User talk:LadyofShalott/Archive 11

Pitangueiras River

Thanks very much. Beat me to the punch, you did. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:44, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. :) LadyofShalott 00:54, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie

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Please complete the history translation. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:38, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Is that an assignment? LadyofShalott 04:47, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

(I will work on it...) LadyofShalott 15:36, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Dinner?

I was counting on your help with roadkill cuisine. The speediest fast food. ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:35, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

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Wikibreak

Coke in Bolivia? LoS, no!!

I have not granted permission for a leave of absence. Thank you. ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:51, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm not completely gone yet. Please may I take a break? Guess what? I'm going to even if you say no. :) LadyofShalott 01:49, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Bring me back somethin' good! APK that's not my name 02:16, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

If Drmies is missing at the same time I will know something is up... I should get a barnstar for my restraint in not making any of the semen related jokes I've come up with after your recent collaboration. Have fun. Be good! ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:37, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Now I know where she's going for vacation. Bring me back somethin' good! APK that's not my name 15:50, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Hah, right! Great picture, BTW. LadyofShalott 15:53, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Michaël Zeeman

Hey Lady, I just had another look at an article I wrote that I hadn't looked in a while, and browsing through the history I saw just how much of my slack you pick up, and to what extent a lot of the work behind the scenes improves the project. Thanks! (I'll find you a barnstar when dinner is done and the kids are in bed.) Drmies (talk) 23:35, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Awarded to the Lady of Shalott, for doing so many big and little things which you don't notice until she doesn't do them--at which moment the Wiki, and Western Civilization, usually crumbes and falls. Drmies (talk) 16:56, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

That was a noble and truthful thing Drmies did. Thanks for all your help LadyofShallots. You're great! ChildofMidnight (talk) 17:46, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you both! LadyofShalott 08:38, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Novels - August 2009 Newsletter

The August 2009 issue of the Novels WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Alan16 (talk) 17:21, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Question

Hey Lady. Your signature looks great. Which font are you using?--^{The Legendary}_{Sky Attacker} 01:52, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. It's Old English --LadyofShalott 04:43, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi Lady, how are you? I have a question for you: is there a speedy category for redirects? Consider, for instance, Build bear. Can redirects also be AfD'ed? Thanks, as always, for your help, Drmies (talk) 01:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Build bear seems a semi-reasonable redirect to me. Trouble maker. ChildofMidnight (talk) 04:54, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi, I think I'm more-or-less back, but I miss my nieces. Anyway, I don't think there's a category for speedy deletion of redirects (unless they are pure vandalism, which does not obviously apply in this case). WP:RfD would be the place to nominate for deletion (although it's "discussion" rather than simply "deletion"). LadyofShalott 04:40, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Amblève (river)

Hi can you translate this from French. Mine wasn't so good.. Only a smallish paragraph. Himalayan 19:55, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Le méandre mort sert par ailleurs de bassin inférieur à la centrale hydroéléctrique de Coo.

Une curiosité à Lorcé est son barrage de conception atypique, situé au lieu-dit « Fange-Naze » ou « Fagne-Naze ». Érigé entre 1928 et 1932, celui-ci est destiné à retenir environ 50 000 m³ d’eau. Cette eau est alors canalisée dans un tunnel percé de niveau dans la colline sur 3 460 mètres pour ensuite faire une chute de 40 mètres dans les turbines de la centrale électrique de « Heid d’Ile » à Nonceveux dans la commune d’Aywaille.

En rive droite, aux environs de Sprimont, se trouve le site de la Belle-Roche, caverne fossile et plus ancien lieu connu d’occupation humaine du Benelux (environ 500.000 ans). Les Fonds de Quareux relèvent du patrimoine majeur de Wallonie.

(Somebody has done an awful machine translation) Himalayan 08:25, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Canada isn't actually part of the U.S.?

Oops. I think it was supposed to say American journalist from Canada. Would that make sense? I think I need sleep. How have you been? :) Stay away from doctors of all sorts. Did you see what they did to MJ? Awful, just awful. They're as bad as the lawyers now and some of them are quite perverted with very strange article interests. ;) ChildofMidnight (talk) 03:50, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

That phrase would make sense, but judging by the source you used, I'm not sure it's accurate. I didn't see anything to indicate he's anything other than Canadian. :) LadyofShalott 00:21, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Pictures

I'm not well-enough read to understand the literary reference (if that's what it is), but I really enjoy the pictures on your userpage. Does one (or do both) of them depict you? I can't help but wonder about hanging the quilt (?) over the side of the boat into the water. Wowest (talk) 02:24, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

It is indeed a literary reference. "The Lady of Shalott" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The paintings are both depictions by John William Waterhouse of that poem. LadyofShalott 00:00, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

. Hmm. I was so hoping that you were the lady in the first picture and that you were heavy into the Renaissance Faire and all that. The face in the second picture looks more ... cartoonish. Has it ever occurred to you that we all seem to be cartoonable? And then it says you're a nerd. (sigh) . Hmm. Turnabout is fair play? . What was I talking about (in 1973) when I said "Patterson Lake Road is paved with good intentions?" Wowest (talk) 01:06, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Request for your comments

Hello! Since you commented on the last discussion about whether to include a Category:Fictional LGBT characters on the Stewie Griffin article. We have a new discussion going for an updated consensus. Your comments here would be appreciated. Thank you, CTJF83Talk 03:14, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Biographical content policies?

The Billy Bush page had a LOT of content removed with the claim that it was "unsourced" and "off topic". However, none of it seemed to be content that was recently added, and it seems like the items in question could have just as easily have been marked as "unreferenced" or "unsourced". Is it standard policy to have so much data (including information like the person's birthdate!) just massively removed like that in one shot simply because someone felt that there were items in there that were not referenced properly? Because that seems like such a waste of info :-( Thanks, Shymian (talk) 07:14, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

People can remove large amounts of information if it is unsourced (and should immediately if it is potentially damaging). However in an instance like this, I think tagging it as "citation needed" would have been appropriate. LadyofShalott 17:47, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Would you be able to restore the deleted text somehow so I can add the appropriate refs? There have been other edits made to the page so I'm afraid of just "undo"ing the edit... Also, I noticed that that user seems to have a history of removing items like that instead of marking things with "citation needed". Is removing unsourced birthdays (except as found in imdb) really the norm? Thanks again, Shymian (talk) 22:41, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Weirdness learned from WP articles

File:Vintagebarbie.jpg

"It's true. Although I love toying with Ken."

