Thank you kindly for your generous praise. Can I start calling you Matt Groening now, since you're the animation wiz of WP all of a sudden? =) Cheers. – Scartol • Tok 12:46, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
PS. It's nice to see I'm not the only one getting up insanely early on a Saturday.
Hi. I responded to your query at Wikipedia talk:Featured lists. (You may have given up waiting for input there...) -- Orlady ( talk) 23:34, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
How's it going? Ƿōdenhelm ( talk) 13:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Generally, we try to limit the WT:FL page to questions about the process, and it really isn't the place to ask for reviews. Because of this, I moved the discussion here. -- Scorpion 0422 14:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I've never really worked with lists on Wikipedia before, so I would be grateful for help and advice on bringing
List of scientific writings of Albert Einstein to FL status. The difficult part seems done, as I believe that the list now gives all of his scientific publications, both in books and journals, together with the translations that appeared in his lifetime, in chronological order. Here are some issues that are vexing me:
I'm sure that there's much more needed to bring this list to FL status; any suggestions would be most welcome! :) Willow ( talk) 06:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Just thought I'd leave a note to say how much I enjoyed reading your user page. It has an engaging mixture of personality, content and downright whimsy that I found very charming ;) Looking forward to working with you on the FA-Team! EyeSerene TALK 19:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes it will; I'm really looking forward to working with such quality editors! BTW Willow, you get the Smarties for the most synonyms of 'eye' in a single post :D I like that pic too... This site is pretty good on the A-Team too, and nostalgic for those of us thirty-somethings that, unfortunately, are old enough to remember it first time around :P EyeSerene TALK 21:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC) PS I also tend to overuse emoticons, but no apologies for that!
It sounds like you want a combination of Alice ( Resident Evil), Ripley ( Alien), Peter Jackson's version of Arwen ( LOTR), Lara Croft, and Nigella Lawson ;) Hmmm... actually, if you know anyone like that... Gguy, if you're going to bring up Knight Rider, Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica, the Dukes of Hazzard or Buck Rodgers, I'd appreciate fair warning. I can put some Spandau Ballet on the stereo and dig out my Rubik's Cube to get into the mood ;) EyeSerene TALK 16:57, 5 February 2008 (UTC) Correction: I meant homophones of course, not synonyms, in my earlier comment. If we had a blushing emoticon, I'd be inserting one about now :P
Odd indeed, although I always saw the Smurfs as a role model for Marx's "Communist Manifesto". Witness their simple agrarian existence, living in the woods in a happy worker's collective of the proletariat, with no bourgeoisie to exploit their efforts, and each contributing according to his ability and taking according to his need. Or maybe they were just a cult. EyeSerene TALK 17:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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My RfA | |
Thank you very much, Willow, for your support in my
RfA which I really appreciate. It closed at 83/0/0. I was surprised by the unanimity and will do my best to live up to the new role. All the best, --
ROGER DAVIES
talk
16:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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Congratulations, ROGER! It was abundantly deserved. :) Willow ( talk) 17:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Willow of Wikipedia,
Many thanks for volunteering to join the FA-Team. We now have a first mission, to help the Murder, Madness and Mayhem WikiProject improve twelve articles towards featured article status. These articles are really interesting, and the person in charge of WP:MMM is enthusiastic about our support, so this mission should be a real pleasure. Please watchlist the mission page and the WikiProject page as well as some (or all) of the twelve articles. The students contributing to these articles are all new to Wikipedia, so please be ultra-friendly towards them.
The coordinator for this mission is Wrad ( talk), who may suggest further ways in which you can help. I will provide back-up. In particular, it might be useful for you to indicate which of the twelve articles interest you most (or which ones you are watchlisting) on the mission page.
