Fuhghettabouitit, I thank your help and also your advises. I will read the links you recommend me in order to improve my editing capacity. Happy Sunday. -- Japal1950 ( talk) 14:55, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
In the last year+ quite a lot of material has been added, most of it unsourced. You know a lot more about that game than I do. I think the article needs an overhaul. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 18:16, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
I posted a reply to what you said on my talk page, but obviously you don't go around looking at everybody's talk page that you have previously commented on. If you don't mind, I would like to continue our conversation. Aviationfrk9 ( talk) 22:53, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, I saw your work on Hadji Ali and was really impressed that you got that article up to featured quality. I've been working on a short article about an eccentric fellow from the 1800s, Elias Abraham Rosenberg. It's currently up for peer review at the moment, I'd love if you could take a look at it if you get the time, no rush of course. Thanks! Mark Arsten ( talk) 02:19, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
SarahStierch ( talk) 03:42, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Why did you delete the Greed Game by Avalon Hill? We play that game all of the time. It is a great family game to teach math and probability to children. We have to search long and hard to find the game in it's original format in the tube with the mat. Love this game.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.240.17.71 ( talk • contribs)
please look at my user page - i have created many biographies of scientists. I would appreciate any help - particularly with photos. Standard2211 ( talk) 10:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message about article titles capitalization at SMcCandlish's talk page.
Hello. You have
a new message about the tools at SMcCandlish's talk page. I forked the topics and refactored them out of the ArbCom legalese topic, which I'm going to archive as annoying noise shortly; didn't want to nuke ongoing convos in the process. —
SMcCandlish
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I was preparing to add an article about the Japanese AV idol Rio Hamasaki, whose exclusion from an otherwise reasonable survey of notable AV idols seemed conspicuous. You deemed the previous deleted article as not meeting guidelines for inclusion back in 2008 and I was hoping you could elaborate. Was the article itself insufficient or was it the idol herself? Thanks! Ode2joy ( talk) 14:52, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for deleting the redirects! :) Just one thing: I'd like the User:B.wilson and User talk:B.wilson deleted as well, although you seemed to have undeleted it, could you please delete them again, or is that against policy? Thanks, Bryce ( talk | contribs) 23:26, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Signatures must include at least one internal link to your user page, user talk page, or contributions page; this allows other editors easy access to your talk page and contributions log. The lack of such a link is widely viewed as obstructive.
" It does not say specifically words to the effect that you can't act to break the links at a later time, but I think the implication is pretty hard to avoid as in the spirit of the policy, and I agree with it. People coming across your posts should be easily able to follow who left the post and not be frustrated by such broken connections. Please do feel free to ask for a second opinion anywhere you'd like but I am not going to delete them.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
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00:12, 8 February 2012 (UTC)Hi, you previously undeleted User talk:B.wilson. The pages have been deleted again under U1. Your input would be appreciated at User_talk:Bmusician#Admin_help.... Yoenit ( talk) 12:18, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Fuhghettaboutit,
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 19:23, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Dunno if you've seen
WP:WebCite and
http://WebCitation.org yet. For any source that is reasonably likely to at risk of disappearing, like any Web site that isn't really huge with a lot of money behind it, you don't have to wait for Archive.org to generate an archive (you hope) for |archiveurl=
purposes in citations. This newer site will generate one on the fly. Of course, we have to trust that their own funding is enough to keep them going, but since their archival is on-demand the storage spaces costs are only a tiny fraction of those incurred by Archive.org. I've already used it to "save" most of the sources for
Three-ball (crappy as they are, they're all we've got, and one's already been lost irretrievably because Archive.org never got it and now it's owned by a cybersquatter who blanked it with a dummy page). —
SMcCandlish
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This is a note to let the main editors of Hadji Ali know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on February 20, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 20, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Hadji Ali (c. 1888–92 –1937) was a vaudeville performance artist famous for acts of controlled regurgitation. Thought to be of Egyptian extraction, his best known feats included water spouting, smoke swallowing and nut and handkerchief swallowing followed by disgorgement in an order chosen by the audience. Ali's most famous stunt, and the highlight of his act, was drinking copious amounts of water followed by kerosene, and then acting by turns as a human flamethrower and fire extinguisher as he expelled the two liquids onto a theatrical prop. While these stunts were performed, a panel of audience members was invited to watch the show up close to verify that no trickery was employed. Although never gaining wide fame, Ali had a dedicated following on the vaudeville circuit in the United States. He performed for heads of state including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Judy Garland named him her favorite vaudevillian and David Blaine identified Ali as his favorite magician. Ali's unusual gastric abilities led to rumors that the Rockefeller Institute had offered a large sum of money to obtain his stomach post-mortem. After he died in England his body was offered to Johns Hopkins for study, though the offer was declined. ( more...)
UcuchaBot ( talk) 23:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I've no idea if that's the only place you can put them, or indeed why it broke the headings, as rather than go and spend ages trying to find some obscure documentation somewhere I just did trial and error until it no longer broke them! So, yes that's one way to get them working properly but there may be other ways. Dpmuk ( talk) 18:46, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Fixed! Dumb typo in the code, sorry. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 16:48, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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For your help in finding sources for Dow Brain. Yunshui 雲 水 09:02, 24 February 2012 (UTC) |
Sorry man, shouldn't have deleted it. I just wanted to be able to edit the roster without having to edit the template. DaHuzyBru ( talk) 13:36, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 26 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gauss' Pythagorean right triangle proposal, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Carl Friedrich Gauss is credited with a proposal to signal aliens by drawing a massive representation of the Pythagorean theorem on the Siberian tundra using pine trees and fields of wheat? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gauss' Pythagorean right triangle proposal.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:03, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the semi-protect on Chardon High School shooting. It probably wasn't the wisest thing for me to have started that article so soon. I have been off Wikipedia pretty much for a couple of years. I just started back in full swing a a few weeks ago. It has really changed. I wasn't even going to ask for protection on that page because back in the day there would have been at least three admins on the case by the time I figured out there was a problem. It seems like a lot of people have left and everything is backlogged. Nice to "see" you. Take Care.-- Ishtar456 ( talk) 10:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks a third time, for your edits. I was glad that the onslaught of ID editors did not return after the protection was lifted. Take care.-- Ishtar456 ( talk) 10:42, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Much obliged for your prompt reply, explanation, and bot correction, as well as your patience with a wiki noob. 69.135.171.176 ( talk) 23:40, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
As you can see, I took your advice. BJMccoy ( talk) 23:59, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
PS thank you for all the helpful links as well! BJMccoy ( talk) 00:45, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear Fuhghettaboutit,
I was wondering if you might be able to help me. An article I wrote ("Pam-Crash") had a "may be written like an advertisement" template placed on it in November that I believe is no longer necessary. I have since revised the article and eliminated (I think) any excessive use of the product name as well as any jargon, backlinks, etc. When you have a chance, could you possibly look at the article and let me know if my changes have been sufficient to warrant removal of the template? Thank you! Michael Leeman ( talk) 21:35, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Hghyux ( talk) 01:14, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the speedy delete/move on "So You Think You Can Dance (Poland) (season 7)" -> "You Can Dance - Po Prostu Tańcz (season 7)". I was the idiot who moved the article to the (inaccurate) English title a while back, as I mistakenly thought this was the format used for the previous seasons. Just caught the error yesterday. Anyway, thanks for helping me correct the mistake. Snow ( talk) 07:23, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Fuhghettaboutit for the guidance posted on the Human Genome Project article. Your help is much appreciated. A1dumbiryani ( talk) 16:31, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to create a page here http://finaldestination.wikia.com/wiki/ and make the page "Template:Quote box" cause I would like for there t be one. If not atleast show me here how it should be written to make it. -- 84.169.204.116 ( talk) 20:33, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, I've been working on William S. Sadler (he founded a new religious movement--think Scientology without all the movie stars and lawsuits) lately and am almost done adding what I've found for reliable sources (though there are plenty of unreliable sources about him). I found a few old newspaper articles that I haven't accessed yet, do you have access to any of the articles in User talk:Mark Arsten/sandbox 2 or should I go to WP:RX? If you have time/interest, any help with the article/sources would be appreciated. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 02:52, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Fughghettaboutit. Can you post your additional citations for Lopez's birthdate? Your source has been called into question by what I and others are convinced is a sock puppet for someone close to the subject. The birthdate issue is sensitive with some Hollywood "actresses," but is that a valid encyclopedic concern? Georgenancy ( talk) 22:26, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
I expected that you'd delete the content - I fear we're in the middle of a family thing, but I don't think Simpson belongs in it. I think she is being scapegoated for lots of edits by different users. Josiewarvelle ( talk) 23:47, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Template:Hasty has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. --
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22:25, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, I saw, that you try to move my draft to a real "Wiki" and change it back. Because up to now I never move a draft to a Wiki article I kindly would ask you to do it for me. I think, the corrections done during the last days now make a readeable article out of this. Thanks so much for helping me. -- Elcap ( talk) 00:19, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, since you helped me with it a couple months back, I thought I'd let you know that Elias Abraham Rosenberg is now at FAC. Any comments/suggestions/derision would be appreciated. Mark Arsten ( talk) 03:00, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the everything!!!
Regards, Muhammad Mukhriz Wanna talk? 10:17, 3 April 2012 (UTC) |
To be fair, the previous request for clarification has been there 3 years, with no clarification; although I hadn't checked if the hyperlinks were added later, the wording hasn't been addressed, and I don't know enough about it to do so, either. Dru of Id ( talk) 03:55, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 5 April 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dynasphere, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Dynasphere monowheel was criticized for its poor braking and steering capabilities, as well as its gerbiling tendencies? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dynasphere.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:04, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. You participated in the G4 RfC, including the last section WT:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 44#G4: Moving forward, and WT:Criteria for speedy deletion#Pages which have survived deletion discussions, which removed "generally". Does your comment mean that you wish to move the footnote from G4 to the sentence in the lead? Looking over the old discussion, Cunard's initial footnote proposal was on G4 – to which I agreed after reading "G4 does not apply" in your proposed text – and most participants didn't specify. Do you object to any of the other changes ( diff including a few unrelated edits)? Flatscan ( talk) 04:46, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I recently wrote an article on Susan Foster, a jewelry designer that was rapidly deleted. I am happy to rewrite it as requested however is there any way i can have a copy of it emailed to me or something??? The footnoting took me forever!