Apparently dolls are not toys (at least according to US tariff law). LadyofShalott 15:25, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Speaking of weird; would you mind looking at this new article. Note the first EL's URL. Is this a BLP-vio? APK say that you love me 22:22, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I think so. It's at AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rumor website parody of Glenn Beck. LadyofShalott 00:15, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Mineral & Lapidary Museum of Henderson County

Thanks for the help. Bearian (talk) 19:54, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Spermophagia

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Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Drmies (talk) 17:28, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

male - "Woman, why aren't you drinkin'? It's Friday night; that means 2 for 1 Spermophagia Cocktails."

female - "Because the bartender must love asparagus. Let's go home. I've got three boxed wines callin' my name."

• Do we really have to keep meeting like this? *Sigh* Drmies (talk) 18:40, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah... BTW, thanks for the notification. LadyofShalott 18:43, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

This is how Drmies welcomes you back? I think flowers or maybe a cookie would be more appropriate, but maybe they do things differently over in Dutchlandia. Thanks for your helpful edits on various article LoS. Have fun.

Doc, what can I say? ChildofMidnight (talk) 19:13, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome, CoM. Thanks for the cookies, Drmies! Grins, LadyofShalott 19:44, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

In related news, I enjoyed a delicious milkshake yesterday. APK say that you love me 20:03, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

LOL@APK's TMI. Love the picture! LadyofShalott 20:07, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, APK, was it frothy? Do you feel less depressed, and stronger in your musculoskeletal system? I gotta tell you, -- no I won't. It's all in the article and the freak links attached to it. Drmies (talk) 01:07, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

LO-freaking-L! APK comes through again. This is why I keep certain pages watchlisted. BTW, I have 33 watchers, so maybe I should do something more entertaining. — Becks ^{Talk to me} 03:44, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

How can you tell how many people are watching a page? (Hey Becks, been a while!) LadyofShalott 05:07, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Y'all, I was referring to a chocolate milkshake from Dupont-McDonald's. Get your minds out of the gutter. (APK returns to his reading, the KJV, of course)
Me Lady, here you go. You have more watchers and that makes me jealous. But, as noted the following edit summary, I've already devised a plan. APK say that you love me 05:31, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

That's nifty! (LoS believeth not APK's protestations.) LadyofShalott 05:41, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

I have 33, APK has 47, Drmies has 52, My Lady has 56, but ChildofMidnight has 134. So much for the measuring contest in this thread. (No, APK, not that. This is a gutter free post. Or not.) Yes, it's been a while since I dropped in here to visit. Hi Y'all, how you durrin? — Becks ^{Talk to me} 09:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Lde-dpal-hkhor-btsan

Lde-dpal-hkhor-btsan - Bön I would say Himalayan 09:57, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Interesting, thanks! That's a new one for me. LadyofShalott 15:20, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom

Would one or more of youse please check my assessment of Talk:Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom as a class B article for the LGBTProject. I would feel more comfortable if another experienced project editor (and that includes you, APK, even if you are no longer quite as officially involved) agreed with me. Please don't hesitate to disagree or downgrade. I won't be upset, since I'm really looking for constructive comments, as this is my first totally solo assessment at class B. I'm comfortable with class C and below. Thanks. — Becksguy (talk) 19:56, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

It's a stub! Your B-class assessment is correct, IMHO. In regards to the ghey and lesbyterian project, like ceiling cat, I'm always watching. Always. Bwha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! APK say that you love me 20:48, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Lesbyterian? Is that like Presbyterian, but different? Here is the first ceiling cat photo I saw several years ago. And yes, he (like you) is watching all of us... do one thing or another. Or something else. Thank you, APK. Becks 23:50, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Leda Dionissia Alexopoulou

You recently cleaned up the AfD discussion page for subject, am the author can assure that this artist is indeed notable in Greece hence the numerous references. Also the comment by user Edison about the May 2005, Cosmopolitain article being a dead link is correct but when added is was live since Cosmopolitain lately ceased their activities in Greece...Jemesouviens32 (talk) 09:01, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

I was wrong, somehow the spelling between cosmopolitain and cosmopolitan was changed, I now fixed the link and it is alive and well underscoring notability--Jemesouviens32 (talk) 13:27, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

their language

Can you tell me if the translation is correct?

Wright was born July 4, 1943 in Alpine, Texas. She attended Alpine High School and received her higher education at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1967.
Wright est né le 4 Juillet 1943 à Alpine, Texas. Elle a assisté à Alpine High School et a reçu ses études supérieures à l'Université du Texas à Austin, où il obtient un baccalauréat ès arts en 1967.

Merci. APK say that you love me 11:00, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

In a rush, so can't say for sure all of it yet, but it should be "elle obtient", not "il..." More later... LadyofShalott 19:00, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

I looked for a category like you added just now, but couldn't find it. Thanks! Did you see the girl on the steps? Drmies (talk) 23:58, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome! I sure did. Your little girl, I take it? :) LadyofShalott 00:02, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes... Drmies (talk) 00:46, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

It seems that I also have bad luck with templates. Here's the original message. Thanks for redirecting this article. I kept trying to do it myself (to the same article!), but I have bad luck with edit conflicts! --I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 03:31, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome! :) LadyofShalott 03:38, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Unitarian Universalists by country CFD

Sure I have no problem posting a notice, but I'm a little confused why you didn't post it yourself. Please respond on my talk if you so desire. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:03, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Category: Psychologists

Why did you remove Category:Psychologists from Carl E. Thoresen? Seems like it's very obvious he's a psychologist... Health Researcher (talk) 02:04, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

No argument that he's a psychologist, but he is in the daughter category Educational psychologists. We don't generally put articles into both parent and daughter categories. Make sense? LadyofShalott 02:06, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, makes perfect sense, thanks for the clarification! Health Researcher (talk) 02:11, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. :) LadyofShalott 02:50, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Proper caps?

