User talk:SandyGeorgia

sum -41

I just want you to know that where I am, it's −41 °C (−42 °F). (The magic point where convert templates just become redundant) I understand this predicament is heading your way later in the week? Boy I hope so not! Outriggr (talk) 10:57, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If wind chill counts, my personal record is −54 °F (−48 °C), which are numbers incomprehensible to Venezuelans. I don't put a coat on anymore until temps drop below 20 °F (−7 °C).

Outriggr, I am deep into trying to repair years of neglect at Tourette syndrome; I have lots to update still, major sections to completely re-write, a lot of repeated text to eliminate, stuff to move around-- but once I am further along, might I get you and Yomangani to deal with my tortured prose? That's at least a week away, if I don't freeze in the interim.

Stay warm up there! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:50, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's pretty brutal. The temperature, I mean. Well, it's -43 now, and -48 with wind chill (all C), so perhaps I'll tie you by day's end! In all fairness, I don't edit wikipedia outside.

Yes, sure, although I think you are much too modest. I'll be around, though.

In an attempt to think of a Spanish salutation, my brain said "adelante", and I doubt that would get me very far, but wiktionary says "into the future", which is pleasing in a way. Outriggr (talk) 14:07, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Adelante is actually a very polite greeting used, for example, when you encounter another person trying to get into one of those revolving doors the same time as you are, and you offer to them to move forward first to escape the wind chill! Thanks, riggrS !! I am determined to stay focused on that TS mess today, so off to work I go! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:09, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It could mean "Let's go!" - speeding off in a car or starting a fight. Pick which of those you want to do with Sandy. Yomangani ^talk 14:18, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't fight as much these days; it's too tiring, and there are too many fights that need to be had on Wikipedia, so someone else can have them. I'd rather speed off in a car ... to a relaxing place, instead! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:25, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hyphens

Greetings,

remind me, is there some script to correct dashes/hyphens? I'd like to apply it to User:Jo-Jo Eumerus/1669 Etna eruption if there is one. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 21:28, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: Not that I am aware of: Tony1 may have one. If he doesn't, ping me, and I will fix them for you. Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:40, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I ran the script and left a query about one item. Please ask User:Ohconfucius to give access to his composite script. Tony (talk) 23:01, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Tony1 ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:06, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Tony1. Regarding the item you asked about, it's a range, so dash is correct. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:40, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone who wants to install the script directly can find it here: User talk:GregU/dashes.js. Note the instructions at the top. (It's easier than it looks) Outriggr (talk) 08:21, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather ask riggr to run it ... (like the sound of that?). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:47, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ghosts!

There are ghosts rising on Sandy's page! Hello, young Outriggr and Yomangani! Yomangani, the little Bishonen still has your Gabby userbox on her page. bishzilla _ROARR!! pocket 10:11, 16 January 2020 (UTC).[reply]

WOOOoooooooooooOOOoooooooooooOOO, etc. Hello, Zilla. I really must make some more templates, I am hilarious. Yomangani ^talk 10:52, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wow so many FREN, hew new I wood wan to loggin many years after I did retire to GOLDEN FARMS sum ware in the COUNTRY! Quite nice there, no complain. DOGRIGGR did lose the barker, sum years bac. Have noticed the PUPS speak diffren (E Gee, "fren"!). Somewhat concern, no time to SIT on INNER NET larning new pup slang. "Rare pup!" No, in my day we did not rate pups. 13/10 -- please!. No in my day we luvved the SMOL PUPS eekwally, the pups sot attenshun from mamma and mamma sot no attenshun!, as any attenshun mite endanger pups. I hope you understan that sum things do not change. BISHZILLA have long time span, EYAWN perhap, shirley understan that we mus carrie on what good MUTHER NAYCHER has tot us, not to looz our selfs in TEMPTASHUN, fad, in deed to put a way PUPHOOD THINGS. In fac, for the VARY SAKE of the pups. I have spocan, an I bid ewe a dew. --User:Dogriggr-Bark

Sandy sees sea slugs down by the seashore. What a panoply, and before my coffee. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:46, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Such visions appear when Sandy swills shandy. Kablammo (talk) 13:48, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[Darwinbish stares.] "Dogriggr, last edited 10 years ago"? (Darwinbish has a script that tells her this.) So what are those howlers then, mylings? [Bites the revenant dog experimentally]. Hmmm. Tastes a bit wispy. darwin bish 14:20, 16 January 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Bath School disaster...

This article used to be a WP:FA back in the day (2006 actually...) and was delisted in 2010. Do you think with its subsequent improvements that it now has a chance of possibly passing a WP:FAC? Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 04:57, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Shearonink; I usually start at the bottom of the article.

