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These edits are great! One of the things we need most in the Novels topic area is to provide more sources to our readers related to the novels we cover. I don't think very many people are aware of the number of reviews available for a lot of fiction, and providing the sources also helps prove their WP:Notability. Lately I have been doing the exact same thing: browsing through articles about novels and adding citations about the reviews that way if someone who knows the book better then I do comes along, they can expand it with WP:Reliable sources. Keep it up! and I am glad to see someone else working in the Novels topic area! Happy editing! Sadads ( talk) 20:10, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks Sadads! You too -- and Happy New Year. You do great stuff and I was really flattered by the thumbs up. Zoidbergmd ( talk) 20:16, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
On 3 January 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article The Wettest County in the World, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that novelist Matt Bondurant is the grandson of one of the main characters portrayed in his 2008 novel, The Wettest County in the World? 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. |
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Yes, it isn't worth the AfD its written on, but db-nonsense?? NLinpublic ( talk) 20:05, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Sadads, would you be interested in reviewing The Hobbit? I think as of now it should at least be an A class and maybe we can even push it to feature level without too much effort. Regards, De728631 ( talk) 20:37, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you reverted an IP at Quartet on the Middle East for adding the U.K. to the article. The U.K. is still listed in the "Representatives" section, on account of Tony Blair's involvement in the Quartet – but maybe there should only be four countries there, since Blair isn't officially representing the U.K.— Biosketch ( talk) 17:17, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, i agree with your redirect you made to Looky looky men, the original creator thinks otherwise and has reverted your change. where would we go from here please? Thanks -- JetBlast ( talk) 23:35, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the edits to the pie article. :) Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 14:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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I recently made an article on Ming-hsin pao-chien, an ancient Chinese book of aphorisms. If you have time to have a look and bring it in line with other book articles, I would appreciate it. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:15, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
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You are invited to a discussion on the merging of the articles Touring car and Tourer at Talk:Touring car#Merge proposal. I look forward to your participation and insight. Sincerely, SamBlob ( talk) 01:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello Saddads. Thanks for the barnstar. Along with other editors I've been getting the Thomas Jefferson page in shape for the last couple of years. We had to go through a lot of edit wars and debates to do it, but finally the page is shaping up. I just started on the Fenimore page. If you like Ships and Naval history I recently created List of ships captured in the 19th century and Blockade runners of the American Civil War you may want to check out. All the best. -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 18:33, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Please do not move articles to insert the (United States) or other country disambiguator, unless there are two or more units/formations with the same name, in accordance with the MILMOS. The three Armoured Cavalry Regiments, at the very least, are unique in any land force. Buckshot06 (talk) 00:38, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
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Aye Saddads, there is a note for you at the James Fenimore Cooper talk page. -- Gwillhickers ( talk) 22:24, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
The correct date would have been may 2012 as the article did not exist in may 2011
Hi. Thanks for the welcome message. If you get a chance check out the page for the Chandler novel The Little Sister I made some significant changes. Essentially, I've: 1) Added a real plot summary 2) Moved a story about Billy Wilder into a new Background section that I created 3) Reformatted and added three references. I haven't submitted the page for a formal review yet because I've been working from memory of the novel. I recently re-read it so I'm confident the plot summary I wrote is accurate but I want to double check before submitting it. Also, I can't remember the name of the gangster or the doctor. I have the book at home but I'm travelling and won't be home until August 1. In the mean time I'm trying to get an electronic copy of the book via my library. They have one copy and its currently checked out, I think I'm next in line. BTW, is there a collaboration page where it would be appropriate to ask a question such as "can someone look up the names of the doctor and gangster in Little Sister"? I thought it was too specific a question, more for the novel community not for the Tea House. Its not a big deal anyway, I can just wait until I get my hands on a copy of the book. I would also appreciate any general feedback on what I've done so far if you have the chance. I'm not competely satisfied with the plot summary, I usually write better than that, its really still work in progress but I got to the point where I thought what I had was obviously so much better than what was currently live that I thought it was worthwhile to get experience making a major change anyway. Also, just fyi since I'm not at home I'm doing all this on my iPad which is working fine but its still not quite as easy to view and edit as a desktop so I'm not being quite as dilligent as I normally would. Oh, one more side note I've been including the four tildas in the comments that describe my changes which I now think is wrong, as when I look at the comments I actually see four tildas. I think I misunderstood that usage and that its not necessary to use them when describing an edit only when adding to a talk page like this: Mdebellis ( talk) 20:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Sadads, thanks for the reply on my talk page. That all sounds good. I will check out the references you provided. Also, fyi I got the Cambridge Companion (a series recommended in the novels page) for Crime Fiction and have been reading through the sections relevant to Chandler. To be honest I'm not thrilled with it so far, its pretty stuffy, IMO the author of the particular chapter is too much of an academic to really get writers like Chandler and Hammet but still reading and hopefully will find some useful stuff. I'm just going to wait until I can get my hands on a copy of The Little Sister or see if anyone responds on the Talk page rather than post additional requests for help. I realize how overworked the editors are and its not like this is the most crucial novel, not even the most crucial Chandler novel for that matter. Oh, one last question is there a page that talks about the various reference formats? I couldn't find one. I've been just copying and editing existing references which is working ok but if there is a page that defines specific standards for citing chapters in books, intros to books, etc I would like to see it. Thanks again for the feedback and help so far. Mdebellis ( talk) 17:27, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for assigning autopatrolled permission to me. -- Meno25 ( talk) 19:29, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Sadads, Maryana here :) Just wanted to say it was a pleasure meeting you in D.C. this weekend, and thank you for your help in brainstorming/planning the cleanup template experiment. We're going to be tidying up that page in the next couple of weeks and finding a good time to run the actual test, so feel free to leave any additional suggestions or comments on the talk page. Hope to see you again IRL sometime soon, and in the meantime, catch you on the wikis! Accedie talk to me 19:22, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Good, simple tweaks to Satellite Sentinel Project. JohnInDC ( talk) 19:58, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Sadads,
I appreciate your assistance with the Military History Detachments page. I have picked up this project after talking with the folks in the Field Programs division. We here at CMH will be doing several more addiitons to the page as we try to get it up to where it belongs. I've been at CMH since March of 2012. I got my Masters in Hsitory from James Madison in 1990. Vmijeb85 ( talk) 20:27, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
Please read. -- Rsrikanth05 ( talk) 10:03, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
My source is me. You see I am related to him and my last name has the fitst "s" capatilized. I thought that we could show him and my family respect by spelling his name right. It might be unusal that it has two capital letters but it means "son of Simon" so the "s" must be capatilized. Thanks Jacklax100 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacklax100 ( talk • contribs) 13:40, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
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Hello. There's a merger proposal relating to an article or articles you've contributed to, relating to the Ramona Quimby books. You are invited to read about and discuss it here: Talk:Ramona (novel series)#Merger Proposal. Thank you. Tlqk56 ( talk) 00:13, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Do you know anything about the DYK section of the Children's Lit portal? Is it still active, or will those three facts just stay there forever? I'm asking because I've had a couple of kid lit DYKs on the main page, and I can't figure out how to get them on the portal. Or if I should bother. It just seems a pity to have it there and not use it. Thanks for any help you can give me. Tlqk56 ( talk) 01:30, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
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That should be the case 'cause I haven't done anything. You see I'm pretty much new to Wikipedia and I don't pretty much remember making such huge removal from the page. Well, it must have been a mistake. I've done quite a few editing the other day which was definitely so puzzling and the internet connection was pretty botched. Well thanks a lot for the revisions you've done. :) Tonylennox ( talk) 04:10, 26 July 2012 (UTC) |
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Hi Sadads, you helped me with some basic questions a while ago. I have been working on The Little Sister and while it still needs a lot of work I think its at a point where it might be more than a stub and I could use some feedback. I'm not sure what the next step is so thought I would see if you can help. thanks, Mdebellis ( talk) 01:52, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Sadads. I noticed that you're a member of the group responsible for editing and maintaining the War and Peace article. I'm currently working with a theater that's in the middle of a production [1] based off of a portion of War and Peace. One of my jobs at the moment is to find little interesting facts, tidbits, etc to give a bit of flavor for audiences reading our Twitter, FB, etc. Given how little I know about the original novel, I really don't know where to start. I was wondering if you'd be willing to offer me some advice of themes to look into, point me in the right direction, etc? I'm inclined to look at historical context and/or modern events that closely relate to the portion the play is based on (I *think* it's Book 8, but I'm not positive), and could use as much help as I can get. :-) Thanks in advance. RunnerOnIce ( talk) 22:04, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Please see the discussion on the talk page regarding the sections in question. The thread is titled "Organization". Automatic Strikeout 04:23, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
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I removed the stub tag from Edward H. Watson. It's over a page long, sections, references, even an image of the subject -- lots of stubs are just a couple of sentences, this looks like a decent short article but not a stub to me. Brianhe ( talk) 17:42, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
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I'm in Omaha, but may try and make it if the weather permits...but you might regret inviting me since I am the notorious -- MONGO 22:17, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.
