User talk:Blathnaid/Archive 1

Welcome to WikiProject Novels
Hi thank you for joining the WikiProject. There is still plenty of scope for influencing things and making your contribution count. We are about establishing standards for Novel based articles and writing articles that meet our own and others high standards, and to improve Wikipedia's diet of articles on Fiction books, otherwise called Novels. If you have any questions, do ask. Please be very welcome. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page) / (Desk)  11:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi.
I notice you're the first person (other than Daibhid, who I know) to use the userboxes I designed. It's nice to see that there are people who like them. Although I spent four years in Scotland, I have never been to Ireland, although I'd like to some day, partly because I'm very much a fan of Irish music (I have edited the sean nós article, although I don't really know what I'm talking about in that case; I got my information from a book). I don't know whether you stopped by and read my user page when you got the userboxes, but feel free - it lists more of my interests and other pages I have edited. Cheers. Zerrakhi 18:39, 2 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I couldn't reply yesterday because my Internet connection was in the process of being upgraded. I'm not reading any of Pratchett's books at present, but I am a regular participant on the newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett (albeit with a different username). The book I'm currently reading is Guardian of the Vision by Irene Radford, which is book three in the Merlin's Descendents series. My good friend Stacie (who is an American lecturer in English literature) has an essay on Austen that you might enjoy. Zerrakhi 04:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Novels WikiProject Newsletter June 2006
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thanks
I really appreciate that you wikified the page I've set up on quilting history. I didn't have time to figure out how. Now that I see the structure I can add to the history. Thanks so much for your help. Quiltpatch 16:41, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Novels WikiProject Newsletter July 2006
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Novels WikiProject Newsletter August 2006
Here is the new edition of our monthly newsletter. The August 2006 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page) / (Desk)  11:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Just to say thank you for all your work on WP:DPL. Soo 12:25, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue IV (September 2006)
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User Page Award nomination
Just thought it would be polite to drop you a line to say I've taken the liberty of nominating your page in the User Page Award thingy. I found it when I was editing fossil fuel power plant the other day and thought it was the most visually striking user page I've seen to date. Cheers, — Chris (blather • contribs •  e )  17:51, 11 September 2006 (UTC) PS I've taken the further liberty of changing your "please click here" link to point here instead of Alnaschar. Hope you don't mind.
 * Wow, thanks Chris! And thanks also for fixing the link, I didn't notice that it was wrong. (I've left a little thank-you on your talk page.) Bláthnaid  17:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It is an absolutely gorgeous user-page :) &mdash; riana_dzast a  wreak havoc''' 23:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
What a neat group of people this is! Thank you very much for the information you provided to me on my talk page in your "Welcome." I appreciate the help. (CubbyBear82 09:02, 14 September 2006 (UTC))

Esperanza/User Page Award
Congratulations, Blathnaid, you have been nominated for the Esperanza User Page Contest! The judges have received the fifteen entries, and are ready to start judging. The judges will take a week to complete the judging process, and they will contact all the participants when the judging is done.

Please drop by the contest page for contest updates and questions. Take care, and good luck! Daniel.Bryant 07:12, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue V - October 2006
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WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request
This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 21:18, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Mathias Bröckers
You've done some excellent research on Mathias Bröckers, think you can tie up the loose ends and put some of those references into the article? Thanks.  *Sparkhead  14:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza User Page Award
Greetings, Blathnaid. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to MacGyverMagic  for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.

If you'd like to participate in the contest again, check by the contest page in a few days and sign up. See you around. Daniel.Bryant 10:47, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VI - November 2006
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VII - December 2006
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VII - December 2006
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John McGahern
Hi Bláthnaid, I see that you created the fantastic article for John McGahern's fantastic Amongst Women. I've just created articles for The Dark and Memoir. They are both still at stub stage, and I was wondering if you could contribute? I think all of McGahern's books are of notable status, and probably all deserve articles. Kindest regards --Enter The Crypt 04:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Novels newsletter : Issue IX - February 2007
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue X - March 2007
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XI - April 2007
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Infinite Monkey Theorem
Thought you might be interested in this new userbox:

Orgone 16:42, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XII - May 2007
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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XIII - June 2007
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Thanks!
Thanks for adding Fair Use rationale to Image:TheFourthK-Novel-Cover.JPG. I was busy and was not able to get online to do that stuff. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Huntscorpio (talk • contribs).

At-risk image list
Glad it's been helpful. Could you leave a note on the talk page of the list, to say which bits you've looked at, so we know what's done?

Note also there are other at-risk images in subcats of Category:Images with no fair use rationale. This seems to be what the deleting people have been going for first. Sadly, it seems we're too late to save anything tagged before 27 June, but there's still a lot there. User:Jogers has just produced a consolidated at-risk list for album covers there, I don't know whether he has automated tools, but he might be able to produce a similar list for book covers. Cheers, Jheald 14:51, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Today's BetacommandBot messages
Thanks for working on those - saves me loads of time, Thanks. :: Kevinalewis  : (Talk Page) /(Desk)  07:48, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Terror_management_theory
Hi, your comments at this AfD were very useful. Bearian 15:06, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Satan in popular culture
I liked what you did with the World War III in popular culture article and was wondering if I could get your input on another one. This needs a clean-up - the information is there but the whole entry is an example of how editing by everyone can go wrong. I'll take a run at it later but I was wondering if you had any input - I've started a section on the talk page for ideas. (Emperor 12:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC))


 * Great. I threw in a book I found and am having a dig through some journals and found a few bits and bobs (mainly book reviews but that is OK for now) will add in what I find. Tomorrow or Friday I'll have a preliminary hack at the entry and try and get it to shape up in a more prose way and eliminate the listiness (which is a killer as it looks bad, reads poorly and leaves the door wide open for passersby to hammer in poorly sourced trivia). (Emperor 20:23, 22 August 2007 (UTC))

