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Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah ( talk) 01:30, 19 April 2012 (UTC) |
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I even looked for a suitable place to redirect it, just to keep the page history. Sadly the world has not adopted spaghettiburger (without the Gettysburg Address) like they have embraced pizzaghetti. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 03:32, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
←So what do we do about this? MfD? Leave it alone (it is tagged {{ User sandbox}}? My concerns:
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Hi LadyofShalott, I'm sorry for the delay. Life circumstances don't always equip you with enough time to do it all :) Thank you very much again for this learning opportunity. I cannot explain my gratitude. You jumped out of nowhere and helped me. Your advice and the rest of the info you posted on my talk page is very helpful, more important, it tells me that you are a great human being who doesn't look down on people like me who are just trying to get started... I wish you were adopting, but I saw that you are not. I'll ask someone who goes by Drmies if he wants to adopt me, even though he had a wiki-fight with my father over a page called Protonism. Dr. Mies doesn't know this, but I will tell him when the time is right. I do not have his email address. I love my father, but in my opinion, he was wrong and Dr. Mies was right. Actually, that's why I decided to become a (small for now) wikipedian for life. I want to be fair and follow the wiki rules instead of being too greedy like my father just because he happened to know the subject personally. I want to prove to him that things can be done in accordance with rules and without unnecessary divergences. He is a great man and well educated. But he was born in Bulgaria and tends to take things personally. As soon as I'm done with Marinaj project, if you don't mind I would like to ask your advice regarding my next project. I love all the arts, biography, and soccer. Once again, thank you very much for your kindness! Hope all is well in your world, and please let me know if you see me going out of line :). Please delete the non-essential parts of this message when you're done reading it. -- Earlybirdofthewest ( talk) 08:00, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Can you check the translation of this? Its one of those how is this missing articles!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:20, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I previously discussed how I had come to the same conclusion as you did about the myth of Drexciya, although I hadn't seen that conclusion explicitly stated anywhere. I must admit that in the back of my mind I still hoped that there was some basis in centuries-old mythology.
However, using my new Highbeam account, I discovered that " Unlikely as it may seem, Drexciya was the invention of a Detroit music group of the same name".
BTW, if you don't already have Highbeam access, they're still accepting applications for the next round of free accounts. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:53, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
LoS, I don't think that one you just removed had been blocked already. I'm showing a blocked version that had a 1 on the end. Calabe 1992 03:14, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Yeah. Although he obviously has accomplished quite a lot on here. Calabe 1992 03:41, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't even know of that rule after I "broke" it. Didn't even notice it in the rules stuff. I won't forget again, p.s., try to cut a new guy a little slack, thanx. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xylon Draganthus ( talk • contribs) 12:59, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Yes, thank you. There appears to be a backlog at 3RRNB - would you like me to update the report that I filed there? - Sitush ( talk) 23:34, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help. I am doing this for a class project. I would like to get better. And I saw that you are in the top 1100 Wikipedia article editors. That is pretty impressive. Thank you for your comments. PJay23 ( talk) 15:18, 30 April 2012 (UTC) |
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thanks for your help with article Jemima Kirke Greatpumkin ( talk) 16:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC) |
Hello, again, I see you archived the previous discussion thread: Solid State PLC
Hello, I'd like to create a page Solid State PLC but it was previously removed: 18:11, 17 August 2011 Edgar181 (talk | contribs) deleted page Solid State PLC (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) 16:18, 17 August 2011 Tnxman307 (talk | contribs) deleted page Solid State PLC (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) 15:47, 17 August 2011 Tnxman307 (talk | contribs) deleted page Solid State PLC (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content)) The intention was to create a brief, factual page outlining the AIM listed companies details and history but not be an advert or promotion. Would you be able to assist me in achieveing this and move it into my userspace and suggest how we might complete this? --jjakaalbinoboy 16:19, 26 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjakaalbinoboy (talk • contribs) Do reliable sources exist that discuss this company? If there are multiple reliable sources that discuss it, yes it should be possible to write an article on it. (I'm not familiar with the subject, and my question is not rhetorical.) It might be better to start from scratch at User:Jjakaalbinoboy/Solid State PLC. If you do that, and can show some decent sources, I'll help you work on it and make sure it's in reasonable state before moving it to main space. LadyofShalott 16:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
I have found a similar company page to the one I wish to create at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASOS.com This page also appears to contain advertising type content however. It is part of two projects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Business and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Companies both of which would be appropriate for AIM listed Solid State PLC. The main source I've found thus far is the London Stock Exchange itself at http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/summary/company-summary.html?fourWayKey=GB0008237132GBGBXAIMI, the Solid State PLC website at http://www.solidstateplc.com/ and various other financial news sources such as Google Finance, Yahoo Finance and a whole host of financial PR sites.
