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Hello, I saw a message that you reviewed a redirect page of mine, and took a look at your user page.
I think the imbalance of articles on men v. women on WP is not just the result of systemic bias on WP, but also of systemic patriarchal bias in most human cultures on this planet in documented history. Nevertheless, my sign happens to be Libra, and I would like some more balance, to I decided to drop you a line and 2 cents.
Regards, -- GeeTeeBee ( talk) 22:00, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
FYI, I'm going to try to resurrect Elliot James Dowel Colvin as we did with G. E. C. Wakefield. It seems clear that Colvin meets notability though the existing article needed WP:TNT. Fiachra10003 ( talk) 18:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Todah rabbah for your excellent work on this article. I am happy about simplifying the disambiguation. I put the longer form because I wasn't sure whether the simpler form would suffice.
I put a note in the talk page for the article to the effect that I wasn't getting any clear results in the Wikipedia function for the ISBN. Therefore I included the Amazon link to make sure that the article didn't get deleted (whether by a robot or by a hostile editor) for lack of at least one authenticating reference.
Your work has improved the article in some very useful ways. I haven't had much time recently to work on Wikipedia, and I am a bit rusty. (Forgot that templates need { brackets.)
I have some material from my cousin's girlfriend including biography, a list of names of the musicals, and several other useful bits of information, not all appropriate for Wikipedia, and needing references such as page numbers from the biography. I suggest adding several headings - : Biography ; Musicals complete list, and short descriptive comments where relevant ; Collaborations including with Timothy Dudley Smith ; Articles and Media Appearances ; References
The material from my cousin's girlfriend includes names of children - not really appropriate, except perhaps that his third son died in 2002. Not sure of the relevance, though.
I may have time to look at this tonight.
Robert of Ramsor ( talk) 19:58, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Alexander Allardyce (British MP)
Surely it would be better to use the Template:Bare URL inline tag rather than {{ Link rot}}, when there is only one link in the article? Prince of Thieves ( talk) 21:51, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
I know you've been asked this before, and I realise you have previously expressed the opinion that RfA is a week in hell, but after doing the bunch of revision deletions you asked me to do the other day, perhaps it's time to have another think about it? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:58, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Sir I have added real images of village Movelkote also spelled Mawalkote. And I also added more information about this village . because I am a the resident of this village. And I am one who requested for this page creation so why you deleted image from this page Movelkote (Mawalkot) Rajput Sachin ( talk) 07:24, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
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Please delete Sam Paris/sandbox, it only exists because of a dumb mistake on my part. I would delete it myself if I knew how. Sam Paris ( talk) 23:19, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Hai... :) I Uploaded the film poster for Parole (film) Thank you once again... One more doubt if you dont mind.. how can we upload image of a person? .. example from facebook or some website to use in wikipedia infobox.. Yourmistake ( talk) 16:29, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Dear Admin, User_talk:Let_There_Be_Sunshine#Neerali Disagreement about inclusion of starcast. could you help me resolving star cast confusions in Neerali Page.I believe the movie stars Mohanlal Parvatii Nair Suraj Venjaramoodu Nadiya Moidu. there are news article regarding it. some news article clearly mentioned Parvatii Nair doing female lead in the movie ..see here [ [121]] and [ [122]] but one editor believes star cast should be only Mohanlal and reverted my edits. pls give me a correct advice to resolve this issue.advance thanks Yourmistake ( talk) 03:20, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
You reverted every change, so if I was wrong I need to know where I was wrong to learn from the mistakes. I made changes to the Bishop of Kiev disambiguation page per the advice of the DAB fixer. For example, there was a message that I consider removing "ancient Metropolitan of Kiev" per MOS:DABRL which states a red link "should be included on a DAB page only when a linked article also includes that red link. Do not create red links to articles that are unlikely ever to be written, or are likely to be removed as insufficiently notable topics." One page does link there, as indicated by "see List of Metropolitans of Kiev". I think that link should be changed to "List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Kiev". On that page is the red link with a lot of other red links that may make their way into English articles someday. Do you have plans to change those red links into articles? Thank you for responding. Vmavanti ( talk) 20:33, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
dear writer my article is an encyclopedic article and everything turned right and has references it is very ridiculous to delete it please support me in this regard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Entergirls ( talk • contribs) 07:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Pam,
You were probably right to CSD that article, pixel whatever something. A website not indicating notability, but it was (apparently) about seven minutes old and created by a new user. I was going to give the editor another 15 mins to respond before suggesting he or she sand box it. I hope that wasn’t wrong. I was trying to factor encouragement into my methods. Edaham ( talk) 21:50, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
PamD,
Since you essentially reverted my redirection of Staff of Life to The Coral Sea (book) (which I do not object to), what do you think about the rest of the redirects to The Coral Sea (book)? I'm thinking most, if not all of them, should be deleted. Steel1943 ( talk) 14:54, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for reminding me dance again as if one robot Boylen was not enough to make me understand that skills for free aren't appreciated and always pointed out. Rudeness is in that giving warning won't solve the problem either. Articles if edited or even created by me need some time and it is about the person or place what is wanted by masses atleast Asian masses to know. It is like you all pointing air saying that we can't see it so it isn't there. Thanks once again. I wonder why . . . It happens that I forget the things which elders told me above mentioned rule was one of them then this disobedience of not following the thumbrule makes even robots point out. Mansukhsurin ( talk) 16:11, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi PamD, I appreciate your contributions. But I have recently fixed the Punjabi-Mughal War article. I provided more sources and sourced it under that name, but my article has been redirected. Please Kindly allow my article. -- AhdBhat ( talk) 22:31, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you for editing Chun's article and let me know why some are not appropriate. actually, I am a volunteer - I thought that if I say i work for them would be helpful for me to write Chun's article. I am a friend of them but I don't work for them. I told Chun's that I want to do it for fun and for learning the wiki system. I have more things to add to this article. I added review section last night but got deleted even though I linked the right web article. How can I update it? Could you help me to do it? thank you very much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yjeon8 ( talk • contribs) 15:32, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors". Please stop editing the article about your friends, and find some other articles in the encyclopedia on which to practice editing. Thanks. Pam D 23:04, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi. Why did you make these edits on Rape (disambiguation)? Interqwark talk contribs 22:05, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding this revision, what makes the article not a stub? I thought it was since it was so short, with each section only being a few sentences long. Interqwark talk contribs 16:02, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
A stub is an article that, although providing some useful information, is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, and that is capable of expansion.I thought that season ticket fit that criteria. Interqwark talk contribs 06:48, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
The OED link that you added to Season ticket seems to require me to log in. Interqwark talk contribs 07:56, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Subscription or UK public library membership requiredtext. My bad! Interqwark talk contribs 08:07, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi PamD,
Thanks for your input on my Sudha Bhuchar article. I am a college student writing a Wikipedia article for a theatre artist who is not accurately represented in online media and chose Bhuchar because I believe that although her work on the screen is important, as you pointed out, she has especially influenced the portrayal of British Asians on the stage. I wanted to more completely explain her personal life and upbringing and artistic goals- she is at heart a political theatre maker, as she emphasizes in her interviews, and I believe the article has a responsibility to portray that.
