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Hi again Nikkimaria, your page is getting slow; but it speeds up once the syntax highlighting is disabled. I've been doing some clean up of an article that I didn't write or expand, Joni Eareckson Tada. There are a couple of editors who have been stewarding the article, so it's not just out there. I am invested in the article; I have added some content to it, mostly in the way of the awards, services, Bibliography and so forth.. not really in the way of the written content. I have my own reasons for selecting this article, rather than one of my own. The one editor has changed the article class from Start to C since I have done cleanup of those things as well as the references and some section cleanup as well. Well, it just looks a lot better. They don't know it yet, but my ultimate goal is to keep improving the article class. I found the Wikipedia:Peer review page. But I just thought you could take a quick look and just tell me anything that stands out to you right away? It's not a long article. Is that page helpful? I thought do that before looking for an editor to do a GA review. This would only be my second GA review, and my first doing it alone...unless of course I can talk the stewarding editor into doing it with me. I don't want to step on their toes so to speak. Any advice? Thanks in advance... dawnleelynn (talk) 21:46, 4 December 2018 (UTC) p.s. my mentor is not available for awhile...thanks... dawnleelynn (talk) 21:49, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
On 8 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! BWV 214, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Bach composed the cantata Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! to honor Maria Josepha of Saxony (pictured) on her birthday on 8 December 1733? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! BWV 214. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! BWV 214), 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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why is my contribution to the voice ' Frank Sinatra' punctually canceled? Yet those news are in the book of Italian music journalist Gildo De Stefano. Thank you! -- Entertainer ( talk) 14:07, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
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I do not think my contribution on Sinatra is out of place, rather it enriches with new Italian details of the life of the American artist. Moreover, they are news that no other biography reports, not even American ones. --
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On 12 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marion Leane Smith, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Marion Leane Smith is the only Aboriginal Australian woman known to have served in the First World War? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marion Leane Smith. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Marion Leane Smith), 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.
— Maile ( talk) 12:04, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, Could you have a look at the situation here with regard to using a (probably) non-free image in an article that has a lot of free ones? Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 08:45, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hello there! I saw that you were removing Category:Wives of knights from multiple articles. Wives of knights, similar to Category:Wives of baronets, is a social category standing that gives the subject the legal and social title, style, and rank of ' Lady' within the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations. So, for example, Barbara Bach (an article from which the category was removed) is legally and socially "Lady Starkey" by virtue of her marriage to a British knight. Additionally, ex-wives of knights are entitled to keep their style and title if they chose, and only lose it upon remarriage to a man of lower rank. See Category:Women by social class. So this category denotes something of social and legal significance and is not merely a contrived content fork. It is similar to categorization of the wives of peers and courtesy lords (i.e. Category:English viscountesses and Category:English courtesy viscountesses. -- Willthacheerleader18 ( talk) 06:27, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
I request you to please keep a watch on this user account Yudisthir Shivaprasad Rai
Yudirai(
talk).
He is the same person who is repeatedly vandalizing
Mangalore related articles with Tulu/
Tulunadu content, using multiple accounts.
Yesterday, the
Mangalore article got protected from IP edits due to his Tulu related vandalisms.
On 18th July 2018, the
Tulu Nadu received page protection from his IP related vandalism. But, since
Yudirai(
talk) user is autoconfirmed, he again vandalized that article the very next day.
He has also vandalized the
Bunt (community) article as well. The user account
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This is the second time that you revert two fanwikis I added. The first time was at the beginning of this year: User talk:Nikkimaria/Archive 37#Non-rs
You appear to have some kind of tool installed which automatically detects links to fanwikis? Instead of mindlessly removing them, maybe you should actually read what I wrote. - Manifestation ( talk) 11:47, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi, you may want to add your new Canada article to Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada/The 10,000 Challenge/Recent additions. Best, Yoninah ( talk) 13:32, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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On 1 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of the Hatpins, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in the Battle of the Hatpins, women protestors repelled police officers with rolling pins and skillets? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of the Hatpins. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Battle of the Hatpins), 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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Thank you for your help last year, including image review of the TFA, and many others! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:56, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I've been very inactive since October due to health issues, so I'm way behind on developments. Did the subscription problem with JSTOR get resolved? There was an issue with a batch of renewal requests, including mine, that had been submitted to them but then gone wrong in some way. You were trying to sort it out but I really can't remember the details and the conversations were spread across numerous venues, sorry. - Sitush ( talk) 06:09, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Your edit summary for this edit said "See template doc. (TW)". I'm not sure whether that adresses the IP or me. Regardless, your edit removed the ''{{explain}}'' template I had added so maybe there is something I am missing. Moriori ( talk) 04:43, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
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For your image reviews of 143 Military history articles in 2018, I hereby award you the Premium Reviewer Barnstar. Thanks for all your help with curly image licensing questions, and for all your work image reviewing in general. We wouldn't have the amazing throughput we have as a project, if it wasn't for you. Regards, Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 01:40, 8 January 2019 (UTC) |
Nikkimaria, the original review of this nomination called out close paraphrasing/copying. While I gather that significant editing has gone on behind the scenes, including by the reviewer who noted this issue, I'd feel happier, before calling for a new reviewer, if you'd check to be sure that the issue has been dealt with to your satisfaction. Many thanks, and (a belated) Happy New Year! BlueMoonset ( talk) 14:11, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hoping you are well NM. I know you must get asked all the time; but you were good enough to look in on this A-class review (over a year ago!), but it's now at FAC, and of course needs another...the images are unchanged except for swapping out two maps. No problem if you're too busy though. Take care! —— SerialNumber 54129 15:40, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I dislike coming begging, but you were kind enough to do the image review for Battle of Auberoche at ACR, Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Auberoche. It is currently at FAC with five supports but no image nor source review. If you could see your way clear to doing an image review I would be most grateful. Regards. Gog the Mild ( talk) 19:44, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Yesterday, I moved Hailey Kinsel, 2018 world champion barrel racer, to main space and nominated her for DYK. It's not one of my long articles. So, if you could look it over for encyclopedic tone or anything else that stands out to you. I think I'm getting better at it. Thanks a bunch! Also, hope you are well. dawnleelynn (talk) 20:45, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria
Thanks so much for some forensic and very helpful reviewing.
I wondered if there's anything remaining at the FAC that you'd like fixed?
-- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 11:02, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
On the "survived by", what I think TRM was saying is we've met the guideline because we talk at length about Beattie's wife. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 16:22, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I hope all is well with you. Can I make a quick check with you on the image File:'Princess Alice' (1865) beached after being cut in two in a collision (1878).jpg? I can find no information relating to a first publication, although I suspect it probably was used somewhere. It dates from 1878, so 70 years after creation was 1948 - according to this we should be able to use it, but thought I'd check first. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 15:14, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria. I found you on the volunteers Peer Review list of music section. My request standing unanswered since 6th December and I wanted to ask you if it would be possible to check this discography. If you are interested I have two more completed lists and one short article (passed DYK) in my queue. Eurohunter ( talk) 17:18, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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From your edit summary, I don’t understand why you removed two pieces of cited material. Kerry ( talk) 05:17, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:53, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
Respectfully, why did you remove his cause of death? It had been incorrectly stated as "stroke", which I corrected to congestive heart failure, with the reference to the source. Bell's life, given his importance in the aeronautical world, is under-documented, and Wikipedia has a reputation for disseminating documented data. Why edit out factual information? I suppose that I could have added a further, in text body, sentence pointing out that he had suffered from heart disease nearly all of his adult life; this was an important factor in his career. Thanks. Canucksailor ( talk) 15:46, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I'm trying to find suitable images for Theodora Kroeber, and came across this 1927 image (further details here). I haven't been able to find evidence of copyright renewal, but I don't know how to make certain of that. Any advice? Vanamonde ( Talk) 17:53, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
The nominator says that he's add all the needed tags for the images in Marcus Aurelius. Can you check that and let us know if you're satisfied with the state of the images so we can put the nom to bed?-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 00:51, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, a month ago I received an email from Wikipedia Library Card Platform saying that my access request to JSTOR was approved, but I haven't received anything from them yet. Could you check it out? T8612 (talk) 18:25, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
I've found a nice photo showing the torpedo damage suffered by a French battleship in 1914 and am wondering what it's copyright status might be. It's at [1] if you scroll down a bit. It's credited to Fonds Chopard (SHD/MV 99 GG2) which is part of the French Navy archives. Being taken by an official photographer I imagine that we'll never know the name of the photographer so would Anonymous-EU apply? Or is all this irrelevant because it's first confirmed publication was in 2012 so it falls afoul of the 120-year-requirement for never-published, anonymous works of the Hirtle chart?-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 16:10, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
My JSTOR access is definitely working as it should now. I'm most grateful for your help. - Sitush ( talk) 15:26, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I reverted you removal to John Franzese Jr with regards to the Daily Mail. I did this under WP:IAR which is cited when it warns about the source not generally being accepted. In this case the only thing that I advance with that source is that the subject of the article wife, ex whatever she is was featured on an episode of a television show. The only other source I have is IMDB. Is there a reason that it wouldn't work if it is for something non controversial in nature? It gives a bit more info but not at the expense of BLP. Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 03:13, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
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I observe you are deleting references to the above site in my articles. As I know of no other site that contains such information on minor firehouses, I am confused as to the issue. DMBanks1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by DMBanks1 ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Let me clarify. When I make the simple statement "my articles", I am merely indicating initial authorship upon which the only third party revisions have been of a format nature. It was to differentiate from having made some revision to an established article. I never imagined it would be a source of such consternation. Like the average person, I am perfectly aware of how Wikipedia functions. Contributors may not always appreciate the changes I make to their articles or vice versa, but that is the reality. Consequently, I would not knowingly use a source which was unreliable.
