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Hey, I really need your help keeping an image on wikipedia. I have images that User:Meleese keeps trying to delete for no apparent reason. If you have time, please check File:TodayShow.jpg and let me know what I need to do to keep this editor off my back. It would mean a lot to me if you could help me out here. Thanks so much!
--Screwball23talk 23:14, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
ITN footer link
The footer code had the wrong date to the previous issue, 26 instead of 25. The link will only appear if the target page exists, and it was looking in the wrong place.--ragesoss (talk) 17:44, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Sources
{{help me}} I would like to create a page about a company, but the only reference or source I have is the company website "About Us" page. Everything in my article will be derived from that page. I cannot locate any news sources, or other credible sources for this company. Will this be accepted, or will my article be deleted? Nksk1 (talk) 22:36, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
I nulled the template because it seems to be asking a specific user. However, the answer is likely that the company is not notable enough. W:CORP says that a company is notable if it is covered in reliable, third-party sources. fetchcomms☛ 22:38, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
Sandbox/Trial page
Hi Draeco,
In regards to not having outside sources, is there anyway I can create a trial page, or sandbox, where I can try to put in this information and see if it will be accepted? I created a few pages on different user accounts and they were deleted and marked as "self-promotion". I am not promoting this company, I simply want to write an article about it but lack the proper outside sources. All of the information that I will be writing about can be found on their company "About Us" section, however.
Also, is there any way to delete those past accounts or articles created on those accounts? Thank you for your help, as I'm new to Wikipedia!Nksk1 (talk) 17:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Adoption
Hi, Draeco. Thanks for your offer of adoption. I have read your information, and I feel you would be a good adoptive parent for me. :D So how do we proceed? Is this a formal or an informal relationship? I do have one or two questions at present.
Ok, thanks. I published this other article on Richard Egan (composer) and then received a warning about reliable sources. I put some in (though not as many or with the complete care that I did the Trebor Jay Tichenor article), but the warning still persists since the middle of 2008. I would like correct the article so that the warning is removed. Do you have any suggestions? And, is this the way we correspond? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jandris (talk • contribs) 17:31, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Ok, then, I checked out the Egan page to see what you were talking about. I think I am not in need of any more advice at this time, but I will listen to any you have to offer. Since at this time my main interest in which I also actually have a bit of expertise is ragtime, I will concentrate on a couple of articles that I think need to be written. If I need more information, I will send you a request. Thanks for adopting me.
Jandris (talk) 00:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Thanks
Just a quick message to thank you for adopting me at WP:AAU. Thanks a lot!
---- Daniel Jones (talk) 11:52, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
ITN
Great! Good luck with it. CPOV I would put in N&N, because it's an upcoming event that Wikimedians are likely to be interested in rather than outside news coverage reacting to Wikimedia projects. But if you're ever in doubt, just add it and we can shuffle things around as needed.--ragesoss (talk) 13:12, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Good enough?
I created this article and it seems that it is too short. Therefore I tried to expand it. Does it have an enough length so that the deletion template can be removed? Thanks Kangxi Emperor 康熙帝 (talk) 13:20, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
As of the History etc. It is quite hard to be written as the source itself remains unclear, it is also lacking of references as sources that know exactly about the existence of this title may have been too old to use internet, or is not concerned to write it in a book or any other media. Indonesia has a rather poor History documentation regarding titles. Kangxi Emperor 康熙帝 (talk) 16:44, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
As of Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II, I actually have planned to create a version by translating the Indonesian Wikipedia. However I still have difficulties in deciding which part has to go or not, as of recreating it from the articles on the internet, it seems that Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin is not a subject which people sees as important to be read. I will try to do it in the near future. Thanks for the advice. Kangxi Emperor 康熙帝 (talk) 16:44, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
hi and thanks
hello draeco.
thank you for adopting me.
I need some help from you. I have written an article on raymond.cc. It has been marked for deletion. i want you to help me out. can the deletion time be extended? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.99.218.183 (talk) 06:17, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
Image
How can I nominate fair-use image for deletion?--SveroH (talk) 20:48, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
i don't want to delete an image now. i just want to know how to delete image if it is needed :)--SveroH (talk) 11:18, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
Mentor Program
Thanks for the adoption. Is there anything specific I need to do to accept? I looked around, but didn't see anything on the program page.
Draeco, thank you for the offer of adoptoin, I accept.
