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February 2009

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Guillaume Schnaebelé

Hi! Thanks for your message. Unfortunately, the original captions seem to be unreadable, but I guess I'll have a go at making something up that isn't too much like the text on the website - which as far as I can gather is different from the original. - Mu (talk) 20:42, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Ecomigrant

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March 2009

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I quoted you...

I quoted you. Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 00:11, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see it as a quote. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.131.217.210 (talk) 10:09, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

April 2009

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Cat standardization and idioms

Put bluntly, you're wrong. Firstly, idioms probably don't belong on Wikipedia, see WP:DICT. Secondly, mentioning their use isn't important, any more than the article "the" should mention all the places that word is used.

Secondly, the popular culture articles being retitled is a simple matter of standardization. The two I moved are essentially identical in form to dozens (hundreds?) of other articles in Category:In popular culture. A standard form of title is more elegant. I can't imagine any reason why you'd undo that (especially since you didn't specify one), so I can only assume you're engaging in vengeful editing. Simply running around undoing all my edits because you had a problem with one is hardly conducive to encyclopedia building. Don't do it anymore. Mintrick (talk) 00:46, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Eating crow

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DYK: Elizabeth Caroline Grey

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George Moore

Do you have a verifiable source for this edit of your to George Moore (novelist)‎? Being a FA I think such a statement should be properly sourced. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 23:45, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

R. E. Streeter

I think you need to wind yer neck in a bit; this page is about two steps away from being deleted, and I could care less about that.
I asked a civil question about notability and got sarcasm from you.
Now, if you care about keeping this article you can work with me on it; otherwise, forget it.
I’ve left some questions on the talk page there.Swanny18 (talk) 08:09, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

PS: And don’t remove tags that say there’s a problem with an article if you are not prepared to do anything to fix the problem. Swanny18 (talk) 08:10, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

"As far as I can tell you haven't tried to do anything except add a nag tag and wait for someone else to fix the problem. If you had actually done some work on the article and made a good faith effort to "work with me" on improving it rather than trolling with threats of deletion and nag tags you might get something more than sarcasm. Green Cardamom (talk) 14:56, 3 July 2009 (UTC)"

Try reading what I actually said, and try reading the revision histories; The aggravation started at your end. Swanny18 (talk) 23:02, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Alec John Dawson

Hi, I've been researching this author and found your newish article on him today. It's great to see him included on Wikipaedia but I'd love to see the entry expanded and indeed corrected - his date of death's wrong at present. The right one's given on the discussion page I've started over on the article itself... I'd be happy to help out further but haven't posted on Wikipaedia before so would welcome guidance on this... Best wishes... Sun-in-splendour (talk) 16:31, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Green Cardamom, I've now drafted an expanded article on Dawson (link on my user page) and would really welcome any comments you might have at this stage! Two specific queries I had were

1) whether the links I've included to specific Dawson texts on Project Gutenberg/ Internet Archive should be there, or whether the general links at the bottom of the article are enough

2) How to include an illustration of Dawson. There's a somewhat hilarious photo (the only one I know of) showing him 'in Moorish guise' + a large black beard in one of his books on the Internet Archive, so presumably in the public domain... Not sure how I'd upload it though!

Very many thanks

Sun-in-splendour (talk) 14:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Wolf Hall

Sure. Irregulargalaxies (talk) 01:53, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Walf Hall Copyright

Hi. I've removed his copied text again, but put in a permenant link to it in your report so it can still be viewed. I've also linked to the article's history. Hope this is ok. If he carries on it might be worth taking this to ANI for them to deal with. Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Actually, given the extent of the problem I think I'll take it to ANI now. I'll copy everything over from the copyvio talk page and see what happens. Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:13, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Discussion now open. Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:23, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Red Herring

I noticed that you removed the Mother Goose quotation from this article:

A man in the wilderness asked this of me
How many strawberries grow in the sea?
I answered him as I thought good
As many red herrings as swim in the wood.

Why? It illustrates the popular view of the idea of training scent hounds by dragging a red herring through the woods, from an extremely important source on the evolution of the English language. And it is self-referential, illustrating the idiomatic use of a Red Herring. How is this unrelated trivia? Aymatth2 (talk) 01:00, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Copied and followed up on the article talk page. Green Cardamom (talk) 02:02, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sifu Versus

Calling someone a "red-link newbie" and baselessly accusing them of sockpuppetry for vote stacking purposes, along with your other insinuations in the above conversation, is close to a "personal attack." Some might actually consider it to be one. I personally am a fan of thick skins on here, so I don't (you're not exactly flying into a psychotic rage, hehe), but I want to warn you now because the AfD is not a venue for your strange slander against another editor. It is for discussing the relative merits of the article at hand. If you have evidence that JBsupreme is doing what you say he's doing (and considering I'm the only other person who's voted thus far, if he's vote stacking he's doing an amazingly poor job of it), contact an Admin, don't fling accusations in an AfD.

