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January 2013
Rolling Stone Archives - Two Steps from the Blues
Hello,
I don't have access to the Rolling Stone archives, such as to
the December 10, 2003 review, and the other May 30, 1969 review may be also helpful. Regards.--
Tomcat(
7) 12:03, 2 January 2013 (UTC)reply
The 2003 review is part of their "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". It is very brief so I'll just paste it here.
GabrielF (
talk) 13:51, 2 January 2013 (UTC)reply
215; Two Steps From the Blues
Bobby Bland
BEAT GOES ON 1961
THIS COLLECTION OF THE blues singer's 1958-1961 singles was recorded after Bland had his tonsils removed and lost some of his upper register. The result — an even more stirring, guttural howl — is epitomized by "Little Boy Blue" and "Cry, Cry, Cry," which erase any distinction between blues and soul.
Under 500,000 • —
Citation: Blashill, P, Curtis, A, Edmonds, B, Edwards, G, Eliscu, J, Frickle, D, Kemp, M, Kot, G, Levy, J, Puterbaugh, P, Scaggs, A, Schoemer, K, Scoppa, B, Sheffield, R, Thigpen, D, & Walters, B 2003, 'THE 500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME', Rolling Stone, 937, pp. 83-178, Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost, viewed 2 January 2013.
Library Support
Disregard
Greetings,
I'm searching for the following book on the Maoroccan Crisis of 1911: "Deutschland und England in Marokko und Tripolis unsere Politik in Gegenwart und Zukunft". Unfortunately it is not available in any library here in the UK. According to the Worldcat (
[1]) the only copies that are still in existence are located in the US. To be specific the New York Public Library, the Harvard College Library and the Harvard Law School Library are still in possession of that book. I presume that this book in an old doctoral thesis. Since I'd like to know more about the author I was wondering whether there is someone around, who has access to the aforementioned libraries can spare 5 to 10 minutes to pick up a copy of that book and check whether there it contains a curriculum vitae of the author, as was customary back in that time. If that should be the case I'd be grateful if the person checking out the book could transcribe the curriculum vitae and post it here. Since the curricula vitae in doctoral theses were very brief (8 to 12 lines in a rather big typ-size on average) it really is just a matter of 2-3 minues to carry out the task - even if you do not understand the language. If it really is adoctoral thesis I'd furtheremore be interested into the text of the front-page ("Inaugural dissertation written by...") and into the brief info on the second an third page (normally 2 lines giving the names of the professors who were assigned to review the paper and a two-line dedication of the work such as "to my parents"). If anyone can help me - Thank you very much indeed in advance!
R.J.K.O.83 (
talk) 02:53, 8 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Since this is your first Wikipedia edit, could you please clarify whether you you are looking for this source in order to write or edit a wikipedia article?
GabrielF (
talk) 03:12, 8 January 2013 (UTC)reply
I have written Wikipedia articles before. However, since I am a semi-regular user and not too much of a technical aficinoado, I never bothered to register for a regular user-account. My interest regarding the aforementioned book is two-fold: For one thing I am interested in the matter for the sake of it. But I have also started an article on the author of the book, a man by the name of
Axel Ripke who is probably most-notable for his role as a propagandist during World War I and as an early mentor of Joseph Goebbels. I hope that the article is adequate proof of the honourableness of my request and my readiness to incorporate any useable findings into the Wikipedia.
R.J.K.O.83 (
talk) 04:53, 9 January 2013 (UTC)reply
OK I will try to locate this for you. I do not read German but I'll do my best.
GabrielF (
talk) 20:55, 9 January 2013 (UTC)reply
It surprises me, that there is only
one catalogue record in Germany. But it is marked as "lost due to the war". May I have this, too, please? --
тнояsтеn⇔ 21:48, 9 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Print
OCLC252573188 Microfilm
OCLC24597228Deutschland und England in Marokko und Tripolis (whereas unsere Politik in Gegenwart und Zukunft seems to be a subtitle, which may be omitted in some cataloguing.)
LeadSongDogcome howl! 04:29, 23 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Irish Times story: Williams, Brendan (5 May 2007).
"Anomaly of Offaly rainfall explained". The Irish Times. {{
cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (
help)(subscription required). It might be 26 May 2007 though as the archive says 5 May but the search returns 26 May --Senra (
talk) 01:25, 10 January 2013 (UTC)reply
I cannot locate this in LexisNexis. I've found that sometimes wire service and other articles don't show up though.
GabrielF (
talk) 02:59, 10 January 2013 (UTC)reply
A giant marine reptile from Bedfordshire
Any chance of seeing this paper? Newman, B & Tarlo, B. 1967:A giant marine reptile from Bedfordshire. Animals10(2): 61–63. --Senra (
talk) 13:21, 11 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Its not clear what kind of journal it is.As the journal "Animal" that I found in the net is only few years old.My guess the journal probably changed its name or don't exist anymore but there maybe some issues in the libraries.--
Shrike (
talk)/
WP:RX 13:56, 11 January 2013 (UTC)reply
From Dietz, LF & Sarjeant, W A S 1993. L. B. Halstead: A bibliography of his published writings. Modern Geology. Vol. 18. 61–81 p. 64 we see the paper we require. I can't help any further. If this cannot be found on-line, let me know and I will request it at the library --Senra (
talk) 14:37, 11 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Abswurmbachite
Could I have:
Reinecke, T., E. Tillmanns, and H.-J. Bernhardt (1991) Abswurmbachite, Cu2+Mn3+6[O8/SiO4]; a new mineral of the braunite group: natural occurrence, synthesis, and crystal structure. Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Abh., 163, 117-143.
That journal is
OCLC263593336. Note that Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie. Abhandlungen at the time was a separate publication from Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie. Monatscefte though they are now merged under Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie. Abhandlungen. It's held
in Zurich, probably other places too.
LeadSongDogcome howl! 19:10, 14 January 2013 (UTC)reply
article on Studia Iranica
hi. can anyone give me : C. E. Bosworth, “Rulers of Makrān and Quṣdār in the Early Islamic Period,” Studia Iranica 23, 1994, pp. 199-209.
link --
Espiral (
talk) 07:57, 12 January 2013 (UTC)reply
i don`t have access to these libraries. can anyone send me this article as email ?--
Espiral (
talk) 09:40, 15 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Archiv für Molluskenkunde
Fulltext would be fine to be sure that the Xanthonychoidea is updated completely.
Thompson F. G. & Naranjo-García E. (2012). "Echinichidae, a new family of dart-bearing helicoid slugs from Mexico, with the description of a new genus and three new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychoidea)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde141(2): 197-208.
doi:
10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/197-208.
For clarity, that's the one published by the
United States Naval Institute - plenty of other organisations publish Proceedings of their own,
PNAS being a leading example.
Le Deluge (
talk) 19:50, 17 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Annual reports of Scantlin Electronics Inc. / Quotron Systems Inc.
I am writing an article on Quotron, see the
draft. Scantlin Electronics Inc. (SEI) was taken public as a non-listed stock in October 1960 with Loeb, Rhoades & Co. as the underwriter. In 1973 the company was renamed to Quotron Systems Inc. In 1985, Citibank acquired the majority of the shares. I am looking for IPO filings, annual reports and similar filings from the time of 1960 until 1985. I looked into the EDGAR database without success, but I am assuming that there be some other SEC filings, listed or not. Thank you. --
Minderbinder-de (
talk) 21:08, 27 January 2013 (UTC)reply
Highbeam finds 198 hits on "Quotron", mostly news stories.
LeadSongDogcome howl! 17:25, 29 January 2013 (UTC)reply
February 2013
Maslamah
Hello! I would be grateful for access to:
Francesco Gabrieli, "L'eroe omayyade Maslamah Ibn ‘Abd al-Malik", Rendiconti Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, ser. 8, V (1950), pp. 22-39.
I'm not sure that's the correct listing. Volume 8 for that title was published 1977-1989, but Constantine's information says it should be 1950. I'm thinking that it might be this listing
[4]. Series 8 v.5 was published in 1950.
GabrielF (
talk) 16:35, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
You're likely correct. The cataloguing of that journal on Worldcat is a proper ratsnest. (Worldcat really does not do well with journals having multiple series.) It looks like the 1950 entry is Series 8a Volume 5, which shows under Hollis 001913337 as being in Biblioteca Berenson at barcode 32044103297099.
LeadSongDogcome howl! 17:56, 6 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Fortune 1000
Hi big thanks for the 2012 Fortune 501-1000 list. If possible the city of their headquarters listed along with the company names but not a deal breaker if you can only get the ranks and names of companies. Thanks!
I looked through the Fortune archives for the year 2012 and I only saw data for the Fortune 500. Are you sure that they published a Fortune 1000 list in 2012?
GabrielF (
talk) 18:32, 7 February 2013 (UTC)reply
The Alleppey Company and the Theodore Family of Stevedores
Disregard
Brief citation of the requested materials. --
115.242.189.57 (
talk) 06:15, 7 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Is that a title, a publisher, a corporate author, or what? You'll need to be a bit more specific for us to be able to help you. What article is it needed for?
LeadSongDogcome howl! 19:00, 8 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Platypus
Hi, i'm looking for:
Musser AM (1998). Evolution, biogeography and palaeontology of the Ornithorhynchidae. Australian Mammalogy 20, 147–162. 155. [i can´t find a link for publisher]
Australian Mammalogy Catalogue – apparently this 1998 article is not officially electronically available (even to members) yet. Reading a hard copy or perhaps getting a scanned copy appear the only options at the moment. ——--
macropneuma 03:32, 9 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Vassilios Christides, "Arab–Byzantine struggle in the sea: naval tactics (AD 7th–11th centuries): theory and practice", in Aspects of Arab Seafaring: an attempt to fill in the gaps of maritime history, ed. Y.Y. al-Hijji and V. Christides (Athens, 2002),
ISBN960-873300-6, pp. 87–101.
Vassilios Christides, "The naval engagement of Dhat as-Sawari A.H. 34/A.D. 655-656 a classical example of naval warfare incompetence"in Byzantina Vol. 13 No. 2 (Athens, 1985),
ISSN1105-0772, pp. 1329-1346 (there's an online version
here but it requires an account)
N. Stratos, "The Naval engagement at Phoenix", in Charanis Studies: Essays in honor of Peter Charanis, ed. A. E. Laiou-Thomadakis (New Brunswick, 1980),
ISBN9780813508757 pp. 229–47.
