User talk:Eric Corbett/Archives/2018/February

Wistarburg Glass Works GA review

Eric,

I'm used to having some time to fix the items of issue in a GA review. I had already increased the lead by at least 4 times before you had finished the review. Then I was notified on my talk page that the nomination had failed and I didn't even know you were finished with the review. I have corrected the items you brought up in the review. Is there any way you could look over my corrections and continue the review with any further issues. I'll be glad to work on them, when I know you are finished bringing them up. THEN if you have further issues I'll do what I can to fix those.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:16, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

I haven't finished the review, and it certainly hasn't failed. In point of fact I think it's coming along rather nicely. I guess what's happened is that my setting the Overall option to fail, which simply reflected my view at the time that as it stood the article wouldn't pass has triggered the bot into premature action. So I'll reset it and we'll just carry as before. I'm sorry to have alarmed you unnecessarily. Eric Corbett 19:41, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Adding to say that I'm puzzled why you got that message now, as I hadn't done what I thought I might have done - the Overall status is still undecided. I can only suppose that what's happened is some kind of artefact of the page moves. Anyway, let's put that behind us and press on. Eric Corbett 19:49, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Doug Coldwell, the failure message is indeed the result of moving the article without also moving the review so it matches the new article name. When the bot can't find the existing review any more, it assumes that it was a failure of some kind (I'm not exactly sure why), and sends out the failure message. Needless to say, once I moved the review page to the new name, everything resynched. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:55, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

O.K. = now I get it!--Doug Coldwell (talk)

I'm done with my updating now and you can look it over for any further issues that I should work on. I did a lot of research and there is no records on the lives of the two Halters. However I did find a reference that said they also could no find any historical records on the lives of the two Halters and put that into the article.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:13, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

I'll have a read through after I've had dinner. Eric Corbett

A. Cary Smith

Thanks for article improvements you have made lately on articles I have created. An article I just created is Archibald Cary Smith. If you have time, can you look it over. I plan on nominating it for Did You Know in the next couple of days: ...that Smith designed the first American iron yacht. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 14:04, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I wish you luck with your DYK nomination, but as far as I'm concerned DYK is a waste of space, more correctly renamed Do you care? Eric Corbett 14:07, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Doug doesn't seem to need much help as Archibald Cary Smith is already looking good – much more substantial than my own Albert Strange, for example. But I'll pitch in and help, as needed, because I like yachting topics. Andrew D. (talk) 14:47, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

It's pretty easy to get any old rubbish through DYK - not that I'm suggesting that Doug's article is in any way rubbish of course, just a comment on lax or non-existent standards. Eric Corbett 14:53, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK is a good device to get people to notice an article and fix silly errors or otherwise help improve it. I gave up on Template:Did you know nominations/Fremlin's Brewery, but most people will fight tooth and nail to get a hook through, rather than give up on a bad job if they can't make something funny / amusing. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 00:08, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Each to their own I suppose. Eric Corbett 00:38, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Audi_Motor_Assembly

Hello Eric (long time no see) - you tagged Audi_Motor_Assembly for deletion as a hoax. I can't find anything about it either, so am inclined to push the big red button, but should it go to AFD given it's been there for 7 years? Are you certain it's a hoax? Fish+Karate 15:25, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm absolutely certain. For one thing VW/Audi has no assembly plant with a VIN code of 9 [1], and for another none of the cars listed in the gallery were assembled in Japan. I half expected that it would end up at AfD, but the outcome should be the same, as nobody has succeeded in finding out anything about this fictitious company. Eric Corbett 17:12, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Someone else has sorted it. Well spotted. Fish+Karate 08:30, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Stretford scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that Stretford has been scheduled as today's featured article for 13 February 2018. Please check that the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 13, 2018. Ealdgyth - Talk 16:42, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Luckily I went through and updated the article just a few weeks ago. Can't see too many people being interested in Stretford though, but at least it'll keep the inevitable vandals away from other, more interesting, articles. Eric Corbett 21:12, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Eric, I recently updated Nomis citations on Stretford, with the new Template:NOMIS2011. I've been spaming other editors who have linked to Nomis Local Area Reports Search. As I only found out about it here, it's a bit pointless telling you about it, but as far more people watch your page than seem to have ever cited a report, I hope it will useful news for somebody.TiB chat 01:11, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Aplerbecker Hütte

