User talk:Piledhigheranddeeper/Archives03

editing
Saw your edits on a couple of pages Ive worked on... I sure dont mind someone who can dot i's and cross t's better than I can! :D Saw your userpage... weird. Dont let the idiots get you down.Thelmadatter (talk) 01:14, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hey, niggling little edits are where it's at, no? I only wish I had time to thrash all the articles here into better shape.  But [beginning a sentence with a conjunction!] I do wish people didn't get so outraged/defensive/territorial.  Such is human nature, I guess.
 * --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 20:14, 18 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Territoriality is human nature and I do watch pages Ive written but mostly for content issues. I think we get territorial when (and espeically when) we put a whole lot of effort into something then someone "picks it apart." I know that I dont pay as much attention to spelling and punctuation as I should as I am focused on content. Content is pitiful in most articles about Mexico. But the beauty of WP is that I dont have to make it perfect. Sooner or later, I or someone else will look at it and clean it up. On the other hand, I did get into a tiff with another user over the Beer in Mexico article due to citation issues, so Im no saint!Thelmadatter (talk) 20:39, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Transpo '72
Hi PhD-- one of the edits here eliminated the references section so I reverted-- I assume you want to restore your changes but I wanted to correct the glitch in referencing right away. Regards, Kablammo (talk) 22:05, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

It looks like your edits in Transpo '72 got stepped on. I can rv them if you'd like, or you might want to use the DIFFs and re-do them by hand. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:03, 19 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I put back a few of the changes already, along with a few touchups of my own. Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:12, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you both. I think it's all done now. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 16:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Maria Stein, Ohio)
Thanks for the minor wording fixes. While writing this article in Notepad, I reworded some sentences several times; the errors that you noted were caused by my failure to fix some words while rewriting these sentences. Nyttend (talk) 23:43, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Jan de Jong
Well, I'm not the only one on this page thanking you for your grammatical clean-up. Can't believe I left a modifier dangling. So thanks! However, and please don't take this personally, I am a firm believer in the singular they, and have restored that. Thanks again, Drmies (talk) 14:39, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Dyatlenko
Hi Piled, it's v hard to find any info about the guy unless you have Russian or a first-class library (I've neither); the German-speaking claim is in Beevor (1999), p. 180. Regards, Ericoides (talk) 14:14, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback
Supertouch (talk) 14:27, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Radium institute
Thanks for help with the two articles. --Stone (talk) 19:58, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Nie Fengzhi
Also, regarding your comment/question here: I am looking for additional sources with which to expand the article and possibly merge the single sentence in the "Death" section into a more generla "Later life" section. Thank you for your comments on the article, -- Black Falcon (talk) 03:16, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Ulnaby
Hi. You can remove the "rained-on" bit if you want; Time Team moaned and complained long and loud about the weather conditions in news articles and in their TV show, and what I wrote in the article was an understatement. Anyone who has seen the Ulnaby episode of Time Team will get the point; English humour, if you like. But it's up to you.--Storye book (talk) 18:23, 23 March 2010 (UTC) I guess it's relevant if the weather forced a stop to excavations or something like that, but I'm reluctant to get humorous, even by slipping inside jokes into text, in an encyclopedia.--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 18:26, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

??
Why, thank you.--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 22:22, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
For the help and editing at Confederate war finance. At some point I'd like to bring the article to GA and your edits would be much appreciated.radek (talk) 17:55, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Harry Crosby
Happy to help...--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:53

Kamm house thanks
I'm stepping dangerously close to WP:OWN, but thanks for the copyediting on the Jacob Kamm House. I don't exactly have a way with words, so I really appreciate the tweaking and clarification. tedder (talk) 05:58, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

We do what we can, and I'm happy do do what little I do to improve any page. Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 11:57, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Tags
You place several tags in the Solar Turbines article, but didn't leave any notes about why you left them. I cannot understand the "press release" tag at the end, and although I'm somewhat less confused about the "3rd party", I'm a bit confused why the book doesn't qualify? Maury Markowitz (talk) 01:43, 1 April 2010 (UTC)


