right up until the year of his death in 1977. "From the 1950s through the 1970s" suggests through all, or most of the 70s, which is correct. Just wanted your thoughts before I revert. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:53, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne, just to let you know that I'm on holiday to around 25 May, R ( Rwood128 ( talk) 07:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC))
Did you clear up your issues with Christina? The only mention of "commonwealth" I see now is in the footnotes. Sca ( talk) 15:49, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
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Rothorpe and Peter coxhead I made this edit because I preferred "discovery" to "colonization". I added "by Europeans" to satisfy the IP editor who felt "discovery" was inappropriate and, clearly, politically incorrect. However, now I wonder whether it would have been all right to leave out "by Europeans" (which sounds silly to me) and then it would have been a simple revert. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 04:06, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
I can offer my help, with all my efforts. Meanwhile, the article "language isolate" and also the term itself is really problematic. People can interpret this, "as a final end to researches and to science" Okurogluselo ( talk) 01:52, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
I can offer my help, with all my efforts. Meanwhile, the article "language isolate" and also the term itself is really problematic. People can interpret this, "as a final end to researches and to science" Okurogluselo ( talk) 01:52, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
I dont agree with the idea of erasing the last contributions or any parts of current content. I think, the article must contain all the dimensions of the issue, we cannot exclude any of the theories, these are all heritage of humanity. However, of course you may make editions for a good writing. I can offer my help, with all my efforts. Meanwhile, the article "language isolate" is much more problematic. Okurogluselo ( talk) 01:52, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Could you take a look to the recent contributions about the Sumerian language? I want the essay consist all aspects of the issue. Nobody should exclude one of the theories, in a biased manner. The political side of the arguments was an old issue in 19th and 20th centuries. The current article doesnt include any supportive opinion about old political campaigns, these are only theories of linguistics. I added some reliable references, dated after 1996. However, some people erase them and abandon the article as orphan. Okurogluselo ( talk) 02:10, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, do you know what the rule / practice is regarding use of ß on English WP (in articles about German subjects)? This isn't very helpful. Thanks. Sca ( talk) 14:18, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. It is hard to tell something to these self-declared lingusists in wiki, especially to TaivoLinguist and others supporting him. They are irrational. I initiated a discussion in the talk page of Language Isolate. I dont feel comfortable with the language of the article. Just I want the usage of modal "can be" instead of "is". And some minortiy view references. But their reaction is unbeliviable. May I invite you to consider the issue? I think you are the one who could decide reasonably. Thank you. Okurogluselo : Blah 00:47, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Just I wanted a change in the language or style of the article. I had already given references, as expressing that these are minority, but he reacted something like touching to sacred. They are irrational.
Just could you take a look to the talk page? You may see their weird reactions. It is not required to be a linguist to do wahat I propose. Just join to the discussion as a wise one or a moderator becuse tension is unbeliviable. If you prefer, of course. I am pleased to talk to a kind one. It is rare, nowadays. Okurogluselo : Blah 01:36, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Crisco 1492 Hello, Crisco - I see you have recently begun using "Chris Woodrich" as your signature. If that is your real name, you might want to read [13]. If that is your real name and you want to continue using it, you might want to delete your date of birth from your user page (assuming what I read on your user page is indeed your real date of birth). Then you can e-mail the Oversight team through the link at the top of the page at [14] and request that all revisions from [15] to date be hidden. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:56, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. What do you thnk of the latest edits at Disappearance of Natalee Holloway? Rothorpe ( talk) 17:33, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Nope, can't read any Scandinavian languages. You'd better try Hafs on that – lately our Swedish friend has been lurking around here & there.
Cplakidas and Rothorpe I have a question about the wording of the last sentence in the section General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches#Now. Here is the sentence:
My first thought was that "Diocese" should be plural: Dioceses, and probably should be lower-case. My second thought was that "dioceses" does not normally go with Protestant churches, so shouldn't it read,
(I would also be surprised to learn that some Catholic dioceses recognized baptisms or marriages performed by the Unitarian Church and others did not.) Any thoughts? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:36, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
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In the article Chavacano language, in the section Chavacano language#Samples, I'm trying to put three versions of a paragraph, representing first Zamboangueño Chavacano, then Spanish, and finally English, using the columns template that I found at Help:Columns. I've succeeded in getting the three columns, but I can't get the three headings the same. I want a space after "Another sample of Zamboangueño Chavacano", and I want "Zamboangueño Chavacano" on its own line, like "Spanish:" and "English:". Can you fix it so I can see how to do this? CorinneSD ( talk) 14:45, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Corinne, do you agree with any of my edits, now reverted, at Althea Gibson? I didn't write edit summaries as I thought they were obvious enough. I've now left a note about US State abbreviations on the talk page. I think the run-on sentence is an improvement, though perhaps with a semicolon, and the encyclopedia encourages red links. Cheers, Rothorpe ( talk) 03:16, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Saving this link for future reference. [16] of which the second paragraph reads:
And this link: [17], in which we read:
In addition to being the fifth-ranked female tennis player in the world, $1.5 million in 1988 (when this article was written) was a lot of money; even that is somewhat notable. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:29, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
In a Miami, Florida, newspaper: Fageros was selected to represent the U.S. on the Wightman Cup team. [18]. (Note the small ad for a butcher to work in Havana, Cuba, at the bottom of the page.) CorinneSD ( talk) 16:36, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Sca See recent edits at Althea Gibson [19] and User:Rothorpe's post just above this one here on my talk page. Also look at links and notes I've just posted here. Do you think that one incident of her wearing gold lame panties under her tennis dress cancels out her accomplishments as a tennis player of world rank and makes her unnotable? I don't, but I thought I'd ask you. Rothorpe, what do you think? (Also, her reason was that she was tired of the all-white look of tennis clothing, so was anticipating, or before her time, because today many, if not most, professional players wear all sorts of colors and outfits. I know that's not a reason to make her notable, but I think it's interesting.) CorinneSD ( talk) 16:43, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Ssilvers I was looking at your recent edits to P. G. Wodehouse. Most are fine, but I disagree with your addition of a comma in this sentence:
When an adverbial clause follows the independent clause, no comma is needed before the adverbial clause. (When an adverbial clause precedes the independent clause, the adverbial clause is followed by a comma.)
See the examples in the table at Adverbial clause and the last two examples in the adverbial clause section at: [20] where you'll see the punctuation rule. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:26, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Why on earth are you talking to me about this on your Talk page? Please stop summoning me here. If you want to discuss the P.G. Wodehouse article, use the article's Talk page. I disagree with you, although I have removed the "his", which should satisfy you. If not, discuss it at the article's Talk page so that other contributors can comment. I suspect that the reason that you keep trying to discuss this here is that other editors have not been receptive to your comments. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 20:46, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Sitush Would you mind reading my comment at User talk:Vsmith#Evenks? I see the discussion on the editor's talk page, and your comments, but that was 14 June 2015, and these edits were made on 16 June 2015, so I don't know if the issue has been dealt with or not. Also, I wonder if you can answer the question I left for Vsmith, whether an article needs two categories, one with "ethnic" and the other with "indigenous". You can answer either here or on Vsmith's talk page. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:27, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, CorinneSD. I welcome any thoughts you may have at Talk:Cooperation and Brotherhood#Political parties used with singular or plural pronouns and verbs. Cheers! — Anomalocaris ( talk) 19:18, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, can you help me improve this section, thanks: Music of cathedral.-- 83.51.145.160 ( talk) 13:08, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
I just wanted to say how nice it is to see you editing for logical punctuation with quotations. It hadn't entered my awareness that WP:MOSLQ is now entrenched in the Manual of Style. Oh frabjous day! Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 19:37, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Quite an impressive and interesting gallery (or galleries) you've got on your user page these days. You seem to have a fondness for blue, as I do. I recognize some familiar scenes from my 'winter' work, and from my old friend Baluschek. Nice! Sca ( talk) 13:07, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, actually I didn't edit the Ślewiński article at all. My post on Haffy's talk was in response to an email he sent me, in which he simply asked if I knew of "this guy," with links to a couple Ślewiński paintings. (Why he's taken to emailing lately I'm not sure.)
