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An endash is similar to a hyphen, except an endash is slightly longer than a hyphen, and shorter than an emdash. I just find the Template:Ndash is a simple way of producing the endash that can be used in date ranges. Bcperson89 ( talk) 01:49, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Why is it you feel it absolutely necessary to undo/revert my edit's when they are perfectly okay???, Please explain that one to me if you can't give an explination that means you're just another Wikipedia - " Jobsworth" — mmmm "Jobsworth" that about sums you up, Anyway you keep undoing my edits as mark my words I'll keep on undoing them so in hindsight you're wasting your time Pal
Regards — 217.28.3.166 ( talk) 08:09, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Dearest Rothorpe no Beefheart though your ciriculum vitae of copywriting is extensive and probably unparalled in the Online English speaking universe and despite the fact that I made a couple of boo-boo's which also needed to be removed "these were" whether the musicians are implicit or not in the previous line does not read well. "Drawn from" would also sound better. I bet you are a Spartan minimalist. Masterknighted ( talk) 01:27, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Dear Rothorpe/Archive 2,
I am inviting you to join the Miles Davis WikiProject. I found you, Rothorpe/Archive 2, on several revision history statistics of articles related with "Miles Davis", and therefore I am of the opinion, that you should be one of those members of this WikiProject I recently created. I hope you will approve my invitation.
Regards,
"regard" is fine with me. I hope it doesn't get changed back to "recognize" again. Regards, 207.161.207.162 ( talk) 01:59, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome
Rothorpe.
Not being fully 'wiki-literate' yet, I've made a few tech blunders in Beefheart - but I'm hopefully getting there.
Any guidance welcome.
Like all newbies, I wanna fly before I've learned to walk ;)
Webcor (
talk)
22:42, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Placed 5 chunky new paras into
The Magic Band section of
Captain Beefheart
This in an effort to
a) point out the difference between "His" Magic Band & "The" Magic Band in recorded titles (which confuses many a discographer)
b) Touch upon social attitude of the era - band style, teen angst, etc.
c) introduce the singles releases, with their ins-and-outs broadly covered, leading to other band member associations & labels.
(When quoting album titles should I adopt italics?)
Meanwhile, trust it's not too much of a dog's dinner grammatically, regards
Webcor (
talk)
15:51, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Don't agree my comments (edited in Beefheart) were 'speculative' - the whole thrust of "Captain Beefheart Vs The Grunt People" was based around the duo watching sci-fi movies - and Beefheart's "Metal Man Has Won His Wings" was read from a sci-fi comic, right down to the "Wheet Wheet". Zappa bought fairground materials to build a rocket inside the studio for the opera. The group were affected by the Vietnam war - their parents were living in trailer homes - they were a disaffected youth in a desert environ - their fathers were working in aero-space plants - the Moon landing was an inspiration etc, etc.
