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Sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology

Per your request, I've started up Sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology and it's now live in a serviceable-but-much-to-add state. You're invited to help, of course. Methinks we should better integrate all of these Germanic 'holy site' articles to work together, as complex as the situation is. :bloodofox: (talk) 03:06, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work. Methinks though we should create a combined category rather, Category:Trees in Germanic paganism and mythology, instead of having two parallel categories with essentially the same content. De728631 (talk) 15:37, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I also considered putting them in that category. Since the article covers them both, I figure that would be fine. On the other hand, they could both fall under the less specific super category of "Trees and the Germanic peoples", which could cover a broader set of articles. I'm fine with either route. :) :bloodofox: (talk) 20:47, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging Bloodofox, since I don't have a list of who watches here '-) De728631 has a good point, but I'm being pulled in several directions at once right now so I'm going to put some thoughts here for now rather than editing. There's the possible connection to the pillar phenomenon that is discussed in relation to Irminsul/Yggdrasil - the "Jupiter pillars" and Thurstable. There's also Tacitus's statement that the Teutons worshipped only in the open air, i.e., in groves, which is one of the points made in saying the hofs developed under Christian influence (or were never real, or were only regional; same has been said of goðar). In general, the point that there were probably differences in praxis both over time and geographically. Then there's the old Balken theory, which I can never quite follow, though it arises from the dual meaning of áss, but deVries does his best to explain it. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:53, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the pillar thing needs coverage here, as well as the Tacitus quote. I could just drop the Tacitus quote in at the beginning from a primary source at the head of the list. I'll see what I can bring together here soon. There's some stuff to be discussed here regarding, for example, Greek columns as well. The article needs a lot of expansion but I figure this is a fine place to start. :) :bloodofox: (talk) 20:47, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I started expanding it, but more will have to wait for my "weekend". Yngvadottir (talk) 05:40, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nzi River Bridge collapse

Well you seem to have tidied up this article in some ways, but have also thrown away a lot of detail, including:

Coordinates of bridge
Gallery
Mention with reference to when bridge restored to use.
Explanation of various details, such as
- weight of locomotives including or not including weight of fuel.
- number of type of crane(s) needed to lift locomotives.
- Bulldozers and steamrollers needed to prepare access ramp for 24-wheel trailer, and pad for crane(s). Hence pictures of same.
etc.

I was going to create a section listing all the men and material needed to complete the repairs.

How can one revert such details, without throwing away your changes?

It would have been better for you to have commented out things that you did not like, rather than just throwing them away. Tabletop (talk) 03:54, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tabletop. The coordinates are now up in the right-hand corner, where they usually are. As to the gallery, the two useful images—the map and the close-up of tape in front of the bridge—look like being deleted as copyvios, and the rest were simply pictures of construction equipment. I'm afraid I don't share your enthusiasm for listing all the heavy machinery involved in clearing away the accident and making repairs, and in any case those sections were referenced only to forums, which are completely inadmissable as sources (though Mel does seem to be an expert) and to original research from photographs. I looked at the forum posts hoping to find usable reliable sources, and finding none, instead did some searching and added the two French sources (from the above, I think you've missed those and the statement I added about partial restoration of service). As I noted on the talk page, I did not remove the "incomplete" tag because I was unable to find a source stating the repairs had been completed—the forum posts did not in fact say that, simply that it would now be relatively simple to insert a replacement bridge section. With misgivings, I left in the statement in the lede that repairs were in fact completed in about 15 days, and I also left in the unsourced information about the locomotives (as well as the information about their numbers sourced to the video, which I cannot hear since I don't have working speakers; I'm assuming good faith that those numbers are in the cited source). I'm sorry my edit summaries weren't clearer about why I deleted what I did, and where I put what I didn't, and I hope you have been able to find a usable source for the end of repairs. But forums won't do. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:11, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Google search re Nzi Bridge collapse

A Google search for the Nzi Bridge collapse displays the following:

Nzi River Bridge collapse - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzi_River_Bridge_collapse
On 6 September 2016, the railway bridge over the Nzi River collapsed, cutting the rail link between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. Partial services on the line ...