It appears that the user who wanted to have a copy of her deleted article just went and recreated it. Should it be deleted again? -- GouramiWatcher (Gulp) 01:19, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
SORRY! I am definitely a neophyte! Once I revise it in the userspace, how do I move it? Sorry, I'm very confused. :(
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!! LET ME KNOW WHEN AND HOW TO RESUBMIT! :) Alisonpollack ( talk) 19:12, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
"He profits most who serves best." - International Rotary motto - Pendright ( talk) 22:10, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:HighBeam/Applications#Applicants_for_round_2.2C_post-April_16th_open_period — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 00:16, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi-- A few months ago you were kind enough to help me get a confusion straightened out, and now I have a new one.
Two days ago I came across a page that's an obvious (to me) candidate for speedy deletion, for a number of reasons, and I tagged it with the db-multiple template, but apparently formatted incorrectly, because it isn't showing up in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. The page in question is Minchunochong Gang Rape. Thanks for any help. Milkunderwood ( talk) 01:41, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, hope things are going well with you. I just expanded lower back tattoo, probably going to be a dyk. I bet it will get hit pretty hard by vandals if I can get the top spot... But anyway, I wanted to move the article to lower-back tattoo but it's move protected. Is this non-controversial enough that I can just ask you to do it or do I have to go through a move request discussion on the talk page? Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 02:43, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, it's me again. I'm trying to find an obituary of Hiram Wesley Evans, he died in 1966--I haven't been able to find an obit though. He ran the KKK for a while, but there's very little information about him after he retired from it, although he lived another 26 years or so. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 06:25, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Fugh, could I get you to do a delete on another SYTYCD article? Specifically, this article: So You Think You Can Dance (Lithuania TV series). It is a recently created redundancy of Tu gali šokti which, aside from employing the correct show title and logo image, also has more content and more accurate and up-to-date information. The new article also seems to be a bad bot translation, but it's too short to say for certain. I've already merged the one fact to be gained from the new version, the identity of a producer that I will validate (hopefully with a cite-able source as the page is light on them) or remove. If you can help, thanks in advance! Edited to add: Also, should I throw a fast delete request tag on there beforehand, just for documentation purposes? Snow ( talk) 10:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Good news! You are approved for access to 80 million articles in 6500 publications through HighBeam Research.
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 04:42, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
After the failure of Talk:Trollhunter#Moving back to Trolljegeren?, must I discuss one policy or guideline in either a talk page or WP:village pump (miscellaneous)? I admit that this is one unsuccessful proposal, but why are proposal and supports baffling? -- George Ho ( talk) 07:48, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
So what else can I do if I won't use Talk:Trollhunter as an example any longer? -- George Ho ( talk) 22:18, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
So does the use of Trollhunter not break any rule? No rule is broken, right? -- George Ho ( talk) 12:36, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain your decision so clearly at Talk:Trollhunter [1]. -- Born2cycle ( talk) 17:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I have written an article as a Word document, but am completely dumfounded about getting up as a Wikipedia article. I have spent hours going in circles. Tried the sandbox, but it will take muiltiple sessions to get something in a finished form and it looks like every time you save your work... it is immediately published. How can I find someone who would be willing to take my article and do the magic required to turn it into a Wiklipedia article?
Flindiva ( talk) 17:49, 14 May 2012 (UTC)Linda Chamberlain linda@boundlesslife.com
Type the name of the subpage (per above) here: Then click here: |
Hi Thanks for responding and offering to help. Can I email the draft article to you so you can evaluate it for appropriateness?
Flindiva ( talk) 12:02, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I have posted my article on Bina48 to User:Flindiva/Sandbox. I tried to block and edit "Sandbox" to "Bina48" (the title of the proposed article) but it would not change. I have tried to follow all the guidelines to the best of my ability. Please let me know if you find the draft article worth your time to assist with. Flindiva ( talk) 14:21, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your helping this worm of an newbie editor with redirecting the Class Struggle to the article I needed it redirected to Class conflict. That helps a lot with teaching people hungry for more information about the global situation, both historically and current. Please leave a link on my talk page so I can nominate you for another Barn-star. :) -- XB70Valyrie ( talk) 23:44, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
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For not only helping with technical aspects of merging redundant articles, but teaching others how to improve their own wiki-skills XB70Valyrie ( talk) 07:30, 27 May 2012 (UTC) |
User talk:Aaron Wolfson 1, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:Aaron Wolfson 1 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User talk:Aaron Wolfson 1 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Oliver Twisted (Talk) (Stuff) 03:10, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Fuhghettaboutit, I'm beginning the copy-edit you requested for the above article, please feel free to revert or correct me if I'm doing something I shouldn't be. I'm sorry that you've had to wait so long for the copy-edit. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 03:14, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
No worries, it's an interesting article. I'm no Oxford comma fan either - feel free to convert it back if you wish. :-) Good luck with your FA nomination. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 19:55, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Found the diff button! [2] Wow. What a difference. I can finally see every change, even removal of a period ".". It would be nice for that to be a gadgets option. Thank for the assistance. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 01:06, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello again, re: those links for searches that you shared with me, specifically the sac bee ones, when you go to them they are not complete articles because you have to purchase them to see the full article. Are you telling me that its okay to link to information like those as long as you are pointing to them for the information they are showing and not assuming anything about the remainder of the article? And as far as the books go, most books you find might show a few pages but not the entire book. Do editors here use that kind of references too? Tattoodwaitress ( talk) 05:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm afraid your comment on the help desk now looks strange. We're not really supposed to just remove comments but someone did after I told them.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:13, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in this discussion. Thanks. History2007 ( talk) 04:53, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi You updated my article Omar al-Muqdad .. saying you don't list every interview the journalist gives, that's fine , but you deleted his written articles as well !! With CNN .. these were articles not interviews— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mona L'abeille ( talk • contribs)
Thank you .. anyway I might still need to update the article, would this be still possible, I still need some more time ..
I didn't mean to "steal" your advice and put it on my page. I tried to leave all the formatting intact but when I copied and pasted it, it wouldn't save it exactly as it was. It made it one big long sentence that ran off the page so I had to scroll way to the right (not up and down)to read it. So many people have been telling me how to do stuff that there is no possible way for me to remember it all so I just wanted to keep it for future ref because i thought maybe you would delete it from your page since it was specifically for me and not just something you posted, and then I wouldn't be able to refer back to it. Again I apologize if I did anything wrong. Tattoodwaitress ( talk) 15:27, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Ahhhh okay thanks, no hard feelings. I am sensitive and just want to make as few mistakes as possible so thank you for explaining. It helps. =) Tattoodwaitress ( talk) 19:25, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
RudolfRed ( talk) 04:40, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, FYI, it was about this report. It will still need work, but needed to get started. History2007 ( talk) 07:31, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
And this is the only tag I know how to use...
I like it. Do you think it should say Newbery Honor book, or something, for people who might know that's the biggest prize a kid's book can win? I had wondered about something like "...that [Allen W. Eckert]] claimed his [Newbery Honor]] novel [Incident at Hawk's Hill]], about a six-year-old boy who survives on the Canadian prairie for several months with help from a mother [badger]], was based on a real event?" But that might not be the right style. You've done this before, I'll be happy with whatever you think is best. Tlqk56 ( talk) 02:45, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I know someone who submits a DYK is also supposed to review one, but I'd rather go through the process at least once before I do that, and according to what I read people with less than five are exempt. Does that mean you will need to review one, or do we put some kind of note there to let people know this is my first one? Sorry to bother you -- I'm sure you have nothing else going on, haha. Tlqk56 ( talk) 23:19, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Crystal clear, thank you. While I'm here, maybe you could help me out with something else. I followed this discussion: Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Saving work thats not ready to publish, and didn't understand enough of it. I have several sandboxes, and I do sometimes copy stubs or parts of them to work on. So when I do that I should make a note before I save that says where I copied it from, right? What confused me was the stuff about Template:User sandbox. I've not seen it before. I went there and read the page and it made about 0 sense, so I tried just playing with it and got nowhere. What am I supposed to put where, to keep my sandboxes from looking like articles and appearing on Google? (I know they do, I've seen them.) I wonder why they don't just automatically get created with the right wording, since the purpose is for you to play around in them? Anyway, if you have time at some point to just tell me in English what to do, I'd appreciate it. Finally, if one of the ways to get an article on DYK is improve it five-fold all at once, doesn't that assume you'll be basically pasting a longer article on top of a short one? So why do they discourage cutting and pasting? Sorry to ask so many questions, but I have a bunch of them rolling around in here and sometimes they drive me a bit buggy. Thanks for your help. Tlqk56 ( talk) 23:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 03:12, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Is there any minor error in formatting? If you see my talk you'll understand. I (also?) don't use talkbak template, BTW, I have replied in both my talk and Wikipedia help! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 23:25, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
Film capacitor at the
Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath
your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!
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13:29, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing that out. I believe I've fixed it, if you don't mind taking a look. Upon rereading, I also noticed under Editions that I hadn't italicized any part of Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Of course, RD is a magazine, so I should italicize that, but do you think I should the whole thing? I did, because it's kind of the name of all the books. But I'm not sure. Feel free to change it if you have a different opinion. I appreciate your help. Tlqk56 ( talk) 05:36, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
I am accepting the DYK nomination; however, before I do so, I would like to hear your thoughts on a slightly modified hook. Ryan Vesey Review me! 04:56, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey, what happened to this proposal? There appeared to be a consensus to remove the redundancy, however nothing happened. Till I Go Home talk stalk 12:02, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuh! Thanks for helping out at the Teahouse. Have you thought about becoming an official Teahouse host? Aside from answering questions, Hosts also help contribute to the development of the Teahouse into phase 2, and also help in the number one thing we desperately need at this time (as we enter phase 2): invites!! Right now we have too many hosts and not enough questions coming in :( So any help with that would rock! Thanks for considering it! Sarah ( talk) 13:40, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
I don't want to build on something then to discover that you delete that again :)
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Thanks from Wikipedia and the DYK team Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:04, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Well, it's there thanks to you. I wouldn't have tried it on my own. Thanks so much, it was fun, and painless. Tlqk56 ( talk) 00:12, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, I copied the code and clicked on "Special:MyPage/skin:js" but didn't know where to paste.
How do I "clear cache"? I tried to read about it but got lost immediately.
