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Precious

Two years!

-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:38, 8 July 2021 (UTC)+

You ok? I got more info and references if we need. Also scan of Decca label, what do you think?

Chart performance

@ Tillywilly17: I'm just fine. Note that if you want to use the label image in the article, you'll have to upload it (to Wikipedia itself, not to Commons) as a non-free image—like File:Coasters searchin3.jpg, for instance. I've never uploaded a non-free image myself, but I believe the procedure for doing so at Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard is fairly intuitive. You may find Template:Album rationale and Template:Non-free use rationale album cover of use (they're for more than just pictorial album covers). Deor ( talk) 17:45, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

I just did one successfully for Pistol Packin' Mama. Check out the page, I did an overhaul. Next, I am going to make some new pages for records/songs that I feel should have one. And no stub pages allowed for me! haha. Tillywilly17 ( talk) 18:07, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

I will upload the scan for Paper Doll and we'll see how it goes. It looks good.

Sweet, all done. I need to supply references for the chart table. Tillywilly17 ( talk) 18:35, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

One problem at bottom Categories: 1915 songs 1943 songs <<< should be 1942 songs, not 1943.

OK, I changed the category with this edit. Deor ( talk) 20:33, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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Boss, I need your help on fixing up this page, no rush at all. This song was recorded in 1931, but it is designated as 1935. I re-formatted page, correctly I believe, but I am still green at this level, so take a quick look. I made some command decisions on what to keep and what to remove. Getting ready to upload pic as final major edit. Thanks Tillywilly17 ( talk) 07:01, 8 August 2021 (UTC) Please remove stub notice if ok

@ Tillywilly17: I did a bit of copyediting on the text (didn't copyedit or check the refs). I think that the last two sentences in the "Lyrics" section, which are speculative and interpretive, could use a ref. Also note that the infobox refers to a release on the Melotone label that is mentioned nowhere in the text, which may be confusing to readers. (The infobox also seems to include details related to both the 1932 and later releases, which may be confusing. Perhaps confining the infobox info to just the 1932 release might be preferable.) Deor ( talk) 16:14, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the great observations, I was thinking about deleting the Lyrics section, it is weak. Before I started, it was there along with 1935 stuff. I will edit add about Meltone Tillywilly17 ( talk) 15:55, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

You ought to check the talk page yourself. The nationality discussion has been reopened. A currently open question is, can someone provide a citation that Doyle considered himself British rather than Scottish or Irish, Consensus can change, and I haven't seen you participate in that new discussion. Skyerise ( talk) 22:06, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@ Skyerise: Until a different consensus is established, the article should continue to call him British. I therefore reverted the IP's edit changing his nationality to Scottish. Deor ( talk) 22:13, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

I looked through the archives, it's a really weak consensus. He self-identified as Irish in his autobiography. Skyerise ( talk) 22:17, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

MOS:CONTEXTBIO says that the lead should specify the "country, region, or territory, where the person is a citizen, national, or permanent resident; or, if the person is notable mainly for past events, where the person was a citizen, national, or permanent resident when the person became notable". It specifically says that ethnicity "should generally not be in the lead", so whether or not Doyle considered himself ethnically Irish is immaterial. His life began in Scotland, and his literary work was produced in England, so that "British" seems the best designation. Deor ( talk) 22:30, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

You reverted the changes I made asking for a source. This is the source https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/danvillecityillinois Doughboy1918 ( talk) 14:09, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

[[ping|Doughboy1918}} When you update the population, you need to replace the reference currently in the |population_footnotes= field of the infobox with an updated one (and likewise wherever else in the article you change the figures). Deor ( talk) 15:58, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

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Administrator changes

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Miscellaneous

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Hi! Six years ago, Witta (Widsith) was speedy deleted as duplicate of Witta, son of Wecta. Now, I know absolutely nothing about Germanic folklore, but Witta, son of Wecta is defined in its article as a ruler of the Juti, whereas Witta of the Widsith (according to that article) was a king of the Suebi (different tribes, different regions). It looks like they're different people. Or if it's actually the same person, then maybe the deleted title could be turned into a redirect instead? – Uanfala (talk) 00:00, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

@ Uanfala: Witta (Widsith) wasn't speedily deleted as a duplicate, exactly. It was deleted as an article with no content, consisting as it did of no text whatever but containing a "reference" that was a complete copy of the Witta, son of Wecta article. As far as I know, no one's made a persuasive case for the identification "Widsith"'s Witta with any known historical or legendary person, so I don't think a redirect would be in order, to say nothing of a separate article. (I think a case could be made that the article on the son of Wecta could also be dispensed with, since it lacks secondary sources.) Deor ( talk) 16:09, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you for your comment in your edit summary "[quote] doesn't make it a 'comedic' film". I think this is something we should thresh out on the TALK page, and seek consensus. I made an entry there a couple of days ago in which I invited editors to discuss it before I added the word "comedic" it.

Well, I'm not going to edit-war, but I'm posting my reasons which I think justify calling the movie "comedic", and I invite you to join for discussion and consensus-seeking.

Thank you.

