User:Maralia/Happystuff

Happy birthday, man! This cake is, like, way bigger than the one you gave me... not that I'm bragging or anything. The only thing I'm better at than baking is modesty. Enjoy! TomTheHand 03:38, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Have another ASCII barnstar for your help in getting Edward Low to featured article status!   *    Neil ☎ 14:35, 7 November 2007 (UTC)



Discovery Expedition has got its FA star. Thank you for your interest in the article & the careful review you gave it - much appreciated. Brianboulton (talk) 13:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Saw your review of the renomination of Tel-Aviv at FAC and was impressed with your control of the language and the issues. Although your interest is mainly in ships, we'd be delighted if you reviewed FACs whenever you find time! It's a powerful way of influencing the whole project WRT standards of prose. Tony (talk) 13:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes! Less pain would be good!

In response, thanks for all the nitpicking. You asked the questions that had to be asked, and instead of laying down ultimatums like some PR/FA responders do, you were more than happy to go out of your way to work to a mutually beneficial solution, and took the time to review the sources to make sure we were correct.

I owe you:
 * 1) my undying gratitude
 * 2) Assistance to drag an article of your choice and writing to FA standard, kicking and screaming if necessary

Again, thank you! -- saberwyn 09:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Dear Co nom :).. please see [15] and [16] ... We did it! I will be more formally thanking all the major contributors but wanted to thank you first, never could have done it without you! I know you're an old hand at this but since this is my first one you'll have to forgive me for being a bit excited... ++Lar: t/c 01:48, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations and kudos for all of your outstanding work!! --Kralizec! (talk) 02:20, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

I wish this were a barnstar, but it serves the same purpose. One hundred and twenty one references! Thank you for going over all of the citations in To Kill a Mockingbird. I would not have been able to nominate it for feature without your help. This is the 2nd article you have jumped in to rescue. I wish I could take you out to dinner. --Moni3 (talk) 22:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Nimrod Expedition
This is to thank you for your copyedits and other review comments. Your help during the assembly of this series of expedition histories has been much appreciated. This is the last of the "big four" British Antarctic efforts, though I shall continue to write about minor expeditions, and about individual explorers. I'm glad that you found the articles interesting. Brianboulton (talk) 10:07, 21 May 2008 (UTC)


 * ...And, a little to my surprise, I find the Nimrod article promoted! (perhaps you have secret influence in these matters.) Anyway, your help in reviewing and supporting these expedition articles during the past few months is very much appreciated; you must know the stories well enough now to write your own versions. Nimrod's promotion completes my main project (all four major Brit Antarctic expeditions, and their leaders, to FA). In the next months I shall be working on the minor expeditions and the supporting casts, not particulary with FA ambitions in mind, but generally to extend and improve the quality of these articles. Warm thanks, once again - I feel I owe you some favours. Brianboulton (talk) 11:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

This edit made me snort my Diet Pepsi. You owe me!!!! :)  Orange Marlin  Talk• Contributions 01:23, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It's all part of my devious plan to take out Diet Pepsi drinkers, one sinus infection at a time. After they're gone, all soda fountains will be forced to carry my beloved Diet Coke. Maralia (talk) 03:47, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations on SS Christopher Columbus, your FA nom, making front page!! Your shipmates at WP:SHIPS are proud of you and your accomplishments!! --Kralizec! (talk) 01:03, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for helping out here with copyediting. I've read and written so much in the article, I believe I'm seeing plaques form in my brain. Ack. And please, no edit summaries that make me snort my diet pepsi. That would be sad. And a waste of good Diet Pepsi. Orange Marlin Talk• Contributions 21:52, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Try giving birth; you won't be able to remember a damn thing for years. I'll be done with my comments for the FAC in a few minutes. Maralia (talk) 22:09, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Physiologically that would be impossible for me. However, I'm sure it's just a conspiracy to make us males feel bad.   Orange Marlin  Talk• Contributions 22:13, 19 August 2008 (UTC)



