User talk:CatherineMunro

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Hi there!

Byline on your blog post

Catherine,

I'd like to post your blog entry "Why Wikipedia matters" - thanks for submitting it. Can you add a byline, e.g. "Catherine Munro is a [profession] from [location] and has been a Wikipedia contributor since [date]"? (Feel free to alter the format.) Thanks, --Eloquence* 18:47, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :-). I've made some minor edits, and renamed it to "Why Wikipedia Matters"; hope that's OK. It's now posted!--Eloquence* 03:08, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Clarifiers in disambiguation pages

Hello, CatherineMunro. After doing some research, I have found out that you were one of the participants in the discussion here about whether clarifiers (or Parenthetical Disambiguation Terms, PDTs, as I now call them—I didn't really know the simple term) should be italicised. The discussion has resulted in the current guideline on disambiguation page links, but there is a discussion taking place here about whether names of works, like Star Wars and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which are normally italicised, should also be italicised within the clarifiers. Your input would certainly be appreciated. Waltham, The Duke of 15:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Taft family

Thanks so much for restoring the Taft family page. I'm still puzzled as to how/why it was disappeared. Acsenray (talk) 20:42, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

For this! That means a lot to me, coming from someone I regard highly, -- and who has been here even longer than me. Best regards, Antandrus (talk) 03:45, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Why mark me as retired?

Hi! When you marked me as "retired", it had only been 3 days since my last contribution to Wikipedia. I'm certainly not retired. Capmango (talk) 18:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Apology accepted! And I can see how the text of my user page makes it sound like I have retired. But I haven't given up on making contributions to Wikipedia, I have given up on Wikipedia fulfilling what I see as its potential. Capmango (talk) 18:32, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Nancy Baym

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HELP ME!

I need your help!!! I see some weird article about some Al-something on the Fort Wayne, Indiana page!!! PLEASE HELP ME! I don't know what to do!!! --Mtsufan43 (talk) 03:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Haraldskær Woman

As you are a significant contributor to this article I wanted to make certain that you were of its GA Sweeps review, which can be found here. The article has been placed on hold pending some attention to citations. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 18:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Image-John taylor single cover I Do What I Do.jpg

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Seashell and related

Dear Catherine, Thanks for your note on my talk page. Until I got your note I did not realize that Martin had merged Animal shell as well as Seashell into Exoskeleton and Mollusc shell. You are certainly right that creating a good large-scope overview article is a real challenge. It is also true that the related topics in that part of Wikipedia were overlapping in messy and confusing ways, so something needed doing... I requested to get Seashell reinstated after it disappeared recently, because there was a lot of info in it that was not in the other 2 articles, and also because I think it is a good place for complete amateurs to start reading about the subject. As for the seashell template, I don't really like it for a whole bunch of reasons, partly because it is superfluous (I think), and it reads very oddly to me (I'm a semi-professional malacologist.) I did contemplate getting rid of it, but I am hoping it can perhaps be made into something worthwhile, even though I am not sure what yet. You may be right that category would do the same thing. I am not sure yet if I can turn that template into something useful or not. Geronimo has said more than once that he doesn't mind if it ends up being deleted. Very best to you and nice to meet you, Invertzoo (talk) 23:46, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, it's me again, here is what I wrote to you on the template page earlier today: "Hi Catherine, I am a species of seashell expert. Like you I am somewhat uncomfortable with the use of this particular template, but for different reasons: I was not sure the template was useful as it was originally composed, and plus the content seems odd: rather arbitrary and amateur-seeming. For the time being I am trying to see if the template can be kept, added to, and made more useful, but ultimately, if I can't see that the template is really going to "earn its keep", then I will be in favor of deleting it and going for categories instead. The point of a template is to make navigating to relevant related articles much easier and faster to do; if this one can help considerably with that then it might be able to be an asset. If not then it is just taking up space. Invertzoo (talk) 14:43, 26 September 2008 (UTC)" I have talked to Geronimo a bit today, and from my own point of view, I personally am coming round more to the idea that this template can be made to be useful and functional. There are certainly a lot of other templates that follow a similar pattern and seem to function well and be useful. Perhaps this one can be too. By the way, right now it looks ugly because I added too much content to it, but Geronimo will work it up into something more functional. I don't know enough about templates to do it myself.If you look at various fisheries articles you will perhaps see how similar templates are working quite well (so it seems) on those pages. Best, Invertzoo (talk) 21:35, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