Re your question, I Googled the Ślewiński quote about Gauguin and got repetitions of parts to the existing WP article, which is normal. Then I took a look at the Polish source referenced in the article, Młoda Polska (translates as "Young Poland") and it seems to feature short bio sketches of Polish artists, including Ślewiński – which I ran through translate.com and got (are you ready?) —
BTW, the other painting on Hafs' talk is Čiurlionis's The Gift of Friendship. Hafs put it there. Sca ( talk) 19:42, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
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Corinne, would you be able to look at a new article that I've created, John Cowper Powys's Autobiography? Feel free to improve. Also I don't know if the section "Additional autobiographical sources" is really appropriate? Thanks. Rwood128 ( talk) 11:40, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) : Rwood128 I'm flattered that you would ask me to edit your writing. Thank you for asking. I don't know the best place to write a few comments and concerns to you since the talk page for your article has not been created, so I'll write them here.
1) I removed a bit from the very beginning. I felt the sentences were too jam-packed with information.
2) I cut a bit from sentences later. I prefer lean sentences. Feel free to put back anything I've deleted anywhere in the article.
3) I'm a bit puzzled by quotes beginning with a capital letter (presumably the beginning of a sentence in the original) following the word "that" and no comma. I don't remember seeing that combination very often. I don't know if it is "correct" or not. I would normally use a verb such as "adds", "states", "claims", "points out", etc., or a participial, "saying", "adding", pointing out," etc., before a quote. If you want to incorporate the quote into your own sentence, and the quote follows "that", I would normally start the quote with a lower-case letter. But I'm not an expert in that, and you probably know more than I do, or could research it, so I'll leave it up to you.
4) Regarding the first sentence of the second paragraph:
(a) I think it's a little long.
(b) In the last part of the sentence, "his autobiography" is confusing. I think it refers to Autobiography, but you just mentioned "his earlier autobiographical work" (meaning Confessions of Two Brothers). I really did get a little confused as I was reading this paragraph, and I think it was this that threw me off. I wonder if you could leave any reference to Confessions of Two Brothers to later so there is no confusion that the paragraph is all about Autobiography. Even in the next sentence, beginning "Drabble adds, "It rivals them in its frankness," I'm not sure to which work the pronoun "it" refers, since you had just mentioned Confessions. The paragraph seems to go back and forth between the two works, and it's hard to follow.
(5) The third paragraph starts, "It is not a chronological account of his sixty years".
(6) In the first paragraph, you have a sentence beginning, "Morine Krissdotir, in The Life of Powys, describes the "first chapter" of the Autobiography as...." I wonder whether "first chapter" needs to be in quotes.
(7) I think this short article would benefit by the addition of one or two quotes from the work to illustrate the most interesting aspects of the Autobiography.
(8) Regarding the list of sources, I'm not sure whether it is appropriate or not. It would be appropriate if you could make more of a connection to Autobiography. Right now it just seems to be a list of works that a researcher might use to do further investigation. You might consider deleting it or providing a link to it. (Perhaps it belongs in the article about John Cowper Powys.) Well, that's all. I hope this has been helpful. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:23, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Just dropping by to thank you for the copy-edit work. Let me know if there is any part that is unclear. I am particularly worried that the lead section does not adequately summarize the history section (perhaps Barraza's quote should just be in the body text?). Thank you very much!-- MarshalN20 Talk 22:49, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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Fayenatic london I'm thinking about changing my username to just "Corinne". Would that be possible? I read on WP:Username#Changing your username that normally even if one changes one's username, the signature on discussions continues to display the original username. I wonder if mine could be changed so that my signature even on discussions shows as just "Corinne". CorinneSD ( talk) 17:35, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Sending my thanks to you for the copyedit, even though I did send one anyway. I'll work on the article for the next couple of days and I will most likely ask you to double check and see if everything has been fixed/clarified. I have decapitalised "meat ant" so that should no longer be an issue. I have also clarified what meat ants are by incorporating its binomial name. Burklemore1 ( talk) 03:26, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Trying to get a better picture. Sorry for the late reply. I was on a vacation. Aditya( talk • contribs) 04:30, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
CorinneSD, thank you so tremendously much for taking the time to complete two more copyedits of my nominated articles at GOCE. I've clarified all points in both articles. To avoid confusion over the term incorporator, I've linked the first mention in each article to Wiktionary. Really, its any one person charged with the incorporation of a company. As for Flournoy's son, he was given the same name his father but he never used the term junior publicly, so its Wikipedia article is rendered as Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (West Virginia lawyer). Please take a look and let me know if I have addressed all your points for clarification. Thanks again Corrine! -- West Virginian (talk) 15:31, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your edits on Valentin Wolfenstein and Carola Häggkvist. But could you please add the GOCE tag on each of the articles talk pages. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 17:44, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Re Elevenie, made some suggestions on my talk. Sca ( talk) 21:34, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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Some fruits Hafspajen ( talk) 00:02, 29 July 2015 (UTC) |
Hafspajen Oh...beautiful! Thank you! I had never seen that painting nor heard of the artist. He really captured the grapes and grape leaves. I like the way the plums are not perfect like the ones in the grocery stores. Also, the flowers right at the center are exquisite. I'm going to add it to my collection on my user page. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:41, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
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I'm copy-editing Bath, Somerset, and I want to change a number (500 kilograms) into an adjective, so it has to be hyphenated and have no "s" on "kilogram". However, it is now within a conversion template. I have forgotten how to put in the hyphen and make it an adjective (and make the converted result also an adjective with a hyphen). CorinneSD ( talk) 01:35, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
{{convert|500|kg|lb|adj=mid}}
.
Yunshui
雲
水
07:23, 30 July 2015 (UTC)|adj=mid
is supposed to be used with extra word(s) inside the template, like this:
{{convert|6|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} man
outputs "6-foot-tall (1.8 m) man"|adj=on
.Oh, and this is a little belated, but it's better late than never! Thank you again for your outstanding copyedits! -- West Virginian (talk) 16:17, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
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CorinneSD, do you ever participate in Wikipedia:Peer review? I think you would be a natural for it! With that in mind, and this is only if you have a free moment of time, would you be able to engage in a Peer Review of an article I have there at Wikipedia:Peer review/Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge/archive1. I needed a peer review of this article so that I could nominate it for Featured Article status. I normally wouldn't ask, but it's been lingering on the vine for a while and I wanted to have it reviewed before it passes without one. I know you're probably busy so please do not feel obligated to do so; you were just the first person I thought of! ;) -- West Virginian (talk) 16:09, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work so far in copy-editing Bath, Somerset. In relation to Bishops & seats I have tried to clarify "he" in the first instance is John of Tours and I have used "The bishop" on the second occurrence. The term "poor infirm" is used in the sources, to illustrate it was for those who couldn't afford to pay for the "treatment" provided by the hot springs. The term "elderly infirm" is still used in British English (ie by the BBC and newspapers) to refer to those who are weak through age but don't have specific injuries or illnesses. Hope that makes sense?— Rod talk 08:20, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Perhaps you will enjoy some of the articles linked from User:EEng#DYK. EEng ( talk) 00:03, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, have you been following this series in the New Yorker? Sca ( talk) 13:20, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Berries for sale at a
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I wonder if it is possible to widen an infobox just a tiny bit. Please see User talk:West Virginian#Isaac Parsons (American military officer). CorinneSD ( talk) 02:04, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
mainwidth=
parameter whose default is 22em. You can re-set that to widen the infobox.
