Hi Nikkimaria, I'm about to start on another article that I want to take up to FA in a while. One of the sources I have is is on a Kindle. This means that there are no pages, but there are electronic location identifiers throughout. Is there a way of using these in a way that passes FAC requirements, or is having the page numbers essential. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 10:08, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm still on the page but I can't find any email. Eric Corbett 18:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Nikkimaria! Would you be so kind as to provide us with an image review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Irataba/archive2? I'll understand if you are too busy or uninterested. Rationalobserver ( talk) 20:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if you could review my addition to the article about the Government of Venezuela. It's the list of legislatures. 2602:306:C541:CC60:81C3:A68C:7275:692 ( talk) 02:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the reminder. Some things had come up; I'm all completed now. Parkwells ( talk) 21:08, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I have Live and Let Die at FAC for consideration at the moment. Would you be able to work your magic on the references, please? Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 09:35, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
This article is currently a FA but I feel like it no longer meets FA criteria. So much information is unsourced, whole paragraphs just completely not referenced. What is the best course of action? Review? Delist? LADY LOTUS • TALK 20:29, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I just noticed that The Herald pinged you here, and since you usually don't get notified of pings from templates, I thought I'd post directly here and let you know. Thanks for checking again, and I hope the issues are finally set. BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
consistent quality control
Thank you for consistently checking the quality of articles going to the Main page, for taking your time to preview critical ones for those who are afraid, and for your comments in a delete discussion "the principle that while Wikipedia is not a social network, it also isn't a soulless machine", "useful for community-building, which is an essential aspect of collaboration", and for mentioning "ideal" in the context! Ideal! - Repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (25 September 2010)!
Three years ago, you were the 82nd recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, - thank you with passion, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:09, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
HI, I'm wondering whether I am going mad here. I could have sworn that I received an email from you recently, accepting my sign-up for Project MUSE access via The Wikipedia Library. I thought I filled in some Google Docs form accordingly. However, I now cannot find my name on the request list nor can I find the email! Have I really lost my mind? - Sitush ( talk) 07:55, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for all your help on the Edward II nomination! Hchc2009 ( talk) 08:20, 4 April 2015 (UTC) |
Looking at other hockey biographies, it appears standard to wikilink countries in infoboxes and within the article. GaryColemanFan ( talk) 19:03, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I've been thinking lately about doing source reviews at FAC, since that seems to be a bottleneck for a lot of nominations. Are there any particular qualifications needed? Has anyone written a guide to source reviews? I'd like to help, but don't want to do it wrong and just make more work for other people. Thanks, Coemgenus ( talk) 14:21, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey Coemgenus, that looks pretty good for a first effort. A few additional thoughts:
Hi Nikki. Sorry to be a bother, but could you please look in at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Susan B. Anthony dollar/archive1 and do a source review when you get a few moments free? I can send you any book scans you may need by e-mail if you'd like them for spot checking. Thanks in advance!- RHM22 ( talk) 17:47, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Nikki, flag icons are consistently used to represent the sporting nationality of Olympic swimmers in the infobox's nationality field. Please note that only about half of notable Olympic swimmers are medalists, and therefore your desire to eliminate the "duplicate" flag from the nationality parameter for medalists, such as Nicole Haislett, leads to inconsistent formatting for non-medalists for whom we do no have the option of displaying the flag icon in the non-existent medals table for non-medalists. For non-medalists, the flag icon can only be displayed in the nationality field. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 16:53, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey, Nikkimaria. I think this is a pretty sound resolution of the problem discussed above: [1]. There is now a new template parameter for Infobox swimmer, "national_team," which clarifies the intended meaning. Flag icons will only be used in the infoboxes for those swimmers who are/were members of their respective national teams in international competition, i.e., Olympic Games, FINA world championships, Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games, Pan Pacific Championships, or European championships. The new parameter is exclusive: once "national_team" is invoked, the "nationality" parameter cannot also be used. For the minority of notable swimmers who were never members of their national team, they will continue to use "nationality," but with no flag icon. There should be relatively few of the latter, because almost by definition notable swimmers are those who have competed internationally. The redundant flags will be removed from the infobox medals table (if there is one for a given swimmer), with a limited exception for the English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish flags for British swimmers who have won medals medals while competing for England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland in the Commonwealth Games. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:36, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
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I was approved to access OUP materials back in 2014 but I have never received login credentials. How do I access the resources? Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 06:39, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, after noticing the removal of the infobox. Would the infobox be accepted but the picture won't be in the infobox? As I tried to make it smaller with no success. Seqqis ( talk) 00:50, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Screwed up the ping at [2] so doing it the old-fashioned way. Montanabw (talk) 08:17, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
I don't need this so please make the place available to others. Jodosma (talk) 18:35, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, there's been a request at WT:DYK to check this nomination for close paraphrasing: the reviewer had found some in previous iterations, and now wants someone else to check, though the actual request was posted by the nominator. If you have the chance, can you please take a look? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 06:57, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, are you the only person who does image reviews for FAC? Wasn't sure, but we need one for my Bazy FAC. Montanabw (talk) 02:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your review. Looks like you are all done with your part, so do you have to sign off with a "support" on your ref checks and image checks being done, or do the powers that be just look to see that you are finished... or? Montanabw (talk) 22:01, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
From the Peer review volunteers list on British literature, you are invited to comment on this peer review which has been in the backlog. Good day, Joel. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 06:16, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
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I have opened the second FAC for the article. Please do let me know if you would like to make any comments. Thanks. — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 02:23, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Can you also do a source review for the film? Do let me know. Thanks. — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 07:54, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Could you please explain your reasoning for editing the The Herald (Glasgow) link on the above article. As the creator of the article, I know of no reason for this edit! Gomach ( talk) 14:42, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. I changed your initial edit because the formatting did not produce the desired: The Herald link in the article. As can be seen in the references section at the moment.... Gomach ( talk) 17:27, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Nikkimaria, I've applied for the Elsevier Science direct access in January and got your mail for approval in February. I used the link in your mail to register four days later, but never got any feedback. So I've tried again to register four or five weeks ago, but again got no answer. I'm not sure if I have not filled the registration form correctly (but in fact there it is really easy) or if the registration procedure at Elsevier takes such a long time. Could you please check this out for me? Thanks a lot in Advance and many greetings, -- Sternrenette ( talk) 09:28, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Would you please take a look at Matthias Mende and check (1) if the article existed on 07 October 2013, and if so, (2) whether the guy described in the article at that time is the same guy (app designer) deemed not notable in the recent AFD? There is a notable art historian by the same name, which I wikilinked from another article way back then; it might have been a redlink at that time, but I'd like to make sure the article wasn't simply usurped without anyone noticing. Thank you! Maralia ( talk) 01:46, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I've decided to help this DYK nomination get to the point that it can be approved, but after I started work, I realized there was significant close paraphrasing from Galloway's bio on his own website.
