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78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 14:42, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Ziv Company
I'll get to your message on my talk page in a little bit, but wanted to point out a minor error in the article you're writing in your sandbox. Under the "Concept" section it states "programs recorded on acetate discs and offered to local advertisers in each radio market". This isn't wholly accurate. First, "acetate" is an incorrect term. There are "acetate" discs, but they are VERY uncommon. The term you are looking for is "lacquer". However, even this isn't accurate. Most Ziv transcriptions are pressed in vinyl, and aren't individually-cut lacquer discs. For one thing, not only was pressing vinyl more cost-efficient, vinyl is considerably lighter (think less postage costs) than aluminum-based lacquer discs, and vinyl was less prone to damage. Hope that helps. 78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 19:15, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, they probably were recorded on "lacquer discs" (most records were) but they were not usually distributed to the stations that way.   78.26   (spin me / revolutions) 19:18, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

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23:59, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Eddie. Thanks for the tip about refs on John Shelton (actor). I added comments on the Talk page and put in some contemporary references. That was hard genealogical research!! As soon as you mentioned it, I was initially convinced that combining all the various current references to marriages was a big mistake. One which I would not do in my genealogy research. However, I have worked with oral history and decided to assume that some sort of documentation could be found for all five. That was fun. Hope you will accept the Hedda Hopper reference :) I left the reference template at the top, you can remove it if you think it meets the criterion. Thanks again for the tone of your comment. Rcollman (talk) 17:55, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Tip of the day monitoring
Hi.

I noticed your comments over at the TOTD department, giving us a heads up on some tips, and it looks like you are a fan of the tips and read them fairly often.

So I was wondering if you would be willing to read the tip a day in advance, to provide an early warning for problems in tips about to go live.

In case you are interested, there is the template totd-tomorrow, which displays the upcoming tip for tomorrow.

You can place it anywhere on your user pages you want. On my talk page, I include the current tip and tomorrow's tip as a footnote at the bottom of the page, by inserting this this code anywhere on the page:

This floats the tips below all messages. Where they catch my attention everytime I check for messages.

Like this.

To remove them from the bottom of your page, remove the line with reference, directly above.

I hope you find this tip to your liking.

Have fun.

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Thank You
Thank you for the feedback on Assumption College Greyhounds. I will use your advice to make the article better. If you don't mind could you please check the other articles that I have created to see if there are any mistakes. The articles that I have made are Cedarville University Yellow Jackets, Cheyney University Wolves, Daemen College Wildcats, and King University Tornados. If you need to you can contact me on my talk page. Again thank you for the feedback and I would appreciate it if you could read my other articles. —Preceding undated comment added 00:40, 19 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I have read the pages, and here are my thoughts.


 * King University Tornados: Avoid just copying content (as you noted at the end of each paragraph). If you must used the wording of another source, enclose it in quotation marks and use standard Wikipedia citations to refer to the book, web page, or whatever it came from. Unless you need exact wording, however, it's better to paraphrase (but you still need a citation).
 * Daemen College Wildcats: Spell out the name of the conference rather than using ECC. Many people will not know what the abbreviation stands for. If you refer to the conference later, the abbreviation will be all right. Also, you need to have sources on this one, and add more details to the text.
 * Cedarville University Yellow Jackets: The lead contains a typographical error ("mempership"). Spell out "National Christian College Athletic Association" the first time you use it. I first thought that "NCCAA" was a typographical error of the better-known NCAA; I assume that many other readers would think the same thing. And spell out the organization that AMC stands for when you first refer to it.
 * Cheney University Wolves: Spell out what "PSAC" stands for the first time you refer to it. In the "Basketball" section, explain how this Division II school participated in the Division I tournament. Reference 2 uses a Wikipedia page, which is prohibited. That will leave you with one reference, which is not good. Look for additional independent, reliable sources for the information in your article. Also, use a "cite" template to revise the first reference. Plain URL addresses should not be used.


 * I'm sure I haven't covered everything, but I have delayed longer than I should have in replying to your request. I hope that these comments are helpful. Eddie Blick (talk) 23:53, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Hey...
I've been doing some long overdue maintenance to the WP:UPDC, and have rewritten its tips page.

Since you enjoy tips, I was wondering if you would be willing to proofread that page to see if it is a useful guide to newbies wishing to make a nice user page.

Cheerio, The Transhumanist 06:34, 18 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Sure! I'll be glad to do that. I'll get back in touch with you after I look it over. Eddie Blick (talk) 13:58, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Your deletion request for 2017 in Dominica.
Hello, I was wanting to alert you about the deletion request you put on one of my pages. I have added some content so that it will fit the requirements. (Cass)


 * I don't know how to reply to you directly. When you leave a message for someone, you should end it with four tildes, which will automatically provide your user name and a link to your talk page. As for the deletion nomination, once an article is proposed for deletion, the decision is made by others -- not by the one who proposed it. They will look at the article (including whatever changes you made) and decide whether to delete it. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:45, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Black Museum 2015 edit- production
Hi there. Back in 2015 you removed the original source for The Black Museum and inserted a "produced by the BBC" line without quoting a source. Unfortunately there are many incorrect citations for this and other programs produced by Harry Towers, many of them alas American - the program was first broadcast in the USA. Helpfully the BBC have made available online a database of all of their radio programs up to about 1995. This indicates that they did not broadcast The Black Museum until 1991. The BBC Charter set them up as a none-commercial radio station, and in the 1950s their productions were for broadcast for themselves - not purely for resale. In more recent years we have had a standalone associated commercial company BBC Worldwide. In Europe The Black Box was broadcast on Radio Luxembourg.