Additionally, as I mention at the AfD, the "red-link newbie" you are talking to has more than 10 times as many edits as you, has been a registered editor for almost a year longer than you, and is a frequent contributor to AfD. So...you know...maybe you should just quit the attack/well-poisoning stuff while you're behind. Just my two cents. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 00:54, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Charles Garvice

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DYK for And babies

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Hi

Hi Green Cardamon, I answered you here. Greetings, --Albrecht1 (talk) 18:01, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Rosalie Duthe

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Hi, sorry for appearing to slowly edit war, I hadn't checked that it was you who had added in in both times, and for not explaining my rationale. Basically per WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided, point 1 , the information in the linked document should be in the article, if it was ever to get to a better state. So can we copy the information into a section on characters? It was a great book to read and your information would have helped me keep track! --Stephen 21:56, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

I think it's copyright (no CC license on the page) so can't copypaste; and the list probably isn't really appropriate for Wikipedia, too many names too long, normally only focus on main characters, unless perhaps if there was a List of characters in The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet article? We should probably keep the EL, until something comparable on Wikipedia ever made it redundant. It would really be a lot of work to create that list for Wikipedia because many of the descriptions are paraphrased from the book directly and would need to be sourced with quotations to prevent it from being tagged with a copyvio. Green Cardamom (talk) 16:22, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Brent Lundy

• Thank you so much. I am new to this, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Should I start an Ultraviolets article in my user space? or what exactly do I do for a merge? Docmusique1 (talk) 11:51, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

• Been on holiday, but plan to start the article this weekend! Will keep you posted! Thanks again for all of your help! Docmusique1 (talk) 13:07, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Changing referencing style

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• As far as I can see those changes to Vivian Maier are a marked improvement. Naming refs so that they can be combined into one footnote is prefered. Abductive (reasoning) 00:27, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Red links in literary award pages

I'm kind of new to Wikipedia editing, and I'm not familiar with these conventions. Pardon my ignorance, but why should the authors be redlinked? Will the red links help pages get created for these authors? Wolfehhgg (talk) 19:56, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

It's a good idea to redlink if something is notable enough that it will probably have an article created in the future. One reason is as you said, another reason is it's a courtesy because when it's black (no wikilink) the reader has no idea if a potential live wikilink has since been created, which means they have to manually check. For example imagine this article in 2 years time, those authors currently without a wikilink have since had bio articles created, but no one has updated this article to wikilink to them. It's a common occurrence, you can never assume article's don't exist just because they are not linked. If it's not wikilinked (red or otherwise) you have to manually check, which makes redlinks a convenience for readers they can see right away the status without wondering if an article exists but just hasn't been linked. For authors who have won literary awards, it's a strong case they will eventually have a Wikipedia article. Also some of the more popular book titles that have won multiple awards, can justify redlinks. Green Cardamom (talk) 09:20, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much for clearing that up. Wolfehhgg (talk) 20:27, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Re: WP:ELMAYBE #1

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Too many cn tags

Thank you for your message. The Bahrain and 2011 Bahraini protests pages are an edit war battleground and it therefore seemed more appropriate to point out each unsupported statement, rather than simply rely on a single overriding refimprove tag. regards Mztourist (talk) 01:57, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Literary awards

Please don't add entries to the list of literary awards unless they already have bluelinks. To do otherwise would be to invite spam. DS (talk) 16:32, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Okay. But henceforth, don't add them to the list until after the links are blue. DS (talk) 17:11, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Clarification needed

Regarding this diff please see Talk:A Visit From the Goon Squad#Issues. Perhaps you meant to cite the APR podcasts, or some other reference? Viriditas (talk) 11:41, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Wellington R. Burt

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Culture of Schwäbisch Hall

Fixed it. It was just missing text. Kingjeff (talk) 03:16, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Wellington R. Burt

Materialscientist (talk) 01:19, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

