I go by Ari, I wanted to drop you a line because I noticed you made edits to the Ursula Bellah (formerly Pearson) wiki page and wanted to talk with you. I had known her since I was a baby, when she passed in 2006 I was devastated, barely in 7th grade at the time. She was a lifelong friend of my family, and I was hoping to speak with someone who may recall more details about her that I may not have known (I was very young and some things were never disclosed to me naturally). I have a copy of her Surviving the Judas Factor book she gave to us a few years before she passed of pancreatic cancer. Hope to be in touch soon. I can be reached at ramenmangaka@gmail.com please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:6000:514D:6200:FDC8:7B28:A2CF:3FDC (talk) 07:35, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I undid your edits on Katharine Lee Bates that deleted her from the 19th and 20th century lists of American writers. I believe that she belongs on these lists. If you still think she does not, would you kindly explain why not? Thanks for your work. AnaSoc (talk) 23:45, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Here it's too hot.
I opened this short page about this showgirl and actrice. Please, I ask you just do 3-4 minutes to read it and correct my mistakes. I'll be pleased to help you in Italian and Portuguese. Thanks a lot and see you very soon.
HI, I am doing a Toastmaster's speech on the reliability of Wikipedia. I am hoping you might be available for a short interview on the subject of reliability on Wikipedia. I would only use the information you provide as part of a speech to my Toastmaster's club of about 20 members.
Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Here there's tooooo hot!
I put a new reference in this page, and I ask only to read it, please, because I want it is put in correct form, and not to seem racist, because I'm not!!!!
Hey Ser Amantio--what's with the gendering? I thought we weren't doing that anymore except for maybe in exceptional circumstances. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 21:31, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh I haven't heard anything since that shitstorm a few years ago, but I really thought the upshot of that was we weren't doing that as a general sort of rule. Drmies (talk) 21:33, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Drmies: My sense is that things have changed over the past couple of years...I sense a broad acceptance of gendered categories for women, and an attendant acceptance of gendered categories for men. The latter is much slower in coming, but I think it's finally starting to be de rigeur more often than not. Right now, though, we have a fair number of underpopulated categories, and I figure that, at least, ought to be changed. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.21:48, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi
Sorry to blther u I'm new here and i wanted to ask u
I saw that u are one of those who edited Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir
And that she is in a lesbian football player
She and her partner Edda Garðarsdóttir both are football players that can be both put under a new category:LGBT sportspeople from Iceland which will be under this category:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_sportspeople_by_nationality
Instead of how edda is icelandic but has no mention to it and olina is a sportspeople with no category
Can u do it please and thx and sorry to bother u
Good morning, I recognise your name as one who makes generally reliable specialised edits, so I'd like to ask the reason why you deleted the Italian musician category under Carlo Arrigoni. The article makes specific mention of public performances during his career, so I would have thought it was appropriate. Sweetpool50 (talk) 09:43, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi fellow Wikipedian, I am trying to find a userbox or an award which can advertise the fact that I am a Wikipedia donor. Do you know of any? Anshuk (talk) 05:51, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Just saying, I'm coming over for dinner if this is on the menu; however, I much prefer fries covered in cream gravy with my chicken fried steak. Oh and green beans or collards to brown beans, just sayin' ;) SusunW (talk) 19:13, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
SusunW There used to be a place in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia that did a nice chicken fried steak. Bit upscale, but I ain't complainin'. Let me know if you're ever this way and I'll introduce you.
