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SAS Institute

I was just realizing since you were involved in the SAS (software) page, I should have let you know that I've moved on to the SAS Institute page. Unlike Monster (company), Publishers Clearing House and others I've brought up to GA in a COI capacity where they have controversial reputations, this one is more along the lines of Noodles & Company - their primary claim to notability is as a good employer and corporate citizen. I expect the neutrality of both to be contested repeatedly. As such, these types of articles would be a good starting point for me to move up to FA articles in order to re-assure the community they are done properly. (looks like I made a mistake on the Noodles page that could be interpreted as a COI issue). CorporateM (Talk) 15:47, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh... the Noodles contestation. If I were to add something like "their primary claim to notability is as a good employer and corporate citizen", cited to an independent source, few would think anything of it. You do the same thing, they get all on your back. If you need me at the SAS Institute page, just ping. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:28, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've gotten an editor or two to pay attention for a moment, but since there is no formalized queue like AfC and editors are hesitant to make a commitment to stick around a page they don't have a particular interest/expertise in, I never know if I need more help or if I just need to be patient and wait for an editor to get around to it. North8000 was going to help and is one of my most reliable helpers who handles my COI quite well, but has recently been site-banned as a result of an arbcom ruling. Soooo.... I don't know.

Extremely positive or negative articles are always a magnet for speculation over whether they are representative of the source material and in most cases they are not. The other editor focused on content and expressed reasonable concerns. The number of awards in that article is a huge red flag, but they have a lot that meet these requirements. CorporateM (Talk) 18:50, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Banned? What the hell? Are you sure? I mean, he's still editing.

Yes, it is tough when sources are overwhelmingly positive. Sudirman has similar issues. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:19, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See here. I think the decision is not in-force yet, but maybe I have something wrong - I don't know how arbcom matters work. CorporateM (Talk) 01:23, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. So once that case is closed, North is out for at least a year. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:33, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just went over there to ping him and saw that the ArbCom ruling had passed and he is now banned for at least a year. If you do have time to collaborate on it and/or the McKinsey & Company page I would appreciate your time. Though I can also bug someone else if you're busy. CorporateM (Talk) 00:43, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see what I can do later; don't be afraid to ping me on the talk page. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:54, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Post-GAR retaliation by User:Adam Cuerden: assault by proxy?

Mr. Crisco - Why is Cuerden persisting is making contact with my work in the aftermath of this conflict?

No doubt you're aware that Cuerden to stalking my talk posts and articles, resorting to "accidental" deletions and personal attacks. As an active administrator, is it your practice to monitor this activity without intervening to suppress it? Or is this simply regarded as "36 is getting his due"?

Cuerden needs to disengage and cool off. Kindly see to it that he does. 36hourblock (talk) 18:09, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Every single post you've made, 36, in the last two days or so has been attacking me for a markup typo. I will be reviewing everything you write for quite some time. I looked at an article in the hopes that a simpler subject would allow your research to shine through and not be bogged down, in the hopes of being able to offer a n olive branch. I found some minor issues, and began repairing them. I don't think I shall be continuing such; I also doubt you'll be getting any GAs, if you spend all your time attacking those who try and help. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:13, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Kindly see to it that he does."? Here, I'll answer it with a few quotes. "To intervene, does no credit to [my] reputation as an editor. [My] services ... are neither needed nor welcome." Goodbye. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:09, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Correction: “Goodbye” Mr. Bond. 36hourblock (talk) 23:41, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure why the link to Goldfinger: the quote is from You Only Live Twice... - SchroCat (talk) 23:50, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Correction: "Bond is hand-cuffed to the "atomic device" and is about to be lowered into Fort Knox's gold vault."

Auric Goldfinger: “Goodbye, Mr. Bond.” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058150/quotes 36hourblock (talk) 00:34, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's the danger of relying on a poor and unreliable site like IMDB... - SchroCat (talk) 00:37, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Correction: Crisco: "What do you expect me to do, 36, review your article? 36hourblock: "No, Mr. Crisco, I expect you whip Cuerden into an edit-frenzy."

Now, that's better. Thank you for the correction, SchroCat. 36hourblock (talk) 00:09, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This actually sounds like a fun RPG. So if 36 is Bond, I'm Goldfinger, Schro is Fleming and pulling the strings... shame I can't be Oddjob. He was so much fun in GoldenEye. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:13, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The inimitable Oddjob, portrayed as a sociopath with an IQ sufficient to carry out tasks requiring low cunning. Adored by a select group of assassins cum Wiki Administrators. Not only can you be Oddjob - you are Oddjob, or rather, Oddedit. Bravo, Crisco!