I appreciate your tips- I combined the sources (our Wikipedia Education module didn't teach us to do that, so I didn't realize it was possible) and deleted King's Lynn Norfolk as a "London suburb" (although Bhuchar does refer to it as that- I am from the US and didn't realize the offensiveness of my insinuation).
Please let me know if you disagree with any of my points before deleting parts of my contribution. I've spent two months researching Bhuchar and her work and feel confident that this article properly represents her influence in a respectful way.
Dpepowski ( talk) 16:07, 10 June 2018 (UTC) dpepowski
Hi Pam. Thanks for your edits. I used the Wikipedia table creator for my list of Bhuchar's work. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to delete the empty rows at the bottom of the table- they don't show up when editing. Do you have any idea how to fix this?
I agree that the Wikipedia Education Module is certainly lacking- you should reach out to the program to voice some of your frustrations.
Dpepowski ( talk) 15:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi- I wanted to add a photo to the entry for me you nicely wrote for me, Merry Wiesner-Hanks. Instead it ended up in Wikimedia Commons, labeled Merry 1.jpg. Could you move it? Or tell me how to do this? You can easily find my email address to respond at the History Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Merry Wiesner-Hanks ( talk) 22:49, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
My apologies. I was only trying to help. Realising that I was, in fact, not helping, I will stop. Timeoin ( talk) 06:22, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
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Could you please provide me with information on why Leeds has two separate pages, including a factual source that you are using to define the settlement of Leeds? I previously had a conversation with Eckerslike about this and he or she could not provide me with single shred of evidence to justify Leeds having two separate pages. 80.2.15.69 ( talk) 17:58, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
I have looked into the previous discussions and I have not come across any evidence to justify why Leeds should have two separate pages. No I won't just accept what a so called experienced editor tells me, talk about patronising. Wikipedia pages are meant to be backed up by factual sources. You and many other so called experienced editors are purely making up your own rules and not using any factual sources whatsoever. You are literally like the mafia of Wikipedia dictating and pushing your own corrupt agenda. Judging by what you said in the previous discussions, you don't even have a clue what you are talking about and even suggested Leeds is still a town even though it got granted city status back in 1893. Not to mention you were completely basing your entire argument on what you think some persons opinion would be if asked a specific question. Talk about a chocolate teapot argument. I will be taking further action if you cannot provide me with any evidence 80.2.15.69 ( talk) 18:52, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for the helpful guidance regarding stub categories. I'll stick to the stub template in the future. Rcamilled ( talk) 14:31, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Just to say hello and thank you for your Little Yellow Duck Project article in particular, I've had such fun making and distributing little yellow ducks since a friend introduced me to the project this year. I'm not so far away from you (Preston) and was thinking about coming up to Silverdale for the art trail this weekend (not sure yet...) - I guess you've got Silverdale pretty well covered, though, for little yellow ducks. I'm very much a Wikipedia novice, the amount of work you've done is terrific. Best wishes. Peg Pyefinch ( talk) 15:53, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Thank you Pam! I've just got two, will try to find good and suitable places to leave them...... Peg Pyefinch ( talk) 17:31, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
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I am a specialist in the area of study with a PhD. Tom Licence is a sexist and the rest of us in the field are endeavoring not to promote his work. However, I should have replaced it with something else instead of just removing it. When I have more time, I will do that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.99.190.123 ( talk) 16:47, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Pam, I am replying here on your talk page because you said something to me at the discussion to delete the Hadamard-Gutzwiller model redirect and then closed that discussion before I could reply:
This is not true. A redirect from X to Y is an assertion that a reader typing in X is looking for Y. Not all re-directs need to be official alternative names of the article subject, which you can check by reviewing the list of purposes of redirects. (In particular, re-directs do not require citations.) It is not your job to do a literature search to upgrade an article, but it is your job to confirm if a redirect is actually mistaken if you want to remove it. It would not be sensible for editors to go around removing each redirect they don't understand.
You tried to delete my correct work without attempting any background research at all, and this sort of behavior is a tax on contributions (however minor). I don't need to know anything about your personal edit history to conclude this.
It required literally 10x more time than it took to create the re-direct in the first place. Holding someone's contributions hostage unless they make further efforts to defend them is just going to convince them that it's not worth contributing in the first place, even if that additional work would be easier for them than you.
Redirects don't require citations to remain in Wikipedia. The addition information I added today was supplemental; it was not necessary for the redirect to rightly remain. It would be one thing if you had looked up who had created the re-direct and asked me to explain, but starting a deletion process was unjustified.
I avoid editing non-technical articles because it's always easier for other editors to delete than to contribute, and the technical articles just have less traffic and more informed readers. I regret being rude to you, but I stand by my assertion that you should have done more research before removing my minor contribution. Jess_Riedel ( talk) 23:52, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Normally, we try to make sure that all "inbound redirects" other than misspellings or other obvious close variants of the article title are mentioned in the first couple of paragraphs of the article or section to which the redirect goes.And of course anything on that target page should have a source. As things were, the reader following the redirect Hadamard-Gutzwiller model arrived at a version of Hadamard's dynamical system which gave no indication why they were there. It might have been that the H-G model was an older model replaced by the new system, and that a previous chunk of text mentioning this had been deleted for some reason like copyright violation. No mention of Gutzwiller. No clue.
