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Hi Philg88, need your help again, please copyedit here. The major work with this draft is over, now it needs your copyediting, some references and some Wikilinks. Many thanks. Let me know if you like the topic. Jim Carter ( talk) 07:19, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Jim Cartar. Thanks for the update. A couple of general points:
More importantly, let me reiterate the point I made above. I don't see the need for a standalone article. Currently Vivekanada is 38K of readable prose in length. Your proposed article is just under 4K (and I'm being generous here and including the duplicated lead), which would make a total of <42K. Per WP:SIZE, 50K is the minimum threshold at which an article should be split. What do you think? Philg88 ♦ talk 14:48, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Jim Cartar: OK, I have copyedited the two relevant and retitled sections—"Decline" and "Death"—which should now be ready to merge with the existing "Death" section in the Vivekananda article, after you fix the one inline request for clarification. Over to you! Philg88 ♦ talk 08:22, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88! After todays marathon edit there is now a lot more on Einar Jolin. If you would consider helping me out with some additional copy editing, there are some notes on my talk page. No pressure, no time limit, only if you want to and have the time. - W.carter ( talk) 23:20, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
So, #1: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN) is mentioned in the previous section along with the abbreviation of his name. He was called this during his lifetime since his name is long and cumbersome to say and his initials form a new, easier name. The original text alternates between these two. For clarification I put a link at this place as well, but I can substitute this with his full name if that is more appropriate. #2 This is a sentence from the original, rather exuberant, text. I managed to find the source in Palmgren and an article supporting it, but it just doesn’t add anything to the article and is very superflorious so I simply removed it. (So much for my skills...) There is no need for two pompous quotes from Palmgren on top of each other. Are there other clarification requests? Have I missed something?
I must say that the language you conjure up is simply beautiful! With just a couple of small tweaks you make it flow so easy. And you really have a knack for finding just the right word. - W.carter ( talk) 10:45, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
Moved to User:Philg88/Barnstars
Hi,
Thanks for your response about New River / Hexi New City!
When looking at the very helpful statistics link you've provided, I've taken a stab at matching the statistical places to Jianye District#Subdistricts and think I may have made progress with some matches. But I've got some places without a matching subdistrict and vice versa.
Do you have any insight into this?
Thanks so much your link has been a HUGE help!== CaroleHenson ( talk) 06:48, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
That sounds like a good idea.
Not sure what you mean by "Hanhu" subdistrict? Did you mean "Nanhu"? If it's not on the official list I would leave it out. About xzch.org in general: It's a useful source of information but it doesn't publish official settlement data, which is why the government stats website trumps it for reliability as a source. Such websites are often out of date or contain conflicting information depending on where they got it from.
I'm always happy to answer any questions you may have about handling China-related style/content issues.
Philg88 ♦
talk
08:14, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that some time ago you reverted this user who was removing Simplified Chinese without an edit summary. I've noticed that this user has had a long history of removing Simplified Chinese and Pinyin from Hong Kong-related articles, without any explanation within the edit summary or article talk page. I'm suspecting that this user may not be acting in good faith. Just to let you know, in case you notice him again further continuing this sort of editing in the future. -- benlisquare T• C• E 13:15, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
TPTB ( talk) 14:35, 13 May 2014 (UTC)Hi Philg88,
Thank you for your answer. I just wanted to ask you another question. What happens if I want to write about the history of a magazine. Can I use information from the magazine's website. I'm talking about stuff like milestones or important events that occured over the years.
I hope it's ok that I posted here and I also hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks. TPTB ( talk) 14:35, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I appreciate your offer to ask further questions about creating articles about China. I've been going through the MOS-ZH link you provided and will likely be absorbing the content over a couple of days. There were a couple of questions that came to mind:
I am a little confused by the Romanisation section and accompanying link, but have been more mindful with your direction about seeking out text that uses the Chinese character and text... so that hopefully I'm getting content that is more likely to accurately show the English translations. Pinyin use and formatting is over my head at the moment. Any comments about this would be appreciated, though, like how concerned I need to be about this right now, etc.
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 04:14, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
While searching in the Internet, I recently found the article Kingdom of Tanur. It is a small city-state in south-western India prevailed during the period of Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean. The article was full of factual errors and was very poorly sourced from out-dated books. I made all the factual changes needed, and now I want to check the article on grammar.
Please improve the grammar (and other areas) of the article. I am ready clear any doubts on local history. I also like to change the title of the article to "Kingdom of Tanur" from "Vettathunad".
