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Assuming you are who I think you are (which if you are, we never really interacted, but no matter), welcome back! It's been too long. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 11:35, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
I ask you to help. Install license and more. That the file is not make "deleted" File:Bonus-Sweden.png. No doubt you are the author of this file. But in my project (Sweden) - it is necessary to give a clear picture of the Swedish national symbol (flag) in top. And also, I am a Christian - I want to see a Christian symbol where it is. I would be grateful to you if you make a file - no stars, but with the cross in bottom as in en:Orders, decorations, and medals of Sweden. With respect to you -- Krupski Oleg ( talk) 11:23, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I did, but the story is a little more complicated than that. Wittylama originally created the article at User:Wittylama/Sandbox, and then moved it to the current "Norman Selfe" title. Unfortunately, the sandbox contained lots of page history that was irrelevant to Selfe's article, so I decided to move the unrelated sandbox history back to Wittylama's userspace. Because of the method I used to do this (which in hindsight wasn't the most efficient one), I had to move the page to "Norman Selfe/Temp" for a few minutes while I tried to sort the history out. See all the logs for the Norman Selfe page. Graham 87 07:55, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
By simply removing the link to the featured list nomination, the chances are that none of the FLC admins will close the nomination, and so it will hang around on bot created lists. Best thing to do is just state on the FLC itself that you wish to withdraw the nominations, and one of the admins or delegates will close it appropriately. Harrias talk 07:26, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Sure, regarding your comment/inquiry about statistics advice, you are more than welcome to ask. I can't promise to have an intelligent answer but it can't hurt to ask. There should be a way to email me through Wikipedia, at least that's the way I have it configured. Mathstat ( talk) 21:28, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Lingzhi! Thanks for participating in the World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership. Your contributions are important to improving Wikipedia! I wanted to share a few updates with you:
Keep up the great work, and please contact me if you need anything! Thank you for all you do for free knowledge! EdwardsBot ( talk) 16:42, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Are you specifically looking for a Wikipedian who's well familiar with the topic, or are you looking for academics in general? If the former, I believe that User:Nlu and User:PericlesofAthens are quite active on-wiki around that topic. On the other hand, if you're looking for scholars and authors, I can't really help you out. -- benlisquare T• C• E 10:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Glad to see you're still around. I'll let you know if we get something automatizable. — kwami ( talk) 20:55, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
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I had a lot of fun editing with you, and I'm always happy to meet a friend, whatever his current capacity. I'm doing fine; currently attempting to apply my Wiki skills in a manner that gets me some actual credit (I'll let you know when I'm done). Sorry about your Wikistress. I know exactly what you mean. Still, I keep going, for reasons I cannot fathom. :) Serendi pod ous 21:44, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks very much for the very kind (and completely unexpected) Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia. I am not around much these days, but am glad to hear from you and appreciate your honoring me. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 13:39, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Lingzhi. Although Spinningspark is an old hand at this, I've never been involved with a GA or FA review. When problems with the article are identified, can I fix them immediately, or do you prefer that the article stays constant while you are conducting the review? Thanks. -- Chetvorno TALK 19:56, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
I am becoming increasingly concerned by your demands over the referencing of Negative resistance at the GA review. To recap, you want the references thinned because you think the article may be over-referenced. Over-referencing is not a GA criteria and your statement that "[t]he goal is to work this article up to something near-ish academic standards" is not what GA is all about. While you seem to have succeeded in bullying user Chetvorno into doing this work, this seems to be against his preferences ( "Although I was hoping to keep them...") I am especially concerned by your statement that you "could not personally pass one with this issue" and that "...in the end I put it on Hold with an explicit note that the only qualm I have is one that is not mentioned in the Criteria."
You are mistaken in your belief that you can "step aside as a reviewer" and pass to another reviewer. There is no procedure in the GA process that allows for this to happen (I know, because I once attempted to do this myself). You have the option of requesting a second opinion (and I would strongly recommend you do this) but it will still be your responsibility to either pass or fail the article.
You have generated a significant amount of work beyond the GA criteria in this review. As well as the referencing thinning, you have demanded that you are provided with copies of all offline sources and there has been a good deal of discussion of formatting issues which I would normally only expect at a review beyond GA. You have also raised the issue of dead links. Dead links are not per se a GA issue (although it is always good if they are fixed, and they can be indicative of other problems). They are especially not a GA issue when the cite is to a printed source and the link is merely a convenience link. This is actually the case here, most of the deadlinks are to the historic Bell System Technical Journal which is of some importance in the development of electronics and copies are archived in numerous libraries.