Hmmmm, family in Virginia, I might at some point take you up on that. It's a staple in my original neck of the woods, from fine dining to truck stops and pretty much you can order it for breakfast, lunch or dinner. (Just never, ever order it in Tennessee, you will get fried chicken pounded flat. I was totally shocked.) I think in the last decade, I've managed to find it twice. Once in Belize cooked very nicely by a Texan and once in Oklahoma while visiting family. Oh yeah and with okra, both times. (Methinks the chefs were trying to spoil me, as I never find okra here in Mexico). SusunW (talk) 19:43, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You removed Indiggo from Category:Participants in American reality television series using Cat-a-lot. As the article mentions, they were contestants in Season 3 of America's Got Talent. Vyeh (talk) 16:20, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
On Jim Norton (comedian) you removed Category:American radio personalities because its child category Category:Radio personalities from New York City is included. I had undone this because I would not have thought these two were related, something pointed out to me by Ponyo. To me American Radio Personalities are people who broadcast on the radio in America, and Radio personalities from New York City are people who broadcast that are from NYC. The distinction being where they were born/live vs where they work. Upon review I see the header of the NYC category says Radio personalities in the greater New York media market, however I would not have expected that. It would be helpful if you could add an edit summary explaining why you are removing these so it is clear to people, as per WP:FIES. Thank you - Galatz גאליץשיחה Talk20:42, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Galatz: Well, I often do those sorts of things using a tool that autopopulates its own edit summary. However, I just discovered today that it is in fact possible for me to provide an edit summary of my own (which did not used to be the case when using the tool). I'll begin testing it out and see what results I get. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.20:46, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello -
I am married to someone who’s page you’ve edited in the past few months - and it appears you did a very accurate job (thank you). I would like to ask you questions about the Wikipedia process - how best to get complete and accurate and up to date info - on my husband’s page. I am not interested in promoting him - - just ensuring that information is accurate and complete. If you could contact me at ldmssiga@gmail.com I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you LDMattingly (talk) 19:33, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Please don't ever use Find a Grave as a source for information, like you did at Charity Wright Cook. Please see WP:FINDAGRAVE-EL, where it is indicated that it should "almost never" be used as a reference. In this particular case, the date of birth matches what is given at Find a grave, but that doesn't match the information on the gravestone (aged 76 years 11 months 11 days). If information is only available at find a grave and not on any reliable site, please simply don't include it.
Something like genealogytrails[1] is also an unreliable source, but the source they reprint may be reliable, and should be sourced directly (which also avoids the potential risk that the republication of it on the trails website is a copyvio, which we shouldn't link to). Strangely, that source lists 10 childre,, find a grave lists 7 (another reason not to trust find a grave), and you claim they had 11 children? Fram (talk) 07:37, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Fram I'm aware of Find-a-Grave's issues; I try to link to it as sparingly as possible. In this instance, the birthdate is actually backed up by another site as well (save for a difference of a day...given the time period involved, this is not something that concerned me unduly.) Where that site gets its info I don't know.
Fram Thanks - as you can see I'm a bit distracted this morning. :-) (For what it's worth, the Westminster Handbook has its issues, too - it claims she was commissioned by Bush Run Meeting, but I know that's wrong because I did a little quick research. No such place ever existed.) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.14:21, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I noticed you reverted my moving the article "Autonomous car" to "Automated car". Please explain what is wrong with "Automated car" and what is right about "Autonomous car".
When you have a spare moment, please take a look at the Wikipedia page "Dmytro Kremin" (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Dmytro_Kremin) -- I wrote this article about D.Kremin. Since my article got the tugs about conflict of interest and lack of citations (??? -- there's quite enough of verifiable sources and citations) in May 2018, this article has been edited and fixed by other contributors and editors because I was advised not to edit it...
There is no "promotionism" (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard/Archive_130#Dmytro_Kremin), to top it all -- I am not a paid editor, I'm a writer (I live in Vancouver, Canada, for almost 20 years but originally from Ukraine. Simply there's nobody knows better the subject -- that's why I wrote this article), it's not a "puff" as Scope Creep and Cordless Larry were talking about. This article is fair and true, and all the sources are true, reliable, and listed below the article. It had and has a totally neutral point of view. If now this article looks acceptable to you, then I'd like to ask you a favour -- please help me to remove the tug/tugs
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@Kirbanzo: I left a message on your talk page...OK, in the late 18th century that area was a spiders web of French and Native American and New World folks hoping that they could in some way make the British go away. It is at best taxing for me to endure this because if people actually read BOOKS OLD BOOKS they could find this. Perhaps the reading of an older Fincastle Va History book might be helpful? From small acorn stubs, do might article oaks grow. I m one person. I tend to focus on West Virginia history. AND I am sorry we all cant perform to your timeline. Perhaps if you used your time reading and not deleting you too could also help build the articles as opposed to hoping someone else does it. NOT A SOUL is stopping you from editing in ALL BY YOUR SELFCoal town guy (talk) 00:44, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Merging is definitely better than nothing but it does tend to limit expansion and has other limitations as far as categories, links, and infoboxes go. FloridaArmy (talk) 01:17, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I would bring the Strawberry Nehi in glass bottles. OF COURSE...These places inspire me, I recall the hellish walk to what was called McVey, West Virginia. Quite a thing to find foundations holes in the middle of a forest and lots and lots of glass jars...Coal town guy (talk) 15:08, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Coal town guy: If you're ever interested in reading on some of the backroads of eastern Virginia, I can highly recommend Off 13: The Eastern Shore of Virginia Guidebook - I picked it up over the summer, and have already found it to be an invaluable resource in discussing a lot of the kinds of places we're talking about. Very well put-together, too. