User talk:Dkriegls/Archive 2010

List of notable people from Highland Park, Illinois
Please reference your articles. Thanks, Ironholds (talk) 11:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Not sure what you're looking for. It is a list of notable people lifted from the city's page. I created the page because the list was so long. I cleaned up the list before porting. Most people's pages make reference to their relationship with the city. Those that did not I noted with a Citation Needed tag. So with that, was there any other reference you were thinking of?

Barnstar award
. Thanks! Student7 (talk) 22:32, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Vermont geography
Vermont and New England generally is hard to understand sometimes. Please be aware that Nowhere Town may include Nowhere Village and Somewhere Village! Worse, both villages may have been named differently in the past. So may the town! Student7 (talk) 22:58, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. I am just going down the "List of towns and city" pages. As for association with said town, I am being on the generous side of inclusion and just tagging anyone that is not clear with a "citation needed". Generally though, this project has provided me with plenty of chuckles regarding who people try to sneak onto the lists. Thanks for the encouragement. Dkriegls (talk) 05:45, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Your inquiry re: grammar rule for "the"
The specific instance you reference really has no grammar rule making it mandatory. It is more a preference than anything else and easily could have been left alone, which is probably what I should have done. LilHelpa (talk) 21:25, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Question on notables
Since you are now the "expert"! :) I noticed that you had erased a footnote justifying the addition of someone to a list. I have been encouraging these since it is rare that a person is listed in his/her bio as "born in nowhereville." Sometimes there is no tie-in at all! But even in the best case, we force the verifier (you?) to reference the bio to ensure that they are from nowhereville. It seems to me more prudent and efficient to make each article stand on its own (including the notable section), so that no one "has" to go to a Wikipedia bio to read it, but goes instead to a "secondary" or whatever source and finds it there, just as the bio did or should have done. In other words, the notable section is not dependent on the bio article over which the place article editor essentially has no control. Student7 (talk) 16:13, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmmm. I am a big fan of referencing, however, I am also a big fan of usability and the role that clutter can play in reducing usability. Efficient for fact checkers isn't always efficient for users. I guess my thinking on this subject has generally been that the reference at the list level was not useful because anyone with more than a fleeting interest would make the link through. There is also the general wikipedia standard that cited link throughs can be used as equal to reference in history sections and biographies. This may be a default norm resulting from laziness or the limits of editors time rather than consensus, I'm not sure. I wonder if there is any consensus building debate on the subject anywhere. Dkriegls (talk) 09:10, 16 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Nyttend would probably agree with no ref. I will follow this. Harder to verify but easier to insert, as you say. If you decide to try to obtain a consensus, let me know. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 23:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Glad you support references. Makes me feel a whole lot better. The problem was often missing refs in bio linking person with place. Ref should take care of that. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 15:25, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

response on my talk
Heya Dkriegls!

I just responded over on my talk page ... :-) LonelyBeacon (talk) 01:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

June 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Durham, Maine, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found here. Thank you. Hi 8 7 8  (Come yell at me!) 04:08, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Hi 8 7 8  (Come yell at me!) 04:44, 10 June 2010 (UTC)


 * And again.  Hi 8 7 8   (Come yell at me!) 05:02, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of ABCT GLBT Special Interest Group


The article ABCT GLBT Special Interest Group has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No evidence of coverage of this branch of a professional body, fails. WP:GNG

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Articles for deletion nomination of ABCT GLBT Special Interest Group
I have nominated ABCT GLBT Special Interest Group, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/ABCT GLBT Special Interest Group. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Nuttah (talk) 16:25, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

ABCT GLBT Special Interest Group
I see nothing that you added to the talk page that addresses the organisation notability criteria of 'Individual chapters, divisions, departments, and other sub-units of notable organizations are only rarely notable enough to warrant a separate article' as there is still no independent coverage provided or apparently available. On that basis, I've submitted the question to AfD to get a community view. You are welcome to add your thoughts as to how the notability criteria are met there. Nuttah (talk) 17:51, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Peter Heier
I agree that the sourcing that exists isn't particularly good, but that Google books anyway indicates that the material in question is repeated in multiple sources. I think the main issues are whether this is the only thing the individual is known for and whether there are any other sources offering more information. The easiest way for me to check will be to look over some of the sources in books on the topic, which I haven't had the opportunity to do yet. But, yes, if I don't find much material in them myself, I will nominate the article for deletion or merger to some other article. But that probably won't be until the weekend at least. John Carter (talk) 14:49, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * That may well be; the question I guess is whether that is the only thing he is known for. Tomorrow, I hope, I will be checking the various books available around town here about the history of Christianity in China to see if he also, for instance, may have been some sort of notable official of the church there or been involved in other notable activities. If he isn't discussed in any of them for anything other than this exorcism however then I expect to propose a merge early next week. John Carter (talk) 23:35, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Barnard, Vermont
I do not think it makes sense to replace under Sinclair Lewis "author" by "novelist, short-story writer, and playwright" and to remove "in 1928 bought Connett Place with 300 acre and adjacent Chase Farm, named the property Twin Farms and used it as a vacation house during the 1930s and 1940s with his wife, the journalist Dorothy Thompson."

The same applies to replacing under Carl Zuckmayer "playwright" by "writer and playwright" and deleting "and refugee, in 1941 rented from the owner Mr. Ward for 50 dollars a month Backwoods Farm with its farmhouse from 1783 and 180 acre of land, worked there as a farmer until 1946 and wrote the play Des Teufels General (The Devil's General). His autobioography "A part of myself" (1966) deals extensively with these years. His wife Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer also wrote a memoir of their time in Barnard: "The Farm in the Green Mountains" (Die Farm in den grünen Bergen"

This can hardly be called "cleaning up". The information removed is certainly of interest and value and is better presented here in the article about the place than in the articles about Lewis, Thompson (why did you remove her altogether?) and Zuckmayer. --Vsop.de (talk) 10:35, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Vsop, I think it's great that you have taken an interest in this article. A good source to guide our discussion about the appropriate prose for these listings can be found here => WikiProject Cities/US Guideline . Please note that consensus states that the prose on these lists are used to highlight an individual's reason for being notable, and the citation is used to prove their relation to the town. The listing is meant to draw the individual to the biographical page were details are written about. When I rewrite these, I tend to use the first sentence of the biography article about the person. This is why I changed 'author' to 'novelist', people who know this subject much more then I have chosen this adjudicative to describe this person.


 * However, there is an appropriate section for this information; "History" where lengthier prose is more appropriate. I am taking the time to reenter this information under the history section and encourage you to check my work and add to it. Thank you again for your interest. Dkriegls (talk) 20:19, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Notable people
Thanks for changing, however, temporarily, the subtitle to the objective "Notable people" in USCities. I see it was changed back. Every time I've argued with Nyttend I've lost! There's always a first time! :) Student7 (talk) 22:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)