That article has a pretty odd page views distribution. hmm. jorgenev 23:30, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Hah, you noticed. Well three events happened: 1. I created the article around the same time the story hit the wire (AP, etc) and so it got a lot of traffic from people Googling his name to learn more. 2. DYK caused the second peak on May 20th. 3. Good Morning America or some other major network show did a video piece about him and that caused the third peak. Green Cardamom (talk) 23:46, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Word. Well congrats on the entry into WP:DYKSTATS! jorgenev 11:30, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for this edit. Interested in helping me expand the article? I know it has been missing for a long time, so I figure there is a lot of catching up we could do with it :P Happy editing!! ¬¬¬¬

GAN of Wellington R. Burt

I've placed the article's review on hold, see the talk page for more details. (This post is essentially a talkback, don't reply here.) Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 13:50, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

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I really like the change you made on butter sculpture

Thanks for finding a good way to include all the relevant information. I'm working on yak butter now, if you are interested in taking a look. Sharktopus ^talk 14:20, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the help on yak butter too! I am going to go put us both up for DYK on it now. Sharktopus ^talk 17:44, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

July 2011

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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	You do good work in general - and as an image advocate on WP, I am especially impressed that you went to the trouble to get licensed, legitimate photos from the source itself! Too cool Tesseract2(talk) 05:26, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge

Thanks for sorting that out, and reverting the two places where I had changed it. I was coming back to say, we ought at least to have a stub about it, you could do it better than me, and I saw with pleasure that you had already done it. I had better apologise to the original "commies built it" author for A10-ing him. Cheers, JohnCD (talk) 21:50, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Yak butter

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 08:05, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Once A Week (magazine)

I see that you've done most of the work on Once A Week (magazine). I'll be linking to it soon, in connection with an article I'm developing on Trollope's Vicar of Bullhampton.

Is there a typo in the John Sutherland quote in the first paragraph? I assume that there should be an apostrophe: "magazine's". However, I'm loath to change something inside quotation marks unless I've actually seen the source.

Thanks for checking up on this—

Ammodramus (talk) 03:02, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

typo, fixed, thanks. Green Cardamom (talk) 04:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

In connection with this, I've just looked at the article on E. S. Dallas, to which you've recently added a mention of his editing OAW briefly in 1868. According to a number of my Trollope sources, he was still editor in March 1869. Can you check up on this? Unfortunately, my sources don't give the dates of his tenure at OAW, so I can't edit the article myself. --Ammodramus (talk) 03:21, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't have a source, my edit was a dab, go with your source since whoever wrote it didn't cite. Green Cardamom (talk) 04:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

William Hunter Campbell

please see Talk:William Hunter Campbell
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The Home of the Blizzard

I've been fiddling with some wording to include a mention of The Home of the Blizzard into Far Eastern Party, but as I say I don't want too much detail on it, given how long the Aftermath section is already. How about this:

First published in 1915, Mawson's account of the expedition, The Home of the Blizzard, devotes two chapters to the Far Eastern Party; one contemporary reviewer commented that "undoubtedly to the general public the interest of the book centres in [this] moving account."

Or, taking a slightly different and longer approach:

First published in 1915, Mawson's account of the expedition, The Home of the Blizzard, devotes two chapters to the Far Eastern Party; one contemporary commentator noted that the chapters were "seized upon by reviewers in the press and perhaps convey to those who have not read the book the impression that the expedition, as a whole, was spent in gloom and in the shadow of death."

Either of these would be inserted into the last paragraph of Aftermath, just before "A later analysis by J. Gordon Hayes". Apterygial ^talk 01:18, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

I've added it in. Apterygial ^talk 12:34, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Hitler's moustache

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James Wyatt

Hey, thanks for taking the time to improve this article. :) I had just added a photo to it yesterday, so I was glad to see someone else working on it already. If you're interested, there are many other bios on people in the RPG industry that could use better sourcing and/or expansion! BOZ (talk) 12:22, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

It was a random find and lucky I could dig up an obscure source. The problem with these RPG industry articles as a group they appear to be written by inexperienced editors and poor source availability (the people are still alive and fairly young). They are challenging articles. Green Cardamom (talk) 18:05, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Peak car

Hi there. I noticed you created and you are the main author of peak car. I would like to proposed to you to change the article name to Peak car use or to Peak travel. I prefer the former, grammatically gives a better idea of what the article is about (related to automobiles not any kind of travel), the concept is used in several of the papers included in the references, and the name is available, meaning that we can move it without losing the page history. Peak travel on the other hand, is already a redirect, so a clean move is not possible. Cheers.--Mariordo (talk) 22:17, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Additional comment

