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Beverly McKnight

Hello Pam:

I added references and hope I did it correctly. I also have newspaper photos, but do not know how to upload. Thank you.

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Depression in college students

Now Draft:Depression in college studentsPamD 09:13, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi PamD our page is for a class project it had that memo on it that its for a midterm where we have to make a wiki page for a psych presentation. It will be deleted in 2 weeks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psychteam4 (talk • contribs) 00:19, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Welcome typo

Hello Pam! Um, I think your welcome paragraph has a typo - a missing "after" between "look" and your late Mother. Just saying!

Perhaps some more work on tidying up units is on the way; I am trying to assemble a survey of the various dodgy sources which are the only basis for some of these pages. OTOH, I started investigating the fother the other day, and it's really a fascinating business -- all about measuring lead.

Imaginatorium (talk) 15:55, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting that - now corrected. After several years of living in two places we're announcing our official change of address from town to inherited country village bungalow (I can see the Howgill Fells across the fields as I type...) and I thought I'd update the page... but didn't proofread it. As for units ... good luck! PamD 16:41, 22 February 2016 (UTC)
Lovely hills. Mine were the Black Mountains of Hereford and Brecon -- where we live now I could (once) just see Mt Fuji from my office window: [1] (right in the middle)... now there's just the house next door. Imaginatorium (talk) 17:12, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks for sorting that out... I wasn't sure what to do. I'm happy with any version, though I'd be even happier if some American literary scholar could contribute some basic information about the poet, like birth and death dates... It would also be nice to know if he's the same JCA who wrote a book on Business Spanish in the 1920s! seglea (talk) 14:58, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

@Seglea: Hmm, interesting. The politican had no offspring ("one child died in infancy") so his namesakes are more complicatedly related. There's one of them born 1862, probably too early to be our poet: here and continued here. Just realised they're the same book, just different sections 7th generation and 8th generation. The Alma Mater ref gives a little more info about the prof, but nothing to help decide whether he's the poet or not, as you say. An obit of prof and/or poet would be wonderfully useful! Good luck. (My own family had 4 generations of "Robert Moffat", not a middle name amongst them, which complicates family history research). PamD 16:20, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

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The deleted version of 'Preston Richard' was just a redirect to 'Endmoor'. I'm sure whatever you submit will have more information. DS (talk) 16:40, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

@DragonflySixtyseven: OK, thanks. PamD 16:42, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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Please consider my proposal at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Peacock. Cheers! bd2412 T 15:49, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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re Matt Peacock redlink in Devil's Dust

Hi PamD,

I just made a change to the redlink, then noticed that you'd changed it from Matt Peacock (journalist) a couple of days back. The rationale for using that rather than Matt Peacock (Devil's Dust) is that the latter will never warrant a separate character page, that Devil's Dust comes after Killer Company, that standard practice where a role is a real person is to link to that real person, and that the journalist redlink (which itself may never warrant an article of its own) has multiple non-DAB appearances elsewhere. I'll add a mention of Devil's Dust at Killer Company, however do not believe it should appear at the DAB page (fictionalised portrayals/representations of real people don't get so disambiguated). Cheers, ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 14:22, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

@Hydronium Hydroxide: Sorry about that: I hadn't spotted that the film was a documentary and the character was real - I was treating it as a separate fictional character. Should have read more carefully. Have removed that spurious entry. Not sure whether it's worth a WP:RfD for the redirect... yes, probably is. Will do. PamD 16:37, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
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@GreenCricket: I think you've got confused about something. I moved a page from that title to a better title, leaving a redirect; the page was subsequently deleted. Please take more care about the comments you leave on other editors' talk pages. PamD 12:03, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

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Why put my article up for deletion... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Monster2847 (talk • contribs) 16:16, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Because he doesn't seem to satisfy the notability requirements at WP:MUSICBIO. If you believe the article should not be deleted, please argue the case at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josh Stimpson (singer/songwriter). Don't just delete the deletion tag. PamD 19:14, 27 March 2016 (UTC)@Monster2847: PamD 19:15, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks, PamD. Before it looked shabby, now it looks good. I hope you have a good day! Malethedale (talk) 14:09, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Sometimes while I'm stub-sorting I get led to an article which looks as if it needs a bit of helplike that one! PamD 15:14, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Damage of [[Viva (Bolivian Company)

THE CONTRIBUTION TO THIS PAGE DAMAGED IT AND CONVERTED IT IN A STUB — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joaquin Eduardo Vargas (talk • contribs) 02:18, 6 April 2016

@Joaquin Eduardo Vargas: The article Viva (Bolivian company) was edited by another editor to remove a large quantity of poorly-written, unsourced, promotional material. The remaining stub still has no sources other than the company's own website. If you have a close connection with this company, please read and note the Conflict of Interest policy. When you post on a talk page, please remember to sign your edit using ~~~~, and do not "SHOUT" by using all upper case letters. Thank you. PamD 07:49, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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The Leeds Club

Hello, I noticed you recently reviewed my edit of The Leeds Club. I am indeed an employee there. However, I wrote the content myself that is featured on the website www.leedsclub.com I was consulted by my GM because of my interest in the history of the building to write a brief history of The Leeds Club, the content of which has now been used in the website and the full feature article is listed on my own blog www.craigowenlewis.co.uk I was just curious as to why this content was removed since I was the one who wrote it? Thanks, CraigowenlewisCraigowenlewis (talk) 10:59, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Hallo Craig.
Firstly, please note my polite request above: "If you are discussing any particular page, please provide a link to it - it makes life easier for me and anyone else seeing this page." It would have been helpful to link Leeds Club.
Secondly, please read the note left on your user talk page. It directs you to Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials if you want to donate copyright material. At this point we don't know whether you are, or aren't, the writer of the text on the club website (on the internet anyone can claim anything). The copyright statement there says "3. Copyright 3.1 You acknowledge and agree that the content of the Web Site, including but not limited to text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, or other proprietary rights and laws. 3.2 You acknowledge and agree that You may not store, copy, reproduce, transmit, distribute, modify, publish, broadcast or create derivative works of such content or information except as is necessary for the normal use of the Services.", which is quite clear.
Thirdly there's the Conflict of Interest rules. PamD 11:49, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

tatiana de la tierra

(section heading added by PamD)

Hello PamD,

I noticed that you started a page on tatiana de la tierra and it only contains a few sentences. I have actually been working on a page about de la tierra for a few months now as a project for an LGBT class I am taking at UC Berkeley; I started the whole process by first linking her to a lot of pages that relate to her and her work. I have now completed her page, which contains a lot more information than her current wiki page. However, I am having a lot of difficulty making my research work public because there is already an existing page on de la tierra. I am writing in hopes that you might consider deleting your page and then contributing onto mine once it is made public because I have already written so much and Wikipedia does not allow me to simply copy and paste my work onto the page you have created. I would greatly appreciate it if you decided to do this because this project is a huge part of my grade in the class I am taking. Thank you for your time!