I am asking too many questions and that makes me feel that I shouldn't be doing this!
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Thank you.... tweissberg 03:54, 21 June 2012 (UTC) |
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A barnstar for you! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 07:36, 21 June 2012 (UTC) |
Hey, Ryan followed it up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility# Media wiki software for bold and italics, where I responded. Graham 87 00:50, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. It took me two hours to get a response on IRC just before posting that, so 2 1/2 days was comparable. While it's helpful to think outside the box, we shouldn't be claiming something is in it when it might not be. Your text was more concise. Dru of Id ( talk) 15:20, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Was just promoted to featured status. Thanks for your help finding sources for it a while back! Mark Arsten ( talk) 22:15, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, You had previously replied to one of my message posts regarding how to publish my newly created page from a User page to a Live page. Since your comment, I have gone back and made edits to my content and made it more objective. I would really like to get my page ready to go so that it may be published in the very near future, but I am very new to Wikipedia and unsure on how to do a variety of things. What exactly do I need to fix so that my article will stick? All of the information provided is 100% accurate, as it is a bio. Any information or guidance you can give me so that my page can be published would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you, Basever Basever ( talk) 23:40, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
What was I doing? Very simple, just creating a stub to start working on. I did not realize anyone would even notice the article existed at this early stage, so I thought I had some time to copy edit it into new prose so it wasn't a word for word copy, and begin building up a new article with references and perhaps pictures. If there is a problem I'll try to copy edit it In the next hour, and add some references in case there is any doubt as to notability. Best, Judgesurreal777
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Dear Fuhghettaboutit,
Thanks for your eagle-eyed diligence! Sofiabrampton ( talk) 19:17, 25 June 2012 (UTC) |
Ping. -- Izno ( talk) 02:23, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I just posted on the help page. Find the discussion here.
Someone suggested I contact you to help with the issue raised.
Thanks for help in advance
-- RodrigoRaviera ( talk) 11:27, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
I just replied to your comments at User_talk:NJ_Wine#Unblock_Request
Oh. thanks a million for that, you're great help! TheIrishWarden - Irish and proud ( talk) 17:31, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Regarding the next part about Thehelpfulbot, if you'll bear with me I'd ask you to go do little reading to learn about diffs (differences between revisions). Now go to the edit history of The Ivy Tree and look at the diff of Thehelpfulbot's edit and you'll see that the only change it (it is not a person but a bot, so it's an it) made was to add a missing {{reflist}} tag to the references section. So, not even one of your edits was undone.
I don't know what happened to your edit to the article that included a link to Brat Farrar, because it was never made. Users sometimes believe they made edits but they never saved for various reasons. Most commonly it's because they never actually clicked save but only previewed, but other times, for example, they may have the edit window open for a long time, and get a "loss of session data" error message when they click save. It's an error message that appears at the top of the page but it can look a bit like a save because it previews the text, but it says at the top "we're sorry but you edit could not be save because of a loss of session data" or words similar. Anyway, I don't know what happened there but the edit never occurred.
Regarding the references, oh yes, we ideally want full attribution for every citation. For a book, for example, we normally want title, author, year of publication, publisher, page number, ISBN (or OCLC if none) location and a URL if it exists. For newspapers, we certainly want page numbers, title, etc. But the references are also not ideal because they are general references, rather than inline citations that pinpoint where the material came from. There's lots I could say on that subject about how to do them, citation templates and the like but it's a large subject. For the moment, have a look at Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners.
Regarding Secretariat (I assume actually Secretariat (horse)), you never made the edit. You must have only previewed but the edit was never made so I can't look at it.
Regarding [sic], while it means so in original ("thus was it written"), it is in practice almost always used for a mistake, "not my error", so I'm not sure it would not be misconstrued if placed there and I don't think it's necessary in any event, but I'm not really sure on this. By the way, I responded to your follow-up at WP:NCHD#Punctuation question and Formatting question. Cheers.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 11:17, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
FiverFan65 ( talk) 07:12, 30 June 2012 (UTC)FiverFan65
Just a heads up, we're now supposed to 'archive' technical requests to the selection below in Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests, rather than just blanking. Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 09:46, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
{{
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For being so helpful resolving the issue with Ssimmons01. Ath leek 01:02, 4 July 2012 (UTC) |
You are quite right, of course. I've apologised to him, and apologies to you too for creating an extra unnecessary task. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:59, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Theopolisme TALK 19:19, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
I don't know how much work is left to be done on the project page, but I would think that perhaps our biggest task early on will be to recruit new members of the project. If you would like, I could try my hand at creating an invitation template. AutomaticStrikeout ( talk) 01:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:
It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.
At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).
Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.
If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasi t | c 17:17, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hello! I wanted to thank you for advice about the pictures, and have since figured out how to upload them. I do have questions as to why you are trying to delete the page I just made. I admit that I'm new to wikipedia, and that my first page-attempt is a work in progress, but I'm confused as to why you would want to delete it? Your thoughts would be appreciated. 2xDoubleHelix ( talk) 08:18, 13 July 2012 (UTC) |
Hi again 2xDoubleHelix. It's nothing personal. This is an encyclopedia. The page you created is fine for your blog, your facebook page, other places. but there's nothing encyclopedic about it. What would you think if you opened up encyclopedia Britannica and saw an article on a random person's car? Their stereo system? Their DVD player? Wikipedia may look like a social networking site where you can post whatever you want but it really is an encyclopedia with all that that implies. Have you read the two pages I linked in the nomination, on notability and verifiability? Please also also look a Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 08:24, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
I understand your opinion on this topic. Like I edited into the article, this is an article in progress. It may look like 'some random person's car,' but in fact it is becoming a very popular sight in Washington. It is more than a stereo system or a DVD player. I did read the pages prior to your posting them, and as I stated before, it's a work in progress, as it takes more than one editing to cite all sources of an article. I'm just asking that you understand that not everything can be done in an instant, and as I see no option to save it in a non-public setting, it was posted publically. It will continue to be revised and I hope you will not continue to persecute the article for deletion. Sincerely 2XDH.
Rather amusing that you assume it's my vehicle under discussion. Magazine articles? Not yet, they will be published in the next few months. Newspaper articles? Again, such take time and are in progress. Television coverage? Yes. I understand that you may not be able to wrap your head around something known as "folk art," but these types of artistic ventures are fairly common to many. And while I appreciate that you have nothing better to do than troll Wikipedia, you can come off of your soapbox, as there are plenty of articles that have far less merit than the one in question. "Our requirements" offers nothing more than the obvious mental picture of a self-obsessed, socially awkward person sitting in his mother's basement eating cheetos and drinking redbull. YOU are not Wikipedia, honey, so go get a real job. 67.138.87.94 ( talk) 10:16, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
It's OK, I'll fix all the facts, and then you can go bother some other person. I hope you have a good day. Don't forget to get some sunlight. Vitamin D is known to increase positive moods (Don't believe me? Search for it on Wikipedia) 2xDoubleHelix ( talk) 10:28, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
It won't tell you much about the deleted article but see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unicorn Jeep. Tattoo, yes it's often better to develop articles in one's sandbox—especially if your first posting is not ready for DKY and you plan on nominating it—but this is not a good example of anything for you because you're a good faith editor earnestly trying to learn the ropes and I don't imagine the first article you create will be a promotional and nonsensical piece of drivel that violates all of our inclusion policies. This was a troll editing in bad faith. You're not, so there's no take away for you. Actually, maybe there is. Notice how I responded to the attack, immediately above? There are many ways to handle that, but almost all involve engaging with the person in some way—Don't attack me! I'll report you!; You're wrong about me!; Fuck you! here's an insult back!—all of them, it's what they want, what they feed off of. Resist the temptation and Wikipedia:Don't feed the trolls. I meant everything I said in my short response: "That tells me everything I need to know", because I really had learned everything I needed to know. They are a troll, not worth my time; not editing in good faith; not going to listen to anything I say or have a real discussion, and so I'm not going to waste my time further in any substantive response because that engagement would not be useful and is what they want. It can be quite difficult for people to do this. Anyway, spending too much time at the teahouse may insulate you from the darker side, the tons of crap we get everyday from people, the vandals the trolls and POV warriors. These too have to be dealt with. We delete a few thousand new articles everyday as we must. If you want to see why, hang out for a while at Special:NewPages and open up many new pages as they come along. It's an eye-opener.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 12:52, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
I like what you said about that change in the "synthetic" link. I had linked to the disambiguation page without realizing it. I could understand your wording. Thank you. Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 04:16, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
...in nominating another of my articles for DYK? (If not it's OK. I won't be insulted.) If you might, it's here: User:Tlqk56/John R Tunis. I was just going to spruce up the article about the author who turned my son into a reader, and found out there was a lot more to him than I thought! Honestly, I could write a book about him, no problem. But I think I've done what I can for the article and I'm feeling ready to move on. I'm sure it's bigger by at least 5, (Maybe 50?? Is it too big? Sometimes I felt I was creating a monster.) I was thinking of a tag like "DYK ...that John R. Tunis, who has been called the inventor of the modern sports story, took part in the first trans-Atlantic Wimbledon broadcast to the United States?" or maybe "was part of the first trans-Atlantic sports broadcast?" When you have a chance let me know what you think. Thanks for considering it. Tlqk56 ( talk) 00:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
...that John R. Tunis, who has been called the 'inventor of the modern sports story', took part in the first trans-Atlantic sports cast and the first broadcast of the Wimbledon Championship to the U.S.?
I has now been moved to John R. Tunis. Tlqk56 ( talk) 21:08, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
{{
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and can be viewed as transcluded on the nominations page at
Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on July 18.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
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Well, I have several more articles in the works -- whether they'll qualify as GA I don't know. I like your DYK proposal --it lets me concentrate on learning to do one thing well before I start something else. But I'd like to understand the rp footnoting issue better. Am I using it wrong? I guess I don't know what a shortened footnote is. Is there a page you can point me to so I can read more about them? I might not change what I'm doing, but I would like to know the options and issues involved. Thanks for everything. Tlqk56 ( talk) 02:07, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
I am not obsessed with Hannah Cattell but is it not true that all Hannah Cattell's are related, though they are not the same person, and she was Laura Bogart. I take it we don't want to sexually harass the Sheffield Hallam University scholar. I know that if I were her I'd be feeling harassed too if my name was famous or if Joe does one too many favors for me too. Frances Shaw is the University of Sheffield scholar. CallieMacPherson ( talk) 15:26, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
However, I agree with that deletion. Please read Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Deciding to disambiguate. Note the sentence: "Disambiguation is required whenever, for a given word or phrase on which a reader might search, there is more than one existing Wikipedia article to which that word or phrase might be expected to lead" (emphasis added). Thus we only need to provide disambiguation for articles already in existence that people might have a confusion between. For that reason, since the disambiguation page you created was for two topics neither of which has existing articles, such a page was not warranted.
