/Archive 1: 2006–2010 baseball, sports (21 sections)
This page is not archived chronologically. Instead its archive comprises only "old" material on baseball and related sports.
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Ts 1 Talk:Professional sports league organization T 2 Welcome T 3 Archiving Talk pages T 4 Reverting Vandalism 2006 above; 2010 below 5 A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates 2011 10 US National Archives collaboration l 19 Dragonriders of Pern modifications l 20 Dragonriders of Pern books T 21 Talk page for template /doc pages l 23 Jean E. Karl 2012 l 25 Barnstar award l 26 Earthsea Revisions T 27 Authority control, etc. l 28 California Young Reader Medal l 29 EMP Museum l 32 Jean Karl T 34 Donnelly, etc. T 35 See also navbox T 36 Replacing Dagger; and dagger; T 38 Astrid Lindgren problem l 39 Sky Dragons 40 Season's Greetings! 2013 l 41 I am the cheese l 42 Talkback T 43 Search page code T 44 VIAF error reports T 45 WP:MOSDAB Tl 46 List of winners of the National Book Award l 47 Cynthia Rylant l 48 Best Fiction for Young Adults l 49 Verne at the Hall of Fame l 51 Template:Jack T 52 Redirect to aid historical accuracy l 53 Recent edit at S. E. Hinton T 54 Linking T 55 Pete Hautman 2014 T 56 Copyrighted lists T 57 Explaining [review, patrol] l 58 His Dark Materials Tl 59 Writers of young adult literature 60 2014 Shortlists for the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals 61 Precious 62 Category:Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners 63 Speedy deletion nomination of Phoenix Books and Audio 64 See date formats 65 2014 Carnegie and Greenaway announced 66 Wei-Sender 67 John Schoenherr 68 VIAF help 69.1 Recent activity
2015
69 Thanks 70 WorldCat 71 2015 Carnegie and Greenaway shortlists 72 Wikidata links 73 From TIME to Time 74 2015 California Young Reader Medal winners 75 Interwiki links 76 Table of contents suppression 77 Carnegie and Greenaway winners announced 78 Articles about multiple fictional characters 79 Re: Authority control templates 80 date formats 81 Percy Jackson Task Force 82 Something you might be interested in 83 Nansen Refugee Award 83.1 Carnegie Medal at Wikidata
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Wow, I'd forgotten about that page! I cleared my watchlist a month or so ago, as it had gotten too long.
Erm, to be honest, there isn't much of an answer to your question. I'm personally not a fan of continuously sending the talk to the right hand side of the page, for the reasons that you note - as long as two comments arn't at the same indentation one after the other, it shouldn't be too confusing. There certainly isn't a given number of colons that I stop at, however, and I'm sure I could find occaisions where I have indented. Therefore, the best probable explanation is that I couldn't be bothered to type half a dozen colons before my text! -- Robdurbar 18:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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Yes, you did absolutely fine. Bear in mind that you don't have to always enter such a full edit summary if you don't want to 'reverting vandalism by 69.115' would suffice; or even 'rv vandle to Smackbot', if you really want to save time. The reason you see such a full edit summary a lot is because administrators and some other users with fancy technology have tools that allow them to immediatly revert an edit, leaving an automated summary.
You are also correct that that was the user's only contribution. If you want, you could add a test template to his/her user talk page - these can be found at Template:TestTemplates. For an edit such as this user's - simply adding nonesense, first edit, no personal attacks etc. - then either '{{subst:Template:Verror2}}' or '{{subst:test1-n|Origins of Baseball}} ' would work best. However, there is no obligation on your part to add such a message; it does help flag up for future users that this person has already vandalised, however. -- Robdurbar 21:50, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
I have started a conversation
here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{
WikiProject United States}}. It appears that you have been a regular editor at WikiProject U.S. counties and I thought that project might be interested in doing this. I am going to contact some of the other members of the project as well. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --
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Have made edits to spellings of names in article List of bridge books and magazines/Encyclopedic bibliographies and left message on dicussion page of Official Encyclopedia of Bridge. Thanks. Newwhist ( talk) 15:38, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Man, that's a whole thing, isn't it? Did they ever decide whether to split off all the former-franchise articles, or do "History of" or whatever?
Anyway, I do not know how to find all of the instances. I know I've dabbed a lot of BRS --> Braves links over the past few weeks. I'd be happy to help work a list if it can be generated. Cheers .... Woodshed ( talk) 20:22, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your post on the discussion page of the Yankees-Giants rivalry page. I brought up a related issue on the Template:Subway Series discussion page. If you could help address it I know it would help. Thanks! Arnabdas ( talk) 14:43, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject Board and table games for a Signpost article to be published in May. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Other editors will also have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. - Mabeenot ( talk) 19:35, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
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Badger Drink (
talk) 23:40, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Newwhist ( talk) 00:50, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Newwhist ( talk) 12:50, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar | ||
Thanks for your ongoing editing of contract bridge articles especially your recent contribs at {[tl|gcb}} and all your work at the competition articles. |
Newwhist ( talk) 17:53, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
I am regularly contributing in spanish wiki, where, among others, I am making all the bridge pages (around 400). As there is missing bridge material and small errors in the english version I just wanted to contribute here. Thanks for the advices for newcomers. I will introduce some new stuff from 7th edition if you are interested.
I can also make some improuvements here and there if no one objects, but I do not want to bother anybody.
Kindly, -- John plaut ( talk) 01:10, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
You are being very kind. I appreciate your help a lot. Will try to follow suit. -- John plaut ( talk) 01:13, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
I can not find the following needed contract bridge templates
The use of the corresponding BridgeHand templates spend too much space.
Thanks -- John plaut ( talk) 15:59, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
tks -- John plaut ( talk) 16:04, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Upon seeing the various modifications you made to the various articles on the novels within the Dragonriders of Pern line, I have unfortunately made the decision to revert them. The various modifications you made, including lengthy references which seem to have nothing to do with the page, adding in HTML linebreaks (<br> tags), and placing a separation for a list of "Awards" in the lede of the page most definitely violate the various manuals of style we have set forth on this project. Rather than going through all of the articles to try to fix your massive errors, which has included omitting the title of the book from the infobox, leaving it blank, I have reverted all of your changes and restored the articles to the state they were sometime before your modifications in October. As such a long standing contributor like myself, I would think that you would have some sort of knowledge of our internal style guides.