36hourblock (talk) 00:51, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unhuh. I'm halfway tempted to make your fate meet your user name after that personal attack, but I'll be nice. After all, all I've got right now is my shoe. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:56, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Livio & Roby Article

Hi Crisco,

I have updated the Livio & Roby page with more reviews and interviews as you suggested. Could you please let me know if it is enough for the article to be moved back? Ashleyc1990 (talk) [[1]]

I still don't see much in-depth discussion in the sources. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:12, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Crisco 1492, I have added a section about the Heineken Global Music Competition that they won. I have included features about this from Billboard, DJ Sounds and Pulse Radio. In on of the sources there is a TV News feature on them. Ashleyc1990 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 15:08, 28 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have a look tonight, maybe. Currently some RL work to do. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:37, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Crisco 1492, much appreciated :) Ashleyc1990 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Het "Daoen Pajoeng" in Wikipedia Indonesia

Pertama2, sy mengucapkan slamat pagi 'tuk bung Woodrich. Bgini, sy hndk mau mengembangkan lgi artikel id:Daun payung, artikel itu hndk sy kmbangkan dgn refrensi2 dri jurnal2 Hindia-Belanda dan tulisan2 peneliti jmn dulu. Sy mndpti artikel ini, The Gardens' bulletin, Singapore dan terungkap bhw genus Johannesteijsmannia ditemukan pda saat Johannes Elias Teijsmann mlakukan prjlanan k Pantai Barat Sumatra pada 1856-57. Apkh gmbr2 yg ad d 65 bole sy ambil? Lalu, d situ disbutkan bhw Johannesteijsmannia altifrons ditmukan pd 1856-57. Knp sy cri d artikel id:Karel Heyne tdk sy temui, terlebih d De nuttige planten van Ned.-Indie? Mungkin, itu saja ksulitan yg sy hadapi. Slamat pagi dan lalui hari dgn mimpi! --~~Akbar~~ ini dari Kalbar 03:09, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Menurut Archive.org, ini masih berhak cipta dan dirilis dengan lisensi CC-BY-NC-SA (alias, tidak cukup bebas untuk Wikipedia). Maaf. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:12, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lalu, lisensi yg bisa digunakan ap? lalu, apkh gmbr ini tdk serta-merta dpat digunakan? --~~Akbar~~ ini dari Kalbar 02:56, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Harus cari gambar lain. Kalau masih berhak cipta terbatas, belum bisa diupload. Di Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia mungkin bisa penggunaan wajar, tapi di WP-EN jelas tidak bisa: tinggal menemukan tanaman itu lalu memfotonya. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:11, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agaknya sulit. --~~Akbar~~ ini dari Kalbar 11:17, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Memang, tapi kalau tanaman itu belum punah, kita dituntut mencari. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:24, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

POTD

Hello Cris,

Can you please make [[2]] as the POTD for 10th May. His birthday on that day and I would love to suggest it.

Bellus Delphina ^talk 18:04, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Two things: his birthday is not cited, and 10 May is already scheduled. What if I were to schedule it for next year? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:49, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- Sure. Please make it for the next year. I have one more suggestion, please see this [[3]], her birthday is on November 24, I hope this will be possible in this year.

Bellus Delphina ^talk 16:04, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- - Sure, I'll schedule it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:29, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rosa 'Banksiae Lutea'

This is a Rosa 'Banksiae Lutea', or I eat my hat. File description and name is wrong. Will you please modify it so it is OK? it is a rather good picture too. No way a rosa canina. Hafspajen (talk) 01:46, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sminthopsis84 and PaleCloudedWhite‎, can't we be pretty sure that this is a 'Banksiae Lutea'? This is a picture that was uploaded by someone that did't know what it was. It looks like a 'Banksiae Lutea', and there are not many roses with this style, small clusters of flowers, pale yellow with this pointed petal-style. Phyllis Bide maybe, but it is not Phyllis Bide. Hafspajen (talk) 18:13, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've never grown R. banksiae 'Lutea', so can't comment with any authority. I agree the pic looks like it though, if a little on the pale side compared to other pictures on the web. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 01:08, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it may look a little bit pale, Paley, but... how many other roses can you mix this up? ain't many to chose from. Practically no other roses look exactly like this. Hafspajen (talk) 01:10, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not many, no, though there is 'Purezza'. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 01:25, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes the form is there. But not the petals, the petals are pointed. This one looks a little bit, but is not so many petals. Davis austin Roses, Phyllis Bide. Hafspajen (talk) 01:37, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it does look like R. banksiae, but not I think like f. lutea, though it is in that category on Commons now. The "white" one I'm most familiar with is very much this yellow when the flowers are young and one looks closely. It's a pity the photographer didn't leave us a comment about the scent, or a leaf in the image. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 11:00, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am jealous of all of you. I can't even identify simple flowers like these...

