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Hi, Spiel! Yes, unfortunately, the article has been deleted. Speedy deletions are like that :) What you'll want to do is create the article again - but before you do, take a look at the biography guidelines and the notability guidelines. In this case, make sure to mention his being "the first to successfully sue an NFL team for damages" - that will assert notability. If you can include a reference to a web page or print article that discusses that fact, you'll be sure to escape the speedy deletion process. Hope that helps, and I hope you're not discouraged by the process. There are thousands of NFL players, so Wikipedia tries to ensure that only the ones that are actually notable are included in the encyclopedia. If you have any further questions (about Wikipedia - I know nothing about football ;), feel free to leave me a message. And welcome to Wikipedia! -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 04:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC) reply


Image:Will-furrer-2005.jpg

Hi did you take this pic? Genisock2 ( talk) 09:54, 12 April 2008 (UTC) Yes, I did. I was at his office meeting with him and he let me take a photo. reply

2010 Austin plane crash

Do you have a reference for the information you submitted about his residence? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 19:28, 18 February 2010 (UTC) reply

They have mentioned it repeatedly on the news and I live 12 miles away from the crash and about 6 miles away from the house. He lived nowhere near San Marcos which is at least 40 miles away.

I appreciate that you likely have the information, but we need a reference. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 19:37, 18 February 2010 (UTC) reply

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2010/02/18/house_fire_in_north_austin.html

Not being anywhere near Texas, I'm not sure if there is any call to say that the reference is unusable, but it doesn't mention Scofield Ridge. Could I get some explanation for why this reference is usable? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 19:42, 18 February 2010 (UTC) reply

The office complex is in Northwest Austin, not the south side of town. I work on 183 and could see the smoke from my 4th story office window. -- Cdman882 ( talk) 19:48, 18 February 2010 (UTC) reply

It is not an IRS building. They had an office in the building. ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586581,00.html) And I quote: "An Internal Revenue Service office is located inside the building." We have to be very clear about that, because I have people now e-mailing me freaked out about friends who work for the main IRS complex. We do not need to start that rumor.

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Help with request for Wednesday Martin

Hi Spiel! Hope you don't mind my reaching out to you; I found your name at WikiProject Books as you're one of the very few still-active editors listed there and also note that you're interested in helping with non-fiction books. I'm looking for help with an edit request for Wednesday Martin, the author of Primates of Park Avenue. On that Talk page, I'm proposing some updates to the Works section of the article to add a full list of her written works and a short mention of her most recent book. While I've left some notes at relevant WikiProjects, I've had trouble finding someone to take a quick look. I do have a financial conflict of interest as I'm proposing the updates as part of my work with Beutler Ink, on behalf of Wednesday Martin. If you have a few minutes, would be you be able to help? Thanks in advance, 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 21:35, 17 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Hi there, just wanted to let you know that another editor has looked at this request. I will have a few more requests for the article, so if you're interested, definitely do take a peek at the Talk page. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 16:36, 19 September 2018 (UTC) reply

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I’m not done yet. I just started like ten minutes ago. Spiel ( talk) 01:24, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

It was published in the mainspace, which I don't think was what you intended. JSFarman ( talk) 01:42, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

There is no submit button at the top of the page. I have been working with Wikipedia for years and this is the first time this has ever happened to me. Is this a new rule? Spiel ( talk) 04:37, 27 December 2021 (UTC) JSFarman ( talk) 05:44, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

The first message is a template; apologies for not being more specific.
I moved the article because I thought you had unintentionally published it -- it looked like a work-in-progress. I removed the submit button from the draft because you don't need to submit the article when you're finished with it - you can just move it back to the mainspace. JSFarman ( talk) 05:44, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

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Yea, it was. That’s why it is in quotation marks. Because it is a quote from a member of the BBC. Spiel ( talk) 20:57, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

I didn't actually remove the quote. I removed the phrase "and became one of the deadliest V1 attacks of the war" and modified the phrase "A BBC employee described the scene" to read "The BBC said"— Diannaa ( talk) 23:50, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Rosamund Grosvenor (March 2)

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Okay, I will put more work into it. Although, might I add, I have already spent about 30+ hours on this page. In all my years of editing on Wikipedia, I have never spent more time not had more trouble posting an edit or making a page. At some point, I would think the amount of time everyone (including myself) is putting into it would far exceed the small issues it might have.

Honestly, she was the girlfriend of Vita Sackville-West. That's her biggest input to world history. It shaped many lives including Virginia Woolf and her footprint left on the world, while small, was important in the subject of feministic British literature of the early-20th century.

I don't understand why so many have spent so much time focused on this page. That's not a criticism and I am not, by any means, pooh-poohing the amount and quality of work you do with Wikipedia. I inderstand how committed you guys are and thank you for that work.