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I'm reading an interesting novel: Irène Némirovsky's All Our Worldly Goods. You might like it. It's woman's fiction, haha. Drmies ( talk) 17:49, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I just read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It's very good. Ladyof Shalott 05:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I saw your edits to this new article. I've been through it trying to (a) get the running text into proper WP formatting (b) ensure that the botany is correct (the creator had used rather out of date sources). But it still needs quite a bit of copy-editing, in my view. The material sometimes feels a bit "dumped"; it needs sorting and re-organizing. E.g. why have a single section on Conservation and cultivation? I don't have any more time at present to work on the article, so if you do... Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:48, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
William Umpleby Kirk article you tagged with notability. While the contributing editor may have seemed like a stretch before, isn't a Royal Patronage notable? Kirk's work is only being rediscovered, but catching the first photographs of moving objects and being acknowledged for it with such a warrant by the Queen should be notable regardless of the time. Notability is temporary, but for the time period and even today, Kirk's work is still in a museum and while the matter of Christie's auction is deemed not so reliable, but all these things together go to show Kirk was notable. Sure some of the sources may not be top-notch, but they all attest to a certain aspect and owe a piece to verification of a century old work. Anyone given an honor for services to royalty should pass muster alone. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 04:03, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Slow down a bit. If you think it shouldn't have been added you should have talked about it. Seems somewhat authoritarian to me (and I do have a reference for that if you need one). Are you Wikipedia? You have previously demonstrated problems getting your head round the issues raised here. In my opinion you should undo the undo that you perpetrated. If you choose to re-write the page or have me blocked I'll live with that Jacksoncowes ( talk) 18:36, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
You really don't get it. It must be very difficult. Never mind. Jacksoncowes ( talk) 16:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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I don't know many admins so I thought I'd ask you this question. Someone recently changed the Thomas Hardy page into a dab, redirecting the famous writer's page to Thomas Hardy (writer). Thomas Hardy the writer gets 50000 views per month while none of the other pages on the new dab get even 1000. It seems like a strange thing to do to make 50000 people per month search a dab page to get to the Thomas Hardy writer page. Any thoughts? INeverCry 22:33, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your copy edits. The editing process was kind of messy, working on four articles simultaneously with these big fat book citation templates inline. If you have a moment, can you look at the others? Or maybe you have already... Thanks Lady, Drmies ( talk) 13:54, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello LoS. I am afraid that we are being hoaxed with this article. The book exists as does the author but I can find no info about a film. Not a single member of the cast has this on their record nor can I find Forest Whitaker having directed anything by this title. I am about to logging off soon so if there is any followup that you need from me please leave a note here and I will pick things up when I get back. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 01:12, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
You were getting things taken care of while I was typing my last message. looks like this List of Raising my Siblings episodes is the last hoax they created before you blocked them. Thanks again for the quick action on this. MarnetteD | Talk 01:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
This is what happens when you talk to me, I start asking unrelated questions. An IP was making changes to Pandeism, capitalizing Pandeism and Universe, etc. under the rationale that "a Pandeist would", I explained NPOV, but he raised one point that Wiktionary only confused more on [1]. Should Pandeism/pandeism be capitalized? I assume the same as Deism/deism. I never have as I consider it a philosophy, and don't see it as a proper noun, but I'm still not an expert on MOS and thought you might know off-hand. Since he asked on the talk page of the article (after I reverted one vandalism and one good edit), I said I would get another opinion. You seem smart enough ;) Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 21:52, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I think it was only one. And in fact, it had (oddly) gotten there just before I had been there. Efforts more or less crossed in the mail. I understand your concern. Am not knowingly making these mistakes, but there is always likely human error. Sorry. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 23:05, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I wasn't sure where to take this but you seemed like a good bet as an admin familiar with the situation. The IP 174.56.89.176 apparently wasn't blocked following the most recent SPI and made this edit today (adding party affiliations to the list of Albuquerque city council members, a PT favorite). If you could make sure he gets properly blocked, I'd appreciate it. Camerafiend ( talk) 23:51, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see this at the talk page of Drmies. - Sitush ( talk) 23:29, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Lady, can you help out with Hexie Farm? I need a pair of eyes and I can't seem to find the proper categories. I've nominated it for a DYK (it came from AfC), so I expect Chinese government hackers to enter my netbook any minute. Drmies ( talk) 02:34, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
I wrote Frog and the Birdsong this morning. I'd appreciate your help, with categories, the infobox, ISBN, talk page templates, etc...! I was not able to dig up more than snippet views in English publications; perhaps you know better where to look. I referenced a digitized version: it doesn't take a lot of skill in Dutch to follow the storyline. Thanks for your help--I'm putting that up for DYK also. Drmies ( talk) 16:08, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Greetings LadyofShalott (what a lovely name) hope this message finds you in good spirit.
