User talk:Coemgenus/archive2016-1

Today's featured article request for Chester A. Arthur
I added a today's featured article request for Chester A. Arthur for February 15 since it is Presidents Day. http://en.wjbk.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/requests
 * OK, thanks for letting me know. If it gets selected, I'll give it a looking-over to make sure nothing incorrect has been added since it was promoted. --Coemgenus (talk) 16:30, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
 * You can go to the request page and show your support. (Halgin (talk) 22:43, 4 January 2016 (UTC)).
 * Good to see today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Randall article - S. Walter Poulshock
Hello, I think I might have spotted a problem with the article on Samuel J. Randall. One of the sources cited is S. Walter Poulshock of UPenn/Rutgers. I've recently been reading about his career and how it emerged that he committed extensive academic fraud, which led me to add an article on him. (His book was apparently detected as fraud in 1966, but I think with the internet not around and a general reticence about the topic the word did't spread well.) Should this be changed somehow? I thought I should ask you since I know little about history and it's your project. (Tariffs in United States history has the same problem and there it's probably even more important since that was what his career specialised in, but it's not a featured article.) Blythwood (talk) 17:07, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * thank you for bringing that to my attention! I seem to have only cited to Poulshock's article twice, and for pretty basic points, not direct quotations from 19th-century figures, so I don't think the Randall article has any issue with incorrect information. That said, I'll try to find an alternate way to source it. In the meantime, I've added a link to your article. Thanks! --Coemgenus (talk) 17:26, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks. Just to add, I really recommend removing that ref as soon as possible - my impression reading the available sources on his short career as a historian is nothing he wrote can really be trusted since it was all one fairly closely connected body of work - PhD thesis, journal articles, book on the same topic. Blythwood (talk) 20:13, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016: Game On!
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Beer
Hi there! My name is Austa and I am taking a college course in Wikipedia and editing Wiki articles this semester. One of our assignments is to edit a number of articles of a particular WikiProject. I chose beer as mine, and was wondering if you knew of any articles in particular that need help and how I could help flesh them out. I think the thing I'm the most confused about is trying to decide what kind of information is relevant enough about a particular subject to include on their Wiki page, and how Wikipedia feels about quotes and attribution since I will most likely have to do fairly extensive research in order to correctly add to the articles.

Thank you!

Best, Austa

Austaclausen (talk) 19:27, 12 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm glad to hear you're interested in the beer articles, but it's been years since I did anything with them. I wouldn't know where to begin. Good luck to you, though! --Coemgenus (talk) 13:53, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Henry Adams Thompson
&mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 12:02, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 March newsletter


That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.

Twenty-two Good Articles were submitted, including three by, and two each by , , , and. Twenty-one Featured Pictures were claimed, including 17 by (the Round 1 high scorer). Thirty-one contestants saw their DYKs appear on the main page, with a commanding lead (28) by. Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with completing nine.

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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. ,, and .--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Henry Adams Thompson
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Henry Adams Thompson you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Saskoiler -- Saskoiler (talk) 23:21, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Henry Adams Thompson
The article Henry Adams Thompson you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Henry Adams Thompson for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Saskoiler -- Saskoiler (talk) 16:01, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Harry S.Truman
Am wondering why you reverted the image change. I rather like the more close-up photo. Shearonink (talk) 13:28, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I thought the existing one was a higher-quality image. But a close up is nice, too. Reasonable minds may disagree, I guess. --Coemgenus (talk) 13:39, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Heh, first time today I've been called reasonable... Would you mind if I changed it back? In the present one his face is so far away from the camera - so many people access WP on their mobile devices - I tend to think info box images that are more of a close-up of the subject's face hold more interest. Shearonink (talk) 13:47, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Works for me. --Coemgenus (talk) 15:11, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Louis de Barth
Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Anthony Anderson FA nomination
I have nominated the Anthony Anderson (basketball) article to possibly have it be promoted to a featured article. Could you please leave some comments on areas that you would want to fix so that it meets the FA criteria? If so, add your opinion on the article on the nomination page. TempleM (talk) 00:08, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

QPQ
Hi Coemgenus,

Would you consider reviewing my FAC Briarcliff Manor Public Library, perhaps in turn for me reviewing Michael Francis Egan? Thanks! ɱ (talk · vbm  · coi) 18:00, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Henry B. Payne
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Your GA nomination of Henry B. Payne
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Your GA nomination of Henry B. Payne
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DYK for Henry B. Payne
Gatoclass (talk) 14:38, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

WikiCup 2016 May newsletter


Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.

Round 2 saw three FAs (two by and one by ), four Featured Lists (with three by ), and 53 Good Articles (six by  and five each by, , and ). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by and five by ). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135. scored 265 base points, while and  each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants, and, broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.

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George Tucker FA Nom
To update George Tucker - per direction of the FA coordinator, a source review has been requested, with no takers after almost a week. Is it permissible/agreeable for you to conduct this? This particular element of the article is relatively limited. I wanted to ask about this since you have already invested the most time/effort reviewing it. Cheers. Hoppyh (talk) 21:15, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * No problem, I'll take a look today. --Coemgenus (talk) 15:18, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * All done. Thanks ever so much. Let me know if I can help you sometime. Hoppyh (talk) 20:33, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Today's featured article/June 12, 2016
Hi Coemgenus, I'll start trimming this one later today. You nominated the article at WP:FAC. - Dank (push to talk) 22:25, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Great, I'll take a look at it tomorrow. --Coemgenus (talk) 04:19, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:31, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! --Coemgenus (talk) 12:31, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ... and today's 1880 Democratic National Convention! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:07, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Allan Domb
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 30 May 2016 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from United States presidential election, 1876 into 1876 Greenback National Convention. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted copied template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:30, 30 May 2016 (UTC)