User talk:GeeJo/Archive 5

Artistic billiards
Thanks for nominating the article and all the hard work with DYK. One request: I would have liked to have know the article had been nominated prior to receiving notiification that it was already appearing in DYK. If you had done so, the article would have been put through a rigorous second draft to make sure it was correct in every way and I could have had some input in the wording of the extracted fact. Thanks again.--Fuhghettaboutit 19:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Template:Did you know
When updating the section, please italicize the parentheses surrounding the "pictured" caption. Id est:

(pictured) → (pictured)

instead of

(pictured) → (pictured)

Thank you! &mdash;David Levy 16:40, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

vanished DYK
Here you removed my DYK about the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) (bottom) but I don't see it reappering on DYK template, nor was I notified it was used (or rejected without a comment for some very unusual reasons?). I am restoring the nom, and I'd appreciate your reply.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:05, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see - my fault for not checking the template in more detail. Thanks! PS. There are quite a few PD pics in that article to chose from for DYK, too.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:41, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Meegan method of asparagus growing
Hey.

Er, just curious, WHY the asparagus thingie in the Ben Gautrey article?

regards A.
 * answering here as well since this question came from an IP:
 * Asparagus? I'm not sure what you're talking about. My edit to that page was just minor cleanup, adding categories, a stub tag, etc. I never mentioned anything about asparagus. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 16:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, must have confused something then. Still, I wonder where that came from.

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Hygrocybe psittacina
Good point about the pigment. Had a quick google search and nothing jumps out at me. I wasn't sure whether anyone had found out but will see what I can find out. cheers. Cas Liber 12:46, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use
Unfree images (such as crown copyright) which are "replaceable" are not usable under our Fair Use guidelines. See WP:FU critera #1 and counter example #8 ("An image of a living person that merely shows what they look like ... would almost certainly not be acceptable as fair use"). This is irrelevant of whether a replacement currently exists or not. The reasoning behind this is that by using high quality unfree images, we discourage users from trying to source free ones. Thanks, ed g2s &bull; talk 15:56, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I wasn't referring to FUC#8, but the counter example for living people. Whether or not an image is being used decorative is usually down to context, so it should just be removed from the page, and if that was the only place it was being used, tagged as an orphan . ed g2s &bull; talk 16:33, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Editing Tittell Brune
I appreciate your interest in my article. After spending an entire day researching this very neglected lady, and hoping to bring in my Oz friends who I think also feel somewhat left out in the theatre department since we Yanks and Brits (I'm both) seem to dominate the entries, I hope you will not come in and decimate it. I have experienced Wikipedia users who seem to think that anything different from pure Encyclopedic defininitions, will strip articles down to factual statements, and load up with arcane Wikomanic formulae, usually abbreviated for fellow arcanites. I think the PTB (powers that be with oversight) are trying to make the site superior in its treatment of the arts. And I think they want articles to do with theatre and theatre bios to have some flesh on them, so they are at least "readable". At the moment, they are mostly a recitation of awards and credits and no context (boring). Which is another way of my saying, please don't touch it further, although I appreciate your turning a lower case to an upper case in the title. If you have strong feelings about this, please first discuss on my page or your page, and thanks for the consideration. Have a nice day. JohnClarknew 17:28, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

View the Animation
You have added a View the Animation link to the POTD. Please comment about it here. Cheers, NoSeptember  13:03, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

DYK
Someone's been busy...

More noms



Thank you for the DYK!
Thank you for the DYK on Howard W. Mattson from earlier today. I really appreciated it. Chris 14:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

since you were the first to tag my first page for deletion, maybe you could give some constructive criticism, rather than suggesting it be destroyed.

thank you! that was very helpful.

i'll be more careful about asking

for my pages to be deleted in future.

the copyright page explicitly states

that excerpts can be used for editorial

purposes, but there is no tag for that.

Barnstar

 * Well deserved. We've all noticed your hard work at DYK -- Samir धर्म  09:27, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

States that begin with the letter "O"
Hello, just wondering for what reason you changed Ohio to Oklahoma in the Lima Rescue Mission page?

Aaron01 15:24, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation! :) Aaron01 15:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Tittell Bruno, AGAIN!
Unbelievable (see above). Sometimes you people drive me crazy, self-appointed arbiters without the common courtesy of discussing your concerns on a talk page first. You are a "rules enforcer" exhibiting the kind of ego and intelligence associated with the lowest class of policeman, when you do this. I've already addressed this with you.