Are all of those External links helpful? Some end with a period, others don't.

I went through the ELs, to me it seems that they are all unique and needful in order to have possible research for interested readers in one place. As always, online sources are in danger of petering our so I will endeavor to get wayback machine URLs for all of these links and to start to bring their URLs into stylistic agreement with one another. I also have trimmed down the Further reading section. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Citation formatting is all over the place; there is no consistency. Author name format should be standardized; there is some first name first, other first name last, some fully spelled out, others with initials. Same use page and some use p. The News-Herald (Franklin, Pennsylvania) (May 20, 1927). "Heart-rending Scenes Occur at Dynamited School". Newspapers.com. p. 12. matches nothing. Every citation should be reviewed for consistency; it appears that different editors added different citation styles.

Oh *yeah*...that will take some time...will work on it. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MOS:CAPS, "DYNAMITE AGAIN PLACED IN BATH, MICH., SCHOOL"

What are we supposed to do when the original title is all in caps? I always want to reproduce what the source has at the source... Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Shearonink: that is the same as sentence case vs title case, en- and em-dashes, etc.; we follow Wikipedia house style, which is to reduce all caps. They are still equally locatable on a google search. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:36, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed now. Shearonink (talk) 21:47, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That portal in "See also" looks utterly dreadful and should be at the bottom of the page, but I understand moving portals right now is likely to trigger some aficionados or an edit-war, so ...

Moved portal bar to proper place within page. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That could be tricky these days, with some MOS warriers ... if someone moves it back, it may be best left alone. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:36, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The template "Killed in the disaster" at Bath School disaster#Aftermath is causing sandwiched text between images. Check WP:ACCESSIBILITY to see if green is a good color (I am unsure; you might ask Graham87).

That green was Not Accepted for accessibility. Adjusted the List for size. None of the possible colors would work accessibility-wise for that header so I removed the color - solved that issue. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for thinking of me, Sandy, but I'm totally blind ... I know nothing about colour! Graham87 02:06, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps (??) you could solve some of the sandwiching by taking a lot of the images to a gallery at the bottom of the article?

I'll have to take a look at them in-toto, did some adjusting. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

IMO, there are too many quotes.

Adjusted the quotes, removed some of the quoted material, integrated the people/words into the main text, etc. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some image captions do not need to start with the word "the"

Fixed. I think... Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

TOC: Day of the disaster followed by Prior to the disaster doesn't work. First, Prior to is not day of, and second, too much repeat of the word disaster, which is in the TOC (repeat words in headings are discouraged). How about, Day of the attacks, and move the Prior to somewhere else, perhaps call it Background or something different?

Made sense to me. Done. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this in a "note" instead of just text in the article? Note: Most of the victims were Bath Consolidated School students in the second to sixth grades (7–14 years of age), according to Ellsworth's The Bath School Disaster, p. 126.

Deleted. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure these warrant a hatnote: See also: Bath Township, Michigan; Bath, Michigan; and Bath Consolidated School

I wikilinked the various articles instead. Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some review of wikilinking might be order. Be sure to link on first occurrence, and common terms like school board need not be re-linked in the body of the article, a second time.

That makes sense yeah...long-term project yay! Shearonink (talk) 21:19, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think if you work on these things, you should be in very good shape to approach FAC. But I would first ask a good copyeditor to go through AFTER you have made all of these improvements. You might interest @Outriggr, Yomangani, and Gog the Mild:, since many FA regulars like seeing bronze stars reinstated. Good luck !!! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:40, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

PS, Shearonink, on the FAC, be sure to notify that it is a WP:FFA, because if it passes, the re-promoted numbers and articles at FFA will need to be updated. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:25, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Much thanks Sandy - greatly appreciate your insights. This will help me out quite a bit and will give me a lot to work on. This article gets occasional major editing attention from many different editors and also spates of vandalism from ohsoclever mayhem-loving trolls so I will start the job of getting references into one single WP-classic form :). Heh, will have to remember that "start from the bottom of an article"... Shearonink (talk) 18:17, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Many reviewers seem to peter out before they make it down there! Good luck, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:25, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

You've been outed!!!

	Superwoman!!!
	I may get in big trouble for outing you but I don't care as I feel an obligation to let our fellow editors know your true identity. Your amazing powers have been nothing short of mind boggling and your good work around this sometimes wretched place does not go unnoticed. Gandydancer (talk) 01:32, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Awwww ... that is so very nice of you! And here I thought you were referring to me finally confessing to dear Giano that I was not swooning in Georgia, thereby dashing all of his fantasies! Thanks, Gandydancer; it is very much appreciated in such trying times. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:34, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]