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Thank you for your review of my featured article candidacy here. I believe have fixed your concerns, can you please revisit it to make sure that I have properly addressed everything? Thank you! -- haha169 ( talk) 00:29, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your source review! I have fixed all of the problems you've found, except for the thing about the dead links being listed on the tool. I don't know how to get that to disappear, because all of the links have been properly sourced with archive links. Thanks! -- haha169 ( talk) 18:47, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
HI, I'm trying to understand what to do about your comment here. Can you please be more specific on exactly what captions have issues, and what the issues may be? Maury Markowitz ( talk) 01:06, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
Please explain the change you made to the lead on Locus iste (Bruckner). Perhaps we have a language problem. Dedication of a church building is a one-time thing. Kirchweih is the annual celebration of it, typically on the patron saint's day. Locus iste is the regular gradual text for such events. Bruckner did NOT compose for Kirchweih, but for a specific dedication. Please repair. I have no more time, now and for the weekend. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:02, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikki, Glad to see you're running for MILHIST Coordinator; you'll be a good addition to the team. As you're also a member of WMNWRITE, I wanted to draw your attention to a new cat I just created Category:Women military writers, which Ser will populate via AWB. It'll be a small but interesting cat, something we should strive to expand. I wanted to mention it to you as I thought you might find it interesting, too. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 17:26, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
Dear Nikki,
I am a Bruckner-fan since I was 15 (more than 50 years ago) beginning with the symphonies by Bruno Walter and later by Eugen Jochum. I know his vocal works since the 1970's when I acquired Jochum's LPs of Bruckner's Masses, 10 motets and Psalm 150.
In the meantime I have acquired at least one commercial or private recording of all Bruckner's works in their different versions (for some of them more than 10 recordings). I have so at least one commercial or private recording of all the vocal works, except the three early Name-day cantatas and about 10 secular choir works, for which there is no recording available as yet.
For the vocal and non-orchestral works I am in close contact with Hans Roelofs, i.e., at least once a week by e-mail or by phone. We are also exchanging private recordings, as the non-commercial recordings of Psalm 146 by Wallberg and Botstein, the recording of the Festive Cantata by Guschlbauer at the 1980 Brucknerfest, that of the 1st version (1866) of Mass No. 2 by Rademann, a private digitalisation of the String Quintet by the Vienna Philharmonia Quintet with the Intermezzo (which was not transferred to CD Decca 430 296-2), digitalisation of early LPs or not edited performances of the Requiem, and a compilation of 17 recordings of the Ave Maria No. 3 (WAB 7).
As a faithful Wikipedian with about 36,000 contributions on the sites of the Wikimedia foundation, I think that I am not a beginner. I have already received several barn-stars. I think you may trust me when I put something on Wikipedia and, in particular, about Bruckner's works.
Best regards from Belgium, -- Réginald alias Meneerke bloem ( To reply) 17:49, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello Nikki, I nominated John Mayer for FAR here back in August. Given how there has been no objection to delisting and no effort to try and resolve the concerns, is it perhaps time to delist or does it need more than one person who agrees that it doesn't meet FA criteria? Snuggums ( talk / edits) 03:48, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, Piotrus has posted that he dealt with the CWW issues in his nomination, but my concern is that if the article is built on text copied from these other articles, more than 20% will be taken from these sources, and since it is not original, it won't meet the 5x expansion rule requiring at least 80% newly written material. Can I ask you to please check this for the review? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 15:29, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
If some of the text were copied from another Wikipedia article, then it must be expanded fivefold as if the copied text had been a separate article.To me, that says that even if you have the minimum 1500, because you copied from other articles, you end up being caught by the 5x rule (you're expanding on that pre-existing material) for what you copied. In this case, the lion's share of the GDI and GEM sections are exact copies (837 and 1423 characters respectively are copied), and the SIGI section copies four segments (two 16 word and two 6 word) for another 276. In this case, 2536 of 6821 are copied from pre-existing articles, which I think precludes its consideration even without the other issues. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:59, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Sorry to be a pain but just hoping you can follow up my last comment regarding the image at the Murder of Leigh Leigh FAC. I only ask as another user's support is pending approval of the images, which I simply assumed I had as there were no objections after my last change, and the nomination is fast approaching the end of its life cycle. If you can clarify if you support the image or not that would be appreciated. Also see my request regarding a full review, but no worries if you don't have time for that. Thanks. Freikorp ( talk) 13:37, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, I am hoping that you are willing to check this article for close paraphrasing. As you can see from the nomination, I was ready to close it on the spot after I found that it contained significant close paraphrasing. However, I offered Philafrenzy, despite excuses, at least a full week to clear the article of it, but said I would then ask you to check the article: if you discovered any significant instances remaining, I'd close it immediately.
Philafrenzy has made a large number of edits to the article, and is calling for a new reviewer. I'm just looking for a close paraphrasing review; I don't think you need to do any more unless you want. If Philafrenzy has indeed eliminated all such paraphrasing, so much the better—with any luck, it will become a habit. Thank you very much for all you do here at Wikipedia. BlueMoonset ( talk) 03:19, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, while I usually ask you to take a look at articles during the DYK nomination process, I've already marked this one for closure due to issues previously raised. The problem here is that while the nomination was characterized as having close paraphrasing, when I checked one of the three sources said to be problematic, FN2, Duplication detector returned quite a bit for close paraphrasing. Even though I've just tagged the article for close paraphrasing, I wanted to be sure it didn't cross the border into actual copyvio. I hope you have time to check it over. Many thanks, regardless. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:45, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
The article talk page is not the right place to tell you (again) that you seem to have little understanding for what an infobox adds to an article (not for you but for others). Perhaps talk to those who recently added infoboxes to Carmen and Il trovatore. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 19:49, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
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Having seen two of Britain's three vagrant Masked Shrikes inspired me to start working up that article to FA. I've immediately run into a problem referencing a film, something I've not done before. I found a template, but it doesn't appear to include a timing parameter. I'd be grateful for any help (it's the last ref in the article. Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:12, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this isn't an immediate request, but I did pull this nomination from prep today due to close paraphrasing. Once the fixes have been made, assuming they are, would you be willing to give it a more comprehensive examination? Under the circumstances, I'd like to have someone who's experienced checking it over. (I did mention there that I'd be asking you.) I'm happy to ping you again when it's ready for you. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 20:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, after a few weeks, someone new did an extensive revision of the article. (I hesitate to say "copyedit" because some of the new phrasing is far from ideal.) Can you please take a look at it, at least from a close paraphrasing perspective, to see whether it now passes muster? (If you want to comment further, please go ahead.) BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:31, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, this is a nomination by Mztourist, who you filed a CCI on last week. I mentioned this one as having found a problematic sentence in the Blaisdall discussion above. The sentence has been edited, but before I continue the review, I'd like to know that the article doesn't have any remaining close paraphrasing or copyvio issues. I'm hoping you'd be willing to check it. I didn't see anything obvious, but I've missed things before that were blindingly obvious once you'd pointed them out. Thank you. BlueMoonset ( talk) 05:02, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for the source review on Bonshō's FA discussion - the article has finally made it to FA status, and I'm very grateful for your help in getting it there. Yunshui 雲 水 09:20, 13 October 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks! -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 20:05, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I have reached an impasse with the DYK nominator at Template:Did you know nominations/Calitoxin. I am asking for your assistance regarding the suitability of the proposed hook. Thank you. Δρ.Κ. λόγος πράξις 21:21, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, I would like to take this article to FAC in the near future and would really appreciate it if you can give me some pointers or comments that would need to be addressed before taking it to FAC? Best, .jona talk 23:19, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this isn't a usual request from me, because the issue on this one seems to be the proportion of quoted material to actual text: there's more of the former than the latter. After it was pointed out by the original reviewer, and blockquotes inserted by me, there was some minor paraphrasing done to split up one of the blockquotes and get the DYKcheck length back above 1500. Can you please take a look and point out the general principles involved and what needs to be done to the article? It's been sitting for nearly four weeks—the original reviewer hasn't been back—and I'd like to get this wrapped up soon as it's now over two months old. Thanks for any help you can give. BlueMoonset ( talk) 14:37, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
... to make up for Ike Altgens?