-Bull MarketBull Market 18:36, 14 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bull Market (talk • contribs)
Wikipedia Mentor
Draeco,
Thanks for taking the time to answer my request for assistance. I'm new to Wikipedia and I'm not sure how to proceed in getting my paper published. While I'm not new to internet web page publishing, I find there is a learning curve from html coding to what Wikipedia has established as their own. I'm in the process of transcribing a book by my mother-in-law, Margaret Davis Teague, to a page I created of the same name. I'm not sure if her work in radiation biology is of any importance to anyone, but I hope that there is one researcher who might find that one answer in her work that could benefit all of us. Any assistance you can offer to have Dr. Teague's page published would be deeply appreciated. Thanking you in advance regarding this matter, I am
Sincerely yours,
Rod Viator (talk) 19:39, 14 February 2010 (UTC) Rod Viator
Jacob - - Thanks for your assistance and suggestions. Perhaps Wikipedia is not the proper place to note Dr. Teague's work on radiation biology. It could dimish the fine work on Wikipedia such as the page entitled "Coonass." Have a nice day, Rod Viator (talk) 20:47, 14 February 2010 (UTC)Rod Viator
Idiopathic Pulmonary Haemosiderosis - new Pathophysiology and Treatment
Draeco,
I know you have been of great assistance on the Idiopathic Pulmonary Haemosiderosis page, and I would like your assistance once more, either by assisting me with adding to the page, and leading me to resources that will allow me to add what I find on this disease. I have found an important article by researchers finding a DNA marker in IPH and using a new treatment to possibly ward off other complications (pulmonary fibrosis). Please let me know if you can assist me. Here is the link:
Idiopathic Pulmonary Haemosiderosis - World 1st Medical Treatment By Researchers At Queen Mary University London And University Of Leicester
Please let me know what I can do to get this important information on the page, and if it is verifiable per the Wikipedia guidelines.
Regards,
Iphnet Iphnet (talk) 05:23, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
Helo Draeco
Dear Draeco,
I noticed you have offered to adopt me. i am willing to learn and i would really love it if you adopt me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Muffins222 (talk • contribs) 17:15, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Just a note: I was asked to adopt too... (see my talk) but it seems like Draeco has it taken care of :). Airplanemantalk 20:17, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
We have been making a lot of progress with the Bolognia push, but we still need your help. Would you consider picking up another letter? ---kilbad (talk) 03:09, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
News Theme Music
Hi
Could you please flick me an email so I have your email address. I want to run some news music terms past you.
How about you just run them past me here? Besides, do I know you? - Draeco (talk) 15:27, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
New page
Hi. I'm still working on the Xpandion article, doing research. Meantime I wrote an article for another company that seems to be more widely known. I took your advice from the last article and applied it here...might have gone a bit overboard on the notability. Could you please take a look and let me know what you think?
I finally got enough into the article that I felt like making a go of publishing it. It has some obvious presentation flaws which reflect my lack of wiki programming ability.
Can you help 1) make it look more like a wiki article? I don't know how to 2) add a table for her kids names / dates of their life/death, and also 3) a table for her names (Emily has at least 10 names that refer to her in historical context). 4) I'd like anyone who searches ANY of the names to reach this page.
Thanks so much.
Also, to cross bridge when come to it, I will add a picture when I find it; there is one at a museum I am seeking a copy.
Thanks,
Bull MarketBull Market 09:07, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Draeco:
Thank you for cleaning up the Emily Austin Perry article. I see you are from the UK... So was Richard Austin, the original Austin in the United States in 1638...
I will continue to add information to the article and expand to create articles about overlapping subject matter to build the total contribution as related to this era in early Texas history. So much of the materials are still not public or accessible; a lot of the history is credited to Stephen F. Austin since he's so famous, but the rigour of investigation into others of the era is comparatively limited There is a a rich history for Emily yet untold.
Question: 1) Can I interview descendants and use their statements as footnotes for what they say about what their great grandparents told them about that era (when much was not written down? 2) Can I interview and quote one or more historians (assume they have outstanding credentials?
also, I keep thinking that I have signed these notes to you but a bot says I need to do it Apologies if missing something.
-Bull MarketBull Market 18:42, 22 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bull Market (talk • contribs)
Your adoptee
I'm afraid your adoptee User:Bao Qing Tian was no innocent newcomer but the dreaded page-move vandal JarlaxleArtemis. Indef-blocked. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:39, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Adoption.
Please adopt me. It took me about five hours and numerous attempts to send you a message, I really need help with wikipedia, Im not very good with this type of thing and would graciously accept if you decided to adopt me. Here are a few questions, how do you check what people tell you and how do you make a good user page?
sincerely,
--Muffins222 (talk) 17:37, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
James Franklin Perry
Draeco:
Thank you again for editing Emily Austin Perry.
I just completed a basic framework for her husband, James Franklin Perry. It's shorter and more to the point.
It says there is a broken reference I cannot find. Can you find it? Can yo umake it look more like a wiki article? The footnotes don't presently display.
Thank you for your inclusionist perspective and for adopting me which gives me a chance to highlight parts of Texas/US History that are not yet included in Wikipedia.
My thanks for the quick adoption! Hopefully I wont annoy you too much with silly questions... I'll be playing a lot in the sandbox to try to avoid that though.