I know how to write, and how to cite, but a lot of the Wikipedia knowledge is material I don't know. Infoboxes? What a great idea! Of course I've seen them on Wikipedia pages, but never thought much about them, nor ever edited one. I think I may have over-cited the article a bit, but I read legal and academic journal articles which are full of cites, so am used to it. I feel badly when I see uncited material in WP, though, someone took the time to write something but we can't verify it... About the NRHP, it was mentioned several times so I feel confident it is true, and it had a backstory, so it seems to be true. I tried to find the Nobska on the NRHP, but indeed as you point out since it/she doesn't exist any more, the ship is not listed. (I am wondering if WP has a convention for feminizing the pronoun of ships....) I'll check out the Elkman.net site. Yeah I'm trying to not be overly possessive since that is not how WP works, but I am very curious to see if people look at the new page and what they do when they do. You cleaned it up, two people rated it and added it to projects, another commented on my talk page, another pointed out there are too many cites a few times on the Nobska talk page. Amazing range of responses!--Wmjames (talk) 16:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the MoS help. :) --mav (talk) 04:42, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

I greatly appreciate your critical eye on these FACs. Jack Kemp is better off for your hard work. I have replied to most comments you made except I have only completed serial commas through the football section in hopes that you will have commentary to cause me to review the rest of the aritcle.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:38, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you ever so much for doing that list. I hope it wasn't tooo much brain damage. I am torn between awarding you a golden sword and a $250,000 annual pension or a different barnstar every day for you and each of your descendants unto three generations. chronic indecision is likely to prevent either becoming a reality.

While I'm here, there's a problem I've been wondering about. This is how to get appropriate Ships articles tagged for Milhist in a low-fuss no-special-drives way.

Anyhow, thanks again for working on the list. -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 07:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Maralia, I'm not sure if I ever encountered you on here before but I've been around the featured article candidate block a few times. There was a time when I refused to nominate any articles for FAC because of the excruciatingly ego-busting battle experience that is FAC. This recent FAC for James Russell Lowell, however, has been one of the most positive experiences of my tenure here at Wikipedia. Your comments were extremely thorough, well-considered, and presented in the true spirit of this project: helpful collaboration. I have never been known to take criticism well, but I was unable to consider any of your comments critical. Instead they were sincerely helpful... isn't that what WP is all about? I considered offering you a barnstar. Instead, I offer these (public) words of thanks and of praise. You are, as I said, nothing less than awesome and a true credit to Wikipedia. I look forward to further e-interaction. --Midnightdreary (talk) 11:19, 2 October 2008 (UTC)



Milhist coordinator confirmation
The existing coordinators have unanimously decided to coopt you as a Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject with immediate effect. As is customary, I present you with these stars and wish you luck in the coming months.



In addition to reading the summary of coordinator responsibilities, there are background essays, which may be of interest:
 * WikiProject Military history/Essays/Advice to coordinators by Kirill
 * WikiProject Military history/Essays/Advice to new coordinators by TomStar81.

Finally, there's a coordinator usebox – WPMILHIST Coordinator – if you wish to use it.

Once again, all the very best, -- R OGER D AVIES  talk 20:20, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate your help in parsing this minor quandry at Order of the Bath. In thanks, may I share two other paired images? As you may already know, Vincent Van Gogh copied two of the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo by Andō Hiroshige (安藤広重), which were among his collection of Japanese ukiyoe prints: I think I've learned from working through this small problem with you. I'm pleased to include double image among the tools available in future. --Tenmei (talk) 16:20, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Hiroshige_Van_Gogh_1.JPG
 * Hiroshige_Van_Gogh_2.JPG

We did it, my friend! Thanks for your help throughout - it was invaluable! :) — Ed 17  (Talk /  Contribs)  18:59, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Charming note on my talk page - bless you! Where would we elves be without wise reviewers? Tim riley (talk) 16:39, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Noel Coward has been promoted to FA. Your excellent comments really helped us improve it - Thanks! All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:26, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Congrats on your election as a Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject! In keeping with the tradition of the project and in honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:53, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Congrats on your election as Coordinator for the Military history Project. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:20, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

You've been cited
The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language cites a userspace page you started, http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Maralia/SS_Arctic ,rather than the article space article on theSS Arctic. I discovered this when I was reviewing the deletion of the article on the SS Vesta.

