User talk:Sadads/Archive January 2012-April 2013

Recent edits to The Twenty-Seventh City
These edits are great! One of the things we need most in the Novels topic area is to provide more sources to our readers related to the novels we cover. I don't think very many people are aware of the number of reviews available for a lot of fiction, and providing the sources also helps prove their WP:Notability. Lately I have been doing the exact same thing: browsing through articles about novels and adding citations about the reviews that way if someone who knows the book better then I do comes along, they can expand it with WP:Reliable sources. Keep it up! and I am glad to see someone else working in the Novels topic area! Happy editing! Sadads (talk) 20:10, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Sadads! You too -- and Happy New Year. You do great stuff and I was really flattered by the thumbs up. Zoidbergmd (talk) 20:16, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

DYK for The Wettest County in the World
The DYK project (nominate) 15:33, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

The Book Addict Diet
Yes, it isn't worth the AfD its written on, but db-nonsense?? NLinpublic (talk) 20:05, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Well it is.... probably not the best db justification, maybe Template:Db-hoax? I didn't delete it myself, because I wanted another set of eyes on it, Sadads (talk) 20:13, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * First, my apologies if I sounded less-then-polite. Second, maybe there are times when CSD just doesn't apply? The article is entirely legible, so its not a db-nonsense, and I don't see any way that db-hoax would apply, so this seems to be one of those times. Essays and blatant OR tend to slip through CSD as there aren't really any applicable criteria unless they also make obviously false claims (i.e. A7, G10-11). Anyway, thanks for your time. NLinpublic (talk) 19:26, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * No worries, it just seemed like something that really ought to have found it's way to csd.... maybe I should have userfied it, that might have been a better solution, Sadads (talk) 19:28, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Possibly...I'm a firm believer that blatant OR should be the next CSD criteria...until then, we're stuck with what we've got though. Cheers, NLinpublic (talk) 19:33, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

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Peer review
Hi Sadads, would you be interested in reviewing The Hobbit? I think as of now it should at least be an A class and maybe we can even push it to feature level without too much effort. Regards, De728631 (talk) 20:37, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

Mid-East Quartet
Hi, I noticed you reverted an IP at Quartet on the Middle East for adding the U.K. to the article. The U.K. is still listed in the "Representatives" section, on account of Tony Blair's involvement in the Quartet – but maybe there should only be four countries there, since Blair isn't officially representing the U.K.—Biosketch (talk) 17:17, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

A question about Malik Deenar Research Congress
I'm trying to track down an issue at SCV.

You merged material about Malik Deenar Research Congress into Malik Deenar Islamic Academy. The original material was flagged as a possible copyvio by CSBot. Unfortunately, when I try to access the purported source (or the DD) at this link I get an error message, so I can't tell for sure. However, it looks like the original version of the page is substantially similar to the words in the new section, so I'm trying to find out what you did to ensure that we do not have a copyvio.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  19:13, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry it took so long to respond. I cleaned out everything but the bare facts (and did some rewording), which should keep us from being liable for copyvio. Hope that is what you were looking for. Thank you for defending the wiki! Sadads (talk) 22:46, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's what I wanted to hear. That was the last open item on the 12-24 list so I just closed out that day - whoo-hoo.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  23:06, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Excellent :) Sadads (talk) 23:17, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Looky looky men
Hi, i agree with your redirect you made to Looky looky men, the original creator thinks otherwise and has reverted your change. where would we go from here please? Thanks --JetBlast (talk) 23:35, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I just thought i would let you know i have marked the article for deleting. Thanks --JetBlast (talk) 00:46, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue LXX, January 2012
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Interview?
My apologies for the non-personalized note; I've got several people to contact here. We're looking for administrators who would be willing to be interviewed by students as a part of Wikipedia's WP:United States Education Program. Dr. Jonathan Obar is teaching the course, and it's a study in how Wikipedia is governed and how administrators are selected. If you're not interested, you may either ignore this invitation or remove your name from the list of admins we've contacted. Thanks, Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 20:15, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Pigeon pie


Thanks for the edits to the pie article. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:39, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Certainly, I saw it on your contributions and I wanted something silly and simple to work on this morning :) Sadads (talk) 14:40, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * As someone intrigued by bizarre Wikipedia articles, I would really like to further the Order of the Pigeon, but my Spanish is decidedly lacking, but their appear to be plenty of sources in that language. How is your Spanish? Sadads (talk) 15:24, 9 February 2012 (UTC)


