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Welcome to my talk page. Be sure to sign your comments with ~~~~. If you do something nice for me—review one of my articles, for instance—I'll give you an IOU. On the other hand, I expect the reverse to also be true. Archive Box 1—2—3—4—5—6 Holiday cheer Holiday Cheer Michael Q. Schmidt my talk page is wishing you Season's Greetings! This message celebrates the holiday season, promotes WikiLove, and hopefully makes your day a little better. Spread the seasonal good cheer by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Share the good feelings. Oh my, does that mean there's an admin watching over my page? ;) ResMar 01:29, 24 December 2012 (UTC) The Bugle: Issue LXXXI, December 2012 Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: The month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Simon Harley on British battleships and Nick-D on the French Resistance Interview: Five editors discuss some less-represented areas of military history Op-ed: Ian Rose looks back on 2012 The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 09:00, 24 December 2012 (UTC) Hey I just saw your post at WT:FA; I believe schizophrenia has been through a few FARs. I'm not sure if it was ever delisted, but it's definitely been rehauled several times over its history. I think it's a great place to start. ceranthor 04:34, 25 December 2012 (UTC) Good to see you're still out and about. ResMar 14:38, 25 December 2012 (UTC) Consistency: Mauna Loa needs some for units. Can't keep switching between km and mi, and abbr and non-abbr. ceranthor 23:42, 26 December 2012 (UTC) Ah you mean in the later sections ;) Haven't gotten that far yet, hehe. ResMar 03:18, 27 December 2012 (UTC) Merry Xmas Merry antipodean Xmas hope yours is/was fun, and you had a good turkey :) Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 07:04, 25 December 2012 (UTC) Haha thanks. ResMar 14:38, 25 December 2012 (UTC) Seems a bit overdue The Tireless Contributor Barnstar In recognition of your unfailing dedication to improving Hawaiian volcanism articles, which I feel I have taken for granted for far too long. Thank you for your service! ceranthor 20:45, 28 December 2012 (UTC) Well that's an unexpected surprise. Thanks! ResMar 21:00, 28 December 2012 (UTC) The WikiProject: Good Articles Newsletter (January 2013) The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter Volume IV, No. 1 – January 2013 For past newsletters click here In This Issue Featured editorial: Skyfall by Hahc21. Project News: A record, and issue and a future. Good Articles of the Month: See which articles were picked this year of records: 190 articles passed in December! GA Task Forces: Results from the drive Member News: Two crucial users leave the project Read this newsletter Single-page Unsubscribe Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot · 3 January 2012 This newsletter was delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 14:28, 3 January 2013 (UTC) Ultra listing tweak Quick question. Should I go ahead and do this to all the US ultra prominent peaks? I had considered doing it like that anyway. --RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me 03:24, 12 January 2013 (UTC) I think you should, avoids unnecessary clutter in infoboxes and is aesthetically smoother as well. Don't ask me what the Mountains project standard for this is, though, I haven't a clue, lol. ResMar 03:29, 12 January 2013 (UTC) I was following the style of the Canadian ultras, though I hadn't decided the approach to use for the rest of the world's ultras. This could be the route I go with. I agree that it is aethetically more pleasing. Coincidentally I am actively trying to make other mountain infoboxes look cleaner, but I guess I went backwards on this set. It just never sat well with that we put a link to Ultra prominent peak (displayed as Ultra) at the 'listing' parameter; and I felt the Canadian ultras had it right, linking to List of Ultras of Canada in their infoboxes. --RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me 03:41, 12 January 2013 (UTC) I agree with you, guess that means I should go change the Mauna Kea infobox too, haha. Perhaps you should bring it up on the project or infobox talk page? If you haven't already; I haven't checked. ResMar 03:48, 12 January 2013 (UTC) No I haven't but I should and will now that you mention it. Thnx. RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me 04:04, 12 January 2013 (UTC) tks for map ... in Taiwanese aborigines. • Serviceable†Villain 12:16, 23 January 2013 (UTC) The Bugle: Issue LXXXII, January 2013 Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: The month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Nick-D looks at Mongol naval power Op-ed: Crisco 1492 on war films The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:55, 23 January 2013 (UTC) A barnstar for you! The Barnstar of Diligence Many thanks for taking the trouble to explain User:Dapete/ImageMapEdit.js to me, for adding an imagemap to and informing me of an error in Template:Volcanic Eruption Map, and for creating File:Hawaii_Volcanoes_Hazard_Map.svg — I like it! cmɢʟee୯ ͡° ̮د ͡° ੭ 14:43, 27 January 2013 (UTC) Thank you :) ResMar 15:19, 27 January 2013 (UTC) Copyedit query Fascinating article. One query: "in neither case are the editors beholden to vetting the sourcing of the article in question (they rarely do; otherwise who would bother?)" I don't think you are using "beholden" correctly here, and I don't understand the "otherwise who would bother". Could you have a look? Best, Andreas JN466 20:17, 9 February 2013 (UTC) I use beholden in the sense that irregardless of what the GA standards have to say on verifiability, reviewers are not truly obligated (synonymous) to do so. As for the latter point, I've added a note qualifying the statement. ResMar 20:24, 9 February 2013 (UTC) I understand what you mean, but usually, you are beholden to someone–beholden means pretty much the same as "indebted" or "obliged (to someone)" (as in "much obliged to you"). See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beholden Up to you, but to me it sounds off, especially as the rest of the article is so well written. Andreas JN466 20:32, 9 February 2013 (UTC) Hmm. I see your point; I'll make the change. ResMar 20:34, 9 February 2013 (UTC) Great. --Andreas JN466 20:36, 9 February 2013 (UTC) Heh. ResMar 20:37, 9 February 2013 (UTC) You know, as for checking sources in GA reviews, there is this nugget in the relevant guideline, Wikipedia:Reviewing_good_articles: Ideally, a reviewer will have access to all of the source material, and sufficient expertise to verify that the article reflects the content of the sources; this ideal is not often attained (my emphasis). It then goes on to say, At a bare minimum, check that the sources used are reliable (for example, blogs are not usually reliable sources) and that those you can access support the content of the article (for example, inline citations lead to sources which agree with what the article says) and are not plagiarized (for example, close paraphrasing of source material should only be used where appropriate, with in text attribution if necessary). I am a little bit wary that you might get a few complaints from GA reviewers if you imply too strongly that they generally don't bother to read the sources. I think what is definitely the case is that the process is very, very patchy, especially given that anyone can do it, regardless of how competent they are, and that only one editor's word is enough to pass an article. But I also know that there are GA reviewers who are quite meticulous about reading the sources and checking that the article content matches (I certainly did that on the few GAs I have reviewed). In case you haven't seen it, there was also a discussion about the hoax problem here a few weeks ago. A change was made to the guideline as a result. Hope that helps. Regards, Andreas JN466 21:55, 9 February 2013 (UTC) I made further qualifications to the footnote, but I'm hesitant to change the statement since it's still broadly true. If regular vetting was going on and things were still slipping through, it would be significantly scarier; besides, I'm entitled to my opinion here :) Cheers, ResMar 22:24, 9 February 2013 (UTC) No prob. :) Note that Kalnapilis wasn't a featured article, nor a TFA: it was merely a DYK (the article was recently expanded). Here is where it was added to the German DYK template. The article is still accessible in the German Wikipedia's humour archive: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Humorarchiv/Bon%C5%8D_Pus%C4%AB_Kalnapilis It's a pity, because it made a nice ending ... but it should be fixed. Best, Andreas JN466 01:45, 10 February 2013 (UTC) Ugh, good thing you caught that error or that would have been embarrassing. ResMar 02:06, 10 February 2013 (UTC) Loa I'm glad to see you're still up for this - I'm going to try and help you as best as I can. ceranthor 13:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC) It's coming along, little by little. All the geology and volcanology stuff is done, human history is about halfway there, and then there's Ecology and maybe Tourism