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{{ helpme}} I no longer want to be notified in my e-mail inbox that someone has left a comment on my talk page. I went to "Preferences" and saw a small drop-down menu. One choice is, "Do not send any e-mail notifications". I want to know if that is the one I should choose. I do want editors to be able to send me an e-mail message if they want to, so I want that option to be there. I just don't want be told every time someone leaves a comment on my talk page. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:41, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
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I just wondered if you could tell me what the purpose of {{'s}} is. I saw that added right after a link the title of a newspaper in italics in one article, and then just now I saw a bot added only apostrophe s ('s) right after a link at
Cyrus Vance. Is there a difference? Is one more correct than the other? What is the difference between the 's in curley brackets and the regular 's?
CorinneSD (
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Cassianto I saw your post at Rothorpe's talk page asking for his opinion regarding the use of "the" or not in preposed appositives, or false titles. I know Rothorpe doesn't mind if I chime in on his talk page, but I didn't know if you would mind, so I'm posting this separately here. I find the issue interesting, and I read the entire page at the link you provided. I also read the article on False title. I don't even know if you're interested in what I have to say since we've disagreed on some things in the past, but if you are, here are some thoughts:
1) I think the choice as to whether to place the descriptive appositive phrase before or after the name of the person being described is a stylistic choice. Whether or not "the" is included, the different placement can have different effects on the overall sound of the sentence.
2) I agree with William Safire. See False title#In favor of false titles, last sentence:
Adding "the" when the appositive is preposed (before the name of the person), puts emphasis on the title and draws some attention away from the name of the person. I think that is one reason why it is often used by Americans. Putting the phrase before the name and leaving out "the" makes the reader quickly skim the phrase to get to the name, thus slightly minimizing the importance of the appositive phrase, putting the focus on the name, and speeding up the flow of the sentence.
Putting the phrase after the name, as a real appositive, enclosed in a pair of commas, is of course perfectly good writing. However, this construction slows down the reader a bit and forces the reader to focus on that phrase.
Just a few minutes I happened to come across an example of the American usage. See the last sentence in the first paragraph in Oliver Sacks#Early life:
This is contrasted with the other pattern in the first sentence of that paragraph.
I'll bet whoever wrote this had no idea that it was considered either American English or journalese.
I suppose I'll have to go along with the American style guides mentioned in False title that say leaving out "the" from a preposed appositive is considered less formal than including it, but I really believe that when not overused, and when the phrase itself is kept short, the word "the" is not always needed. I'd love to hear what you think. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:14, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) I think it has become a real difference between American and British English. The sentence the way you wrote it sounds fine to me, and with "the" it sounds odd. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:28, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) (I'll read this last article in a minute.)
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I'd like to change my user name to just "Corinne". Can you tell me how to do this? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
[[:meta:Steward requests/Username changes]]
will give:
meta:Steward requests/Username changes Of course you can also use an external link instead if you prefer. The good news is that the other Corinne's only edits were to an article on an American musical artist, making it likely that she can speak English, not just Hungarian.
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18:19, 14 August 2015 (UTC)Hi Corinne, I like the name-change! Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 14:40, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
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Corinne, it is another sincere privilege for me to award you The Epic Barnstar for your tremendous copyedits of Angus McDonald (Virginia militiaman), Old Pine Church, Isaac Parsons (American military officer), Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician), Valley, West Virginia, Eugenia Washington, and Lawrence Berry Washington. I appreciate your continued guidance and assistance in improving these articles so that they can be future Featured Article candidates! Thank you for a job well done! -- West Virginian (talk) 02:44, 20 August 2015 (UTC) |
Hi, Corinne. Another attempt to find out how to pronounce this weird word has ended in failure. But perhaps you know. Rothorpe ( talk) 01:35, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne, thanks for your work at the GOCE copy-edit requests page; however you've accepted three GOCE requests at one time; namely Angus McDonald (Virginia militiaman), Mendip Hills and Old Pine Church. We ask copy-editors to only accept one request at a time, so I've struck your other acceptances. Once you've finished one article, please feel free to return and unstrike one of the others. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 09:24, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
I am so sorry!
I don't know how to make my own pictures on my user page. I happened to see yours, and I really liked it! I'm so sorry! I am really a lame editor.
Could you please tell me how to post on pictures? I really don't know how.
Thanks, and my apologies again!
-- Gryffindor123 ( talk) 00:32, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
P.S. How did you find out about what I did? How did you reach my user page?
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I am so sorry that I copied down your userpage onto mine! I am the worst at making userpages, you are the best! Oh, how can I make it up to you? Gryffindor123 ( talk) 00:42, 21 August 2015 (UTC) |
Hey, Corrine☺. If you have the time, and wouldn't mind: the Noah's wine article that I've put together could use your copyediting skills. Adam's ale benefited, and I'm sure this one would as well. Best Regards,— Godsy( TALK CONT) 00:42, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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Baffle gab1978 Many thanks for your cordial and informative reply to my query on your talk page. I want you to know that I do notice (and correct) things like "an inquest was opened into the road accident" (I believe you would say it should be: "an inquest into the road accident was opened", or "an inquest regarding the road accident was opened"; if not, please correct me), and I try to remove unnecessary words and unnecessary exaggeration. I know there is always room for improvement, but I really want you to have confidence in my copyediting skills. If you ever have a few minutes free, would you look at the edits I made to Indian National Congress between 11 and 13 August 2015 and see what I did? I guess I was just skimming the surface then, and working to improve poor sentence structure, word choice and punctuation and trying to make the sentences and paragraphs more concise whereas much more work actually needed to be done, which you are doing now. I think if I don't know the subject matter really well, I refrain from making more substantive edits. Well, I did the best I could. As you probably saw on Rothorpe's talk page, I had started to go through the article a second time but found it too tedious, so I stopped. I don't often stop in the middle of a second or even first run-through of an article; that one was just too long. Corinne ( talk) 22:44, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
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Paine Ellsworth Hello, Paine – I'm so sorry you've had to go through what you've just had to endure. I just wanted to say that your friends will not be influenced by such negative criticisms. I read only the most recent exchanges, but I gather that it's something like this: since the name "Calumet" comes from only one part of the country, it shouldn't be used to name a pipe that is part of cultures from across the country or even farther. When I saw that argument, I thought that there are many things that have as their name, or part of their name, words that originally pertained only to one area but now are more widespread in use or appearance. I think you tried to make this argument, but if you could find four or five good examples of this, that might bolster your argument (if you want to spend any more time on it). Finally, I'm just curious about something. I noticed that you've changed your signature to Painius. I'm just wondering why. I thought "Paine Ellsworth" was rather distinctive. Corinne ( talk) 00:44, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
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I just had my computer updated to Windows 10. When I got the computer back, it was set to Internet Explorer as the browser, so I changed it to Google Chrome, which is what I had before. Now, even though I have selected WikEd in the Gadgets section of "Preferences", WikEd is not displayed at all. Do you have any suggestions? Corinne ( talk) 02:03, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
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One of my pet peeves:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/comma-queen-the-lay-of-the-lielay-land
Sca ( talk) 14:45, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I feel for you – you are often on the receiving end of unwarranted attacks by passionate, ill-informed people responding to your efforts to undo vandalism, original research or just poor edits. This last one amused me – it seemed the silly phrases negated the criticism – and of course I didn't mean to add to it, so I've deleted my comment. You didn't find it the least bit funny? Corinne ( talk) 19:49, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen I left a note for Vsmith on his talk page at User talk:Vsmith#Patience Wright, and he replied, but, before I do any combining, I thought I'd ask you what you thought since Patience Wright was a sculptor. If you want to do the combining and/or adding "citation needed" tags, please feel free to do so. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:39, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Rwood128 and Rothorpe What do you think of this edit to New Hampshire, and the edit summary? [1] Maybe the statement about same-sex marriage can't be said to be an example of a libertarian spirit, but I think the statement about N.H. being the only state that does not require adults to wear seatbelts while driving is. (I don't know much about libertarianism; I'm just assuming it means a spirit of letting people do what they want to do as much as possible.) If no introductory sentences are included, it can sound just like a list of unrelated facts. What do you think?
