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I decided to go with your suggestion and merge (and redirect) Minnie Island to Gardner Lake. Same with Hopemead since a bunch of filled expansion and other proposals litter its history that failed to cause any development. So Gardner lake is a 3 in 1. Not exactly my style, but I put it up for GAN as this is the best overview I think can be done. Four separate pages just wouldn't make since when they are all on or within Gardner Lake. I nominated it for GAN. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 19:02, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
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I was hoping you could help me to resolve an issue I have on my first GA review at Talk:Sig_Mejdal/GA1 (relevant links regarding my questions are on the GA review page). The problem is that I have sources conflicting on which degrees were earned for the subject of a BLP. Two sources say that Sig has 2 master's engineering degrees, but a Sports Illustrated article referenced for another fact says that he earned two non-engineering degrees instead (degrees which I've never heard of): Master's in Cognitive Psychology and Master's in Operation Research. I've read the policy on Wikipedia:Conflicting_sources and, all things being equal (including reliability), it recommends keeping both. This leads to a number of problems:
Thanks for any help. Vile-eight ( talk) 01:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ritchie. No problem with this edit, but did you realise that that gives the ref a CS1 error? (Not my area of expertise, but that's why I'd tweaked it in the first place...) Cheers! — sparklism hey! 15:07, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you again so much for your work getting the article to GA. Now I'm wondering: what do you think would need to be done to make it FA? I've never gone to that step before. Popcornduff ( talk) 16:54, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi. I wasn't aware of this race, but I have looked at the homepage of the organizers. It's a so-called "Challenge Race" for (usually) veteran cars, with different stages, including transport stages, car orienteering stages, skill stages and reliability tests. I don't think it's directly related to the Drammen Spiral. Maybe it was at one time, and just kept the name. I've never heard of it, and I've lived in Drammen for 25 years in two periods. Cashewnøtt ( talk) 13:07, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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I decided to go with your suggestion and merge (and redirect) Minnie Island to Gardner Lake. Same with Hopemead since a bunch of filled expansion and other proposals litter its history that failed to cause any development. So Gardner lake is a 3 in 1. Not exactly my style, but I put it up for GAN as this is the best overview I think can be done. Four separate pages just wouldn't make since when they are all on or within Gardner Lake. I nominated it for GAN. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 19:02, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
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I was hoping you could help me to resolve an issue I have on my first GA review at Talk:Sig_Mejdal/GA1 (relevant links regarding my questions are on the GA review page). The problem is that I have sources conflicting on which degrees were earned for the subject of a BLP. Two sources say that Sig has 2 master's engineering degrees, but a Sports Illustrated article referenced for another fact says that he earned two non-engineering degrees instead (degrees which I've never heard of): Master's in Cognitive Psychology and Master's in Operation Research. I've read the policy on Wikipedia:Conflicting_sources and, all things being equal (including reliability), it recommends keeping both. This leads to a number of problems:
Thanks for any help. Vile-eight ( talk) 01:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Ritchie. No problem with this edit, but did you realise that that gives the ref a CS1 error? (Not my area of expertise, but that's why I'd tweaked it in the first place...) Cheers! — sparklism hey! 15:07, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey! Good work with the Who. I was wondering if you wanted to work with me on Turning Pete Townshend into a GA or maybe even FA. Cheers! ~ EDDY ( talk/ contribs)~ 15:31, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you again so much for your work getting the article to GA. Now I'm wondering: what do you think would need to be done to make it FA? I've never gone to that step before. Popcornduff ( talk) 16:54, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello again! I've just done my first ever GA review: Talk:Rounds_(album)/GA1
The Wiki guidelines recommend you ask a more experienced reviewer to check out your review and make sure you haven't gone mad. As we've been corresponding recently I thought I'd ask you first, but if you don't want to, that's totally fine, there are a billion others I can ask instead! Thanks. Popcornduff ( talk) 22:17, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I wasn't aware of this race, but I have looked at the homepage of the organizers. It's a so-called "Challenge Race" for (usually) veteran cars, with different stages, including transport stages, car orienteering stages, skill stages and reliability tests. I don't think it's directly related to the Drammen Spiral. Maybe it was at one time, and just kept the name. I've never heard of it, and I've lived in Drammen for 25 years in two periods. Cashewnøtt ( talk) 13:07, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
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Sorry, missed your earlier message. Sure, it's on my watchlist, why not let Drmies or another admin or somebody know though? He's proving disruptive now. List of schools in Ashford, Kent might be more appropriate if there is some sourced info summarising each one though but it's trivial by itself and clearly has no place in the article.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:38, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Ritchie333 I saw your note on Drammen Spiral and the norwegian article was one I had my eye on to translate when time permits (haha). I am a moderately frequent traveller to Norway and can read Norwegian to a moderate standard, so I'm happy to collaborate with you on it but may not be able to assign a lot of time just now as I've only edited a handful of times since the summer. What do you have in mind with Norwegian sources, do you have some you want looked at for verification, or worked into some English content for the article, or did you need some finding? Baldy Bill ( sharpen the razor| see my reflection) 22:22, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
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I hope this isn't asking too much, or a GA faux pas, but could you see your way clear to jumping the queue and taking up the GAR for Widener Library when you feel up to it? I have this idea (possibly hopeless) of bringing it to FA in time for it to run as TFA in June, which will be the library's 100 anniversary. There will be quite a celebration at that time, and a TFA would be a wonderful addition to that. I've never done an FA or even GA (and frankly what I've seen from afar is a little frightening) but I recognize that GA is a kind of proof-of-concept for FA, and I believe I can relay on you to be frank yet sensible. EEng ( talk) 10:44, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for all you have done to help me with the Boat Race articles. Tonight we hit a landmark, over 50% of the race articles are now Good or Featured Articles, which is a monumental achievement considering that none of the articles even existed eight months ago. Thanks again. The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC) |