I have a reasonable working knowledge of East Line area (from Prince George, BC) communities. I can detect nothing in " http://fire.wikia.com/wiki/Shell-Glen_Volunteer_Fire_Rescue" or " http://fire.wikia.com/wiki/Ferndale-Tabor_Fire_Department" which appears the slightest suspect. Naturally, I cannot comment on other firehouses on their site, but to throw out the baby with the bath water seems a puzzling policy. It would be like equating the well researched and written articles in Wikipedia, with the numerous ones which exhibit limited or no obvious merit whatsoever.
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The former has its own website " https://www.sgvfr.com/". Is this an appropriate source? DMBanks1 ( talk) 23:21, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
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...would you be able to do a source review for the Princess Alice Disaster FAC too? I'd be extremely grateful if you could spare the time.
I am, as always, conscious of the number of requests I put through to you without reciprocation; should you ever need help with reviews or anything else, please let me know. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 22:26, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for you help in finding close paraphrasing issues I missed at Vikram Sood and The Unending Game. If you have a moment, could you see if I missed anything at Thomas D. Mangelsen & Grizzly 399? I think I have caught most of it. Thanks! Flibirigit ( talk) 06:40, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, can you please take a look at this 5x expanded article? There were originally a number of large quotes in the second paragraph of Career that have been toned down, but is it enough to satisfy general Wikipedia standards? (I did my own edit to reduce quoting from one of the sources and increase the paraphrasing.) I think it may be there, but I trust your judgment, and know you'll ask for more paraphrasing if it's truly needed. Many thanks. (Note: DYKcheck has overcounted the number of characters in the pre-expansion article; I have a note in to Shubinator about the issue, but the base is in the high 1800s or low 1900s, not 2144.) BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:51, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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On 9 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alice de Rivera, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Alice de Rivera sued the New York City Board of Education after she was barred from a specialized high school due to her gender? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alice de Rivera. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Alice de Rivera), 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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Could you add this video tutorial link to the partner page for Gale: " How to properly generate Gale citation URLs for use on Wikipedia", because this instruction wasn't easy to find, and it differs from the more obvious URL format. I've already added it to Wikipedia:Gale. If we don't use their format, the links may not be as persistent as we'd like. -- Netoholic @ 21:23, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
Thanks. I also just noticed that the "Terms of use" link on the partner page is dead, if you could take a look. -- Netoholic @ 07:08, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hey I deletd my old ling.nut email acct, and jstor says I already have an acct with my current WP address. I have no idea or recollection of this. I dunno what acct I used, maybe axylus.arisbe? I dunno what to do. Would like to apply for journals esp. jstor. Tks. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 10:23, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
I fought to save this article at AfD but now that I'm more experienced and mature, I think that might have been an error of judgement. Riley Ann was a baby/toddler and is only known for her murder, not for anything she did as a person. She's not like Johanna who is automatically notable despite her toddler status because she was royalty. Maybe another AfD nomination would be worth considering? Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 10:36, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikki,
About a year ago you did an image review for The Infinity Gauntlet at FAC, but that was eventually archived without clear support from you. The second nomination also looks like it's stalling. If you have time, would you mind to look the changes over and let me know if I've addressed your concerns? The current discussion is here. Thanks! Argento Surfer ( talk) 19:05, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I've not been active for a while because of health issues. At some point I lost all access to Jstor, which was restored, but I've realized I can only view a limited number of articles each month and don't have permission to download any. I was one of the original 30 subscribers and haven't signed up to the TWL because I'm not convinced I'll be able to use it at this time, but I would like to be able to get into Jstor if I might want to so some work. Do you have any advice to get past the 6 article limit and reinstate full access? Thanks, Victoriaearle ( tk) 20:19, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
( ←) ( talk page stalker) You know, I was just noticing the same thing. JSTOR used to be awesome. Now it's just window shopping. JSTOR doesn't love Wikipeda anymore...? ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 00:50, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you'd be able to return here and check to see whether any close paraphrasing or copyvio issues remain in this article. It would really help to get the next review off to a good start if the state of the article could be established now. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:08, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Nikki before you go deleting references, read the article and look at the pictures. Do you think this was a Prince Charles impostor or something?? I can assure you there was nothing wrong with this article. James Kevin McMahon ( talk) 12:04, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
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I've been having some difficulty using {{ Infobox scientist/Wikidata}} as you noticed at Charles Hugh Smiley and Robert Horace Baker. I've been trying to add references to wikidata statements so that the template will automatically pull the proper entries from there. Any advice on how to go about this would be greatly appreciated. --23:14, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
|birth_place=
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Infobox scientist/Wikidata}}, it supplies every parameter as a blank value. This only affected the entries that were inside the {{
br separated entries}} template, and I've fixed it (I hope) in {{
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Infobox scientist/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}
and it shows up with a blank "Scientific career" section, just switch to using {{
Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}
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Hey! You removed a section I added in the article for Kalale ( /info/en/?search=Kalale), stating that I did not have "reliable sources." (a) The source I had used was quite reputable, in my opinion, as it is officially managed by people from Pottermore as well. Further, the nature of the reference (i.e, a mention in the movie) is impossible to source directly, and I don't see why the source I used was incorrect.
(b) Even if the source I used was incorrect, why did you get rid of the information sourced from it as well? The information I had mentioned was, for all intenets and purposes, factual, and worthy of putting into the article (similar to the "In Popular Culture" section in many different articles). If you had a problem with the citations, I don't see why you didn't just challenge the citations. This is especially jarring since the rest of the article has little to no citations in general, yet you removed the section which had two references. Cool12y ( talk) 01:35, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
I only have The Curse of Mr. Bean on my watchlist but this editor introduced Americanisms into a British article. Such as "stomps on", where anyone whose read an Enid Blyton tale knows that a British child "stamps" their foot. They also changed the (British) term "small girl" into the (American style) "little girl". There made need to be intervention? Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 08:09, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting. That was accidental - I meant to click "no automated actions." -- TheSandDoctor Talk 01:48, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for your edit here, but it unintentionally broke the list of mayors order. There are some 135 of these and for considerations regarding consistency I have reverted your edit. Thanks, Mercy11 ( talk) 03:34, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
On 8 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Librotraficante, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Librotraficante smuggled books into Arizona? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Librotraficante. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Librotraficante), 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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Hello, I got a little carried away with that Aphex Twin edit, the excitement of a seemingly new piece of information had me going in blind! Its a great archive piece of footage of him, is it possible to add the youtube video as an external link? I couldn't find any 'reliable' sources to back it up other than those I mentioned, ill look a little deeper. RicardoDonovan ( talk) 17:52, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hey, thanks so much for commenting at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Almost There (album)/archive1! I've (hopefully) fixed the issues you've brought up, and figure I'd comment here in case you didn't the page to watch. Thanks again! Toa Nidhiki05 00:05, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Please explain why you keep removing cause of death. Thank you. deisenbe ( talk) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I'm not sure whether you've ever been able to get pings; if not, there's one for you on this DYK nomination page. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:22, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
I am wondering why you removed the links i was trying to make it easier to get more information on the creatures, instead of having to copy and pasting the name into google. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WakeyJakey ( talk • contribs) 15:28, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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I am posting on this talk page to let you know that I have addressed your comments on the Cretoxyrhina FAC, as it has been dragging out due to a lack of response from reviewers.
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![]() Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.
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Hello there, Nikkimaria. How's everything going with yourself? Good I hope. I've nominated this article for FAC and I was hoping you could do the image review for this one. Do let me know when you wish to do the image review for it. Thanks.
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Nikkimaria, there was a post at WT:DYK asking whether the hook was too closely paraphrased. Under the circumstances, I was wondering whether you could take a look at the nomination for close paraphrasing in general (including said hook). Thank you very much for anything you can do. BlueMoonset ( talk) 06:22, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your constructive feedback. I have resolved the concerns and marked the DYK nom for a review. Can you please share your opinions there. Asking you since other reviewers seem to be scared off by the controversial topic, length of the article and discussion. regards. DBig Xrayᗙ 06:25, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
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Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM ( text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:52, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi there,
You posted earlier that this page [Neil Laughton]] was looking like a resume - I agree that it was. I have made a number of edits now with the aim of making it more neutral and removing addition detail. Can you have a look and let me know whether this works better for you and whether you think it would now be appropriate to remove the "written like a resume" from the page. Let me know any other areas you feel need attention there are still some areas I would like to change from listing things to have more prose.
Many thanks! Sally Salbliss ( talk) 19:51, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Nikki, Much appreciated, I will continue to work it into continuous prose and remove the member assoications too. Thanks for the pointers on the external links too, all much appreciated.
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Hi Nikkimaria. I fixed those inconsistencies and errors with the references. You said "more work needed" before giving me a few other examples. I'm not sure if there is still work to be done with the refs. As for "The Promise" by Ann Weisgarber, the book did win some awards and get nominated for others. That might make it worthy of inclusion. But I'm looking for a source other than a book review or book signing.-- 12george1 ( talk) 19:32, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but is it necessary to put this tag on Commons images that homemade, released by the author under cc-by-sa? Hope you're well, —— SerialNumber 54129 16:21, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria. As I said before, I checked through literally all of the refs and hopefully fixed problems you were seeing. I should also to tell you that any issues you had with the pop culture section aren't a problem anymore. Another user pointed out that arbitrary nature of the section. So I decided to delete it but move the items with their own articles into the See also section-- 12george1 ( talk) 20:14, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkinaria, please justify your action. I have already justified mine. Thanks, WolfmanSF ( talk) 04:17, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to use this picture for a FA, but am not sure of its copyright status. It's also weird that the image is on Wikipedia and not Commons. Do you think it's still ok to use ? T8612 (talk) 10:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I'm still learning the rule of wiki editing.
