User talk:Heron/2013

Tech comm
I noticed that you're a member of the ISTC. Would you be interested in helping to provide reliable sources for articles related to technical communication? MezzoMezzo (talk) 20:29, 28 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure, I'll have a go. I don't have a library of Tech Comms textbooks, but I could perhaps find some information on Google Books. Do you have a list of unsourced articles? --Heron (talk) 11:55, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Malpasset dam and ‎ Malpasset Dam
Why was that a cut'n'paste content move to reverse the redirect rather than a real page-move/rename? DMacks (talk) 14:19, 21 April 2013 (UTC)


 * I did it that way because most of the article's history was under Malpasset Dam, as a result of an earlier move by someone else. If I had done another page move, Malpasset Dam would have been deleted and I presume that its history would have disappeared too. (I might be wrong about this. Perhaps the wiki would have preserved the history, but I didn't want to risk it.) Heron (talk) 15:06, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The only actual content I see in capital-D is, after which it became a redirect and that scant info was merged into lowercase-d. Doesn't seem like useful history unless I'm not seeing some piece of the history. On the other hand, now that I look at the refs and ideas here, I'm not sure capital-D is correct--it's the dam at Malpasset, with "dam" just the description? I can't find a MOS about this sort of thing:( DMacks (talk) 16:04, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The history that I wanted to preserve is here, but I'm open to correction if I've gone about it the wrong way. As for capitalisation, there isn't a specific rule for dams but I believe they come under 'proper nouns' and therefore the policy WP:NAMECAPS applies. Our article is in Category:Arch_dams. If you check that category, you will see that all the dams except Malpasset have a capital D.--Heron (talk) 18:48, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I think we might be talking past each other. Moving a page exactly does preserve the history of the page being moved (all the lowercase-d history is transfered when the lowercase-d article is renamed to capital-D), whereas cut'n'pasting the current content of an article to another one completely loses the edit-history of that content (no link from its new location back to the changes to it at its former location). If it's the proper name, I agree that capital-D is correct, but I couldn't find evidence of it being the proper name; I left a note at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names) asking for guidance. DMacks (talk) 19:27, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was wrong about M.D.: its history is trivial. So I'd be happy about using a page move instead of my cut-and-paste method. I'll wait for the outcome of your enquiry on naming conventions before doing anything else. --Heron (talk) 20:17, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
Dear ,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, —  Scott  •  talk  18:42, 1 June 2013 (UTC)


 * That's very kind of you, Scott. I shall proudly display the logo on my user page. --Heron (talk) 10:10, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Articles deletion
Dear Heron,

I apologize for the inconvenience, but have no other way than appealing for   administrators’ help recover a deleted article.

I published a film article entitled Drits (Derivas), a film by Portuguese director Ricardo Costa. It is the second film from an autobiographic trilogy, Faraways. The article was kept untouched by several months. To my surprise, it was recently eliminated and redirected to the director’s page with no discussion. I undid the redirection, but saw the article was proposed to deletion. Reason: independent, verifiable, secondary resources. I argued that the article couldn’t have but primary sources (the producer’s ones) as it is an upcoming film, like many others listed at upcoming films. A film that has not yet been premiered or distributed may not be commented. Besides, none of the films so listed has ever been deleted or even contested.

At last, in discussion, user User:reddogsix proposed that the article should be renamed to Drifts (film) or similar, and at the same time put at the disambiguation page of Dritf this reference «Drifs, unreleased film by Ricardo Costa (filmmaker). I created a new page for the same article entitled Drifts (Portuguese film). As the semantic root “drift” seemed to be the problem, I replaced the article name to Derivas (Drifts) and published it once more with some improvements. As a result, the article was fast deleted and I blocked for three days.

In the meantime, a new article about the trilogy was published: Faraways, which was proposed to fast deletion as well by the same user, User:reddogsix.

Although unreleased, although having no reliable secondary sources, Drifts is unquestionably an outstanding film for its uniqueness and characteristics: autobiography, comedy, docufiction, metafiction in one. I guess that “outstanding” may be a synonym for “notable” in such cases and that articles like this shouldn’t be deleted without previous cared analyses: important information may be lost.

This sequence of interventions is clearly a personal attack by User:reddogsix, supported by two or three user friend. It has no other explanation. It contributes in nothing to improve articles quality. Mists article, which I created on 10 September 2010, is the latest example. The article structure was unreasonably modified, loosing clarity and useful content.

NOTE: sent to 30 administrators.

Thanks for your attention, User:Tertulius 21:41, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

File:Generator-model.png listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Generator-model.png, has been listed at Files for deletion. Please see the to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 20:50, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Single-dot matrix printer
I've added a comment to your (archived) question in WP:RD/C. --CiaPan (talk) 08:18, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, CiaPan. As you will see, I got to the dot matrix printer page before you did. :) --Heron (talk) 20:22, 4 October 2013 (UTC)