User talk:Piotrus/Archive 38
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To Do List Edits
Hello,
I edited the To Do list for Group 7 (Marriage in the United States).
Thanks,
KazzandraT (talk) 22:11, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
To Do List
Hello!! Just letting you know Group 6 is unable to meet to create one single To Do List so we're each posting our own outline of what we discussed we would do individually for the project. Here is the link to my post on the Single parent page: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:Single_parent#To_do_list..._Mother_as_Primary_Caregiver
Mjc112 (talk) 16:19, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
Resources
Hi,
I also uploaded two resources but I was not sure how to cite them properly.
Thanks,
KazzandraT (talk) 22:12, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
RE: your comment on my talk page
Hi,
I'm just letting you know that I added a comment to an article's talk page. Talk:Philadelphia
Thanks,
Nicole Johnson Ntj2 (talk) 19:31, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Technical Barnstar | |
For helping me in the categorisation stuff on the article2011 in Poland – Plarem (User talk contribs) 21:24, 24 September 2011 (UTC) |
Mahlon Williamson (barque)
One of your photos is an article now, Mahlon Williamson (barque) ... thanks for posting! Djembayz (talk) 00:27, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
WIKI deadline #3
Hello!
I just wanted to let you know that I added references to our to do list under the discussion tab of Marriage in the United States. Kazzandra posted the to do list we put together, and then I added some of the references we are planning to use. Just wanted to let you know!
Mookielynn18 (talk) 15:14, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Edit
I just wanted to let you know that I edited the syllabus. On the current "Stages and deadlines" section I changed "bee" to "be."
Steve Boser — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stboser (talk • contribs) 01:03, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
To-Do List
I posted my to-do list on the discussion page for personal wedding websites. Thank you, Kelly Kds57 (talk) 01:13, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Wiki Assignment #3, Group 4
More edits and sources have been added to the article on Family Honor. An outline is on the article discussion page. Let me know if there are problems or things that still need to be done.
Leishanda G —Preceding undated comment added 02:28, 26 September 2011 (UTC).
Group 8: Family in Advertising
Group 8 (Ali M. and Nelson) are making the last changes to the 'Family in Advertising' article and to-do list and will be finished before the 9/26 deadline.
Pittsoc25 (talk) 02:35, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
To-Do List
Just wanted to tell you that I did my To-DO list on the Single Parent page. Steve Boser — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stboser (talk • contribs) 03:41, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Group Three To-Do List
Hello,
I just wanted to let you know that group 3 has posted there to-do list on the Double Burden talk page.
Thank You, Jade.Richardson (talk) 04:14, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
politico-complex under serious criticism (your student guideded project)
In light of much that has happened, your student guided project is being subject to much criticism ... you might want to defend. ILakatos (talk) 10:31, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
College dating to-do list
User:BonnieNoel made our to-do list earlier this weekend, and I just finished putting my thoughts into it. AndrewMozdy (talk) 16:24, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Group 7: Open Relationships To-Do List
Hello Professor, here is Mari-Kathryn and my link to the discussion part of our website; there you will find our to-do list. Thanks! http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:Open_relationship#Preliminary_To_Do_List
we also put some references on the main page (open relationships); more to follow in the future as well.
MatthewSniscak (talk) 18:20, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
To-Do List
Our to-do list was posted: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:College_dating BonnieNoel (talk) 20:25, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Talk templates
Hi Piotrus, no it's not too much to ask :), the problem is how does one know what projects exist and what templates to use? There's no handy page listing Talk templates. How do you find them at random? In ictu oculi (talk) 22:52, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. I wonder if I/you should actually produce a WP page on finding Project templates? How to fill out Talk page headings? ....the point you mentioned about adding Project tags for help is good, but of course some of those Projects are dead as a dodo. In ictu oculi (talk) 01:21, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Closed circle of suspects
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Update on courses and ambassador needs
Hello, Ambassadors!
I wanted to give you one last update on where we are this term, before my role as Online Facilitator wraps up at the end of this week. Already, there are over 800 students in U.S. classes who have signed up on course pages this term. About 40 classes are active, and we're expecting that many more again once all the classes are up and running.
On a personal note, it's been a huge honor to work with so many great Wikipedians over the last 15 months. Thanks so much to everyone who jumped in and decided to give the ambassador concept a try, and double thanks those of you who were involved early on. Your ideas and insights and enthusiasm have been the foundation of the program, and they will be the keys the future of the program.
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Football in Poland
No nie znalazlem czasu, a teraz chyba juz za pozno. Trudno, nastepnym razem sam nominuje. Pozdrawiam Cie. Tymek (talk) 04:22, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
Interface deletion discussion
Hi Piotr,
Thanks for the pointer to that Signpost article. As you've probably seen nothing at all has happened since Courcelles relisted the AfD on the 22nd, so I would guess he'll adjudicate on what is there some time over the next few days. Fingers crossed.
Laurence--86.45.49.202 (talk) 07:59, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
cytaty piłsudskiego
Are you familiar with the case if this suddenly famous quote by Piłsudski, "Naród wspaniały, tylko ludzie k***y"? It seems to be everywhere, including : http://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Józef_Piłsudski . I know that quotes can appear out of nothing, and that those words might not have been esily tolerated back in the day. More importantly I haven't found a decent source to confirm this. This makes me curious, so I decided to ask, considering you have contributed lots to the history articles. I know this may not seem very important, but a person's supposed words spread very quickly. Dablackspirit (talk) 11:02, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
wiki ?'s
No problem. The second paragraph that I wrote I reworded so I wouldn't have to cite the source. Is that ok? and for the first paragragh I though I did cite a source for the last sentence. I just have to cite the source in the other sentences as well in the first paragraph? is the link I used ok? {{cite book}}
: Empty citation (help).
Thank you,
--Nas132 (talk) 09:04, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Quick Question...