I added a section to the Leanne Wood page and gave three sources to the same section: WalesOnline, the Sun and the Daily Mail. Whilst I understand people's dislike towards the Daily Mail/Mail Online and why the Daily Mail alone is not a credible source, the reference you removed does strengthen the source of the story (as does that from the Sun). In fact the three media outlets could collectivly viewed as middle of the road, left wing and right wing thus when read together strengthening the case for the existence of the reporting of the story in the first place. Do you not think having three references from three newspapers is better than one? Littlemonday ( talk) 13:16, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I'm wondering what purpose you mean to serve by removing the name of Pelosi's mother? Would it not better serve Wikipedia to either look up and add a source, or mark the content as needing a reliable source? A lack of WP:RS was not your reason, until I'd reversed your deletion, which you had merely noted as "trim". Lindenfall ( talk) 22:54, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Nikk, Hi, I just discovered some activity on the CCI talk page. Editors have initiated a new project to go through the backlog. And the checklist on my open case remains in need of an update. I don't know why you won't check off the articles that you have edited on the list there. There are only couple of articles I created that need checked now. It makes it look like there is still so much to do. If the list were current, those editors would probably just bypass it. Anyway, it's been almost a year; can't we please just get the thing done? I appreciate what you've done very much...thank you... dawnleelynn (talk) 19:21, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi dawnleelynn, any possibility you'd be able to share the Holmes source for Eternal Sun? I haven't found a way to access it yet, and I'd like to avoid deleting all that content presumptively if I can. Nikkimaria ( talk) 16:46, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
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When I visited the version of battle cats that was deemed "low importance" and start level quality, I noted that the new page had significant improvements. can you resubmit the article for consideration? thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by BattleCatsBro ( talk • contribs) 21:58, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria I see that you have deleted the information about her parents together with the relevant citation and deleted her school from the infobox. Can you let me know why. Thanks. Papamac ( talk) 11:09, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
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13:03, 2 June 2019 (UTC)I tried adding a new character (Holy Wayne from The Leftovers (tv show)) to the List of Magical Negro (MN) occurrences in fiction wiki page. It was removed because inadequate referencing. Then, I updated the reference, but the editor removed it again because the source said that Holy Wayne likely "will" be a MN (rather than "is"). The editor told me to discuss these sourcing issues on the talk page, which I did. On the talk page, I suggested 3 other references that demonstrate the character represented an example of a MN. Since you removed my changes the last time, would the following references allow me to re-add the character to the list: (1) This is an interview with the executive producer of The Leftovers addressing the commentary that the show used characters like Wayne as a “magical black man” trope: https://screencrush.com/the-leftovers-season-2-finale-tom-perrotta/. (2) Here is a recap of season 1 where they specifically indicate that Wayne has become a "Magical Negro" by the end of the season: https://www.tvbuzer.com/news/the-leftovers-season-1-finale-recap-the-guilty-remnant-s-memorial-day-plot-has-devastating-consequences-50379. (3) This is an academic text that discusses Holy Wayne in Chapter 2 ( https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Politics-Colorblind-Routledge-Transformations-ebook/dp/B00YY64066): "Holy Wayne oft-disrobed, muscular, dark body takes the pain...of his predominately white, male clientele. The visual imagery is iconic and hearkens back to past representations of Black men acting as magical negros largely in service of white men." 23.240.96.37 ( talk) 02:33, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I have linked to one of your edits in Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources#Removal of sources. I see from your edit history that you often remove sources on the basis that they are unreliable. While I support the effort to improving the sourcing of Wikipedia, what we need is more good sources not fewer poor sources. Verbcatcher ( talk) 20:53, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
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Can you please add a comment as to why you want the bot blocked next to the bot block tag. Since the bot does nothing to the page, it is not clear why it is blocked. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 02:42, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
For a real live person to be mentioned on a international fictional television show seen by millions of people plus reruns is a significant sign they become a part of the popular culture. Not sure what would satisfy your questioning this entry. HELP please Magicusb ( talk) 03:20, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
A similar post on the bullet catch page was deleted by you. Why? Because it did not happen? Because the House MD show is not a success? One of the links for sure is reliable and trusted, IMDB International Movie Data Base owned and overseen by Amazon. Need more details and help on what I am doing wrong as I work hard to comply and be objective. Please, if possible reply with more detailed explanations. Respectfully Magicusb Magicusb ( talk) 14:24, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Here is an online biography that mentions the House MD show. Would this qualify? Otherwise I will drop the reference till it comes up in the media somewhere else. Respectfully Magicusb Magicusb ( talk) 15:07, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Forgot to put the link, sorry!
https://harryhoudinicircumstantialevidence.com/?p=4124 Magicusb ( talk) 15:37, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
The quote in that long bio states “Part of popular culture she was even mentioned in a segment on House MD in a scene about her bullet catch. (Year 8, Segment 8, Perils of Paranoia).” Thanks again Magicusb ( talk) 15:43, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
This was Posted on April 28, 2016 by https://harryhoudinicircumstantialevidence.com/?p=4124 Magicusb ( talk) 17:11, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Yes he is considered an expert. There are two goto definitive sites for Houdini information and new discoveries, and his is one of them. They both live in Hollywood and are good friends because of the mutual interest in Houdini, and often share information, etc. The other is also a screen writer amongst other things. As to more information, the site has been running for several years (2011) and he adds new Houdini content on pretty much a weekly basis. Here is more information taken from his website.
https://harryhoudinicircumstantialevidence.com/?page_id=8
My interest in Magic and Harry Houdini started at the age of 12 in 1975. The first 20 years (1975 to 1995) of this passion can be summarized below in a snippet from the actual application, I submitted to become a Magician Member at the Academy of Magical Arts (aka Magic Castle) in 1995: (IMAGES)
Circumstantial Evidence Exhibits:
Houdini Book Report (1976): Houdini – Master of Escape Houdini – The Untold Story Dust Jacket Design (1976): Front Cover Back Cover Houdini Essay (1979): Houdini’s Full Evening Show Houdini/Magic Project (1980): Enjoyment of Literature on Magic and Harry Houdini Houdini Room (1981): Photos SAM (1981): SAM Certificate of Membership Membership Card Houdini Speech (1987): Houdini’s Other Claims to Fame Church Magic Show (1992): 15 Card Miracle Magic Castle (1992): Associate Member Card Magic Lessons for Kids (1994): Class Descriptions Illusions of Joe Magic (1995): Flyer IBM (1995): IBM Certificate of Membership Membership Card CSUF (1995): Certificate in Magic: The Performance Art HHC (1995): Houdini Historical Center Membership Card Magic Castle (1995): Magician Member Card The next 5 years (1996 to 2000), I continued to collect Houdini and actively perform Magic. I taught magic classes in 1996 and 1997. Also, was able to take the family to Appleton Wisconsin in 1998. Participated in Southern California Association of Magicians (SCAM) competitions in 1999 and 2000.
Magic Classes (1996 – 1997): Magic Easy to Master Miracles Dinner Magic Show (1998): Houdini’s Rope Escape Challenge SCAM (1996 – 2000): 1996 1997 1999 2000 The next 10 years (2001 to 2010), the Houdini collecting and magic, took a back seat to work, my kids activities and other interests (e.g., soccer, umpiring, poker). However, I still remained a member of the Magic Castle and performed yearly magic shows on Halloween at my work, but Houdini was not getting enough attention.
Halloween Magic Show: Flyer That is, Houdini was not getting enough of MY attention, until 2011 when I was hit with the bug again in a big way. Please see About This Site for the suspects that are responsible for re-sparking my interest in Houdini.
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On 18 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Daniella van Graas, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that spokesmodel Daniella van Graas thinks she has been largely typecast as a model, but wishes to gain 20 kilograms (44 lb) and play a Monster? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Daniella van Graas. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Daniella van Graas), 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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Hi,
You're invited to an RfC on the question of, "Within the section on the Iran-Contra affair, should we include the aspect of drug trafficking on the part of some Nicaraguan Contras?"
Talk:Ronald_Reagan#rfc_85A761C
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Hello NM, I don't know if you got my ping, but I've responded there with regards to an image or two. When you get a moment, could you look in? Many thanks. Cassianto Talk 16:56, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Dear Nikkimaria,
Thank-you for your cleanup efforts on my recently-submitted article about Gordon Jeffery.
Should I continue to amend this article, or is AngusWOOF right (that it's a lost cause)?
LisaRae7 ( talk) 19:20, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I put some thoughts on the talk page. Cheers! Captainllama ( talk) 01:53, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi. You deleted the citation I dug up on Kenney Jones's recovery from prostate cancer. I'll be the first to agree that the Daily Mail isn't particularly reliable, but then neither is the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph, or MSNBC – not to mention drownedinsound.com. So what makes the Daily Mail particularly unreliable? This was just the first find that immediately came up, by the way. I'm sure there are other places that confirm the recovery, and since you took it on yourself to discredit mine I think it would be appropriate for you to find one of these and restore the information about the recovery, thanks. If it were untrue and Jones had in fact been done in by the cancer, that would of course be different. But the cancer itself is reliably documented, and if he's still alive that attests to recovery right there, and there's no reason to suspect that the claim concerning brachytherapy was fabricated. – Roy McCoy ( talk) 13:14, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria, I'd like to know the cause of the reversion of my edit at
Bernice Gera. The article clearly mentions with reference that she died of kidney cancer. I'm not complaining, I'm asking to learn about it. Greetings.--
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@ Nikkimaria: Doesn't announcing their name publicly on social media make the part about trying to keep the name 'intentionally concealed' a moot point, though? Examples: https://twitter.com/mikeherreratd/status/300493170637168640 & https://www.instagram.com/mikeherreratd/p/BSojC8-jm6v/. I'm not trying to be argumentative - just trying to understand since it doesn't seem like they've made any effort to keep their kids name from the public. Thanks for taking the time to get back to me! Welltraveled ( talk) 21:30, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
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I have a question. In the article Douglas Albert Munro, why are the Marines in the second lead paragraph referred to as "United States Marines" and Munro is described as an "American coast guardsman"? It would seem that your recent edit takes something away from the Coast Guard that he served in. I guess that the phrase "United States Coast Guardsman" sounds a little stilted, perhaps? The correct title for a person serving in the United States Coast Guard is "Coast Guardsman"...regardless of gender and the term as used in Coast Guard Public Affairs releases is always capitalized. Granted, that some news sources use the term "Coast Guard member." Kind of like the person was in some sort of club or civic organization. Few question the term "Marine". Those serving in the United States Marine Corps are almost universally referred to as "Marines", complete with capitalization. I guess I am asking for parity here in this case.