Webcor (
talk)
04:09, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I see you reverted my edit. I suppose you're right as he was only a British subject for a year even though he spent a large portion of his life there. Just wanted to say thanks for the 'good faith' mention in your revert, that goes a long way here in Wikipedia, some people revert without the good manners to explain why or accept that the previous editor was trying to improve the project. Have a good day! Zarcadia ( talk) 23:41, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
I fixed a typo in the name of this Molesworth character. Why did you unfix it? I'm afraid I don't have the book here, or I could send you a screen shot; but here's a blog article where someone gets it right: " http://www.bmj.com/content/317/7174/1720.2.extract". Please restore my fix asap! Thanks, --- Jrcoxhead ( talk) 22:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
It didn't take long. Just F3 and Google Chrome. I'm not an expert in copyediting like yourself, though. Sir Richardson ( talk) 14:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Well, all new browsers take getting used to , but I've found that it's worth it. I went onto Firefox, tried Chrome and never went back. I particularly like how you can Google search with the URL bar. Sir Richardson ( talk) 17:46, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Also, I now own John French's Beefheart biography and have been reading it quite fervently. Its only faults are sometimes egregious typographical and spelling errors. I'm quite astounded at how severe much of the abuse of the band members was during the creation of Trout Mask Replica. I'll seek to improve the article with referencing once I finish at (and when procrastination doesn't get the better of me). Sir Richardson ( talk) 20:50, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
I hope you do not think I am being too pedantic but the name of the group/band is "The Shadows". (refer Tony's drum kit on the The Shadows first album) Hence in the text they should be referred to as The Shadows. In a similar vein there was much discussion re the Small Faces or The Small Faces or Small Faces. A proof point was the band's web site where they are called Small Faces. Hence I went to see Liverpool play, I went to see Small Faces play and I also went to see The Shadows play. At the end of the day an encyclopedia must be 100% accurate so over to you to revert your edit relating to The Shadows. Again apologies for being very pedantic (at this late hour!) Boatman ( talk) 19:40, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your helpful edits to the new article I created, at Richard Smith (silent film director). Much appreciated! ;) Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 17:58, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Denis Colin is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denis Colin until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Jay Σεβαστός discuss 23:10, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, just got back after a long Wikibreak and am picking things up again. BTW I was surprised to see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sightings of Madeleine McCann. TerriersFan ( talk) 22:30, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rothorpe.
For two years the above page has had continual deletions from various people.
I am a former member of the band.As are the others on the page.Will you please leave it alone. We had for about 6 months nobody tampering with it.Not saying we are perfect wikis but the continual deletions are not warranted.It is a point of verification.
Thanks Respectfully Eamonn — Preceding unsigned comment added by EamonnMK ( talk • contribs) 19:51, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
You have some nerve saying the edit makes no difference and the reverting it - especially when you first revert was of a perfectly grammatical sentence which you misread by stopping at a comma as if it were a period. I disagree with the value of all of the last edit, and formally warn you not to violate wp3rr. μηδείς ( talk) 01:26, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
{{wp-3rr}}
Appreciate the copy edit of Roy Orbison. -- Moni3 ( talk) 00:35, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
I do strongly believe that WP:COMMONNAME and the consensus shown already at Talk:Murder_of_Amanda_Dowler should be enough to move the page from "Amanda" to "Milly", but an editor has objected. I don't like her threat of edit warring (in fact, not a threat, she's already done a move) so I've protected the page for a while.
I propose to wait and see if more editors chime in at the talk page - I hope they do - and then find an uninvolved admin to close the discussion and if necessary move the page, in a few days. -- Dweller ( talk) 09:14, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
It's up to you now; I gotta run. Good luck, Drmies ( talk) 23:48, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Your ce at MoMK but also your good work in this regard on other articles is much appreciated. Thought I had to voice this again and encourage you to keep up the good work. Cheers, TMCk ( talk) 20:29, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Rothorpe, we need your help deciding wether or not to change 'Creation Science' to 'Creation science'. Here's the link: [2] Wekn reven i susej eht ( talk) 15:07, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
I feel certain recent additions have disrupted the quality of the article. I think it needs to be reverted to an earlier stage while retaining a few that are positive. Sir Richardson ( talk) 19:45, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
RE: "[I]t was the comma that was wrong". After reading the paragraph again, I now realize that you're right! Excuse me for that error -- I had a brain fart! (Note to self: Drink at least two mugs of strong, black coffee before editing Wikipedia articles!) IVAN3MAN ( talk) 02:19, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing,
Scott Peterson, has been proposed for a
merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going
here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.