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Hi Pam, thanks for your message - you are right, I'm an employee, I didn't think about COI. If you'd like to remove all edits made today, that's fine. The things I did put in today I put a number of citations on and I believe to be pretty objective fact, so it would be great to get your view on if they can stay.
Either way, the page is quite out of date and missing key information so I will look through the pages you've shared on how to do that through the proper processes and submit some stuff! Thanks for raising and sorry! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emilyatthent ( talk • contribs) 16:30, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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Oh, it's really my fault. So sorry for my stupid actions. I didn't know about that before. Sorry for my bad grammars Lam —Preceding undated comment added 07:10, 25 April 2018 Datestamp so it gets archived Pam D 08:02, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
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I have create now a new article whish is calle "EDU (university)" instead of "EDU". Please can you check it again? So it can be published I think. Greetings, Eleonorexoxo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eleonorexoxo ( talk • contribs) 11:42, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
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Dear Pam thank you for removing my addition to the disambiguation page Adel/adoul. The creation of a separate page for this entry appears to me to be overkill, especially as there are so few English-language references to Adel/Adoul. Basically what you are saying is that no entries may be made on a disambiguation page unless there is a pre-existing wikipedia page for the lemma. This appears to me to be somewhat perverse, especially as it does not correspond to my own experience of Wikipedia. May I suggest you are being slightly over-zealous? Everybody got to be somewhere! ( talk) 16:28, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Howdy, RE: Your recent addition of 'Director' to the job titles of Terence Suthers. This one has really baffled me. I absolutely accept it's use here and that it is referenced in the York Civic trust page, but it is not a title that I have seen anywhere else in the Museum's history. I might have to have a trawl through the transactions of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to see if this can be corroborated either way; although the YPS didn't run the museum after the 1960s the museum's activities are still summarised in its annual reports and the comings and goings of staff is a big features. A curious one to follow up on for sure. Thanks and Best wishes. Zakhx150 ( talk) 17:08, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for spotting my spelling mistake on Woodstock, Pembrokeshire - I must be in too much of a hurry this evening. I was interested to see you are in Silverdale, a place where my Mancunian grandparents holidayed every year and often talked about. I have never been there myself. Cheers, Tony. Tony Holkham (Talk) 22:44, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Dear PamD, This open official appeal
my name is Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan von Miller
I am an artist and industrial designer
The article on English Wikipedia Olena Chekan now set for deletion
Olena Chekan is my beloved Mother
OLENA CHEKAN – The Quest for a Free Ukraine - Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan (Ed.) http://derkonterfei.com/product/olena-chekan-bohdan-rodyuk-chekan-ed https://ukrainianweek.com/Columns/50/154401 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYnhrOGjrM8 http://titel-kulturmagazin.net/2016/03/25/schlaglichter-auf-die-ukraine/
OLENA CHEKAN - Hymns to Ukrainian Art – Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan (Ed.) http://derkonterfei.com/product/olena-chekan-hymns-to-ukrainian-art-bohdan-rodyuk-chekan-ed http://ukrainianweek.com/Culture/163918 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLcMRP4BxFM
She was the illustrious political journalist, a glorified Soviet and Ukrainian actress, prominent screenwriter and courageous person: for the extension of her life during Euromaidan all Ukraine fought, my mother died in my arms 21 December 2013, Kiev, Ukraine, from glioblastoma - brain cancer, the fourth stage of 18 months of life - a lot, you can see the statistics of this disease. And if we are talking about freedom of speech of the media in Ukraine, who did more than my Mom
http://gorbaniewska.zawolnosc.eu/ru/inne/1 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia/916/916morebooks.pdf
Therefore, in memory of Mom and Svetolik Skale Mitić, I started a new project:
/info/en/?search=List_of_journalists_murdered_in_Ukraine this article is the beginning of a photo exhibition for future elections in Ukraine My project is intended to bring democratic changes to a ruined country engulfed by war and Russian aggression.
• Svetolik Skale Mitić is my first husband of my Mother you know of course that Svetolik Skale Mitić was one of the founders of journalism in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Svetolik Skale Mitić sent letters to my Mom even from Nicaraguan captivity. I still keep his love correspondence with my Mom. https://www.svoboda.org/a/26285034.html
• General Yevgeny Miller is the father of my grandfather's brother's wife: CHEKAN (née MILLER) Maria Evgenievna, 1897-1982. Brother of my grandfather (my Mom's Father Vasily Ivanovich Chekan) - Protopresbyter archpriest Alexander Chekan (Chekan Alexander Ivanovich) (1893 - 1982) https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4077462?counter=1 He took part in the Russian Civil War: In the Volunteer Army and VSYUR Don Army in the 1st separate heavy howitzer division; since Aug. 28 1919 Second Lieutenant, since 30 Sep. (The Lieutenant). In the Russian Army before the evacuation of the Crimea - Siege of Perekop (1920). Staff-captain. He participated in the Gallipoli Campaign. Alexander Chekan was injured and dying from wounds, he was saved by a nurse - the future wife Maria Evgenievna, the daughter of the general Yevgeny Miller. Alexander Chekan continued to defend the Motherland on Dec. 18 1920 in the 1st battery of the 5th Artillery Battalion. He with his wife emigrated to Bulgaria (1921). He received his higher education in Sofia, where he was also the secretary of the branch of the Russian Student Christian Movement (RSCM). Chairman of the Union of Russian Students in Sofia and the Union of Russian Students in Bulgaria (1920s). Later they moved to France. Since 1947, Alexander Chekan the second priest, then the abbot of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Paris.