Your thoughts?
...and while I am at it, thank you for your past edits on the Munro article and other Milhist project articles.
Full disclosure: I am a retired chief petty officer that served proudly as a "Coast Guardsman" and not as a "coast guardsman", or a "member" for that matter. Cuprum17 ( talk) 17:10, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikki! This is not any type of rush. Can you review Michigan Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame when you have time? It's short and mostly a list of horses with little content. Secondly, this might take a little longer. It's Blackland, Texas. It's my first time creating a location article. I was unable to get the coordinates to work in the listbox; it's empty right now. There is a source in the article from the GNIS with the coordinates. Also, I see lots of other articles that have cool maps and such, but I don't how these things go as far as copyright. I did put in the Find a Grave link in External links. This is a historical town, but it's short on sources. The Find a Grave says it has over 200 entries and is 93 percent photographed. But will leave it up to you. There's one source which is a book I have on bronc riding (part of the historical significance to the town). I have the book scanned because it's easier to work with that way. I am working or will be working on several articles with this book. If you say it's ok, I will send you a scan of the one page for that content. Suggestions are highly welcome since this is my first article of this type. Thanks a bunch! After these, probably next week, I realized I have some other new articles I didn't get you to look at. Again, none of them is a rush, so...yes do as fits your schedule. I have plenty to work on. In fact I will probably go over these two again this evening to check paraphrasing, and run Earwig. :)) dawnleelynn (talk) 23:24, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, The first attempt on this FAC was archived without conclusion, and I am nominating it again. Since you did the image review for the first FAC, do you mind doing the same for the second one? Image-wise, the article didn't really change. HaEr48 ( talk) 20:01, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikki. It's not often I have a question about image licensing, but when I do you're always the first person who comes to mind :). Feel free to pass this one on to someone else or refer me elsewhere though.
So I've recently written the article Bobby Bostic. Some time ago I wrote Bobby a letter of support and he wrote back sending me, among other things, a photo of himself that was taken in the visiting room of his prison. So someone employed by the prison system works in the visiting room and takes photos of anyone who wants one for a small fee. Bobby has given me written permission to disseminate the photograph.
The person who took the photograph is a government employee, and one can only presume they have no interest in the copyright to the photograph. It's my understanding that the prison doesn't actually keep copies of the photos; you get handed the sole copy of the photo you paid for. Since I have the only copy of this photograph, and since Bobby, the photograph's owner, has given me written permission (not emailed obviously; prisoners don't have internet access) to release it into the public domain, can I upload it to commons? And if so, exactly how should I do that (licensing etc). Oh and if I can't upload it to commons, could I upload it under fair use? Considering that Bobby is serving a life-sentence with no realistic possibility of parole, and since you can't take your own camera into prison, it is not possible to obtain a free image of him.
Thanks in advance for this unusual request. :) Damien Linnane ( talk) 04:44, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I hope all is well. I was wondering whether you could take a look at this DYK nomination from the standpoint as to whether the expansion is sufficient—some material has apparently been copied in from other articles, which typically affects what counts and what needs 5x expansion. You have always been very good at determining where an article stands in this regard. If you could comment at the nomination, it would be much appreciated. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 02:50, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria - Whilst "the Daily Mail (including its online version, MailOnline) is generally unreliable" and it is to be avoided "when other more reliable sources exist" in this instance of using just the bare reported fact of Zelter's arrest and her attributed quote I had considered it to be acceptably reliable in this limited circumstance. The Mail has a habit of confusing fact and opinion and as such would not be a RS in instances where the information provided is challenge-able but in this case reporting Zelter's arrest with a picture and quote seems a non-opinionated small part of a longer article and provides little doubt that she was arrested and intended to be arrested again if need be. No other source reported Zelter's arrest on Waterloo Bridge but it seems important in light of her prosecution for obstruction in Parliament Square being the first for Extinction Rebellion activity in April. I hope you will reconsider the use of the Daily Mail reference in light of this and that I have tried unsuccessfully to find other sources. BorisAndDoris ( talk) 11:52, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria! I wanted to upload a photograph of Suzanne Lenglen from 1914 that I found in a book (published in 1988). The book didn't attribute the original source of the photo; however, I was able to find the same photo online, which was published on a magazine cover in 1914. Here is the photo online. I have it without the watermark in the book. Does that suffice for uploading the photo from the book to the commons? Thank you! Sportsfan77777 ( talk) 02:21, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I have started a discussion over our Village pump with the aim of maintaining a public list of all editors who are granted access to any TWL resource. Your thoughts and opinions on the proposal are welcome:-) Regards, ∯WBG converse
It's rather unusual (and no "dup") that a composer also writes the text for a piece of sacred music. How would you show that in the infobox? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:36, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
|composer=
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You removed a Daily Mail source from the J. Epstein article just commenting "non-RS". Have you read the referenced article or you just remove all Daily Mail references without regard to content or context?-- BalancedIssues ( talk) 07:57, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikki! We talked earlier about me sending you a couple new articles I created awhile ago that I missed sending to you for review. I also thought why not send you a few where I expanded articles from a stub (2) or did significant rewriting that it was almost rewriting. And, again, there is entirely no deadline or rush on these. You can take weeks if you want. They are all pretty short for the most part. Two are hall of fame list articles, which means there is hardly anything to review. I was really proud of War Paint the bucking horse. Historically, he is one of the greatest bucking horses ever; he's before our time though. His prime was 1956-1957. Thanks a bunch, hope all is great. Have a great weekend! dawnleelynn (talk) 03:45, 3 August 2019 (UTC) P.S. If you see things in War Paint that could be clearer, let me know. I'm willing to spend a lot of time on that article. If I could find more sources, I would G.A. it. There just aren't many. I had to use some YouTube videos just to get a decent article. Thanks! dawnleelynn (talk) 03:49, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
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Expanded or Rewrote
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set up to make the sfn links work properly - see the two sample changes I've just made.
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20:31, 3 August 2019 (UTC)This couple at find a grave has both photographs of their grave headstone with dates on it and newspaper clippings with the information.
Would you link to their main page, a headstone, or the newspaper clipping? They are actually the parents of the subject. Are their DOB and death dates really needed, btw? I didn't put them in the article. I am rewriting an article that was deleted for copyright violation. NOT mine! LOL. But an article on a rodeo great at my hometown rodeo. Dan Taylor is the article subject. It's in my userdraft space where MegaLibraryGirl undeleted it to.