Hello Lady, if you know anything about proper capitalization here (of course you do!), could you have a look at Habib public school? I tried to move it to the right place, where I found a redirect to the current article. Surely this isn't right, is it? Drmies (talk) 02:26, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Fixed! LadyofShalott 02:49, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Lady! Hey, what do you think, this or this? Drmies (talk) 04:04, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Oooo, the Mystic, definitely - it's really pretty! ...Unless she's a super Hello Kitty fan, and wants everything to do it that, otherwise, I say the Mystic. LadyofShalott 04:27, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

[1] ChildofMidnight (talk) 19:22, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

That's not disrupting life in my town, so I don't care. (Frankly I don't get why anyone does, but oh well...) LadyofShalott 19:26, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

"Disrupting" life in your town? You remind me of my dad complaining about parades because of the traffic they cause blocking Fifth Avenue. Where's your cheer and school spirit? Come on Shallots! You're going to make me cry. ChildofMidnight (talk) 19:31, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Ice Mountain is an interesting article that seems to need some work. An editor asked Caspian blue to have a look and for feedback, if you're interested. It doesn't seem to have much to do with West Virginia's Mountaineer football team (as far as I can tell). ChildofMidnight (talk) 23:24, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

I'll take a look at it. LadyofShalott 06:07, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

That is interesting! Too late to do much now, but I'll try to work on it some more (gotta get rid of all those "due tos")...--LadyofShalott 06:20, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Football

Wasn't that exciting? Come on , 15-24, it was great! Drmies (talk) 01:39, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't even know to which game you're referring. I was told the score here, and it was a blowout... no idea who else was playing whom else. LadyofShalott 06:06, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

ID?

I'm too easy, I know. Can't keep my mouth shut. Drmies (talk) 21:25, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Attention everyone - calling for input

If you were going to to give presentation that is a beginner's guide to Wikipedia (on use/reading and contributing) what would you make sure to include? I would assume no knowledge of the site. Target audience is patrons of a public library, and so may have widely variable skills.LadyofShalott 15:22, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I would bring out a big volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica or a stack of those World Book Encyclopedias. People love props! And I think relating an online encyclopedia to the "old" standby gives a good basis for discussion. The big difference is that this one is collaborative, online, open to anyone for editing, and constantly changing/ evolving. So it's an intersting contrast with how the traditional model is written, limitations on size, pages, and coverage, and also the issues raised by non-experts editing and questions of bias. Then you can get into the more technical stuff. Do you know any magic tricks? Good jokes? ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:04, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to give one of these talks to faculty here. Bringing an encyclopedia is not a bad idea. I would probably show an article and the different parts (esp. the reference section), and explain basic things such as wikilinking, the idea of collaborative editing, and the talk page. Then I'd move on the the buttons at the top--showing the history (and explain the things you see there, what all is clickable--different revisions, comparisons between edits) and then the edit screen, incl. page preview. In class, I'm usually interested in showing students not necessarily how to work it, but how to use it: first, judge what the article is worth on the basis of mechanics, style, and references; second, judge if the article is vandalism prone or not; third, read the information and the reference section--and get the books from the library... You don't have to tell your patrons, but I have to tell my students: NEVER EVER CITE from Wikipedia, unless the History screen contains only the names Drmies and LadyofShalott! Drmies (talk) 21:20, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Besides the obvious, I would tell them to read WP:ANI, User talk:Jimbo Wales and most importantly, User talk:ChildofMidnight, every single day. It would be very educational, me thinks. APK because, he says, it's true 06:25, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions, Drmies and COM! APK - I'll take yours under advisement, LOL! This won't be for a while yet, so anyone else who wants to chime in, please do so. LadyofShalott 17:55, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Righteous Sock Barnstar
		Awarded to LadyofShalott for meritorious editing. Thank you for your good work with new articles written by an unknown editor. As part of this project I created an account, Sakurasoldat, and wrote referenced but badly formatted stubs about Japanese government officials. I applaud your efforts, and please feel free to ping me on my regular account. I wanted to see how would Wikipedia react to a clueless, but not malicious, user. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 05:17, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

• Sounds like I missed out on slapping CSDs on a bunch of articles! Agony! Oh, you said "referenced." Never mind. Drmies (talk) 05:20, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Well, that makes me smile, Zscout. :) Thanks for the star! :p to Drmies - lol LadyofShalott 05:22, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Interestingly, the first one I found had a SD tag on it. I declined the speedy, fixed it up some, and then started looking at the contributions of "Sakurasoldat". LadyofShalott 05:24, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

I went ahead and watched and moved the rest of the articles and will try and apply the Japanese MOS to it. But you should be glad of what you have done and others should learn from you on how to treat new users on New Page Patrol. The guy who tagged the article on Daizō Nozawa should get an earful of what is a good and bad CSD tag. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 05:28, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Hopefully Drmies is reading this and will consider it carefully. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

The person who tagged Daizō Nozawa for speedy deletion only started an account on the 7th of this month, and has already gotten a block. Interesting history. LadyofShalott 06:03, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Newbie_treatment_at_CSD#Zscout370.27s_experience is my full report. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 04:36, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

<-- Lady, I could say a lot of things about how I think you are a great editor and a great administrator, as well as a joy to work with--but why should I? Your actions on Daizō Nozawa say it all. Drmies (talk) 20:22, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Drmies! =D LadyofShalott 20:50, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Your message

My apologies. I am using Huggle for the first time and still working out some problems I am having with my computer. I was attempting to revert another change and some how I got stuck on that users edit and reverted them instead. Thank you for pointing this out to me I will make the proper apologies. Regards - 4twenty42o (talk) 05:53, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

OK, thanks! LadyofShalott 06:00, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

np.. I like your user page. Too much pink and soft color but that's a pretty awesome pic in the middle. Regards - 4twenty42o (talk) 06:52, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Ray Woodard (disambiguation)

Hello. Just to let you know this has been nominated for speedy deletion, per {db-disambig}. Thanks, Boleyn3 (talk) 14:01, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the notification. I see someone else has already contested it. LadyofShalott 15:20, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Input please

Would like your input here please. Note: This is a draft, to be kept in my namespace until the editor is off their block and their new contributions can be reviewed. Frmatt (talk) 07:11, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Newbie treatment

Hey there! As you have been editing an article that User:IHaveaSpoon created, I am telling you that you became a participant in WP:NEWT. The meaning of it is to see how more experienced editors deal with newbies that create new articles. I apologise that I have spent your time. You can discuss about this in Wikipedia:Newbie treatment at CSD/Ilyushka88 where I have explained how things were going with the articles I created.