António Gomez the Second ( talk) 10:42, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Please continue fixing problems... I am ready clear any doubts on local history.
António Gomez the Second ( talk) 11:14, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
ThanksBig text. António Gomez the Second ( talk) 04:54, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for welcome. -- 109.54.1.65 ( talk) 08:15, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
If you're interested in weighing-in, I posted a question on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Chinese coordinates about difficulty I'm having with Google maps with Chinese coordinates... and in this case, specifically with Qingliangshan Park also having an issue on Baidu. Thanks!--00:33, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Philg88 07:13, 16 Mayıs 2014 (UTC)
I could not change the SVG, but Turkish translations are as follows:
Thank you Philg88! -- 95.6.67.100 ( talk) 08:30, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
@
95.6.67.100: Done
Philg88 ♦
talk
08:53, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Phil. Some people from the company (including the CEO and the president) is holding a press conference right now. They say that there was no explotion of power unit, but they also say that they don't "know" what caused the fire. Can you wait for official explanation?-- Rapsar ( talk) 08:34, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Addition: The company organized a press conference, stating the transformator was not the cause and was intact. They state that a coal fire broke out 140m below surface, and burned too fast for recovery. Source -- 95.6.67.100 ( talk) 08:36, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello again! Right now I am studying the best articles on painters to get a better understanding of how a really great article should be written. While reading El Greco I came across a nice timeline template. Since there is a written timeline on Einar Jolin in Liljevalchs I thought it would be nice to have this as a similar timeline in the article. So I have converted it to Einar. The Liljevalchs timeline ends at 1957 so I have added to it from the other books. It is in my sandbox and I guess I just have to move it to {{Template:Timeline of Einar Jolin's life}} in order to use it in the article. Or...?? Anyhow, I was wondering if you would be kind enough to take a look at the first draft in the sandbox? At your convenience, of cause. - W.carter ( talk) 21:45, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Well, I'm not an Editor yet..."But I've learned so much." Moved the box, it looks better and does not displace any text when opened. From a purely aesthetic point of view it also looks like a "foundation" for the article, a finish line. The two refs in the box "fell out" of the usual reflist so I put in a new reflist for them. They might be redundant, but since the timeline is based on a timeline in a book it might be ok to mention. Or do they simply look misplaced? - W.carter ( talk) 17:29, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I not sure about the usefulness of the Timeline section - as it is evolving, it just seems to be a repetition of the body of the article. (But without references!) I can see value in a timeline section which is a chronological summary and/or cross-reference, but not one that duplicates the article.
What are your thoughts? Pdfpdf ( talk) 10:22, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 19 May 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anubrata Mandal, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that during the panchayat elections of July 2013, Anubrata Mandal publicly encouraged Trinamool Congress supporters to hurl bombs at the police? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anubrata Mandal. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 01:34, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Hallo Philg88, thank you for your graphic to Soma. I translated it into German. But, I've strong doubt that it is right (even if I agree, that the information of the 2 km deep inclined shafts is reported). I think the shafts are 2 km long, but not as deep. I found some literature about the geology of the region and started a talk in German. May be, you want to make a note to the graphics as I did. Anka Friedrich ( talk) 14:19, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello, my friend. Long time. :)
I'm trying to add specs to the article sourced from the image. The middle stuff about 30X32 etc and 60+90+30 blah blah has me totally confused. I have no idea what it means. If you have a mo', a bit of help would be great. Best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 10:00, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Totally trivial point, but I am Cullen328. There is an inactive editor called Cullen, but that's not me. Take care. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:15, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 27 May 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article David Olyphant, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that merchant David Olyphant of Olyphant & Co. was responsible for the dispatch of the first American Protestant missionary to China? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David Olyphant. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:13, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 27 May 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Olyphant & Co., which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that merchant David Olyphant of Olyphant & Co. was responsible for the dispatch of the first American Protestant missionary to China? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:13, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88
I noticed that you made an edit to the recent "CAF - development bank of Latin America" to "CAF - Development Bank of Latin America." From what I've seen, they don't capitalize the "D" and the "B" since its not an acronym. However, Latin America is capitalized because it is a proper noun. If you could revert the name to the original move (CAF - development bank of Latin America), I'd really appreciate it.
Many thanks!
SRLM SRLM ( talk) 16:50, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88,
When I click on Google it doesn't take me straight to the article, but instead to a page where it says the article can has been moved. Then, there is the link to the new page with the new name. Is there a way to fix this? This did not occur when the name was changed a first time.