I've just done a first pass at attempting to take care of that close paraphrasing, but I'm not a safe judge of my own efforts, so I was wondering whether you could take a look and let me know what's left to do. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 05:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey, Nikkimaria, you mind doing an image review for the list article, American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front order of battle, since Anotherclown suggested it earlier in it's ACR. The reason I asked since I am pretty sure you're the only one in know that does image reviews at the ACR. Thanks, Tomandjerry211 ( Let's have a chat) 20:46, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I'm sorry for the oversight, which has just occurred to me ... I pinged DrK and Maralia to this sandbox, as we all three work on WP:URFA, and Cas was pinged by his article work, but you never got a ping! We are developing a new URFA page at Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/sandbox. Bst, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:31, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hi! Thank you for your edits on Gotland Museum, there were several things there I did not know. Small question though: The official name of the permanent exhibition about the battle of Visby and Gotland is "1361 - Battle for Gotland" but I linked it to the article Battle of Visby since it covers the same thing, roughly. Shouldn't the official name for the exhibition be used in the text? On the island the "1361" is sort of a "trademark" to sum up all of the things happening that year. It actually also includes the Battle of Mästerby. OR should it be specified that the exhibition is about all of the events that year? Or just mention the name of the exhibition with no link? Suggestions? Best, w.carter -Talk 14:04, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, there's a request for a second opinion on close paraphrasing from the reviewer here. Could you please check and see whether, in your opinion, it is or not? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:21, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello, please use the article talk page, rather then to randomly removing additions. Thanks. Via https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Elite:_Dangerous&action=history prokaryotes ( talk) 11:49, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi. While I appreciate your adherence to the MOS guideline, this edit throws off the entire table at lower resolutions, since the image is too big to fit above it. Would you be OK with me restoring the 100px size? It's there for good reason. Otherwise, the image will bleed into the table section which shortens the width. In other words, I want to keep that image out of the table area. Viriditas ( talk) 03:54, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
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Please stop attacking the Soldier at a Game of Chess article. Your claims of copyvio appear to be nonsense, your tagging on other issues is wp:POINTY now. If i were an admin and not involved I would block you from editing. Consider this as warning. -- do ncr am 17:30, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Your name has been mentioned at ANI, or whatever I am supposed to say. I ask for you to be blocked in "request block DYK-related preventative right now" section of wp:ANI. -- do ncr am 17:41, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Saw Laser edit summary under "please stop", scrolled down through 180 sections ... holy cow, Nikki, Archive Your Talk Page! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:40, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Yes it absolutely was tag-bombing and fighting to mar, reduce, and generally attack a DYK-featured article any way you could, when every concern could and should have been addressed later, IMO. You lost me when your "evidence" of copyvio turned out to be from your erroneous application of dupdet tool. Or maybe you lost me on some petty change you were forcing. Congratulations, you win: its DYK mention was taken off the mainpage. -- do ncr am 19:21, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I'm having trouble renewing my access to HighBeam. I received your email which included my new activation code, but when I click on the link listed at Wikipedia:HighBeam/Support, all I end up with is page asking for a credit card # or some other form of payment. There doesn't appear to be a place to input codes for existing accounts. Levdr1lp / talk 20:54, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi! I got the log in and password for MUSE and I've already started using it. Thank you so much! :D Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 17:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, the nominator has posted that he's taken care of the close paraphrasing. Can you please check to see whether you agree? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:24, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
When you get a chance, will you please provide us with an image review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Irataba/archive3? RO (talk) 16:40, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
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I know you're busy, but can you please confirm or deny that this government report ( [4]) is PD? Thanks! RO (talk) 22:21, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
I had to undo your edit because you removed the name from the
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Hi Nikkimaria,
Why do you keep removing the new links on Elizaveta's page?
Flowerarmyrecords ( talk) 20:57, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Ah ok, thank you for your reply.
I'm very new to Wikipedia and it looked like somebody was trying to delete things :-)
Some content has actually been deleted by your changes (or the Bots changes).
It was reference to a Russian Film.
I'm assuming it's ok to add that text if I don't add a link to it?
