User talk:Tim riley/Archive29

The World
Hi Tim. Thanks for your very kind offer left on the talk page of The World (journal). My request isn't urgent at all so no rush. So according to the autobiography of James Francis Dwyer, "The World" had a front page article on him following the success of his debut novel The White Waterfall. I can only assume "The World" is this publication. The article was entitled "From Car Conductor to Popular Novelist" and apparently had a sub-heading "From ten dollars a week to ten thousand a year". That's the article I'm looking for. Those direct quotes are taken from the 1949 autobiography so they may be some slight variation in wording if Dwyer's memory wasn't 100% accurate. The White Waterfall was published in 1912.

This June 1912 issue of the New York Times said it would be published "this month". I can find about 10 reviews of the book in American newspapers between June and December 1912. I'm not sure if the release date in the UK were different but I can't imagine it being too far off.

I have spent many a day searching through microfiche for Wikipedia. If I were searching for this front page article I'd probably start early 1912 to be safe and expect to find it before the end of 1913, as there's bound to be some delay between the date the book was released and when it became popular. Obviously I want to take up as little of your time as possible though, so I'd be happy with any kind of search made. Just let me know what dates were searched through if you didn't find it. On the bright side The World was a weekly publication so at least it won't be anywhere near as tedious as searching through a daily publication. Let me know if you think you'd be able to help, and no worries if this kind of search (I.e. without a specific date) is beyond what you're willing to commit to. :) Freikorp (talk) 23:55, 9 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Oh dear, never mind Tim, I found another source that refers to this elusive article and while Dwyer simply refereed to it as 'World' the publication he is referring to is actually New York World. Thanks anyway. :) Freikorp (talk) 12:00, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Heigh ho! Good luck in tracking it down! And if ever you need any rummaging in the British Library please don't be shy about asking me. I truly enjoy it.  Tim riley  talk   16:11, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

FAC
Hey, Tim. You commented on my last FAC (Nicholas Hoult) and I was wondering if you could also take a look my current nomination too (If you have some spare time of course). Thanks either way.  Vedant  Talk  11:23, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Sorry. Too far outside my comfort zone. Good luck with it, of course.  Tim riley  talk   18:12, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Peer review request
You've been excellent help reviewing a couple of articles of mine before, and I'm looking for someone without much (or any) cricket knowledge to take a look at Peer review/Worcestershire v Somerset, 1979/archive1, which I'm hoping to take on to Featured status. Any help you could provide would be amazing. Thanks, Harrias  talk 09:33, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not wholly without knowledge of cricket (although Sarastro1 might raise an eyebrow at that assertion) and have seen Worcs, though not, I think Somerset, play against my native county, but I'll be glad to look in anyway.  Tim riley  talk   18:12, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Would you consider becoming a New Page Reviewer?
Hi Tim riley,

I've recently been looking for editors to invite to join the new page reviewing team, and after reviewing your editing history, I think you would be a good candidate. Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; the new page reviewing team needs help from experienced users like yourself.

Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? Kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. If this looks like something that you can do, please consider joining us. If you choose to apply, you can drop an application over at WP:PERM/NPR. If you have questions, please feel free to drop a message on my talk page or at the reviewer's discussion board.

Cheers, and hope to see you around, —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  07:11, 20 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you for asking me, but at present I'm really rather fully occupied with creating and revising content, doing GAN assessments and contributing to peer reviews and FACs, and with regret had better decline your kind invitation.  Tim riley  talk   18:26, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem at all. Continue with your great work. Cheers, —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  20:42, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