Many thanks!
SRLM ( talk) 18:47, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88, Thank you so much for your help with the HZO article! It looks like another editor reviewed it after your edits, and approved it for publication. Your edits definitely made the difference in it's publication. Thanks again! Cosette Cosettej ( talk) 15:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey Philg, how are you my friend? I need some help. Recently I was improving this article. Now it is in better condition. I have removed unsourced materials, unreliable references added few refs and now it is ready for GA. But it needs your copyediting. The article is very large it took me 2 days to complete my work, hence NO time limit. Please help me. BTW ping me when you reply, nowadays I'm having short-term memory loss :P. Many thanks. Jim Carter ( talk) 11:42, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey Jim Cartar I can see that you're under pressure from some quarters, but what's the issue here? Philg88 ♦ talk 17:35, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing your views. I agree with you and the other opposes. In fact, the absence of responses (before the fiasco) spoke volumes: 'not a lot of support'. Now I know why. The whole idea now seems like creating a new government agency: more red tape, bureaucracy, a back page keystroke magnet, and hard to dismantle if not working out.
My definition of a lousy two days: Futian Checkpoint twice and coming home to this embarrassing fiasco. Anyway, a little red wine and a few episodes of Black Adder should help. :) All the best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 03:05, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your contribution to the discussion on MFD Talk, it was recently discovered that this was a duplicate of a more established discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Drafts#Process_for_deleting_drafts. Please reply at the WT:Drafts page if you are still interested in this topic. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 23:05, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello it is me again and i am having trouble with wikipedia can you tell me the steps to message to another user thank you! btw please respond in less than 24 hours Brebre9851 ( talk) 02:51, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Phil! I notice you've been pretty active sending Hong Kong articles to AfD. There's something disturbing that I noticed about most of those articles, as they seem to be pretty similar in style and format. I suspect some kind of paid advocacy company could be behind them (no substantial proof though). Can you come share your thoughts at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Hong_Kong#Promotional_articles? (I don't know if there's anyone watching that board though...) _dk ( talk) 04:09, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of
Albert Heard at the
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10:51, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello my friend! Long time no talk. I have not abandoned my project with the art articles. But, while waiting for some more books before I started I thought I might just expand some Swedish stubs with translations. So far so good, until I translated my favorite place in our little island Ljugarn along with the Template:Gotland County and everything... and found myself in a quagmire of disambigous names, red links and whatnots!! This was partially due to the weird language we speak here, but also because some astronomer with a sense of humor has named a bunch of asteroids after places on the island. See e.g. Mästerby <sigh> Talk about getting sidetracked! But I made the mess so it's only fair that I clean it up. I have fixed Fole, Vamlingbo and am currently working on Kräklingbo. It will take some time before it is all sorted out, but I will get there. The articles will be relatively small, nothing fancy, but they are still better than on SweWiki. I thought about asking you to check them out if you have the time, and I would really appreciate it, but it seems that these small articles have attracted the attention of WikiGnomes, so mabye it's ok anyhow. When this is all done I will certainly get back to my right habitat in the art section.
