User talk:Astrophobe/Archive bio

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Wikimedia Commons photos

Hello Astrophobe. If you or someone you have contact with could upload photos of Elaine Koppelman and/or Hans P. Eugster on to Wikimedia Commons [1], I can help incorporate them into the articles! Thsmi002 (talk) 12:53, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Query re order of works / awards on biography pages

Hi, saw you'd done a lovely page on Dara Strolovitch. When reading it I was about to re-order the works and awards by increasing rather than decreasing date, since my understanding was that this was the usual wikiway (in contrast e.g. to the usual resume order). Then I noticed you were a super-experienced editor, & you often did things differently, so thought I'd ping you before messing with things.Dsp13 (talk) 14:26, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dsp13, thanks very much for reaching out -- that was a very nice approach! And those are kind words from a real experienced editor ;) I actually don't really know of a consistent pattern in the ordering of works and awards, and when I looked a while back I couldn't find any sort of MoS entry or Consensus on it, so I was totally winging it. So the fact that you consider reverse chronology to be the standard way around here is definitely good enough for me -- I'll go reorder things I've written. Thanks again for the heads up! - Astrophobe (talk) 18:27, 12 January 2020 (UTC)in in

No problem. One useful side-effect of the ordering convention is that it helps discourage people copy-pasting entire academic resumes into WP. Am enjoying myself today writing a bio of Cary Baynes, which I hope to put up soon. Best, Dsp13 (talk) 21:09, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Valerie Jane Bunce

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Nomination of Tara McGowan for deletion

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Kinngait Co-operative

Hello! Since you liked my other Inuit artist stubs, I though you might like this one too. It's the artist's co-op where they have been buying, selling and reprinting Inuit works for 60 years. Lots of coverage, but my writing is a bit dry. Feel free to edit if you like.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 07:10, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

{{yo|ThatMontrealIP]] Oooh, thanks so much for sharing! I missed this message at first (just a busy few days) and I'm about to head to bed now, but I'll Watch the page as a reminder to myself to look through it carefully later. But at first glance it looks like a really great page! - Astrophobe (talk) 04:13, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

@ThatMontrealIP: Sigh, of course I screwed up the one thing that you can't just edit: a ping. - Astrophobe (talk) 04:13, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Advice

please see my note at Talk:Mae_C._King DGG ( talk ) 23:30, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Lovett

How dare you. The nurse said he could call himself 5'7". Guy (help! - typo?) 21:01, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Hahaha, good point JzG, far be it for me to tell a man what height to call himself. Now maybe if he takes up professional basketball it'll merit a mention in his Wikipedia biography ... - Astrophobe (talk) 21:42, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Astrophobe, Fauci was a college basketball player of some distinction, despite his lack of height. Guy (help! - typo?) 08:57, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Very minor suggestion

Hi there, as a very minor suggestion, don't forget the Biography project when tagging projects for bios. :) -Kj cheetham (talk) 10:14, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Good reminder, thanks! - Astrophobe (talk) 19:11, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Layla Love & Sennagod

I've started a thread on User:Sennagod's behaviour regarding the Love biography at WP:ANI [2] AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:46, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi AndyTheGrump, thank you for letting me know, and sorry I haven't been involved -- real life had the audacity to demand my attention this week! I am glad to see that there's been some action, and I hope that things settle down on that page soon enough. As someone who's waded very deep through the trenches of BLP construction, nothing makes me sweat quite like watching a frontal assault on the wikipedia page of a living subject. Every once in a while, a sufficiently tenacious editor can use extremely innocuous textual changes to really drag somebody through the mud on the talk page and in edit summaries, when that person's only crime was being the subject of an article that they had nothing to do with. It's one of the few things that really scares me about wikipedia. If it ever happened to a page I wrote I would G7 in a heartbeat, no matter how much work I'd put into it. Thanks for keeping an eye on that page, and I really hope this calms things down. - Astrophobe (talk) 02:32, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Norman Livermore

Thanks for noticing. That was a long time ago. Cullen328 (talk) 01:33, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Cullen328, it's a great page! I think it's never too late to say thanks :) Happy New Year. - Astrophobe (talk) 02:02, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

At the very least, you motivated me to re-read my own work, and I think I did OK. Thanks again. Happy 2022 to you. Cullen328 (talk) 02:05, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Maureen Wroblewitz

Hello. Help copy edit. Nomji (talk) 01:54, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Nomji, you won't get far demanding that people help you on a volunteer project like Wikipedia. Try to ask nicely for help at the Teahouse or at a relevant WikiProject. - Astrophobe (talk) 04:12, 11 September 2021 (UTC)