We would like to have a group discussion on Skype text chat with everyone on the FC team. In a few days, User:Go Phightins! will contact you privately to coordinate this. Please let him know about your availability if you are willing to participate. Thank you. Gamaliel ( talk) 16:14, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
I just finished reading and copy-editing most of the Gian Lorenzo Bernini article. I noticed that there are two pictures of the Fountain of Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiume, or something like that) in the article. Do you want both of them? CorinneSD ( talk) 00:22, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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WPPilot I just saw the two photos of your wonderful cat and read what you wrote under the photos about her passing. I don't know when this was, but I just wanted to say how sorry I am. It sounds like you and your cat had a great friendship, and that you took really good care of her. I hope you will get another cat. I am also sorry that you and Hafspajen aren't getting along. I hope it is a temporary thing, and that things will change in the future. Best regards, CorinneSD ( talk) 17:05, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Have you looked at the Louis M. Haffen article? It outlines the scandal lightly referred to in the Bluemner article, caused by Haffen's favouring Garvin over Bluemner who was the real designer of the Haffen Building. Rothorpe ( talk) 02:23, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
I think I found an artist for you you might like. Oscar Bluemner. Article needs copyed, though. -- Hafspajen ( talk) 08:20, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Thank you. I will read the article shortly. This particular painting is somewhat dark, but I like some of the others that are in the article. His use of color is similar to Robert Delaunay's.
CorinneSD ( talk) 15:25, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen Hafs, I just read the article on Oscar Bluemner and made a few copy-edits. In the two block quotes in the section Oscar Bluemner#Later years, I found a number of typographical (spelling) errors. In the second quote, one of them has "[sic]" after it, indicating, as you know, that that is the way it appeared in the original, but none of the other errors have that. I tried to check the text of the first quote (NYTimes) but couldn't get access to the entire article. Can you find the original text in the source for both quotes? If you can, I'd be glad to point out the errors, here, and you can compare to the original.
Joshua Jonathan and Hafspajen See on-going discussion in response to my request for help at Wikipedia:Village Pump (technical)#Red X next to image files in Edit Mode. This started at about the same time JJ re-did my talk page. Is there anything you might have done, JJ, that might have caused this? I'm happy about the page; I'm just trying to figure out how to get rid of the red X's. Rothorpe said he sees the red X, too. Note that it's only in edit mode. CorinneSD ( talk) 19:11, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Apokryltaros and Vsmith Have you seen this editor's user page? User:KDS4444 He creates some fantastic graphics. CorinneSD ( talk) 14:11, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
KDS4444 If you haven't seen the comments just above this, bask in them now. I asked a kind of rhetorical question, but you could probably answer it (if you want to). I've pinged you, though, because I was just looking at the article Rhombohedron, and I noticed that in the table in Rhombohedron#Special cases, there is no illustration for a General rhombic prism. Also, below the table, there are four bullets, each item expanding on one of the columns in the table. However, there is no bullet for the fifth column, General rhombohedron. Very puzzling. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:01, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just started reading the article on Frans Hals. In the first paragraph in the section Frans Hals#Biography is the following sentence:
This sentence has two instances of "his", and the previous sentence mentions two males: Frans Hals and Karel van Mander. I'd like to clear up any possible confusion as to who each "his" refers to. Am I right in thinking "his" in "His Mannerist influence" means van Mander's Mannerist influence, and that "his" in the phrase "in his work" means Frans Hals' work? If I am right, I would re-word this sentence:
or even this more concise version:
What do you think? Rothorpe What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:16, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Looks like our friend is in trouble. Sca ( talk) 01:51, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 and Rothorpe I wonder if you would review the latest group of edits to Ginger. [2] While there were perhaps too many instances of "also", I think some adverbs improve sentence flow and make the writing more interesting. With no modifiers, writing can sometimes sound dull. I'm wondering if you want to revert the whole lot, and then make selected edits, or revert a few individually. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:45, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
Please be advised that your revert to restore deleted unreferenced content in the lead section of the Gertrude Bell article breaks Wikipedia rules. Content that has been deleted as unreferenced cannot be restored without providing an adequate reference or references. Your edit summary was inaccurate - there is no content in the body of the article that contains the deleted claim. Tiptoethrutheminefield ( talk) 01:58, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out my double negative -- I've edited the passage and added a suitable edit summary. --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 21:01, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Hallo Corinne. I've changed one of the parameters of MiszaBot for the moment, to see if it works. If it does, a lot of threads will be archived one of these days. NB: it is also possible to configure your archives to have an archive for each year, andit's even possible to have a separate archive archive for each month. How about those options? Best regards, Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 08:49, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I suggested a re-wording of a sentence at Radiocarbon dating to Mike Christie a few days ago – see User talk:Mike Christie#Radiocarbon dating, starting from the short line, "I see the sentence you just added." There were a few permutations of the sentence, with me trying to word the sentence so that it expresses the right thing but is also a well-constructed and concise sentence, and Mike was very nice about my suggestions. Then, before I made the change to my new version, I read the sentence again in context (which I had only done briefly when I first saw it in the edit history), and I thought perhaps the way it was now written was better, even though less concise, and I said so to Mike. He said he "marginally prefers" the way it is now. My question to you is (a) do you also prefer the way it is now, and (b) if so, which word do you think is better, "jointly" or "collectively"? Or do you want to suggest a different wording? By the way, the article was just promoted to FA, and Mike was the editor who did the most work on it. CorinneSD ( talk) 23:58, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
I see a lot of pages in which images have captions with the phrase "close-up on". (The latest I noticed was in Asparagus racemosus.) Maybe this is an age thing, or perhaps a trans-Atlantic difference, but it grates on me; I would write "close-up of". I'd be interested in your view. Peter coxhead ( talk) 11:14, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
I wonder if it is given as an alternate ...While we're on the topic of cross-Atlantic differences, see alternate vs. alternative. Alakzi ( talk) 19:45, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
Gerda Arendt I'm almost finished reading the article on the Chaldean Oracles. In the second paragraph in the section Chaldean Oracles#State of the text, it mentions a W. Kroll. I'm wondering if this is Wilhelm Kroll. Is there any way you could determine this? If it is Wilhelm Kroll, I'd like to write the name out in full and link it to the WP article. Also, shouldn't there be a reference there? CorinneSD ( talk) 23:57, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
Joshua Jonathan I just finished reading and copy-editing the article Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (which I read because of a painting at FP). Then I just started reading the article on one of his sons, Dirck Jacobsz. In the section Dirck Jacobsz#Career, I saw his father's name, Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, with a period at the end of "Cornelisz". Since I had just finished reading his article and had not seen his name – or any name – written with a period even once, I thought it was a typo, so I removed the period. Then, right after that, I read,
I see a period after "Gerritsdr." and after "Dircksdr." Then I noticed the period after "Jacobsz" in the title of the article. Now I'm totally confused. Where is the period correct, and needed? What does the period signify? CorinneSD ( talk) 16:54, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Hijiri88 I've been reading the exchanges on John Carter's talk page and on Catflap08's talk page. I don't know what all the disagreements have been about since I haven't looked at the articles being discussed, and I don't want to get involved, but I just want to say that I'm sorry you've been having all this trouble, and I'm sorry John Carter refuses to remove that comment you inadvertently posted on his user page (which, I agree, looks somewhat like a talk page). I read your comment, and it isn't such a terrible comment that you should feel embarrassed about it. If you don't get anywhere with the complaint you're lodging, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. The few people who see it might not even realize that it was posted in error or might think that John himself doesn't care to tidy up his user page. Anyway, he says that he's semi-retired, so probably will retire at some point. In the bigger picture of life, this is a small thing. Turn your attention to happier things, less stressful pages, and more pleasant editors. Your edits, not an occasional error like this, will speak for themselves. Best regards, CorinneSD ( talk) 00:04, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
You may be interested in this: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters#dabs.com. Rothorpe ( talk) 18:08, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Joshua Jonathan Joshua, my talk page looks fine (did you see the box that displays the current phases of the moon that I added?), but I wanted to make the sentence, "You are welcome to continue discussions that have already been archived" a little smaller. I went into edit mode but couldn't see where to change the font size. Also, why do you have the hidden sentences ("Welcome to my talk page", etc.) above that? Couldn't we delete that? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:37, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I just read what you wrote on your talk page. It is well-written, and more organized than what you wrote when you were really upset about ten days ago. I could not tell, though, whether it was a "farewell" statement like the one Yngvadottir posted on her talk page or just an organized defense of yourself. I hope it is not a farewell statement. I would be very upset if it were. Please - do - not - leave - Wikipedia. If it is just an organized defense of yourself, I guess I can understand why you wrote it, but I'm wondering if something has happened that I don't know about that made you feel that you had to write it. Have you been banned in some way? Please tell me what has happened.
