User talk:Leglish

Nomination of Cynthia Ashley-Nelson for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Cynthia Ashley-Nelson is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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 * Hi Leglish; I'm a friend and collaborator of Cindy's. Unfortunately, at this point in time, I believe there is essentially no chance that the article will pass AfD, and I've read an awful lot of AfD's in my time here. Are you okay with me moving Cindy's page in to your userspace so that it can be preserved as a memorial, and so that we can circumvent a discussion about a topic that is likely to be sensitive for many? Kevin Gorman (talk) 00:41, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of North American art


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National Museum of the American Indian
Because of the way your edit re-arranged information and broke paragraphs up, it is extremely difficult to tell if it removed sourced information or not. I would ask that you make your changes in small chunks, so it can be more easily compared to the originally, and urge you not remove any sourced information when you do so. Addition of sourced information is, ot course, excellent. For the reasons I've given I've reverted your edit. BMK (talk) 04:28, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * You re-edited with an edit summary of "solved", but I don't think it is.  The original version starts with the establishment of the museum, and then goes to the history that led up to it.  As far as I can tell, yours bounces around all over the place.  How about a version which uses the original structure, but which adds the information you're adding to it? BMK (talk) 04:41, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, 1st "chunk" looks fine. BMK (talk) 04:50, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

I'm sorry to say that your writing is very poor, in some cases almost unreadable. I suggest that you limit yourself to edits which don't require creating new blocks of text, because you do not seem to be capable of doing so at the level required for an encyclopedia. BMK (talk) 21:42, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Raquel “Ra” Brown


A tag has been placed on Raquel “Ra” Brown requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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 * In case the Raquel “Ra” Brown article is deleted before you see this reply on its Talk page, I'm copying it here:
 * Hi. The article doesn't give any sign that she's "one of the most known and active poets in DC", so in that sense it doesn't indicate her significance. You can probably fix that, but you'll need to come up with reliable sources independent of her and of the events and performance venues with which she's been associated to establish her significance.
 * About the references you provided: IMDB is considered WP:ROUTINE, listing virtually everybody who has ever been involved with any film or television program. It's kind of like being listed in the phone book: it isn't treated as a source for establishing the notability of a person. Regarding the Shoko Festival and KenCen links: It's assumed that performance, arts, and convention venues will list the events happening at their locations and will identify the individuals participating in them. They can suffice for purposes of verification of statements in a Wikipedia article, but as routine listings and as primary sources they don't establish notability. —Largo Plazo (talk) 17:38, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Check out WP:ACTOR and WP:MUSIC for notability criteria specifically available for actors and musicians. —Largo Plazo (talk) 17:41, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC Annual Meeting and more!




Hello, fellow Wikipedian!

I am excited to announce the upcoming Wikimedia DC Annual Meeting at the National Archives! We'll have free lunch, an introduction by Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and a discussion featuring Ed Summers, the creator of CongressEdits. Join your fellow DC-area Wikipedians on Saturday, October 18 from 12 to 4:30 PM. RSVP today!

Also coming up we have the Human Origins edit-a-thon on October 17 and the WikiSalon on October 22. Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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End-of-the-year meetups


Hello,

You're invited to the end-of-the-year meetup at Busboys and Poets on Sunday, December 14 at 6 PM. There is Wi-Fi, so bring your computer if you want!

You are also invited to our WikiSalon on Thursday, December 18 at 7 PM.

Hope to see you at our upcoming events!

Best,

James Hare

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Museum hacks and museum edits
 Hello there!

Upcoming events:


 * February 6–8: The third annual ArtBytes Hackathon at the Walters Art Museum! This year Wikimedia DC is partnering with the Walters for a hack-a-thon at the intersection of art and technology, and I would like to see Wikimedia well represented.
 * February 11: The monthly WikiSalon, same place as usual. RSVP on Meetup or just show up!
 * February 15: Wiki Loves Small Museums in Ocean City. Mary Mark Ockerbloom, with support from Wikimedia DC, will be leading a workshop at the Small Museum Association Conference on how they can contribute to Wikipedia. Tons of representatives from GLAM institutions will be present, and we are looking for volunteers. If you would like to help out, check out "Information for Volunteers".