• my uncle - Jerzy Bogdanowićz Polish theoretical nuclear physics scientist, Prof.Bogdanowićz participated in the scientific activities of the Large Hadron Collider: http://lss.fnal.gov/archive/other/sissa-3-94-ep.pdf http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988NuPhA.479..323B project in CERN and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Jerzy Bogdanowićz - in young age the hero of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and was awarded with The Order of Polonia Restituta (Polish: Order Odrodzenia Polski, English: Order of the Rebirth of Poland) and The Cross of Merit (Polish: Krzyż Zasługi). at his funeral in 1999, which I attended with my Mother Olena Chekan there was the red white roses wreath from the President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
• my mentor, a close friend of my Mother - Alex Moscovitch was a French politician and analyst. He was also an associate and companion of General Charles de Gaulle. We met in Moscow 1990, when my Mom was creating an interview book "The Star of Alex Moscovitch | Etoile d'Alex Moscovitch" based on regular tape recordings of conversations with Alex Moscovitch. The book-interview was published in Moscow at publishing house "NORD" 14 September 1992 with the autobiography of Alex Moscovitch "Le Temps Des Punaises" in Russian. Two years spent together with Alex Moscovitch became for me a school of life and experience that formed me. Alex Moscovitch photos on the Wikipedia page from my archive at home! I found this article and put it on his page too https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2011/10/17/17-octobre-1961-toute-une-histoire_1587334_3246.html
The layout of the interview book "The Star of Alex Moscovitch | Etoile d'Alex Moscovitch" by Olena Chekan was created by my Father Stanyslas Rodyuk Master builder M.Arch. Ukrainian architect, founder of the principles of the use of fractal properties in the parametric architecture of postmodernism and urban planing in the USSR and Ukraine https://www.flickr.com/photos/155931501@N04/41187636625/in/album-72157691957163572/
• Stanyslas Rodyuk (born 24 November 1937; died 15 February 2003) was the author of the idea, creator of planning design and the developer of the architectural project of the building of The Druzhba Sanitarium in Yalta that is located on the Crimea peninsula, Ukraine, at present Russia in the Greater Yalta district. His aesthetic vision of planning was that of parametricism in urban architecture and embodied in the main promises of modernism: public space, light and a sense of opportunity.In connection with his political views, Stanyslas Rodyuk was suspended from completion of the building of The Druzhba Sanitarium in Yalta by the architect project leader Igor Vasilevsky - a son of a Marshal of the Soviet Union – Aleksandr Vasilevsky. Stanyslas Rodyuk died of left lung pneumonia caused by tumor load of sarcoma 15 February 2003. The Druzhba Sanitarium in Yalta [1] is recognized as the best architectural project in the history of all Soviet Modernist Urban planning [2] [3].
I knew these people personally! They are my family! at home I have a huge archive of their photos, letters and personal veshey
Yes, in creating these articles I acted as an amateur. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Your_first_article I independently learned and mastered the skills of working in HTML to create these articles in Wikipedia As I know one of the Wikipedia principles: make help this article better /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles
But by destroying and correcting with the lack of truth these articles (none of you personally knew them!), Wikipedia destroy the truth of history.. it is against the right to freedom of opinion and expression, AI and digital security could https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/FreedomOpinion/Pages/OpinionIndex.aspx
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G17/071/20/PDF/G1707120.pdf?OpenElement
https://news.un.org/en/audio/2018/10/1023932
I know that during a global catastrophe Wikipedia users will be encouraged to print all articles on available printers to preserve the history of Mankind, but what we will print if the historical truth of the Wikipedia articles will be lost forever? I please you not to turn Wikipedia into a copy-paste which is published under dictation «1984» Big Brother, it is unacceptable to turn Wikipedia into a fence with graffiti that is constantly being broken by anyone who wants.
We can join forces: the professional skills of all Wikipedia administrators and editing area Users with the historical documents archive, that I saved for these articles with documentary confirmed sources of external links.
I bid you, all Wikipedia administrators and editing area Users my hand of friendship and open heart! We can make these articles, about which I am writing in my appeal and the whole of Wikipedia better: Let`s do it! Together! T∴ A∴ F∴ Cordially, Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan von Miller Esq.
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Hi PamD, thank you for your note and your work on redirects for those articles. I didn't know much about redirects, so thanks a lot! Going to read up and make sure everything's neat and tidy from now on. I'm still relatively new to this Wiki business so I really appreciate your help. -- Kangarooth ( talk) 15:42, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
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Dear PamD Thank you for adding a page about me to Wikipedia, it was brought to my attention recently by a friend. I attempted to add a photograph to it together with some factual corrections! However, it appears that I am not supposed to do this. Part of a message I received said: "If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page." I am a novice on Wikipedia and it would be easier if I could use email with you to chat, rather than "User talk” as I use voice-activated software for typing purposes. Grateful thanks. R Moriarty-Simmonds RMORIARTY-SIMMONDS ( talk) 15:35, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi PamD. You undid an edit I made on the disambiguation page for PM. I completely understand the reasoning you gave, but I'd just like to attest the use of the initialism PM for plasma membrane. Here are a few published articles in which the abbreviation is used: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Let me know what you think. Cheers Zumley ( talk) 11:27, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
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How rude are you? "Here we go again"? Learn some manners!
At least I have a life and have written 6 books which are much-loved and sell well. Have you ever written a novel, PamD?
My TV novel RASMUS has attracted interest from the CREATIVE ARTIST AGENCY the LARGEST film agency in the USA based in LA. So people will be interested in it now and in future.
You contribute for free to a fake news website called Wiki because you obviously have no life.
I know who I'd rather be, frankly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PJ67000 ( talk • contribs) 08:24, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Southport Visiter is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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How about a grace period as users incorporate new material. One edit conflict, then a surprising move, I prefer not to have distractions like that when I am adding content, I'm sure you will appreciate there is no need to pounce on something that should have been created years ago, and there is no urgency to add your improvements to it immediately. Just my thoughts, as I turn to your contributions instead of my own, I know what I am doing but need to double check my own improvements. Regards, cygnis insignis 10:53, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks for the update. It even says on Sperry's tombstone 'Winifred'. Don't know where the Dorothy originated. But it's all over the web as Dorothy being his spouse. Unfortunately the newspaper archive I use, to vet info, is down at the moment. Koplimek ( talk) 23:04, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
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I see that you have moved the three kingfisher family articles to singular titles, but each still starts with a plural in the main image caption and in the opening sentence, so you really need to fix these too if you're going to make the move. I thought about doing it myself, but since the topic seems inherently plural, I'm not sure how, so I'd be grateful if you could fix the three articles so that they are consistent with their new titles and still make sense? Many thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:53, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, did you get any interest yet from other editors in your proposed article about running blades? If it's still on your to-do list I might be interested in collaborating with you. I had been struggling with health issues for quite some time that resulted in my edit rate here slowing way down. I feel I need something substantial to do here to get my wiki-mojo flowing again. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 07:31, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
If you're going to add a {{ disputed}} tag to Restroom, shouldn't you add the same tag to Toilet, where the disputed material comes from? bd2412 T 17:49, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Pam, hello again. More unit stuff (!)... and I was just looking at Lea (unit), and the OED reference gives me a demand to "sign in". I had a vague recollection that access was free from the UK, but not elsewhere, although the website suggests this is not true. (But of course I don't know whether it is detecting where I am, and giving a different message.) Can you confirm? I'm going to add "subscription required" to the citation template anyway. Imaginatorium ( talk) 17:13, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, I saw a message that you reviewed a redirect page of mine, and took a look at your user page.