How do I get email notifications if someone adds to the talk page of our article? Or if someone replies to a question I post? Thanks! BonnieNoel (talk) 03:29, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! BonnieNoel (talk) 19:03, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
Invitation
Hi, Piotrus. If you have time and would like to help me, please have a look at the nomination page of my featured article nominee. You speak English quite well and may fix some problems of this article I haven’t noticed. Unfortunately, a few persons knowledgeable about this topic are topic-banned now. In addition, the new requests are opposite to the previous ones you made before. When the article was nominated for the Good Articles, one of the requests was to make subsections in the article and resulted in that its table of contents became long. Now, on the contrary, one of the requests is that the table of contents needs to be shortened because it is too long. These opposite requests add to the excess vain work on the article. Psychiatrick (talk) 15:47, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
- I’ve read your very useful remark. I’ve tried but haven’t managed to unite the references to sources into groups of several references. The link to the abortion article was provided as an example. Psychiatrick (talk) 20:42, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
WikiCup 2011 September newsletter
We are on this year's home straight, with less than a month to go until the winner of the 2011 WikiCup will be decided. The fight for first place is currently being contested by Miyagawa (submissions), Hurricanehink (submissions) and Sp33dyphil (submissions), all of whom have over 200 points. This round has already seen multiple featured articles (1991 Atlantic hurricane season from Hurricanehink and Northrop YF-23 from Sp33dyphil) and a double-scoring featured list (Miyagawa's 1948 Summer Olympics medal table). The scores will likely increase far further before the end of the round on October 31 as everyone ups their pace. There is not much more to say- thoughts about next year's competition are welcome on the WikiCup talk page or the scoring talk page, and signups will open once a few things have been sorted out.
If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 12:48, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Oct. 3rd deadline
Hello!
This is Maria Nicholas. Because of my volleyball schedule, I was unable to attend class on Friday. I wanted to talk with you to see if I did the last deadline correctly?
Let me know what you think.
Thanks!!!!
Mookielynn18 (talk) 03:04, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
personal attacks
Hello Piotrus, I'm puzzled - you criticised me for bringing up the EEML (which I was a victim of, btw) yet you don't seem to have criticised Volunteer Marek for this insult, calling me 'asshole'. Why is what I did worse? And really, do you think that VM has been a helpful presence on the murzyn page? He's deleted obvious things (such as the existence of well-known phrases) by claiming the ref isn't to his liking. The refs were fine for such well-known facts. Why hasn't his behaviour got your goat? Malick78 (talk) 08:24, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- In my view, VM's erroneous and over-pedantic application of WP rules (BLP was irrelevant to what he objected to, the sources were fine for what they were claiming (the existence of well-known phrases), etc), so he was being disruptive. I may have teased him at points, but he ramped up the level by swearing, calling sources 'junk' ('unreliable' is the preferred term, surely?), and so on. I think I have enough to report him for disruption, so reminding him of previous sanctions against him is hardly a personal attack. It's giving him a heads-up. Also, comparing my 'junk' sources to the lack of sources in articles he has started/edited heavily isn't a personal attack, but a fair comparison. Why does he object to something I do, when he does similar if not worse (not having sources, junk or good)? The only answer is - he doesn't like the 'murzyn' article and is being unreasonable. Malick78 (talk) 17:44, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- Oh, and when I talk to VM normally, he tells me to "go away" and deletes the exchange. What's a guy to do? (And lastly, you're the only editor ever to complain about my style of doing refs. Not even DYK reviewers complain about them. They're not bare, may be liable to rot, but are hardly a sin.) Malick78 (talk) 17:48, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Blog Grades
Hello!
I was noticing how you updated our grades yesterday. I also think that I did not get all the credit for my blog comments and was wondering why that was. I made sure that I commented on someone's blog everytime. If you could just clarify that with me that would be great.
Thanks!!! Mookielynn18 (talk) 14:00, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
Reviews
Reviewed articles Double burden and Open relationship. Made another small edit to Family honor. Leishanda G. (talk) 03:00, 3 October 2011 (UTC)Leishanda G.
Help with Land value tax
Hi, I saw your name at Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/Census, and that you are still active and I was needing some help at Land value tax. I understand it fully except for one part, "Because the supply of land is inelastic, market land rents depend on what tenants are prepared to pay, rather than on the expenses of landlords, and so LVT cannot be directly passed on to tenants....with no deadweight loss". That the tax is not being split between buyer and seller, and that there is no deadweight loss makes little sense to me, assuming a competetive market, no ceilings or such. The price of rent of an apartment is without a doubt based on competition between the thousands of renters in my city of a few hundred thousand people and not based on "what tenants are prepared to pay", I mean, somedays I would pay $20 for a donut, but the price, like rent, is found by supply and demand, not what I would pay for it. If my rent was $1000/month before the tax was added, when the tax is added, I will have to take a part of it, as the building owner's profit just went way down. The building owner's profit could only be so high before the tax as if he was making massive amounts of profit, investors would notice the high demand, low supply, and go build an apartment building. The only situation I see the quote being close to true is downtown Manhatten or Tokyo, where there is no room to build another cheaper apartment building as the land is all taken and building even higher gets too expensive. So, do you agree, can I remove that non-sense even though Adam Smith thought it was correct a few hundred years ago? Thanks for any help, or for showing me how I am wrong, Public awareness (talk) 05:28, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Occupy Wall Street poster image
Can you link the image source to the page on which the image is featured, not just the image itself? This is important to make sure that it satisfies Wikipedia's copyright policies. Also, could you fix the rationale and fill it out seriously? Because your sarcastic input there is not very helpful. And also, "Illustration" is not an acceptable purpose to have a non-free image in an article. You need to be more descriptive there. –Dream out loud (talk) 07:29, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Blog comment grades
Here is the link to my second to last comment:
http://socmar11.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-5_7687.html#comments
Here is the link to the last comment I posted:
http://socmar11.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-6-love-loving-relationships.html#comments
I think that was what you graded this past weekend. I was just curious as to why I did not get all the points for the comments? If you could clear that up with my that would be great.