Drmies pointed me in your direction, in regards to an article naming dispute at Talk:Cute (Japanese band). A user is suggesting to request a page move to Cute (band), which if the band was the only one in the world, then I'd happily agree with him. However, there are two bands in the world called "Cute", and Wikipedia has articles for them both (the other being Cute (Maltese band). My common-sense tells me that as there are two bands of the same name, then they need to be differentiated more by showing their country of origin in the title also; which would mean Cute (band) would need to remain as a sub-disambiguation directing to the band section of Cute (disambiguation). Is what I'm thinking the correct procedure or not? If don't mind, would it be possible to post your comments/views on this matter over at the Talk:Cute (Japanese band) - thank you ever so much Wesley ☀ Mouse 17:11, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the upgrade to B-class for the Giulia Marletta article! Doc2234 ( talk) 19:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Howdy! I would like to invite you to join the Great American Wiknic this June (you could update Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta) :) Also, please confirm any preliminary details at Wikipedia:Wiknic#2012 Wiknic.-- Pharos ( talk) 23:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to say thank you LadyofSharlott, for the lovely words you left on Drmies' talk page. In their own little way, they brought a hint of warmth and comfort at this shallow time. Its now 2:20am here, and I'm that distraught and confused that I can't even sleep. So I've popped by to just read and re-read every page that I've either worked on, or talk pages I've interacted with. Isn't it strange how we do the weirdest of things like that in circumstances such as this. Reflecting on the past, and trying to figure out what the future now has in store. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Wesley ☀ Mouse 01:22, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, seeing that your edit to the Djembe page was just reverted as well, I though I'll let you know about this issue: [2] -- MichiHenning ( talk) 01:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just saw your edits to Djembe in the category section. I guess it makes sense to remove Category:Drums, seeing that Category:African drums was already present an is a sub-category of Category:Drums.
