User talk:Whyaduck

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Welcome to the Southern California WikiProject
If you have any questions or comments about the SoCal WikiProject, or the Wikipedia in general, feel free to contact me.

Also note that for statewide issues, there is the California WikiProject. Blank Verse 10:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Historic landmark categories
Hello! I understand your concern: let me explain. My robot's recent edit did not "remove the category" from Fox Theatre (Atlanta), it merely changed the category from Category:Registered Historic Places in Georgia - which is now deleted - to Category:Registered Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) (and it also tidied up the remaining categories on the article). This was done because of this consensus to disambiguate some Georgia (U.S. state) categories from possible Georgia (country) categories. No change was made to the contents of the category. If there are Historic Landmarks in Georgia that are not in the List of National Historic Landmarks by state, then by all means add them to the list! Let me know if you still need further explanation or help on this. Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 10:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Million Dollar Theater and MWD
Thank you for your clarification for the Metropolitan Water District and its relationship with the Million Dollar Theatre's office building. It is the (MWD) wording on the exterior of the building that stimulate me to look into the fact. Geographer 12:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

CHICOTW
I do not actually believe that you currently reside in Chicago. However, on the chance that for some other reason you may have an affinity for Chicago related articles I hope you will accept the following notice:

TonyTheTiger 00:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies
Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 23:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter
The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 22:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

CHICOTW
TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 18:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

New NRHP Collaboration Division
Hey, saw you were a participant in the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject. I thought I would let you know that there is a new Collaboration Division up for the project. The goal of the division is to select an article or articles for improvement to Good article standard or higher. There is a simple nomination process, which you can check out on the division subpage, to make sure each candidate for collaboration has enough interested editors. This is a good way to get a lot of articles to a quality status quickly. Please consider participating. More details can be seen at the division subpage. IvoShandor 11:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Your question
I clicked on your This link above. Is this a prank of some sort? I'm confused. Whyaduck 23:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Not sure what you think is a prank? I had linked to a page belonging to a user - that page was a draft of some ideas regarding how to deal with pages that do not have adequate references. Since then the user Snottygobble has changed their username, and my link no longer has anywhere to go. The name is actually that of a tree in Western Australia. Regards. SeanMack 03:06, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

GW Smith
Yaay! Somebody else cares about George Washington Smith! Thehappysmith 18:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Slim & Slam, Fleet (for Foot), head rhymes, &c.
I'm sorry, User:Whyaduck, but I am right and you are wrong.

Relying on Google hits to prove anything is a notorious error, into which all too many people fall. Three days ago, I had in my hand an antique vinyl of Slim & Slam, owned by a friend - and on that it has, as clear as day: Flat Fleet Floogie (with a Floy Floy). (Of course, I then went on to listen to it - and the words were unmistakable!) If that doesn't suffice, I also looked the matter up in the "Rough Guide to Jazz" (which was the only reference I could lay my hands on at the time) - and it confirms what the old Slim & Slam cover said - adding that the substitution of "Foot" (or "Feet") for "Fleet" was an error - a modern interpolation.

As for using Google - may I remind you of a British cartoon (in the style of the pre-WWII cartoonist Bateman), published about 10 years ago. It was entitled: The man who confused Information with Knowledge. Misinformation is everywhere on the Internet - with the Wikipedia system, we get a chance to fight against it (to however small an extent). That's what I was doing - and I can prove that I am correct (vide supra).

Also, far be it for me to use a concept (probably) invented in the context of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, but "Flat Fleet Floogie" (with or without a "Floy Floy") is a rather lovely example of a head-rhyme.

So: please change them all back ...and if you don't, I will. Hair Commodore 16:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Anaheim Hills
Thanks for being observant and for fixing things. The background is that an editor user:Ericsaindon2 is obsessed with Anaheim Hills, a neighborhood of Anaheim, California. ES began to make delusional edits as if it were a city- adding it to lists of cities, even creating a "city seal" for it. The whole thing became too much and he was finally banned for adding false information and being disruptive. Anyway, the banning had little effect on his behavior. He still wants to make things his way and tries to find creative ways of sneaking stuff in. I wish there were a better solution. -Will Beback · † · 07:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007
The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published.You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. BetacommandBot 20:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Chicago Theatre GA
TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

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Ben Shahn
You rated this as stub class. It's now more than that and a good article. Please re-assess. Marshall46 (talk) 12:37, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Loves Art
First off, I apologize for the spam. You are receiving this message because you have indicated that you are in Southern California or interested in Southern California topics (either via category or WikiProject, or I happen to know personally).

I would like to invite you to the Los Angeles edition of Wikipedia Loves Art, a photography scavenger hunt to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 1:00 to 7:00 PM. All photos are intended for use in Wikipedia articles or on Wikimedia Commons. There will be a prize available for the person who gets the most photos on the list.

If you don't like art, why not come just to meet your fellow Wikipedians. Apparently, we haven't had a meetup in this area since June 2006!

If you are interested in attending, please add your name to Wikipedia Loves Art. Please make a note if you are traveling to the area (train or plane) and need transportation, which can probably be arranged via carpool, but we need time to coordinate. Lodging is as of right now out of scope, but we could discuss that if enough people are interested.

Thank you and I hope to see you there!  howcheng  {chat} 00:40, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
Hello Whyaduck! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created  is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current Category:All_unreferenced_BLPs article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the unreferencedBLP tag. Here is the article:

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 05:23, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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NRHP Photo Contest
Just a reminder that the WP:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest

will start on Friday, October 21.

Smallbones (talk) 22:58, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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