User talk:Alansohn

Stray messages

Apologies, I'm rather shabby when it comes to Wiki editing. This biography states that she was born in Harrison, New Jersey and also contains a quote from Barry Ulanov from the February 22nd edition of Down Beat in which he states that she is a New Jersey-ite. Is this acceptable? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antonio013 (talk • contribs) 20:58, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Alan, a 3rd opinion was posted on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carteret,_New_Jersey and also a couple of changes were made after that 3rd opinion, I thought I'd let you know so you can view them as well. CapMan07008 (talk) 00:10, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Alan, I understand the policy and the need for it. Thank you for the kind condolences. Here is a link to the NYT obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/business/george-devol-developer-of-robot-arm-dies-at-99.html The parts about science fiction and the cocktail party are totally wrong, but otherwise they did a good job. Grandpa swore up and down he never read a science fiction book in his life. His "inspiration" for the industrial robot came from years of manufacturing and visiting factories to find more efficient ways of doing things. The cocktail party story was contrived by Joe (whom he met 2 years after applying for the seminal robot patent) to get some press.

I am not very good at navigating Wikipedia, so I hope you will be able to see this response. Thank you for your work in editing his Wikipedia page. The next edition of Robot Magazine will have an article about Unimation by Leslie Ballard who extensively interviewed Devol about a year ago and who was already working with George Munson of Unimation regarding the book Munson was writing.

- William Wardlow (bangthedash101)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.100.162.92 (talk) 03:13, 16 August 2011 (UTC) 

Hey got a message from you. I never made an edit 'flute'. It wasn't me. Shabba. TimYoung2 (talk) 17:08, 17 July 2011 (UTC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:90.204.178.66

Same thing happened to me, said I edited a page on the recoilless rifle. I don't edit wiki pages. -Tai — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.111.90.5 (talk) 18:28, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Just to let you know that we too have had an incorrect message about changing an entry on Adeline André, someone we have never heard of! I have made small edits to pages in the past but only when I know I am correct and certainly not this one. Here is the link to our message: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:86.16 - Shirley - mid-Aug 2011

IP addresses may end up being shared by different users. If you didn't make the edit, don't worry. Alansohn (talk) 15:58, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

This user is one of the 40 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update

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Editing Barnstar

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		I, Bugboy52.4, award you for reaching 100,000 edits according to the List of Wikipedians by number of edits generated 11:45 pm, 24 February 2009. Keep up the good work!________________________________________________________________

WikiCup 2010 June newsletter

We're half way through 2010, and the end of the WikiCup is in sight! Round 3 is over, and we're down to our final 16. Our pool winners were Ian Rose (submissions) (A), Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) (B, and the round's overall leader), ThinkBlue (submissions) (C) Casliber (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions) (D, joint), but, with the scores reset, everything is to play for in our last pooled round. The pools will be up before midnight tonight, and have been selected randomly by J Milburn. This will be the toughest round yet, and so, as ever, anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.

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Jimmy Wales is notable, and a begger.

bbert94

Thank you for leaving the article Russ Feingold alone, as a show of gratitude, I wanted to leave it the way it was. Please leave it alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbert94 (talk • contribs)

Merry Christmas!

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User:Johnpacklambert

Carefully scrutinize edits by this editor, because he is removing numbers of Latinos from Whites in reporting census data, because he doesn't think that Latinos can be White. It's racism pure and simple and please don't assist him in perpetuating these views, repeated all over the place where he feels compelled to warn readers that Whites may include "Middle Easterners", etc. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:49, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