This is the first GA that user Chetvorno has been involved with. I would hate for it to be his last because the review was made more difficult than it needs to be. Spinning Spark 10:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I just want to thank you for taking on the review of this article, something I should have done when the review was opened (but was rather remiss in this case). I do appreciate how difficult it is to take on reviews of highly technical articles. Reviewers willing to do this are hard to find and I wouldn't want to be discouraging. I know we have had a bit of a disagreement here but I am hoping that won't prevent us working collaboratively in the future. Spinning Spark 16:41, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
Hey Lingzhi,
Whenever you are done with your copyedit, can you leave a comments/concerns at the A-Class review for the Battle of Malvern Hill article. Thank you, -- ceradon ( talk • contribs) 07:56, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Sorry I didn't notify you; I thought it was just a mass post. For the record, I do not and never have participated in FAC discussions. I have nominated dozens of articles for FAC, and each time have been completely submarined by requests and demands that I didn't even know were possible. Given that I apparently have no idea what makes an FAC, I prefer not to state my opinion on the matter. Serendi pod ous 08:14, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ling! Thanks for the apology. I think the dispute was about 5 or so years ago. It mainly concerned over the Gabon article FAC and spiraled from there. No hard feelings. I was a little immature then too. I stopped editing for the most part a couple years ago and only got active again this year. I still haven't written another FA since that point but I do want to. How are you doing? ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 03:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Regarding your comment on Iridescent: please look at may latest article, Salve Regina (Pärt), and tell me if the referencing causes you any problems to understand, and where you would anticipate what you call "difficulty editing". (You may have seen in my history that I arrived at using LDR - harv for more complex articles - by observing others and liking it for clarity. Until the discussion, I had not even understood that some find it difficult.) Learning, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:48, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
On 23 April 2015 you made a major edit to List of endangered languages in Europe, changing it from one list to a series of lists, one per country. In doing so you missed of the United Kingdom! TiffaF ( talk) 15:47, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that unfortunately this won't work. In order to keep pings from bothering people when content is archived, for instance, or otherwise moved about, notification only works if it is used in the same edit with four tildes. I'm watching that page and so see your note, but anyone you've pinged who isn't watching it might not know. In any event, I will go read it and hopefully close out the listing. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:56, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
I created that imagemap with the aid of a script tuned for that purpose. See Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts for a list of well-known user scripts. I personally have eight installed. Res Mar 15:35, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Not making this up ... I was wishing just last week that you were still around, and I just noticed that you are! - Dank ( push to talk) 14:59, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
You can use AWB List maker to convert redirects to article pages. Here is how:
— Ganeshk ( talk) 03:30, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
We are preparing to take a closer look at Featured articles promoted in 2004–2010 that may need a review. We started with a script-compiled list of older FAs that have not had a recent formal review. The next step is to prune the list by removing articles that are still actively maintained, up-to-date, and believed to meet current standards. We know that many of you personally maintain articles that you nominated, so we'd appreciate your help in winnowing the list where appropriate.
Please take a look at the sandbox list, check over the FAs listed by your name, and indicate on the sandbox talk page your assessment of their current status. Likewise, if you have taken on the maintenance of any listed FAs that were originally nominated by a departed editor, please indicate their status. BLPs should be given especially careful consideration.
Thanks for your help! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:44, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
That probably falls under templating a regular, but that's what we've got! I wanted to be sure to get you while I can ... have you had, or will you have, a chance to see if your FAs are still up to snuff? Bst, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:44, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi man. Great to see you around again. Ceoil ( talk) 10:30, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Lingzhi,
I've nominated Battle of Malvern Hill for FAC and added you as a co-nom. I thought your contributions and work justified that. If you want me to remove you, that's fine. Cheers, -- ceradon ( talk • contribs) 07:20, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi. You are invited to comment at RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process.
I reverted your AWB of Taxonomy of Liliaceae because it destroyed a table. That page is currently under GA review. AWB can be an extremely dangerous tool, unless very closely supervised. -- Michael Goodyear ( talk) 11:26, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
Tunisian Arabic is nominated for GA Status. Please review this work and adjust it if he involves several deficiencies.
Yours Sincerely,
-- Csisc ( talk) 12:16, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
Was just promoted. This needed a lot of work when I first looked at it, months ago. Between then and now, someone did the work. Yeah, I'm looking at you. - Dank ( push to talk) 12:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
A kitten, because they are the nicest things I know.
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Hello Lingzhi Thank you for your message. I am new to Wikipedia, and probably will not wish to continue the process. I find no easy way to reply to others' comments on my edit. In general, there is no straightforward way to ask/comment and get replies. When one goes on talk page, all I get is a bunch of blah-blah technocratese. I am simpleminded; I need a simple way to post. Similar to comments in newspapers, a click on: post a reply, or start a new thread. I also need more than Twitter space (edit summary) to provide arguments for my editing rationale, at least when it concerns more than one piece of evidence or a refutation. I ran into surprising resistance in trying to edit an article about Hannibal Barca (the 247 BC one), where a Marxist reconstructionist, T.E. Willis (1968) wrote that Hannibal had 'particularly virulent syphilis' (battle of Zama) -- According to newer evidence (Rothschild, B. (2005) The history of syphilis. Clinical Infectious Diseases 40(10): 1454-1463), syphilis did not arrive in the Old World until 1495 AD with the return of Columbus and other explorers from the New World. The disease was very infectious and virulent at that point, as is typical of diseases invading a new territory. Syphilis leaves a skeletal signature, and this signature is only found in the Old World 1700 years after Hannibal died. In contrast, this skeletal signature is found all over the place in the New World for centuries before 1495 CE. While Carthaginians could have reached America, they did not bring back this disease, at least according to skeletal evidence from the Old and New World. Nor did the Vikings. Whereas Hannibal might have had any number of diseases – or not! the syphilis speculation has got to go. So I eliminated this false allegation (has a very high likelihood of being false!) from Wikipedia, and three times now, the Willis allegation/accusation reference .... is returned! With a snooty comment -- the first time that this was a 'personal opinion' of mine. Well, no, I did not write a treatise on syphilis, but I am a scientist – I can read technical papers. Same reviewer then said that one should