User talk:Cymru.lass/Archive 10

Happy Birthday!!
Happy 16$th$ birthday, cymru lass! Have a great day!  Set Sail For The Seven Seas   15° 30' 30" NET   01:02, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Holy expletive, it's my birthday!
 * I forgot. Thanks for the birthday wishes! Happy Halloween!! --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 01:04, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I happened upon this page and learnt it's your birthday. I don't think we've met before, but just to spread the Wikilove: Happy Birthday! Heimstern Läufer (talk) 07:57, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Why thank you, kind stranger! Aside from a friend who stayed up 'til midnight for me, no-one off-wiki has mentioned it yet. Then again, it is something like 2 AM.... --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 08:01, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey yeah - Happy Birthday from another Dr Who fan! Now you need more than a nibble to store your age! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:47, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Graeme! This is all very pleasant. This was actually the first thing I saw upon waking up due to forgetting to turn my laptop off! --- 14:02, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * You actually forgot is was your birthday? Might have been due to the concussion!    Set Sail For The Seven Seas   213° 33' 0" NET   14:14, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Penblwydd Hapus! (and that's about as far as my knowledge of Welsh goes I'm afraid) Hope you're having a lovely day. the wub "?!"  21:32, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hope I'm not late already ; however, buon compleanno from me too! Salvio  Let's talk about it! 23:47, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * @TheSevenSeas, yes, I managed to forget it was my birthday I'm special like that. But it made it all that much better!
 * @the wub, thank you! I'd say thanks in Welsh, but I'm afraid I lack any knowledge whatsoever of the language, except "cymru". I won't get the chance to start learning for a few years
 * @Salvio, HI! Long time no talk! Thanks for the birthday wishes!! I love Italian (don't let my Spanish homies hear me saying that; they'll kill me :P)! You're definitely not too late, at least by my clock! --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 00:38, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe "thanks" in welsh is "diolch". There's always The Welsh Wikipedia if you're up for learning the language. Spanish and Italian are very similar languages, so it shouldn't be too bad. Forgetting does indeed make it that more special! Suprises are great!   Set Sail For The Seven Seas   16° 13' 45" NET   01:04, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the Welsh tip ! Hahaha, the fact that Italian and Spanish makes the playful rivalry between my Spanish and Italian friends all the more "serious".  --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 01:09, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem! I take it you're the inbetween? Someone's got to prevent World War III!   Set Sail For The Seven Seas   256° 5' 0" NET   17:04, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hahaha yep! I'm the gringa who speaks Spanish better than several of the Latinas and used to speak Italian --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 02:20, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * All that and to think Italy and Spain don't even share a border! I guess you should learn French then!    Set Sail For The Seven Seas   321° 8' 15" NET   21:24, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yep, I'm taking it next year—despite the fact that the French accent is the only accent I can't imitate. I can even do accents when reading (Romanized) Arabic and Hindi, but when I try to read French, I sound like a strangled cat --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 01:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It takes time and practice to develop these things unless you've grown up with it. In that case, it becomes second nature. Can you actually read Arabic and Hindi? That's way better than French!   Set Sail For The Seven Seas   325° 37' 15" NET   21:42, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't read or understand Arabic and Hindi, but if I'm given a written-out (i.e., in the Roman alphabet) transliteration, I can do a passable accent. I pick up accents really easily—which isn't always a good thing. I spent 3 weeks in New Zealand almost five years ago, and I still speak with a en-zedder intonation and use their slang—which confuses the heck out of people, especially since I don't speak with an accent --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 23:54, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * That could come in useful at times! One of my friends is a kiwi, so I sort of know some of the slang. Do you really sound like a strangled cat when you try to read French? It can't be that bad! You know what a strangled cat sounds like?  All I've ever heard are cats squealing at one another! Now that's what you call a cat fight!    Set Sail For The Seven Seas   3° 31' 30" NET   00:14, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't know what a strangled cat sounds like per se, but I'm guessing it's pretty close to me speaking French. I was in a French opera once (Carmen), and it took me forever to make sure I didn't sound like a fool! --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 00:36, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

