User talk:Henry Flower

For rants from yesteryear, see Archive1, Archive2, Archive3, Archive4. Thereafter I stopped archiving - it's all in the history.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, I'll reply to everything on this page rather than your talk page. Boilerplate messages will be responded to with the same consideration and attention with which they were left. :)

Anne Sinclair
Hello. I have restored the request for citation about the "American-born" part in the intro paragraph, that you had removed previously. I have also detailed my rationale on the article's talk page. I would be very grateful if you could give more details before removing it again. Regards. olivier (talk) 08:33, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. I'm not excited enough about her birthplace to re-revert; I'd just note as an aside that "American-born" does not mean what you think it does. ;) HenryFlower 09:52, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It's OK, thank you. Not sure you know what I think. olivier (talk) 10:08, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Proposed Tibetan naming conventions
A while back, I posted a new proposal for Tibetan naming conventions, i.e. conventions that can be used to determine the most appropriate titles for articles related to the Tibetan region. This came out of discussions about article titles on Talk:Qamdo and Talk:Lhoka (Shannan) Prefecture. I hope that discussions on the proposal's talk page will lead to consensus in favour of making these conventions official, but so far only a few editors have left comments. If you would be interested in taking a look at the proposed naming conventions and giving your opinion, I would definitely appreciate it. Thanks&mdash;Nat Krause(Talk!·What have I done?) 20:50, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Research into the user pages of Wikipedians: Invitation to participate
Greetings,

My name is John-Paul and I am a student with the University of Alberta specializing in Communications and Technology.

I would like to include your Wikipedia user page in a study I am doing about how people present themselves online. I am interested in whether people see themselves in different ways, online and offline. One of the things I am looking at is how contributors to Wikipedia present themselves to each other through their user pages. Would you consider letting me include your user page in my study?

With your consent, I will read and analyze your user page, and ask you five short questions about it that will take about ten to fifteen minutes to answer. I am looking at about twenty user pages belonging to twenty different people. I will be looking at all user pages together, looking for common threads in the way people introduce themselves to other Wikipedians.

I hope that my research will help answer questions about how people collaborate, work together, and share knowledge. If you are open to participating in this study, please reply to this message, on your User Talk page or on mine. I will provide you with a complete description of my research, which you can use to decide if you want to participate.

Thank-you,

John-Paul Mcvea

University of Alberta

jmcvea@ualberta.ca

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 22:04, 19 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi, that would be fine. :) HenryFlower 00:06, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank-you for agreeing to participate in my study
Thank-you for agreeing to participate in my study, entitled “Online Self-presentation among Wikipedians.” I appreciate it.

As I indicated before, here are five questions that I would like you to answer. Please be as brief or as thorough as you like.

5 QUESTIONS

1. Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?

2. In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles? If so, about how many times?

3. What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?

4. Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on? Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user? If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?

5. Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?” Can you elaborate?

Please indicate your answers to these questions on your talk page, or on mine. If you like, you can email your answers to me instead (jmcvea@ualberta.ca).

Thank you again : )

Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 23:40, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

INDICATING CONSENT

By answering these questions, you indicate your agreement with the following statements:

•	That you understand that you have been asked to be in a research study.

•	That you have read and received a copy of the Information Sheet, attached below (“Additional Information”).

•	That you understand the benefits and risks involved in taking part in this research study.

•	That you have had an opportunity to ask questions and discuss this study.

•	That you understand that you are free to refuse to participate, or to withdraw from the study at any time, without consequence, and that your information will be withdrawn at your request.

•	That the issue of confidentiality been explained to you and that you understand who will have access to your information (see “Additional Information”).

•	That you agree to participate.

ADDITONAL INFORMATION

Background

•	I am asking you to participate in a research project that is part of my MA degree.

•	I am asking you because you have created a user page in Wikipedia that other people can use to learn about you.

Purpose

•	My research is about how people present themselves online.

•	I will look at how people present themselves when presenting themselves to the Wikipedia community.