Best, Guiselac (talk) 04:40, 12 April 2016 (UTC)GuiselaC

@Guiselac: @Adam (Wiki Ed): If you are editing Wikipedia as part of your class, it is very sad that your teachers have not given you better guidelines about how Wikipedia works, and also that you have not bothered to look around for yourself and learn how to do things.
As a minor example: did you see the notice at the top of this page which asks you to add new posts by clicking on "New section" above? Or notice that every other post on this and other talk pages starts with a subject heading? If you use the "New section" link it prompts you to add one. And did you read "If you are discussing any particular page, please provide a link to it - it makes life easier for me and anyone else seeing this page."? At least you signed your message, unlike many other beginning editors, so thanks for that!
You're wrong in saying that I started the existing page on de la tierra: the page history here shows that it was created by another student, on 31 March 2016. I stepped in to upgrade it a bit, and that's how the encyclopedia works. If you have got a lot more sourced material on her, then you can upgrade the article further. Add your extra content and sources, preferably bit by bit (say a section at a time) rather than all in one massive edit, and blend it in with the existing work, not removing anything added by another editor unless there is good reason to do so. You might notice, for a start, that the existing article begins in the standard Wikipedia style: no heading like your "Tatiana de la tierra (1961-2012)", but that text in bold as the start of the first sentence. If you had taken the time to look around Wikipedia at existing articles, you would have learned that this is how Wikipedia articles begin. Your course tutors have let you down if they have not given you this sort of guidance, or encouraged you to look at other good articles in the encyclopedia.
They have also clearly not shown you how to work in your own "user space", since you're incorrectly created this article as a "User" page, implying that its the user page of an editor with the name "tatiana de la tiera". I think I've now successfully moved it to User:Guiselac/Tatiana de la tierra which is where it should be: a subpage of your own "user space".
Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia, not a student laboratory. We do not delete existing articles just because one student has done a lot of work which will be "a huge part of [their] grade". I understand that you are coming from a position of ignorance on how the encyclopedia works, but "get out of my way I've got a school project coming through" seems quite an arrogant request, and is not part of Wikipedia's collaborative approach.
I've pinged Adam from WikiEd, who I see is involved with your course, in the hopes that he can help you and your course colleagues to have a better experience here at the encyclopedia, by making sure that your tutors explain better how it works. And I hope that you now understand how to improve the existing article on tatiana de la tierra: add what you have to offer, merging it in with the existing content. You can't ask for an existing article to be deleted, and its creator to disappear from its editing history, just because you want a good grade. Consider that other editor's personal list of "New articles I have started": do you really think this one should disappear for him or her? Please take a little more time to learn about editing a collaborative encyclopedia. If your course grade depends on creating a new article, rather than "improving the encyclopedia", then the course grading system is badly wrong. PamD 07:37, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi folks. I'll have a longer reply later but briefly: Wiki Ed strongly urges instructors not to grade based on what sticks on the mainspace and in almost all cases students asking for material to stick are not doing so because that's what's in the rubric but because they are new and nervous about the whole arrangement. @Guiselac: Your work in your userspace, which pam has moved to the appropriate spot for you, will be what you are graded on. Please be patient and listen closely to the advice above and you'll do fine. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 10:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
The article is stable now, with the history and creation intact. While I appreciate the advice you've given, I think you've been awfully hard on what looks to be a new editor making an understandable mistake. From what I can tell, Guiselac created their draft before the editathon happened and (presumably) did not expect there to be an article when they attempted to move it. The message you get when you attempt to move over an existing page is pretty strident and specifically says "Do not manually move the article by copying and pasting it; the page history must be moved along with the article text" (emphasis theirs). You and I know what that means because we've edited wikipedia for a while, but someone completely new may misunderstand it and ask for help. They did exactly that and you spent a good deal of your reply lambasting them for their lack of training and (in a word, mine not yours) newbishness. Your first sentence is "If you are editing Wikipedia as part of your class, it is very sad that your teachers have not given you better guidelines about how Wikipedia works, and also that you have not bothered to look around for yourself and learn how to do things." Yes, each of the mistakes you identified were made by the student but it's almost cruel to punctuate each with lines like "They have also clearly not shown you how to work in your own "user space"" or ". If you had taken the time to look around Wikipedia at existing articles, you would have learned that this is how Wikipedia articles begin. Your course tutors have let you down if they have not given you this sort of guidance, or encouraged you to look at other good articles in the encyclopedia." I don't see what that accomplishes aside from making the recipient feel shame or guilt. It's especially unfair to a student, since whatever instruction they've been given is out of their control as is whatever training they may have. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

@Adam (Wiki Ed): I'm sorry you feel I was "almost cruel" to the student. S/he didn't make "an understandable mistake" but a whole series of mistakes. I felt a mix of irritation at any editor who posts on my talk page and doesn't bother to read the note at the top about how to post (creating a new section, and linking to the article in question), and sympathy with a student who'd not been given enough help and advice by their teachers and who seemed to believe that the only way they could get a good grade was by wiping out an existing article to over-write it with their work. Don't tutors give any sort of guidance on the lines of "Look at existing GA/FAs and emulate their layout and style"? With that s/he might have correctly formatted a lead sentence, omitted the unencyclopedic tone of the "death" section in particular, etc. Yes, s/he was unfortunate to have put a lot of effort into developing a stand-alone article when a later editor then created a stub on the same topic. Perhaps students should be advised to create a well-referenced stub which can justify its existence by showing notability, and move this into article space before expanding it. It could then be given the appropriate paraphernalia of categories, incoming redirects, etc, and would be exposed to other editors' constructive contributions and feedback in the usual Wikipedia way, instead of the article being fully developed, flaws and all, with a lot of effort, before being moved into article space. PamD 22:00, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

  • I don't need an apology for my feelings. I wasn't the editor you upbraided, I just pointed out the response was needlessly harsh.
  • "Look at existing GA/FAs and emulate their layout and style" Yes. Our training material (see our handout on Evaluating Wikipedia articles) and the training for students point students to community assessments and offer guidance on how to think about quality of work on Wikipedia specifically. Our training on sandbox drafts suggests students move a new article into the mainspace when they have a " few solid, well-sourced paragraphs and a good overview of [the] topic". I recommend that to instructors as well for most cases, but someone new to wikipedia probably doesn't understand why it is valuable to start with a foundation like that.
  • I forwarded your feedback to the course instructor. I'll also see about updating our training materials to emphasize building a minimum viable stub first, rather than urging them to edit iteratively (which even if explained is hard to make concrete). Thanks for helping to develop the article and my apologies for any irritation caused. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:34, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

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You put a BLP prod on Wahegurupal Singh a few days ago, but it has a message on the page saying you have to substitute the tag! Looks like you put something wrong on it. Wgolf (talk) 04:09, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

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I have removed the deletion proposal you made at Pakokku University, as it had been contested on the article's talk page. If you still think it should be deleted, you can take it to WP:AFD. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 13:15, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

@JamesBWatson: That's fine - I can see that there's now evidence of its existence, and of the separate existence of the Computer University. Thanks for letting me know. PamD 14:21, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

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I added some material to Computer University, Pakokku, which you prodded. I have not been able to find comprehensive coverage of the university (I don't read Burmese). The new official page is on a subdomain of the Myanmar Ministry of Education (Science and Technology), so that seems like relatively explicit government recognition. The building that appears in various photos on the website and on Facebook seems to match the aerial photography available on Google Maps. On that basis, I have deprodded the article. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 09:56, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

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I reverted the IP (who added unsourced content to a related article) because they had added content about a BLP without explaining why and without a source (the accessdate for the link you mention is about 8 months before the award was granted!). Hope that clears it up :) GiantSnowman 17:12, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

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Hello Pam! I'm asking for advice/help from a more experienced editor, not because I suppose you know anything particular about wood-carved altarpieces in Poland. This page is very minor, and has <30 watchers, so I am not sure how to get another opinion about my comments on the title, on the talk page. Can you have a look? Thanks. Imaginatorium (talk) 06:38, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

I've had a look ... and left a note on the talk page and a request for help from the experts at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts#Article_title_help_needed. PamD 17:22, 29 May 2016 (UTC)

Alcohol-free bar

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@Northamerica1000: I've tweaked it so I think it's now all clearly sourced. But the article still lacks focus, just a collection of notes about different establishments with different purposes, whatever came out of a Google search rather than any real explanation of the topic. Ah well, that's how it goes. PamD 16:05, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
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Just thought I'd pop by and say thanks for spending some time on Khuhi Khera - any ideas where there might be a reference for it's existance? I'm turning up blanks, which is a little concerning -- samtar talk or stalk 15:17, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

@Samtar: http://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/35080-khui-khera-punjab.html looks useful! PamD 15:22, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Well I'll be - my Google-fu is lacking.. -- samtar talk or stalk 15:24, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
@Samtar: It's spelled slightly different but seems to be the right place. PamD 15:26, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
@Samtar: ... and it's not the actualy government census data site - might be better to find it, rather than cite this commercial copy. But this seems reassuring that the place exists. PamD 15:27, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
Very true, might be worth a move to match the common spelling? -- samtar talk or stalk 15:33, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

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Units again

Hello Pam! Thanks for your help the other day -- I've found myself amazed by the number of different words there are for various bits at the back of an altar. I find it difficult that saying anything about inter-article confusion almost always results in parrotting of the "These are different terms" trope.

Anyway, I've been looking at articles citing that dreadful Cardarelli book again. I just noticed an odd bit in Teaspoon which was added by Shevonsilva, then removed by you, then you self-reverted. I do think this bit is unhelpful; all it does is remind us that cc and ml are *almost* the same unit. But if the official definition if 5 ml, then Cardarelli has got it wrong in a way which he (the book, remember) really should know.