A small question: When we let Einar Jolin go, did we/you/I submit it for review or was this done automatically giving it the start classification it now has, or is it waiting for review or something? I have been hanging around the Teahouse listening in on other conversations so things are not as foggy now for me as they were back then,^^ so I was just wondering. All the best - W.carter ( talk) 19:13, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Absolutely no need to apologize for tardiness my friend. It is a healthy sign that you have a life outside the Wiki. Quote You: "there is no deadline" for copyediting the articles I work with. And I really hope you will let me know if you do not feel like CE any of them. I do not take your help for granted. I am still as grateful and awestruck by your skills as the first time you helped me out, and patiently introduced me to the experience of Wiki. I will make the stubs of Gotland my little pet project and turn the red links blue one article at the time, while I work on the next big art article. I know most of the info on Gotland by heart so no great effort to know what to write. Best! - W.carter ( talk) 18:51, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Philg88, I would like to take this moment and thank you for taking part in my RfA that happened a while ago. Although it didn't turn out as I had planned, I certainly appreciated all the comments and suggestions given by you and other people. I will learn from all of them and will hopefully run again someday when I'm fully ready. Thank you. TheGeneralUser ( talk) 13:51, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
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Archive 20 | ← | Archive 22 | Archive 23 | Archive 24 | Archive 25 | Archive 26 | → | Archive 30 |
Hi Philg88, need your help again, please copyedit here. The major work with this draft is over, now it needs your copyediting, some references and some Wikilinks. Many thanks. Let me know if you like the topic. Jim Carter ( talk) 07:19, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Jim Cartar. Thanks for the update. A couple of general points:
More importantly, let me reiterate the point I made above. I don't see the need for a standalone article. Currently Vivekanada is 38K of readable prose in length. Your proposed article is just under 4K (and I'm being generous here and including the duplicated lead), which would make a total of <42K. Per WP:SIZE, 50K is the minimum threshold at which an article should be split. What do you think? Philg88 ♦ talk 14:48, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Jim Cartar: OK, I have copyedited the two relevant and retitled sections—"Decline" and "Death"—which should now be ready to merge with the existing "Death" section in the Vivekananda article, after you fix the one inline request for clarification. Over to you! Philg88 ♦ talk 08:22, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88! After todays marathon edit there is now a lot more on Einar Jolin. If you would consider helping me out with some additional copy editing, there are some notes on my talk page. No pressure, no time limit, only if you want to and have the time. - W.carter ( talk) 23:20, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
So, #1: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN) is mentioned in the previous section along with the abbreviation of his name. He was called this during his lifetime since his name is long and cumbersome to say and his initials form a new, easier name. The original text alternates between these two. For clarification I put a link at this place as well, but I can substitute this with his full name if that is more appropriate. #2 This is a sentence from the original, rather exuberant, text. I managed to find the source in Palmgren and an article supporting it, but it just doesn’t add anything to the article and is very superflorious so I simply removed it. (So much for my skills...) There is no need for two pompous quotes from Palmgren on top of each other. Are there other clarification requests? Have I missed something?
I must say that the language you conjure up is simply beautiful! With just a couple of small tweaks you make it flow so easy. And you really have a knack for finding just the right word. - W.carter ( talk) 10:45, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
Moved to User:Philg88/Barnstars
Hi,
Thanks for your response about New River / Hexi New City!
When looking at the very helpful statistics link you've provided, I've taken a stab at matching the statistical places to Jianye District#Subdistricts and think I may have made progress with some matches. But I've got some places without a matching subdistrict and vice versa.
Do you have any insight into this?
Thanks so much your link has been a HUGE help!== CaroleHenson ( talk) 06:48, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
That sounds like a good idea.
Not sure what you mean by "Hanhu" subdistrict? Did you mean "Nanhu"? If it's not on the official list I would leave it out. About xzch.org in general: It's a useful source of information but it doesn't publish official settlement data, which is why the government stats website trumps it for reliability as a source. Such websites are often out of date or contain conflicting information depending on where they got it from.
I'm always happy to answer any questions you may have about handling China-related style/content issues.
Philg88 ♦
talk
08:14, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that some time ago you reverted this user who was removing Simplified Chinese without an edit summary. I've noticed that this user has had a long history of removing Simplified Chinese and Pinyin from Hong Kong-related articles, without any explanation within the edit summary or article talk page. I'm suspecting that this user may not be acting in good faith. Just to let you know, in case you notice him again further continuing this sort of editing in the future. -- benlisquare T• C• E 13:15, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
TPTB ( talk) 14:35, 13 May 2014 (UTC)Hi Philg88,
Thank you for your answer. I just wanted to ask you another question. What happens if I want to write about the history of a magazine. Can I use information from the magazine's website. I'm talking about stuff like milestones or important events that occured over the years.
I hope it's ok that I posted here and I also hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks. TPTB ( talk) 14:35, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
I appreciate your offer to ask further questions about creating articles about China. I've been going through the MOS-ZH link you provided and will likely be absorbing the content over a couple of days. There were a couple of questions that came to mind:
I am a little confused by the Romanisation section and accompanying link, but have been more mindful with your direction about seeking out text that uses the Chinese character and text... so that hopefully I'm getting content that is more likely to accurately show the English translations. Pinyin use and formatting is over my head at the moment. Any comments about this would be appreciated, though, like how concerned I need to be about this right now, etc.
Thanks!-- CaroleHenson ( talk) 04:14, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
While searching in the Internet, I recently found the article Kingdom of Tanur. It is a small city-state in south-western India prevailed during the period of Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean. The article was full of factual errors and was very poorly sourced from out-dated books. I made all the factual changes needed, and now I want to check the article on grammar.