keep the Willis (1968) reference, and then cite this other reference, which overrules the Willis accusation by modern evidence (2005) -- but that makes the Wikipedia history article a biology exposition on the geographical presence or absence of syphilis, a rather strange subject to suddenly superimpose upon an article about a history of Hannibal's battles and military campaigns. Why Hannibal lost the battle of Zama needs more than some flung-out idea about sexually transmitted diseases. Even allowing for an illness (any type), this illness might/might not be an irrelevant theme. In any case, Wikipedia should endeavor to remove guesses that have a very high probability of being a falsehood, since syphilis is highly unlikely to/did not exist on the European continent before the Renaissance! Even if Hannibal suffered from some sort of Medieval 'pox' (or small pox, chicken pox, typhoid, typhus, diptheria -- the list is LONG), just because he finally loses a battle, should one go into the realm of the unknown? Perhaps Hannibal suffered from moonspots? -- so each time, I can make a false guess, someone else has to counter-reference it. It seems to me that the point of Wikipedia is to publish factual and reasonable expositions, not demonstrable falsehoods once more current information is available. In this case, doubt should be sufficient to remove the allegation, because a) Hannibal did not suffer from further mental deterioration later in life and b) Willis's "scholarship" is calumny, by making rank speculations against a famous historical figure. I can ensure you that the rest of the article does not suffer from the removal of TE Willis's "suggestion"; an article which is otherwise factual and well-researched. Now if someone had dug up Hannibal and shown that he had syphilis by skeletal and DNA evidence, that is another matter....assuming that we also knew this happened BEFORE the battle of Zama Susanne44 ( talk) 11:45, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Saturday, so a tune for Lingzhi [1]. Kafka Liz ( talk) 09:22, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
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[2] - Thought I'd take this off Ceoil's page. Kafka Liz ( talk) 09:43, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Lingzhi, the issue with IOT is this: I ordered books from the library, hoping to finish the article in time to run a TFA on Oct 5th. Then I thought I could run " Big Two-Hearted River" instead, having for some reason forgotten it ran some years ago. So then I scrambled with IOT and sent it to FAC, but was then told it can't have a main page run; in the meantime I sent the sources back to the library. I respect you greatly as a reviewer. If you think it's weak, I'm happy to take an oppose, or to withdraw the nomination, wait until I'm happier about WP, order the sources again, and take another run on another year. There's no pressure here at all, and I think your points are all quite valid. Victoria ( tk) 21:55, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
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This was a good comment, but just in case you don't know: Other than FB and Geocities, Wikipedia has a stepsister site (it's not run by the Wikimedia Foundation, but Jimbo was one of its founders, so not a sister but a stepsister), Wikia, which runs the same mediawiki software as we do and which is perfect for folks who want to put up information which can't go into WP due to original research, insufficient sourcing, or whatever else might not satisfy our standards. (And, in fact, when it was first launched it was named Wikicities.) And, indeed, there are huge, useful collections of such material already there. While I spend nearly all my serious time here, when I relax and put on my fanboy hat I often find myself reading stuff there. As I've said in that thread, if stuff is going to be here it doesn't matter if it's about My Little Pony or about Astrophysics, it needs to conform to our uniform standards on notability, verifiability, and the like, but there are some folks who just don't want to go to that trouble and some topics where those often can't be satisfied. Wikia is a great place for them and I've often recommended it in the same manner as you did FB and Geocities. Regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 14:30, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I'm leaving this same message to everyone who commented at the first FAC nomination for Tank Girl (film). After having gone through improvements including a thorough copyedit courtesy of the guild of copyeditors, the article has been renominated – see here. All comments are welcome. Freikorp ( talk) 09:44, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Um, we have an unusual situation here. As I said on the FAC talk just now, I shared your surprise, but there were a number of supports, and we were down - in my view - to copy editing and phrasing (which I know *with me* can be a nightmare!). I'm not worried so much about this nom, as us falling out, so can we work through a mutual plan - talk page, FAR, Jimmy, ARBCOM, NATO, or whatever. As I implied on the FAC talk, your help and guidance were pennies from heaven, and I would appreciate more help, your time allowing. Best Ceoil ( talk) 16:52, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
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For all your suggestions and insight during the Oviri (Gauguin) FAC. I got a much clearer and better organised article, and the lead is much improved. There is work still to do there, as Tony Blair wouldn't say anymore. Ceoil ( talk) 18:24, 18 October 2015 (UTC) |
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A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your loved ones, and a joyous and prosperous 2016.
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Best wishes for your Christmas Is all you get from me 'Cause I ain't no Santa Claus Don't own no Christmas tree. But if wishes was health and money I'd fill your buck-skin poke Your doctor would go hungry An' you never would be broke." —C.M. Russell, Christmas greeting 1914. Montanabw (talk) |
And to you too, Lingzhi, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And all the rest you said. :-) Glad to see you're still here, too. It is not always easy, and so many of the best are discouraged. You know that story, no need to go into details. -- Alan W ( talk) 01:39, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Ling. I hope all is well with you. Thank you for the kind Holiday wishes. I wish the same for you in the coming New Year. Mojoworker ( talk) 07:09, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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I hope this holiday season is festive and fulfilling and filled with love and kindness, and that 2016 will be successful and rewarding... Modernist ( talk) 11:43, 25 December 2015 (UTC) |
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Thank you for your support and wishes, returned with my review, and the peace bell by Yunshui! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:42, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
... and for excellent reviewing! I am so slow, only now I realized that you created teh image with Impact -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:37, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
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George Ho is completely innocent of the article renaming without consensus first; I am the one who came up with that name.--EggyEggPercent 05:13, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Lingzhi! I'm just writing to ask for a clarification of your update to the
Sterndale Bennett FA discussion. Does your strikethrough mean that you withdraw support or withdraw conditionality? If the former, do please let me know what else might need to be done? Many thanks, --
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Thank you for quality articles such as Funerary art, for welcoming new users, listing endangered languages, for detailed engaged reviewing, for a userpage focused on poetry and an image, for banana and cherry impact, - repeating (14 August 2009): you are an awesome Wikipedian!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:54, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
Do you still have concerns here? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:35, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Precious again, your detailed constructive comments which helped to improve Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 to FA!
