User talk:Valereee/Archive 36

Sunshine
Happy first day of summer, Valereee!! Interstellarity (talk) 14:30, 20 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks, @Interstellarity! Happy longest day of the year to you, to! —valereee (talk) 14:46, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Sydney Morton
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Run, Little Chillun
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Hey
I really do appreciate that. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 00:31, 21 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Any time. —valereee (talk) 00:35, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Freya Dinshah
Isn't this 'Freya Dinshah' article ready to be published to Wikipedia's mainspace? MaynardClark (talk) 15:54, 24 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure. I'll move it to draft, that'll encourage other people to work on it. —valereee (talk) 22:01, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Okay, it's at Draft:Freya Dinshah now. That encourages others to work on it, and any other editor at any point can move it to mainspace if they think it's ready. —valereee (talk) 22:03, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

DRV Thanks
First, sorry about that. I'm a little scatterbrained today. I was doing good, but today rolled around and then I wasn't. It's the 6th anniversary of my cat passing away. He was more my best friend than a cat. I miss him dearly. So, I'm hurting today. A little grief came out there and I apologize.

Anyway, I appreciate your time, effort, and help on the DRV discussion. I know that is definitely not what you signed up for and definitely not what I intended, but I appreciate you none-the-less. Hope you have an excellent rest of your weekend and week ahead. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 20:58, 27 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Gosh, I so understand. The best cat EVER died four years ago last month. And I've been lucky enough to have had a lot of really, really good cats. I miss her every day, even though I have a couple very entertaining new young rescues. There'll never be another Rosie. :D Don't even give a thought to that discussion, in my head it's cultural artefact. Interesting primarily for purposes of study. —valereee (talk) 00:10, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Indeed, there is that one that will always leave a pawprint on your heart a little more than the others do. Flatsky (named after a teddy bear) was mine.  You (like I with Flatsky) will see Rosie again one day and she'll walk with you always until then. :)


 * I like that, "cultural artifact" and "purposes of study", definitely a good idea. Might I add "a good laugh" as well. :D -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 00:58, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Hey
nothing burger? 😜 -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 02:28, 29 June 2021 (UTC)


 * @Deepfriedokra my go-to euphemism when I'm tempted to write "bullshit" but think it will create more heat than light :D —valereee (talk) 10:30, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

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Current (BusterD) RfA
Hey Valereee. I'm not going to comment there, but i appreciate what you've been doing recently with RfAs and i don't think your questioning the questioner was out of line. Fair play to BusterD who answered it, but i'd like to see more questions challenged (maybe) and more candidates feeling free to ignore what are supposed to be optional (definitely). For what it's worth, thank you; happy days, LindsayHello 17:24, 3 July 2021 (UTC)


 * @LindsayH, thanks! I'm never quite sure where the line is on clerking there. I just got fed up about six or eight RfAs ago and decided heck with it, I'm going to start calling out the sillier questions in hopes it'll make people more likely to think. I'm probably just wasting my time. —valereee (talk) 18:21, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd encourage everyone to be more vocal about which questions they find useful and which they find not useful. It's good feedback for everyone to have. The questioner may even decide to improve their question in response. Levivich 18:34, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Erick Williams
Hi Valerie, I received your comments in regards to the Erick Williams page that I am editing. We represent him for public relations. I did not think that was a conflict of interest? Also, I saw the request for the page to be deleted because of copyright laws. Some of the information is also included in his biography that was written by me. Is that okay? It's not taken from other sources. Thank you for trying to work with me - this is very important to him.

