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Deletion Notification
A deletion discussion has begun at "Articles for deletion/Jennifer Teege". Thank you. -O.R.Comms 14:02, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

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Perhaps you can add this one to your watchlist?
Just to lend a hand in case I need it. Person who created the article is "threatening" to add back a bunch of promo stuff. Five Year Mission. :) Missvain (talk) 17:36, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Source?
What is the source of this portrait of Richard Cantillon? My understanding is that there are no know surviving portraits of Cantillon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.148.139.132 (talk) 08:37, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * the source at the spanish lanuaguage source is here http://servidor-opsu.tach.ula.ve/alum/pd_7/empren_t/PCD/origen.html if you think it's wrong challenge it. could do a google image search for a false id. the book sources here might have an image to scan. Duckduckstop (talk) 21:14, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

AfD, deletion and before
Hi! I was looking at AfD's and I'm really glad you raised some questions on Articles_for_deletion/Stephanie_Powell_Watts about notability and WP:Before. I'm very frustrated with the tone that goes on in AfD's. I see a lot of editors not bothering with WP:Before and I too, wonder, what's the point?

Personally, I think they hope to sweep an article away before anyone who has time to look into something can vote on it. It's easy to slap a tag on something for delete, harder to figure out if it's truly notable first. I think it's part of the Wiki bias: if the article is about a woman, foreign person or minority, there is an implicit assumption that they aren't notable. This is especially troubling with people who have articles and the sources are in print or in another language altogether.

Another frustrating thing can be seen here Articles_for_deletion/Hitomi_Tanaka, though I do think the editor isn't a sexist person at all and was playing, it was the wrong venue to joke around at.

Sometimes I think the best way to fight the trend of slapping AfD's is to add the sources and then pointedly ask the nominator what on earth were they thinking? Why didn't they do due diligence? If enough of us do this, we can counter the attitude of "I can delete whatever I want." If people know we are watching, it will help.

Anyway, that's my two cents, which won't buy you anything (especially a cup of good coffee!) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 14:24, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

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Wiki conference and editors
Hi! Well, regarding what you posted on my talk page, I understand your frustration with things. I hate seeing new editors made to feel unwelcome. The names of people constantly doing AfD is always the same. My frustration is that none seem to do WP:Before and the ones who think they do don't seem to have database access and only Google basic search skills. Editors be saying not notable, no references when a good search turns up plenty. I can't prove bias against women and non white folks, but it seems like it's there.

I wish I could go to the conference. I'm helping to open a Makerspace at my library that weekend. :)

I just felt happy to see someone else who was expressing many of my own feelings. I felt less alone in AfD land. I like contributing to Wiki and your own passion for defending articles struck a good nerve.

Btw, are you on the WikiProject Women in Red? If not, you might like it. :) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 04:18, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

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why have I never noticed your work?
Probably because it's both excellent and unpretentious. I tend to focus on problem areas these days, and your work does not fall into any of them. (I have some questions about he notability of some of the Indian scientists, because their citation records are not impressive on a world scale, which is the scale used in WP:PROF, but we cna discuss this later. But even so, they're short sensible articles as compared to some of the promotional illiterate work in that area)

I greatly deplore the attacks on you, which are in my opinions signs of what I can only call COI paranoia. It's a side effect of the necessary great importance there now is in removing coi, and it probably is unavoidable, but you;re is a particularly start example because it's so easy to tell the difference--nothing is even borderline.) Please do not be angry about your experience--It will be very useful as a counterexample.

If you're going to Washington, I'll see you there, but if you want to talk first, please send me an email and suggest a time. I want to explain to ou the various paralllel lines of approach to the problem of COI, so you'll know what's happenning.  DGG ( talk ) 08:14, 26 September 2015 (UTC)


 * here's a suggested course of action: invoke DGG deletion training, and NPP training, and civility training and enforcement. if we had some librarian ethics around here, more work would get done. a sustained campaign will be necessary to enforce "safe space" asshole-free zone, against the "free speech" troll-enablers. i'll bet you would get serious support at wikionference usa, but you have to get consensus at arbcom. put in for a idea-lab. Duckduckstop (talk) 18:25, 29 September 2015 (UTC)


 * here would be some evidence of COI paranoia, i.e. blocking for socking asking questions at teahouse Wikipedia_talk:Teahouse. Duckduckstop (talk) 18:14, 2 October 2015 (UTC) (seems they were actually socks, with very unimaginative username variations.)  DGG ( talk ) 02:36, 8 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I hate to disillusion you, but not only is arb com very unlikely to every initiate anything, but it will not even commit itself to support anything. So I thought before I joined, but now I know it. Its only practical function is to throw out long-established well-liked trolls whom ani refuses to deal with.  DGG ( talk ) 02:36, 8 October 2015 (UTC)


 * and that is why you do not see me: not interested in dysfunctional processes. apparantly there is a call to librarians to edit ; it could be a change in civility enforcement, but it would require some top cover, from arbcom, which i have yet to see.
 * here another stellar notability judgement; might come up at AfC redesign at wikiconference usa.. Duckduckstop (talk) 16:27, 8 October 2015 (UTC)


 * hey user:DGG get a load of this: Talk:My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me. are you going to do something about this? Duckduckstop (talk) 18:00, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for participating in Women in architecture


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Gail Godwin
I saw that you made some changes to the page and just thought I would let you know about this and this if you haven't seen it. Cheers. David King, Ethical Wiki (Talk) 18:56, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * that's very good, but i like video links too. and i like my bibliography with isbn's better. Duckduckstop (talk) 19:01, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ I added the external links and ISBN numbers from the current article into the draft. Personally I don't like the ISBN numbers, but won't argue over it. Current COI policy is that I have to wait for someone else to approve the draft and move it into article-space. I am not allowed to make such a bold and significant edit myself. David King, Ethical Wiki (Talk) 22:09, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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GoogleTrans gadget can do machine translation on Content Translation system
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I noticed your request for French language support for the Content Translation system at

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You can try the GoogleTrans gadget, if you wish. It now does machine translation for French to other languages, using the Google translation engine.

Help for this is at:

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You can try the version of the gadget that uses the Yandex translation engine if you are translating from Cyrillic languages. Help for this is at:

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I, myself, am an intermediate French reader, but since the French-English pair is quite good for Google, I have translated 24 frwiki articles on French forts to the enwiki in the last 6 weeks. Endo999 (talk) 11:40, 25 November 2015 (UTC)


 * thanks for the update, i will test out on some bios soon. Duckduckstop (talk) 22:43, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks
Thanks for help at file deletion, Can you see if New York Times Wikipedia reference generator is working for you, I saw it on your page but it times out for me. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:35, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Public Art of Barcelona
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