User:Doug Coldwell/Sandboxes/Archive 17

DYK nomination of Dean Smith (pilot)
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DYK for Dean Smith (pilot)
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DYK for Josiah Holbrook
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Dean Smith (pilot)
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Milam Building[edit source]
User:7&6=thirteen I have completed the copy edit requested over at the GOCE. Some of the edit summaries contain additional information which may help with the GA process as well (especially the technology section). If you have any questions, please let me know! - Pax  Verbum  22:36, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

Jayco, Inc
Hello, Doug -- I have one question: the seventh paragraph of the section on Jayco, Inc is:


 * Jayco recently bought the assets of Travel Supreme RV April 2008, who used to manufacture high-end 5th Wheel trailers and Luxury Class A motorhomes.


 * You'll see that I made a small change to this sentence, but I still see a problem. The phrase "April 2008" seems out of place. I can't imagine that it is part of the name of that type of RV, but also, 2008 does not seem particularly recent so does not seem to go with "recently" at the beginning of the sentence. Can you fix this? – Corinne (talk) 02:48, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the copyedit and improvements to the article. Another editor entered in the information about Travel Supreme RV. I couldn't find references to this, so just took it out altogether. I'll keep an eye out if it gets reentered and ask for a reference from that editor.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:53, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Moses Bensinger
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DYK nomination of W. Wallace Kellett
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DYK nomination of Ludington Airline
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DYK for W. Wallace Kellett
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The 10,000 Challenge
Hi there. I've started a new initiative, the 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.♦ Dr. Blofeld  12:47, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Ludington Airline
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DYK for Charles Townsend Ludington
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Your GA nomination of Dean Smith (pilot)
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Your resumption of GA reviewing
Doug Coldwell, I was surprised and rather disappointed to see that you resumed GA reviewing over the past couple of days, given the issues with your previous attempts. Unfortunately, the results were not good.

Your GA reviews earlier this year were far from adequate: as I'm sure you saw after you allowed me to work on them in your stead, you missed a very great deal, from basic prose errors to factual mistakes: things that no reviewer should miss. I'm sorry if I wasn't clearer that this wasn't a task you were good at; I guess I thought the example of just how much more needed to be done would serve.

Based on Fram's comments and examples of your new reviews, it's clear that you have not improved in the interim. Under the circumstances, you should not be reviewing articles for GA, certainly not again this year, and probably not next year either. Should you wish to return after that, it would be nice if you gave a heads-up; in any event, your first review should not be concluded without the examination and concurrence of a mentor, who should be an experienced and careful reviewer. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I think this is for the best. Your enthusiasm is better suited to other areas of Wikipedia. Thank you for your understanding. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:44, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

St. Nicholas Hotel (New York City)
Hello, Doug -- As you can see, I've completed the copy-edit of St. Nicholas Hotel (New York City) that you requested at WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests. I found it quite interesting. You'll also see that I made quite a few changes to the sentences, re-arranging and combining some to improve comprehensibility, sentence flow, and paragraph cohesion. I also removed some words that I thought were unnecessary. Please ask me if you have any questions about any of the changes I made.

A few questions:

1) I was puzzled by the sentence about the architecture, the second-to-last sentence in the Description paragraph. It didn't seem to make sense. I changed it to something that made more sense to me, but since I don't know a whole lot about architecture, I can't be sure I got it right. Please correct the sentence or let me know if anything is wrong.

2) I was puzzled by the use of the word "saloon" (in "hair-cutting saloon") in the caption of the second image in Description and in the second paragraph in St. Nicholas Hotel (New York City). Today, we use the word "salon", at least in the U.S. I wondered if "saloon" were an old-fashioned version of "salon", so I did a little research. If you look at the entry for "saloon" in Merriam-Webster On-line, at, there is first a section called Simple Definitions. You'll see that none of the definitions refer to a place where hair is cut or styled. Then there is a section called Full Definition of Saloon. You'll see that Definitions a, b, and d are marked chiefly British, and Definitions c and e are not so marked, so are American meanings. Definition c, marked chiefly British, is the British word for the American word "salon" (definition 4) (you can click on the link to get to the entry for "salon"). Now, it is possible that the word "saloon" was used in the sources; the sources (which I haven't looked at) might be by British writers, or might be by American writers affecting British English in the early 20th century or late 19th century. But since "saloon" connotes a bar to American readers, and this article is, I believe, written in American English (and should be, given the subject matter) I suggest that we use the word "salon" or "barbershop" in this article, both in the article itself and for the caption. If you want, we could link "salon" to the Wiktionary definition: salon.

3) Another thing about this room: both from the picture of the "hair-cutting saloon" (in which are seen only men getting their hair cut) and from the last sentence in the second paragraph in the Interior section, it seems fairly certain that it was only for men (or was it? Do you have any information otherwise?). If so, then perhaps either "men's hair-cutting salon" or "barbershop" should be used instead of just "salon". Also, the phrase "barbershop saloon", introducing the fact that it was for men only, appears in the second sentence about the room whereas it should appear in the first sentence, which is the one right before it.