Best wishes, HandsomeMrToad ( talk) 10:34, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

UPDATE: I've changed my mind; instead of going to the TALK page, I'll rephrase my characterization in a way which will better reflect the line in the source-article. No worries! But if you disagree with my edit, let's TALK about it. HandsomeMrToad ( talk) 10:42, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

FURTHER UPDATE: Hello again. I am describing another source which I think justifies "comedic". My explanation is on the North by Northwest TALK page. I'll wait a few days for some debate and consensus-seeking before I actually enter the edit. I look forward to reading your input and suggestions, on the TALK page.

Best wishes, - HandsomeMrToad ( talk) 22:23, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

I recently made a change to the article on “elegiac couplet” to mark the long vowels with macrons (overbars) in a sample of Latin verse. You reverted this change on the grounds that it was unnecessary and confusing, but I don’t think it’s either.

Regarding confusion, macrons are virtually universally used nowadays in Latin instruction, so most readers will be familiar with them. For those who aren’t, I added a link to the relevant Wikipedia article.

Regarding necessity, the distinction between long and short vowels is necessary for understanding Classical Latin meter, which relies on a contrast between long and short syllables ( https://inter-versiculos.classics.lsa.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Irby-Basic-Meter-Guide.pdf). Without the macrons, it is impossible to tell which vowels are long without already having memorized them.

As a result, I think the change should be included, since it makes a meaningful contribution to the content without any significant downsides. Mhartl ( talk) 16:44, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@ Mhartl: Macrons are indeed used in Latin instruction, but they basically never appear in Latin texts intended for proficient readers of Latin. Moreover, you added them in that section but not to the Latin quotations elsewhere in the article. By "potentially confusing" I meant that their presence might cause the casual reader to wonder such things as "Why is the last syllable of faciam long, even though the a is a short vowel" (since the article does not explain the difference between syllable length and vowel length), to say nothing of "Why is the ō in amo a long syllable, whereas the ō in nescio is a short one." All in all, I don't see that marking the vowel lengths is particularly helpful when what the meter involves is syllable lengths. Deor ( talk) 18:07, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I certainly agree that macrons have not historically been included in more advanced texts, but there have been robust efforts in recent years to change this. In particular, there are many quite advanced modern Latinists who are challenging the notion that macrons are only for beginners.

I appreciate your perspective on poetic meter, but I think marking long vowels is especially important for understanding this case. While it’s true that questions about long-by-position might thereby be raised, as it currently stands there’s no way for the uninitiated to know why any of the syllables are long. Moreover, I think even many “proficient” readers of Latin do not in fact know where all the long vowels are, and so could not, e.g., correctly recite a poem like Horace’s Ode 37 without macrons.

I’m OK with keeping the reversion for some of the other reasons you mentioned (such as consistency throughout the article), but I also think it would be good for Wikipedia’s editors to consider moving in the direction of marking long vowels more often. They are exceptionally useful for beginners and are more useful for advanced students than is commonly recognized.

Mhartl ( talk) 18:02, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Help. You protected a page Extreme Obscenity to prevent disruptive editing. The page was deleted yesterday by an editor who then blocked the author of the page for disruptive editing. The editor in question does not appear to have contributed to the page or deletion discussion and ended it early after 2 days without giving an explanation. Are you able to rollback and extended protect the page from further vandalism? Regards 86.172.30.101 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 07:49, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

No. An explanation was given in the close of of the deletion discussion, and any objection to the close is a matter for WP:DRV. I semiprotected the page to prevent the repeated and illegitimate removal of the AfD tag (by someone with a Scottish IP address similar to yours), not to prevent what you seem to mean by "vandalism". You've already been turned down at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion, and I don't think a DRV has much chance of overturning the deletion, so my advice is that you drop the matter; if you make a pest of yourself, you're likely to be blocked as well. Deor ( talk) 16:34, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks for your correction of coords for Statue of Hockey Player, of the works listed on the List of public art in Newark, New Jersey. The latter article includes locations coords for all items on the list. Some however are not exact or precies as they could be. If you felt inclined to correct them it would be improvement to article, and of course appreciated. Djflem ( talk) 15:26, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

@ Djflem: I've done the ones I could. If something—like the George Floyd statue—is too new to show up on a Google street view, I have no way of knowing its exact loaction. (Don't spread it around, but some of my work with coordinates technically constitutes original research, probably.) Deor ( talk) 19:21, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Looks great, thanks. Djflem ( talk) 22:11, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

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I had no idea how to put in those references in the discussion about Shelley H. Metzenbaum, so I have now learned something. Thanks. DaffodilOcean ( talk) 19:40, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

@ DaffodilOcean: It's not really a big deal in a unified discussion like an AfD, but if no template is used, the refs are automatically listed at the bottom of a page, which can be confusing in a talk page that contains multiple threads. I was just being persnickety in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shelley H. Metzenbaum. Deor ( talk) 00:12, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

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List of public art in Jersey City, New Jersey has coordinates which are mostly correct, but could be more precise, if you were up to it. Thanks Djflem ( talk) 02:47, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

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