Thanks so much, Mookielynn18 (talk) 13:59, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Informal Reviews Matthew Sniscak
Hi Professor,
just letting you know that my group has completed the assignment due for today (10/3/11). We reviewed group 1's article on college dating http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:College_dating#Informal_Review:_Group_7:_Matthew_Sniscak as well as wrote summaries on our own topic based on received criticism and ideas towards making our article better http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:Open_relationship
enjoy! MatthewSniscak (talk) 17:39, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Help
Hello,
I am in group 2 grounds for divorce. I noticed when I was typing in the citation/ref link my author names were in red. Natalie Fisher is in my group and she helped me by using the automatic template. Now their are errors popping up at the end of the reference section and I am not sure why. Please help! --Nas132 (talk) 13:18, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
The article Dominik Aleksander Kazanowski has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- No evidence of notability. No sources at all, despite being tagged since 2009. Very little in the way of reliable sources found on searching.
While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.
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?'S ABOUT REFERENCES.
Thank you for your help. If I am suppose to use a reference after each sentence and I can't duplicate the reference what do I do? each section I only used one reference. References used in text? All the information that I got was from the books I used I just reworded it like I was suppose to. --Nas132 (talk) 16:49, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you!
I am going to experiment now!! --Nas132 (talk) 16:58, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Notability (sports)#Gymnastics why this person is notable. Inwind (talk) 18:46, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
My namespace
Thanks for the list. It is a remainder of how many articles I actually finished. Take a more closer look:
- Yer - is already in the mainspace and has been there for ages
- AK - used to be in some article ages ago, not sure where it is now
- Curzon line used to be in the mainspace before it was rewritten over and over again by others
- div comp was my personal note to some friends with whom I was discussing something, it was never meant to be used anywhere
- Same for OOB, it's a side-note to my work on WERS mod for Hearts of Iron ages ago. Wiki was simply easier to grab when I needed to take note of something
- Evidence is some fork I needed for something when Wiki broke and that article didn't want to reload, I simply copied parts of it there
- expulsion used to be in the mainspace, though it was so long ago that my copyedit is most likely gone by now
- Medal gallery was my own list back in the days when I created the ribbons for various medals. The ribbons are in the mainspace, not sure about the table, but I doubt it was intended for any article.
- Orliński was abandoned when someone else expanded the article
- Ranks are already there in the mainspace
- Same for "Rayski2", timeline, Vilnius region...
- Not to mention you yourself helped me with the article in my namespace we now call the Warsaw Uprising :)
- Western betrayal was, according to edit history, a fork just in case the new article gets deleted due to Communicat's edits. The threat is long gone I believe
So, all in all, out of those you listed only Kowel and Nalewajko have been abandoned by yours truly. The rest are simply either forks or my workspace articles that got copied to mainspace ages ago. No need to worry my friend. //Halibutt 19:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
- Is it really worth my time? They're not in the mainspace so they bother noone I believe. //Halibutt 19:17, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
There is a mop reserved in your name
I have observed some remarkable contributions from this account. I am curious as to why are you not an administrator. Pardon that you have struck me as the kind of editor who could be a good one, and that you seem qualified by a cursory review. You exemplify the essence of an Administrator without tools! I hope you will consider serving in the fuller capacity. |
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Wiki ?'s
Thank you for all your suggestions!!! when you said address the issues in the template. What did you mean by that? --Nas132 (talk) 02:26, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Grounds for divorce
Hello! Your submission of Grounds for divorce at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Lionratz (talk) 02:35, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- As I have said, I do not have access to the offline sources cited (provided that there is an online copy), so I cannot even check "one or two sentences". Or do you know any checker that allows me to double check the source for free? If so, please let me know and I will gladly help to check for this problem. Otherwise, it will be up to the editors of this page to make sure that no instances of plagiarism occurs. As such, I can only assume good faith. Thanks for your reply and good luck on improving the article.--Lionratz (talk) 03:54, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Ghadames raid
Sorry for the delay. I have improved the article Ghadames raid, which you reviewed for DYK. I would much appreciate it if you were to take the time to review my changes. Thanks, Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 15:40, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Mary_Baldwin_College#additions_to_history_section and student project
hi, i'm asking you about this because i saw your username as a contact on WP:SUP. it's about a student who is editing Mary Baldwin College for a class project. i reverted some edits and asked editor to discuss, and the editor asked me if i would just leave it up until tomorrow so they could get credit for it. some of the discussion is at the link above, and some is here: User talk:Milleree2382. i've never seen anything like this, so i thought i'd ask for some advice. if you're not the person to ask, perhaps you know who is? thanks (i'm watching here for replies).— alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 01:42, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
i don't know what course the editor is part of. anyway, i suppose it's moot, because the student said they're quitting wikipedia. i feel really bad about it, and i apologized, but they blanked their talk page and that seems to be that. thanks for your help, though.— alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 03:08, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
About the family honor article
Hi, we inserted additional references to the article and there are a few more internal links. Do you think we can remove the "relies on single source" tag on top and maybe also the "needs to be wikified" tag? Thanks!Esery (talk) 18:11, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
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5th Podhale Rifles Infantry Regiment
Article: 5th Podhale Rifles Infantry Regiment.
I came across your unassessed article through the Military History. Would like to encourage you to expand it further and if you need any help with the article please feel free to ask the WikiProject Military History Coordinators. We would like to see this article to be one of the top articles. Adamdaley (talk) 04:56, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- I do apologise. Thought you were also familiar with the article. Once again, if you do decide to work on future articles involving WikiProject Military History, please feel free to ask us Coordinators for any help you require. Adamdaley (talk) 09:11, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Class
So sorry! I have been MIA for the past few days. Was at a conference. Has the main bulk of the student edits been done? Bejinhan talks 03:50, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
Family honour
Thanks for the suggestion!
The problem I have in the present situation is that the intro was so bad, that I have rewritten it off the top of my head, so to speak. As it happens, I have a lot of experience in the past, in writing and delivering public programs about societal issues. However, I have absolutely no textbooks to hand on this particular issue! I just hope that some serious person with all the right qualifications comes to the rescue. Amandajm (talk) 16:21, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Well, if you a the course instructor for this one, then for God's sake make sure they get it right, before they put it up! It's not a subject you can stuff around with, in a public forum. Why haven't you corrected the serious problems in the first paragraph? You have students here with a poor grasp of English grammar trying to define a abstract concept. But at the same time, it is an abstract concept in the defence of which people, mainly female, are routinely murdered. Amandajm (talk) 23:56, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Never mind wiki's disclaimer. Few people read it! If this was not such a sensitive subject, I wouldn't be bothering to do more than make some basic grammatical edits and leave a message on the talk page. There appears to be nothing at all available online, that doesn't relate directly to honour killings. The topic is simply not dealt with in any other way, online. This means that they are entirely reliant on written texts, and it is possibly new ground they are breaking in many directions, because even modern texts will focus on the effects as a social issue, rather than the actual nature of the topic. Right now, what are essentially drafts are being widely published as almost the only easily findable and quotable source.
