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I just wanted to say that I had a great time at the 2012 Los Angeles Wicnic, and I hope everybody else there did too. Everybody was warm, friendly and welcoming and I hope to see all of you again next year. JDZeff ( talk) 21:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC) reply

October 26 - FemTech Edit-a-Thon & Roundtable - You are invited!

Everyone is invited to the first FemTech Edit-a-Thon & Roundtable at Claremont Graduate University on October 26 from 3-6 pm. The event will open with a roundtable discussion about feminism and anti-racist technology projects, followed by an edit-a-thon focusing on feminists & women in science. Experienced Wikipedians will be on hand to support new editors. We hope you can join us! Sign up here - see you there! 01:07, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, but no thank you. Not only am I unable to attend (lack of transportation and medical issues) I have absolutely no interest in the topic, being of the wrong gender. JDZeff ( talk) 06:59, 12 October 2012 (UTC) reply

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/LA/SDCC1. RightCowLeftCoast ( talk) 18:16, 18 April 2013 (UTC) reply

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   I added absentmindedly added "{{ Welcome}}" to your empty user page (instead of to this user talk page), without "subst"ing it. Then i added the following:

   And thanks for your commentary contribution at Talk:Slungshot#Another name. I'm creating heavey to implement your suggestion; sorry it has taken so long -- we can use every new contributor, in spite of the growth since i started editing, over a dozen years back!
I think i read you right in deducing the word derives from heave rather than heavy, and is pronounced with its first syllable sounding like "heave", not like the first syl of "heavy"; i'm gonna count on you to fix it if I'm wrong.
-- Jerzy• t 03:24, 5 August 2015 (UTC) reply

Thank you. Back in '72, when I served in the Pacific Fleet, that was the only name ever used for them. Maybe some day I'll find a proper citation and add it to the article. JDZeff ( talk) 23:27, 5 August 2015 (UTC) reply

   And then and a bot came along and subst-ed it (as i should have).
   You're unlikely to be as compulsive as i, and even less likely to feel you've been harmed by having the edit history mucked up (by me, and by the bot that responded to my non-substing) on a page where you are entitled to be the only one editing it. If you prefer the page stay blank, you are free to edit it back to blankness (altho my, the bot's, and your edit would still be reflected on (and readable via) its edit-history page). So if you prefer to be "made whole" by having it be invisible (to anyone but admins, IIRC) that it ever existed (i.e., that anyone has edited the page), i am sure any admin you'd approach would "blank the edit history" by deleting both the existing "revisions" of the page. (I'm not offering to do it myself, bcz IMO you'd be negligent to trust the advice of the offender about what it takes to undo the damage!)
-- Jerzy• t 13:30, 5 August 2015 (UTC) reply

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Hello, I'm Doniago. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Psycho (1960 film), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please review WP:IPCV as well. DonIago ( talk) 02:30, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

You are joking, I hope. The "reliable source" is the novel itself. Do you really think that Wikipedia needs a third-party source for something like that? In case you haven't noticed, Wikipedia only requires citations for potentially controversial material, and I find it hard to believe that anybody would find something like this controversial! JDZeff ( talk) 03:42, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

As I noted in my above comment, please review WP:IPCV as well. For "in popular culture" items you need to provide a secondary source to establish that the pop culture reference is considered significant in some manner. DonIago ( talk) 04:54, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

Even so, if you think that the passage needs a reference, the proper way to handle it was to add a citation needed tag, not delete it. And the scene didn't just have a passing mention of the movie, the movie was important to the murder, and to the book's plot. I'd suggest that you get a copy of the book and read it to see why I felt it worth mentioning. JDZeff ( talk) 05:57, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

You may not like the way I handled it, but there's nothing in policy that prohibits removing material that you wish to challenge, especially newly-added material. If the movie is so important to the book, then it should be easy enough to find a source that discusses it? DonIago ( talk) 13:13, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

Like almost any of the hits on this web search? https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=Psycho+%22Dark+in+Death%22&cat=web&pl=ext-ff&language=english&extVersion=1.3.0 JDZeff ( talk) 17:16, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

I wouldn't say "almost any" as at least one of them is a wiki and several are retail sites, but one of the other sites may suffice. DonIago ( talk) 19:31, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

Yeah; I was thinking of a review from a newspaper or magazine. Certainly not from a blog or a retail site. BTW, you might want to take a look at an earlier novel in the series, Witness in Death. It starts during Opening Night of a new production of "Witness for the Prosecution," and when the climactic on-stage killing turns real, the book's protagonist transforms from a member of the audience into the first cop on scene, the Primary in the investigation and one of over 3,000 witness. I mention it only because the play is in many ways central to the story, and finding references to cite should be trivial. JDZeff ( talk) 20:10, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

A (ideally well-established) newspaper or magazine review should suffice. I don't have a lot of bandwidth these days, unfortunately, but I'll keep your recommendation in mind! DonIago ( talk) 20:54, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

Just buy a copy in paperback from Amazon or Barns & Noble. JDZeff ( talk) 21:03, 30 June 2022 (UTC) reply

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