But I'm puzzled by the removal of Category:Membranophones. The djembe clearly is a membranophone, so I don't understand why you removed that category. Is it also because it is a super-category of Category:Drums? I'm not sure what the rules are for categorisation, but I notice that many other drums with a membrane use that category. Maybe it would be better to have both categories? This is because not all membranophones are drums, and not all drums are membranophones. -- MichiHenning ( talk) 03:17, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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Given the editor's recent issues with Autopatroled, etc, I noticed this this today and had a look. The article Norfolk County Council is word-for-word a copy of Norfolk#Politics. I don't see anything on talk pages about wp:split and the information remains on the Norfolk page. Is it kosher to create a new article with a copy/paste from an existing article and then call it 'new'? The access dates for the refs are (again) problematic. Most before the editor had an account on WP. Wikipelli Talk 10:52, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Given those circmstances,I think i would have to be a 5-fold expansion of the existing material. I have not checked that, but I think that an experienced DYK reviewer should. I'm glad the notes have been left by all on the nom. page. Ladyof Shalott 17:01, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
I didn't know there was one. Thank you. I've added the template both to Ernest Nys and Augusto Pierantoni. IMHO ( talk) 19:18, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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I am tired of TAP's lies and Confusion so can you please review some of my Pseudotomoxia articles.-- Deathlaser : Chat 18:01, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Deathlaser, I have gone through all the species of Pseudotomoxia and found 3 recurrent problems:
Please let me know if you have further questions about these or any other articles. Ladyof Shalott 05:35, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) Just a suggestion, as this is around the same size, have a go at these? -- Thine Antique Pen ( talk • contributions) 16:57, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
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I think you should just submit it. As I noted, the lead could be expanded a bit. It would be nice if you got Clare's Thunder and stars; it's the one full-length biography listed. Some might quibble over the wikilinks inside quotations--I found two--but you can just see how it goes. It's a great article. Drmies ( talk) 14:30, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I've done it. Question for you about this edit: my intent there was not to reference page 245, but to say that it is 245 pages long. Do you know the proper way to do that, or should I just not? Ladyof Shalott 23:01, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
[3] is an interesting read. Two articles are at AFD and likely hoaxes, the first article was ok, but they're moving articles from user pages of other SPAs to main space, etc. Hoax article Drug Guitar from User:Drug Guitar, hoax article Haweli Ek Paheli from User:Haweli Ek Paheli, questionable and unsourced article Silver Screen Awards from User:Silver Screen Awards. They were linking the actors in the movies to user space, which MichaelQSchmidt and I have delinked independently. Their first article, Ranbir Kapoor looks ok at a glance, but is out of my field of expertise. A more experienced set of eyes is needed here. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 23:23, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
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See if you agree: I am learning is AfD'ed on 22 May, and on 23 May, 17:52, Deathlaser weighs in at the AfD. 16:39, 24 May 2012, TAP responds to it, and then two minutes later nominates MyMaths, Deathlaser's article, for deletion. I'm going to close that last AfD as a Speedy Keep, BTW: there is no need for that to drag on. Drmies ( talk) 02:57, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Are my last 3 articles right (look at contribution).-- Deathlaser : Chat 11:28, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, found another mistake. Could you update categories to the correct year, and did what I did in this diff, here? Thanks! -- Thine Antique Pen ( talk • contributions) 16:30, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah ( talk) 01:30, 19 April 2012 (UTC) |
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I even looked for a suitable place to redirect it, just to keep the page history. Sadly the world has not adopted spaghettiburger (without the Gettysburg Address) like they have embraced pizzaghetti. -- kelapstick( bainuu) 03:32, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
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Hi LadyofShalott, I'm sorry for the delay. Life circumstances don't always equip you with enough time to do it all :) Thank you very much again for this learning opportunity. I cannot explain my gratitude. You jumped out of nowhere and helped me. Your advice and the rest of the info you posted on my talk page is very helpful, more important, it tells me that you are a great human being who doesn't look down on people like me who are just trying to get started... I wish you were adopting, but I saw that you are not. I'll ask someone who goes by Drmies if he wants to adopt me, even though he had a wiki-fight with my father over a page called Protonism. Dr. Mies doesn't know this, but I will tell him when the time is right. I do not have his email address. I love my father, but in my opinion, he was wrong and Dr. Mies was right. Actually, that's why I decided to become a (small for now) wikipedian for life. I want to be fair and follow the wiki rules instead of being too greedy like my father just because he happened to know the subject personally. I want to prove to him that things can be done in accordance with rules and without unnecessary divergences. He is a great man and well educated. But he was born in Bulgaria and tends to take things personally. As soon as I'm done with Marinaj project, if you don't mind I would like to ask your advice regarding my next project. I love all the arts, biography, and soccer. Once again, thank you very much for your kindness! Hope all is well in your world, and please let me know if you see me going out of line :). Please delete the non-essential parts of this message when you're done reading it. -- Earlybirdofthewest ( talk) 08:00, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Can you check the translation of this? Its one of those how is this missing articles!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:20, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I previously discussed how I had come to the same conclusion as you did about the myth of Drexciya, although I hadn't seen that conclusion explicitly stated anywhere. I must admit that in the back of my mind I still hoped that there was some basis in centuries-old mythology.