I think the imbalance of articles on men v. women on WP is not just the result of systemic bias on WP, but also of systemic patriarchal bias in most human cultures on this planet in documented history. Nevertheless, my sign happens to be Libra, and I would like some more balance, to I decided to drop you a line and 2 cents.
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FYI, I'm going to try to resurrect Elliot James Dowel Colvin as we did with G. E. C. Wakefield. It seems clear that Colvin meets notability though the existing article needed WP:TNT. Fiachra10003 ( talk) 18:23, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Todah rabbah for your excellent work on this article. I am happy about simplifying the disambiguation. I put the longer form because I wasn't sure whether the simpler form would suffice.
I put a note in the talk page for the article to the effect that I wasn't getting any clear results in the Wikipedia function for the ISBN. Therefore I included the Amazon link to make sure that the article didn't get deleted (whether by a robot or by a hostile editor) for lack of at least one authenticating reference.
Your work has improved the article in some very useful ways. I haven't had much time recently to work on Wikipedia, and I am a bit rusty. (Forgot that templates need { brackets.)
I have some material from my cousin's girlfriend including biography, a list of names of the musicals, and several other useful bits of information, not all appropriate for Wikipedia, and needing references such as page numbers from the biography. I suggest adding several headings - : Biography ; Musicals complete list, and short descriptive comments where relevant ; Collaborations including with Timothy Dudley Smith ; Articles and Media Appearances ; References
The material from my cousin's girlfriend includes names of children - not really appropriate, except perhaps that his third son died in 2002. Not sure of the relevance, though.
I may have time to look at this tonight.
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Surely it would be better to use the Template:Bare URL inline tag rather than {{ Link rot}}, when there is only one link in the article? Prince of Thieves ( talk) 21:51, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
I know you've been asked this before, and I realise you have previously expressed the opinion that RfA is a week in hell, but after doing the bunch of revision deletions you asked me to do the other day, perhaps it's time to have another think about it? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:58, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Sir I have added real images of village Movelkote also spelled Mawalkote. And I also added more information about this village . because I am a the resident of this village. And I am one who requested for this page creation so why you deleted image from this page Movelkote (Mawalkot) Rajput Sachin ( talk) 07:24, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
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Please delete Sam Paris/sandbox, it only exists because of a dumb mistake on my part. I would delete it myself if I knew how. Sam Paris ( talk) 23:19, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Hai... :) I Uploaded the film poster for Parole (film) Thank you once again... One more doubt if you dont mind.. how can we upload image of a person? .. example from facebook or some website to use in wikipedia infobox.. Yourmistake ( talk) 16:29, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Dear Admin, User_talk:Let_There_Be_Sunshine#Neerali Disagreement about inclusion of starcast. could you help me resolving star cast confusions in Neerali Page.I believe the movie stars Mohanlal Parvatii Nair Suraj Venjaramoodu Nadiya Moidu. there are news article regarding it. some news article clearly mentioned Parvatii Nair doing female lead in the movie ..see here [ [121]] and [ [122]] but one editor believes star cast should be only Mohanlal and reverted my edits. pls give me a correct advice to resolve this issue.advance thanks Yourmistake ( talk) 03:20, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
You reverted every change, so if I was wrong I need to know where I was wrong to learn from the mistakes. I made changes to the Bishop of Kiev disambiguation page per the advice of the DAB fixer. For example, there was a message that I consider removing "ancient Metropolitan of Kiev" per MOS:DABRL which states a red link "should be included on a DAB page only when a linked article also includes that red link. Do not create red links to articles that are unlikely ever to be written, or are likely to be removed as insufficiently notable topics." One page does link there, as indicated by "see List of Metropolitans of Kiev". I think that link should be changed to "List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Kiev". On that page is the red link with a lot of other red links that may make their way into English articles someday. Do you have plans to change those red links into articles? Thank you for responding. Vmavanti ( talk) 20:33, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
dear writer my article is an encyclopedic article and everything turned right and has references it is very ridiculous to delete it please support me in this regard — Preceding unsigned comment added by Entergirls ( talk • contribs) 07:29, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Pam,
You were probably right to CSD that article, pixel whatever something. A website not indicating notability, but it was (apparently) about seven minutes old and created by a new user. I was going to give the editor another 15 mins to respond before suggesting he or she sand box it. I hope that wasn’t wrong. I was trying to factor encouragement into my methods. Edaham ( talk) 21:50, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
PamD,
Since you essentially reverted my redirection of Staff of Life to The Coral Sea (book) (which I do not object to), what do you think about the rest of the redirects to The Coral Sea (book)? I'm thinking most, if not all of them, should be deleted. Steel1943 ( talk) 14:54, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for reminding me dance again as if one robot Boylen was not enough to make me understand that skills for free aren't appreciated and always pointed out. Rudeness is in that giving warning won't solve the problem either. Articles if edited or even created by me need some time and it is about the person or place what is wanted by masses atleast Asian masses to know. It is like you all pointing air saying that we can't see it so it isn't there. Thanks once again. I wonder why . . . It happens that I forget the things which elders told me above mentioned rule was one of them then this disobedience of not following the thumbrule makes even robots point out. Mansukhsurin ( talk) 16:11, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi PamD, I appreciate your contributions. But I have recently fixed the Punjabi-Mughal War article. I provided more sources and sourced it under that name, but my article has been redirected. Please Kindly allow my article. -- AhdBhat ( talk) 22:31, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you for editing Chun's article and let me know why some are not appropriate. actually, I am a volunteer - I thought that if I say i work for them would be helpful for me to write Chun's article. I am a friend of them but I don't work for them. I told Chun's that I want to do it for fun and for learning the wiki system. I have more things to add to this article. I added review section last night but got deleted even though I linked the right web article. How can I update it? Could you help me to do it? thank you very much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yjeon8 ( talk • contribs) 15:32, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors". Please stop editing the article about your friends, and find some other articles in the encyclopedia on which to practice editing. Thanks. Pam D 23:04, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hi. Why did you make these edits on Rape (disambiguation)? Interqwark talk contribs 22:05, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Regarding this revision, what makes the article not a stub? I thought it was since it was so short, with each section only being a few sentences long. Interqwark talk contribs 16:02, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
A stub is an article that, although providing some useful information, is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, and that is capable of expansion.I thought that season ticket fit that criteria. Interqwark talk contribs 06:48, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
The OED link that you added to Season ticket seems to require me to log in. Interqwark talk contribs 07:56, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Subscription or UK public library membership requiredtext. My bad! Interqwark talk contribs 08:07, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi PamD,
Thanks for your input on my Sudha Bhuchar article. I am a college student writing a Wikipedia article for a theatre artist who is not accurately represented in online media and chose Bhuchar because I believe that although her work on the screen is important, as you pointed out, she has especially influenced the portrayal of British Asians on the stage. I wanted to more completely explain her personal life and upbringing and artistic goals- she is at heart a political theatre maker, as she emphasizes in her interviews, and I believe the article has a responsibility to portray that.