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Hi Lingzhi. I would certainly like to take you up on your kind offer here; its a monster page and could really do with assistance. Best, Ceoil ( talk) 16:18, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
And to enjoy such a thing is like coitus, the moment of the infinite.".. meanwhile, it seems some of the quotes from letters are mangled, from different sources.... need work... Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Sure, I replied at her talk page and pinged you as well. Let me know should you need any more specific info on PL<=>EN translations for your project. // Halibu tt 10:39, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your sterling work at this article. I noticed this edit; double-l is correct in British English, so "quarrelling" and "quarrelled". I hope that makes sense. -- John ( talk) 19:04, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
( ←) @ John: Starting with the moment that guy disrupted the article (twice, both times rudely & in violation of crystal-clear WP guidelines), everything has gone way, way, way downhill. It was humming like clockwork for weeks before that. Of course I am deeply disappointed in the disruption and subsequent deterioration. It is why I am no longer editing that page. I apologize if I misunderstood you. Having said that, I blame the the deterioration of that situation, as it contributed mightily to my misunderstanding. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 12:49, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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For fighting the good fight, and for being, at various points: invaluable. Its great to have you on board. Status Quo should have opened Live Aid with a song about you; maybe next time, the cheap bastards. Ceoil ( talk) 11:35, 20 March 2016 (UTC) |
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For your album: Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 March 27, with thanks (you are #3 in the contributors' stats)! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:28, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Lingzhi,
Last month a Resource Request volunteer offered to send you a copy of:
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There has been no further discussion of your request, so we don't know if you have received the article or still need it. If you no longer need it, please mark the request {{ resolved}}. If you still need it, then please follow up with BU Rob13. Sending an email so they can reply with the article as an attachment usually works, although it's best combined with a talk page note in case of spam filters or other delivery problems. Worldbruce ( talk) 16:19, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
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For your patience and helpfulness in assisting me in my first FAC process for the New wave of British heavy metal article, you deserve this award. Lewismaster ( talk) 07:49, 15 May 2016 (UTC) |
Thank you for your helpful comments in the first FAC of Reger's Requiem, and the help to a better translation of the poem. Please look if any concerns are left, I try again, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:08, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
I found enough supporters this round, but still would like to know if I satisfied your concerns, - if you'd find a moment besides the admirable project in your sandbox, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:48, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for your comments and copyediting! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:29, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
When you are ready for another, there's Come, sweet hour of death, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:48, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for approving my request to use HighBeam. I just tried to set up my account, but am getting an error message, saying that the activation code doesn't match any that were issued. Do you think that I might just be trying too soon? Could it have something to do with the fact that I used to have an account, but let it expire some time ago? Or something else? -- Jpcase ( talk) 05:10, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey Lingzhi,
Regarding this, I would love a bit of hep over there. I'll be trying to get back into the wikiflow, and nothing can help with that like working on an article. Cheers, -- cera don 04:57, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Pong Ceoil ( talk) 12:22, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Lingzhi. You skipped over my request for Questia access of 13 January 2016 without comment. Is there anything else I need to do to apply? Eperoton ( talk) 00:30, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
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Just popping in to say hello. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:34, 14 June 2016 (UTC) |
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Hi Lingzhi. Thanks for the honest response. I will seek out an admin mentor in the next few days as you suggested. I'm sorry for being so trigger happy, looking over my comment once again, I do see what you mean, it was a little uncalled for. All the best, Omni Flames ( talk) 10:16, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
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...when you have jet-lag! But, I need help when you get a chance to surface, and no pressure because I'm about to get busy for a few days and won't be back until the weekend.
The issue I have is this: I have an exhibition catalogue with multiple editors, various front matter, forward, very extensive biographical information and so on, all without attribution to a specific author/editor. After that is a chapter with attribution. The editors are van Uitert and van Tilborgh. The chapter is written by van Tilborgh and van Uitert (in other words, the names are reversed). I set it up as the chapter only because that's all I was using, then someone changed it, then I started using the front matter and then tried to change and couldn't and now it's a mess. I tried setting it up and got mysterious red errors, visible in this version so I undid it all.
So - deep breath. The chapter is this:
The book cite I tried to set up looked like this (but it didn't work):
I need an sfn thingie for the front matter, book only, without the chapter title, before I can continue to add material. Once we have that, I have to swap some out the ones that are wrong.
Sorry that this is so long. There is absolutely no rush. Told you we'd make you work - but if you're too busy, don't worry. I'll probably be able to figure it out. Victoria ( tk) 00:26, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
Ok, ill fix it, on my screen its good. Iazyges ( talk) 02:55, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
Ethically Yours! 17:04, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