Thanks again for joining in. I think this will be a lot of fun for all of us, and hopefully we can make it fun for the students too and create a few more featured articles between now and April. Geometry guy 22:01, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey best friend, I know you're all into weaving and whatnot, so I thought I'd let you know about the page I started today on tais, the traditional textile dealie in East Timor. Alas, I don't know much about the world of weaving, so although this is merely FYI and a friendly "Hello, thought this might be of interest", I trust you'll let me know if I've made any boneheaded errors as I flesh it out into something worthy of a DYK. (Right now I'm about halfway done with what I plan to add to it.) Cheers! – Scartol • Tok 15:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello WillowW! I was looking for a peer reviewer in the volunteers list. The articles I write do not attract much interest from the community :-( but I was very fortunate that an enthusiastic Awadewit reviewed my last FA. It got me interested in writing articles again. She is quite busy with her dissertation, of course. Her recommended colleagues like Scartol and Roger Davies are also equally busy from what I see on their talk pages. I saw your name and I noticed you are quite polyvalent (not the chemical meaning, in French it kind of means "jack-of-all-trades"). I was wondering if you might be able to help? My apologies for the dry boring prose though. -- RelHistBuff ( talk) 09:37, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear WillowW, thank you for your message, i hope i am editing this talk page correctly, geez, it all seems so new and strange! OK, i will post my article next week, as soon as i get back from a trade show i am going to (or maybe even while i am there! i dont have events in the evenings...) and i will contact you to let you know. There are a couple of facts and dates i want to check out for sure before i post anything where others can see it. you are right, the article is mostly written. I have written lots of magazine articles and a book, so I am used to the writing part, just not the technical part here, and the Rules! (thanks for permission to ignore them, hahaha) I have a bunch of cool photos to put up, too, they are all over 50 years old, so i think are in the pub domain. thanks for leaving the great piping bouguereau for me! i love it!
If i didnt post this correctly can you let me know? thanks! MB
Hi Willow , uh-oh, i dont know what i did to make my post be in the topsy turvey place (you are very generous to not say "wrong" lol! i guess that is why everyone here luvs you so much! your good attitude!)
i am not even sure if i posted this part right or not.
anyway I went to my dixie page and wow it was magically perfected! YAY! beeeeee-yuuuuuu-teeeee-ful!! i figured out how to look at who fixed it and i saw you there, so i guess you are my magical pixie, thanks! this is pretty cool, how the pixies romp around this wiki-land to prettify everything up, YAY! now i am not sure how to go about finding out how i can use my photos. i have a few photos of the tap dancer dixie. she actually loaned them to me to scan in. i have her permission to use them. the photographers are long dead, most photos are from 1940-1948, and she said she has used these same photos over the years (gave them to whatever newspaper or magazine was interviewing her to use) ... so that seems to be the nature of these photos, to be used to illustrate her. is there some photo copyright whiz here that i can ask? i did post a question but i didnt get a very encouraging answer:
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i am hoping if the photographer is dead, that dixie herself can write a permission for the use of the photos.
whew, this is a big learning curve for me but i am encouraged to see my pretty page!
thanks for your sprinkling of magic pixie dust, *twinkle twinkle*
MimiBelle ( talk) 02:52, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
MORE -( i keep posting to this one because I am not sure how to do it otherwise.) I don't see an edit link to click on for the first portion of my page, the part before Early Life, how do i find that? (It now indicates that Elmhurst is in upstate NY, but actually it is in Queens, so i should fix that.) thanks a million! a zillion! MimiBelle ( talk) 03:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
just a note to say lovely animation and explanation of what a sundial does. Being picky I'd liked it a bit slower, but then a person looking for an understanding of sundials might not sit there and watch. The problem is in my head there are other things that could be added; for example a clock face with corresponding movements to the shadow, or one that shows the created time does not always follow sun time. But now I am being silly. Lovely bit of work, thanks. Edmund Patrick ( confer work) 07:26, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind words. Actually, this evening I plan on adding some side bits about sheep activities and products: including showing/4-H, soap/candlemaking, ram stud service, and "mowing" rentals. I do not work with sheep, I'm a city boy in the heart of Portland, Oregon. I do aspire to keep a flock one day though. As for what's next, I may take another sheep breed article to GA. I may also go on to the Goat article, which is only slightly better than the sheep article was originally. Llama and Alpaca are also possibilities. If there's anything you need or would like to suggest, I'd happily take suggestions. Van Tucky 03:01, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I would second this suggestion. I have myself scratched along and made a few amateurish additions to the prion disease articles here some months ago. But we could certainly use a more complete treatment, and there is lots of information out there on the web. It is completely fascinating I have to admit and we really should have better articles on them here.--