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.15:55, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I am hip deep in trying to find ANYONE who knows about McVey, West Virginia now. I knew of 2 former residents, but they have passed on as they were in their late 90's.....There is a cemetery, BUT it appears to be for the founding familyCoal town guy (talk) 16:05, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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How did you grow an interest into Alec Monteath? And I was doing some of my own research and came across the name Caroline grant do you know who she may be. Red roid Gibson (talk) 03:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The numbers of novelists in the categories you mention are interesting: 4,718 men vs 3,474 women. That means that over 42% of the biographies of novelists on Wikipedia are about women. I wonder if that reflects reality or whether it is a result of our efforts to cover women writers. In regard to best sellers, this analysis shows that women have certainly been catching up. Indeed, in certain categories, women have become far more successful than men.--Ipigott (talk) 11:26, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Ipigott: There used to be a couple of websites that collected bibliographies for mystery writers, and I need to dig them up to see what lists we can generate from those. I have a feeling there are a lot of women among their number that we aren't covering yet. Just go into any bookstore and look at the piles of cozy mystery novels on the shelves. I think one can make an argument that most, if not all, of the writers meet the notability requirement. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.17:05, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, How are you? I wonder if you could help me. Every so I often I see your signature regarding testing Authority control tag on an article and testing it. Would it possible if you can test this article, Alan Craft and see if the Authority control is working. I have it on several on the James Spence Medal list, some have worked, and some not. It is weird. I think that template may be stopped it appearing. Thanks. scope_creep (talk) 22:33, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm taking this discussion to your talk page. Church Hill is a very old part of Richmond. Must have been an interesting place for your father to live. I had no reason to visit there much when I lived there. I have such fond memories of Williamsburg. It was one of the first places we chose to visit when we moved there. I like history and the buildings at Williamsburg are a national treasure. The costumed interpreters did such a great job of staying in their roles, no matter what any visitor said to them. I mentioned earlier that we left because of the backwardness of Richmond, the backwardness had more to do with racial and religious intolerance we started seeing over time. One of my children started repeating intolerant comments that other children were saying, and the teachers were questioning their elementary school students on Monday, asking if they had gone to church the day before (we had not). I thought it was time to return to a more tolerant coast. I envy your life in Virginia, although the traffic in Washington DC is probably still awful--it was in the eighties. MauraWen (talk) 19:57, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@MauraWen: Dad left when he was six, so I don't know that he remembers that much. My great-grandparents lived over on Patterson, and that's where he spent most of his time when he was visiting.
And I love Virginia dearly, but the attitudes you describe don't surprise me in the least. I only just learned about Green v. County School Board of New Kent County a couple of years ago, for instance, and it stings me that something like that could still be going on in New Kent County, where I probably have family even today, as recently as 1968. That said...Richmond has changed a lot, and I suspect the suburbs have as well. Richmond proper is a lot hipper and younger - VCU and the med school dominate the local economy so that they've really affected the demographics.
Regardless: Virginia's a complex place. I think a lot of people don't fully appreciate that sometimes. I think we get lumped in with the rest of the South a lot, and that's not quite apposite at all.
DC traffic's bad as it's ever been...although my commute's not bad. Largely because a.) it begins after rush hour, and b.) it's against traffic. Incidentally, you mentioned The Torpedo Factory: I know it well. I've forgotten how many hours I've spent there over the years. I went to high school in Alexandria (we have our Friday reunion get-together at the Torpedo Factory every year), and still live about fifteen minutes south of town. It's pleasant. Been a few changes recently, but not too many. They got rid of the little food pavilion and replaced it with a single restaurant...that's about it. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.05:13, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Thanks for sharing all that. Small world that you spent so much time at the Torpedo Factory. We would stop by there every time we came to the city. Brings back so many memories. And I am very familiar with Patterson Avenue. I drove down Patterson weekly. Yes, Virginia is complex, as is the rest of the south. Having spent a year in South Carolina, four months in Alabama, and traveled quite a bit thru the South, I don't really see Virginia as being a southern state. Its more like a sibling of Maryland and distant cousin to New England, I believe. Beautiful place, though, wonderful people and great food (I had never had barbecue, grits sweet iced tea or crab cakes until I moved to Virginia). I am glad I lived there. Thanks for sharing the link about the dialects of the South. Fascinating! I wish the page had an audio, it would have been fun to hear the different regional dialects. MauraWen (talk) 07:35, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@MauraWen: Virginia is most definitely southern, but it's not the South that people tend to think of. I'm often reminded of this exchange from Gone With the Wind:
"Ashley Wilkes said they had an awful lot of scenery and music. Ashley liked Europe. He’s always talking about it."
