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for chiming in here. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:38, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Re your message: If that editor keeps posting articles for stuff he has made up or non-notable videos, they will likely be blocked. There really is not a de-userfication process except for MfD. Although sometimes after an editor is blocked, their user space articles will be deleted depending upon the content. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 22:46, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi - the link to my web site (www.aloveofthelakes.co.uk) does contain lots of factual information about the fell regions and individual Wainwright fells. I did not think that this would contravene any rules — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robmarsh3 ( talk • contribs) 14:52, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hello PamD. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Martin John Callanan (artist), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The article is not substantially the same as the deleted version. A new deletion discussion is required. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 03:44, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions. I stayed up too late creating that article. I have some samples of his handwriting from the "Church Book" from Cradley Heath to add at some stage as an image. Did you see my comment on the talk page enquiring whether we can use th engraving of Tunnicliff which was digitised by google? -- Robert of Ramsor ( talk) 10:02, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your tip regarding where to add stubs. I had forgotten. Also, awfully sorry about wasting your time! :-) Pasquale ( talk) 15:44, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
You are welcome :) - I like creating these redirects to make sure people go to the right place, and to prevent the creation of duplicate articles WhisperToMe ( talk) 18:39, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi. You know, I don't think that Soft State should even be at a capitalised version at all: the quote from Myrdal it has doesn't capitalise it. Perhaps that should be moved to soft state (politics), in which case the DAB is still necessary? Morwen - Talk 20:50, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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Would it be alright if I don't tag one page I patrol, for deletion even though it could have been tagged for deletion? What if I am unsure (apparently I am not so au fait with the deletion rationales)? I am new at reviewing new articles. I am trying my best to help Wikipedia. The nominations are not deliberate attempts to disrupt Wikipedia.
The thing is, Kudpung has been putting immense pressure on me whenever I do not CSD/PROD a new page which (s)he thinks could have been tagged for deletion (sort of warned me 9 times for not CSD/PRODing new pages). This is seeming like a double-edged sword. I mean isn't that within my prerogatives to simply tag new pages with the appropriate tags and not nominate them for deletion if I sincerely feel that they deserve an article on Wikipedia? I am humbly trying to help wikipedia in whatever little way I can. But I am now in a terrible quandary. He keeps telling me to read WP:NPP but that page is very, very confusing (esp. when it comes to nominating pages for deletion) and the message is very foggy. I think from that page one message stands out which is, everything is at the reviewers' (plural) discretion. Mr T (Talk?) (New thread?) 12:31, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
See, I CSD/PROD some and then I don't CSD/PROD some but I feel more guilty when CSD/PROD something incorrectly than when I do not CSD/PROD deletable pages. Mr T (Talk?) (New thread?) 13:31, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Please do not push this far. Mr T (Talk?) (New thread?) 08:10, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
I thought I'd replied here yesterday, but I guess I used "Preview" and then didn't hit "Save"! What I said, apart from something like "Wow, I go away for a few hours on a sunny afternoon and come back to find you two slugging it out on my talk page", was to suggest that if you find the NPP page too difficult to understand, as you say, you should avoid trying to work on NPP. If you find an article which you think should not be in English Wikipedia then: if it fits the criteria for CSD, apply an appropriate template; if it does not, then use PROD or AfD, explaining your arguments. Do not invent new criteria for CSD, because that is not how Wikipedia works. If you are thinking about nominating an article for deletion just because it is unreferenced (other than BLP which has its own rules), see WP:BEFORE and try to source it first. WP:CIR: you are not at liberty to ignore a rule because it confuses you. Pam D 08:32, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
"you should avoid trying to work on NPP." - I won't avoid trying to work on NPP. I am not a fool. I know what I am doing.
"Do not invent new criteria for CSD, because that is not how Wikipedia works" - I didn't wish to. It was just one mistake. I try to learn from my mistakes. The patrolling doesn't confuse me.
WP:CIR does not mean "come down hard on someone as soon as they make a mistake". Wikipedia most certainly has a learning curve.
"I thought I'd replied here yesterday, but I guess I used "Preview" and then didn't hit "Save"!" - should one interpret this as you are not competent enough to edit wikipedia because you lack the necessary concentration to click on a button? No. Furthermore, I am not saying what Kudpung and you are saying to me, is summarily bogus. I am saying exactly the opposite. I am asking you to have a little bit of patience. And asking for advice, not repeated warnings.
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As you check a thousand or two new articles every day and just might come across another Icelandic name...
Per WP:SUR, you forgot to add the sort value to the Icelandic category. Bgwhite ( talk) 07:42, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
It's my standard practice to just do the bit that actually needs an admin, i.e. the deletion, rather than the move as well. I normally pick these up working through the CSD lists, as just deletions waiting for action. I check my deletion logs daily, to see if anything has been recreated that shouldn't be, and I think few, if any, of these housekeeping speedies are not blue-linked within a day. Hope this helps, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:30, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
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You're right, my bad. -- Meno25 ( talk) 13:17, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hello PamD, sorry to mess up your work on the Michel Soymié (not Soymie) article I created earlier. It turns out that he is dead (2002), not a Living person - I don't know if there is an equivalent category Dead persons. Also I will need to ask an admin to change the name of the article to Michel Soymié with an e acute - I don't know whether that affects the Default Sort or whether accents are ignored anyway. Grateful for your advice/sorting out. Thanks. Opbeith ( talk) 00:07, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello PamD - thanks for all that help, and at that hour of the morning too! Apologies for making unnecessary work for you, I found more extra material than I expected and was well past sleeptime, so I bailed out and left stuff for this morning (I need to go and put some accents in that I couldn't face last night as well).
The last time I was involved in trying to Move an article there was a controversy raging whether article titles should have accents, so I was being cautious. I'm certainly in favour of including accents - I picked up the subject from the BL Dunhuang list where there was no accent and I had the wrong pronunciation in my head until I found the Bibliotheque Muncipale site. That's helpful to know about the sort key and accents - I've created a few articles with accented titles and I noticed that when Sort Keys were added they never included accents - I didn't understand Sort Key but I suspected there might be an issue there.
The combination sort key and categories tip is very handy - I'll lodge a copy in at my Talk Page as an aide-memoire.
I'm a pretty messy operator, definitely not librarian material, so I'm very grateful for your tidying up behind me!
All the best. Opbeith ( talk) 09:10, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
hi pam, i see you edited spider stacy's wiki page again. Please let me know what your problems are with the passages you deleted. many thanks, louise stacy Louise stacy ( talk) 01:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm writing up a motion to the UoN SU Council to promote the use and publication of media under free licences. As a UoN student/alumnus, I was wondering if you'd like to give your input.
Please comment at commons:Commons:Village pump#Motion to University of Nottingham Students' Union Council.
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Hey Pam D
Thank you for your advice on my article on Stephen A. Schrum however I am a little confused as to what you mean as to how I go about adding the "Redirect" from "Stephen Schrum" - that you told me to, any further information of how I go about this would be helpful.
LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 12:39, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
I just managed to create it. I am getting use to editing wikipedia : )
LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 13:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Regarding the "notability" and "orphan" tags in the above-mentioned article, I have now inserted some more sources to help establish notability. I have also posted a more elaborate explanation on the article's talk page. Please review my response there. Regarding the "orphan" tag, I have added a link to the Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi article. Please discuss the issues on the article's talk page so that they may be resolved. Regards. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 10:01, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
If we click Google News [1] right now, and expand the section listing news reports on Malala Yousafzai, we find that google is giving a link to our above-mentioned article even when it is stub class. Is that enough to take off the notability tag? OrangesRyellow ( talk) 18:08, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you so much - it's nice to see a UK university teaching students about Wikipedia, and I hope that some of them will continue to edit the encyclopedia even after the module is over. Pam D 09:44, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi I am editing the article on Suzon Fuks, if I get permission off the artist to use her statement on waterwheel may I include this in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eusa65 ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Pam, just saying thanks for the alteration/ correction on the wiki article I am creating. I'm still fairly new to the wiki world and with your assistance it has helped me learn a little bit more on how it all works. Thanks again, keep up the good work. -- LairdCharles ( talk) 20:44, 29 October 2012 (UTC)LairdCharles
Dear User:PamD Thank you very much for the assistance and cleanup on my page Plaintext Players please bare in mind the current state is just the ground works andI intend to add further detail about various shows from combining both primary sources and secondary. Best, SWalton91 ( talk) 23:52, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for attempting to help, don't think this is in my remitt for my life denise ( talk) 12:35, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
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For Dedicating your time to our student pages, thank you PamD NomNomNomNathan ( talk) 12:36, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
Just a thankyou for the help you've given me and other students with our articles - especially thanks from me for clearing up the stub issue. Thanks! Have some falafel. - Dregan Phillips ( talk) 12:43, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
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Thank you very much for all your help over the last few days, I am really happy with how the page came out, and it would not have been as good without your advice and guidance. Joe Berwick ( talk) 13:12, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
I just wanted to thank you for helping me and my colleagues in our early wikipedia lives. I feel that this cat symbolises our innocence in this community and that you will nurture us.