Flowerarmyrecords ( talk) 21:34, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, I have placed tentative {{Template:PD-US-no notice}} notices on two files that I THINK are OK to transfer to commons, but I need your eye on them to double-check. They are photos of two trophies (or replicas, which are PD if the underlying art is): the Triple Crown Trophy at File:Triple crown three sided Trophy.jpg, created in 1950; and the Kentucky Derby Trophy at File:Ky Derby Trophy.jpg created in 1924. The photographer is a wiki editor who put a GDFL tag on his photos, so that's OK, but the question is if the underlying work of three-dimensioal art - the trophies themselves - are public domain. I just did an hour or so of research on the issue of 3-D fine art works, sculptures, etc., for the USA and I think that this applies (it does to jewelry, for example). The Kentucky Derby trophy appears to have no artist credit and it's a "standard" trophy design, anyway, but the Triple Crown Trophy was designed by "Cartier" on a commission, so again, unclear if there ever was a copyright, but it's a unique design. Help? Montanabw (talk) 02:54, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
Please explain your changes. Pkeets ( talk) 06:26, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Nikkimaria. I see you have not been on Wikipedia for the past 24 hours but if you find the time today or tomorrow I would very much appreciate your looking once again at the images on the Carl Nielsen article. Timing is becoming pretty critical if we want to hit the 9 June anniversary date. We hope and I have been working overtime on the images but Crisco 1492 seems to think there are still problems outstanding. I really would like to get these problems sorted out asap. Elekhh has also offered to help but his time is limited. Hope you can help by being more specific on the remaining problems.-- Ipigott ( talk) 20:38, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria, I wanted to stop by and drop you a note to thank you for your work with setting up the Project Muse accounts. That's a database I've wanted access to for many years because it hosts periodicals with scholarly articles about children's literature that I've not been able to find anywhere else, and without access I've left quite a lot of articles unfinished for lack of sources. I activated my acct. this week and was thrilled at what I found there. A number of WP articles will benefit and hopefully get to a more finished state. Thanks again for your time for making this possible. Also, the women's literature database is quite fascinating, but it's not as useful because it's mostly primary sources. Still I've earmarked a few articles that will be benefit from that resource as well. Victoria ( tk) 20:41, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
You may remember the disruptive and POVpushing editor that I've encountered on Somali topics, Middayexpress. He's continuing his POVpushing in all sorts of places, and I'm really exasperated. There's lots of evidence about what he does - talkpages full of it. Could I just simply block him? You may remember the RfC was indecisive, but the other alternative is Arbcom. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 20:43, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for reviewing my contributions to the Mitsubishi Eclipse page. I’m a new editor to Wikipedia and I appreciate any feedback. You removed the section I created for Popular Film and Culture citing “needs reliable sourcing.” Is the concern about reliable sourcing regarding the vehicle being in the movie or the fact that Paul Walker’s character drove the vehicle? If the concern is over the reference to Paul Walker, I’m happy to remove any reference to Paul Walker but I believe I cited significant support for validating that the Mitsubishi Eclipse appeared in the film.
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I know you're busy, but we still need a source review and spotcheck for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Irataba/archive3. Would you be willing to help us out with this? If you need them for spot-checking, Maunus has PDFs for most of the main sources. RO (talk) 16:47, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this article has been rewritten/edited since you last saw it, and I was wondering whether the close paraphrasing was adequately dealt with. If so, I'll be calling for a new reviewer, but I wanted to be sure it was first. Can you please take a look and let me know whether it's ready for review or still needs work? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:36, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria: I had an account with Birds of North America through Wikipedia. It was due to expire earlier this year, but I got an email from you on April 8 saying it would be renewed. Today, I tried to access the site and got a "this page is only available to subscribers" message. When I tried to enter my user name and password, it gave me the same message. Can you please let me know if I should still have access to this? Thanks! MeegsC ( talk) 03:04, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Alas no message received yet about this. Apwoolrich ( talk) 06:06, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm having trouble accessing project Muse today. I tried a few times in different browsers. Is this a normal outage, or do I need to renew? Thanks! Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 16:45, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria, I've noticed you sporadically over at DYK checking articles in prep. If you don't mind and if you have time, could you check over this article to see if there still is any copyvio? Many thanks. Fuebaey ( talk) 21:09, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I hate to be asking you against so soon, but I ran into this nomination where the nominator and reviewer are in disagreement regarding whether there is close paraphrasing, and looking for a third opinion. I was hoping you could provide that there when you have some extra time. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:31, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
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Why were the alt descriptions removed from the thumbed images in Chips and dip? Do they now automatically produce without having to add the alt parameter? North America 1000 00:53, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Nikkimaria. Thanks for helping with so many IR and SRs. I don't know how active you've been at Peer Review, but would you be interested and willing to give me some feedback at Wikipedia:Peer review/Chetro Ketl/archive1? I've put lot's of work into this for more than three months now, but I fear it won't go anywhere for lack of interest. What do you think? RO (talk) 16:04, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
When you're not certain whether there was a copyright or not with anything from 1923-1963, it's safest to go with a copyright check for renewal. There are times when I want to use part of a brochure from a railroad re: a particular train and I'm not sure that I've been able to view every page of it to check for marks, I then check for whether there were renewals of any possible copyright. If there are none, then I'm able to use the images from the brochure. If I can see the entire item, then I can say there are no copyright marks with confidence. I just thought it would be best to cover all possibilities. We hope ( talk) 17:55, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Okay, sounds good. I'd like to see the article incorporate something from Category:Wikipedia sources for tracking purposes (attributing by hand instead of using templates means that this doesn't happen automatically), and include date in the attribution note. I'm also not sure that we've done quite enough to "unambiguously indicat[e] exactly what has been copied verbatim" - not everything cited to these sources is copied, and not everything copied is quoted. Are you copying only from particular chapters? How extensive is the copying? Nikkimaria ( talk) 02:30, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
May I ask what is that thing you put on Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure article? -- ACase0000 ( talk) 02:50, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
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I made some changes to the history section. I tried to make it more easy to understand. It is going be on main page, so I don't want any tags on the article. Does it need more copy editing? Is there anything else that I should improve? Thank you Supdiop talk 14:23, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to return access so someone else can use it? Apparently the data from 1930 to 1966 is so sparse that the DB has nothing on any of the artists I was interested in. :-( Skyerise ( talk) 15:26, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria,
Thanks for taking an interest in the article I'm currently writing! Why dit you felt that the "Sega Power" review had to go? - Although I wasn't able to retrieve a digital copy of the review, I did provide a link for its concluding words, overall score and subscores (graphics, sound, ...).
In the near future I will add a blogger review section and a scan of the box art. Wikipedia rated the article "stub-class". Have you any suggestion on how to improve it?
Greetings — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vergewisbaar ( talk • contribs) 09:19, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the feedback. I checked the links in your reply and they will definetely come in handy! I removed the "spoiler alert' and the last paragraph in the plot section.