I didn't think so. I would be surprised if you did. Isn't that going round in circles? If you were in a French opera, then you must have a good accent!  Set Sail For The Seven Seas   14° 10' 45" NET   00:56, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Lucky for me, opera singers use softer accents than the typical Fresh accent when singing opera, at least where I live. --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 01:44, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I guess in that case you can get away with it! If you did end up in a real French opera, then you'd have to try even harder!    Set Sail For The Seven Seas   267° 1' 45" NET   17:48, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hahaha, true that! --- cymru lass (hit me up)⁄(background check) 23:06, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

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 * Hello it is against Wikipedia guidelines to blank content without providing a source or good reason for doing so. If you would like to read more about this, check out this essay at Content removal. Let me know if you have any questions. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 18:55, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry I am not good at this stuff — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brainiac2727 (talk • contribs) 18:58, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

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Reversing my edits
Thank you for your welcome, but I don't plan to stay here. I just want those citations to be removed from singer Tarkan's page for three reasons.

i) They are not correct citations. The should be removed for stylistic purposes anyway. Where are the correct links? Where is the original articles? You can't just use the versions I translated and not even cite correctly.

ii) In one case I used an example by providing the original source link and its original heading in place of MY TRANSLATION of it and you reversed that, too.

You can't have it both way by stealing from my blog and then not citing correctly. Either find the original source or remove the info.

iii) It is theft because all those so-called citations if you google them will all bring up my translated articles as they are the only source on the net. So-called "editors" have simply used my work and removed my blog's name. I do not give permission for any of my work to be used, correctly cited or not.

There are even whole quotes lifted from my translations and again all credit to me removed.

I agree with that. My blog is only a private blog and in no way should it be used as source or reference on that page - but if it's going to be done, please let it be done properly.

Tarkandeluxe (talk) 08:38, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

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the same user has continued his edit war
and has bragged/threatened that he has "access to several computers". https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avola&action=history — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.70.83.194 (talk) 15:53, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

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Just wondering
1. So you’re a fluffy kitten, and not quite 24.

2. The icon with ”123” for your edit count says server error, for me. Could be coz I’m on an iPhone or in Australia.

3. I was miffed when orphanwiki undid my reformat in less than 1minute in History of male circumcision on 12Aug. And only recently saw that you reinstated my typing. I’d been wondering how to get others to view what I’d typed, for a 2nd opinion; so how did you see it? Have you got special (psychic) powers?

4. Similar thing for Primavera (painting), just today. Quite confusing; similar sentences, seem contradictory on first (and 2nd) reading; so I “corrected” it. It’s been reverted by johnbod who wrote it in Jun2017, and lots of other bits. He also thinks 'Allegory of Spring' is unreferenced; despite it being in the article from before 2010, til he removed it in June 2017; and LOTS of Google refs including EBrit. So; will (most) others see my edit; or is it only the mavens (like you)?

5. Welsh?

6. My iPhone dictionaries (US and UK) can’t find mavin! So I went with maven.

MBG02 (talk) 17:12, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi there! Sorry for the delay, I'm travelling for work right now. I noticed your edits because I sometimes keep an eye on the new changes feed on here. You can read more about that here. To bring up an issue with an edit, if it's vandalism or something where the user behavior is in question, the common practice is warning the user on their own user talk page. However, if it's a content issue, the practice is to bring it up on the talk page of the article in question so others interested in the article can easily locate and participate in the discussion. I'd suggest pinging the other user(s) involved using at the front of your comment so that they get a notification that you started a thread they may be interested in.
 * I did restore your edit to Talk:Yo-yo that was removed by that editor as that was obviously a mistake. Something that is obviously a mistaken revert can be re-reverted, with a proper edit summary. However, we do have a three-revert rule, as well as rules about "edit warring" so I'd give those two pages a look over. If in doubt, discussing it on the article talk page is a good idea.
 * All of the pages I linked in this reply various Wikipedia policies and guidelines that you might find helpful or relevant! Some of them are pretty long, but if you give the intro a read and then take a look at the sections of each that seem relevant, you'll get a pretty good feel for the way things work around here.
 * Welsh, but very far removed! 4 generations ago, I think. Just an admirer of the culture, and I was 14 (wow!) when I picked this username
 * As for asking others to take a look at an edit you've made, I would suggest posting a message on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject (group of editors who work to maintain articles related to a specific subject). You can generally find what WikiProjects an article belongs to by looking on the article's talk page. So Talk:History of male circumcision has banners at the top with links to 5 different WikiProjects that might have editors who could weigh in on your edit.
 * Hope this guidance helps! Let me know if you have any more questions for me, and happy editing!! cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 17:28, 10 October 2018 (UTC)


 * 1. Triffic. Thanks. I hadn’t done anything about the Yo-Yo one, because I hadn’t figured out if there was a difference between his view (on a computer) and mine (on the iPhone); it looked alright to me, but I had typed “==“ to separate my post from the references; coz they looked (to me) like they were part of my post.