If you had discussed it first, I would have enlightened your obvious ingnorance on the subject of celebrity actors, which Brune certainly was. You even deleted the link to which is a scholarly writing on an Australian research site which helps to explain why this old actress nearly a hundred years old ends her life in a nunnery. So you don't care, in your NOT HUMBLE opinion that others may wish to read and wonder about this. At worst, you have the choice of placing a –  at the top, leading to a discussion. Well, since you chose not to do this, I think you are wrong and I am going to restore the links, and I suggest you change your ways, and IN MANY CASES take steps to talk it out with contributors rather than be confrontational. The Wiki administrator folks seem to feel this way too, check it out, I am not alone. JohnClarknew 20:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Giulio Campagnola - DYK
Thxs for successful nomination - I never knew how that worked & will keep an eye out myself Johnbod 03:47, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Going green
I was wrecking my brain for a redirect target before I deleted this. Great going on finding a suitable target. I know it's not green, but please accept this flower. - Mgm|(talk) 13:26, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Plasti-Blades
Thanks for the support on that article. I'd written it some time ago thanks to info that I'd received from the owner of the company. Since it was a direct transfer from the R/C wiki, the tone was directed more toward the end user (sorta like an ad, but unintentionally). I've "neutralized" it somewhat. :) - Lucky 6.9 17:03, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Could you let me finish aricle
Before correcting and such. I'd appreciate it. I'm putting it up as you comment and it's causing me to lose my work. Thanks. ..Ki Longfellow 17:25, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Egregious? You mean awful or lying? I imagine you mean unsourced or tone...I'm awfully used to that and have been trying to get drier. Awfully hard to do. But to nominate it for something causes me to wonder: are you a fan of Gallant Man? ..Ki Longfellow 17:35, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

English to Maltese Dictionary for Children
Hi - thanks for the suggestion in the article. Moving to wikibooks is a much better suggestion than straight deletion :: Princess Tiswas 18:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Israhel van Meckenem - thanks for this, but on the main page the image is squashed horizontally & blurry
on my m/c anyway - looks fine on DYK page. Don't know if anything can be done... Ta anyway Johnbod 17:28, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Putra Mosque
I've read a posting from you regaring the Putra Mosque but I don't understand and not sure what you are trying to explain. I'm from a Malaysia and I'm totally curious about this.

Are you stating that the website has stolen this picture and reproduced ?? That's a very serious accusition and they can really get into trouble.

Refer to link below :- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Putra_Mosque%2C_ccby.jpg

Do feel free to reply me at this email address - alan@alanang.com

Regards, Alan Malaysia

DYK!

 * Three in one day? Wow where do you find these articles? Bakaman  Bakatalk 00:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I got Ais523 to write a short piece of javascript using the Add LI link and Add tab helper functions. Once you've put it into your monobook.js file, it lets you filter out any articles under 3kb in Special:Newpages. Cuts out around 90% of the dross and makes it much easier to find potential noms. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 17:09, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

DYK on sōshi-kaimei
Just noticed - thanks for nominating sōshi-kaimei for DYK. Though, since it's not really clear whether it qualifies or not (since it's just a jawiki translation with a bit of expansion), I guess we could combine that with my later self-nom on Sakhalin Koreans, which is actually new content (except for 2 unsourced paragraphs split from Koryo-saram, which have since had sources added to them):


 * ...that six decades after the end of Japanese colonialism, some Sakhalin Koreans are still stuck with the Japanese names they adopted under the Empire of Japan's sōshi-kaimei policy, due to the intransigence of Russian officials?

This wording also has the advantage that it avoids the never-ending controversy over how much compulsion was involved in the process of registering Japanese names (which always puts Japanese and Koreans at loggerheads). Tell me what you think. cab 06:53, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Nom
No problem, you're doing a great job in DYK without having to dream up noms for everybody too. (I couldn't drag anything out of the other article though: "...that it's a church...er...") Yomangani talk 10:39, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Antonio Giordano
I am the author of the Antonio Giordano entry and hold the copyright. Please return the page. I am aware of and subscribe to the GFDL.

Santa Caterina and Thomas Livingston
My pleasure - always glad to be of assistance.

Now if I can just juice up my own contributions... :D --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 17:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Samoilov crop DYK.jpg
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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Media copyright questions. 19:09, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Stupid bot. It's a temporary 100x100 crop I uploaded to improve the look of an image appearing in DYK. Its description page redirects to the full image, so there's little need to add a licence notice. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 19:22, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Pepe Marchena
Thanks a lot for your suggestion. Actually, the source I used didn't exactly say that he was the first to perform in a sound film: it just said he was the first actor-singer. Unfortunately, the source doesn't specify if it refers to the theatre or the cinema (could be any: personally I don't know any previous examples of flamenco actor-singer). As to the lack of sources in English (which is a real headache when writing about flamenco). There is another fact which could be interesting: he created a new flamenco style, the "colombiana". This is right in the intro, all sources mention it and, luckily, there is a source in English for that, so I've added a note and listed it in the sources (it was in the External Link) GemmaMS 19:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with J. G. McCaskey. I copied other presentations and adjusted to get a start as I do not have the technical know how to accomplish the refinement that you provided.

My last challenge is to insert this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:J._G._McCaskey.jpg in the presentation.

Wikipedia does not seem to recognize it. ?

jcmcapital

Thanks for your help. I copied other presentations and adjusted to get a start as I do not have the technical know how to accomplish the refinement that you provided.

My last challenge is to insert this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:J._G._McCaskey.jpg in the presentation.