User:Dawnleelynn/Dan Taylor (rodeo)
Thanks! dawnleelynn (talk) 04:04, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop a thank you for the library approval. All my best — Ched : ? — 20:48, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Please see: Talk:Edwin Thompson Denig. Creuzbourg ( talk) 07:39, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
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FWIW, we do link to List of prime ministers of Canada in all the pms bios content. GoodDay ( talk) 14:42, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
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Hi again Nikkimaria, your page is getting slow; but it speeds up once the syntax highlighting is disabled. I've been doing some clean up of an article that I didn't write or expand, Joni Eareckson Tada. There are a couple of editors who have been stewarding the article, so it's not just out there. I am invested in the article; I have added some content to it, mostly in the way of the awards, services, Bibliography and so forth.. not really in the way of the written content. I have my own reasons for selecting this article, rather than one of my own. The one editor has changed the article class from Start to C since I have done cleanup of those things as well as the references and some section cleanup as well. Well, it just looks a lot better. They don't know it yet, but my ultimate goal is to keep improving the article class. I found the Wikipedia:Peer review page. But I just thought you could take a quick look and just tell me anything that stands out to you right away? It's not a long article. Is that page helpful? I thought do that before looking for an editor to do a GA review. This would only be my second GA review, and my first doing it alone...unless of course I can talk the stewarding editor into doing it with me. I don't want to step on their toes so to speak. Any advice? Thanks in advance... dawnleelynn (talk) 21:46, 4 December 2018 (UTC) p.s. my mentor is not available for awhile...thanks... dawnleelynn (talk) 21:49, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
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why is my contribution to the voice ' Frank Sinatra' punctually canceled? Yet those news are in the book of Italian music journalist Gildo De Stefano. Thank you! -- Entertainer ( talk) 14:07, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
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On 12 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marion Leane Smith, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Marion Leane Smith is the only Aboriginal Australian woman known to have served in the First World War? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marion Leane Smith. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Marion Leane Smith), 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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Hi Nikkimaria, Could you have a look at the situation here with regard to using a (probably) non-free image in an article that has a lot of free ones? Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 08:45, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hello there! I saw that you were removing Category:Wives of knights from multiple articles. Wives of knights, similar to Category:Wives of baronets, is a social category standing that gives the subject the legal and social title, style, and rank of ' Lady' within the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations. So, for example, Barbara Bach (an article from which the category was removed) is legally and socially "Lady Starkey" by virtue of her marriage to a British knight. Additionally, ex-wives of knights are entitled to keep their style and title if they chose, and only lose it upon remarriage to a man of lower rank. See Category:Women by social class. So this category denotes something of social and legal significance and is not merely a contrived content fork. It is similar to categorization of the wives of peers and courtesy lords (i.e. Category:English viscountesses and Category:English courtesy viscountesses. -- Willthacheerleader18 ( talk) 06:27, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
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This is the second time that you revert two fanwikis I added. The first time was at the beginning of this year: User talk:Nikkimaria/Archive 37#Non-rs
You appear to have some kind of tool installed which automatically detects links to fanwikis? Instead of mindlessly removing them, maybe you should actually read what I wrote. - Manifestation ( talk) 11:47, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
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On 1 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Battle of the Hatpins, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in the Battle of the Hatpins, women protestors repelled police officers with rolling pins and skillets? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of the Hatpins. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Battle of the Hatpins), 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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Nikkimaria, the original review of this nomination called out close paraphrasing/copying. While I gather that significant editing has gone on behind the scenes, including by the reviewer who noted this issue, I'd feel happier, before calling for a new reviewer, if you'd check to be sure that the issue has been dealt with to your satisfaction. Many thanks, and (a belated) Happy New Year! BlueMoonset ( talk) 14:11, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hoping you are well NM. I know you must get asked all the time; but you were good enough to look in on this A-class review (over a year ago!), but it's now at FAC, and of course needs another...the images are unchanged except for swapping out two maps. No problem if you're too busy though. Take care! —— SerialNumber 54129 15:40, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I dislike coming begging, but you were kind enough to do the image review for Battle of Auberoche at ACR, Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Battle of Auberoche. It is currently at FAC with five supports but no image nor source review. If you could see your way clear to doing an image review I would be most grateful. Regards. Gog the Mild ( talk) 19:44, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Yesterday, I moved Hailey Kinsel, 2018 world champion barrel racer, to main space and nominated her for DYK. It's not one of my long articles. So, if you could look it over for encyclopedic tone or anything else that stands out to you. I think I'm getting better at it. Thanks a bunch! Also, hope you are well. dawnleelynn (talk) 20:45, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria
Thanks so much for some forensic and very helpful reviewing.
I wondered if there's anything remaining at the FAC that you'd like fixed?
-- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 11:02, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
On the "survived by", what I think TRM was saying is we've met the guideline because we talk at length about Beattie's wife. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 16:22, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I hope all is well with you. Can I make a quick check with you on the image File:'Princess Alice' (1865) beached after being cut in two in a collision (1878).jpg? I can find no information relating to a first publication, although I suspect it probably was used somewhere. It dates from 1878, so 70 years after creation was 1948 - according to this we should be able to use it, but thought I'd check first. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 15:14, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello Nikkimaria. I found you on the volunteers Peer Review list of music section. My request standing unanswered since 6th December and I wanted to ask you if it would be possible to check this discography. If you are interested I have two more completed lists and one short article (passed DYK) in my queue. Eurohunter ( talk) 17:18, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation ( Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:53, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
Respectfully, why did you remove his cause of death? It had been incorrectly stated as "stroke", which I corrected to congestive heart failure, with the reference to the source. Bell's life, given his importance in the aeronautical world, is under-documented, and Wikipedia has a reputation for disseminating documented data. Why edit out factual information? I suppose that I could have added a further, in text body, sentence pointing out that he had suffered from heart disease nearly all of his adult life; this was an important factor in his career. Thanks. Canucksailor ( talk) 15:46, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria. I'm trying to find suitable images for Theodora Kroeber, and came across this 1927 image (further details here). I haven't been able to find evidence of copyright renewal, but I don't know how to make certain of that. Any advice? Vanamonde ( Talk) 17:53, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
The nominator says that he's add all the needed tags for the images in Marcus Aurelius. Can you check that and let us know if you're satisfied with the state of the images so we can put the nom to bed?-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 00:51, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, a month ago I received an email from Wikipedia Library Card Platform saying that my access request to JSTOR was approved, but I haven't received anything from them yet. Could you check it out? T8612 (talk) 18:25, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
I've found a nice photo showing the torpedo damage suffered by a French battleship in 1914 and am wondering what it's copyright status might be. It's at [1] if you scroll down a bit. It's credited to Fonds Chopard (SHD/MV 99 GG2) which is part of the French Navy archives. Being taken by an official photographer I imagine that we'll never know the name of the photographer so would Anonymous-EU apply? Or is all this irrelevant because it's first confirmed publication was in 2012 so it falls afoul of the 120-year-requirement for never-published, anonymous works of the Hirtle chart?-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 16:10, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
My JSTOR access is definitely working as it should now. I'm most grateful for your help. - Sitush ( talk) 15:26, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I reverted you removal to John Franzese Jr with regards to the Daily Mail. I did this under WP:IAR which is cited when it warns about the source not generally being accepted. In this case the only thing that I advance with that source is that the subject of the article wife, ex whatever she is was featured on an episode of a television show. The only other source I have is IMDB. Is there a reason that it wouldn't work if it is for something non controversial in nature? It gives a bit more info but not at the expense of BLP. Hell in a Bucket ( talk) 03:13, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
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I observe you are deleting references to the above site in my articles. As I know of no other site that contains such information on minor firehouses, I am confused as to the issue. DMBanks1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by DMBanks1 ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Let me clarify. When I make the simple statement "my articles", I am merely indicating initial authorship upon which the only third party revisions have been of a format nature. It was to differentiate from having made some revision to an established article. I never imagined it would be a source of such consternation. Like the average person, I am perfectly aware of how Wikipedia functions. Contributors may not always appreciate the changes I make to their articles or vice versa, but that is the reality. Consequently, I would not knowingly use a source which was unreliable.
I have a reasonable working knowledge of East Line area (from Prince George, BC) communities. I can detect nothing in " http://fire.wikia.com/wiki/Shell-Glen_Volunteer_Fire_Rescue" or " http://fire.wikia.com/wiki/Ferndale-Tabor_Fire_Department" which appears the slightest suspect. Naturally, I cannot comment on other firehouses on their site, but to throw out the baby with the bath water seems a puzzling policy. It would be like equating the well researched and written articles in Wikipedia, with the numerous ones which exhibit limited or no obvious merit whatsoever.
Do you require email proof from these specific volunteer fire departments, before you are satisfied the information is correct? If so, I will endeavour to obtain it.
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The former has its own website " https://www.sgvfr.com/". Is this an appropriate source? DMBanks1 ( talk) 23:21, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
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Edit: I have made several changes, mostly to include the university comments where available. Hope this helps make the article more balanced. Thank you! LockHood ( talk) 11:57, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Vikram_Sood has not been updated. Are you in the process of reviewing it ? if not can you please mark it for a new reviewer ? I would prefer if the DYK process continues to move. regards. -- DBig Xrayᗙ 09:12, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. ![]() Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:02, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
...would you be able to do a source review for the Princess Alice Disaster FAC too? I'd be extremely grateful if you could spare the time.