If so: either User:Spshu misunderstands the application of notability guidelines, or I do. Please have a look at Indie Rights, its talk page and Spshu's talk page and weigh in.
Thanks in advance :) — ATinySliver/ ATalkPage 23:58, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria I'm having some problems with pictures. File:Votivbild_Schlacht_bei_Meßkirch_mit_Rahmen.jpg, File:Jean-Victor Moreau.jpg and File:Pal Kray.jpg being improperly tagged. I've used them in several articles, but need some advice on how to tag them.....? auntieruth (talk) 19:22, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikki, there are a few source review and spotcheck requests at WT:FAC but I'd particularly like your opinion on Xx (album). It's generating a lot of discussion that might be settled one way or t'other (for me at least) by someone as experienced as yourself checking bits 'n' pieces of the article. Tks/cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 01:33, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Hey! Thanks for the edit to " Lovecraft in Brooklyn". I'll remember next time not to link to the Mountain Goats Wiki under the external links section.-- DrWho42 ( talk) 10:57, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, it looks like the article's adopter has worked to straighten out the reference issues, which prevented you from checking close paraphrasing after I pinged you on this one back on October 9. Can you please take another look now? (I explained what was up in my post then.) Thank you very much. BlueMoonset ( talk) 15:41, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, i have received a preliminary Credo-approval mid-July and sent back the "short form" in mid-August (i was on Wiki-break and didn't see the message earlier). Has the program been completely stopped or are the "old" open requests still handled? If old accounts are still available, could you check the status of my access request please? I am assuming, i would get a mail with the access info, but this is my first time with Credo - so not sure with the proceedings. Thank you for your help. GermanJoe ( talk) 00:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi. I addressed your comments regarding Temperatures Rising. Care to take another look? Jimknut ( talk) 00:31, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, any time you want to turn this future DYK into readable English... :) Drmies ( talk) 05:08, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria. I have updated my Talk page on Florence Mildred White today. During my researching for secondary sources I have noted quite a few concerning female policewomen generally in the UK 1918-1925 which I would be pleased to pass on if you are interested. TimothyWF ( talk) 20:18, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Whilst looking at the copies of the Police Chronicle between 1917 and 1937 I have noted the following articles about women police:
How this came about and my comments for finding future secondary sources are noted in the Talk page: Florence Mildred White. The following are of interest but do not specifically mention White.
The following are my notes:
The Police Chronicle. A weekly magazine from the late 1800's to about 1947 on police happenings.
1918 Book. P.C. 4 Jan 1918. PC Edith Smith obliged to retire due to ill health. First woman to 'receive' a Warrant Card.(Taking up nursing again.) [List of record of her work]
8 March 1918. The OTHER Edith Smith on tour for National Union of Women workers. Women on patrol in Scotland.
11 Jan 1918. P.C. 10 towns have Women Police Constables. WPS.
8 Feb 1918. P.C. Women's Police Service. For many reasons it is advisable that a Policewoman should not be rated by any precedent which the male Police force has initiated. Article, speech by Damer Dawson Commandant. WPS.
Editorial P.C. 1 March 1918. Policewomen should consider themselves sociologists.
5 April 1918. P.C. Annual Report, Sir Leonard Dunning,( who wrote a letter to Sir George Rafter, Birmingham City Police, in support of Mildred White's application for a post in Birmingham.) Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary. With regard to the women police, it would seem that the introduction of women into the professional police may well work well and help police authorities to combat evils which have presented incoming difficulties to them for years past.
15 April 1918. P.C. P.C. Editorial- On the Beat. In the meantime there is little possibility of the question arising as women police are not authorised to make arrest. Women police do not desire the power of arrest until it is legally and properly invested in them.
17 May. P.C. Page 11. Hull Watch Committee discussion. Counselor Cooper: "do women police do the same work as men?" Chief Constable: "Not physically."
28 June 1918. P.C. Sir Leonard Dunning (Inspector of Constabulary known to Mildred White personally)is laid up with an illness which has a severe grip on him. (Report; still ill on 5th Aug.)
2 Aug 1918. P.C. Lady Nott-Bowers. Article, "Women police patrols were, of course, a different body, not forming any part of the police service."
25 Sept. 1918.
Dorothy Peto and Edith Smith (2nd.)write an article in the P.C.
25 March 1937. P.C.
Policewomen hold their first conference, in London. Paper by Prof. John Glaister. Lecture by Miss White. (Inspector CID Birmingham City Police.)
28 Feb 1936. P.C. Sir L. Dunning, with Lady Dunning. Dinner, Home Office, Whitehall. Photo included.
Fri 4 June 1936. P.C. Annual Report, Sir Leonard Dunning 16th Annual meeting, Sir L. Dunning, Bart. (President)
24 April 1936 P.C. No policewomen for Newport, S. Wales. Watch Committee states.
Editorial, Police Chronicle, 4 Sept 1925.
Article, Chief and women police.
Chief Constable of Oxford Police states
"In my opinion the employment of women in police uniform are entirely useless."
P.C. Police news. New Women's Section to have certificates by 1925.
P.C. Reports a lot on police happenings in Birkenhead and Metropolitan Police.
1925. Long list of promotions in P.C. but no women listed.
P.C. 1925. Two line editorials saying there should be more women police. Some more Chief Constables say women police would make good chauffeurs-for them.
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Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you could take a look at this one. The reviewer was concerned about close paraphrasing, but the creator (a very experienced DYKer) doesn't seem to think there is anything significant. Can you please take a look? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 01:03, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I have added your article Beaver attack to the DYK stats as it had over 5,000 views.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 10:52, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria! Could you tell me what was wrong with the media_type parameter in the book infobox? Just curious. Thanks, ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 08:33, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Just a quick heads up, since I accidentally started an image review, and found a few problems that were missed by your image review.