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Thank you so much for the brilliant ideas and helping me on Wikipedia I really appreciate the help you gave me.
Thank you again. LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 13:18, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
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Thank you so much for all your contributions, I know that all of my fellow students also greatly appreciate all the help you've been giving us. Franbundey ( talk) 13:19, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for all the help on my wikipedia article, as well as my colleagues also. After your hard work, you deserve a drink. This one's on me :) LairdCharles ( talk) 13:22, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
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I see that most of my students have now thanked you personally for all the help you've given us during the last several days.
This morning each student gave a short presentation about their work on Wikipedia and they almost all managed to drop your name when it was their time to speak. The work goes on, of course, but this group will now be writing reflective essays on their success (or otherwise) with creating useful content for Wikipedia, understanding the conventions of contributing to this wiki, as well as engaging with other Wikipedians for an assessed hand-in tomorrow. Once again, thank you so very much for all you help and support, Pam! -- ToniSant ( talk) 14:07, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
How lovely to sit down after lunch and find all these Thank You gifts from the "Applied & Interactive Theatre 2" crowd!
I can't remember now just which of your articles I first came across while stub-sorting, but after I realised it was part of a set of articles from the module I began to look at others with interest. I'm sorry if I've been a bit brusque sometimes, but there's a lot to learn and you're supposed to be learning! Although not an official "Campus Ambassador" (and thus with no training in "how to help students"), I liked the idea of helping students from relatively close to home, and got interested in some of your topics. I did once, many years ago, set up an identity in Second Life, but never got the hang of it: by contrast, editing Wikipedia has become something of an addiction (and an occupation I can enjoy while semi-housebound with caring responsibilities in a rural village).
I've only today thought that it would have been useful to bring your articles to the notice of one or more appropriate WikiProjects: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Theatre and/or Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing (there doesn't seem to be an appropriate narrower IT project - Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet culture sounded likely but doesn't look as if it covers your kind of thing). That way you'd have had editors who are interested in and/or knowledgeable about the broad topic areas, who might have been able to help - and perhaps to dive in to the rescue where your articles were nominated for Speedy Deletion or Proposed Deletion. Perhaps something for Toni to think about another year: the appropriate banner(s) on the talk page of each article will alert the project(s).
I'm glad if some of my comments or edits have been useful to some of you. I'm a bit old-fashioned about accuracy and punctuation ... but then so will be some of the people you need to impress with your writings in your futures. Capitals, hypens, apostrophes, grammatical structures: get them right, otherwise someone will read your job application, political flyer etc and either reject it out of hand or just have mildly negative vibes from it which do you no good. And in a computerised environment, getting them right in an article title or search term can make the difference between finding information and not doing so ... though in Wikipedia we can make as many "redirects" from likely misspellings or variant punctuations as we want, which helps.
I hope that some of you will stick around with Wikipedia, though you're obviously all busy with studies and probably performances too. I tend to sit down with a bowl of breakfast muesli to look at my watchlist ... and discover it's lunchtime because I've rambled around the map of human knowledge adding a stub tag here, fixing grammar there, moving an article to its correct title, sorting out hatnotes and disambiguation pages, and creating articles on a variety of topics (they renamed Mother's daycentre, I wondered where the name came from ... there's now an article on Edward Denis de Vitre!)
It's been fun helping you these last few days. Good luck with this module and the rest of your studies! If you do decide to continue with Wikipedia, feel free to drop by this page with any questions where I might be able to help: I've learned quite a lot about editing here in the last six years, though there are still huge gaps in my knowledge.
And thanks again for the thanks, both today and in earlier responses to my comments. Wikipedia is an amazing project - someone in the middle of nowhere with a solar-powered internet connection can access this great collection of increasingly well-written and reliably-sourced information, even if their nearest serious physical library is hundreds of miles away - and it's now got a few more useful articles about interactive theatre and its proponents. Pam D 14:13, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey PamD
Due to the fact your advice has been so helpful I thought I connect you regarding my main problem at the moment. My article has been given a notability tag, I am in the process of trying to prevent my article from being deleted. Looking at number 4 of the Notability guidelines for academics it states if the person has authored several books that are widely used as textbooks, although Stephen A. Schrum has published several books would adding more details about these books more the article more notable? Also I have discovered this website which was suggested on wikipedia page for book citations world cat in which the date of the top is the year he was born.
Thank you for your help.
LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 16:41, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your help and advice here, as you can see I have taken into account what you said your advice has been brilliant.
LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 16:47, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the stub in SUBJECT article. That really helps. PamD is wonderful. Rammer ( talk) 17:59, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Although an American married to a Swede, I'm a graduate of the University of Leeds. No joke. I used to live on Cumberland Road, LS2 9JT!! Rammer ( talk) 19:16, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi I'm eusa65 working on the Suzon Fuks article, I would be grateful if you could help me understand why a banner has appeared saying conflict of...on the Suzon Fuks page denise ( talk) 01:25, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Pam, hoping you are well, I have had a person ask me a good question, but one I cannot answer myself. Thought maybe you could help me/us? Here's his question:
"there is one major task that needs to be done that I have not figured out how to do. Currently, a search on Wikipedia for Neohumanism takes you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neohumanism#Neohumanism, which is just a small paragraph within a larger article on the propounder of this philosophy, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. I have added a link (a 'redirect'?) at the top of that small paragraph to the main article, which is Neohumanism (liberation of intellect). However, it would make much more sense if a Wikipedia search for "Neohumanism" took one directly to the main article. Hence, I would like to edit the titles and destinations for the two links ( Neohumanism and Neohumanism (liberation of intellect)), essentially reversing them. I understand this is possible. I believe it is called "usurping a link". However, I have not been able to figure out how to do this. Could you please assist me with the process?"
Any thoughts? If you can help just pop back over to my page and you will see our discussion.
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You continue to impress me. Not long after I express the opinion that "this is a silly situation", you remedy it. Good work, done well! Thanks, Pdfpdf ( talk) 11:23, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey, PamD, just letting you know that I've reverted a rollback you did on User:Worm That Turned. A misclick, I'd imagine; God knows I've made enough of 'em. :) Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 15:53, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Do you can give your opinion on this topic? Also see here and here. Tnx. ;-) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 07:52, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution - I have placed references and commentary on talk page. This is a current world wide discussion on religious tolerance, and I am intolerant of intolerant religions. Are there any other sort of coercive organizations, religious or secular? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timpo ( talk • contribs) 04:50, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 11:15, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Well, that's kind of odd. Not sure what if anything I can actually do about it, but if I hear of anything I'll keep you posted. Bearcat ( talk) 02:06, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Actually, I meant that I took the info the subject herself added to the article and split it up into sections with headings, and did some work on the bibliography. I didn't really know what else to do with it, and I didn't know if she intended to follow up with supportive citations, so I just cleaned up the page lay-out. If you see here, [2], the subject wrote over the previous article with a bunch of uncited text, and I tried with limited success to integrate it into the article and Wikify it. Rosencomet ( talk) 09:19, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I apologize Pam for not getting back to you. You dropped out "today's watchlist" notices without out me getting back to you and it became out of site and out of mind. Thank you for leaving the message to remind me. Bgwhite ( talk) 20:43, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
As long as you have reverted the redirecting of Association for Consciousness Exploration to Starwood Festival, I was hoping you would get a chance to review the editing Qworty has done on the Starwood Festival article itself. It seems extreme to me. Thank you for your attention. Rosencomet ( talk) 18:59, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
I had checked and there is not a single article linking to the sportsman's page. There are a bunch of user pages, sand boxes and the like, but I do not think these need fixing? Please respond on my talk page Refdoc ( talk) 21:52, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! Refdoc ( talk) 01:19, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat ( talk) 11:37, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
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Well, I agree about Florence and the repeated year but the dates of birth and death certainly ought to be in the lead sentence. Whoever told you otherwise surely didn't encounter many biographical articles here, let alone good ones. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies#Opening paragraph. As for the sections, I'm not sure if there's a rule saying anything about them, but they seem to be avoided when articles are very short, which makes sense - why have a section that contains only a sentence or two? I can assure you the article won't be tagged and I'll try to find a relevant guideline. Surtsicna ( talk) 17:43, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I thought you might like to comment at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bootie bicycle. Cheers. -- Trevj ( talk) 10:31, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
As I am a lawyer and as the article is connected to a broadly legal, rather than religious concept, my considered response appears at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Religious_offense Timpo ( talk) 14:15, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Fair enough, I've changed the block to a softer block which allows a new account to be created. Obviously this has to be done since the current name infringes username policy anyway Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:37, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your message here, you're a better person than me Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:06, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
I have expanded and restructured this article in order to try to address your concerns. Please would you review the article and advise your current deletion opinion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Religious_offense (if not ready please User talk:Timpo or Special:emailUser/Timpo) Timpo ( talk) 11:24, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hello PamD. I had created the disambiguation page as an interim measure while editors were deciding whether to have Moralism (the religion) or a disambiguation page be the landing spot for "moralism," but I see the point you're making. In that case, (once I get everything clarified with Editor2020) we'll have Moralism (the religion) as the landing spot for "moralism" and then have an "other meaning" link at the top of the page for the philosophy of moralism (which redirects to "Morality"). JBogdan ( talk) 23:53, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
I didn't mean to put the inappropriate tags on American Community School and have modified my settings to prevent something like that from happening again. Andrew ( talk) 19:34, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
An excellent example of a Blessing in Disguise is the case of the Zeppelin LZ 4.