The next one is Sarpler: you added in the standard (normal? correct?) definition, and the resulting page is really rather odd. I suggest that there is plenty of other evidence, unanimous in supporting the OED version, and so we should remove the Cardarelli version (just like we removed "stupping ton"). Any thoughts on this? Rather like the "altarpiece/reredos/retable/dossal" thing, I really think that articles on a topic, which explain differences and confusions between different terms are more useful than a ragbag of what amount to dictionary entries. Imaginatorium (talk) 17:51, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

@Imaginatorium: I can't summon much enthusiasm for either teaspoons or sarplers: do what you think best. On teaspoons, the article seems very confused and could do with a clearer statement that in current usage there are 3 sorts of "teaspoon" measurements: UK, US, Metric, at 4.9289, 3.5516, 5 ml (See http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/uk-teaspoons-to-milliliters-table.htm). The difference between UK and US/metric is enough to make quite a difference to a recipe - almost half as much again, critical if it's a spice or other powerful ingredient! There is also a useful article at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002209.htm about medications. Over to you. PamD 21:09, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
@Imaginatorium: Change of plan: I'm working on sarpler. Pity about the book I ought to be reading for Wednesday's book group. PamD 21:32, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
@Imaginatorium: Oops, didn't look at the talk page till I'd saved my revised version. Feel free to incorporate your new sources too! PamD 21:45, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
Thanks! Actually, the sizes.com website is extremely good: it appears to be based on material written by the same author for a printed book, and it has lots of historical references and quotations. Frankly the article on "Sarpler" is vastly better than the WP one. And the subject turns out to be rather interesting: how did they manage to bundle up a ton of wool into a cloth...?? But meanwhile I have been having a go at another one -- Salmarazd -- which led me to Assyria, of all places. Didn't even know where it was this morning. I am trying to provide a case study in anticipation of AfD. I'll ping the previous participants. Imaginatorium (talk) 18:46, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
Just to alert you to the so-far unanimous AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Salmarazd‎. Imaginatorium (talk) 05:24, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

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A belated Barnstar from all of us who have benefited from your efforts at Wikipedia shortly after your 10 year anniversary as an editor, which came and went on June 9. Best wishes for another 10 years of excellent work! Carrite (talk) 05:04, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

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Hello my friend and thank you for you help in my article, now i remove all "caps" thats you saying . I want to make you a question , i dont understand what is it at the top af the article and how to i remove it... thank you :) Natasha Pap (talk), 1:09, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

  • @Natasha Pap: The message at the top of the article says that there are too many capitals and they need to be changed (eg in the Discography and Video Clips listings). Once that's all done, then anyone can remove the message from the top. But not until then. Please do not use capital letters except for initial letters of people's names, placenames, titles - do not use them for whole titles of albums etc just because that's how they appear on the album cover. And, as it says at the top of this page, please give a link to any page you are talking about here, such as Dispero Ras Siento, to make it easier for me and anyone else looking at the page. Thanks. PamD 10:16, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much i change everything about the caps i mean and i am going to fix and the video clips ..thank you again Natasha Pap (talk), 1:32, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

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University of South Florida Polytechnic edits

Linking here to University of South Florida Polytechnic as editor has ignored my request at top of page for all comments to link to the page under discussion. PamD 07:26, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Pam,

I started on a clean up on that page, because the previous page incorrectly pointed to Florida Polytechnic University. University of South Florida began in 1954 and started University of South Florida Lakeland in the 1980s. I became a student of the school right after it became University of South Florida Polytechnic (that happened in 2008, I started at the school in 2009).

Our local state representative, JD. Alexander, decided that becoming a separate campus of USF with its own accreditation was not enough (mind you, USF is a Research 1 institution in the US, nothing to sneeze at!) and went nuts on starting a whole new STEM university. Long story short, a whole new university (Florida Polytechnic University) was started and University of South Florida Polytechnic was dissolved. The schools are NOT affiliated with each other in any way.

In fact, Florida Polytechnic right now may not receive the accreditation that JD Alexander promised they would this year. The South Atlantic Conference, an accrediting body headed by Belle Wheelan, refuses to grant this important status until the school meets the criteria established when it was formed. Meanwhile, if University of South Florida Polytechnic still existed, it would have been accredited 4 years ago!

It is a huge bone of contention for USFP students that all social media sites put the logo of the school that killed their school up when we list our alma mater. We have never been FPU students.

How do I get this resolved? I can cite about 50 articles in the Wikipedia page if I need to. FPU's buildings were designed by Santiago Calatrava to be USF Polytechnic, and the site donated to USF for use for their Lakeland Campus, but no, the schools are in no way affiliated with each other.

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@Suzannadanna: (and @Cuchullain: for info) Please see my detailed comments at User talk:Suzannadanna and in particular my statement there: If you disagree with Cuchullan, please argue about it on his talk page. And please also note that if you have registered an editor name it is better to use it consistently: by editing here from an IP address but saying "I started ...", you reveal the probable link between your IP address and your editor name, which is generally thought to be unwise. PamD 07:24, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
@PamD: (and @Cuchullain: for info) My apologies, I am new to this and didn't know the protocols. Heck, it took 20 minutes to find out exactly how to respond . I don't mean to be argumentative. 70.127.26.3 (talk) 10:42, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
I think it will be better to discuss this in a central location. I'll open up a discussion at Talk:Florida Polytechnic University.--Cúchullain t/c 12:37, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
I've just copied all the conversations to Talk:University of South Florida Polytechnic to centralise there! Perhaps a note on the other one would be useful too. PamD 12:40, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Giorgio Tavecchio

Hey. I was in the midst of redoing the page and just re-writing the the previous facts in a more detailed manor. I'll remember to write a summary next time. I just figured I'd do it at the end instead of writing a summary for each edit I did on the same page. Toeknee44 (talk) 03:28, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

  • @Toeknee44: Sorry about that: I just saw edits which had removed the lead and sources, so fixed the article as I saw it. If you're doing a whole series of edits it's useful to add {{in use}} as an alert (and remember to take it away at the end). Alternatively, edit, use "Preview", edit again, etc, so that the article is in a good state when you finally hit "Save". It's a good idea to try to leave the lead sentence intact whatever else is going on - it's the key thing which people see in search engines etc - and not a good idea to remove sourced content without an edit summary to say what you're doing... it tends to upset people. I'm not interested in American football, but was stub-sorting back in April, saved him from speedy deletion on the basis that his significance was asserted, nominated him for BLP PROD as he had no sources, and he's been lying around on my Watchlist since then. Happy Editing! PamD 09:00, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Where would I put {{in use}}? On the top of the page, in the edit summary? I've been doing edits for almost 5 years now and I'm still trying to learn everything.

Top of the page, so people see it when they get there. (Actually, the documentation does say so: "... is placed at the top of a page you are actively editing for a short period of time"!) Yes, I keep finding new interesting things (like how to link neatly to an article in another language Wikipedia). Glad to be able to spread a little knowledge! PamD 17:29, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

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Information icon Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, we would ask that you assume good faith while interacting with other editors, which you did not on User_talk:Bgwhite. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. I do not appreciate being falsely accused, or being talked to like I broke the entire encyclopedia. The thing you linked regarding templates is an essay and isn't a policy. I agree with the essay, and I thought hard about what would be the best method to post on the userpage - I used the notice template on the talk page because I didn't want to write a message, as I often sound like I attack people, but don't mean it. I wanted to avoid any trouble. A predefined template seemed less hostile to me. Nothing I did was against policy, yet you jumped to the possibility of me using an IP to edit, and treated me like dirt on my lack of knowledge with wikipedia lingo ("ce"). I am sorry for non-standard editing, but I am curious why it was chosen to remove, rather than standardize. This is very discouraging, as I meant no harm and enjoy benefiting people. I try my best but it's never good enough. I feel so unwelcome. Is this how every new editor who makes a frowned-upon action (not mistake) is treated? :'( CoolCanuck eh? 21:29, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

I haven't falsely accused you of anything significant - though at first I got the mistaken impression that you hadn't signed your comment, because an IP had added an unsigned comment with no section heading nor blank line, onto the end of your post. I realised what had happened, moved their comment to a new section, but forgot to remove my incorrect reminder to you about not signing your post (which I've now struck out). OK, perhaps that was a "false accusation", but hardly one to get agitated about.
You, on the other hand, are accusing me of bad faith and saying that I treated me like dirt on my lack of knowledge with wikipedia lingo ("ce"). I literally did not know in which of two senses you meant a more meaningful summary than "ce" which is the equivalent of no summary: either you did, or did not, know that "ce" is a common abbreviation here for "copy-edit". I tried to be helpful in each case. You chose to take offense. Please calm down. :As far as I can see BGW removed some non-standard formatting from Simcoe County District School Board but left your image file still linked; the image file of the motto was later deleted by a different editor as a copyright violation. I then helpfully reinserted the text of the motto.
And on WP:DTR: yes, it's an essay, but it makes sense. To suggest to an extremely experienced editor that their removal of text "may have been a test edit" is inappropriate. You could just have asked "Please explain why you removed my formatting". I'm sure s/he would have done so. Neither of you were leaving particularly useful edit summaries while you reverted each other. (@Bgwhite: for info, as this started on their talk page).
I'm sorry that you're feeling unwelcome and discouraged. I chipped in as a friendly informative "talk page watcher" to respond to your post on BGW's talk page (which could well be interpreted as either careless or insulting, as it was so inappropriate to use that templated message), but you've chosen to react negatively. Ah well, such is the rich tapestry of Wikilife. Come to think of it, any templated message, like yours here, which starts off "Welcome to Wikipedia" is a pretty unsuitable message to leave on the talk page of someone who's been editing here for 10 years, and likely to result in the following message not being taken particularly seriously: you might do better to cut down on the templated messages and handcraft your posts instead. PamD 22:04, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
@CoolCanuck: Pinging you as I just noticed I forgot to do so above. PamD 08:44, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply, in all fairness, it's not policy - stop over reacting. Various editors have discussed on IRC and have no issue with using templates instead of being hostile, as I previously explained my reasoning. Thanks for your suggestion to refrain from using templates, but in the end, the decision is solely mine, and mine alone within official policy - not yours. Regarding an image being used in an infobox (the actual "issue" - let's stay on topic..) for motto without it being officially supported, editors and reviewers of Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 have no issue with it. I would like to know how my instance differs? No mention of using images for slogans on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_U.S._federal_election_campaign .. just like the school district infobox motto. Your sarcasm and poor attitude towards new editors is dully noted. You were not a "friendly" talk page watcher. Don't bite new editors. --CoolCanuck eh? 17:48, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
Note: the editor above first edited in November 2014 so is hardly "new". PamD 18:14, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Marta Pen

I have expanded the article (I'm not an author). I think now the article doesn't meet speedy deletion criteria. Greetings, Żyrafał (talk) 18:52, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

@Żyrafał: I agree - have removed the Speedy Deletion template. Thanks for improving the article. PamD 19:42, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Suzuki Lets (Let's)‎

Thanks for wading in with regards to Suzuki Lets (Let's)‎ / Suz AX100 mess, I tried to restore to a decentish revision, but the page moves looked very messy, and I didn't have the time (or willpower!) to even try to correct them -- samtar talk or stalk 12:39, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

University of South Florida, Lakeland (U.S.F. Lakeland)

Hi, PamD, I'm a greenie (newbie) to the the Talk Page, hope i'm doing this right.