I know your feelings have been hurt, but perhaps you will be able to get past that. You know you have many friends on Wikipedia. Have any of the friends who did not come to your defense earlier apologized to you for not doing so? I know Xanty did, but I don't know about any others. (You don't have to tell me who.) I don't think you need to defend yourself any more. You've already done that very well, with plenty of links and diffs. Just edit in the way you like to and on the articles you like to work on. I even think you could enjoy working on Signpost again. I look forward to seeing more featured picture nominations and to reading your comments on other nominations. I also look forward to helping you write and improve articles. Best regards, CorinneSD ( talk) 16:59, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
How are you supposed to discuss things when the only answer is always: please discuss things on Skype.
FYI, I would again like to reach out to you to participate in the FC section. I think that you would be a big help. I have been active in it since 2011 and Adam has been after me to contribute since then. The project is open to everyone, and other editors have already included you in the group, please participate, your an honest and clearly good hearted person, and I did not ever mean to offend anyone, but my objective is the creation of a publication that honors this site, and I have been told that my efforts have been successful. Kaizen - talk→ WPPilot 19:09, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen I usually have my screen enlarged to 150% (it's a small screen), so when I look at the article on Pali, there is a lot of blank space in the lead. Even when I reduce it to 110%, there is still quite a bit of blank space. Does the layout of the lead, infobox, illustration, etc., look all right to you? CorinneSD ( talk) 21:40, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Sminthopsis84 and Rothorpe Which wording do you prefer? See this edit to Straightneck squash: [8] I prefer the first wording. The new wording has too many adjectives in a row before the verb. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:59, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe and Joshua Jonathan What do you think of these edits to the article on Druze? [9] CorinneSD ( talk) 21:35, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
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I don't quite understand what is your question regarding Belarusian Baroque. Can you clarify? Thanks, Renata ( talk) 13:09, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Renata Sure. First, let me copy the comment I left on Vsmith's talk page. Then I can see it and will clarify it:
My concerns are small ones:
1) I guess the edit itself was all right, correcting the spelling of "Belarusian", but "Belarusian Baroque" is a red link, and I wonder whether it should stay as a red link. I notice that there is a brief mention of the baroque in architecture in a town in Belarus in the article Nesvizh in the section Nesvizh#Main sights.
Would it make sense to make the link at "Belarusian Baroque" lead to this section of the Nesvizh article? If not, should it be de-linked?
2) If you put "Belarussian" in the search bar, it leads to a page with a list of articles. At the top of the page it says, "There is a page named "Belarussian" on Wikipedia." However, there isn't a page named "Belarussian" on WP. There is one on "Belarusian". Shouldn't that spelling be corrected to "Belarusian"? CorinneSD ( talk) 20:34, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Hafspajen and Gerda Arendt What do you think of starting a new newsletter as an alternative to Signpost? It could have a different focus, a different philosophy, even a different timetable for publication. Perhaps focusing on art and culture. Any ideas? CorinneSD ( talk) 01:02, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hafspajen You might consider adopting a whole new approach on WP. I'd like to suggest that you leave off seeking support on most things. Instead of asking for anything – support, approval, agreement – instead of frequently defending your point of view, take charge of something, like Signnpost. Assume a leadership role. Behave as if you were the authoritative voice, with the attitude that you know what you are doing. Unless I am mistaken, I don't believe anyone was elected leader on Signpost or anywhere else. Why always ask for support and approval? I encourage you to have a greater, and much-deserved, confidence in your opinions about things. Only ask for help from those you consider reliable and on things you really need help with, such as proofreading or finding a source or image. If you feel confident about your knowledge, opinions, and contributions, you will feel less need to defend yourself. You can completely ignore difficult editors. At the first sign of difficulty, don't even engage in conversation with them. I'm really encouraging you to be more assertive – polite, but confident and assertive. CorinneSD ( talk) 17:27, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Yes, I've just seen Adam experiencing the joy of working with Ed17 (as I did). Xanthomelanoussprog ( talk) 05:58, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith A few months ago I received "pending changes reviewer" rights. I've only used it a few times. When there is an edit that I don't want to accept, I've been clicking on the red "Rollback Vandal" (because the edits I've seen look like vandalism or test edits), and it works, but I'm wondering whether that is the best thing to do. Would it be better to click on "Revert" in the very top line where it gives you the choice to "Accept" or "Revert" the edit? CorinneSD ( talk) 15:37, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I thought Lake Baikal was in a rift valley, where two tectonic plates were pulling apart. Then I saw this map in the article on Tannu-Ola Mountains:
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I thought if two plates are pulling apart, there wouldn't be mountains around the rift. I see the lake itself is in a kind of flat area, but there are a lot of mountains around the lake. Are those very old mountains that will flatten out as the plates continue to pull apart? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:47, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Kwamikagami I was reading this exchange at User talk:Cplakidas#Philotheou and I wanted to ask you if that was correct, that the Georgian language has no stressed syllables. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:42, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, what was it that Renate did in response to your inquiry? Sca ( talk) 12:24, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
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Apokryltaros What do you think of the recent edits to Walleye? [11] While I think some are all right, others I think were better before the edits. I like "at age three or four" better than "between three and four", and I like "the small amount of yolk" better than "a small amount of yolk". I don't know about the others. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:40, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Rothorpe and Rwood128 I'd like your opinion on this edit to Loren Eiseley: [12] In American English, the "to" is not needed nor used. This may be a case of British vs. American English. However, since Loren Eiseley was American, I think the article should be written in American English. Is there a significant difference, in your eyes, between:
To me, the second one suggests that it is up to 1970, or perhaps the early 1970s, and if you look at his works, he published right up until the year of his death in 1977. "From the 1950s through the 1970s" suggests through all, or most of the 70s, which is correct. Just wanted your thoughts before I revert. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:53, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne, just to let you know that I'm on holiday to around 25 May, R ( Rwood128 ( talk) 07:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC))
Did you clear up your issues with Christina? The only mention of "commonwealth" I see now is in the footnotes. Sca ( talk) 15:49, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
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Rothorpe and Peter coxhead I made this edit because I preferred "discovery" to "colonization". I added "by Europeans" to satisfy the IP editor who felt "discovery" was inappropriate and, clearly, politically incorrect. However, now I wonder whether it would have been all right to leave out "by Europeans" (which sounds silly to me) and then it would have been a simple revert. What do you think? CorinneSD ( talk) 04:06, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
I can offer my help, with all my efforts. Meanwhile, the article "language isolate" and also the term itself is really problematic. People can interpret this, "as a final end to researches and to science" Okurogluselo ( talk) 01:52, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
I can offer my help, with all my efforts. Meanwhile, the article "language isolate" and also the term itself is really problematic. People can interpret this, "as a final end to researches and to science" Okurogluselo ( talk) 01:52, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
I dont agree with the idea of erasing the last contributions or any parts of current content. I think, the article must contain all the dimensions of the issue, we cannot exclude any of the theories, these are all heritage of humanity. However, of course you may make editions for a good writing. I can offer my help, with all my efforts. Meanwhile, the article "language isolate" is much more problematic. Okurogluselo ( talk) 01:52, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Could you take a look to the recent contributions about the Sumerian language? I want the essay consist all aspects of the issue. Nobody should exclude one of the theories, in a biased manner. The political side of the arguments was an old issue in 19th and 20th centuries. The current article doesnt include any supportive opinion about old political campaigns, these are only theories of linguistics. I added some reliable references, dated after 1996. However, some people erase them and abandon the article as orphan. Okurogluselo ( talk) 02:10, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, do you know what the rule / practice is regarding use of ß on English WP (in articles about German subjects)? This isn't very helpful. Thanks. Sca ( talk) 14:18, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne. It is hard to tell something to these self-declared lingusists in wiki, especially to TaivoLinguist and others supporting him. They are irrational. I initiated a discussion in the talk page of Language Isolate. I dont feel comfortable with the language of the article. Just I want the usage of modal "can be" instead of "is". And some minortiy view references. But their reaction is unbeliviable. May I invite you to consider the issue? I think you are the one who could decide reasonably. Thank you. Okurogluselo : Blah 00:47, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Just I wanted a change in the language or style of the article. I had already given references, as expressing that these are minority, but he reacted something like touching to sacred. They are irrational.