Meanwhile, I have to admit that I can't really make heads or tails out of much of your post. What does any of this have to do with sexual harassment, the university and these other people you mention?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 21:51, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Regarding the sources your search turned up, I can have a look at them and see what I can do with them to improve the Barfüßiger Februar article, if you wish. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 15:01, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I wrote a new lead for John R. Tunis. I don't know if it's right, but it should be better. Feel free to tinker if you like. Tlqk56 ( talk) 02:50, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Are you still planning to work on the Article for Improvement project or is that likely to not come together after all? AutomaticStrikeout ( talk) 18:31, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
ENLogic ( talk · contribs), who you blocked for edit warring, seems to be at it again using 75.85.176.10 ( 75.25.175.118 seems to have been their previous address). See this AN/EW thread. benzband ( talk) 20:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 26 July 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John R. Tunis, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that John R. Tunis, who has been called the "inventor of the modern sports story", took part in the first trans-Atlantic sportscast and the first broadcast of the Wimbledon Championship to the U.S.? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John R. Tunis. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Orlady ( talk) 16:04, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
OK, the new article, not an expansion, is here: The Secret River (Rawlings book). Of course any changes and suggestions are welcome. There is already another book by the same name but by a different author, so it needs a DAB page. Am I allowed to just create one, or is there a particular process for that? I will go through and add the link to appropriate articles once it's made. Also, I'm adding an image of the first edition cover to the infobox. Since the later edition had different illustrators and garnered a significant amount of coverage do you think fair use would allow an image from that book, too? Either the cover or an interior illustration?
I thought this might work for a hook: "…that Leonard Weisgard illustrated Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' children's book The Secret River in cream on dark brown paper because publishing conventions in 1955 did not allow the characters to be shown with dark skin?" (Cited at the beginning of Editions, awards.)
BTW, do you have JSTOR access? I don't and there's an article here [3] I'd love to be able to read. I think there's a good chance it would have more info to add to the article. Thanks again for everything. Tlqk56 ( talk) 19:57, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Do you have a different reworking?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 14:53, 28 July 2012 (UTC)…that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' children's book The Secret River was illustrated in cream on dark brown paper because 1955 publishing conventions did not allow characters to be shown with dark skin?"
Thanks for the tip. I've saved it and will try to remember to use it. I had wondered what those changes meant, but didn't actually understand them. Tlqk56 ( talk) 17:31, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuh! Just a reminder about a few things at the Teahouse - first, thank you so much for participating. If you have interest, it'd be great to have you add your profile to the Host page! You practically are one. :) You can find that page here. Second, please familiarize yourself with our host tips and the host responsibilities page. There you can learn a bit more about what makes us different - we greet each visitor (everyone likes to be welcomed when they visit a new place!), use as little wiki jargon and links to policies as possible and keep it friendly and simple. That's one of the things that makes the Teahouse so successful - we avoid links when necessary and just give our visitors the answers straight up - it's a proven winning cup of tea :) Also, I encourage you to invite other editors to the Teahouse to find help. Right now we have more people answering questions than we do visiting, so we can use all the help we can get. Thanks so much for all you do on Wikipedia! :) SarahStierch ( talk) 17:23, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
You would think, after all the digging I did looking at {{ astray}}, I would have read your name at one point or another! Haha, egg on my face I suppose. BigNate37 (T) 05:38, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
-- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 18:37, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Since I've already dragged you into it, can you check
Template talk:Ln#redirect=no again please? I made a couple mistakes of omission, one of which requires a protected edit to fix.
BigNate37
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Hello Fuhghettaboutit. I'm not sure if you follow messages deeper into the thread at the Teahouse - I left a brief new message for you there. (I've used the blue colored "you have new messages" template once, unable to locate it now - I will find it again, just tired) Take care. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Expansion_Tag Albeit27 ( talk) 19:16, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Since you've recently edited {{ lx}} I thought you might be the one to address my question to.
CorenSearchBot and VWBot (and maybe some other that I've forgotten about) list new articles with possible copyright problems at WP:SCV using {{ la}}. I haven't been active there recently, but it used to be that articles which were deleted showed as redlinks as normal links. When I looked at it today, however every article link is colored blue instead whether it has already been deleted or not. Is that related to the change you made? VernoWhitney ( talk) 21:44, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I hope things are going well with you. I've responded at DYK, but the guy hasn't gotten back to me, and as you'll see there my computer time is restricted right now. Would you mind stopping by and doing whatever you think needs to be done to get it moving again? I really appreciate it. Tlqk56 ( talk) 16:57, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your help and explanation. I chose to rewrite some of the work with improved references and learned in the process. Mdscottis ( talk) 02:30, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 16 August 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Secret River (Rawlings book), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Charles Scribner described his suggestion to illustrate Marjorie Rawlings' The Secret River in cream on dark paper as "one of my silent contributions to dissolving the color barrier in the 1950s"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Secret River (Rawlings book). If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 16:02, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
I don't care what cyber-sad case has been trying to push this meme on Wikipedia, so you can keep the page protected if you want. But it should NOT be redirecting to Bogeyman. So please redirect it to List of Internet phenomena or something similar. Serendi pod ous 18:13, 17 August 2012 (UTC):
Sorry to dredge this up again but I think I've found a better home for the Slender Man; I've created a larger subsection in the article
Fakelore; a small enough article so that the topic has room to grow.
Serendi
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There hasn't been much activity here for awhile. I was wondering what you think might be the next step? Automatic Strikeout 20:33, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Well, I'm definitely glad for your edit summary. I was manually checking the citations and converting them to {{ cite web}} (I hadn't gotten very far before I noticed your edit). I went to double-check the current version's references section. Lo and behold, they were all gone. Hah, so yeah I'm grateful for that edit summary, or I'd have been very confused and probably pretty annoyed too. I'm going to assume the references are in your capable hands though, and divert my attention elsewhere. BigNate37 (T) 22:19, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I hope I am doing this template right. Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 04:26, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to Ryan Vesey we have our first nomination in the WP:TAFI project, so I'm notifying all the project members. Automatic Strikeout 20:17, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello again, hope you are having a great day, I have been working religiously on this article today and am at a point where I would love some "critiquing". I have added sections and expanded on quite a bit of information. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 02:13, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey there Fuhghettaboutit, thanks that was a quick response re: the Woodmansee article. I have a question about using full names. I thought that it was proper etiquette while editing articles with the use of names to use the full name ie: Michael Woodmansee or Jason Foreman the first time and then after that it is proper to use last name only? Thanks again for helping to improve the article. Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 03:49, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure you already have the Highbeam stuff, but you can also apply for Credo access through WP. I just got approved. Haven't used it yet, but anything like this can't be non-useful. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 10:37, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks much for your help with this template which helped me to improve this article. You were quite diligent in responding to my request for help. EagerToddler39 ( talk) 01:56, 30 August 2012 (UTC) |
The article
The Secret River (Rawlings book) you nominated as a
good article has been placed on hold
. The article is close to meeting the
good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See
Talk:The Secret River (Rawlings book) for things which need to be addressed.
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The article
The Secret River (Rawlings book) you nominated as a
good article has passed
; see
Talk:The Secret River (Rawlings book) for comments about the article. Well done!
Kürbis (
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Good news! You are approved for access to 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, newspaper articles, and encyclopedia entries. Check your Wikipedia email!
If you need help, please first ask Ocaasi at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com and, second, email QuestiaHelp@cengage.com along with your Offer ID and Promotional Code (subject: Wikipedia).
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi EdwardsBot ( talk) 05:05, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Saying that WP:RM "should" be used is just plain wrong. This in non-controversial to anyone who knows very much about the subject. You will notice that there is an ongoing request to change "should" to "must", and they always get very quickly shot down, always the same way, by pointing out the WP:RM is not mandatory. The article should reflect that consensus. I will try to see how it even got there and revert that, but no matter what, the article should reflect consensus. It is not necessary to make any proposal on the talk page for the change because it is a long standing understanding that WP:RM is a convenience, not a necessity. Apteva ( talk) 01:43, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Nothing to revert. It was just a very poorly worded major change.
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Hi, I just wanted to thank you for your edits to my pending submission on Ars Nova. I've been working very hard to get the page up to Wikipedia's standards for publication, so the fact that you went in and edited things like that while I'm waiting for the article to be reviewed was extremely helpful and selfless, IMHO. Thank you very much. RunnerOnIce ( talk) 01:20, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
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It was either this or copyeditors. Pretend I did both. :-p RunnerOnIce ( talk) 20:31, 22 September 2012 (UTC) |
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B86iegI5pG5TNHZ4WjI5b0VXak0
Please let me know when you are done. Churn and change ( talk) 01:30, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Many thanks for the help you gave me on fixing broken references. It worked a treat and was explained clearly! My apologies for not thanking you earlier. I quite simply forgot, how rude of me! -- Elekebia ( talk) 12:53, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
The Association of Chief Police officers refers to PCSOs in capitals as does the Home Office this takes precedent over an unofficial quango advertisement site or the BBC who are a private corporation and have no allegiance to the Crown see http://www.acpo.police.uk/documents/LPpartnerships/2007/200709LPPGonPCSO.pdf and http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/corporate-publications-strategy/home-office-circulars/circulars-2009/002-2009/-- T9062856 ( talk) 23:09, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
Fuhghettabouitit, I thank your help and also your advises. I will read the links you recommend me in order to improve my editing capacity. Happy Sunday. -- Japal1950 ( talk) 14:55, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
In the last year+ quite a lot of material has been added, most of it unsourced. You know a lot more about that game than I do. I think the article needs an overhaul. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 18:16, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
I posted a reply to what you said on my talk page, but obviously you don't go around looking at everybody's talk page that you have previously commented on. If you don't mind, I would like to continue our conversation. Aviationfrk9 ( talk) 22:53, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, I saw your work on Hadji Ali and was really impressed that you got that article up to featured quality. I've been working on a short article about an eccentric fellow from the 1800s, Elias Abraham Rosenberg. It's currently up for peer review at the moment, I'd love if you could take a look at it if you get the time, no rush of course. Thanks! Mark Arsten ( talk) 02:19, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
SarahStierch ( talk) 03:42, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Why did you delete the Greed Game by Avalon Hill? We play that game all of the time. It is a great family game to teach math and probability to children. We have to search long and hard to find the game in it's original format in the tube with the mat. Love this game.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.240.17.71 ( talk • contribs)
please look at my user page - i have created many biographies of scientists. I would appreciate any help - particularly with photos. Standard2211 ( talk) 10:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message about article titles capitalization at SMcCandlish's talk page.