There appears to be FULL CONSENSUS among all 5 participating editors (@ Jonesey95:, @ RexxS:, @ Prairieplant:, @ Clpo13:, and myself) that Jonesey95 should continue with the reformatting of the citations throughout the article as was started yesterday with multiple supporting editors opposed by one hold-out editor named User:Lingzhi. The format being used by Jonesey95 is identical to one which is used in dozens and dozens of peer reviewed articles at Wikipedia for years now and has in no way detracted from those peer review articles in their current FA and GA status even though User:Lingzhi is opposed to this well established standard. Further, User:RexxS has made a generous offer to switch the article to an alternate cite style is trying to bring the one hold-out editor towards consensus, and was immediately turned down by User:Lingzhi. User:Lingzhi apparently is opposed to the general Wikipedia policy as written in WP:CITEVAR and is using this article's assessment as a forum for pressing his old preference for MLA formatting which is only one option at Wikipedia (WP:Forumshop). It is suggested that User:Lingzhi recognize that there is a full consensus for supporting Jonesey95 on the reformatting which was started yesterday and that when there is full consensus then it is up to User:Lingzhi to start to move closer to the consensus of five editors rather than remain a single hold-out. User:Lingzhi may move his discussion to the Village Pump policy discussion board if needed, and his Talk page is notified as to WP:Forumshop which any editor can report. User:Jonesey95 is free to continue the reformatting of the Jane Austen article given the FULL CONSENSUS of the five participating editors, with Lingzhi the sole hold-out. Fountains-of-Paris ( talk) 15:08, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
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Assuming you are who I think you are (which if you are, we never really interacted, but no matter), welcome back! It's been too long. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 11:35, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
I ask you to help. Install license and more. That the file is not make "deleted" File:Bonus-Sweden.png. No doubt you are the author of this file. But in my project (Sweden) - it is necessary to give a clear picture of the Swedish national symbol (flag) in top. And also, I am a Christian - I want to see a Christian symbol where it is. I would be grateful to you if you make a file - no stars, but with the cross in bottom as in en:Orders, decorations, and medals of Sweden. With respect to you -- Krupski Oleg ( talk) 11:23, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I did, but the story is a little more complicated than that. Wittylama originally created the article at User:Wittylama/Sandbox, and then moved it to the current "Norman Selfe" title. Unfortunately, the sandbox contained lots of page history that was irrelevant to Selfe's article, so I decided to move the unrelated sandbox history back to Wittylama's userspace. Because of the method I used to do this (which in hindsight wasn't the most efficient one), I had to move the page to "Norman Selfe/Temp" for a few minutes while I tried to sort the history out. See all the logs for the Norman Selfe page. Graham 87 07:55, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
By simply removing the link to the featured list nomination, the chances are that none of the FLC admins will close the nomination, and so it will hang around on bot created lists. Best thing to do is just state on the FLC itself that you wish to withdraw the nominations, and one of the admins or delegates will close it appropriately. Harrias talk 07:26, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Sure, regarding your comment/inquiry about statistics advice, you are more than welcome to ask. I can't promise to have an intelligent answer but it can't hurt to ask. There should be a way to email me through Wikipedia, at least that's the way I have it configured. Mathstat ( talk) 21:28, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Lingzhi! Thanks for participating in the World Digital Library-Wikimedia Partnership. Your contributions are important to improving Wikipedia! I wanted to share a few updates with you:
Keep up the great work, and please contact me if you need anything! Thank you for all you do for free knowledge! EdwardsBot ( talk) 16:42, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
Are you specifically looking for a Wikipedian who's well familiar with the topic, or are you looking for academics in general? If the former, I believe that User:Nlu and User:PericlesofAthens are quite active on-wiki around that topic. On the other hand, if you're looking for scholars and authors, I can't really help you out. -- benlisquare T• C• E 10:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Glad to see you're still around. I'll let you know if we get something automatizable. — kwami ( talk) 20:55, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
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I had a lot of fun editing with you, and I'm always happy to meet a friend, whatever his current capacity. I'm doing fine; currently attempting to apply my Wiki skills in a manner that gets me some actual credit (I'll let you know when I'm done). Sorry about your Wikistress. I know exactly what you mean. Still, I keep going, for reasons I cannot fathom. :) Serendi pod ous 21:44, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks very much for the very kind (and completely unexpected) Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia. I am not around much these days, but am glad to hear from you and appreciate your honoring me. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 13:39, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Lingzhi. Although Spinningspark is an old hand at this, I've never been involved with a GA or FA review. When problems with the article are identified, can I fix them immediately, or do you prefer that the article stays constant while you are conducting the review? Thanks. -- Chetvorno TALK 19:56, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
I am becoming increasingly concerned by your demands over the referencing of Negative resistance at the GA review. To recap, you want the references thinned because you think the article may be over-referenced. Over-referencing is not a GA criteria and your statement that "[t]he goal is to work this article up to something near-ish academic standards" is not what GA is all about. While you seem to have succeeded in bullying user Chetvorno into doing this work, this seems to be against his preferences ( "Although I was hoping to keep them...") I am especially concerned by your statement that you "could not personally pass one with this issue" and that "...in the end I put it on Hold with an explicit note that the only qualm I have is one that is not mentioned in the Criteria."
You are mistaken in your belief that you can "step aside as a reviewer" and pass to another reviewer. There is no procedure in the GA process that allows for this to happen (I know, because I once attempted to do this myself). You have the option of requesting a second opinion (and I would strongly recommend you do this) but it will still be your responsibility to either pass or fail the article.
You have generated a significant amount of work beyond the GA criteria in this review. As well as the referencing thinning, you have demanded that you are provided with copies of all offline sources and there has been a good deal of discussion of formatting issues which I would normally only expect at a review beyond GA. You have also raised the issue of dead links. Dead links are not per se a GA issue (although it is always good if they are fixed, and they can be indicative of other problems). They are especially not a GA issue when the cite is to a printed source and the link is merely a convenience link. This is actually the case here, most of the deadlinks are to the historic Bell System Technical Journal which is of some importance in the development of electronics and copies are archived in numerous libraries.