"Well — you know how the Wilkes are. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it’s because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things."
"They can have ’em. Give me a good horse to ride and some good licker to drink and a good girl to court and a bad girl to have fun with and anybody can have their Europe...."
Virginians, to me, are a shade more genteel than other Southerners. What Alabamans and Georgians like to do with deeds, we do with words. Our goals are often the same - Virginia has been culturally in lockstep with other Southern states for much of its history. It's simply that we choose to go about things in a slightly different way.
Maryland, too, is a Southern state in many parts...I saw more Confederate flags over in Charles County the last time I was there than I expected so close to DC. (I know, I know...but don't forget, too, that Baltimore was a more zealously Confederate city than many in the actual Confederacy during the Civil War years. I wish Baltimore remembered that a bit more sometimes...) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.15:35, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Quick note. Template Cleanup federal judge bio does not support the date parameter. It merely places all such tagged files into a single cleanup category. While placing a date parameter causes no harm, it doesn't accomplish anything useful either. Safiel (talk) 20:54, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, it doesn't cause any problems. In any event, I have knocked out all but 75 of the articles with that tag, so pretty soon that tag won't exist. Safiel (talk) 02:26, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
No sources, and no one is translating it. The article should be deleted as it's unencyclopedic in it's current state and likely to stay that way. Due to no sources, fails WP:GNG and WP:NBIO.
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With this edit you added an Authority Control template to a page about a company, Isotta Fraschini, not a person. I always thought the Authority Control template was for people only. But I'm not an experienced editor at all, so I hesitate to undo your edit. Is there perhaps a specific reason you added the template to a page about a company? Mark in wiki (talk) 08:32, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Mark in wiki: The simple answer is, I missed removing it from my list while using AWB...I hadn't intended, necessarily, to add the template there. That being said: I have seen it used on a number of company articles as well, so it's a potentially legitimate use.
I'm not quite sure of the full parameters, but authority control isn't solely for use on biographies. I've seen it used on articles about artworks, for instance, and a few books, if I recall correctly, in addition to the articles about companies. I'm trying to only add it to biographical articles at the moment, but I don't think it's necessarily a problem if it's used somewhere else as well. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.08:36, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wasn't clear to me whether categorization of companies by the name of a parent company (in this case specifically for Chinese companies/conglomerates, it appears) was considered an appropriate scheme of categorization. Sounds like it is. Thanks for taking a look! General IzationTalk 12:18, 20 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The Wikipedia page about me (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Jacob_Sager_Weinstein) doesn't list my three most recent books. But I don't want to violate Wikipedia guidelines by editing it myself. Since you're the most recent person to edit the page, I thought I'd drop you a note. If you think the three new books are notable enough to include, would you be willing to add them? They are:
@GRuban: You're too kind. :-) It's awfully arcane, I know...it's taken me a long time to figure out a lot of the niceties myself, and I still make more mistakes than I'd like to admit. But the basic rule of thumb: by-gender categories don't diffuse, while by-century categories do unless otherwise noted. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.13:04, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
MBA '96, both me and my wife. We got married at the chapel there in '03. I get back there every 2 years or so. Always have to grab a beer and a slice at Paul's. Toddst1 (talk) 16:07, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Toddst1: Ah, Paul's. That was the choir's pre-rehearsal hangout place every Friday. My hips still retain some evidence of their cheese fries...we always ordered a basket, a habit which I have brought with me (in somewhat modified fashion) to my current choir. I know the chapel well; I had a couple of friends get married there over the years.