However the Blessing in Disguise disambig article failed to mention (until today) the striking Zeppelin LZ 4 example.
Also, the Zeppelin LZ 4 article failed to use this term, or link back to the Blessing in Disguise article.
Well they do now, if you don't wipe the relevant changes.
Blessing in Disguise and List of blessings in disguise might be merged if you so wish.
Tabletop ( talk) 08:44, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about you having to tell me 4 times about the dab tag. The problem is simple memorability. I created User talk:In ictu oculi/Useful and added the instruction there. Am I the only user you've ever had to tell twice :( ? In ictu oculi ( talk) 00:04, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
You are proposing List of blessings in disguise for deletion without merging its contents with Blessing in Disguise, a disambig page.
You also fail to notice that blessings in Disguise is rather similar to Serendipity, where there are no crosslinks to BiD.
One of the great strengths of Wiki is the ease of making, which does not appear to be one of your strong points.
A link to related pages is as important as external reference.
Tabletop ( talk) 06:19, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
AFAIK, apart from adding two sections regarding List of Blessings in Disguise, all that I did extra was to change the capitalisation to List of blessings in disguise. Tabletop ( talk) 09:01, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
The article Janine Thompson has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{ prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. -- Patchy1 02:02, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Best wishes to all my talk page stalkers for a Peaceful Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2013. Pam D 00:12, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello PamD. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Polgasowita, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article has been edited since it was tagged and has sufficient context to identify subject. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 05:14, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for stub-sorting the Wahib al-Ghanim. You've saved me the task of finding the proper template for - a task which I don't find particularly enjoyable. -- Piast 93 21:02, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
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You've been adding the wikify template to articles with some of your AWB edits [4], [5]. However that template doesn't exist anymore. If you go to the discussion section of WP:AWB perhaps you can find a link to a snapshot of an updated version of AWB which no longer adds this template? Thanks 130.88.141.34 ( talk) 12:16, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Thinneda thin Whitetararaj ( talk) 12:13, 16 January 2013 (UTC) |
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To answer your question in editing description of Massachusetts smallpox epidemic: Not in history of smallpox, but in history of colonies.
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Thanks for the kudos. I tend, if the stub list is large, to do the letter based on the date, or if a letter has only a few entries. Sometimes I scan the list, and do a few that are in areas of interest. Good to hear from another stub-sorter. Rpyle731 talk 17:39, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Left you a message over at User_talk:Boleyn#James_Watson_.28disambiguation.29. Thanks for being so friendly! Woodshed ( talk) 10:39, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Since you were just on Binko's talk page, you might want to know about this. EEng ( talk) 23:55, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Pam
hope this reaches you okay - I'm a newbie at this lark! - the website is www.thelabyrinth.org.uk, and the lat and long (if that's the ref you want) is 50.363788N and -4.41806W - or do you want the National Grid ref? If so, let me know and I'll try and work it out.
Also, the labyrinth is described on the South West Coast Path National Trail's website - see http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/walksdb/533/ (scroll down to (2) and read from there - several paragraphs)
hope this is enough information for you :-) Caroline Petherick 91.85.37.182 ( talk) 17:19, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Pam
Thanks for your help - both re etiquette and re the text. (I am, I must say, mystified as to why anyone should have just deleted my words without saying.) I've just had a look at the page, and I see the superscript number 44 plus the note referring to the National Trust website, so thank you very much for doing that. Blimey, Poole to Minehead??? I gather the ups and downs involved in doing that accumulate to the same as climbing Mount Everest four times over!! But if you're ever in this neck of the woods, do feel free to visit us. I can't see any Signature button, so I hope that putting ~~~~ at the end will do the trick! Caroline P ~~~~
via Wikipedia E-mail service. Best, -- DancingPhilosopher my talk 15:19, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Just FYI, see this posting and this website. I've emailed the skipper to confirm what Jericho has said. Best regards (and how are you doing?), TransporterMan ( TALK) 22:44, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
˜ danjel [ talk | contribs ] 01:52, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Why did you restore the discussion at the Rah Crawford AfD? There are two priorities (1) we are here to build an encyclopedia, and (2) don't change the meaning. After your edit, readers had no obvious way to know that I had removed an unnecessary discussion thread. Unscintillating ( talk) 09:38, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Seriously, nothing more irritating for a new editor than to have a veteran stalk him and keep tagging and prodding him and making editing miserable for him. Can you please back off a little and allow him to get his bearings, Ipigott and myself can help him.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:49, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
You commented on WT:RM: I think this conversation echoes my problems in the earlier discussion about RMassist: the documentation about technical moves is not at all clear. Maybe needs a flowchart or a set of yes/no questions to help a newcomer to the page to navigate and find their answer? PamD 09:58, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
There needs to be a consistent pattern established for these name articles. Not all of them include lists of people and probably should not since there are far too many Mary's or Elizabeth's, etc. Most of the name stubs I have created are referred back to the article List of most popular given names. The Disambiguation bot tags all of the articles that are Disambiguation pages and notes that they are almost always a mistake. When that template is left in place yet another bot comes along and links articles to bio articles that have nothing to do with the given name. Bookworm857158367 ( talk) 12:24, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Sorry I wasn't here I had to do school work and I only managed to add some information not all since the schedule is kind of keeping me off the site from time to time. I can't fully make it a Non-stub for that page since my computer at home has been acting up lately and theirs hardly any other information to find unless I ask Milkstone studios about it? -- Indienews ( talk) 15:49, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
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Now tell me: How would wikipedia manage without you? There doesn't seem to be ANYONE else doing what you're doing, and in my (no doubt biassed) opinion, what you are doing is "an essential service". Again in my no doubt biassed opinion, I believe what you are doing is "under appreciated", and this is to bring to your attention that there is at least one person who appreciates your work. Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 12:08, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi PamD,
From what I can see, this appears to be an
elementary school, albeit one which has adjuncts to the standard curriculum for talented children. The
usual outcome of a
WP:AFD for a US elementary school would be a
WP:REDIRECT to its school district, in this case
Polk County School District, Florida.
There appears to be some assertion of notability of this school in what we have edited, so I'm leery of simply redirecting it, or sending it to AfD.
Your thoughts? Peter aka --
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Thanks for the stub missive, I'll be more careful. Your stub work and new article work is mightily impressive! Do take a look at my lovely collection of red links if you're ever in need of more material. Thanks again. Gareth E Kegg ( talk) 20:56, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi PamD, this is Ajay from the translation screwup on the Danish page... I cannot express how sheepish I feel for committing that very silly mistake... Careful is not the word; I will keep my eyes and mind wide open and be very vigilant and I sincerely hope you will forgive me... I was planning to put the article or deletion but decided against it and so used the translation tag for the very first time and I messed up, I'm not trying to justify myself. But I hope you don't think of me as a bad and stupid editor... I hope you can forgive for this one silly mistake as advice from a senior editor like you to juniors like me... And plz feel free to blast me the next time I commit such errors, which I promise will never happen again.... Sorry once again!!! Ajayupai95 ( talk) 12:29, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
You do good work reporting bad stuff. Here's the prestigious Tightrope Award for good balance! (The image represents the amazing Charles Blondin carrying Jimbo Wales safely across the Niagara Falls.) Bishonen | talk 20:29, 23 February 2013 (UTC). |
Thank you so much! Pam D 21:06, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
Interesting article here on decline of participation in Wikipedia:
http://www.dailydot.com/business/wikipedia-editors-decline-wikimedia-fellows/
"A new study published in the American Behavioral Science Journal by former Wikimedia Fellows says Wikipedia has lost some 30 percent of its English-language editors since 2006, as a result of off-putting automated rejections, restrictive new rules, and controlling older editors."