This is the first GA that user Chetvorno has been involved with. I would hate for it to be his last because the review was made more difficult than it needs to be. Spinning Spark 10:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I just want to thank you for taking on the review of this article, something I should have done when the review was opened (but was rather remiss in this case). I do appreciate how difficult it is to take on reviews of highly technical articles. Reviewers willing to do this are hard to find and I wouldn't want to be discouraging. I know we have had a bit of a disagreement here but I am hoping that won't prevent us working collaboratively in the future. Spinning Spark 16:41, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
Hey Lingzhi,
Whenever you are done with your copyedit, can you leave a comments/concerns at the A-Class review for the Battle of Malvern Hill article. Thank you, -- ceradon ( talk • contribs) 07:56, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
Sorry I didn't notify you; I thought it was just a mass post. For the record, I do not and never have participated in FAC discussions. I have nominated dozens of articles for FAC, and each time have been completely submarined by requests and demands that I didn't even know were possible. Given that I apparently have no idea what makes an FAC, I prefer not to state my opinion on the matter. Serendi pod ous 08:14, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Ling! Thanks for the apology. I think the dispute was about 5 or so years ago. It mainly concerned over the Gabon article FAC and spiraled from there. No hard feelings. I was a little immature then too. I stopped editing for the most part a couple years ago and only got active again this year. I still haven't written another FA since that point but I do want to. How are you doing? ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 03:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
Regarding your comment on Iridescent: please look at may latest article, Salve Regina (Pärt), and tell me if the referencing causes you any problems to understand, and where you would anticipate what you call "difficulty editing". (You may have seen in my history that I arrived at using LDR - harv for more complex articles - by observing others and liking it for clarity. Until the discussion, I had not even understood that some find it difficult.) Learning, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:48, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
On 23 April 2015 you made a major edit to List of endangered languages in Europe, changing it from one list to a series of lists, one per country. In doing so you missed of the United Kingdom! TiffaF ( talk) 15:47, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I just wanted to let you know that unfortunately this won't work. In order to keep pings from bothering people when content is archived, for instance, or otherwise moved about, notification only works if it is used in the same edit with four tildes. I'm watching that page and so see your note, but anyone you've pinged who isn't watching it might not know. In any event, I will go read it and hopefully close out the listing. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:56, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
I created that imagemap with the aid of a script tuned for that purpose. See Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts for a list of well-known user scripts. I personally have eight installed. Res Mar 15:35, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
Not making this up ... I was wishing just last week that you were still around, and I just noticed that you are! - Dank ( push to talk) 14:59, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
You can use AWB List maker to convert redirects to article pages. Here is how:
— Ganeshk ( talk) 03:30, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
We are preparing to take a closer look at Featured articles promoted in 2004–2010 that may need a review. We started with a script-compiled list of older FAs that have not had a recent formal review. The next step is to prune the list by removing articles that are still actively maintained, up-to-date, and believed to meet current standards. We know that many of you personally maintain articles that you nominated, so we'd appreciate your help in winnowing the list where appropriate.
Please take a look at the sandbox list, check over the FAs listed by your name, and indicate on the sandbox talk page your assessment of their current status. Likewise, if you have taken on the maintenance of any listed FAs that were originally nominated by a departed editor, please indicate their status. BLPs should be given especially careful consideration.
Thanks for your help! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:44, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
That probably falls under templating a regular, but that's what we've got! I wanted to be sure to get you while I can ... have you had, or will you have, a chance to see if your FAs are still up to snuff? Bst, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:44, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi man. Great to see you around again. Ceoil ( talk) 10:30, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello Lingzhi,
I've nominated Battle of Malvern Hill for FAC and added you as a co-nom. I thought your contributions and work justified that. If you want me to remove you, that's fine. Cheers, -- ceradon ( talk • contribs) 07:20, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi. You are invited to comment at RfC for BARC - a community desysoping process.
I reverted your AWB of Taxonomy of Liliaceae because it destroyed a table. That page is currently under GA review. AWB can be an extremely dangerous tool, unless very closely supervised. -- Michael Goodyear ( talk) 11:26, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
Dear User,
Tunisian Arabic is nominated for GA Status. Please review this work and adjust it if he involves several deficiencies.
Yours Sincerely,
-- Csisc ( talk) 12:16, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
Was just promoted. This needed a lot of work when I first looked at it, months ago. Between then and now, someone did the work. Yeah, I'm looking at you. - Dank ( push to talk) 12:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
A kitten, because they are the nicest things I know.
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Hello Lingzhi Thank you for your message. I am new to Wikipedia, and probably will not wish to continue the process. I find no easy way to reply to others' comments on my edit. In general, there is no straightforward way to ask/comment and get replies. When one goes on talk page, all I get is a bunch of blah-blah technocratese. I am simpleminded; I need a simple way to post. Similar to comments in newspapers, a click on: post a reply, or start a new thread. I also need more than Twitter space (edit summary) to provide arguments for my editing rationale, at least when it concerns more than one piece of evidence or a refutation. I ran into surprising resistance in trying to edit an article about Hannibal Barca (the 247 BC one), where a Marxist reconstructionist, T.E. Willis (1968) wrote that Hannibal had 'particularly virulent syphilis' (battle of Zama) -- According to newer evidence (Rothschild, B. (2005) The history of syphilis. Clinical Infectious Diseases 40(10): 1454-1463), syphilis did not arrive in the Old World until 1495 AD with the return of Columbus and other explorers from the New World. The disease was very infectious and virulent at that point, as is typical of diseases invading a new territory. Syphilis leaves a skeletal signature, and this signature is only found in the Old World 1700 years after Hannibal died. In contrast, this skeletal signature is found all over the place in the New World for centuries before 1495 CE. While Carthaginians could have reached America, they did not bring back this disease, at least according to skeletal evidence from the Old and New World. Nor did the Vikings. Whereas Hannibal might have had any number of diseases – or not! the syphilis speculation has got to go. So I eliminated this false allegation (has a very high likelihood of being false!) from Wikipedia, and three times now, the Willis allegation/accusation reference .... is returned! With a snooty comment -- the first time that this was a 'personal opinion' of mine. Well, no, I did not write a treatise on syphilis, but I am a scientist – I can read technical papers. Same reviewer then said