 * My Spanish is non-existent. I looked for a crest or coat of arms, but didn't find one. Speaking of bizarre articles, did you see Chicken eyeglasses? Those guys did a great job on it. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:53, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the thought, I will check out the chicken eyeglasses, Sadads (talk) 03:46, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Orden de la Paloma
As the lady said, 'Too kind – too kind'! William Avery (talk) 21:07, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Squawk! :) Sadads (talk) 22:23, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery ;) Nice one, Sadads! I have said (somewhere) that I've made my own pigeon pie before now. It is an occasional event that happens when a local farmer goes on the rampage with his gun & I turn up to find a sack of pigeons by my door: food, for the use of. That then involves a mad session that starts with a text/SMS message from me and is then phoned round others: we need some plucking pluckers! Feathers everywhere, then beer/wine and - eventually - a pie or two. These, btw, are woodpigeon rather than the feral pigeon to be found around Trafalgar Square etc. We need to consult our resident culinary expert as to whether those count. Sitush (talk) 00:17, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I think either way you have to have it right, Sadads (talk) 03:45, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Et tu, Coooo, Coooo

 * That is not a pigeon! It is a peacock with the wind blowing up its rear, surely? - Sitush (talk) 01:48, 10 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Does the honour ruffle your feathers? Hahaha. You're stuck with it. "No-take-backs!" Hey, consider being the highest columb a feather in your cap. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:57, 10 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Ahhhh, peacock. I get it now. I'm getting dumber for sure. No. No hidden meaning. I picked it because of the word "crown". And if you ever retire, I get to be Crown Pigeon. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:49, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Haha, thanks guys you have made my day significantly brighter :) Sadads (talk) 03:44, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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MSU Interview
Dear Sadads,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue LXXI, February 2012
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Ming-hsin pao-chien
I recently made an article on Ming-hsin pao-chien, an ancient Chinese book of aphorisms. If you have time to have a look and bring it in line with other book articles, I would appreciate it. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:15, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! bd2412  T 18:49, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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Category:Election agencies in Australia
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Dead link in article 'Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening'
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Long time no bunny
How are ya? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:26, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, life has been a little hectic. I was finishing up my honors thesis and applying to grad schools. Got into a MA program in English at Kansas State so that was a success! How has life been treating you? Sadads (talk) 19:55, 12 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Congrats on the educational progress and success. Well done. :)


 * Life here? Dandy. A dwarf hamster had 6 babies. 4 left. We have a pool going at 1 RMB each to guess how many she eats by next month. My buck is on 2.


 * Funny: Gave a bamboo stick to a groups of kids. In two secs they were all fighting over it. I grabbed it back. Wrote a number 1 to 100 on a paper. Told them closest gets it. My number was 67. Biggest kid won calling out "99!". All the other kids were small and picked "4", "12", "11", "6". :) So cute. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:08, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue LXXIV, May 2012
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Barnstar

 * Why thank you :) I really appreciate the acknowledgement of my work, Sadads (talk) 13:13, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Well-deserved. I hope you're planning on sticking around. INeverCry  18:36, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd like to, but lately I have been getting overwhelmed when committing to helping on certain projects. I think I was doing a little bit too much last year, and everytime I come back on, I subconciously try to commit at the level I was doing before, which isn't really going to work. I will certainly be around, and I will definitely respond to communications and make small edits when I encounter problems, but right now I am not at the level of frequent contribution, Sadads (talk) 19:43, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Merge discussion: Touring car and Tourer
You are invited to a discussion on the merging of the articles Touring car and Tourer at Talk:Touring car. I look forward to your participation and insight. Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 01:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!
Hello Saddads. Thanks for the barnstar. Along with other editors I've been getting the Thomas Jefferson page in shape for the last couple of years. We had to go through a lot of edit wars and debates to do it, but finally the page is shaping up. I just started on the Fenimore page. If you like Ships and Naval history I recently created List of ships captured in the 19th century and Blockade runners of the American Civil War you may want to check out. All the best. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 18:33, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

WP:MILMOS
Please do not move articles to insert the (United States) or other country disambiguator, unless there are two or more units/formations with the same name, in accordance with the MILMOS. The three Armoured Cavalry Regiments, at the very least, are unique in any land force. Buckshot06 (talk) 00:38, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * What prompted this, I haven't touched MILHIST articles in well over a year.... Sadads (talk) 12:35, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The move of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment to 11 ACR (US) citing standardization. Buckshot06 (talk) 19:48, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * From 2 years ago? You are asking me not to repeat an edit from 2 years ago? Hmm.... Sadads (talk) 19:54, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