Ta muchly
Thanks for the help with the most recent DYK update, the shortened noms are very handy stocking-fillers. What's your opinion on the stockpile we seem to have built up in the suggestion box? I've still yet to come up with noms (short or otherwise) for Riley (motorcar), Master of the Parement, Hindu iconography, Baldwin, Archbishop of Trier, Belford Hendricks, Miserere (Josquin), National Equal Rights League and maybe Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners. Should I go ahead with them to give updaters more options, or just leave the current batch to filter through? GeeJo (t)⁄(c) &bull; 01:23, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, firstly, I think we should spend more time reading BBC more often, as ITN seems to be dead and one less ITN entry seems to cost us on average perhaps 1.5 updates per template. Most of the time, there are only unremarkable cricket noms there, and I am saying that as a person who writes cricket articles. Aside from that, I think we should encourage all writers and updaters to test their mind at User:Tony1/How_to_satisfy_Criterion_1a:_redundancy_exercises - I did them the other day when trying to get Ian Thorpe to FA after Tony objected. Tony tells us that 10% of FAC content is redundant, so I'd figure it would be more for DYK articles. I think you should write the noms so that we have more choice. That would help raise standards across the board, so we get better articles. Unfortunately, we are very soft with the "interesting" criteria, as we don't police the articles well enough for "hooks". User:Lar is not doing updates anymore, but perhaps I can ask him to do some reviewing as it takes less time. He was good at hook-policing. The other problem is that most of us updaters seem to be away on weekends. We need to fix that. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * PS, that last DYK you gave me, registered my half century. Thanks, for helping to make DYK an enjoyable place to participate. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 01:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia does not seem to recognize it. ?

jcmcapital

User:Oakshade
Thanks for fixing that DYK link on my user page. Not bad for at all. :) --Oakshade 04:15, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for de-stubbing H. Clay Myers, Jr.
I'm a relatively inexperienced Wikipedian, and misunderstood the term "stub" to indicate any article that was not substantially complete or adequately documented. My bad.

I've re-read Stub and will better familiarize myself with the cleanup tags.

I'm watching the changes more experienced editors make to my articles, and I like to think I'm a fairly quick study, so I should get the hang of this. Thanks for providing the example (and cleaning up my little mess). -- J-M Jgilhousen 09:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey
Stop it. --BricksFromEurope 20:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

What are you talking about? I never told you to stop doing anything. --BricksFromEurope 20:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I think the Pilsbury Dough Boy did it. --BricksFromEurope 20:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

But cant people be blocked from undoing my edits? --BricksFromEurope 20:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Andy Rooney hates you! --BricksFromEurope 21:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Andyrooneycool.JPG

Thanks for the DYK for Glenn McCarthy
I appreciate it and thank you for the honor. It was a nice surprise. JungleCat   Shiny! / Oohhh!  05:49, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Corcomroe Abbey
Thanks for including it! I know Bin had some concerns about the length of the body text, so I'm glad it made the cut. Dppowell 21:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Smiley Award
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DYK
--  tariq abjotu  02:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

DYK thanks
heya, thanks for the nomination of Upland South for DYK.. it was accepted.. I'm famous! ;-) Pfly 04:43, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

barnstar!
P.S. I usually like to put barnstars on user pages but yours looked so nice, I figured you did not want them there (That, and that I did not see any there). Again, keep up the great work. Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 23:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you very much for your endorsement. I greatly appreciate it. Biruitorul 00:31, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

India related DYK
Could you please confirm India related DYK's before you publish them.Case in point is this article that got a DYK listing even though it was false.MerryJ-Ho 13:51, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

deleting
hello mate.. dont delete my page. seriously, its just a joke and i need it fr 1 week only. thx very much —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pedrowehk (talk • contribs).

geejo
well man.. seriously, give me one week, and then you can delete or do watever you want in my page ok?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pedrowehk (talk • contribs).

DYK vandalism?
Although you may already know this, some people are using DYK as a guide as to which articles to mess with. Two DYK articles were changed to create significant ambiguity while the articles appeared on DYK. (Name change and vital information removed). Perhaps you can have an administrator assigned to watch over DYK articles while they appear on DYK.-- Jreferee 16:01, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for nominating the Mary Jones (Bible) article. However there were 2 vandalizations just this morning. FYI. People have nothing better to do.Brian0324 20:55, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Pedro Augusto Roseiro
Hi. I see you protected the above article; has also been twice deleted as Pedro augusto roseiro. Consider protecting that as well. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit 16:07, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the backup
This is a new daughter article from FAC California Gold Rush. NorCalHistory 16:46, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Middle Dodd
Thanks for the picture, but unfortunately it only has the very bottom of Middle Dodd on it. Had a look on geograph and noticed that the 3910 square has a much nicer shot of Middle Dodd, but wouldn't have a clue how to upload it to commons and all that. Hope you don't think I'm being awkward, but is there any chance you could swap it? As you can see we're slowly plugging through the Wainwrights and alot of them are short of piccies, so please don't let my pedantry put you off.Bobble Hat 22:40, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Than you for nominating Dísablót for DYK. It is great to know that it is interesting.--Berig 10:38, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Jan Eliasson.jpg)
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