Apart from the "speculative claims" bit, The "Nazi references" section is mostly paraphrasing and quoting primary source material. I could just neutraly summarize the relevant parts of the plot and describe the visuals without attaching the obvious conclusions. The "strong female" section is already for the most part descriptive, I would only need to leave out the last sentence (about the "damsel in distress" trope not applying)
What concerns me the most is the "noble savage" section. It would trouble me to leave it out, since I do think my personal analysis there meets academic standards. Is there a way around it? Likewise I feel that the blog content (which I was planning on including) is often more insightful than the published material. I defenitely wouldn't consider the latter to be the more "reliable source".
"the prose is a little hard to follow" Could you clarify that a little more, please? - contentwise, grammatically, ...
thank you for your time!
Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vergewisbaar ( talk • contribs) 15:43, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikki, if you've got a moment, I'm after a quick bit of advice. I've just been dealing with some cut and pasting at East Weare Battery, where a lot of copyrighted material had made its way in across the article, and have had to revert it back to a safe state. Looking back at the contributions from the main editor, I think there are a lot of articles with close paraphrasing and straightforward copyright vio issues. It's clearly been good faith editing, but the problems seem to be widespread. Do we have an established approach for dealing with this kind of good-faith issue? Hchc2009 ( talk) 18:57, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
As the entries I am creating on the Archives Wiki can contain current external links not present on the FrWP pages I am taking basic details from what is the best way of indicating that the AW pages should be checked? (VisualEditor is needed to modify some of the FrWP pages or I would do so myself). Jackiespeel ( talk) 21:37, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Using AW theoretically enables more interaction than in a sandbox. Jackiespeel ( talk) 09:21, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Why are you removing the Muppets template now after all these years? It makes absolutely 0, 0 sense!! Ah ah ah ah ah!! -- Grouches101 ( Send a note then scram!! P.S. Have a rotten day!!!!) 00:15, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, Tim Riley and I have recently been working on P.G. Wodehouse; this article is now at FAC and I hope I can tempt you into doing the source review, if you have the time to spare? Cheers. – SchroCat ( talk) 01:12, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
There is a channel youtube made for mapping, so it decided to change the alternate future page. The edits I done were about mapping mappers needed it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.200.48.73 ( talk) 12:43, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC that you may be interested in at Template talk:Infobox country#RfC: Religion in infoboxes of nations. Please join us and help us to determine consensus on this issue. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 13:40, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, a new reviewer pointed out some identical phrases between article and sources in this one last month, but when the copyvio detector didn't highlight them again this month, had given the DYK nomination a tick before I intervened. Can you please check to see how prevalent the close paraphrasing/copyvio is here? If it's sufficiently serious, I'd imagine you'd want to tag the article and/or pull problematic material from it. Many thanks for whatever you can do here. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:12, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
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what does that mean??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cubisticmage626 ( talk • contribs) 03:12, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikki,
I see you removed a paragraph on Gordon Forlong's descendants, even though there was a source for it. I'm curious as to why you did that. The paragraph didn't mention any of them by name, so privacy concerns can't have had anything to do with it. Some other reason, perhaps? David Cannon ( talk) 04:46, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, it appears that the article of the two that you were concerned about has been expanded to 1585 prose characters. Can you please check, and if you feel it appropriate, restore the tick? (Alternatively, I can ask Cwmhiraeth to restore the tick if you'd prefer.) Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, can you please take a look at this? I gather that the source of some closely paraphrased material has a CC license that allows copying, but isn't something more required here? I don't want this to be promoted and have to pulled back; if there's some additional crediting that needs to be done, it should be done sooner rather than later. (The nomination's our oldest at this point...) Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 19:38, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nikki. Sorry to drag this up again but, despite your thoughtful input, the thread over at WP:RSN seemed to run out of steam without any conclusion being reached. Although User:Primefac's crusade against findmypast.com was (apparently) short-lived, I'd appreciate your views on the specific case at Sunetra Sarker, as an example. Many thanks. Martinevans123 ( talk) 19:50, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, there was some question about close paraphrasing raised by one reviewer, who hasn't yet returned to respond to the article's author. Can you please take a look and see whether there is indeed any close paraphrasing? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 03:10, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you could take a look at this one. Although this is one of those transwiki articles, a key source—the copyrighted English translation of Haag's bio on the bach-cantatas website—is where there were apparently issues earlier, with the English version of the article being too close to the one at bach-cantatas. I'm not asking for a German check, just the English versions. There was some work to reduce the close paraphrasing; I wanted to know whether it was sufficient, or that you felt it needed further work. Thanks for anything you can do here. BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:04, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to trouble you, i was approved by yourself for the BNA, that was a couple of weeks ago, i filled in all the forms as requested but i am still showing as only 3 pages to view on the website? just wondering if you know how long it normally takes to get approved by the BNA? Again sorry if i am being impatient. Iantheimp ( talk) 08:59, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Chetro Ketl is now a featured article candidate. Are you willing to provide an image and source review? RO (talk) 18:02, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I notice that you change {{reflist|2}} into {{reflist|30em}}, like you did on Beit Wazan, may I ask why? For me, this is rather inconvenient: I now get all the references in one column, instead of two: much more to scroll on my 13 inch Mac. Cheers, Huldra ( talk) 20:47, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this nomination clearly needs someone experienced in close paraphrasing issues to comment on whether the article has such problems, so I'm hoping you can do so. (I would frankly want someone other than the person who most recently commented to do the examination given the disclaimer made in that comment.) Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 17:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Re: Bejnar Unfortunately, I am not interested in access to Keesing's at present. I do not have enough time for Wikipedia really until Thanksgiving. Right now I only have very intermittent access to the Internet, and as you may note my edit count is way down. Thanks. Yes, next year (2016) I would be very interested. -- Bejnar ( talk) 17:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Nikkimaria. I wonder if I could persuade you to take a look at Template:Did you know nominations/Johann Lukas Legrand? There is a disagreement over whether or not close paraphrasing exists in this nomination and an informed opinion would be very helpful. Gatoclass ( talk) 15:37, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I just noticed that Cwmhiraeth attempted to ping you from this DYK nomination. Since you haven't replied, I'm assuming that pinging still doesn't work for you from template pages, and thought I'd let you know directly. BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:25, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria, I'm about to start on another article that I want to take up to FA in a while. One of the sources I have is is on a Kindle. This means that there are no pages, but there are electronic location identifiers throughout. Is there a way of using these in a way that passes FAC requirements, or is having the page numbers essential. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 10:08, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm still on the page but I can't find any email. Eric Corbett 18:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