Rashad Odetallah Khouri, "Leo Tripolites - Ghulám Zuráfa and the Sack of Thessaloniki in 904", in Byzantinoslavica Vol. 56 No. 1 (1995),
ISSN0007-7712, pp. 97-102.
David Olster, "Theodosius Grammaticus and the Arab Siege of 674-78" in Byzantinoslavica Vol. 56 No. 1 (1995),
ISSN0007-7712, pp. 23-28. (online for payment
here)
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help! --
Constantine ✍ 20:43, 15 February 2013 (UTC)reply
I'm trying to get hold on a medical
article from this journal: Reviews in Neurosciences (De Gruyter).
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help! - --
Ollac21 (
talk) 17:27, 20 February 2013 (UTC)reply
This is your only edit to Wikipedia. Could you tell us what you intend to contribute on by receiving this article?
OhanaUnitedTalk page 22:06, 20 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Does this report mention ingesting colloidal silver?
Does
PMID22327273 mention ingesting colloidal silver? The abstract does not, but we'd like someone with access to the full article content to see if it's mentioned anywhere. Thanks... Zad68 17:14, 26 February 2013 (UTC)reply
I just checked, and there isn't even mention of "colloidal".
Chris857 (
talk) 17:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)reply
Kinda what I expected, thanks. Zad68 18:05, 26 February 2013 (UTC)reply
"Neither the press release nor the paper mention colloidal silver or any variation on that term." - I have already said, that saying silver and colloidal silver is almost the same, and in this article it is the same. With what stories the internet awash? Nobody tried to consume chunks of silver, right? The only form people have been consuming is cs. The word "colloidal" is generally a confusing one for the majority of the people. But it takes just one minute to read the wiki article on "colloidal" to understand that it doesn't make much difference. It is still makes a general definition. By saying "colloidal" you don't define what kind of silver, what molecule or atoms or any configuration of silver. So you may as well not to say it at all, as they have choosen to do in the article. In this case instead of saying "colloidal silver" they say "silver" and mean the same thing. Additional link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202094700.htm. (I would like to point to "Story Source: The above story is reprinted from materials provided by University of Leeds.)
I have removed "resolved" tag, sorry if I'm not allowed to do that.
My questions are: Is that article mentions "silver"? And a second question, can it be considered as a colloidal silver? For the "colloidal silver" has two definitions:
a)Layperson definition: Any silver-based substance intended for ingestion or external application.
b)Scientific definition which means that silver should be microscopically evenly dispersed into another medium. (This definition stems from wiki article "colloidal".
I would like to point, that both definitions are general ones. They do not include the characterization of the type of silver being used, it's atomic or molecular structure. (All the silver intended for ingestion is essentially is a colloidal one, otherwise it would be just a piece of a silver.) So "silver", "colloidal silver" and "nano silver" mean absolutely the same thing. Its clear that in the press release when they use "silver" they don't mean "pieces of ordinary silver".
Ryanspir (
talk) 15:34, 27 February 2013 (UTC)reply
I have
strong reason to believe that the earliest edits of the article
RAF Merryfield consists of digitized content from this book. If possible, I'd be extremely grateful for assistance in comparing the relevant passages from the book to this article. It seems to be a prominent one, as it is still available for purchase on Amazon UK, so I'm really hoping that somebody might have a copy or have access to it via their library. Can you help? :) --
Moonriddengirl(talk) 13:11, 2 March 2013 (UTC)reply
San Francisco Chronicle (1992)
I've been having difficulty tracking down sources in the San Francisco Chronicle pre-1993. I don't have access to microfiche at the moment, but if that is the only place these two articles can be found, please let me know. I'm currently looking for copies of:
Ron Sonenshine, "DA Drops Brownie Mary Charges," San Francisco Chronicle, 12/16/92.
Editorial, "Potluck For Mary," San Francisco Chronicle, 12/20/92, A18.
Thanks for any help (or pointers in the right direction).
Viriditas (
talk) 03:40, 3 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Article on the Kornilov affair
I am extending the Spanish Kornilov affair article and I cannot find the following one that I would like to use there:
Saul, Norman E., "British Involvement in the Kornilov Affair", Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal Vol. 10 (1973), No. 1, pp. 43-50
Could someone get it me a copy please? Thanks in advance.--
Rowanwindwhistler (
talk) 09:43, 4 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Even if it's located, how reliable and neutral can a 40-year old article be on this? It was written at a time before the fall of the former Soviet Union and the opening of their archives. It may be better to look for more current scholarship.
LeadSongDogcome howl! 18:07, 4 March 2013 (UTC)reply
In Chinese article of francium hydroxide it is claimed that francium hydroxide is soluble in water(In English article of francium there is a similar claim using the same source says"Nearly all francium salts are water-soluble.") along with this source:Maddock, A. G. (1951). "Radioactivity of the heavy elements". Q. Rev., Chem. Soc. 3 (3): 270–314.
doi:
10.1039/QR9510500270., but I can't know from the abstract that if this article says anything about solubility of francium salts.--
Inspector (
talk) 07:52, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
It says:
The element is the heaviest alkali metal and, as might be predicted, possesses very few characteristic co-deposition reactions; but it can be separated from other elements, cesium or rubidium being used as carrier, on the perchlorate, picrate, or phosphotungstate after removal of most other metals by the addition of sodium hydroxide and carbonate. Since nearly all francium salts are soluble and because its radiation characteristics are distinctive, the separation and estimation of the actinium-K has been proposed as a method of assaying actinium. (p. 280)
Thanks after all. Are there any descriptions on how they arrived to this conclusion? Is it original research to apply it to a specific case, e.g to say that FrOH is soluble in water(it might be deduced otherwise by the solubility of other alkali metal hydroxides)?--
Inspector (
talk) 10:02, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
He writes nothing more on the matter and cites nothing. So you have to trust the author's word. Author: Dr. Alfred Maddock, DIC, MRSC, Sc.D., CTH, D.C., Louvain, [Cambridge University:] Assistant Director of Research in Radiochemistry, 1947–52, Lecturer in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, 1953–62, Reader in Radiochemistry, 1962–84, Fellow and Emeritus Fellow of St Catharine’s College, 1959–2009. Paper from 1951.--Atethnekos(
Discussion,
Contributions) 10:30, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
So, is it sufficiently a reliable source and significant enough for inclusion in article?--
Inspector (
talk) 11:55, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
I would guess so. The only issue may be that research on the topic was poor before more recent times, such that those views are outdated. I would guess that research on solubility of salts would be well-established in the mid-20th century. However, as I said, I don't know chemistry, so that is just a guess. The author's credentials are impeccable, and the paper is written in a respectable journal. --Atethnekos(
Discussion,
Contributions) 20:19, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
And supporting the notability of a number of salts?--
Inspector (
talk) 00:39, 10 March 2013 (UTC)reply
I guess just say "claimed to be soluble..."Is a moderate way to say this.--
Inspector (
talk) 02:57, 12 March 2013 (UTC)reply
You can't use a source saying "nearly all francium salts are soluble" to write in Wikipedia that francium hydroxide is soluble. It is obviously an example of original research. Somewhere out there is a suitable reference...
Zerotalk 01:40, 10 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Simple OED request
For article BDSM (see bottom of discussion page
Talk:BDSM), is "BDSM" included in the current updated OED database, and if so, what's the earliest citation? (Not interested in the full definition, just the earliest-dated citation.) Thanks!
AnonMoos (
talk) 08:33, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
There is no entry, "BDSM". "BDSM" occurs in the entry "pleasing":
2004 Lisa Chapters 1 thru 6 (BDSM Subliminal) in alt.sex.stories.bondage (Usenet newsgroup) 26 May, Caressing her head, I compliment on how much she has improved in her pleasing of me.)
And in the Draft Addition (June 2012) for "dominant":
2007 Guardian 20 Sept. (G2 section) 17/3 You are both turned on by the type of erotic play broadly known as BDSM.., but whereas he enjoys being both a ‘bottom’ and a ‘top’ (playing either a submissive or dominant role), you are only comfortable being a ‘bottom’.
Thanks for info (and the Usenet cite for "pleasing" is certainly interesting!), but these are much later than the earliest date that Google Groups gives (June 1991), so it doesn't resolve any of the open questions about the origin of the term...
AnonMoos (
talk) 09:31, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Google Advanced Books search is completely ignoring the "search by date" restrictions, so that's no help...
AnonMoos (
talk) 09:54, 9 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Prediction derived from trends of other elements in the group
Jean D'Ans, Ellen Lax: Taschenbuch für Chemiker und Physiker. 3. Elemente, anorganische Verbindungen und Materialien, Minerale, Band 3. 4. Auflage, Springer, 1997,
ISBN978-3-5406-0035-0, S. 692 ([6], p. 692, at
Google Books).
They might try to find some sources related to those, but I guess this is the right place when I am not sure whether a particular source is related to such claims. Make the question clear: do these two books relate to francium sulfide? I tried to see some previews when available, but there seemed to be no such description.--
Inspector (
talk) 09:24, 10 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Peter Viemeister's The Beale Treasure: History of a Mystery
Recently I have improved the Beale cipher article in Chinese wikipedia, and I am confused about some events mentioned in Simon Singh's The Code Book as I cannot find additional resources on internet to verify them and establish their importance. I guess Singh might have taken reference from Viemeister's book, so I would like to know if anyone have this book.
Some events mentioned in Simon Singh's The Code Book:
"Among the most ardent treasure hunters attracted to the Beale ciphers were the Hart brothers, George and Clayton....One of the Harts’ tentative decipherments encouraged them to use dynamite to excavate a particular site; unfortunately, the resulting crater yielded no gold. Although Clayton Hart gave up in 1912, George continued working on the Beale ciphers until 1952"(p.90)
"For example, there is a Cheyenne legend datingfrom around 1820 that tells of gold and silver being taken from the West and buried in eastern mountains."(p.93)
Joseph Jancik, Marilyn Parsons and theri dog Muffin were found digging in Mountain View Church. They were fined $500 and taken custody.
"[Carl] Hammer has been a prominent member of the Beale Cypher and Treasure Association, founded in the 1960s to encourage interest in the Beale mystery. Initially, the Association required that any member who discovered the treasure should shareit with the other members, but this obligation seemed to deter many Beale prospectors from joining, and so the Association soon dropped the condition." Well for this I found there do exist some
infos that a "Beale Cypher Association" was established in 1968, and "Beale Cypher Association" is more commonly used name yields more google results. However, the association does not seem to have a website.