Incidentally, I requested a deletion review on the SS Vesta.

I saw the ships userbox on your user page. Perhaps you have an opinion on how much weight should be given to the essay WP:Notability (vehicles) in discussions over deleting articles on ships?

The essay argues we should only have articles on exceptional individual "vehicles", and that, usually, anything meaningful should go in the article on the vehicle's class.

I can see some sense behind applying the advice in this essay to cars, trucks, bicycles, carts, trains -- even airplanes. But it seems to me bo be both contrary to our usual practice with ship, and contrary to what makes sense.

Fighter aircraft and airliners can be as expensive as ships, or even more expensive. But they are also more standardized than ships, and they undertake different kinds of missions. Fighters almost always fly in squadrons with identical fighters. Airliners share routes with identical airliners. Whereas naval vessels, coast guard vessels, fishery and environmental patrol vessels, tramp freighters, and many other kinds of ships normally proceed alone, on open ended voyages, that may not be repeated.

Do you think it would make sense to change that essay so it explicitly excludes ships from its advice?

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 19:26, 16 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Good grief! It's bad enough to cite Wikipedia in the first place, but citing a subpage in my userspace?! Astonishing.


 * I would not choose to argue the deletion of SS Vesta; if I recall correctly, it was a nondescript merchant ship routinely used to carry men and supplies to a far-flung fishing station. While it did gain a certain notoriety as a result of the Arctic incident, a redirect is surely sufficient.


 * As to the question of ship notability in general, I'm afraid I have been out of the loop, wiki-wise, for too long to have much to contribute to the conversation. For what it's worth, in 2007–2008 I revamped the WP:SHIPS project page and created WikiProject Ships/sidebar, which was intended to list all relevant guidance. The notability essay you mention is not listed therein, nor do I recall ever being aware of its existence. That being said, however, I find the requirements listed in Notability (vehicles) to be quite reasonable. (The scare quotes in that essay, though, are inexcusable.)


 * Thanks for letting me know about Vesta, and about the cite. I really must get off my duff and rewrite Arctic someday. It's a sensational story.


 * Maralia (talk) 05:56, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi, I wanted to thank you for your wonderful review of the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych. It's been a challenging article and your suggestions were necessary to bring the last few bits of structure into place. It's much better now, and I needed your comments to see what had to be done there. Truthkeeper (talk) 23:16, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Ditto, the review was very helpful and very much appreciated. I well remember (gets out pipe and slippers) the Garden of Earthly Delights nom, the feedback there was great, a good example of when wiki works best (for me, har!). Best. Ceoil (talk) 06:29, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

A million thanks...
...for closing all those FAC candidates. I can't begin to imagine the tedium that it entailed. The community owes you a big favour, or at least a big hug. Graham. Graham Colm (talk) 21:47, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks; it's nice to be appreciated. The closing work itself wasn't too painful—just a few hours of boredom—but I found a few opportunities for process improvement along the way. (Only the first one is really important to FAC, but I'm listing all three here so I have a reference point for follow-up.)
 * First I documented the FAC/FAR closing process as best I could. I hope GimmeBot returns soon, but a bot owner has offered to write a backup/replacement so I'm trying to help cover our bases.
 * Next I tackled a frequent failure point in ArticleHistory: when the template attempts to lookup a GA topic name, it doesn't always get a result, causing an ArticleHistory error. This was complicated to research and rewrite because I had to make sure that none of the four other templates that use the same lookup table would be adversely affected by changes. I proposed a rewrite here.
 * Last of all, I found a few minor errors in the ArticleHistory code, and proposed a solution.
 * I probably already spent as much time on each one of these issues as it took me to do all the closings, but they had to be addressed eventually. Hoping to get them all resolved soon, to reduce the administrative demands of the closing process. Maralia (talk) 18:14, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You're awesome. Maybe if those proposals don't get addressed at those talk pages we can escalate to WP:VPT? Biosthmors (talk) 20:01, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
 * What I am is exceedingly stubborn! Also tired of fixing ArticleHistory errors. And eminently distractible: let's not forget how I told you two sections above this that I was committed to finishing my open projects before attacking anything else...oops.
 * The audience for those template pages is quite small, so it may take a little time before my talk page notices garner attention. This is no big deal, as neither of those proposed changes is particularly urgent. If they fail to catch anyone's eye there after a while, I will approach a few folks who I know are already familiar with the specific templates—going to VPT would require asking some poor sod to learn the ArticleHistory code, and I'd rather not have that on my conscience :) Maralia (talk) 21:39, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Precious
  ships and medicine