- I notice that one of the contributors has referenced two of my statements, which is excellent. I don't mind what is changed, but the concepts need to be handled correctly and there needs to be a balanec, which will be difficult to reference, as almost every reference is highly negative and focuses on the single topic of the suppression of women.
- I have written a dot point history, which I will share with the students, if you would like me to. Amandajm (talk) 02:04, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
Jade Richardson's Help
I would just like to let you know that I was unaware of the messages that you were leaving on my talk page. When I asked Jade why the email's were not being sent to me she informed me that I had to confirm my email address, even though it was already on my account, and then proceeded to show me how to do this. Although it was not a hard task it was very helpful to me.
Marcus.gregory.jordan (talk) 20:20, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
help during class 10/11/11
Today in class Megan Callahan helped me by showing me how to put the "see also" part into a section of our article. Nll27 (talk) 20:27, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
help during class 10/11/11
Today I showed Natalie LaBarbera how to post the "see also" link to her section of our page. She is adding a Divorce section and wanted to reference [Implications of divorce] for viewers.
Mjc112 (talk) 20:31, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Thing's Done Today
Today I edited a few things and caught up on my wiki deadlines for half credit. I would like you to check on this for me when you get a chance. If something is not right just email me and i'll correct it as soon as possible. Also today in class Jade Richardson helped me with the sandbox editing.
James Varnado --J.Varnado (talk) 20:40, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Help On a New Topic
Brian Bitner and I worked today to learn how to split the page in half. We are using the cite http://wiki.siemens-enterprise.com/wiki/How_do_I_format_my_contents%3F currently, but still having a slight problem since our text is not of equal length, but once our text is closer to the same length, we will be able to use this code to divide the page as we had wanted for joint legal custody and joint physical custody in their subsections.
Kgw2 (talk) 20:54, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Brb94 (talk) 20:55, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
What I learned
You taught me how to search more accurately on Google Books! Thanks, I found great sources. BonnieNoel (talk) 21:00, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Weiquan GA review
Thanks. I was starting to think it would never happen...Homunculus (duihua) 01:56, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'll work on addressing those issues and get back to you. Thanks again.Homunculus (duihua) 02:27, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
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Re: Thanks but
Per, this. It was the same reference. Bejinhan talks 03:12, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not sure you understand what I meant, but I'm undoing my edit now. The article will still be properly referenced. Right now, there is a reference after every sentence. This isn't necessary since the same reference is being used. Also... what do you mean by preferably shortened reference? Bejinhan talks 03:21, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- The main reason why I pointed out this was because there is no where in Wikipedia where it states that every sentence should have a reference. There was a short discussion about this somewhere here (it's pretty old, and I'm thinking of starting a new one... we need something clear about this). That being said, I understand where you are coming from, but I guess we'll have to disagree about this. Bejinhan talks 03:31, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- I wasn't around back then, but "brilliant prose"? It must have been quite a debate. Bejinhan talks 05:35, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
- The main reason why I pointed out this was because there is no where in Wikipedia where it states that every sentence should have a reference. There was a short discussion about this somewhere here (it's pretty old, and I'm thinking of starting a new one... we need something clear about this). That being said, I understand where you are coming from, but I guess we'll have to disagree about this. Bejinhan talks 03:31, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Grati!
Piotrus - - just a thank you for your exemplary labors on using wikipedia in university/college courses. I have shamelessly "borrowed" (with slight remixing) your project template for my Literature of Labor class here at San Francisco State U. (After ramping the students up on our own mediawiki/digital anthology of American literature.). Again, thanks so much! Profhanley (talk) 16:51, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Help
In the grounds for divorce wiki page I am working on a new section called global grounds for divorce. The reference numbers for that last paragraph should be 19 and they stay at 17 and I have no idea why. The page number is correct in the link when you click the edit button.
Thanks --Nas132 (talk) 19:11, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
I am very suprised when you have TONS OF HSTORICAL stories about... whatever in the stories, but did you know you've been posted a story about Germany in WW2, i herd some words in a line, i didn't read all of it, because it's LONG and it takes a long weeks or months to read this, and i don't even have a single time to read to whole thing, but that's okay. I just read a little bit. Like My Picture i Posted? :P
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nuggette55 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
LOL whoops, i thaught it's a picture of Aisa, but This is a Wrong Picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nuggette55 (talk • contribs) 21:34, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
I got it! :)
Disregard my last message. I was able to figure it out!! :)
Thanks,--Nas132 (talk) 23:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Jakbyś miał chwilę czasu zerknij na ten artykuł. Napisał to ktoś, kto pojęcia nie ma o historii Polski, Wielkiej Emigracji, powstaniu listopadowym. Nie lepiej jest z artykułem o jego synu, Wiktorze, którego już awansowano na hrabiego. belissarius (talk) 23:47, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
- Dzięki anyway belissarius (talk)
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Joint Custody Edits
Hey, I made some MAJOR edits to our page. First I had wanted to see if you could look the page over and make sure I am on the right track (it sounds ok, subdivisions look ok, references are ok, etc.). Also, I wanted to see how I determine how much longer it needs to be able to be nominated for "Did you know." It is at least double to triple what it was before, but I was not sure how I determine that it is exactly 5 times what the old length was, or if it just needs to be approx. that much longer, etc.
Anyhow thanks for your time :)
Kgw2 (talk) 23:24, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Joint Custody Article
Ok I will definitely add some more connections through those links like you recommended. I also have been making some new stub articles which I will connect to child custody and to each other, but I wont bother linking you all of the stubs till they are all made and I have sourced each of them with a minimum of at least one source, so I will keep you posted on that. I sent out an email to the other group members, and they will all be starting work on this over the next five days (I know Brian had told me he would not have a chance until Sun. to do anything since he had to work all of today). Hopefully we will have it up to par and be able to use DYK!
