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Please see my talk page for reply to your message. Johndoeqwe ( talk) 13:16, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Despite your reservations about speedy for hoaxes, that's just what I did to it. Quite nicely done, believable by many (but so are religions and politicians...) but blatant to us. Few hoaxes here are good - most of them wouldn't fool a bright six year old. They get spotted quicker now. The current longest running was up for six uears - but no-one except the author will have known about it until a patroller went on random page patrol! It claimed a German band were killed in a plane crash in 1956 flying to England. The name of the band said hoax to me straight off, there was only one plane crash on the day, and the alleged concert hall didn't exist. I declined a speedy because of the age, and AfDed it and the AfDers had a field day. Great fun. This one - six out of ten. So, yes, you can CSD hoaxes if they're blatant, and if the reviewing admin doesn't get it, AfD it. (JohnCD enjoys hoaxes too, BTW.) Peridon ( talk) 21:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Please see my response to your reply at my talk page Johndoeqwe ( talk) 22:04, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm confused by something in this article, which you created a few years ago: does citation #3 really say that the Liberian Observer was one of the country's first dailies? Having spent about a year working with lots of newspapers in a Liberian archive in the USA, I've worked with tons of pre- coup daily newspapers. Most of them only published Monday-Friday, but the Liberian Observer did likewise from its establishment until at least 2007 (and I think they still do, but I can't check them because they're in boxes at the bottom of a big stack), so I don't see a difference. I just wonder if it might be one of the oldest existing ones, since most publications from the Doe era ceased long ago, and most pre-1980 publications quickly died or were suppressed after the coup. I can't check the reference myself; I wonder if being in the USA means that books.google.uk won't let me look at its contents. Nyttend ( talk) 23:53, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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Nice work on this article! Do you have a personal interest in this particular old cemetery? 2.24.4.3 ( talk) 21:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
I have added 'Buried in Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge' to those people who did not have it in their articles, and requested images of their graves/gravestones for the Find-A-Grave entries; I suspect my FAG friend Geoffrey Gillon will pay a visit to take some images. There are some nice bios. and images of the people on FAG, a Russian-Danish couple called "Julia&Keld" made them at the end of 2011 by the way. I am surprised that the grave images are not already there! Martin.
Added Thomas Hayward (cricketer) Added Samuel Savage Lewis (?-1891), Librarian known as 'Satan Lewis' and his wife [[Agnes Lewis]
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I noticed that you tagged this article for splitting. Unfortunately, before that can be done, the identity of the subject of various sections of the article needs to be identified. Are you familiar with the subject? If so, would you mind clarifying the article? Op47 ( talk) 18:09, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for this. I noticed some of the VIAF and Authority control templates and discussions. I was under the impression that a bot was going round adding VIAF details. Should I be adding such things to biography articles I've created, or should I be letting that happen naturally? Also, in a couple of recent cases I resorted to VIAF and library catalogues to get birth and death years (or at least an idea of what to search for), but would I be right in saying that to avoid circularity, it is important to have independent verification of birth and death years from a reliable source? Carcharoth ( talk) 00:09, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Carcaroth! My understanding is that the bot-added ones are needing to go relatively cautiously, after initial experiments showed naive matching was producing too many errors (sportspeople matched to scientists etc.) I manually matched some African writers: writers with names in another script (e.g. Arabic) and with variant transliterations are I think trickier to deal with automatic rules. Writers whose dates are only approximately known also benefit from manual attention. Most of the authority control templates I've added recently, though, are using Magnus Manske's funky tool. (See the tools section of my user page, or Wikipedia talk:authority control#Authority control tool.) Dsp13 ( talk) 03:54, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
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Lunchtime, West Road, might interest you: [6]. You saw the meetup this Saturday? Charles Matthews ( talk) 16:06, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
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I did Georgiana Zornlin since she came up in Tractarian stuff, and as you can see from the backlinks is one of the "BBC Art" list links that are good to get. Most of what is known about her, apart from the art (oddly) seems to be in the Notes & Queries link from archiv.org. Her sister Rosina Zornlin seems to be better known, however, mentioned alongside Mary Somerville. E.g. [7] which Google Books cuts off in its prime. Charles Matthews ( talk) 15:28, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your additions and images! I'll take a look at the painting names. Dsp13 ( talk) 00:12, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
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Great to meet you yesterday! A quick draft of the names for the Darwin Correspondence session is up at WP:DARWIN, if you're interested... Andrew Gray ( talk) 09:32, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I hope you have not created a new person. The link on the Ghana Armed Forces Official websites lists Commodore D A Forman. I don't dispute the fact that Archibald George Forman existed.I am not sure A. G. Forman and D A Forman are one and the same person. Shouldn't this article revert to its former name? It is a common problem with African articles that references are difficult to find. There is a lot of information I end up leaving out of articles because although I know them for a fact, I cannot find the references to back them up and I do not want disputes.-- Natsubee ( talk) 20:38, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for your suggestions, Dsp13. Of the four you sent, Alice Hughes certainly deserves inclusion and I have already written a short piece on her. In view of her early start, Cecilia Glaisher may also be important but unfortunately I do not have access to the ODNB and other sources are very scanty. There is already something on fairy photographer Frances Griffiths but I don't think she should be included in the list and Susan Jellicoe seems to be more an author of books about gardens than an actual photographer. Perhaps you would like to write a short piece on Cecilia Glaisher yourself?-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:21, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