Filll (
talk)
02:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
You were referred by Scartol to give To Kill a Mockingbird a look. Scartol graciously gave me a heap of good suggestions, and I did my best to address them all. If you have the time and opportunity, I would appreciate your input. You can find the peer review here. -- Moni3 ( talk) 02:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Are you an Ann Bannon fan? I just had the immense good fortune to spend a day with her last week at her home. I'm still walking on clouds because of it. Completely smitten. It's also good to meet you. I appreciate your help very much with TKaM, and look forward to working with you in the future! -- Moni3 ( talk) 20:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to get some feedback on the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority article and saw your name on the list of volunteers under the general copyediting section. The peer review has been around for over a week but no one has given any feedback. I am not sure if you are comfortable giving feedback on the article, but I looked over the volunteer list and none of the catagories seemed particularly relevant to the subject of the article. I've also asked relevant wikiprojects for feedback but haven't gotten any from them. If you have time can you give more feedback on the article, particularly with regards to whether or not the article is ready for FA status. Thanks for your help. Biomedeng ( talk) 02:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Willow,
I wanted to thank you for your superb work on Universe. I was one of the judges on the Core Contest and I rated your work as one of the very best. This kind of broad topic (and what could be broader than the entire universe???!) is incredibly hard to write about, yet you managed to do an amazing job with it. Wikipedia is much better for it, and I don't know if you appreciate the fact, but more than 100,000 people have already admired you work. (I also loved your comment on the contest entry page - ""Universe - I'm all-too-apt to take on more than I can manage...") If your article does end up as one of the top five (and there are some other amazing entries, so it's not guaranteed), I hope you'll be willing to graciously accept a prize. Even if you don't, I really want to thank you a lot for your contribution to Wikipedia- it's an example of the community at its best. Walkerma ( talk) 16:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi WillowW, thanks for your instructions! I am now back from my travels, so I played with my article today. I uploaded it (I think!), followed all your instructions and saved it ... I am not exactly sure how to find it again though. The name of the entry is Dixie Roberts. I am not sure what to do next ... I have a bunch of cool photos that go with this article, all of them are promotional photos taken in the 1940's, so I think that any copyright there might have been, is now out of date ... but the wiki photo copyright stuff looks pretty scarey, LOL!
Thanks again! I hope you can see my article ... that is what is supposed to happen, right?
I've just finished the major work on Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999), probably my most important (and exhausting!) Wikipedia work to date. Once it's reached GA status, I'll be soliciting peer reviews, so I thought I'd ask early so you can either put it on your schedule or let me find backups. =) Hope you're well. – Scartol • Tok 01:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Our project has arrived and I'll be stuffing this weekend. I appreciate all of your hard work. I'll take a picture when I'm done, so you can see it. Thanks again! Awadewit | talk 04:47, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Aw Willow, I wish our paths crossed more often. I see you have a new and improved user page! And just reading your talk page always cheers me up too. I let myself get pulled along unhappy paths of the Wiki far too often, I'm afraid. I've been having fun this week though. Reviewing Moni's work has been a pleasure, reading Emily Dickinson also a delight. Makes me feel like a kid again, you know? And speaking of delights and children, I happened to stumble across this picture on Commons the other day when I was uploading some photos and it amused me greatly. Perhaps it symbolizes me on one of the happier paths? You can be my friend in the hat. But what is the purpose of this expedition, do you imagine?