looks like a Portulaca of some kind, a grandiflora?
Some Fabaceae.

Oh well. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:18, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Don't be jealous, it took 5 years of my life to became a landscape architect when from the begining I wanted to be an artist, and went to artists school and that took a lot of time too. Kind of the wrong decision, but like it now. Do you wan't them identified? I am not sure I can make it, I am better at the Northern hemisphere flowers. Hafspajen (talk) 13:00, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If any of the people here want to have a shot, sure. These were all taken in fairly public places, so I wouldn't expect any really big surprises. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:23, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It helps a lot to know where a photo was taken, how big the item is, and any other photos of the same plant. Some garden plants are just about impossible. 1: yep, could be garden portulaca, P. grandiflora, 2: periwinkle, perhaps Catharanthus roseus 3: hmm, doesn't look quite like Lotus corniculatus, but perhaps a slightly flattened flower or a related species 4: Bad Hair Day for a goatsbeard? 5: pink pussy toes? Most botanists I know refuse to have anything to do with garden plants or weeds because the whole assemblage of those plus native plants is just too much to handle (I'm so lazy that I refuse to learn all the native plants in the two floras that I ought to know, and try to learn a few of the common weeds instead). Sminthopsis84 (talk) 14:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

These were all taken in Indonesia (names of cities/villages are in the titles), though I didn't measure any of them... none of them were more than 5 or 6 cm, though. I may have other pictures of some of these, but not on Commons. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:39, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, well forget my guesses for the last three, then! Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:22, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jasmin and other flowers of the same type as your pic
Vinca major var alba - if periwinkle, it is a little plant
Vinca minor - periwinkle,
Jasmine, that will be bigger, a bush

How about a kind of Jasmin for nr "2". Was it a bush or a climbing plant?

+ File:Crape Jasmine 1.jpg; File:Jasminum officinale.JPG File:Jasmine-Negombo.jpg File:Jasminum cuspidatum.jpg, File:Jasminum azoricum3.jpg File:"Crape jasmine".JPG File:Winter Jasmine.jpg Did it smelled good? Hafspajen (talk) 11:33,

I think the leaf is wrong for a jasmine. Vinca major is close, but again I think the leaf is a bit wrong. The plant in the photo looks familiar; I don't know how to describe the look of the leaf, "a bit squishy"? C. roseus has the more obvious midvein that this picture shows, and variable leaf-roundness, so these relatively narrow leaves would fit, I think. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 21:34, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think I have seen examples of C. roseus around here, so it's possible. All of these were growing out of the ground, some in bushes. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:00, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bonus pictures and Ilja

Copyright status of this image

Hey Crisco, I could use your insights on something.

This evening, I've been working on a collage for Baghdad's Wikipedia article, not unlike ones we have for other cities (e.g. Milan, Istanbul). One of the images I used was this one, uploaded on February 2014 by User:Botsojoy. It's a candidate to be transferred over to Wikimedia Commons, but I'm slightly reluctant to do so because I can't seem to verify that Botsojoy is in fact who he says he is. The image already exists on Flickr, where downloading appears to be disabled and the copyright is set as "All Rights Reserved". You obviously have more experience with these things than I have. As it stands, is this image currently suitable for Commons? What can be done to verify that Botsojoy is the original author (i.e. same as the Flickr user), or is there already enough information to assume that he is? I'm also wary of uploading my collage to Commons or Wikipedia proper until this is sorted out. Kurtis ^(talk) 02:06, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Don't think it's free. Nominated for deletion. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:09, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review for Amal Alamuddin