that needs to be done, not to mention all the spiffing up. ResMar 13:46, 10 February 2013 (UTC) (if you want to contribute, I'm all for it, working on the article is grinding) ResMar 15:04, 10 February 2013 (UTC) DYK Nomination Hi Resident Mario, Thanks for reviewing my DYK nomination for the article on Elizabeth Wolley today. I asked there if you'd mind taking a look at my Walter Buckler DYK nomination if you have time, and it occurs to me that you perhaps wouldn't have seen my comment there, so I'm leaving a note on your Talk page. Best, NinaGreen (talk) 03:10, 12 February 2013 (UTC) Just from a quick scan, your lead is far too short to adequately cover the article. I'll take a look. ResMar 04:06, 12 February 2013 (UTC) WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter - February 2013 The WikiProject Good articles Newsletter Volume IV, No. 2 – February 2013 For past newsletters click here In This Issue Featured editorial: Time to make a Sweep by Hahc21. Project News: Several proposals are currently ongoin at the project, including two requests for comment. Good Articles of the Month: See which articles were picked this year of records: 282 articles passed in January! GA Task Forces: Some minor notes this month Member News: Member news Read this newsletter Single-page Unsubscribe Newsletter delivered by EdwardsBot · 12 February 2012 DYK for Jacob Little Orlady (talk) 16:03, 21 February 2013 (UTC) Your last op-ed Hi, I translated your last op-ed for my fellows on the French Wikipedia : La fabrication des canulars. Nice article. Regards, Cantons-de-l'Est (talk) 03:13, 24 February 2013 (UTC) =-) ResMar 03:26, 24 February 2013 (UTC) Op-ed Hello there! Thanks for writing an op-ed. I have to admit though, I haven't read it all. I don't exactly think the phrase, "dearth of vandalism lasting more than a few seconds" is accurate. I just happened to go check for vandalism, and I found two examples (1, 2) that lasted over two hours. Why do you think vandalism is no longer a major problem? I am wondering where those statistics or that idea comes from. As you can see here, I've been interested in this idea previously. (I'm not just randomly complaining to you.) =) Biosthmors (talk) 04:39, 27 February 2013 (UTC) Well, those two edits are more exceptions than rules, aren't they? As West said, 40% of vandalism is now handled by bots—that's no small number, and the implementation and refinement of manual tools and automatic bots have done a lot. Nonetheless, I don't state that it's not a major problem, only that it's less of one. ResMar 02:37, 2 March 2013 (UTC) Thanks for the reply. I doubt we have good data on the problem. :-/ Biosthmors (talk) 18:06, 3 March 2013 (UTC) The Bugle: Issue LXXXIII, February 2013 Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Nick-D looks at US Army leadership since World War II The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 07:10, 27 February 2013 (UTC) Good Article Nominations Request For Comment A 'Request For Comment' for Good Article Nominations is currently being held. We are asking that you please take five to ten minutes to review all seven proposals that will affect Good Article Nominations if approved. Full details of each proposal can be found here. Please comment on each proposal (or as many as you can) here. At this time, Proposal 1, 3, and 5 have received full (or close to) support. If you have questions of anything general (not related to one specif proposal), please leave a message under the General discussion thread. Please note that Proposal 2 has been withdrawn and no further comments are needed. Also, please disregard Proposal 9 as it was never an actual proposal. The Bugle: Issue LXXXIV, March 2013 Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Nick-D looks at refugees during the Battle of France Interview: Editors discuss writing articles about the former Yugoslavia Op-ed: Prioryman on German V-weapon sites and the historian's responsibility The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 03:40, 25 March 2013 (UTC) Jacob Little I added a bit to the Jacob Little article and added some comments here. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 14:00, 31 March 2013 (UTC) Ok, I've gone through it. ResMar 15:13, 2 April 2013 (UTC) The Bugle: Issue LXXXV, April 2013 Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Sturmvogel 66 and Hawkeye7 look at aspects of the Pacific War Op-ed: ErrantX considers the rabbit hole of research The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here. If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 15:06, 23 April 2013 (UTC)