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If you come to me with this kind of attitude or are having a temper tantrum or hissy fit, go fuck off and cry in the corner...Boo hoo!!!

Kirkpatrick Chapel

I reviewed the article, and it looks good. I have three suggested changes.

(1) Add alt captions to all the pictures.
(2) Wikipedia has an inflation template that many articles use to calculate the real value of money from a particular year. Template:Inflation.
(3) The word flow is a bit stilted in the lead sentence. I think you could remove known as Kirkpatrick Chapel and just refer to it by the shorter name in subsequent sentences. I might replace Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey with Rutgers University. If someone hits the link for Rutgers, they'll see the full name. I would add is before located, and replace New Jersey in the United States. with New Jersey, United States. DavidinNJ (talk) 21:20, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to give the article a look-over sometime this weekend as well. At a glance, it looks like you've done a great job. Neelix (talk) 06:13, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I apologize for taking longer than expected to get around to this review. Overall, this looks like a great article. Here are my recommendations:
  1. The "History" section should not end with the chapel's construction; the history should run right up until the present. This issue might be rectified by merging the "Use" section into the "History" section.
  2. The events listed in the "Notable events" section would flow better with the rest of the article if they were presented paragraphically. Also, the word "notable" is superfluous as only notable information should be included in any Wikipedia article.
  3. The year spans should appear in the body text of the "Use" subsections rather than in the subsection titles.
  4. The statement that "The chapel is available to students, alumni, and faculty of all faiths, and a variety of services are held throughout the academic term" appears in the lead, but I cannot find it in the body of the article and I therefore do not see the source for this statement.
  5. Is there any reason that the Reformed Church in America link is pipelinked with the phrase "Dutch Reformed faith"? There is a difference between the Reformed Church in America and the Dutch Reformed Church, and both refer to themselves as churches rather than faiths.
  6. I second David's recommendation above that alt text should be added to the images.
  7. Paragraphs should consist of more than one sentence each.
I look forward to seeing this article up at FAC. Please let me know when you initiate the candidacy. Neelix (talk) 03:26, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question

I wanted to ask you about something, but off-wiki. Could one of us email the other? (mine is activated) Thanks - theWOLFchild 22:13, 26 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Main Page appearance: Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey

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New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno

The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the state government of New Jersey in the United States. The person elected to this position is the second highest-ranking official in the state government. Before 2010, New Jersey was one of a few U.S. states that did not have a lieutenant governor. Two men were appointed to the office during brief periods in New Jersey's colonial era (1664–1776), but for most the state's history, the senate president would become "acting governor" during vacancies in the governor's office. After the resignations of Governors Christine Todd Whitman in 2001 and Jim McGreevey in 2004, the state had several acting governors in the span of a few years. Popular sentiment and political pressure from the state's residents and news media outlets sought a better rule for gubernatorial succession. In a referendum, the state's voters authorized a 2006 amendment of the State Constitution to create the position. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, voters elected Republican Kim Guadagno (pictured) to be the first to serve in the post in its modern form. (Full article...)

UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Precious again! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks, Gerda. I'm surprised so far how little vandalism the article's received...given that the governor and lt. governor are involved in a political scandal, and today they're getting inaugurated for their second term.--ColonelHenry (talk) 07:27, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GAR possibly of interest

As someone who took an interest in Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)/archive2, you may have an interest in Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Freedom from Want (painting)/1‎. Eventually, I plan to pursue a WP:GTC or WP:FTC, but one of the articles in the set is currently controversial.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:31, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • This continues to drag on and may for another month or two (The oldest discussion in the WP:GAR queue started on November 2 and this one started on January 12. Thus, it will be 10 weeks before this unresolved discussion is as old as the oldest current discussion.). If you could take a look that would be great.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 23:56, 7 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of New Brunswick Theological Seminary

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Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey

Nice job on this FA. No one is going to believe it's a coincidence it was scheduled for the main page this week.... Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 16:17, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Original Barnstar

The Original Barnstar
For your consistent substantial contributions to Wikipedia and your dedication to producing high-quality articles, I award you this barnstar. I look forward to seeing what you produce next. Neelix (talk) 16:31, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of New Brunswick Theological Seminary