You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.
Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Wikipedia:Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.
If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.
First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.
Once you've got the ambassador rights, please set up at a Campus and/or Online Ambassador profile. You can do so at:
Going forward, the lists of Ambassadors at Special:CampusAmbassadors and Special:OnlineAmbassadors will be the official roster of who is an active Ambassador. If you would like to be an Ambassador but not ready to serve this term, you can un-check the option in your profile to publicly list it (which will remove your profile from the list).
After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)
As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Wikipedia:Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.
In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:
We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)
Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.
The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.
Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!
-- Sage Ross (WMF) ( talk) 20:43, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hoping your JMU loyalty runs depp - doing another course this semester and am having trouble with some of the new procedures. I created the course (Intro to Org. Comm. at JMU) and created a Token for students to use to join buyt we have looked everywhere and can't find out how to link them to the course or enroll them. What am I missing? I don't have ambassadors yet to turn to. Thanks for your help! Comm Prof LLB 16:29, 25 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Llbritt ( talk • contribs)
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An article you worked on Adaptations of Jane Eyre, appears to be directly copied from http://www.gradesaver.com/jane-eyre/wikipedia/adaptations/. Please take a minute to make sure that the text is freely licensed and properly attributed as a reference, otherwise the article may be deleted.
It's entirely possible that this bot made a mistake, so please feel free to remove this notice and the tag it placed on Adaptations of Jane Eyre if necessary. MadmanBot ( talk) 15:09, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
I have opened a Request for comment related to Category:French novels and Category:German novels, in which your edits are mentioned. Andreasm just talk to me 19:11, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, it was nice to meet with you at the meetup. we were really happy to get the swag and find out about all the projects. you really made the meetup valuable and I am so happy you had a laptop as well. So I created a GLAM group for kansas, mailing list for topeka and a facebook page linked from here Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka . I would like to organize some more meetups at different historic sites in topeka, go there and take photos, collect infomation and work on the articles. It could be a great group event. please let me know what you think, and sign up on the mailing list if you like. we also took pictures of the evening if you want to review them or publish some. I will see if I can get a good presentation for a GLAM institution for you to come to. thanks, James Michael DuPont ( talk) 13:54, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for Happy Hour at the Capitol City Brewery at Metro Center on Thursday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 34. Hope to see you there! Harej ( talk) 02:18, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
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Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Guapo's at Tenleytown-AU on Saturday, March 9 at 5 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 35. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 13:53, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
responding on my page... also started a Talk on the agribusiness page... thanks for reaching out! Jytdog ( talk) 20:35, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
Are you sure this merits C-class at this stage? The article is almost entirely cited to questionable non-RS material and is largely written from a promotional point of view. An editor recently expressed this concern on talk. SPECIFICO talk 21:54, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class, but fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective.
In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays ( talk) 23:08, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
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Many thanks for dealing with this so quickly and for the useful comments. Rwood128 ( talk) 00:29, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that bit of the Louis Mink article, all makes sense! XanthamNide ( talk) 21:50, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
Please join Wikimedia DC for a social meetup and dinner at Vapiano (near Farragut North/Farragut West) on Saturday, April 13 at 5:30 PM All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!
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