I am about to give up on census editing

It seems no matter what I do I get attacked for it. I guess my attempt to explain why the splitting out of Asian sub-category data as if it did not include the 0.3% of the population in La Palma that reported being Asian and Hispanic was not included in the sub-categories of Asian in the report on the various racial groupings that was not excluding Hispanics was confusing. here is a link to that discussion, which I will admit should probably have been worded more politely. [1] It is at the botton of the page under the heading La Palma 2010 demographic figures errors. I maybe should not have made the point, but I guess I underestimated the vindictiveness of the editor/administrator in question. This link [2] might go to the edit history of Galt, California. I guess I did not explain what I was doing the best, so Mr. Suzrez decided to revert my edit. He is evidently of the opinion that use of the term "non-Hispanic white" makes someone racist, as he alleges on my talk page. He is of course ignoring the fact that 2000 census data only ever included non-Hispanic white as a listed non-Hispanic citation and even more is ignoring the fact that when most people speak of the white population they really do mean the non-Hispanic white population or even something more restricted. It is on my talk page though that he crossed all lines of decorum in my view. He threatens to block me for updating census figures and using the non-Hispanic white data. Such threatening behavior is quite high-handed of him. I was going to report this behavior of his on the etiquette page, but the whole process is way to complexed and asks questions that they do not make it clear what they want someone to say, so I gave up and decided to try and do this report instead.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:50, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 June newsletter

We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was Casliber (submissions) who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by Wizardman (submissions), claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by Eisfbnore (submissions), who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by Hurricanehink (submissions), who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.

No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.

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GOCE drive invitation

Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors The latest GOCE backlog elimination drive is under way! It began on 1 July and so far 18 people have signed up to help us reduce the number of articles in need of copyediting. This drive will give a 50% bonus for articles edited from the GOCE requests page. Although we have cleared the backlog of 2009 articles there are still 3,935 articles needing copyediting and any help, no matter how small, would be appreciated. We are appealing to all GOCE members, and any other editors who wish to participate, to come and help us reduce the number of articles needing copyediting, as well as the backlog of requests. If you have not signed up yet, why not take a look at the current signatories and help us by adding your name and copyediting a few articles. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". >>> Sign-up now <<<

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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and lead in tap water

Hi!

You may note the appendices themselves, of course; but you are right. I've been thinking of adding a short section named Controversy, with a summary of the relevant parts of Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water, a reference to that as the "main article", and also copies of a few of the relevant external links from that article. However, since the emphasis here should be on the MMWR, the fact that actually two "amendments" were added in 2010 should be a major point. I surmise, that this is rather unusual.

Do you think that this is a good idea? And, by the way, do you think that "amendment" is the best word? I thought of "correction", but I'm not quite sure that this isn't a bit too strong. JoergenB (talk) 18:37, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes. I'll try to write that Controversy section now; and might double some appropriate reference about the House committee criticism, putting it also at the end of the edit I've already made.

I'll be happy for criticism. Controversies sometimes are a bit controversal:-); and, while important such should be mentioned, they should not be given improper emphasis, nor (of course) present facts in a biased manner. This is not always easy...

I also thought of introducing a short section about the controversy in the CDC article, since seemingly it also received some direct criticism. However, making a balanced exposition here could be even harder, since the matters seem to more "vague" than for the MMWR (where it centres around one report). JoergenB (talk) 19:06, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

I tried to write that "short" section - but didn't quite succeed... c.f. Talk:Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. JoergenB (talk) 15:36, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

hello alanson, did you edit the artical st cummin in 2009 about nov. [user name pcummin 80.254.146.140 (talk) 14:25, 8 July 2011 (UTC)]

Politz Day School

Hi there. Would you be able to find any enrollment information and other data for this page that you usually add to school pages? Many thanks! Tinton5 (talk) 20:56, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your help

Alansohn, I am very thankful for the help you have given regarding the Patrick J. Diegnan page. It is much appreciated, and I will follow your advice regarding neutrality stringently. I'm new to wikipedia, but it's comforting to know people like you are out there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PatrickDiegnan (talk • contribs)

• It's the least I can do. Let me know if I can help with this article or anything else. Alansohn (talk) 16:28, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Interview at Wikimania 2011

Hello Alan! My name is Aaron Muszalski and I'm a Storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'll be traveling to Wikimania next month to collect editor stories for our 2011 Fundraiser. While there I'd love the chance to meet with you and hear your thoughts about Wikipedia.

If you're interested, please email me at amuszalskiwikimedia.org — Thanks!