As for O'Connor, I wish I could share your optimism but I fear her statement "I think for a child's book it does all right" is damning with faint praise, if I've ever heard it :( -- JayHenry ( talk) 07:09, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Willow,
many many thanks for all your help! yes Ciar is really nice! and thanks for connecting me with Durova, I am excited to find out the next steps with the photos! I have some really great ones. Probably I can only use the ones of just her, but I have a really great one of her and Gene Kelly! Also, I suppose that any of the photos that I can’t post on wikipedia, I could put up on a separate site with a link from the wiki to the external site…so thanks SO MUCH for your help, now I’m off to write to Durova! And thanks for being Dixie’s fan! she is having difficulty walking now, has a walker and a wheelchair. But she is a real survivor, has beat cancer two or 3 times! and what a character, LOL! MimiBelle ( talk) 10:12, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, good to hear from you. On the positive side, I have a new inhibitor that works on my current enzyme of interest - so that counts as a very, very good week indeed in the real world! Yours, cheerily, Tim Vickers ( talk) 19:50, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I haven't edited the article on my current enzyme and I won't until the work is published - academic competitors and all that. No, I'm very happy for GLO1 and 2 to get a bit of limelight! Tim Vickers ( talk) 21:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I had a look at the Lactoylglutathione lyase page and the IUBMB enzyme nomenclature database had the reaction wrong! Sheesh. Tim Vickers ( talk) 22:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Actually, you're totally not! I was trying to say that I'm leaving soon, and that I've just about reached the limit of my present knowledge — but not my good humor ;) — and that you should take over. I was really grateful that you fixed all those mistakes and gave me new insights! :D The T. brucei thing was an extra cool mystery; maybe there's a super-secret second pathway for detoxifying methylglyoxal in the trypanosomes? What happens if you get rid of GLO1 in other organisms; can they live without it? Waltzing off to dancing, Willow ( talk) 01:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
That is lucky — I think the humanities majors are going to be jealous that scientists need to write only one page a month. ;)
I read this morning in an antique paper that there's another detoxification pathway for methylglyoxal, one that uses aldose reductase? Maybe you could find a way to turn GLO1 on and off? Like, add the inhibitor and see what happens, or maybe damage the enzyme slightly so that it shuts down at high temperatures, but turns back on when you cool it off? It's probably all "old hat" and passé for you, but I'm enjoying learning about methylglyoxal and this enzyme! :) Willow ( talk) 15:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Template:Biochemical family templates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.
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Thanks. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:59, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Willow, Thanks, again, for all of your help on Jimmy McAleer! The FAC languished for more than a month, but I'm happy to report that the article was promoted. Earlier today, I requested a peer review for a piece on movie mogul Jack Warner. The article includes a good deal of information, and it's reasonably engaging, but I know it can be improved. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, as always! Cheers, -- twelsht ( talk) 15:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hennessey, Patrick (
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02:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I've been meaning to post something about Milhist copy-editing for ages and have actually done it here. Is this of interest? It's just an extension of the peer review sign up really. -- ROGER DAVIES talk 05:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Willow, thank you so much for the kind words! That means a great deal coming from someone who was brave enough to take on the universe. :) I know exactly what you mean about the word "opulent"; I was struggling with how to phrase this sentence, so I just took a page from one of the sources, which used exactly that word. I read it and immediately thought, "great word! why didn't I think of that?" It's one of those words, I think, that you read once or twice and immediately forget that it exists. My thesaurus (yellowed and falling apart; I think I've had it since middle school) isn't much help either in this regard, but if you do think of an alternative, please feel free to change it! Take care, María ( habla con migo) 16:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I hope I haven't crushed our mockingbird. It really is an excellent article and just needs that extra little nudge to push it over to FA greatness. :) Awadewit | talk 03:00, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Willow, care to chime in on ideas for Google Summer of Code 2008 (see also the talk page there for context)? Originally I thought I'd only list PBB improvements, but it might also make sense to broaden it to any bio-related computer-assisted projects. Perhaps something relating to the EC pages you and Tim have been working so hard on? Ideas on this or any other topic are welcome... Cheers, AndrewGNF ( talk) 17:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Since you "play so well with others", I was wondering if you would be willing to offer your unique perspective for my Wikimania paper. I am planning on writing a paper on "online collaborative writing" and I was wondering if I could "interview" you over email about your experiences writing on Wikipedia. I'm trying to collect as many perspectives as possible. I would really appreciate it! Awadewit | talk 01:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you kindly for your generous praise. Can I start calling you Matt Groening now, since you're the animation wiz of WP all of a sudden? =) Cheers. – Scartol • Tok 12:46, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
PS. It's nice to see I'm not the only one getting up insanely early on a Saturday.