I live in Lakeland, Florida and attended the University of South Florida, Lakeland Campus ("U.S.F. Lakeland" as a nickname). Therefore I am an alumni of that college, which once existed as a satellite campus to the main campus of University of South Florida in Tampa, which is also a public university. In addition, U.S.F. Lakeland shared a campus with a community college, now known as Polk State College. (confused more yet?) So, historically, there was a U.S.F. Lakeland Campus that has closed, but it is still my alma mater. I would like the history to be preserved, because the new university is another institution.

At one point, as the Lakeland campus grew, with U.S.F. Lakeland leading the growth, the main campus in Tampa determined to have a campus that focused on Poly-Technical instruction (a technical trade school). Then, local politics came into play. A Senator from Polk County, where the City of Lakeland is located, decided to make it his duty to disconnect U.S.F. (et al) from the school altogether, due to political differences. The senator, J.D. Alexander, lobbied the Florida Senate to vote to create a twelfth university in Florida. The name would be Florida Polytechnic University.

There are still contentious politics at play. As I was googling for references I found that there is a newer name for the university yet again, as of December 2015. The University Trustees voted to name the school after the senator.

Some references: "Sen. JD Alexander: respected, reviled, always powerful" http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/college/sen-jd-alexander-respected-reviled-always-powerful/1216101 "Florida Polytechnic University trustees name campus after former Lake Wales lawmaker J.D. Alexander" http://www.theledger.com/article/20151202/news/151209903 AJMJohnson 00:05, 11 July 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by XanaDrew (talk • contribs)

@XanaDrew: As I said a few posts above, this is all best discussed at Talk:University of South Florida Polytechnic: please join in the discussion there. For a good article about USFP, it would be helpful to have several Reliable sources about the school, and in particular to have a copyright-OK version of its logo. Another editor uploaded one, marked as "own work": that can't be correct, as either it's the school's logo and not her work, or it's not the official logo. If you have a school document from which you can copy or scan a reasonable-quality copy of the logo, so that it can be uploaded with a stated source, once an article exists, under the special rules for logos (ie it is OK to copy the copyright logo of an organisation for use once in one article about the organisation, roughly), then that would be helpful too. But go over to that talk page and talk there: I know nothing about Florida academic politics. @Cuchullain: for info. (And, by the way, when typing in Wikipedia you need to abandon the way we were all taught to write: don't indent starts of paragraphs, just add a blank line. A line starting with a space gets formatted differently, looks odd on a talk page. And hallo to yet another librarian - there are a lot of us around editing the encyclopedia: I guess the urge to make knowledge available goes with the territory.) PamD 07:41, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
XanaDrew, PamD, yeah, that's essentially true. However, the shift of campuses didn't happen with the move from being a USF branch to being independent. USF Lakeland, as it was then known, was outgrowing its space on the community college campus and local leadership secured land for the new campus back in 2008. The name changed to USF Polytechnic happened the same year. It wasn't until 2012 that the branch campus was dissolved and Florida Polytechnic University was officially created, and the process took till 2014 to complete. Classes were still held at the community college campus before the new buildings were ready. "JD Alexander Campus" is just the name for the physical campus itself, not the university, in the way university buildings and features are often named after prominent founders and benefactors. The history is fairly convoluted, which is one reason I think it's better covered at one article than two.--Cúchullain t/c 14:35, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

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Not that this needs to go any farther

Background for talk-page watchers or myself looking at future archive: This is about a possibly non-notable, possibly ambiguous (see talk page), sailing ship: the Eliza Stewart. My curiosity was piqued by this rapidly-deleted talk page post, and I followed it up and then commented further. PamD 07:22, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

But you're welcome to review WP:AAGF when you have time. The edit comments were not utterly neutral, but neither were they inaccurate. There was in this case obvious and clear evidence that the banner spamming was not in good faith: no evidence was presented that the editor in question bothered googling or even reading the provided citation before claiming it was uncited and non-notable. The cite established that if the article was not notable enough on its own, the proper solution would be a merge into a larger list and not generic removal. In fact, the editor was just peeved that their original mistaken removal of the topic from the dab page had been undone. Per WP:CIVIL:

Explain yourself.—Insufficient explanations for edits can be perceived as uncivil. Use good edit summaries, and use the talk page if the edit summary does not provide enough space or if a more substantive debate is likely to be needed.

Now, let us all kindly stop misusing policy to remove helpful information from the encyclopedia or to bicker with each other and get back to expanding it and ignoring one another except to provide kudos or help with our expansions. — LlywelynII 22:31, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

...speaking of which, overwrought non-AGF comment to my talk page aside, thank you for your help expanding that article and depersonalizing the conflict with the other editor. — LlywelynII 22:34, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

@LlywelynII: Your insistence that Boleyn's policy-compliant removal of an entry with no blue link from a dab page was "mistaken" is verging on a Personal Attack on her. Please check WP:MOSDAB which states: A link to a non-existent article (a "red link") should only be included on a disambiguation page when an article (not just disambiguation pages) also includes that red link.. And it's difficult to "Assume the Assumption of Good Faith" in the light of your unpleasant edit summaries where you describe an editor as "peeved" and her edits as "catty" and "unhelpful", and legitimate tags as "obnoxious". There is no requirement on an editor to look for sources themselves before tagging an article with one reference as "needing more references" and suggesting that a one-sentence article does not appear to show WP:NOTABILITY. Tags are there to suggest ways in which an article should be improved: the editor doing the tagging is not required to do the work themselves. Just as I am entitled to add a {{catimprove}} tag without it being described as "tendentious", and without choosing to add more specific categories myself. PamD 22:57, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
Thanks, Pam, I certainly agree with your comments here and elsewhere. Jut in case you were wondering, I removed the message from my Talk page because I had already responded to a similar comment on the talk page of the dab, and when I saw the message then at my talk page, which was rude, I couldn't give it any more of my energy. LlywelynII, I would just like to clarify that my edit summaries and response at Talk:Eliza Stewart took the time to link to guidelines so you could see clearly where you had gone wrong. I didn't create the guidelines - they have emerged from the consensus of numerous editors who work in this area over a number of years, and shouldn't be unilaterally ignored because you don't agree, based on your limited experience of editing dabs. I would, though, encourage anyone to open a discussion about changing guidelines on the MOS:D or WP:Wikiproject Disambiguation pages, that's the way to get things changed. Personal attacks just make you look bad. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 10:51, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

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Hi, PamD. Thanks for improving the article "Pooja Sharma (disambiguation)". Further, your comments are very helpful to me. Regards! Teampoojasharma (talk) 11:53, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

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No Woman (film)

Hi Pamd

I am talking about No Woman film which has all the sources, may I know why the page is in deletion proccess again?

you can read all about the film and achievements in Women's Voice Now source which is in NO WOMAN page.

There is a peraian source from a popular Afghanistan's newspaper about film and review.

looking for reply. tnx — Preceding unsigned comment added by Privatesoul222 (talk • contribs) 20:48, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

@Privatesoul222: I did my best to expand and improve the article on the film but another editor does not think the sources are enough and has nominated it for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/No Woman (film) (4th nomination). You need to discuss it there. PamD 22:22, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Poetic encyclopaedist school

Hi, PamD, Thank you for your attention on the wiki pages about the "Poetic_encyclopaedist_school"(Poetic encyclopaedist school). This is a serious poetic school founded in China by Yin_Xiaoyuan (Yin Xiaoyuan), one poetic school very innovative in themes, styles and techniques etc. Please give us advice to construct a good presentation on Wikipedia of the poetic school in compliance with the spirit of Wikipedia.