GOCE July 2012 Copy Edit Drive
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Ship's templates
Aye Saddads, there is a note for you at the James Fenimore Cooper talk page. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:24, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Real Digital Tempalte
The correct date would have been may 2012 as the article did not exist in may 2011

work so far
Hi. Thanks for the welcome message. If you get a chance check out the page for the Chandler novel The Little Sister I made some significant changes. Essentially, I've: 1) Added a real plot summary 2) Moved a story about Billy Wilder into a new Background section that I created 3) Reformatted and added three references. I haven't submitted the page for a formal review yet because I've been working from memory of the novel. I recently re-read it so I'm confident the plot summary I wrote is accurate but I want to double check before submitting it. Also, I can't remember the name of the gangster or the doctor. I have the book at home but I'm travelling and won't be home until August 1. In the mean time I'm trying to get an electronic copy of the book via my library. They have one copy and its currently checked out, I think I'm next in line. BTW, is there a collaboration page where it would be appropriate to ask a question such as "can someone look up the names of the doctor and gangster in Little Sister"? I thought it was too specific a question, more for the novel community not for the Tea House. Its not a big deal anyway, I can just wait until I get my hands on a copy of the book. I would also appreciate any general feedback on what I've done so far if you have the chance. I'm not competely satisfied with the plot summary, I usually write better than that, its really still work in progress but I got to the point where I thought what I had was obviously so much better than what was currently live that I thought it was worthwhile to get experience making a major change anyway. Also, just fyi since I'm not at home I'm doing all this on my iPad which is working fine but its still not quite as easy to view and edit as a desktop so I'm not being quite as dilligent as I normally would. Oh, one more side note I've been including the four tildas in the comments that describe my changes which I now think is wrong, as when I look at the comments I actually see four tildas. I think I misunderstood that usage and that its not necessary to use them when describing an edit only when adding to a talk page like this: Mdebellis (talk) 20:31, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

thanks for the reply
Sadads, thanks for the reply on my talk page. That all sounds good. I will check out the references you provided. Also, fyi I got the Cambridge Companion (a series recommended in the novels page) for Crime Fiction and have been reading through the sections relevant to Chandler. To be honest I'm not thrilled with it so far, its pretty stuffy, IMO the author of the particular chapter is too much of an academic to really get writers like Chandler and Hammet but still reading and hopefully will find some useful stuff. I'm just going to wait until I can get my hands on a copy of The Little Sister or see if anyone responds on the Talk page rather than post additional requests for help. I realize how overworked the editors are and its not like this is the most crucial novel, not even the most crucial Chandler novel for that matter. Oh, one last question is there a page that talks about the various reference formats? I couldn't find one. I've been just copying and editing existing references which is working ok but if there is a page that defines specific standards for citing  chapters in books, intros to books, etc I would like to see it. Thanks again for the feedback and help so far. Mdebellis (talk) 17:27, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled
Thank you for assigning autopatrolled permission to me. --Meno25 (talk) 19:29, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Your welcome. No problem, Sadads (talk) 14:42, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania!
Hi Sadads, Maryana here :) Just wanted to say it was a pleasure meeting you in D.C. this weekend, and thank you for your help in brainstorming/planning the cleanup template experiment. We're going to be tidying up that page in the next couple of weeks and finding a good time to run the actual test, so feel free to leave any additional suggestions or comments on the talk page. Hope to see you again IRL sometime soon, and in the meantime, catch you on the wikis! Accedie talk to me 19:22, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will definitely keep following it! Sadads (talk) 12:53, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Good, simple tweaks to Satellite Sentinel Project. JohnInDC (talk) 19:58, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Brilliant. Glad you like it. I am a small tweaks kind of editor most of the time, makes Wikipedia more relaxing, Sadads (talk) 20:03, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Military History Detachments
Sadads,

I appreciate your assistance with the Military History Detachments page. I have picked up this project after talking with the folks in the Field Programs division. We here at CMH will be doing several more addiitons to the page as we try to get it up to where it belongs. I've been at CMH since March of 2012. I got my Masters in Hsitory from James Madison in 1990. Vmijeb85 (talk) 20:27, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Brilliant! Biggest suggestion: flesh up something for the CMH website that talks about what the Military History attachments are currently doing, get it hosted on the CMH website, and then you will have a Reliable source as well as a page that will be found via google searches and stuffs. The biggest problem I had when I first wrote the article was that CMH is not very straight forward about what the Army Historical Community is doing, especially the unit historians and the military history detachments. Remember Wikipedia is built on WP:Verifiability, or the concept that we can verify anything in good Wikipedia articles through reliable sources (secondary sources with some sort of authority), Sadads (talk) 14:31, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