Hi. I responded to your query at Wikipedia talk:Featured lists. (You may have given up waiting for input there...) -- Orlady ( talk) 23:34, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
How's it going? Ƿōdenhelm ( talk) 13:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Generally, we try to limit the WT:FL page to questions about the process, and it really isn't the place to ask for reviews. Because of this, I moved the discussion here. -- Scorpion 0422 14:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I've never really worked with lists on Wikipedia before, so I would be grateful for help and advice on bringing
List of scientific writings of Albert Einstein to FL status. The difficult part seems done, as I believe that the list now gives all of his scientific publications, both in books and journals, together with the translations that appeared in his lifetime, in chronological order. Here are some issues that are vexing me:
I'm sure that there's much more needed to bring this list to FL status; any suggestions would be most welcome! :) Willow ( talk) 06:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Just thought I'd leave a note to say how much I enjoyed reading your user page. It has an engaging mixture of personality, content and downright whimsy that I found very charming ;) Looking forward to working with you on the FA-Team! EyeSerene TALK 19:21, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes it will; I'm really looking forward to working with such quality editors! BTW Willow, you get the Smarties for the most synonyms of 'eye' in a single post :D I like that pic too... This site is pretty good on the A-Team too, and nostalgic for those of us thirty-somethings that, unfortunately, are old enough to remember it first time around :P EyeSerene TALK 21:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC) PS I also tend to overuse emoticons, but no apologies for that!
It sounds like you want a combination of Alice ( Resident Evil), Ripley ( Alien), Peter Jackson's version of Arwen ( LOTR), Lara Croft, and Nigella Lawson ;) Hmmm... actually, if you know anyone like that... Gguy, if you're going to bring up Knight Rider, Airwolf, Battlestar Galactica, the Dukes of Hazzard or Buck Rodgers, I'd appreciate fair warning. I can put some Spandau Ballet on the stereo and dig out my Rubik's Cube to get into the mood ;) EyeSerene TALK 16:57, 5 February 2008 (UTC) Correction: I meant homophones of course, not synonyms, in my earlier comment. If we had a blushing emoticon, I'd be inserting one about now :P
Odd indeed, although I always saw the Smurfs as a role model for Marx's "Communist Manifesto". Witness their simple agrarian existence, living in the woods in a happy worker's collective of the proletariat, with no bourgeoisie to exploit their efforts, and each contributing according to his ability and taking according to his need. Or maybe they were just a cult. EyeSerene TALK 17:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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My RfA | |
Thank you very much, Willow, for your support in my
RfA which I really appreciate. It closed at 83/0/0. I was surprised by the unanimity and will do my best to live up to the new role. All the best, --
ROGER DAVIES
talk
16:49, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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Congratulations, ROGER! It was abundantly deserved. :) Willow ( talk) 17:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Willow of Wikipedia,
Many thanks for volunteering to join the FA-Team. We now have a first mission, to help the Murder, Madness and Mayhem WikiProject improve twelve articles towards featured article status. These articles are really interesting, and the person in charge of WP:MMM is enthusiastic about our support, so this mission should be a real pleasure. Please watchlist the mission page and the WikiProject page as well as some (or all) of the twelve articles. The students contributing to these articles are all new to Wikipedia, so please be ultra-friendly towards them.
The coordinator for this mission is Wrad ( talk), who may suggest further ways in which you can help. I will provide back-up. In particular, it might be useful for you to indicate which of the twelve articles interest you most (or which ones you are watchlisting) on the mission page.