Best regards! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jzjq (talk • contribs) 08:13, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

@Jzjg: (Please remember to sign all your posts on talk pages). I am not an expert on poetry, or Chinese literature of any sort. Your immediate problem is to defend the article at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poetic encyclopaedist school, by showing that the recently added sources are "Reliable sources" which are independent of the school, and by ensuring that the article is in clear English (see latest addition to the AfD debate). The references in the article are currently not well presented, in that they do not show the source of the reference clearly - a title and a URL are not enough for a reference: the reference should be as detailed as it would be in a written academic paper, with the URL as an extra bonus. Similarly, articles on individual poets need to include sources about them, not just duplicated chunks of information about the school and its other members. And you need to be sure that each editor edits using one and only one editor name. I see that your first edit was to add the article to the assessment requests at Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry/Assessment where it says "If you have made significant changes to an article ...", although you had not made any changes under your current editor name. PamD 09:50, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

@PamD Hi, PamD, Thank you for your reply. I am a beginner as 'editor'on Wikipedia. Is it not a good idea to make an assesment request about an article edited by other editors? By doing so, we might expect a more objective rating? Best regards! Jzjq (talk) 11:39, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

@Jzjq: No, as a new editor I think you should concentrate on responding to the points made in the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poetic encyclopaedist school. The section of the Poetry project page which invites editors to ask for assessment of their articles says, quite clearly, "If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below. By implication, if you have not yourself made significant changes to that article you should leave it to those who have done so to request any assessment. PamD 23:06, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi Pam! I expect you have seen that this has been deleted... I'm working through the poets listed, doing an AfD on their individual pages. Possibly one or two might be "notable", but the whole thing reeks of self-promotion. I have a problem: I cannot understand how to do the Deletion category stuff, to add the "Delsort" notices. I did try reading about it, but got nowhere. Can you do this? Can you show me how to do it? Here's the latest: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sun Qian (poet). Thanks! Imaginatorium (talk) 10:17, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

@Imaginatorium: Sorry, I know nothing about deletion categories except for choosing from Twinkle's dropdown menu which offers about 10 broad categories like "Biographies" or "Places and transportation". Beyond that, it's something which "someone else" does! It's good to see the end of the wall of unintelligible text of that main article. I think I thought one or two of the poets might possibly be notable. Good luck. PamD 17:55, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Articles

Thanks, will do. BlackAmerican (talk) 17:00, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

More articles

Hi Pam, this is my first time creating a page after years of wiki-use. Thank you for telling me about the things needed. I touched it up some. Let me know if it solved the issues. Excited to create/edit more pages in future! (Avento55 (talk) 21:54, 2 August 2016 (UTC))

AFD

Hi PamD, Bit random but I've come to apologize for the way I handled everything at the AFD as well as for getting annoyed with you,
Unfortunately I'm inpatient IRL and it's happened many times on here aswell where I've sent something to AFD and been told to be more patient,
But anyway I apologize for the AFD and for getting annoyed with you,
Happy editing! :), –Davey2010Talk 14:01, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

@Davey2010: Thanks for that - sometimes what seems the logical way to do something, to one person, doesn't seem so to another. I actually at one point PRODded the other Young Actors Theatre, but then ended up spending so much time cleaning it up (it was full of unencyclopedic twaddle) and finding a few refs that I dePRODded it. Happy Editing! PamD 15:13, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
No worries, I completely agree it does, I had noticed it was in a state and actually planned to fix it at somepoint in my life so thanks for helping and fixing it :), Happy editing :), –Davey2010Talk 15:41, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Épinal-Erfurt glossary

I realise that the Épinal-Erfurt glossary page could use quite a bit of expansion (which I don't have time for at the moment), but I'm wondering how to expand it in regards to notability (something that won't require too much more work for now). The existence of academic work on it (including a number of books) and its mention in other Wikipedia pages should already suggest some level of notability. What sort of content might you suggest adding? (For the record, I wish there were some other method of requesting such expansion besides nominating the page for deletion. When it's nominated for deletion, it seems to convey that the nominator considers it to be not at all notable, when in reality they usually simply know nothing about the topic. Is it the case here that you doubt notability, or are you simply pushing for higher quality standards on the stub?) —Firespeaker (talk) 16:29, 24 July 2016 (UTC)


Also, it's not a book, exactly, so the addition of that category seems a bit odd. I'm wondering if that should also be fixed, or if you had something else in mind here that I'm not getting. —Firespeaker (talk) 16:34, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

  • @Firespeaker: I came across this while stub-sorting (it caught my eye as something misfiling and needing a DEFAULTSORT principally, as the initial accented "E" files after "Z"). I didn't really grasp what it was about, perhaps didn't put enough effort into thinking about it. The fact that the one reference led to a predominantly non-English language Google page about an OUP book was also a bit offputting. I now see that the glossary itself is the entity, a reference work in two manuscripts, and Pheifer's book is a scholarly work entirely about it, which probably confers notability - I'll tweak the article to try to clarify that. Apologies for my rather careless tagging: I should have just walked on after sorting out the DEFAULTSORT, though it would quite possibly then have come into the hands of someone equally out of their depth in the field. ... Have just found a couple of good-looking references and will see what I can do. PamD 16:49, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
@Firespeaker: There, I've had a go at it. Now looks thoroughly notable, even to an ignorant eye. I'm unaccustomed to dealing with seriously scholarly stuff in Wikipedia, as I mostly stub-sort miscellaneous stubs (lots of sportspeople, politicians, villages, albums), or things on my watchlist (including the very random collection of articles I've started myself over the years). I hope that what I've added is correct - I'm sure you and others who know the field will expand it. PamD 17:42, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
That looks really great now. Thanks for your work on this! I apologise for not being around the last couple weeks to help on this or respond: I originally wrote the stub because I ran across one of the books on the glossary in my collection while packing for a long move and was surprised not to find much mention of it on Wikipedia. I'd packed the book by the time I saw the nomination for deletion, and I still haven't gotten to the other end to unpack it. And have been thoroughly occupied otherwise... Anyway, the page is a legitimate stub now, thanks to your expansion of it; thanks again! —Firespeaker (talk) 16:17, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Pam,

I noticed on your new article Chittlehamholt a link to an advanced search on the National Heritage List for England of the listed buildings in the village/parish. I have been trying to do this for ages so I clicked on the link in the reference (5) & unfortunately it is a blank search form rather than anything specific to this village.— Rod talk 18:23, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

@Rodw: That's why I added a note saying "Enter parish name to search"! Yes, it would be so much nicer to be able to offer a neat plugin search, but I reckon this way is better than nothing. Should I make that note in bold, perhaps, to catch the eye? PamD 20:49, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
I'm not sure what is best - I just hoped you had found a way of doing it that I haven't yet discovered.— Rod talk 20:54, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

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I am from a family who were friends of the family of Samuel Ward business partner of the financier Nathaniel Prime. I was concerned with taking the info regarding the Navy officer out of the article on the financier. My ancestors knew the Wards in the 1880s and spent time with a descendant in clubs and pubs in the 1970s through when he died in 1994. I have met a younger member who is still a Facebook friend. I am sorry to have done that separation incorrectly.RichardBond (talk) 21:29, 21 August 2016 (UTC) BTW There were two Nathaniel Prime mansions there was one in Tribeca he bought in 1807 and a later one in Yorkville he built in 1839. The one in Yorkville was completed the year before he died. His widow lived in the Yorkville mansion for some time he did not.RichardBond (talk) 21:36, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

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Hi there. I've started a new initiative, the Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. It's a long term goal to bring about 10,000 article improvements to the UK and Ireland. Through two contests involving just six or seven weeks of editing so far we've produced over 1500 improvements. Long term if we have more people chipping it and adding articles they've edited independently as well from all areas of the UK then reaching that target is all possible. I think it would be an amazing achievement to see 10,000 article improvements by editors chipping in. If you support this and think you might want to contribute towards this long term please sign up in the Contributors section. No obligations, just post work on anything you feel like whenever you want, though try to avoid basic stubs if possible as we're trying to reduce the overall stub count and improve general comprehension and quality. Thanks.

I'll update that main list once the West Country challenge is complete though so don't worry about adding your entries for the contest to it!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:19, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

New Contribution to South West Coast Path Association

Oops. Thank you for the message pointing out an actual COI infringement as I am a Trustee of the Charity. I will leave it to you to decide if you wish to back-out the edits (assuming this is possible). If so, I will suggest the edits via the Talk page. Page:[[2]] Swcpa hon sec (talk) 17:00, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

@Swcpa hon sec: I don't think there's any harm in updating the URL, but some editors get very tetchy about the whole COI thing so it's as well not to risk upsetting people. I've just noticed that I reverted another edit back in April ... and, looking at the page history, that I actually created the article in the first place, which I'd forgotten! I've just managed to copy the logo off the website and add it to the article, makes it look a bit livelier. We're heading down south next month for a family wedding and hoping to start doing the path "the other way round": it's a fair few years since we finished it. PamD 17:09, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
OK, thanks. I assume you are not a member?

