User talk:Dystopos/Archive 5

This is an archive of comments left during 2011-2014. For the current discussion page, see User talk:Dystopos. For previously archived discussions, see User Talk:Dystopos/Archive 1 (2004-2005), User Talk:Dystopos/Archive 2 (2006), User Talk:Dystopos/Archive 3 (2007), or User Talk:Dystopos/Archive 4 (2008-2010)

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• Fixed. --Dystopos (talk) 22:13, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Regarding Doris Burn edit rollbacks

Dystopos,

I know it's been a rather long time since you rolled back my changes on the Doris Burn article due to no source. Doris (or Doe as we called her) is my grandmother. I was with her in her final days with my family. She was struggling in her last years with Alzheimer disease and then broke her hip, followed by a rapid decline in health. We moved her to her daughter (my aunt) Skye's apartment and used it as a home hospice. She stopped eating and drinking and her morphine levels were adjusted to keep her comfortable until her body slowly shut down and she died some days later. Doe was an amazing woman, vibrant, fascinating, and always interested in the world and people around her. When I was a child I lived with her for a brief time in Oakland, California. Her small apartment was constantly filled with artists and other people. Watching her mind slowly slip away in the last few years was extraordinarily painful. As to the article and what I wrote, there was no primary source other than myself and the other family members and I'm not really sure how an individual is supposed to be a source, so no doubt your edits are factually correct under the verifiability clause, but I thought you might like to know why those edits were made.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Finnian.burn (talk • contribs)

• Thanks for the comments. I can tell you that "Andrew Henry's Meadow" was very influential to me, and I am thankful for your grandmother's talents and sensibilities. If you believe the article contains shortcomings, let me know and we'll figure out the best way to improve it. --Dystopos (talk) 19:34, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Dystopos,

Thanks for your reply. No, there is nothing in particular I would change, you've covered most of her life and work. Besides which, everything I can give you is first hand accounts and knowledge from growing up in the family and that won't meet the requirement of verifiability for wikipedia. I will say I'm glad that Andrew Henry's Meadow touched you. Mark Nathaniel Burn, the basis of the book, is my father. While the books is of course a work of fiction, I cannot count the number of strange adventures I've had with my dad exploring the working of some machine, industrial, or commercial system. Then again... I can't count the number of strange adventures I've had growing up a Burn in the Pacific Northwest. Each and every one of us is rather peculiar in the same vein as Doe or June and Farrar. Actually, that's something that's strange... you don't have any connection to June and Farrar Burn. They are the other prominent wikipedia family members, well June has her own page, Farrar seems to be relegated to other sources like the National Archives. If there's anything you'd like to know, feel free to ask. And thanks for authoring the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Finnian.burn (talk • contribs) 16:57, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

• There's already a brief mention of the friendship struck up between the Burn and Wernstedt families after June interviewed Lage for the "Bellingham Herald." Glad to hear we've got the basics covered for Wikipedia. --Dystopos (talk) 19:41, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Lant

Hello. Your article Lant has had a {{No footnotes}} template since 2010, meaning "This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations." Perhaps you could respond, please, to identify the article's references more precisely. Thank you. — O'Dea (talk) 03:56, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

• The references cover the same scope of information and specific quotes are clearly cited in the body of the article. I removed the template. Other editors are welcome to make formatting improvements if they think it is important to readers. --Dystopos (talk) 14:45, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

I replied at Talk:Lant to make the conversation coherent. Since you put a copy of your reply on my talk page, I did not know you had replied here also. I have put Talk:Lant on my watchlist so you can reply there. Thank you. — O'Dea (talk) 20:31, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

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Fire station photos in Birmingham

Hi Dystopos. I wrote an article on Historic fire stations of Birmingham, Alabama, and ran across some photos of yours on flickr (specifically Station No. 22 and several of Station No. 12). Would you be willing to upload these (and any other historic fire station photos you may have) to Commons? It would greatly help out the article. Thanks! Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 03:23, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

• You have my permission to re-use any of my Creative Commons photographs on Flickr here under a Wikimedia Commons-compatible license. --Dystopos (talk) 13:52, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! I also ran across BhamWiki, but unfortunately the Local 117 site that was heavily linked seems to be dead and not well covered on archive.org. Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 01:29, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed that. Unfortunate. --Dystopos (talk) 15:28, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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