I would request that you try to fix these massive errors in style before making any more articles resemble this.— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 07:57, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
In fact, several of your article modifications are highly out of line with the internal guidelines we have set forth throughout WP:Manual of style. I request that you please read them before you do massive formatting changes to articles, again.— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 07:59, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
You asked me to have a look at these following recent changes.
Ryulong and I agree that the articles need to be brought in line with conventional Wikipedia style. The latest versions can be the basis for these further changes, as long as they happen. I have updated Dragonflight as I think is necessary. I hope we can continue to work together to improve Anne's articles and I suggest we proceed as follows:
The changes to separate article contents, notes, references and citations involve some "high technology". Since your aspiration is to include a lot of detail in the articles, you really need to learn (if I may say so) how to do this properly. If you carry on as at present, your additions must be reworked substantially and some may be removed as irrelevant or unmaintainable. So please also start reorganising the articles using Dragonflight, as it evolves, as an example. If anything is not clear, please ask. I suggest take one article at a time and we can discuss progress with it. The aim will be that you are able to add content which will survive more-or-less unaltered as the articles evolve further. I will in parallel also update other articles, also one at a time. I will probably go over all the articles with one or two "little scripts" to make some boring mechanical changes. We can do any final polishing once the main changes have been made to all the articles. -- Mirokado ( talk) 14:07, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, very few template documentation pages have talk pages, and the few that do exist aren't watched much. Pretty much all discussion takes place on the talk page of the template itself. Accordingly, I've moved this thread from Template talk:Sfn/doc to Template talk:Sfn.
On a side issue: you may find the template {{
tlx}}
useful. This allows you to show how a template is used, without actually invoking the template itself. So, by using that, I can do this: {{
sfn|Smith|1960|loc=Acknowledgements}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 18:15, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
A page recently got added into the mainspace and it is in dire, desperate need of attention. I'm not too savvy about the world of sports or some of the people who talk about it, so I thought I'd direct it to someone who is more familiar with sports in general. The page is for Alex Akita and it's currently a mess. Most of the links are from Akita's various pages and the various sections are full of non-notable and obviously not neutral material. Since a lot of the unencyclopedic edits happened by various IPs very quickly, I'm trying to get it semi-protected for the time being. Tokyogirl79 ( talk) 14:23, 8 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
"Karl wrote science fictions for children and young adults". Is "science fictions" normal American usage? It is incorrect in British usage, where we would say something like "science fiction stories". -- Mirokado ( talk) 21:02, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I saw this article come up on AfC, but it wasn't nearly ready enough to go to the mainspace. I was just wondering if you wanted to take a look at the article and see if there's anything here that would merit an article. I know fizz all about sports, so I'm definitely not the right person to edit it. I did notice that the person creating the article appeared to be his son (through the name of the editor), so if the guy is notable enough then someone would definitely have to help him out. I noticed that the guy hadn't come back on since October, so I'm not sure how much help he'd be. I did do a bit of searching through google, but all I found was an article about his death and a few articles stating that Gavin should be put in the Hall of Fame for boxing. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Al Gavin, Boxing Cutman and Trainer I'm afraid that I'm just not knowledgeable enough to know if he passes WP:NSPORT or not. It looks like he might, but I'm not too familiar with all of this to know for certain. Tokyogirl79 ( talk) 09:47, 22 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
Awarded to a conscientious editor for exemplary work on List of winners of the National Book Award. HarryZilber ( talk) 19:39, 26 January 2012 (UTC) |
Hi there - appreciate the updates to various Earthsea novels. You have added a note to about 4 novel pages, linking to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database for detail on the Earthsea sequence and stories; however there is already a wikilink to Earthsea just prior to your note on every novel page. The Wikipedia Earthsea page describes everything in your note, so it seem superfluous to link to an external source. Can you think of a way to make it more apparent there is a dedicated Wikipedia page for the series? I am open to rewording, etc - obviously it escaped your notice so it is probably the same for other readers? Regards Npd2983 ( talk) 21:17, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your messages.
1) I don't know of any thing off the top of my head regarding the speculative fiction question.
2) Regarding authority control, I don't think people have generally been citing the authority databases in footnotes; I think it's assumed that the link is the reference, since it takes you directly to LC or DNB or whatever.
Regarding the templates: see Template:Chris Ware and Template:Art Spiegelman for other examples where the authority info is included in the template; in other words, there is precedent. -- FeanorStar7 ( talk) 22:32, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I have no preference either way about its format. Maybe a table would be nice. Thanks for taking an interest in the CYRM awards. Einbierbitte ( talk) 18:48, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
I was specifically working on cleaning up Category:American architecture at the time, so the particular batch run I was doing at the time only looked for duplication within that particular category, and not for other categorization issues. But I've gone back and manually removed two more unnecessary categories (including the "Media museums in the US" one) just now. It's not a software issue as such, except for the fact that you can really only automate one task per batch and then have to create a new batch for the next task. Bearcat ( talk) 04:32, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
As discussed, I have checked all pages (articles and other pages) that link to Bermuda Bowl.
Bermuda Bowl has these anchors (the "span id" defines anchor "40th" using html):
{{anchor|1950s–1970s}} {{anchor|1980s–2000s}} {{anchor|zonal}} <span id=40th>[http://www.worldbridge.org/tourn/Veldhoven.11/Veldhoven.htm 40th World Team Championships] ...</span>
There are 348 pages currently linking to
Bermuda Bowl, but none of them link to a section in that article! That is, there are no pages containing wikitext like [[Bermuda Bowl#xxx]]
(and none with spaces before the "#").
The article itself does use some of the anchors, with this wikitext:
[[#zonal|Zones as well as nations]]
[[#40th|40th World Teams]] (twice)
I suggest you delete the unused anchors (1950s and 1980s) using an edit summary like "delete anchors because no page links to them". Or, if you want to keep them, delete the range (just call them "1950s" and "1980s"). Or, replace the dash with "to". Using a hyphen is just going to cause trouble with future people who "fix" them, and using en dashes is hopeless as anyone wanting to use them would probably not know how (a copy/paste would work, but they might try typing it). Johnuniq ( talk) 09:37, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Yes, I translated some English articles on bridge championships to Chinese wikipedia.
Yan Lu (盧燕 or 卢燕, first name "Yan" and last name "Lu") and Ru Yan (阎茹, first name "Ru" and last name "Yan") are different players. Please note: Chinese people always say last name (surname, family name) first and first name last.