Swcpa hon sec (talk) 17:16, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

@Swcpa hon sec: Been a member for many years, but I reckon ordinary membership of an organisation doesn't exclude from editing (just as graduates of universities etc have a COI but are the most likely people to edit re their alma mater). PamD 17:19, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

RfC: Protect user pages by default

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Books & Bytes - Issue 18

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The meticulous Cardarelli amazes us all

Or not. Thanks for your contributions to this business. I'm just staggered at the amount of effort it can take to remove stuff like this. A couple of questions/requests... I somewhat bodged the sequence of things, and user BDD has been patient and helpful, advising me to notify all the involved editors of the new RfD for the redirect. I hope I have just done this, but am not confident of mastery of pinging, so please let me know: did you just get one? (Sorry, I actually meant to delete you from the list, since you've commented already...) Secondly, it's about the OED: I've noticed the neat {{cite OED}} template, and wish I could use it, but I do not have access to the online OED, (as I understand it) because I'm not in the UK. I have an elderly copy of the SOED, and generally I expect that to be similar, but I suppose it's better to be standard. I started looking at the lakh article, and it could do with improvement. Particularly, the (not-too-bad-at-all) website reference might be replaced by what the OED says about spelling. AFAIK, in modern English it would always be written 'lakh', but old works do use the 'lac' version, including a monster Sanskrit-English dict. (Monier-Williams), for example. (I sort of started learning to read Devanagari recently, so it's all very fascinating...) Anyway thanks for help. Imaginatorium (talk) 17:41, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

@Imaginatorium:
  1. Yes,thanks, I got an alert that I'd been mentioned on that page. I find it very confusing that there are so many templates or other links to user names, with varying effects, and I too lose track of which ones generate a message to the user mentioned and which don't!
  2. OED is wonderful, and accessible to registered users of most/all UK public libraries. What is says on spelling is "Forms: 16 laches, le(c)k, leake, lacque, laquesaa (? from Sanskrit), 16–18 lak, lack, 18 lac.". It also notes a difference in pronunciation between UK and US English: "Brit. /lak/ , U.S. /lɑk/".
I hope we've now seen the last of "lacta-": what a silly saga and waste of time. PamD 23:14, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Comment

(Moved from the top, given heading, and reformatted, PamD)

Hi pam when i asked you why you deleted the wiki page before i wasn't answered so maybe pushy pam should answer it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daprofroggo (talk • contribs) 16:37, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

I can't see any evidence of you asking me about the deletion of any previous page. Perhaps you were using a different editor name or working anonymously? PamD 18:05, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
(moved from top and reformated --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:42, 6 September 2016 (UTC))
Does this editor recall that at the time when she was deleting my wikipedia and at the time when it was the 6th of september. I asked her a very important question. About the windfall she recieved when she deleted by article without giving source. I didn't recieve a proper answer then, maybe PUSHY PAM will answer it now! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daprofroggo (talk • contribs)
Note: editor blocked. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:42, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
I haven't a clue what this is about, except that today I redirected Abel Smith School, which this editor had started, to Hertford#Education as it appears to be a non-notable primary school. PamD 20:58, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
That does seem to be what this is about, but I've a low tolerance today for pointless passive-aggression and disruption. --Floquenbeam (talk) 21:09, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

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According to WP:Canvass, as a user who previously participated in related discussions, you should have been among the people notified of this RFC: Wikipedia:New pages patrol/RfC for patroller right. Yiu may wish to comment there. I apologise for not having notified you sooner. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:02, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Carmona railway station

I suggest SD for Carmona railway station.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 16:24, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

  • @Dthomsen8: Why suggest it to me? I can't see any trace of my having been involved with the article. And please, as requested at the top of this page, remember to give a link to the article you're discussing. Thanks. PamD 18:04, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
You are right, I was wrong, and I will not do it again.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 14:59, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

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Reversal of edits in transoral robotic surgery

I am responding for the edits that were reverted in the article Transoral robotic surgery. I was under the impression that sentences regarding surgical procedures must not be changed, since they would be written according to the surgery steps and the structures involved. But i see your point now and i take full responsibility for the edits. I would like to assure you that there was no intent of stealing. I would like to thank you for your contribution and i have gained a valuable lesson regarding how to contribute to wikipedia. Rest assured such mistakes will not happen again. Thank you.MissionX sbks (talk) 20:46, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

New Genuki Template

I thought I'd let you read over the modified GENUKI template before I shifted it to the template space. It's currently at User:Primefac/Genuki. I've input the county codes for all 140-something parishes, so the only parameter I had to add was the county. Let me know what you think. Once it goes live, I'll start diverting the existing templates over to the new one, and (hopefully) converting all non-template calls to GENUKI into it. Primefac (talk) 15:06, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

@Primefac: Thanks for your work - looks good. Hadn't considered that WRY etc were unique without the YKS. The unified template is a great improvement: one extra keystroke for Yorkshire places, and a brand new useful template for everywhere else. Am away from home and only on mobile phone so can't test much. Thanks. PamD 22:50, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
Actually, WRY etc require the YKS, but the subtemplate I've got (to add the country code) adds it in for those four. It'll take me a day or so to set up/test the AWB scripts to normalize everything, so just let me know if I've bollocked anything up. Primefac (talk) 23:01, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons


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Paolo Del Buono

Was looking over stuff I put a stub tag on last night and saw that one you put one on Paolo Del Buono had a stub cat that does not exist-might want to change it to something else. Wgolf (talk) 01:53, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

@Wgolf: Oops, thanks, fixed. PamD 05:04, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Association of Business Historians

Hello. Thank you for creating Association of Business Historians. Are you able to find more references please?Zigzig20s (talk) 12:46, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

@Aigzig20s: I've got no particular interest in the association - I created the stub because it was a redlink in an article I was creating and it appeared to be notable. Good luck in expanding it. PamD 22:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
@Zigzig20s: sorry, typo last time. PamD 06:59, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

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Editing News #3—2016

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Recent changes

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An invitation to November's events


November 2016

Announcing two exciting online editathons
Women in Food and Drink and Women Writers
as well as our strong support for articles on women in connection with
Wikipedia Asian Month
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Unreferenced stubs

Thanks for the info you left me on Unreferenced stubs. I'll try to do better in the future. Gab4gab (talk) 16:42, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Highgate Private Hospital

This article was earlier deleted as being advertising. I think I've done as much as I can now. It relies rather heavily on the Daily Mail, which is of course very interested in breast surgery. Do you think it is OK for now?Rathfelder (talk) 18:17, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Seahopper

Thanks for the help in making Seahopper more acceptable by en: standards. My initial problem was that most articles on Seahoppers are rather possitive, thus it's a bit of a date picking excersize to find just the data, except for on the main builder's site of course.

Unfortunately, this forced upgrade to acceptability has introduced an error. The web article in Yachting Monthly that you found is not the magazine article that I managed to extract some data from. I was, of course, too pressured to find more sources to keep good notes, but I think the magazine article was by a Mr. Kent. The webpage doesn't seem to contain the information attributed to that source. Mysha (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 12:56, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

  • @Mysha: aaargh, so sorry - I assumed that the article, right publication, end of July, was the August one you cited. Will fix. PamD 13:05, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Hey, the page is improving, so don't worry that we had a mix-up. As we all know, a Wikipedia page grows from mistakes as well. As you've now found a new source, next week I'll try and see if there's objective data in it that we can use for the page. Mysha (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:24, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Yes, that looks like the right source. Thanks.
Thanks for further improvements. I had seen some problems before, but hadn't found the time yet. Two questions: Is there a reason for not using a definition list there? Is there a rule for restricting access to the SOG to one social medium only? Regarding the latter: If you don't do Facebook, the Facegroup can't tell you that there are alternatives. Mysha (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:08, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

re: HotCat

Thank you for expanding the article and adding a better category, but the Scientists category was just plain incorrect and I removed it intentionally. Medical doctors are not scientists, and that category was simply 100% wrong. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:15, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Thackray Museum

Hi PamD, thank you for your very helpful suggestions and tips on editing. I will definitely take care. Just to reassure you, we had a dedicated session with a wiki expert and we've been given a host of literature around editing and the code of practice. The student page is a very good idea, however, and I will forward this to the convener. If you'd be happy reviewing what I do I'd be really very grateful for the feedback. Many thanks again. MrsTumbleweed (talk) 12:25, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

@MrsTumbleweed: That sounds good. Hope you and your classmates have a good experience on editing Wikipedia. I nearly added a note about the building having been SJH's Ashley Wing for Elderly Care (from the NHLE listing) but left it for you or anyone else interested to do. Where are you studying? I did an MSc in Information Studies at Sheffield - and there are a lot retired librarians editing Wikipedia, it seems to go with the mindset. PamD 12:35, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

@PamD Thank you. The SJH wing is a good addition for the history of the building. Also, I visited a couple of weeks ago and they said the museum is going to be closed and totally refurbished in the next year. MrsTumbleweed (talk) 12:41, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

@PamD: Hi PamD, after a quick bit of guidance on the Thackray if that's ok. On the page it says the building was established in 1858 but on the website it says 1861. Can you clarify please? Many thanks. MrsTumbleweed (talk) 13:21, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
@MrsTumbleweed: Sorted: the nhle ref gives both dates, foundation stone and opening. I've tweaked the article to include that info. PamD 14:52, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes - Issue 19

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Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

  • New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
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Emails

no emails here, only kittens

Hi again, the server kittens must be upset - I can see part of your email in my notifications, but no email has appeared -- samtar talk or stalk 12:25, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Merge proposal

You recently edited the Leeds page, so it'd be great if you could voice your opinion at Talk:Leeds#Merge_with_City_of_Leeds. Thanks. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 15:58, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Hi PamD, i have just added Hilary Davies to Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge, hope this is okay.

