User talk:Rlitwin

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Gracias

Thank you for starting the article on REFORMA. Maybe I'll see if there's anything in the archives I can add. Welcome to Wikipedia and if you ever need any help with anything, don't hesitate to ask. 8) --Rockero 05:43, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Go Go Bill of Rights

Bill of Rights article looks great! Jessamyn (talk) 17:41, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Danke!

Thanks for your kind words. Yeah, I'm having a pretty nasty case of patience this week, so.. I thought I'd try this approach out and see if it works. I've always wondered if what I'm trying is possible so... we'll see what happens. If nothing else, it'll look good on my wikiresumé if I ever wikirun for a wikioffice. (you can never have too many wiki prefixes).

Sorry I misattributed the kinds words to Jessamyn instead of you-- I've corrected the error. It didn't stem from any belief that she's nicer than you, though, I promise. When you called it a "good addition", you subsquently posted the sentence "I'm an active member of ALA and a member of ALA Council, like Jessamyn, but not an employee.". At my screen width, her name is the left-most word on the line, so my eyes must have assumed that was the sig. :) whoops! --Alecmconroy 22:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

You Are Famous!

You are famous! You are named and quoted in Librarians "Heroes" at ALA Conference?, Library Journal, 18 July 2006.

Others were more nuanced. Wrote Rory Litwin, "While our choice to stick with New Orleans as the conference site was laudable, describing it in mildly hyperbolic language as "bravery" placed the discussion in that tradition of self-praise that many of us like and many of us don't like, and have been noticing for many years."

You are famous, and more nuanced!! Now how can I get some quotes in the Library Journal? --SafeLibraries 05:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Subgenii

to answer your question, I actually know several of the people that were catagorized, and they are not part of Subgenius. Also, if you look at the person's data, you'll see multiple bans, with the sub-genii being the most recent. I looked at every article before cleaning it up. If you have any further questions or concerns, let me know. Rsm99833 01:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

uncopyrightable

Rlitwin: Is there no room in Wikipedia for trivia?!--Nowa 15:01, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

R.R. Bowker

Thank you for your excellent work in expanding the R.R. Bowker article. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:26, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Wigger article

Heh, no need to apologize. I'm over it too. I thought I made my case well enough, but if that wasn't enough, "shrug".Snackmagic 01:01, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Verso

Rlitwin: You seem very protective of this word. 15:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Just read the policy: Wikipedia:External links. Nothing could be clearer. Rlitwin 16:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Bibliographic databases

Let me know if you need a hand with the overhaul on this article or the category. Cheers, ♥ Her Pegship♥ 19:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC) (California librarian)

Re: posses poses possess

Rlitwin wrote:

I am not sure your bot is working very well when it comes to "posses." Clearly it's a misspelling of some word, but without looking at the context, how can you tell whether it is meant to be "poses" or "possess"? Rlitwin 21:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

This isn't an automated bot, it's just an account for me to do high-speed assisted editing with. So I do look at the context, and select the appropriate word. Since you've left me a message, though, I must have slipped up somewhere... and indeed I have, on American middle class. That was my fault, for rushing through multiple corrections and not looking closely enough at the context of the words. My apologies! Thanks for correcting it – Gurch 21:33, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey

Rlitwin, thanks very much for your thoughtful note. If you've seen the page I linked to, you will have seen the harassment that's been going on since January. I will confess, it's draining. I have no strong feelings about the link in question, and would welcome input from others. If you wanted to post on the talk page that you felt that, on balance, the link ought not to be there, that would be great. Or if you wanted to post the opposite, that would be great, too. You will notice, I did not revert Gnetwerker's edits. I have not in fact done so to any edit he has made with his legitimate account since January (I think I'm right on that, I'd have to double-check to be 100%). If there is an emotional commitment, it is on his part, to harass me away from pages that he feels he owns in some way.

I believe I have been pretty patient, even privately urging involved admins not to ban him, but I'm not going to allow him to bully my edits any longer. I certainly wouldn't want to commit to a bad or wrong edit out of stubborness, but I'm not going to give up in the name of making peace; believe me, I had already tried giving up on many of the articles he stalked me to, but that did not stop the stalking. So now I'm not going to give up on them. But I truly welcome your feedback, positive or negative. IronDuke 20:29, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

IronDuke. Tell me what page you are talking about. Maybe I'll go in and see if I can help you any. --SafeLibraries 22:15, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

bibliographic databases

hurrah! I am finally back to editing & saw your note -- glad you're interested in the topic, found the article & want to work on it. Where shall we take it? Right now it's basically a definition, better for Wiktionary than here; there has to be more to say than that! Anyway, always good to meet another librarian :) best, phoebe 06:38, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Phoebe! Thanks for writing. Let's take figure it out on the talk page. Rlitwin 12:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Gorman

Ah yes! I had forgotten about that. Thanks for catching it. Cheers, ♥ Her Pegship♥ 16:33, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

more on gorman!

Something has to be done about Michael Gorman (librarian) -- right now it's a copyvio. I'm working on re-writing it, but need more sources as well. I'm on the fence about the controversy section -- it seems interesting, was important at the time, but perhaps not important enough for the article... would be better suited to being a section in a longer article that discussed his career. Thoughts? phoebe 00:19, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Safelibraries RFC

As discussed on the ALA talk page, I've gone ahead and asked the Wikipedia community to comment on Safelibraries edits, so that people who are unrelated to this dispute can help guide him. You may want to respond to this RFC at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/SafeLibraries.org. --Alecmconroy 22:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

If you get a chance, please head over there, since the RFC needs to have at least two signers, and more would be, in my own opinion, helpful. Jessamyn (talk) 11:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

ESBN article was speedy-deleted by Rich F as a WP:CSD G11

Hello Rory. For ESBN, see [1]. I think the quick action may be due to the new policy on commercial spam: [2]. Similarly the ISEN.

Since you have been following library stuff, can you tell me if the following are all legit and currently being used? ISAN, ISCI, ISMN, ISRC, ISTC and ISWC? Also, would it be fair to refer to CODEN as obsolete? EdJohnston 14:42, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

librarianship

The only distinction I have been able to find is that the Rubin Introduction to LIS. book uses librarianship in its bibliography to mean the career aspects of the library profession, librarianship as a careeer. I'm going to give that as one possibility and yours as another, and quasi-synonyms as a third. If you every find some ref, or I do, we'll put it in.

As would be expected, I've been diverted here into a number of other things as well, most lately Gutenberg & related pages, where odd views abound. (I'm also somewhat involved with the competitive project.) Thanks for helping me get started hereDGG 03:22, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

electronic article RfD

An article I have contributed to relating to libraries, Electronic article, has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Electronic article. DGG 02:18, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

List of BibliographicDatabases

The article, List of bibliographic databases, has just been turned into a redirect, and simultaneously the Academic databases and search engines article has had all the links changed--all of this in the last few days--alll of it , all the links & the redirect by User:Karnesky at the rate of several hundred edits a day. See discussion on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Academic_databases_and_search_engines#links DGG 03:53, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

I apologize for the language in the edit summary--no matter how many edits, I should not have used "vandalism"DGG 04:23, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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Help with a bully

Would you please consider helping me with this that is related to this? I know you may be busy, so only if you have a little time. Thank you. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling 02:32, 13 September 2007 (UTC)