SF Meetup #8

In the area? You're invited to
San Francisco Meetup # 8
	Date: November 8th, 2008
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	Place: Metacafe, Palo Alto, California
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Article tagged for rescue

The Story of Maths has been tagged for rescue. -- IRP ☎ 22:19, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for Image:DuranDuran HungryLikeTheWolf Screenshot.jpg

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art

First off, I apologize for the spam. You are receiving this message because you have indicated that you are in Southern California or interested in Southern California topics (either via category or WikiProject).

I would like to invite you to the Los Angeles edition of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art, a photography scavenger hunt to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 1:00 to 7:00 PM. All photos are intended for use in Wikipedia articles or on Wikimedia Commons. There will be a prize available for the person who gets the most photos on the list.

If you don't like art, why not come just to meet your fellow Wikipedians. Apparently, we haven't had a meetup in this area since June 2006!

If you are interested in attending, please add your name to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art#Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Please make a note if you are traveling to the area (train or plane) and need transportation, which can probably be arranged via carpool, but we need time to coordinate. Lodging is as of right now out of scope, but we could discuss that if enough people are interested.

Thank you and I hope to see you there! howcheng {chat} 23:39, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

User Causing Problems

Hey there again, I just wanted to let you know there's been a user vandalising pages I work on. The user is Majorgoals01, and one of the pages he's been vandalising is Takbir Bashir (if you check the edit he had before I changed it, you'll notice quite a difference....). He's apparently been warned once already. I just thought you'd maybe wanna keep an eye on him. Thanks a lot, appreciate it, Jay (talk) 19:35, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

www.wikipedia.org

Hi. I was asked to come work on the above page a few days ago — and have made some changes; not too radical (yet). I'm looking over the old talk and found you. I figured I should touch base with you; thoughts, involvement, up-to-you… So far, I'm mostly doing lower level tweaks; things like adding titles, Unicode encoding, omitting the local name of Main Page and relying on redirects. I did just propose a change to how the top-10 links work — a larger rectangle that surrounds the 'free encyclopedia' and article count, too. Discussion is at:

• m:Talk:Www.wikipedia.org template

and you can preview the tweaks at:

• http://pruebita.org/cgi-bin/livepreview.py?site=wikipedia

live version is at:

• http://www.wikipedia.org/

of course ;) Some of my changes are already live.

Cheers, Jack Merridew 11:51, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of Ishango bone

Hello, I have done a GA Reassessment of the Ishango bone article as part of the GA Sweeps project. You significantly contributed to this article and as such I am notifying you that I found a couple of problems with the article that need to be addressed if the article is to remain at GA level. My review is here. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me on my talk page. I will hold the article for a week pending work and then reassess. On a separate note, thank you for your work on Wikipedia, I quickly perused your user page and I owe you a debt of gratitude for the foundational work you did to bring the project to where it is today. H1nkles (talk) 15:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Writers by award

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CfD nomination of Category:Smiths

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Hi

Hi! Very nice your user page. Congratulations of Brazil. Dédi's (talk) 06:37, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Twitter

Hi Catherine! It's Abigail again. I'm inviting you to follow me on Twitter. :) http://twitter.com/WikiaAbbi - AbigailAbernathy (talk) 20:09, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:Curcuma by titanium22.jpg

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Orphaned non-free image File:Large williams logo.png

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Advice needed for planned edit of Missing Persons (band) page, and future edits

Catherine, I have been working on the Missing Persons (band) page as well as the Dale Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo pages. I also have information that I can add to Terry Bozzio's and Patrick O'Hearn's pages. I have compiled references that I will be adding.