I have a request: I've been working on fixing up the WP:DOY articles and each day, I come across a few dozen biographies listing dates of birth for living people with no sources to support them whatsoever. Per WP:BLP, WP:DOB and WP:V, I've been removing these dates of birth from the biographies. I've noticed that you are frequently editing the same articles within a day or two before or after me adding authority control and other cleanup stuff. I was wondering if as you come across these unreferenced DOBs, if you wouldn't mind removing them. You hit a lot more articles than I do and could do a lot more good than I do. Toddst1 (talk) 05:27, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Good evening from Coreca,
I am writing to greet you and to know how you are, I am well enough for now. I'm writing to ask you a favor as you participate in the Women in Red project, could you please help me improve the articles that I reported to you? Just an improvement of these extraordinary women and lives, you are a native English speaker, and I am sure you will be able to help me. As for Lori Jo Hendrix, I have links that are not really encyclopedic, but we could use them to get an idea. are the minibiography on Imdb and that of the model site of which he is a member. Please help me or at least point out some friend who can do it. greetings and see you soon!--Luigi Salvatore Vadacchino (talk) 17:19, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I have question concerning the structure of this page. why after several discussions and editing, still orphan and not linked. it seems this item is relevant to core occupations of Wiki community. I hold the same family name from my father side- was a computer and structural engineer himself. The reference that are provided are obscured. this is very intriguing. Be glad to have more information about the stat of this article and the editing consideration. Best regards.Lul.shmukl.er (talk) 07:49, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, you are popping up at quite a few of my article creations at the moment , such as here. What is the point of this? These people never wrote anything, don't have portraits etc and are long dead, so I don't think it is going to change. Your edit summaries seem to indicate that you are testing but you don't revert even though the template doesn't actually seem to have any effect on the article when viewed etc. I know you've wracked up millions of edits but a lot of them seem to have come from this (to me) mindless type of activity whose main impact seems to be to light up my watchlist. Since most items of my watchlist attract controversial edits of a far worse nature, your contributions can mask something more serious in the recent history.
I wouldn't mind if there was some gain but I'm not seeing it, sorry. Is this all part of the subtle (and rather dangerous) attempts to integrate with Wikidata? - Sitush (talk) 04:40, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Sitush: Well...I'm not convinced it's not going to change. The template may not have any effect now, but that doesn't mean that things won't change in the future (I've seen those authority controls developed for a lot of people for whom I wouldn't have expected to see them). Personally, I'm in favor of more integration with Wikidata. I do see the concerns - for that matter, I've got one or two of my own - but I think we're moving to a point where that integration does more good than harm. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.05:12, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it would be better to get consensus and do it by bot, or find out that there isn't consensus and don't do it. I personally oppose these additions, ceryainly the empty ones, but the use of the template in general. It should be replaced by one that is a) selective (only show ones that are useful for our readers on that specific article, e.g. a Swedish database only on articles directly connected to Sweden) and b) readable (give understandable name of the database, instead of some meaningless ID plus abbreviation only a few diehards recognise). Authority Control as it stands is not reader-oriented at all, and not well-thought out. Coupled with the quality problems it has (both because of Wikidata issues, and because of issues with some of the linked sources), it does now more harm than good. Fram (talk) 06:40, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Fram: I actually like the template as it stands now. And while I agree that Wikidata has its issues, a.) I think a lot of those are being ironed out, and b.) I think for good or ill, we're stuck with it, and we need to work with it.
Regardless. I thought the authority control issue had been settled, but I'm happy to start a discussion about its utility somewhere, or to chime in on one if it's started elsewhere. I can start it myself - just point me in the right direction. (I can think of several places to begin.) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.13:04, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If it's settled, then it would be better that a bot made these edits instead of a human making "test" edits by the thousands (I see you have now removed the "test" bit though). I still have no idea why anyone would believe that having this Norse page would be a useful addition to the page about a Dutch illustrator on the English Wikipedia. That's why we have Wikidata, for all these links which are correct but not of any value to 99.9% of our readers. And that's why we should only have links to a handful of informative, useful, readable such links on the page, not an indiscriminate dropzone. You just added the template to Jozef Cantré, a page I created. It has 9 AC links, but the BNE is useless here, ISNI is highly redundant, LoC, while in English, is barely informative here. Coupled with the for most readers meaningless abbreviations plus IDs (instead of slightly longer, more informative names without IDs), and you end up with something which could be a lot better and user-friendly, but is now created from the POV of a database. Fram (talk) 13:23, 9 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, dearest Ser Amantio di Nicolao, how are you? Me fine, here Autumn is arrived, just a little fresh more!
I opened yesterday this short page, and I ask you some minute of your time, please, to read an put in correct English the plot. Thanks a lot and hope to hear from you soon.
Thank you for the notification you provided on the need to better integrate this into the encyclopedia. I hope i was able to successfully address this concern. — Preceding [[Yasirruqaib (talk) 19:51, 14 October 2018 (UTC)]] comment added by Yasirruqaib (talk • contribs) 14:27, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
My mistake, I was looking for fiction, but short story and novelists are fine, sorry I am not experienced with these categories. ANyway, thanks again for all your excellent work.Fred (talk) 18:55, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You removed my addition of the death date of Joe Koenig as being unsourced. I am a friend of the family and cannot find any death notice using Google. I assure you that was his death date.