I responded to your comment both earlier on an article page, and to your later comment on my talk page, but thought I would leave a more general comment here. Your edit summaries assumed bad faith, which is something we try to avoid. If you had looked at my 80,000 edits, you would see that they were not fact-based; I've added images to hundreds of people lists, not just this author -- and this author's image was an especially good one (we often lack images, or have poor ones). Our people lists are properly augmented with images; such additions bring it closer to featured status. I see that you started by deleting the image from an article you created and edited primarily, where the author won an award that was the subject of the article. The better course -- where the image is both appropriate and a good one, as there -- is for you to add more images, which I often do, and have done for you on that article that you created; I assume that there was not ownership issue involved in your reaction, and that you just had concern that would have been more properly had if you were dealing with single-issue editor, rather than one who spends his time improving articles (and, of course, if I were a single issue editor, I would have improved the author's article, which you can see I have not (as of yet) done). I usually, though not always, add more than one image at a time to a list article, but was tired at the time I added these; I expect that you would have been less concerned if you had seen that, and will try to be more vigilant about doing that in the future where appropriate. If you have concern as to the addition of an image as to a specific article, I think it is often a helpful approach to so indicate, rather than in an edit summary make a broad-based assertion that is not appropriate in any event if the image is appropriately placed in an article .... IMHO, of course. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 12:30 am, Today (UTC−4)

ANI thread

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Printed solar panel article - needs revamped

I re-read the last reference you posted on the discussion page. Much of my objection to this article is about the title of being a "printed" component (printed solar panel) and being as cheap as a inkjet printing to produce. Both of these are a stretch to say the least, and somehow suggests that this technology is or will be as cheap as a household printer - no way. This is the only reference with any sort of technical description of the process. It also is not a "panel" since it is not rigid and deliberately designed not to be anything like a solar panel. Sorry I am retired from the semiconductor field and do not have access to the Advanced Materials reference - nor desire to pay for a subscription. The other references are nothing more than articles written in a marketing vein and pretty much wishful thinking for the future of the technology. The online videos are not very helpful in determining the method of manufacture, and marketing oriented.

Do you mind if I take a shot at editing the main page? I may be able to salvage it, although I can only take it so-far with limited reference material. My biggest objection is the page title itself, and suggest renaming it from "printed solar panel" to something else, such as "solar cell research for low manufacturing cost" (ok, I need help with the title, and may not have the privilege to make such a change anyway. Plus the topic alone is quite broad and vague). The "digital wallpaper" concept has been around for decades and nobody has made a decent run at making it viable. The one reference I could read described a methodology for patterning of materials akin to (but not the same as) screen printing. Printing itself is a process that applies a pressure to deposit a generally gooey material onto a surface (e.g. "ink" on paper) followed by a drying or curing step, and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) clearly does not do that, nor can a inkjet printer be converted to do CVD. Inkjet could have been used to pattern certain conductive materials in a grid pattern, but the article just isn't clear about that. Printing the letters "MIT" on top of the already fabricated solar cell doesn't prove much of anything significant. (Do ya think that might be marketing???) I'm sure there are practical problems that still need to be resolved to make this a mature technology, although I lack sufficient information to describe them all. I have no argument about the potential uses - but that is all contingent on making it a mature technology, and this is still about basic research.--96.244.247.130 (talk) 00:51, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I made an attempt, but the title is really out of place. I put "printed" and "panel" in quotes to indicate it probably isn't either. Comments from SME's are welcome. Am not educated enough in WP editing to follow your instructions explicitly.--173.69.135.105 (talk) 01:34, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

So far nobody has come to visit the page to make corrections. I made what changes I could but I am not proud of it either. I still think it would be better to delete it altogether, but I will not spend any more time on this page either. It's simply a piece of crap that doesn't smell so bad now.--173.69.135.105 (talk) 01:07, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for changing the title page. It helps considerably. I'm satisfied enough to move on to something more important. I did a touch-up and am moving on to other subjects needing my expertise. I hope others can contribute to the subject.--173.69.135.105 (talk) 02:30, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Strange edit

What was the point of this edit, in which you removed a necessary definite article and restored information which entirely duplicated what was already there? If you are going to make strange edits like that you could at least leave an edit summary — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.104.181.183 (talk) 16:38, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

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Determining copyright status

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