Currently, I am planning an edit that will expand upon and correct an inaccuracy in the current band page lead paragraphs. With the expansion, I am considering insertion of a Band formation section in which I will elaborate a little more upon how the band members came together-explain the Frank Zappa connection for four of the members and add some information about Chuck Wild. Does creating a separate section for that information appear reasonable and conform with format guidelines?

My edits will range across the band, the band members, and possibly into Frank Zappa. I have set my current goal at bringing these pages all up to the level of Warren Cuccurullo's page. Since you have some knowledge of the band and brought the Duran Duran page up to feature article status, could I possibly consult with you about proposed edits?

Oh, I have a musical background as a drummer/percussionist (although I no longer play professionally), along with an architectural background (my current work). I'm an INTJ. Doc2234 (talk) 02:12, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello CatherineMunro! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 3 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 728 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. Jim Wallerstein - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
2. Holly Knight - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
3. Dean Chamberlain - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 17:42, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Dean Chamberlain

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Dean Chamberlain

Real nice work at the article, respect to you. Off2riorob (talk) 19:30, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations to you and all editors and me and the wiki and to Dean, the result was Keep . Would you happen to know anyone who is good with copyright on pictures and perhaps fair use rationales, I would love to see a picture of him or one of his works there. Off2riorob (talk) 20:24, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

First Edit Day

Happy First Edit Day, CatherineMunro, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

File:18th Birthday.jpg

See you on Wikia! --Lcawte (talk) 13:37, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

m:Image:Booksshelf.gif

I am looking for a copy of m:Image:Booksshelf.gif that you created. I want to attempt to recreate File:Bookshelf-40x20.png as SVG, and the orginal resoultion image would be helpful. Can you either undelete the file on Meta, or upload a copy of it on Commons? Thanks. --Svgalbertian (talk) 12:40, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello, CatherineMunro. You have new messages at Svgalbertian's talk page.
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cc

Hello, my name's Zack. I thought it'd be more appropriate if I asked you the permission to do that, would you approve?--Zack (talk) 22:23, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia's tagline

Hi. I noticed that you participated in a 2005/2006 discussion and straw poll on whether or not the tagline at the top of all Wikipedia articles should be changed from "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" to "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit". I don't know if you're still interested in this issue or not, but this exact change has been proposed once again, this time at the Village pump, and there is currently an RFC (Request for Comment) on the subject where it is being discussed. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 18:07, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi, would you be so kind as to give us support!

Hello, I hope you're doing fine and I sincerely apologize for this intrusion. I'm Claudi Balaguer, a member of a Catalan association "Amical de la Viquipèdia" which is trying to get some recognition as a Catalan Chapter but this hasn't been approved up to that moment. I know that you are also trying to obtain a Californian Chapter and I sincerely hope that you will succeed and I think that all the members of our association feel likewise because denying it implies, in my opinion, going against the spreading of knowledge creating boundaries to creativity and collective voluntary work. So maybe I am not bothering you and you will help us... We would appreciate your support, visible if you stick this on your first page: Wikimedia CAT. Supporting us will be like giving equal opportunity to minorized languages, cultures and local or regional entities in the future! By the way I really appreciated your writings about the Wikipedia, the metaphores are really good and the ideas conveyed like transforming stones into wells really impacted me, you've got a real poetic wisdom about what is/or should be Wikipedia! Thanks again, wishing you a great summer, take care! I wish I could visit your great, beautiful and sunny region once more soon! If you ever need my (probably "our" too) help you can count on me even though I'm currently really far away from California. Capsot (talk) 16:06, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

E-Mail

Hey Catherine, I just wanted to let you know that I just sent you an e-mail. Thanks, Jay (talk) 20:50, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Jim Wallerstein

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

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. J04n(talk page) 00:03, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

October 2010

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to Talk:Boner. Readers looking for accurate information will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write practically anything you want. Endofskull (talk) 20:58, 1 October 2010 (UTC)