Please improve the grammar (and other areas) of the article. I am ready clear any doubts on local history. I also like to change the title of the article to "Kingdom of Tanur" from "Vettathunad".
António Gomez the Second ( talk) 10:42, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Please continue fixing problems... I am ready clear any doubts on local history.
António Gomez the Second ( talk) 11:14, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
ThanksBig text. António Gomez the Second ( talk) 04:54, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for welcome. -- 109.54.1.65 ( talk) 08:15, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
If you're interested in weighing-in, I posted a question on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates#Chinese coordinates about difficulty I'm having with Google maps with Chinese coordinates... and in this case, specifically with Qingliangshan Park also having an issue on Baidu. Thanks!--00:33, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Philg88 07:13, 16 Mayıs 2014 (UTC)
I could not change the SVG, but Turkish translations are as follows:
Thank you Philg88! -- 95.6.67.100 ( talk) 08:30, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
@
95.6.67.100: Done
Philg88 ♦
talk
08:53, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Phil. Some people from the company (including the CEO and the president) is holding a press conference right now. They say that there was no explotion of power unit, but they also say that they don't "know" what caused the fire. Can you wait for official explanation?-- Rapsar ( talk) 08:34, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Addition: The company organized a press conference, stating the transformator was not the cause and was intact. They state that a coal fire broke out 140m below surface, and burned too fast for recovery. Source -- 95.6.67.100 ( talk) 08:36, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello again! Right now I am studying the best articles on painters to get a better understanding of how a really great article should be written. While reading El Greco I came across a nice timeline template. Since there is a written timeline on Einar Jolin in Liljevalchs I thought it would be nice to have this as a similar timeline in the article. So I have converted it to Einar. The Liljevalchs timeline ends at 1957 so I have added to it from the other books. It is in my sandbox and I guess I just have to move it to {{Template:Timeline of Einar Jolin's life}} in order to use it in the article. Or...?? Anyhow, I was wondering if you would be kind enough to take a look at the first draft in the sandbox? At your convenience, of cause. - W.carter ( talk) 21:45, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
Well, I'm not an Editor yet..."But I've learned so much." Moved the box, it looks better and does not displace any text when opened. From a purely aesthetic point of view it also looks like a "foundation" for the article, a finish line. The two refs in the box "fell out" of the usual reflist so I put in a new reflist for them. They might be redundant, but since the timeline is based on a timeline in a book it might be ok to mention. Or do they simply look misplaced? - W.carter ( talk) 17:29, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I not sure about the usefulness of the Timeline section - as it is evolving, it just seems to be a repetition of the body of the article. (But without references!) I can see value in a timeline section which is a chronological summary and/or cross-reference, but not one that duplicates the article.
What are your thoughts? Pdfpdf ( talk) 10:22, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 19 May 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anubrata Mandal, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that during the panchayat elections of July 2013, Anubrata Mandal publicly encouraged Trinamool Congress supporters to hurl bombs at the police? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anubrata Mandal. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 01:34, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Hallo Philg88, thank you for your graphic to Soma. I translated it into German. But, I've strong doubt that it is right (even if I agree, that the information of the 2 km deep inclined shafts is reported). I think the shafts are 2 km long, but not as deep. I found some literature about the geology of the region and started a talk in German. May be, you want to make a note to the graphics as I did. Anka Friedrich ( talk) 14:19, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello, my friend. Long time. :)
I'm trying to add specs to the article sourced from the image. The middle stuff about 30X32 etc and 60+90+30 blah blah has me totally confused. I have no idea what it means. If you have a mo', a bit of help would be great. Best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 10:00, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Totally trivial point, but I am Cullen328. There is an inactive editor called Cullen, but that's not me. Take care. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 07:15, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 27 May 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article David Olyphant, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that merchant David Olyphant of Olyphant & Co. was responsible for the dispatch of the first American Protestant missionary to China? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David Olyphant. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:13, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 27 May 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Olyphant & Co., which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that merchant David Olyphant of Olyphant & Co. was responsible for the dispatch of the first American Protestant missionary to China? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:13, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88
I noticed that you made an edit to the recent "CAF - development bank of Latin America" to "CAF - Development Bank of Latin America." From what I've seen, they don't capitalize the "D" and the "B" since its not an acronym. However, Latin America is capitalized because it is a proper noun. If you could revert the name to the original move (CAF - development bank of Latin America), I'd really appreciate it.
Many thanks!
