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Women in Red
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 * My belated thanks for the welcome! I particularly appreciate your encouragement around creating new articles... I am a little shy, so it's helpful to have some encouragement. I am very excited about Women in Red as an 'organizing principle' for my new hobby of late-night editing! ~ oulfis 🌸 (talk) 06:58, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for reviewing my article! I appreciate your feedback. To clarify, do you consider the American Indian Media Today report too close to the subject or not reliable? Democracy Fund looked to me like a reliable, bipartisan journalistic source, but if it does not meet Wikipedia's standards I would like to know so I can find better sources in future. ~ oulfis 🌸 (talk) 06:53, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I had ignored the Democracy Fund source as it is only used to support "The newspaper only exists in print, without a website", rather than support facts about the subject (perhaps you could re-use it to do so). Democracy Fund as an organisation does appear to be independent and reliable. In this instance it's not too bad a source, though it's not fully what we're looking for as it's the most significant of coverage. -Lopifalko (talk) 07:46, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, that makes sense -- thank you! The report does have a page-long profile on Avis Little Eagle, so I will go back in and add further citations to it for other information that it contains. I appreciate your response!
 * Glad to be of help. If you have any more questions then just ask over on my talk page. -Lopifalko (talk) 07:59, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

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WiR stub contest third place
Congratulations, oulfis, with nine destubbed articles, you have gained third place in the destubbing section of the November contest. I suggest you include this award on your user page.--Ipigott (talk) 14:22, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Kafa Al-Zou'bi for deletion
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Precious
You are recipient no. 2331 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:44, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for improving Nocturnes (Debussy) while the principal author is sadly blocked, and a late "Valentine" to good relations ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:54, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

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Presidency University, Kolkata
You added the name of an individual to the Notable alumni section. No other names are listed there. Instead they are in List of Kolkata Presidencians where the same name already is listed. I've reverted your edit because it doesn't seem appropriate to handle this one person differently than all the others. Gab4gab (talk) 16:19, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, thanks for addressing that, and for letting me know! I agree that the list is the more appropriate place, I'm surprised I didn't notice it when I was looking for places to link Derozio. Thank you! ~ oulfis 🌸 (talk) 18:33, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

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Redirect
Hi, I nominated the redirect for deletion because I made a spelling mistake as it should be collieries in UK spelling but I wrote colleries by mistake. Then I created another redirect with the right spelling so i'll nominate speedy deletion for the misspelt one again. It's good that you are helping out at speedy deletion and the information about it can be found at WP:CSD, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 16:48, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The article wasn't deleted it was just a WP:Redirect to the article Atlantic306 (talk) 22:26, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Eboni Boykin for deletion
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Re: Helping with articles on Roman women
Hi, Oulfis. Thanks for showing interest in mining Marie-Therese Raepsaet-Charlier's work for articles. Here are my suggestions.Writing biographical articles for the early Roman Empire really aren't that much different from writing them for later periods; people are born, they receive some education, get married, have a career, have children, & die. The problem is that -- more for women than men -- a lack of information. Classicists can work around this lack of information to some degree thru careful extrapolation from what we know -- have a look at Ignota Plautia as one example of determining the existence of someone we otherwise have no evidence existed -- but far too often all we can do is offer a brief sketch of an individual, if that. So don't be discouraged that there might not be enough information about someone; sometimes just providing a few basic facts is enough.As an example of what can be done about women, let me recommend Sarah B. Pomeroy's The murder of Regilla: a case of domestic violence in antiquity, (Harvard University Press, 2007). While I have a few quibbles with Pomeroy's book, I cannot deny the fact that she took a tiny bit of information -- barely a paragraph in one book -- & used it as the base to reconstruct a reasonably detailed profile of an upper-class woman of the 2nd century. (And I'll also admit the book is a good read. Better than some historical works I've tried to slog thru & failed.) One thing Pomeroy did was to work with evidence of similar people of the time -- she has a chapter about how women were raised in 2nd century Rome -- as well as explain some of the expected events in Regilla's life.As for writing articles, I'd suggest either starting with adding material to existing articles, or with any entries in Raepsaet-Charlier's work that are reasonably detailed. I'll warn you now: some entries will be little more than a name & some speculations. Inevitably there will be issues of Notability; I say trust your instincts on that score, & if the article ends up at AfD, let me & others know. (At worst, we'll figure out a way to salvage the content & add it to another article.) If you want a guide to how much material is needed to make an article, have a look at any of the articles on Roman consuls I wrote -- the less familiar the name, probably the better for what you are doing. If you don't understand some of the terminology, feel free to either ask me or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. I'll admit I sometimes don't understand what I'm writing about, or only learn later the significance of something mentioned in one of my sources. Or, perhaps most important, don't realize that an article needs to explain something in more detail. I look forward to seeing what you can make of this work. And thanks again for volunteering to tackle this! -- llywrch (talk) 00:31, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

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Kubla Khan
Hi Oulfis,

I would like to nominate the article Kubla Khan to good article status, after a few more edits. As you're one of the primary contributors, I though that I should A), inform you, and B), before I do go ahead and nominate it, would you be willing to perform a source check? Since you used mostly offline sources, and my library is closed, I don't have access to any of them. If you can't, just let me know, but if you would be willing to that would be great. If we could co-nom for GA, that would be great too.