 * The article is taken from two sources: the company's own official history (see first flag, re outside sources), and the Richard Leyes and William Fleming book (which, in turn, was largely written for the National Air and Space Museum, as noted in its early pages). The book—like the museum—takes a rather rah-rah stance toward its subject (as does, of course, the company's own website), and this seems to come out in the article, especially the last section.  Parts of that last section seem to take on a bit of a bragging tone (three of its four footnotes are to the official history, which might explain that), and other parts of it use diction that appears to be too informal for an encyclopedia: "handed them", "decided".  A diversity of sources (more than one non-company source?) would likely improve this.


 * My $0.02.--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 11:42, 1 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Well I can't imagine a more independent or reliable 3rd party source than the NASM. Nor do I understand the "rah-rah stance" you speak of, twice now. Can you be specific as to exactly what in that section "reads like an ad"? I only see statements of fact, no weasel words. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:06, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

USS Van Buren (1839)
Thank you for pointing out those date issues in the article. The were not part of the joke, I assure you, and are now fixed. The first came from my misreading of a reference, and when you pointed out that I has used one date for its completion and being laid out, I smacked myself in the forehead. The second one was merely a typo, and that is fixed now too. Once again, thank you. かんぱい！ Scapler (talk) 22:17, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Max van Egmond
Thanks for your interest in a great singer. You asked for a citation - the line is a summary of four of the recordings where the composers, the works and the specific instruments are given. How should I handle that? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:22, 2 April 2010 (UTC)


 * If the facts in question can be gained from the printed matter accompanying the recording medium (what was once called the "liner notes"), I'd suggest citing to those. If the statement is sourced in a collection of multiple liner notes, cite them in order of their usefulness. I hope this answers your question. Keep up the good work! --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 23:15, 4 April 2010 (UTC)


 * What I did (before) was getting the details from the recordings section with citations up to the line in question. Please check, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:49, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Kaiser Friedrich III class battleship
I tried to clarify that "larger but lesser caliber" thing in the lead on Kaiser Friedrich III class battleship. Does that help any? Nibios (talk) 00:13, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Much clearer. Well done.--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 00:36, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike
I have reverted one of your edits as this changed the literal quote= in a citation. Citations are the basis of Wikipedia's reliability and their accuracy is paramount—please do not modify literal quotations. Thank you. —Sladen (talk) 17:26, 7 April 2010 (UTC)


 * oops. Hard to tell when long, disjointed quotations are included in footnotes, sometimes without quotation marks...--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:39, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you for copyediting James E. Boyd (scientist). :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 19:51, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 * If you're looking for other articles to work on, pretty much everything in Category:A-Class Georgia Institute of Technology articles is on its way to FAC at some point. :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 20:26, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

De Rat
AFAIK, one doesn't need to supply a source for a translation. The European Water Vole article has a Dutch equivalent nl:woelrat, whict states in the lede De woelrat of waterrat (The Woelrat(modern spelling) or Water rat). Mjroots (talk) 17:43, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

I didn't mean to ask a source for the translation, but of the name itself. Why did they name a mill after a water rat? Did the original owner have one as a pet? Did the superstitious builders disturb the nest of one during the construction?--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:47, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Unable to answer those questions without getting into the realms of OR. The Zaan area has had over 1,000 mills over the centuries, so some odd names can be expected. Mjroots (talk) 17:49, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Walworth Castle
Hi. Thank you for the edits. I noticed you replaced the minus sign with a normal hyphen. I always used normal hyphens until I submitted an article for GA status, when I was told to replace every hyphen in the readable text with the minus sign. I've been doing this since, but am puzzled by it, especially now that you have reverted one of the minus signs to a normal hyphen. So which is correct for Wiki? And is there a reason for it? Thanks.--Storye book (talk) 15:34, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm hardly the Font of All Things Wiki, but as I understand it from many years in editing of many varieties, a proper hyphen is to bring text together, while an "en-dash"/minus sign/short dash separates items. Thus, a reference to, say, a "roll-about" would take a hyphen, but the character between a person's birth and death years would be a en-dash. (Aha.  See WP:HYPHEN) --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 15:42, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Aagh.  I agree with what you say, so someone must have misinformed me about the Wiki house style. That means I'll have to go back and change millions of them. Some of it will have to wait until after the exams now, as I'm in the process of clearing my Wiki desk.--Storye book (talk) 15:51, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Good luck!--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 15:54, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