I am, as always, conscious of the number of requests I put through to you without reciprocation; should you ever need help with reviews or anything else, please let me know. Cheers - SchroCat ( talk) 22:26, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for you help in finding close paraphrasing issues I missed at Vikram Sood and The Unending Game. If you have a moment, could you see if I missed anything at Thomas D. Mangelsen & Grizzly 399? I think I have caught most of it. Thanks! Flibirigit ( talk) 06:40, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, can you please take a look at this 5x expanded article? There were originally a number of large quotes in the second paragraph of Career that have been toned down, but is it enough to satisfy general Wikipedia standards? (I did my own edit to reduce quoting from one of the sources and increase the paraphrasing.) I think it may be there, but I trust your judgment, and know you'll ask for more paraphrasing if it's truly needed. Many thanks. (Note: DYKcheck has overcounted the number of characters in the pre-expansion article; I have a note in to Shubinator about the issue, but the base is in the high 1800s or low 1900s, not 2144.) BlueMoonset ( talk) 22:51, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
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On 9 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alice de Rivera, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Alice de Rivera sued the New York City Board of Education after she was barred from a specialized high school due to her gender? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alice de Rivera. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Alice de Rivera), 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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Could you add this video tutorial link to the partner page for Gale: " How to properly generate Gale citation URLs for use on Wikipedia", because this instruction wasn't easy to find, and it differs from the more obvious URL format. I've already added it to Wikipedia:Gale. If we don't use their format, the links may not be as persistent as we'd like. -- Netoholic @ 21:23, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
Thanks. I also just noticed that the "Terms of use" link on the partner page is dead, if you could take a look. -- Netoholic @ 07:08, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hey I deletd my old ling.nut email acct, and jstor says I already have an acct with my current WP address. I have no idea or recollection of this. I dunno what acct I used, maybe axylus.arisbe? I dunno what to do. Would like to apply for journals esp. jstor. Tks. ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 10:23, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
I fought to save this article at AfD but now that I'm more experienced and mature, I think that might have been an error of judgement. Riley Ann was a baby/toddler and is only known for her murder, not for anything she did as a person. She's not like Johanna who is automatically notable despite her toddler status because she was royalty. Maybe another AfD nomination would be worth considering? Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 10:36, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikki,
About a year ago you did an image review for The Infinity Gauntlet at FAC, but that was eventually archived without clear support from you. The second nomination also looks like it's stalling. If you have time, would you mind to look the changes over and let me know if I've addressed your concerns? The current discussion is here. Thanks! Argento Surfer ( talk) 19:05, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I've not been active for a while because of health issues. At some point I lost all access to Jstor, which was restored, but I've realized I can only view a limited number of articles each month and don't have permission to download any. I was one of the original 30 subscribers and haven't signed up to the TWL because I'm not convinced I'll be able to use it at this time, but I would like to be able to get into Jstor if I might want to so some work. Do you have any advice to get past the 6 article limit and reinstate full access? Thanks, Victoriaearle ( tk) 20:19, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
( ←) ( talk page stalker) You know, I was just noticing the same thing. JSTOR used to be awesome. Now it's just window shopping. JSTOR doesn't love Wikipeda anymore...? ♦ Lingzhi2 (talk) 00:50, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
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Nikkimaria, I was wondering whether you'd be able to return here and check to see whether any close paraphrasing or copyvio issues remain in this article. It would really help to get the next review off to a good start if the state of the article could be established now. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:08, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
Nikki before you go deleting references, read the article and look at the pictures. Do you think this was a Prince Charles impostor or something?? I can assure you there was nothing wrong with this article. James Kevin McMahon ( talk) 12:04, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 22 – 28 March 2019
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Half a century ago, it was the era of the mainframe computer, with its air-conditioned room, twitching tape-drives, and appearance in the title of a spy novel Billion-Dollar Brain then made into a Hollywood film. Now we have the cloud, with server farms and the client–server model as quotidian: this text is being typed on a Chromebook. The term Applications Programming Interface or API is 50 years old, and refers to a type of software library as well as the interface to its use. While a compiler is what you need to get high-level code executed by a mainframe, an API out in the cloud somewhere offers a chance to perform operations on a remote server. For example, the multifarious bots active on Wikipedia have owners who exploit the MediaWiki API. APIs (called RESTful) that allow for the GET HTTP request are fundamental for what could colloquially be called "moving data around the Web"; from which Wikidata benefits 24/7. So the fact that the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint at query.wikidata.org has a RESTful API means that, in lay terms, Wikidata content can be GOT from it. The programming involved, besides the SPARQL language, could be in Python, younger by a few months than the Web. Magic words, such as occur in fantasy stories, are wishful (rather than RESTful) solutions to gaining access. You may need to be a linguist to enter Ali Baba's cave or the western door of Moria (French in the case of " Open Sesame", in fact, and Sindarin being the respective languages). Talking to an API requires a bigger toolkit, which first means you have to recognise the tools in terms of what they can do. On the way to the wikt:impactful or polymathic modern handling of facts, one must perhaps take only tactful notice of tech's endemic problem with documentation, and absorb the insightful point that the code in APIs does articulate the customary procedures now in place on the cloud for getting information. As Owl explained to Winnie-the-Pooh, it tells you The Thing to Do.
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 11:45, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
I've been having some difficulty using {{ Infobox scientist/Wikidata}} as you noticed at Charles Hugh Smiley and Robert Horace Baker. I've been trying to add references to wikidata statements so that the template will automatically pull the proper entries from there. Any advice on how to go about this would be greatly appreciated. --23:14, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
|birth_place=
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, then it didn't fetch a value from Wikidata, it just returned the blank. You don't notice it normally, but when you use a wrapper template like {{
Infobox scientist/Wikidata}}, it supplies every parameter as a blank value. This only affected the entries that were inside the {{
br separated entries}} template, and I've fixed it (I hope) in {{
Infobox person/Wikidata}}.{{
Infobox scientist/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}
and it shows up with a blank "Scientific career" section, just switch to using {{
Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL}}
. It simpler than trying to write code that suppresses the heading when there's nothing to display below it.Thanks for the help. I think I now understand the difficulty. -- mikeu talk 20:19, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey! You removed a section I added in the article for Kalale ( /info/en/?search=Kalale), stating that I did not have "reliable sources." (a) The source I had used was quite reputable, in my opinion, as it is officially managed by people from Pottermore as well. Further, the nature of the reference (i.e, a mention in the movie) is impossible to source directly, and I don't see why the source I used was incorrect.
(b) Even if the source I used was incorrect, why did you get rid of the information sourced from it as well? The information I had mentioned was, for all intenets and purposes, factual, and worthy of putting into the article (similar to the "In Popular Culture" section in many different articles). If you had a problem with the citations, I don't see why you didn't just challenge the citations. This is especially jarring since the rest of the article has little to no citations in general, yet you removed the section which had two references. Cool12y ( talk) 01:35, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
I only have The Curse of Mr. Bean on my watchlist but this editor introduced Americanisms into a British article. Such as "stomps on", where anyone whose read an Enid Blyton tale knows that a British child "stamps" their foot. They also changed the (British) term "small girl" into the (American style) "little girl". There made need to be intervention? Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 08:09, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting. That was accidental - I meant to click "no automated actions." -- TheSandDoctor Talk 01:48, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for your edit here, but it unintentionally broke the list of mayors order. There are some 135 of these and for considerations regarding consistency I have reverted your edit. Thanks, Mercy11 ( talk) 03:34, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
On 8 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Librotraficante, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Librotraficante smuggled books into Arizona? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Librotraficante. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Librotraficante), 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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Hello, I got a little carried away with that Aphex Twin edit, the excitement of a seemingly new piece of information had me going in blind! Its a great archive piece of footage of him, is it possible to add the youtube video as an external link? I couldn't find any 'reliable' sources to back it up other than those I mentioned, ill look a little deeper. RicardoDonovan ( talk) 17:52, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hey, thanks so much for commenting at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Almost There (album)/archive1! I've (hopefully) fixed the issues you've brought up, and figure I'd comment here in case you didn't the page to watch. Thanks again! Toa Nidhiki05 00:05, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Please explain why you keep removing cause of death. Thank you. deisenbe ( talk) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I'm not sure whether you've ever been able to get pings; if not, there's one for you on this DYK nomination page. Thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 21:22, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
I am wondering why you removed the links i was trying to make it easier to get more information on the creatures, instead of having to copy and pasting the name into google. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WakeyJakey ( talk • contribs) 15:28, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria,
I am posting on this talk page to let you know that I have addressed your comments on the Cretoxyrhina FAC, as it has been dragging out due to a lack of response from reviewers.
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Facto Post – Issue 23 – 30 April 2019
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![]() Talk of cloud computing draws a veil over hardware, but also, less obviously but more importantly, obscures such intellectual distinction as matters most in its use. Wikidata begins to allow tasks to be undertaken that were out of easy reach. The facility should not be taken as the real point. Coming in from another angle, the "executive decision" is more glamorous; but the "administrative decision" should be admired for its command of facts. Think of the attitudes ad fontes, so prevalent here on Wikipedia as "can you give me a source for that?", and being prepared to deal with complicated analyses into specified subcases. Impatience expressed as a disdain for such pedantry is quite understandable, but neither dirty data nor false dichotomies are at all good to have around. Issue 13 and Issue 21, respectively on WP:MEDRS and systematic reviews, talk about biomedical literature and computing tasks that would be of higher quality if they could be made more "administrative". For example, it is desirable that the decisions involved be consistent, explicable, and reproducible by non-experts from specified inputs. What gets clouded out is not impossibly hard to understand. You do need to put together the insights of functional programming, which is a doctrinaire and purist but clearcut approach, with the practicality of office software. Loopless computation can be conceived of as a seamless forward march of spreadsheet columns, each determined by the content of previous ones. Very well: to do a backward audit, when now we are talking about Wikidata, we rely on integrity of data and its scrupulous sourcing: and clearcut case analyses. The MEDRS example forces attention on purge attempts such as Beall's list.
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 11:27, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello there, Nikkimaria. How's everything going with yourself? Good I hope. I've nominated this article for FAC and I was hoping you could do the image review for this one. Do let me know when you wish to do the image review for it. Thanks.
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Nikkimaria, there was a post at WT:DYK asking whether the hook was too closely paraphrased. Under the circumstances, I was wondering whether you could take a look at the nomination for close paraphrasing in general (including said hook). Thank you very much for anything you can do. BlueMoonset ( talk) 06:22, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your constructive feedback. I have resolved the concerns and marked the DYK nom for a review. Can you please share your opinions there. Asking you since other reviewers seem to be scared off by the controversial topic, length of the article and discussion. regards. DBig Xrayᗙ 06:25, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
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Two dozen issues, and this may be the last, a valediction at least for a while. It's time for a two-year summation of ContentMine projects involving TDM ( text and data mining). Wikidata and now Structured Data on Commons represent the overlap of Wikimedia with the Semantic Web. This common ground is helping to convert an engineering concept into a movement. TDM generally has little enough connection with the Semantic Web, being instead in the orbit of machine learning which is no respecter of the semantic. Don't break a taboo by asking bots "and what do you mean by that?" The ScienceSource project innovates in TDM, by storing its text mining results in a Wikibase site. It strives for compliance of its fact mining, on drug treatments of diseases, with an automated form of the relevant Wikipedia referencing guideline MEDRS. Where WikiFactMine set up an API for reuse of its results, ScienceSource has a SPARQL query service, with look-and-feel exactly that of Wikidata's at query.wikidata.org. It also now has a custom front end, and its content can be federated, in other words used in data mashups: it is one of over 50 sites that can federate with Wikidata. The human factor comes to bear through the front end, which combines a link to the HTML version of a paper, text mining results organised in drug and disease columns, and a SPARQL display of nearby drug and disease terms. Much software to develop and explain, so little time! Rather than telling the tale, Facto Post brings you ScienceSource links, starting from the how-to video, lower right.
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MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:52, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi there,
You posted earlier that this page [Neil Laughton]] was looking like a resume - I agree that it was. I have made a number of edits now with the aim of making it more neutral and removing addition detail. Can you have a look and let me know whether this works better for you and whether you think it would now be appropriate to remove the "written like a resume" from the page. Let me know any other areas you feel need attention there are still some areas I would like to change from listing things to have more prose.