 * 2. The Circumcision one seemed like too much (in size) to post to Talk. I was mostly annoyed that no-one else had had the opportunity to see it; and was still (3 days ago) trying to figure out how to get an “interested party” to comment on it (not realising you’d reinstated it 4 weeks earlier). My thinking (7 weeks ago) was to “talk” to the most active editors; but I checked the top12 and they were all banned or inactive! Controversial subject!


 * 3. So I was wondering if the same thing (an angel like you) would happen for the Primavera article? I’m ready to post to Talk, but I’ll wait for your comments.


 * 4. (Trivia) Australia’s only female prime minister (so far), was born in Wales.


 * MBG02 (talk) 18:51, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

I still don’t know how you saw my edit, 3 weeks after I did it. Are you going to see this? Or should I post on the top page?

I am still waiting for your comments to above (esp #3), and I have a new Q.

MBG02 (talk) 05:46, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Avola
The same user has resumed edit warring on the page for Avola as soon as it's protected status was removed, all of the information he has claimed is unsourced is sourced straightforwardly. His unfounded claims about my alleged ethnicity seem unhelpful and unconstructive at best.174.70.83.194 (talk) 21:26, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up; I've requested protection again. However, I would suggest commenting on the talk page, as the other editor involved in the content dispute has been trying to establish a consensus over there and I do not see any discussion from you. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 21:59, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

I will absolutely do so, thank you so much174.70.83.194 (talk) 22:30, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Indiggo
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 * replied on the file talk page! cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 15:11, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm replying here because the file talk page may be deleted when the image is deleted. I can appreciate the desire to provide a photo as is common with other biographies of politicians, however, non-free content must be complaint with Non-free content, and meet all of the criteria outlined in Non-free content criteria.  For living people, point 1 on replaceability is almost always an issue as a free image of a living person can be taken.  It's not sufficient that you can't find one existing now, it also must be teh case that one cannot be created.  Regards. -- Whpq (talk) 16:26, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. The nuances of the policy aren't really something I'm familiar with since I don't do a lot of File: work, so I'll defer to your judgement here. Cheers, cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 18:36, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

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G8
Did you read WP:G8 before reverting?... Cabayi (talk) 20:33, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
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 * woof, yeah, that one's my bad. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 20:44, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

Citation exists for UVA Law Statistics regarding endowment and alumni giving rate
Hello, if you click on the citation provided in the article, that number ($555MM) as well as the alumni giving rate, is accurate.

undid undo
I've undone your undo of my edits to the Labradoodle article; I was still in the review-and-touchup phase when you made the reversion, and want the whole package to be intact.

Please note that almost all of my revisions are merely corrections to citations (e.g. mistaken use of "|edition=" instead of "|publisher=" and missing links to original URLs when an archive URL is given. Most of all, I converted depricated web-links to the preferred form.

Since I did not change the substance of the text in the article, I suspect that you may have thought that I deleted something, when all I did was move it around when creating subsections. And regarding subsections/subheadings: recall that the Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and long runs of unbroken prose are, in fact, a bad thing. The general style of writing should be short and choppy, so that impatient readers can get in, get what they want, and get out quickly. I think that that's what my changes have done.

