Jolanta Bachan
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DYK nomination of Dafydd Gibbon edit
Hello! Your submission of Dafydd Gibbon at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:01, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi Yoninah! I am so surprised by the strick comments on English Wikipedia. I did the website in Polish and the experienced Wikipedists were content. The professor is well known in the field of linguistics, computational linguistics, and phonetics, was the editor of 3 handbooks published by Walter de Gruyter, received the medal of Ivory Coast, the medal of Adam Mickiewicz University, and supervised over 20 PhD theses of people from all over the world. This means he is well known in the field and maybe someone else could evaluate his notability. Is Wikipedia only for celebrities who appear on "breakfast programs"? On ResearchGate he has over 1000 citations and over 7000 reads. And ResearchGate is much younger than his work and people who he educated. I looked for articles or interviews with him, but he lives in Germany and it was a bit difficult to find on German sites, not to mention I wouldn't find online articles which appered 30 years ago in newspapers. Greetings from Poland. --Jolanta Bachan (talk) 22:42, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
DYK for Dafydd Gibbon edit
On 30 July 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Dafydd Gibbon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Dafydd Gibbon is particularly concerned with endangered languages and has received awards from the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Poland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dafydd Gibbon. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Dafydd Gibbon), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
- Congratulations on this Did You Know nomination! We look forward to seeing more great work from you. Cheers, MX (✉ • ✎) 03:07, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
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- Congratulation to giving us a great scientist, and thank you for your patience. This page for your album. - It's my parents' wedding anniversary, and the bridal flowers were gladiolas from her parents' garden. I share them in loving memory, with a touch of art. The link is shameless canvassing ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:09, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
- Dear @Gerda Arendt, @MX and @Mary Mark Ockerbloom, thank you very much for nominating my page about Dafydd Gibbon for DYK. I lost hope and stopped checking my Wikipedia account in the last few days, especially because of the heat which also tire us in Poland. Thank you very much for the flowers, Gerda Arendt. It was my parents' 40th anniversary this year on the 8th July and I still remember well the party we made for them.
- I hope to be more active on Wikipedia as I see it is a very exciting well-developed new world for me. Greetings from a small Polish village - --Jolanta Bachan (talk) 20:29, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- As you probably missed it, here is the Main page on July 30, sadly without the balloon (but click on the article to see it). Look again tomorrow, for a singer surprise ;) - Looking forward to more from you, and ping me if you need help. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:24, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot, Gerda Arendt! I see the balloon is not yet there, but I will keep on checking the website to see when it comes back. :-) Greetings from Poland! --Jolanta Bachan (talk) 09:41, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- The pic will not be back because it derived from another one that was considered "fair use" which translates to "not free, can only be shown in the specific article". - I am quite proud today, because I have a DYK which I particularly like (and took a picture, which someone nicely cropped last night, and added) on my First Edit anniversary ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- Congratulations, Gerda Arendt! I saw your website with the photo and then it disappered. Maybe you are still working on it. :-) Good luck! Thanks very much for all your help! --Jolanta Bachan (talk) 10:07, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, Jolantha, and feel free to call me Gerda, and no need to ping unless you need a real fast response, - I keep watching. - I try again: Ritchie took the image, Coffeeandcrumbs cropped it, because you see too little on the Main page, where it was shown for most of the day, until people said it's not free, so after discussion it was regarded as not free, which means that it can only be in the related article, - not on the Main page, not on my talk page. In the article, we need only the complete image, so the nice cropped version is gone, and will not return, because you don't need two pics in one article, one the crop of the other. - Did you see the video? (Perhaps better don't look if you love Trump.) - Did you see that a great Polish trumpeter died? Perhaps you can add, translating from Polish? - I usually ask Poeticbent. - From a hot small village in Germany. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:23, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- Dear Gerda, thank you for your explanation. Yes, I watched the video already yesterday. It was funny, but I also admire the singer's courage... and her body shape. ;-) Yes, I know about the death of Tomasz Stańko. I have checked his website, but don't know what you want me to translate. Greetings from Poland, --Jolanta Bachan (talk) 09:39, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, Jolantha! - His English article says on top that more information is on his Polish article, - please check what, and if it's worth translating. If not, you can remove the tag and explain on his talk page. His website would be a personal website, and should not be used, only things from reliable sources, I bet you heard that before ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:42, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
- Dear Gerda, I have checked Polish and English website about Tomasz Stańko and the main thing which is missing in the English version is the list of awards (Polish section: "Nagrody"). The awards are mainly from the Jazz Forum and Polish music awards Fryderyki. --Jolanta Bachan (talk) 11:31, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, Jolantha! - His English article says on top that more information is on his Polish article, - please check what, and if it's worth translating. If not, you can remove the tag and explain on his talk page. His website would be a personal website, and should not be used, only things from reliable sources, I bet you heard that before ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:42, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
- Dear Gerda, thank you for your explanation. Yes, I watched the video already yesterday. It was funny, but I also admire the singer's courage... and her body shape. ;-) Yes, I know about the death of Tomasz Stańko. I have checked his website, but don't know what you want me to translate. Greetings from Poland, --Jolanta Bachan (talk) 09:39, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
- Thank you, Jolantha, and feel free to call me Gerda, and no need to ping unless you need a real fast response, - I keep watching. - I try again: Ritchie took the image, Coffeeandcrumbs cropped it, because you see too little on the Main page, where it was shown for most of the day, until people said it's not free, so after discussion it was regarded as not free, which means that it can only be in the related article, - not on the Main page, not on my talk page. In the article, we need only the complete image, so the nice cropped version is gone, and will not return, because you don't need two pics in one article, one the crop of the other. - Did you see the video? (Perhaps better don't look if you love Trump.) - Did you see that a great Polish trumpeter died? Perhaps you can add, translating from Polish? - I usually ask Poeticbent. - From a hot small village in Germany. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:23, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- Congratulations, Gerda Arendt! I saw your website with the photo and then it disappered. Maybe you are still working on it. :-) Good luck! Thanks very much for all your help! --Jolanta Bachan (talk) 10:07, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- The pic will not be back because it derived from another one that was considered "fair use" which translates to "not free, can only be shown in the specific article". - I am quite proud today, because I have a DYK which I particularly like (and took a picture, which someone nicely cropped last night, and added) on my First Edit anniversary ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot, Gerda Arendt! I see the balloon is not yet there, but I will keep on checking the website to see when it comes back. :-) Greetings from Poland! --Jolanta Bachan (talk) 09:41, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