Just could you take a look to the talk page? You may see their weird reactions. It is not required to be a linguist to do wahat I propose. Just join to the discussion as a wise one or a moderator becuse tension is unbeliviable. If you prefer, of course. I am pleased to talk to a kind one. It is rare, nowadays. Okurogluselo : Blah 01:36, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Crisco 1492 Hello, Crisco - I see you have recently begun using "Chris Woodrich" as your signature. If that is your real name, you might want to read [13]. If that is your real name and you want to continue using it, you might want to delete your date of birth from your user page (assuming what I read on your user page is indeed your real date of birth). Then you can e-mail the Oversight team through the link at the top of the page at [14] and request that all revisions from [15] to date be hidden. CorinneSD ( talk) 15:56, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Corinne. What do you thnk of the latest edits at Disappearance of Natalee Holloway? Rothorpe ( talk) 17:33, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Nope, can't read any Scandinavian languages. You'd better try Hafs on that – lately our Swedish friend has been lurking around here & there.
Cplakidas and Rothorpe I have a question about the wording of the last sentence in the section General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches#Now. Here is the sentence:
My first thought was that "Diocese" should be plural: Dioceses, and probably should be lower-case. My second thought was that "dioceses" does not normally go with Protestant churches, so shouldn't it read,
(I would also be surprised to learn that some Catholic dioceses recognized baptisms or marriages performed by the Unitarian Church and others did not.) Any thoughts? CorinneSD ( talk) 22:36, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Corinne, do you agree with any of my edits, now reverted, at Althea Gibson? I didn't write edit summaries as I thought they were obvious enough. I've now left a note about US State abbreviations on the talk page. I think the run-on sentence is an improvement, though perhaps with a semicolon, and the encyclopedia encourages red links. Cheers, Rothorpe ( talk) 03:16, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Saving this link for future reference. [16] of which the second paragraph reads:
And this link: [17], in which we read:
In addition to being the fifth-ranked female tennis player in the world, $1.5 million in 1988 (when this article was written) was a lot of money; even that is somewhat notable. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:29, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
In a Miami, Florida, newspaper: Fageros was selected to represent the U.S. on the Wightman Cup team. [18]. (Note the small ad for a butcher to work in Havana, Cuba, at the bottom of the page.) CorinneSD ( talk) 16:36, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Sca See recent edits at Althea Gibson [19] and User:Rothorpe's post just above this one here on my talk page. Also look at links and notes I've just posted here. Do you think that one incident of her wearing gold lame panties under her tennis dress cancels out her accomplishments as a tennis player of world rank and makes her unnotable? I don't, but I thought I'd ask you. Rothorpe, what do you think? (Also, her reason was that she was tired of the all-white look of tennis clothing, so was anticipating, or before her time, because today many, if not most, professional players wear all sorts of colors and outfits. I know that's not a reason to make her notable, but I think it's interesting.) CorinneSD ( talk) 16:43, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Ssilvers I was looking at your recent edits to P. G. Wodehouse. Most are fine, but I disagree with your addition of a comma in this sentence:
When an adverbial clause follows the independent clause, no comma is needed before the adverbial clause. (When an adverbial clause precedes the independent clause, the adverbial clause is followed by a comma.)
See the examples in the table at Adverbial clause and the last two examples in the adverbial clause section at: [20] where you'll see the punctuation rule. CorinneSD ( talk) 22:26, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Why on earth are you talking to me about this on your Talk page? Please stop summoning me here. If you want to discuss the P.G. Wodehouse article, use the article's Talk page. I disagree with you, although I have removed the "his", which should satisfy you. If not, discuss it at the article's Talk page so that other contributors can comment. I suspect that the reason that you keep trying to discuss this here is that other editors have not been receptive to your comments. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 20:46, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Sitush Would you mind reading my comment at User talk:Vsmith#Evenks? I see the discussion on the editor's talk page, and your comments, but that was 14 June 2015, and these edits were made on 16 June 2015, so I don't know if the issue has been dealt with or not. Also, I wonder if you can answer the question I left for Vsmith, whether an article needs two categories, one with "ethnic" and the other with "indigenous". You can answer either here or on Vsmith's talk page. CorinneSD ( talk) 20:27, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, CorinneSD. I welcome any thoughts you may have at Talk:Cooperation and Brotherhood#Political parties used with singular or plural pronouns and verbs. Cheers! — Anomalocaris ( talk) 19:18, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, can you help me improve this section, thanks: Music of cathedral.-- 83.51.145.160 ( talk) 13:08, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
I just wanted to say how nice it is to see you editing for logical punctuation with quotations. It hadn't entered my awareness that WP:MOSLQ is now entrenched in the Manual of Style. Oh frabjous day! Sminthopsis84 ( talk) 19:37, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Quite an impressive and interesting gallery (or galleries) you've got on your user page these days. You seem to have a fondness for blue, as I do. I recognize some familiar scenes from my 'winter' work, and from my old friend Baluschek. Nice! Sca ( talk) 13:07, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, actually I didn't edit the Ślewiński article at all. My post on Haffy's talk was in response to an email he sent me, in which he simply asked if I knew of "this guy," with links to a couple Ślewiński paintings. (Why he's taken to emailing lately I'm not sure.)
Re your question, I Googled the Ślewiński quote about Gauguin and got repetitions of parts to the existing WP article, which is normal. Then I took a look at the Polish source referenced in the article, Młoda Polska (translates as "Young Poland") and it seems to feature short bio sketches of Polish artists, including Ślewiński – which I ran through translate.com and got (are you ready?) —
BTW, the other painting on Hafs' talk is Čiurlionis's The Gift of Friendship. Hafs put it there. Sca ( talk) 19:42, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
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Corinne, would you be able to look at a new article that I've created, John Cowper Powys's Autobiography? Feel free to improve. Also I don't know if the section "Additional autobiographical sources" is really appropriate? Thanks. Rwood128 ( talk) 11:40, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) : Rwood128 I'm flattered that you would ask me to edit your writing. Thank you for asking. I don't know the best place to write a few comments and concerns to you since the talk page for your article has not been created, so I'll write them here.