Aaron (WMF)

Merge discussion for Legal status of Texas and Republic of Texas (group)

An article that you have been involved in editing, "Republic of Texas (group)" and another, "Legal status of Texas" has been proposed for a merge with Texas Secession Movement. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Otr500 (talk) 05:45, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Blocking vandal

As you seem to have set a blocking procedure in motion, you may wish to know that user 67.84.231.145 seems to have vandalized Essex County, New York. I've just reverted it, but I`m not sure of the procedure for blocking.. admin needed?andycjp (talk) 00:55, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Fort Lee High School

Why did you revert this edit? Your edit summary implies that you thought I deleted the content by accident. I deleted it on purpose because, as I said in my edit summary, it is non-notable, recent local news. Someone's setting a school record, or a team's competing in a state-level competition, is not really encyclopedia-worthy. The fact that it's sourced doesn't mean it's due. rʨanaɢ (talk) 11:34, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

I know that your deletion was deliberate and I appreciate your concerns. High school sports accomplishments may seem minor in the scope of world events, but get consistent media coverage and are a regular component of high school articles around the country and are typical in the several hundred entries in the List of high schools in New Jersey. I think that in the edit to Fort Lee High School, an athlete being the first ever from the school to make it to the Meet of Champions is notable. The tennis team didn't make it as far as expected, but a top seed in the state tournament is a respectable accomplishment. While I would probably not have added the material myself, there were sources available to support material that someone else had cut-and-pasted into the article from a school announcement page and I tried to give the material the benefit of the doubt. I hope you will too in light of the prevalence of such material in comparable articles. Alansohn (talk) 14:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Newbie's edit of Bergen Catholic High School

Hello. Given the quality of that person's edit here being properly formatted and piping common names to article titles, it seems very unlikely that this is a new editor. The fact that this IP address only has one edit makes this seem even more likely to be the case. If you buy my reasoning so far then the next step is to realize that since this is not a new editor this means that their IP address changes and leaving a message on that particular IP page stands a very good chance of going unread. Instead I left an edit summary that I felt explained the situation pretty clearly (and nicely and in a place I felt they were far more likely to see given what I just said) especially to someone who appears to know how to edit Wikipedia competently.

As for his article stating he attended the school I totally missed that. Since the edit was well done I did click on the name but in scanning the article I didn't notice the line about his attending Bergen. The section titled "College" starts off talking about his college career so I pretty much skipped the rest of that section and just didn't see the Bergen line. And in scanning the rest of the article nothing else popped up. Had I seen that line I would have added a citation to the article instead of reverting.

Finally, adding "citation needed" tags to every IP edit of notable lists on Wikipedia means that those lists will fill up with redlinks and/or vandalism. If you choose to hunt down citations for every one of those claims then I applaud your effort but how do you determine you've wasted enough time trying to source something that isn't true?

Finally (for reals this time), if you're going to accuse me of being an "experienced editor" then instead of lecturing me on the finer points of dealing with IPs and Wikipedia policy and guidelines perhaps it would serve us both best to ask me why I did what I did instead of jumping to any conclusions. This is not to say I found your message overly offensive, and certainly do not think your intent was to insult me, but the assumption that I don't know the very basics of editing Wikipedia and dealing with other editors does rub a little wrong. SQGibbon (talk) 06:07, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Just to make it clear, it was the implication (I'm not claiming to know what your intent was) that I blindly reverted without making any effort at all to handle the situation better is what I had a problem with. I did consider the "newbie" status of the editor and concluded that this wasn't the case. I did scan the article about the subject (and admit to doing it badly since I did not see the claim that supported the edit under contention). And I did leave what I thought was an appropriate message in the one place I thought the editor was most likely to see it (the edit summary). Yes, I could have gone even further to investigate the issue but based on my quick (maybe too quick) assessment (experienced editor, lack of support in the subject's article, IP jumping or an editor who forgot to log in) this did not seem warranted. I am glad that you did read the subject's article more carefully than I did and added the citation, thanks for that. As I said, I did not think you were trying to insult me, but your note could be interpreted as insulting and I just wanted to deal with that. SQGibbon (talk) 17:28, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes, we're fine. SQGibbon (talk) 17:50, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Primary Source Information

What citation is required when an individual adds information to an article that pertains themself?

