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[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Sellers&curid=24518&diff=747405729&oldid=747404574 In an edit summary?] Seriously?? Come on, there is no excuse for that--I'm very tempted to use revdel for this, and I think I'll inquire at AN as to whether other admins agree. [[User:Drmies|Drmies]] ([[User talk:Drmies|talk]]) 00:59, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Sellers&curid=24518&diff=747405729&oldid=747404574 In an edit summary?] Seriously?? Come on, there is no excuse for that--I'm very tempted to use revdel for this, and I think I'll inquire at AN as to whether other admins agree. [[User:Drmies|Drmies]] ([[User talk:Drmies|talk]]) 00:59, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
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POTD

Hi Curly,

Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Little Nemo 1907-09-29.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on August 26, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-08-25. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:56, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for L.A. Woman

On 17 August 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article L.A. Woman, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Jim Morrison recorded some vocals for the Doors' L.A. Woman in the bathroom doorway? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/L.A. Woman. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, L.A. Woman), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:06, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:ISSNT

Template:ISSNT has been nominated for deletion.

You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:04, 22 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FAC voluntary mentoring scheme

During a recent lengthy discussion on the WP:FAC talkpage, several ideas were put forward as to how this procedure could be improved, particularly in making it more user-friendly towards first-time nominees. The promotion rate for first-timers at FAC is depressingly low – around 16 percent – which is a cause for concern. To help remedy this, Mike Christie and I, with the co-operation of the FAC coordinators, have devised a voluntary mentoring scheme, in which newcomers will guided by more experienced editors through the stages of preparation and submission of their articles. The general format of the scheme is explained in more detail on Wikipedia: Mentoring for FAC, which also includes a list of editors who have indicated that they are prepared to act as mentors.

Would you be prepared to take on this role occasionally? If so, please add your name to the list. By doing so you incur no obligation; it will be entirely for you to decide how often and on which articles you want to act in this capacity. We anticipate that the scheme will have a trial run for a few months before we appraise its effectiveness. Your participation will be most welcome. Brianboulton (talk) 16:57, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • I don't mind helping out, but I doubt mentoring will solve the promotion rate problem—from what I've seen, most reviewers just ignore FACs but editors who haven't made their names known yet at FAC. I feel like I've wasted so much time at FAC reviewing newbies' submissions, only to see them archived because hardly anybody else could bother—meanwhile the "names" were racking up a dozen reviews when they didn't even need them. I suspect mentoring will just get newbies' hopes up, which will make the inevitable archiving that much more demotivating. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 22:49, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes - Issue 18

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The Interior via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Believe it or not

Another "electronic cigarette" quasi-SPA showed up on another dispute I was involved in and starting making white weasel-like non-sequitur arguments on the talk page. What are the odds! (笑) Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 21:48, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • I wouldn't doubt it—the WW has been caught lying before—but I have no idea what dispute you're talking about. If it's at ANI—Jesus fuck, but why not just stay away from that place? It's crawling with dramah-mongering ambush trolls. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 22:42, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No, it's someone adding borderline BLP violations to an article on a New Testament scholar. So your choice of words between 'ANI' and 'fuck' is coincidentally appropriate. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 03:01, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Is the Weasel known for editing religious articles? I thought it was the other fellow?[1] Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 05:06, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oh no, I don't think there's any sockpuppetry or other funny business going on. I just thought it was funny that a veteran of possibly the most stupidly overblown controversy in Wikipedia's history has made a dubious intervention in an article I was working on for the second time in just over a year. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:11, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  1. ^ See how politic I can be when I put my mind to it? Fellow's such a friendly f-word to throw around.
I have a Japanese friend who, when his phone was stolen, took to Facebook and wrote in English about the fellow (ja: クソ野郎) who had done this. Bilingual dictionaries are ... funny. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 08:18, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 09:44, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I've been back from vacation for a week and a half now, and brought a small stack of sources with me from Canada, but I haven't gotten back to editing yet. Part of it's because I was busy catching up at work, but now I'm hindered by wikimedia.el (for Emacs) not working since Wikimedia went strict https in July (now I can't log in from Emacs). I hope the maintainer can fix this soon—I hate doing big editing jobs without Emacs. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 05:12, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ukiyo-e deletion

Photo of a tea bowl, dark-coloured, humble, and asymmetric
Wabi-sabi aesthetic in a 16th-century tea bowl
Yoshiwara Night Scene by Katsushika Ōi, 19th century. A rare example of colour ukiyo-e showing strong interplay of light and shadow .