Now, let me start out saying this: It's not that you did a bad job, it's just that there's a few common pitfalls people fall into that I've picked up from working primarily with images so long, and, if you don't know about those, it's easy to miss them.
First of all: People will mess up copyright tags. A lot. Watch out for US-based copyright tags on works that aren't clearly indicated as being US works, and PD-Old-70 on works that might be American. That happens all the time.
Secondly, {{ PD-US-no notice}} and anything {{PD-anon}} is usually worth carefully checking, because people so often don't actually look enough to see if it's true. (Take the examples in this case, where, while it was out of copyright for a different reason, the copyright notice about two pages before the image was missed.) Similarly, if something is (say) {{ PD-Old-70}}, check there's actually a death date for the author, because people have a strange tendency to use this, and not actually give the one piece of information that will prove 70 years have passed from death of the author.
Thirdly: The most popular checks for renewal of US copyrights only include books in their databases. Be careful of {{ PD-US-not renewed}} if it's not a book. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html is a good check for journals, magazines and comics - that site alone let me save about a third of the images in this case, by proving that a different copyright argument applied. Oh, and if you don't know a good book database, http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home is a good one.
Fourthly: Insist on enough documentation to prove the copyright. If something is claimed as anonymous, make sure that the checks for it would show it's anonymous. A museum lists the author as unknown is fine. A website doesn't give the author might not be. Look at the recent James Chadwick incident, where someone proved the author probably could be identified, and probably wasn't Swedish as required for the Sweden-based copyright logic while it was on the main page. Oops.
Anyway, I hope this isn't rude. I honestly just want to help out a bit, and share my workflow. =) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 18:13, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hey Nikkimaria, thanks as usual for looking over my shoulder--but please tell me, why "upright"? What does it do? Don't I want to have control over size? Drmies ( talk) 18:32, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
On 31 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that according to one review of The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin, Shostakovich would be "horrified" by the film's "mickey-mousings" of his music? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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You made edits to the article Gumbo that is a featured article. There is an issue ( discussed here) with article content and the picture conflicting. It is actually a serious issue in that the picture involves original research that became evident during discussion. If you could take the time to look at this I would appreciate it. Otr500 ( talk) 08:41, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, can I ask you to please take a look at this one? It had apparently had issues with close paraphrasing earlier, and I'd feel more comfortable if someone with an experienced eye made sure that said paraphrasing was a thing of the past since it has now been promoted to prep. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 07:22, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I'm not sure I understand what to do about your comments regarding locations in the citations. Are you talking about the book references or the web citations? Would it be better to just remove all locations?--v/r - T P 19:41, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, I know you don't usually look at GA nominations, but I stumbled across this one which had been stuck for over a month, in part because it was a new reviewer who didn't know how to call for a second opinion. The review looked odd because no prose issues at all had been found, so I looked to see if this might have been one of those rare ones that was just about perfect.
When I found an oddly constructed sentence, I checked the source to see whether it could clear up what was meant. While there, it seemed to me that some of the phrases were quite familiar. Doing a Duplication detector on the article and source found a high number of identical phrases. As far as I can tell, the source isn't one that allows copying (and the article doesn't say anything about that kind of source); I haven't checked any of the other online sources. I was wondering whether you could check the article to see how problematic things are, and do whatever seems necessary in terms of adding templates to the article and the like.
Thanks for anything you can do here. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:52, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikki,
I'm a student in Tom Haffie's Advanced Genetics course, and I'm wondering if you could tell me how to repeat a citation without it showing up as a new one? There are a couple sources I used more than once in my article for our assignment, but Wikipedia lists every citation I use in order, separately listing the same source used more than once.
Thanks!
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Great! Thank-you! Melissahwong ( talk) 20:44, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
See this edit and User:Grumblis.6 You're the only person I can think of off the top of my head that has a clue on the education/class thing. (and thanks for the articles... getting ready to write soon) Ealdgyth - Talk 23:23, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria,
I replied to your helpful comments regarding my DYK, and I think I have addressed all your concerns.
Cheers DirtDigger ( talk) 06:25, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
I've been referred to your by the above user via this talk page entry. I need a source review for the FAC mentioned there, and have been referred to you as Gerda Arendt is busy and she said you were good at source reviews. Can you help? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 09:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Nikki, mind having another look at my submssion? Cheers DirtDigger ( talk) 06:37, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I want to thank you again for catching the inconsistencies during your source review of FGM. The article was promoted today, and I'm very grateful to you for the time you spent checking it. All the best, SlimVirgin (talk) 00:18, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
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I am from Tom Haffie's Advanced Genetics course at Western. I'm just in the process of finishing the page I chose to update, which is "Heteroplasmy". I've still got a little more to add, but I was wondering if you could take a look and let me know if the writing style is concise, neutral, and correct for the "Wiki style" of writing. I don't have a lot of experience with writing for Wikipedia, so any tips would be really helpful!
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Nikkimaria, there's a disagreement in the review here whether close paraphrasing is involved, or whether WP:LIMITED applies. Since the original reviewer has just bowed out, do you think you could comment on whether close paraphrasing is indeed an issue with this article? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:55, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi friend, thanks for your edit on Anita Reddy. Just to clarify that the removed part is in fact supported by one of the references ( please see here) but I failed to support it inline. Still, not much is lost but I took it up only to clear the air. Thanks once again and cheers!!-- jojo@nthony ( talk) 06:30, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, while I have no reason to doubt Freikorp's work at addressing the close paraphrasing issues you had confirmed were introduced by the original author, I thought I should let you know that the nomination has been approved and, as the oldest extant nom, is likely to be promoted in the near future. The reviewer did a spot check for close paraphrasing and didn't find anything, and AGFed the rest. Thanks as always. BlueMoonset ( talk) 16:58, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Nikki, I have a huge request! W. B. Yeats (an FA) is undergoing an overhaul, apparently as a class assignment. I reverted the edits and then undid my revert, I suppose to give them the chance to do the work, which I suspect is probably due in the next few days. I won't be around much myself for the next week or so - final projects coming in for my own classes beginning tomorrow - and so am hoping maybe you can pitch in to help there if you have time. I don't have time to pull up relevant MoS policies to explain why I reverted in the first place. Also I've left a note at WP:ENI, but not sure anyone is home there. Huge thanks in advance. Victoria ( tk) 00:53, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
In the review of my GAN at Talk:HMS Otranto/GA1, the reviewer has problem with File:HMS Otranto IWM SP 001064.jpg since the data for the picture says nothing about the photographer. He wants me to add a statement that the photographer is assumed to be RN so that it meets the first bullet of the IWM's copyright statement. I've often used IWM photos that have lacked any information on the photographers and don't really see a need to add anything as I think that it's redundant since the IWM's already claimed that it's copyright expired. You know more about this than I do so I'd appreciate it if you could weigh in on the issue.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 16:10, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, you pulled this from prep due to close paraphrasing. The nominator has posted that the issue has been addressed. Can you please check to see whether it's fine now, or whether problems still remain? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:21, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
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-EDIT; This is not an attack on you or your opinion. Everything i can find concerning this subjest stems from a guy named "Seeren" or something like it and most articles pertaining to his work are in disagreement of details. such as he is a she. or 50 new compounds, or 20 new compounds. his study can only be found on a bogus journal site, and cant be looked at. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.152.188.88 ( talk) 13:39, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I just wanted to get things out on the table here concerning this paragraph you seem to like, "Scientists have found that maple syrup's natural phenols – potentially beneficial antioxidant compounds – inhibit two carbohydrate-hydrolyzing enzymes that are relevant to type 2 diabetes. In the study, 34 new compounds were discovered in pure maple syrup, five of which have never before been seen in nature. Among the five new compounds is quebecol, a phenolic compound created when the maple sap is boiled to create syrup."
