User talk:HazelAB/Archive 1

Welcome

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Wikilinking
Hi, and thanks for your work on the English Wikipedia.

I noticed an article you worked on. Just a short note to point out that we don’t normally link:
 * dates
 * years
 * commonly known geographical terms (including well-known country-names), and
 * common terms you’d look up in a dictionary (unless significantly technical).

(This even applies for infoboxes.)

Thanks, and my best wishes (especially if you're working on women's bio articles!)

Tony  (talk)  09:22, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed
Hi Books & Bytes recipients: The Wikipedia Library has been expanding rapidly and we need some help! We currently have 10 signups for free account access open and several more in the works... In order to help with those signups, distribute access codes, and manage accounts we'll need 2-3 more Account Coordinators.

It takes about an hour to get up and running and then only takes a couple hours per week, flexible depending upon your schedule and routine. If you're interested in helping out, please drop a note in the next week at my talk page or shoot me an email at: jorlowitz@undefinedgmail.com. Thanks and cheers, Jake Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:41, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

TWL coordination
Thanks for volunteering as a potential coordinator for The Wikipedia Library. We have a brief questionnaire here for you to complete. Please try to have this done within the next week if possible. Thanks! Nikkimaria (talk) 03:03, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

You've got mail!
Nikkimaria (talk) 03:44, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia User Email
Hello, just a reminder that I have not received my Past-Masters Wikipedia User Email yet. Thank you. Regards—Sadat ( Masssly ) ❤Talk☮C☺Email☯ 22:00, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Adam Matthew login
Hi HazelAB, The first time I used the Adam Matthew login it worked fine, but it hasn't worked since. Any idea why that might be? Anybody else have this issue? Happy New Year! --19:50, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Precious
  library

Thank you, librarian, for quality articles from New Brunswick such as Mary Grannan, Lydia Giberson, May Smith (psychologist) and The Fountain of Indolence, for serving the Wikipedia Library, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:48, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Dear Thank you so much for noticing, and for giving me this lovely honour! Wikipedia is this librarian's dream come true, and I have a lot of fun here. All the best, HazelAB (talk) 12:24, 30 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I love reading "dream come true" and "lot of fun", - it's a pleasure to see the women's month outcomes grow! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:30, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

A new reference tool
Hello Books & Bytes subscribers. There is a new Visual Editor reference feature in development called Citoid. It is designed to "auto-fill" references using a URL or DOI. We would really appreciate you testing whether TWL partners' references work in Citoid. Sharing your results will help the developers fix bugs and improve the system. If you have a few minutes, please visit the testing page for simple instructions on how to try this new tool. Regards, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:47, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Ancestry.com
Hello. Is there an agreement with Ancestry.com? I would like to read this book. I have access to Newspapers.com and I use it a lot; I just created a bunch of articles about members of the Rand family, so this book would be very useful...Zigzig20s (talk) 22:55, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Unfortunately no, we just have access to Newspapers.com from them. It might be worth asking at WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request in case anyone there can provide you with access to the book. Also, there is this page The_Wikipedia_Library/Databases/Requests for suggesting possible partnerships. HazelAB (talk) 01:13, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Gus Barber
The link I added to Gus Barber is a real person, not a test. Is there a problem with it? Perhaps more information is needed, but I would need to find out more. 2001:4898:80E8:0:0:0:0:2FE (talk) 22:16, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I've replied on your talk page. HazelAB (talk) 01:04, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Hooray for librarians!
You're very welcome for my comment about defuse vs. diffuse at DYK nominations. Thank you for bringing to my attention how many Wikipedia articles misuse diffuse in that way; I've begun going through instances using search so I can correct them.

(I'm not a librarian, but my spouse is a retired librarian in a sense — she had to "retire" very young, in her 20s, due to disability, and misses the work fiercely. A lifelong bibliophile, I've always respected librarians.)

One of the things I do at Wikipedia is volunteer at the Teahouse. We had a question recently that none of the active volunteers knew a good answer for, but that I thought there was a chance you might have some insight into. It involves the use of Authority Control templates. The exact question is here. If you don't know the answer, don't worry about it. If you do, feel free to answer on the page — in case you didn't know, it's not necessary to be an official host in order to answer questions at the Teahouse. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer, and for leading the charge against misuse of diffuse! — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 22:41, 7 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi I don't really know but suspect that the answer is "no" based on the info at Wikiproject novels and have suggested that he inquire at the talk page there. I've never answered a Teahouse question before, but have thought about participating. Thanks for encouraging me to join in, and have fun defusing! HazelAB (talk) 13:45, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

 * Hi HazelAB! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission.  I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Start Page
 * The Wikipedia Adventure Lounge
 * The Teahouse new editor help space
 * Wikipedia Help pages

-- 17:23, Thursday, October 8, 2015 (UTC)