User talk:Thnidu/Archive 1

Welcome![edit]

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Pond fluke[edit]

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St. Valentine[edit]

Wikipedia:AFD#How_to_list_pages_for_deletion gives full instructions as to how to list an article at Articles for Deletion. You forgot to put the tag on the actual St. Valentine page; I've done that for you. I've also placed the article up for speedy deletion, as it seems to meet a criterion there too. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 22:27, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April 2008[edit]

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to L. Ron Hubbard. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Contact me if you need assistance adding references. Thank you. Gwernol 02:45, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shwa[edit]

Somebody tagged your claim about Shwa being another spelling of Schwa as citation needed. Do you have an example? Cheers, — sligocki (talk) 18:13, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Cites added: OED article on "schwa"; Bloomfield's Language (cite taken from OED). I also added "sometimes", because the German spelling, with a "c", seems to have become pretty much standard by now. --Thnidu (talk) 00:36, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tifinagh[edit]

Hi Thnidu

I mostly contribute as nl:wikt:Gebruiker:Jcwf at the nl.wiktionary. I was trying to make Tifinagh visible and took your advice to download the deja-vue fonts. I can now see some of the symbols sometimes. In fact at the recent changes of the Walloon] wikti I can see a whole word, but once I open the page I only see the last character, the rest are blocks. Any advice? 69.134.250.129 (talk) 19:46, 21 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Crowdsourced translation of the Bible into LOLcat[edit]

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Your article has been moved to AfC space[edit]

Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:Thnidu/Crowdsourced translation of the Bible into LOLcat has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Crowdsourced translation of the Bible into LOLcat, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article, if you have any questions please ask on my talk page! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 21:51, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

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Replaceable fair use File:Map of Mt. Maunganui, NZ.png[edit]

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July 2012[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. -- Doniago (talk) 14:06, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting spoilers[edit]

I noticed you'd removed the identity of the murderer from The Mousetrap article. Wikipedia has an unambiguous "no spoiler warnings" policy - if something is of encyclopaedic interest, it goes in the article even if it might spoil the ending of a film, book or other entertainment. Although Wikipedia used to have spoiler warning templates that the user had to click through to see the "spoiler" text, these were dropped in 2007 and Wikipedia no longer carries spoilers in any form, including your suggestion that the reader click through to the talk page to find out the murderer's identity.

Although it may be a relief to the few reckless theatregoers who skipped past "the ending to The Mousetrap was revealed online in the play's Wikipedia article" and actively chose to start reading a section called "identity of the murder", anyone reading a printed copy of the article would be frustrated at a paragraph just ending with "now click on a link which doesn't exist on this sheet of paper". --McGeddon (talk) 16:43, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You got me in the middle of making the change. Look at the history: my change at 16:27, 4 December 2012 UTC‎, your reversion at 16:36, nine minutes later! Have a little patience, please. I'm going to revert your change and copy this reply to your User talk page. --Thnidu (talk) 17:07, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll admit I wasn't entirely sure whether you were telling the reader to read the talk page generally, or to read a special thread which you were about to start writing, but since either of those would break the same basic WP:SPOILER policy, I went ahead and reverted it. I'll take a look at your talk page thread now, though. --McGeddon (talk) 17:37, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Conceded. I've reorganized the "Identity" section instead. See Talk:The_Mousetrap#Twist_ending_tradition. --Thnidu (talk) 18:23, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback on WikiBlame bug report[edit]

Fixed. Regards, --Flominator (talk) 11:45, 6 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Banda in Rigoletto, etc.[edit]

Hi Thnidu, I left you a reply [1] at Wikiproject Opera, but in case you don't see it, I'll copy it here:

Verdi's middle-period operas used bandas a lot. So did Rossini and other composers of the era. I've expanded your draft at User:Thnidu/Banda (opera) and added further sources. There is definitely enough now to move it into main space as a viable stub where it can be further expanded. Let me know if you'd like me to do that.

Best, Voceditenore (talk) 15:16, 17 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Yes, please do. -- Also, others have left comments with add'l info on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Opera#Stage_band_in_Rigoletto. --Thnidu (talk) 03:29, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Now moved to article space at Banda (opera). Members of WikiProject Opera are helping to expand it. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 18:50, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. :-) I've added it to List of musical ensemble formats. --Thnidu (talk) 17:44, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

File:Vinyl record.jpg[edit]

A tag has been placed on File:Vinyl record.jpg, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to a nonexistent page, or a redirect loop.

If you can fix this redirect to point to an existing Wikipedia page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you also fix the redirect. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. 192.231.40.3 (talk) 18:52, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

[Originally posted at user talk:RHaworth] I see, via a note on my talk page, that you deleted File:Vinyl record.jpg after a Speedy Deletion tag was placed on it, "because it is a redirect to a nonexistent page, or a redirect loop. If you can fix this redirect to point to an existing Wikipedia page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag."