I have scoured the internet and I can not find a SINGLE peer reviewed study on maple syrup's phenol content. Also nowhere can i find anything about them being relevant to diabetes. the next part about 34 new compounds, i can only find references to a study done by a "scientist" working for a "maple college" and published by the school he works for, and the only link to the actual study is on a bogus scientific journal site that has no credibility.
Telling diabetics that maple syrup is good for them is bordering on criminal and is at least dangerous.
none of your links are relevant, verifiable, or reliable. I did find a dubious article on the synthesis of "quebecol" which i suspect is just more fake stuff made up to back the claims made in "maple college" article.
Please provide quality references or delete this paragraph, you could be hurting people.
216.152.188.88 ( talk) 12:40, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for responding. I am definitely open to a change of mind, talk to you there. also, i'm quite new to this, there is a steep learning curve. 216.152.188.88 ( talk) 13:46, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Nikkimaria. Would you please stop by Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Xx (album)/archive2 and clarify what you meant by the article having source-integrity issues? Thanks! Rationalobserver ( talk) 18:57, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey there. Thanks for helping me out with HighBeam the other day. In a funny bit of timing, there's an issue that I've been sitting on for a while and have finally decided to act on - and it turns out that you're involved. A few years ago, you reviewed the article Ed, Edd n Eddy for FA. Here's the review - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ed, Edd n Eddy/archive1. During the process, you questioned the quality of a source called Animation by Mistake. The nominator for Ed, Edd n Eddy ( Khanassassin) removed the source without further discussion, and the article was promoted to FA. Fast forward a few years - I've discovered that some of the info in the article has been improperly referenced. A claim that the series was sent to Nickelodeon before being picked up by Cartoon Network is sourced with a DVD interview. I've watched the interview, but it didn't contain any information about Nickelodeon. The only source that I've been able to find that does mention Nickelodeon is - you guessed it - Animation by Mistake.
The specific article in question - here [2] - is an interview between the owner of Animation by Mistake (Kit Topp) and the creator of Ed, Edd n Eddy (Danny Antonucci). So there's a certain amount of reliability to the source, in the sense that Danny Antonucci's own words about his own series could be taken as a reliable primary source. The question is - "Can Animation by Mistake be treated as a reliable publisher?" Personally, I would say yes. What Khanassassin forgot to mention during the FA process is that Animation by Mistake had been maintained in collaboration with a.k.a. CARTOON Inc. - Antonucci's own production studio. For some reason, this detail isn't mentioned on the interview page, but you can see it at the bottom of this page - [3]. I've done a little more digging around and came across archived pages of another website that Ms. Topp used to run, called The Eddzone. One of these pages - here [4] - clarifies that Animation by Mistake received full approval from Antonucci. He was even so involved, that he chose the name for the website. Another page - here [5] - adds that the website was "built with collaboration" with Antonucci and others at a.k.a. So we know that the website was both built and maintained with collaboration from the creators of the series. If there's any doubt at all as to whether Ms. Topp was being honest, it should be expelled by the personal photos of Antonucci and various crew members of a.k.a that are contained on the website (see the link that I provided for the "maintained in collaboration" statement).
So I feel that it would be proper to view Animation by Mistake as an official extension of a.k.a. CARTOON Inc. This should make it a reliable primary source. We plan to use the source for a single factual statement (not a viewpoint) about the history of the series. I wanted to run this by you though, so as to cover all of the bases. Do you feel that it would be appropriate to re-introduce Animation by Mistake as reference for one (maybe two) non-contentious statements, while maintaining Ed, Edd n Eddy's FA status? -- Jpcase ( talk) 23:49, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
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Nikki, I just got an email from the University of Newcastle saying that they were OK with the image being used on Commons and that they had no idea who the photographer was. So what do I do now so that this issue doesn't come up again at the FAC? Have them formally give permission via OTRS? In the meantime I'll amend the sourcing info on Commons to state unknown photographer although I don't think that I'll go so far as to state assumed official RN photographer since nobody's claiming Crown Copyright applies.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 15:17, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:39, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
A while ago I spotted a ton of IP activity building the Surgeon's_assistant article. I jumped in to fix the IP's broken refs. In the process I noticed large chunks of the article were copied from a public domain US-government report. It wasn't copyvio, so I figured it was probably OK. I just checked in on the article and saw your edit summary removing a lot for "apparent copying". I just thought I'd pass on my info in case you wanted to restore it. I've barely skimmed the content itself so I have no opinion on what should or shouldn't be included. Alsee ( talk) 22:06, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Do you have any idea whether Education Program:University of Western Ontario/Writing for the Web (Fall 2014) is done yet for the semester, or whether they still plan to edit more, move stuff out of sandboxes? Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 23:24, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria,
Appreciate your taking the time to avoid any potential copyright violation.
I have communicated with the owners of both sites-
www.rajchowdhury.com
www.unificationenergy.com
some of the contents of which had been used for the wiki page Raj Chowdhury.
The owners have agreed to grant permission for the use of the content of the sites by including the copyleft notice at the footer of the sites as per Wiki requirements.
The text -
"The text of this website is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License"
has been added to the footer of the sites by their owners.
I hope this will suffice. I am reverting back to the original content. Please do not hesitate to point out any issues in the future.