Thanks for all your help and looking over the article!
Kgw2 (talk) 02:34, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Custody Articles
I changed the sole custody article to a stub for legal and sociology portals, but the article is still listed as a start class article, I wanted to check how I fix this (I will have this article at least up to start class tonight, but the other 2 I am working on will not be more than a stub). Kgw2 (talk) 02:52, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Updating from a Stub
Great ADVICE! Took 3 sec to empty cache and now it is officially a stub until I can can add more information to it. Kgw2 (talk) 03:06, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Third-Party Custody vs. Third-party custody
Hey I had wanted to see how you get rid of an article. Currently, the article that is supposed to be up is Third-party custody, but there is a duplicate one called Third-Party custody. I wasn't sure how to delete it (I am beginning to think I actually cannot delete it haha). Also how do I go about fixing a linking issue I had. I have a little section I added to the pages basically stating alternate forms of custody, but some of the stubs I made are not linking (still red even though I have the stub made). Thanks again and sorry for bothering you so much tonight! Kgw2 (talk) 03:29, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
The many things you just fixed
Ok that makes alot more sense as to why I was having issues. I will make sure I watch capitalizations. The last thing I wanted to bug you with tonight was on Bird's nest custody. It was still coming up red and I don't think it is supposed to be red since it has a stub article attached to it. All the other ones are fine now but this one is still causing me some issues. Thanks again :)
Kgw2 (talk) 03:50, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Bird's nest custody
I even linked it correctly when I posted on your wall! That is embarrassing ... Thank you anyhow!
Kgw2 (talk) 04:12, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
DYK and other issues
Hey so I went ahead (now that I finally got home) and went back over the article to double check that none of our sentences sounded remotely close to the original source (I got worried after the talk in class - I tend to get paranoid about these things haha). Anyhow, the main things I wanted to check with you were the following:
- Does the bolding/title layout look acceptable now (the only thing bold is joint custody).
- I debated it and I really do not think that it is worth wasting a tremendous amount of time to bundle four sources. I think my time would be better spent searching for new material, and if the problem would come up that I end up adding more sources to a sentence, then I feel I should address it at that point, but as of now, I do not feel that 4 sources warrants the effort of bundling really.
- I have not replaced every one of the citation needed bullets, hopefully by tomorrow night Brian and I will have that section filled in.
- Beyond this, what else would you recommend doing before we want to submit this to DYK (also I wanted to check that it was an appropriate length now, etc.) - And in addition to this would you mind helping us out on submitting this (If it is not too late I could meet with you Wed. after class to do it etc. - Whatever works for your schedule).
- Will the issue of the article being addressed for merger impact DYK at all do you know? (I think we addressed this in class but I just wanted to verify)
Anyways, those were the main concerns I had wanted to address.
Kgw2 (talk) 23:47, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
DYK
I had wanted to see what you thought of this as a hook (I thought it didn't sound half bad and was under the 200 count haha).
- ... that unless the child's parents are often involved in intense conflict, or one of the parents is abusive or mentally ill, the child tends to fare better in a joint custody arrangement?
Kgw2 (talk) 02:26, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
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cut and pasting
Did the students fix it themselves (and say sorry!) :-) Victuallers (talk) 16:33, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Did you know nomination for Grounds for Divorce
Hi, I have left my comment on the nomination page. And as for your previous suggestion to visit Google books, I am still unable to locate the books cited. And as I asked other DYK reviewers, assuming good faith on these sources this should not be a problem. Thanks!--Lionratz (talk) 05:21, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Grounds for divorce
I just want to check to make sure I understand. So if I re-add the global grounds for divorce information back to our grounds for divorce page using the WP:Summary link you gave us on our discussion page we can get extra credit? --Nas132 (talk) 17:58, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Grounds for divorce ?
I was looking at the WP:SUMMARY link you gave us on our discussion page. I am confused, because I am not sure what link to use to add my global grounds for divorce information back to our grounds for divorce page. --Nas132 (talk) 18:25, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
DYK candidate? //Halibutt 21:27, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
Grounds for divorce
I think I did it!!! :) let me know what you think --Nas132 (talk) 01:45, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
AWESOME!!
Super excited about this!! :)--Nas132 (talk) 14:43, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Regarding PRIVATE GOOD
Hey there, I am editing the article "private good" and was looking to cite the table I believe you put up comparing exculdable and rival products. It looks similar to a table found in Living Economics: http://livingeconomics.org/article.asp?docId=239. Is it ok if I cite it? SADeGroot (talk) 20:50, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Grounds for divorce
I am a little confused by what is going on by Nikkimarie comment. I changed the example she gave. I don't feel like I plagiarized. I felt that I changed each of my sections enough before she commented. I though you couldn't write your sections completely different either?--Nas132 (talk) 00:54, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
DYK again
FYI. Nikkimaria (talk) 22:08, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Re: your comment on my talk: yes, that's fairly good advice. Do these students have access to a writing centre or other service to help them with plagiarism avoidance? Nikkimaria (talk) 17:06, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Never mind, just saw your comment at the nom page. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:08, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Mostly agree, though I haven't had a chance to check other contributions yet. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:16, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
- Never mind, just saw your comment at the nom page. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:08, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
NYU online ambassador needed
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Hi Piotrus,
Thanks for getting back to me so swiftly, I will be sure to pass the information on to the professor and encourage him to join the wiki sociology group. Perhaps this will allow you both to form a relationship and work together in future. There will only be 5 or 6 students working on this project and I have contacted other online ambassadors, but I appreciate your willingness to review some of the works and will contact be in contact later as the project progresses.
Thanks again!
Polish-Soviet War
Looking better. Any chance you can expand or combine "Opposing forces"? It looks kinda silly to have a subheader for one sentence. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:33, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
Plagiarism
I wrote a response to your post on my talk page. I'm unsure of whether or not you receive notifications that I've written in response. I'd appreciate if you took the time to read it and let me know what you think. Thanks.