Thanks again for joining in. I think this will be a lot of fun for all of us, and hopefully we can make it fun for the students too and create a few more featured articles between now and April. Geometry guy 22:01, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
Hey best friend, I know you're all into weaving and whatnot, so I thought I'd let you know about the page I started today on tais, the traditional textile dealie in East Timor. Alas, I don't know much about the world of weaving, so although this is merely FYI and a friendly "Hello, thought this might be of interest", I trust you'll let me know if I've made any boneheaded errors as I flesh it out into something worthy of a DYK. (Right now I'm about halfway done with what I plan to add to it.) Cheers! – Scartol • Tok 15:33, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello WillowW! I was looking for a peer reviewer in the volunteers list. The articles I write do not attract much interest from the community :-( but I was very fortunate that an enthusiastic Awadewit reviewed my last FA. It got me interested in writing articles again. She is quite busy with her dissertation, of course. Her recommended colleagues like Scartol and Roger Davies are also equally busy from what I see on their talk pages. I saw your name and I noticed you are quite polyvalent (not the chemical meaning, in French it kind of means "jack-of-all-trades"). I was wondering if you might be able to help? My apologies for the dry boring prose though. -- RelHistBuff ( talk) 09:37, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear WillowW, thank you for your message, i hope i am editing this talk page correctly, geez, it all seems so new and strange! OK, i will post my article next week, as soon as i get back from a trade show i am going to (or maybe even while i am there! i dont have events in the evenings...) and i will contact you to let you know. There are a couple of facts and dates i want to check out for sure before i post anything where others can see it. you are right, the article is mostly written. I have written lots of magazine articles and a book, so I am used to the writing part, just not the technical part here, and the Rules! (thanks for permission to ignore them, hahaha) I have a bunch of cool photos to put up, too, they are all over 50 years old, so i think are in the pub domain. thanks for leaving the great piping bouguereau for me! i love it!
If i didnt post this correctly can you let me know? thanks! MB
Hi Willow , uh-oh, i dont know what i did to make my post be in the topsy turvey place (you are very generous to not say "wrong" lol! i guess that is why everyone here luvs you so much! your good attitude!)
i am not even sure if i posted this part right or not.
anyway I went to my dixie page and wow it was magically perfected! YAY! beeeeee-yuuuuuu-teeeee-ful!! i figured out how to look at who fixed it and i saw you there, so i guess you are my magical pixie, thanks! this is pretty cool, how the pixies romp around this wiki-land to prettify everything up, YAY! now i am not sure how to go about finding out how i can use my photos. i have a few photos of the tap dancer dixie. she actually loaned them to me to scan in. i have her permission to use them. the photographers are long dead, most photos are from 1940-1948, and she said she has used these same photos over the years (gave them to whatever newspaper or magazine was interviewing her to use) ... so that seems to be the nature of these photos, to be used to illustrate her. is there some photo copyright whiz here that i can ask? i did post a question but i didnt get a very encouraging answer:
[
[1]]
i am hoping if the photographer is dead, that dixie herself can write a permission for the use of the photos.
whew, this is a big learning curve for me but i am encouraged to see my pretty page!
thanks for your sprinkling of magic pixie dust, *twinkle twinkle*
MimiBelle ( talk) 02:52, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
MORE -( i keep posting to this one because I am not sure how to do it otherwise.) I don't see an edit link to click on for the first portion of my page, the part before Early Life, how do i find that? (It now indicates that Elmhurst is in upstate NY, but actually it is in Queens, so i should fix that.) thanks a million! a zillion! MimiBelle ( talk) 03:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
just a note to say lovely animation and explanation of what a sundial does. Being picky I'd liked it a bit slower, but then a person looking for an understanding of sundials might not sit there and watch. The problem is in my head there are other things that could be added; for example a clock face with corresponding movements to the shadow, or one that shows the created time does not always follow sun time. But now I am being silly. Lovely bit of work, thanks. Edmund Patrick ( confer work) 07:26, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your kind words. Actually, this evening I plan on adding some side bits about sheep activities and products: including showing/4-H, soap/candlemaking, ram stud service, and "mowing" rentals. I do not work with sheep, I'm a city boy in the heart of Portland, Oregon. I do aspire to keep a flock one day though. As for what's next, I may take another sheep breed article to GA. I may also go on to the Goat article, which is only slightly better than the sheep article was originally. Llama and Alpaca are also possibilities. If there's anything you need or would like to suggest, I'd happily take suggestions. Van Tucky 03:01, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I would second this suggestion. I have myself scratched along and made a few amateurish additions to the prion disease articles here some months ago. But we could certainly use a more complete treatment, and there is lots of information out there on the web. It is completely fascinating I have to admit and we really should have better articles on them here.--