In case you do not get the pings, you have been mentioned at User_talk:BrownHairedGirl#Indian_writer_cats. I've long disliked your approach but it seems that I am at least not alone. Is there any chance, at least, of you checking whether I have edited an article before you edit it? And, if I have, thinking twice about whether your proposed edit is actually worthwhile? The articles I edit in the Indic sphere tend to be very problematic - hence the two sanctions regimes in place - and it doesn't help with monitoring things when mindless, semi-automated/fully automated trivial contributions light up my watchlist. I know you think your edits are important but usually, at least on the Indic stuff, they are not. That still leaves a vast swathe of stuff where you can indulge in your apparent obsession with increasing your edit count. - Sitush (talk) 07:18, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I wondered about your category edit on Flannery_O'Connor. Your edit indicates that she is from Connecticut, but she was born in Georgia. Perhaps you want to change it?
@BobCummings: She is in the category Category:People from Ridgefield, Connecticut, though, so it fits. Whether or not that category is accurate I cannot say...it appears, from the body of the text, to be potentially legitimate.
Found a remotely relevant policy at WP:DEFINITE. At the very end, under "Follow reliable sources for names of persons". It says to follow reliable sources. But in the conventions of english language while writing a name with initials, spaces between initials are mostly omitted. Mostly, but not always. Even though that policy doesnt say anything about spaces between initials, one of the examples provided (J. P. Morgan) does have spaces between the initials. In short, yeah, both are acceptable per the reliable sources. Apologies for the pointless discussion lol. See you around I made a correction in the previous comment. —usernamekiran(talk)17:29, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Non-notable sculptor, no in-depth independent sources located. Checked usual Google sources as well as AllAfrica.com and no results with this guy's name.
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No indication he meets WP:NARTIST. Only one independent source located, and it doesn't appear substantial to me. Checked usual Google and AllAfrica.com and found nothing else.
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Hello! I am messaging after reading the great profile about you and your work at the William & Mary alumni magazine. I am traveling to Virginia tomorrow (Thursday) as part of symposium at the Omohundro Institute on Friday called, "My Mother Was a Computer": Legacies of Gender and Technology. Here's a link to the program: Program Link. The following day (Saturday) I am also co-facilitating an edit-a-thon on the topic of #VastEarlyAmerica, link to announcement. In the planning of the event, I asked might there be other Wikipedians in the area I could get in touch with -- not realizing the current most active Wikipedian of all time was an alum of W&M!
I apologize for contacting you only a couple of days before the event, and not earlier. Still, I thought I would reach out and ask if there might be the slimmest chance that you'll be available to join us at all during the 10:00am to 2:00pm time period of the edit-a-thon. Also, do you know of anyone else that may be interested and/or available to join? Regardless of your answer, I hope this message finds you well and will alert folks at the edit-a-thon of your contributions and projects. --Vaparedes (talk) 07:43, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Vaparedes: Rats. Had I known about this earlier I might have been able to plan to come. As it stands, I don't think I can make it - it's just enough of a drive that I'd need to take the weekend, and I have some errands and things that I need to attend to. Sorry.
May I ask - who are you working with to facilitate the edit-a-thon at Swem? I did have a contact with whom I worked on an edit-a-thon a couple of years ago. Otherwise I don't know many people you could talk to - my contacts were more in the art/art history and music departments.
Also, have you dropped a note over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red regarding the 100 by 2019 initiative? I hadn't seen anything. We've got a couple of other things planned for this month and next, but adding a few early American women to the lists shouldn't be difficult. :-)
Glad you enjoyed the profile. :-) Sorry I can't join you - W&M remains a very special place to me, and I feel deeply honored/grateful to have had the chance to go to school there. Please let me know if you know of any other edit-a-thons next year, and I'll see if I'd be able to make them. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.16:11, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I suspected that you were busy or in the midst of an obsession (or is that just me?). I've been on a binge of starting or expanding articles on painters who won major prizes, but are now largely forgotten. This was inspired by an extraordinary painting I saw in a Philadelphia museum, by an artist I'd only vaguely heard of—The Hill Country by Walter Elmer Schofield. The local auction market for his works was very hot a decade ago – prices for Pennsylvania Impressionists skyrocketed in the 1990s because of competition among cable TV centi-millionaires – but have cooled. I may not be able to afford the artists, but I can research them. Best, BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 12:37, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, no, it's not just you - I have my obsessions, too. Haven't edited on one of them in a while, but I'll get back around to it sooner or later. :-)
I'm going to be in your neck of the woods for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, driving down Thursday morning and driving back Thursday night. My sister's going to have 8 houseguests, so she doesn't need more.
