User talk:DorisH

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Jean-Paul 11:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Mufflon, translation from German
Thanks for letting me know the correct procedure. Woodsstock 15:27, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks for passing Equine nutrition for GA. I am going into the article and making some of the changes you recommended. You are definitely right that "horses" is overused, trying to fix that without causing too much confusion -- That said, many sources were specific to horses and may not necessarily apply to ponies and mules (which is why they got their own section) and of course, there is nothing on zebras! I also realized I needed to not overuse nouns when a pronoun would do! Removed at least one grazing reference altogether, you are right, it was redundant. Trouble is in the horse world today, too many people think locking a horse up in a stall and letting it eat grain all day is kindness--yet it's the moral equivalent of shutting up a child in front of the TV all day with soda pop, potato chips, and cookies! So perhaps all those references are sort of a reminder to those in the horse world, but do sound repetitious and odd to the lay reader. I'll take a good look at this question, however. Beating it to death isn't good writing either.

Anyway, thanks again, and if you have further comments, please feel free to offer them; your suggestions were insightful and helpful. (And kindly worded too!) Montanabw 04:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Reto Romansch
At first glance I thought it looked like a spelling variant, but you're probably right. I made an edit too hastily. Please change the redirect as you please. —Tokek 14:13, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Grameen Bank, GA Nominee
I have made some changes to the article, mostly according to your suggestion on the talk page. But, couldn't find any source that cites the Saifur Rahman stuff as they are stated. He did have issues about micro finance, as far as newspaper reports go. I can actually replace the previous text with verifiable new text, or I can remove that unsourced part completely. On top of that, there may be massive scope for improvement that can be drawn from the official Website alone. Please, advise. I am a bit lost here, as I expected GA nomination to have at least some improvement drive attached, like those FACs have. Do I post requests to projects and user talk pages? Cheers. Aditya Kabir 17:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC) - please, answer to my talk page

Undo Mistake?
You recently undid an edit I made to Wall Street Crash of 1929, and marked it as vandalism. I think you made a mistake, but as this was my first Wikipedia edit, I thought I should ask in case I did in fact do something wrong.

My edit merely added the bold-faced word to the sentence quoted below in order to make the sentence syntactically correct.

The market did not return to pre-1929 levels until late 1954, and was lower at its July 8, 1932 nadir than it had been since the 1800s.

Please respond to my talk page.

Thanks, --Hammond.guerin 20:15, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Yo, dear


Aditya Kabir has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Yo, Doris. Thanks for that wet trout slap. I am studying my WikiLove right at this moment (especially, since User:Zora, my inspiration, refuses to come back), and that trout meant a lot more to me than a thousand cool explanations. Thanks again. Now, can you advise on how do I really get those collaboration up and running? Aditya Kabir 15:40, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. One more question - is that Japanese that follows your name? What does it say? Aditya Kabir 16:14, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Parsifal
It failed because it's too long. Criteria says 25 KB. It's 35 KB. Feel free to trim it down and renominate it. I've passed articles today too. GreenJoe 17:51, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm willing to accept that I may have been wrong on the GA criteria about length. You may readd it. GreenJoe 18:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Your post to the talk page of Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath was most appreciated. It filled me in the guidelines for determining the naming convention. At least I am comfortable with it. WP:MOSBIO suggests that an autobiography as a source is OK if it is reliable. I think the autobiography of YGS is really dodgy in many respects, but maybe it is OK if no reasonably outlandish claims are included or referenced.(?) Given that the article has withstood two attempts at AfD, I think it might be best to just prune the article down to the basics and let it stand. If you have any thoughts on this, please let me know. Thanks again. -Vritti 06:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Tax
Not where the article is a clear 'fail'... The Land 11:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Peer review/Shahbag/archive2
I have just put the article to peer review. Would you care to take a look? Aditya Kabir 20:44, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

RfC
Letting you know that I have opened a RfC on DPeterson. --Mihai cartoaje 18:17, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

GAC backlog elimination drive
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Attachment therapy etc.
I noticed you had previously had an interest in editing these pages. You might be interested to know that DPeterson and all his socks (RalphLender, JohnsonRon, SamDavidson, JonesRD and MarkWood) are all gone. The socks indef. and DPeterson for one year. In the circumstances I wondered if you would be interested in returning to help edit. Alot of the pages dominated by these socks have already been substantially rewritten so that they now contain genuine information, but there is still alot to do. (Several people have tried the psychology portal over the last year but there isn't a single member who has ever bothered to reply apart from one comment very recently. Funny really when you consider how basic attachment is to child psychology, but there you go.) Anyway, hope you haven't given up for good. Fainites barley 20:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

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We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 08:06, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

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