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Hi, Nikkimaria! Would you be so kind as to provide us with an image review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Irataba/archive2? I'll understand if you are too busy or uninterested. Rationalobserver ( talk) 20:50, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if you could review my addition to the article about the Government of Venezuela. It's the list of legislatures. 2602:306:C541:CC60:81C3:A68C:7275:692 ( talk) 02:09, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the reminder. Some things had come up; I'm all completed now. Parkwells ( talk) 21:08, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I have Live and Let Die at FAC for consideration at the moment. Would you be able to work your magic on the references, please? Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 09:35, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
This article is currently a FA but I feel like it no longer meets FA criteria. So much information is unsourced, whole paragraphs just completely not referenced. What is the best course of action? Review? Delist? LADY LOTUS • TALK 20:29, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I just noticed that The Herald pinged you here, and since you usually don't get notified of pings from templates, I thought I'd post directly here and let you know. Thanks for checking again, and I hope the issues are finally set. BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:50, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
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Looking at other hockey biographies, it appears standard to wikilink countries in infoboxes and within the article. GaryColemanFan ( talk) 19:03, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I've been thinking lately about doing source reviews at FAC, since that seems to be a bottleneck for a lot of nominations. Are there any particular qualifications needed? Has anyone written a guide to source reviews? I'd like to help, but don't want to do it wrong and just make more work for other people. Thanks, Coemgenus ( talk) 14:21, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey Coemgenus, that looks pretty good for a first effort. A few additional thoughts:
Hi Nikki. Sorry to be a bother, but could you please look in at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Susan B. Anthony dollar/archive1 and do a source review when you get a few moments free? I can send you any book scans you may need by e-mail if you'd like them for spot checking. Thanks in advance!- RHM22 ( talk) 17:47, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
Nikki, flag icons are consistently used to represent the sporting nationality of Olympic swimmers in the infobox's nationality field. Please note that only about half of notable Olympic swimmers are medalists, and therefore your desire to eliminate the "duplicate" flag from the nationality parameter for medalists, such as Nicole Haislett, leads to inconsistent formatting for non-medalists for whom we do no have the option of displaying the flag icon in the non-existent medals table for non-medalists. For non-medalists, the flag icon can only be displayed in the nationality field. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 16:53, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Hey, Nikkimaria. I think this is a pretty sound resolution of the problem discussed above: [1]. There is now a new template parameter for Infobox swimmer, "national_team," which clarifies the intended meaning. Flag icons will only be used in the infoboxes for those swimmers who are/were members of their respective national teams in international competition, i.e., Olympic Games, FINA world championships, Pan American Games, Commonwealth Games, Pan Pacific Championships, or European championships. The new parameter is exclusive: once "national_team" is invoked, the "nationality" parameter cannot also be used. For the minority of notable swimmers who were never members of their national team, they will continue to use "nationality," but with no flag icon. There should be relatively few of the latter, because almost by definition notable swimmers are those who have competed internationally. The redundant flags will be removed from the infobox medals table (if there is one for a given swimmer), with a limited exception for the English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish flags for British swimmers who have won medals medals while competing for England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland in the Commonwealth Games. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:36, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, after noticing the removal of the infobox. Would the infobox be accepted but the picture won't be in the infobox? As I tried to make it smaller with no success. Seqqis ( talk) 00:50, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Screwed up the ping at [2] so doing it the old-fashioned way. Montanabw (talk) 08:17, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, there's been a request at WT:DYK to check this nomination for close paraphrasing: the reviewer had found some in previous iterations, and now wants someone else to check, though the actual request was posted by the nominator. If you have the chance, can you please take a look? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 06:57, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, are you the only person who does image reviews for FAC? Wasn't sure, but we need one for my Bazy FAC. Montanabw (talk) 02:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your review. Looks like you are all done with your part, so do you have to sign off with a "support" on your ref checks and image checks being done, or do the powers that be just look to see that you are finished... or? Montanabw (talk) 22:01, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
From the Peer review volunteers list on British literature, you are invited to comment on this peer review which has been in the backlog. Good day, Joel. Ugog Nizdast ( talk) 06:16, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Biot. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Biot redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. GoingBatty ( talk) 22:10, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
I have opened the second FAC for the article. Please do let me know if you would like to make any comments. Thanks. — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 02:23, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Can you also do a source review for the film? Do let me know. Thanks. — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 07:54, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Could you please explain your reasoning for editing the The Herald (Glasgow) link on the above article. As the creator of the article, I know of no reason for this edit! Gomach ( talk) 14:42, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. I changed your initial edit because the formatting did not produce the desired: The Herald link in the article. As can be seen in the references section at the moment.... Gomach ( talk) 17:27, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Nikkimaria, I've applied for the Elsevier Science direct access in January and got your mail for approval in February. I used the link in your mail to register four days later, but never got any feedback. So I've tried again to register four or five weeks ago, but again got no answer. I'm not sure if I have not filled the registration form correctly (but in fact there it is really easy) or if the registration procedure at Elsevier takes such a long time. Could you please check this out for me? Thanks a lot in Advance and many greetings, -- Sternrenette ( talk) 09:28, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Would you please take a look at Matthias Mende and check (1) if the article existed on 07 October 2013, and if so, (2) whether the guy described in the article at that time is the same guy (app designer) deemed not notable in the recent AFD? There is a notable art historian by the same name, which I wikilinked from another article way back then; it might have been a redlink at that time, but I'd like to make sure the article wasn't simply usurped without anyone noticing. Thank you! Maralia ( talk) 01:46, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I've decided to help this DYK nomination get to the point that it can be approved, but after I started work, I realized there was significant close paraphrasing from Galloway's bio on his own website.