Rojast07 (talk) 23:17, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Grounds for divorce
so with that link you showed me their is stuff from fault section that needs to be changed as well? --Nas132 (talk) 17:24, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Lines 92 and 93 are in the WP:DIFF link. Those are not my section and I want to tell the other group member that those sentences need restructured if thats the case. Since lines 92 and 93 are shown do they needed restructured? Also with lines 103 down since they are shown does that mean they need changed as well? those are links and I was not sure what they would need changed for.--Nas132 (talk) 17:58, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
I made more changes. Can you please check my sections? Then I will post a comment on Nikimaries talk page because she informed me that she does not want me to post on her page until I made all corrections. --Nas132 (talk) 19:21, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
All my page are good/ Except in the paragraph starting with However, the page number is actually 7. I will have to change that when I can get in touch with Natalie. Is that reference number[9]? because that not my paragraph. Oh! the divorce for dummies book is for paragraph state acceptance I don't know what happened but I can't find the page that I used so skip that and I will get back to it when I can get the book again and find whats going on with that.--Nas132 (talk) 21:45, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
The divorce for dummies is actually page 16--Nas132 (talk) 21:47, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your help! I checked the references and all my information is on the page referenced. Natalie helped me fix the page number for divorce for dummies. Page 7. The information starts under the blue box on page 7.--Nas132 (talk) 22:42, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
No problem. I will use the reference links from now on. I made more changes. I will talk to you after class. Thanks for your help. --Nas132 (talk) 01:50, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
Re: Nifty tool
Thanks for the heads-up! I've been unwell the past few days, but will get back to checking the articles as soon as I can. Bejinhan talks 03:58, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
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Grounds for divorce
Here is a sentence that I changed from the pros and cons section: 3) Dividing up the couples property such as the house, pertinent valuables, debts, and alimony have become unfair through a no-fault divorce--Nas132 (talk) 21:54, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
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Family Honor-Editing references
I added all page numbers etc for all references except for the website reference for Roman family law. Honestly, it took a long time just to find the author's name, I have no clue when he might have written the article. I don't want to make up a date and lie. If other Wikipedians don't like it that it doesn't have a date, I can delete the reference along with the sentence it refers to. Thanks...Esery (talk) 17:42, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
W sprawie "Ekstraklasa venues"
Witam. Zauważyłem, że jest problem z artykułem "Ekstraklasa venues" Nie znam się zbyt dobrze na tych socjalistyczny-biurokratycznych zasadach wikipedii, ale "Ekstraklasa Venues" miała być tylko tabelką rozwijaną pod artykułami (template) a nie artykułem. Przez pomyłkę wyszło inaczej. "Ekstraklasa venues" jako artykuł jest oczywiście do natychmiastowego usunięcia I teraz najważniejsze: Czy mam rozumieć, że ktoś pobił jeden z licznych rekordów głupoty i uznał każdy artykuł (np: o Dialog Arenie, Stadionie Legii itd)do którego został podłączony ten template jako kopię artykułu "Ekstraklasa venues"?? Artykuły te mają czerwoną ramkę z informacją że są zakwalifikowane z tegoż powodu do szybkiego usunięcia. Zauważyłem, ze edytowałeś coś przy "Ekstraklasa venues" wiec zapewne wiesz o co chodzi. Czy mógłbyś w związku z tym usunąć ARTYKUŁ (nie template) "Ekstraklasa venues" i doprowadzić do tego by artykuły zakwalifikowane do rzekomego usunięcia nie zostały bezmyślnie usunięte? Z góry dzięki za wyjaśnienie tej sytuacji i wiadomość zwrotną
Damian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.218.156.247 (talk) 21:57, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
- Naprawione przez innych. Zapraszam do logowania sie, anonimowi trudno zostawic odpowiedz. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 16:37, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
AE thread and followup
You asked here whether your participation in that AE discussion was acceptable, so let me answer this: no, in my view it is not, and you were in fact on the list of people I was considering for further follow-up sanctions. Your interaction ban comes with an exception regarding "necessary dispute resolution". But that exception has an understood "mind-your-own-business" written into it: participation in dispute resolution, including admin noticeboard discussions and the like, is never "necessary" for a user who is not himself an originating party of the dispute that is being discussed. What we had here was a conflict originating between Russavia and Vecrumba. If that conflict involved a breach of a restriction on the part of Russavia, it was up to Vecrumba, and nobody else, to bring the issue to the attention of the admins. No other editor who is under an interaction ban with either of the originating parties had any business being there. This is the one area where interaction bans actually do make sense, and ought to be enforced. We don't want you people turning up at the noticeboards in support of each other time and time again. Especially in this case, where collusion between this same set of people including you on noticeboard discussions was a central part of the original problem that led to the sanction. Fut.Perf. ☼ 22:02, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Grounds for divorce
Thank you for looking over that paragraph. I just wrote Nikkimaria. I will keep you posted.--Nas132 (talk) 19:24, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
GA progress at Talk:Birth control movement in the United States/GA1
I believe I have addressed all the issues in Talk:Birth control movement in the United States/GA1 ... except for one minor question about linking city names. Could you please take another look and see if the article meets the requirements? --Noleander (talk) 16:09, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you! grounds for divorce
Thank you for bringing that to my attention. --Nas132 (talk) 18:28, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Tadeusz Sawicz
The nom is up. We await the verdict. Great work on expanding the article.-Kiwipat (talk) 22:21, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Question about sources for grounds for divorce
Nikkimaria said that she does not have access to some sources used on our page.
This is her comment: No, 4 I can read. I don't have 1, 3 (which is the same as 8, 10, 12, 13), 11 or 14-17.
Can you help me understand this.
Thanks,--Nas132 (talk) 23:57, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Sounds good. I just didn't know if I was missing something because she should be able to click on the book link and see the information. I don't understand why she wouldn't be able to do that. I will ask her.--Nas132 (talk) 01:03, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
Since Nikkimaria can't view the rest of our page would you mind reviewing it and updating her? I suggested if it's ok with the both of you to review the page since she does not have access, and she said that would be fine.--Nas132 (talk) 12:55, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
RE: Talk:Collaborative fiction/GA1
Hey, just wanted to say thank you for your review at Talk:Collaborative fiction/GA1, it's great to get some solid feedback on the article with concrete suggestions. Your review will become a really big part of how the article changes over the next little while :) thank you so much :), by the way, would it be possible to come back to you in a little while after changes have been made to see if your original concerns have been satisfied? That way I could feel bit more confident about putting it forward again? AdamCaputo (talk) 07:55, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
- Wow! I thought that the result was a straight fail... and was thinking a timescale of a couple of months... to a large extent I'm feeling my way forward uncertainly - but I'll block out some time this week and see what I can come up with. Thank you!
