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I hope you don't mind that I edited your sandbox article, just this once. By the way, if you think there might be an English Wikipedia article Konstnärsförbundets skola some day, you can use ill template, {{ill}}, like this: {{ill|sv|Konstnärsförbundets skola}}, which results in: Konstnärsförbundets skola. The sv link will automatically stop displaying when the English article is created. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 20:38, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
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OH MY (almost inappropriate curse word)! Thank you! This was totally unexpected and I am floating on a little happy cloud right now. - W.carter ( talk) 13:55, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Libraries are dangerous places! They contain way too much information. So, lots of new facts and heaps of references. I might have overdone it but it is easy to trim away. I was a bit unsure of how to do the references. It looked messy if I had every book page linked, so I settled for just the first. Some books were previously just additional reading but are now in the bibliography section.
Turns out that the picture of Jolin used in the artist box is from a data base at the Stockholm City Digital museum along with two other pictures. So I used the same template to upload them on Wiki Commons. It worked, but somehow they ended up at the Swedish section. Since they exist and can be used I put them in the article. They are of Jolin but also of his paintings, so I think it's ok.
The library resulted in some new paragraphs and a new section. Some of the facts are "extended facts" (is that what it's called?) and might not be 100% relevant to the article, but you get some insight into art life in Stockholm at the beginning of the 20th century through them. And they are referenced. And yes, I know that the ref about Lisbeth Salander is not exactly relevant to the article, but it's a fun fact and ties in with other articles. I'm open to objections...
The section about the quality of his work declining might seem cruel, but since it is a fact I think it should be mentioned. I was unsure of how to write about the daughters. Right now the text is repeating facts, but the facts seems valid in both places.
This has been a marathon edit so I'm sure I 've missed a lot of things... I will return to the article when I'm rested and see what I can find. - W.carter ( talk) 23:09, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed on your userpage you mentioned that you wished it to be more common for translations from Swedish to be improved by native English speakers.
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@ Philg88: Sorry about the confusion! I had already put a box with {{Translated|sv|Einar Jolin}} on the talk page the same way I was instructed to do by the info box at Erik Boheman. But Einar does not contain anything from the Boheman translation. Boheman is simply mentioned in the new facts I put in at Einar, and that's how I found the article and just translated it for fun.
So, you had put a Boheman box on Einar, a bot moved it to Einar talk page and I removed it since it does not belong there.
The question at the Teahouse was where I should put the date of the complete translation (i.e. the version before you and I started to edit it and put all of our stuff there) as suggested by Rich Farmbrough in the sentences above. Do you have any idea were such information should be placed? - W.carter ( talk) 08:16, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: Thanks a lot! I will try it out. And, I'm not even going to try to say something in Chinese.^^ I will use it on other articles as well. Today I'm home with a busted knee (I will get my crutches tomorrow and be mobile once again), and it hurts too much to be able to concentrate on the new big article. So to keep me from going nuts I've just translated some minor stub articles from the Swedish portal. Maybe I'll revisit them some day, but right now I'm just expanding them with the Swedish articles as per the notice at the portal. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 18:32, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
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@ Schoolskater:Aw... This makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over. - W.carter ( talk) 14:14, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey Kompis, I'm just checking after you left a message mentioning me on another editor's talk page re the review for Einar. What he is talking about is the New Page Patrol thing that I mentioned on my talk page a while ago, not the GA review. I thought I'd mention it in case you thought the latter was in progress - it isn't as far as I can see and sadly I can't do it because I'm too involved. Best, Philg88 ♦ talk 15:37, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Mr. Carter, I would like you to do me a great favor. I need to know if this Gryta Church is important, read notable, in your country and culture. Besides, I am translating the info from the Swedish Wikipedia to the English one, something which might be worth having your expertise in the subject, once Swedish is your language. Also, any other reference to the corresponding article would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your efforts on this crucial matter. Your friend, Krenakarore TK 23:52, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Krenakarore: I am so sorry, it seems I have given you some bad links above. I started to search for more information about the church, and things just didn't add up. It turns out there are two Gryta Kyrka! One in Önsta (the one with all the activity today), and one in Örsundsbro (the one in your article with the paintings). They are so similar to search engines that even the Swedish Church's website confuses them. I really apologize for not spotting this sooner. Just wanted to let you know as soon as I realized my mistake. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 16:16, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Krenakarore: Just one more thing popped up in my mind. The bells. Maybe they should be written the Great Bell and the Small Bell. In Swedish bells are treated like "people" since they have "voices", and Storklockan and Lillklockan are acutally the names of the bells, something the Swedish editor overlooked. The prefix Lill- is a prefix used for young and beloved persons. Lill-Anna means "My little beloved Anna". It is the same use as the Japanese -chan (Kiki, Kiki-chan) or Spanish -ito, -ita (Carmen, Carmencita or Manuel, Manuelito). As far as I know English does not have this kind of addendum. Stor- (big, great, main) has the same meaning as "great" in Alexandre the Great. Just wanted to explain. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 08:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Krenakarore: @ Yakikaki: So it all worked out for the best. Like I said, I have no great knowledge of churches but I knew about the bells from a song. :) And since I understand that Krenakarore is music-minded I'll just mention it here. Storklockan and Lillklockan are rather common names for bells, and they are mentioned in the 18th century song by Carl Michael Bellman about a funeral, Fredmans epistel n:o 81 part 3, 1:st line. The Swedish group Imperiet has done the best version of it if you are interested. - W.carter ( talk) 19:29, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
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@ Philg88: Thank you so much for your help! Yes, Kina is Swedish for China. A word that might someday be useful for you.:) Sometimes I just get all cross eyed when translating! And I seem to have an alternative case of tourettes when it comes to the word "see". In Swedish it is the same word, but with just one "e". I have no problem handling long and complicated words, but "see" always gets me in trouble.(and to/too) Arrghh! Anyway, thanks a lot. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 16:10, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: Yes we all have a past. It is nice to finally get the language flowing better. It's always easier when you feel more comfortable in your surroundings. I'm more used to translating from English to Swedish, but some of the English got stuck in my head along the way. (For more info see the User:Rhododendrites talk page, section Bunge if you are interested.) Enjoy your first week as Wikipedias #1 editor. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 21:20, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Ok, skulle du vilja nu hjälpa mig att ta reda på vilken av de här har blivit publicerad i Bland tomtar och troll? I så fall, om det kan bli 4 till, kan vi lägga till en rad till till den delen av gallerian. Annars får vi lösa det på något annat sätt.. Hafspajen ( talk) 15:00, 18 June 2014 (UTC) Enligt detta; Project Runeberg Hafspajen ( talk) 15:07, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
They always have the google trans on... well, I would have been easyer for me, and yes, I do talk with Swedish with Swedish editors ... time to time. Ah, books - very good. Trevlig Midsommar! Hafspajen ( talk) 15:16, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
I thought I'd post this here in case you miss it if I add it to my last reply on my talk page. There is no corresponding Swedish article for Swan maiden so maybe that might be a nice sub-project for you! Philg88 ♦ talk 15:17, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88:@ Krenakarore: ...and anyone else interested in this little project. I just wanted to check on the notability of JB, since that was also an issue. And also to see how "important" it might to really expand the article. I did some very un-scientific research, i.e. I Googled the names of some on some other (kind of) male artists who also died young ( "With Quotation Marks" ) and came away with this little list. And yes, there are of cause other people with the same names, but it gives some sort of guidance. The numbers are number of hits on Google. Cheers, - W.carter ( talk) 19:23, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88:Hello my friend, time to bug you again.^^ I knew that some of the tales had been translated into English, I have made gifts of the to my British friends and colleagues a number of time, but it turns out that they have actually been translated into no less than 10 languages. Which is probably why 33 Wikipedias have articles on JB. Anyway this got me thinking (I think it's called hubris), is there any chance that an article like this could be developed into a FA? Or is this classification reserved for bigger, better, more noted, whatever subjects? One would have thought that the Swe Wiki would have an FA on JB, but that Wikipedia is, as you by now know, very, very different from the class act of Eng Wiki. (Sidebar: I recently checked out the community there, since I have never been active there, and the Teahouse and the Village pump is used to discuss spelling and grammar! The Horror!) I would really appreciate your honest opinion. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 14:02, 23 June 2014 (UTC) Btw, I put the English books topmost in the Further reading section rather than the Swedish. - W.carter ( talk) 14:03, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
...there are still a lot of churches on Gotland without articles, as you probably have noticed, and several of them have nice Swedish articles, so if you feel like translating there's a nice idea! ;) I'm busy this weekend but I think it would be nice to be able to link all the entries on List of churches on Gotland eventually, and will go back to that next week, I think. A lot of them are very interesting and beautiful, and would make great DYKs. And eventually, it would be nice to try to make a featured list out of the list. Anyhow, just a perhaps wild idea! Now I have to run again... Cheers! Yakikaki ( talk) 14:45, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Yakikaki: A very nice article.^^ And such a lovely place. If you are interested [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]. Here on the island we view all of these as one unit. Roma abbey is so much more than just the abbey. Bye for now, :) - W.carter ( talk) 23:17, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