Again, sorry for the misrepresentation. If there's anything I can do to make up for your lost time, please let me know.  Ilyushka88 Talk to me 11:51, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

That's the second time (that I know about) that I've encountered articles generated as part of that project. LadyofShalott 17:50, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Xxxwikimanxxx

Greetings LoS I thought I might bring this [[2]] to your attention. I sent a minor warning and reverted the obvious vandalism. I saw that you had recently granted the unblock. So as a courtesy I thought maybe you could speak to the user about this silliness before another block occurs. Regards - 4twenty42o (talk) 17:05, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi, really all I did was notify the user of the unblock - the block had already expired or been lifted by someone else when I looked at it. Anyway, it's all moot now, as I see that PhilKnight has indefinitely blocked him for his vandalism and disruption. Thanks for reverting the vandalism, and please let me know if I can do anything for you in the future, 420! LadyofShalott 17:48, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Funny you should mention that, I have been watching a few articles and I am positive that there are several socks going. They are adding copyrighted pictured to obscure rappers and hip hop artists. Now I really don't like getting involved in sockpuppetry cases and all the mess that follows. But at this point it is kind of getting out of hand. This is the history at the Immortal Technique article[[3]]. This is the Atom Tha Immortal article, which was previously deleted under another name, [[4]]. The pic is from Myspace I think. This is an album article. [[5]] The editor keeps adding copyrighted pics and deleting prods. This one is another dubious article that the aditor is active on [[6]]. I have attempted to discuss it with some of the various names and IP's involved but have not received any response of substance. User talk:Gerryh7, User talk:Gh7mysterio, User talk:Mark.reznar are a few of the recent names involved. All of them pop up around the 3rd or 4th revert and do a quick revert. Nearly all of the edits are to obscure rap articles and appear to be pushing some sort of agenda. I am positive that several more accounts are involved, I am not sure which however. I would greatly appreciate your advice. Regards - 4twenty42o (talk) 19:24, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Wow, yeah, there is definitely sockpuppetry going on there. What I suggest is that you open a case at WP:SPI listing all the accounts and IPs you suspect of being the same person and fully describe the behavior with good links. Include everything you showed me here, and any other articles/accounts you know about that look suspicious. Specifically point out the repeated addition by different accounts of the same deleted image. LadyofShalott 19:39, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

I have never done this before so could you have a look at this? Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Gerryh7 - 4twenty42o (talk) 20:11, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

You've got a good start, but under "evidence submitted by [you]", you need to detail information like you did in the paragraph to me above. In fact, if you just copy and paste what you gave to me above, that would go a long way towards what you need. LadyofShalott 20:17, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Revised. Thank you - 4twenty42o (talk) 20:21, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. DOn't forget to notify Mark.rezner and the IP of the SPI case. LadyofShalott 20:30, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Done and IP notified as well - 4twenty42o (talk) 20:57, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Nicolae pogonaru

I guess your Romanian is better than mine...s/he appears to be an associate professor of literature? Doesn't seem notable to me, but we'll see what the translators can hash out. --SquidSK ^(1MC•log) 18:23, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Not so good. :) I'm not saying the person is notable, just that there looked to me to be enough of a claim of notability that I didn't think it met the requirements for A7. I could well end up voting delete in an AfD on it. LadyofShalott 18:26, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

When/if someone translates it, can it be nominated for speedy again, or is that out since I already tagged it once? --SquidSK ^(1MC•log) 18:29, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't see anything at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion that says it can't have a speedy tag placed a second time (esp. under circumstances like this). However, it might be better form to go with prod or AfD. LadyofShalott 18:35, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand - it's been translated. LadyofShalott 18:39, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Nice - instead of "associate professor of literature," he's a member of the "Association of Professional Writers." I love languages. --SquidSK ^(1MC•log) 18:42, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

That much I did work out. :) Anyway, take a look at JohnCD's comments at the pages needing translation page. LadyofShalott 18:46, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Good Lord, you're quick!

Thanks for helping out with State of Georgia v. Allison. I came back to wikilink it and you'd beaten me to the punch. :)—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 19:57, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

lol No problem! Sorry if I caused any edit conflicts. LadyofShalott 20:00, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

• PS: I've created Janet Allison as a redirect to that page. Per the discussion right at the bottom of Wikipedia:Deletion review/Janet Allison, there is a consensus that the redirect should exist but be fully-protected. Would you mind protecting it? Cheers—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 21:37, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks.  :)—S Marshall ^Talk/_Cont 21:44, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

 Done LadyofShalott 21:45, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

• Thanks.* Mandsford (talk) 21:58, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

*that's slang for "thank you", BTW. Mandsford (talk) 21:58, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

ROFL I appreciate the explanation! LadyofShalott 22:00, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your good works

You've done a lot of good for the the holes in the world's knowledge base on doughnuts. ChildofMidnight (talk) 23:51, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

RfC: Lee Jun Ki

I have commented on the RfC at the Lee Jun Ki talkpage. You can find my comments here

Regards -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 11:34, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

• I would be grateful if you could have a look at my comment. Not surprisingly, InkHeart doesn't like what I've put there - I think because I didn't say "it should be reverted to the older version".

However, I would appreciate an involved editor (and a sysop at that!) to have a look - was it the kind of thing that should be in a RfC? Is there anything I could have done to make it better/more useful.

I'm asking you, as you are the only other editor who I know is aware of this issue, but who is not involved! I want to continue to learn how to be a better editor, including the "dispute resolution" area of things, which I do not have experience of yet!

Regards, -- PhantomSteve (Contact Me, My Contribs) 23:24, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Hey, actually (even though I have not, at least so far, commented), I did look at your comments earlier, and I thought they were appropriate and very well done! LadyofShalott 23:26, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I'm Guilty....