I appreciate your tips- I combined the sources (our Wikipedia Education module didn't teach us to do that, so I didn't realize it was possible) and deleted King's Lynn Norfolk as a "London suburb" (although Bhuchar does refer to it as that- I am from the US and didn't realize the offensiveness of my insinuation).
Please let me know if you disagree with any of my points before deleting parts of my contribution. I've spent two months researching Bhuchar and her work and feel confident that this article properly represents her influence in a respectful way.
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Hi Pam. Thanks for your edits. I used the Wikipedia table creator for my list of Bhuchar's work. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out how to delete the empty rows at the bottom of the table- they don't show up when editing. Do you have any idea how to fix this?
I agree that the Wikipedia Education Module is certainly lacking- you should reach out to the program to voice some of your frustrations.
Dpepowski ( talk) 15:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi- I wanted to add a photo to the entry for me you nicely wrote for me, Merry Wiesner-Hanks. Instead it ended up in Wikimedia Commons, labeled Merry 1.jpg. Could you move it? Or tell me how to do this? You can easily find my email address to respond at the History Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Merry Wiesner-Hanks ( talk) 22:49, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
My apologies. I was only trying to help. Realising that I was, in fact, not helping, I will stop. Timeoin ( talk) 06:22, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
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Could you please provide me with information on why Leeds has two separate pages, including a factual source that you are using to define the settlement of Leeds? I previously had a conversation with Eckerslike about this and he or she could not provide me with single shred of evidence to justify Leeds having two separate pages. 80.2.15.69 ( talk) 17:58, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
I have looked into the previous discussions and I have not come across any evidence to justify why Leeds should have two separate pages. No I won't just accept what a so called experienced editor tells me, talk about patronising. Wikipedia pages are meant to be backed up by factual sources. You and many other so called experienced editors are purely making up your own rules and not using any factual sources whatsoever. You are literally like the mafia of Wikipedia dictating and pushing your own corrupt agenda. Judging by what you said in the previous discussions, you don't even have a clue what you are talking about and even suggested Leeds is still a town even though it got granted city status back in 1893. Not to mention you were completely basing your entire argument on what you think some persons opinion would be if asked a specific question. Talk about a chocolate teapot argument. I will be taking further action if you cannot provide me with any evidence 80.2.15.69 ( talk) 18:52, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for the helpful guidance regarding stub categories. I'll stick to the stub template in the future. Rcamilled ( talk) 14:31, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Just to say hello and thank you for your Little Yellow Duck Project article in particular, I've had such fun making and distributing little yellow ducks since a friend introduced me to the project this year. I'm not so far away from you (Preston) and was thinking about coming up to Silverdale for the art trail this weekend (not sure yet...) - I guess you've got Silverdale pretty well covered, though, for little yellow ducks. I'm very much a Wikipedia novice, the amount of work you've done is terrific. Best wishes. Peg Pyefinch ( talk) 15:53, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Thank you Pam! I've just got two, will try to find good and suitable places to leave them...... Peg Pyefinch ( talk) 17:31, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
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I am a specialist in the area of study with a PhD. Tom Licence is a sexist and the rest of us in the field are endeavoring not to promote his work. However, I should have replaced it with something else instead of just removing it. When I have more time, I will do that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.99.190.123 ( talk) 16:47, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi Pam, I am replying here on your talk page because you said something to me at the discussion to delete the Hadamard-Gutzwiller model redirect and then closed that discussion before I could reply:
This is not true. A redirect from X to Y is an assertion that a reader typing in X is looking for Y. Not all re-directs need to be official alternative names of the article subject, which you can check by reviewing the list of purposes of redirects. (In particular, re-directs do not require citations.) It is not your job to do a literature search to upgrade an article, but it is your job to confirm if a redirect is actually mistaken if you want to remove it. It would not be sensible for editors to go around removing each redirect they don't understand.
You tried to delete my correct work without attempting any background research at all, and this sort of behavior is a tax on contributions (however minor). I don't need to know anything about your personal edit history to conclude this.
It required literally 10x more time than it took to create the re-direct in the first place. Holding someone's contributions hostage unless they make further efforts to defend them is just going to convince them that it's not worth contributing in the first place, even if that additional work would be easier for them than you.
Redirects don't require citations to remain in Wikipedia. The addition information I added today was supplemental; it was not necessary for the redirect to rightly remain. It would be one thing if you had looked up who had created the re-direct and asked me to explain, but starting a deletion process was unjustified.
I avoid editing non-technical articles because it's always easier for other editors to delete than to contribute, and the technical articles just have less traffic and more informed readers. I regret being rude to you, but I stand by my assertion that you should have done more research before removing my minor contribution. Jess_Riedel ( talk) 23:52, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Normally, we try to make sure that all "inbound redirects" other than misspellings or other obvious close variants of the article title are mentioned in the first couple of paragraphs of the article or section to which the redirect goes.And of course anything on that target page should have a source. As things were, the reader following the redirect Hadamard-Gutzwiller model arrived at a version of Hadamard's dynamical system which gave no indication why they were there. It might have been that the H-G model was an older model replaced by the new system, and that a previous chunk of text mentioning this had been deleted for some reason like copyright violation. No mention of Gutzwiller. No clue.