Debussy
Thank you so much for this. Another one of your masterpieces. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:20, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
 * What a very nice message to get! Thank you, sir! I was exceptionally lucky in having two top-notch collaborators on this one: just as well, as to be honest I was swimming with one foot on the bottom, being no expert on, or even a particular fan of, Debussy. I just felt that the old article was so gruesomely bad that Something Must Be Done, and I think we've done it properly between us. Flying solo, I'm within my comfort zone chez Vaughan Williams, who will be on the front page in four days' time.  Tim riley  talk   14:26, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Tim, take a look here - photo of Debussy and Stravinsky taken by Satie - don't you think we should put this in somewhere? - --Smerus (talk) 06:34, 23 August 2018 (UTC)?
 * Splendid pictures (and full marks to Satie) but wouldn't we fall foul of the copyright prefects as the photographer lived till 1925? Meanwhile, I'm happy to have first go at post-front-page cleaning up, if that's OK with you and u|Dmass?  Tim riley  talk   07:50, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * OK I'll make a note for 7 years time The rules say 70 years after death as I read them In fact it's OK and already on commons - File:Debussy Stravinsky 1910.PNG ; very happy meanwhile to leave any cleaning up to you.--Smerus (talk) 08:59, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * As you are the one who has found this picture I think you should have the pleasure of adding it where you think best in the article.  Tim riley  talk   09:23, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Now done.Smerus (talk) 09:05, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Early warning: I note that - beyond Rossini - Stravinsky needs to be added to the list of articles which need a makeover, along with Liszt (frightful), Brahms (I've made an attempt at the life but have stalled at the music so far), and so many others.......Smerus (talk) 09:34, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Hell's bells! What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? Happy to work with you on Stravinsky and Brahms in due course, but you're on your own with Liszt, whose music I can't be having at any price. I might do a bit of preliminary work on the music part of the Brahms article, though what I know about Lieder can be fitted on one side of A4.  Tim riley  talk   10:42, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not a great Lisztophile either, but the article is so painful......Smerus (talk) 14:34, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Political Animals and Animal Politics/archive1
Hi Tim; you were good enough to review this at GAC, and it's now finally gone to FAC. If you have a few minutes, any comments would be appreciated. Josh Milburn (talk) 10:26, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * It will be my pleasure. More soonest.  Tim riley  talk   12:02, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Camille Saint-Saëns scheduled for TFA
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P. G. Wodehouse scheduled for TFA
This is to let you know that the P. G. Wodehouse article has been scheduled as today's featured article for October 15, 2018. Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Today's featured article/October 15, 2018, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1100 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:21, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * PG on the 15th and St Donat's, with mention of PG, on the 16th. A veritable Plum pudding! KJP1 (talk) 18:11, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Source review request
Hey Tim. The coordinator at FAC asked for a source review for the Antiochus XII nomination. I asked for help on the talk page of FAC but no one seems interested. So I was wondering if you have the time and will to do it. I greatly appreciate it, and if you can not, then thank you in any case. Cheers.--Attar-Aram syria (talk) 16:28, 28 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Right ho. I'll leave a note on the FAC page and deliver a source review over the weekend.  Tim riley  talk   18:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

The Amazed Every Day Barnstar
I try to give such things out sparingly, but you have worn me down with your unrelenting daily contributions of astonishing piles of high-quality content to this encyclopedia.


 * Well, thank you, though I'm not entirely sure I want my astonishing piles to feature too prominently in these pages or anywhere else. I could with justice reply that your own contributions are many, various and distinguished, so there!  Tim riley  talk   21:54, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Peer review/Thiruvilaiyadal/archive1
Hello Tim riley sir, been a while. How are things going on with your good self? BTW, Kailash29792 has listed this article about a 1965 cult classic film in Tamil cinema for peer reviewing with the intention of preparing it for FAC and subsequently taking it to FA. As always, your constructive comments would be deeply appreciated. Also do have a look at his other FAC. Thank you. — Ssven2  Looking at you, kid 08:33, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for asking me, but this is so far outside my area of expertise that I think it would be better to leave it to someone who knows about the subject.  Tim riley  talk   18:48, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Battle of Stockton
Dear Tim, Hit upon this at PR, and it's quite interesting. There's an issue around a source, as follows:
 * Serdiville, Rosie (2018). The Battle of Stockton: How a Small Town Saw Off Fascists in 1933. Durham: The Historical Association. 1009-1933