Filll (
talk)
02:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
You were referred by Scartol to give To Kill a Mockingbird a look. Scartol graciously gave me a heap of good suggestions, and I did my best to address them all. If you have the time and opportunity, I would appreciate your input. You can find the peer review here. -- Moni3 ( talk) 02:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Are you an Ann Bannon fan? I just had the immense good fortune to spend a day with her last week at her home. I'm still walking on clouds because of it. Completely smitten. It's also good to meet you. I appreciate your help very much with TKaM, and look forward to working with you in the future! -- Moni3 ( talk) 20:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I am trying to get some feedback on the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority article and saw your name on the list of volunteers under the general copyediting section. The peer review has been around for over a week but no one has given any feedback. I am not sure if you are comfortable giving feedback on the article, but I looked over the volunteer list and none of the catagories seemed particularly relevant to the subject of the article. I've also asked relevant wikiprojects for feedback but haven't gotten any from them. If you have time can you give more feedback on the article, particularly with regards to whether or not the article is ready for FA status. Thanks for your help. Biomedeng ( talk) 02:51, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Willow,
I wanted to thank you for your superb work on Universe. I was one of the judges on the Core Contest and I rated your work as one of the very best. This kind of broad topic (and what could be broader than the entire universe???!) is incredibly hard to write about, yet you managed to do an amazing job with it. Wikipedia is much better for it, and I don't know if you appreciate the fact, but more than 100,000 people have already admired you work. (I also loved your comment on the contest entry page - ""Universe - I'm all-too-apt to take on more than I can manage...") If your article does end up as one of the top five (and there are some other amazing entries, so it's not guaranteed), I hope you'll be willing to graciously accept a prize. Even if you don't, I really want to thank you a lot for your contribution to Wikipedia- it's an example of the community at its best. Walkerma ( talk) 16:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi WillowW, thanks for your instructions! I am now back from my travels, so I played with my article today. I uploaded it (I think!), followed all your instructions and saved it ... I am not exactly sure how to find it again though. The name of the entry is Dixie Roberts. I am not sure what to do next ... I have a bunch of cool photos that go with this article, all of them are promotional photos taken in the 1940's, so I think that any copyright there might have been, is now out of date ... but the wiki photo copyright stuff looks pretty scarey, LOL!
Thanks again! I hope you can see my article ... that is what is supposed to happen, right?
I've just finished the major work on Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999), probably my most important (and exhausting!) Wikipedia work to date. Once it's reached GA status, I'll be soliciting peer reviews, so I thought I'd ask early so you can either put it on your schedule or let me find backups. =) Hope you're well. – Scartol • Tok 01:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Our project has arrived and I'll be stuffing this weekend. I appreciate all of your hard work. I'll take a picture when I'm done, so you can see it. Thanks again! Awadewit | talk 04:47, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Aw Willow, I wish our paths crossed more often. I see you have a new and improved user page! And just reading your talk page always cheers me up too. I let myself get pulled along unhappy paths of the Wiki far too often, I'm afraid. I've been having fun this week though. Reviewing Moni's work has been a pleasure, reading Emily Dickinson also a delight. Makes me feel like a kid again, you know? And speaking of delights and children, I happened to stumble across this picture on Commons the other day when I was uploading some photos and it amused me greatly. Perhaps it symbolizes me on one of the happier paths? You can be my friend in the hat. But what is the purpose of this expedition, do you imagine?