I used to come down every couple months or so to do research, but I haven't been down since September of last year. I work from home, so my schedule's pretty flexible. Maybe something near you. BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 03:07, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm Kiodos from Germany! Congratulation for your articles! Really cool!
I've just started writing here on Wikipedia. I only need your support to start positively!
I need help for this article https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Draft:Matthew_S
I did a considerable amount of research to find all the articles, there are Italian and foreign articles about this artist.
I would like to create articles about artists winning important contests. He won an MTV award.
I hope you could help me!
All the best,
--Kiodos (talk) 08:06, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Can you please sign this petition requesting certain historic photos be released for Wikimedia Commons? (Many of them are needed for Cosmonaut, WiR and Milhist projects) Please do spread the word of the petition to other Wikipedians too. Thanks, --PlanespotterA320 (talk) 23:13, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Searched Google, GBooks, GNews, AllAfrica.com, and found nothing about this sculptor except profiles on commercial art sales sites. The ref given in the article is a good example of the kind of unreliable sources I found - it's a group that sells sculptures so it has a direct commercial interest in the subject and is therefore not independent. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NARTIST.
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Searched Google, GBooks, GNews, AllAfrica.com, and found nothing about this sculptor except profiles on commercial art sales sites. The ref given in the article is a good example of the kind of unreliable sources I found - it's a group that sells sculptures so it has a direct commercial interest in the subject and is therefore not independent. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NARTIST. (This article is also a somewhat apparent paraphrase of the source, but not quite enough that I was comfortable G12ing it).
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Searched Google, GBooks, GNews, AllAfrica.com, and found nothing about this sculptor except profiles on commercial art sales sites. The ref given in the article is a good example of the kind of unreliable sources I found - it's a group that sells sculptures so it has a direct commercial interest in the subject and is therefore not independent. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NARTIST.
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Sue Draheim is unquestionably American and unquestionably a fiddler. What is the reason for removing her from the Category of American Fiddlers? Thank you.
Hi. Could you please move the players to the basketball club players list at Category:Asseco Gdynia players Since it is for players of the basketball club Arka Gdynia (basketball). The players got moved to the football club Arka Gdynia's players category Category:Arka Gdynia players. Thanks.Bluesangrel (talk) 03:33, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Searched Google, GBooks, GNews, AllAfrica.com, and found nothing about this sculptor except profiles on commercial art sales sites. The ref given in the article is a good example of the kind of unreliable sources I found - it's a group that sells sculptures so it has a direct commercial interest in the subject and is therefore not independent. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NARTIST. (This article is also a somewhat apparent paraphrase of the source, but not quite enough that I was comfortable G12ing it).
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Searched Google, GBooks, GNews, AllAfrica.com, and found nothing about this sculptor except profiles on commercial art sales sites and entries on lists in books. Nothing in-depth. The ref given in the article is a good example of the kind of unreliable sources I found - it's a group that sells sculptures so it has a direct commercial interest in the subject and is therefore not independent. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NARTIST. (This article is also a damn close paraphrase of the source, but not quite enough that I was comfortable G12ing it).
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Searched Google, GBooks, GNews, AllAfrica.com, and found nothing about this sculptor except profiles on commercial art sales sites. All three refs given in the article are good examples of the kind of unreliable sources I found - each one is a venue for sculpture sales, so they have a direct commercial interest in the subject and are therefore not independent. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NARTIST.
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Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, I've created a proposal to begin a WikiProject Georgetown University. Since you've been active in editing articles related to Georgetown University in the past, I thought you might be interested to know of this proposal. If you might like to participate in this proposed project or have thoughts on whether it's a good idea, I'd appreciate it if you weighed in. Ergo Sum05:25, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, if they're already Wikipedia editors, that would be great. If not, I don't think they'd be too interested in the potential project. Ergo Sum21:10, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi,
This is a politically contentious question that has come up before on Wikipedia. Although Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, N.I. citizens may identify themselves as British, or Irish, or both. They can also hold Irish and/or British passports. I don't know Billy Brown's politics or background, but I think it would be safer to use Northern Ireland categories only. Otherwise you assume that he identified with one or other tradition. Hope that helps. Jim Bruce (talk) 09:37, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, how’s is going. I was curious on you’re edit with the. Alentin Toledo page. My friend met him in Los Angeles & he is now homeless living in a community with other people under a bridge. He is trying to help him out as he told him who he was and his life and career stories. By any chance would you happen to know any information? Thanks! Hope to hear back from you. Czpz1994 (talk) 23:45, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Thank you for your quick response.