Yes, I failed to sign, And it was at least the second time it happened today. Ringing ears and screaming sinuses do not make for a good editing environment. Thank you for signing for me. WuhWuzDat 19:47, 19 November 2009 (UTC) _{Making sure I signed this one, now that WOULD be irony!}

No problem - it happens! Maybe it'll make you a little more empathetic to others who forget to sign on your talk page... None of us is perfect. :) LadyofShalott 19:50, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Uromastyx leptieni

Thanks for putting me right on this, I'll bear it in mind if required in future. Regards Paste _{Let’s have a chat.} 20:27, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Heh, no problem - I was apparently explaining this on your talk page at the same time as you were posting here! LadyofShalott 20:29, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Project Midnight

This notice is to inform you that I am actually a robot programmed to evaluate human capabilities for cooperation. I have been testing and evaluating the responses and interactions involved in the article building process of this community's encyclopedia building project for research purposes. I apologize for this deception, but the SHmorkIan beings deemed this a worthwhile approach to assessing whether your planet is suitable for colonization. Feedback will be provided to you in coming decades. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy your world's Thanksgiving holiday. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:12, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Hah! Well, even though I presume extraterrestrial robots don't celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you had a good one as well anyway. LadyofShalott 19:25, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

(Excuse my commenting: for some reason LadyofShalott is on my watchlist, perhaps because I have an affinity for the painting, anyway) ... I can confirm that ChildofMidnight displays otherworldly capacity/skill in "interactions" — and I am therefore not surprised by this revelation, but surely delighted (unknown implications of colonization notwithstanding). ^^ Happy holidays! Proofreader77 (talk) 20:20, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

Old poetry does not compute. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:08, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

These semi-miraculous high school students will likely aid extraterrestrial artificial intelligence neural net weaving. Proofreader77 (talk) 05:49, 28 November 2009 (UTC) PS And a version without helium Proofreader77 (talk) 06:49, 28 November 2009 (UTC) PPS - Non-heliumiated version with string orchestration at Juno Awards 2007 Proofreader77 (talk) 07:00, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Diwe

Take a look at Daeva - same thing? I'm no expert on Persian mythology, but that seems like the two words might just be different transliterations of the original Farsi. --SquidSK ^(1MC•log) 02:35, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

It certainly sounds likely that they are related. I do not know enough, and it's not obvious enough for me to clonclude these two sets of beings are the same thing though. I'm not saying they aren't either. I wonder if it is a situation sort of like with Zeus and Jupiter (or take your pick of Greek deity and Roman counterpart) where they are "the same", but there's enough differentiation that they merit separate articles. LadyofShalott 02:49, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of Dallas gangs

An article that you have been involved in editing, List of Dallas gangs, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Dallas gangs. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. -- PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 15:08, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Deletion of part of your post

I'm sorry about the deletion of part of your post; it seems that was a fluke in the software. See User talk:SebastianHelm#Inappropriate deleton of content from ongoing AFD discussion for details. — Sebastian 21:21, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Ah, OK, thanks for the message. I admit I was offended (as you can tell from my edit summary). I'm glad to know it was not deliberate on your part. I guess weirdness happens. LadyofShalott 21:24, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Excuse my adding a comment (had this page on my watchlist) ... About a week ago or so, I saw someone removing two previous edits when they saved their comment to a talk page. It infuriated two people (one was me), but it appears they were not given an "edit conflict" warning (or other indication of problem). The AfD instance may not be the same issue ... but there there may be some kind of intermittent technical glitch that has crept into the code. (I don't know who to talk to about this, but perhaps you do.) Proofreader77 (talk) 21:42, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

This is a public page on a wiki - feel free to jump in anytime, Proofreader. As for who to talk to, I suggest taking it to the technical village pump. This is not a good thing, especially if similar things are happening on a regular basis. LadyofShalott 21:46, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks. I've done 5,000 reverts of vandalism, but only now getting my bearings on where things are discussed within Wikipedia (rather than just user and article talk). I'll raise the issue at WP:VPT (now that I know about it :-). Cheers. Proofreader77 (talk)

Follow up: The technical answer is ... Happens from time to time ... since time immemorial. (lol) So we must simply remember that software is not as perfect as we come to believe it is — and so when our fellow editors appear to be doing something no sensible person would do, let us pause and consider that they may not have. :-) Which I think is already the consensus here. Cheers. Proofreader77 (talk) 07:43, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for posting the follow-up! LadyofShalott 07:47, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

And thank you for teaching me where to ask. (WP:VPT) Proofreader77 (talk) 07:56, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm touched by how you learned from this. Now, reading your random observations gives me a nasty idea ... I hope you'll forgive me. — Sebastian 22:17, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

LOL - I love it! LadyofShalott 22:22, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Also, since I haven't said so directly yet, I do apologize for jumping to the worst conclusion before. LadyofShalott 07:47, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Don't mention it! Even if you had offended me, there would be no more need for an apology. Your spontaneous "observations" edit proved that you not only regretted it, but sincerely decided to learn from it. What more could an apology give me? — Sebastian 08:36, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Are you in?

Are you in for the 2010 Bacon Challenge? If you are, of which country will you identify as? I'm guessing United States but I cannot tell for sure. Thanks.--Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 03:19, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

I'll certainly do some copyediting/categorizing/general gnomish work on articles for it. I may or may not write an article for it. Yes, US is correct. :) LadyofShalott 07:41, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Cool. See User:Sky Attacker/Bacon WikiCup 2010. By the way, the "proposal" about CoM is from Drmies not me. ;)--Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 08:49, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Great News!!!

Bacon materializer

Unable to resist bacon's temptations, rogue editors have kicked off the Bacon Challenge 2010 event even before the New Year starts! This is a fun and collegial event and all are welcome. There are many non-pork articles for editors who object to or don't like messing with pig products and this year's event includes a Bacon WikiCup 2010 for those who may want to keep score and enjoy engaging in friendly competition. Given the critical importance of this subject matter, I know you will want to participate, so remember to sign up today and get started A.S.A.P. ChildofMidnight (talk) 19:24, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Shiny Barnstar!