I'd actually like to combine those two sentences as follows:


 * An elaborate men's hair-cutting salon illuminated by a gilded domed skylight catered to about a dozen guests at a time.

If you approve, we'll substitute this for the last two sentences in the second paragraph in St. Nicholas Hotel (New York City).

4) I changed "slivers" to "a sliver". I don't think "slivers" makes much sense; it's a small part of what was once a huge building. If you don't agree, then I would suggest "two narrow sections".

5) Just out of curiosity, I clicked on the image of the hotel's menu. I was surprised there was a whole section of Boiled foods. We wouldn't see that on menus today (except perhaps in Boston). Maybe today it would be Stews, or Stewed foods. Also, if you look at the section of Roast foods, you'll see Pork at the end of the first line, and then Pig in the middle of the second line (there's Ham also). I wonder what Pig was that wasn't Pork. Well, that's all. – Corinne (talk) 02:31, 2 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the many excellent edits to the article. I'll address the issues you brought up, starting later today. Your copy edited version will give me a good basis to work from for a GAN. Thanks again. Your have been most helpful.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:08, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Dean Smith (pilot)
The article Dean Smith (pilot) you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Dean Smith (pilot) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk) 13:21, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Cellarette
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Your GA nomination of Dean Smith (pilot)
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Your GA nomination of Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps
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Your GA nomination of Hammer Historical Collection of Incandescent Electric Lamps
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Demarest Building
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Your GA nomination of Army and Navy Union of the United States of America
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Franklin's electrostatic machine
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Your GA nomination of Franklin's electrostatic machine
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Your GA nomination of Franklin's electrostatic machine
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North Carolina Transportation Museum
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Your GA nomination of Dresden Codex
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Addition to Carmenta Article
Hi, thanks for contributing! I see that some time ago, you added a "See also" section to the Carmenta article, and added Theodontius to it. Can you explain why? I'm sorry, but I cannot find a link between the subjects and the latter article, at least not tenuously. Thanks again. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carmenta&oldid=179066215 Informata ob Iniquitatum (talk) 07:30, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

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DYK for Moses Bensinger
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Electro-Dynamic Light Company
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Your GA nomination of Dresden Codex
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Your GA nomination of Franklin's electrostatic machine
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Dresden codex

 * Hi Doug, why did you change the caption "The presentation of the Dresden Codex since 1945" to "... since 1962"? When the codex was dried in 1945 after removing it out of the water, they put it between the same glasses it is still today. There has not been any change since then (impossible due to sticking to the glass); hence, the current order is that of 1945.--Linear77 (talk) 16:28, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Responded on Article Talk page. Went with an English reference - author Thompson of A Commentary on the Dresden Codex, which seems to be the ultimate source all other scholars on the Dresden Codex are following. Removed German source - since its an American article. I have scanned in all the pages of the Thompson source, so have all the pages available. Page 18 is where I got the 1962 idea in the section "PAGINATION" (left column top). It looks to me like the 1962 date is correct. Do you have a different understanding and a better source than Thompson? --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:58, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Doug, for changing the year back. My reference desribed what happened after the war. Even after they noticed that they had exchanged pages 6/40, 7/39 und 8/38, they couldn't do anything because the pages stuck to the glass. It seems to me that Thompson described the situation in 1962 which is not the same as when it actually happend.--Linear77 (talk) 16:41, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
 * O.K. You can add (amplify) to my reference of, The pages have been numbered a certain way since 1962 from an East Berlin edition based off Förstemann's 1892 publication. if you can translate basically what your German source says here in this thread. Then there will be an explanation what this is all about. Does that sound like something you can do and a reasonable thing to do?--16:50, 18 December 2016 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings, Doug

 * To - User:7&6=thirteen Thank you. Happy Holidays to you......--Doug Coldwell (talk) 16:55, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!
From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 19:57, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tiny Town (miniature park)
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DYK for Ralph Waldo Trine
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Barnstar

 * Danke & mucho gracias. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 17:39, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Talkback
I noticed that you nominated this article for possible GA status this past September. Am working on a GA Review and wanted you to know. Shearonink (talk) 00:36, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Elizabeth Plankinton House
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Tiny Town (miniature park)
Hey, I tried to update the Article history using that particular Template but I can't quite seem to get it right. If you could give it a look and fix whatever it is that I did wrong,that would be awesome. Shearonink (talk) 20:43, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I placed the article in the GA Culture and cultural studies section - feel free to adjust if needed. Shearonink (talk) 20:48, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Looks like you got it correct now. Thanks for GA review and approval. I added 1 more top icon to my User page for this one!--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:51, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I believe what happens now is that a Bot comes by someday in the near future and places the green GA icon on top of the article.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:00, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Yup! Legobot did it 2 minutes after my comment above.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:04, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I see that and expected it (yay for green icons!) but my problem is actually at the top of Talk:Tiny Town (miniature park). The GA header doesn't say what kind of GA topic the article is in....just that it is a GA.  And also the Article history template seems a little messed-up... Shearonink (talk) 21:09, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Tried to fix those - however could not. It's beyond my technical ability.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:14, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tiny Town (miniature park)
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DYK for William V. Thompson
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 12 January 2017 (UTC)