Hello. You have
a new message about the tools at SMcCandlish's talk page. I forked the topics and refactored them out of the ArbCom legalese topic, which I'm going to archive as annoying noise shortly; didn't want to nuke ongoing convos in the process. —
SMcCandlish
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14:13, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
I was preparing to add an article about the Japanese AV idol Rio Hamasaki, whose exclusion from an otherwise reasonable survey of notable AV idols seemed conspicuous. You deemed the previous deleted article as not meeting guidelines for inclusion back in 2008 and I was hoping you could elaborate. Was the article itself insufficient or was it the idol herself? Thanks! Ode2joy ( talk) 14:52, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for deleting the redirects! :) Just one thing: I'd like the User:B.wilson and User talk:B.wilson deleted as well, although you seemed to have undeleted it, could you please delete them again, or is that against policy? Thanks, Bryce ( talk | contribs) 23:26, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
Signatures must include at least one internal link to your user page, user talk page, or contributions page; this allows other editors easy access to your talk page and contributions log. The lack of such a link is widely viewed as obstructive.
" It does not say specifically words to the effect that you can't act to break the links at a later time, but I think the implication is pretty hard to avoid as in the spirit of the policy, and I agree with it. People coming across your posts should be easily able to follow who left the post and not be frustrated by such broken connections. Please do feel free to ask for a second opinion anywhere you'd like but I am not going to delete them.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
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00:12, 8 February 2012 (UTC)Hi, you previously undeleted User talk:B.wilson. The pages have been deleted again under U1. Your input would be appreciated at User_talk:Bmusician#Admin_help.... Yoenit ( talk) 12:18, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
Dear Fuhghettaboutit,
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 19:23, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
Dunno if you've seen
WP:WebCite and
http://WebCitation.org yet. For any source that is reasonably likely to at risk of disappearing, like any Web site that isn't really huge with a lot of money behind it, you don't have to wait for Archive.org to generate an archive (you hope) for |archiveurl=
purposes in citations. This newer site will generate one on the fly. Of course, we have to trust that their own funding is enough to keep them going, but since their archival is on-demand the storage spaces costs are only a tiny fraction of those incurred by Archive.org. I've already used it to "save" most of the sources for
Three-ball (crappy as they are, they're all we've got, and one's already been lost irretrievably because Archive.org never got it and now it's owned by a cybersquatter who blanked it with a dummy page). —
SMcCandlish
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This is a note to let the main editors of Hadji Ali know that the article will be appearing as today's featured article on February 20, 2012. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 20, 2012. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 ( talk · contribs) or his delegate Dabomb87 ( talk · contribs), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. If the previous blurb needs tweaking, you might change it—following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Hadji Ali (c. 1888–92 –1937) was a vaudeville performance artist famous for acts of controlled regurgitation. Thought to be of Egyptian extraction, his best known feats included water spouting, smoke swallowing and nut and handkerchief swallowing followed by disgorgement in an order chosen by the audience. Ali's most famous stunt, and the highlight of his act, was drinking copious amounts of water followed by kerosene, and then acting by turns as a human flamethrower and fire extinguisher as he expelled the two liquids onto a theatrical prop. While these stunts were performed, a panel of audience members was invited to watch the show up close to verify that no trickery was employed. Although never gaining wide fame, Ali had a dedicated following on the vaudeville circuit in the United States. He performed for heads of state including Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Judy Garland named him her favorite vaudevillian and David Blaine identified Ali as his favorite magician. Ali's unusual gastric abilities led to rumors that the Rockefeller Institute had offered a large sum of money to obtain his stomach post-mortem. After he died in England his body was offered to Johns Hopkins for study, though the offer was declined. ( more...)
UcuchaBot ( talk) 23:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
I've no idea if that's the only place you can put them, or indeed why it broke the headings, as rather than go and spend ages trying to find some obscure documentation somewhere I just did trial and error until it no longer broke them! So, yes that's one way to get them working properly but there may be other ways. Dpmuk ( talk) 18:46, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Fixed! Dumb typo in the code, sorry. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 16:48, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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For your help in finding sources for Dow Brain. Yunshui 雲 水 09:02, 24 February 2012 (UTC) |
Sorry man, shouldn't have deleted it. I just wanted to be able to edit the roster without having to edit the template. DaHuzyBru ( talk) 13:36, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 26 February 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gauss' Pythagorean right triangle proposal, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Carl Friedrich Gauss is credited with a proposal to signal aliens by drawing a massive representation of the Pythagorean theorem on the Siberian tundra using pine trees and fields of wheat? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gauss' Pythagorean right triangle proposal.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:03, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the semi-protect on Chardon High School shooting. It probably wasn't the wisest thing for me to have started that article so soon. I have been off Wikipedia pretty much for a couple of years. I just started back in full swing a a few weeks ago. It has really changed. I wasn't even going to ask for protection on that page because back in the day there would have been at least three admins on the case by the time I figured out there was a problem. It seems like a lot of people have left and everything is backlogged. Nice to "see" you. Take Care.-- Ishtar456 ( talk) 10:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Thanks a third time, for your edits. I was glad that the onslaught of ID editors did not return after the protection was lifted. Take care.-- Ishtar456 ( talk) 10:42, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
Much obliged for your prompt reply, explanation, and bot correction, as well as your patience with a wiki noob. 69.135.171.176 ( talk) 23:40, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
As you can see, I took your advice. BJMccoy ( talk) 23:59, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
PS thank you for all the helpful links as well! BJMccoy ( talk) 00:45, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Dear Fuhghettaboutit,
I was wondering if you might be able to help me. An article I wrote ("Pam-Crash") had a "may be written like an advertisement" template placed on it in November that I believe is no longer necessary. I have since revised the article and eliminated (I think) any excessive use of the product name as well as any jargon, backlinks, etc. When you have a chance, could you possibly look at the article and let me know if my changes have been sufficient to warrant removal of the template? Thank you! Michael Leeman ( talk) 21:35, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Hghyux ( talk) 01:14, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the speedy delete/move on "So You Think You Can Dance (Poland) (season 7)" -> "You Can Dance - Po Prostu Tańcz (season 7)". I was the idiot who moved the article to the (inaccurate) English title a while back, as I mistakenly thought this was the format used for the previous seasons. Just caught the error yesterday. Anyway, thanks for helping me correct the mistake. Snow ( talk) 07:23, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks Fuhghettaboutit for the guidance posted on the Human Genome Project article. Your help is much appreciated. A1dumbiryani ( talk) 16:31, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
Is it possible to create a page here http://finaldestination.wikia.com/wiki/ and make the page "Template:Quote box" cause I would like for there t be one. If not atleast show me here how it should be written to make it. -- 84.169.204.116 ( talk) 20:33, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, I've been working on William S. Sadler (he founded a new religious movement--think Scientology without all the movie stars and lawsuits) lately and am almost done adding what I've found for reliable sources (though there are plenty of unreliable sources about him). I found a few old newspaper articles that I haven't accessed yet, do you have access to any of the articles in User talk:Mark Arsten/sandbox 2 or should I go to WP:RX? If you have time/interest, any help with the article/sources would be appreciated. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 02:52, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Fughghettaboutit. Can you post your additional citations for Lopez's birthdate? Your source has been called into question by what I and others are convinced is a sock puppet for someone close to the subject. The birthdate issue is sensitive with some Hollywood "actresses," but is that a valid encyclopedic concern? Georgenancy ( talk) 22:26, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
I expected that you'd delete the content - I fear we're in the middle of a family thing, but I don't think Simpson belongs in it. I think she is being scapegoated for lots of edits by different users. Josiewarvelle ( talk) 23:47, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Template:Hasty has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. --
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Hi Fuhghettaboutit, I saw, that you try to move my draft to a real "Wiki" and change it back. Because up to now I never move a draft to a Wiki article I kindly would ask you to do it for me. I think, the corrections done during the last days now make a readeable article out of this. Thanks so much for helping me. -- Elcap ( talk) 00:19, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, since you helped me with it a couple months back, I thought I'd let you know that Elias Abraham Rosenberg is now at FAC. Any comments/suggestions/derision would be appreciated. Mark Arsten ( talk) 03:00, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the everything!!!
Regards, Muhammad Mukhriz Wanna talk? 10:17, 3 April 2012 (UTC) |
To be fair, the previous request for clarification has been there 3 years, with no clarification; although I hadn't checked if the hyperlinks were added later, the wording hasn't been addressed, and I don't know enough about it to do so, either. Dru of Id ( talk) 03:55, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 5 April 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dynasphere, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Dynasphere monowheel was criticized for its poor braking and steering capabilities, as well as its gerbiling tendencies? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dynasphere.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project ( nominate) 00:04, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. You participated in the G4 RfC, including the last section WT:Criteria for speedy deletion/Archive 44#G4: Moving forward, and WT:Criteria for speedy deletion#Pages which have survived deletion discussions, which removed "generally". Does your comment mean that you wish to move the footnote from G4 to the sentence in the lead? Looking over the old discussion, Cunard's initial footnote proposal was on G4 – to which I agreed after reading "G4 does not apply" in your proposed text – and most participants didn't specify. Do you object to any of the other changes ( diff including a few unrelated edits)? Flatscan ( talk) 04:46, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I recently wrote an article on Susan Foster, a jewelry designer that was rapidly deleted. I am happy to rewrite it as requested however is there any way i can have a copy of it emailed to me or something??? The footnoting took me forever!