pablo
13:54, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, dear Rothorpe. Say...Since you are doing such careful work with Stiff Records, maybe you would like to come and give the article at 415 Records a once-over before its debut in mainspace. Four One Five Records was Stiff's American counterpart (started a couple of years later) and Stiff is referenced in the article. The predecessor article is currently being processed at WP:copyright problems, due its having been composed of a copypaste of the entire of one source. I found the copyvio & started a fresh article on the talk/temp page that wikipedia provides for such instances (using the original source as a horse, of course). =D I think it is ready for another set of eyes, if you've got a minute. Cheers! duff 22:33, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for you help on Bohumir Kryl. I've made numerous changes, and still plan adding material. However, I would welcome and appreciate your further review. Thanks! 78.26 ( talk) 02:45, 20 July 2011 (UTC) |
Gene McDaniels and you got it right. Thanks. I have not been able to verify that he did die today. it sort of rings true, but.... an obit would be nice. Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 20:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Ah yes, Gene Vincent. Wonder when Gene Pitney was born? Let's add a link and find out. Carptrash ( talk) 18:28, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Rothorpe, your help is appreciated, but would you please be so helpful to include summaries with your edits, especially when these are nigh on invisible in the diffs? Thanks. Superp ( talk) 07:18, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, this image has a #15 in the top left corner. Before I take it out I thought that I better check that it is not significant! (The uploader is blocked so cannot be consulted). Best wishes. TerriersFan ( talk) 16:20, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I guess that you are watching this place but, in case that you aren't, you may wish to know it has been substantially expanded from, mainly, a Portuguese language source {ref4). TerriersFan ( talk) 21:53, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your improvements to the comment I added regarding Sibelius. It is of course true that one does not usually count Kullervo as his first symphony, but it has been suggested that one should – my source is Hurwitz, 'Sibelius Orchestral Works: An Owner's Manual'. Actually he counts the Lemminkäinen Legends as the second, making the Seventh the ninth, which if anything fits the 'curse' paradigm more closely. I thought the Lemminkäinen point of view would be too controversial; clearly I underestimated the potential controversy...
Keep up the good work!
Neurotip ( talk) 13:53, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to say I was sorry that you got short shrift there, even though I do not think I agreed with you. As a wiki-gnome myself that is the sort of change that I might make and I never think we get as much credit as we should for these microscopic changes. However, hanging hyphens are not that good a change in my opinion as they don't genuinely clarify meaning or prevent ambiguity, and so look over-fussy. Anyway, I came here to suggest raising this at one of our MoS pages, though I am not sure which one that would be. Thanks for all your good work, and take care. -- John ( talk) 08:41, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Please be careful not to violate WP:V. If a books title is verifiably "Hipocrite; killer of a man," stating the title is "Hipocrite," is not acceptable behavior. Discuss on talk. Hipocrite ( talk) 17:53, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 21:30, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi - I commented on the page Kanatas Vasilis. I think it lacks notability and violates WP:NOTPROMOTION. I'm not sure of the procedure for new articles like this - should it be proposed for deletion or submitted to an admin to assess? (I'm assuming you know more than I do). Cheers -- Zac Δ talk! 16:13, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Nice to meet you! Deb ( talk) 20:15, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Courtney Love has been going through a lengthy Good Article review, and is now close to being listed. There now needs to be a bit of tidying up done - trimming some excessive detail, and a bit of copy-editing, as well as building up the lead a bit more. This is one of the top viewed articles on Wikipedia and is on an important yet complex subject. Any assistance, even if only to proof read one of the sections, would be much appreciated. SilkTork ✔Tea time 17:25, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Why are there double standards for the MoMK article? When I translate something (faithfully)[edit 454415965], it is promptly reverted. When I take up the matter on the talk page, you (the guy with the max contribs) keep quiet. When I follow the same principle on which my edit was reverted, you promptly revert me. I object to this WP:BULLYING and WP:NOEDIT. Tinpisa ( talk) 21:13, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for removing the label from the lead paragraph. I've been pointing out to people for years that much of Maurice Ravel's music was far from Impressionist. :) 118.100.77.30 ( talk) 07:32, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