She's a published author, but neither the editor, nor Nikkimaria, nor I can find it on Worldcat or anywhere else. Any chance you could see if the BL can throw any light on it. Much appreciated. KJP1 (talk) 17:05, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
 * 2018 publication date: could take a month or so before the BL gets its copy. Not in their catalogue yet. Bit odd that WorldCat knows not of it. Also odd that there's no ISBN, and that a search of the alleged publisher's site brings up nothing. I can't think of anything helpful to add on this question, alas.  Tim riley  talk   18:47, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Tim - no worries and many thanks for checking. It is rather odd. KJP1 (talk) 21:14, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, it definitely exists ! - SchroCat (talk) 08:45, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * And well done for finding it. I don't do Facebook, otherwise I'd contact them. Where did I read that great quote - "Without the content, Wikipedia's just Facebook for ugly people"! KJP1 (talk) 10:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Having met a few people from WP, I don't think I can really comment, without alienating too many of my colleagues and friends! - SchroCat (talk) 11:06, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Re Hector Berlioz as critic and author
Please note best practices as described here:Copying_within_Wikipedia-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:27, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I think you may have missed my point. This new article includes text that presumably was written by other editors. If you happen to have written every single word, the situation is described at the link. if any other editor contributed to the text, then our requirements for attribution are not preserved, is anyone looking at the history of this new article won't know who contributed to it. It doesn't take great detective skills to guess that it might have come from Hector Berlioz, but attribution shouldn't require guesswork. The ideal step would have been to use the suggested wording in the edit summary when it was copied from the main article but it isn't too late — the desired wording can be added using a dummy edit.


 * Someone might argue that your edit summary does provide sufficient information but I think it's a close call, and would prefer that the new article include the desired wording as an edit summary. Can you do that?-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:40, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * (As an aside, I have to mentioned that Symphonie fantastique is my absolute favorite piece of music.)-- S Philbrick (Talk)  15:42, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry to say you've entirely lost me. Sorry for being dim. Could you do what you think needs to be done on my behalf?  Tim riley  talk  
 * I did it.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  17:46, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! I am most grateful, and will try to remember about this if a similar occasion arises. I hope to get Berlioz to peer review in a week or two: may I take the liberty of asking you to look in then?  Tim riley  talk   20:19, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
 * , Sorry if I was a bit abrupt. Yesterday was an intensely busy day, and I had hoped that my cryptic note would be enough. Let me know when you the article is ready although don't expect too much is that isn't something I work on, but I would like to take a look at it (I know, I could look at it now but I'll wait till then.) S Philbrick  (Talk)  13:08, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Hector Berlioz
To anyone who is kind enough to watch this page: I have Hector Berlioz up for peer review, and contributions, suggestions, exhortations or anything, really, are most cordially invited.  Tim riley  talk   10:18, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks for the Bulgaria FAC spot check! - ☣Tourbillon A ? 13:40, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Thackeray
Morning Mr Riley. So what's your vote—love or hate him, work interesting or dull? Yrs, it's a somewhat loaded question, but once again I have made the textbook error in emerging from the 15th C and out of the comfort zone. Happy Sunday! —— SerialNumber  54129  10:53, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thackeray was all right. A bit too pleased with himself, perhaps, and not, to my mind, all that good at inventing characters interesting or attractive enough to make one anxious to turn the page to see what happens to them next. But a shrewd observer of the human race and a good describer.  Tim riley  talk   10:58, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Navigation template (music)
I have floated a suggestion here and if anyone kind enough to watch my talk page has a view one way or the other I should be glad if he or she would kindly comment there. –  Tim riley  talk   06:50, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Assessing
Good morning Mr Riley. Thank you again for your assessing of multiple articles, and especially for the gracious way in which you pointed out areas for improvement in Battle of Bergerac. By my count I still owe you an assessment. So if there is anything you would like looking at, point me towards it, or bank it and ping me once something you think will be in my comfort zone comes up. Take care. Gog the Mild (talk) 00:13, 30 October 2018 (UTC)


 * What a nice message to get! I'll certainly ask you if a suitable occasion arises.  Tim riley  talk   13:32, 1 November 2018 (UTC)