User talk:Eddie891

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Your GA nomination of Presidency of George Washington

The article Presidency of George Washington you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Presidency of George Washington for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Display name 99 -- Display name 99 (talk) 23:21, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

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When you submitted your idea for Wikipedia competitors, did you also create a draft of an article about "Wikipedia, Friend or Foe?" did you attend the event? I would like to use your suggestion for an article on Wikipedia competitors, right? I've not done a collaboration on this kind of topic before and so I hesitated to help out in this area of the Signpost. Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 17:07, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

@Barbara (WVS): I am unclear, what exactly are you asking? Do you want me to write about Wikipedia, Friend or Foe? Did you want to? Did you want to add to my piece? If you wanted to write about it in my piece or be itself, feel free too. If you want to use my piece, feel free too. It is true I wrote it, but I do not own the article. Do whatever you want to do to it or with it. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 00:56, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

I am sorry, I will be as clear as I can. First, realize that contributing to the Signpost is a new activity for me. While contributing anything to Wikipedia is open to editing, I feel it is courteous to ask you first before I begin to edit something you have created. If you don't mind then I will help to finish up the article. Is your time limited so that you can't contribute as much to the Signpost as much as you would like to? Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 11:57, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

@Barbara (WVS):. Don't be sorry. It was very thoughtful of you to ask, and thank you. Events have been happening at a rapid pace in my life, and my time to contribute is nowhere near as much as I would like. Any and all help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:26, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Featured content edits

Hello Eddie, I did a series of copy edits to your work on Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Featured content. I'm dyslexic so some kinds of things stick out to me but others go right past me. I just want you to be able to evaluate my edits appropriately. I'm often wrong and am a poor grammarian and speller, but I think I can be a useful copy editor.

I also wondered what the function was of the <nowiki/> tags I saw through the text. I didn't remove them because I figure you put them there on purpose.

Also I saw in your edit where you wrote {{Ping|Bri|Montanabw|Barbara (WVS)}}. I think that probably those editors were not pinged. For the {{ping}} template to work, it must be part of an edit which includes your signature.

Finally, if you disagree with me, that's fine. Feel free to ask me for clarification or tell me I'm wrong.

Thanks for your time and keep up the good work.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  04:10, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

@SchreiberBike: All your edits look good. Thank you for your help and tips. As to the <nowiki/>, several of them are there to stop something like '''s becoming a bold symbol. However, I can not figure out why most of them are there. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 11:19, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback. The best solution I've found for '''s type things like "the Titanic's bow" is the ''Titanic''{{'s}} bow, using the template {{'s}}.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  21:12, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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RE: your draft article "List of United States Presidential Inaugural addresses"

I came across your Draft:List of United States Presidential Inaugural addresses and thought I'd let you know that the core information contained in your draft article is already included in the List of inaugural ceremonies section at United States presidential inauguration, before you put any more time & energy into "reinventing the wheel" so to speak. Cheers. Drdpw (talk) 19:30, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

20:00:57, 14 September 2017 review of submission by VivaLaPandaz

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  • Draft:Bubbies Fine Foods (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I have added a source which talks about the topic using more than two paragraphs and that is an independent news source (as the notability guidelines specify). I have also added several articles that mention the topic in passing.

The page for Vlassic Pickles doesn't seem to have any more notable sources (people don't tend to write lots of articles about pickle brands I guess).

Can you indicate what sort of sources would be needed for the page to considered notable?

VivaLaPandaz (talk) 20:01, 14 September 2017 (UTC)