I am living at Nonantum and hope to meet you in person. My email is Ke_Lu@yahoo.com, cell phone is 781-296-7519.-- Nonantum ( talk) 17:21, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I don't know anything about the Munson name. I did some quick looking in the pay version of worldcat earlier today - there are books listed under R.W. Munson, but they seem to be science, not Science Fiction. I don't think the LC Authority record has this info. I have requested a copy of an item by R W Munson that's available in my library consortium - hopefully it will give some idea. That's the only real thought I've got now for ready confirmation on it.
LazyLizaJane ( talk) 21:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Sorry to get back so late. Actually, I couldn't find these probabilities anywhere online myself, so out of interest I wrote a piece of code to calculate them for me. I don't know how to cite this as a source unfortunately... I've put the code here, if that's of any help. -- 90.192.243.101 ( talk) 15:59, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your message. Regarding your question about the authority control template, I do it manually (by eye).
Also, thanks for the heads up about the spacing issue; I was trying to save space on the servers; if the bot is adding spaces that's fine. I will let it all go and just focus on the content.-- FeanorStar7 ( talk) 23:31, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
under the section Format. 2001 and later years use the four digits so for example:
n2012094994
so the number should be broken up like this:
n/2012/94994
if you do it the other way; the WorldCat link doesn't work.
Regarding the space and format issue: I refer to what I said above about content; I wasn't aware of all the complexities.-- FeanorStar7 ( talk) 23:42, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Please note the most recent comment from Jack Blackbourne at
Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Layout#See_also_navbox. If you elect to take your suggestion to RfC then please let me know so I can add my 2 cents. (I am monitoring your talk page, so you can let me know here.)
Butwhatdoiknow (
talk) 11:40, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
... archived at User talk:ChrisGualtieri/Archive 1#Replacing Dagger; and dagger;
You are invited to comment on the following probability-related RfC:
Talk:Monty Hall problem#Conditional or Simple solutions for the Monty Hall problem?
-- Guy Macon ( talk) 17:15, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
your comments here, at Wikipedia talk:Categorization, about Category:Astrid Lindgren, make perfect sense to me (i put back all the relevant categories, just to cause trouble :)). Eponymous categories are ONLY useful to bibliographic nerds, and should not be a substitute for real categories, ESPECIALLY by some sort of policy of NOT categorizing categories which happen to also be articles. I hope that enough of us can get this issue cleared up. its just weird to me, to have this parallel structure, with the administrative one becoming the one that readers are expected to use. cats for Apple, IBM, GM, John Lennon, all with parent cats. this is really strange to me, especially since we have huge areas of WP where the epocat structure is not used, like for every city in the US except 3. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 02:28, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I have just created Sky Dragons and run around in little circles fixing matters arising. Of course you are welcome to update it... I will add a scan of the US first edition cover "soon" (it is in the post). I've also created a category Category:Novels by Todd McCaffrey. -- Mirokado ( talk) 02:11, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Happy children join me in extending the best possible Season's Greetings to you and your loved ones at this time of year, and if you don't celebrate the usual holidays ( Diwali, Xmas, Hanukkah, Eid, Kwanzaa, etc....), then we will still wish you a Happy Festivus. All the best: HarryZilber ( talk) 20:06, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
The first paragraph of I Am the Cheese doesn't make any grammatical sense after your edit, and I can't figure out what you meant! Could you fix that? -- 70.194.80.111 ( talk) 08:32, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
I did the best I could to explain. You may also be interested in joining the WikiProject. We could use a bit of help. ö Brambleberry of RiverClan 14:11, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
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Is it possible --at a remote Windows machine, perhaps using some tool external to wikpedia-- to search hidden comments specifically? or to search page code for specific strings?
--not using Advanced search, iiuc, for its scope is all pages as rendered, by namespace. -- P64 ( talk) 23:08, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi P64,
Sorry for not replying sooner - I set your message aside to reply to and then things kept intervening! A couple of replies:
Thanks for looking into these - it's good to know that we have reliable data for a set of major authors! Andrew Gray ( talk) 23:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Please see WP:MOSDAB#Individual entries, specifically: "Keep the description associated with a link to a minimum, just sufficient to allow the reader to find the correct link. In many cases, the title of the article alone will be sufficient and no additional description is necessary."
It seems quite likely to me that, for example, someone who's seeking to read about the racehorse named The Trump will be able to tell by the link that says The Trump (horse) whether that's the article they're seeking. I really don't think it's necessary to include the horse's birthday. Theoldsparkle ( talk) 21:11, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Your Jan 31, 2013 edit to List of winners of the National Book Award added the ref names "nba1980s" and "nba1970s" but without any text for those refs. Would you please revisit the article and add the sources you intended? Thanks. - Salamurai ( talk) 06:38, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
(copied from above)
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I've rescued it. It's too bad that people can just blank articles like that. I wonder how much information has been lost from this encyclopedia because of nasty acts like that. I hope that the bots wouldn't allow that sort of thing to happen today. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:07, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
[2]. -- Green Cardamom ( talk) 06:01, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello P64! Thanks for your constructive edits to the Jules Verne article, especially the very enlightening research about Verne's place at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Now that we have a "Monuments and tributes" section in the article, I've gone ahead and moved the SFFHoF information into that section. Please do let me know if you have any questions or concerns.-- Lemuellio ( talk) 21:22, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi P64. Please see WT:CRIC re your question. Best wishes. ---- Jack | talk page 04:31, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Could you please revisit Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fictional_characters#Template:Jack.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 11:28, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Aha, I wondered if I'd ever be asked this question. There is nothing to aid the accuracy in that particular article,
but it aids finding historical inaccuracies in other articles linked to someone who has been knighted. There are a fair few articles that call someone "Sir" even though the date in the article is before they were knighted. Be redirecting all the Sir links, it helps in finding articles that call someone "Sir" or "Dame" or "Lord" incorrectly. Yes, I am that anal. Quentin X ( talk) 16:21, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
In your recent edit at S. E. Hinton you added 'screenplays' to genres in the infobox. 'Screenplays' seem, to me, a literary form destined for another medium and not, as such, a genre. Neonorange ( talk) 01:17, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
It's hard to know exactly what you objected to that would cause you to revert an edit that brought the article in question into line with a number of guidelines. I'm reinstating the edit, although I'll scrutinise it and try to guess what on earth the issue is. A note on the talk page explaining your action would have been preferable. Better still, a manual partial revert. Tony (talk) 02:49, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious about this edit. Why did you use a comment instead of using an inline reference? Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 22:22, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia policy i could find is Wikipedia:Non-free content#Unacceptable use, which includes recreations of "top 100" lists that have been selected creatively. lists based on objective sales, date of appearance, etc. would be ok to recreate. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 04:16, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
I patrolled your page. I went through the enormously-backlogged list of newly-created pages and confirmed that your page was okay: not spam, not an attack page, not a copyright violation, not any of the other reasons for which I would delete someone's page without asking. Then I clicked "patrolled" to remove it from the list of "pages that have not yet been patrolled", and moved on to the next entry. That's all. DS ( talk) 18:39, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
I've left the following on the HDM talk page, but am copying it to your talk page in case you don't return to HDM:
Well it's nice to no longer be talking to myself on the HDM pages! I appreciate the advise re: the table, and had already intended to cover the matter in prose. Put at its most succinct it would be that Will's World appears to be our own in the decades immediately prior to the writing of the book, but despite (cited)references/allusions to events & dates in the books, it isn't possible to come to any conclusions with regard to dates in other worlds. I apologise for putting my new sections out of order, however the other sections seemed to be on matters which had long since been resolved. I've also toned down my own section heading. Unfortunately, this is only one of a myriad of speculative/irrelevant/confusing or inappropriate parts of the coverage across all the HDM pages, also unfortunately other editors seem to have lost interest in the content.