However, using my new Highbeam account, I discovered that " Unlikely as it may seem, Drexciya was the invention of a Detroit music group of the same name".
BTW, if you don't already have Highbeam access, they're still accepting applications for the next round of free accounts. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:53, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
LoS, I don't think that one you just removed had been blocked already. I'm showing a blocked version that had a 1 on the end. Calabe 1992 03:14, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Yeah. Although he obviously has accomplished quite a lot on here. Calabe 1992 03:41, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't even know of that rule after I "broke" it. Didn't even notice it in the rules stuff. I won't forget again, p.s., try to cut a new guy a little slack, thanx. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xylon Draganthus ( talk • contribs) 12:59, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Yes, thank you. There appears to be a backlog at 3RRNB - would you like me to update the report that I filed there? - Sitush ( talk) 23:34, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for your help. I am doing this for a class project. I would like to get better. And I saw that you are in the top 1100 Wikipedia article editors. That is pretty impressive. Thank you for your comments. PJay23 ( talk) 15:18, 30 April 2012 (UTC) |
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Hello, again, I see you archived the previous discussion thread: Solid State PLC
Hello, I'd like to create a page Solid State PLC but it was previously removed: 18:11, 17 August 2011 Edgar181 (talk | contribs) deleted page Solid State PLC (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) 16:18, 17 August 2011 Tnxman307 (talk | contribs) deleted page Solid State PLC (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion) 15:47, 17 August 2011 Tnxman307 (talk | contribs) deleted page Solid State PLC (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person, animal, organization, or web content)) The intention was to create a brief, factual page outlining the AIM listed companies details and history but not be an advert or promotion. Would you be able to assist me in achieveing this and move it into my userspace and suggest how we might complete this? --jjakaalbinoboy 16:19, 26 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjakaalbinoboy (talk • contribs) Do reliable sources exist that discuss this company? If there are multiple reliable sources that discuss it, yes it should be possible to write an article on it. (I'm not familiar with the subject, and my question is not rhetorical.) It might be better to start from scratch at User:Jjakaalbinoboy/Solid State PLC. If you do that, and can show some decent sources, I'll help you work on it and make sure it's in reasonable state before moving it to main space. LadyofShalott 16:29, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
I have found a similar company page to the one I wish to create at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASOS.com This page also appears to contain advertising type content however. It is part of two projects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Business and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Companies both of which would be appropriate for AIM listed Solid State PLC. The main source I've found thus far is the London Stock Exchange itself at http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/prices-and-markets/stocks/summary/company-summary.html?fourWayKey=GB0008237132GBGBXAIMI, the Solid State PLC website at http://www.solidstateplc.com/ and various other financial news sources such as Google Finance, Yahoo Finance and a whole host of financial PR sites.
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I'm reading an interesting novel: Irène Némirovsky's All Our Worldly Goods. You might like it. It's woman's fiction, haha. Drmies ( talk) 17:49, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
I just read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It's very good. Ladyof Shalott 05:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I saw your edits to this new article. I've been through it trying to (a) get the running text into proper WP formatting (b) ensure that the botany is correct (the creator had used rather out of date sources). But it still needs quite a bit of copy-editing, in my view. The material sometimes feels a bit "dumped"; it needs sorting and re-organizing. E.g. why have a single section on Conservation and cultivation? I don't have any more time at present to work on the article, so if you do... Peter coxhead ( talk) 14:48, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
William Umpleby Kirk article you tagged with notability. While the contributing editor may have seemed like a stretch before, isn't a Royal Patronage notable? Kirk's work is only being rediscovered, but catching the first photographs of moving objects and being acknowledged for it with such a warrant by the Queen should be notable regardless of the time. Notability is temporary, but for the time period and even today, Kirk's work is still in a museum and while the matter of Christie's auction is deemed not so reliable, but all these things together go to show Kirk was notable. Sure some of the sources may not be top-notch, but they all attest to a certain aspect and owe a piece to verification of a century old work. Anyone given an honor for services to royalty should pass muster alone. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 04:03, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Slow down a bit. If you think it shouldn't have been added you should have talked about it. Seems somewhat authoritarian to me (and I do have a reference for that if you need one). Are you Wikipedia? You have previously demonstrated problems getting your head round the issues raised here. In my opinion you should undo the undo that you perpetrated. If you choose to re-write the page or have me blocked I'll live with that Jacksoncowes ( talk) 18:36, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