King Kong in popular culture
Hello! I am greatly pleased to see that those sources were of use. It is great when we editors are able to work together to improve these articles! Anyway, I'm always happy to find sources if you need anymore for other articles. Let me know and I'll see what I can find. Have a wonderful evening! Sincerely, -- Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles  Tally-ho! 20:53, 7 September 2007 (UTC)


 * good job, and thanks. I hope you have energy left after this to do one or two more of them--we need to share out the work, as its so much harder to improve adequately than to just delete. DGG (talk) 03:58, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Turtles
Hi there; the new article looks perfectly fine to me. You can never quite tell with recreations whether someone might put it up for AfD again, but certainly I shall not. I will restore original, so as you can convert to new version. --Anthony.bradbury"talk" 21:31, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationales on promotional images
Hi Blathnaid, thanks for adding all those fair use rationales. Just a note; if you've added a fair-use rationale to an image tagged non-free promotional, could you add the parameter "image_has_rationale=yes" which will remove the image from Category:Publicity photographs with missing fair-use rationale? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 23:54, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * No problem. It's not obvious partially for a reason.  I just found it a little while ago and am adding it on a number of images right now. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:01, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Gerald Davis
Hi. Very good and also very quick work on the Gerald Davis article. :O) FlowerpotmaN &middot;( t ) 22:39, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I saw from the logs that the article had been deleted twice before, so I needed to have it well sourced from the get-go. I guess his gallery will be sold and turned into something like a Vodafone shop now. :-/ Bláthnaid  16:37, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Gerald Davis, was selected for DYK!
Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 (talk) 06:01, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Japanese women, etc.
Sorry, I missed your message on my page a few days ago and have only just spotted it. Here is the text of the offending article, if you want to re-create it.



Happy editing. Deb 16:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Moved the text to the article. Thank you Deb. Bláthnaid  23:20, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

good work
On Star Wars IPC. DGG (talk) 21:41, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
 * nor have I seen them all. I haven't seen or known about most of what is in Wikipedia. But now the information is there when I want to find out. That's why I tend to be an inclusionist. :)DGG (talk) 00:42, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Hood (band)]
I voted to keep both, and added the refs to the album page Outside Closer, but you will have to add the cites to this one. Bearian 00:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Do not edit when you are weary. Bearian 01:03, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

The Gathering
No problem! I had the same conundrum when I created The Night Watch (Waters novel) a while back, and the rule stuck with me; it takes a while to get used to all of these name conventions. Thanks for creating the article so quickly after its Booker Prize win. :) María ( críticame ) 01:36, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Golden Gate Highlands National Park - park area
Do you know what is the actual area of the park? The introduction and the infobox both say that it covers an area of 41 km² (16 mi²). However in the section "Location" it is stated that "In 1963, 47.92 square kilometres (11,840 acres) were proclaimed as a national park, specifically to preserve the scenic beauty of the area. In 1981 the park was enlarged to 62.41 km² (15,420 acres) and in 1988 it was enlarged to 116.33 km² (28,746 acres).[5] In 2004 it was announced that the park would be joined with the neighbouring QwaQwa National Park.[6]", which implies a much larger area. Qblik talk 16:01, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I have no idea which figure is correct. I have noticed the discrepancy, when I was preparing to translate this (good) article to Polish. The article (as quoted above) suggests that the area was adjusted (increased) over time, so I would lean towards the larger number as more recent. The area might have been affected also by the recent merger with Qwaqwa National Park that is mentioned in the article (I found 22 000ha as the area of that park: "Touring in South Africa: The Great SA Road Trip Guide By Willie Olivier, Sandra Olivier, p. 112). I have no idea if 116.33 km² includes that or not. Personally, I would use the larger number. Qblik talk 19:56, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Spam
Blathnaid, I note you removed the Salthill painting calling it "spam". Why do you regard it as spam? (note: I had nothing to do with the painting or with putting it there!) (Sarah777 19:13, 26 October 2007 (UTC))
 * Reply Note to self: Keep an eye out for this; it's a novel way of self promotion!  Bláthnaid  11:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XVIII - November 2007
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Re: Thank you
Hi Melesse. Thank you for reducing the size of 4 images that I tagged with fair use reduce. Bláthnaid 13:05, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No problem, I enjoy reducing images. Melesse (talk) 21:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

The Felice Brothers
The picture on The Felice Brothers was released as a press release, doesn't that make it fair use to use it to represent the members of the band? If not what would qualify it? Willm1122 (talk) 21:53, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair use
Bless you, madam, for taking the time to painstakingly set up fair use rationales on the many images I've uploaded, and which I had been resigned to seeing deleted by that other user. I shall use your approach as a model for any future uploads. Thank you! Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 13:45, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm working on some of them, although you're way ahead of me. :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 14:16, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1,000 points of light, yes? And speaking of Presidential slogans, I usurped your footbridge photo for my user page, with a possibly appropriate caption. :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 14:21, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * And I'm sorry to see you retiring after you were so helpful to me and giving me some hope about FU to counter the obstinate users who ironically accused me of incivility. Your efforts are appreciated. And you can always come back here if the "bug" gets you again. :) Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 11:43, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Frustrating, yes...
This may be frustrating, but this is why Wikipedia would lose out if it drove you away. Keep up the good work. IronGargoyle (talk) 20:48, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Assault on Lake Casitas (book)
Good choice merging the above article, that didn't occur to me. J Milburn (talk) 23:04, 30 December 2007 (UTC)