BettieBomb21 (talk) 15:02, 5 July 2021 (UTC) BettieBomb21 (talk) 15:02, 5 July 2021 (UTC) BettieBomb21 (talk) 15:02, 5 July 2021 (UTC) BettieBomb21 (talk) 15:02, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, ! Yes, Wikipedia considers being paid to create an article about someone, or to edit the article about them, as absolutely a conflict of interest. Probably only his mom has a bigger COI. :) You can read more about it at WP:COI. Thank you for disclosing. You'll need to put a disclosure on your talk page and on the article talk if you recreate the article. There are instructions at WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE; if you need help, I can help you with that.
 * I do think it's possible this person is notable enough for an article. What we need to see are at least 3 instances of significant coverage -- an article about him, not just mentioning him in passing -- in reliable unaffiliated sources and not just from the local area.
 * We also need the article itself to be 1. a fresh creation that 2. doesn't sound like it came from his PR firm. :)
 * Fresh creation: That is, it can't be copied from anywhere else on the web, so it can't be simply the bio he uses on his website or that gets sent out in response to press queries or speaking engagements. We consider that a copyright violation -- that's why I deleted the draft you'd submitted. I tell people never to copy/paste unless you're quoting. Instead, read the source, then summarize in your own words.
 * Doesn't sound like PR: articles in WP must be neutral and can only summarize what other reliable sources have said. This can be a little difficult for someone who is used to writing PR, but I'm willing to help you through it. The first thing to do is find your three best sources. Those would be the three most WP:reliable sources that have the most WP:significant coverage (and at least two from outside his local area). Then you summarize what is said in those sources -- and only what is said in those sources, nothing added simply because you know it to be true -- to create your initial draft. If you want to come back when you've done that, I'll take a look. —valereee (talk) 15:26, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Fresh creation: That is, it can't be copied from anywhere else on the web, so it can't be simply the bio he uses on his website or that gets sent out in response to press queries or speaking engagements. We consider that a copyright violation -- that's why I deleted the draft you'd submitted. I tell people never to copy/paste unless you're quoting. Instead, read the source, then summarize in your own words.
 * Doesn't sound like PR: articles in WP must be neutral and can only summarize what other reliable sources have said. This can be a little difficult for someone who is used to writing PR, but I'm willing to help you through it. The first thing to do is find your three best sources. Those would be the three most WP:reliable sources that have the most WP:significant coverage (and at least two from outside his local area). Then you summarize what is said in those sources -- and only what is said in those sources, nothing added simply because you know it to be true -- to create your initial draft. If you want to come back when you've done that, I'll take a look. —valereee (talk) 15:26, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much for sharing this information, Valerie. It is very much appreciated. I am going to start from scratch! BettieBomb21 (talk) 16:34, 6 July 2021 (UTC) BettieBomb21 (talk) 16:34, 6 July 2021 (UTC) BettieBomb21 (talk) 16:34, 6 July 2021 (UTC) BettieBomb21 (talk) 16:34, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

took a whack at the JC campaign button
See if that looks better. BusterD (talk) 18:46, 6 July 2021 (UTC)


 * I think it looks much better! We'll see if anyone else decides to comment. —valereee (talk) 19:23, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

whoops
I think we edit-conflicted both trying to promote Rosalie Carey at the same time. You got the promo credit, but I put her in Template:Did you know/Preparation area 6. Where should she be? Vaticidalprophet 14:53, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Excuse me, but is not to be used as a means of promotion. EEng 04:18, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Didn't you know that's all anyone cares about at DYK? —valereee (talk) 11:09, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I put her into P5 lol...whatever works for you, just move it around! —valereee (talk) 14:56, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Have switched out her P6 spot for Marja Kubašec -- I built most of the current P5, and she does fit well in there :) Vaticidalprophet 14:59, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I got in your way! When I realized that an editor who had been very prolific at building sets recently had thought they needed to try to use most images, and then that over half our approved noms were image hooks, I decided to go do some whatever infill I could with images that weren't really crucial to their hooks. —valereee (talk) 15:13, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks, ! —valereee (talk) 11:13, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

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More silliness...
Started reading a Hebrew translation of Silas Marner (1861), which has Niqqud (what am I, a child?) and letters instead of page numbers (super dumb). So, I notice a passage in the opening page that reads: "remember, in those days there weren't any trains and cars," and was, like, cars, she died in 1880! Naturally, I go to the original (https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/550) as this was quite a WTF moment, and, guess what? Doesn't exist. The translator just made it up!

Obviously, the translation was intended for the young, the fact that it's less than half the length of the original is indicative of that (also, the translator Itzhak Levanon (translator) is preeminent in the area of children books). Granted, this is an old print —the one I have is circa 1965, but it's the 3rd reprint— still, now I'm wandering if many of the translators for the books I read as a kid were also taking such hilarious liberties... //Spam out! El_C 12:54, 12 July 2021 (UTC)


 * That's pretty funny...apparently the translator thought he needed to provide context for why people would be walking from town to town carrying their goods on their backs? —valereee (talk) 13:10, 12 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Don't forget about Wildfire (the horse)! Actually, it was context about why people were superstitious due to their relative isolation: In that far-off time superstition clung easily round every person or thing that was at all unwonted, or even intermittent and occasional merely, like the visits of the pedlar or the knife-grinder. So, yeah, had a good chuckle, thought I'd share. El_C 13:17, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Onwards to Duncton Wood, which I have in 2 hardcovers (300 and 600 pages, respectively). Because...  anthropomorphic moles! Translated by Uriel Ofek, the man, the legend. El_C 22:41, 12 July 2021 (UTC)


 * I so wish I could turn you on to The Silerian Trilogy, the second and third books of which I think are among the best fantasy I've read, but unfortunately never translated into Hebrew. If you ever decide you'd like to read it in English, I would be happy to send you a copy. —valereee (talk) 01:18, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I may take you up on that — sounds like something right up my alley. What a drag that it isn't available in Hebrew (paging Emanuel Lotem, we need you, stat!). But White Dragon? That's Anne McCaffrey's thing! Which I actually do have, along with several of the other Dragonriders of Pern books (including one of the novellas). Definite recommend. Also, The Ship Who Sang (just reread a couple of months ago)... //Melting. El_C 08:07, 13 July 2021 (UTC)