Thank you for quality articles, after thorough research, on ships such as SS Christopher Columbus, for cleaning up medicine, for collecting happystuff, for helping article history, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (7 March 2010)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:26, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you! GimmeBot used to perform this task, but has been AWOL for a couple of months, so I'm trying to make a dent in the backlog while writing up a plan for a replacement. It's probably foolish to bother doing any manually, but it feels irresponsible to just let them all go for months. Thanks for noticing; it's nice to be appreciated. Maralia (talk) 17:41, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * A thanks from me too. I didn't realise you were doing this manually until I popped over to Gimmis page to see what was happening to Gimmebot. If it is possible could you add the review process into this bots function. I left a request at User talk:Gimmetrow a few months ago. It is not a major as GARs are much less common than GANs, but it might be easier to code it all at once. We can adapt the closing instructions to the bot so don't worry about adhering to them too closely. If it is too tricky don't worry about it, we have survived for years now doing it manually. Thanks again. AIR corn (talk) 18:07, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure, I will work that in to my request. I've been away on vacation for a week, so I have some catching up to do: finalizing the lookups for GA topics, catching up on articlehistory for closed GAs, and then the massive bot request. Maralia (talk) 02:30, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Lotte Brand Philip
The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 24 October 2013 (UTC) Thank you! She is now featured on Portal:Germany. If you have other DYK related to Germany, feel free to place it there yourself, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:14, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Congrats Maralia for finally having this approved! I've been sitting on my hands watching, wanting to chime in since the answers were sitting on my page (moved here now, but didn't want to muddy the waters more. Good luck to you guys with the diptych. Victoria (talk) 20:40, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you Victoria; without the kick in the pants from you and Ceoil, it wouldn't have happened. Maralia (talk) 21:33, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Congrats from me two. Its a really strong article, great work. Ceoil (talk) 21:58, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank for your patient explanations

 * It is nice of you to give me a barnstar on Maralia's page ... I am thinking of asking TonyTheTiger if he would be a dear and place a copy on my talk page, since I feel an extreme COI were I to do it myself, and my self-esteem will suffer if I don't have this :) :) Sandy Georgia  (Talk) 16:47, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Best wishes

 * Hear hear! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 01:37, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Precious again
  ships and medicine

Thank you for quality articles, after thorough research, on ships such as SS Christopher Columbus, for cleaning up medicine, for collecting happystuff, for helping article history, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (7 March 2010)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:26, 23 February 2013 (UTC) A year ago, you were the 405th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:00, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

A beer for you!
Hey, thanks. You are good people! Maralia (talk) 01:31, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Nollaig

 * Ah, now THAT's a recognizable hand. I have missed that wayward spelling of yours! My very best wishes to you and the missus! Maralia (talk) 06:14, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks...I think :) Ceoil (talk) 21:44, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!

 * Thank you Victoria! Have just peeked at your Christus and it's lovely. Merry Christmas! Maralia (talk) 06:14, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

 * Well hello stranger; how have I not run into you these last few weeks? Have a fantastic holiday! Maralia (talk) 06:14, 26 December 2014 (UTC)