As for O'Connor, I wish I could share your optimism but I fear her statement "I think for a child's book it does all right" is damning with faint praise, if I've ever heard it :( -- JayHenry ( talk) 07:09, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Willow,
many many thanks for all your help! yes Ciar is really nice! and thanks for connecting me with Durova, I am excited to find out the next steps with the photos! I have some really great ones. Probably I can only use the ones of just her, but I have a really great one of her and Gene Kelly! Also, I suppose that any of the photos that I can’t post on wikipedia, I could put up on a separate site with a link from the wiki to the external site…so thanks SO MUCH for your help, now I’m off to write to Durova! And thanks for being Dixie’s fan! she is having difficulty walking now, has a walker and a wheelchair. But she is a real survivor, has beat cancer two or 3 times! and what a character, LOL! MimiBelle ( talk) 10:12, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, good to hear from you. On the positive side, I have a new inhibitor that works on my current enzyme of interest - so that counts as a very, very good week indeed in the real world! Yours, cheerily, Tim Vickers ( talk) 19:50, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I haven't edited the article on my current enzyme and I won't until the work is published - academic competitors and all that. No, I'm very happy for GLO1 and 2 to get a bit of limelight! Tim Vickers ( talk) 21:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I had a look at the Lactoylglutathione lyase page and the IUBMB enzyme nomenclature database had the reaction wrong! Sheesh. Tim Vickers ( talk) 22:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Actually, you're totally not! I was trying to say that I'm leaving soon, and that I've just about reached the limit of my present knowledge — but not my good humor ;) — and that you should take over. I was really grateful that you fixed all those mistakes and gave me new insights! :D The T. brucei thing was an extra cool mystery; maybe there's a super-secret second pathway for detoxifying methylglyoxal in the trypanosomes? What happens if you get rid of GLO1 in other organisms; can they live without it? Waltzing off to dancing, Willow ( talk) 01:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
That is lucky — I think the humanities majors are going to be jealous that scientists need to write only one page a month. ;)
I read this morning in an antique paper that there's another detoxification pathway for methylglyoxal, one that uses aldose reductase? Maybe you could find a way to turn GLO1 on and off? Like, add the inhibitor and see what happens, or maybe damage the enzyme slightly so that it shuts down at high temperatures, but turns back on when you cool it off? It's probably all "old hat" and passé for you, but I'm enjoying learning about methylglyoxal and this enzyme! :) Willow ( talk) 15:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:59, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Willow, Thanks, again, for all of your help on Jimmy McAleer! The FAC languished for more than a month, but I'm happy to report that the article was promoted. Earlier today, I requested a peer review for a piece on movie mogul Jack Warner. The article includes a good deal of information, and it's reasonably engaging, but I know it can be improved. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, as always! Cheers, -- twelsht ( talk) 15:37, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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I've been meaning to post something about Milhist copy-editing for ages and have actually done it here. Is this of interest? It's just an extension of the peer review sign up really. -- ROGER DAVIES talk 05:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Willow, thank you so much for the kind words! That means a great deal coming from someone who was brave enough to take on the universe. :) I know exactly what you mean about the word "opulent"; I was struggling with how to phrase this sentence, so I just took a page from one of the sources, which used exactly that word. I read it and immediately thought, "great word! why didn't I think of that?" It's one of those words, I think, that you read once or twice and immediately forget that it exists. My thesaurus (yellowed and falling apart; I think I've had it since middle school) isn't much help either in this regard, but if you do think of an alternative, please feel free to change it! Take care, María ( habla con migo) 16:16, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I hope I haven't crushed our mockingbird. It really is an excellent article and just needs that extra little nudge to push it over to FA greatness. :) Awadewit | talk 03:00, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Willow, care to chime in on ideas for Google Summer of Code 2008 (see also the talk page there for context)? Originally I thought I'd only list PBB improvements, but it might also make sense to broaden it to any bio-related computer-assisted projects. Perhaps something relating to the EC pages you and Tim have been working so hard on? Ideas on this or any other topic are welcome... Cheers, AndrewGNF ( talk) 17:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Since you "play so well with others", I was wondering if you would be willing to offer your unique perspective for my Wikimania paper. I am planning on writing a paper on "online collaborative writing" and I was wondering if I could "interview" you over email about your experiences writing on Wikipedia. I'm trying to collect as many perspectives as possible. I would really appreciate it! Awadewit | talk 01:45, 27 February 2008 (UTC)