On your deleting of the print in which de ask: "what is the context? what is this illustrating? plus, sandwiching issues"

  • Context: The style and aesthetics of the ukiyo-e print
  • Illustrating: Shows that ukiyo-e is not limited to "...flat areas of colour..." it in fact shows "...the modulated colours expected in Western traditions". Also it is the work of a women ukiyo-e artist that uses light/shadow effects, both of which are very rare.

As for what you mean by sandwiching issues, I'm not sure what you mean.

Why were you so quick to delete this? -- Sjschen (talk) 19:04, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FAC mentoring

Hi, Curly. I see that you've volunteered for the new FAC "mentoring" idea. Last time I tried to get Night of January 16th to FA (over a year ago), you provided some helpful edits and comments. Since that attempt faltered, I wonder if you would be willing to help me with another try? --RL0919 (talk) 23:15, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote a draft of the nomination text at User:RL0919/Night. Since I'm supposed to mention your mentoring, please take a look to at least make sure you're OK with how I described your involvement. If you have any other edits/suggestions for the nom, those are also welcomed. --RL0919 (talk) 18:54, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
RL0919: I guess I'm fine with it, but I'm not sure what actual "mentoring" I've done. I did a copyedit and left some brief feedback. Maybe you could reword it as something like "Curly Turkey provided a copyedit and some feedback in response to a request for mentoring". I feel like the article was archived due to lack of reviewer interest rather than from lack of anything actual "mentoring" could have helped. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:02, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Revised and I'll post the nom shortly. It's an open question what FAC mentoring will turn out to be in reality. Heavy vs. light mentor involvement; will there even be a consistent pattern; etc.? --RL0919 (talk) 22:45, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Golden Hollywood Contest

Dr. Blofeld has just started up this contest about topics and articles covering Classical Hollywood cinema. It really will be worth your while. Do express if you are interested in participating in the contest or not (or if you show your support for the contest) by signing up under the "Editors Interested" section. Thanks.  — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 09:32, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

FAC

Can I interest you in Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161/archive1? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:04, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Swift

Hi, regarding your advice on the talk of Taylor Swift, I followed your suggestion to write the first para to introduce her and who she is. Her career is still divided in two paras in a different way though. Could you take a look again and let me know if I'm doing it right, please? Cheers – FrB.TG (talk) 13:21, 9 September 2016 (UTC) FrB.TG (talk) 13:21, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

If you find time for it, please take a look at Helene Ripa, Rock-Olga and Sara Skyttedal. Much appreciated. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 14:31, 10 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

醜聞(スキャンダル)

Thought I'd bookmark this here as a perfect example of appropriate use of ruby (I just switched it up from html to the {{ruby}} template).

Anyone who's been asking for help the last few days: I've been sick with a fever (day 4) and have nearly lost my voice. I have little energy more than to roll around in agony, read the news, check Facebook, or watch the occasional movie, so don't expect anything from me. Curly Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 10:28, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wiktionary

Hi. No idea if you'd be interested, but since you've just been doing some German edits on en.wikt, maybe you could glance over Wiktionary:Requested entries (German) (I don't know how to link nicely from here). We don't have many German-language contributors! Equinox ◑ 22:46, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

early anime history

Hi, just for your information: My (German) book on animated film in Japan until 1917 has just been published. More (in English) can be found here: http://litten.de/abstrtoc/abstr5e.htm. 2003:8B:4854:1F00:E186:80A7:1419:8DE8 (talk) 16:08, 22 September 2016 (UTC) F. Litten[reply]

Believe it or not (Part Deux)

Someone who was peripherally involved in a certain fustercluck last year (although they dropped out before you joined) actually appears to be engaged in similar behaviour on an unrelated article ("everyone knows X so we don't need a source for it, or at least not a source that explicitly supports it").

Not asking for assistance (he/she is almost certainly more amenable to civil discussion than you-know-who, and actually basically agrees with me on article content); I just thought it amusing.

Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:56, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Huh. I had always wondered why he would ever even consider taking you-know-who's side in a dispute where from the get-go it was obvious he had no leg to stand on, and especially why he would actively ignore requests that he explicitly state whether he still agreed with you-know-who one way or the other. It never occurred to me that he might have been doing so because he had a history with one of the other participants in the dispute. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 06:05, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
From my experience, I wouldn't assume bad faith with him. Not that it makes communicating with him any less frustrating. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 06:15, 4 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
So, yeah ... it turns out he's almost definitely an (inactive) admin on Conservapedia. It's not like it's Metapedia or something, but if you weren't aware of this until now, it might be something to keep in mind. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 11:52, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Wow ... the issues I've had with him didn't involve bias, but that's definitely something to keep in mind. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 12:21, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comics

The archetypal British comic style - you can't miss it

Hi Curly. Apologies for my slopping edits. Not an expert on the subject so correct where you see fit. Both The Beano and The Dandy were both huge from their creation in the 1930s and really peaked in the 1950s. It's been a somewhat steady decline since (I read both as a kid). Chie one (talk) 23:35, 13 October 2016 2016 (UTC)

Chie one—that's fine information for the British comics article, but for the Comics article we'd need a source that places such facts within the context of comics from a global perspective. Otherwise, the article will get unmanageably large (and tedious to read) by including such facts from all the "History of XXX comics" articles. The article doesn't focus on sales (otherwise it'd talk about Walt Disney's Comics and Stories and One Piece), but on milestones in the development of the medium. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:54, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
My knowledge on the nuances and evolution of comics you could write on a postage stamp. Question is though, the article goes into depth about the popularity in France and Belgium. Did either have comics that sold two million copies per week? I know you say sales are not the focus, but there was a boom in the UK from the 1930s to the 1960s that doesn't feature. It makes it look as though its just France, Belgium the US and Japan. Two million sales (of each comic) per week. That's four million copies. In other words pretty much every kid bought a comic on a weekly basis. I'd be interested in sales per capita with other countries. I believe it's remiss to overlook just how big the comic book was in the UK during this period. Thanks for your input.Chie one (talk) 23:35, 13 October 2016 2016 (UTC)
Chie one—Walt Disney's Comics and Stories used to sell 3 million copies per issue back in the 1950s, and Weekly Shōnen Jump was selling 6.5 million a week in the 1990s. The sales figures aren't the point—there are large markets in many parts of the world (Captain Marvel outsold Action Comics, but that's beside the point at the scope of the Comics article). You need to find a source that places such figures in a global context—and not just a global sales context, but a "development of the medium" context. There are already articles such as Manhwa, Canadian comics, and Hungarian comics that deal with these things at a local level, which is the level where Beano and the Dandy are significant. Please keep the context and scope in mind. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:21, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Shit. Didn't see that coming. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 14:46, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hijiri's referring to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Chie one/Archive. If the above was all trolling or something, it goes way over my head. The fuck? Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:57, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and Hijiri, here's yet another reason why I think so little of ANI: even after the one holdout in the entire discussion finally admitted something needed to be done about a single-purpose IP-hopping account, it was archived with no action taken. Which means, ineluctably, another trip back ... or two ... or three ... TH1980 & CurtisNaito in miniature. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 22:10, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't following this before it closed, otherwise I would have responded to this: "Curly had been editing Ontario (state I am originally from)" ... no Canadian I've ever met has ever (even accidentally) called a Canadian province a "state". Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 22:30, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You should just unarchive it. That's cool isn't it?
Anyway, nice catch on the "state" thing. Not being Canadian, I hadn't noticed. The whole affair was fishy as fuck. I honestly thought it was odd that it went through so fast despite being so much longer than the Jagello SPI a few months back. SPI works so much better than ANI. I guess it benefits from the fact that SPIs have to be closed one way or the other before they are archived, so someone has to read them.
Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 00:28, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sure I can unarchive it, but I think the bot archives based on the timestamp of the last comment made, which means it would just get auto-rearchived tomorrow. If none of the 534 active admins could be bothered to deal with such an open-and-shut case after all this time, why would they just happen to bother today? Especially with so many naughty editors still saying "fuck" in public ... Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 03:08, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Beano is a strong contender for being the best known and most popular comic in Britain - ever (though 2000 AD challenges that from a different angle). It and The Dandy were staples for kids from the 1950s to the 1980s (and presumably beyond), shipped all over the Commonwealth (but not the US or Canada, in turn Marvel and DC comics were banned in Britain for decades) and I remember them both well - The Dandy and the Beano - the First Fifty Years in 1987 was a massive seller and endorsed by several well-known celebrities (all of whom are now dead except for one who's banged up in jail with his wobbleboard). Reliable sources describe them as "institutions of British childhood", "Highly successful and iconic". You can still buy The Beano in WHSmith and get the Christmas annual for yourself your young relatives. Sorry, what we were we talking about, I've just gone sentimental. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:39, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • I actually came across an old issue here in Japan in a used book shop in a small town about half an hour from the one I live in. Oddest place to find a copy—especially given that Japan has not been as open to foreign comics as the rest of the world has been to theirs. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 09:45, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Do you know when it dates from? It wasn't unheard of for the Beano to be shipped to BFPOs and British Embassies all over the globe. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 09:49, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I vaguely feel like it was from the 1980s. I wouldn't be surprised if it were still there to check, but I don't stop by that book shop (or town) too often these days (I used to travel there a few times a month for work, but I switched jobs years ago). Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 09:56, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Couldn't agree more on Japan not being big on imported comics. Makes the hype the movie adaptations have been getting feel kinda weird. I'm pretty sure that while virtually everyone in Ireland had heard of Captain America before the movie, and most males my age knew Iron Man as well, I really don't get the impression this is true of Japan. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:16, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Superheroes definitely didn't have much of an audience in Japan before the recent movie boom (which doesn't seem to have done a thing about comics sales). But think of how many other comics have become merchandising phenomena here without the comics becoming so: Peanuts, Moomin, Tintin (why wouldn't Tintin be bigger here? It's got an awesome title I mean, wouldn't you want to read about Tintin no Bōken?) ... Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 23:05, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) I appreciate the role Britain has played in comics history, but we do have to keep in mind (a) sources highlight the main world traditions as American, Franco-Belgian, and Japanese; (b) Anglo comics flourished in the rest of the commonwealth as well; and (c) there are comics traditions from around the world that also don't get highlighted. Simply put, sources don't place the British tradition above many other world traditions, and certainly not on the level of the US, France & Belgium, and Japan. There are reasons for it that go well beyond sales. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 09:53, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Part of the reason for that is that The Beano isn't the sort of thing you can write lots and lots about. "Dennis the Menace" is basically the same story repeated about 4,000 times (albeit adjusted to cultural tastes - corporal punishment on kids was fine in the 1950s) Compare and contrast with the plotlines and in-fiction universe that your typical action comic book covers (sometimes over decades), it's small wonder that sources cover that sort of thing more often. It might also explain why its Wikipedia article is, not to put too fine a point on it, pretty shit. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:33, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
PS : I think if Americans know The Beano for anything, it's probably for Eric Clapton reading it on the cover of what is now called The Beano Album and hence the Beano guitar Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:20, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I was going to mention that, but didn't want to sound too colonial Don't expect much from comics articles—nearly all the RSes are utter shit, and tend to repeat memes that have been repeatedly debunked even decades ago. That's when the sources even exist. Anyways, the thing with these edits is how they fit into the scope of the article. I mean, if we add this stuff for Britain, why don't we do the same for Spain, Italy, Korea, Hong Kong ... or Canada (my first GA)? The line has to be drawn somewhere, and sources that talk about major traditions in the world draw the line at the US, France/Belgium, and Japan. The main Comics article should be more abuout what makes comics comics, anyways, rather than focusing on more than the most essential details of its history, which is better handled in the national subarticles. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 13:10, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Look Curly, at least you don't live an a country that's in danger of voting for THIS comic. Well the article's only 23K of prose, so if you can get sources for something that talk about comics in general without mentioning any specific country (which AFAIK my edits did as Frank Bramlett has already been checked as a source for other bits of article) and if it's not more than a sentence and doesn't have more puffery than Sean "Puffy" Combs wearing a puffer jacket and eating a bowl of Sugar Puffs ... then there can be a case for it. I appreciate a core article like this one is hard to balance the NPOV and worldwide neutrality. Anyway, if I can find the relevant book sources, I may take my dynamite and grenade launcher to the Beano's article, the "Revamps" section is particularly cringeworthy. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:42, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
They all are, trust me. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 21:36, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm really digging the UK pop culture references here. I didn't actually know that the Honey Monster was something people in the US didn't know about until this guy told me, and I'm wondering if Ritchie333 was referencing this point on purpose. (笑) Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 16:11, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Now that I'm looking into it, it seems surprising that they'd not have been available in North America—Quaker's a big American company, and there's obviously a demand for such a cereal. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 22:58, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to Women in Food and Drink editathon


November 2016

An opportunity for you and your country to contribute to the
Women in Food and Drink online editathon
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Invitation from Wikipedia Asian Month 2016

Thanks for partipating Wikipedia Asian Month last year, and I hope you enjoy it. Last year, more than 7,000 articles contribute to Wikipedia in 43 languages in Wikipedia Asian Month, making us one of the largest event on Wikipedia. We will organize this event again in upcoming November, and would like to invite you join us again.