Thankyou for the advise Pincrete ( talk) 14:47, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm aware of the Category:American young adult novelists category; it was one of the things I put into the new category. Although there is some obvious overlap, the two aren't strictly the same thing, as not all young adult literature is necessarily "novels" — some of it is short stories, some of it is non-fiction, and on and so forth. AWB also doesn't offer me a way to evaluate whether somebody should have gone into the novels category instead of the more general one — the only thing I can do in AWB is a straight one-to-one "if Category:Writers of young adult literature, then Category:American writers of young adult literature" move, not a situational "if A, B and C then D, but if A, F and J then Q" move. So if there are articles I moved that could be further moved into the novelists category instead, or if you'd rather delete the novelists subcategory and move everybody up to the more general one instead, then by all means the categories can be further refined as needed — it's just not possible for me to have done so while processing an AWB batch. Bearcat ( talk) 23:51, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
The shortlists were just announced here I made a very quick entry on both those pages. They'll need cleanup. Can you take another look at them? Thanks! Einbierbitte ( talk) 03:07, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
value of information
Thank you, technical expert, for quality articles on baseball people such as
John Hatfield, contributions to articles on topics as varied as children's books, literary awards and their winners, sport competitions and their people, for linking to the help of "unusually productive editors", for asking
when is any parameter value uninformative? - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:06, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
A year ago, you were the 805th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:34, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Six years ago, you were recipient no. 805 of Precious, a prize of QAI! -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:14, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
Please, with respect to that portion of your 19 November 2013 edit [7] reading "These people may be considered winners of the prize…," how did you determine that they may be considered winners of a prize awarded to organizations not to individuals? Thank you. JohnValeron ( talk) 02:49, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnValeron ( talk • contribs) 15:49, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Phoenix Books and Audio requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.
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Ursula Vernon is an American and so the WP:STRONGNAT date format that should be used is MDY not YMD. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 22:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
I updated both the Carnegie and Greenaway pages for the 2014 awards. Jon Klassen won the Greenaway for This Is Not My Hat - it also won the 2013 Caldecott. The first time one book won both. I also updated the Caldecott page. Can you please go through and proofread them please? Thanks Einbierbitte ( talk) 21:58, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for checking the article. I read that she attended Columbia University from Columbia from a Chinese website [9]. I'm not a WBF player and I can not find any English source to support the information, either. -- Huang Jinghai ( talk) 12:27, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
What is your justification for the ymd dates, as far as "restoring" them? Super ugly.— TAnthony Talk 03:45, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on VIAF, I see you work on sports articles. I have been adding the Library of Congress images of tennis, polo, and rowing. Do you work on the Flickr Commons LOC Project each Friday? -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 23:15, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your note and the headsup about the template. Excellent work on the glossary - keep it up! I'll try to add a few bits and pieces if I can. W. P. Uzer ( talk) 21:25, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
You've got WorldCat listed twice. Second in Authority control. That is the purpose of Authority control to aggregate library resources. However you are free to have two instances if that is what you want. -- Green C 21:02, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, I added the 2015 shortlists for the Carnegie and Greenaway awards. Can you please take a look? Thanks! Einbierbitte ( talk) 04:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
FYI. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:53, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
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The CYRM winners were announced May 1. I updated the list. can you proofread it please? Thanks Einbierbitte ( talk) 16:36, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, P64 – Just curious as I haven't seen anyone add interwiki links to anything for a long time as you did to the Gédéon Naudet redirect, nor have I ever seen the authority control used on redirects before. Are those needed? Aren't the IWs handled by Wikidata now, and isn't the auth control in the target article? – Paine 01:12, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
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I believe that Talk:Kingdom of Hungary needs a table of contents, as most talk pages do. Skimming the code I did not find a magic word (with "__" if i understand correctly) that now suppresses it, nor did I find where in Wikipedia space to ask for help with magic words or TOCs. So I cry out here. -- P64 ( talk) 18:32, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
I put in the 2015 Carnegie and Greenaway winners if you can check them. Einbierbitte ( talk) 18:45, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Category:Articles about multiple fictional characters appears to be tagged as a container (subcats only), but Fictional old Etonians was categorized directly there. Looking at the cat subcats, it seems the intent was to exclusively categorize "groups" of characters (e.g. duo, trio, etc.), but the cat name is arguably misleading. I'm unsure whether the container tag should be removed, or the article re-categorized, or the cat name be put into question, so thought I'd leave you a message. Slivicon ( talk) 16:15, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi: thanks for your message. I didn't realize what was the preferred way to handle it. I don't encounter multiple people that often; but it's good to have the information. On a different matter, I note that some of the more recent authority records (mostly no and nr type records) don't properly link to WorldCat; I get a document not found message. I will have to find some examples for you... --FeanorStar7 00:20, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Please read MOS:DATE and stop edit warring over a correct date format. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 02:01, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, P64! I'd like to invite you to join the Percy Jackson task force, which works to improve articles related to Rick Riordan and his books. Check out our page or contact me to learn more! 2ReinreB2 ( talk) 01:48, 8 November 2015 (UTC) |
Hi, P64. You've been making some extremely awesome edits to pages related to Rick Riordan and Percy Jackson & the Olympians lately! I'm not really sure if this is something you enjoy, or are just trying out, but on the off chance that it's the former I wanted to invite you to work on the pages relating to Suzanne Collins's The Underland Chronicles. This is a self-contained, five novel series whose Wikipedia pages have issues similar to those you've been fixing with WP:PJTF. The first three book articles, at leat, are in fairly decent shape; Book 1's is actually up for GA review. By no means should you feel obligated to work on these, but I just wanted to let you know about them. My userpage has some information about how I'm involved with the series. Happy editing, 2ReinreB2 ( talk) 19:36, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Hoi, I finished adding data. I noticed that you added the current winner for the Carnegie award. I can easily add the missing winners for the Carnegie award. Do you want to do that yourself (recommended). Please let me know. Thanks, GerardM ( talk) 16:24, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Things seem to have stalled. I'm troubled that we have thousands of articles from WP:WikiProject Journals, most of which are the targets of redirects from an abbreviation, tagged as {{ R from abbreviation}}, yet each of those redirects incorrectly displays as a "redirect from an initialism". Was there some reason this cleanup didn't go ahead? LeadSongDog come howl! 17:27, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Greetings, P64. I've nominated The Left Hand of Darkness at FAC. As an editor who has contributed significantly to Ursula Le Guin, if you could look in on the review and leave any feedback you may have, it would be much appreciated: the review is a little low on participation right now. The review is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Left Hand of Darkness/archive1. Regards, Vanamonde ( talk) 07:17, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
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Wow, I'd forgotten about that page! I cleared my watchlist a month or so ago, as it had gotten too long.