Reasonable enough, but I didn't see the warning until after the deletion, and now I can't find a history or any way to remind myself why I would have put that image or page there, so I can't reconstruct it and do it properly. Am I missing something? Or is there no way now? Please reply in that section on my talk page. Thank you. -- Thnidu (talk) 02:30, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am all in favour of not splitting discussion threads across multiple pages. In this case the better action would have been for you to place your question to me on this page, User talk:Thnidu and use a {{talkback}} tag on my talk page to bring it to my attention. You created the page on 2012-10-06 04:56:56 as #REDIRECT File:Vynil record.jpg. The Xqbot (talk · contribs) changed it on 2013-01-08 19:04:32 to #REDIRECT File:2 vinyl records + 1 CD.jpg. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 09:47, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, thanks. I didn't know about the talkback tag, and other admins have requested replies on their talk pages. -- If there was no link to the page, there's no point in my trying to redo it right... whatever I was trying to do back then, half a year ago. --Thnidu (talk) 01:00, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Philadelphia Wiknic[edit]

I will be happy to meet you at the Philadelphia Wiknic on Saturday afternoon. I have been asked to be the facilitator, which only means that I will try to get the Wikipedian attendees to talk about what Philadelphia area editors would like to do in the future, such as recruiting more editors, having events, and what we would like to achieve for Philadelphia or Pennsylvania or nearby state articles. We need to be more organized. I hope you can contribute. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:10, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Dthomsen8: This should be interesting as well as fun. I've never been at any kind of Wiki* meetup, though I've been, um, somewhat compulsive (blush) about random fixes on WP. I hope to see you there! (I may have to get a flat fixed first, though.) Thnidu (talk) 00:52, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Some of us do random fixes on random articles, some of us do particular subjects or work on particular projects, and some of us (me!) swing back and forth from the random to the targeted approach. I did quite a few bridges in List of crossings of the Schuylkill River, but I have done plenty of random fixes, too.

The Wicnic is a casual event, and very casual here compared with New York City or Washington, DC. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:10, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Dthomsen8: Sounds good :-) . I hope to see you there!! Thnidu (talk) 01:12, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Dthomsen8: I wound up getting there after everyone else had left, so I sat on one of the tables and practiced guitar for a while. Can you tell me if anything got done or decided or talked about there that could help me (or vice versa) as a newbie Editor? Thnidu (talk) 17:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was very sorry to miss you at the Wiknic. Some of us from the Wiknic are considering an indoor event in early August, somewhere in University City, perhaps somewhere at Penn. It is late, I will write to you tomorrw. Have a happy Independence Day!

@Dthomsen8: Oh, good. Thank you, I did, and I hope you did too. I'm looking forward to it, hoping to make it. Thnidu (talk) 16:56, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Patakí review[edit]

If you are actually doing any GOCE reviews, and I wish you would, please review the Patakí article for me. The article does not have problems with grammar or punctuation. It did need a lot of wikilinks added, and the addition of the article elsewhere (not an orphan, and my education on the subject). I added the section Sources at the bottom, but the addition of inline citations was more than I have energy to pursue right now. I take a ver broad view of copyediting, but not an unlimited one. I would welcome your advice on this rather esoteric article.--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:26, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your work on the Patakí article, especially the linguistic parts. I am going to give you credit for this article in the GOCE July Drive, and you will get a Barnstar for the work. I did put back one sentence in the lede. Good idea to add a section name. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:19, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Dthomsen8: Oh my, thank you! I wasn't nearly done with it. Should I continue, or will you take over? Thnidu (talk) 15:56, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am the cheering section and the coach. You will get the work done, and the credit. --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:58, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Dthomsen8: Review/footnoting is finished... as am I (4:40 am EDT)! Much of the article consists of strung-together quotations. I don't much like that; is it frowned upon?

Of more concern IMO, a plurality of these -- four refs, accounting for about 16% of the word count (roughly, 229/1444) -- are from "Duncan", cited only as "Duncan, Cynthia. Personal Interview. 15 May 2012". That is, some WPan's unpublished private conversation with this author*.

* Google search for "cynthia duncan" santeria -site:wikipedia.org displays 89 results. --Thnidu (talk) 08:52, 3 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Dthomsen8: I had a good bit of email correspondence (& some phone calls) with Tyrone Peters, the creator and maintainer of AgoLaroye.com. I told him about the plagiarisms and directed him to the appropriate page on scribd to make a complaint, and I sent him a request/explanation adapted from WP:ERP. He assured me that it was fine for us to use his paragraph; that was on the phone, I don't have it in writing. --Thnidu (talk) 06:31, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You should learn about OTRS and Wikipedia:Contact us - Licensing to learn how the written permission is documented formally. More often it is images rather than text, but text is included. --DThomsen8 (talk) 12:49, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

îles Gilbert[edit]

Hi. you have put a capital I at "îles Gilbert". Nor Krusenstern or Duperrey could write like that in their books. The use of capital letters at the beginning of Îles has started very recently for Independent countries (to distinguish the islands from the state itself). It was long before it became a protectorate and then a British Colony. Yours,--Enzino (talk) 19:53, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@Enzino: Thanks, I was unaware of that. Please add this info to the Talk page there to explain your undo. --Thnidu (talk) 01:49, 19 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion for Copy editing[edit]

I suggest that you formally sign up for Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Backlog elimination drives/July 2013 and start entering articles chosen from the list there. You can see my work there. --DThomsen8 (talk) 00:57, 6 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are signed up for GOCE reviewing, and I fixed the formatting for that. You are not signed up for the drive itself, but you can do that, too.--DThomsen8 (talk) 19:54, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

review[edit]

I patrolled your page. I went through the enormously-backlogged list of newly-created pages and confirmed that your page was okay: not spam, not an attack page, not a copyright violation, not any of the other reasons for which I would delete someone's page without asking. Then I clicked "patrolled" to remove it from the list of "pages that have not yet been patrolled", and moved on to the next entry. That's all. DS (talk) 13:18, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@DragonflySixtyseven: Thanks for the explanation and the patrolling. Thnidu (talk) 19:19, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]