This year, we are lowering down the standards that you only need to create 4 (Four) articles to receive a postcard (new design), and articles only need to be more than 3,000 bytes and 300 words. We are also improving our postcard sending process, e.g. making the postcards right now, and collecting the address after the event ends without waiting other languges.

Wikipedians who create the most articles on each Wikipedia will be honored as "Wikipedia Asian Ambassadors". We will send you both digital copy, and a paper copy of the Ambassador certificate.

Thank you for considering! --AddisWang (talk)
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:46, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

Four years ago ...
comics
... you were recipient
no. 286 of Precious,
a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:47, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Piggy back on Template:Ukiyo-e imagebox

Hello,

You do such amazing work with images. So, I thought that I'd share that I've been piggy-backing and copying the template you created for displaying images. My recent addition is Template:Bierstadt Lake. A modest attempt. I see that you went to Featured Article quite awhile ago, after we worked on the Good Article. Congratulations, if I haven't already said so. It's a great article. Best wishes.--CaroleHenson (talk) 23:29, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You've got mail

You should read it. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 02:47, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia Asian Month!

Hi there! Wikipedia Asian Month is about to start. Here is some information about participating in the event:

  1. Please submit your articles via this tool. Click 'log in' at the top-right and OAuth will take care the rest. You can also change the interface language at the top-right.
  2. Once you submit an article, the tool will add a template to the article and mark it as needing review by an organizer. You can check your progress using the tool, which includes how many accepted articles you have.
  3. Participants who achieve 4 accepted articles will receive a Wikipedia Asian Month postcard. You will receive another special postcard if you achieve 15 accepted articles. The Wikipedian with the highest number of accepted articles on the English Wikipedia will be honored as a "Wikipedia Asian Ambassador", and will receive a signed certificate and additional postcard.
  4. If you have any problems accessing or using the tool, you can submit your articles at this page next to your username.
  5. If you have any question, you can take a look at our Q&A or post on the WAM talk page.

Best Wishes, Addis Wang
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Books and Bytes - Issue 19

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

  • New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
  • New Library Card Platform and Conference news
  • Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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19:07, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Metallica's pronoun

Hi there. This is the first I've heard of bands being referred to as "it" instead of "they" in American English. Presumably there's some MOS passage or past discussion about this to which you can refer me? Cheers.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 12:23, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • You probably won't find it in the MoS. In North American English, groups are treated as singular nouns, so that one says, "The government is debating a new bill", for example, and never "The government are debating a new bill", which sounds like broken English to most North Americans. When it comes to rock groups, actual usage depends on a number of factors, but defaults to singular in most cases. The MoS requires uniformity of usage though, which means defaulting to singular even in that minority of cases where North Americans would use a plural. "Metallica are a thrash metal band" would be totally unacceptable in North American English. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 12:57, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wow you are prolific!

Do you by chance take requests? G'night from Hiroshima, where it's not rain, it's tears from loss of the Series... --Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 17:26, 2 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have a wishlist of articles they have in Japanese and we don't here. If I park them at the WPJ to-do list, they will sit for 10 years (I know from experience). I'll put the list here, anything you could help with would be appreciated!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 04:09, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You caught me at the right time—it's Asian Month and I've created only one article so far. Most of the above look problematic, though—unsourced or sourced to inappropriate sources (promotional profiles or whatever). Many of these might fail WP:NOTABILITY entirely. I'll see what I can do, though. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 05:47, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I've thrown together one for Kōrō Sasaki. I'll see if I can do anything with any of the others. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 07:13, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm ... I'm not sure I understood the Furukawa/Betsukura thing. Hopefully someone else can check it over and fix my fuckups. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 07:54, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'll probably tackle Shō Fukao next—he's from the city I live in, and the article seems to have decent citations. Curly "the jerk" Turkey 🍁 ¡gobble! 08:14, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Need a favor from someone who understands Japanese

Hi, Curly. I'm currently trying to get this photo I took of Jim Cheung removed from the Commons, per the request of the subject. I've already supplied a replacement for articles on WP where it's being used, but the person responding to my request at the Help Desk pointed out that it's still being used in Cheung's article on the Japanese Wikipedia. I don't know how to edit that, as I don't read Japanese. Can you switch it out with this newer photo? Please let me know. Thanks! Nightscream (talk) 23:18, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Jesus Fucking Christ"

In an edit summary? Seriously?? Come on, there is no excuse for that--I'm very tempted to use revdel for this, and I think I'll inquire at AN as to whether other admins agree. Drmies (talk) 00:59, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

+1 -Ad Orientem (talk) 02:04, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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