Thank you, Eric, for Stretford, "an agricultural village that during the 19th-century industrial revolution grew to become the home of the world's first and largest industrial park, still one of the largest industrial estates in Europe today. Dirty, grimy industrial places don't always get a fair shout, so I've tried to do justice to the place." Thank you also for fair shouts in general. I recently used this image, but the DYK reviewer stripped even the "unclean" (?) topic. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda. I hasten to add that neither Stretford nor its neighbouring Trafford Park are "dirty, grimy industrial places today" of course. Stretford was one of the first articles I put a lot of serious effort into, and I well remember my motivation: the hope that people might better respect the place they lived in if they were aware of its history and it was easily accessible to them. Eric Corbett 09:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, well said. I lived in the place, with a different history (and only the beginning of an article). Thank you for mentioning "respect", a word that should appear more often. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:33, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Well, I saw the gruppe in dortmund—'92, '93?—Nice place. Unsurprisingly, very modern. >SerialNumber54129^{...speculates} 10:00, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

I've just had a quick read through, you've got lots left to do there.:-) I was wondering, as a German, do you find it difficult to write about what happened during the Nazi era, such as the enforced sterilizations? Eric Corbett 09:49, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

No. It was horrible but part of history. I could have skipped it, but skipped much else. - Was the concert in the Westfalenhallen. My first symphony was there, Tchaikovsky's Fourth and a Wieniawsky Violin Concerto. The conductor directed from memory, and I believed all conductors did that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:13, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Westhallen-! Ooh posh that; Pink Floyd and Tchaikovsky  :) No, my ticket stub tells me it was the Live Station, 6 October 1993. A hundred people stuffed into a box. The preview button tells me we haven't got an article on it, but G. says @ Königswall 15. Happy days. >SerialNumber54129^{...speculates} 20:13, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Sad club story? Or this? no tape? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:29, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

References

Long time no see but very nice to see you are around more. I couldn't help but notice your edits to the reference section headers. Have I missed something and is it something I should adopt? J3Mrs (talk) 14:03, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

Well, that depends. Another editor started a discussion on some talk page (can't remember which, maybe Sagaciousphil can) objecting to my use of bold instead of proper subsection headings as being in contravention of the MoS, with a distinct whiff of a threat to initiate FA reassessments of all those articles affected - which is quite a few. The trouble was though that I didn't like the style of level 3 headings in the context of the References section, or probably anywhere else for that matter, so I wrote the {{h3}} template to give the visual appearance I wanted with the level 3 headings. It turned out though to have the side benefit of optionally suppressing the edit button, which is useful for the Notes subsection, which is always empty owing to a long-standing bug. So my view is yes, you should adopt it, but of course it's your choice. Eric Corbett 14:41, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

That's interesting because sometime ago I was told that I shouldn't use bold and, being me, I couldn't remember why we did them like that except it was something to do with accessibility. I think I will use the template and I can copy it from yours. Thanks J3Mrs (talk) 14:58, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

The accessibility issue was to do with making the headings bold with ;Heading, but I'd not before come across any objection to using '''Heading'''. Anyway, it's academic now. Eric Corbett 15:03, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm beginning to wish I'd never asked but thanks for explaining something I couldn't. I really didn't expect the Spanish inquisition. Tell you what, next time I ask something, tell me to shove off. J3Mrs (talk) 17:13, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

I'd never do that. That whole Spanish Inquisition came as a surprise to me too, and why some people just couldn't get it that by default {{h3}} without any parameters simply reduces the font size to the same as it would have been if bold had been used instead, while still allowing an edit button on the subsection heading, will forever remain a mystery to me. Eric Corbett 17:22, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thirsty work huh. >SerialNumber54129...speculates 20:01, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

• Thanks very much for the review, it was a pleasure working with you. If you are interested in that part of the world, or the deeper history of that particular abbey, I've got a couple of other things up for review, although they might need tidying first. No worries. Cheers, >SerialNumber54129^{...speculates} 20:02, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

  Thanks. I was actually born in Cheshire, and lived there for many years, so it's naturally a part of the world I'm interested in. Eric Corbett 20:35, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

DYK for John Johnson (architect, born 1807)

On 26 February 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article John Johnson (architect, born 1807), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that John Johnson and Alfred Meeson designed the Alexandra Palace (pictured) in north London? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, John Johnson (architect, born 1807)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 26 February 2018 (UTC)