I really didn't have an issue with the article, we've had a few folks campaigning forever to have a Canadian victory in the article for the War of 1812 that has been in all probability one editor (several sock puppets were used to support him as well) when this went to mediation what came out was so mangled that it couldn't be put in the article either and (mostly because of the intransitive nature of said editor) and so it sits to this day. I've said it over and over (I am an American by the way) that the US probably lost that one however the facts just don't support a clean win/loss no matter what we tried to do. It probably comes closest to the truth that this was a war that both sides gave up on in sheer disgust. Tirronan (talk) 05:03, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm taking an indefinite Wikibreak of several weeks to let things fall back into better proportion (with less emotion). Although I've lived in the U.S. since 1960, I was born in London of British parents, still retain U.K. citizenship and generally rooted for Great Britain or Canada when they competed with U.S. players in the recent Winter Olympics (not that I have anything against the latter). So my views and activities on this question are not due to my being a "U.S. editor". I'm not an expert in the history of the War of 1812, but I tended to the view that the war was a draw or a stalemate, rather than a clear victory for either side. The fact that the Canadians held off the Americans is roughly balanced by a successful American resistance to the British Empire. No one gained anything of tangible substance from the war, although the Indians, war casualties, refugees, conscripts, merchants, taxpayers and owners of land that became battlefields lost much. My contribution to the Mediation was mainly editorial, trying to synthesise and clarify what those who'd read the detailed histories could agree on, so that it made more sense to an ordinary lay reader. —— Shakescene (talk) 19:58, 5 March 2010 (UTC)
Bminer
thanks for adopting me im trying to currently become an admin but it seams im probaly going to need alot more expierance. im hoping that you could help. ill leave a message any time i need any advice or if i have any questions Bminer1397 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bminer1397 (talk • contribs) 18:10, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
thanks i will. im currently trying hard to become an admin but i need alot more expieriance since im new. Bminer1397 (talk) 18:17, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Rollback Question
Hi Draeco,
I've been doing more digging, reading, research, etc, and just noticed I've apparently been granted rollback rights. I'm not sure by who as I didnt see any message letting me know.
On the pages I view diffs or history of, I get these choices: (rollback (AGF)) (rollback) (rollback (VANDAL)) - so I am presuming someone granted me rollback rights? Or is that possibly automatic because I have done a certain number of vandal reverts?
Hopefully, I've been using the tools (and the warning tools) correctly - but now that I realize that this is not a feature very editor has access to (assuming the rollback page is up to date), I was wondering if you have the time to peruse my contributions list you could give me some sorta idea if I have messed up or am properly using them.
Hmmm... I think I get it... I guess those are separate but similar tools in Twinkle? Should I be using them in the fashion that I am then or be waiting till the hopeful day I get rollback actually added to my profile?
I did not write the Article on Stephen F. Austin, but I was tired of seeing requests for references and some undocumented information. I have made edits to that page and indicated in the discussion area I would ask you to review my work there. Would you please take a look at the edits I made? Thanks.
Which I have been uninvolved in (in any fashion that I can recall), but thought at this point someone needs to stop it. I wouldnt even have a clue how to report this one... an RFC seems the most likely first candidate?
I did an article on Stephen S. Perry. It's fairly short, would you take a look at it and see if it is OK. I used one rather long quote from a card catalog to describe what Stephen donated to the University of Texas because it's extensive-- 13+ feet (over 4 meters of manuscripts)...
No problem, I generally am not looking for stuff all the time, but when I saw it on the news, I did a little more research. Sadads (talk) 12:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Aye, I sometimes check to see if In the News is empty and I try to help out when it is. Feel free to ask for a helping hand if you're ever stuck again. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 19:06, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks!
I definitely will accept your adoption of me! You seem like a cool guy from your user page :)--YutsiTalk/Contributions 14:38, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Richard Austin
Hey Draeco:
Can you make Richard Austin go directly to the disambiguation page, instead of one fellow monopolizing a larger category, with second fiddle to a disambiguation page?
Thanks,
Bull Market. Bull Market 17:28, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
You have a valid argument, I'll do it. - Draeco (talk) 22:38, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi!
Thanks for your offer to adopt me! I'll accept. Do you know how to change the userbox to show I've been adopted? Rin tin tin 1996 (talk) 20:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I don't want to be annoying and bug you a lot with stupid questions (something I believe I am doing now...urgh), but I was wondering about signatures. For instance, how do I make mine more attractive, with colors and a different design? Sorry to bug you. Homework (talk) 16:33, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Ok so I formatted it differently...is it to distracting? Homeworktalkpage 14:44, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the encouragement
Draeco:
Thanks for the encouragement! I've taken it upon myself to make edits to some rather frequently read pages... even if tiny edits, and I've been undone once in the page "wiki" (the main article), but several other minor edits there still stand. I'm taking a short respite from the biographies as I have some other obligations too! Will keep chugging.
Bull Market 06:09, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