Seemed still some other are missing from that online pdf, so I will add more once I find my book.--
Inspector (
talk) 06:37, 15 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Sorry, but I had Simon Singh's book already. I don't know if there are additional references in Peter Viemeister's book because I don't have one.--
Inspector (
talk) 14:00, 15 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Today I came across an edited book series on contemporary writers. Here
is the link. I would like to use the entry on
Marion Zimmer Bradley (pp. 237-250), but cannot seem to find out who the author of her chapter is (the final page of her chapter is not available in Google Books, and the table of contents does not divulge this information). Michael D. Sharp is the editor of the entire work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ruby2010/2013 16:47, 15 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Since all you need is the name of the article author and perhaps the last page, you might consider emailing the publisher
[7] and explaining that you would like to cite the text in a Wikipedia article. It would be in their interest to help you. Failing that, the books seem to be pretty widely held in public libraries
[8].
GabrielF (
talk) 16:57, 15 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the advice. I have just emailed the publisher. If that doesn't work, I'll try to see if a local copy exists. Regards, Ruby2010/2013 20:55, 16 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Sunday Telegraph article from 1997
Could somebody help me access the last footnoted reference in the
Clarke Peters article? The provided Highbeam link no longer works. Thanks! --Graham87 08:43, 22 March 2013 (UTC)reply
sorry, I looked in some news databases but they don't seem to cover it, as I couldn't find the article. --
phoebe / (
talk to me) 21:28, 1 April 2013 (UTC)reply
An alternate isbn appears to be 978-0-415-67167-5. -
Sitush (
talk) 10:13, 28 March 2013 (UTC)reply
The Early families of Knox and Whitley counties, Kentucky, with allied families
I am interested in which sources this author used to get his info about Robert Alexander Early (October 1849?-October 1960). I am trying to help the
Gerontology Research Group verify his case, but right now the evidence that we found is not conclusive to undoubtedly state that he was 111 years and 1 day old when he died in 1960. If his claimed age is accurate, it would mean that he would have been the oldest man ever at the time of his death.
The author of this book is Cleland Edward Early, it was printed by D. Armstrong Co. in 1988, and it contains 231 pages or around there. Thank you very much.
Futurist110 (
talk) 03:43, 31 March 2013 (UTC)reply
Seebold-Kluge Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache 2002
I'm looking for the entries for Dogge and Docke in the 24th edition of das Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache Kluges, edited by Seebold, published 2002. ISBN-10: 3110174731 ISBN-13: 978-3110174731 I believe both entries are on p. 207. There was also a CD produced with this book that should contain the entries. The 25th edition of 2011 could also be useful. This is to confirm/dispute the etymology that occurs both at
Dog and at Wiktionary's entry for the word, and has by now entered the wider web. If anyone could reproduce to this for me I would be quite thankful, and you may as well do a service to the wider community. --Atethnekos(
Discussion,
Contributions) 07:46, 2 April 2013 (UTC)reply
As this is an etymological book, would
the 1899 edition be at all helpful?
HMman (
talk) 19:10, 2 April 2013 (UTC).reply
The 2002 CD is
OCLC51655480, in 151 libraries. You might find
this interesting too. Seems there's a long-running academic debate on that etymology.
LeadSongDogcome howl! 20:26, 8 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Siege of Pirisabora/Perisabor in 363
Does anyone own a copy of Adrian Goldsworthy's book, "In the Name of Rome"? I was hoping for some quotable information regarding the siege of Pirisabora in 363 by Emperor Julian. Thanks. --
Kansas Bear (
talk) 22:32, 12 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Can't find anything, but there is a
sample of the book, in the off chance that it might have what you are looking for. Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 09:26, 13 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Can the PDF not be downloaded if someone has access? Or is it pay only?
FunkMonk (
talk) 12:35, 25 April 2013 (UTC)reply
I have the print version of that book. The whole chapter includes 95 pages --
Melly42 (
talk) 23:41, 27 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Heheh, darn. Is there anything on small grey parrots?
FunkMonk (
talk) 17:24, 21 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Irish Times (archive) article
Can someone please provide this Irish Times article:
[9] Thanks.--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk) 22:48, 17 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Scratch that. I don't actually need the article I just need the attribution: Full title, date and name of author (if any) and any other pertinent details (I'm fixing the citations in another user's draft article to provide full attribution).--
Fuhghettaboutit (
talk) 23:51, 17 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Do you have any additional details about the article? All I get when I follow that URL is the login page for the Irish Times' archive website.
GabrielF (
talk) 02:03, 26 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Aluminium: The Thirteenth Element
I would appreciate if anyone could provide the book, especially the English edition.
For the article
My Old Man's a Dustman, I'm trying to establish whether the popular playground version about a football match is older or more recent than Lonnie Donegan's hit version. In Google books, I am able to see a snippet from this book by Ritchie where a version of the football song (though titled "My Old Man's a Scaffie") is recorded. The book was published in 1964 (i.e. after Donegan's version) but I know that the author had been collecting playground songs since at least 1951. What I'd like to know, if anyone can access the text, is whether a date for the "Scaffie" version is given.
The book was published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh in 1964 (see page 127) and republished by Mercat Press, Edingurgh in 2000.
Appreciate this might not be an easy one.
Formerip (
talk) 22:29, 24 April 2013 (UTC)reply
There seems to be no exact date given in the book for "My Old Man's a Scaffie"; it is grouped with several other songs under the heading "Songs and Chants of the 1950s".
HMman (
talk) 17:00, 25 April 2013 (UTC).reply
Christiansen P. and Bonde N. (2003). "The first dinosaur from Denmark". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 227 (2): 287–299.
ISSN0077-7749
I can email the first two.
HMman (
talk) 16:18, 25 April 2013 (UTC).reply
Thanks, is my email accessible? Or how is this done?
FunkMonk (
talk) 16:20, 25 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Which pages do you need from the Google Books source? Just the ones from the "Danish Dinosaurs" chapter (pp. 438, 440, 444, & 448), or do you require other pages as well?
HMman (
talk) 17:08, 25 April 2013 (UTC).reply
Only Danish dinosaurs.
FunkMonk (
talk) 17:13, 25 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Alright, I sent the four pages.
HMman (
talk) 19:05, 25 April 2013 (UTC).reply
Thanks, now I've got everything except 3, the original description of the species.
FunkMonk (
talk) 22:39, 25 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Miami Herald newspaper archive request
I'm looking for information at
Miami Herald's archive, more specifically this
particular archived article, which isn't freely available. I'm looking for is to verify and add information about the
voice type of singer
Shakira as it is customary to do that on recording artist articles on Wikipedia. --
Loginnigol (
talk) 19:32, 25 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Akron article from 2004
Hi all and thanks in advance
this is the article I am trying to read in entirety. If for any reason it is unattainable any news article about the date that NAVA released its "city flag survey" of 2004 would be helpful, best I can make out voting ended on Sept. 30 that year and the results were released sometime in early November maybe late October?--
Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 06:53, 29 April 2013 (UTC)reply
Central European Drawings: In the Collection of the Crocker Art Museum
I would be grateful if someone could find for me. Many thanks!--
Rowanwindwhistler (
talk) 08:48, 2 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia
I've been unable to find this, so I'm asking here on the off chance that someone might have access. It's for
Female genital mutilation, and is apparently a source that gives details of its early history:
Carl Gösta Widstrand, "Female Infibulation," Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia, 20 (varia I), 95–122 (1964)
Henry Wallace, “Where I Was Wrong,” This Week Magazine, September 7, 1952.
Albacore (
talk) 12:59, 7 May 2013 (UTC)reply
US Army WWII Field Manual
I would greatly appreciate if someone could provide a text of FM 23-85, 60-mm Mortar, M2. Any edition would do, but it seems to have never been released online, except for 1967 edition which covers another weapon. 1940 and 1942 editions seem to be available
in a number of libraries. I'm writing a thorough article on this weapon, and the information from this manual would be crucial: in particular, at least the technical description, although the rest of the manual would be helpful too. --
Saə (
talk) 13:14, 7 May 2013 (UTC)reply
I found one at the Wayback Machine
Link. It was a broken link from
M19 mortar. It seems to have material from FM 23-85.--
Canoe1967 (
talk) 01:33, 12 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Unfortunately, that's not it, the link references some FM 23-85, but otherwise describes only M19 mortar. I probably should've explained it in more detail: FM numbers are often reused, and different editions of FM 23-85 cover different models of 60-mm mortar — M2, which is the one I need, and M19. --
Saə (
talk) 10:06, 12 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Canterbury/Kent maps 1840-6
I'm trying to figure out the exact location of the
Beverley Ground, a cricket ground in Canterbury (UK) that was used between 1840 and 1846. Text sources describe it as "near the Cavalry barracks", which were to the south of the Sturry road west of Old Park Road. There seem to be several maps floating around either of Canterbury or more generally of Kent, eg J and C Walker's self-published map of Kent from 1843, or
Felix Summerley's Handbook for the City of Canterbury: Its Historical Associations and Works of Art with Numerous Illustrations and a Map of the City (1843). There might also be something useful in Canterbury Cricket Week - An Authentic Narrative of the Origin and Career of the Institution. Vol I. 1839-1851 (Canterbury: William Davy, 1865), in particular the bit covering 1839-42 which is left out of later histories and which would cover how they came to move to the Beverley from the previous ground. --
Le Deluge (
talk) 03:02, 9 May 2013 (UTC)reply
This book (p59) says that Berverley Ground was the old name for the present St Lawrence Ground.
Zerotalk 13:44, 9 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Yep, there's a couple of sources that are under that impression but there's no doubt that there was definitely a ground out on the Sturry Road, as the 1842 poster makes clear ("adjoining the Cavalry Barracks"). There's plenty of scope for confusion and let's just say that the less educated sources take full advantage of that scope....
Le Deluge (
talk) 22:28, 9 May 2013 (UTC)reply
What is this article all about?
I just find this news report about Jakob Bohr's theory on the size of fragments of objects being smashed
[10], but apparently I do not have access to its full text. In a preview page
[11] I see texts such as"...pieces between one-tenth of a gram and a gram will be 16 times greater still. The number 16 is the "scaling factor", which might have been misinterpreted by some Chinese sources I have seen. So I would like to know the context of this article.--
朝鲜的轮子 (
talk) 06:47, 9 May 2013 (UTC)reply
The researchers have developed a new technique which allows them to reconstruct an object using only the weight and the distribution of the fragments created from an impact. I do have an Economist subscription, but sadly it will not allow me to go back to 1994.