You're mentioned by name in this thread:
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/935750/wikipedia-editors-needed
Some food for thought. 68.144.172.8 ( talk) 20:04, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Both the Hunt Stromberg and Ken Swofford articles ARE stubs.
I researched Stromberg {see history and Hunt Stromberg Jr.} and know for a fact this article isn't even the tip of the iceberg; no solid information about his early career, personal life or subsequent racing affiliations - and he was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood! For example: he orchestrated the cover-up when Jean Harlow's husband committed suicide (can't remember source off-hand, may have been " Hollywood Babylon"). This article should be at least 5 times as long as it is.
I also created the Swofford article and had a heck of a time 'cobbling' it together from tag ends; for an actor who was so prolific there's very little information out there - quite possibly by his or his family's choice; someone has already changed his birth date, which is currently incorrect (at least based on the consensus of source at the time it was written).
I did the best I could (mistakes and all), but for sure someone out there can do better - which is the whole point of Wikipedia in the first place. Hence the "stubs," and I'm re-instating them.
Since ArielGold left I've been looking for a mentor/collaborator: would you be interested? Cheers! Shir-El too 15:34, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for reverting vandalism on my Talkpage! Cheers, Kevin 12xd ( contribs) 01:04, 26 February 2013 (UTC) |
Sometimes WP amuses me - usually regarding my own behaviour. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.
In December I was looking at the Founding Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science, and was surprised to find so many red links, including David Martyn. It didn't take long to find David Forbes Martyn, so I created David Martyn as a redirect to David Forbes Martyn. (There was some reason why I couldn't move DFM to DM). A week ago, LlywelynII turned it into a dab/hndis page, without a dab or hndis template. About 48 hours ago, Dawynn added the dab template. About 24 hours ago, a bot added the "incoming links template; 30 or more links". What I should have done is what I originally did, and what you subsequently did.
Moral: Engage brain and think first, rather than don't think, engage auto-pilot, and achieve nothing particularly useful. Or worse: and achieve an even bigger mess. Ho hum. Pdfpdf ( talk) 16:16, 26 February 2013 (UTC) (P.S. Once again: Thank you!)
Thanks for the information on where to place stubs. Cheers. Mfribbs ( talk) 14:18, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi PamD!
Sorry about my mistake on Seán Óg Ó Ciardubháin. I remember unchecking the "stub" box when I realized it was already marked as a stub but I guess it didn't go through. Plus, I've been having an off day. Sorry again and thanks for letting me know. Hope that was the only case.
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Hi PamD!
Sorry about my mistake on Seán Óg Ó Ciardubháin. I remember unchecking the "stub" box when I realized it was already marked as a stub but I guess it didn't go through. Plus, I've been having an off day. Sorry again and thanks for letting me know. Hope that was the only case.
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I wish I could give you a real cookie to say sorry but this will have to do! Thanks for all your work! Sosthenes12 ( talk) 20:26, 18 March 2013 (UTC) |
Well spotted! That was quite a plausible-looking one at first glance. I had just done final checks and was reaching for the delete button, but Anthony Bradbury got there first. JohnCD ( talk) 21:34, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
I have added the copy left emblem to the bottom of the page in question, let me know if you would like anything else to prove my existence :), and the ownership of ANY of the text I post The Domain http://hillbillgold.com, and all subdomains do in fact belong to me, and I hereby give Wikipedia any and all right to link to any text on this domain. Hillbelly ( talk) 11:36, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
You took a lot of efforts in pointing out the mistakes I made. You do have good patience and a determination to maintain the standards of Wikipedia. Now take this hot cup of coffee and forgive me for my disruptive edits. Jayadevp13 ( talk) 05:33, 22 March 2013 (UTC) |
Also have a cookie with the cup of coffee. Once again Sorry! Jayadevp13 ( talk) 05:33, 22 March 2013 (UTC) |
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It looks like we had an edit conflict, but I put my version into the article since I was in the middle of creating the "Composition history" section and moving material out of the lede. There's more to come. Tried to pick up on things you'd changed, but would be happy to see you make any appropriaye changes/improvements. Just fyi: I'm still working on Comp. hist, as there is plenty of new stuff out there on Morrison's website. Viva-Verdi ( talk) 22:59, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi PamD,
sorry for the confusion, I am not so familiar with the en.WP and the differences between your article and dab pages. Investigating a little I figured out that (my) de.WP dab pages have no TOC at all...weired world. Greetings from sunny but cold Berlin
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bla, бла... 09:49, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello PamD, I'm dropping by on a courtesy visit to let you know that I have done some extra work on your recent article about the SS Alba. Maybe when you get a chance you could come back to it and give it a review please, to see how the changes sit with you.
I found quite a bit of info on [6], also where you say that 2 or 5 people perished I have ammended it to 5 as per the info I found on that website, so please check how it is for you.
Anyway, wishing you all the best and many thanks. Kindest regards and happy wiki-ing, ( MrNiceGuy1113 ( talk) 12:45, 23 March 2013 (UTC))
Just asking. Why do you feel categories are not appropriate in the see also section? With the ":" prefix operator they are just regular links. A good portion of users are totally unfamiliar with categories, and what they lead to. They are at the bottom of the page and can be easily confused as a "bibliographic" stamp that does nothing. The use in the see also section calls particular attention to specific categories. Its a specific signal to the reader that there are other pages on Wikipeda that may be of particular interest to someone reading a particular page. It can signal the reader that there are many "closely related" articles available. It's a navigation tool, plus a short cut to avoid listing many articles in the see also section. A "heads up, this isn't the full story" alerting the reader, many closely related, perhaps overlapping articles that should not be missed if more detail is required. I can't find any WP policy against there use as a link, that's what the ":" prefix is for. I've also seen them used in other articles, and in the main text, in hat notes, etc. Is that all wrong? Rick ( talk) 02:54, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Pam, Thanks very much for your flexibility. I see you are from the U.K. and the cite was from Melanie Klein, a fantastic U.K. psychologist. Rick ( talk) 16:00, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! I like to be thorough in redirecting things so people come to the right place :) WhisperToMe ( talk) 16:25, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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Has User_talk:Rodeorm ever reacted to your note of 2009? I am persuaded that his/her article is a pile of crap, or more politely: a hoax. See my remarks under discussion to "Schuch" Talk:Schuch and please answer there. Thanks noychoH ( talk) 11:21, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
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Pam, I personally don't see "Alba" for the Gaelic name of Scotland being more prevalent than other uses. Type in "Alba" under Google, Yahoo, etc, and Scotland's name is not a top hit (excluding the Wikipedia page). However, I have no desire to make a change that is vastly unpopular, or disrupts a number of links, so I have voiced my support for reverting the changes. DavidinNJ ( talk) 13:41, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
This page should stay. Go to Muppet Wiki, Irvine is there too!! -- Grouches101 ( Send a note then scram!! P.S. Have a rotten day!!!!) 14:59, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contributions. I stayed up too late creating that article. I have some samples of his handwriting from the "Church Book" from Cradley Heath to add at some stage as an image. Did you see my comment on the talk page enquiring whether we can use th engraving of Tunnicliff which was digitised by google? -- Robert of Ramsor ( talk) 10:02, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
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Would it be alright if I don't tag one page I patrol, for deletion even though it could have been tagged for deletion? What if I am unsure (apparently I am not so au fait with the deletion rationales)? I am new at reviewing new articles. I am trying my best to help Wikipedia. The nominations are not deliberate attempts to disrupt Wikipedia.