Erm, to be honest, there isn't much of an answer to your question. I'm personally not a fan of continuously sending the talk to the right hand side of the page, for the reasons that you note - as long as two comments arn't at the same indentation one after the other, it shouldn't be too confusing. There certainly isn't a given number of colons that I stop at, however, and I'm sure I could find occaisions where I have indented. Therefore, the best probable explanation is that I couldn't be bothered to type half a dozen colons before my text! -- Robdurbar 18:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
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Have made edits to spellings of names in article List of bridge books and magazines/Encyclopedic bibliographies and left message on dicussion page of Official Encyclopedia of Bridge. Thanks. Newwhist ( talk) 15:38, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
Man, that's a whole thing, isn't it? Did they ever decide whether to split off all the former-franchise articles, or do "History of" or whatever?
Anyway, I do not know how to find all of the instances. I know I've dabbed a lot of BRS --> Braves links over the past few weeks. I'd be happy to help work a list if it can be generated. Cheers .... Woodshed ( talk) 20:22, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your post on the discussion page of the Yankees-Giants rivalry page. I brought up a related issue on the Template:Subway Series discussion page. If you could help address it I know it would help. Thanks! Arnabdas ( talk) 14:43, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
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I am regularly contributing in spanish wiki, where, among others, I am making all the bridge pages (around 400). As there is missing bridge material and small errors in the english version I just wanted to contribute here. Thanks for the advices for newcomers. I will introduce some new stuff from 7th edition if you are interested.
I can also make some improuvements here and there if no one objects, but I do not want to bother anybody.
Kindly, -- John plaut ( talk) 01:10, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
You are being very kind. I appreciate your help a lot. Will try to follow suit. -- John plaut ( talk) 01:13, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
I can not find the following needed contract bridge templates
The use of the corresponding BridgeHand templates spend too much space.
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Upon seeing the various modifications you made to the various articles on the novels within the Dragonriders of Pern line, I have unfortunately made the decision to revert them. The various modifications you made, including lengthy references which seem to have nothing to do with the page, adding in HTML linebreaks (<br> tags), and placing a separation for a list of "Awards" in the lede of the page most definitely violate the various manuals of style we have set forth on this project. Rather than going through all of the articles to try to fix your massive errors, which has included omitting the title of the book from the infobox, leaving it blank, I have reverted all of your changes and restored the articles to the state they were sometime before your modifications in October. As such a long standing contributor like myself, I would think that you would have some sort of knowledge of our internal style guides.
I would request that you try to fix these massive errors in style before making any more articles resemble this.— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 07:57, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
In fact, several of your article modifications are highly out of line with the internal guidelines we have set forth throughout WP:Manual of style. I request that you please read them before you do massive formatting changes to articles, again.— Ryulong ( 竜龙) 07:59, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
You asked me to have a look at these following recent changes.
Ryulong and I agree that the articles need to be brought in line with conventional Wikipedia style. The latest versions can be the basis for these further changes, as long as they happen. I have updated Dragonflight as I think is necessary. I hope we can continue to work together to improve Anne's articles and I suggest we proceed as follows:
The changes to separate article contents, notes, references and citations involve some "high technology". Since your aspiration is to include a lot of detail in the articles, you really need to learn (if I may say so) how to do this properly. If you carry on as at present, your additions must be reworked substantially and some may be removed as irrelevant or unmaintainable. So please also start reorganising the articles using Dragonflight, as it evolves, as an example. If anything is not clear, please ask. I suggest take one article at a time and we can discuss progress with it. The aim will be that you are able to add content which will survive more-or-less unaltered as the articles evolve further. I will in parallel also update other articles, also one at a time. I will probably go over all the articles with one or two "little scripts" to make some boring mechanical changes. We can do any final polishing once the main changes have been made to all the articles. -- Mirokado ( talk) 14:07, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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A page recently got added into the mainspace and it is in dire, desperate need of attention. I'm not too savvy about the world of sports or some of the people who talk about it, so I thought I'd direct it to someone who is more familiar with sports in general. The page is for Alex Akita and it's currently a mess. Most of the links are from Akita's various pages and the various sections are full of non-notable and obviously not neutral material. Since a lot of the unencyclopedic edits happened by various IPs very quickly, I'm trying to get it semi-protected for the time being. Tokyogirl79 ( talk) 14:23, 8 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
"Karl wrote science fictions for children and young adults". Is "science fictions" normal American usage? It is incorrect in British usage, where we would say something like "science fiction stories". -- Mirokado ( talk) 21:02, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I saw this article come up on AfC, but it wasn't nearly ready enough to go to the mainspace. I was just wondering if you wanted to take a look at the article and see if there's anything here that would merit an article. I know fizz all about sports, so I'm definitely not the right person to edit it. I did notice that the person creating the article appeared to be his son (through the name of the editor), so if the guy is notable enough then someone would definitely have to help him out. I noticed that the guy hadn't come back on since October, so I'm not sure how much help he'd be. I did do a bit of searching through google, but all I found was an article about his death and a few articles stating that Gavin should be put in the Hall of Fame for boxing. Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Al Gavin, Boxing Cutman and Trainer I'm afraid that I'm just not knowledgeable enough to know if he passes WP:NSPORT or not. It looks like he might, but I'm not too familiar with all of this to know for certain. Tokyogirl79 ( talk) 09:47, 22 December 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
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Hi there - appreciate the updates to various Earthsea novels. You have added a note to about 4 novel pages, linking to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database for detail on the Earthsea sequence and stories; however there is already a wikilink to Earthsea just prior to your note on every novel page. The Wikipedia Earthsea page describes everything in your note, so it seem superfluous to link to an external source. Can you think of a way to make it more apparent there is a dedicated Wikipedia page for the series? I am open to rewording, etc - obviously it escaped your notice so it is probably the same for other readers? Regards Npd2983 ( talk) 21:17, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your messages.