Coolabahapple (talk) 12:08, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

  • @Coolabahapple: What dates does the challenge cover? Feel free to add any of my other recent creations - see my user page for a list - most of them are UK-based. PamD 12:17, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
not sure, 1 September, based on number of participants by the end of August? maybe Dr. Blofeld can let us know? Coolabahapple (talk) 12:38, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

It started in Marchish with Awaken the Dragon. Some people have added entries they've done since March. Up to you!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:44, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

  • @Dr. Blofeld: @Coolabahapple: OK, have added my creations since 1st Sept to the list. I did a few contributions (North Devon parishes) for the West Country Challenge back in August - are they already counted, or should I list them at the 10,000 separately? Back in March I was doing a blitz on South Lakeland parishes (see my user page) - should I add everything from then? Most of what I create is UK-oriented, though I do lots of random stuff as well to resolve redlinks or follow things up. Does the 10,000 page need a bit of clarificatioin about dates? PamD 14:04, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
looks good, seems to be the more the merrier? Coolabahapple (talk) 16:04, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

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Delphic dab page

   You are quite correct in noting that i failed to add the "*Delphic (band), British band" entry to the Dab page when i converted from primary to equal Dab'n. As i said at its talk, i thot i remembered working on it, and i either

   did so, got distracted, then closed the window without either saving or remembering that i hadn't, or
   went to do it after you already had, got distracted before doing anything, and construed your work as my own (perhaps simply when i viewed it on the Dab page, or perhaps bcz i viewed it on the edit page and "saved" -- to no effect -- without any change by me).

In either case, it was easy to be confused in light of my distractability, bcz in all significant respects your edit matched what i would have keyed.
   In a less pleasant matter, i felt obliged to make a response you should probably see, at the bottom of Talk:Delphic.
   Thanks again,
Jerzy•t 13:39, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:08, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

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User group: New Page Reviewr

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Based on the patrols you made of new pages during a qualifying period in 2016, your account has been added to the "New page reviewers" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed.

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You emailed me that I can edited my own page. (Geraldine Aron)

Regret I have no idea what I did wrong. There were errors and I attemped to change them and add some more facts. Please remove whtever I did wrong. I suppose an entry with errors is better than none. Many thanks. GERALDINE ARON (elderly, no idea what a tild is!!) Ps when I put my name into google, a photo of an actress pops up as the main picture. She is Lara Flynn, an actress who was in one of my plays. Many thanks if you can adjust that to show my pic, as it is creating confusion. Yours Geraldine Aron — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gerwalsh (talk • contribs) 12:52, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Gerwalsh. PamD 14:29, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Message for kind Pam D

Thanks so much I will try to provide what you need for the bits I added. But meantime just go with whatever you think appropriate I was hoping to remove the photo not replace it with one of me all the very best and sorry to give you extra work. Geraldine aronGeraron (talk) 16:14, 21 November 2016 (UTC) Geraron (talk) 16:14, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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Valluvangad

Hi PamD. Got the notice on my talk page regarding the above article. And I'm confused. On the NPP tutorial, it says to tag articles if there are no references, which this article already was. I checked to make sure the village existed, and since it was tagged, marked it as reviewed. Did I misread the tutorial someplace? Not that I mind adding references, but sometimes if the article has no interest for me, I simply check to make sure it doesn't need to be deleted, and tag it. I don't do much NPP work, but there is such a backlog, I thought I'd help out, so any advice is welcomed. Onel5969 TT me 16:39, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi onel5969 - allow me to chip in here. As the edit history on that page demonstrates, I did a lot of editing, including lotsa cleanup, added Pinpush map, formatted the only proper reference, formatted the external link and, shortly after, Yamaguchi先生 redirected the page, (a perfectly intelligent redirect were it not for the fact that I was working on the article). So I posted Yamaguchi先生 - s/he said fine, revert - but it had already been reverted by someone else - and most recently someone has added the "Hitchcock" reference. All around it seems what was worth no more than a redirect 48 hours ago has become a modest article. Despite all the confusion, I think this new Curator suite of tools, while giving rise initially to some evident confusion, might well prove an awesome upgrade. Thanks to you both. MarkDask 18:39, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
@Markdask: @Onel5969: I replaced that Hitchcock ref - it had been added in October 2013 but removed on 21 Nov 2016 with no explanation (the first of many edits by a now-indef-blocked editor). A messy history. (I replied at User_talk:Onel5969#I_have_unreviewed_a_page_you_curated to the first post above). PamD 22:35, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

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Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin

Hi Pam - I wondered if you would do me some assistance. The Delyth Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Drefelin article has been of interest to me since June 2011, when it became common knowledge that Peers of the Realm were calling their holiday homes their main Residence so as to optimize their use of expenses allowance - it was a very tawdry time. Delyth Morgan ended up claiming the full £140k cost of her holiday home, (details available in the edits of the time), by switching primary addresses. I hit the article hard at the time on the subject, but I eventually had to back off and request assistance as I had a COI at the time; Delyth is my ex-sister-in-law. By happinstance it was Jimbo himself who jumped in and dealt with the issue, and I aint been back since - until today. I read through the article and almost every paragraph begins "Morgan". I think it is more appropriate that each paragraph begins "Delyth Morgan", because to address her as simply "Morgan" is accusatory. I would have done the necessary editting myself but I thought I ought to leave it to a more independent editor. Take a look - Delyth is more deserving than to be addressed solely by her surname - but I'm happy to defer to your judgement in the matter. Thanks MarkDask 01:08, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

@Markdask: There's nothing "accusatory" about using surname-only to refer to the subject of a biographical article - it's standard WP practice, see Theresa May. Articles littered with forenames tend to be those written or edited by editors with a COI: paid agents, family or at least enthusiastic fans. For chapter and verse see WP:SURNAME. Hope that helps. PamD 10:13, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

The Corbett Report is now Draft:James Corbett (journalist)

You contributed to The Corbett Report article created 27 March, 2013 but on 10 November, 2015 it was nominated for and was deleted. I was unaware of that deleted article when I started a new Draft:James Corbett (journalist) on 19 May, 2016 that was rejected. I've been revising it here and there since. Recent events spurred me on (feel free to ask me or watch this video then read the TCR comments section (not the YouTube comments) for the full disclosure of my involvement: https://www.corbettreport.com/what-i-learned-from-the-propornot-propaganda-list/ ). I discovered the deleted article and folded it into the new draft. Feel free to contribute as you like. ~ JasonCarswell (talk) 22:17, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

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QuantAlea and Alea GPU

Hello PamD

I am a user of Alea GPU and stumbled over the completely wrong statement that Microsoft added GPU support to F# in Wiki GPGPU implementations. I corrected this mistake based on my knowledge and research.

I then wanted to create a product page for Alea GPU and QuantAlea because it is a very innovative technology. Sorry for the first steps as a Wiki editor but I thought I have to correct the mistake because it gives credit to the wrong persons if a small company does such a great job and is not credited for it. Just learning and keen to improve.

Gpuwiz (talk) 04:16, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

@Gpuwiz: Thanks for getting back to me. Clearly not a COI - obviously most "good faith" editors write about topics they are interested in, such as software they use, and that isn't COI. It's just that there are also a lot of editors here only to promote the company they work for, or own, or are paid to promote!
I've tweaked General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units#Implementations so that it has refs rather than inline links. But the problem remains: if the only available information about the produce or the company is produced by the company, then they have no place in the encyclopedia. Can you find any independent reviews of the software? Even a passing mention that "XYZ was developed using the innovative Alea GPU software" would help. Without that, I'm afraid both articles will fail at AfD and be deleted, though I'd make redirects from them both to the paragraph in General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units#Implementations.
PS: If you add anything to a talk page, please give it a section heading - the easiest way is to click on the button at the top which says "Add" or perhaps just "+" depending on your settings, and then write a title in the long thin box offered above the main input box. There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey ... and can lead to a time-sink which will take over too much of your life! PamD 08:40, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Blogs / Recordings

Then there are a few blogs that are available on third party pages. Best I found is:

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/accelerate-net-applications-alea-gpu/

and recently there are recordings done by Microsoft

https://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=GPU#ch9Search

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Radically-Simplified-GPU-Programming-with-C

Would that help/be sufficient? Shall I research on product history? I would want to do this effort only if it results in something. Otherwise we can skip it.