Wer900 •
talk 05:12, 10 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Any idea why they used power of 10 and the proportion between numbers of two groups as an example? I was just confused at first and take the "number 16 is the 'scaling factor'" as the "scaling exponent" in the study
[12].--
朝鲜的轮子 (
talk) 07:13, 10 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Please enable email in your Wikipedia preferences and I will send you the Economist article.
GabrielF (
talk) 00:24, 11 May 2013 (UTC)reply
I'm hoping to find a story from The Scotsman dated August 15, 1988 titled "Odessa hopes to make name back in the USSR" (for the article
Zoë (singer)). --
FallingGravity (
talk) 18:19, 9 May 2013 (UTC)reply
I think that the full (correct) citation for this 1981 U.S. Senate report is -- Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981. Does anyone have access to this report? Thank you very much.
Futurist110 (
talk) 02:15, 16 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Two german medical books (1918 and 1904)
Hello, I'm working on the
Szondi-Test (
[13]), and to complete the test gallery of images, I'm missing two books that are in the public domain but have not been scanned/made available online. The five images are from:
Magnus Hirschfeld (1918) Sexualpathologie Band II, Sexuelle Zwischenstufen: Das männliche Weib und der weibliche Mann. The following images:
II. p. 171 Taf. VI
II. p. 105 Taf. IV
II. p. 145 Taf. V
II. p. 54 Abb. 5 Taf. II
Theodor Kirchhoff (1904) Der Gesichtsausdruck und seine Bahnen beim Gesunden und Kranken, besonders beim Geisteskranken
p.168 Abb.42
So basically I would need a scan of each of the five pages or of the specified image (the text is not necessary). Thank you.----
Sum (
talk) 19:10, 18 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Some minor countries in my elections project are not solvable with german libraries: In the cases of the Bahamas, a specialised book
[14] on that topic is not available in Germany. Is there anyone here who has access to it?--
Antemister (
talk) 16:51, 23 May 2013 (UTC)reply
The Mean Time (India)
"For a Free Press," Mean Time (India), July 20, 2005. --
Crtew (
talk) 10:56, 24 May 2013 (UTC)reply
CounterCurrents is a
WP:SPS but it sometimes includes articles from reliable sources. I suspect this is the case for this article on journalist
Vinod K. Jose and the
Free Press (magazine). The title of the CounterCurrents dot org piece is
For a Free Press. The original source would be Mean Time and its date of publication July 20, 2005. That's as much as I know for sure. I do not know whether the original was English or Malayalam, but English is likely. Can anybody help me find this?
Crtew (
talk) 10:56, 24 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Address: A PVT.LTD.,3/6 II FLOOR, B.S.A ROAD,MASJID STREET,BANGALORE
Pub_city: KERALA
District: BANGALORE
VRF Dates: 8/3/1995
State: KAR
Language: English
Periodicity: OP
Publisher: P.C. HAMZAH
Continuing my search, I was able to find this notice in The TribuneNew magazine launched (Tuesday, February 2, 1999) (Requires scrolling or find on "Hamzah"): "BANGALORE: Meantime, an English news magazine focusing on national issues and events, to be brought out thrice a month, was launched here on Monday. The magazine, to be published on the first, 11th and 21st of every month, would provide a “little more focus on the voiceless sections of society,” publisher P.C. Hamzah told reporters here. M.P. Yashwanth Kumar, former Editor of Deccan Herald, is the Editor-in-Chief, while M.A. Siraj is the Executive Editor, it was stated."
Crtew (
talk) 21:29, 24 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Research report by the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS)
Could someone help me with access to the following article?
Amenities in the Japanese Armed Forces, ATIS Report No. 120 (15 November 1945) pp. 5-20.
Marek, Ladislav (1961). The trilobite family Cyclopygidae Raymond in the Ordovician of Bohemia.
Rozpravy Ústredního Ústavu Geologického 28(1–84). Thanks in advance! --
Dwergenpaartje (
talk) 11:46, 26 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Edinburgh Journal of Botany
Looking for the following article (available via Cambridge Journals, but, alas, not to me):
Li, T.-H.; Watling, R. (1999). "New taxa and combinations of Australian boletes". Edinburgh Journal of Botany56(1): 143–148
doi:
10.1017/S0960428600002419Sasata (
talk) 18:04, 26 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Role of Sleep and Sleep Loss in Hormonal Release and Metabolism
Note that I would still like this article if someone has access to it. Thanks. Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 10:44, 3 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Burrinjuck Dam Arthrodires
Can I get ahold of "The larger arthrodiran fishes from the area of the Burrinjuck Dam, N.S.W."
[15] ? Thank you in advance--
Mr Fink (
talk) 22:13, 30 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Also, can I get ahold of this paper, "A homostiid arthrodire (placoderm fish) from the Early Devonian of the Burrinjuck area, New South Wales"
[16], too?--
Mr Fink (
talk) 03:30, 31 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Again, not the first article but the second
here, please tell me if the link works or not. Thanks. Kinkreet~♥moshi moshi♥~ 09:11, 31 May 2013 (UTC)reply
Brian Gratton and Myron P. Guttmann (2006), "Hispanic Population," in Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, Vol. 1, pp. 1-177 to 1-179
Thank you very much. If you only e-mailed me three pages (two pages in one e-mail and one page in another e-mail), then I downloaded all of them right now. Also, this is off-topic, but I previously forgot to save that PDF of that thesis about U.S. President William Howard Taft by Judith Anderson that you posted here (in response to one of my queries). Is there any chance that you can send it to me via e-mail so that I can remember to download it right now? I might decide to edit President Taft's Wikipedia article later on, so yeah. Thanks again.
Futurist110 (
talk) 00:09, 6 June 2013 (UTC)reply
OK, I've resent the Taft dissertation.
GabrielF (
talk) 18:49, 14 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Kaikodo Journal XXVIII
I'd really like to take a look at the essay "The Wonder that was Nanjing" (Ebrey/Yeung) in the 2012 edition of this document; it looks as though it may have some useful information for our
Hu Zhengyan article. See
[21] for details. Thanks,
Yunshui雲
水 09:24, 3 June 2013 (UTC)reply
International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace
Viewing Full Census Records for the 1860 U.S. Census
Basically, I am trying to help verify this one case of a man who allegedly died at age 112 in 1967. Here is James M. "Uncle Jim" King's obituary:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/franklin/obits/1960s/1967-06.txt. Basically, the
Gerontology Research Group (GRG) verifies the ages of
supercentenarians (people who are 110+ years old)--
http://www.grg.org/Adams/B2.HTM. Basically, for the 1860 U.S. Census, FamilySearch does not let you view the whole household in a particular U.S. Census form. In contrast, FamilySearch lets you view the whole household (all of the members of this household) on later U.S. Censuses. Here's an example:
James M King, "United States Census, 1940"
Name: James M King
Titles & Terms:
Event: Census
Event Year: 1940
Event Place: Police Jury Ward 8, Franklin, Louisiana, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 85
Marital Status: Widowed
Race (Original):
Race (Standardized): White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):
Relationship to Head of Household (Standardized): Head
Birthplace: Arkansas
Estimated Birth Year: 1855
Residence in 1935: Same House
Enumeration District Number: 21-26
Family Number: 8
Sheet Number and Letter: 1B
Line Number: 41
NARA Publication Number: T627
NARA Roll Number: 1401
Digital Folder Number: 005454637
Image Number: 00763
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head James M King M 85 Arkansas
Son George E King M 60 Louisiana
Son-in-law A E Hynum M 58 Mississippi
Daughter Lucy Hynum F 52 Louisiana
Grandson Walter Hynum M 36 Louisiana
Does someone here already have a subscription to Ancestry.com or a similar website which allows one to look at the whole household in the 1860 U.S. Census? I think that the 1860 U.S. Census already recorded and enumerated all of the members of a particular household. I need some help in searching the 1860 U.S. Census, since finding an 1860 U.S. Census match for James M. King would be crucial in helping him get verified by the GRG. I was told that this place might be a good place to ask for help in regards to this. Thank you very much.
Futurist110 (
talk) 22:59, 4 June 2013 (UTC)reply
I have access to ancestry. I was able to find an entry for a JM King, age 26, in the 1880 Census. This is clearly the same person because he (1) was born in Arkansas around 1854 (2) lived in Franklin Parish, LA in 1880, as specified by the obituary, (3) has a son named George aged 1 year, which corresponds with the son named George aged 60 in the 1940 Census record. I've uploaded a PDF of the page here:
[22]. I was not able to locate him definitively in the 1860 Census as there are several James Kings born about that date and none of them seem to be living in Independence County as of 1860. However, this is not unusual. If you know the names of his parents or siblings that would help me narrow it down. I hope this helps.
GabrielF (
talk) 19:02, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Thank you very much for your help and research. If this case is able to become pending (and eventually verified), I am perfectly willing to share credit with you in verifying this case. For the record, I already found his 1880 U.S. Census match, but we need to have a "solid" document from within the first 20 years of James M. King's life in order to make him pending and then eventually verified. I did a huge amount of research on him (you can Google "James M. King (1854?-1967?), 112?, WOP and previous oldest man ever?") in order to see all of my research on him which I posted on the 110 Club forum. Basically, I have not found an 1860 U.S. Census match for him, and while I did find a possible (and perhaps even likely) 1870 U.S. Census match for him, there is no "solid" information which states that he lived in Missouri in 1870 (though it is possible, but we need "solid" proof). Also, while he is listed with his (likely) brothers in the 1870 U.S. Census in Missouri, there is no "solid" document or newspaper article or anything like that which states that these two boys (William and Mack) are his brothers. Also, in 1870, he appears to be living with another family (the Gray family), but there is no "solid" piece of information which connects the King children to the Gray family. I was able to find some family information about him, but again, I'm not sure if this information is 100% correct/accurate, since it might (theoretically) only be based on hearsay and story-writing only after seeing certain U.S. Census documents/records.