I've just done a first pass at attempting to take care of that close paraphrasing, but I'm not a safe judge of my own efforts, so I was wondering whether you could take a look and let me know what's left to do. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 05:49, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey, Nikkimaria, you mind doing an image review for the list article, American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front order of battle, since Anotherclown suggested it earlier in it's ACR. The reason I asked since I am pretty sure you're the only one in know that does image reviews at the ACR. Thanks, Tomandjerry211 ( Let's have a chat) 20:46, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I'm sorry for the oversight, which has just occurred to me ... I pinged DrK and Maralia to this sandbox, as we all three work on WP:URFA, and Cas was pinged by his article work, but you never got a ping! We are developing a new URFA page at Wikipedia:Unreviewed featured articles/sandbox. Bst, SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 14:31, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
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Hi! Thank you for your edits on Gotland Museum, there were several things there I did not know. Small question though: The official name of the permanent exhibition about the battle of Visby and Gotland is "1361 - Battle for Gotland" but I linked it to the article Battle of Visby since it covers the same thing, roughly. Shouldn't the official name for the exhibition be used in the text? On the island the "1361" is sort of a "trademark" to sum up all of the things happening that year. It actually also includes the Battle of Mästerby. OR should it be specified that the exhibition is about all of the events that year? Or just mention the name of the exhibition with no link? Suggestions? Best, w.carter -Talk 14:04, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, there's a request for a second opinion on close paraphrasing from the reviewer here. Could you please check and see whether, in your opinion, it is or not? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 23:21, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello, please use the article talk page, rather then to randomly removing additions. Thanks. Via https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Elite:_Dangerous&action=history prokaryotes ( talk) 11:49, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi. While I appreciate your adherence to the MOS guideline, this edit throws off the entire table at lower resolutions, since the image is too big to fit above it. Would you be OK with me restoring the 100px size? It's there for good reason. Otherwise, the image will bleed into the table section which shortens the width. In other words, I want to keep that image out of the table area. Viriditas ( talk) 03:54, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
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Please stop attacking the Soldier at a Game of Chess article. Your claims of copyvio appear to be nonsense, your tagging on other issues is wp:POINTY now. If i were an admin and not involved I would block you from editing. Consider this as warning. -- do ncr am 17:30, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Your name has been mentioned at ANI, or whatever I am supposed to say. I ask for you to be blocked in "request block DYK-related preventative right now" section of wp:ANI. -- do ncr am 17:41, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Saw Laser edit summary under "please stop", scrolled down through 180 sections ... holy cow, Nikki, Archive Your Talk Page! SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:40, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Yes it absolutely was tag-bombing and fighting to mar, reduce, and generally attack a DYK-featured article any way you could, when every concern could and should have been addressed later, IMO. You lost me when your "evidence" of copyvio turned out to be from your erroneous application of dupdet tool. Or maybe you lost me on some petty change you were forcing. Congratulations, you win: its DYK mention was taken off the mainpage. -- do ncr am 19:21, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I'm having trouble renewing my access to HighBeam. I received your email which included my new activation code, but when I click on the link listed at Wikipedia:HighBeam/Support, all I end up with is page asking for a credit card # or some other form of payment. There doesn't appear to be a place to input codes for existing accounts. Levdr1lp / talk 20:54, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi! I got the log in and password for MUSE and I've already started using it. Thank you so much! :D Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 17:20, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, the nominator has posted that he's taken care of the close paraphrasing. Can you please check to see whether you agree? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:24, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
When you get a chance, will you please provide us with an image review at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Irataba/archive3? RO (talk) 16:40, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
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I know you're busy, but can you please confirm or deny that this government report ( [4]) is PD? Thanks! RO (talk) 22:21, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria,
Why do you keep removing the new links on Elizaveta's page?
Flowerarmyrecords ( talk) 20:57, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Ah ok, thank you for your reply.
I'm very new to Wikipedia and it looked like somebody was trying to delete things :-)
Some content has actually been deleted by your changes (or the Bots changes).
It was reference to a Russian Film.
I'm assuming it's ok to add that text if I don't add a link to it?
Flowerarmyrecords ( talk) 21:34, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Hey Nikkimaria, I have placed tentative {{Template:PD-US-no notice}} notices on two files that I THINK are OK to transfer to commons, but I need your eye on them to double-check. They are photos of two trophies (or replicas, which are PD if the underlying art is): the Triple Crown Trophy at File:Triple crown three sided Trophy.jpg, created in 1950; and the Kentucky Derby Trophy at File:Ky Derby Trophy.jpg created in 1924. The photographer is a wiki editor who put a GDFL tag on his photos, so that's OK, but the question is if the underlying work of three-dimensioal art - the trophies themselves - are public domain. I just did an hour or so of research on the issue of 3-D fine art works, sculptures, etc., for the USA and I think that this applies (it does to jewelry, for example). The Kentucky Derby trophy appears to have no artist credit and it's a "standard" trophy design, anyway, but the Triple Crown Trophy was designed by "Cartier" on a commission, so again, unclear if there ever was a copyright, but it's a unique design. Help? Montanabw (talk) 02:54, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Nikkimaria. I see you have not been on Wikipedia for the past 24 hours but if you find the time today or tomorrow I would very much appreciate your looking once again at the images on the Carl Nielsen article. Timing is becoming pretty critical if we want to hit the 9 June anniversary date. We hope and I have been working overtime on the images but Crisco 1492 seems to think there are still problems outstanding. I really would like to get these problems sorted out asap. Elekhh has also offered to help but his time is limited. Hope you can help by being more specific on the remaining problems.-- Ipigott ( talk) 20:38, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria, I wanted to stop by and drop you a note to thank you for your work with setting up the Project Muse accounts. That's a database I've wanted access to for many years because it hosts periodicals with scholarly articles about children's literature that I've not been able to find anywhere else, and without access I've left quite a lot of articles unfinished for lack of sources. I activated my acct. this week and was thrilled at what I found there. A number of WP articles will benefit and hopefully get to a more finished state. Thanks again for your time for making this possible. Also, the women's literature database is quite fascinating, but it's not as useful because it's mostly primary sources. Still I've earmarked a few articles that will be benefit from that resource as well. Victoria ( tk) 20:41, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
You may remember the disruptive and POVpushing editor that I've encountered on Somali topics, Middayexpress. He's continuing his POVpushing in all sorts of places, and I'm really exasperated. There's lots of evidence about what he does - talkpages full of it. Could I just simply block him? You may remember the RfC was indecisive, but the other alternative is Arbcom. Cheers Buckshot06 (talk) 20:43, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for reviewing my contributions to the Mitsubishi Eclipse page. I’m a new editor to Wikipedia and I appreciate any feedback. You removed the section I created for Popular Film and Culture citing “needs reliable sourcing.” Is the concern about reliable sourcing regarding the vehicle being in the movie or the fact that Paul Walker’s character drove the vehicle? If the concern is over the reference to Paul Walker, I’m happy to remove any reference to Paul Walker but I believe I cited significant support for validating that the Mitsubishi Eclipse appeared in the film.