I noticed (with gratitude) your corrections of my typos in the new article on Fauré's String Quartet. I wonder if I can interest you in the peer review of another, more substantial, Fauré article that I put up for PR a few days ago? Quite understand if you haven't time or inclination, but any comments you felt moved to make would be greatly appreciated. Tim riley ( talk) 19:35, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
If you look at biography articles of others who have been given non-English names at birth (take Deepak Chopra and Kal Parekh for just two examples), you will see it is accepted practice and quite appropriate for the cyrillic to be in the opening (biography summary) paragraph. Lhb1239 ( talk) 19:31, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Look at the source not the book. Written by Lee Ritenour and mentions him as among the greats. If Hendrix and Clapton can have "greatest guitarist" in their intro then so can Joe Pass who is like the jazz equivalent.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Your edits would be even more useful when seen on a watchlist if you would use preview to avoid multiple trivial edits and provide an edit summary. Thank you. -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 03:23, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you don't mind in me messaging you. I am keen to drum up some comments and opinions on the above article due to its FAC. So far, it has only received one lot of comments regarding improvements, which have now all been addressed. I notice that we tend to edit the same kind of articles and I would greatly appreciate having your expertise and opinion on it. If you can review the article and comment here then that would be very much appriciated. Also, If you know of anyone else who might be interested in doing so then please share the request. All the best -- Cassianto ( talk) 18:18, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Well I've been trying to update this article, but your simultaneous edits have created conflict issues. It would have helped it you could have held off your mass copy-edits until I was done. I guess in future I'll have to post a warning template. Regards, RJH ( talk) 18:24, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to make the article Amrullah Saleh a good article. User:Jezhotwells made an informal assessment and concluded: Prose: The article is not quite up to the "reasonably well written" standard. Needs a good copy-edit to improve spelling, grammar, word choice. This needs to be done by a third-party with an excellent command of written English. Since I saw you on the article history improving the language, would you have any interest doing that? JCAla ( talk) 17:16, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey, thank you very much for going through the whole article and correcting it. Will notice you when I nominate it, okay?!
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
For your immediate willingness to help improving the English language of articles and your valuable copyediting work. JCAla ( talk) 08:32, 5 January 2012 (UTC) |
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 |
An endash is similar to a hyphen, except an endash is slightly longer than a hyphen, and shorter than an emdash. I just find the Template:Ndash is a simple way of producing the endash that can be used in date ranges. Bcperson89 ( talk) 01:49, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Why is it you feel it absolutely necessary to undo/revert my edit's when they are perfectly okay???, Please explain that one to me if you can't give an explination that means you're just another Wikipedia - " Jobsworth" — mmmm "Jobsworth" that about sums you up, Anyway you keep undoing my edits as mark my words I'll keep on undoing them so in hindsight you're wasting your time Pal
Regards — 217.28.3.166 ( talk) 08:09, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Dearest Rothorpe no Beefheart though your ciriculum vitae of copywriting is extensive and probably unparalled in the Online English speaking universe and despite the fact that I made a couple of boo-boo's which also needed to be removed "these were" whether the musicians are implicit or not in the previous line does not read well. "Drawn from" would also sound better. I bet you are a Spartan minimalist. Masterknighted ( talk) 01:27, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
Dear Rothorpe/Archive 2,
I am inviting you to join the Miles Davis WikiProject. I found you, Rothorpe/Archive 2, on several revision history statistics of articles related with "Miles Davis", and therefore I am of the opinion, that you should be one of those members of this WikiProject I recently created. I hope you will approve my invitation.
Regards,
"regard" is fine with me. I hope it doesn't get changed back to "recognize" again. Regards, 207.161.207.162 ( talk) 01:59, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the welcome
Rothorpe.
Not being fully 'wiki-literate' yet, I've made a few tech blunders in Beefheart - but I'm hopefully getting there.
Any guidance welcome.
Like all newbies, I wanna fly before I've learned to walk ;)
Webcor (
talk)
22:42, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
Placed 5 chunky new paras into
The Magic Band section of
Captain Beefheart
This in an effort to
a) point out the difference between "His" Magic Band & "The" Magic Band in recorded titles (which confuses many a discographer)
b) Touch upon social attitude of the era - band style, teen angst, etc.
c) introduce the singles releases, with their ins-and-outs broadly covered, leading to other band member associations & labels.
(When quoting album titles should I adopt italics?)
