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Byrd Spilman Dewey

I recently reviewed the Did you know nomination for the Byrd Spilman Dewey article that you created. The nomination is now approved and you should see the article mentioned on the main page of wikipedia sometime during the coming week.

I greatly enjoyed reading the Dewey article and appreciated the effort you made in not only writing the text, but also tracing (and, in one case purchasing) the photographs used, and uploading them onto wikipedia. It would be useful if at some point you could expand the article further based on the book Pioneering Palm Beach: The Deweys and the South Florida Frontier (which I assume you have read, or will read). I'd also encourage you to nominate the article as a Good article candidate. It is close enough to meeting the standard currently and a bit of polishing, guided by other experienced editors such as User:John Cline or the Good article reviewer, should be able to push it over.

In any case, I hope you enjoyed your experience on wikipedia so far and will stick around and contribute more to the project. Regards. Abecedare (talk) 23:29, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know whether to be embarrassed or just amused at asking you to read the book you wrote! :)

In any case, it is a pleasure to see a person with deep knowledge of the subject contribute their expertise to wikipedia, and moreover do so without using it as a thinly disguised opportunity to advertise their book. Your fascination with the subject shines through in the Byrd Spilman Dewey article, and is indeed infectious (I, like probably most, hadn't heard of Dewey before I read the page but now am induced to look up her writings and your book).

As I said above, I recommend that you nominate the page for Peer review or as a Good Article candidate so that you can get a more detailed feedback on how it can be further polished and its quality recognized. Let me know if I can be of any assistance. Abecedare (talk) 01:45, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Byrd Spilman Dewey

On 30 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Byrd Spilman Dewey, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Boynton Beach, Florida, was founded by Byrd S. Dewey, not Nathan Boynton, who was erroneously credited up to last year? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Byrd Spilman Dewey. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Barnstars exist because of editors like you

		The Content Creativity Barnstar
		I am pleased to present this barnstar to you in recognition of your outstanding inaugural contributions to Wikipedia; creating Byrd Spilman Dewey, a remarkable article that belies your freshman stature—rivaling colleagues with years of tenure in advance of your account's creation!—John Cline (talk) 17:53, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Mabel Evelyn Elliott

"redoing changes lost due to intervening edit from another user"--what are you talking about? No one removed any of your material. Drmies (talk) 01:02, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I was editing the article and added substantial new content. When I went to save the changes, it said another user had made intervening changes. So when he saved his version, my edits were gone, about two hours of work. He chose to ignore the warning message that another user was making changes. It is in the edit history. Flahistory (talk) 02:26, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you recently undid an edit of mine on this same article and gave no edit summary. What was the reason for that? I don't know whether the image you edited and added (which is slightly larger than the original it's taken from) involved any AI upscaling, but File:Dr. Mabel Elliott LCCN2014716569.jpg does seem like a better photo generally. --Belbury (talk) 13:09, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It did not involve any upscaling. I removed two people in the background in photoshop. I thought it unkind to just be judge and jury without asking first if the image was upscaled. I made it into a vector image, which allows you to scale the photo. It was a lot of work for me and I wanted a nice image. What is really ironic is that the two images that the Library of Congress has of her are from Bain News service - now that I have the originals, I see that Bain altered the images. Flahistory (talk) 13:40, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, you'd included the word "upscaled" in the filename of File:Mabel-armenia-solo-portrait-upscaled.jpg, was all. I'll start a discussion on the article talk page about which image people think is preferable. Belbury (talk) 14:06, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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