Gpuwiz (talk) 13:08, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

More Research

Hi PamD

I made more research. Actually the best third party reference is directly on fsharp.org, the main page for F#

http://fsharp.org/use/gpu/

Would that help/be sufficient? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gpuwiz (talk • contribs) 13:03, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

  • I've added that fsharp ref, and clarified the other refs to show that the NuGet one is independent of QuantAlea. That done, I've withdrawn the two AfD nominations, though I think that there should probably only be the one article on either the software or the company, so they should merge - with a redirect from the other, of course. PamD 16:59, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment on disambiguation, and apologies for the time sink

I appreciate your weighing in at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages#Double listing in dab page. With regard to the polymath nobles, the problem would arise only with those whose names are so common that the dab page exceeds an ill-defined threshold for when the entries should be categorized. Even then, if you look at a page with many entries and numerous categories, like John Smith (presumably more likely to be a polymath commoner), if someone fits in five different categories, why not list him in each?

Speaking of John Smith, I checked that page before referring to it in my response to another user. For some reason I happened to notice John Stafford Smith, went there, and found some recent vandalism, which I corrected. It wasn't a time sink on your level but I can understand the process. I apologize for inadvertently starting this chain of events.

But, since you're a good editor, I also noticed that John Smith has several red links, just in case you happen to find time hanging heavy on your hands.... JamesMLane t c 17:54, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

@JamesMLane: The redlinked Johns Smith all seem to have a blue link, so I'll leave them - the couple of Johns Gordon I fixed up were lacking in that! Interesting to note that the John Smith dab page follows the principle of "Chronological within subject grouping". PamD 18:37, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Arabella Dorman for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Arabella Dorman is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arabella Dorman until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. DGG ( talk ) 21:40, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Metin Kaya

Hi PamD, would you like to comment at article deletion discussion please at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metin Kaya scope_creep (talk) 12:46, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

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An award for your contributions


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Seasons Greetings

Merry Christmas from me! Thanks for your company during 2016. We have seen the percentage of articles on women rise from 15% to 16.77%. 20% is within our grasp and that's an increase of a third over what we first found. Victuallers (talk) 13:55, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

chrissy greetings

Hi PamD, Mwiaowy xmas Coolabahapple (talk) 15:07, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

The source for the confusing article is...

The wiki article on the award, which I have been told can't be used as a reference. Postcard Cathy (talk) 01:51, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

No, it can't be used as a reference: if it had any source there, that might be a valid source to use, but the article on the award has a vast amount of unsourced BLP content. PamD 07:55, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

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Re: Newfoundland?

My bad. Not a typo. It was 2am and I started the stub based on the article in the Spanish Wikipedia. And that got left behind. Thanks for the fix. --Neo139 (talk) 03:45, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

The film Embrace (film)

PamD thanks for the editing work you did on the film Embrace. I thought you would like to know that it will be released theatrically in the UK and Ireland starting Jan 2016. It will be on demand.film https://uk.demand.film/embrace/ https://ie.demand.film/embrace/ Taryn Brumfitt the director will be touring with the film doing Q&As.

best D-squared (talk) 10:33, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

  • @D-squared: Good to hear that, thanks. I might look out for "reliable published sources" and update the article. I see from my records (list on my user page) that I created the article after reading about the film on Facebook and deciding it was article-worthy! (By the way, when you add a message to a talk page, please add a section heading - if you use the "Add" tab at the top of a talk page, an appropriate input box appears, to make it easier). PamD 19:18, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

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Village pump (policy)

I saw an edit conflict but when I checked, my edit was in place. I have no idea what happened to produce the effect you describe. I found wp to be very slow yesterday so i suspect a technical problem in the engine room. I assure you that the overwrite was neiher deliberate nor careless. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:39, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

for your work on Gramogram. I've a feeling the author might be quite young, but could be totally wrong. Anyway, I've only ever made one New Year's Resolution, and I've kept it for years. Dead easy - I decided not to make any NYRs. And I haven't. Peridon (talk) 22:49, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Panum's area

Your redirect is fine, but I included new information in the section that should have been added to the horopter paragraph. lUnfortunately, I no longer remember what that was or why I inserted it. Probably something about the size of Panum's area nad its change with Alzheimer's since that's my interest and should make the topic more salient in the coming years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Imersion (talk • contribs) 16:07, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

@Imersion: I didn't redirect it: that was done by an IP editor. I proposed it for deletion as an unsourced medical article with no evidence of notability, which would normally have given it a week's grace before being deleted - turning into a redirect is less final than deletion, of course, as the article and its history are still in existence. Please remember that everything in Wikipedia needs to be reliably sourced, but especially (a) material on living people and (b) medical articles. Thanks. And please remember to sign your posts, and to make a link to the article you're discussing (I'm not quite sure what it was you left instead of a signature, but it wasn't anything useful).
You say Unfortunately, I no longer remember what that was or why I inserted it. If you mean that you no longer know what it was that you added to the Panum's area article, you can always look at the history of any article. If the article has been turned into a redirect, as here, follow that redirect and then click on the link where it says "(Redirected from Panum's area)" to get back to the redirect. Then Click on the "View History" tab, then click on a date and time to see the article as it was at that point, or use the "current" and "previous" buttons to compare across one or more edits to see what changes were made. I hope that helps! PamD 16:57, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

COI Notice

While this isn't looking at your editing... looking at one of the parties talk pages seems to indicate you might be interested in this. Zlassiter (talk) 10:48, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

notability

Your !vote beggars belief. This is an encyclopedia. We don't maintain articles to be a training ground or magnet for new editors. Surely, after 10 years of editing, you realize that. Your opinion to keep the status quo for no reason or your agreement with SCHOOLOUTCOMES makes far more sense than the sentences you constructed on that talk page. Chris Troutman (talk) 01:04, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Don Morris's Page Deletion Questions

Hello!

My name is Uriel Nieves and I am trying to write a wikipedia page regarding Don Morris and his enormous influence within the university of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) and the surrounding community here in San Luis Obispo. I was wondering if you could show me the ropes around the community/website and how I maybe combat some of the points regarding his deletion. I have list of accomplishments and other events he participated in and groups he created that has the potential to show that he is a notable member in the community.

As the format of Wikipedia still confuses me, please feel free to email me at unc14@ymail.com if it is convenient for you so it might be easier. Thank you so much for your time and have a great day!

EndlessLode (talk) 09:31, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

@EndlessLode: You have not enabled email on your Wikipedia account and I am not interested in starting email communications with a total stranger off wiki. I see from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Don Morris that the person you are interested in seems to have been some sort of sports personality and perhaps also an academic. For an article about him to have a place in the encyclopedia he needs to pass WP:GNG, WP:BIO, or WP:ATHLETE, as stated in the AfD, or perhaps WP:PROF if he is an academic. For any of these you need to supply independent reliable sources which offer serious coverage of him. Your "list of accomplishments" does not count for anything if it's just what you "know". I'm really not interested in American sportspeople - there are enough editors who are - so I'm afraid I'm not going to spend more time on this one. If he was so important in the university, you could ask at Talk:California Polytechnic State University or some to see whether anyone who watches that page would be willing to help you. From the solid agreement at the AfD discussion it looks unlikely that he is actually "Notable" enough for an article unless you have good new sources which were not offered in the earlier version. Good Luck. PamD 10:35, 15 January 2017 (UTC)

Categories

Hi: thanks for your message. I don't see any rule for or against it in the WP:ORDER page. I moved it because it seemed better to put a descriptive category first (in my opinion). I hope this is helpful. I'm not trying to be snarky. :) Best regards, FeanorStar7 10:33, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

contributions via mobile?

Hello, given your interest in mobile, did you check this discussion out? Thanks! --Melamrawy (WMF) (talk) 22:14, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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The Shack

You can move The Shack (film) to The Shack (2017 film) since The Shack (1945 film) exists, FYI. :) Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 19:30, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

@Erik: Thanks. Yes, I thought that could be done, and The Shack (film) redirected to the dab page, but there are quite a few incoming links and I wasn't interested enough to take on the extra work! The hatnote should make sure that no-one misses out on finding the article they're wanting. PamD 22:21, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
I know the feeling about incoming links. Thankfully, there were not too many, so I just decided to take care of it. I've revised the hatnotes and disambiguation page based on the guidelines. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 22:29, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
@Erik: Thanks for sorting it all out. All looks good. PamD 22:32, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

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8th Marquess of Anglesey

You have deleted the information regarding the second marriage of the 8th Marquess of Anglesey. I added this additional information myself as I am in fact the wife of the 8th Marquess. Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Susie De Paolis (talk • contribs) 19:11, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

@Susie De Paolis: You may, or may not, actually be the person you say you are, but Wikipedia cannot accept information about living people without reliable sources. In addition, you should not be editing an article about a close member of your family - see WP:COI. If you can provide a reference to the 8th Marquess's second marriage in a reliable source - newspaper, magazine, reference book - then please add this information to Talk:Charles Paget, 8th Marquess of Anglesey so that another editor can add it to the article. PamD 22:57, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
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