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DYK for Doug Manchester

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Victor Orsatti

After you cast your "delete" vote regarding Victor Orsatti, the article has been substantially updated and revised. Given the extensive coverage Orsatti received in the mainstream press over the years, it appears that he does, in fact, pass WP:GNG. This may or may not cause you to alter your view, but you may want to take a second look. Cbl62 (talk) 02:23, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Meetup in San Diego?

Hi MelanieN, I am Sebastian Wallroth from Berlin, Germany, board member of Wikimedia Deutschland. I am visiting San Diego from February 3rd to February 8th, happily invited to a wedding. I would like to meet Wikipedians. Is there a chance for a Wiki Meetup in San Diego during the first week in February? --Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 15:24, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the DYK nomination review; it made me smile. It's nice to receive positive comments from a fellow WikiGnome. ;-) Cheers! --Marchije•^speak/_peek 23:42, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Proofread for me?

Can you pleas proofread this article for me? Your help is really appreciated. (t) Josve05a (c) 22:24, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Happy to, Josve. I've made a few minor corrections, but it didn't need much in terms of proofreading. I have some suggestions about the article as a whole and I'll make them on the article's talk page, OK? --MelanieN (talk) 22:37, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Sure, but it does not have a talk page...(t) Josve05a (c) 22:48, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Oops, I forgot that at AfC, the article IS the talk page.OK, I'll make my suggestions here. (Personally I have never liked the AfC process.) 1) After the movie's name in the lead sentence, provide an English translation of what it means. 2) Your "plot" section sounds more like a teaser (the vague description provided by the movie's producers to get you to see the film) rather than a plot summary. If you look at some movie articles here, they usually give an actual description of what happens in the movie. (Also, you'll notice that I changed that section to a single paragraph. Wikipedia doesn't much like one-sentence paragraphs. You should probably make "production" into a single paragraph also.) 3) To prove that the film is "notable" (WP:N) we like to see something about the reaction to the movie - something like a newspaper review, or information about how it did at the box office. Can you provide anything like that? Good luck and we'll talk again. --MelanieN (talk) 22:50, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

As for 1&2, I am working on it, but for #3, the first footnote is a review from the Swedish Newspaper Göteborgs-Posten. (t) Josve05a (c) 22:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

OK, good. Can you provide a one-sentence summary of that review, under a section called "Reception" or "Critical response"? Take a look at some other articles about recent movies to see how that is done, for example Saving Mr. Banks or Frozen (2013 film). Or for a less elaborate example, Bends (film) or The Christmas Candle. --MelanieN (talk) 23:01, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

But I can't give a quote, since it is in Swedish, right? How shold I do? -(t) Josve05a (c) 23:04, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Paraphrase it. Mats Johnson of the Goteborgs-Posten described it as a "sweet family comedy" and praised Per Morberg's acting. (Obviously I am making that up since I can't read the review.) --MelanieN (talk) 23:09, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

So, then 1&3 is done. Just the plot left. I will have to do that on tomorrow. (t) Josve05a (c) 23:18, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Excellent! I did change the "reviews" paragraph so that each review was in a separate sentence. That makes the grammar simpler and makes it easier to read. --MelanieN (talk) 23:26, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Also, before or after we take it to articlespace, it needs some categories. I suggest "2013 films" and "Swedish films" for a start. --MelanieN (talk) 23:40, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Oh, and I think it's worth pointing out that the intellectually disabled characters in the film are played by actors from the Glada Hudik Theatre (Glada Hudik-teatern), a theatre group with mentally handicapped actors. I see you mentioned the theater in the lead, but IMO it's worth an explanation. --MelanieN (talk) 23:46, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Response

