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Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Analysis paralysis, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 05:28, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Nomination of Carol Armstrong for deletion
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AfC notification: Draft:Marion Weed has a new comment
Hi StrayBolt. As you can see, I've accepted your AfC submission. Thanks so much for creating this article. In future you do not need to go through the AfC process as you are an auto-confirmed editor. In fact, I recommend that you avoid it when writing on classical music subjects as the AfC reviewers are often unfamiliar with the notability criteria and the literature in this area. And last but not least, a very warm welcome to WikiProject Opera! Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 16:21, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
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Merger discussion for Fake News Awards
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Speedy deletion nomination of Jeffery Erlanger
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Why would a park that's been defunct since 1988 be "probably by popularity too" over a park that currently gets thousands of visitors per year, and has done so for over 175 years? Pdfpdf (talk) 09:27, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Pdfpdf: The first reason I said was favoring articles over sections. I was basing popularity on Wikipedia page views (only the 2 when first sorting) and PP was only Park #18 of 29 (the history for the amusement park didn't get moved, so use PP). Since you asked, I also looked at this chart on redirects which only has 9(+8?) for the past month. Things change over time so maybe it would be rearranged later. Another "popularity" is typing in PP in the search window and see the suggested results. I don't know if that is user-tailored. Also, I don't think PP should have been moved to "PP, Texas"; that implies it is a city. Probably "PP (amusement park)" or maybe "PP (Texas)" or something else would be better. That might be true for your Park #18 too (somewhere there are guidelines for that). When you moved it, you also "broke" (or ambiguated) a few links, so it would have been nice to fix those. Let's figure out the right name before we fix those. StrayBolt (talk) 16:43, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for the reply. To clarify, independent of popularity, I have no problem with you putting the page higher on the list than the redirect.
- Regarding popularity, I wrongly assumed you were referring to the popularity of the place, not web-page views. (Silly me.) Also, I thought I had fixed the links. It seems I didn't. My apologies. I'll now wait until you sort out page names before I do so.
- FYI, I really wasn't sure what to rename the park in Texas to; my main aim was to free the main name for use as a disambiguation page - I'm happy for you to rename PP in Texas to whatever you think is best, and I am happy to support such a move. (Please tell me when you have done so.)
- The problem on en.wikipedia with the Adelaide Park Lands is that it consists of many parks and gardens (many more than 29), some of which have their own pages, (e.g. Himeji Gardens which is part of Park 18, and Veale Gardens which is part of Veale Park), and many of which don't, (but with time this should change). The problem on en.wikipedia with the 29 "major sub-parks" (my terminology) of the Adelaide Park Lands is that the City of Adelaide has now given each of them three names - see here. On en.wikipedia this will lead to (at most) 29 pages, and (at least) 58 redirects. The challenge is what to name the pages and redirects, particularly when there is a need to disambiguate. I suspect that Peppermint Park, Adelaide Park Lands is probably always going to be a redirect, and although the target of the redirect may possibly change with time, it will always refer to the same piece of land in the Adelaide Park Lands. Also, "Adelaide" covers over 1,200 square miles; it's possible that there is or may be a Peppermint Park somewhere else in the Adelaide metropolitan area that I don't know about.
- Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 03:40, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events
Hi there. Thanks for your recent addiction to List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events regarding the Nemesis. I'm having a hard time trying to understand from the text you've added exacted how Nemesis is allegedly going to render life on Earth extinct. Can you clarify somehow?
This article is currently nominated to be a featured list (see here), so It's important right now that there isn't anything potentially confusing on it. Incidentally if you'd be willing to comment on the nomination regarding any potential improvements or whether or not you support or oppose the nomination that would be appreciated. Thanks. Freikorp (talk) 10:26, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
- @Freikorp:I added more details and a counter argument since it is not generally accepted. I was debating about putting it at all. It fit nicely in the time-scale between 1 and 100 million years so I added it. You can remove it if you feel it is too fringy. When I asked David Morrison (astrophysicist) about Nemesis (many years prior to 2011), he didn't directly discount it, but switched back to the general statistical risk, lack of detection, lack of prevention and significant consequence of earth being hit. StrayBolt (talk) 15:57, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
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Hello. Help improve article Maureen Wroblewitz. Thank you. 125.214.51.223 (talk) 08:39, 20 August 2018 (UTC)