Basically, James M. King's parents' names appear to be:
Father: William Edward King (apparently born in Mississippi and died in 1864)
Mother: Annie Slaughter (apparently born in Mississippi and died in 1864)
Brothers:
John King b: BEF 1864 in Independence Co, Ark
William E. King b: 1852 or 1853 in Mississippi or Arkansas, died in 1916 in Franklin Parish, Louisiana
Early McCullough Edward (Mack) King b: 24 FEB 1856 in Independence Co, Ark, died in 1927 in Franklin Parish, Louisiana
Hopefully this info will be beneficial in regards to helping find more early-life information and/or early-life documents/records for James M. King. Keep in mind that James M. King might have been enumerated somewhere else other than where he was born in 1860.
Futurist110 (
talk) 22:22, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Cambridge University Press and Psychology
I'm working on an article and would like to read these two papers:
Note that the second article is from Psychology: A Journal of Human Behavior, ISSN
ISSN0033-3077, not the Journal of Psychology.
GabrielF (
talk) 19:18, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Also, while Schrink's personal webpage lists all three authors, Regioli's omits Poole and shortens the title to "Sexual myths and ridicule".
LeadSongDogcome howl! 22:04, 12 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Manfred Sakel
If anyone has access to this book chapter (via Springer) – Erinnerungen 1982, pp 151-157
doi:
10.1007/978-3-642-68435-7_20 - I would be very grateful.
Filip em (
talk) 16:44, 5 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Hello everyone. I have a non-Wikipedia-related request, oddly enough. A real-life friend of mine has a copy of
Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination published by John C. Winston. However, there's no date of publication listed, and both my friend and I can't find any listing of the specific edition online (including Worldcat.org). Any thoughts?
Ed[talk][majestic titan] 06:04, 9 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Charles W. Clough, William B. Secrest. Fresno County, the Pioneer Years: From the Beginnings to 1900. Panorama West Books, 1984.
ISBN9780914330707. Page 321–322
GBooks
The page numbers are only approximately what I want (since Google is only giving me snippets). If any nearby pages have relevant material, I would like them as well.
Chris857 (
talk) 16:18, 9 June 2013 (UTC)reply
I do not have the either the title of the article or author. Keywords in the article would be Vilatte, Girardot, Abbaye de Saint-Louis.
This publication cites by column number, I think. The article may be found at page number, or column number, 819–821 based on Google Books page number. --
BoBoMisiu (
talk) 21:25, 14 June 2013 (UTC)reply
I doubt if (1) will be easily available, but I suppose I should read it if it is; for (2) and (3), if anyone happens to be able to see them, all I need is to know if Francesco Racanelli is mentioned, and if so, what is said about him. Perhaps a note here, or on the talkpage of the article? I'd be grateful.
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk) 17:21, 21 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Racanelli is not mentioned in #3 (book review by Kenny).
Zerotalk 04:15, 22 June 2013 (UTC)reply
1."In the 19th century the Vanniyar held a low position in both Lower Burma and in South India " these lines are there in a wiki page and it was said it is taken from the book - Title : Land and Caste in South India: Agricultural Labour in the Madras Presidency During the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Studies in Economic History. Cambridge University Press. by Dharma kumar.
2. " while Michael Adas says that in Burma the Palli were "socially better off" than the untouchable castes but were "economically equally exploited and deprived".[2]"
It was mentioned the above lines are taken from the book Title :The Burma Delta : economic development and social change on an Asian rice frontier, 1852-1941. New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.
ISBN0299283542. by Michael Adas.
Please let me know is there any thing present like this in the books mentioned .
Did Michael Adas said about "palli" a group of people also known as 'Vanniyars' who majorly live in South India . or he is referring as 'palli' some other people in Burma. ?
Kumar mentions on p. 196 and elsewhere that Palli = Vanniyar/Vanniyan, so anyone checking for the statement may need to take that into account. Regarding the Adas book, it seems to be available online to people in
this list of subscribing institutions. Gosh, I wish I had access to that! -
Sitush (
talk) 10:32, 23 June 2013 (UTC)reply
@
Suryavarman01: The page mentioned in Adas is availble for view via Google Books -
hereShyamal (
talk) 04:28, 19 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Missing pages from Getzler's "Kronstadt 1917-1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy"
Hello, I am enlarging the article on the Kronstadt revolt and trying to use professor Getztler's book from
Google Books but I find the following pages are missing from the preview: 208, 211, 215, 218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 228, 229, 232, 236, 239, 243, 246. Could someone get these for me? Many thanks in advance.--
Rowanwindwhistler (
talk) 11:38, 23 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Studio International
Anyone have access to Studio International? I'd really like to read:
Clive Ashwin (1983). "The Early Studio and Its Illustrations". Studio International196 (1003): 22-29.
Clive Ashwin (1976). "The Studio and Modernism: A Periodical's Progress". Studio International192 (983): 103-112.
D.J. Gordon (1968). "Dilemmas: The Studio in 1893-4". Studio International175 (899): 175-183.
I've sent the second article (from Jane's Intelligence Review) via email. I'm having trouble locating the first article in the databases. I did not see it in the table of contents for the May/June 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs, which makes me think that it only appeared online. Anyone have a subscription to ForeignAffairs.com/membership in CFR?
GabrielF (
talk) 18:14, 2 July 2013 (UTC)reply
This Wiki-article,
Octacube (sculpture), mentions coverage of the sculpture subject in the 2006 March Playboy. Could someone please check and make sure (a) it was covered (not a hoax), (b) what was the extent of coverage and the basic message, was a photo included, etc., and (c) any useful content in there, above the PSU news bulletin.
TCO (
talk) 19:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Carmen Sandiego/Horrible Histories
Hi. There are two articles I've been on/off working for quite some time. I do not have any specific titles of works I want, but if you could find any useful sources for either of the two following topics I would be eternally grateful. :)
Edutainment video game
Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time (aka Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? - there are at least 2 Time games releaed. This is the 1997/1999 one. It had a name change after Broderbund was sold to the Learning Company)--
Coin945 (
talk) 11:25, 11 July 2013 (UTC)reply
If this request has been ignored due to not listing specific sources, I'd like to point out that the intro of this article states: "A request may be an open question for more information on a specific subject, or you may ask for a specific article or work where you have a reference but lack the full text. Someone may be able to help you." I'm not making any accusations. I'm just covering all bases in case there's been a misunderstanding. :)--
Coin945 (
talk) 11:21, 16 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Doglands
Can anyone with a Booklist Online account get access to
this review of Doglands by Tim Willocks please or find me somewhere that it's listed in entirety without an account? I would get an account there, but after fourteen days you have to pay, which is something I'm not willing to do. In addition, I don't like the idea of e-mailing through Wikipedia, so it would have to be posted on my talk page. Thank you in advance. öBrambleberryofRiverClan 15:06, 17 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Proquest has it. Posting it in full on Wikipedia would be a copyright violation, even though it consists of a single paragraph. You should do what many people do: create a separate anonymous email account for wikipedia use.
Zerotalk 07:06, 20 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two chapters
Hello,
I am enlarging the article on the Chetnik movement in the Spanish wikipedia and I would like to use certain articles included in Serbia and the Serbs in World War Two (
ISBN9780230278301) which I cannot find anywhere in the internet or in any nearby library. In particular, I would be interested in checking chapters:
8 (Allies or Foes? Mihailovic 's Chetniks during the Second World War by Mario Jareb),
9 ( Relations between the Chetniks and the Authorities of the Independent State of Croatia, 1942-1945 by Nikica Barić)
12 (Revisions of Second World War History in Contemporary Serbia by Dubravka Stojanovic) and
13 (The Re-evaluation of Milan Nedic and Draza Mihailovic in Serbia by Sladjana Lazic).
Hello, I would very much appreciate a copy of the following article:
Baker, Julian and Ponting, Matthew: "The early period of minting of deniers tournois in the principality of Achaïa (to 1289) and their relation to the issues of the duchy of Athens", Numismatic Chronicle 161 (2001), pp. 207-254.
ISSN0078-2696
Hi, I would apreciate it very much if you could provide me with anything related to the history of Hungary during the Hungarian Democratic Republic and the provisional governments. A few examples are:
The Uprooted: Hungarian Refugees and Their Impact on Hungary's Domestic Politics; Mocsy, Istvan I
ISBN978-0880330398
Hungary after two revolutions: (1919-1922); Ferenc Pölöskei
ISBN9789630524810
Hungary in Revolution, 1918-1919: Nine Essays; Iván Voelgyes
ISBN9780803207882
ISBNs added above. "Voelgyes" seems to be "Volgyes" in most cites.
LeadSongDogcome howl! 18:06, 8 August 2013 (UTC)reply
None of these are in my library but they appear to be relatively available. If you are a resident of the US, I can help you with requesting them from your own library via interlibrary loan.
Gamaliel (
talk) 18:16, 8 August 2013 (UTC)reply
I'm sorry, I don't live in the US. Internet is the only way I could get those article. --
Andresisrael (
talk) 00:54, 16 August 2013 (UTC)reply
I have that one, thank you. I'm sorry for my delay in responding. Can anyone get the second one please?
Pointer wrangler (
talk) 22:31, 3 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Can you please provide additional information such as the names of the articles or chapters that you are looking for and their page numbers? The Oxford Encyclopedia of Popular Music is a huge work, but I don't see an article on The Cats.
GabrielF (
talk) 05:00, 6 August 2013 (UTC)reply
The New Yorker
Does anyone have electronic access to The New Yorker back to 1971? Even if it is only citation access and not full text, that would be a help, so then I could interlibrary loan the entire article. I accidentally found a New Yorker article from 1971 on Google Books on the topic of
Tiki Gardens, but the snippet doesn't reveal any information I can use to get the article via ILL. Thank you.
Gamaliel (
talk) 19:39, 6 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Very strange. Tiki Gardens is in
Pinellas County, as the title of this article says, but the story seems to be entirely about
Walt Disney World, three counties away.
Gamaliel (
talk) 20:55, 6 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Yes, very strange indeed. The article is found by searching for Tiki, but this word does not appear in the text. Someone should take a look at the printed edition of January 2, 1971. --
тнояsтеn⇔ 06:50, 7 August 2013 (UTC)reply
I will also submit an ILL request for this article and see if this title/author/date combination brings me the real thing.
Gamaliel (
talk) 17:33, 7 August 2013 (UTC)reply
No dice. They just sent me the online archive version. Can someone take a look at the print copy if available? Even if just to see if it is a different article. Thanks!