You really don't get it. It must be very difficult. Never mind. Jacksoncowes ( talk) 16:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your copy edits. The editing process was kind of messy, working on four articles simultaneously with these big fat book citation templates inline. If you have a moment, can you look at the others? Or maybe you have already... Thanks Lady, Drmies ( talk) 13:54, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello LoS. I am afraid that we are being hoaxed with this article. The book exists as does the author but I can find no info about a film. Not a single member of the cast has this on their record nor can I find Forest Whitaker having directed anything by this title. I am about to logging off soon so if there is any followup that you need from me please leave a note here and I will pick things up when I get back. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD | Talk 01:12, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
You were getting things taken care of while I was typing my last message. looks like this List of Raising my Siblings episodes is the last hoax they created before you blocked them. Thanks again for the quick action on this. MarnetteD | Talk 01:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
This is what happens when you talk to me, I start asking unrelated questions. An IP was making changes to Pandeism, capitalizing Pandeism and Universe, etc. under the rationale that "a Pandeist would", I explained NPOV, but he raised one point that Wiktionary only confused more on [1]. Should Pandeism/pandeism be capitalized? I assume the same as Deism/deism. I never have as I consider it a philosophy, and don't see it as a proper noun, but I'm still not an expert on MOS and thought you might know off-hand. Since he asked on the talk page of the article (after I reverted one vandalism and one good edit), I said I would get another opinion. You seem smart enough ;) Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 21:52, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
I think it was only one. And in fact, it had (oddly) gotten there just before I had been there. Efforts more or less crossed in the mail. I understand your concern. Am not knowingly making these mistakes, but there is always likely human error. Sorry. 7&6=thirteen ( ☎) 23:05, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I wasn't sure where to take this but you seemed like a good bet as an admin familiar with the situation. The IP 174.56.89.176 apparently wasn't blocked following the most recent SPI and made this edit today (adding party affiliations to the list of Albuquerque city council members, a PT favorite). If you could make sure he gets properly blocked, I'd appreciate it. Camerafiend ( talk) 23:51, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
Please see this at the talk page of Drmies. - Sitush ( talk) 23:29, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Hey Lady, can you help out with Hexie Farm? I need a pair of eyes and I can't seem to find the proper categories. I've nominated it for a DYK (it came from AfC), so I expect Chinese government hackers to enter my netbook any minute. Drmies ( talk) 02:34, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
I wrote Frog and the Birdsong this morning. I'd appreciate your help, with categories, the infobox, ISBN, talk page templates, etc...! I was not able to dig up more than snippet views in English publications; perhaps you know better where to look. I referenced a digitized version: it doesn't take a lot of skill in Dutch to follow the storyline. Thanks for your help--I'm putting that up for DYK also. Drmies ( talk) 16:08, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
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Greetings LadyofShalott (what a lovely name) hope this message finds you in good spirit.
Drmies pointed me in your direction, in regards to an article naming dispute at Talk:Cute (Japanese band). A user is suggesting to request a page move to Cute (band), which if the band was the only one in the world, then I'd happily agree with him. However, there are two bands in the world called "Cute", and Wikipedia has articles for them both (the other being Cute (Maltese band). My common-sense tells me that as there are two bands of the same name, then they need to be differentiated more by showing their country of origin in the title also; which would mean Cute (band) would need to remain as a sub-disambiguation directing to the band section of Cute (disambiguation). Is what I'm thinking the correct procedure or not? If don't mind, would it be possible to post your comments/views on this matter over at the Talk:Cute (Japanese band) - thank you ever so much Wesley ☀ Mouse 17:11, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for the upgrade to B-class for the Giulia Marletta article! Doc2234 ( talk) 19:46, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
Howdy! I would like to invite you to join the Great American Wiknic this June (you could update Wikipedia:Meetup/Atlanta) :) Also, please confirm any preliminary details at Wikipedia:Wiknic#2012 Wiknic.-- Pharos ( talk) 23:51, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to say thank you LadyofSharlott, for the lovely words you left on Drmies' talk page. In their own little way, they brought a hint of warmth and comfort at this shallow time. Its now 2:20am here, and I'm that distraught and confused that I can't even sleep. So I've popped by to just read and re-read every page that I've either worked on, or talk pages I've interacted with. Isn't it strange how we do the weirdest of things like that in circumstances such as this. Reflecting on the past, and trying to figure out what the future now has in store. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Wesley ☀ Mouse 01:22, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, seeing that your edit to the Djembe page was just reverted as well, I though I'll let you know about this issue: [2] -- MichiHenning ( talk) 01:26, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, just saw your edits to Djembe in the category section. I guess it makes sense to remove Category:Drums, seeing that Category:African drums was already present an is a sub-category of Category:Drums.