1) I don't know of any thing off the top of my head regarding the speculative fiction question.
2) Regarding authority control, I don't think people have generally been citing the authority databases in footnotes; I think it's assumed that the link is the reference, since it takes you directly to LC or DNB or whatever.
Regarding the templates: see Template:Chris Ware and Template:Art Spiegelman for other examples where the authority info is included in the template; in other words, there is precedent. -- FeanorStar7 ( talk) 22:32, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
I have no preference either way about its format. Maybe a table would be nice. Thanks for taking an interest in the CYRM awards. Einbierbitte ( talk) 18:48, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
I was specifically working on cleaning up Category:American architecture at the time, so the particular batch run I was doing at the time only looked for duplication within that particular category, and not for other categorization issues. But I've gone back and manually removed two more unnecessary categories (including the "Media museums in the US" one) just now. It's not a software issue as such, except for the fact that you can really only automate one task per batch and then have to create a new batch for the next task. Bearcat ( talk) 04:32, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
As discussed, I have checked all pages (articles and other pages) that link to Bermuda Bowl.
Bermuda Bowl has these anchors (the "span id" defines anchor "40th" using html):
{{anchor|1950s–1970s}} {{anchor|1980s–2000s}} {{anchor|zonal}} <span id=40th>[http://www.worldbridge.org/tourn/Veldhoven.11/Veldhoven.htm 40th World Team Championships] ...</span>
There are 348 pages currently linking to
Bermuda Bowl, but none of them link to a section in that article! That is, there are no pages containing wikitext like [[Bermuda Bowl#xxx]]
(and none with spaces before the "#").
The article itself does use some of the anchors, with this wikitext:
[[#zonal|Zones as well as nations]]
[[#40th|40th World Teams]] (twice)
I suggest you delete the unused anchors (1950s and 1980s) using an edit summary like "delete anchors because no page links to them". Or, if you want to keep them, delete the range (just call them "1950s" and "1980s"). Or, replace the dash with "to". Using a hyphen is just going to cause trouble with future people who "fix" them, and using en dashes is hopeless as anyone wanting to use them would probably not know how (a copy/paste would work, but they might try typing it). Johnuniq ( talk) 09:37, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Yes, I translated some English articles on bridge championships to Chinese wikipedia.
Yan Lu (盧燕 or 卢燕, first name "Yan" and last name "Lu") and Ru Yan (阎茹, first name "Ru" and last name "Yan") are different players. Please note: Chinese people always say last name (surname, family name) first and first name last.
I am living at Nonantum and hope to meet you in person. My email is Ke_Lu@yahoo.com, cell phone is 781-296-7519.-- Nonantum ( talk) 17:21, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
I don't know anything about the Munson name. I did some quick looking in the pay version of worldcat earlier today - there are books listed under R.W. Munson, but they seem to be science, not Science Fiction. I don't think the LC Authority record has this info. I have requested a copy of an item by R W Munson that's available in my library consortium - hopefully it will give some idea. That's the only real thought I've got now for ready confirmation on it.
LazyLizaJane ( talk) 21:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Sorry to get back so late. Actually, I couldn't find these probabilities anywhere online myself, so out of interest I wrote a piece of code to calculate them for me. I don't know how to cite this as a source unfortunately... I've put the code here, if that's of any help. -- 90.192.243.101 ( talk) 15:59, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your message. Regarding your question about the authority control template, I do it manually (by eye).
Also, thanks for the heads up about the spacing issue; I was trying to save space on the servers; if the bot is adding spaces that's fine. I will let it all go and just focus on the content.-- FeanorStar7 ( talk) 23:31, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
under the section Format. 2001 and later years use the four digits so for example:
n2012094994
so the number should be broken up like this:
n/2012/94994
if you do it the other way; the WorldCat link doesn't work.
Regarding the space and format issue: I refer to what I said above about content; I wasn't aware of all the complexities.-- FeanorStar7 ( talk) 23:42, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Please note the most recent comment from Jack Blackbourne at
Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Layout#See_also_navbox. If you elect to take your suggestion to RfC then please let me know so I can add my 2 cents. (I am monitoring your talk page, so you can let me know here.)
Butwhatdoiknow (
talk) 11:40, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
... archived at User talk:ChrisGualtieri/Archive 1#Replacing Dagger; and dagger;
You are invited to comment on the following probability-related RfC:
Talk:Monty Hall problem#Conditional or Simple solutions for the Monty Hall problem?
-- Guy Macon ( talk) 17:15, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
your comments here, at Wikipedia talk:Categorization, about Category:Astrid Lindgren, make perfect sense to me (i put back all the relevant categories, just to cause trouble :)). Eponymous categories are ONLY useful to bibliographic nerds, and should not be a substitute for real categories, ESPECIALLY by some sort of policy of NOT categorizing categories which happen to also be articles. I hope that enough of us can get this issue cleared up. its just weird to me, to have this parallel structure, with the administrative one becoming the one that readers are expected to use. cats for Apple, IBM, GM, John Lennon, all with parent cats. this is really strange to me, especially since we have huge areas of WP where the epocat structure is not used, like for every city in the US except 3. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 02:28, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I have just created Sky Dragons and run around in little circles fixing matters arising. Of course you are welcome to update it... I will add a scan of the US first edition cover "soon" (it is in the post). I've also created a category Category:Novels by Todd McCaffrey. -- Mirokado ( talk) 02:11, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
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The first paragraph of I Am the Cheese doesn't make any grammatical sense after your edit, and I can't figure out what you meant! Could you fix that? -- 70.194.80.111 ( talk) 08:32, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
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Is it possible --at a remote Windows machine, perhaps using some tool external to wikpedia-- to search hidden comments specifically? or to search page code for specific strings?