Hi, I'm writing to you because you closed the AfD for Amal Alamuddin on April 16. An article with the same name was later created and then speedily deleted on CSD G4 grounds. I asked for a deletion review a couple of days ago and it has just occurred to me that you might wish to comment. Fyi you can find the discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review#Amal Alamuddin. Apologies for the delay in notifying you. - Pointillist (talk) 23:21, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, let me have a look. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:54, 30 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That was quick! Thanks - Pointillist (talk) 00:25, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Did you know nominations/Cirrus (song)

Crisco, can I ask you to please take this DYK nom on and bring it to some sort of conclusion? It'll be four months old in under a week, and it needs some concentrated attention; I gave up on it back in February, and can't really come back to it at this point (and frankly don't want to). Thank you very much, whatever you decide. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:04, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a note. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:25, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks. With any luck it will be finished before it does pass the four month mark. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:41, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 30 April 2014

News and notes: WMF's draft annual plan turns indigestible as an FDC proposal

Traffic report: Going to the Doggs

Breaking: The Foundation's new executive director

WikiProject report: Genetics

Interview: Wikipedia in the Peabody Essex Museum

Featured content: Browsing behaviours

Recent research: Wikipedia predicts flu more accurately than Google

Are external links allowed in the article body?

Crisco, I was looking at DeCSS haiku while considering promoting Template:Did you know nominations/DeCSS haiku, and realized that the end of the second History and significance paragraph has two external links in parentheses.

I don't want to promote it if that isn't allowed, and I suspect it isn't. If not, might the two links be usable in Notes instead, or a single note, giving the two external links for these?

Please let me know. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:27, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:ELPOINTS: "External links should not normally be used in the body of an article.[1] Instead, include appropriate external links in an "External links" section at the end of the article, and in the appropriate location within an infobox, if applicable." -- Ohc ^¡digame! 06:15, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OhC got it. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:38, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to you both. As it turns out, right after I posted here, the nom ran into another issue, so I posted there as something else that might be wrong, and it was dealt with. Whenever a rule or guideline says "should not normally", I do wonder about exceptions, but this didn't seem to be an exceptional circumstance. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:06, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weirds

No good sideways
This one is just nice

I believe Commons has a tool for that, which is a lot easier than downloading and rotating on your own. That being said, I'm tagging them for rotation. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:01, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, that last one is very exotic. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:13, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, they are on their feet.

Hafspajen (talk) 18:03, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Photo from FDR Library

We have one photo File:Red Skelton birthday.jpg of an FDR Birthday Ball (an identical one in gif format) at Commons. It's not very good quality and that's the way it came from the FDR Library site. Did some digging and found a better photo that's of better quality here. This is the page it's on. FDR Library info says "Unless copyright information is stated in the image caption, all of the digitized material available online from the FDR Library Archives belongs in the public domain. This means that, to the best of our knowledge, the materials may be freely used by the online researcher, teacher, or student." This one has no wire service info, so it should be PD--or so I think, do you? :-) Thanks, We hope (talk) 17:45, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Looks to be that way, yes. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:55, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! We hope (talk) 00:22, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK when nominator is in hospital?

Crisco, I pinged Ethically Yours' talk page yesterday in User talk:Ethically Yours#DYK nomination of Byculla to Bangkok, and got a response from his brother saying that EY was in the hospital. I'd already mentioned on the nom page that I was going to allow another week; how much longer do you think I should give, or should this be very open ended? (The nomination was originally posted on March 27.) I do want to mention something on the nomination template so no one else closes it prematurely. Thanks for any advice you can give. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:09, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Anybody willing to adopt it? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:52, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Did you know nominations/Nick Dupree

Crisco, do you know where this stands, and can you get it moving again? It looks like a hook alteration was proposed, but no one ever responded, and I can't tell whether the issues have been addressed in the article. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:50, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Replied again. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:03, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Featured list candidate

Hello Crisco:

If you have time, could you take a look at this FLC? It's getting stale and I would like to hear more feedback on the topic. Thanks, Seattle (talk) 16:36, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Literature

Perhaps you could revisit Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Literature ? — Cirt (talk) 17:02, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think I can do much reviewing just yet. RL workload is still fairly high. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:41, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Raising of Lazarus (Rembrandt)

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn - The Raising of Lazarus - Google Art Project.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:47, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...

