User talk:Dominic/Archive32

A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:46, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim
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Wikipedia:GLAM/National Archives and Records Administration
Hi Dominic, You wouldn't happened to know who is running the above. I dumped some document requests up there this morning, and I noticed that most of the posts are dated 2011ish. Is it still operating? I read you had created the project, hence... scope_creep (talk) 14:19, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, . Thanks for notifying me; I admit I am not watching that page closely. I am responsible for that project, and the Wikipedia–NARA partnership is very active—even though the WikiProject is not. I am looking at your request, and I will ask around. Right now, we don't have an internal process in place for requests from Wikipedia (it's experimental). Basically, when I get a request, I do the best I can to get it to the right unit within NARA and see if we can work out a way to get the images. In your case, it looks like a pretty long list that might be hundreds of pages of unscanned documents (scans aren't just lying around offline), so this may be a big ask. Do you have a few top priorities? Thanks! Dominic·t 18:51, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Dominic, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Is it only for images. It's only documents I'm looking for. There is quite a few of them, I think there is about 20-30 of them requested. 19:08, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, these are textual documents. By "images", I just meant the scans of the documents. There are 41 documents here that you listed. They are all contained in 6 boxes, but that could still be a lot of pages. Dominic·t 19:10, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Coolio, You found them already. They must be well indexed! That will enable me to get on with this monster article: General der Nachrichtenaufklärung. scope_creep (talk) 11:39, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Soda
FYI, Dominic is a soda addict. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.168.59.134 (talk) 18:48, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

December 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (plus Wikipedia Day on Jan 15!)
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Drinking
Dominic, please don't drink and drive. 205.168.59.134 (talk) 03:31, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

NARA Document Request
Hi Dominic, I was wondering whats happening with my NARA document request. I sent it in on the 6th Dec, and I think a month has passed, what with Christmas it is really only 3(ish) weeks. I am keen to start work on the General der Nachrichtenaufklärung article. scope_creep (talk) 17:31, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

NARA Request
Hi Dominic, I was wondering what is happening with my Nara request. It was that big list of perhaps 20+ TICOM docs. Thanks scope_creep (talk) 22:42, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

February 15: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC
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De-admin vote at Wiktionary
Please see wikt:Wiktionary:Votes/2017-01/Dominic for de-admin.

If that vote passes, your admin rights on Wiktionary are going to be removed because you have been inactive there since 2013. I believe that is without prejudice, just to keep only active admins in the list. Also as of now two people opposed the vote because they would apparently prefer to wait five years before taking admin rights from someone.

Feel free to respond there, if you are interested.

I don't know if you were aware of the vote yet, but according to the vote talk page, you were notified by e-mail.

Cheers! --Daniel Carrero (talk) 05:46, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

March 11: Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon @ MoMA (and beyond!)
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Sunday March 26: Action=History Wiki-Hackathon @ Ace Hotel
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It's time.
I think today's the day for you to stop drinking soda. 73.109.61.43 (talk) 01:28, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikimedian in Residence BoF at Wikimania 2017
Hello!

My name is David Alves (User:Horadrim~usurped), and I'm an Wikipedian in Residence at RIDC NeuroMat (User:Horadrim). I've reach your contact through the Wikimedian in residence page in Outreach. As you may know, Wikimania 2017 is coming! I am here because, as a fellow WiR, I believe this would be a great opportunity for us to share experiences, discuss difficulties and exchange solutions, creating a community among us capable of supporting in other projects that would benefit from residents. In that sense, I have submitted a proposal of a Birds of a Feather activity to Wikimania that you can check out here. I hope to count with your support in this project and would like to invite you to join us if you participate in Wikimania. In case of any doubts, please feel free to contact me, either in my talk pages or by e-mail at david.alvesoutlook.com.

Thank you very much! ‎Horadrim~usurped (talk) 00:33, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

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Sunday May 21: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon + global online challenge
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Oval Office grandfather clock
Ciao Dominic :-)

Inspired by Comey's testimony today, I created the article Oval Office grandfather clock - and built a gallery of pics, one for each president. They're not ideal some of them, and I've not found any on Commons as yet for Bush Snr. I've looked through quite a lot of NARA images in Commons Category:Oval Office clock in the process of illustrating this article, but perhaps you can help me find one of Bush Snr, and any improvements to the others? Wittylama 14:44, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * followup - has found a good one :-) Wittylama 15:43, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * We should tweet the link to Ferriero ... -- Fuzheado &#124; Talk 15:46, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Wittylama: That's great. Interestingly, it seems there was a different grandfather clock in place prior to this one being installed in the '70s. Here is one you can see from 1968 with Johnson: File:Senator Robert F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson - NARA - 192487.tif. Dominic·t 16:58, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah - I found that clock with this picture of Lady Byrd Johnson in '69 Lynda Bird Johnson with the President.jpg, and the earliest pic of it I can find that's on Commons is this one from '65 Adam Clayton Powell with Lyndon Johnson.jpg. I've since seen - but now cannot find again! - a pic on Commons of that specific clock being used in another room in the West Wing in the 80s. But I know nothing about that clock - what it is, when it was first used in the building, where it is now... What I'd really like to know is more about the current clock's provenance - currently there's a gap between 1800 and 1972 - but I guess that's not really something NARA can help with! Wittylama 19:34, 8 June 2017 (UTC)