--not using Advanced search, iiuc, for its scope is all pages as rendered, by namespace. -- P64 ( talk) 23:08, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi P64,
Sorry for not replying sooner - I set your message aside to reply to and then things kept intervening! A couple of replies:
Thanks for looking into these - it's good to know that we have reliable data for a set of major authors! Andrew Gray ( talk) 23:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Please see WP:MOSDAB#Individual entries, specifically: "Keep the description associated with a link to a minimum, just sufficient to allow the reader to find the correct link. In many cases, the title of the article alone will be sufficient and no additional description is necessary."
It seems quite likely to me that, for example, someone who's seeking to read about the racehorse named The Trump will be able to tell by the link that says The Trump (horse) whether that's the article they're seeking. I really don't think it's necessary to include the horse's birthday. Theoldsparkle ( talk) 21:11, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Your Jan 31, 2013 edit to List of winners of the National Book Award added the ref names "nba1980s" and "nba1970s" but without any text for those refs. Would you please revisit the article and add the sources you intended? Thanks. - Salamurai ( talk) 06:38, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
(copied from above)
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I've rescued it. It's too bad that people can just blank articles like that. I wonder how much information has been lost from this encyclopedia because of nasty acts like that. I hope that the bots wouldn't allow that sort of thing to happen today. -- Ssilvers ( talk) 03:07, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
[2]. -- Green Cardamom ( talk) 06:01, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello P64! Thanks for your constructive edits to the Jules Verne article, especially the very enlightening research about Verne's place at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Now that we have a "Monuments and tributes" section in the article, I've gone ahead and moved the SFFHoF information into that section. Please do let me know if you have any questions or concerns.-- Lemuellio ( talk) 21:22, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi P64. Please see WT:CRIC re your question. Best wishes. ---- Jack | talk page 04:31, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Could you please revisit Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fictional_characters#Template:Jack.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 11:28, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Aha, I wondered if I'd ever be asked this question. There is nothing to aid the accuracy in that particular article,
but it aids finding historical inaccuracies in other articles linked to someone who has been knighted. There are a fair few articles that call someone "Sir" even though the date in the article is before they were knighted. Be redirecting all the Sir links, it helps in finding articles that call someone "Sir" or "Dame" or "Lord" incorrectly. Yes, I am that anal. Quentin X ( talk) 16:21, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
In your recent edit at S. E. Hinton you added 'screenplays' to genres in the infobox. 'Screenplays' seem, to me, a literary form destined for another medium and not, as such, a genre. Neonorange ( talk) 01:17, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
It's hard to know exactly what you objected to that would cause you to revert an edit that brought the article in question into line with a number of guidelines. I'm reinstating the edit, although I'll scrutinise it and try to guess what on earth the issue is. A note on the talk page explaining your action would have been preferable. Better still, a manual partial revert. Tony (talk) 02:49, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
I'm curious about this edit. Why did you use a comment instead of using an inline reference? Thanks, Dismas| (talk) 22:22, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
The Wikipedia policy i could find is Wikipedia:Non-free content#Unacceptable use, which includes recreations of "top 100" lists that have been selected creatively. lists based on objective sales, date of appearance, etc. would be ok to recreate. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 04:16, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
I patrolled your page. I went through the enormously-backlogged list of newly-created pages and confirmed that your page was okay: not spam, not an attack page, not a copyright violation, not any of the other reasons for which I would delete someone's page without asking. Then I clicked "patrolled" to remove it from the list of "pages that have not yet been patrolled", and moved on to the next entry. That's all. DS ( talk) 18:39, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
I've left the following on the HDM talk page, but am copying it to your talk page in case you don't return to HDM:
Well it's nice to no longer be talking to myself on the HDM pages! I appreciate the advise re: the table, and had already intended to cover the matter in prose. Put at its most succinct it would be that Will's World appears to be our own in the decades immediately prior to the writing of the book, but despite (cited)references/allusions to events & dates in the books, it isn't possible to come to any conclusions with regard to dates in other worlds. I apologise for putting my new sections out of order, however the other sections seemed to be on matters which had long since been resolved. I've also toned down my own section heading. Unfortunately, this is only one of a myriad of speculative/irrelevant/confusing or inappropriate parts of the coverage across all the HDM pages, also unfortunately other editors seem to have lost interest in the content.
Thankyou for the advise Pincrete ( talk) 14:47, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm aware of the Category:American young adult novelists category; it was one of the things I put into the new category. Although there is some obvious overlap, the two aren't strictly the same thing, as not all young adult literature is necessarily "novels" — some of it is short stories, some of it is non-fiction, and on and so forth. AWB also doesn't offer me a way to evaluate whether somebody should have gone into the novels category instead of the more general one — the only thing I can do in AWB is a straight one-to-one "if Category:Writers of young adult literature, then Category:American writers of young adult literature" move, not a situational "if A, B and C then D, but if A, F and J then Q" move. So if there are articles I moved that could be further moved into the novelists category instead, or if you'd rather delete the novelists subcategory and move everybody up to the more general one instead, then by all means the categories can be further refined as needed — it's just not possible for me to have done so while processing an AWB batch. Bearcat ( talk) 23:51, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
The shortlists were just announced here I made a very quick entry on both those pages. They'll need cleanup. Can you take another look at them? Thanks! Einbierbitte ( talk) 03:07, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
value of information
Thank you, technical expert, for quality articles on baseball people such as
John Hatfield, contributions to articles on topics as varied as children's books, literary awards and their winners, sport competitions and their people, for linking to the help of "unusually productive editors", for asking
when is any parameter value uninformative? - you are an
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Please, with respect to that portion of your 19 November 2013 edit [7] reading "These people may be considered winners of the prize…," how did you determine that they may be considered winners of a prize awarded to organizations not to individuals? Thank you. JohnValeron ( talk) 02:49, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Phoenix Books and Audio requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about an organization or company, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.