I am also pleased to announce events for Wikimedia DC Black History Month with Howard University and NPR. Details on those events soon.

If you have any questions or have any requests, please email me at james.hare@undefinedwikimediadc.org.

See you there! – James Hare

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Wikimedia DC celebrates Black History Month, and more!
 Hello again!

Not even a week ago I sent out a message talking about upcoming events in DC. Guess what? There are more events coming up in February.

First, as a reminder, there is a WikiSalon on February 11 (RSVP here or just show up) and Wiki Loves Small Museums at the Small Museum Association Conference on February 15 (more information here).

Now, I am very pleased to announce:


 * Tuesday, February 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM there will be #WikiTurgy at the University of Maryland. Join fellow theatre enthusiasts for a “mass act of public dramaturgy!”
 * Thursday, February 19 from 10 AM to 4 PM we are hosting the Howard University Black History Edit-a-Thon. We are working in partnership with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of African-American and African diasporic history.
 * Tuesday, February 24 from 6 PM to 8 PM we have the Black History Month “First Edit” at NPR. Help improve Wikipedia and help others make their first edit to Wikipedia!
 * Finally, our monthly dinner meetup is on Saturday, February 28.

There is going to be a lot going on, and I hope you can come to some of the events!

If you have any questions or need any special accommodations, please let me know.

Regards,

James Hare

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Editing for Women's History in March
 Hello,

I am very excited to announce this month’s events, focused on Women’s History Month:


 * Sunday, March 8: Women in the Arts 2015 Edit-a-thon – 10 AM to 4 PM
 * Women in the Arts and ArtAndFeminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Free coffee and lunch served!
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup
 * Wednesday, March 11: March WikiSalon – 7 PM to 9 PM
 * An evening gathering with free-flowing conversation and free pizza.
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup (or just show up!)
 * Friday, March 13: NIH Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon – 9 AM to 4 PM
 * In honor of Women’s History Month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is organizing and hosting an edit-a-thon to improve coverage of women in science in Wikipedia. Free coffee and lunch served!
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup
 * Saturday, March 21: Women in STEM Edit-a-Thon at DCPL – 12 PM
 * Celebrate Women's History Month by building, editing, and expanding articles about women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields during DC Public Library's first full-day edit-a-thon.
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup
 * Friday, March 27: She Blinded Me with Science, Part III – 10 AM to 4 PM
 * Smithsonian Institution Archives Groundbreaking Women in Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Free lunch courtesy of Wikimedia DC!
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup
 * Saturday, March 28: March Dinner Meetup – 6 PM
 * Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!
 * More information • RSVP on Meetup

Hope you can make it to an event! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

Thanks,

James Hare

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Upcoming attractions in DC
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Here are some upcoming DC meetups in April and May:


 * Tuesday, April 14: National Archives Hackathon on Wikipedia Space with American University – 2:30-5pm
 * See the latest work on the Wikipedia Space exhibit in the new NARA Innovation Hub and brainstorm on new ideas for a public exhibit about Wikipedia
 * Friday, April 17: Women in Tech Edit-a-thon with Tech LadyMafia – 5-9pm
 * Team up with Tech LadyMafia to improve Wikipedia content on women in the history of technology.
 * Saturday, April 25: April Dinner Meetup – 6 PM
 * Dinner and drinks with your fellow Wikipedians!
 * Friday, May 1: International Labour Day Edit-a-Thon – 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
 * An edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland

Hope to see you at these events! If you have any questions or require any special accommodations, please let me know.

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A page you started (List of women in films) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating List of women in films, Leglish!

Wikipedia editor Esquivalience just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

"Although broad, it is an important topic, as noted by the coverage of under-representation of women in films. This should be expanded with the history of women in films for completeness."