The thing is, Kudpung has been putting immense pressure on me whenever I do not CSD/PROD a new page which (s)he thinks could have been tagged for deletion (sort of warned me 9 times for not CSD/PRODing new pages). This is seeming like a double-edged sword. I mean isn't that within my prerogatives to simply tag new pages with the appropriate tags and not nominate them for deletion if I sincerely feel that they deserve an article on Wikipedia? I am humbly trying to help wikipedia in whatever little way I can. But I am now in a terrible quandary. He keeps telling me to read WP:NPP but that page is very, very confusing (esp. when it comes to nominating pages for deletion) and the message is very foggy. I think from that page one message stands out which is, everything is at the reviewers' (plural) discretion. Mr T (Talk?) (New thread?) 12:31, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
See, I CSD/PROD some and then I don't CSD/PROD some but I feel more guilty when CSD/PROD something incorrectly than when I do not CSD/PROD deletable pages. Mr T (Talk?) (New thread?) 13:31, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Please do not push this far. Mr T (Talk?) (New thread?) 08:10, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
I thought I'd replied here yesterday, but I guess I used "Preview" and then didn't hit "Save"! What I said, apart from something like "Wow, I go away for a few hours on a sunny afternoon and come back to find you two slugging it out on my talk page", was to suggest that if you find the NPP page too difficult to understand, as you say, you should avoid trying to work on NPP. If you find an article which you think should not be in English Wikipedia then: if it fits the criteria for CSD, apply an appropriate template; if it does not, then use PROD or AfD, explaining your arguments. Do not invent new criteria for CSD, because that is not how Wikipedia works. If you are thinking about nominating an article for deletion just because it is unreferenced (other than BLP which has its own rules), see WP:BEFORE and try to source it first. WP:CIR: you are not at liberty to ignore a rule because it confuses you. Pam D 08:32, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
"you should avoid trying to work on NPP." - I won't avoid trying to work on NPP. I am not a fool. I know what I am doing.
"Do not invent new criteria for CSD, because that is not how Wikipedia works" - I didn't wish to. It was just one mistake. I try to learn from my mistakes. The patrolling doesn't confuse me.
WP:CIR does not mean "come down hard on someone as soon as they make a mistake". Wikipedia most certainly has a learning curve.
"I thought I'd replied here yesterday, but I guess I used "Preview" and then didn't hit "Save"!" - should one interpret this as you are not competent enough to edit wikipedia because you lack the necessary concentration to click on a button? No. Furthermore, I am not saying what Kudpung and you are saying to me, is summarily bogus. I am saying exactly the opposite. I am asking you to have a little bit of patience. And asking for advice, not repeated warnings.
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As you check a thousand or two new articles every day and just might come across another Icelandic name...
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Thanks Pam, I forgot ;) In ictu oculi ( talk) 07:43, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
You're right, my bad. -- Meno25 ( talk) 13:17, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Apologies, I'm new to AWB and wasn't aware that I could change it. I've worked out how to do it now. Thanks for pointing it out. Del♉sion23 (talk) 17:40, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey all :).
We're (very shortly) closing down this development cycle for Page Curation. It's genuinely been a pleasure to talk with you all and build software that is so close to my own heart, and also so effective. The current backlog is 9 days, and I've never seen it that low before.
However! Closing up shop does not mean not making any improvements. First-off, this is your last chance to give us a poke about unresolved bugs or report new ones on the talkpage. If something's going wrong, we want to know about it :). Second, we'll hopefully be taking another pass over the software next year. If you've got ideas for features Page Curation doesn't currently have, stick them here.
Again, it's been an honour. Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 12:26, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hello PamD, sorry to mess up your work on the Michel Soymié (not Soymie) article I created earlier. It turns out that he is dead (2002), not a Living person - I don't know if there is an equivalent category Dead persons. Also I will need to ask an admin to change the name of the article to Michel Soymié with an e acute - I don't know whether that affects the Default Sort or whether accents are ignored anyway. Grateful for your advice/sorting out. Thanks. Opbeith ( talk) 00:07, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello PamD - thanks for all that help, and at that hour of the morning too! Apologies for making unnecessary work for you, I found more extra material than I expected and was well past sleeptime, so I bailed out and left stuff for this morning (I need to go and put some accents in that I couldn't face last night as well).
The last time I was involved in trying to Move an article there was a controversy raging whether article titles should have accents, so I was being cautious. I'm certainly in favour of including accents - I picked up the subject from the BL Dunhuang list where there was no accent and I had the wrong pronunciation in my head until I found the Bibliotheque Muncipale site. That's helpful to know about the sort key and accents - I've created a few articles with accented titles and I noticed that when Sort Keys were added they never included accents - I didn't understand Sort Key but I suspected there might be an issue there.
The combination sort key and categories tip is very handy - I'll lodge a copy in at my Talk Page as an aide-memoire.
I'm a pretty messy operator, definitely not librarian material, so I'm very grateful for your tidying up behind me!
All the best. Opbeith ( talk) 09:10, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
hi pam, i see you edited spider stacy's wiki page again. Please let me know what your problems are with the passages you deleted. many thanks, louise stacy Louise stacy ( talk) 01:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi PamD, Thanks for the polite talk-note on Wikipedia policy, & your contributions to the Peter Vogel stub. -- winterstein ( talk) 16:06, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm writing up a motion to the UoN SU Council to promote the use and publication of media under free licences. As a UoN student/alumnus, I was wondering if you'd like to give your input.
Please comment at commons:Commons:Village pump#Motion to University of Nottingham Students' Union Council.
- mattbuck ( Talk) 22:45, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey Pam D
Thank you for your advice on my article on Stephen A. Schrum however I am a little confused as to what you mean as to how I go about adding the "Redirect" from "Stephen Schrum" - that you told me to, any further information of how I go about this would be helpful.
LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 12:39, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
I just managed to create it. I am getting use to editing wikipedia : )
LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 13:43, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
Regarding the "notability" and "orphan" tags in the above-mentioned article, I have now inserted some more sources to help establish notability. I have also posted a more elaborate explanation on the article's talk page. Please review my response there. Regarding the "orphan" tag, I have added a link to the Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi article. Please discuss the issues on the article's talk page so that they may be resolved. Regards. OrangesRyellow ( talk) 10:01, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
If we click Google News [1] right now, and expand the section listing news reports on Malala Yousafzai, we find that google is giving a link to our above-mentioned article even when it is stub class. Is that enough to take off the notability tag? OrangesRyellow ( talk) 18:08, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you so much - it's nice to see a UK university teaching students about Wikipedia, and I hope that some of them will continue to edit the encyclopedia even after the module is over. Pam D 09:44, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi I am editing the article on Suzon Fuks, if I get permission off the artist to use her statement on waterwheel may I include this in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eusa65 ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Pam, just saying thanks for the alteration/ correction on the wiki article I am creating. I'm still fairly new to the wiki world and with your assistance it has helped me learn a little bit more on how it all works. Thanks again, keep up the good work. -- LairdCharles ( talk) 20:44, 29 October 2012 (UTC)LairdCharles
Dear User:PamD Thank you very much for the assistance and cleanup on my page Plaintext Players please bare in mind the current state is just the ground works andI intend to add further detail about various shows from combining both primary sources and secondary. Best, SWalton91 ( talk) 23:52, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for attempting to help, don't think this is in my remitt for my life denise ( talk) 12:35, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
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For Dedicating your time to our student pages, thank you PamD NomNomNomNathan ( talk) 12:36, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
Just a thankyou for the help you've given me and other students with our articles - especially thanks from me for clearing up the stub issue. Thanks! Have some falafel. - Dregan Phillips ( talk) 12:43, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
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Thank you for helping me to develop my page further Samantha2chipmunk ( talk) 13:01, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
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Thank you very much for all your help over the last few days, I am really happy with how the page came out, and it would not have been as good without your advice and guidance. Joe Berwick ( talk) 13:12, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
I just wanted to thank you for helping me and my colleagues in our early wikipedia lives. I feel that this cat symbolises our innocence in this community and that you will nurture us.
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Thank you so much for the brilliant ideas and helping me on Wikipedia I really appreciate the help you gave me.
Thank you again. LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 13:18, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
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Thank you so much for all your contributions, I know that all of my fellow students also greatly appreciate all the help you've been giving us. Franbundey ( talk) 13:19, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks for all the help on my wikipedia article, as well as my colleagues also. After your hard work, you deserve a drink. This one's on me :) LairdCharles ( talk) 13:22, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
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I see that most of my students have now thanked you personally for all the help you've given us during the last several days.
This morning each student gave a short presentation about their work on Wikipedia and they almost all managed to drop your name when it was their time to speak. The work goes on, of course, but this group will now be writing reflective essays on their success (or otherwise) with creating useful content for Wikipedia, understanding the conventions of contributing to this wiki, as well as engaging with other Wikipedians for an assessed hand-in tomorrow. Once again, thank you so very much for all you help and support, Pam! -- ToniSant ( talk) 14:07, 30 October 2012 (UTC) |
How lovely to sit down after lunch and find all these Thank You gifts from the "Applied & Interactive Theatre 2" crowd!