Gamaliel (
talk) 14:21, 8 August 2013 (UTC)reply
"The House at Loon Lake"
ISBN0316119202
The town has been the setting for a couple of stories, including the children's fantasy book called The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth, first published in 1956 but reissued years later (
ISBN0-316-11920-2). Freedom was also the setting for a 2001 broadcast of This American Life, entitled "The House at Loon Lake". That episode depicted an abandoned house explored by young boys, in town for summer camp at Loon Lake.
I am writing a fantasy children's story about a boys' summer camp loosely based on Camp Brandon for Boys for boys with incontinence problems and would like to read the episode of This American Life to avoid copyright infringement.
The boys would be staying at Glennwood Lodge in Freedom, NH on Lake Ossipee. It would be built in an octagonal shape and the boys would be able to access the central treehouse via catwalks from their windows. They would talk and play games. Below the treehouse, they would be able to cook s'mores over an open fire. Their fishing poles would be abandoned as the fish blew raspberries at them and lived out their fishy lives at the bottom of the clear pure lake.
Brief citation of the requested materials. --
72.237.206.250 (
talk) 17:17, 9 August 2013 (UTC)reply
That doesn't seem to have much bearing on our mission to build an encyclopedia...
LeadSongDogcome howl! 20:13, 9 August 2013 (UTC)reply
The transcript of that This American Life episode can be found
here.
Gamaliel (
talk) 02:53, 10 August 2013 (UTC)reply
De Gaulle and the chetniks
Hello, I would like to get the following articles for the article on the es:Chetniks I am writing at present. It seems they may only be found in paper, not in electronic format, though:
Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch. "Le général de Gaulle et la Yougoslavie, 1940-1945 ". Espoir, N. 42 - pp. 46-56 - 1983
Stevan Kosta Pavlowitch. "Le général de Gaulle, la France libre et la Yougoslavie, 1940-1945." Espoir, N. 25 - pp. 38-55 - 1978
I would be grateful if someone could get them for me. Thank you in advance!--
Rowanwindwhistler (
talk) 09:27, 10 August 2013 (UTC)reply
The link is
here but it's behind a pay wall. My email is listed. Thanks in advance. --
Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 05:51, 16 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Access to film budget information - possibly through
Variety
I'm hoping there's someone who'll be able to help—someone with access to Variety. I'm trying to find out the budgets for the 14 films in the
Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series). If anyone is able to help I'd be much obliged! Cheers - --
SchroCat (
talk) 20:34, 18 August 2013 (UTC)reply
W. D. Hogan, professional photographer at 56 Henry St, Dublin
To determine the copyright status of
this photograph in its source country (Ireland), we need to know when the photographer died. We know that it is W. D. Hogan who was most prolific in the period 1920–1924 and who was a professional photographer. He worked until 1935 at 56 Henry St, Dublin. I was unable to find any traces of him after this year. The National Library of Ireland has a collection of photos of him but provides no life span (see
here). There was recently an exhibition of some of his photographs in Dublin (see
here and
here) but his lifespan is nowhere mentioned. It would be very helpful if biographical databases, newspaper archives etc. could be recherched for his death date. As W. D. Hogan has taken a great number of unique historical photographs of the
Irish War of Independence this would be helpful not just for this photograph that is currently under
discussion but the entire collection. --
AFBorchert (
talk) 06:43, 20 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Your best bet may be to
contact the National Library of Ireland. There may be an archivist there who has worked with the collection and knows details of Hogan's life.
Gamaliel (
talk) 17:06, 20 August 2013 (UTC)reply
A bit of poking around turns up
this photo linked to the same Hogan; it's dated "circa 1947". It's the last one in the NLI's collection, suggesting:
a) he was still alive c. 1947 - too late for life+70
b) he probably didn't live much longer (no other photos)
These (especially the first) might be hard to get, but I like to access these to complete my project of making 'List of Butterflies of...' of all the countries in Oceania. Any help would be very much appreciated!
Holloway, J.D. (1983). On the Lepidoptera of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean with a review of the Nagia linteola complex (Noctuidae). Entomologia Generalis (1982) 8: 99-110.
In
thisbook, published by the
Museum of Modern Art, in 1987, by author "Bernice Rose", titled "The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein", I am seeking confirmation of the sentence: "In effect he threw down the gauntlet, challenging the notion of originality as it prevailed at that time." I believe it can be found on page 17. I should mention that I have started two threads elsewhere on this topic,
here and
here. I pretty much have my confirmation, but if anyone can confirm those exact words in English, I can proceed to rely upon that source to support an assertion to that effect in an article. Thanks.
Bus stop (
talk) 16:48, 27 August 2013 (UTC)reply
University of Oxford
S. Ebbinghaus: Rhyta with animal foreparts in the Achaemenid Empire and their reception in the West,
OCLC498718503
Is there a CV of the author in her doctoral thesis? --
тнояsтеn⇔ 21:57, 29 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Thesis manuscript is held at Oxford.
The thesis is also at the BL Document Supply under system number 007149180
Annotated "Thesis listed on the British Library Electronic Theses Online System (EThOS) 249854"
Looking for electronic book Mark Nuttall: Encyclopedia of the Arctic
Disregard
Does anyone have access to this three-volume electronic book: Mark Nuttall: Encyclopedia of the Arctic
I already have Vol. 1 (A-F). I still need Vol. 2 (G-N) and Vol. 3 (O-Z), or the complete set A-Z. ISBN of the electronic book is 0-203-99785-9. Obviously, it is available
here for anyone who has access to "EBlib".
Please send link or PDF to Ratzer.Wikipedia <at> gmail.com.
--
Ratzer (
talk) 07:13, 30 August 2013 (UTC)reply
I have access to an ebook version. I can send you pdf's of individual pages if you wish to view particular articles, but it won't allow me save the entire book.
Gamaliel (
talk) 15:20, 30 August 2013 (UTC)reply
If you were to send all individual pages, I presume I could assemble everything into one PDF file, but I presume that's not a possibility if you have to handle all 2000-odd pages individually. I'm not looking for a specific page at the moment, I only had the wish of having the whole thing at my disposal. If we don't see a practical way of achieving this, don't worry, and thanks anyway.--
Ratzer (
talk) 19:03, 30 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Disengagement in Social Movements
This article is of significant interest to me, I wonder if anyone can obtain a copy? If so, please ping me by linking my username or posting on my talk. Thanks! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here 13:31, 31 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Thanks for responding. It seems to me quite important to get these, as the key source of the way the term was originally defined in America, anyone any other ideas how?
Sighola2 (
talk) 18:41, 7 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Interlibrary loan. If you are in the United States, I can help you through the process. If not, I'm sure there are librarians from elsewhere around, I believe a UK librarian posts here sometimes.
Gamaliel (
talk) 02:58, 8 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Ah well I'm not really in a position to do real-life stuff like that at the moment, partly due to the limitations of contemporary psychiatry hmm so hmm anyway I have now found a way online. Interestingly in the short 1929 article, he doesn't in fact use the term sociopath but does propose "socio-pathology" - meaning pathological group behaviour, most strikingly demonstrated in national motivations for war he says. In the 1930 article he talks about sociopathy as an individual or group issue which anyone can sometimes show, but does also define 'essential sociopaths' or for short sociopaths as those with a core mental disorder involving chronic anti-social motivation & behavior. He mentions Karl Birnbaum but doesn't cite him or credit him with coining the term so still not sure about that, maybe I'll try the German wiki. Cheers
Sighola2 (
talk) 10:07, 8 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Am unable to access this through my university's library. I'd be much appreciated if someone could track this down and email it to me (or drop it as a PDF link). Thanks! Ruby2010/2013 05:44, 7 September 2013 (UTC)reply
I can't find “The Pharos of Alexandria,” Proceedings of the British Academy 30: 277–92 anywhere online, and I'm trying to add material that I know is in it to
Lighthouse of Alexandria. Thanks.
Dougweller (
talk) 17:45, 8 September 2013 (UTC)reply
The Studio 1950
I'm not able to view
this on HathiTrust. I believe it contains this article:
Margaret Geddes (March 1950). "The Women's International Art Club". The Studio139 (684):65–?70
which I would dearly like to read. Can anyone access that for me? I'd be grateful.
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk) 17:36, 10 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Two requests: papers on the genus Chionodes
Hello, I am looking for access to the following two papers:
Huemer, P. & K. Sattler, 1995: A taxonomic revision of Palaearctic Chionodes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), Beiträge zur Entomologie45 (1): 3-108.
Schmitz, Patrick & Bernard Landry, 2007: Two new species of Chionodes Hübner from Ecuador, with a summery of known Galapagos records of Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera). Revue Suisse de Zoologie114 (2): 175-184.
Furthermore, I am still looking for this one:
Holloway, J.D. (1983). On the Lepidoptera of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean with a review of the Nagia linteola complex (Noctuidae). Entomologia Generalis (1982) 8: 99-110.
Got the Free Access one, thanks!
Ruigeroeland (
talk) 07:42, 16 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery (1890)
By Theodore Francis Garrett. London: L. Upcott Gill.
Specifically looking for recipe for
Brown Windsor soup which is purported to be in this cookbook. The recipe calls for boiling three calf's feet for an hour and finish - after adding Maderia wine along the way - by putting a dozen crayfish quenelles into this "luxury soup". Needed to help debunk, or support, the existence that Brown Windsor soup actually existed in Victorian era. --
Green Cardamom (
talk) 16:03, 15 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Going to be tough on this one because its 8 volumes and nearly 2000 pages according to this ad in Google books.
[26] Though I hate to say this, but Google search keeps bringing up "Brown Windsor soap" when I specifically look for the soup in 19th century texts.
ChrisGualtieri (
talk) 03:33, 20 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Did you see this a reference from 1901.
[27] Another as "Windsor Soup" with recipe from 1904.
[28] Another recipe that comes out "clear" from 1910.
[29] Passing reference in 1912.
[30] Alternate name possible, 1900?
[31] Going with "Potage Windsor" we start getting very distinct recipes that include "golden brown".
[32] From there go nuts it seems.
[33] With Potage Windsor having numerous appearances and "brown" attached to it, surprisingly with "calf's feet".
[34] Though the issue as a joke seems more likely at this point.
ChrisGualtieri (
talk) 04:00, 20 September 2013 (UTC)reply
For what it's worth, on a lark I stuck "Brown Windsor soup" into JSTOR and came up with a quote from a 50s routine from The Goon Show and an offhand 1956 reference by poet
John Montague (poet). Doesn't help track down the origins, but does show it was in wide usage in the 50s.