Many thanks! Sally Salbliss ( talk) 19:51, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Nikki, Much appreciated, I will continue to work it into continuous prose and remove the member assoications too. Thanks for the pointers on the external links too, all much appreciated.
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Hi Nikkimaria. I fixed those inconsistencies and errors with the references. You said "more work needed" before giving me a few other examples. I'm not sure if there is still work to be done with the refs. As for "The Promise" by Ann Weisgarber, the book did win some awards and get nominated for others. That might make it worthy of inclusion. But I'm looking for a source other than a book review or book signing.-- 12george1 ( talk) 19:32, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but is it necessary to put this tag on Commons images that homemade, released by the author under cc-by-sa? Hope you're well, —— SerialNumber 54129 16:21, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria. As I said before, I checked through literally all of the refs and hopefully fixed problems you were seeing. I should also to tell you that any issues you had with the pop culture section aren't a problem anymore. Another user pointed out that arbitrary nature of the section. So I decided to delete it but move the items with their own articles into the See also section-- 12george1 ( talk) 20:14, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkinaria, please justify your action. I have already justified mine. Thanks, WolfmanSF ( talk) 04:17, 25 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to use this picture for a FA, but am not sure of its copyright status. It's also weird that the image is on Wikipedia and not Commons. Do you think it's still ok to use ? T8612 (talk) 10:41, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I'm still learning the rule of wiki editing.
I added a section to the Leanne Wood page and gave three sources to the same section: WalesOnline, the Sun and the Daily Mail. Whilst I understand people's dislike towards the Daily Mail/Mail Online and why the Daily Mail alone is not a credible source, the reference you removed does strengthen the source of the story (as does that from the Sun). In fact the three media outlets could collectivly viewed as middle of the road, left wing and right wing thus when read together strengthening the case for the existence of the reporting of the story in the first place. Do you not think having three references from three newspapers is better than one? Littlemonday ( talk) 13:16, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I'm wondering what purpose you mean to serve by removing the name of Pelosi's mother? Would it not better serve Wikipedia to either look up and add a source, or mark the content as needing a reliable source? A lack of WP:RS was not your reason, until I'd reversed your deletion, which you had merely noted as "trim". Lindenfall ( talk) 22:54, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
Nikk, Hi, I just discovered some activity on the CCI talk page. Editors have initiated a new project to go through the backlog. And the checklist on my open case remains in need of an update. I don't know why you won't check off the articles that you have edited on the list there. There are only couple of articles I created that need checked now. It makes it look like there is still so much to do. If the list were current, those editors would probably just bypass it. Anyway, it's been almost a year; can't we please just get the thing done? I appreciate what you've done very much...thank you... dawnleelynn (talk) 19:21, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi dawnleelynn, any possibility you'd be able to share the Holmes source for Eternal Sun? I haven't found a way to access it yet, and I'd like to avoid deleting all that content presumptively if I can. Nikkimaria ( talk) 16:46, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
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When I visited the version of battle cats that was deemed "low importance" and start level quality, I noted that the new page had significant improvements. can you resubmit the article for consideration? thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by BattleCatsBro ( talk • contribs) 21:58, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria I see that you have deleted the information about her parents together with the relevant citation and deleted her school from the infobox. Can you let me know why. Thanks. Papamac ( talk) 11:09, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
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13:03, 2 June 2019 (UTC)I tried adding a new character (Holy Wayne from The Leftovers (tv show)) to the List of Magical Negro (MN) occurrences in fiction wiki page. It was removed because inadequate referencing. Then, I updated the reference, but the editor removed it again because the source said that Holy Wayne likely "will" be a MN (rather than "is"). The editor told me to discuss these sourcing issues on the talk page, which I did. On the talk page, I suggested 3 other references that demonstrate the character represented an example of a MN. Since you removed my changes the last time, would the following references allow me to re-add the character to the list: (1) This is an interview with the executive producer of The Leftovers addressing the commentary that the show used characters like Wayne as a “magical black man” trope: https://screencrush.com/the-leftovers-season-2-finale-tom-perrotta/. (2) Here is a recap of season 1 where they specifically indicate that Wayne has become a "Magical Negro" by the end of the season: https://www.tvbuzer.com/news/the-leftovers-season-1-finale-recap-the-guilty-remnant-s-memorial-day-plot-has-devastating-consequences-50379. (3) This is an academic text that discusses Holy Wayne in Chapter 2 ( https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Politics-Colorblind-Routledge-Transformations-ebook/dp/B00YY64066): "Holy Wayne oft-disrobed, muscular, dark body takes the pain...of his predominately white, male clientele. The visual imagery is iconic and hearkens back to past representations of Black men acting as magical negros largely in service of white men." 23.240.96.37 ( talk) 02:33, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I have linked to one of your edits in Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources#Removal of sources. I see from your edit history that you often remove sources on the basis that they are unreliable. While I support the effort to improving the sourcing of Wikipedia, what we need is more good sources not fewer poor sources. Verbcatcher ( talk) 20:53, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
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Can you please add a comment as to why you want the bot blocked next to the bot block tag. Since the bot does nothing to the page, it is not clear why it is blocked. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 02:42, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
For a real live person to be mentioned on a international fictional television show seen by millions of people plus reruns is a significant sign they become a part of the popular culture. Not sure what would satisfy your questioning this entry. HELP please Magicusb ( talk) 03:20, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
A similar post on the bullet catch page was deleted by you. Why? Because it did not happen? Because the House MD show is not a success? One of the links for sure is reliable and trusted, IMDB International Movie Data Base owned and overseen by Amazon. Need more details and help on what I am doing wrong as I work hard to comply and be objective. Please, if possible reply with more detailed explanations. Respectfully Magicusb Magicusb ( talk) 14:24, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Thanks Here is an online biography that mentions the House MD show. Would this qualify? Otherwise I will drop the reference till it comes up in the media somewhere else. Respectfully Magicusb Magicusb ( talk) 15:07, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Forgot to put the link, sorry!
https://harryhoudinicircumstantialevidence.com/?p=4124 Magicusb ( talk) 15:37, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
The quote in that long bio states “Part of popular culture she was even mentioned in a segment on House MD in a scene about her bullet catch. (Year 8, Segment 8, Perils of Paranoia).” Thanks again Magicusb ( talk) 15:43, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
This was Posted on April 28, 2016 by https://harryhoudinicircumstantialevidence.com/?p=4124 Magicusb ( talk) 17:11, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Yes he is considered an expert. There are two goto definitive sites for Houdini information and new discoveries, and his is one of them. They both live in Hollywood and are good friends because of the mutual interest in Houdini, and often share information, etc. The other is also a screen writer amongst other things. As to more information, the site has been running for several years (2011) and he adds new Houdini content on pretty much a weekly basis. Here is more information taken from his website.
https://harryhoudinicircumstantialevidence.com/?page_id=8
My interest in Magic and Harry Houdini started at the age of 12 in 1975. The first 20 years (1975 to 1995) of this passion can be summarized below in a snippet from the actual application, I submitted to become a Magician Member at the Academy of Magical Arts (aka Magic Castle) in 1995: (IMAGES)
Circumstantial Evidence Exhibits:
Houdini Book Report (1976): Houdini – Master of Escape Houdini – The Untold Story Dust Jacket Design (1976): Front Cover Back Cover Houdini Essay (1979): Houdini’s Full Evening Show Houdini/Magic Project (1980): Enjoyment of Literature on Magic and Harry Houdini Houdini Room (1981): Photos SAM (1981): SAM Certificate of Membership Membership Card Houdini Speech (1987): Houdini’s Other Claims to Fame Church Magic Show (1992): 15 Card Miracle Magic Castle (1992): Associate Member Card Magic Lessons for Kids (1994): Class Descriptions Illusions of Joe Magic (1995): Flyer IBM (1995): IBM Certificate of Membership Membership Card CSUF (1995): Certificate in Magic: The Performance Art HHC (1995): Houdini Historical Center Membership Card Magic Castle (1995): Magician Member Card The next 5 years (1996 to 2000), I continued to collect Houdini and actively perform Magic. I taught magic classes in 1996 and 1997. Also, was able to take the family to Appleton Wisconsin in 1998. Participated in Southern California Association of Magicians (SCAM) competitions in 1999 and 2000.
Magic Classes (1996 – 1997): Magic Easy to Master Miracles Dinner Magic Show (1998): Houdini’s Rope Escape Challenge SCAM (1996 – 2000): 1996 1997 1999 2000 The next 10 years (2001 to 2010), the Houdini collecting and magic, took a back seat to work, my kids activities and other interests (e.g., soccer, umpiring, poker). However, I still remained a member of the Magic Castle and performed yearly magic shows on Halloween at my work, but Houdini was not getting enough attention.
Halloween Magic Show: Flyer That is, Houdini was not getting enough of MY attention, until 2011 when I was hit with the bug again in a big way. Please see About This Site for the suspects that are responsible for re-sparking my interest in Houdini.
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Hello NM, I don't know if you got my ping, but I've responded there with regards to an image or two. When you get a moment, could you look in? Many thanks. Cassianto Talk 16:56, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
Dear Nikkimaria,
Thank-you for your cleanup efforts on my recently-submitted article about Gordon Jeffery.
Should I continue to amend this article, or is AngusWOOF right (that it's a lost cause)?