AdamCaputo (talk) 22:13, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
family honor - modifying content
On the dky discussion page Did_you_know_nominations/Family_honor it is indicated that there is still some content that needs to be cleaned/re-worded/modified. I started with the first 2 paragraphs in the history section. I was wondering what tools I can use to search for copy/vio content in the other sections to save me some time (other than google-ing it)? I don't know whether each sentence needs to be rewritten or only two, and it takes a good chunk of time to read/search the references that I am not familiar with. Thanks!!! Esery (talk) 14:46, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
I fixed the first sentence and some others. I wrote on the page's talk page. I understand that initially I plagiarized, but almost all of that information has been changed into others words. So I don't understand how the finger is still pointing at me, plus I've changed the wording to be further from the text of the already revised edition of my original text. And also, we need more sources I'm trying to find books that talk about familial traditions in different cultures so that our article isn't based almost entirely off of one book as others have stated. Rojast07 (talk) 03:43, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Joint Custody Article
I will have almost all of the issues fixed by Tues. at the latest, I have been insanely busy lately, which has impacted my time to edit unfortunately. Thank you for the heads up on time however, I really appreciate it! Also, does it have to be expanded globally for the DYK, and if so, should we simply swap this to US perspective only? I would definitely need at least another week (or rather, I would need next weekend) to expand this article to encompass more than just the US culture.
Thanks!
Kgw2 (talk) 06:17, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Grounds for divorce
Thats awesome! thank you! do you think I should write nikkimaria to let her know that you think everything is good with our page now? --Nas132 (talk) 09:09, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Grounds for divorce dyk
How do I get to DYK talk page?? Is the Dyk the Lionratz person?--Nas132 (talk) 15:22, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hello. Thank you for taking the time to review Outlaw Star for GA nomination. Though I've searched diligently, I'm currently unable to fix some of the items requested to pass the article. Specifically, I can't find any information regarding the last chapters of the manga or the edited airing in the UK. I would recommend going ahead and failing it for now. I will renominate it if I happen across the said information. Again, thanks for your time. ~ Hibana (talk) 12:41, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
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You contributed to a recent discussion about an editor who was creating many stubs. The conclusion was that this was just a case of a prolific editor, with no violation of policy. There remains a question about whether very small stubs are useful, regardless of how they are created. You may want to contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Stub/Archive 15#Minimum size. Thanks, Aymatth2 (talk) 19:31, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Michal Radziwill Rudy
On this disambig page: [1] we have Michal Radziwill "Rudy" as a 19th/20th century prince. But the major one was Mikołaj "the Red" Radziwiłł. Am I confused here? Volunteer Marek 00:26, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
WIKI ASSIGNMENT
Hello!
I have been working a lot on my wiki page, Marriage in the United States, and was wondering if you could take a quick look at the part I am working on ( the history). I just want to make sure I am doing things correctly, and it is what you want. If you could just give me a little feedback that would be great. Thank you so much!
Mookielynn18 (talk) 01:59, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Joint Custody Article
Well those little revisions actually took way longer than I thought haha. Anyhow, the key changes made were that the advantages/disadvantages were rephrased more professionally/objectively in terms of benefits and criticisms, I eliminated the two bad citations and replaced them with better citations, I fixed minor typo type issues I found in the references, I fixed some minor typo issues throughout the article, I fixed all page needed/author missing/etc. issues that I could see, and I fixed hyperlinking (I think haha). Anyhow if you get a chance could you look it over and let me know what I did wrong, as I undoubtedly made at least 1 mistake somewhere along the line there :(
I will probably bug you after class tomorrow as well, and I do still have to address the global issue of the article, but for not I THINK it should be good for DYK anyhow :)
Thanks again!!
Kgw2 (talk) 04:26, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
File:Z10572853X,Kapitan-Tadeusz-Wrona--To-on-mistrzowsko-wyladowal.jpg
Will most likely need help defending use of the image of Captain Wrona for the LO 16 article. IT is a family-provided photo given to the press. Might not have the right licensing for the photo. Ajh1492 (talk) 11:55, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
2011 WikiCup participation
It was good to have you on board this time around- we hope you enjoyed the competition! In case you are interested, signups for next year are open. Thanks, J Milburn and The ed17 21:05, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Joint custody (United States)
1) The introductory section will still need a bit of adding to it, however, however other issues mentioned under this section have been addressed. 2) It had been shifted to joint custody (United States). 3) I have made some headway here, but these sections still need a bit more further work. 4) I am going to address the two sources that still are having page issues at some point today. 6) It has been successfully (I think) merged as of now. Hopefully once we get the remaining issues noted taken care of this article will be good to go :). --Kgw2 (talk) 15:51, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
radziwills
Started Michał Radziwiłł Rudy, trouble finding sources though. this might help? Needs proof reading by a Polish speaker, I reserve a right to **** up! Happy to start anything you request. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:58, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
I suspect one should be merged into another?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:31, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
I found the Lithuanian National Treasurers on Polish wiki and that seemed to be the Polish name in the template.. I'll try to start some more tomorrow. If there are any specific biographies/articles you want fire away at me, I like a challenge.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:47, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Excellent. I don't think though it would get through DYK as it only uses one source...♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:17, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
OK I will nom tomorrow, not sure it will "pass" though, DYK has become very tight these days. Didn't you have a directory of missing notable Poles or something? Can you give me a link to it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:28, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
- The only other source I've been able to find on Michal R Rudy is this [2]. Volunteer Marek 22:41, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
I've started Jakub Ostroróg and Jan Ponętowski more info in google books but in Polish which doesn't google translate..♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:28, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Michał Radziwiłł Rudy still has an unsourced statement.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Can you proof read Jakub Szydłowiecki, Mikołaj Daniłowicz and Maksymilian Ossoliński too?♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:35, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Thankyou siree. Hokay I will remove the unsourced statement about him feeling German and nom.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:57, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Sure, although I'm used to Ser Amantio doing that for me..♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:15, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for informing me about the copyright issues
Hello. I seem to have gotten the concept of image licensing in part thanks to you and many other users. I would simply like to thank you for your concern, as I previously have not fully understood that concept. The image that I uploaded was probably copyrighted; I apologize for uploading it. Thank you again, -EmadIV (talk) 10:35, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thank you for your welcome + question
hello piotrus,
to be honest I have miles to go to become an editor. completely new vocabulary ;)
question: I was searching for black stone (Alhajar Al-Aswad) and could not find anything. first. then I opened the article "islam" and found both there....I had typed blackstone because in my native langue it comes to one noun and the arabic translation I picked up contains an additional a (in the article it is hajr) so, how do I improve this linking?