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@ Yakikaki:@ Philg88:Hello my friends! Right now it's work, work, work, but I decided to do something "useful" as well. So I brought my camera along today and made a nuisance of myself. This resulted in a new category on the Wiki Commons. These are my pictures. I don't think anyone has beaten me to it. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 23:13, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey, it's me from the teahouse again. Thought it was better to continue this away from the general discussion as it's getting pretty detailed. So I want to add another reference to an archived site: https://web.archive.org/web/20120223011013/http://web1.eng.coventry.ac.uk/moka/ I see that in the cite web template there are two fields URL and Archive URL. But, and I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, it's still not completely clear to me what goes in each. I'll use this one as an example. My first thought would be to use "http://web1.eng.coventry.ac.uk/moka/" as the URL and "https://web.archive.org/web/20120223011013/http://web1.eng.coventry.ac.uk/moka/" as the archive URL. But my concern is that if I do that when a user goes to check out the ref they will first click on the non archived link and it won't work. It seems like what you did was to use the archived link for both the URL and the Archive URL (but I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly). That avoids the problem of having a dead link in the reference but then I don't see why we would use both to begin with. -- MadScientistX11 ( talk) 16:03, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: Hej Kompis! By now I have cramped all the facts I can find at the moment into John Bauer (illustrator). I've searched the Internet for anything useful and read all the available books. There is one biography from 1935 that eludes me, but I've placed requests at several online antiquarian shops, so it might turn up later in time for the article to be reviewed for FA :). (That is still my dream and we will want to have something new to present to the readers then, won't we.^^) I have copy edited the article as much as I can, but there are some things in the style I use that I am unsure of if they are "allowed" in an encyclopedia. The refs have been made more specific. One of them might not meet the standards since it is a blog. It is the main museum for JB's art, the Jömköpings museum, which is trying to be "modern" and publish some of the research in a blog rather than on the normal website. (Good Greif!) There are also some refs to some facts that were in the article before I started working on it. I cannot vouch for them 100%, but they seems valid so I've kept them. The Wikipedia:Good article criteria have been read and I hope I understood them correctly. There are a couple of passages where the text might be tainted by the exuberant language in some of the books. I've tried to tone it down and factyfied (is that even a word?) it as much as I can without loosing the inherent meaning of the text. In the middle of all this, another editor found out that the title About Gnomes and Trolls is written with capitals in the English translation and moved that article to a new place. I hope I've found and corrected all the places where the title is mentioned. All in all I'm ready to let go of the text for now and turn it over to some more able editors. So, where do we go from here? Do I start with placing it in line at the Copy Writhers Guild? Best, - W.carter ( talk) 08:57, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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@ Philg88: Thank you for your patience. You are too kind answering.:) I did not mean to say that all articles must be written in perfect language, I only thought that maybe my skills were way of and that I was contributing to the deterioration of this eminent encyclopedia by writing here in a language that I do not fully comprehend. But I've decided put such thoughts aside and just concentrate on getting the facts right since that is what counts the most. Right now I'm off to the library to collect some books that will hopefully set the Götheborg (ship) right. Cheers, - W.carter ( talk) 07:44, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
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I hope you don't mind that I edited your sandbox article, just this once. By the way, if you think there might be an English Wikipedia article Konstnärsförbundets skola some day, you can use ill template, {{ill}}, like this: {{ill|sv|Konstnärsförbundets skola}}, which results in: Konstnärsförbundets skola. The sv link will automatically stop displaying when the English article is created. — Anomalocaris ( talk) 20:38, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
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OH MY (almost inappropriate curse word)! Thank you! This was totally unexpected and I am floating on a little happy cloud right now. - W.carter ( talk) 13:55, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
Libraries are dangerous places! They contain way too much information. So, lots of new facts and heaps of references. I might have overdone it but it is easy to trim away. I was a bit unsure of how to do the references. It looked messy if I had every book page linked, so I settled for just the first. Some books were previously just additional reading but are now in the bibliography section.