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Either way, the page is quite out of date and missing key information so I will look through the pages you've shared on how to do that through the proper processes and submit some stuff! Thanks for raising and sorry! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emilyatthent ( talk • contribs) 16:30, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
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Oh, it's really my fault. So sorry for my stupid actions. I didn't know about that before. Sorry for my bad grammars Lam —Preceding undated comment added 07:10, 25 April 2018 Datestamp so it gets archived Pam D 08:02, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
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I have create now a new article whish is calle "EDU (university)" instead of "EDU". Please can you check it again? So it can be published I think. Greetings, Eleonorexoxo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eleonorexoxo ( talk • contribs) 11:42, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
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Dear Pam thank you for removing my addition to the disambiguation page Adel/adoul. The creation of a separate page for this entry appears to me to be overkill, especially as there are so few English-language references to Adel/Adoul. Basically what you are saying is that no entries may be made on a disambiguation page unless there is a pre-existing wikipedia page for the lemma. This appears to me to be somewhat perverse, especially as it does not correspond to my own experience of Wikipedia. May I suggest you are being slightly over-zealous? Everybody got to be somewhere! ( talk) 16:28, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
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Howdy, RE: Your recent addition of 'Director' to the job titles of Terence Suthers. This one has really baffled me. I absolutely accept it's use here and that it is referenced in the York Civic trust page, but it is not a title that I have seen anywhere else in the Museum's history. I might have to have a trawl through the transactions of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society to see if this can be corroborated either way; although the YPS didn't run the museum after the 1960s the museum's activities are still summarised in its annual reports and the comings and goings of staff is a big features. A curious one to follow up on for sure. Thanks and Best wishes. Zakhx150 ( talk) 17:08, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
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I apologize for the over compensation I was just trying to make it clear for people that didn't understand that the link was literally right there on the page. Mcelite ( talk) 22:17, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for spotting my spelling mistake on Woodstock, Pembrokeshire - I must be in too much of a hurry this evening. I was interested to see you are in Silverdale, a place where my Mancunian grandparents holidayed every year and often talked about. I have never been there myself. Cheers, Tony. Tony Holkham (Talk) 22:44, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Dear PamD, This open official appeal
my name is Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan von Miller
I am an artist and industrial designer
The article on English Wikipedia Olena Chekan now set for deletion
Olena Chekan is my beloved Mother
OLENA CHEKAN – The Quest for a Free Ukraine - Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan (Ed.) http://derkonterfei.com/product/olena-chekan-bohdan-rodyuk-chekan-ed https://ukrainianweek.com/Columns/50/154401 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYnhrOGjrM8 http://titel-kulturmagazin.net/2016/03/25/schlaglichter-auf-die-ukraine/
OLENA CHEKAN - Hymns to Ukrainian Art – Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan (Ed.) http://derkonterfei.com/product/olena-chekan-hymns-to-ukrainian-art-bohdan-rodyuk-chekan-ed http://ukrainianweek.com/Culture/163918 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLcMRP4BxFM
She was the illustrious political journalist, a glorified Soviet and Ukrainian actress, prominent screenwriter and courageous person: for the extension of her life during Euromaidan all Ukraine fought, my mother died in my arms 21 December 2013, Kiev, Ukraine, from glioblastoma - brain cancer, the fourth stage of 18 months of life - a lot, you can see the statistics of this disease. And if we are talking about freedom of speech of the media in Ukraine, who did more than my Mom
http://gorbaniewska.zawolnosc.eu/ru/inne/1 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~sarmatia/916/916morebooks.pdf
Therefore, in memory of Mom and Svetolik Skale Mitić, I started a new project:
/info/en/?search=List_of_journalists_murdered_in_Ukraine this article is the beginning of a photo exhibition for future elections in Ukraine My project is intended to bring democratic changes to a ruined country engulfed by war and Russian aggression.
• Svetolik Skale Mitić is my first husband of my Mother you know of course that Svetolik Skale Mitić was one of the founders of journalism in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Svetolik Skale Mitić sent letters to my Mom even from Nicaraguan captivity. I still keep his love correspondence with my Mom. https://www.svoboda.org/a/26285034.html
• General Yevgeny Miller is the father of my grandfather's brother's wife: CHEKAN (née MILLER) Maria Evgenievna, 1897-1982. Brother of my grandfather (my Mom's Father Vasily Ivanovich Chekan) - Protopresbyter archpriest Alexander Chekan (Chekan Alexander Ivanovich) (1893 - 1982) https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4077462?counter=1 He took part in the Russian Civil War: In the Volunteer Army and VSYUR Don Army in the 1st separate heavy howitzer division; since Aug. 28 1919 Second Lieutenant, since 30 Sep. (The Lieutenant). In the Russian Army before the evacuation of the Crimea - Siege of Perekop (1920). Staff-captain. He participated in the Gallipoli Campaign. Alexander Chekan was injured and dying from wounds, he was saved by a nurse - the future wife Maria Evgenievna, the daughter of the general Yevgeny Miller. Alexander Chekan continued to defend the Motherland on Dec. 18 1920 in the 1st battery of the 5th Artillery Battalion. He with his wife emigrated to Bulgaria (1921). He received his higher education in Sofia, where he was also the secretary of the branch of the Russian Student Christian Movement (RSCM). Chairman of the Union of Russian Students in Sofia and the Union of Russian Students in Bulgaria (1920s). Later they moved to France. Since 1947, Alexander Chekan the second priest, then the abbot of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Paris.
• my uncle - Jerzy Bogdanowićz Polish theoretical nuclear physics scientist, Prof.Bogdanowićz participated in the scientific activities of the Large Hadron Collider: http://lss.fnal.gov/archive/other/sissa-3-94-ep.pdf http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988NuPhA.479..323B project in CERN and was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Jerzy Bogdanowićz - in young age the hero of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and was awarded with The Order of Polonia Restituta (Polish: Order Odrodzenia Polski, English: Order of the Rebirth of Poland) and The Cross of Merit (Polish: Krzyż Zasługi). at his funeral in 1999, which I attended with my Mother Olena Chekan there was the red white roses wreath from the President of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski.