Thanks,
Sayan999 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sayan999 ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
And I can't tell why.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:37, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Please stop vandalism at Germany page. And add music media to the national anthem.-- ThecentreCZ ( talk) 21:19, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Due to the normalization of main informations, almost every country page have in infobox playable music file, except this and of course some crazy copyright nations like Canada.-- ThecentreCZ ( talk) 21:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hey, could you please take a look at our discussion? Mhhossein ( talk) 04:41, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this is a bit of an odd one that I'm hoping you can take a look at. The Russo-Georgian War article lists the Peace plan in a section of the article, citing two sources immediately before the plan is displayed as bullet points: a New York Times article that includes a graphic containing their translation of the plan from the French, and a Kremlin page with their own translation. The plan bullets sometimes use the one translation, sometimes the other, and sometimes change a few words, but for the identical sections there's no quoting involved. Shouldn't there be? Or shouldn't this perhaps be a blockquote with a particular translation citted at the end of a bullet point? Or is what's been done an acceptable way of handling things? Please stop by and give your opinion in the matter. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:02, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that Mary Mark Ockerbloom has posted that she fixed the sentence you were questioning. However, since you pointed out that it had been taken from a source other than the one given, I find it odd that said source has not been at least added to the one that had been cited... BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:07, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi NM, As always, many thanks for your endless work in and around featured content: it is always appreciated, especially in less glamorous areas like FAR. Could I ask for you to direct one of your next source reviews at the article on John Barrymore, which is now at FAC. Any comment or suggestions would be much appreciated. Cheers – SchroCat ( talk) 07:49, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, a reviewer has added some comments about 3 images at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/AI Mk. IV radar/archive2. As you did the initial image review, could you comment on those questions please? (I'll rather not stick my nose into another reviewer's work, at least not intentionally :) ) The review is in its final stage, so any clarification about those images' status would be great. GermanJoe ( talk) 10:54, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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Please explain the change you made to the lead on Locus iste (Bruckner). Perhaps we have a language problem. Dedication of a church building is a one-time thing. Kirchweih is the annual celebration of it, typically on the patron saint's day. Locus iste is the regular gradual text for such events. Bruckner did NOT compose for Kirchweih, but for a specific dedication. Please repair. I have no more time, now and for the weekend. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:02, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
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Dear Nikki,
I am a Bruckner-fan since I was 15 (more than 50 years ago) beginning with the symphonies by Bruno Walter and later by Eugen Jochum. I know his vocal works since the 1970's when I acquired Jochum's LPs of Bruckner's Masses, 10 motets and Psalm 150.
In the meantime I have acquired at least one commercial or private recording of all Bruckner's works in their different versions (for some of them more than 10 recordings). I have so at least one commercial or private recording of all the vocal works, except the three early Name-day cantatas and about 10 secular choir works, for which there is no recording available as yet.
For the vocal and non-orchestral works I am in close contact with Hans Roelofs, i.e., at least once a week by e-mail or by phone. We are also exchanging private recordings, as the non-commercial recordings of Psalm 146 by Wallberg and Botstein, the recording of the Festive Cantata by Guschlbauer at the 1980 Brucknerfest, that of the 1st version (1866) of Mass No. 2 by Rademann, a private digitalisation of the String Quintet by the Vienna Philharmonia Quintet with the Intermezzo (which was not transferred to CD Decca 430 296-2), digitalisation of early LPs or not edited performances of the Requiem, and a compilation of 17 recordings of the Ave Maria No. 3 (WAB 7).
As a faithful Wikipedian with about 36,000 contributions on the sites of the Wikimedia foundation, I think that I am not a beginner. I have already received several barn-stars. I think you may trust me when I put something on Wikipedia and, in particular, about Bruckner's works.
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Nikkimaria, Piotrus has posted that he dealt with the CWW issues in his nomination, but my concern is that if the article is built on text copied from these other articles, more than 20% will be taken from these sources, and since it is not original, it won't meet the 5x expansion rule requiring at least 80% newly written material. Can I ask you to please check this for the review? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 15:29, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
If some of the text were copied from another Wikipedia article, then it must be expanded fivefold as if the copied text had been a separate article.To me, that says that even if you have the minimum 1500, because you copied from other articles, you end up being caught by the 5x rule (you're expanding on that pre-existing material) for what you copied. In this case, the lion's share of the GDI and GEM sections are exact copies (837 and 1423 characters respectively are copied), and the SIGI section copies four segments (two 16 word and two 6 word) for another 276. In this case, 2536 of 6821 are copied from pre-existing articles, which I think precludes its consideration even without the other issues. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:59, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, I am hoping that you are willing to check this article for close paraphrasing. As you can see from the nomination, I was ready to close it on the spot after I found that it contained significant close paraphrasing. However, I offered Philafrenzy, despite excuses, at least a full week to clear the article of it, but said I would then ask you to check the article: if you discovered any significant instances remaining, I'd close it immediately.
Philafrenzy has made a large number of edits to the article, and is calling for a new reviewer. I'm just looking for a close paraphrasing review; I don't think you need to do any more unless you want. If Philafrenzy has indeed eliminated all such paraphrasing, so much the better—with any luck, it will become a habit. Thank you very much for all you do here at Wikipedia. BlueMoonset ( talk) 03:19, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, while I usually ask you to take a look at articles during the DYK nomination process, I've already marked this one for closure due to issues previously raised. The problem here is that while the nomination was characterized as having close paraphrasing, when I checked one of the three sources said to be problematic, FN2, Duplication detector returned quite a bit for close paraphrasing. Even though I've just tagged the article for close paraphrasing, I wanted to be sure it didn't cross the border into actual copyvio. I hope you have time to check it over. Many thanks, regardless. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:45, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
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Having seen two of Britain's three vagrant Masked Shrikes inspired me to start working up that article to FA. I've immediately run into a problem referencing a film, something I've not done before. I found a template, but it doesn't appear to include a timing parameter. I'd be grateful for any help (it's the last ref in the article. Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:12, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this isn't an immediate request, but I did pull this nomination from prep today due to close paraphrasing. Once the fixes have been made, assuming they are, would you be willing to give it a more comprehensive examination? Under the circumstances, I'd like to have someone who's experienced checking it over. (I did mention there that I'd be asking you.) I'm happy to ping you again when it's ready for you. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 20:10, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, after a few weeks, someone new did an extensive revision of the article. (I hesitate to say "copyedit" because some of the new phrasing is far from ideal.) Can you please take a look at it, at least from a close paraphrasing perspective, to see whether it now passes muster? (If you want to comment further, please go ahead.) BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:31, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, this is a nomination by Mztourist, who you filed a CCI on last week. I mentioned this one as having found a problematic sentence in the Blaisdall discussion above. The sentence has been edited, but before I continue the review, I'd like to know that the article doesn't have any remaining close paraphrasing or copyvio issues. I'm hoping you'd be willing to check it. I didn't see anything obvious, but I've missed things before that were blindingly obvious once you'd pointed them out. Thank you. BlueMoonset ( talk) 05:02, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for the source review on Bonshō's FA discussion - the article has finally made it to FA status, and I'm very grateful for your help in getting it there. Yunshui 雲 水 09:20, 13 October 2014 (UTC) |
Thanks! -- Kansas Bear ( talk) 20:05, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I have reached an impasse with the DYK nominator at Template:Did you know nominations/Calitoxin. I am asking for your assistance regarding the suitability of the proposed hook. Thank you. Δρ.Κ. λόγος πράξις 21:21, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, I would like to take this article to FAC in the near future and would really appreciate it if you can give me some pointers or comments that would need to be addressed before taking it to FAC? Best, .jona talk 23:19, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this isn't a usual request from me, because the issue on this one seems to be the proportion of quoted material to actual text: there's more of the former than the latter. After it was pointed out by the original reviewer, and blockquotes inserted by me, there was some minor paraphrasing done to split up one of the blockquotes and get the DYKcheck length back above 1500. Can you please take a look and point out the general principles involved and what needs to be done to the article? It's been sitting for nearly four weeks—the original reviewer hasn't been back—and I'd like to get this wrapped up soon as it's now over two months old. Thanks for any help you can give. BlueMoonset ( talk) 14:37, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
... to make up for Ike Altgens?