You've got mail!
Please read. -- Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:03, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * On it! Sadads (talk) 13:55, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Changes to Fitzsimons Article
My source is me. You see I am related to him and my last name has the fitst "s" capatilized. I thought that we could show him and my family respect by spelling his name right. It might be unusal that it has two capital letters but it means "son of Simon" so the "s" must be capatilized. Thanks Jacklax100 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacklax100 (talk • contribs) 13:40, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

EduWiki Conference 5-6 September in Leicester, UK
I am writing to you as you have signed up to the Education Meetup at Wikimania 2012 and perhaps are interested in how Wikipedia links to education. Wikimedia UK is now running a education related event that may be of interest to you: the EduWiki Conference on 5-6 September in Leicester. This event will be looking at Wikipedia and related charitable projects in terms of educational practice, including good faith collaboration, open review, and global participation. It's a chance to talk about innovative work in your institution or online community, and shape the future of Wikimedia UK's work in this area!

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Ramona Quimby merger proposal
Hello. There's a merger proposal relating to an article or articles you've contributed to, relating to the Ramona Quimby books. You are invited to read about and discuss it here: Talk:Ramona (novel series). Thank you. Tlqk56 (talk) 00:13, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Children's Lit portal DYKs?
Do you know anything about the DYK section of the Children's Lit portal? Is it still active, or will those three facts just stay there forever? I'm asking because I've had a couple of kid lit DYKs on the main page, and I can't figure out how to get them on the portal. Or if I should bother. It just seems a pity to have it there and not use it. Thanks for any help you can give me. Tlqk56 (talk) 01:30, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Adventure: Request for feedback on Community Fellowship proposal
Hi! I'm contacting you because you have participated or discussed The Wikipedia Adventure learning tutorial/game idea. I think you should know about a current Community Fellowship proposal to create the game with some Wikimedia Foundation support. Your feedback on the proposal would be very much appreciated. I should note that the feedback is for the proposal, not the proposer, and even if the Fellowship goes forward it might be undertaken by presently not-mentioned editors. Thanks again for your consideration.

Proposal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/The_Wikipedia_Adventure