SRLM SRLM ( talk) 16:50, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88,
When I click on Google it doesn't take me straight to the article, but instead to a page where it says the article can has been moved. Then, there is the link to the new page with the new name. Is there a way to fix this? This did not occur when the name was changed a first time.
Many thanks!
SRLM ( talk) 18:47, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Philg88, Thank you so much for your help with the HZO article! It looks like another editor reviewed it after your edits, and approved it for publication. Your edits definitely made the difference in it's publication. Thanks again! Cosette Cosettej ( talk) 15:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey Philg, how are you my friend? I need some help. Recently I was improving this article. Now it is in better condition. I have removed unsourced materials, unreliable references added few refs and now it is ready for GA. But it needs your copyediting. The article is very large it took me 2 days to complete my work, hence NO time limit. Please help me. BTW ping me when you reply, nowadays I'm having short-term memory loss :P. Many thanks. Jim Carter ( talk) 11:42, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey Jim Cartar I can see that you're under pressure from some quarters, but what's the issue here? Philg88 ♦ talk 17:35, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for sharing your views. I agree with you and the other opposes. In fact, the absence of responses (before the fiasco) spoke volumes: 'not a lot of support'. Now I know why. The whole idea now seems like creating a new government agency: more red tape, bureaucracy, a back page keystroke magnet, and hard to dismantle if not working out.
My definition of a lousy two days: Futian Checkpoint twice and coming home to this embarrassing fiasco. Anyway, a little red wine and a few episodes of Black Adder should help. :) All the best, Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 03:05, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your contribution to the discussion on MFD Talk, it was recently discovered that this was a duplicate of a more established discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Drafts#Process_for_deleting_drafts. Please reply at the WT:Drafts page if you are still interested in this topic. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 23:05, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello it is me again and i am having trouble with wikipedia can you tell me the steps to message to another user thank you! btw please respond in less than 24 hours Brebre9851 ( talk) 02:51, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi Phil! I notice you've been pretty active sending Hong Kong articles to AfD. There's something disturbing that I noticed about most of those articles, as they seem to be pretty similar in style and format. I suspect some kind of paid advocacy company could be behind them (no substantial proof though). Can you come share your thoughts at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Hong_Kong#Promotional_articles? (I don't know if there's anyone watching that board though...) _dk ( talk) 04:09, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
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10:51, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello my friend! Long time no talk. I have not abandoned my project with the art articles. But, while waiting for some more books before I started I thought I might just expand some Swedish stubs with translations. So far so good, until I translated my favorite place in our little island Ljugarn along with the Template:Gotland County and everything... and found myself in a quagmire of disambigous names, red links and whatnots!! This was partially due to the weird language we speak here, but also because some astronomer with a sense of humor has named a bunch of asteroids after places on the island. See e.g. Mästerby <sigh> Talk about getting sidetracked! But I made the mess so it's only fair that I clean it up. I have fixed Fole, Vamlingbo and am currently working on Kräklingbo. It will take some time before it is all sorted out, but I will get there. The articles will be relatively small, nothing fancy, but they are still better than on SweWiki. I thought about asking you to check them out if you have the time, and I would really appreciate it, but it seems that these small articles have attracted the attention of WikiGnomes, so mabye it's ok anyhow. When this is all done I will certainly get back to my right habitat in the art section.
A small question: When we let Einar Jolin go, did we/you/I submit it for review or was this done automatically giving it the start classification it now has, or is it waiting for review or something? I have been hanging around the Teahouse listening in on other conversations so things are not as foggy now for me as they were back then,^^ so I was just wondering. All the best - W.carter ( talk) 19:13, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
Absolutely no need to apologize for tardiness my friend. It is a healthy sign that you have a life outside the Wiki. Quote You: "there is no deadline" for copyediting the articles I work with. And I really hope you will let me know if you do not feel like CE any of them. I do not take your help for granted. I am still as grateful and awestruck by your skills as the first time you helped me out, and patiently introduced me to the experience of Wiki. I will make the stubs of Gotland my little pet project and turn the red links blue one article at the time, while I work on the next big art article. I know most of the info on Gotland by heart so no great effort to know what to write. Best! - W.carter ( talk) 18:51, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Philg88, I would like to take this moment and thank you for taking part in my RfA that happened a while ago. Although it didn't turn out as I had planned, I certainly appreciated all the comments and suggestions given by you and other people. I will learn from all of them and will hopefully run again someday when I'm fully ready. Thank you. TheGeneralUser ( talk) 13:51, 3 June 2014 (UTC)