User talk:Kablammo/Archive 12

Wikipedia Day Meetup on January 18
In the area? You are invited to the upcoming Minnesota meetup in commemoration of Wikipedia Day.


 * Place: Seward Cafe


 * 2129 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404


 * Date: Saturday, January 18, 2014


 * Time: noon

For more info and to sign up (not required), see the meetup talk page.

This invitation was sent to users who were interested in past events. If you don't want to receive future invitations, you can remove your name from the invite list. &mdash;innotata 04:11, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Saint Paul Union Depot
I've added a comment about the "infobox bloating" at Talk:Saint Paul Union Depot – I would appreciate you taking a look. Cheers, — G FOLEY   F OUR!  — 04:31, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Calypso and Calliope engines
Dear Kablammo, I've adjusted the engine details for the Calypsos, citing Winfield. He says they had a single 4-cylinder compound-expansion steam engine. You'd expect to have only one engine driving a single screw, after all. In fact, the 4 cylinders were almost certainly capable of being brought on line together or in pairs, and this could explain why they are sometimes referred to as "engines" rather than "the engine". Yours, Shem (talk) 22:38, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the information, and the other copyedits. I imagine that is also mentioned in the Osbon article, which I will review again.  Kablammo (talk) 22:41, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Blue Line article
Greetings! Wanted to say a belated "thanks" for your help in late 2013 in the back-and-forth with an IP who kept adding a "Deaths" section to the Blue Line (Minnesota) article, despite consensus otherwise.

Skyraider1 (talk) 17:35, 8 February 2014 (UTC)


 * You are welcome, . They come back every few months, it seems.  Kablammo (talk) 18:48, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Removing templates
I just noticed this edit. Can you explain to me how this improves the article.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 06:19, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Per discussion last summer on the talk page. As you know there, was a more general discussion elsewhere on the question which I believe resulted in no consensus, effectively leaving the issue to an article-by-article basis.  I don't know where that discussion is now.  Kablammo (talk) 22:25, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I have reread Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Novels/Archive_16 by a group of 29 editors, including you, and looked at the simultaneous 2–1 opinions at Talk:Charles_Dickens/Archive_4 by 3 editors, including you. The 5 July 2013 closure of the 29-person decision did not state that the no consensus indicated a preference for case-by-case resolution. This seems to be an issue where a uniform policy is desired. The closer indicated that although there may be support for a maximum number of templates, that issue needs to be resolved at a separate discussion. There was no indication that a case-by-case resolution was desired. Since I don't think we should be draining resources on individual discussions at each author page, I would suggest that a second consideration at WP:NOVELS or a new one at WP:LIT where all the relevant authors (Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Jane Austen, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie, Bram Stoker, Felix Salten, Arthur Conan Doyle, Truman Capote, Curt Siodmak, Dashiell Hammett, Émile Zola, Washington Irving, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde (mostly plays), Alexandre Dumas, Hans Christian Andersen, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, A. J. Cronin, Ernest Hemingway, H. P. Lovecraft, John Steinbeck, Herman Melville, Wilkie Collins, H. Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Henryk Sienkiewicz, John Wyndham) can be considered at once rather than on a case by case basis.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:39, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Tony, thank you for coming here to discuss, but I think the discussion for this article belongs on the articles's talk page (where I will now move it, and respond further there). Kablammo (talk) 13:35, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for removing the nastiness from my Talk page. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 13:54, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

SS Arctic disaster
In view of the interest that you've shown in this article's development, you may like to know that it is now nominated at WP:FAC. You may like to watch its progress there. Brianboulton (talk) 18:01, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Plagiarism dispatch
Hi Kablammo, given recent discussions, I'd like to re-run your old "Let's get serious about plagiarism" dispatch from 2009. Would you have any objections? If needed, I'd love for you to make any pertinent updates or changes. Best, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 17:37, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I have no objections. I doubt that any updates are needed— the prohibition of plagiarism is based on simple ethics, which do not change. The internet may make plagiarism easier, but does not make it right.  Kablammo (talk) 17:04, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I've copied the old article to here. You don't have to tell me; I caught seven undergraduates plagiarizing last week. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:09, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Removing one source tags
Hi Kablammo, please don't remove the one source tags for the sections until there is more than one source used as a reference. That's the purpose of the tag. Hopefully other editors will see those and realize that those sections need help and references and will improve the page. ThanksMonopoly31121993 (talk) 22:16, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * , where the text recites what the source says, and cites to the relevant pages of the publicly-available online source, we don't need an additional source to tell us what we already know. The section in question needs no help or additional references, and there is no better reference for what the report says than the report itself.  The addition of a tag such as you added adds nothing, and detracts from the article.   Kablammo (talk) 02:04, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

File:Height of Land Portage.jpg listed for deletion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Height of Land Portage.jpg, 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. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Invite to an edit-a-thon at the Loft Literary Center

 * We have also recently formed a user group for Minnesota editors. If you would like to join, please add your name to our page on meta. Thank you, gobonobo  + c 23:18, 6 February 2016 (UTC)