Study Procedures

•	With your consent, I will analyze the language of your user page and gather basic statistics such as the count of words, the frequency of words, the number of sections, and so on.

•	I will also read the text of your user page, looking for elements in common with ads posted by other people. I will note whether you include a picture, or links to other content on the internet,

•	I ask you to answer my five questions, above. This will take about ten to fifteen minutes to complete. I will ask you to answer the questions within a week, and send your answers to me.

•	Throughout my research, I will adhere to the University of Alberta Standards for the Protection of Human Research Participants, which you can view at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/gfcpolicymanual/policymanualsection66.cfm

Benefits

•	There is no direct benefit to you for participating in this research. You may, however, find it interesting to read my perspective on how you present yourself online.

•	I hope that the information I get from doing this study will help understand how technology affects the way people come together into a society.

•	There is no reward or compensation for participating in this research.

Risk

•	There is no direct risk for participating in this research.

Voluntary Participation

•	You are under no obligation to participate in this study. Participation is completely voluntary.

•	You can opt out of this study at any time before October 10, 2011, with no penalty. You can ask to have me withdraw any data that I have collected about you. Even if you agree to be in the study, you can change your mind and withdraw.

•	If you decline to continue or you wish to withdraw from the study, your information will be removed from the study at your request.

Confidentiality

•	This research will be used to support a project that is part of my MA degree.

•	A summary of my research will be available on the University of Alberta website.

•	Your personally identifiable information will be deleted and digitally shredded as soon as I have finished gathering data about you.

•	Data will be kept confidential. Only I will have access to the computer file containing the data. It will be password protected. I will not be sent by email or stored online.

•	I will always handle my data in compliance with University of Alberta standards.

•	If you would like to receive a copy of my final report, please ask.

Further Information

•	If you have any further questions regarding this study, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Stanley Varnhagen, my research advisor for this project. If you have concerns about this study, you may contact the University of Alberta Research Ethics Committee at 780-492-2615. This office has no affiliation with the study investigators.

Thank-you again!

Answers
1. Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?


 * Not actively; I do have accounts on several, but do not really see the point of them (for me).

2. In addition to maintaining a user page in Wikipedia, have you also written or edited articles? If so, about how many times?


 * Many thousands of edits by now, I think, though I don't know the exact number.

3. What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?


 * None that I'm aware of; I don't think that user pages (or texts in general) are usefully construed as having 'messages' beyond what is explicitly stated.  The closest I can say to what I think you're getting at is that I try to give an impression to other users of the kind of person I am and who they are (if they choose to) interacting with.

4. Have your Wikipedia contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on? Have you received a message from another Wikipedia user? If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?


 * Many times, on both counts. The last part of the question seems ambiguous; I can think of cases, for example, where people's comments have made hostile references to my user page, which in one sense is of course negative; on the other hand, that told me straight away that these people were not ones I was likely to interact with productively, and that knowledge was positive.  On the whole though, such explicit reactions as there have been have been overwhelmingly positive, most often by establishing common ground between myself and the other users.

5. Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?” Can you elaborate?


 * I acknowledge that it is, but I try to keep it as little different as possible. In particular, I do recognise in some of my online interactions occasionally greater argumentativeness/aggressiveness than I would allow in 'real life' (a tendency which I think is extremely widespread online).

Do let me know if you think any of my answers need further clarification. HenryFlower 16:11, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Henry Flower,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 22:48, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Doupi
hi, i am going to re-creat Doupi, a local dish from Wuhan, Hubei, China. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azload (talk • contribs) 18:17, 23 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Looks good, thanks. :) HenryFlower 01:20, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Help Survey
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First ever Oxford Wiki Meetup
You are invited to the first ever Oxford Wiki Meetup which will take place at The Four Candles, 51 George Street, Oxford, OX1 2BE on Sunday 4 November 2012 from 1.00 pm.

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 * Dear Bot,


 * Please ask your owner not to be so lazy and to actually look at the pages he unleashes you on.


