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Persondata

Hi, I notice you're very much into biographical entries. If you get a chance, I'm going through a list of the top 1000 linked people in the german wikipedia and adding persondata. I feel if we can get people noticing it on the most highly linked pages, then it might pick up more steam. Here's the list User:Rajah/persondata. Thanks for any help you might lend. --Rajah 05:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great work on adding the PersonData, thanks! Please remember though that the template should be placed just before the categories and interlanguage links. A couple of yours, Chaucer, Edward 1, etc. are above other stuff. Just something to be aware of. Thanks again! --Rajah 06:53, 7 November 2006 (UTC) Ta! Dsp13 14:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to remove names from the above list if they have Persondata added. I intended the list to be a work list, i.e. click a name, add the persondata, then remove it from the list. Thanks! --Rajah 20:06, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Early English Books

What you added to the talk page for the pen is mightier than the sword is really good. If you have the source details (e.g. year and edition; especially since this work went thru many revisions) you could go ahead and add this to the article. -- Kendrick7^talk 06:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Kendrick7^talk 20:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Change to Common.css

Per recent discussions, the way in which Persondata is viewed by Wikipedia editors has changed. In order to continue viewing Persondata in Wikipedia articles, please edit your user CSS file to display table.persondata rather than table.metadata. More specific instructions can be found on the Persondata page. --ShakingSpirit ^talk on behalf of Kaldari 00:57, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of women novelists before Jane Austen

Hey there, I love that you put this list up. I was wondering about expanding it beyond Spender's original list, since there are even more women novelists to mention. I took the liberty of adding one name. --Susiebowers 03:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thanks! Sounds great to me, as I've said on the page's talk page. Do take all the liberties you can! Dsp13 13:08, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Women writers

Hi Dsp13! I'm a firm supporter of the category "women writers" but it has recently been removed (see the category "women writers" talk page) much to the dismay of people who use the category and recognize it as valid. Well, at least all of the women writers that were previously listed there have been removed and now there are 3 recent additions (that's how I got here this time!). I put my two cents in the "women writers" category talk page, and User:scribblingwoman is working on a draft of the history of women's literature as an area of study on one of her subpages. Just thought I'd let you know, since I saw you are using the category -- and rightly so in my opinion. Your recent additions to the category will help to illustrate its usefulness and validity. Cheers --Susiebowers 00:28, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I love the additions you have made to the bibliography in the draft; thank you! scribblingwoman 13:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That list of biographical dictionaries is a thing of beauty! And it makes the case for the category of women writers all by itself. scribblingwoman 20:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thinking of posting soon. What do you think? scribblingwoman 16:16, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Polwhele

Great article! scribblingwoman 23:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Worldcat spam

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

For further information, please refer to Wikipedia:Spam#How_not_to_be_a_spammer --Stephen Burnett 08:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Stephen, for leaving the message. I'm sorry you feel the WorldCat links (which I see you've removed from other pages after noticing it on Igor Stravinsky) are 'useless' spam. I've reread Wikipedia:External links, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory and Wikipedia:Spam as you suggest. Let me respond. First, the WorldCat external link appears to me to be not useless but strictly functional, in that it allows Wikipedia readers to pass swiftly to library holdings by and about Stravinsky. In German Wikipedia, such links have been added to biographical pages to allow this, using the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek name authority file. (On this, see a 2005 paper by Jakob Voss, and his expressed hope at Wikimetrics 'that soon more links between Wikipedia and OCLC Identities will be established'.) For an example of the external links in de:Wikipedia, see the link 'Literatur von und über Richard Burton' at de:Richard Burton. Unfortunately, linking to the Library of Congress name authority file (which would be the obvious equivalent for en.wikipedia) did not allow this functionality. While WorldCat Identities makes this possible, I'm not interested in promoting this site per se (though WorldCat is provided by a not-for-profit research organization with what seems to me appropriate concern for open access & open source), but only in the functionality which it provides: bridging the gap between Wikipedia and the work of librarians. (I'm an academic historian at an English university, so hold no professional brief for WorldCat; my own wikipedia edits have been mainly biographical, sometimes adding new pages but mostly adding category information about dates of birth & death.)

But you're quite right to pick me up for adding the same link to many articles - though of course, the links were not quite identical, they were to the same site. Thank you: I'll try to make the case on Talk:Igor Stravinsky. Meanwhile, I've proposed adding WorldCat links as a WikiProject: your comments there or here would be welcome. Dsp13 14:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have started a discussion on the addition of arguably useful external links to dozens or hundreds of articles using this case as an example. The discussion is at Wikipedia:Community noticeboard#Adding 100+ external links. Please come and add your thoughts to the discussion. Thanks! —Elipongo ^{(Talk|contribs)} 20:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your interest - as you say, there's a general point at issue. I'm not sure if I've more to add than I've already said, at Talk:Igor Stravinsky, and at the project page. But I'll try to think how to say something helpful. Dsp13 21:13, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter

The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 22:31, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Women writers

I just (finally) submitted the category for review for reinstatement. Fingers crossed. scribblingwoman 14:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page moved

I just moved the former John Cheyne article to John Cheyne (physician) in order to make room for a disambiguation page. Rather than modifying your page User:Dsp13/exactmatcheswithdates/1770-1779 myself, I'm telling you. (I also created a stub, John Cheyne (Master of the Horse) about a Master of the Horse to King Edward IV.) Tonymec 10:04, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Citation

At R.G. Waldeck, could you provide a solid citation on that date of birth you provided? (I'll go look for something, too, but my guess is that you know where you got it.) It does not agree with her death notice in the New York Times. - Jmabel | Talk 20:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - as I've said on the talk page, I mistyped the date - though it's still a month out from the NYT, so I've left the citation needed tag. Dsp13 00:43, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This comment

Please do not have your script call itself "this script". That makes reading and searching edit summaries much more difficult. (SEWilco 02:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks - I've raised this at Wikipedia_talk:Persondata#Half-automatic_tagging_with_persondata-tool - hopefully the scriptwriter Dr pda can change this. Dsp13 09:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Harold Bloom

I've reverted your change to Harold Bloom since I can find no news reports of his death. Could you please add a source if you readd it. We have to be very careful with edits to biographies of living people.-130.216.191.182 03:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Notability of Gonzague Truc

A tag has been placed on Gonzague Truc, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. —68.239.79.97 00:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC) Thanks for letting me know: I'd contest speedy delete, but I see someone else has already removed your tag. Dsp13 09:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Journals

I've answered on my page. There is a long and inconclusive earlier discussion about this, and the present situation is a compromise. (I see we have some other library things to talk about,but that a little later. This problem is enough for now.)DGG 01:26, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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