It appears that the user who wanted to have a copy of her deleted article just went and recreated it. Should it be deleted again? -- GouramiWatcher (Gulp) 01:19, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
SORRY! I am definitely a neophyte! Once I revise it in the userspace, how do I move it? Sorry, I'm very confused. :(
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!!! LET ME KNOW WHEN AND HOW TO RESUBMIT! :) Alisonpollack ( talk) 19:12, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
"He profits most who serves best." - International Rotary motto - Pendright ( talk) 22:10, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:HighBeam/Applications#Applicants_for_round_2.2C_post-April_16th_open_period — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 00:16, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi-- A few months ago you were kind enough to help me get a confusion straightened out, and now I have a new one.
Two days ago I came across a page that's an obvious (to me) candidate for speedy deletion, for a number of reasons, and I tagged it with the db-multiple template, but apparently formatted incorrectly, because it isn't showing up in Category:Candidates for speedy deletion. The page in question is Minchunochong Gang Rape. Thanks for any help. Milkunderwood ( talk) 01:41, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, hope things are going well with you. I just expanded lower back tattoo, probably going to be a dyk. I bet it will get hit pretty hard by vandals if I can get the top spot... But anyway, I wanted to move the article to lower-back tattoo but it's move protected. Is this non-controversial enough that I can just ask you to do it or do I have to go through a move request discussion on the talk page? Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 02:43, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey, it's me again. I'm trying to find an obituary of Hiram Wesley Evans, he died in 1966--I haven't been able to find an obit though. He ran the KKK for a while, but there's very little information about him after he retired from it, although he lived another 26 years or so. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 06:25, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey Fugh, could I get you to do a delete on another SYTYCD article? Specifically, this article: So You Think You Can Dance (Lithuania TV series). It is a recently created redundancy of Tu gali šokti which, aside from employing the correct show title and logo image, also has more content and more accurate and up-to-date information. The new article also seems to be a bad bot translation, but it's too short to say for certain. I've already merged the one fact to be gained from the new version, the identity of a producer that I will validate (hopefully with a cite-able source as the page is light on them) or remove. If you can help, thanks in advance! Edited to add: Also, should I throw a fast delete request tag on there beforehand, just for documentation purposes? Snow ( talk) 10:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Good news! You are approved for access to 80 million articles in 6500 publications through HighBeam Research.
Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi t | c 04:42, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
After the failure of Talk:Trollhunter#Moving back to Trolljegeren?, must I discuss one policy or guideline in either a talk page or WP:village pump (miscellaneous)? I admit that this is one unsuccessful proposal, but why are proposal and supports baffling? -- George Ho ( talk) 07:48, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
So what else can I do if I won't use Talk:Trollhunter as an example any longer? -- George Ho ( talk) 22:18, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
So does the use of Trollhunter not break any rule? No rule is broken, right? -- George Ho ( talk) 12:36, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain your decision so clearly at Talk:Trollhunter [1]. -- Born2cycle ( talk) 17:59, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I have written an article as a Word document, but am completely dumfounded about getting up as a Wikipedia article. I have spent hours going in circles. Tried the sandbox, but it will take muiltiple sessions to get something in a finished form and it looks like every time you save your work... it is immediately published. How can I find someone who would be willing to take my article and do the magic required to turn it into a Wiklipedia article?
Flindiva ( talk) 17:49, 14 May 2012 (UTC)Linda Chamberlain linda@boundlesslife.com
Type the name of the subpage (per above) here: Then click here: |
Hi Thanks for responding and offering to help. Can I email the draft article to you so you can evaluate it for appropriateness?
Flindiva ( talk) 12:02, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi
I have posted my article on Bina48 to User:Flindiva/Sandbox. I tried to block and edit "Sandbox" to "Bina48" (the title of the proposed article) but it would not change. I have tried to follow all the guidelines to the best of my ability. Please let me know if you find the draft article worth your time to assist with. Flindiva ( talk) 14:21, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your helping this worm of an newbie editor with redirecting the Class Struggle to the article I needed it redirected to Class conflict. That helps a lot with teaching people hungry for more information about the global situation, both historically and current. Please leave a link on my talk page so I can nominate you for another Barn-star. :) -- XB70Valyrie ( talk) 23:44, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
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For not only helping with technical aspects of merging redundant articles, but teaching others how to improve their own wiki-skills XB70Valyrie ( talk) 07:30, 27 May 2012 (UTC) |
User talk:Aaron Wolfson 1, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User talk:Aaron Wolfson 1 and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User talk:Aaron Wolfson 1 during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Oliver Twisted (Talk) (Stuff) 03:10, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Fuhghettaboutit, I'm beginning the copy-edit you requested for the above article, please feel free to revert or correct me if I'm doing something I shouldn't be. I'm sorry that you've had to wait so long for the copy-edit. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 03:14, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
No worries, it's an interesting article. I'm no Oxford comma fan either - feel free to convert it back if you wish. :-) Good luck with your FA nomination. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 ( talk) 19:55, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
Found the diff button! [2] Wow. What a difference. I can finally see every change, even removal of a period ".". It would be nice for that to be a gadgets option. Thank for the assistance. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 01:06, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello again, re: those links for searches that you shared with me, specifically the sac bee ones, when you go to them they are not complete articles because you have to purchase them to see the full article. Are you telling me that its okay to link to information like those as long as you are pointing to them for the information they are showing and not assuming anything about the remainder of the article? And as far as the books go, most books you find might show a few pages but not the entire book. Do editors here use that kind of references too? Tattoodwaitress ( talk) 05:29, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm afraid your comment on the help desk now looks strange. We're not really supposed to just remove comments but someone did after I told them.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:13, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in this discussion. Thanks. History2007 ( talk) 04:53, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi You updated my article Omar al-Muqdad .. saying you don't list every interview the journalist gives, that's fine , but you deleted his written articles as well !! With CNN .. these were articles not interviews— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mona L'abeille ( talk • contribs)
Thank you .. anyway I might still need to update the article, would this be still possible, I still need some more time ..
I didn't mean to "steal" your advice and put it on my page. I tried to leave all the formatting intact but when I copied and pasted it, it wouldn't save it exactly as it was. It made it one big long sentence that ran off the page so I had to scroll way to the right (not up and down)to read it. So many people have been telling me how to do stuff that there is no possible way for me to remember it all so I just wanted to keep it for future ref because i thought maybe you would delete it from your page since it was specifically for me and not just something you posted, and then I wouldn't be able to refer back to it. Again I apologize if I did anything wrong. Tattoodwaitress ( talk) 15:27, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
Ahhhh okay thanks, no hard feelings. I am sensitive and just want to make as few mistakes as possible so thank you for explaining. It helps. =) Tattoodwaitress ( talk) 19:25, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
RudolfRed ( talk) 04:40, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, FYI, it was about this report. It will still need work, but needed to get started. History2007 ( talk) 07:31, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
And this is the only tag I know how to use...
I like it. Do you think it should say Newbery Honor book, or something, for people who might know that's the biggest prize a kid's book can win? I had wondered about something like "...that [Allen W. Eckert]] claimed his [Newbery Honor]] novel [Incident at Hawk's Hill]], about a six-year-old boy who survives on the Canadian prairie for several months with help from a mother [badger]], was based on a real event?" But that might not be the right style. You've done this before, I'll be happy with whatever you think is best. Tlqk56 ( talk) 02:45, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
I know someone who submits a DYK is also supposed to review one, but I'd rather go through the process at least once before I do that, and according to what I read people with less than five are exempt. Does that mean you will need to review one, or do we put some kind of note there to let people know this is my first one? Sorry to bother you -- I'm sure you have nothing else going on, haha. Tlqk56 ( talk) 23:19, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Crystal clear, thank you. While I'm here, maybe you could help me out with something else. I followed this discussion: Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Saving work thats not ready to publish, and didn't understand enough of it. I have several sandboxes, and I do sometimes copy stubs or parts of them to work on. So when I do that I should make a note before I save that says where I copied it from, right? What confused me was the stuff about Template:User sandbox. I've not seen it before. I went there and read the page and it made about 0 sense, so I tried just playing with it and got nowhere. What am I supposed to put where, to keep my sandboxes from looking like articles and appearing on Google? (I know they do, I've seen them.) I wonder why they don't just automatically get created with the right wording, since the purpose is for you to play around in them? Anyway, if you have time at some point to just tell me in English what to do, I'd appreciate it. Finally, if one of the ways to get an article on DYK is improve it five-fold all at once, doesn't that assume you'll be basically pasting a longer article on top of a short one? So why do they discourage cutting and pasting? Sorry to ask so many questions, but I have a bunch of them rolling around in here and sometimes they drive me a bit buggy. Thanks for your help. Tlqk56 ( talk) 23:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 03:12, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Is there any minor error in formatting? If you see my talk you'll understand. I (also?) don't use talkbak template, BTW, I have replied in both my talk and Wikipedia help! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 23:25, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
Film capacitor at the
Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath
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Thanks for pointing that out. I believe I've fixed it, if you don't mind taking a look. Upon rereading, I also noticed under Editions that I hadn't italicized any part of Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Of course, RD is a magazine, so I should italicize that, but do you think I should the whole thing? I did, because it's kind of the name of all the books. But I'm not sure. Feel free to change it if you have a different opinion. I appreciate your help. Tlqk56 ( talk) 05:36, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
I am accepting the DYK nomination; however, before I do so, I would like to hear your thoughts on a slightly modified hook. Ryan Vesey Review me! 04:56, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hey, what happened to this proposal? There appeared to be a consensus to remove the redundancy, however nothing happened. Till I Go Home talk stalk 12:02, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuh! Thanks for helping out at the Teahouse. Have you thought about becoming an official Teahouse host? Aside from answering questions, Hosts also help contribute to the development of the Teahouse into phase 2, and also help in the number one thing we desperately need at this time (as we enter phase 2): invites!! Right now we have too many hosts and not enough questions coming in :( So any help with that would rock! Thanks for considering it! Sarah ( talk) 13:40, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
I don't want to build on something then to discover that you delete that again :)
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Thanks from Wikipedia and the DYK team Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 00:04, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Well, it's there thanks to you. I wouldn't have tried it on my own. Thanks so much, it was fun, and painless. Tlqk56 ( talk) 00:12, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuhghettaboutit, I copied the code and clicked on "Special:MyPage/skin:js" but didn't know where to paste.
How do I "clear cache"? I tried to read about it but got lost immediately.