1) I removed a bit from the very beginning. I felt the sentences were too jam-packed with information.
2) I cut a bit from sentences later. I prefer lean sentences. Feel free to put back anything I've deleted anywhere in the article.
3) I'm a bit puzzled by quotes beginning with a capital letter (presumably the beginning of a sentence in the original) following the word "that" and no comma. I don't remember seeing that combination very often. I don't know if it is "correct" or not. I would normally use a verb such as "adds", "states", "claims", "points out", etc., or a participial, "saying", "adding", pointing out," etc., before a quote. If you want to incorporate the quote into your own sentence, and the quote follows "that", I would normally start the quote with a lower-case letter. But I'm not an expert in that, and you probably know more than I do, or could research it, so I'll leave it up to you.
4) Regarding the first sentence of the second paragraph:
(a) I think it's a little long.
(b) In the last part of the sentence, "his autobiography" is confusing. I think it refers to Autobiography, but you just mentioned "his earlier autobiographical work" (meaning Confessions of Two Brothers). I really did get a little confused as I was reading this paragraph, and I think it was this that threw me off. I wonder if you could leave any reference to Confessions of Two Brothers to later so there is no confusion that the paragraph is all about Autobiography. Even in the next sentence, beginning "Drabble adds, "It rivals them in its frankness," I'm not sure to which work the pronoun "it" refers, since you had just mentioned Confessions. The paragraph seems to go back and forth between the two works, and it's hard to follow.
(5) The third paragraph starts, "It is not a chronological account of his sixty years".
(6) In the first paragraph, you have a sentence beginning, "Morine Krissdotir, in The Life of Powys, describes the "first chapter" of the Autobiography as...." I wonder whether "first chapter" needs to be in quotes.
(7) I think this short article would benefit by the addition of one or two quotes from the work to illustrate the most interesting aspects of the Autobiography.
(8) Regarding the list of sources, I'm not sure whether it is appropriate or not. It would be appropriate if you could make more of a connection to Autobiography. Right now it just seems to be a list of works that a researcher might use to do further investigation. You might consider deleting it or providing a link to it. (Perhaps it belongs in the article about John Cowper Powys.) Well, that's all. I hope this has been helpful. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:23, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Just dropping by to thank you for the copy-edit work. Let me know if there is any part that is unclear. I am particularly worried that the lead section does not adequately summarize the history section (perhaps Barraza's quote should just be in the body text?). Thank you very much!-- MarshalN20 Talk 22:49, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
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Fayenatic london I'm thinking about changing my username to just "Corinne". Would that be possible? I read on WP:Username#Changing your username that normally even if one changes one's username, the signature on discussions continues to display the original username. I wonder if mine could be changed so that my signature even on discussions shows as just "Corinne". CorinneSD ( talk) 17:35, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
Sending my thanks to you for the copyedit, even though I did send one anyway. I'll work on the article for the next couple of days and I will most likely ask you to double check and see if everything has been fixed/clarified. I have decapitalised "meat ant" so that should no longer be an issue. I have also clarified what meat ants are by incorporating its binomial name. Burklemore1 ( talk) 03:26, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
Trying to get a better picture. Sorry for the late reply. I was on a vacation. Aditya( talk • contribs) 04:30, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
CorinneSD, thank you so tremendously much for taking the time to complete two more copyedits of my nominated articles at GOCE. I've clarified all points in both articles. To avoid confusion over the term incorporator, I've linked the first mention in each article to Wiktionary. Really, its any one person charged with the incorporation of a company. As for Flournoy's son, he was given the same name his father but he never used the term junior publicly, so its Wikipedia article is rendered as Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (West Virginia lawyer). Please take a look and let me know if I have addressed all your points for clarification. Thanks again Corrine! -- West Virginian (talk) 15:31, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your edits on Valentin Wolfenstein and Carola Häggkvist. But could you please add the GOCE tag on each of the articles talk pages. Thanks.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 17:44, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Re Elevenie, made some suggestions on my talk. Sca ( talk) 21:34, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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Some fruits Hafspajen ( talk) 00:02, 29 July 2015 (UTC) |
Hafspajen Oh...beautiful! Thank you! I had never seen that painting nor heard of the artist. He really captured the grapes and grape leaves. I like the way the plums are not perfect like the ones in the grocery stores. Also, the flowers right at the center are exquisite. I'm going to add it to my collection on my user page. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:41, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
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I'm copy-editing Bath, Somerset, and I want to change a number (500 kilograms) into an adjective, so it has to be hyphenated and have no "s" on "kilogram". However, it is now within a conversion template. I have forgotten how to put in the hyphen and make it an adjective (and make the converted result also an adjective with a hyphen). CorinneSD ( talk) 01:35, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
{{convert|500|kg|lb|adj=mid}}
.
Yunshui
雲
水
07:23, 30 July 2015 (UTC)|adj=mid
is supposed to be used with extra word(s) inside the template, like this:
{{convert|6|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} man
outputs "6-foot-tall (1.8 m) man"|adj=on
.Oh, and this is a little belated, but it's better late than never! Thank you again for your outstanding copyedits! -- West Virginian (talk) 16:17, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
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CorinneSD, I hereby award you The West Virginia Barnstar for your outstanding copyedits of seven articles relating to the following West Virginia-related persons and symbol: John Collins Covell, Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (West Virginia senator), Henry Bell Gilkeson, Gabriel Jones (Virginia), James Sloan Kuykendall, Thomas Bryan Martin, and Flag of West Virginia. Through your efforts, these articles meet a higher standard of quality and are in a better position to be promoted to Featured Article status in the future. Thank you for all your time and hard work! -- West Virginian (talk) 16:17, 2 August 2015 (UTC) |
CorinneSD, do you ever participate in Wikipedia:Peer review? I think you would be a natural for it! With that in mind, and this is only if you have a free moment of time, would you be able to engage in a Peer Review of an article I have there at Wikipedia:Peer review/Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge/archive1. I needed a peer review of this article so that I could nominate it for Featured Article status. I normally wouldn't ask, but it's been lingering on the vine for a while and I wanted to have it reviewed before it passes without one. I know you're probably busy so please do not feel obligated to do so; you were just the first person I thought of! ;) -- West Virginian (talk) 16:09, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work so far in copy-editing Bath, Somerset. In relation to Bishops & seats I have tried to clarify "he" in the first instance is John of Tours and I have used "The bishop" on the second occurrence. The term "poor infirm" is used in the sources, to illustrate it was for those who couldn't afford to pay for the "treatment" provided by the hot springs. The term "elderly infirm" is still used in British English (ie by the BBC and newspapers) to refer to those who are weak through age but don't have specific injuries or illnesses. Hope that makes sense?— Rod talk 08:20, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Perhaps you will enjoy some of the articles linked from User:EEng#DYK. EEng ( talk) 00:03, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
Corinne, have you been following this series in the New Yorker? Sca ( talk) 13:20, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
Berries for sale at a
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I wonder if it is possible to widen an infobox just a tiny bit. Please see User talk:West Virginian#Isaac Parsons (American military officer). CorinneSD ( talk) 02:04, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
mainwidth=
parameter whose default is 22em. You can re-set that to widen the infobox.