I can't remember now just which of your articles I first came across while stub-sorting, but after I realised it was part of a set of articles from the module I began to look at others with interest. I'm sorry if I've been a bit brusque sometimes, but there's a lot to learn and you're supposed to be learning! Although not an official "Campus Ambassador" (and thus with no training in "how to help students"), I liked the idea of helping students from relatively close to home, and got interested in some of your topics. I did once, many years ago, set up an identity in Second Life, but never got the hang of it: by contrast, editing Wikipedia has become something of an addiction (and an occupation I can enjoy while semi-housebound with caring responsibilities in a rural village).
I've only today thought that it would have been useful to bring your articles to the notice of one or more appropriate WikiProjects: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Theatre and/or Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing (there doesn't seem to be an appropriate narrower IT project - Wikipedia:WikiProject Internet culture sounded likely but doesn't look as if it covers your kind of thing). That way you'd have had editors who are interested in and/or knowledgeable about the broad topic areas, who might have been able to help - and perhaps to dive in to the rescue where your articles were nominated for Speedy Deletion or Proposed Deletion. Perhaps something for Toni to think about another year: the appropriate banner(s) on the talk page of each article will alert the project(s).
I'm glad if some of my comments or edits have been useful to some of you. I'm a bit old-fashioned about accuracy and punctuation ... but then so will be some of the people you need to impress with your writings in your futures. Capitals, hypens, apostrophes, grammatical structures: get them right, otherwise someone will read your job application, political flyer etc and either reject it out of hand or just have mildly negative vibes from it which do you no good. And in a computerised environment, getting them right in an article title or search term can make the difference between finding information and not doing so ... though in Wikipedia we can make as many "redirects" from likely misspellings or variant punctuations as we want, which helps.
I hope that some of you will stick around with Wikipedia, though you're obviously all busy with studies and probably performances too. I tend to sit down with a bowl of breakfast muesli to look at my watchlist ... and discover it's lunchtime because I've rambled around the map of human knowledge adding a stub tag here, fixing grammar there, moving an article to its correct title, sorting out hatnotes and disambiguation pages, and creating articles on a variety of topics (they renamed Mother's daycentre, I wondered where the name came from ... there's now an article on Edward Denis de Vitre!)
It's been fun helping you these last few days. Good luck with this module and the rest of your studies! If you do decide to continue with Wikipedia, feel free to drop by this page with any questions where I might be able to help: I've learned quite a lot about editing here in the last six years, though there are still huge gaps in my knowledge.
And thanks again for the thanks, both today and in earlier responses to my comments. Wikipedia is an amazing project - someone in the middle of nowhere with a solar-powered internet connection can access this great collection of increasingly well-written and reliably-sourced information, even if their nearest serious physical library is hundreds of miles away - and it's now got a few more useful articles about interactive theatre and its proponents. Pam D 14:13, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey PamD
Due to the fact your advice has been so helpful I thought I connect you regarding my main problem at the moment. My article has been given a notability tag, I am in the process of trying to prevent my article from being deleted. Looking at number 4 of the Notability guidelines for academics it states if the person has authored several books that are widely used as textbooks, although Stephen A. Schrum has published several books would adding more details about these books more the article more notable? Also I have discovered this website which was suggested on wikipedia page for book citations world cat in which the date of the top is the year he was born.
Thank you for your help.
LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 16:41, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for your help and advice here, as you can see I have taken into account what you said your advice has been brilliant.
LydiaRDoyle1992 ( talk) 16:47, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the stub in SUBJECT article. That really helps. PamD is wonderful. Rammer ( talk) 17:59, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Although an American married to a Swede, I'm a graduate of the University of Leeds. No joke. I used to live on Cumberland Road, LS2 9JT!! Rammer ( talk) 19:16, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi I'm eusa65 working on the Suzon Fuks article, I would be grateful if you could help me understand why a banner has appeared saying conflict of...on the Suzon Fuks page denise ( talk) 01:25, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Pam, hoping you are well, I have had a person ask me a good question, but one I cannot answer myself. Thought maybe you could help me/us? Here's his question:
"there is one major task that needs to be done that I have not figured out how to do. Currently, a search on Wikipedia for Neohumanism takes you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neohumanism#Neohumanism, which is just a small paragraph within a larger article on the propounder of this philosophy, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. I have added a link (a 'redirect'?) at the top of that small paragraph to the main article, which is Neohumanism (liberation of intellect). However, it would make much more sense if a Wikipedia search for "Neohumanism" took one directly to the main article. Hence, I would like to edit the titles and destinations for the two links ( Neohumanism and Neohumanism (liberation of intellect)), essentially reversing them. I understand this is possible. I believe it is called "usurping a link". However, I have not been able to figure out how to do this. Could you please assist me with the process?"
Any thoughts? If you can help just pop back over to my page and you will see our discussion.
Many thanks and kindest regards, ( MrNiceGuy1113 ( talk) 07:03, 1 November 2012 (UTC))
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You continue to impress me. Not long after I express the opinion that "this is a silly situation", you remedy it. Good work, done well! Thanks, Pdfpdf ( talk) 11:23, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Hey, PamD, just letting you know that I've reverted a rollback you did on User:Worm That Turned. A misclick, I'd imagine; God knows I've made enough of 'em. :) Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 15:53, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Do you can give your opinion on this topic? Also see here and here. Tnx. ;-) -- Kasper2006 ( talk) 07:52, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your contribution - I have placed references and commentary on talk page. This is a current world wide discussion on religious tolerance, and I am intolerant of intolerant religions. Are there any other sort of coercive organizations, religious or secular? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timpo ( talk • contribs) 04:50, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Anyway. You're getting this note because you've participated in discussion and/or asked for updates to either the Article Feedback Tool or Page Curation. This isn't about either of those things, I'm afraid ;p. We've recently started working on yet another project: Echo, a notifications system to augment the watchlist. There's not much information at the moment, because we're still working out the scope and the concepts, but if you're interested in further updates you can sign up here.
In addition, we'll be holding an office hours session at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday, 14 November in #wikimedia-office - hope to see you all there :). I appreciate it's an annoying time for non-Europeans: if you're interested in chatting about the project but can't make it, give me a shout and I can set up another session if there's enough interest in one particular timezone or a skype call if there isn't. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 11:15, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Well, that's kind of odd. Not sure what if anything I can actually do about it, but if I hear of anything I'll keep you posted. Bearcat ( talk) 02:06, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
Actually, I meant that I took the info the subject herself added to the article and split it up into sections with headings, and did some work on the bibliography. I didn't really know what else to do with it, and I didn't know if she intended to follow up with supportive citations, so I just cleaned up the page lay-out. If you see here, [2], the subject wrote over the previous article with a bunch of uncited text, and I tried with limited success to integrate it into the article and Wikify it. Rosencomet ( talk) 09:19, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
I apologize Pam for not getting back to you. You dropped out "today's watchlist" notices without out me getting back to you and it became out of site and out of mind. Thank you for leaving the message to remind me. Bgwhite ( talk) 20:43, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
As long as you have reverted the redirecting of Association for Consciousness Exploration to Starwood Festival, I was hoping you would get a chance to review the editing Qworty has done on the Starwood Festival article itself. It seems extreme to me. Thank you for your attention. Rosencomet ( talk) 18:59, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
I had checked and there is not a single article linking to the sportsman's page. There are a bunch of user pages, sand boxes and the like, but I do not think these need fixing? Please respond on my talk page Refdoc ( talk) 21:52, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks! Refdoc ( talk) 01:19, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
I noticed your username commenting at an Arbcom discussion regarding civility. An effort is underway that would likely benifit if your views were included. I hope you will append regards at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Civility enforcement/Questionnaire Thank you for considering this request. My76Strat ( talk) 11:37, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
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Well, I agree about Florence and the repeated year but the dates of birth and death certainly ought to be in the lead sentence. Whoever told you otherwise surely didn't encounter many biographical articles here, let alone good ones. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biographies#Opening paragraph. As for the sections, I'm not sure if there's a rule saying anything about them, but they seem to be avoided when articles are very short, which makes sense - why have a section that contains only a sentence or two? I can assure you the article won't be tagged and I'll try to find a relevant guideline. Surtsicna ( talk) 17:43, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I thought you might like to comment at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bootie bicycle. Cheers. -- Trevj ( talk) 10:31, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
As I am a lawyer and as the article is connected to a broadly legal, rather than religious concept, my considered response appears at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Religious_offense Timpo ( talk) 14:15, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Fair enough, I've changed the block to a softer block which allows a new account to be created. Obviously this has to be done since the current name infringes username policy anyway Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:37, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your message here, you're a better person than me Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:06, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
I have expanded and restructured this article in order to try to address your concerns. Please would you review the article and advise your current deletion opinion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Religious_offense (if not ready please User talk:Timpo or Special:emailUser/Timpo) Timpo ( talk) 11:24, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hello PamD. I had created the disambiguation page as an interim measure while editors were deciding whether to have Moralism (the religion) or a disambiguation page be the landing spot for "moralism," but I see the point you're making. In that case, (once I get everything clarified with Editor2020) we'll have Moralism (the religion) as the landing spot for "moralism" and then have an "other meaning" link at the top of the page for the philosophy of moralism (which redirects to "Morality"). JBogdan ( talk) 23:53, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
I didn't mean to put the inappropriate tags on American Community School and have modified my settings to prevent something like that from happening again. Andrew ( talk) 19:34, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
An excellent example of a Blessing in Disguise is the case of the Zeppelin LZ 4.