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Hi Nikkimaria, I put some thoughts on the talk page. Cheers! Captainllama ( talk) 01:53, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
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An IP is repeatedly insisting on putting in the article where McGreavy now supposedly lives. That is a direct incitement to vigilantism and violence. Paul Benjamin Austin 13:20, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi. You deleted the citation I dug up on Kenney Jones's recovery from prostate cancer. I'll be the first to agree that the Daily Mail isn't particularly reliable, but then neither is the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph, or MSNBC – not to mention drownedinsound.com. So what makes the Daily Mail particularly unreliable? This was just the first find that immediately came up, by the way. I'm sure there are other places that confirm the recovery, and since you took it on yourself to discredit mine I think it would be appropriate for you to find one of these and restore the information about the recovery, thanks. If it were untrue and Jones had in fact been done in by the cancer, that would of course be different. But the cancer itself is reliably documented, and if he's still alive that attests to recovery right there, and there's no reason to suspect that the claim concerning brachytherapy was fabricated. – Roy McCoy ( talk) 13:14, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria, I'd like to know the cause of the reversion of my edit at
Bernice Gera. The article clearly mentions with reference that she died of kidney cancer. I'm not complaining, I'm asking to learn about it. Greetings.--
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Hi there. User:Thibbs gave me an account on EBSCO in 2016 or earlier, whenever that started. I haven't used it in a couple years so I wasn't sure if that got auto-renewed and converted into WP:LIBRARY or if I need to reapply. Also does it give me access to recent wsj.com and other online paywalls, like say, articles from 1998? There are way too many subscription services to know what to do! And the WP:LIBRARY interface seems to have no real place to even ask for help, so I'm just picking the first contributor that looks active on the list linked to me by Thibbs. Thanks! — Smuckola (talk) 11:56, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
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Just wondering why you decided to remove the children's names from /info/en/?search=Mike_Herrera#Personal_life Welltraveled ( talk) 20:04, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
@ Nikkimaria: Doesn't announcing their name publicly on social media make the part about trying to keep the name 'intentionally concealed' a moot point, though? Examples: https://twitter.com/mikeherreratd/status/300493170637168640 & https://www.instagram.com/mikeherreratd/p/BSojC8-jm6v/. I'm not trying to be argumentative - just trying to understand since it doesn't seem like they've made any effort to keep their kids name from the public. Thanks for taking the time to get back to me! Welltraveled ( talk) 21:30, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
@ Nikkimaria:, ah, okay. Got it. Thanks for taking the time to explain things.
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I have a question. In the article Douglas Albert Munro, why are the Marines in the second lead paragraph referred to as "United States Marines" and Munro is described as an "American coast guardsman"? It would seem that your recent edit takes something away from the Coast Guard that he served in. I guess that the phrase "United States Coast Guardsman" sounds a little stilted, perhaps? The correct title for a person serving in the United States Coast Guard is "Coast Guardsman"...regardless of gender and the term as used in Coast Guard Public Affairs releases is always capitalized. Granted, that some news sources use the term "Coast Guard member." Kind of like the person was in some sort of club or civic organization. Few question the term "Marine". Those serving in the United States Marine Corps are almost universally referred to as "Marines", complete with capitalization. I guess I am asking for parity here in this case.
Your thoughts?
...and while I am at it, thank you for your past edits on the Munro article and other Milhist project articles.
Full disclosure: I am a retired chief petty officer that served proudly as a "Coast Guardsman" and not as a "coast guardsman", or a "member" for that matter. Cuprum17 ( talk) 17:10, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikki! This is not any type of rush. Can you review Michigan Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame when you have time? It's short and mostly a list of horses with little content. Secondly, this might take a little longer. It's Blackland, Texas. It's my first time creating a location article. I was unable to get the coordinates to work in the listbox; it's empty right now. There is a source in the article from the GNIS with the coordinates. Also, I see lots of other articles that have cool maps and such, but I don't how these things go as far as copyright. I did put in the Find a Grave link in External links. This is a historical town, but it's short on sources. The Find a Grave says it has over 200 entries and is 93 percent photographed. But will leave it up to you. There's one source which is a book I have on bronc riding (part of the historical significance to the town). I have the book scanned because it's easier to work with that way. I am working or will be working on several articles with this book. If you say it's ok, I will send you a scan of the one page for that content. Suggestions are highly welcome since this is my first article of this type. Thanks a bunch! After these, probably next week, I realized I have some other new articles I didn't get you to look at. Again, none of them is a rush, so...yes do as fits your schedule. I have plenty to work on. In fact I will probably go over these two again this evening to check paraphrasing, and run Earwig. :)) dawnleelynn (talk) 23:24, 20 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, The first attempt on this FAC was archived without conclusion, and I am nominating it again. Since you did the image review for the first FAC, do you mind doing the same for the second one? Image-wise, the article didn't really change. HaEr48 ( talk) 20:01, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikki. It's not often I have a question about image licensing, but when I do you're always the first person who comes to mind :). Feel free to pass this one on to someone else or refer me elsewhere though.
So I've recently written the article Bobby Bostic. Some time ago I wrote Bobby a letter of support and he wrote back sending me, among other things, a photo of himself that was taken in the visiting room of his prison. So someone employed by the prison system works in the visiting room and takes photos of anyone who wants one for a small fee. Bobby has given me written permission to disseminate the photograph.
The person who took the photograph is a government employee, and one can only presume they have no interest in the copyright to the photograph. It's my understanding that the prison doesn't actually keep copies of the photos; you get handed the sole copy of the photo you paid for. Since I have the only copy of this photograph, and since Bobby, the photograph's owner, has given me written permission (not emailed obviously; prisoners don't have internet access) to release it into the public domain, can I upload it to commons? And if so, exactly how should I do that (licensing etc). Oh and if I can't upload it to commons, could I upload it under fair use? Considering that Bobby is serving a life-sentence with no realistic possibility of parole, and since you can't take your own camera into prison, it is not possible to obtain a free image of him.
Thanks in advance for this unusual request. :) Damien Linnane ( talk) 04:44, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Nikkimaria, I hope all is well. I was wondering whether you could take a look at this DYK nomination from the standpoint as to whether the expansion is sufficient—some material has apparently been copied in from other articles, which typically affects what counts and what needs 5x expansion. You have always been very good at determining where an article stands in this regard. If you could comment at the nomination, it would be much appreciated. Many thanks. BlueMoonset ( talk) 02:50, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria - Whilst "the Daily Mail (including its online version, MailOnline) is generally unreliable" and it is to be avoided "when other more reliable sources exist" in this instance of using just the bare reported fact of Zelter's arrest and her attributed quote I had considered it to be acceptably reliable in this limited circumstance. The Mail has a habit of confusing fact and opinion and as such would not be a RS in instances where the information provided is challenge-able but in this case reporting Zelter's arrest with a picture and quote seems a non-opinionated small part of a longer article and provides little doubt that she was arrested and intended to be arrested again if need be. No other source reported Zelter's arrest on Waterloo Bridge but it seems important in light of her prosecution for obstruction in Parliament Square being the first for Extinction Rebellion activity in April. I hope you will reconsider the use of the Daily Mail reference in light of this and that I have tried unsuccessfully to find other sources. BorisAndDoris ( talk) 11:52, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Nikkimaria! I wanted to upload a photograph of Suzanne Lenglen from 1914 that I found in a book (published in 1988). The book didn't attribute the original source of the photo; however, I was able to find the same photo online, which was published on a magazine cover in 1914. Here is the photo online. I have it without the watermark in the book. Does that suffice for uploading the photo from the book to the commons? Thank you! Sportsfan77777 ( talk) 02:21, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikkimaria, I have started a discussion over our Village pump with the aim of maintaining a public list of all editors who are granted access to any TWL resource. Your thoughts and opinions on the proposal are welcome:-) Regards, ∯WBG converse
It's rather unusual (and no "dup") that a composer also writes the text for a piece of sacred music. How would you show that in the infobox? -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:36, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
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You removed a Daily Mail source from the J. Epstein article just commenting "non-RS". Have you read the referenced article or you just remove all Daily Mail references without regard to content or context?-- BalancedIssues ( talk) 07:57, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi Nikki! We talked earlier about me sending you a couple new articles I created awhile ago that I missed sending to you for review. I also thought why not send you a few where I expanded articles from a stub (2) or did significant rewriting that it was almost rewriting. And, again, there is entirely no deadline or rush on these. You can take weeks if you want. They are all pretty short for the most part. Two are hall of fame list articles, which means there is hardly anything to review. I was really proud of War Paint the bucking horse. Historically, he is one of the greatest bucking horses ever; he's before our time though. His prime was 1956-1957. Thanks a bunch, hope all is great. Have a great weekend! dawnleelynn (talk) 03:45, 3 August 2019 (UTC) P.S. If you see things in War Paint that could be clearer, let me know. I'm willing to spend a lot of time on that article. If I could find more sources, I would G.A. it. There just aren't many. I had to use some YouTube videos just to get a decent article. Thanks! dawnleelynn (talk) 03:49, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
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20:31, 3 August 2019 (UTC)This couple at find a grave has both photographs of their grave headstone with dates on it and newspaper clippings with the information.
Would you link to their main page, a headstone, or the newspaper clipping? They are actually the parents of the subject. Are their DOB and death dates really needed, btw? I didn't put them in the article. I am rewriting an article that was deleted for copyright violation. NOT mine! LOL. But an article on a rodeo great at my hometown rodeo. Dan Taylor is the article subject. It's in my userdraft space where MegaLibraryGirl undeleted it to.
User:Dawnleelynn/Dan Taylor (rodeo)
Thanks! dawnleelynn (talk) 04:04, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
Just wanted to drop a thank you for the library approval. All my best — Ched : ? — 20:48, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
Please see: Talk:Edwin Thompson Denig. Creuzbourg ( talk) 07:39, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
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FWIW, we do link to List of prime ministers of Canada in all the pms bios content. GoodDay ( talk) 14:42, 11 August 2019 (UTC)