Yanceycravat (talk) 13:10, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

question about adding external links at Morristown

Hello-

I would like to add more reference to photo links for Morristown. I got your message, but I did not understand your comment Do you want to add citations and list item link in the reference section or is it ok to create a direct link using a word? There are many historic photographs that I would like to link to.

Could you show me an example of what you mean? Couldyou send me an example of the code you prefer?

Thanks-

Study2much — Preceding unsigned comment added by Study2much (talk • contribs) 23:16, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Morristown copy

Hello-

Thank you for getting back to me. I have some thoughts about improving the wording on this site but would prefer to collaborate and discuss before publishing. Is there some way that I could do this? My feeling is that the Morristown site has some great information but that the chronology is a bit disjointed. I am not sure how it works here. I would like to help edit the site.

Thanks S2M — Preceding unsigned comment added by Study2much (talk • contribs) 13:49, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

I'll keep my eye on the page. Thanks for all your improvements. Alansohn (talk) 15:58, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Telephone Exchanges

My primary source is http://www.sandman.com/colookup.asp. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Westvillage (talk • contribs) 14:00, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. Alansohn (talk) 15:58, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Earl Best DYK has failed?

Tried for DYK on Earl Best as "The Street Doctor." Got one comment saying they wanted source for facts, replied that there was a footnote at the end of the paragraph. Now DYK has disappeared, maybe it didn't make it? Any help or suggestons? Trilliumz (talk) 03:42, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Earl Best

The DYK nomination for Earl Best appears to have been removed from T:TDYK in this edit, but doesn't appear to have been migrated. The editor who made the nom is relatively new to the process and it appears that the issue raised about sourcing the hook has been addressed. Please let me know what can be done to get this hook approved and migrated. Alansohn (talk) 18:40, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Alansohn, for pointing this out to me. {{Template talk:Did you know/Earl Best}} was removed from T:TDYK by me by mistake. I have just restored it to T:TDYK. The nomination should get evaluated with the rest of the noms on T:TDYK and moved to queue as usual. Review has already started by Panyd (talk · contribs). Pls contact Panyd directly about getting her approval. Hope this helps. --PFHLai (talk) 03:33, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are Adabow (submissions) (Pool A, 189 points) and PresN (submissions) (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (White-bellied Sea Eagle, from Casliber (submissions)) and two featured lists (Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from Another Believer (submissions)). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!

There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:21, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, just to let you know that Disappearance of Susan Powell is up for AfD,--BabbaQ (talk) 14:22, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

Sheeri Cabral and Indian Hills High School

With regards to: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=User_talk:65.96.211.213&redirect=no

She graduated in the class of 1996; have you tried using her maiden name, Sheeri Kritzer? I'm not sure if there's anything on the internet that says where she went to high school, but if you're close with the high school perhaps you can find a yearbook from 1996? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.211.213 (talk) 20:55, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

(talk page stalker): A yearbook would not be a reliable source, because there would be no way for us to know if the person in the yearbook is the same "Sheeri Krtizer/Cabral" as the one described in the article. Instead, it has to be a newspaper article, a reliable magazine, etc. I've removed her from the list again because WP:NLIST says we can't have people on lists like that waiting for a citation; once a citation is found, then she can be re-added. Qwyrxian (talk) 01:58, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

But in a newspaper article, how would you know it's the same person? I can contact her and have her update her wikipedia page with the high school she went to if you'd like, and perhaps a picture too? At least with a yearbook you'd see her picture and probably could tell it's her, compared to a more recent picture? *shrug* — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.211.213 (talk) 05:01, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I was more willing to allow an opportunity to find a source, Qwyrxian's edit is entirely appropriate. If you look at the entry for Karen McCullah Lutz in the article for Indian Hills, the source is rather unambiguous that she attended the school, and that the reference is about the person described. Alansohn (talk) 05:38, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Gotcha. I looked online and couldn't find any references, probably because she graduated before most of that stuff was all over the internet. I'll contact her and let her know what's up, she might be able to remember if she was ever in a local newspaper or something mentioning her high school. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.211.213 (talk) 13:59, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