I am asking too many questions and that makes me feel that I shouldn't be doing this!
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Thank you.... tweissberg 03:54, 21 June 2012 (UTC) |
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A barnstar for you! -- Tito Dutta ✉ 07:36, 21 June 2012 (UTC) |
Hey, Ryan followed it up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility# Media wiki software for bold and italics, where I responded. Graham 87 00:50, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Thank you. It took me two hours to get a response on IRC just before posting that, so 2 1/2 days was comparable. While it's helpful to think outside the box, we shouldn't be claiming something is in it when it might not be. Your text was more concise. Dru of Id ( talk) 15:20, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Was just promoted to featured status. Thanks for your help finding sources for it a while back! Mark Arsten ( talk) 22:15, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, You had previously replied to one of my message posts regarding how to publish my newly created page from a User page to a Live page. Since your comment, I have gone back and made edits to my content and made it more objective. I would really like to get my page ready to go so that it may be published in the very near future, but I am very new to Wikipedia and unsure on how to do a variety of things. What exactly do I need to fix so that my article will stick? All of the information provided is 100% accurate, as it is a bio. Any information or guidance you can give me so that my page can be published would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you, Basever Basever ( talk) 23:40, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
What was I doing? Very simple, just creating a stub to start working on. I did not realize anyone would even notice the article existed at this early stage, so I thought I had some time to copy edit it into new prose so it wasn't a word for word copy, and begin building up a new article with references and perhaps pictures. If there is a problem I'll try to copy edit it In the next hour, and add some references in case there is any doubt as to notability. Best, Judgesurreal777
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Dear Fuhghettaboutit,
Thanks for your eagle-eyed diligence! Sofiabrampton ( talk) 19:17, 25 June 2012 (UTC) |
Ping. -- Izno ( talk) 02:23, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I just posted on the help page. Find the discussion here.
Someone suggested I contact you to help with the issue raised.
Thanks for help in advance
-- RodrigoRaviera ( talk) 11:27, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
I just replied to your comments at User_talk:NJ_Wine#Unblock_Request
Oh. thanks a million for that, you're great help! TheIrishWarden - Irish and proud ( talk) 17:31, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Regarding the next part about Thehelpfulbot, if you'll bear with me I'd ask you to go do little reading to learn about diffs (differences between revisions). Now go to the edit history of The Ivy Tree and look at the diff of Thehelpfulbot's edit and you'll see that the only change it (it is not a person but a bot, so it's an it) made was to add a missing {{reflist}} tag to the references section. So, not even one of your edits was undone.
I don't know what happened to your edit to the article that included a link to Brat Farrar, because it was never made. Users sometimes believe they made edits but they never saved for various reasons. Most commonly it's because they never actually clicked save but only previewed, but other times, for example, they may have the edit window open for a long time, and get a "loss of session data" error message when they click save. It's an error message that appears at the top of the page but it can look a bit like a save because it previews the text, but it says at the top "we're sorry but you edit could not be save because of a loss of session data" or words similar. Anyway, I don't know what happened there but the edit never occurred.
Regarding the references, oh yes, we ideally want full attribution for every citation. For a book, for example, we normally want title, author, year of publication, publisher, page number, ISBN (or OCLC if none) location and a URL if it exists. For newspapers, we certainly want page numbers, title, etc. But the references are also not ideal because they are general references, rather than inline citations that pinpoint where the material came from. There's lots I could say on that subject about how to do them, citation templates and the like but it's a large subject. For the moment, have a look at Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners.
Regarding Secretariat (I assume actually Secretariat (horse)), you never made the edit. You must have only previewed but the edit was never made so I can't look at it.
Regarding [sic], while it means so in original ("thus was it written"), it is in practice almost always used for a mistake, "not my error", so I'm not sure it would not be misconstrued if placed there and I don't think it's necessary in any event, but I'm not really sure on this. By the way, I responded to your follow-up at WP:NCHD#Punctuation question and Formatting question. Cheers.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 11:17, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
FiverFan65 ( talk) 07:12, 30 June 2012 (UTC)FiverFan65
Just a heads up, we're now supposed to 'archive' technical requests to the selection below in Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests, rather than just blanking. Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 09:46, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
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For being so helpful resolving the issue with Ssimmons01. Ath leek 01:02, 4 July 2012 (UTC) |
You are quite right, of course. I've apologised to him, and apologies to you too for creating an extra unnecessary task. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 08:59, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Theopolisme TALK 19:19, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
I don't know how much work is left to be done on the project page, but I would think that perhaps our biggest task early on will be to recruit new members of the project. If you would like, I could try my hand at creating an invitation template. AutomaticStrikeout ( talk) 01:29, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Credo Reference, who generously donated 400 free Credo 250 research accounts to Wikipedia editors over the past two years, has offered to expand the program to include 100 additional reference resources. Credo wants Wikipedia editors to select which resources they want most. So, we put together a quick survey to do that:
It also asks some basic questions about what you like about the Credo program and what you might want to improve.
At this time only the initial 400 editors have accounts, but even if you do not have an account, you still might want to weigh in on which resources would be most valuable for the community (for example, through WikiProject Resource Exchange).
Also, if you have an account but no longer want to use it, please leave me a note so another editor can take your spot.
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Hello! I wanted to thank you for advice about the pictures, and have since figured out how to upload them. I do have questions as to why you are trying to delete the page I just made. I admit that I'm new to wikipedia, and that my first page-attempt is a work in progress, but I'm confused as to why you would want to delete it? Your thoughts would be appreciated. 2xDoubleHelix ( talk) 08:18, 13 July 2012 (UTC) |
Hi again 2xDoubleHelix. It's nothing personal. This is an encyclopedia. The page you created is fine for your blog, your facebook page, other places. but there's nothing encyclopedic about it. What would you think if you opened up encyclopedia Britannica and saw an article on a random person's car? Their stereo system? Their DVD player? Wikipedia may look like a social networking site where you can post whatever you want but it really is an encyclopedia with all that that implies. Have you read the two pages I linked in the nomination, on notability and verifiability? Please also also look a Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 08:24, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
I understand your opinion on this topic. Like I edited into the article, this is an article in progress. It may look like 'some random person's car,' but in fact it is becoming a very popular sight in Washington. It is more than a stereo system or a DVD player. I did read the pages prior to your posting them, and as I stated before, it's a work in progress, as it takes more than one editing to cite all sources of an article. I'm just asking that you understand that not everything can be done in an instant, and as I see no option to save it in a non-public setting, it was posted publically. It will continue to be revised and I hope you will not continue to persecute the article for deletion. Sincerely 2XDH.
Rather amusing that you assume it's my vehicle under discussion. Magazine articles? Not yet, they will be published in the next few months. Newspaper articles? Again, such take time and are in progress. Television coverage? Yes. I understand that you may not be able to wrap your head around something known as "folk art," but these types of artistic ventures are fairly common to many. And while I appreciate that you have nothing better to do than troll Wikipedia, you can come off of your soapbox, as there are plenty of articles that have far less merit than the one in question. "Our requirements" offers nothing more than the obvious mental picture of a self-obsessed, socially awkward person sitting in his mother's basement eating cheetos and drinking redbull. YOU are not Wikipedia, honey, so go get a real job. 67.138.87.94 ( talk) 10:16, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
It's OK, I'll fix all the facts, and then you can go bother some other person. I hope you have a good day. Don't forget to get some sunlight. Vitamin D is known to increase positive moods (Don't believe me? Search for it on Wikipedia) 2xDoubleHelix ( talk) 10:28, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
It won't tell you much about the deleted article but see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unicorn Jeep. Tattoo, yes it's often better to develop articles in one's sandbox—especially if your first posting is not ready for DKY and you plan on nominating it—but this is not a good example of anything for you because you're a good faith editor earnestly trying to learn the ropes and I don't imagine the first article you create will be a promotional and nonsensical piece of drivel that violates all of our inclusion policies. This was a troll editing in bad faith. You're not, so there's no take away for you. Actually, maybe there is. Notice how I responded to the attack, immediately above? There are many ways to handle that, but almost all involve engaging with the person in some way—Don't attack me! I'll report you!; You're wrong about me!; Fuck you! here's an insult back!—all of them, it's what they want, what they feed off of. Resist the temptation and Wikipedia:Don't feed the trolls. I meant everything I said in my short response: "That tells me everything I need to know", because I really had learned everything I needed to know. They are a troll, not worth my time; not editing in good faith; not going to listen to anything I say or have a real discussion, and so I'm not going to waste my time further in any substantive response because that engagement would not be useful and is what they want. It can be quite difficult for people to do this. Anyway, spending too much time at the teahouse may insulate you from the darker side, the tons of crap we get everyday from people, the vandals the trolls and POV warriors. These too have to be dealt with. We delete a few thousand new articles everyday as we must. If you want to see why, hang out for a while at Special:NewPages and open up many new pages as they come along. It's an eye-opener.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 12:52, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
I like what you said about that change in the "synthetic" link. I had linked to the disambiguation page without realizing it. I could understand your wording. Thank you. Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 04:16, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
...in nominating another of my articles for DYK? (If not it's OK. I won't be insulted.) If you might, it's here: User:Tlqk56/John R Tunis. I was just going to spruce up the article about the author who turned my son into a reader, and found out there was a lot more to him than I thought! Honestly, I could write a book about him, no problem. But I think I've done what I can for the article and I'm feeling ready to move on. I'm sure it's bigger by at least 5, (Maybe 50?? Is it too big? Sometimes I felt I was creating a monster.) I was thinking of a tag like "DYK ...that John R. Tunis, who has been called the inventor of the modern sports story, took part in the first trans-Atlantic Wimbledon broadcast to the United States?" or maybe "was part of the first trans-Atlantic sports broadcast?" When you have a chance let me know what you think. Thanks for considering it. Tlqk56 ( talk) 00:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
...that John R. Tunis, who has been called the 'inventor of the modern sports story', took part in the first trans-Atlantic sports cast and the first broadcast of the Wimbledon Championship to the U.S.?