Meanwhile, trust it's not too much of a dog's dinner grammatically, regards
Webcor (
talk)
15:51, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
Don't agree my comments (edited in Beefheart) were 'speculative' - the whole thrust of "Captain Beefheart Vs The Grunt People" was based around the duo watching sci-fi movies - and Beefheart's "Metal Man Has Won His Wings" was read from a sci-fi comic, right down to the "Wheet Wheet". Zappa bought fairground materials to build a rocket inside the studio for the opera. The group were affected by the Vietnam war - their parents were living in trailer homes - they were a disaffected youth in a desert environ - their fathers were working in aero-space plants - the Moon landing was an inspiration etc, etc.
Webcor (
talk)
04:09, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I see you reverted my edit. I suppose you're right as he was only a British subject for a year even though he spent a large portion of his life there. Just wanted to say thanks for the 'good faith' mention in your revert, that goes a long way here in Wikipedia, some people revert without the good manners to explain why or accept that the previous editor was trying to improve the project. Have a good day! Zarcadia ( talk) 23:41, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
I fixed a typo in the name of this Molesworth character. Why did you unfix it? I'm afraid I don't have the book here, or I could send you a screen shot; but here's a blog article where someone gets it right: " http://www.bmj.com/content/317/7174/1720.2.extract". Please restore my fix asap! Thanks, --- Jrcoxhead ( talk) 22:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
It didn't take long. Just F3 and Google Chrome. I'm not an expert in copyediting like yourself, though. Sir Richardson ( talk) 14:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Well, all new browsers take getting used to , but I've found that it's worth it. I went onto Firefox, tried Chrome and never went back. I particularly like how you can Google search with the URL bar. Sir Richardson ( talk) 17:46, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Also, I now own John French's Beefheart biography and have been reading it quite fervently. Its only faults are sometimes egregious typographical and spelling errors. I'm quite astounded at how severe much of the abuse of the band members was during the creation of Trout Mask Replica. I'll seek to improve the article with referencing once I finish at (and when procrastination doesn't get the better of me). Sir Richardson ( talk) 20:50, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
I hope you do not think I am being too pedantic but the name of the group/band is "The Shadows". (refer Tony's drum kit on the The Shadows first album) Hence in the text they should be referred to as The Shadows. In a similar vein there was much discussion re the Small Faces or The Small Faces or Small Faces. A proof point was the band's web site where they are called Small Faces. Hence I went to see Liverpool play, I went to see Small Faces play and I also went to see The Shadows play. At the end of the day an encyclopedia must be 100% accurate so over to you to revert your edit relating to The Shadows. Again apologies for being very pedantic (at this late hour!) Boatman ( talk) 19:40, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your helpful edits to the new article I created, at Richard Smith (silent film director). Much appreciated! ;) Cheers, -- Cirt ( talk) 17:58, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Denis Colin is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denis Colin until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Jay Σεβαστός discuss 23:10, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, just got back after a long Wikibreak and am picking things up again. BTW I was surprised to see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sightings of Madeleine McCann. TerriersFan ( talk) 22:30, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Rothorpe.
For two years the above page has had continual deletions from various people.
I am a former member of the band.As are the others on the page.Will you please leave it alone. We had for about 6 months nobody tampering with it.Not saying we are perfect wikis but the continual deletions are not warranted.It is a point of verification.
Thanks Respectfully Eamonn — Preceding unsigned comment added by EamonnMK ( talk • contribs) 19:51, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
You have some nerve saying the edit makes no difference and the reverting it - especially when you first revert was of a perfectly grammatical sentence which you misread by stopping at a comma as if it were a period. I disagree with the value of all of the last edit, and formally warn you not to violate wp3rr. μηδείς ( talk) 01:26, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
{{wp-3rr}}
Appreciate the copy edit of Roy Orbison. -- Moni3 ( talk) 00:35, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
I do strongly believe that WP:COMMONNAME and the consensus shown already at Talk:Murder_of_Amanda_Dowler should be enough to move the page from "Amanda" to "Milly", but an editor has objected. I don't like her threat of edit warring (in fact, not a threat, she's already done a move) so I've protected the page for a while.