that one should keep the Willis (1968) reference, and then cite this other reference, which overrules the Willis accusation by modern evidence (2005) -- but that makes the Wikipedia history article a biology exposition on the geographical presence or absence of syphilis, a rather strange subject to suddenly superimpose upon an article about a history of Hannibal's battles and military campaigns. Why Hannibal lost the battle of Zama needs more than some flung-out idea about sexually transmitted diseases. Even allowing for an illness (any type), this illness might/might not be an irrelevant theme. In any case, Wikipedia should endeavor to remove guesses that have a very high probability of being a falsehood, since syphilis is highly unlikely to/did not exist on the European continent before the Renaissance! Even if Hannibal suffered from some sort of Medieval 'pox' (or small pox, chicken pox, typhoid, typhus, diptheria -- the list is LONG), just because he finally loses a battle, should one go into the realm of the unknown? Perhaps Hannibal suffered from moonspots? -- so each time, I can make a false guess, someone else has to counter-reference it. It seems to me that the point of Wikipedia is to publish factual and reasonable expositions, not demonstrable falsehoods once more current information is available. In this case, doubt should be sufficient to remove the allegation, because a) Hannibal did not suffer from further mental deterioration later in life and b) Willis's "scholarship" is calumny, by making rank speculations against a famous historical figure. I can ensure you that the rest of the article does not suffer from the removal of TE Willis's "suggestion"; an article which is otherwise factual and well-researched. Now if someone had dug up Hannibal and shown that he had syphilis by skeletal and DNA evidence, that is another matter....assuming that we also knew this happened BEFORE the battle of Zama Susanne44 ( talk) 11:45, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
Saturday, so a tune for Lingzhi [1]. Kafka Liz ( talk) 09:22, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
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[2] - Thought I'd take this off Ceoil's page. Kafka Liz ( talk) 09:43, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi Lingzhi, the issue with IOT is this: I ordered books from the library, hoping to finish the article in time to run a TFA on Oct 5th. Then I thought I could run " Big Two-Hearted River" instead, having for some reason forgotten it ran some years ago. So then I scrambled with IOT and sent it to FAC, but was then told it can't have a main page run; in the meantime I sent the sources back to the library. I respect you greatly as a reviewer. If you think it's weak, I'm happy to take an oppose, or to withdraw the nomination, wait until I'm happier about WP, order the sources again, and take another run on another year. There's no pressure here at all, and I think your points are all quite valid. Victoria ( tk) 21:55, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
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This was a good comment, but just in case you don't know: Other than FB and Geocities, Wikipedia has a stepsister site (it's not run by the Wikimedia Foundation, but Jimbo was one of its founders, so not a sister but a stepsister), Wikia, which runs the same mediawiki software as we do and which is perfect for folks who want to put up information which can't go into WP due to original research, insufficient sourcing, or whatever else might not satisfy our standards. (And, in fact, when it was first launched it was named Wikicities.) And, indeed, there are huge, useful collections of such material already there. While I spend nearly all my serious time here, when I relax and put on my fanboy hat I often find myself reading stuff there. As I've said in that thread, if stuff is going to be here it doesn't matter if it's about My Little Pony or about Astrophysics, it needs to conform to our uniform standards on notability, verifiability, and the like, but there are some folks who just don't want to go to that trouble and some topics where those often can't be satisfied. Wikia is a great place for them and I've often recommended it in the same manner as you did FB and Geocities. Regards, TransporterMan ( TALK) 14:30, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I'm leaving this same message to everyone who commented at the first FAC nomination for Tank Girl (film). After having gone through improvements including a thorough copyedit courtesy of the guild of copyeditors, the article has been renominated – see here. All comments are welcome. Freikorp ( talk) 09:44, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Um, we have an unusual situation here. As I said on the FAC talk just now, I shared your surprise, but there were a number of supports, and we were down - in my view - to copy editing and phrasing (which I know *with me* can be a nightmare!). I'm not worried so much about this nom, as us falling out, so can we work through a mutual plan - talk page, FAR, Jimmy, ARBCOM, NATO, or whatever. As I implied on the FAC talk, your help and guidance were pennies from heaven, and I would appreciate more help, your time allowing. Best Ceoil ( talk) 16:52, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
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For all your suggestions and insight during the Oviri (Gauguin) FAC. I got a much clearer and better organised article, and the lead is much improved. There is work still to do there, as Tony Blair wouldn't say anymore. Ceoil ( talk) 18:24, 18 October 2015 (UTC) |
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A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your loved ones, and a joyous and prosperous 2016.
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Best wishes for your Christmas Is all you get from me 'Cause I ain't no Santa Claus Don't own no Christmas tree. But if wishes was health and money I'd fill your buck-skin poke Your doctor would go hungry An' you never would be broke." —C.M. Russell, Christmas greeting 1914. Montanabw (talk) |
And to you too, Lingzhi, a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And all the rest you said. :-) Glad to see you're still here, too. It is not always easy, and so many of the best are discouraged. You know that story, no need to go into details. -- Alan W ( talk) 01:39, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello Ling. I hope all is well with you. Thank you for the kind Holiday wishes. I wish the same for you in the coming New Year. Mojoworker ( talk) 07:09, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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I hope this holiday season is festive and fulfilling and filled with love and kindness, and that 2016 will be successful and rewarding... Modernist ( talk) 11:43, 25 December 2015 (UTC) |
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Thank you for your support and wishes, returned with my review, and the peace bell by Yunshui! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:42, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
... and for excellent reviewing! I am so slow, only now I realized that you created teh image with Impact -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:37, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
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George Ho is completely innocent of the article renaming without consensus first; I am the one who came up with that name.--EggyEggPercent 05:13, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi Lingzhi! I'm just writing to ask for a clarification of your update to the
Sterndale Bennett FA discussion. Does your strikethrough mean that you withdraw support or withdraw conditionality? If the former, do please let me know what else might need to be done? Many thanks, --
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Thank you for quality articles such as Funerary art, for welcoming new users, listing endangered languages, for detailed engaged reviewing, for a userpage focused on poetry and an image, for banana and cherry impact, - repeating (14 August 2009): you are an awesome Wikipedian!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:54, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
Do you still have concerns here? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 20:35, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
Precious again, your detailed constructive comments which helped to improve Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4 to FA!