St. David's pastor Griffith Hughes
I was thinking that you might be interested in this article and also the discussion at User_talk:JamAKiska

In any case I noticed a couple or three corrections on my DYKs and meant to say hello. You might see this on DYK as well - it has some general interest. Smallbones (talk) 22:03, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Corinne Malvern
Thanks for your contribution. Dfoy (talk) 23:01, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Expo 67
Thank you for copyediting the Expo 67 article. Many of my citations were removed since the time it was rated a Good article, mainly due to vandalism. I'll try to put back as many of them as I can later today or tomorrow. The only one that is in question, is that Yves Jasmin made some edits to the page back in 2008 and early 2009. He added first-hand knowledge to the section regarding the management of the project. Might be considered original research, but the person that is making the edits under his name, SEEMS TO BE, the real person. Anyway, thanks for taking a look at it, and I'll try to repair the citations that were there at one time.--Abebenjoe (talk) 17:27, 27 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Hmm. I did notice that one of the cites (about Yves Jasmin) was to Yves Jasmin's (non-existent) Wikipedia page, but didn't think it might be him doing it...--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 18:01, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

FAC nomination
Distributed element filter has been nominated as a Featured article candidate. You are welcome to leave comments on its nomination page. This message is being sent to all those who have edited or reviewed the article.  Sp in ni ng  Spark  08:57, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Sally Wister
Thanks for the invitation to look at this - it's great. Definitely, you should nominate it for DYK. With a little polishing it could be a Good Article. You might put in a picture of Grumblethorpe. Other illustrations are possible if you can get the 1902 book (It's out of copyright, of course!). I'd think there would be some literary notes or criticism around, even if only from the folks who over-do Valley Forge. From it looks like the location of the house is in Lower Gwynedd Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania across from Penllyn (SEPTA station) - look up "Wister Avenue, Blue Bell, PA" on Google maps. Its about 3 miles south of North Wales. Upper Gwynedd split from Lower Gwynedd in the 1890s according to the Lower Gwynedd website. I have the impression that there are several "Foulkes" NRHP sites around Valley Forge, but I haven't been able to find them - probably somewhere else, or maybe contributing sites. To the extent I've fact checked - you are doing fine at this yourself. Smallbones (talk) 17:07, 5 May 2010 (UTC)


 * "The main house is located" - I'd say "is or was located" but you may know better.  I'm pretty sure of the location - it fits exactly with the book, and Wister Ave adds a bit of credibility as well.  But I couldn't see anything on Google Street View that looked like the photo.  Smallbones (talk) 04:02, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Bickerton Hill
Hi Piledhigheranddeeper -- "Waste" is a common Domesday description in Cheshire townships which isn't 100% understood, which is why I originally steered clear of the matter. Most authors assume it has to do with William I's devastation of much of the country whilst suppressing a series of uprisings in the north of England. This is well recorded for Yorkshire, but not so much for Cheshire. I have seen other accounts which suggest at least some of the waste townships related to disease and were nothing to do with the Norman conquest, but there's no evidence that this might be the case for Bickerton. I have attempted a concise explanation within the article. Hope this clears up at least some of your confusion! Regards, Espresso Addict (talk) 17:17, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Asaf-Ud-Daula
Hi PHD re Asaf-Ud-Daula ... I ve tried to check the text you commented on and I could find no online sources (bar mirror sites) - suggest you delete or comment out if you are fairly sure .... although I do find that Indians have a frequently flowery style. 21:07, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Sally Wister
Materialscientist (talk) 08:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