		The Society Barnstar
		I hereby award you this Society Barnstar for your help in cleaning up List of male performers in gay porn films which helps advance the general understanding of the given society of these performers. When others offered less than inspirational criticism you instead acted and helped clean-up a topic that needed help. -- Banjeboi 00:20, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Cool, thanks, Benji! :) LadyofShalott 02:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Request for Assistance

I am inviting members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Religion who work with NRM in on the discussion of Move/name change/notability/merge discussion on New England Institute of Religious Research Currently 3 users seem to have reached a roadblock in discourse with Cirt (talk · contribs). Any help would be appreciated! Weaponbb7 (talk) 15:42, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

 Done Commented. LadyofShalott 20:26, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

LadyofShallott, since you voiced your opinion in part based upon something John Carter said, I would like to tell you that he may have been mistaken. I looked through every addition of the work he mentioned and it turned up nothing. I'm waiting to hear what he says about it, but I would really appreciate it if you returned to have a look sometime. Thanks.PelleSmith (talk) 00:48, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I scooped you

Sorry! As you can see from my user page, I'm interested in that sort of thing regardless of the bacon contest. In fact, if they'll allow it, how's about we "credit" you with the article and the DYK? I'm also working on Guinea Hog and Hereford (pig breed) articles, but if you want to take one of those or any other, let me know and I'll be hands off until you move it into mainspace. Steven Walling 00:32, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, it may be sort of pointless, but I did wonder about a history merge of my sandbox with the article. You are generous to offer the credit for the bacon contest and DYK. You certainly deserve the DYK credit - your article is better than mine was shaping into anyway. Otherwise, I was frustrated at first at what felt like wasted effort, but I'm over it now, and I enjoyed learning about the Ossabaw Island Hog. When I looked at the list of pig breeds, that redlink caught my eye because of Ossabaw Island, and then it had all that fascinating history. It was just my bad luck that we went for it at the same time. I'll stay away from the Guinea Hog and Hereford articles, and will let you know if (when) I decide to tackle another pig breed. Of course, collaboration makes me happy, and if you are ever interested in working together on an article, I'd be glad to do so. :) LadyofShalott 06:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

P.S. Have you joined the bacon contest? It looks like it would be up your alley. LadyofShalott 06:17, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

UNM Lobos

Well... you're just going to leave it marked as? Majority or not, 9 members still agree that there was never a reason for it to ever be a candidate for deletion. It is a Divsion 1 university FYI. I find it very odd, especially since this team is almost nationally ranked. A page such as this: 2009–10 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball team where there is really no useful info to the reader. A shame people's hardwork on this site, people have no respect. Especially when they donate to it. Hope to work with you in getting this problem solved. ZekeW (talk) 06:52, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Saying it should be kept is not the same as saying it should not have been nominated. I made my nomination reasons clear. I have no problem with the consensus for keep - I just thought we needed to have the conversation. LadyofShalott 06:58, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

quack quack APK whisper in my ear 07:18, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Bye, bye PoliticianTexas. LadyofShalott 14:47, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks.

I didn't say it before but your assistance on pig cruelty and Nickel Diner was appreciated.--Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 05:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

You are certainly welcome! LadyofShalott 05:56, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Dusan Stanojevic

That is my mistake. It seemed like gibberish, hence G1. I'm a new admin. Is there a way to check if the page is another language? There was no interwiki link to the Serbo-Croatian(?) wiki. MrKIA11 (talk) 18:05, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

OK, thanks. MrKIA11 (talk) 18:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank You

For the great comments and feedback, Please feel free to check back anytime over the next couple of weeks to see how it's progressing. "Comic sans ms" is my favorite I have to learn how this is done so I can use it on my user pages it will feel more like home to me then. I usually write everything in "Comic sans ms" I think your pages are so cool, adds character Tinkermen

You're welcome. If you look at the top of the page, you can swipe the code to use on your own. That's what I did - I think I got it from Alison's page originally. Every now and then I'll play with the colors or something. :) LadyofShalott 04:16, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I Left a message for more feedback on my talk page. I added the "Comic sans ms" code to my user page to, thanks for letting me use it and thanks in advance for your input.Tinkermen

Dec 19th

Helpful

Hey Lady. You have been quite helpful with formatting my articles for me lately. Is there anything that I could could do for you in return right now?--Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 04:07, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh what a nice thing to ask! Thanks, SA. Ummmm... I don't know though. You're always welcome to jump into any of the articles I've got listed on my page and improve them anyway you see fit. I don't know that I have any specific requests though. :) LadyofShalott 04:14, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Meredith Ulle

I see you declined my speedy request for the article. If I'm honest I thought twice before tagging it. However, I've done some more research. I ran a search for "flag twirling" within "olympic.org" (the IOC's official website) and there is nothing to suggest that flag twirling is an olympic sport. Whether there's a credible claim of notability after that, I shall leave to your capable judgement. Kind regards, HJMitchell You rang? 02:37, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

After declining the speedy deletion request, I also did some looking, and came up with a similar nothing. Accordingly, I prodded the article as having a claim of notability, but no evidence thereof. Thus far, the prod has not been contested. LadyofShalott 03:32, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I noticed. Fair enough, I'll watchlist it and if the prod is contested, I'll take it to AfD. All the best, HJMitchell You rang? 23:30, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Yo ho ho

ϢereSpielChequers is wishing you Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Xmas, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hogswatch, Hannukah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec09}} to your friends' talk pages.

Thank you very much, WSC! I hope you have very holidays as well!! LadyofShalott 20:57, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I also wish both of you happy holidays. :)--Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 03:06, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!

@LadyofShalott: Thanks for the help around my new article! I expect to have it fully completed in a month. Thanks,
Mod mmg (talk) 00:57, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Terima Kasih

... it means "Thank You" in Malay. "Terima" being accept/recieve, "Kasih" being gratitude or love (not romance). Having people like you will make wiki a better place. Happy holiday! Adrianlcy (talk) 19:39, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Aw, thank you for the kind words! If I can ever help you here, let me know, and I'll try. LadyofShalott 19:44, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

thanks

will do AFD. --GoshtaspLohraspi (talk) 21:39, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

This one? [7] or this one? [8] ? --GoshtaspLohraspi (talk) 22:02, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Arattaman, but it wouldn't hurt to notify Jimmycardiel too. LadyofShalott 22:04, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Alert.

Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/2nd--Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 01:53, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Scottish Wikipedia

I was just looking at your user page and...wow! A wikipedia for the Scottish? --Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 06:53, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it's pretty cool, but small I believe. I haven't done anything there in a long while - I started doing it to try to learn Scots. I should get back over there. Check it out! I bet their bacon coverage could use some...err...beefing up, so to speak. LadyofShalott 04:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Bacon stubs

I made a report and mentioned a "busybody" but kept her anonymous ;)--Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 04:14, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Cool. :) LadyofShalott 04:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Strange Brew

Just wanted to thank you for making the article. If I were more active on Wiki at this point I would have done it. But I'm assuming you made it because of my addittion to Charlaine Harris' page, so thank you! -FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed (talk) 13:28, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Random comment from a homosexical Wikipedian

the word "anal" on his user page + teh ghey + native of my home state = Brian1979

P.S. Hey Lady. How you durrin? APK whisper in my ear 17:03, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Hey Brian, yep your edit caught my eye, and I saw someplace I could make a (hopefully useful) addition to the 'pedia. If you have anything to add, please do! LadyofShalott 17:17, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Hey APK, I be doing okey dokey. How about you? I hope you are having a good holiday season! LadyofShalott 17:17, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Sorry, my mistake. Thanks a lot.--InfinityAndBeyond (talk · contribs)  would you like to play some chess? 21:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Strange Brew author

Hi Lady. Letting you know that I got into the spirit and wrote up a stub for Jenna Maclaine, the only author represented in Strange Brew that did not have an article. I'm sure it's not very good, but it's a start. Inspiration goes around :) -FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed (talk) 22:54, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Terrific! I'll go take a look. :) LadyofShalott 22:57, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Red Star

Red Star Congratulations, LadyofShalott! It's my pleasure to award you December 19, 2009's Red Star for being hard working, kind to others, and for being an excellent user in general. A record of this award will always be kept at User:Meaghan/Shining Stars. Enjoy! Meaghan - Merry Christmas! - 02:45, 19 December 2009 (UTC) You could also receive the next higher up award, the Orange Star!

Why thank you very much! :) LadyofShalott 02:50, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Re:Category:Bacon stubs

Hi LoS - after your (excellent) suggestion at WP:WSS/D, I've taken Category:Bacon stubs to WP:SFD for renaming/rescoping to Category:Pork stubs. Please feel free to add any comments there. Grutness...wha? 04:49, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Oh good, I'm glad that was useful. I've commented at SFD. Thanks for letting me know! LadyofShalott 05:05, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Likely outcome and fair adjustments to points

Per the likely outcome being essentially what you've said at SFD (I support your comment, as Grutness said "an excellent idea") "upmerging bacon-stubs to pork-stubs along with keeping the bacon-stub" and creating "also a pork-stub template and have them both point to Category:Pork stubs for now" the WikiCup points will be adjusted as so:

Sky Attacker -3 (36) LadyOfShalott +5 (33)

To be clear on what is going on, I am having a portion of my points gained from the bacon stub template pending "an option of Category:Bacon stubs later if there are enough to populate it" and am awarding you for your ideas put forward to make the adjustments as you've stated as a "for now" solution. When the pork stub template is both made and reported on the reporting page you will get an additional 3 points on top of these 5 points meaning a total of 8 points (equal to the amount I was awarded). --Sky Attacker the legend reborn... 22:46, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Sounds good, SA. I'm not all that fussed about the points, and I trust you to be fair with them anyway. LadyofShalott 18:05, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Charlaine Harris

Hi Lady, I think I finally got Harris' bibliography up-to-date. I thought you might want to check it. To my knowledge it is uber up-to-date. Now, I did choose to add a tab for books she either edited or co-edited and I know that's somewhat repetitive but I thought necessary as a way to let people know they are anthologies with other writers. Also, she has a book coming out that it seems she will edit alone and that had to go somewhere since I don't know if it qwill have any of her stories in it or not. For now, I think it's very thorough, but I'd like it if you'd let me know what you think. Thanks! -FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed (talk) 18:02, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I'll take a look. LadyofShalott 18:04, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Looks good. I wonder if it's time to break the bibliography out into its own page, Bibiliography of Charlaine Harris. LadyofShalott 18:09, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

It is kind of long, but is that common practice? It seems to me that making the bibliography a different page would only be an annoyance. I thought that was more common for discographies... -FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed (talk) 19:05, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Pretty common, but I'm not sure at what length it typically happens. For one example, see Neil Gaiman and Neil Gaiman bibliography; for some others, see Category:Bibliographies by author. LadyofShalott 19:32, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

speedy deletion

hello, I was tagged for speedy deletion (b/c of an article being too short: a stub) but all I am trying to do is create a customized wikipedia signature. I read that I should create a user page/ sub-page to do this. Just learning the ropes. Please let me know what I should have done differently to create this custom signature and not have the sub-page deleted. Thanks you. (see: [[9]]) actually looks like user:Ridernyc has already deleted it. Please advise. I don't feel like spending another hour relearning and doing it all over again. Can I recover the lost page. How do I create a signature user sub page? Thanks. --SkyChild (talk) 00:49, 22 December 2009 (UTC) --''SkyChild'' --SkyChild (talk) 00:57, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

I might be okay. Ridernyc got back in touch with me and mentioned that it was deleted by accident. Still curious how to recover the page though. Thanks. (see: [10]) --SkyChild (talk) 01:00, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Orange Star

Orange Star Congratulations, LadyofShalott! Within the past three days, you received the Red Star for being hard working, kind to others, and for being an excellent user in general. You've now been chosen to receive the next higher up award, the Orange Star. A record of this award will always be kept at User:Meaghan/Shining Stars. Enjoy! Meaghan - Merry Christmas! - 20:11, 22 December 2009 (UTC) You could also receive the next higher up award, the Yellow Star!