If so: either User:Spshu misunderstands the application of notability guidelines, or I do. Please have a look at Indie Rights, its talk page and Spshu's talk page and weigh in.
Thanks in advance :) — ATinySliver/ ATalkPage 23:58, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria I'm having some problems with pictures. File:Votivbild_Schlacht_bei_Meßkirch_mit_Rahmen.jpg, File:Jean-Victor Moreau.jpg and File:Pal Kray.jpg being improperly tagged. I've used them in several articles, but need some advice on how to tag them.....? auntieruth (talk) 19:22, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikki, there are a few source review and spotcheck requests at WT:FAC but I'd particularly like your opinion on Xx (album). It's generating a lot of discussion that might be settled one way or t'other (for me at least) by someone as experienced as yourself checking bits 'n' pieces of the article. Tks/cheers, Ian Rose ( talk) 01:33, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Hey! Thanks for the edit to " Lovecraft in Brooklyn". I'll remember next time not to link to the Mountain Goats Wiki under the external links section.-- DrWho42 ( talk) 10:57, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, it looks like the article's adopter has worked to straighten out the reference issues, which prevented you from checking close paraphrasing after I pinged you on this one back on October 9. Can you please take another look now? (I explained what was up in my post then.) Thank you very much. BlueMoonset ( talk) 15:41, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, i have received a preliminary Credo-approval mid-July and sent back the "short form" in mid-August (i was on Wiki-break and didn't see the message earlier). Has the program been completely stopped or are the "old" open requests still handled? If old accounts are still available, could you check the status of my access request please? I am assuming, i would get a mail with the access info, but this is my first time with Credo - so not sure with the proceedings. Thank you for your help. GermanJoe ( talk) 00:50, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi. I addressed your comments regarding Temperatures Rising. Care to take another look? Jimknut ( talk) 00:31, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, any time you want to turn this future DYK into readable English... :) Drmies ( talk) 05:08, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria. I have updated my Talk page on Florence Mildred White today. During my researching for secondary sources I have noted quite a few concerning female policewomen generally in the UK 1918-1925 which I would be pleased to pass on if you are interested. TimothyWF ( talk) 20:18, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Whilst looking at the copies of the Police Chronicle between 1917 and 1937 I have noted the following articles about women police:
How this came about and my comments for finding future secondary sources are noted in the Talk page: Florence Mildred White. The following are of interest but do not specifically mention White.
The following are my notes:
The Police Chronicle. A weekly magazine from the late 1800's to about 1947 on police happenings.
1918 Book. P.C. 4 Jan 1918. PC Edith Smith obliged to retire due to ill health. First woman to 'receive' a Warrant Card.(Taking up nursing again.) [List of record of her work]
8 March 1918. The OTHER Edith Smith on tour for National Union of Women workers. Women on patrol in Scotland.
11 Jan 1918. P.C. 10 towns have Women Police Constables. WPS.
8 Feb 1918. P.C. Women's Police Service. For many reasons it is advisable that a Policewoman should not be rated by any precedent which the male Police force has initiated. Article, speech by Damer Dawson Commandant. WPS.
Editorial P.C. 1 March 1918. Policewomen should consider themselves sociologists.
5 April 1918. P.C. Annual Report, Sir Leonard Dunning,( who wrote a letter to Sir George Rafter, Birmingham City Police, in support of Mildred White's application for a post in Birmingham.) Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary. With regard to the women police, it would seem that the introduction of women into the professional police may well work well and help police authorities to combat evils which have presented incoming difficulties to them for years past.
15 April 1918. P.C. P.C. Editorial- On the Beat. In the meantime there is little possibility of the question arising as women police are not authorised to make arrest. Women police do not desire the power of arrest until it is legally and properly invested in them.
17 May. P.C. Page 11. Hull Watch Committee discussion. Counselor Cooper: "do women police do the same work as men?" Chief Constable: "Not physically."
28 June 1918. P.C. Sir Leonard Dunning (Inspector of Constabulary known to Mildred White personally)is laid up with an illness which has a severe grip on him. (Report; still ill on 5th Aug.)
2 Aug 1918. P.C. Lady Nott-Bowers. Article, "Women police patrols were, of course, a different body, not forming any part of the police service."
25 Sept. 1918.
Dorothy Peto and Edith Smith (2nd.)write an article in the P.C.
25 March 1937. P.C.
Policewomen hold their first conference, in London. Paper by Prof. John Glaister. Lecture by Miss White. (Inspector CID Birmingham City Police.)
28 Feb 1936. P.C. Sir L. Dunning, with Lady Dunning. Dinner, Home Office, Whitehall. Photo included.
Fri 4 June 1936. P.C. Annual Report, Sir Leonard Dunning 16th Annual meeting, Sir L. Dunning, Bart. (President)
24 April 1936 P.C. No policewomen for Newport, S. Wales. Watch Committee states.
Editorial, Police Chronicle, 4 Sept 1925.
Article, Chief and women police.
Chief Constable of Oxford Police states
"In my opinion the employment of women in police uniform are entirely useless."
P.C. Police news. New Women's Section to have certificates by 1925.
P.C. Reports a lot on police happenings in Birkenhead and Metropolitan Police.
1925. Long list of promotions in P.C. but no women listed.
P.C. 1925. Two line editorials saying there should be more women police. Some more Chief Constables say women police would make good chauffeurs-for them.
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Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you could take a look at this one. The reviewer was concerned about close paraphrasing, but the creator (a very experienced DYKer) doesn't seem to think there is anything significant. Can you please take a look? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 01:03, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
I have added your article Beaver attack to the DYK stats as it had over 5,000 views.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 10:52, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria! Could you tell me what was wrong with the media_type parameter in the book infobox? Just curious. Thanks, ἀνυπόδητος ( talk) 08:33, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Just a quick heads up, since I accidentally started an image review, and found a few problems that were missed by your image review.
Now, let me start out saying this: It's not that you did a bad job, it's just that there's a few common pitfalls people fall into that I've picked up from working primarily with images so long, and, if you don't know about those, it's easy to miss them.
First of all: People will mess up copyright tags. A lot. Watch out for US-based copyright tags on works that aren't clearly indicated as being US works, and PD-Old-70 on works that might be American. That happens all the time.
Secondly, {{ PD-US-no notice}} and anything {{PD-anon}} is usually worth carefully checking, because people so often don't actually look enough to see if it's true. (Take the examples in this case, where, while it was out of copyright for a different reason, the copyright notice about two pages before the image was missed.) Similarly, if something is (say) {{ PD-Old-70}}, check there's actually a death date for the author, because people have a strange tendency to use this, and not actually give the one piece of information that will prove 70 years have passed from death of the author.