SallyWister.jpg?
I noticed this file is referred to in the infobox, but does not show up. . I can't find it in the usual hiding places. 15:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC) Workin' on that...--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 11:17, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Vendimiaire
I know reading the Main Page is interesting, but don't you think both of us should get back to our PhDs? Best procrastination regards from New Zealand, Buckshot06 (talk) 23:17, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

eh?
Could you please explain this edit? – xeno talk 18:13, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I came here for the same reason. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   18:16, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

That wasn't me, or it wasn't my intent. I noticed the vandalism to the intro section of the FA and leaped in to fix it. It seems that several others were doing the same thing at the same time, and signals may have been crossed (it took an inordinately long time for the server to respond). You'll notice that I got the missing first paragraph back where it belonged a moment later (18:08: vandalism restoration), once my failure to do it earlier became apparent. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 18:22, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Makes more sense now. I was worried that maybe your account had been compromised (esp. after reading your userpage). It looks like the vandalism was introduced here, and that was probably the version you started editing. Cheers, – xeno talk 18:28, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto Photo?
Hi. You recently commented on Talk:Portrait_of_Angel_Fernandez_de_Soto, requesting a photo. I've replied there indicating that it is probably still under copyright. CS Miller (talk) 12:08, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Hiram M. Hiller, Jr.
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 00:02, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Happy Piledhigheranddeeper's Day!
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. 30 JUN for you. — Rlevse • Talk  • 00:55, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Campus Ambassador
Hi Piledhigheranddeeper, thanks for your interest in the Wikipedia Campus Ambassador role!

More details about this role can be found at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Campus_Ambassador. Here is also a little bit more information; in a nutshell: The Campus Ambassadors are crucial components of the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative. Volunteers in this position will be in charge of training and supporting the participating professors and students on Wikipedia-related skills, such as how to create new articles, how to add references, how to add images, etc. Campus Ambassadors will also help recruit other people on campus to contribute to Wikipedia articles, for example by setting up Wikipedia-related student groups and by organizing "Welcome to Wikipedia" social events. In general they will become known as Wikipedia experts on the university campus (in your case, on the Georgetown University and George Washington University campus). The estimated time commitment for the Campus Ambassadors is about 3-5 hours a week, and we're looking for folks who have convenient access to the university campus because most of the work is face-to-face (and will primarily take place on the weekdays, when faculty members and students are more likely to be on campus).

The Wikimedia Foundation will hold a mandatory three-day training for all Campus Ambassadors in August, and will continue to stay in contact with and offer full support for the Campus Ambassadors throughout the academic semester.

If this sounds interesting and feasible to you, please let me know, so we can talk about next steps in the application process (please let me know what email address I can send the application to). Feel free to email me if you prefer: alin@wikimedia.org.

Thanks. I look forward to hearing back from you!

Annie Lin, Campus Team Coordinator Alin (Public Policy) (talk) 22:16, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Prince Rupert...
Just to say thanks for the copy editing on this article - very much appreciated. Hchc2009 (talk) 18:42, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

We do what we can. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 22:28, 2 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Usually .... usually you do do what you can PH&D. Very surprised to see your comments here. Victuallers (talk) 14:11, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Witch window
Sorry to say, but I'm quite concerned about this article's sourcing; please see T:TDYK for my concerns. Nyttend (talk) 03:25, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Others have done a bit of work on the article, so I've approved it. By the way, could you add an "created by uploader" phrase to File:Vermont window closeup.jpg?  Some people don't seem to realise that a self permissions template includes a claim that the uploader is the source, so you might be running the risk of having it deleted.  Nyttend (talk) 22:20, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Witch window interior.jpg
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Plaster key
That was the term used in the nomination. I included it in the article because, frankly, I don't quite know what it is either (I'm guessing it's some sort of space in the stacking to allow wall plaster to set more evenly) and I was sort of hoping someone else might elaborate. Daniel Case (talk) 16:50, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Let's hope somebody who knows more than we do chimes in... --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 19:09, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Here's something:


 * What is It: Finger-Sized bulges behind my plaster walls


 * What to Do About It: Behind? Sound like "keys." Plaster workers would force the wet plaster through the lath (the wood framework) hard enough to create bulges on the other side. Keys are good because they hold the plaster in. Don't knock them off. Keep them.

Daniel Case (talk) 04:52, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Witch window
The DYK project (nominate) 06:02, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Re: Witch window
I did a few searches for info on these windows a while back and didn't really come up with anything to encouraging as far as making an article out of them. An interesting side note though... While in Germany a couple years ago, my wife and I ran across a mosque that used a witch window! I'll have to look at our pictures from the trip to see if I can find the picture we took. There's this park with all sort of flowers and such to see and it all surrounds this historic mosque. The window is in one of the gable ends and, if I remember correctly, it's an oval shaped window. It was rather odd going over there and seeing a window that would fit right in in Vermont. Dismas |(talk) 23:16, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK
Thanks... that Puebla article took me a long time. And I HATE when real life gets in the way of Wikipedia! :DThelmadatter (talk) 18:45, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System for deletion
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DC and contributions
Greetings! Please excuse this intrusion on your talk page, and allow me to invite you to participate in the newly-formed Wikipedia Contribution Team (WP:CONTRIB for short)! The goal of the team is to attract more and better contributions to the English Wikipedia, as well as to help support the fundraising team in our financial and editing contribution goals. We have lots of stuff to work on, from minor and major page building, to WikiProject outreach, article improvement, donor relations, and more—in fact, part of our mission is to empower team members to make their own projects to support our mission. Some of our projects only take a few minutes to work on, while others can be large, multi-person tasks—whatever your interest level, we're glad to have you.

If this sounds interesting, please visit WP:CONTRIB and sign onto the team. Even if there does not appear to be anything that really speaks out as being work you'd like to do, I'd encourage you to join and follow the project anyway, as the type of work we'll be doing will certainly evolve and change over time. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me, or ask on the team talk page. Regards, &rArr;   Dan Rosenthal    Wikipedia Contribution Team  02:56, 17 November 2010 (UTC)


 * As an aside, I'm also a local DC Wikimedian. We'd love for you to attend the next DC meetups. I'm specifically contacting you as you expressed interest in the Campus Ambassador position, and both the DC Wikimedians group and the Wikipedia Contributions Team have a lot of interest in working along with the Campus Ambassadors. You can reach me on my talk page, or by email at drosenthal@wikimedia.org with questions; I can't guarantee that I'll be checking back on your talk page often enough to hold a sustained conversation there. Regards, &rArr;   Dan Rosenthal    Wikipedia Contribution Team  02:56, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Denver S. Dickerson
I am impressed that you caught the detail about the order of the children. Some of the older references were published while he was still in office and were obviously out of date. KimChee (talk) 23:07, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

("Doctor Detail" strikes again! --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 22:34, 23 November 2010 (UTC))

Air France Flight 4590
What was the source of your addition that the AF and BA Concordes made a loss all through their career? It wasn't in the source you added. I removed it from the lede and someone has added a cn tag in the body of the article. It would be better in future if you could make sure the source explicitly supports anything you add. Thanks. --John (talk) 20:20, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Hm. It was a pretty open secret that BA and AF only flew the Concorde with heavy subsidies. Let's see if I can find a direct cite.

Aha. "The Concorde lost money for its entire flying career." Suzanne Scotchmer, Innovation and Incentives, MIT Press, 2004, p. 55. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 20:35, 8 December 2010 (UTC)