Expandinglight5 ( talk) 16:30, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
I know you're busy, but we still need a source review and spotcheck for Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Irataba/archive3. Would you be willing to help us out with this? If you need them for spot-checking, Maunus has PDFs for most of the main sources. RO (talk) 16:47, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this article has been rewritten/edited since you last saw it, and I was wondering whether the close paraphrasing was adequately dealt with. If so, I'll be calling for a new reviewer, but I wanted to be sure it was first. Can you please take a look and let me know whether it's ready for review or still needs work? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:36, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria: I had an account with Birds of North America through Wikipedia. It was due to expire earlier this year, but I got an email from you on April 8 saying it would be renewed. Today, I tried to access the site and got a "this page is only available to subscribers" message. When I tried to enter my user name and password, it gave me the same message. Can you please let me know if I should still have access to this? Thanks! MeegsC ( talk) 03:04, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. Alas no message received yet about this. Apwoolrich ( talk) 06:06, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm having trouble accessing project Muse today. I tried a few times in different browsers. Is this a normal outage, or do I need to renew? Thanks! Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 16:45, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria, I've noticed you sporadically over at DYK checking articles in prep. If you don't mind and if you have time, could you check over this article to see if there still is any copyvio? Many thanks. Fuebaey ( talk) 21:09, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I hate to be asking you against so soon, but I ran into this nomination where the nominator and reviewer are in disagreement regarding whether there is close paraphrasing, and looking for a third opinion. I was hoping you could provide that there when you have some extra time. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 00:31, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
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Why were the alt descriptions removed from the thumbed images in Chips and dip? Do they now automatically produce without having to add the alt parameter? North America 1000 00:53, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Nikkimaria. Thanks for helping with so many IR and SRs. I don't know how active you've been at Peer Review, but would you be interested and willing to give me some feedback at Wikipedia:Peer review/Chetro Ketl/archive1? I've put lot's of work into this for more than three months now, but I fear it won't go anywhere for lack of interest. What do you think? RO (talk) 16:04, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
When you're not certain whether there was a copyright or not with anything from 1923-1963, it's safest to go with a copyright check for renewal. There are times when I want to use part of a brochure from a railroad re: a particular train and I'm not sure that I've been able to view every page of it to check for marks, I then check for whether there were renewals of any possible copyright. If there are none, then I'm able to use the images from the brochure. If I can see the entire item, then I can say there are no copyright marks with confidence. I just thought it would be best to cover all possibilities. We hope ( talk) 17:55, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Okay, sounds good. I'd like to see the article incorporate something from Category:Wikipedia sources for tracking purposes (attributing by hand instead of using templates means that this doesn't happen automatically), and include date in the attribution note. I'm also not sure that we've done quite enough to "unambiguously indicat[e] exactly what has been copied verbatim" - not everything cited to these sources is copied, and not everything copied is quoted. Are you copying only from particular chapters? How extensive is the copying? Nikkimaria ( talk) 02:30, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
May I ask what is that thing you put on Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure article? -- ACase0000 ( talk) 02:50, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
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I made some changes to the history section. I tried to make it more easy to understand. It is going be on main page, so I don't want any tags on the article. Does it need more copy editing? Is there anything else that I should improve? Thank you Supdiop talk 14:23, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Is it possible to return access so someone else can use it? Apparently the data from 1930 to 1966 is so sparse that the DB has nothing on any of the artists I was interested in. :-( Skyerise ( talk) 15:26, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria,
Thanks for taking an interest in the article I'm currently writing! Why dit you felt that the "Sega Power" review had to go? - Although I wasn't able to retrieve a digital copy of the review, I did provide a link for its concluding words, overall score and subscores (graphics, sound, ...).
In the near future I will add a blogger review section and a scan of the box art. Wikipedia rated the article "stub-class". Have you any suggestion on how to improve it?
Greetings — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vergewisbaar ( talk • contribs) 09:19, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the feedback. I checked the links in your reply and they will definetely come in handy! I removed the "spoiler alert' and the last paragraph in the plot section.
Apart from the "speculative claims" bit, The "Nazi references" section is mostly paraphrasing and quoting primary source material. I could just neutraly summarize the relevant parts of the plot and describe the visuals without attaching the obvious conclusions. The "strong female" section is already for the most part descriptive, I would only need to leave out the last sentence (about the "damsel in distress" trope not applying)
What concerns me the most is the "noble savage" section. It would trouble me to leave it out, since I do think my personal analysis there meets academic standards. Is there a way around it? Likewise I feel that the blog content (which I was planning on including) is often more insightful than the published material. I defenitely wouldn't consider the latter to be the more "reliable source".