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Ursula Vernon is an American and so the WP:STRONGNAT date format that should be used is MDY not YMD. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 22:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
I updated both the Carnegie and Greenaway pages for the 2014 awards. Jon Klassen won the Greenaway for This Is Not My Hat - it also won the 2013 Caldecott. The first time one book won both. I also updated the Caldecott page. Can you please go through and proofread them please? Thanks Einbierbitte ( talk) 21:58, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for checking the article. I read that she attended Columbia University from Columbia from a Chinese website [9]. I'm not a WBF player and I can not find any English source to support the information, either. -- Huang Jinghai ( talk) 12:27, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
What is your justification for the ymd dates, as far as "restoring" them? Super ugly.— TAnthony Talk 03:45, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on VIAF, I see you work on sports articles. I have been adding the Library of Congress images of tennis, polo, and rowing. Do you work on the Flickr Commons LOC Project each Friday? -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) ( talk) 23:15, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your note and the headsup about the template. Excellent work on the glossary - keep it up! I'll try to add a few bits and pieces if I can. W. P. Uzer ( talk) 21:25, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
You've got WorldCat listed twice. Second in Authority control. That is the purpose of Authority control to aggregate library resources. However you are free to have two instances if that is what you want. -- Green C 21:02, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Greetings, I added the 2015 shortlists for the Carnegie and Greenaway awards. Can you please take a look? Thanks! Einbierbitte ( talk) 04:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
FYI. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:53, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Please see " From Time to TIME". If you'd like to respond, of course please do so; but please do so there. Thank you. -- Hoary ( talk) 23:29, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
The CYRM winners were announced May 1. I updated the list. can you proofread it please? Thanks Einbierbitte ( talk) 16:36, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Hi, P64 – Just curious as I haven't seen anyone add interwiki links to anything for a long time as you did to the Gédéon Naudet redirect, nor have I ever seen the authority control used on redirects before. Are those needed? Aren't the IWs handled by Wikidata now, and isn't the auth control in the target article? – Paine 01:12, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
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I believe that Talk:Kingdom of Hungary needs a table of contents, as most talk pages do. Skimming the code I did not find a magic word (with "__" if i understand correctly) that now suppresses it, nor did I find where in Wikipedia space to ask for help with magic words or TOCs. So I cry out here. -- P64 ( talk) 18:32, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
I put in the 2015 Carnegie and Greenaway winners if you can check them. Einbierbitte ( talk) 18:45, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Category:Articles about multiple fictional characters appears to be tagged as a container (subcats only), but Fictional old Etonians was categorized directly there. Looking at the cat subcats, it seems the intent was to exclusively categorize "groups" of characters (e.g. duo, trio, etc.), but the cat name is arguably misleading. I'm unsure whether the container tag should be removed, or the article re-categorized, or the cat name be put into question, so thought I'd leave you a message. Slivicon ( talk) 16:15, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi: thanks for your message. I didn't realize what was the preferred way to handle it. I don't encounter multiple people that often; but it's good to have the information. On a different matter, I note that some of the more recent authority records (mostly no and nr type records) don't properly link to WorldCat; I get a document not found message. I will have to find some examples for you... --FeanorStar7 00:20, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
Please read MOS:DATE and stop edit warring over a correct date format. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 02:01, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello, P64! I'd like to invite you to join the Percy Jackson task force, which works to improve articles related to Rick Riordan and his books. Check out our page or contact me to learn more! 2ReinreB2 ( talk) 01:48, 8 November 2015 (UTC) |
Hi, P64. You've been making some extremely awesome edits to pages related to Rick Riordan and Percy Jackson & the Olympians lately! I'm not really sure if this is something you enjoy, or are just trying out, but on the off chance that it's the former I wanted to invite you to work on the pages relating to Suzanne Collins's The Underland Chronicles. This is a self-contained, five novel series whose Wikipedia pages have issues similar to those you've been fixing with WP:PJTF. The first three book articles, at leat, are in fairly decent shape; Book 1's is actually up for GA review. By no means should you feel obligated to work on these, but I just wanted to let you know about them. My userpage has some information about how I'm involved with the series. Happy editing, 2ReinreB2 ( talk) 19:36, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Hoi, I finished adding data. I noticed that you added the current winner for the Carnegie award. I can easily add the missing winners for the Carnegie award. Do you want to do that yourself (recommended). Please let me know. Thanks, GerardM ( talk) 16:24, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
Things seem to have stalled. I'm troubled that we have thousands of articles from WP:WikiProject Journals, most of which are the targets of redirects from an abbreviation, tagged as {{ R from abbreviation}}, yet each of those redirects incorrectly displays as a "redirect from an initialism". Was there some reason this cleanup didn't go ahead? LeadSongDog come howl! 17:27, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Greetings, P64. I've nominated The Left Hand of Darkness at FAC. As an editor who has contributed significantly to Ursula Le Guin, if you could look in on the review and leave any feedback you may have, it would be much appreciated: the review is a little low on participation right now. The review is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Left Hand of Darkness/archive1. Regards, Vanamonde ( talk) 07:17, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
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Check out the revision to Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, and disambiguation page at Children's Book Award. -- Bejnar ( talk) 21:45, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
Is Histoires ou contes du temps passé a good place for these books ?
Hi, I'm curious about where the LAC code in this edit comes from, because it does not appear to be recognised by the authority control template, nor is there any property called this on Wikidata. Regards — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:16, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
By the way I notice that you have a large number of {{
authority control}} templates in your userspace. Just to let you know that there is a drive to remove all named parameters of this template, and in the future it will only work in mainspace or with the |qid=
parameter. So you might want to import this data to Wikidata, or it will stop working at some point. Thanks — Martin (
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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Carol Emshwiller, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
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What is the purpose of adding {{ LCAuth}} to an article when this information is already in {{ Authority control}}. Is there something extra that LCAuth provides? It seems a backward step because we are trying to move all data into Wikidata and not the other way! — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:29, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
(Beside the main point of template {{
LCAuth}} in External links section of writer/illustrator biographies. See
User talk:P64#LCAuth.)
Concerning wikipedia/wikidata auto-generated links to online authority files and, in turn, to online catalogue records.
Wikipedia biography footer bars.
Regarding the matter under discussion, the DE.wikipedia footer bar Normdaten (Person) differs from the EN.wikipedia footer bar Authority control and thus from the Wikidata display of person items. Normdaten at the foot of a DE.wiki biography does provide points of entry to library catalogue records of a person's works in all three of the Germany, US, and Japan national libraries.
Example:
"Zane Grey" biography footer at DE.wikipedia
You may know, as I recall, EN.wiki moved link targets from LCCN.loc.gov to ID.loc.gov about 10 years ago. DE.wiki did not go along.
(time's up!) --
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Category:Articles about multiple people in pre-Tang China has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:56, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
Template:R fictional work has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 10:05, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
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Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:14, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Can you fix a minor bug? If there's only one record, it says "1 library catalog records", as in Homer Bigart. Clarityfiend ( talk) 05:06, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Category:The Chronicles of Narnia character redirects to lists indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
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