I propose to wait and see if more editors chime in at the talk page - I hope they do - and then find an uninvolved admin to close the discussion and if necessary move the page, in a few days. -- Dweller ( talk) 09:14, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
It's up to you now; I gotta run. Good luck, Drmies ( talk) 23:48, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Your ce at MoMK but also your good work in this regard on other articles is much appreciated. Thought I had to voice this again and encourage you to keep up the good work. Cheers, TMCk ( talk) 20:29, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Rothorpe, we need your help deciding wether or not to change 'Creation Science' to 'Creation science'. Here's the link: [2] Wekn reven i susej eht ( talk) 15:07, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
I feel certain recent additions have disrupted the quality of the article. I think it needs to be reverted to an earlier stage while retaining a few that are positive. Sir Richardson ( talk) 19:45, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
RE: "[I]t was the comma that was wrong". After reading the paragraph again, I now realize that you're right! Excuse me for that error -- I had a brain fart! (Note to self: Drink at least two mugs of strong, black coffee before editing Wikipedia articles!) IVAN3MAN ( talk) 02:19, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing,
Scott Peterson, has been proposed for a
merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going
here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.
pablo
13:54, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello, dear Rothorpe. Say...Since you are doing such careful work with Stiff Records, maybe you would like to come and give the article at 415 Records a once-over before its debut in mainspace. Four One Five Records was Stiff's American counterpart (started a couple of years later) and Stiff is referenced in the article. The predecessor article is currently being processed at WP:copyright problems, due its having been composed of a copypaste of the entire of one source. I found the copyvio & started a fresh article on the talk/temp page that wikipedia provides for such instances (using the original source as a horse, of course). =D I think it is ready for another set of eyes, if you've got a minute. Cheers! duff 22:33, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for you help on Bohumir Kryl. I've made numerous changes, and still plan adding material. However, I would welcome and appreciate your further review. Thanks! 78.26 ( talk) 02:45, 20 July 2011 (UTC) |
Gene McDaniels and you got it right. Thanks. I have not been able to verify that he did die today. it sort of rings true, but.... an obit would be nice. Einar aka Carptrash ( talk) 20:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Ah yes, Gene Vincent. Wonder when Gene Pitney was born? Let's add a link and find out. Carptrash ( talk) 18:28, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Rothorpe, your help is appreciated, but would you please be so helpful to include summaries with your edits, especially when these are nigh on invisible in the diffs? Thanks. Superp ( talk) 07:18, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, this image has a #15 in the top left corner. Before I take it out I thought that I better check that it is not significant! (The uploader is blocked so cannot be consulted). Best wishes. TerriersFan ( talk) 16:20, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I guess that you are watching this place but, in case that you aren't, you may wish to know it has been substantially expanded from, mainly, a Portuguese language source {ref4). TerriersFan ( talk) 21:53, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your improvements to the comment I added regarding Sibelius. It is of course true that one does not usually count Kullervo as his first symphony, but it has been suggested that one should – my source is Hurwitz, 'Sibelius Orchestral Works: An Owner's Manual'. Actually he counts the Lemminkäinen Legends as the second, making the Seventh the ninth, which if anything fits the 'curse' paradigm more closely. I thought the Lemminkäinen point of view would be too controversial; clearly I underestimated the potential controversy...
Keep up the good work!