Turns out that the picture of Jolin used in the artist box is from a data base at the Stockholm City Digital museum along with two other pictures. So I used the same template to upload them on Wiki Commons. It worked, but somehow they ended up at the Swedish section. Since they exist and can be used I put them in the article. They are of Jolin but also of his paintings, so I think it's ok.
The library resulted in some new paragraphs and a new section. Some of the facts are "extended facts" (is that what it's called?) and might not be 100% relevant to the article, but you get some insight into art life in Stockholm at the beginning of the 20th century through them. And they are referenced. And yes, I know that the ref about Lisbeth Salander is not exactly relevant to the article, but it's a fun fact and ties in with other articles. I'm open to objections...
The section about the quality of his work declining might seem cruel, but since it is a fact I think it should be mentioned. I was unsure of how to write about the daughters. Right now the text is repeating facts, but the facts seems valid in both places.
This has been a marathon edit so I'm sure I 've missed a lot of things... I will return to the article when I'm rested and see what I can find. - W.carter ( talk) 23:09, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed on your userpage you mentioned that you wished it to be more common for translations from Swedish to be improved by native English speakers.
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@ Philg88: Sorry about the confusion! I had already put a box with {{Translated|sv|Einar Jolin}} on the talk page the same way I was instructed to do by the info box at Erik Boheman. But Einar does not contain anything from the Boheman translation. Boheman is simply mentioned in the new facts I put in at Einar, and that's how I found the article and just translated it for fun.
So, you had put a Boheman box on Einar, a bot moved it to Einar talk page and I removed it since it does not belong there.
The question at the Teahouse was where I should put the date of the complete translation (i.e. the version before you and I started to edit it and put all of our stuff there) as suggested by Rich Farmbrough in the sentences above. Do you have any idea were such information should be placed? - W.carter ( talk) 08:16, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: Thanks a lot! I will try it out. And, I'm not even going to try to say something in Chinese.^^ I will use it on other articles as well. Today I'm home with a busted knee (I will get my crutches tomorrow and be mobile once again), and it hurts too much to be able to concentrate on the new big article. So to keep me from going nuts I've just translated some minor stub articles from the Swedish portal. Maybe I'll revisit them some day, but right now I'm just expanding them with the Swedish articles as per the notice at the portal. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 18:32, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
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@ Mz7:WOW! Overwhelming! - W.carter ( talk) 14:07, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
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@ Schoolskater:Aw... This makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over. - W.carter ( talk) 14:14, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey Kompis, I'm just checking after you left a message mentioning me on another editor's talk page re the review for Einar. What he is talking about is the New Page Patrol thing that I mentioned on my talk page a while ago, not the GA review. I thought I'd mention it in case you thought the latter was in progress - it isn't as far as I can see and sadly I can't do it because I'm too involved. Best, Philg88 ♦ talk 15:37, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Mr. Carter, I would like you to do me a great favor. I need to know if this Gryta Church is important, read notable, in your country and culture. Besides, I am translating the info from the Swedish Wikipedia to the English one, something which might be worth having your expertise in the subject, once Swedish is your language. Also, any other reference to the corresponding article would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your efforts on this crucial matter. Your friend, Krenakarore TK 23:52, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Krenakarore: I am so sorry, it seems I have given you some bad links above. I started to search for more information about the church, and things just didn't add up. It turns out there are two Gryta Kyrka! One in Önsta (the one with all the activity today), and one in Örsundsbro (the one in your article with the paintings). They are so similar to search engines that even the Swedish Church's website confuses them. I really apologize for not spotting this sooner. Just wanted to let you know as soon as I realized my mistake. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 16:16, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Krenakarore: Just one more thing popped up in my mind. The bells. Maybe they should be written the Great Bell and the Small Bell. In Swedish bells are treated like "people" since they have "voices", and Storklockan and Lillklockan are acutally the names of the bells, something the Swedish editor overlooked. The prefix Lill- is a prefix used for young and beloved persons. Lill-Anna means "My little beloved Anna". It is the same use as the Japanese -chan (Kiki, Kiki-chan) or Spanish -ito, -ita (Carmen, Carmencita or Manuel, Manuelito). As far as I know English does not have this kind of addendum. Stor- (big, great, main) has the same meaning as "great" in Alexandre the Great. Just wanted to explain. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 08:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Krenakarore: @ Yakikaki: So it all worked out for the best. Like I said, I have no great knowledge of churches but I knew about the bells from a song. :) And since I understand that Krenakarore is music-minded I'll just mention it here. Storklockan and Lillklockan are rather common names for bells, and they are mentioned in the 18th century song by Carl Michael Bellman about a funeral, Fredmans epistel n:o 81 part 3, 1:st line. The Swedish group Imperiet has done the best version of it if you are interested. - W.carter ( talk) 19:29, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
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@ Philg88: Thank you so much for your help! Yes, Kina is Swedish for China. A word that might someday be useful for you.:) Sometimes I just get all cross eyed when translating! And I seem to have an alternative case of tourettes when it comes to the word "see". In Swedish it is the same word, but with just one "e". I have no problem handling long and complicated words, but "see" always gets me in trouble.(and to/too) Arrghh! Anyway, thanks a lot. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 16:10, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: Yes we all have a past. It is nice to finally get the language flowing better. It's always easier when you feel more comfortable in your surroundings. I'm more used to translating from English to Swedish, but some of the English got stuck in my head along the way. (For more info see the User:Rhododendrites talk page, section Bunge if you are interested.) Enjoy your first week as Wikipedias #1 editor. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 21:20, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Ok, skulle du vilja nu hjälpa mig att ta reda på vilken av de här har blivit publicerad i Bland tomtar och troll? I så fall, om det kan bli 4 till, kan vi lägga till en rad till till den delen av gallerian. Annars får vi lösa det på något annat sätt.. Hafspajen ( talk) 15:00, 18 June 2014 (UTC) Enligt detta; Project Runeberg Hafspajen ( talk) 15:07, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
They always have the google trans on... well, I would have been easyer for me, and yes, I do talk with Swedish with Swedish editors ... time to time. Ah, books - very good. Trevlig Midsommar! Hafspajen ( talk) 15:16, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
I thought I'd post this here in case you miss it if I add it to my last reply on my talk page. There is no corresponding Swedish article for Swan maiden so maybe that might be a nice sub-project for you! Philg88 ♦ talk 15:17, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88:@ Krenakarore: ...and anyone else interested in this little project. I just wanted to check on the notability of JB, since that was also an issue. And also to see how "important" it might to really expand the article. I did some very un-scientific research, i.e. I Googled the names of some on some other (kind of) male artists who also died young ( "With Quotation Marks" ) and came away with this little list. And yes, there are of cause other people with the same names, but it gives some sort of guidance. The numbers are number of hits on Google. Cheers, - W.carter ( talk) 19:23, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88:Hello my friend, time to bug you again.^^ I knew that some of the tales had been translated into English, I have made gifts of the to my British friends and colleagues a number of time, but it turns out that they have actually been translated into no less than 10 languages. Which is probably why 33 Wikipedias have articles on JB. Anyway this got me thinking (I think it's called hubris), is there any chance that an article like this could be developed into a FA? Or is this classification reserved for bigger, better, more noted, whatever subjects? One would have thought that the Swe Wiki would have an FA on JB, but that Wikipedia is, as you by now know, very, very different from the class act of Eng Wiki. (Sidebar: I recently checked out the community there, since I have never been active there, and the Teahouse and the Village pump is used to discuss spelling and grammar! The Horror!) I would really appreciate your honest opinion. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 14:02, 23 June 2014 (UTC) Btw, I put the English books topmost in the Further reading section rather than the Swedish. - W.carter ( talk) 14:03, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