 * Thank you. HenryFlower 04:10, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Thai people
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Xi Mingze
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Commons:Deletion requests/File:Pagoda.jpg
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Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland
I'm just dropping you a quick note about a new Wikipedian in Residence job that's opened up at the National Library of Scotland. There're more details at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland. Richard Symonds (WMUK) (talk) 15:30, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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Eleanor Lambert article
Dear Henry Flower: I have been editing the Eleanor Lambert article and noticed your name in the history edits. Please would you direct me to some third-party sources. Thank you in advance. Geraldshields11 (talk) 22:46, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment
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Picture permission for book publication
Dear Henry Flower,

I would like to include your photograph of the Angkor Wat sculpture 'Vishnu Churning the Sea of Milk' (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Awatoceanofmilk01.JPG) in a textbook to be published by Thames & Hudson next year.

Would you be happy, in principle, for us to do this? I'd be happy to explain a bit more about the book. Please email me at pictures@hubner.co.uk so we can discuss this further,

Best wishes,

Pauline Hubner — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulinehubner (talk • contribs) 14:08, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

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Scottish Fairground Culture Editathon
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Also at least one of the images at FFD, was there because they were apparently tagged as GFDL by a third party. If you are OK with 'free' licensing, please change the license to GFDL-self or something appropriate, if you took the photos concerned :) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 08:46, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Since neither of these is being used anymore, I don't think I'll be doing that. :) HenryFlower 20:19, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

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 *  I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. Actually it does, so it isn't. HenryFlower 11:01, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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Talk:Pig in a poke
You have helped me a lot, thanks :-) PS. See the end of the talk. PS2. I can help you with Polish - my mother tongue :-) 85.193.242.133 (talk) 04:31, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

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Dmitri Shostakovich
Greetings. On 8 May 2004 @ 5:39, you wrote into the article that Shostakovich was a qualified association football official. I'm listening to a program about DS by Dr. Robert Greenberg, who stated that he never found the time to finish qualification—not surprising on account of his level of activity. I noticed that this factoid wasn't supported by a reference, unlike the other factoids in the very same edit. Please excuse me for having more faith in Dr. Greenberg than yourself. Could you please clarify this matter? Regards Tapered (talk) 04:29, 24 October 2017 (UTC)


 * You're not excused for your lack of civility, but I'm happy to give you Ardov p. 54 (quoting the composer's son). HenryFlower 09:46, 24 October 2017 (UTC)


 * That's OK, there was no lack of civility to excuse! Since I haven't read Ardov (yet), I suppose you'll want to be the editor to include a reference. Regards Tapered (talk) 02:04, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks
I'm very sorry for writing very late. Thanks for you answer there Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2017_October_20--Pierpao (talk) 23:07, 16 January 2018 (UTC)


 * My pleasure. :) HenryFlower 09:52, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Worst city in Scotland
According to this Aberdeen is actually the 3rd worst place in Scotland. Glasgow being the worst. I've heard people also argue those surveys are wholly pointless as most Scots tend to name their own city as the worst place to live, so that the 10 largest cities also end up regularly as the 10 worst places. Basemetal 19:14, 16 April 2018 (UTC)


 * We have indeed come up in the world! HenryFlower 22:03, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

You should refrain...
...from insulting other editors in front of the OP. If you've got a problem with someone, take it to their talk page. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:53, 6 September 2018 (UTC)


 * You slay me, sir, with your irony. HenryFlower 19:46, 6 September 2018 (UTC)


 * You would prefer I come after you in front of the OP??? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:46, 6 September 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm pretty much indifferent. HenryFlower 21:30, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
 * If you can take it as well as dishing it out, that speaks well of you. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:31, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
 * And kudos to you for this. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:54, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Re: What snake am I?
Hi, Henry! I'm replying here to your query (as above) on the Science Ref Desk because the current protection prevents my doing so there (as I'm an IP editor).