However the Blessing in Disguise disambig article failed to mention (until today) the striking Zeppelin LZ 4 example.
Also, the Zeppelin LZ 4 article failed to use this term, or link back to the Blessing in Disguise article.
Well they do now, if you don't wipe the relevant changes.
Blessing in Disguise and List of blessings in disguise might be merged if you so wish.
Tabletop ( talk) 08:44, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
Sorry about you having to tell me 4 times about the dab tag. The problem is simple memorability. I created User talk:In ictu oculi/Useful and added the instruction there. Am I the only user you've ever had to tell twice :( ? In ictu oculi ( talk) 00:04, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
You are proposing List of blessings in disguise for deletion without merging its contents with Blessing in Disguise, a disambig page.
You also fail to notice that blessings in Disguise is rather similar to Serendipity, where there are no crosslinks to BiD.
One of the great strengths of Wiki is the ease of making, which does not appear to be one of your strong points.
A link to related pages is as important as external reference.
Tabletop ( talk) 06:19, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
AFAIK, apart from adding two sections regarding List of Blessings in Disguise, all that I did extra was to change the capitalisation to List of blessings in disguise. Tabletop ( talk) 09:01, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
The article Janine Thompson has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{ prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. -- Patchy1 02:02, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Best wishes to all my talk page stalkers for a Peaceful Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2013. Pam D 00:12, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello PamD. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Polgasowita, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Article has been edited since it was tagged and has sufficient context to identify subject. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 05:14, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
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You've been adding the wikify template to articles with some of your AWB edits [4], [5]. However that template doesn't exist anymore. If you go to the discussion section of WP:AWB perhaps you can find a link to a snapshot of an updated version of AWB which no longer adds this template? Thanks 130.88.141.34 ( talk) 12:16, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
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For your selfless efforts to improve wikipedia. I have come across your edits a few times in the past month and they seemed to me to be particularly impressive. And thanks for your compliments. Cheers n happy editing. Suraj T 19:25, 16 January 2013 (UTC) |
To answer your question in editing description of Massachusetts smallpox epidemic: Not in history of smallpox, but in history of colonies.
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Thanks for the kudos. I tend, if the stub list is large, to do the letter based on the date, or if a letter has only a few entries. Sometimes I scan the list, and do a few that are in areas of interest. Good to hear from another stub-sorter. Rpyle731 talk 17:39, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
Left you a message over at User_talk:Boleyn#James_Watson_.28disambiguation.29. Thanks for being so friendly! Woodshed ( talk) 10:39, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Since you were just on Binko's talk page, you might want to know about this. EEng ( talk) 23:55, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Pam
hope this reaches you okay - I'm a newbie at this lark! - the website is www.thelabyrinth.org.uk, and the lat and long (if that's the ref you want) is 50.363788N and -4.41806W - or do you want the National Grid ref? If so, let me know and I'll try and work it out.
Also, the labyrinth is described on the South West Coast Path National Trail's website - see http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/walksdb/533/ (scroll down to (2) and read from there - several paragraphs)
hope this is enough information for you :-) Caroline Petherick 91.85.37.182 ( talk) 17:19, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Pam
Thanks for your help - both re etiquette and re the text. (I am, I must say, mystified as to why anyone should have just deleted my words without saying.) I've just had a look at the page, and I see the superscript number 44 plus the note referring to the National Trust website, so thank you very much for doing that. Blimey, Poole to Minehead??? I gather the ups and downs involved in doing that accumulate to the same as climbing Mount Everest four times over!! But if you're ever in this neck of the woods, do feel free to visit us. I can't see any Signature button, so I hope that putting ~~~~ at the end will do the trick! Caroline P ~~~~
via Wikipedia E-mail service. Best, -- DancingPhilosopher my talk 15:19, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
Just FYI, see this posting and this website. I've emailed the skipper to confirm what Jericho has said. Best regards (and how are you doing?), TransporterMan ( TALK) 22:44, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
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Why did you restore the discussion at the Rah Crawford AfD? There are two priorities (1) we are here to build an encyclopedia, and (2) don't change the meaning. After your edit, readers had no obvious way to know that I had removed an unnecessary discussion thread. Unscintillating ( talk) 09:38, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
Seriously, nothing more irritating for a new editor than to have a veteran stalk him and keep tagging and prodding him and making editing miserable for him. Can you please back off a little and allow him to get his bearings, Ipigott and myself can help him.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 22:49, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
You commented on WT:RM: I think this conversation echoes my problems in the earlier discussion about RMassist: the documentation about technical moves is not at all clear. Maybe needs a flowchart or a set of yes/no questions to help a newcomer to the page to navigate and find their answer? PamD 09:58, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
There needs to be a consistent pattern established for these name articles. Not all of them include lists of people and probably should not since there are far too many Mary's or Elizabeth's, etc. Most of the name stubs I have created are referred back to the article List of most popular given names. The Disambiguation bot tags all of the articles that are Disambiguation pages and notes that they are almost always a mistake. When that template is left in place yet another bot comes along and links articles to bio articles that have nothing to do with the given name. Bookworm857158367 ( talk) 12:24, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Sorry I wasn't here I had to do school work and I only managed to add some information not all since the schedule is kind of keeping me off the site from time to time. I can't fully make it a Non-stub for that page since my computer at home has been acting up lately and theirs hardly any other information to find unless I ask Milkstone studios about it? -- Indienews ( talk) 15:49, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
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Now tell me: How would wikipedia manage without you? There doesn't seem to be ANYONE else doing what you're doing, and in my (no doubt biassed) opinion, what you are doing is "an essential service". Again in my no doubt biassed opinion, I believe what you are doing is "under appreciated", and this is to bring to your attention that there is at least one person who appreciates your work. Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 12:08, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi PamD,
From what I can see, this appears to be an
elementary school, albeit one which has adjuncts to the standard curriculum for talented children. The
usual outcome of a
WP:AFD for a US elementary school would be a
WP:REDIRECT to its school district, in this case
Polk County School District, Florida.
There appears to be some assertion of notability of this school in what we have edited, so I'm leery of simply redirecting it, or sending it to AfD.
Your thoughts? Peter aka --
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Thanks for the stub missive, I'll be more careful. Your stub work and new article work is mightily impressive! Do take a look at my lovely collection of red links if you're ever in need of more material. Thanks again. Gareth E Kegg ( talk) 20:56, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi PamD, this is Ajay from the translation screwup on the Danish page... I cannot express how sheepish I feel for committing that very silly mistake... Careful is not the word; I will keep my eyes and mind wide open and be very vigilant and I sincerely hope you will forgive me... I was planning to put the article or deletion but decided against it and so used the translation tag for the very first time and I messed up, I'm not trying to justify myself. But I hope you don't think of me as a bad and stupid editor... I hope you can forgive for this one silly mistake as advice from a senior editor like you to juniors like me... And plz feel free to blast me the next time I commit such errors, which I promise will never happen again.... Sorry once again!!! Ajayupai95 ( talk) 12:29, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
You do good work reporting bad stuff. Here's the prestigious Tightrope Award for good balance! (The image represents the amazing Charles Blondin carrying Jimbo Wales safely across the Niagara Falls.) Bishonen | talk 20:29, 23 February 2013 (UTC). |
Thank you so much! Pam D 21:06, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
Interesting article here on decline of participation in Wikipedia:
http://www.dailydot.com/business/wikipedia-editors-decline-wikimedia-fellows/
"A new study published in the American Behavioral Science Journal by former Wikimedia Fellows says Wikipedia has lost some 30 percent of its English-language editors since 2006, as a result of off-putting automated rejections, restrictive new rules, and controlling older editors."
You're mentioned by name in this thread:
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/935750/wikipedia-editors-needed
Some food for thought. 68.144.172.8 ( talk) 20:04, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
Both the Hunt Stromberg and Ken Swofford articles ARE stubs.