Unfortunately although you were undoubtedly using a source you considered reliable, in no way could it be correct. The BBC simply could not do that then. The original text you removed was correct in saying that the program was incorrectly cited in some sources as a BBC program.

His Guardian obituary states Towers was born in London. While serving in the RAF during the second world war, he wrote many radio plays under the name Peter Welbeck, a pseudonym he used from time to time as a scriptwriter throughout his career. In 1946 he and his mother, Margaret Miller Towers, started a company called Towers of London that sold various syndicated radio shows around the world. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.97.48.225 (talk) 11:45, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Tripartite_Indenture_of_1856 deletion
Hi! Thanks for notifying me of the mark for deletion. I've added some additional context with a citation, on why I feel that this is an important historical event. I'd appreciate your feedback on whether you think it's sufficient. Nemilar (talk) 17:50, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

George Jacobs, Jr.
I redirected this to George_Jacobs_(Salem_witch_trials). Bearian (talk) 15:11, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

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Something for you ;)
File:Wendy Warren and the News 1948.jpg :-) We hope (talk) 01:20, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * And you're so welcome, there's another one, :-D File:Jack Smith Show 1948.jpg We hope (talk) 01:48, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Still more. ;) File:Bride and Groom 1948.jpg We hope (talk) 02:18, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

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Chicago Tribune archive
Just thought I'd let you know that the free archive is gone. The link we have to it now forwards to Newspapers.com. The Tribune has apparently turned all of this over to them. You're able to buy a "Chicago Tribune" only subscription from them and if you have a Newspapers.com subscription, the Tribune is included in that. I stumbled on this last night when I clicked one of the older (free) links. The bad thing is that all ref links made when the archive was free don't work. I'll be trying to find all articles where I've used the free links over about 2 years and replace them with clippings from Newspapers.com. This happened in the last couple of months or so as I see the free links were working in August. We hope (talk) 13:27, 18 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I stumbled across that change last night, too. I was doing a search on Google for sources for a possible article and, like you, clicking on a Chicago Tribune link led me to their part of the Newspapers.com site. I was sorry to see that, but I suppose it was inevitable. I remember that soon after I discovered the free Tribune search feature someone (possibly you) commented that it probably would eventually convert to a paid service. I wish I had learned about archiving pages earlier. Now when I use a newspaper site like The New York Times or The Washington Post for a source, I create a copy at the Internet Archive or a similar site. Thanks for writing; it's good to hear from you. Eddie Blick (talk) 14:14, 18 October 2017 (UTC)


 * The site made it clear that at some point, they would begin charging for access from my first visit on. But they never said when that might be or how much they would charge for it.  I think the Tribune decided that turning it all over to a newspaper archiving company would mean less work for them. BTW, if the site allows crawlers and you get "caught short", you can try to see if the Wayback Machine crawled the page previously.  Try entering the URL in the top search box at Wayback Machine; more often than not I can find a link like that.


 * Still waiting for someone to put the 2 major Milwaukee newspapers back online. They disappeared from Google News over a year ago.  Did some research and learned there's apparently a legal issue.  The Milwaukee Public Library helped an archiving service with copies of the paper the archive service didn't have.  When they were complete, the library was asked to buy access to the newspaper databases they helped create. The same thing happened with two of the Palm Beach newspapers, but I was able to find they'd moved to Newspapers.com. We hope (talk) 14:36, 18 October 2017 (UTC)


 * That's a strange legal twist about the Milwaukee newspapers. I hadn't heard about that. I'm still waiting for access to the Publisher Extra newspapers with my Newspapers.com account through Wikipedia. I read that we are supposed to be getting that, but I don't know when it will take effect. Eddie Blick (talk) 15:23, 18 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I'd ask about it because I have the Publishers Extra on my account and it's just great! It includes the Chicago Tribune so what I'm able to do now is search for the missing news articles and fix the links to them.  We hope (talk) 15:27, 18 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Do you know where or whom I should ask? I posted a question about it weeks ago in the discussion where the announcement about getting access to Extra appeared. I asked something to the effect of whether I needed to do anything to get access. Should I post another question in that discussion? Eddie Blick (talk) 15:47, 18 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Why not leave a note at Cameron11598's talk page? According to this those with subscriptions would get an e-mail asking if you'd like the upgrade.  I didn't because it was around this time my subscription was up for renewal-new/renewed accounts automatically are for "full" subscriptions.  Mine was just there when I logged on one day after the renewal.  We hope (talk) 15:56, 18 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the suggestion. I'll do that. I appreciate your help. Eddie Blick (talk) 16:11, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

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J g ballard
Radio episodes not mentioned.See talk Jakescows (talk) 16:17, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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