"the prose is a little hard to follow" Could you clarify that a little more, please? - contentwise, grammatically, ...
thank you for your time!
Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vergewisbaar ( talk • contribs) 15:43, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikki, if you've got a moment, I'm after a quick bit of advice. I've just been dealing with some cut and pasting at East Weare Battery, where a lot of copyrighted material had made its way in across the article, and have had to revert it back to a safe state. Looking back at the contributions from the main editor, I think there are a lot of articles with close paraphrasing and straightforward copyright vio issues. It's clearly been good faith editing, but the problems seem to be widespread. Do we have an established approach for dealing with this kind of good-faith issue? Hchc2009 ( talk) 18:57, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
As the entries I am creating on the Archives Wiki can contain current external links not present on the FrWP pages I am taking basic details from what is the best way of indicating that the AW pages should be checked? (VisualEditor is needed to modify some of the FrWP pages or I would do so myself). Jackiespeel ( talk) 21:37, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Using AW theoretically enables more interaction than in a sandbox. Jackiespeel ( talk) 09:21, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
Why are you removing the Muppets template now after all these years? It makes absolutely 0, 0 sense!! Ah ah ah ah ah!! -- Grouches101 ( Send a note then scram!! P.S. Have a rotten day!!!!) 00:15, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, Tim Riley and I have recently been working on P.G. Wodehouse; this article is now at FAC and I hope I can tempt you into doing the source review, if you have the time to spare? Cheers. – SchroCat ( talk) 01:12, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
There is a channel youtube made for mapping, so it decided to change the alternate future page. The edits I done were about mapping mappers needed it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.200.48.73 ( talk) 12:43, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
There is an RfC that you may be interested in at Template talk:Infobox country#RfC: Religion in infoboxes of nations. Please join us and help us to determine consensus on this issue. -- Guy Macon ( talk) 13:40, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, a new reviewer pointed out some identical phrases between article and sources in this one last month, but when the copyvio detector didn't highlight them again this month, had given the DYK nomination a tick before I intervened. Can you please check to see how prevalent the close paraphrasing/copyvio is here? If it's sufficiently serious, I'd imagine you'd want to tag the article and/or pull problematic material from it. Many thanks for whatever you can do here. BlueMoonset ( talk) 04:12, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
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what does that mean??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cubisticmage626 ( talk • contribs) 03:12, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi Nikki,
I see you removed a paragraph on Gordon Forlong's descendants, even though there was a source for it. I'm curious as to why you did that. The paragraph didn't mention any of them by name, so privacy concerns can't have had anything to do with it. Some other reason, perhaps? David Cannon ( talk) 04:46, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, it appears that the article of the two that you were concerned about has been expanded to 1585 prose characters. Can you please check, and if you feel it appropriate, restore the tick? (Alternatively, I can ask Cwmhiraeth to restore the tick if you'd prefer.) Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 18:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, can you please take a look at this? I gather that the source of some closely paraphrased material has a CC license that allows copying, but isn't something more required here? I don't want this to be promoted and have to pulled back; if there's some additional crediting that needs to be done, it should be done sooner rather than later. (The nomination's our oldest at this point...) Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 19:38, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Nikki. Sorry to drag this up again but, despite your thoughtful input, the thread over at WP:RSN seemed to run out of steam without any conclusion being reached. Although User:Primefac's crusade against findmypast.com was (apparently) short-lived, I'd appreciate your views on the specific case at Sunetra Sarker, as an example. Many thanks. Martinevans123 ( talk) 19:50, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, there was some question about close paraphrasing raised by one reviewer, who hasn't yet returned to respond to the article's author. Can you please take a look and see whether there is indeed any close paraphrasing? Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 03:10, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hello. I'd like to renew my subscription. Do I need to request a new subscription, or will there be another way? Best regards, Jeff5102 ( talk) 20:41, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you could take a look at this one. Although this is one of those transwiki articles, a key source—the copyrighted English translation of Haag's bio on the bach-cantatas website—is where there were apparently issues earlier, with the English version of the article being too close to the one at bach-cantatas. I'm not asking for a German check, just the English versions. There was some work to reduce the close paraphrasing; I wanted to know whether it was sufficient, or that you felt it needed further work. Thanks for anything you can do here. BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:04, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, sorry to trouble you, i was approved by yourself for the BNA, that was a couple of weeks ago, i filled in all the forms as requested but i am still showing as only 3 pages to view on the website? just wondering if you know how long it normally takes to get approved by the BNA? Again sorry if i am being impatient. Iantheimp ( talk) 08:59, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Chetro Ketl is now a featured article candidate. Are you willing to provide an image and source review? RO (talk) 18:02, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I notice that you change {{reflist|2}} into {{reflist|30em}}, like you did on Beit Wazan, may I ask why? For me, this is rather inconvenient: I now get all the references in one column, instead of two: much more to scroll on my 13 inch Mac. Cheers, Huldra ( talk) 20:47, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, this nomination clearly needs someone experienced in close paraphrasing issues to comment on whether the article has such problems, so I'm hoping you can do so. (I would frankly want someone other than the person who most recently commented to do the examination given the disclaimer made in that comment.) Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 17:13, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
Re: Bejnar Unfortunately, I am not interested in access to Keesing's at present. I do not have enough time for Wikipedia really until Thanksgiving. Right now I only have very intermittent access to the Internet, and as you may note my edit count is way down. Thanks. Yes, next year (2016) I would be very interested. -- Bejnar ( talk) 17:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Nikkimaria. I wonder if I could persuade you to take a look at Template:Did you know nominations/Johann Lukas Legrand? There is a disagreement over whether or not close paraphrasing exists in this nomination and an informed opinion would be very helpful. Gatoclass ( talk) 15:37, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I just noticed that Cwmhiraeth attempted to ping you from this DYK nomination. Since you haven't replied, I'm assuming that pinging still doesn't work for you from template pages, and thought I'd let you know directly. BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:25, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
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