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Hi Lingzhi. I would certainly like to take you up on your kind offer here; its a monster page and could really do with assistance. Best, Ceoil ( talk) 16:18, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
And to enjoy such a thing is like coitus, the moment of the infinite.".. meanwhile, it seems some of the quotes from letters are mangled, from different sources.... need work... Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
Sure, I replied at her talk page and pinged you as well. Let me know should you need any more specific info on PL<=>EN translations for your project. // Halibu tt 10:39, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your sterling work at this article. I noticed this edit; double-l is correct in British English, so "quarrelling" and "quarrelled". I hope that makes sense. -- John ( talk) 19:04, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
( ←) @ John: Starting with the moment that guy disrupted the article (twice, both times rudely & in violation of crystal-clear WP guidelines), everything has gone way, way, way downhill. It was humming like clockwork for weeks before that. Of course I am deeply disappointed in the disruption and subsequent deterioration. It is why I am no longer editing that page. I apologize if I misunderstood you. Having said that, I blame the the deterioration of that situation, as it contributed mightily to my misunderstanding. Lingzhi ♦ (talk) 12:49, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
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For fighting the good fight, and for being, at various points: invaluable. Its great to have you on board. Status Quo should have opened Live Aid with a song about you; maybe next time, the cheap bastards. Ceoil ( talk) 11:35, 20 March 2016 (UTC) |
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For your album: Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 March 27, with thanks (you are #3 in the contributors' stats)! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 15:28, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Lingzhi,
Last month a Resource Request volunteer offered to send you a copy of:
to complete your request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request#Sociodemographic differentials in mortality during the 1974–75 famine in a rural area of Bangladesh.
There has been no further discussion of your request, so we don't know if you have received the article or still need it. If you no longer need it, please mark the request {{ resolved}}. If you still need it, then please follow up with BU Rob13. Sending an email so they can reply with the article as an attachment usually works, although it's best combined with a talk page note in case of spam filters or other delivery problems. Worldbruce ( talk) 16:19, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
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For your patience and helpfulness in assisting me in my first FAC process for the New wave of British heavy metal article, you deserve this award. Lewismaster ( talk) 07:49, 15 May 2016 (UTC) |
Thank you for your helpful comments in the first FAC of Reger's Requiem, and the help to a better translation of the poem. Please look if any concerns are left, I try again, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:08, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
I found enough supporters this round, but still would like to know if I satisfied your concerns, - if you'd find a moment besides the admirable project in your sandbox, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:48, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for your comments and copyediting! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 12:29, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
When you are ready for another, there's Come, sweet hour of death, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:48, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for approving my request to use HighBeam. I just tried to set up my account, but am getting an error message, saying that the activation code doesn't match any that were issued. Do you think that I might just be trying too soon? Could it have something to do with the fact that I used to have an account, but let it expire some time ago? Or something else? -- Jpcase ( talk) 05:10, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
Hey Lingzhi,
Regarding this, I would love a bit of hep over there. I'll be trying to get back into the wikiflow, and nothing can help with that like working on an article. Cheers, -- cera don 04:57, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
Pong Ceoil ( talk) 12:22, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Lingzhi. You skipped over my request for Questia access of 13 January 2016 without comment. Is there anything else I need to do to apply? Eperoton ( talk) 00:30, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
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Just popping in to say hello. :-) Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:34, 14 June 2016 (UTC) |
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Hi Lingzhi. Thanks for the honest response. I will seek out an admin mentor in the next few days as you suggested. I'm sorry for being so trigger happy, looking over my comment once again, I do see what you mean, it was a little uncalled for. All the best, Omni Flames ( talk) 10:16, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Please do not
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...when you have jet-lag! But, I need help when you get a chance to surface, and no pressure because I'm about to get busy for a few days and won't be back until the weekend.
The issue I have is this: I have an exhibition catalogue with multiple editors, various front matter, forward, very extensive biographical information and so on, all without attribution to a specific author/editor. After that is a chapter with attribution. The editors are van Uitert and van Tilborgh. The chapter is written by van Tilborgh and van Uitert (in other words, the names are reversed). I set it up as the chapter only because that's all I was using, then someone changed it, then I started using the front matter and then tried to change and couldn't and now it's a mess. I tried setting it up and got mysterious red errors, visible in this version so I undid it all.
So - deep breath. The chapter is this:
The book cite I tried to set up looked like this (but it didn't work):
I need an sfn thingie for the front matter, book only, without the chapter title, before I can continue to add material. Once we have that, I have to swap some out the ones that are wrong.
Sorry that this is so long. There is absolutely no rush. Told you we'd make you work - but if you're too busy, don't worry. I'll probably be able to figure it out. Victoria ( tk) 00:26, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
Ok, ill fix it, on my screen its good. Iazyges ( talk) 02:55, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
Ethically Yours! 17:04, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
There appears to be FULL CONSENSUS among all 5 participating editors (@ Jonesey95:, @ RexxS:, @ Prairieplant:, @ Clpo13:, and myself) that Jonesey95 should continue with the reformatting of the citations throughout the article as was started yesterday with multiple supporting editors opposed by one hold-out editor named User:Lingzhi. The format being used by Jonesey95 is identical to one which is used in dozens and dozens of peer reviewed articles at Wikipedia for years now and has in no way detracted from those peer review articles in their current FA and GA status even though User:Lingzhi is opposed to this well established standard. Further, User:RexxS has made a generous offer to switch the article to an alternate cite style is trying to bring the one hold-out editor towards consensus, and was immediately turned down by User:Lingzhi. User:Lingzhi apparently is opposed to the general Wikipedia policy as written in WP:CITEVAR and is using this article's assessment as a forum for pressing his old preference for MLA formatting which is only one option at Wikipedia (WP:Forumshop). It is suggested that User:Lingzhi recognize that there is a full consensus for supporting Jonesey95 on the reformatting which was started yesterday and that when there is full consensus then it is up to User:Lingzhi to start to move closer to the consensus of five editors rather than remain a single hold-out. User:Lingzhi may move his discussion to the Village Pump policy discussion board if needed, and his Talk page is notified as to WP:Forumshop which any editor can report. User:Jonesey95 is free to continue the reformatting of the Jane Austen article given the FULL CONSENSUS of the five participating editors, with Lingzhi the sole hold-out. Fountains-of-Paris ( talk) 15:08, 17 August 2016 (UTC)