I am certainly aware that the edited article still has problems: There's a sentence about "comfortable living in a condo as living on a sprawling acreage" that is an un-cited statement of opinion, not a fact; the sizes are described in two places, and the coats are described in three places. All bad, but it would require more art or care than I have available at the moment to trim the whole text and fix those problems. 24.21.60.20 (talk) 19:47, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

done editing
I think that I've finished all the editing that I have the ambition for on the Labradoodle article, so I will no longer have any editing conflicts with your reversion, should you choose to do so. 24.21.60.20 (talk) 20:30, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Help on Becoming an admin and How
Hello I think I need help becoming an admin and how do I become one ? TUB3900 (talk) 01:11, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * you'll want to take a look at Guide to requests for adminship, as well as this essay on new users and requests for adminship and Advice for RfA candidates. The long and the short of it is that a new user who is still learning the ropes here will probably not pass a request for adminship (RfA). Spend more time familiarising yourself with our policies, our guidelines, and getting involved in areas such as vandalism reversion and deletion discussions before requesting adminship. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 01:16, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
 * That's a good answer Cymru.las . In short, one needs to work on different project areas such as Good articles, DYK, deletion discussions, ANI, RFPP, and more importantly, gain the trust of the community. Adminship is not a reward, but a responsibility. The more you work on the mentioned areas, you learn more. --Titodutta (talk) 14:38, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Lisa Fay
Hello Cymru.lass, Thanks for paying attention to the template attempt regarding Lisa Fay. I don't really know what I'm doing, but trying to learn. I think it's probably not a good idea that I be the one looking into creating this entry but someone else who is not involved, and who knows how to work with Wikipedia. Is there a way to find out if someone would be interested in considering making an entry about the work of Lisa Fay in theatre - in social issues theatre and experimental theatre over the past thirty years? I'm reading many of the pages about how Wikipedia works, but there's a lot to learn and I shouldn't be learning by trial and error. All the best to you, Bubby (talk) 09:56, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm going to go ahead and agree that you're probably not the person to be writing the article. I don't mean to offend, however! But you hit the nail on the head when you said that someone who is not involved should write the article. Wikipedia has a guideline on conflicts of interest (COIs) that is relevant here. I'd urge you to give it a look over; it's actually not too bad a read. What's most relevant to you is sections 1, 2, and 7. This is a quick and simple explanatory guide to accompany our COI guideline.
 * So where do you go from here, given that information? There's two avenues you can take. The first is going to Requested articles, reading the instructions at the top of that page, and then posting it to this list of requested theatre people articles, with links to sources.
 * Or you can go through our Articles for Creation process, where you draft an article and wait for it to be approved by one of our volunteer reviewers. You'll have to disclose your COI in any case, and instructions for how to do that (it's quick and easy, we have a template for it) are here. I'm not sure it applies here, but I do have to note that if you are getting paid in any way for editing, you not only have to disclose your conflict of interest, but that you are getting paid for your edits. Information on that is just below the COI disclosure instructions on the page I linked.
 * I know this is a lot to throw at you, so feel free to reach out if you have any questions! P.S. I have several people near and dear to me who work at Krannert! Small world. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 13:28, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello again Cymru.lass! Thanks for all you say. I really need to be "talking" to someone. I've read a good deal of the Wikipedia material and still am lost. You are certainly helping. Before I follow up on your two avenues that you suggest, let me lay out a few things. There is no payment regarding this desire I have for Lisa to appear in Wikipedia. The conflict of interest is that we are long-time collaborators (27 years) in artistic work as Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman Duo. Our artistic fates are interconnected. I have had a Wiki page for a long time, since 2006. I don't know where it came from - possibly from students at The Evergreen State College where I teach from time to time. I just don't know. It began with several glaring factual errors which I corrected and put my name to the corrections. It's all very short. For a long time I've felt a person searching for Lisa Fay ought to find information on Lisa's importance - in our work together and also in her work independent of our duo - and that she has a remarkable history of contribution to social issues theatre and experimental theatre. So now I'm doing something about it. There are other people who would do this, some I know and there are some I don't know. But how to begin? So I delved into it myself, and found the conflict of interest descriptions and see clearly that I'm not the person to do this, but other people don't necessarily think of it, or think they could have access to making a Wiki entry...I just don't know. I have no problem of course making a CoI claim...does that exclude me from helping or being a source of information? I'm looking at the two ways of proceeding you suggest. Is one better than the other? There is the concern that the information about Lisa Fay is something I have at hand and ready to go or write, whereas someone else would have to work at it and might not understand what they find. Can I be a consultant? So Request Articles, or, Articles for Creation...which do you suppose for starters? If you know people at Krannert, we might very well know them too! Our duo is in residence at Krannert, working on a new production we're creating. As you say, small world. All the best, and thanks again very much for your help in this! Jeff — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeff Glassman (talk • contribs) 08:27, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