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A mushroom for you

A TFA mushroom teaser
In case you can't wait until the next one... BencherliteTalk 02:29, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bencherlite - aww, you sent me a poisonous one. :) --ColonelHenry (talk) 02:29, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Don't eat it all at once, then... BencherliteTalk 02:34, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Bencherlite -- I noticed that you followed my FA at TFA (21JAN14) with a mushroom today (22JAN14). The Russians seeing a coincidence like that would say "Nye sluchaino"...it is not an accident. I'm tempted to agree with the Russian wisdom. lol. --ColonelHenry (talk) 02:38, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Four Award

Four Award
Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on A Song for Simeon. LittleMountain5 17:31, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Great work! LittleMountain5 17:31, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well deserved! Thank you for letting my "magic" in ;) - Under the image of Simeon, I would link to the Nunc dimittis - for those who only look at pictures ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:38, 23 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hello thanks for the notification. The article is not finished yet, so I'm on it. I really don't have time to read the guidelines though I don't have any intention of vandalism or plagiarism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miguelito0292 (talk • contribs) 03:51, 25 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for New Brunswick Theological Seminary

Looks good. Thanks for helping with the DYK project Victuallers (talk)) 00:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Award for you

The Barnstar of Integrity
Here is a token of appreciation for defending a comrade in arms who was drumhead court-martialed for talking back to his Wikipedia superiors. This is not as striking as the Barnstar (of Decapitation), but thank you for supporting us 99% of wikipedians who don't care much about that pompous tribunal and its arbitrary rulings. jni (delete)just not interested 19:16, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

talkback

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Thank you very very much

Thank you very very much, ColonelHenry, for this comment at WP:TFAR:

"I think calling a long-time contributor on free speech issues, and a frequent participant here at TFA/R a "troll" is a needless personal attack."

I really appreciate that.

A lot.

Thanks again,

— Cirt (talk) 17:40, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Are you happy to be contacted by email?

Just wanted to check before I did. Regards, Wee Curry Monster talk 22:22, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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"A Song for Simeon" TFA

Congrats on the mainpage appearance of "A Song for Simeon"!

While I'm here, I've got a favour to ask—if you put your support in a header rather than in the body of your comments at FAC (as with Gods' Man), it doesn't show up as a support in the nominations viewer. It ultimately doesn't make a difference—the decision to promote or archive doesn't depend on the numbers the nominations viewer reports, but it sure is satisfying to a nominee to see those numbers. Would you mind sticking your support somewhere in the body of your comment? Curly Turkey (gobble) 00:57, 3 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

CSD

I am quite puzzled why you blanked Vijay Singh, Defence Secretary and placed a speedy tag on it as an article intended only to disparage the subject? I just don't see that. I did remove one paragraph of peripheral interest that might possibly be controversial with respect to another person, even tho sourced. DGG ( talk ) 05:27, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • @DGG: - I didn't blank it (if I did, I didn't realize I did). I just tagged it for CSD because the article stated "with no background of national defense or security, was appointed Defense Secretary" sounds like a political attack from where I read it.--ColonelHenry (talk) 05:34, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
well, factually he didn't. that's not unusual for government ministers.-- I'll fix the wording, though, and in one other place also. . It is of course possible to guess the political motivation for including this particular person when we had missed him earlier; I did go and remind the editor to be careful. As for the blanking, probable article curation does that automatically for G10s, which is not all that unreasonable a default. DGG ( talk ) 06:23, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

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Your GA nomination of Poet Laureate of New Jersey

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Your GA nomination of Poet Laureate of New Jersey

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Peer review of Anatomical terms of motion

Hello ColonelHenry! We met when reviewing your now-FA, Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey. I'm primarily an editor of medical and human anatomy articles, and I was wondering if you'd be able to contribute to a peer review of Anatomical terms of motion, which I hope to eventually get to GA status. We (WP:ANATOMY) currently have three articles about anatomical terminology (five in total when I finish rolling out two others), which are amongst our most popular articles, and I hope that if we are able to get the terms of motion article to GA, it may be used as a template for the other articles.