Cheers, User:Ocaasi 16:41, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXVI, July 2012
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ready to have article looked at
Hi Sadads, you helped me with some basic questions a while ago. I have been working on The Little Sister and while it still needs a lot of work I think its at a point where it might be more than a stub and I could use some feedback. I'm not sure what the next step is so thought I would see if you can help. thanks, Mdebellis (talk) 01:52, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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Military history coordinator election
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Backstage at the Smithsonian Libraries
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Organized by Wikimedia DC, this event will take place on October 12, 2012, and will include new editor training, a "backstage pass" tour of the National Museum of Natural History, and an edit-a-thon. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Kirill [talk] 18:48, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Operation Niagara Falls listed at Redirects for discussion
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War and Peace
Hi Sadads. I noticed that you're a member of the group responsible for editing and maintaining the War and Peace article. I'm currently working with a theater that's in the middle of a production based off of a portion of War and Peace. One of my jobs at the moment is to find little interesting facts, tidbits, etc to give a bit of flavor for audiences reading our Twitter, FB, etc. Given how little I know about the original novel, I really don't know where to start. I was wondering if you'd be willing to offer me some advice of themes to look into, point me in the right direction, etc? I'm inclined to look at historical context and/or modern events that closely relate to the portion the play is based on (I *think* it's Book 8, but I'm not positive), and could use as much help as I can get. :-) Thanks in advance. RunnerOnIce (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Caveat, I have not done extensive study on War and Peace. For authoritative thoughts, I would strongly recommend getting the Norton Critical edition of the Novel, which will have discussions in light of both Tolstoy's life and other writings, as well as discussions of the historical context of the book. The whole Norton critical series of books has excellent introductions and does a great job at contextualizing the texts themselves. (Since you are in the states, you should be able to get the book for under 10$ on amazon http://www.amazon.com/Second-Edition-Norton-Critical-Editions/dp/039396647X). The critical edition would be able to point you to the best voices talking about the novel, and also give you direct comments made by Tolstoy about the book. In particular, the essay by Vladimir Lenin, I am guessing, will be fascinating and might provide you some interesting quotes, etc.
 * From what I remember, when reading the book a while ago: Historical context is particularly relevant, especially since the Napoleonic Wars left such a traumatic scar on Europe and became a point to refer to for many different authors in many different European traditions, not just Tolstoy. Also, the novel touches on Masonry, Serf Rights, Nationalism and other issues of leftist politics during the period, so that might be an interesting space to explore. I hope that helps, Sadads (talk) 19:45, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if the Norton would get here in time, but can look into it anyway (maybe I can find the articles online somewhere) I'm seeing the show for the first time tonight, so will definitely see how much our particular version touches on any of the areas you mentioned. Thanks so much! RunnerOnIce (talk) 20:56, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Entertainment
Please see the discussion on the talk page regarding the sections in question. The thread is titled "Organization". AutomaticStrikeout 04:23, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXIX, October 2012
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Edward H. Watson
I removed the stub tag from Edward H. Watson. It's over a page long, sections, references, even an image of the subject -- lots of stubs are just a couple of sentences, this looks like a decent short article but not a stub to me. Brianhe (talk) 17:42, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Children's literature
Do you know of any resources good for expanding on articles relating to children's literature? I just created Tor Seidler and was wondering how I could build on it. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 23:01, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Generally, the best sources for conversation about an author's work are newspaper reviews. Obituaries are usually pretty good for info on authors. However, for living author content, its usually comes from the usual places: publisher websites, academic journal articles, biographies and academic encyclopedias. If you have access to academic databases I would try those. Something like some of the EBSCOhost databases which are common at public libraries will usually pick up some of those sources. I haven't researched in that area for a while, so that is really general advice. Sorry :P Sadads (talk) 04:13, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXX, November 2012
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DC Meetup #33
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Topeka event
I have lived most of the 15 latest years in Florida. Sorry, won't be back in Topeka for a while. We've had a couple of Wikimedia events in Florida the last year, but had to work both times. Bill Pollard (talk) 22:15, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the response. I invited you because one of your userboxes puts you in the category "Wikipedians in Kansas", Sadads (talk) 22:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm in Omaha, but may try and make it if the weather permits...but you might regret inviting me since I am the notorious --MONGO 22:17, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * We look forward to any company, no matter how notorious! Sadads (talk) 14:44, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXI, December 2012
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The Bugle: Issue LXXXII, January 2013
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Adding students to a course advice
Hoping your JMU loyalty runs depp - doing another course this semester and am having trouble with some of the new procedures. I created the course (Intro to Org. Comm. at JMU) and created a Token for students to use to join buyt we have looked everywhere and can't find out how to link them to the course or enroll them. What am I missing? I don't have ambassadors yet to turn to. Thanks for your help! Comm Prof LLB 16:29, 25 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Llbritt (talk • contribs)

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I have opened a Request for comment related to Category:French novels and Category:German novels, in which your edits are mentioned. Andreasm just talk to me  19:11, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Nice to meet you
Hi there, it was nice to meet with you at the meetup. we were really happy to get the swag and find out about all the projects. you really made the meetup valuable and I am so happy you had a laptop as well. So I created a GLAM group for kansas, mailing list for topeka and a facebook page linked from here Meetup/Topeka. I would like to organize some more meetups at different historic sites in topeka, go there and take photos, collect infomation and work on the articles. It could be a great group event. please let me know what you think, and sign up on the mailing list if you like. we also took pictures of the evening if you want to review them or publish some. I will see if I can get a good presentation for a GLAM institution for you to come to. thanks, James Michael DuPont (talk) 13:54, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue LXXXIII, February 2013
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thanks for the note!
responding on my page... also started a Talk on the agribusiness page... thanks for reaching out! Jytdog (talk) 20:35, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Bitcoin Article
Are you sure this merits C-class at this stage? The article is almost entirely cited to questionable non-RS material and is largely written from a promotional point of view. An editor recently expressed this concern on talk. SPECIFICO talk  21:54, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I changed it per the criteria at C-class:

"The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class, but fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective."


 * Most projects interpret that to mean a significant amount of content, with some citations but not high enough quality information (via bias or gaps in coverage) and citations to fulfill B class criteria. I hope that makes sense. Happy editing! Sadads (talk) 15:32, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Got it. Thanks. SPECIFICO  talk  16:07, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

You are invited to a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29
In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays (talk) 23:08, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXIV, March 2013
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Re-assessment of the English literature article
Many thanks for dealing with this so quickly and for the useful comments. Rwood128 (talk) 00:29, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for fixing that bit of the Louis Mink article, all makes sense! XanthamNide (talk) 21:50, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

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