Gamaliel (
talk) 04:21, 20 September 2013 (UTC)reply
I believe the joke is the creation of the 1950s, but I managed to find a full set in a relatively local library (60~ miles) though I doubt I'd have access and pull to get someone to physically check the books for the entry. It should be in the first volume if my suspicions are correct, but would it be under "Brown Windsor soup" or would it be under "Windsor soup" as other indications point to, or some other name like "Potege". Anyone else?
ChrisGualtieri (
talk) 15:50, 20 September 2013 (UTC)reply
It looks like this is in very few libraries in WorldCat. I also found some 4 volume copies and some 8 volume copies. Unless someone has digitized this somewhere your best bet is to contact one of the libraries directly. Here are a few:
I am looking for a pair of articles that I believe appeared in Genesis Magazine, a publication of
Rare Breeds Canada, which relate to the
Canadian Rustic Pony. All of the information I have is that they appeared in the magazine in 2003, volume 18, issues 1 & 2. I don't know the title of the articles, or how long they are; all I have come across is a mention of these articles in this magazine. Thanks in advance,
Dana boomer (
talk) 21:55, 15 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Info: this is
OCLC29394154, held at McGill University Library in Montreal, Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa and Olds College Library. --
тнояsтеn⇔ 06:39, 16 September 2013 (UTC)reply
With the Beatles
I have recently added a genre ("pop") to the With the Beatles article, sourced from the historical notes found on the 2009 remastered CD liner notes (on page 12), but there is nowhere online to verify this. The genre is plausible considering the release of the album and musically in order with the records surrounding it, and that the source is official. If anyone online has a copy of the album could you please help me out?
I'm not sure what you are asking. Sources don't have to be available on-line, I often use proper books as refs, which are not available on line. If it says it on the CD notes, that's verifiable. I have the original vinyl album. The other artists whose music is featured are described on the sleeve as R&B, the descriptions of the L&M tracks include a "rocker" and a "raver" If I can help further, leave a message on my talk page Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:27, 1 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Early whales
I'm trying to expand on
Archaeoceti,
Pakicetidae, and related articles. These two important references are not available to me. I assume that both are difficult to find, but any attempt is appreciated. --
Fama Clamosa (
talk) 17:11, 28 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Thewissen, J.G.M.; Hussain, S.T. (1998). "Systematic review of the Pakicetidae, Early and middle Eocene Cetacea (Mammalia) from Pakistan and India". Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum. 34: 220–38. (
Lay summary,
mentioned by Thewissen here)
An article from the
Evening Standard dated April 14, 2010 titled "Exam Slump Head Gets Pounds 150,000 and a Job in America", part of which is accessible
here and
here.--Launchballer 08:19, 29 September 2013 (UTC)reply
I can't find this article in Lexis/Nexis for some reason.
Gamaliel (
talk) 17:36, 1 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Tanselle (435–6) lists several sources for information on the
Black Sun Press. I've found many on the web and bought a few more. These are the remaining ones I haven't been able to track down.
Warren, Dale (6 June 1931), "The Black Sun Press", Publishers' Weekly 119: 2714,2716
"The Black Sun Press and Caresse Crosby", Daily Mirror (New York), 25 Sep 1933: Sunday Supplement
Adomeit, Ruth E. (1961–1962), "The Black Sun Press of Paris", MBC 2: 24–25
I wish I could tell you. Tanselle has several pages of abbreviations listed in the front of his book, and unfortunately google elides that particular page.
Lesser Cartographies (
talk) 17:31, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
The only publication I could find with those letters was in Lexis/Nexis and refers to the
Middle East Broadcasting Center, which wasn't launched until 1991.
Gamaliel (
talk) 18:06, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
LC - MBC =
Miniature book collector and The Black Sun Press of Paris might be a miniature book at the Lilly Library at Indiana University . --
Jreferee (
talk) 13:44, 3 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Jreferee: Interesting. The Black Sun Press was an actual press and did not produce any miniature books, but they did print an issue of
The News Letter of the LXIVmos (which deals with miniature books). I really need to get access to Tanselle to see what he intended the abbreviation to me. But thanks for the help!
Lesser Cartographies (
talk) 15:09, 3 January 2014 (UTC)reply
LC - I was thinking that perhaps another press produced a miniature book entitled "The Black Sun Press of Paris", either written or collected by Adomeit. All of the miniature books owned by Adomeit are now the Lilly Library at Indiana University,
[35] and you may be able to contact them to see if they have such sources for information on the Black Sun Press. A list of libraries having Guide to the Study of United States Imprints by Tanselle is at
worldcat.org. --
Jreferee (
talk) 17:52, 5 January 2014 (UTC)reply
The Ponca City News archives
I'm working on an article for the
Poncan Theatre (
sandbox).
This page from the theater's website tells me that The Ponca City News has at least one article on the theater from August 7, 1927. I am interested in that one specifically, and any others that are relevant to the theater in their archives. I unfortunately cannot even search them, so I don't know what exists. Thanks in advance.
Chris857 (
talk) 00:51, 13 October 2013 (UTC)reply
The Library of Congress has a lot of digitized newspapers online, but not apparently this one. Some libraries have this, so you might contact one of them to see if they have an index or digitized copies. The LoC lists some libraries which have it:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064177/holdings/.
Gamaliel (
talk) 03:54, 13 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Sometimes a newspaper is willing to help, especially for something in their local domain as this is.
Zerotalk 07:47, 27 October 2013 (UTC)reply
American Conchologist
Is this accessible to somone ? Thanks.
Shyamal (
talk) 10:13, 18 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Auffenberg K. (2000). "Historical malacology: William Benson (1803-1870)". American Conchologist 28(1): 24.
My HighBeam account has yet to be renewed, so I was wondering if someone would be so kind as to email me the content of the following articles:
[36],
[37],
[38] and
[39] -
JuneGloomTalk 20:52, 23 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Request on paper about invasion and occupation on Okinawa civilians.
The paper I would like is:
Bennett, Commander Henry Stanley. "The impact of invasion and occupation on the civilians of Okinawa." United States Naval Institute Proceedings. Vol. 72, No.2, Whole No. 516, pp. 2 of Okinawa. United States Naval Institute Proceedings. Vol. 72, No.2, Whole No. 516, pp. 263- Okinawa. United States Naval Institute Proceedings. Vol. 72, No.2, Whole No. 516, pp. 263-275, Feb. 1 United States Naval Institute Proceedings. Vol. 72, No.2, Whole No. 516, pp. 263-275, Feb. 1946.
A Wikipedian is looking for statements a "Dr. Iesaka" made. Thank you,
WhisperToMe (
talk) 17:28, 30 October 2013 (UTC)reply
November 2013
Nurse Specialties Median Annual Income
Looking for Nurse Median Annual income by nurse specialty. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lumps all the specialties together. I want to isolate each nurse specialty and report the median annual income for each specialty (i.e. Surgery, Pediatrics, Home Health Care, etc.). I was told that my original source was invalid. The specialties may be found here
/info/en/?search=Nursing_specialties.
Sjt003 (
talk) 15:53, 1 November 2013 (UTC)sjt003reply
I'm not clear why you only need BLS stats, that's hardly going to give a global overview to an article Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:35, 1 November 2013 (UTC)reply
I'm primarily speaking to the U.S. sections and how they would benefit from BLS stats. I understand those figures would not have any bearing on the other, global sections.
Sjt003 (
talk) 20:40, 7 November 2013 (UTC)sjt003reply
Getting scans from Hathi Trust
Hello,
I would like to get scans from
Hathi Trust, however downloading whole books is restricted to "Partner institution members". I am specially intersted by all books relalted to
Mahatma Gandhi. AFAIK these 13 scans of "Young India" are not available elsewhere. If you have access, please help. If not, please spread the word to find some one who has access. Thanks a lot in advance!
Yann (
talk) 13:51, 6 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Hmmm, Hathitrust has a somewhat restrictive license to those institutions. Is there some reason reading those texts directly from their webpage (vice getting full-volume PDFs) won't suffice? It seems the full text is available that way.
LeadSongDogcome howl! 15:04, 6 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Several volumes are on
http://www.dli.ernet.in/ but you need to use some tricks to download books into a single PDF.
Shyamal (
talk) 16:16, 6 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Thanks for these links. They are useful.
Yann (
talk) 10:45, 9 November 2013 (UTC)reply
@
LeadSongDog: The idea is to upload the scans to Commons and to publish the texts in Wikisource.
Yann (
talk) 14:33, 8 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Browsing the front matter in the online reader, note the copyright claim by the republisher. I don't say it's a legit claim, but that claim is extant. Hathitrust likely will not bother to contest it.
LeadSongDogcome howl! 15:21, 8 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Richard II: The Art of Kingship
Would someone happen to have a copy of this book? Richard II: The Art of Kingship, edited by Anthony Goodman, James Gillespie. I am needing a look at pages 222 and 223. Thanks. --
Kansas Bear (
talk) 16:42, 13 November 2013 (UTC)reply
@
Kansas Bear: This may not be of much help, but I could get a look at page 222 through Amazon's 'Look Inside!' feature. But another user might be near a library with the full book (alas I'm not) Moswentotalky 09:28, 20 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Troedsson, G.T. (1937). On the Cambro-Ordovician faunas of western Qurugtagh, eastern T'ien-shan. Geol. Survey China, Palaeont. Sinica (Peiping), new ser. B, no. 2, p. 1·74, pI. 1-10.
Looking for Hutton, Ronald, 'Medieval Welsh Literature and Pre-Christian Deities', Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 61 (Summer 2011) 57-86. Thanks. I can be emailed from my talk page.
Dougweller (
talk) 16:12, 19 November 2013 (UTC)reply
American Classic Screen
This one may be a challenge, but the community is awesome, so I am hopeful. American Classic Screen7 (1): 8 (Jan/Feb 1983). I'm not actually sure the feature / column / article name, or whether it's entirely contained on page 8 or not. Should include commentary by Kevin Brownlow about the restoration of the film recovered from the Lusitania, which I hope to have something to add to The Carpet from Bagdad. No online link available that I know of, even paywalled. Also unhelpfully, although excerpts from American Classic Screen were compiled and reprinted in three book volumes ... this wasn't among them. My email is enabled.