Thirdly: The most popular checks for renewal of US copyrights only include books in their databases. Be careful of {{ PD-US-not renewed}} if it's not a book. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html is a good check for journals, magazines and comics - that site alone let me save about a third of the images in this case, by proving that a different copyright argument applied. Oh, and if you don't know a good book database, http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home is a good one.
Fourthly: Insist on enough documentation to prove the copyright. If something is claimed as anonymous, make sure that the checks for it would show it's anonymous. A museum lists the author as unknown is fine. A website doesn't give the author might not be. Look at the recent James Chadwick incident, where someone proved the author probably could be identified, and probably wasn't Swedish as required for the Sweden-based copyright logic while it was on the main page. Oops.
Anyway, I hope this isn't rude. I honestly just want to help out a bit, and share my workflow. =) Adam Cuerden ( talk) 18:13, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, can I ask you to please take a look at this one? It had apparently had issues with close paraphrasing earlier, and I'd feel more comfortable if someone with an experienced eye made sure that said paraphrasing was a thing of the past since it has now been promoted to prep. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 07:22, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I'm not sure I understand what to do about your comments regarding locations in the citations. Are you talking about the book references or the web citations? Would it be better to just remove all locations?--v/r - T P 19:41, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, I know you don't usually look at GA nominations, but I stumbled across this one which had been stuck for over a month, in part because it was a new reviewer who didn't know how to call for a second opinion. The review looked odd because no prose issues at all had been found, so I looked to see if this might have been one of those rare ones that was just about perfect.
When I found an oddly constructed sentence, I checked the source to see whether it could clear up what was meant. While there, it seemed to me that some of the phrases were quite familiar. Doing a Duplication detector on the article and source found a high number of identical phrases. As far as I can tell, the source isn't one that allows copying (and the article doesn't say anything about that kind of source); I haven't checked any of the other online sources. I was wondering whether you could check the article to see how problematic things are, and do whatever seems necessary in terms of adding templates to the article and the like.
Thanks for anything you can do here. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:52, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikki,
I'm a student in Tom Haffie's Advanced Genetics course, and I'm wondering if you could tell me how to repeat a citation without it showing up as a new one? There are a couple sources I used more than once in my article for our assignment, but Wikipedia lists every citation I use in order, separately listing the same source used more than once.
Thanks!
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Great! Thank-you! Melissahwong ( talk) 20:44, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
See this edit and User:Grumblis.6 You're the only person I can think of off the top of my head that has a clue on the education/class thing. (and thanks for the articles... getting ready to write soon) Ealdgyth - Talk 23:23, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
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I replied to your helpful comments regarding my DYK, and I think I have addressed all your concerns.
Cheers DirtDigger ( talk) 06:25, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
I've been referred to your by the above user via this talk page entry. I need a source review for the FAC mentioned there, and have been referred to you as Gerda Arendt is busy and she said you were good at source reviews. Can you help? -- ProtoDrake ( talk) 09:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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I am from Tom Haffie's Advanced Genetics course at Western. I'm just in the process of finishing the page I chose to update, which is "Heteroplasmy". I've still got a little more to add, but I was wondering if you could take a look and let me know if the writing style is concise, neutral, and correct for the "Wiki style" of writing. I don't have a lot of experience with writing for Wikipedia, so any tips would be really helpful!
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Nikkimaria, there's a disagreement in the review here whether close paraphrasing is involved, or whether WP:LIMITED applies. Since the original reviewer has just bowed out, do you think you could comment on whether close paraphrasing is indeed an issue with this article? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:55, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi friend, thanks for your edit on Anita Reddy. Just to clarify that the removed part is in fact supported by one of the references ( please see here) but I failed to support it inline. Still, not much is lost but I took it up only to clear the air. Thanks once again and cheers!!-- jojo@nthony ( talk) 06:30, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, while I have no reason to doubt Freikorp's work at addressing the close paraphrasing issues you had confirmed were introduced by the original author, I thought I should let you know that the nomination has been approved and, as the oldest extant nom, is likely to be promoted in the near future. The reviewer did a spot check for close paraphrasing and didn't find anything, and AGFed the rest. Thanks as always. BlueMoonset ( talk) 16:58, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Nikki, I have a huge request! W. B. Yeats (an FA) is undergoing an overhaul, apparently as a class assignment. I reverted the edits and then undid my revert, I suppose to give them the chance to do the work, which I suspect is probably due in the next few days. I won't be around much myself for the next week or so - final projects coming in for my own classes beginning tomorrow - and so am hoping maybe you can pitch in to help there if you have time. I don't have time to pull up relevant MoS policies to explain why I reverted in the first place. Also I've left a note at WP:ENI, but not sure anyone is home there. Huge thanks in advance. Victoria ( tk) 00:53, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
In the review of my GAN at Talk:HMS Otranto/GA1, the reviewer has problem with File:HMS Otranto IWM SP 001064.jpg since the data for the picture says nothing about the photographer. He wants me to add a statement that the photographer is assumed to be RN so that it meets the first bullet of the IWM's copyright statement. I've often used IWM photos that have lacked any information on the photographers and don't really see a need to add anything as I think that it's redundant since the IWM's already claimed that it's copyright expired. You know more about this than I do so I'd appreciate it if you could weigh in on the issue.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 16:10, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, you pulled this from prep due to close paraphrasing. The nominator has posted that the issue has been addressed. Can you please check to see whether it's fine now, or whether problems still remain? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:21, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
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-EDIT; This is not an attack on you or your opinion. Everything i can find concerning this subjest stems from a guy named "Seeren" or something like it and most articles pertaining to his work are in disagreement of details. such as he is a she. or 50 new compounds, or 20 new compounds. his study can only be found on a bogus journal site, and cant be looked at. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.152.188.88 ( talk) 13:39, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I just wanted to get things out on the table here concerning this paragraph you seem to like, "Scientists have found that maple syrup's natural phenols – potentially beneficial antioxidant compounds – inhibit two carbohydrate-hydrolyzing enzymes that are relevant to type 2 diabetes. In the study, 34 new compounds were discovered in pure maple syrup, five of which have never before been seen in nature. Among the five new compounds is quebecol, a phenolic compound created when the maple sap is boiled to create syrup."
I have scoured the internet and I can not find a SINGLE peer reviewed study on maple syrup's phenol content. Also nowhere can i find anything about them being relevant to diabetes. the next part about 34 new compounds, i can only find references to a study done by a "scientist" working for a "maple college" and published by the school he works for, and the only link to the actual study is on a bogus scientific journal site that has no credibility.
Telling diabetics that maple syrup is good for them is bordering on criminal and is at least dangerous.
none of your links are relevant, verifiable, or reliable. I did find a dubious article on the synthesis of "quebecol" which i suspect is just more fake stuff made up to back the claims made in "maple college" article.