I guess I am just stunned that so many people seem so committed to spending this amount of time on Vita's girlfriend. Spiel ( talk) 02:12, 2 March 2022 (UTC) reply

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I do want to make one final comment about this. I pulled the information from the Netherlands wiki page. I translated it with Google and then made sure the translation was readable. Do you not allow English translations of other wiki pages? Let me know so I don't do it again.
When you asked for more citations i found more. Then you asked for more and I went to look through books most notably one written by Vita. At the end, I think I had 10-15 citations, inter wiki linking, and external links. The page was long and descriptive with information that fully supported it.
I understand some people might not think Rosamund was an important person, but she was. Just because she wasn't a great writer or artist, she played a very important role in the history of the Ton in London and also a role with the life of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West as well as the futures of several Londoners.
I just don't understand what I did wrong. Please please please let me know where I went wrong on the info on that page. I've never had any problems like that before or sense. It was so weird. No matter what I did, I couldn't make the head editor happy. Spiel ( talk) 03:40, 4 May 2023 (UTC) reply

Your edits to Céline article

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I reverted your edits because the source doesn't support the statement. Nordling visited Céline in Denmark and wrote a letter of support for Céline for his first trial. Dozens of others did so as well, and I don't see why Nordling should be singled out. Nordling is hardly mentioned in any of the major biographies of Céline and I don't think being one of dozens of people who wrote letters of support at his trial qualifies him to have such a prominent place in a summary article about Céline. By the way, he was Swedish, not French. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin ( talk) 09:48, 7 April 2023 (UTC) reply

I got this information from the wiki Nord page. It seems like it was a good citation from there. Spiel ( talk) 11:08, 7 April 2023 (UTC) reply
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Hi there Spiel, I have reverted your recent edit on Anna Sorokin as the newly added information didn't include sourcing. If there is sourcing out there feel free to revert. Thanks, Skipple 00:06, 4 May 2023 (UTC) reply

I just added a paragraph mark. What source are you talking about? Maybe I am misunderstanding. I undid it before k saw your note. (Thanks for that btw. Sometimes I have to randomly figure out what the problem was and k always want to educate myself on what to avoid in the future.) Spiel ( talk) 03:23, 4 May 2023 (UTC) reply
You know what, I'm completely in the wrong here. For some reason, I thought the Sorokin made investments in technology... line was added by you. I went ahead and added a {{ cn}}, which is what I should have done in the first place. My mistake! Skipple 03:31, 4 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Notability of Jeff Novak

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Hi, Spiel! Yes, unfortunately, the article has been deleted. Speedy deletions are like that :) What you'll want to do is create the article again - but before you do, take a look at the biography guidelines and the notability guidelines. In this case, make sure to mention his being "the first to successfully sue an NFL team for damages" - that will assert notability. If you can include a reference to a web page or print article that discusses that fact, you'll be sure to escape the speedy deletion process. Hope that helps, and I hope you're not discouraged by the process. There are thousands of NFL players, so Wikipedia tries to ensure that only the ones that are actually notable are included in the encyclopedia. If you have any further questions (about Wikipedia - I know nothing about football ;), feel free to leave me a message. And welcome to Wikipedia! -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 04:03, 27 February 2007 (UTC) reply


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Hi did you take this pic? Genisock2 ( talk) 09:54, 12 April 2008 (UTC) Yes, I did. I was at his office meeting with him and he let me take a photo. reply

2010 Austin plane crash

Do you have a reference for the information you submitted about his residence? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 19:28, 18 February 2010 (UTC) reply

They have mentioned it repeatedly on the news and I live 12 miles away from the crash and about 6 miles away from the house. He lived nowhere near San Marcos which is at least 40 miles away.

I appreciate that you likely have the information, but we need a reference. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 19:37, 18 February 2010 (UTC) reply

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2010/02/18/house_fire_in_north_austin.html

Not being anywhere near Texas, I'm not sure if there is any call to say that the reference is unusable, but it doesn't mention Scofield Ridge. Could I get some explanation for why this reference is usable? - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 19:42, 18 February 2010 (UTC) reply

The office complex is in Northwest Austin, not the south side of town. I work on 183 and could see the smoke from my 4th story office window. -- Cdman882 ( talk) 19:48, 18 February 2010 (UTC) reply

It is not an IRS building. They had an office in the building. ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586581,00.html) And I quote: "An Internal Revenue Service office is located inside the building." We have to be very clear about that, because I have people now e-mailing me freaked out about friends who work for the main IRS complex. We do not need to start that rumor.

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Help with request for Wednesday Martin

Hi Spiel! Hope you don't mind my reaching out to you; I found your name at WikiProject Books as you're one of the very few still-active editors listed there and also note that you're interested in helping with non-fiction books. I'm looking for help with an edit request for Wednesday Martin, the author of Primates of Park Avenue. On that Talk page, I'm proposing some updates to the Works section of the article to add a full list of her written works and a short mention of her most recent book. While I've left some notes at relevant WikiProjects, I've had trouble finding someone to take a quick look. I do have a financial conflict of interest as I'm proposing the updates as part of my work with Beutler Ink, on behalf of Wednesday Martin. If you have a few minutes, would be you be able to help? Thanks in advance, 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 21:35, 17 September 2018 (UTC) reply

Hi there, just wanted to let you know that another editor has looked at this request. I will have a few more requests for the article, so if you're interested, definitely do take a peek at the Talk page. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 16:36, 19 September 2018 (UTC) reply

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US Banknote Contest
November-December 2019

There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons.