Neurotip ( talk) 13:53, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
I just wanted to say I was sorry that you got short shrift there, even though I do not think I agreed with you. As a wiki-gnome myself that is the sort of change that I might make and I never think we get as much credit as we should for these microscopic changes. However, hanging hyphens are not that good a change in my opinion as they don't genuinely clarify meaning or prevent ambiguity, and so look over-fussy. Anyway, I came here to suggest raising this at one of our MoS pages, though I am not sure which one that would be. Thanks for all your good work, and take care. -- John ( talk) 08:41, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Please be careful not to violate WP:V. If a books title is verifiably "Hipocrite; killer of a man," stating the title is "Hipocrite," is not acceptable behavior. Discuss on talk. Hipocrite ( talk) 17:53, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
This is to let you know that an ongoing poll is taking place to move Burma to Myanmar. This note is going out to wikipedia members who have participated in Burma/Myanmar name changing polls in the past. It does not include banned members nor those with only ip addresses. Thank you. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 21:30, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi - I commented on the page Kanatas Vasilis. I think it lacks notability and violates WP:NOTPROMOTION. I'm not sure of the procedure for new articles like this - should it be proposed for deletion or submitted to an admin to assess? (I'm assuming you know more than I do). Cheers -- Zac Δ talk! 16:13, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Nice to meet you! Deb ( talk) 20:15, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Courtney Love has been going through a lengthy Good Article review, and is now close to being listed. There now needs to be a bit of tidying up done - trimming some excessive detail, and a bit of copy-editing, as well as building up the lead a bit more. This is one of the top viewed articles on Wikipedia and is on an important yet complex subject. Any assistance, even if only to proof read one of the sections, would be much appreciated. SilkTork ✔Tea time 17:25, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Why are there double standards for the MoMK article? When I translate something (faithfully)[edit 454415965], it is promptly reverted. When I take up the matter on the talk page, you (the guy with the max contribs) keep quiet. When I follow the same principle on which my edit was reverted, you promptly revert me. I object to this WP:BULLYING and WP:NOEDIT. Tinpisa ( talk) 21:13, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for removing the label from the lead paragraph. I've been pointing out to people for years that much of Maurice Ravel's music was far from Impressionist. :) 118.100.77.30 ( talk) 07:32, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
I noticed (with gratitude) your corrections of my typos in the new article on Fauré's String Quartet. I wonder if I can interest you in the peer review of another, more substantial, Fauré article that I put up for PR a few days ago? Quite understand if you haven't time or inclination, but any comments you felt moved to make would be greatly appreciated. Tim riley ( talk) 19:35, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
If you look at biography articles of others who have been given non-English names at birth (take Deepak Chopra and Kal Parekh for just two examples), you will see it is accepted practice and quite appropriate for the cyrillic to be in the opening (biography summary) paragraph. Lhb1239 ( talk) 19:31, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Look at the source not the book. Written by Lee Ritenour and mentions him as among the greats. If Hendrix and Clapton can have "greatest guitarist" in their intro then so can Joe Pass who is like the jazz equivalent.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:50, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Your edits would be even more useful when seen on a watchlist if you would use preview to avoid multiple trivial edits and provide an edit summary. Thank you. -- Michael Bednarek ( talk) 03:23, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I hope you don't mind in me messaging you. I am keen to drum up some comments and opinions on the above article due to its FAC. So far, it has only received one lot of comments regarding improvements, which have now all been addressed. I notice that we tend to edit the same kind of articles and I would greatly appreciate having your expertise and opinion on it. If you can review the article and comment here then that would be very much appriciated. Also, If you know of anyone else who might be interested in doing so then please share the request. All the best -- Cassianto ( talk) 18:18, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Hello. Well I've been trying to update this article, but your simultaneous edits have created conflict issues. It would have helped it you could have held off your mass copy-edits until I was done. I guess in future I'll have to post a warning template. Regards, RJH ( talk) 18:24, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to make the article Amrullah Saleh a good article. User:Jezhotwells made an informal assessment and concluded: Prose: The article is not quite up to the "reasonably well written" standard. Needs a good copy-edit to improve spelling, grammar, word choice. This needs to be done by a third-party with an excellent command of written English. Since I saw you on the article history improving the language, would you have any interest doing that? JCAla ( talk) 17:16, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Hey, thank you very much for going through the whole article and correcting it. Will notice you when I nominate it, okay?!
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For your immediate willingness to help improving the English language of articles and your valuable copyediting work. JCAla ( talk) 08:32, 5 January 2012 (UTC) |