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Intersex people and military service in the United States
Hi, about your edits to the article, I have to question some of the decitions. You removed the Navy section, but it was sourced by a reliable source, why is that? You also removed the link to Military brat, but Zzyym calls themselves "military brat" in the video, this is a recognized subculture in the united states. I don't see why it should be removed, it gives context to their person and experiences. I hope you don't take offence.★Trekker (talk) 20:53, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I removed the Navy section because it was a copy and paste of the Air Force section, right down to saying that the "Air Force" rather than "Navy", so I wasn't sure if it was a mistake or not. As far as removing the reference to Zzyym as a "military brat", it was due to the tone of the sentence. I'm down to reinstate the link to military brat (U.S. subculture), but with more encyclopedic wording. Maybe something along the lines of stating Zzyym "grew up in a military family" with the wikilink like that, or stating "Zzyym, who refers to themselves as a military brat" etc. cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 21:03, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I see, maybe I could reword the Navy section someway. I also think your idea for the Zzyym is good!★Trekker (talk) 21:31, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me! Cheers, and happy holidays cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 21:42, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Happy holidays to you too! Not 100% sure what holiday tho. Haha. ★Trekker (talk) 21:53, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * technically American Thanksgiving Thursday, but for me November and December are just one big happy season! cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 22:38, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Draft Article
Hello Cymru.lass. (I sure hope I'm putting this in the correct place for you. I am not savvy.) Thank you for your feedback. Sourcing is always a challenge when writing about living artists (which is an interest of mine). While researching this article I came across a non-profit that has contributed much and yet they are not on Wiki. I hope the sources I've gathered for that are sufficient. We shall soon find out. The article in question already has sources, when there are more I will add them, thank you. Etnacross (talk) 15:20, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

this is a real quote FYI
→‎Finance: Ackerman also said that day to the SEC, “One guy with a few friends and helpers discovered this thing nearly a decade ago, led you to this pile of dung, Bernie Madoff and stuck your nose in it and you could not figure it out”)



Archived. New.
I posted a Q on your archive page Nov17. Did you know?

I’m still wondering how you saw my (reformatting) edit to circumcision, 3 weeks after I did it.

I posted a Q to and I’m wondering if I can just revert... or what. It’s a serious Q (to me), trivial compared to the rest of the article, but I expect more than a few to be interested. So will others see it anyway (in the same “magical” way you saw the circumcision one)? I really dislike the nazi-like way my post was excised.

MBG02 (talk) 11:48, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
 * oops, I seem to have missed your earlier message! I'm sorry about that. It looks like that's because it was posted to a subpage of my talkpage; Wikipedia will only give a user a notification if the message is posted directly on their talkpage, or if you ping them (by putting in your comment) like I did at the start of this one. I can't quite remember for sure, but I think I found your reformatting edit just by browsing Wikipedia. I spend a lot of time on here just reading, looking through histories, stuff like that.
 * As for the edit to Talk:Barack Obama, I think the reason it was removed is that it wasn't so much a discussion on how to improve the article, but a question about the subject. Some people will remove those from higher-traffic talk pages so that discussion about article improvement doesn't get lost among the shuffle. We have a place on Wikipedia called the Reference Desk, which is possibly a better place for the question. I'd suggest posting your question there and seeing if anyone there knows the answer! Cheers, cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 17:45, 21 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I see it as [actually it is] an extension of something already in the article. In many (most)? topics the origin of the name is important – actors, bands, countries, places...
 * The (implied) Q is a bit broader; how Americans (or any country) treat people with foreign names. (So, that bit is for a different page.)
 * And it’s impossible to discuss an article without discussing its subject!
 * MBG02 (talk) 22:35, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Prep 1
Hi, thanks for helping out with promoting prep sets at DYK. A heads-up: 6 out of 8 hooks in this set are biographies. We generally try to achieve a 50/50 ratio, alternating bios and non-bios in the set. Take a look at Prep 6 for example. Best, Yoninah (talk) 02:52, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * oh no! I'm sorry for the mix-up. I'm still pretty new to the process and I'll definitely be mindful of that in the future; thank you for bringing it to my attention, Yoninah. Cheers, cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 02:55, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

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