Thanks. Aven13 12:57, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello It's exciting to see more interest in the Kubla Khan article! Thanks for reaching out. I personally think the article still needs rather a lot of work, but since the GA standards are a little generous I suppose it might be nearly ready. For the most part I didn't add new sources, I assumed good faith for the sources that were already cited, but it looks like my university library can give me digital access to most of the books the previous editors used, so I can help with a source check. This upcoming week is likely to be a busy one for me, so I'd prefer not to co-nom, but I'm happy to help out. Did you have anything in mind to keep track of the source checking and edits?  ~ oulfis 🌸 (talk) 20:01, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * As for the source checking, mostly the section on critical reception - every one of those sources is offline, and they can sometimes get mixed up.


 * What do you think needs work? Though I don't have access to a huge library, I can write prose, so I can probably help to fix most of the issues you see with the article. The only major issue I see with this article is that the themes section seems a tad lengthy, but that's typical of poem articles (see Ode on a Grecian Urn), and since this one covers quite a few topics, that length is to be expected. Also, thank you for agreeing to help work on the sources. Aven13 20:26, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * It's been a while since I've thought about this article (I've been focusing on Beachy Head (poem)), but looking again, a lot seems overlong or poorly explained, though not necessarily unacceptable. I think the style section is a bit underdeveloped (repetitive and unstructured) and the reception section is too much of a "wall of text," though the poem's reception is certainly worth a lot of discussion. The major themes are not as well written as they could be (I think the Tatars section especially could use a revision for cultural sensitivity, and to add information about orientalism in the Romantic period). I remember thinking previously that some of the information in the reception section really belonged in "major themes"; I think I was planning to add sections on musicality and sexuality somewhere... but a lot of that is not absolutely necessary. Overall I am less annoyed by the article than I was when I was first working on it, so I think it is not as bad as I remembered. I'd be happy to source-check and revise the reception section; looking at it with fresh eyes, I think breaking it down into thematic sections and being a bit more selective with quotations would go a long way. ~ oulfis 🌸 (talk) 21:25, 17 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Well, you're the main editor. I'll wait until you feel it's ready. Aven13 14:25, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Colons
Hi. Per your edit summary here, I wanted to explain what the problem is with the colon in this instance. You are correct that a colon can be used to initiate a quotation if the introductory sentence is a fully independent clause, and you are obviously right that the introductory clause here could stand as independent. However, in the sentence in question, Travers is arguing a specific point, meaning that the quotation is actually integrated as part of what he's arguing; in this usage, "argued" and "argues" are being used as what MLA describes as "verbs of saying". See the Introducing Quotations section here. To use a colon in this spot, you'd have to expand the introduction into something like "Travers' Rolling Stone review argued that the purpose of family was central to the film:". This is a fine point of grammar that even many otherwise solid grammarians have some difficulty with, including me until I was corrected on it at one point. :) Grandpallama (talk) 13:36, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

DYK for Ōyama Sutematsu
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DYK for The Cuckoo (novel)
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Re - Draft:Underneath a Harlem Moon
Hello Oulfis. Thank you for your encouraging words in response to my first Draft:Underneath a Harlem Moon. I only noticed your response a couple of weeks ago (I presumed the draft had been rejected). Since reading your words, I've taken your advice and rewritten the page, which I have now submitted for review. Your response encouraged me to approach the article in a different manner. It's always good to receive helpful advice, and I much appreciate yours. Thank you so much. My regards, interestingfax — Preceding unsigned comment added by Interestingfax (talk • contribs) 11:52, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:Fasana-e-Azad/GA1
Oulfis, you opened this review on October 4, and after some edits that day, haven't been back since, nor have you been active on Wikipedia. Shall I find someone to take over the review for you? Please let me know. If I haven't heard back in the next seven days, I will probably look for someone new in any case. Thanks for your interest in the GAN process. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:25, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
 * , thank you for calling my attention back to this... I am learning that reviewing on wikipedia does not play to my strengths, since I often wander away from editing for a long stretch of time, and while that's okay for content editing, it is rude for reviews! I have completed the review now, and will try not to bite off more than I can chew in future. Thank you for your work wrangling wayward reviews! ~ oulfis 🌸 (talk) 08:29, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Strikethrough
Please use the proper HTML tag for this,  (or the AKA  template wrapper for it). The old  version has not been valid markup since the 1990s. Including "dead code" like that just creates more WP:LINT cleanup for other editors to do. :-)  Happily,  is conveniently much shorter.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  08:00, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

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