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Nomination of Juanita E. Thornton for deletion
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Your contributed article, History of American art


Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, History of American art (Deleted). First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – [Art_of_the_United_States]. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at [Art_of_the_United_States] – you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Thank you. I agree... But actually I think that we need that article... I think that we can create a improved page for History of American art, and keep this one, I will try to do a good job in a new version of that new article and an improved version of American art article. Your job give me some ideas. Have a nice day.--Leglish (talk) 13:59, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The main article on the subject is Visual art of the United States. You should read WP:FORK carefully before attempting to create a new article that could be considered a fork of that, and raise what you are intending to do on the talk page there.  The lists you have so far created for several periods suggest you are not at all ready to start such an article, and are problemmatic in themselves. Johnbod (talk) 15:28, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

You know, when you talk or write about arts you are not talking or writting only about visual arts... you should reconsider leave the article Art of the United States how it was before, and also the other three articles that I just create:

Colonial American Art

18th-century American Art, and

19th-century American Art

You cannot prettend to put those four articles in one non related article called Visual art of the United States.

Those that you called lists are not finished articles are stubs and a beggining for better articles... I would like you to go and learn how it works in articles for other conuntries and then try to delete them telling that history of "those periods of time are just lists":

18th-century French art

19th-century French art --Leglish (talk) 02:39, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

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Nomination of List of women in films for deletion
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Nomination of Migration from Latin America to Europe for deletion
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February events and meetups in DC
Greetings from  Wikimedia DC !

February is shaping up to be a record-breaking month for us, with nine scheduled edit-a-thons and several other events:
 * On Friday, February 12, NPR will host a Black History Month First Edit event.
 * On Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14, we're working with the Wiki Education Foundation to hold a series of four edit-a-thons at the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting.
 * On Tuesday, February 16, we're holding the Smithsonian American Art Museum and American University WikiWorkshop with Professor Andrew Lih's class.
 * On Saturday, February 20, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will host the African American Artists Edit-a-Thon.
 * On Friday, February 26, Howard University will host its second annual Black History Month Edit-a-Thon.
 * On Saturday, February 27, we have three different events. In the morning, we're holding an Accessibility Edit-a-Thon at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.  In the afternoon, we'll host our second February WikiSalon at Cove Dupont Circle, followed by our monthly dinner meetup at Vapiano.

We hope to see you at one—or all—of these events!

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The refs need to be about the term in question. Most you have used are not. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:49, 9 September 2018 (UTC)

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Removal of content at Maryland gubernatorial election, 2018
Hi there, I've just noticed that in this edit of Maryland gubernatorial election, 2018, you removed a massive amount of sourced content without explaining why. Can you clarify, please? Thanks, Jessicapierce (talk) 20:19, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Hello! the article that you are asking about is Maryland gubernatorial election, 2018, the information removed was the information about Maryland primary election, 2018, more than 50 % of the article Maryland gubernatorial election, 2018 had information about Maryland primary election, 2018, that was enough information to create the article Maryland primary election, 2018, that is the reason why we have now two article, one with focus on primaries and another one with focus on gubernatiorial elections, even when both elections are related, are completely different, in one are selected the candidates while in the second candidates are going to be elected.--Leglish (talk) 22:03, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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Links in "See also" section
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Your recent edit on LGBT
Hi, you recently made a very large good faith change to the LGBT article. Unfortunately in doing so you relegated everything other than sexual identities since you raised those up, but the LGBTQIA+ identities go far beyond just sexual identities, which is what the main purpose of the LGBT article is about, to give an overview of the initialism and the things it encompasses, which it does well it's in current form.

There are already links to the various identites it captures in the article and sidebar, so I don't think listing them all (which by itself is difficult since the term includes many, and also not just sexual identities, and was part of the reason for the reversion of the changes, as you only highlighted some), so I think it is better to keep the article as is, as an explanation of the history of the initialism and overview of some of the variants.

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Your edit on Polyamory
Hi Leglish, I reverted your edit on Polyamory because it appears to be original research with no verification. Please provide citations from reliable sources. Peaceray (talk) 01:56, 21 April 2023 (UTC) Added... Thanks.--Leglish (talk) 02:07, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

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