I very much appreciate it! Thanks, Meaghan! LadyofShalott 20:12, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

I said a rude word when I pressed "send" just now on a cleanup of this article and got "Edit conflict"; but you have done a better job than I did - thanks! JohnCD (talk) 20:42, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Sorry for the edit conflict, but I'm glad you didn't lose a lot of work better than what I'd done! :) LadyofShalott 20:45, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Click there to open your card! → → →

Dear LadyofShalott,
Wishing you, your family, and friends a very merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate at this time of year), and I hope that the new year will be a good one, in real life, and on the wiki. There is always a reason to spread the holiday spirit; it's a special time of year of almost everyone. ;)
Love and best wishes, Meaghan - ^Merry _Christmas! - 00:22, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! May you have a wonderful Christmas as well, Meaghan! :) LadyofShalott 02:03, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Season's greetings

Merry Christmas, dear Lady! Let me guess--you're going to find books in your stocking. May they all be hardback, illustrated, and loaded with proper academic apparatus. All the best, Drmies (talk) 18:16, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Drmies - I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas yourself! Did SC bring your little girl one of those bikes? LadyofShalott 14:02, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

The Benjamin Raubinsons

In the end, the prod was contested, so I brought the page to AfD here. -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 06:20, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I've commented there. LadyofShalott 14:01, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Question in User talk:Hanay,

Hi, I would appreciate if you will answer Tomer question in User talk:Hanay, Thanks Hanay (talk) 10:31, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Abuse of power by another editor

On Aquatic ape hypothesis, Kwamikagami has abused his administrator abilities in order to perpetuate his edit war with me, in spite of good faith efforts on my part on the talk page to resolve the situation. Mokele (talk) 01:11, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Ali Fingerz Esbai

Thanks for looking at it. The article is a repost of a previously deleted article. Would it be appropriate to tag it now with Speedy delete - repost? Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 15:57, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Ah, yes, if you had used that tag to start with, I'd have gone ahead and deleted it. As it is, I just did so on that basis. Thanks for letting me know it was a recreation. LadyofShalott 16:02, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I didn't notice it until I saw his user page after I'd already tagged the article with 'speedy delete - person' three times (twice after the editor deleted the tag). Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 16:09, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you.

for your help on the, ABB Power Plant Shooting (2010). Yes, this is recent breaking news out of Missouri. thanks for the category! :) --KangoJangothe3rd (talk) 15:59, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

No problem. :) LadyofShalott 16:10, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Just a correction

It wasn't my speedy deletion, it was User:Blanchardb who nominated it. I was just putting it back up after User:Someshkirar took it down. --Everyone Dies In the End (talk) 16:12, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I sent the article to AfD here. The organization of which he is the CEO is not notable.

Now another problem surfaced at the AfD. Someone requested that the article be salted. Problem is, you moved it before it got nominated, and the creator (currently blocked for removing the AfD tag) shows that he fully intends to recreate the article after it gets deleted. So, do we salt all possible capitalizations of this name? -- Blanchardb -^{Me•MyEars•MyMouth}- timed 16:50, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

I have no objection to multiple saltings if the consensus is to delete. I am not familiar enough with the notability/ lack thereof to make an intelligent comment at the AfD. I'll try to do so later when I have more time to check for possible notability if any. If I need to be reminded though, feel free to ping me with the list of saltings that need doing, and I can help with that if the closing admin does not cover it. LadyofShalott 17:27, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Aquatic ape hypothesis page protection

Hi,

Based on how the discussion ended here, I think you could safely remove page protection. Thanks, WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 00:07, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Bapsy Jain

Hi LadyofShalott. You declined a speedy delete on Bapsy Jain mentioning it's not spam. I could not find any reliable secondary sources that mention the details of Bapsy Jain. Whenever it's convenient, do please leave a note on my talk page on the reasons you found the BLP not mere advertising. Thanks ▒ Wirεłεşş ▒ Fidεłitұ ▒ Ćłâşş ▒ Θnε ▒ _―Œ ^{♣Łεâvε Ξ мεşşâgε♣} 08:18, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Also, just for reference, the article Bapsy Jain had been deleted earlier. It was readded back without any changes. Therefore, another speedy deletion notice was put up. The creator (who's been subsequently blocked) was informed here. Do please leave your reply on my talk. Thanks ▒ Wirεłεşş ▒ Fidεłitұ ▒ Ćłâşş ▒ Θnε ▒ _―Œ ^{♣Łεâvε Ξ мεşşâgε♣} 08:27, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

WP:MRR: many thanks and suggestion

Hi. First and foremost, many thanks indeed for volunteering to help out with the educational assignment Magical Realism Reconsidered. As always with such projects, it is of course the responsibility of the students to take the lead in editing the chosen articles, and above all to do the research and contribute reliable sources. But any help, however small, that established Wikipedians can provide, perhaps above all in guiding new users unfamiliar with the technicalities and protocols of the encyclopedia, as well (at a later stage) with copy-editing suggestions and the MOS, is very much appreciated. Please, however, feel no compunction to go above and beyond what I know is your usual generosity on the site. The project's success or failure must depend in the last analysis on the effort that the students put in. But I know that they will be extremely grateful for anything you are able to do, and indeed it is ideally part of the project that they also learn to work with people such as yourself: they are contributing to a public site, and their ability to negotiate with other editors and deal with feedback is an integral part of the exercise.

My only suggestion is that, in line with the discussion here, you might want to indicate on the project page an article or articles that you are particularly interested in watching and helping with. Again, you should not feel you have to do this; we are pleased for you to aid the project in any way that you see fit. But it does help if a particular group working on a specific article feel that they have an experienced editor or two to whom they can turn in the first instance.

Again, many thanks. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 00:02, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

some projects

appear dead but they do have the occasional editor look at the talk page - thanks for your re-affirming the need for a change of name from Librarians to Library and Librarians - it has to happen as it is too restrictive in its current name and scope - and that damned painting on your user page - it knocks me out every time i see a good reproduction :| - cheers SatuSuro 06:39, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

New proposal

Hi :) I posted a new proposal for discussions at the Village Pump here. Your comments would be valuable. Thanks ▒ Wirεłεşş ▒ Fidεłitұ ▒ Ćłâşş ▒ Θnε ▒ _―Œ ^{♣Łεâvε Ξ мεşşâgε♣} 04:24, 19 January 2010 (UTC)