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This is from Sheeri, a friend directed me here. How's this for some notable references? Note that all references are to my maiden name, "Sheeri Kritzer". Suburban News, Feb 23, 1994 (page 33, hometown section) article entitled "Academic Decathlon scheduled" mentions that I'm a member of the IHHS team. Villadom Times, March 16, 1994 (page 10) article entitled "FLOW Students take first and third place in Academic Decathlon" mentions me as a student: "The following Indian Hills students also won individual awards: .... Sheeri Kritzer and Evelyn Huang, alternates' medals in science" The Record (of Bergen County), September 28, 1993 (page D-5) sidebar entitled "Two Win Science Honor", starts off with "Sheeri Kritzer and Joshua Kritzer, sophomores at Indian Hills High School in Oakland, have earned entry into Columbia University's Science Honors Program."

Hopefully three references to newspapers are enough. I have the clippings if you'd like me to scan them in. I'd appreciate it if you could reinstate my affiliation with Indian Hills High School (with appropriate citations, of course).

List of Jewish entertainers

I was going to ask you which entries you restored that you thought were sourcable, but it looks like you deleted most of the page? (accidentally, I have to assume?) BTW, do you know how to create that special reference section that condenses all of them into a kind of scrollable field (I know that's a weird description). Putting all the references into that would make the page much smaller. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 07:49, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I sincerely apologize if any content got lost. The article is far too large to edit in any meaningful fashion and my efforts to add sources for unsourced entries and replace / update any dead sources ran into constant issues just with previewing. I would suggest that there be some discussion on how to split the article first, but I already have most of the sources needed for most of the entries you had removed, though there are several that I agree should be removed. Alansohn (talk) 07:54, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I removed only people who were / are not Jewish "at all" - i.e. they had no Jewish ancestry that I could trace and did not convert to Judaism. (Kerri Green is the exception - I don't know her background, but I can find no source). In one case, I left a person who I knew only had a Jewish great-grandparent. I even left Oliver Stone. So some of those should definitely be removed. As for the rest, the ones I removed - Margo Stilley was going to convert to Judaism, but apparently never did. Nicole Eggert I can't find a source on, but I doubt it. Missy Gold had a Jewish stepfather but non-Jewish parents. Kellie Martin isn't Jewish. Seth Meyers is misreported in "bad" sources as being Jewish, but is apparently not. Keri Russell used the term "all my Jewish grandmothers", which was misconstrued as meaning her literal grandmother (I think she meant her worried friends or something - weird, I know); but she has no Jewish ancestry and was raised a Mormon. Embeth Davidtz isn't Jewish (and neither is her surname). Tracey Gold has the same background as her sister. Daryl Hannah's source states that she isn't of Jewish ancestry nor a convert. Jack Warden is one quarter Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutch) and the rest evidently Irish; was listed as Jewish on IMDB, which then was listed in his Guardian obit (the whole story is on his talk page). Steven Wright just isn't Jewish, and I don't think the Walker brothers are either. Victor Fleming and Bill Nye have no Jewish ancestry. Florenz Ziegfeld had a German Lutheran father and a Catholic Belgian mother, but was frequently rumored to be Jewish. Those are the ones I removed. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 08:07, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree with several of your deletions, and I will never accept IMDb as a source. Let me go through the list and I will confirm one way or the other on questionable cases. I appreciate your efforts and patience in making this article accurate, well-sourced and readable. Alansohn (talk) 08:14, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

As an example, I thought I had recognized your quote about Keri Russell, but this source states "Russell, who is Jewish, said it was 'nonsense' in an exclusive interview with the magazine, out this month. She said: 'I had all my Jewish grandmothers calling, going, 'Is Keri a Scientologist? Do we have to be worried?'.'" (sorry for the nested quotes), which makes a rather affirmative statement regarding her religion, and her quote appears intended to emphasize her Jewish identity. Alansohn (talk) 08:20, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