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Altered Walter ( talk) 21:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
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Please see my talk page for reply to your message. Johndoeqwe ( talk) 13:16, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Despite your reservations about speedy for hoaxes, that's just what I did to it. Quite nicely done, believable by many (but so are religions and politicians...) but blatant to us. Few hoaxes here are good - most of them wouldn't fool a bright six year old. They get spotted quicker now. The current longest running was up for six uears - but no-one except the author will have known about it until a patroller went on random page patrol! It claimed a German band were killed in a plane crash in 1956 flying to England. The name of the band said hoax to me straight off, there was only one plane crash on the day, and the alleged concert hall didn't exist. I declined a speedy because of the age, and AfDed it and the AfDers had a field day. Great fun. This one - six out of ten. So, yes, you can CSD hoaxes if they're blatant, and if the reviewing admin doesn't get it, AfD it. (JohnCD enjoys hoaxes too, BTW.) Peridon ( talk) 21:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Please see my response to your reply at my talk page Johndoeqwe ( talk) 22:04, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm confused by something in this article, which you created a few years ago: does citation #3 really say that the Liberian Observer was one of the country's first dailies? Having spent about a year working with lots of newspapers in a Liberian archive in the USA, I've worked with tons of pre- coup daily newspapers. Most of them only published Monday-Friday, but the Liberian Observer did likewise from its establishment until at least 2007 (and I think they still do, but I can't check them because they're in boxes at the bottom of a big stack), so I don't see a difference. I just wonder if it might be one of the oldest existing ones, since most publications from the Doe era ceased long ago, and most pre-1980 publications quickly died or were suppressed after the coup. I can't check the reference myself; I wonder if being in the USA means that books.google.uk won't let me look at its contents. Nyttend ( talk) 23:53, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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Nice work on this article! Do you have a personal interest in this particular old cemetery? 2.24.4.3 ( talk) 21:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
I have added 'Buried in Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge' to those people who did not have it in their articles, and requested images of their graves/gravestones for the Find-A-Grave entries; I suspect my FAG friend Geoffrey Gillon will pay a visit to take some images. There are some nice bios. and images of the people on FAG, a Russian-Danish couple called "Julia&Keld" made them at the end of 2011 by the way. I am surprised that the grave images are not already there! Martin.
Added Thomas Hayward (cricketer) Added Samuel Savage Lewis (?-1891), Librarian known as 'Satan Lewis' and his wife [[Agnes Lewis]
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I noticed that you tagged this article for splitting. Unfortunately, before that can be done, the identity of the subject of various sections of the article needs to be identified. Are you familiar with the subject? If so, would you mind clarifying the article? Op47 ( talk) 18:09, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for this. I noticed some of the VIAF and Authority control templates and discussions. I was under the impression that a bot was going round adding VIAF details. Should I be adding such things to biography articles I've created, or should I be letting that happen naturally? Also, in a couple of recent cases I resorted to VIAF and library catalogues to get birth and death years (or at least an idea of what to search for), but would I be right in saying that to avoid circularity, it is important to have independent verification of birth and death years from a reliable source? Carcharoth ( talk) 00:09, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Carcaroth! My understanding is that the bot-added ones are needing to go relatively cautiously, after initial experiments showed naive matching was producing too many errors (sportspeople matched to scientists etc.) I manually matched some African writers: writers with names in another script (e.g. Arabic) and with variant transliterations are I think trickier to deal with automatic rules. Writers whose dates are only approximately known also benefit from manual attention. Most of the authority control templates I've added recently, though, are using Magnus Manske's funky tool. (See the tools section of my user page, or Wikipedia talk:authority control#Authority control tool.) Dsp13 ( talk) 03:54, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
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Lunchtime, West Road, might interest you: [6]. You saw the meetup this Saturday? Charles Matthews ( talk) 16:06, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
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I did Georgiana Zornlin since she came up in Tractarian stuff, and as you can see from the backlinks is one of the "BBC Art" list links that are good to get. Most of what is known about her, apart from the art (oddly) seems to be in the Notes & Queries link from archiv.org. Her sister Rosina Zornlin seems to be better known, however, mentioned alongside Mary Somerville. E.g. [7] which Google Books cuts off in its prime. Charles Matthews ( talk) 15:28, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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Great to meet you yesterday! A quick draft of the names for the Darwin Correspondence session is up at WP:DARWIN, if you're interested... Andrew Gray ( talk) 09:32, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I hope you have not created a new person. The link on the Ghana Armed Forces Official websites lists Commodore D A Forman. I don't dispute the fact that Archibald George Forman existed.I am not sure A. G. Forman and D A Forman are one and the same person. Shouldn't this article revert to its former name? It is a common problem with African articles that references are difficult to find. There is a lot of information I end up leaving out of articles because although I know them for a fact, I cannot find the references to back them up and I do not want disputes.-- Natsubee ( talk) 20:38, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for your suggestions, Dsp13. Of the four you sent, Alice Hughes certainly deserves inclusion and I have already written a short piece on her. In view of her early start, Cecilia Glaisher may also be important but unfortunately I do not have access to the ODNB and other sources are very scanty. There is already something on fairy photographer Frances Griffiths but I don't think she should be included in the list and Susan Jellicoe seems to be more an author of books about gardens than an actual photographer. Perhaps you would like to write a short piece on Cecilia Glaisher yourself?-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:21, 11 March 2013 (UTC)