• my mentor, a close friend of my Mother - Alex Moscovitch was a French politician and analyst. He was also an associate and companion of General Charles de Gaulle. We met in Moscow 1990, when my Mom was creating an interview book "The Star of Alex Moscovitch | Etoile d'Alex Moscovitch" based on regular tape recordings of conversations with Alex Moscovitch. The book-interview was published in Moscow at publishing house "NORD" 14 September 1992 with the autobiography of Alex Moscovitch "Le Temps Des Punaises" in Russian. Two years spent together with Alex Moscovitch became for me a school of life and experience that formed me. Alex Moscovitch photos on the Wikipedia page from my archive at home! I found this article and put it on his page too https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2011/10/17/17-octobre-1961-toute-une-histoire_1587334_3246.html
The layout of the interview book "The Star of Alex Moscovitch | Etoile d'Alex Moscovitch" by Olena Chekan was created by my Father Stanyslas Rodyuk Master builder M.Arch. Ukrainian architect, founder of the principles of the use of fractal properties in the parametric architecture of postmodernism and urban planing in the USSR and Ukraine https://www.flickr.com/photos/155931501@N04/41187636625/in/album-72157691957163572/
• Stanyslas Rodyuk (born 24 November 1937; died 15 February 2003) was the author of the idea, creator of planning design and the developer of the architectural project of the building of The Druzhba Sanitarium in Yalta that is located on the Crimea peninsula, Ukraine, at present Russia in the Greater Yalta district. His aesthetic vision of planning was that of parametricism in urban architecture and embodied in the main promises of modernism: public space, light and a sense of opportunity.In connection with his political views, Stanyslas Rodyuk was suspended from completion of the building of The Druzhba Sanitarium in Yalta by the architect project leader Igor Vasilevsky - a son of a Marshal of the Soviet Union – Aleksandr Vasilevsky. Stanyslas Rodyuk died of left lung pneumonia caused by tumor load of sarcoma 15 February 2003. The Druzhba Sanitarium in Yalta [1] is recognized as the best architectural project in the history of all Soviet Modernist Urban planning [2] [3].
I knew these people personally! They are my family! at home I have a huge archive of their photos, letters and personal veshey
Yes, in creating these articles I acted as an amateur. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Your_first_article I independently learned and mastered the skills of working in HTML to create these articles in Wikipedia As I know one of the Wikipedia principles: make help this article better /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles
But by destroying and correcting with the lack of truth these articles (none of you personally knew them!), Wikipedia destroy the truth of history.. it is against the right to freedom of opinion and expression, AI and digital security could https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/FreedomOpinion/Pages/OpinionIndex.aspx
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/G17/071/20/PDF/G1707120.pdf?OpenElement
https://news.un.org/en/audio/2018/10/1023932
I know that during a global catastrophe Wikipedia users will be encouraged to print all articles on available printers to preserve the history of Mankind, but what we will print if the historical truth of the Wikipedia articles will be lost forever? I please you not to turn Wikipedia into a copy-paste which is published under dictation «1984» Big Brother, it is unacceptable to turn Wikipedia into a fence with graffiti that is constantly being broken by anyone who wants.
We can join forces: the professional skills of all Wikipedia administrators and editing area Users with the historical documents archive, that I saved for these articles with documentary confirmed sources of external links.
I bid you, all Wikipedia administrators and editing area Users my hand of friendship and open heart! We can make these articles, about which I am writing in my appeal and the whole of Wikipedia better: Let`s do it! Together! T∴ A∴ F∴ Cordially, Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan von Miller Esq.
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Hi PamD. You undid an edit I made on the disambiguation page for PM. I completely understand the reasoning you gave, but I'd just like to attest the use of the initialism PM for plasma membrane. Here are a few published articles in which the abbreviation is used: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Let me know what you think. Cheers Zumley ( talk) 11:27, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
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At least I have a life and have written 6 books which are much-loved and sell well. Have you ever written a novel, PamD?
My TV novel RASMUS has attracted interest from the CREATIVE ARTIST AGENCY the LARGEST film agency in the USA based in LA. So people will be interested in it now and in future.
You contribute for free to a fake news website called Wiki because you obviously have no life.
I know who I'd rather be, frankly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PJ67000 ( talk • contribs) 08:24, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
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How about a grace period as users incorporate new material. One edit conflict, then a surprising move, I prefer not to have distractions like that when I am adding content, I'm sure you will appreciate there is no need to pounce on something that should have been created years ago, and there is no urgency to add your improvements to it immediately. Just my thoughts, as I turn to your contributions instead of my own, I know what I am doing but need to double check my own improvements. Regards, cygnis insignis 10:53, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
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Apologies for the delay in responding to your message. On the question of Royal patronage I would respectfully disagree, in that the various Royals hold titles/ceremonial positions within the organisation (for example, HMQ is President of the Sandringham WI). Much as Prince William is President of the FA, I think an analogy can be drawn here, such that the word "patronage" is not inappropriate in the relationship. I'm not interested in doing anything further on this, since I note you have developed my edit further with new information (for which, genuine thanks), I just thought I would record my respectful disagreement!
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Thanks for the update. It even says on Sperry's tombstone 'Winifred'. Don't know where the Dorothy originated. But it's all over the web as Dorothy being his spouse. Unfortunately the newspaper archive I use, to vet info, is down at the moment. Koplimek ( talk) 23:04, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, did you get any interest yet from other editors in your proposed article about running blades? If it's still on your to-do list I might be interested in collaborating with you. I had been struggling with health issues for quite some time that resulted in my edit rate here slowing way down. I feel I need something substantial to do here to get my wiki-mojo flowing again. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 07:31, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
If you're going to add a {{ disputed}} tag to Restroom, shouldn't you add the same tag to Toilet, where the disputed material comes from? bd2412 T 17:49, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Pam, hello again. More unit stuff (!)... and I was just looking at Lea (unit), and the OED reference gives me a demand to "sign in". I had a vague recollection that access was free from the UK, but not elsewhere, although the website suggests this is not true. (But of course I don't know whether it is detecting where I am, and giving a different message.) Can you confirm? I'm going to add "subscription required" to the citation template anyway. Imaginatorium ( talk) 17:13, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
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