In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate.


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Rosamund Grosvenor moved to draftspace

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I’m not done yet. I just started like ten minutes ago. Spiel ( talk) 01:24, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

It was published in the mainspace, which I don't think was what you intended. JSFarman ( talk) 01:42, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

There is no submit button at the top of the page. I have been working with Wikipedia for years and this is the first time this has ever happened to me. Is this a new rule? Spiel ( talk) 04:37, 27 December 2021 (UTC) JSFarman ( talk) 05:44, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

The first message is a template; apologies for not being more specific.
I moved the article because I thought you had unintentionally published it -- it looked like a work-in-progress. I removed the submit button from the draft because you don't need to submit the article when you're finished with it - you can just move it back to the mainspace. JSFarman ( talk) 05:44, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

Copyright problem on Draft:Rosamund Grosvenor

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Yea, it was. That’s why it is in quotation marks. Because it is a quote from a member of the BBC. Spiel ( talk) 20:57, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

I didn't actually remove the quote. I removed the phrase "and became one of the deadliest V1 attacks of the war" and modified the phrase "A BBC employee described the scene" to read "The BBC said"— Diannaa ( talk) 23:50, 27 December 2021 (UTC) reply

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Okay, I will put more work into it. Although, might I add, I have already spent about 30+ hours on this page. In all my years of editing on Wikipedia, I have never spent more time not had more trouble posting an edit or making a page. At some point, I would think the amount of time everyone (including myself) is putting into it would far exceed the small issues it might have.

Honestly, she was the girlfriend of Vita Sackville-West. That's her biggest input to world history. It shaped many lives including Virginia Woolf and her footprint left on the world, while small, was important in the subject of feministic British literature of the early-20th century.

I don't understand why so many have spent so much time focused on this page. That's not a criticism and I am not, by any means, pooh-poohing the amount and quality of work you do with Wikipedia. I inderstand how committed you guys are and thank you for that work.

I guess I am just stunned that so many people seem so committed to spending this amount of time on Vita's girlfriend. Spiel ( talk) 02:12, 2 March 2022 (UTC) reply

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I do want to make one final comment about this. I pulled the information from the Netherlands wiki page. I translated it with Google and then made sure the translation was readable. Do you not allow English translations of other wiki pages? Let me know so I don't do it again.
When you asked for more citations i found more. Then you asked for more and I went to look through books most notably one written by Vita. At the end, I think I had 10-15 citations, inter wiki linking, and external links. The page was long and descriptive with information that fully supported it.
I understand some people might not think Rosamund was an important person, but she was. Just because she wasn't a great writer or artist, she played a very important role in the history of the Ton in London and also a role with the life of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West as well as the futures of several Londoners.
I just don't understand what I did wrong. Please please please let me know where I went wrong on the info on that page. I've never had any problems like that before or sense. It was so weird. No matter what I did, I couldn't make the head editor happy. Spiel ( talk) 03:40, 4 May 2023 (UTC) reply

Your edits to Céline article

Hello there

I reverted your edits because the source doesn't support the statement. Nordling visited Céline in Denmark and wrote a letter of support for Céline for his first trial. Dozens of others did so as well, and I don't see why Nordling should be singled out. Nordling is hardly mentioned in any of the major biographies of Céline and I don't think being one of dozens of people who wrote letters of support at his trial qualifies him to have such a prominent place in a summary article about Céline. By the way, he was Swedish, not French. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin ( talk) 09:48, 7 April 2023 (UTC) reply

I got this information from the wiki Nord page. It seems like it was a good citation from there. Spiel ( talk) 11:08, 7 April 2023 (UTC) reply
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Your edits to Anna Sorokin

Hi there Spiel, I have reverted your recent edit on Anna Sorokin as the newly added information didn't include sourcing. If there is sourcing out there feel free to revert. Thanks, Skipple 00:06, 4 May 2023 (UTC) reply

I just added a paragraph mark. What source are you talking about? Maybe I am misunderstanding. I undid it before k saw your note. (Thanks for that btw. Sometimes I have to randomly figure out what the problem was and k always want to educate myself on what to avoid in the future.) Spiel ( talk) 03:23, 4 May 2023 (UTC) reply
You know what, I'm completely in the wrong here. For some reason, I thought the Sorokin made investments in technology... line was added by you. I went ahead and added a {{ cn}}, which is what I should have done in the first place. My mistake! Skipple 03:31, 4 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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