Huon (
talk)
03:03, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
{{ helpme}} I no longer want to be notified in my e-mail inbox that someone has left a comment on my talk page. I went to "Preferences" and saw a small drop-down menu. One choice is, "Do not send any e-mail notifications". I want to know if that is the one I should choose. I do want editors to be able to send me an e-mail message if they want to, so I want that option to be there. I just don't want be told every time someone leaves a comment on my talk page. CorinneSD ( talk) 02:41, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
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I just wondered if you could tell me what the purpose of {{'s}} is. I saw that added right after a link the title of a newspaper in italics in one article, and then just now I saw a bot added only apostrophe s ('s) right after a link at
Cyrus Vance. Is there a difference? Is one more correct than the other? What is the difference between the 's in curley brackets and the regular 's?
CorinneSD (
talk) 01:41, 14 August 2015 (UTC) (Sorry, I went back to look at the first article and saw that it wasn't after a link; it was after a newspaper title.)
CorinneSD (
talk)
01:45, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
Cassianto I saw your post at Rothorpe's talk page asking for his opinion regarding the use of "the" or not in preposed appositives, or false titles. I know Rothorpe doesn't mind if I chime in on his talk page, but I didn't know if you would mind, so I'm posting this separately here. I find the issue interesting, and I read the entire page at the link you provided. I also read the article on False title. I don't even know if you're interested in what I have to say since we've disagreed on some things in the past, but if you are, here are some thoughts:
1) I think the choice as to whether to place the descriptive appositive phrase before or after the name of the person being described is a stylistic choice. Whether or not "the" is included, the different placement can have different effects on the overall sound of the sentence.
2) I agree with William Safire. See False title#In favor of false titles, last sentence:
Adding "the" when the appositive is preposed (before the name of the person), puts emphasis on the title and draws some attention away from the name of the person. I think that is one reason why it is often used by Americans. Putting the phrase before the name and leaving out "the" makes the reader quickly skim the phrase to get to the name, thus slightly minimizing the importance of the appositive phrase, putting the focus on the name, and speeding up the flow of the sentence.
Putting the phrase after the name, as a real appositive, enclosed in a pair of commas, is of course perfectly good writing. However, this construction slows down the reader a bit and forces the reader to focus on that phrase.
Just a few minutes I happened to come across an example of the American usage. See the last sentence in the first paragraph in Oliver Sacks#Early life:
This is contrasted with the other pattern in the first sentence of that paragraph.
I'll bet whoever wrote this had no idea that it was considered either American English or journalese.
I suppose I'll have to go along with the American style guides mentioned in False title that say leaving out "the" from a preposed appositive is considered less formal than including it, but I really believe that when not overused, and when the phrase itself is kept short, the word "the" is not always needed. I'd love to hear what you think. CorinneSD ( talk) 00:14, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) I think it has become a real difference between American and British English. The sentence the way you wrote it sounds fine to me, and with "the" it sounds odd. CorinneSD ( talk) 16:28, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
( edit conflict) (I'll read this last article in a minute.)
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I'd like to change my user name to just "Corinne". Can you tell me how to do this? CorinneSD ( talk) 02:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
[[:meta:Steward requests/Username changes]]
will give:
meta:Steward requests/Username changes Of course you can also use an external link instead if you prefer. The good news is that the other Corinne's only edits were to an article on an American musical artist, making it likely that she can speak English, not just Hungarian.
Huon (
talk)
18:19, 14 August 2015 (UTC)Hi Corinne, I like the name-change! Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 14:40, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
The Epic Barnstar | ||
Corinne, it is another sincere privilege for me to award you The Epic Barnstar for your tremendous copyedits of Angus McDonald (Virginia militiaman), Old Pine Church, Isaac Parsons (American military officer), Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician), Valley, West Virginia, Eugenia Washington, and Lawrence Berry Washington. I appreciate your continued guidance and assistance in improving these articles so that they can be future Featured Article candidates! Thank you for a job well done! -- West Virginian (talk) 02:44, 20 August 2015 (UTC) |
Hi, Corinne. Another attempt to find out how to pronounce this weird word has ended in failure. But perhaps you know. Rothorpe ( talk) 01:35, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi Corinne, thanks for your work at the GOCE copy-edit requests page; however you've accepted three GOCE requests at one time; namely Angus McDonald (Virginia militiaman), Mendip Hills and Old Pine Church. We ask copy-editors to only accept one request at a time, so I've struck your other acceptances. Once you've finished one article, please feel free to return and unstrike one of the others. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 09:24, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
I am so sorry!
I don't know how to make my own pictures on my user page. I happened to see yours, and I really liked it! I'm so sorry! I am really a lame editor.
Could you please tell me how to post on pictures? I really don't know how.
Thanks, and my apologies again!
-- Gryffindor123 ( talk) 00:32, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
P.S. How did you find out about what I did? How did you reach my user page?
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I am so sorry that I copied down your userpage onto mine! I am the worst at making userpages, you are the best! Oh, how can I make it up to you? Gryffindor123 ( talk) 00:42, 21 August 2015 (UTC) |
Hey, Corrine☺. If you have the time, and wouldn't mind: the Noah's wine article that I've put together could use your copyediting skills. Adam's ale benefited, and I'm sure this one would as well. Best Regards,— Godsy( TALK CONT) 00:42, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
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Baffle gab1978 Many thanks for your cordial and informative reply to my query on your talk page. I want you to know that I do notice (and correct) things like "an inquest was opened into the road accident" (I believe you would say it should be: "an inquest into the road accident was opened", or "an inquest regarding the road accident was opened"; if not, please correct me), and I try to remove unnecessary words and unnecessary exaggeration. I know there is always room for improvement, but I really want you to have confidence in my copyediting skills. If you ever have a few minutes free, would you look at the edits I made to Indian National Congress between 11 and 13 August 2015 and see what I did? I guess I was just skimming the surface then, and working to improve poor sentence structure, word choice and punctuation and trying to make the sentences and paragraphs more concise whereas much more work actually needed to be done, which you are doing now. I think if I don't know the subject matter really well, I refrain from making more substantive edits. Well, I did the best I could. As you probably saw on Rothorpe's talk page, I had started to go through the article a second time but found it too tedious, so I stopped. I don't often stop in the middle of a second or even first run-through of an article; that one was just too long. Corinne ( talk) 22:44, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
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Paine Ellsworth Hello, Paine – I'm so sorry you've had to go through what you've just had to endure. I just wanted to say that your friends will not be influenced by such negative criticisms. I read only the most recent exchanges, but I gather that it's something like this: since the name "Calumet" comes from only one part of the country, it shouldn't be used to name a pipe that is part of cultures from across the country or even farther. When I saw that argument, I thought that there are many things that have as their name, or part of their name, words that originally pertained only to one area but now are more widespread in use or appearance. I think you tried to make this argument, but if you could find four or five good examples of this, that might bolster your argument (if you want to spend any more time on it). Finally, I'm just curious about something. I noticed that you've changed your signature to Painius. I'm just wondering why. I thought "Paine Ellsworth" was rather distinctive. Corinne ( talk) 00:44, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
A
Old Colony Mennonite family observing the practice of
plain dress
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I just had my computer updated to Windows 10. When I got the computer back, it was set to Internet Explorer as the browser, so I changed it to Google Chrome, which is what I had before. Now, even though I have selected WikEd in the Gadgets section of "Preferences", WikEd is not displayed at all. Do you have any suggestions? Corinne ( talk) 02:03, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
Two
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One of my pet peeves:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/comma-queen-the-lay-of-the-lielay-land
Sca ( talk) 14:45, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
Vsmith I feel for you – you are often on the receiving end of unwarranted attacks by passionate, ill-informed people responding to your efforts to undo vandalism, original research or just poor edits. This last one amused me – it seemed the silly phrases negated the criticism – and of course I didn't mean to add to it, so I've deleted my comment. You didn't find it the least bit funny? Corinne ( talk) 19:49, 6 September 2015 (UTC)