Please provide quality references or delete this paragraph, you could be hurting people.
216.152.188.88 ( talk) 12:40, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for responding. I am definitely open to a change of mind, talk to you there. also, i'm quite new to this, there is a steep learning curve. 216.152.188.88 ( talk) 13:46, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Nikkimaria. Would you please stop by Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Xx (album)/archive2 and clarify what you meant by the article having source-integrity issues? Thanks! Rationalobserver ( talk) 18:57, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey there. Thanks for helping me out with HighBeam the other day. In a funny bit of timing, there's an issue that I've been sitting on for a while and have finally decided to act on - and it turns out that you're involved. A few years ago, you reviewed the article Ed, Edd n Eddy for FA. Here's the review - Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ed, Edd n Eddy/archive1. During the process, you questioned the quality of a source called Animation by Mistake. The nominator for Ed, Edd n Eddy ( Khanassassin) removed the source without further discussion, and the article was promoted to FA. Fast forward a few years - I've discovered that some of the info in the article has been improperly referenced. A claim that the series was sent to Nickelodeon before being picked up by Cartoon Network is sourced with a DVD interview. I've watched the interview, but it didn't contain any information about Nickelodeon. The only source that I've been able to find that does mention Nickelodeon is - you guessed it - Animation by Mistake.
The specific article in question - here [2] - is an interview between the owner of Animation by Mistake (Kit Topp) and the creator of Ed, Edd n Eddy (Danny Antonucci). So there's a certain amount of reliability to the source, in the sense that Danny Antonucci's own words about his own series could be taken as a reliable primary source. The question is - "Can Animation by Mistake be treated as a reliable publisher?" Personally, I would say yes. What Khanassassin forgot to mention during the FA process is that Animation by Mistake had been maintained in collaboration with a.k.a. CARTOON Inc. - Antonucci's own production studio. For some reason, this detail isn't mentioned on the interview page, but you can see it at the bottom of this page - [3]. I've done a little more digging around and came across archived pages of another website that Ms. Topp used to run, called The Eddzone. One of these pages - here [4] - clarifies that Animation by Mistake received full approval from Antonucci. He was even so involved, that he chose the name for the website. Another page - here [5] - adds that the website was "built with collaboration" with Antonucci and others at a.k.a. So we know that the website was both built and maintained with collaboration from the creators of the series. If there's any doubt at all as to whether Ms. Topp was being honest, it should be expelled by the personal photos of Antonucci and various crew members of a.k.a that are contained on the website (see the link that I provided for the "maintained in collaboration" statement).
So I feel that it would be proper to view Animation by Mistake as an official extension of a.k.a. CARTOON Inc. This should make it a reliable primary source. We plan to use the source for a single factual statement (not a viewpoint) about the history of the series. I wanted to run this by you though, so as to cover all of the bases. Do you feel that it would be appropriate to re-introduce Animation by Mistake as reference for one (maybe two) non-contentious statements, while maintaining Ed, Edd n Eddy's FA status? -- Jpcase ( talk) 23:49, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, I was hoping you could take a look at this one, which had some copying from one source, since addressed. The other sources were not checked in the initial review, so if you could check them (and recheck the original just to be sure all was fixed) that would be great. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 05:22, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
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Nikki, I just got an email from the University of Newcastle saying that they were OK with the image being used on Commons and that they had no idea who the photographer was. So what do I do now so that this issue doesn't come up again at the FAC? Have them formally give permission via OTRS? In the meantime I'll amend the sourcing info on Commons to state unknown photographer although I don't think that I'll go so far as to state assumed official RN photographer since nobody's claiming Crown Copyright applies.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 15:17, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:39, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
A while ago I spotted a ton of IP activity building the Surgeon's_assistant article. I jumped in to fix the IP's broken refs. In the process I noticed large chunks of the article were copied from a public domain US-government report. It wasn't copyvio, so I figured it was probably OK. I just checked in on the article and saw your edit summary removing a lot for "apparent copying". I just thought I'd pass on my info in case you wanted to restore it. I've barely skimmed the content itself so I have no opinion on what should or shouldn't be included. Alsee ( talk) 22:06, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Do you have any idea whether Education Program:University of Western Ontario/Writing for the Web (Fall 2014) is done yet for the semester, or whether they still plan to edit more, move stuff out of sandboxes? Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 23:24, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria,
Appreciate your taking the time to avoid any potential copyright violation.
I have communicated with the owners of both sites-
www.rajchowdhury.com
www.unificationenergy.com
some of the contents of which had been used for the wiki page Raj Chowdhury.
The owners have agreed to grant permission for the use of the content of the sites by including the copyleft notice at the footer of the sites as per Wiki requirements.
The text -
"The text of this website is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License"
has been added to the footer of the sites by their owners.
I hope this will suffice. I am reverting back to the original content. Please do not hesitate to point out any issues in the future.
Thanks,
Sayan999 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sayan999 ( talk • contribs) 01:03, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
And I can't tell why.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 19:37, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Please stop vandalism at Germany page. And add music media to the national anthem.-- ThecentreCZ ( talk) 21:19, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Due to the normalization of main informations, almost every country page have in infobox playable music file, except this and of course some crazy copyright nations like Canada.-- ThecentreCZ ( talk) 21:40, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, why do you make a habit of removing the |accessdate=
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you are right, I should create a page about his father, so I am creating one, please give me some days to do so and then I'll delete the family story from Liao Chong Zhen page
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Vargha — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vargha aqa ( talk • contribs) 00:36, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey, could you please take a look at our discussion? Mhhossein ( talk) 04:41, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this is a bit of an odd one that I'm hoping you can take a look at. The Russo-Georgian War article lists the Peace plan in a section of the article, citing two sources immediately before the plan is displayed as bullet points: a New York Times article that includes a graphic containing their translation of the plan from the French, and a Kremlin page with their own translation. The plan bullets sometimes use the one translation, sometimes the other, and sometimes change a few words, but for the identical sections there's no quoting involved. Shouldn't there be? Or shouldn't this perhaps be a blockquote with a particular translation citted at the end of a bullet point? Or is what's been done an acceptable way of handling things? Please stop by and give your opinion in the matter. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:02, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that Mary Mark Ockerbloom has posted that she fixed the sentence you were questioning. However, since you pointed out that it had been taken from a source other than the one given, I find it odd that said source has not been at least added to the one that had been cited... BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:07, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi NM, As always, many thanks for your endless work in and around featured content: it is always appreciated, especially in less glamorous areas like FAR. Could I ask for you to direct one of your next source reviews at the article on John Barrymore, which is now at FAC. Any comment or suggestions would be much appreciated. Cheers – SchroCat ( talk) 07:49, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria, a reviewer has added some comments about 3 images at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/AI Mk. IV radar/archive2. As you did the initial image review, could you comment on those questions please? (I'll rather not stick my nose into another reviewer's work, at least not intentionally :) ) The review is in its final stage, so any clarification about those images' status would be great. GermanJoe ( talk) 10:54, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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