I has now been moved to John R. Tunis. Tlqk56 ( talk) 21:08, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
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Fuhghettaboutit (
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Well, I have several more articles in the works -- whether they'll qualify as GA I don't know. I like your DYK proposal --it lets me concentrate on learning to do one thing well before I start something else. But I'd like to understand the rp footnoting issue better. Am I using it wrong? I guess I don't know what a shortened footnote is. Is there a page you can point me to so I can read more about them? I might not change what I'm doing, but I would like to know the options and issues involved. Thanks for everything. Tlqk56 ( talk) 02:07, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
I am not obsessed with Hannah Cattell but is it not true that all Hannah Cattell's are related, though they are not the same person, and she was Laura Bogart. I take it we don't want to sexually harass the Sheffield Hallam University scholar. I know that if I were her I'd be feeling harassed too if my name was famous or if Joe does one too many favors for me too. Frances Shaw is the University of Sheffield scholar. CallieMacPherson ( talk) 15:26, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
However, I agree with that deletion. Please read Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Deciding to disambiguate. Note the sentence: "Disambiguation is required whenever, for a given word or phrase on which a reader might search, there is more than one existing Wikipedia article to which that word or phrase might be expected to lead" (emphasis added). Thus we only need to provide disambiguation for articles already in existence that people might have a confusion between. For that reason, since the disambiguation page you created was for two topics neither of which has existing articles, such a page was not warranted.
Meanwhile, I have to admit that I can't really make heads or tails out of much of your post. What does any of this have to do with sexual harassment, the university and these other people you mention?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 21:51, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Regarding the sources your search turned up, I can have a look at them and see what I can do with them to improve the Barfüßiger Februar article, if you wish. -- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 15:01, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I wrote a new lead for John R. Tunis. I don't know if it's right, but it should be better. Feel free to tinker if you like. Tlqk56 ( talk) 02:50, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Are you still planning to work on the Article for Improvement project or is that likely to not come together after all? AutomaticStrikeout ( talk) 18:31, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
ENLogic ( talk · contribs), who you blocked for edit warring, seems to be at it again using 75.85.176.10 ( 75.25.175.118 seems to have been their previous address). See this AN/EW thread. benzband ( talk) 20:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 26 July 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John R. Tunis, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that John R. Tunis, who has been called the "inventor of the modern sports story", took part in the first trans-Atlantic sportscast and the first broadcast of the Wimbledon Championship to the U.S.? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John R. Tunis. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Orlady ( talk) 16:04, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
OK, the new article, not an expansion, is here: The Secret River (Rawlings book). Of course any changes and suggestions are welcome. There is already another book by the same name but by a different author, so it needs a DAB page. Am I allowed to just create one, or is there a particular process for that? I will go through and add the link to appropriate articles once it's made. Also, I'm adding an image of the first edition cover to the infobox. Since the later edition had different illustrators and garnered a significant amount of coverage do you think fair use would allow an image from that book, too? Either the cover or an interior illustration?
I thought this might work for a hook: "…that Leonard Weisgard illustrated Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' children's book The Secret River in cream on dark brown paper because publishing conventions in 1955 did not allow the characters to be shown with dark skin?" (Cited at the beginning of Editions, awards.)
BTW, do you have JSTOR access? I don't and there's an article here [3] I'd love to be able to read. I think there's a good chance it would have more info to add to the article. Thanks again for everything. Tlqk56 ( talk) 19:57, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Do you have a different reworking?-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 14:53, 28 July 2012 (UTC)…that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' children's book The Secret River was illustrated in cream on dark brown paper because 1955 publishing conventions did not allow characters to be shown with dark skin?"
Thanks for the tip. I've saved it and will try to remember to use it. I had wondered what those changes meant, but didn't actually understand them. Tlqk56 ( talk) 17:31, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Fuh! Just a reminder about a few things at the Teahouse - first, thank you so much for participating. If you have interest, it'd be great to have you add your profile to the Host page! You practically are one. :) You can find that page here. Second, please familiarize yourself with our host tips and the host responsibilities page. There you can learn a bit more about what makes us different - we greet each visitor (everyone likes to be welcomed when they visit a new place!), use as little wiki jargon and links to policies as possible and keep it friendly and simple. That's one of the things that makes the Teahouse so successful - we avoid links when necessary and just give our visitors the answers straight up - it's a proven winning cup of tea :) Also, I encourage you to invite other editors to the Teahouse to find help. Right now we have more people answering questions than we do visiting, so we can use all the help we can get. Thanks so much for all you do on Wikipedia! :) SarahStierch ( talk) 17:23, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
You would think, after all the digging I did looking at {{ astray}}, I would have read your name at one point or another! Haha, egg on my face I suppose. BigNate37 (T) 05:38, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
-- Toshio Yamaguchi ( tlk− ctb) 18:37, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
Since I've already dragged you into it, can you check
Template talk:Ln#redirect=no again please? I made a couple mistakes of omission, one of which requires a protected edit to fix.
BigNate37
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Hello Fuhghettaboutit. I'm not sure if you follow messages deeper into the thread at the Teahouse - I left a brief new message for you there. (I've used the blue colored "you have new messages" template once, unable to locate it now - I will find it again, just tired) Take care. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Expansion_Tag Albeit27 ( talk) 19:16, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Since you've recently edited {{ lx}} I thought you might be the one to address my question to.
CorenSearchBot and VWBot (and maybe some other that I've forgotten about) list new articles with possible copyright problems at WP:SCV using {{ la}}. I haven't been active there recently, but it used to be that articles which were deleted showed as redlinks as normal links. When I looked at it today, however every article link is colored blue instead whether it has already been deleted or not. Is that related to the change you made? VernoWhitney ( talk) 21:44, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I hope things are going well with you. I've responded at DYK, but the guy hasn't gotten back to me, and as you'll see there my computer time is restricted right now. Would you mind stopping by and doing whatever you think needs to be done to get it moving again? I really appreciate it. Tlqk56 ( talk) 16:57, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your help and explanation. I chose to rewrite some of the work with improved references and learned in the process. Mdscottis ( talk) 02:30, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
![]() | On 16 August 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Secret River (Rawlings book), which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Charles Scribner described his suggestion to illustrate Marjorie Rawlings' The Secret River in cream on dark paper as "one of my silent contributions to dissolving the color barrier in the 1950s"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Secret River (Rawlings book). If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 16:02, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
I don't care what cyber-sad case has been trying to push this meme on Wikipedia, so you can keep the page protected if you want. But it should NOT be redirecting to Bogeyman. So please redirect it to List of Internet phenomena or something similar. Serendi pod ous 18:13, 17 August 2012 (UTC):
Sorry to dredge this up again but I think I've found a better home for the Slender Man; I've created a larger subsection in the article
Fakelore; a small enough article so that the topic has room to grow.
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There hasn't been much activity here for awhile. I was wondering what you think might be the next step? Automatic Strikeout 20:33, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
Well, I'm definitely glad for your edit summary. I was manually checking the citations and converting them to {{ cite web}} (I hadn't gotten very far before I noticed your edit). I went to double-check the current version's references section. Lo and behold, they were all gone. Hah, so yeah I'm grateful for that edit summary, or I'd have been very confused and probably pretty annoyed too. I'm going to assume the references are in your capable hands though, and divert my attention elsewhere. BigNate37 (T) 22:19, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I hope I am doing this template right. Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 04:26, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to Ryan Vesey we have our first nomination in the WP:TAFI project, so I'm notifying all the project members. Automatic Strikeout 20:17, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Hello again, hope you are having a great day, I have been working religiously on this article today and am at a point where I would love some "critiquing". I have added sections and expanded on quite a bit of information. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 02:13, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey there Fuhghettaboutit, thanks that was a quick response re: the Woodmansee article. I have a question about using full names. I thought that it was proper etiquette while editing articles with the use of names to use the full name ie: Michael Woodmansee or Jason Foreman the first time and then after that it is proper to use last name only? Thanks again for helping to improve the article. Ț♥ttØØd Ẅ♥itre§ 03:49, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure you already have the Highbeam stuff, but you can also apply for Credo access through WP. I just got approved. Haven't used it yet, but anything like this can't be non-useful. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 10:37, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks much for your help with this template which helped me to improve this article. You were quite diligent in responding to my request for help. EagerToddler39 ( talk) 01:56, 30 August 2012 (UTC) |
The article
The Secret River (Rawlings book) you nominated as a
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good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See
Talk:The Secret River (Rawlings book) for things which need to be addressed.
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The article
The Secret River (Rawlings book) you nominated as a
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Talk:The Secret River (Rawlings book) for comments about the article. Well done!
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Good news! You are approved for access to 77,000 full-text books and 4 million journal, magazine, newspaper articles, and encyclopedia entries. Check your Wikipedia email!
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Thanks for helping make Wikipedia better. Enjoy your research! Cheers, Ocaasi EdwardsBot ( talk) 05:05, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
Saying that WP:RM "should" be used is just plain wrong. This in non-controversial to anyone who knows very much about the subject. You will notice that there is an ongoing request to change "should" to "must", and they always get very quickly shot down, always the same way, by pointing out the WP:RM is not mandatory. The article should reflect that consensus. I will try to see how it even got there and revert that, but no matter what, the article should reflect consensus. It is not necessary to make any proposal on the talk page for the change because it is a long standing understanding that WP:RM is a convenience, not a necessity. Apteva ( talk) 01:43, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Nothing to revert. It was just a very poorly worded major change.
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Hi, I just wanted to thank you for your edits to my pending submission on Ars Nova. I've been working very hard to get the page up to Wikipedia's standards for publication, so the fact that you went in and edited things like that while I'm waiting for the article to be reviewed was extremely helpful and selfless, IMHO. Thank you very much. RunnerOnIce ( talk) 01:20, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
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It was either this or copyeditors. Pretend I did both. :-p RunnerOnIce ( talk) 20:31, 22 September 2012 (UTC) |
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B86iegI5pG5TNHZ4WjI5b0VXak0
Please let me know when you are done. Churn and change ( talk) 01:30, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
Many thanks for the help you gave me on fixing broken references. It worked a treat and was explained clearly! My apologies for not thanking you earlier. I quite simply forgot, how rude of me! -- Elekebia ( talk) 12:53, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
The Association of Chief Police officers refers to PCSOs in capitals as does the Home Office this takes precedent over an unofficial quango advertisement site or the BBC who are a private corporation and have no allegiance to the Crown see http://www.acpo.police.uk/documents/LPpartnerships/2007/200709LPPGonPCSO.pdf and http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/corporate-publications-strategy/home-office-circulars/circulars-2009/002-2009/-- T9062856 ( talk) 23:09, 3 October 2012 (UTC)