But I'm puzzled by the removal of Category:Membranophones. The djembe clearly is a membranophone, so I don't understand why you removed that category. Is it also because it is a super-category of Category:Drums? I'm not sure what the rules are for categorisation, but I notice that many other drums with a membrane use that category. Maybe it would be better to have both categories? This is because not all membranophones are drums, and not all drums are membranophones. -- MichiHenning ( talk) 03:17, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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Given the editor's recent issues with Autopatroled, etc, I noticed this this today and had a look. The article Norfolk County Council is word-for-word a copy of Norfolk#Politics. I don't see anything on talk pages about wp:split and the information remains on the Norfolk page. Is it kosher to create a new article with a copy/paste from an existing article and then call it 'new'? The access dates for the refs are (again) problematic. Most before the editor had an account on WP. Wikipelli Talk 10:52, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Given those circmstances,I think i would have to be a 5-fold expansion of the existing material. I have not checked that, but I think that an experienced DYK reviewer should. I'm glad the notes have been left by all on the nom. page. Ladyof Shalott 17:01, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
I didn't know there was one. Thank you. I've added the template both to Ernest Nys and Augusto Pierantoni. IMHO ( talk) 19:18, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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I am tired of TAP's lies and Confusion so can you please review some of my Pseudotomoxia articles.-- Deathlaser : Chat 18:01, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Deathlaser, I have gone through all the species of Pseudotomoxia and found 3 recurrent problems:
Please let me know if you have further questions about these or any other articles. Ladyof Shalott 05:35, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
( talk page stalker) Just a suggestion, as this is around the same size, have a go at these? -- Thine Antique Pen ( talk • contributions) 16:57, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
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I think you should just submit it. As I noted, the lead could be expanded a bit. It would be nice if you got Clare's Thunder and stars; it's the one full-length biography listed. Some might quibble over the wikilinks inside quotations--I found two--but you can just see how it goes. It's a great article. Drmies ( talk) 14:30, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I've done it. Question for you about this edit: my intent there was not to reference page 245, but to say that it is 245 pages long. Do you know the proper way to do that, or should I just not? Ladyof Shalott 23:01, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
[3] is an interesting read. Two articles are at AFD and likely hoaxes, the first article was ok, but they're moving articles from user pages of other SPAs to main space, etc. Hoax article Drug Guitar from User:Drug Guitar, hoax article Haweli Ek Paheli from User:Haweli Ek Paheli, questionable and unsourced article Silver Screen Awards from User:Silver Screen Awards. They were linking the actors in the movies to user space, which MichaelQSchmidt and I have delinked independently. Their first article, Ranbir Kapoor looks ok at a glance, but is out of my field of expertise. A more experienced set of eyes is needed here. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 23:23, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
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See if you agree: I am learning is AfD'ed on 22 May, and on 23 May, 17:52, Deathlaser weighs in at the AfD. 16:39, 24 May 2012, TAP responds to it, and then two minutes later nominates MyMaths, Deathlaser's article, for deletion. I'm going to close that last AfD as a Speedy Keep, BTW: there is no need for that to drag on. Drmies ( talk) 02:57, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Are my last 3 articles right (look at contribution).-- Deathlaser : Chat 11:28, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Sorry, found another mistake. Could you update categories to the correct year, and did what I did in this diff, here? Thanks! -- Thine Antique Pen ( talk • contributions) 16:30, 27 May 2012 (UTC)