Squeamish Ossifrage (
talk) 04:07, 27 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Do you (or someone) live near any of
these libraries? For example, CMU claims to have v.3 (1978/1979)-v.7 (1983). Not all have all issues, but some seem like they might have this.
Chris857 (
talk) 04:26, 27 November 2013 (UTC)reply
I'd be theoretically in range to make a day trip out to KU, but getting the opportunity to make the trip this time of year may be challenging. Worst case, I'll try to arrange that in a couple weeks, but I'm hoping I get lucky here in the meantime.
Squeamish Ossifrage (
talk) 04:29, 27 November 2013 (UTC)reply
December 2013
Wiley Online Library
I'd like to get access to
this article in order to verify claims in the
Jesus and
Shroud of Turin articles. (Gary R. Habermas, Published Online: 25 NOV 2011, DOI: 10.1002/9780470670606.wbecc1257)--
FutureTrillionaire (
talk) 21:49, 8 December 2013 (UTC)reply
More book reviews for De l'un au multiple: Traductions du chinois vers les langues européenes
I sent both, but page 382 in Xiuying appears blank to me. I tried downloading twice from ingentaconnect, but same result. --Atethnekos(
Discussion,
Contributions) 06:44, 10 December 2013 (UTC)reply
What's really strange is that I also have access to this journal through the ALJC, but for this issue it ends on p. 381! And thirdly I have access through EbscoHost, but it only goes back to Feb. 2003. P. 382 of that issue is the only page of this journal going back to Jan. 2000 which I do not have. --Atethnekos(
Discussion,
Contributions) 07:09, 10 December 2013 (UTC)reply
I wonder if that page is intentionally blank (the phrase in 381 starts "Ces titres en témoignent de l’objectif: non pour élaborer une théorie de la traduction mais pour mettre en" and in 383... "l’original, en particulier pour la littérature chinoise, mais à séduire le public, ainsi a-til cherché avant tout l’élégance du texte traduit.") ? It would be good to wait for other editors to download from other sources. Thank you for your help
WhisperToMe (
talk) 07:41, 10 December 2013 (UTC)reply
My French is subpar, but that sentence doesn't read like sensible French to me: She's saying the titles show the objective of the work, which is not "to elaborate a new theory of translation, but to...", but using "pour mettre en ... l'original," to finish the clause just doesn't make sense to me (set the original?), nor would it with the rest of the sentence. Also, note that the next paragraph then starts: "La troisième partie"; well what happened to the second part? I'm guessing the first word on 382 is "avant" (i.e., "put forward" [a thesis]). --Atethnekos(
Discussion,
Contributions) 08:55, 10 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Ok. In that case one page definitely is missing. I wonder if somebody with access to another database will be able to get a complete version of this essay
WhisperToMe (
talk) 18:06, 10 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Does page 382 display? I tried the file but Acrobat said there was an error in the page
WhisperToMe (
talk) 07:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Nope. Looks like the source itself had an error during PDF creation.
OhanaUnitedTalk page 23:58, 19 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Proborhyaena
I'm looking for this article of palaeontology, I hope someone could have access to it:
Bondesio, P. y R. Pascual. 1983. Nuevos y elocuentes restos craneanos de Proborhyaena gigantea Ameghino, 1897 [Marsupialia, Borhyaenidae Proborhyaeninae] de la Edad Deseadense: Un ejemplo de coevolución. Ameghiniana. 20 (1-2): 47-60.
[41]. Thanks in advance. --
Rextron (
talk) 10:11, 10 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Przegląd lekarski
Does anyone have access to this Polish medical journal? If you do, I'm after:
Kochanowski, M.; Kała, M. (2005). "Tetrahydrocannabinols in clinical and forensic toxicology". Przegl Lek. 62 (6): 576–80.
PMID16225128.
Hi, "Georges C. Anawati (1996), "Arabic alchemy", in Roshdi Rashed, ed., Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, Vol. 3, p. 853–885 [875]" is used as a reference twice in the
Avicenna article, once to provide a list of four works by Avicenna, once to support the statement: "Among his works on alchemy, Liber Aboali Abincine de Anima in arte Alchemiae was the most influential, having influenced later medieval chemists and alchemists such as Vincent of Beauvais". Please could someone send me the article, or if that's too much, the relevant pages on Avicenna / Ibn Sina. One of the things I'm interested in is whether Avicenna actually wrote the works listed in the
Avicenna article, as another Anawati reference I found said Avicenna did not write three of four works attributed to him. Thanks.
--
Merlinme (
talk) 17:30, 16 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Sent. I hate it when sources are misrepresented. Anawati on 375–6 is explicit in saying that he agrees with Ruska that De anima is a fake. --Atethnekos(
Discussion,
Contributions) 21:41, 16 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Thank you. I'm afraid the misrepresentation of the source is not exactly a surprise, this is part of the
WP:Requests_for_comment/Jagged_85 cleanup. Still clearing up his mess nearly four years later. --
Merlinme (
talk) 09:35, 17 December 2013 (UTC)reply
@
Merlinme: Thank you for pointing out that case to me. Anecdotally I have noticed such "boosterism"; I guess I'm not the only one. People who take part in such an activity may think they are improving the reputations of their favoured groups, but when their activity is discovered, their groups' reputations are harmed because the groups become associated with this dishonest behaviour. Also, the level of trust about claims on the topic is diminished: If such behaviour were ubiquitous for a topic, then people would simply ignore everything said about the topic, because they wouldn't trust any of it. The topic would become ignored entirely: The exact opposite of what the boosters might hope. And then there is the real harm: The people who have more than a passing interest in the topics start by being misinformed, but then—when they go on to read more on the topic—they become confused due to the conflicting reports, and their whole progress in understanding the topic is retarded. --Atethnekos(
Discussion,
Contributions) 04:34, 18 December 2013 (UTC)reply
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Atethnekos:The Jagged_85 case is in a class of its own. I sincerely hope we never see anything like it again. What made his edits so damaging was that they looked like they were well sourced. A lot of editors don't check references; very few indeed check references which are not available online, and Jagged_85 frequently used hard to check sources with incomplete references. This was made far worse by his prodigious output, at one point he was in the top 100 editors by number of edits. He would copy the same bad material with bad references into a dozen articles. Not only does the boosterism cause confusion and perhaps even a backlash against the exaggeration, it's immensely damaging to Wikipedia's reputation. Wikipedia references are supposed to be how you know an article is well-sourced; if you can't trust what look like good references to scholarly articles, Wikipedia is nearly useless. Some of his mistakes have been used as examples in newspapers to show how unreliable Wikipedia is. I was never quite sure if they were mistakes; at the very least, he made definitive statements about things he didn't understand. Sometimes what he wrote was so ridiculous (Avicenna was the first to describe the lever was one of my favourites) then he must surely have known that he was essentially making it up.
It can take 100 hours work to clean-up even one article, given how time consuming it is to track down all the references. It also requires a fair amount of understanding quite difficult sources. One of his favourite tactics was to use an article that mentions X and Y to say that X invented Y, and you have to understand what the article actually does say before you can correct his edit. I did a philosophy degree and I'm happy skimming scholarly articles to get the required information, but I can understand why few others have the understanding and patience to get involved. The time I have available is fairly limited, although I have a bit more at the moment. If you feel the urge to get involved, I'm sure your help would be much appreciated. --
Merlinme (
talk) 18:38, 18 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Inexplicably, my library has only volume 2, but if you ever need anything from that, let me know.
Gamaliel (
talk) 19:57, 24 January 2014 (UTC)reply
Article about Titanic, May 16, 1912 issue of the Al-Khawater magazine, at American University of Beirut
Does anyone have access to the May 16, 1912 issue of the Al-Khawater magazine about the Titanic, at the
American University of Beirut?
Up to date reviews requested on orofacial pain and toothache
Y Shephard MK, Macgregor EA, Zakrzewska JM. Orofacial Pain: A Guide for the Headache Physician. Headache. 2013 Nov 21. doi: 10.1111/head.12272. PubMed:
[42] paywalled here:
[43]
Kumar A, Brennan MT. Differential diagnosis of orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorder. Dent Clin North Am. 2013 Jul;57(3):419-28. doi: 10.1016/j.cden.2013.04.003. PubMed:
[44] paywalled here:
[45]
Myself and another editor are currently re-working
toothache and
orofacial pain. I am finding it difficult to find good sources in full text. Many thanks if anyone can help us. --
Lesion (
talk) 15:31, 19 December 2013 (UTC)reply
An editor kindly emailed me the first. If anyone has access to the latter, please let me know.
Lesion (
talk) 00:08, 20 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Some more in the same theme:
De Rossi SS. Orofacial pain: a primer. Dent Clin North Am. 2013 Jul;57(3):383-92. PubMed:
[46] paywalled here:
[47].
Renton T, Durham J, Aggarwal VR. The classification and differential diagnosis of orofacial pain. Expert Rev Neurother. 2012 May;12(5):569-76. PubMed:
[48] paywalled here:
[49]. Many thanks,
Lesion (
talk) 04:59, 20 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Second article emailed.
Gamaliel (
talk) 17:52, 3 March 2014 (UTC)reply
Elixir Poisoning in Medieval China
Please check availability of:
Ho, Peng Yoke and Joseph Needham, "Elixir Poisoning in Medieval China", Janus, vol. 48 (1959), pp. 221-251; reprinted in Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West, Joseph Needham, Cambridge University Press (1970), pp. 316-339.
Yes, thanks, I'd seen this truncated GB version, which is why I want the full article.
Keahapana (
talk) 00:21, 29 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law' (Gregg Lee Carter, ABC-CLIO 2002)
If someone could provide me the entry on "Holocaust imagery and gun control", I'd be most grateful.
AndyTheGrump (
talk) 05:04, 26 December 2013 (UTC)reply
I don't see that entry in the Table of Contents
here.
GabrielF (
talk) 05:09, 26 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Looks like its in the 2012 edition but not the 2002 edition.
GabrielF (
talk) 06:07, 26 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Ampelosaurus ref needed
Resolved
I found this ref
doi:
10.1016/j.cretres.2009.07.010 I would really like to have it so I can expand Ampelosaurus (I know, it looks pretty big, but it's for the Paleoecology section). Thanks a lot in advance!!!!!!
Iainstein (
talk) 00:47, 30 December 2013 (UTC)reply
Email me and I'll reply with a PDF.
Burmeister (
talk) 23:40, 30 December 2013 (UTC)reply