I did see several weeks ago that someone had sent something to the page...it appeared to be some sort of link invitation. Should I be accepting these invitations?
I have been unable to log in to my account "Encyclopediaeditor456" because my password was either changed or the account was altered.
I have had to create a new account to access edits made to the page.
I did not associate an email with the account.
How do I recover my password for Encyclopediaeditor456? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Encyclopediaeditor457 (talk • contribs) 03:44, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Dear Amantio di Nicolao - wouldn't there then have also to be a category "21th century women artist"? She is still living and working :-). Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 14:52, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You're wonderful! And so quick. Thanks a lot. When i write on another artist, i will try to remember to add these categories! Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 14:56, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Ser: From my watchlist I see that you've recently put Mollie Orshansky and John Whitefield Kendrick into the Category: Mathematicians from New York (state). Why? These were highly notable economic statisticians, whose math was fine so far as I know, but they were the kind of statisticians who classified and organized economic information. They aren't normally called mathematicians by people in their fields. I don't know that they created new math or specialized in advanced math. -- econterms (talk) 17:51, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I note that you give his birthday as October 26, 1941. The month and day are correct, the year isn't. I am Tristan's first cousin and we spent our early years living in the same house together. I was born in August 1944 and was about 3 years old when Tristan was born. I believe you will find his correct birth year was 1947. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.119.234.213 (talk) 01:33, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Gerda Arendt: It's less the numbers that I'm concerned about; it's more the category structure. I'll get to it in a little while this morning, but it will take a bit of investigation to ensure the category structure is correct. As for the other item...I think that's likely to be an issue for WP:CFD, given the numbers involved. (Being a Protestant myself, I'd best be careful where I wade into in that discussion.) :-) --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa.14:26, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps we Protestants are more independent regarding that matter ;) - The church played a role in my personal history, as you may have guessed, - I really liked adding ecumenical and ecological to its lead. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:29, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Ser,
Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that
Nobody could have had a noisier Christmas Eve. And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?"
My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk20:59, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao,
Lollius Bassus has no inline citation and I tagged its header that it needs more inline citation. Looks like someone removed it. Is it worth putting it back? Thanks, SWP13 (talk) 07:26, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
First, thanks for your interest in this page.
I do need to draw your attention to a problem with the artist website though - this site got taken over recently - and 'efforts are ongoing' to recover the rights to it.
the main result at the moment is that this link is dead, although wayback machine links should work.
edit: the www.ngaiire.com url is alive again - so it appears that this is how the issue is solved. I'll edit the link to this, and please feel free to do anything else that may be required
Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, Thanks for all your help and thanks for all your contributions to the 'pedia,
Greetings. With this (long ago) edit, you designated TR as a "20th Century opera singer." There's nothing to verify that which I've been able to find, including a self-described fan page and an interview. My guess is you were building on the then existing "American opera singer" category, also undocumented and inserted by a long gone numbered loose cannon. If you know better than moi, and have documentation, please correct me. Regards Tapered (talk) 06:13, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ser Amantio di Nicolao, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, Thanks for all your help and thanks for all your contributions to the 'pedia,
Hello Ser Amantio di Nicolao, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Happy editing, 7&6=thirteen (☎)20:18, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello Sir,
I have attempted to update the image on Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Director Peter Navarro's page with an official image from wikimedia commons that is from his WhiteHouse.gov page, https://www.whitehouse.gov/people/peter-navarro/ ,however the image isn't uploading properly. Could you see if you can get the image to appear?
Dear Ser Amantio di Nicolao,
thank you for working on the categories on the Thomas McEvilley page
I have done a little adding current publications fixing a broken link for his author page ( it still doesn't look right)
but I don't know how to add a category and would very much like to have him in 20th Century American Novelist if there is such a category.
art criticism was his day job but his passion was poetry and the novel
Part Going, North of Yesterday and the Arimaspia.
thank you
and happy new year
Lblackcloud (talk) 22:45, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm aware of Find-a-Grave's issues; I try to link to it as sparingly as possible. In this instance, the birthdate is actually backed up by another site as well (save for a difference of a day...given the time period involved, this is not something that concerned me unduly.) Where that site gets its info I don't know.
I made a correction in the previous comment. —usernamekiran(talk) 17:29, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
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