The Daily Mail wasn't the original source of the interview. The original interview was in a magazine that did not include the line "Russell is Jewish". (the magazine was Vanity Fair - I believe the Mail article mentions that). I was unsure about how accurate this was until last year, when I was finally able to find Russell's family tree. The genealogical heritage of Keri Russell is traced right here or here in a different way of viewing it. There's not a lot on her paternal grandparents, but their names aren't very Jewish. Her maternal grandparents, however, don't have any traceable Jewish ancestry at all. In fact, they have a lot of Utah(-born) ancestry, which fits with the Mormon claim that gets floated around the net about Russell (the closest thing to Jewish ancestry on her mother's side is the name "Leavitt" - but this name goes back to New England Colonial Leavitts on Russell's tree, not Jewish Leavitts). The fact that Russell didn't mention being Jewish before or since this interview plays into that. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 08:42, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Earl Best one more time

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Hello, Alansohn. Please see Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Earl Best and feel free to chime in. Hope this helps. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 03:37, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

You're very welcome. I wish I could do more to help, but I really should log off now. (Real-life getting in the way....) I hope this will get resolved very soon. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 04:00, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Article on a New Jersey Activist

Would you be interested in re-writing/editiing and resubmitting an article concerning a well recognized local political activist and veterans advocate? (Mooney1084v (talk) 21:37, 11 August 2011 (UTC))

Thank you for your swift response. Have you had the opportunity to review the original article?

Each and every factual statement made therein was sourced (29 provided) and numerous other news reports and articles exist (more than 80 stories in The Star Ledger alone), though much of it is currently archived.

Would your taking a look and critiquing the original article be advisable as a starting point?

Your advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

(Mooney1084v (talk) 23:31, 11 August 2011 (UTC))

Longport, New Jersey

Good call, thanks--I should have looked more closely at the Delaney article, I guess I just took that on good faith. Thanks also for spotting that spam link. Drmies (talk) 16:05, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Earl Best needs more help

Any ideas on how to get this one right? Can you edit to meet concerns, or figure out what's going on here? Trilliumz (talk) 02:02, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

I'll take a look and see what I can do to get this moved along. Alansohn (talk) 02:23, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

A Palestinian rabbi for you!

Thanks for your support at the Afd on Palestinian rabbis. Chesdovi (talk) 14:19, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

GOCE drive newsletter

Invitation from the Guild of Copy Editors The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in their September 2011 Backlog elimination drive, a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy editing backlog. The drive will begin on September 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on September 30 at 23:59 (UTC). We will be tracking the number of 2010 articles in the backlog, as we want to copy edit as many of those as possible. Please consider copy editing an article that was tagged in 2010. Barnstars will be given to anyone who edits more than 4,000 words, with special awards for the top 5 in the categories "Number of articles", "Number of words", and "Number of articles of over 5,000 words". See you at the drive! – Your drive coordinators: Diannaa, Chaosdruid, The Utahraptor, Slon02, and SMasters. >>> Sign up now <<<

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Article on New Jersey Activist (Gary R. Englert)

Alansohn,

I'm reposting this as perhaps you missed it as you've yet to respond:

Thank you for your swift response. Have you had the opportunity to review the original article?

Each and every factual statement made therein was sourced (29 provided) and numerous other news reports and articles exist (more than 80 stories in The Star Ledger alone), though much of it is currently archived.

Would your taking a look and critiquing the original article be advisable as a starting point?

Your advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

(Mooney1084v (talk) 00:22, 22 August 2011 (UTC))

Thanks for the reminder. I will take some time out to review the article and sources, and to figure out the best way to proceed. Alansohn (talk) 00:30, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Inland Fisher Guide Plant (New Jersey)

Materialscientist (talk) 16:03, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Nat Allbright

Materialscientist (talk) 08:02, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Mardy Fish