...there are still a lot of churches on Gotland without articles, as you probably have noticed, and several of them have nice Swedish articles, so if you feel like translating there's a nice idea! ;) I'm busy this weekend but I think it would be nice to be able to link all the entries on List of churches on Gotland eventually, and will go back to that next week, I think. A lot of them are very interesting and beautiful, and would make great DYKs. And eventually, it would be nice to try to make a featured list out of the list. Anyhow, just a perhaps wild idea! Now I have to run again... Cheers! Yakikaki ( talk) 14:45, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Yakikaki: A very nice article.^^ And such a lovely place. If you are interested [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]. Here on the island we view all of these as one unit. Roma abbey is so much more than just the abbey. Bye for now, :) - W.carter ( talk) 23:17, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
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Gatoclass ( talk) 00:03, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
@ Yakikaki:@ Philg88:Hello my friends! Right now it's work, work, work, but I decided to do something "useful" as well. So I brought my camera along today and made a nuisance of myself. This resulted in a new category on the Wiki Commons. These are my pictures. I don't think anyone has beaten me to it. Best, - W.carter ( talk) 23:13, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Hey, it's me from the teahouse again. Thought it was better to continue this away from the general discussion as it's getting pretty detailed. So I want to add another reference to an archived site: https://web.archive.org/web/20120223011013/http://web1.eng.coventry.ac.uk/moka/ I see that in the cite web template there are two fields URL and Archive URL. But, and I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, it's still not completely clear to me what goes in each. I'll use this one as an example. My first thought would be to use "http://web1.eng.coventry.ac.uk/moka/" as the URL and "https://web.archive.org/web/20120223011013/http://web1.eng.coventry.ac.uk/moka/" as the archive URL. But my concern is that if I do that when a user goes to check out the ref they will first click on the non archived link and it won't work. It seems like what you did was to use the archived link for both the URL and the Archive URL (but I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly). That avoids the problem of having a dead link in the reference but then I don't see why we would use both to begin with. -- MadScientistX11 ( talk) 16:03, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
@ Philg88: Hej Kompis! By now I have cramped all the facts I can find at the moment into John Bauer (illustrator). I've searched the Internet for anything useful and read all the available books. There is one biography from 1935 that eludes me, but I've placed requests at several online antiquarian shops, so it might turn up later in time for the article to be reviewed for FA :). (That is still my dream and we will want to have something new to present to the readers then, won't we.^^) I have copy edited the article as much as I can, but there are some things in the style I use that I am unsure of if they are "allowed" in an encyclopedia. The refs have been made more specific. One of them might not meet the standards since it is a blog. It is the main museum for JB's art, the Jömköpings museum, which is trying to be "modern" and publish some of the research in a blog rather than on the normal website. (Good Greif!) There are also some refs to some facts that were in the article before I started working on it. I cannot vouch for them 100%, but they seems valid so I've kept them. The Wikipedia:Good article criteria have been read and I hope I understood them correctly. There are a couple of passages where the text might be tainted by the exuberant language in some of the books. I've tried to tone it down and factyfied (is that even a word?) it as much as I can without loosing the inherent meaning of the text. In the middle of all this, another editor found out that the title About Gnomes and Trolls is written with capitals in the English translation and moved that article to a new place. I hope I've found and corrected all the places where the title is mentioned. All in all I'm ready to let go of the text for now and turn it over to some more able editors. So, where do we go from here? Do I start with placing it in line at the Copy Writhers Guild? Best, - W.carter ( talk) 08:57, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
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Philg88: On second thought, never mind. If you read something here before, forget about it! I was just being insecure and silly. You have far better things to do. Sorry for bothering you.
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@ Philg88: Thank you for your patience. You are too kind answering.:) I did not mean to say that all articles must be written in perfect language, I only thought that maybe my skills were way of and that I was contributing to the deterioration of this eminent encyclopedia by writing here in a language that I do not fully comprehend. But I've decided put such thoughts aside and just concentrate on getting the facts right since that is what counts the most. Right now I'm off to the library to collect some books that will hopefully set the Götheborg (ship) right. Cheers, - W.carter ( talk) 07:44, 8 July 2014 (UTC)