Google only seems to display about 140 characters thus "On 6 Sep . . . . on the line". If 140, this may match the 140 limit of Texting.

IMHO, it is useful to arrange/contrive to display the date that services resume, which is about 15 days after the collapse.

To do this, a few words need to be deleted so that the words, say, "15 days later" fall within the 140 limit. I would also add a date "As At 08 Feb 2017" to make it clear when the text was last updated.

Wikipedia does not seem to have a function that counts the number of (visible) characters on that line, not counting brackets and hidden comments.

It is also rather difficult to count 40 by hand.

Hence the hidden "ruler" "=====-----1====-----2====" etc.

This is not rocket science. Rulers are, by the way, invention that go back thousands of year.

Without the counting of these 140 characters, Google Search looks an untidy mess.

By the way, most of the other related items found by Google seem to be stuck on 7 Sep 2015, with no obvious updates.

Is there anything on Wikipedia that discusses this issue of Google Search 140 Character Ruler. ? Cannot say that I have ever heard of it :-(

Which came first: Google's 140 display limit, or Texting's 140 display limit? :-) Tabletop (talk) 08:00, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No idea, but we don't need to play to Google's peculiarities, and the article really shouldn't say in the lede that normal service was resumed 15 days/2 weeks later without a solid source saying so. All the more so if you are concerned about what Google searchers will see. Also, the fact that the accident cut the rail connection between the two countries is important, in fact the best argument for having a page on the accident, so it needs to be in the lede.

It will take a while for caches to catch up to the changed date, but as I noted in my edit summary, all the reliable sources but one said "Tuesday" or outright that it was the 6th (the exception being the first of the two Ivory Coast Press reports, which says the 5th). So 7th is an error. Yngvadottir (talk) 08:11, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

World Heritage

Just noticed your addition at the mirror list; that "organization" is much more problematic that you may think. They actually have about 100 domains - I've tried to list them here (big red section in the middle of the page) and periodically hunt them down. Would love to blacklist them, but I really hate to subvert the intent of that tool. Kuru (talk) 23:08, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Precious five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good grief, really? Thank you, Gerda :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 13:36, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

Stefanie Rabatsch, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chris Troutman (talk) 01:22, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know; no one told me it was at AfD. But I was surprised it was promoted to GA and in any case I don't have anything to do with GA, so I won't participate in the reassessment. Yngvadottir (talk) 01:37, 15 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to Entry on Frost & Sullivan

Hi Yngvadottir,

My 1st response was lost when saving so I'll try this again.

First, thanks for your suggestions. I see and agree with your points that the initial contributions were too complimentary; I'll try and keep future contributions more fact based.

I had worked in the industry analyst world for a long time so I have familiarity with Frost & Sullivan, Gartner, IPMV, Forrester, Yankey Group, Ovium, E&Y and other such analyst/consulting firms, which is why I chose to start here.

I still feel uncomfortable with the reference to IPMV because when you look at their website, they seem to 'trash talk' many competitors with many accusations but no evidence to prove their claims (see https://ipvm.com/section/Awards). In looking at credible, 3rd party sources (I.E. Forbes, Business Week, Fortune, Fast Company, Venturebeat, etc.) I can find no bases for any of these claims against any of the companies mentioned in the IPMV website. Ultimately leading me to believe it is just 'trash talking'.

I will remove the reference altogether and we can leave it at that for now. I will continue to scour 3rd party sources and look for evidence of these claims or supporting facts and can update the entry if and when such information comes to light.

Thanks and happy editing! UtexxUtexx (talk) 21:04, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Utexx: Thanks for your note. I've responded on the article talk page, pinging the editor who originally added the criticism. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:41, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

anca verma

Hi, earlier today you used http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2571447/Anca-Verma-Arms-dealers-wife-claims-beaten-Tihar-Jail.html to support a statement that prison officers were dismissed after being found to have extorted & harrassed Verma. The DM article does NOT support this info (and the DM should not be used anymore), did you even bother to check?79.71.15.114 (talk) 23:43, 18 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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