I researched Stromberg {see history and Hunt Stromberg Jr.} and know for a fact this article isn't even the tip of the iceberg; no solid information about his early career, personal life or subsequent racing affiliations - and he was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood! For example: he orchestrated the cover-up when Jean Harlow's husband committed suicide (can't remember source off-hand, may have been " Hollywood Babylon"). This article should be at least 5 times as long as it is.
I also created the Swofford article and had a heck of a time 'cobbling' it together from tag ends; for an actor who was so prolific there's very little information out there - quite possibly by his or his family's choice; someone has already changed his birth date, which is currently incorrect (at least based on the consensus of source at the time it was written).
I did the best I could (mistakes and all), but for sure someone out there can do better - which is the whole point of Wikipedia in the first place. Hence the "stubs," and I'm re-instating them.
Since ArielGold left I've been looking for a mentor/collaborator: would you be interested? Cheers! Shir-El too 15:34, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi again!
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Thanks for reverting vandalism on my Talkpage! Cheers, Kevin 12xd ( contribs) 01:04, 26 February 2013 (UTC) |
Sometimes WP amuses me - usually regarding my own behaviour. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.
In December I was looking at the Founding Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science, and was surprised to find so many red links, including David Martyn. It didn't take long to find David Forbes Martyn, so I created David Martyn as a redirect to David Forbes Martyn. (There was some reason why I couldn't move DFM to DM). A week ago, LlywelynII turned it into a dab/hndis page, without a dab or hndis template. About 48 hours ago, Dawynn added the dab template. About 24 hours ago, a bot added the "incoming links template; 30 or more links". What I should have done is what I originally did, and what you subsequently did.
Moral: Engage brain and think first, rather than don't think, engage auto-pilot, and achieve nothing particularly useful. Or worse: and achieve an even bigger mess. Ho hum. Pdfpdf ( talk) 16:16, 26 February 2013 (UTC) (P.S. Once again: Thank you!)
Thanks for the information on where to place stubs. Cheers. Mfribbs ( talk) 14:18, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi PamD!
Sorry about my mistake on Seán Óg Ó Ciardubháin. I remember unchecking the "stub" box when I realized it was already marked as a stub but I guess it didn't go through. Plus, I've been having an off day. Sorry again and thanks for letting me know. Hope that was the only case.
Sosthenes12 ( talk) 20:23, 18 March 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12
Hi PamD!
Sorry about my mistake on Seán Óg Ó Ciardubháin. I remember unchecking the "stub" box when I realized it was already marked as a stub but I guess it didn't go through. Plus, I've been having an off day. Sorry again and thanks for letting me know. Hope that was the only case.
Sosthenes12 ( talk) 20:24, 18 March 2013 (UTC)Sosthenes12
I wish I could give you a real cookie to say sorry but this will have to do! Thanks for all your work! Sosthenes12 ( talk) 20:26, 18 March 2013 (UTC) |
Well spotted! That was quite a plausible-looking one at first glance. I had just done final checks and was reaching for the delete button, but Anthony Bradbury got there first. JohnCD ( talk) 21:34, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
I have added the copy left emblem to the bottom of the page in question, let me know if you would like anything else to prove my existence :), and the ownership of ANY of the text I post The Domain http://hillbillgold.com, and all subdomains do in fact belong to me, and I hereby give Wikipedia any and all right to link to any text on this domain. Hillbelly ( talk) 11:36, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
You took a lot of efforts in pointing out the mistakes I made. You do have good patience and a determination to maintain the standards of Wikipedia. Now take this hot cup of coffee and forgive me for my disruptive edits. Jayadevp13 ( talk) 05:33, 22 March 2013 (UTC) |
Also have a cookie with the cup of coffee. Once again Sorry! Jayadevp13 ( talk) 05:33, 22 March 2013 (UTC) |
Jayadevp13 ( talk) 05:39, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
It looks like we had an edit conflict, but I put my version into the article since I was in the middle of creating the "Composition history" section and moving material out of the lede. There's more to come. Tried to pick up on things you'd changed, but would be happy to see you make any appropriaye changes/improvements. Just fyi: I'm still working on Comp. hist, as there is plenty of new stuff out there on Morrison's website. Viva-Verdi ( talk) 22:59, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi PamD,
sorry for the confusion, I am not so familiar with the en.WP and the differences between your article and dab pages. Investigating a little I figured out that (my) de.WP dab pages have no TOC at all...weired world. Greetings from sunny but cold Berlin
Mws.richter ⇔
bla, бла... 09:49, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello PamD, I'm dropping by on a courtesy visit to let you know that I have done some extra work on your recent article about the SS Alba. Maybe when you get a chance you could come back to it and give it a review please, to see how the changes sit with you.
I found quite a bit of info on [6], also where you say that 2 or 5 people perished I have ammended it to 5 as per the info I found on that website, so please check how it is for you.
Anyway, wishing you all the best and many thanks. Kindest regards and happy wiki-ing, ( MrNiceGuy1113 ( talk) 12:45, 23 March 2013 (UTC))
Just asking. Why do you feel categories are not appropriate in the see also section? With the ":" prefix operator they are just regular links. A good portion of users are totally unfamiliar with categories, and what they lead to. They are at the bottom of the page and can be easily confused as a "bibliographic" stamp that does nothing. The use in the see also section calls particular attention to specific categories. Its a specific signal to the reader that there are other pages on Wikipeda that may be of particular interest to someone reading a particular page. It can signal the reader that there are many "closely related" articles available. It's a navigation tool, plus a short cut to avoid listing many articles in the see also section. A "heads up, this isn't the full story" alerting the reader, many closely related, perhaps overlapping articles that should not be missed if more detail is required. I can't find any WP policy against there use as a link, that's what the ":" prefix is for. I've also seen them used in other articles, and in the main text, in hat notes, etc. Is that all wrong? Rick ( talk) 02:54, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Pam, Thanks very much for your flexibility. I see you are from the U.K. and the cite was from Melanie Klein, a fantastic U.K. psychologist. Rick ( talk) 16:00, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! I like to be thorough in redirecting things so people come to the right place :) WhisperToMe ( talk) 16:25, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
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it was in reference to this article on wikipedia: EFLU Hyderabad heritage well Ccanton8 ( talk) 09:19, 31 March 2013 (UTC) |
Has User_talk:Rodeorm ever reacted to your note of 2009? I am persuaded that his/her article is a pile of crap, or more politely: a hoax. See my remarks under discussion to "Schuch" Talk:Schuch and please answer there. Thanks noychoH ( talk) 11:21, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
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Whoops! O_o ^_^ Raffaele Megabyte ( talk) 15:55, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Pam, I personally don't see "Alba" for the Gaelic name of Scotland being more prevalent than other uses. Type in "Alba" under Google, Yahoo, etc, and Scotland's name is not a top hit (excluding the Wikipedia page). However, I have no desire to make a change that is vastly unpopular, or disrupts a number of links, so I have voiced my support for reverting the changes. DavidinNJ ( talk) 13:41, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
This page should stay. Go to Muppet Wiki, Irvine is there too!! -- Grouches101 ( Send a note then scram!! P.S. Have a rotten day!!!!) 14:59, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Take no notice of the crossing outs that is to do with the fact I have a different account name on wikicommons and I accidentally edited this article on Wikipedia with two different user name. As I have retired the user name on Wikipedia which made the deleted the edits, and replaced the text using my current user name. As to the article name please see talk:London Millennium Funicular.-- PBS ( talk) 12:16, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for all your advice and guidance! Can'tCope Won'tCope 22:43, 12 April 2013 (UTC) |
Thank you. I hope I've helped you cope despite the username! Pam D 22:46, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
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Hello , I see you are always checking my work . So I wanted a bit of advice - please , if I want to start a new page , like I have done with Tymbark (company) - do I need to always put (company) after it so it will be easier for people to understand the article? Thank you again for helping me! OliwierB ( talk) 19:46, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Hello there! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Catherine Bell the actress is undoubtedly the best known of the three individuals sharing that name(at the moment at least), but in the long-term, I have to suspect that the academic shall rise quite significantly in prominence; she really is a very senior academic in the field of ritual studies, and is heavily cited in anthropology, archaeology, and religious studies. So for that reason, I shall go through and start putting in the correct links in all those other pages (here goes the next hour of my life!). All the best, Midnightblueowl ( talk) 22:04, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Can you explain some of the notability of this charity. I rarely ask but I was considering an AFD here.. Hell In A Bucket ( talk) 14:55, 21 April 2013 (UTC)