thank you kindly for your input
missingheelMissingheel (talk) 06:06, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Towards the Republic
On 7 November 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Towards the Republic, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the 2003 historical Chinese TV series Towards the Republic has been subject to significant censorship, and compared to River Elegy, a TV series that influenced the Tiananmen movement of 1989? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Towards the Republic.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it 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. |
The DYK project (nominate) 00:32, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Rescue template on Tadeusz Wrona (aviator)
Piotrus, the {{Rescue}} template is generally reserved for articles that are currently nominated for deletion. You might be looking for Requests for feedback or Peer review. —SW— babble 18:59, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- (Moved here from my talk page to keep the conversation in one place) Well, articles that some people are trying to sneakily delete through merge need rescuing as well. Perhaps there should be a rescue template variant for those? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me 19:18, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, there is not a rescue template variant for that situation. The proper thing to do would be to allow the ongoing merge discussion to come to a consensus. Merging is not the same as deletion, since you're keeping most or all of the content of the article, and just moving it to a different location. —SW— spout 19:44, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Lists for OPR
[3] I was thinking of doing that myself. Volunteer Marek 19:26, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I just wanted to let you know that I sent you an email reagrding my grade on the wiki project so far for group 2.
Thanks --Nas132 (talk) 00:49, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
I apologise. An error must have occurred. I just have a couple questions. Would you be able to give our group some helpful adivce on how we could make some improvements on our page to get an FA class standard nomination? If you wouldn't mind would you be able to let me know what my grade is on the wiki page so far? Thanks --Nas132 (talk) 16:26, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Thank you!! I will stay after class! see you tomorrow--Nas132 (talk) 17:46, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
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Issues with citations
As I have an interest in citations, and you noted you are having problems in a discussion regarding citations, could you point me at the article / discussion? Fifelfoo (talk) 01:42, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
- Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi is fine. Unless the editorial claim is particularly unique, ie, "Amagi flew hotdogs to the moon in 1975, moments before it fought the Super Space Battleship Yamato." or the equivalent kind of territory in the history of warships, I can't see a problem. Vanguard (23) is more problematic, I will respond at the assessment. Fifelfoo (talk) 02:42, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Piotrusiu, zajrzyj do tego artykułu i jego dyskusji, a następnie porównaj z moim artykułem pl:Maurycy Beniowski. Ten artykuł został najwyraźniej zawłaszczony przez Węgrów i zawiera wiele nieprawd. Ja jestem zbyt zajęty żeby się w to bawić, ale myślę, że dobrze byłoby pewne sprawy wyprostować. Szczególnie ważny jest pamiętnik gen. Józefa Kopcia, który znalazł się na Kamczatce w 2 dekady po Beniowskim i od miejscowych usłyszał o jego ucieczce. Jakbyś miał pytania wiesz jak mnie znaleźć na pl:wiki. Pozdrawiam belissarius (talk) 04:02, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Ping
I've posted an update to Talk:Weiquan movement/GA1. When you have an opportunity, I would appreciate any further feedback you may have. Homunculus (duihua) 04:21, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your help. I'll take a look to see where I can contribute in alleviating the backlog for GA nominees. Homunculus (duihua) 21:57, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
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Deletion of a page from article:Scientific plagiarism in India
Hello,
The page "Gopal Kundu Controvesy" of article "Scientific plagiarism in India" contains invalid information about him and the controversy, He is a former scientist who has registered patents and works at National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, India. The page also refers to unofficial invalid sources. I request you to check official website of NCCS,Pune,India which is a Indian government body. the URL is www.nccs.res.in/gck.html. Please consider this request because it affects his reputation.
Thanks. Shrikantbhalerao101 (talk) 11:44, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
- Shrikantbhalerao101] has posted this to 13 different users' talk pages. In order to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, before considering replying, you may like to see my responses here and here. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:27, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, can you proof read the Polish translation, its bad. Are you OK with the name Wittig, it would seem neutral as it only flows 5 km in Poland.♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:56, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, page moved.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:58, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
YOur DYK nom for Poles in Azerbaijan
Hi Piotrus, I've reviewed your nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Poles in Azerbaijan and there are some major referencing issues. Could you contact the article creator and attempt to have the issues fixed? Once that is done, please reply at the nomination page. Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:45, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
DYK for Tadeusz Sawicz
On 11 November 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tadeusz Sawicz, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that before his death in 2011, Tadeusz Sawicz was believed to have been the last surviving Polish pilot to have fought in the Battle of Britain? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tadeusz Sawicz.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it 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. |
The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Hey! I don't think that it's enough for Achaja article to became my first Did You Know article. I would have to look deeper to expand this article with more accurate info, synopsis and reactions. I don't have that book anymore and I don't remember the whole plot to describe it enough. If you are willing to help me dig through Internet resources about this book, I could use your help in that article. Thanks for letting me know. Bartekfm (talk) 15:24, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
- In my draft, User:Bartekfm/Draft/Achaja, I created a new plot synopsis that describes the entire plot of first part. Please, check the spelling and gramma before i move it to the article. Bartekfm (talk) 15:57, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
- I have applied for Did you know, thanks for hint. Bartekfm (talk) 16:34, 11 November 2011 (UTC)