Epeefleche has a history of this with me. He'll add in that someone is "Jewish" because a reference like The Jewish Chronicle or Tablet said so, even when there's an interview with that person when they explain their full background (i.e. Jewish father, Catholic mother, raised both, like Sam Fuld). He'll remove that detail and add in simply "Jewish" based on the source. However, this is not one of those cases. This is a case where Fish was even asked in an interview about whether he was going to convert to his wife's Jewish faith. Epeefleche simply ignores this interview and continues to persist because two not particularly reliable sources listed Fish as Jewish (Mardy himself has never said so... for obvious reasons). You can find all kinds of mistakes in reference books, websites, etc. that list people by ethnicity/religion and yet Epeefleche keeps trumping these over interviews with the subjects of the article, for example. He really needs to stop. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 03:16, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Shiloh, New Jersey

Hey, would you mind stopping by at Talk:Shiloh, Cumberland County, New Jersey, so we could get some more feedback? Thanks a lot. Tinton5 (talk) 18:08, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Great Egg Harbor Bay

A page I just made, which could use some expansion. Do you think this is the same name as the Great Egg Harbor? Or is this referring to the inlet? – Tinton5 (talk) 06:45, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 July newsletter

The finals are upon us; we're down to the last few. One of the eight remaining contestants will be this year's WikiCup champion! 150 was the score needed to progress to the final; just under double the 76 required to reach round 4, and more than triple the 41 required to reach round 3. Our eight finalists are:

• Casliber (submissions), Pool A's winner. Casliber has the highest total score in the competition, with 1528, the bulk of which is made up of 8 featured articles. He has the highest number of total featured articles (8, 1 of which was eligible for double points) and total did you knows (72) of any finalist. Casliber writes mostly on biology, including ornithology, botany and mycology.
• PresN (submissions), Pool B's winner and the highest scorer this round. PresN is the only finalist who has scored featured topic points, and he has gathered an impressive 330, but most of his points come from his 4 featured articles, one of which scored double. PresN writes mostly on video games and the Hugo Awards.
• Hurricanehink (submissions), Pool A's runner-up. Hurricanehink's points are mostly from his 30 good articles, more than any other finalist, and he is also the only finalist to score good topic points. Hurricanehink, as his name suggests, writes mostly on meteorology.
• Wizardman (submissions), Pool B's runner-up. Wizardman has completed 86 good article reviews, more than any other finalist, but most of his points come from his 2 featured articles. Wizardman writes mostly on American sport, especially baseball.
• Miyagawa (submissions), the "fastest loser" (Pool A). Miyagawa has written 3 featured lists, one of which was awarded double points, more than any other finalist, but he was awarded points mostly for his 68 did you knows. Miyagawa writes on a variety of topics, including dogs, military history and sport.
• Resolute (submissions), the second "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Resolute's points come from his 9 good articles. He writes mostly on Canadian topics, including ice hockey.
• Yellow Evan (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool A). Most of Evan's points come from his 10 good articles, and he writes mostly on meteorology.
• Sp33dyphil (submissions), who was joint third "fastest loser" (Pool B). Most of Phil's points come from his 9 good articles, 4 of which (more than any other finalist) were eligible for double points. He writes mostly on aeronautics.

We say goodbye to our seven other semi-finalists, Another Believer (submissions), Piotrus (submissions), Grandiose (submissions), Stone (submissions), Eisfbnore (submissions), Canada Hky (submissions) and MuZemike (submissions). Everyone still in the competition at this stage has done fantastically well, and contributed greatly to Wikipedia. We're on the home straight now, and we will know our winner in two months.

In other news, preparations for next year's competition have begun with a brainstorming thread. Please, feel free to drop by and share any thoughts you have about how the competition should work next year. Sign ups are not yet open, but will be opened in due course. Watch this space. Further, there has been a discussion about the rule whereby those in the WikiCup must delcare their participation when nominating articles at featured article candidates. This has resulted in a bot being created by new featured article delegate Ucucha (talk · contribs). The bot will leave a message on FAC pages if the nominator is a participant in the WikiCup.

A reminder of the rules: any points scored after August 29 may be claimed for the final round, and please remember to update submission pages promptly. If you are concerned that your nomination, be it at good article candidates, a featured process or anywhere else, will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:51, 31 August 2011 (UTC)