I'd be very grateful if you could have a look and let me know what you think -- it's not up to GA standards yet (has tags and citations), but I'm most concerned whether the layout is suitable and text is readable and understandable. Kind regards, --LT910001 (talk) 02:19, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • @LT910001: - Let me take a look at this weekend (most likely this evening) and see what I can do. I grew up reading medical journals and textbooks that my mother had around the house, so I have a little bit of knowledge of anatomy and physiology. It's not my day job or something I have expertise in, but I'll try to give some insightful comments.--ColonelHenry (talk) 15:39, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Any outside input is more than appreciated. --LT910001 (talk) 03:34, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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"dating a really nice girl who likes having me around,"

I bet she'd be delighted to see how close to the top of your list of priorities she is - you ol' charmer, you! ;-) BencherliteTalk 23:37, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Your GA nomination of Poet Laureate of New Jersey

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Caspersen FAC

As per your request, I've added my input over there: [1] It was as thorough as you said you liked, or maybe too thorough. How about some quid pro quo, eh? ;) Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 17:36, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Figureskatingfan: - thorough is good, i'll get a chance to attend to your suggestions and comments later tonight or tomorrow (work, evening plans first). I have a few notes that I've taken from my quick glance at your PoMA article, so after this evening, I'll get my review of PoMA in that same timeframe (i.e. by tomorrow). been a busy week. thank you very much.--ColonelHenry (talk) 17:47, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rutgers Geology museum photos

Visited Rutgers Geology museum, took some photos, did I get the ones you needed.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 01:14, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hope the photos can be of use; yes there was a mirror and my arm and camera were in the shot, but if you want I can crop it out.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 11:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nice work at Geology Hall. One thing I noticed about the museum -- few signs at street level announcing it; I walked into what I thought was a classroom building, and even there it was downplayed, almost as if the museum does not want the traffic or publicity, rather they like it quiet.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 11:54, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Remember not, Lord, our offences

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DYK for Poet Laureate of New Jersey

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Lamu Fort

Hi, can you review this for GA for me? Let me know if there's anything you want reviewed.ColonelHenry (talk) 16:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for William the Silent (statue)

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Your GA nomination of William the Silent (statue)

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Who is who

Do you still have access to the who is who entry for him, I can add it as a reference, but I do not have access to it, it looks like a pay site. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 17:27, 7 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Mirror symmetry

Hello,

I wanted to let you know that the article on mirror symmetry is currently a featured article candidate. Since you were the editor who promoted this article to GA status, I thought you might be interested in leaving comments at this page.

Thanks for all your help. Polytope24 (talk) 17:03, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Landrum Brewer Shettles

Hi ColonelHenry, I'd rather not restore the full article, but I am happy to give you a copy of the references and any of the content you wrote? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:03, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Callanecc: - If I promised to you that I would not restore the article content that was deleted, would you send me the entire article so if I desired to create an article, I had more than a few hints where to start. I contributed barely sentence to the article, but the materials that Mr Norton contributed would give me an indication where I could start looking, i.e. it would be entirely "on background"...if you sent me the entire article via e-mail, that version of the article would never leave my inbox. I would guarantee that it would not see the light of day on Wikipedia or elsewhere. I'd create an article from scratch that would avoid the taint of his material. The subject of the article doesn't really interest me, and it's not my area of editing, but it does suck that a notable physician and scientist who is worthy of a decent article has gotten the shaft because of Mr Norton's bad behaviour. Think about it. --ColonelHenry (talk) 02:23, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Email sent. I've always thought it a little unfair how G5 works and that it could be used in a way not intended and sometimes ends up getting rid of good articles. But I guess the best thing for us (with access to deleted contribs) can do is to suggest people create the article then give them the tools to do it. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:45, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Did you know nominations/Theodore Katsanevas

ColonelHenry, did you mean to approve this nomination? If so, you'll need to add the appropriate tick to the front of your comment (or add a new one). Given your earlier comments, I can't tell whether the reason you didn't add a tick was because something still needs to be done or because you just forgot. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 23:59, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Das Lied von der Erde

Good work on the Das Lied page ColonelHenry. I put a new edit in, and messed up your formatting rather. I couldn't work out how to get BOTH 1) the two colums to be of identical widths from top to bottom AND 2) keep the '==='s working as TOC links. Do you have the skills to fix this?
jonathan riley (talk) 21:59, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The English (if you can call it that) text is my own. I didn't want to fall foul of copyright claims, so I did the job myself. Obviously my hope is that other wikipedians will be able to fix my more egregious balls-ups, or that they may even be able to source a decent translation that is out of copyright.
jonathan riley (talk) 22:16, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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