I've been through the relevant list (which is very badly organised) in Wildlife of Algeria, and of all the snakes listed there, the False smooth snake looks to me to be the closest match to your picture. You'll know best if your photo's location matches its described habitat of ". . . evergreen temperate forests and Mediterranean-style scrubland."

Regards. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.218.14.42 (talk) 06:22, 27 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for that. The habitat does sound right. I'll try to get round to sorting that list out! HenryFlower 16:11, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Ref desk
I won't edit-war over your un-hatting of the question about Pulp Fiction. But maybe you're unaware of the banned user who frequently asks questions calling for interpretations of scenes in movies. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:43, 20 November 2018 (UTC)


 * I am unaware. But I (to take one example) frequently ask questions asking for various animals to be identified. Are you going to hat those too? I assume you don't have an objection to the user per se, as you left his other two questions hatless. HenryFlower 18:47, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't need any unnecessary edit wars. As to your basic premise, the answer is no, because you're not a banned user. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:56, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * If that was your reason, it would have been useful to mention it in the ES. Why you would hat one of a banned user's three questions I cannot guess, but then ours is a world of mystery and wonder. HenryFlower 19:22, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I try not to feed that troll any more than necessary, ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:59, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

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Now, Jintara Poonlarp (article write by your) is currently a Music good article nominee. I edit for complety to nominee. You can edit and help me about this article since now, thank you.--G.B.T. (Boonparit Thuanthai) (cn:Dr.Man) (talk) 07:36, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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Novel set in Cornwall
Hi, did you ever find the novel you were looking for? DuncanHill (talk) 03:37, 21 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Funny, I was thinking about this again just recently -- but no, no luck. I've tried searching Project Gutenberg for likely words, but nothing yet! HenryFlower 08:24, 21 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I was just wandering through the archives and came across it. Had just had a book from my childhood identified on the Desks so I thought I'd ask. I'm afraid I haven't come up with any mor ideas yet. DuncanHill (talk) 21:08, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

About Hayabusa2
Hi, I came here as I felt there was a misunderstanding regarding the status of Hayabusa2's mission extension. Per the Hayabusa2 team, This mission and the budget must be approved in order to actually proceed with the extended mission. Since the extended mission has been pinned down to one scenario, and the spacecraft remains in a healthy state, the last hurdle remaining is the approval of the budget. While I personally would happily go edit today to get rid of the 'potential' in the section title, from a neutral point of view, at the present it still isn't a finalized matter. Now, if my past edits have caused any griping, it is something that I did not have the slightest intention to. I'd like to see you edit the page Hayabusa2 from hereon too. Warm regards, Hms1103 (talk) 20:02, 6 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi, thanks for the message. :) And sorry if I was intemperate! I think we'll just have to agree to disagree about when a mission changes from potential to something more. Like I suspect most recent editors of the page, I just popped in to have a look and change something if necessary, so I'm content to leave it to others to work out. HenryFlower 19:00, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

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 * Thank you today fr the article, saying "I'd like to feature the temple, but featuring the article would be a decent second-best."! - Enjoy! - Kammermusik on the same page, DYK? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:13, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Precious
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 * I'm honoured! HenryFlower 14:12, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
 * It's tricky for me to do justice to those from the wonderful old days who had FAs before I even discovered Wikipedia ;) - The opera was Die Spieler (Shostakovich), and actually S wrote only the first act. I looked at the FAC for the Master, wow, how blissful short. My last one was longer. - Smaller scale: DYK Kammermusik (Hindemith)? - I never went to Angkor Wat, would love to. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:26, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

GFDL
Hi! You have uploaded these 2 files with GFDL: GFDL is not a good license for photos so perhaps you would be willing to also add cc-by-sa-4.0 like you did on for example File:Oranian spider.jpg? --MGA73 (talk) 14:55, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
 * File:Snake oran.JPG
 * File:Habibas from coast.jpg


 * Sure, done. :) HenryFlower 18:48, 22 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much. I added an Information template too. --MGA73 (talk) 19:16, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

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FA review of Dmitri Shostakovich
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