...for another great article of the day (Roekiah). — AjaxSmack 04:08, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, thank you! It was fun to find information on her... shame about her films though... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:47, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- precious again! ... and with a clear undisputed infobox ;) - DYK Thousand-year Rose? (not by me) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:29, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - rad. davidiad { t } 23:25, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kirinia roxelana

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Kirinia roxelana male 1.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:40, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking advice

May I ask your advice about a picture? You may perhaps recall that you and Loeba gave me enormous help with the images for John Gielgud, particularly in regard to US publicity images of the 1940s and 50s. Well, I have found on ebay here an image of Sir Thomas Beecham that has a date stamp on the back (1948) and is from a New York photographer. It would fill a real gap in his article, which lacks a picture of him in the last four decades of his life. This one would need a lot of cleaning up, but first I'd be grateful for your advice on how to establish that it is in the public domain in the US. If it is, I can load it and ask the graphics lab (or, dare I say it, you?) to clean it up, but I'm not certain how to check if the copyright was ever renewed. – Tim riley (talk) 09:22, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Tim, I don't see a copyright notice, so I don't think "renewal" has anything to do with it. If there was no copyright notice and first publication was in the US before 1973, it's PD. Where was this taken? Regarding renewal, looks reasonably quick. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:36, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you very much for that. Taken in Brooklyn, presumably, as he was rehearsing the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra. I've uploaded and applied to the image lab. I'm so grateful for your help with this. Tim riley (talk) 10:56, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Glad to help! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:26, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Robey now at FAC

Greetings, just a note to let you know of Sir George's FAC which has just been listed. Thanks again for all your help at the PR! Cassianto ^talk 09:38, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking advice

Good evening (HKT). I've attempted to translate the article The Jakarta Post, but someone point out that the translation is very eerie and inappropriate. Let's not talk about the translation first. One of his argument is that in the original article, it is said that when the Post was founded, staffs need to use a pica pole as the straightedge. He argues that in this situation, a straightedge means a tool with an edge free from curves with no equally spaced markings along its length, making the sentence irrational. I don't agree with his saying, thus not changing the sentence. He cited it as a reason to oppose the candidacy for its Chinese equivalent as a good article. Is "straightedge" in this article really means like what he said, or just straightedge means a tool with an edge free from curves, no whether it has equally spaced markings or not? Hope you can help with that. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by that.--Spring Roll Conan ( Talk · Contributions ) 14:45, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Straightedge = ruler, give or take. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:48, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK promotion

Crisco, we're currently overdue on updating the main page. I finished the prep a little while ago; do you have time to check it and promote it? Many thanks if so. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:13, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can I help? Drmies (talk) 15:14, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- If you want. But I'm kinda here too. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:14, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Then you do it. I don't even know what needs to be done, and I may not be here much longer--two more sloooooow students aren't done yet with the midterm. Drmies (talk) 15:24, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thank you both. Crisco, the bot's complaining about an unprotected image file in the queue. Can you please do the necessary? I'll update the prep count. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:28, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    - Drmies, don't y'all give 'em time limits? Well, it's 10:30 P.M. here... I need not worry about exams. Just writing a few pages for my friend's poetry collection. Simple analysis, touching on the meaning of "kesunyian" in Amir Hamzah's Nyanyi Sunyi as it's reflected in this work.

Sure Blue. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:31, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, so we're exactly 12 hours apart. Yes, there are limits, but they should have finished much earlier. One student came up to me to ask what I meant with a question about Oedipus and Othello--"what part does free will play in them?" Well, I can't really explain that much more, can I. This was not one of my Italian students. Oh, and I chased one of em down the stairs after she handed in her term paper a week late, to tell her that I had already graded that paper a decade ago: here it is. Drmies (talk) 15:49, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Haven't read Oedipus since high school... but I seem to remember "free will" being essentially non-existent in the Greeks' understanding of prophecy and life (even for the gods...). Anywho, I'm out for the night. Gotta go to the police station tomorrow to renew my driver's license. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:03, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Invisible Rail

I thought I'd take this to FAC. Shouldn't take long since it's substantially written anyway and there is even less known than for Zapata Rail. I'd like to get a map more accurate than the whole of Halmahera. Places mentioned in my source include Ake Tajawe, Kao, Lalobata and Ako Jilolo. Can you cast any light on where any of these are on the island? Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:56, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Moluccas aren't quite my forte... I'll probably have to find a paper atlas. That shouldn't be too difficult, but it may take a few days. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:59, 5 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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