User talk:Adam McMaster

Looking for Wikipedians for a User Study
Hello. I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We are conducting research on ways to engage content experts on Wikipedia. Previously, Wikipedia started the Adopt-a-User program to allow new users to get to know seasoned Wikipedia editors. We are interested in learning more about how this type of relationship works. Based on your editing record on Wikipedia, we thought you might be interested in participating. If chosen to participate, you will be compensated for your time. We estimate that most participants will spend an hour (over two weeks on your own time and from your own computer) on the study. To learn more or to sign up contact KATPA at CS dot UMN dot EDU or User:KatherinePanciera/WPMentoring. Thanks. KatherinePanciera (talk) 02:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

All I did was make the discography look less cluttered. All the chart information can be found in the individual articles, if you look at most discographies for other artists, they are similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Egg Creations (talk • contribs) 23:39, June 26, 2008

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Turkish Bob
Hi Adam, You're right to ask peculiar anonymous editor to back off about Bob's Turkish grandmother, but I have (in same Talk section) provided WP:RS when I wrote: Some Dylan biographers have queried this info. In The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, Michael Gray writes:
 * (Abraham Zimmerman's) mother, Anna, who had also moved to Hibbing, and lived for some years with Bob’s Uncle Maurice, moved into a nursing home way down in St. Paul and died there of arteriosclerosis on April 20, 1955. She had outlived her husband by almost 20 years. Her death certificate, with the information supplied by Uncle Maurice, confirmed that she’d been born in Odessa. Dylan contradicts this, writing in Chronicles Volume One of visiting her when she still lived in Duluth: she ‘had only one leg and had been a seamstress. She was a dark lady, smoked a pipe... [Her] voice possessed a haunting accent—face always set in a half-despairing expression. . . .She’d come to America from Odessa... [but] Originally she’d come from Turkey, sailed from Trabzon, a port town, across the Black Sea.. Her family was from Kagizman, a town in Turkey near the Armenian border, and the family name had been Kirghiz. My grandfather’s parents had also come from that area... My grandmother’s ancestors had been from Constantinople.’

I, personally, would be happy to drop Turkish granny because all evidence says Abraham Zimmerman's family came from Odessa. But when I dropped it, over-enthusiastic Turkish editors added OTT version of Bob's Turkish ancestry, so I thought if Turkish ancestry has to be there, it ought to be accurately sourced to Chronicles. Mick gold (talk) 17:41, 31 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah, I didn't read that quote in detail. Whether it's true or not, I think the article is fine the way it's written now. "In his autobiography Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan writes..." – we're stating that he wrote it, not that it's necessarily true. Adam McMaster (talk) 18:16, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Lightmouse date scripts

 * I see you operate date script written by Lightmouse> A discussion at Lightmouse's house may be of interest to you. Ohconfucius (talk) 09:51, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

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