I saw your message referring to recent changes I made to Carl DeMaio's and Scott Peters wiki. I don't work for either campaign, but freely admit I'm a conservative. I believe I'm completely within my rights to make edits to their pages as long as it's completely substantiated by the facts, which the links I provided did. I recently moved to San Diego and think that both of their articles on your website are lacking both on substance and quality. I plan on adding additional information over the coming months that will be 100% backed up by the facts and am happy to publicly attach my name behind the changes, and stand behind them. Would be more than happy to discuss this with you further since I have immense respect for Wikipedia, but believe much more information should be provided to the voters on both of the candidates in this election. And like I said, while I certainly have partisan identification like everyone else I will only be relying on the facts like I'm sure you do when you make edits. Thank you

VickieJR (talk) 21:02, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, VickieJR, and thanks for registering for a username. I think you will enjoy editing for Wikipedia. Substantive material which is backed up by Reliable Sources is always welcome here. I am not a partisan of either candidate; my concern is Wikipedia, and in particular maintaining its neutral point of view. There are other Wikipedians monitoring these articles for the same reasons. I trust you understand that your edits here may be subject to change by others (always providing the changes are in line with Reliable Sources and a Neutral Point of View). I look forward to working with you to expand these and other articles. --MelanieN (talk) 00:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Colby Fire

Hello, I wanted to let you know that there's a California wildfire stub that may need some love. --DarTar (talk) 03:50, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. You've already done an excellent job with this article, and I deleted the prod. I'll see if I can expand it any. --MelanieN (talk) 18:16, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Don't edit others user page

Editing others User page is strictly prohibited as you haven't got the permission to edit the page without the users concern. User pages are not a part of encyclopedia so you cannot edit it . Before editing anybodies user page please ask the User once. And the service awards are not the real awards they are just imaginary, which was created in 2006. So, never ever edit others user page without giving them a intimation and never delete others Wiki–service award tags. If any one is not responding the warning messages then you must wait for 1 week till you start editing others user page. You must cooporate with other users. Thank you. Rudra john cena (talk) 12:07, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Rudra john cena, I am sorry if you were offended, but I did find it necessary to make some edits to your user page. Earlier I commented [1] on your talk page that some things should be removed from your user page, and that if you didn't do it, other editors would. As I said, I hesitated to do it, but it became necessary. BTW I was not the only person, and not the first, to make changes in your user page. What I did: I altered your reported level of English ability to "advanced", since multiple people had commented that you do not have "professional" level English skills. And I removed your address and phone number for your own protection; you should never post that information online.

Please see Wikipedia:User pages#Ownership and editing of user pages. You are incorrect when you say that editing other people's user page is "strictly prohibited". Although such editing is "usually avoided", it is occasionally done "to address significant concerns". Our policy says, "Traditionally Wikipedia offers wide latitude to users to manage their user space as they see fit. However, pages in user space belong to the wider community. They are not a personal homepage, and do not belong to the user. They are part of Wikipedia, and exist to make collaboration among editors easier."

As for service awards, they are not "imaginary", they are earned - and you only make yourself look bad by making false claims about yourself. Thanks for your interest in helping Wikipedia, and I look forward to seeing your future contributions here. --MelanieN (talk) 18:37, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

• Rudra john cena (talk · contribs) is most definitely wrong. While contributing wikipedians are given generous leeway on what they may put on their userpage, they do not own their userpage, and may not post false or misleading information, for example. If after being spoken to, the user may find himself headed for a WP:BLOCK for disruption. If the userpage content is ambiguous as to being misleading, it can be discussed at WP:MfD. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:12, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Calm down, SmokeyJoe, this situation is nowhere near that serious. The user page has been fixed, and the user is new enough not to understand user page policy, which we have now explained to him. Case closed. --MelanieN (talk) 22:24, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Very good. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:37, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello! (Articles I wrote or expanded that were featured on the Wikipedia front page with "Did you know...?" items: Bejun Mehta (586 views))
I saw this in your talk page but may i know how you find the number of views? :) Andrew Eugene^Discuss 17:39, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello, Andrew Eugene, and thanks for your note. If you click on the "view history" link above an article, in addition to listing all the changes that have been made to that article, it offers several buttons at the top of the page. One of them is "page view statistics". Click on that and it will show you the number of times the page has been viewed on a day-by-day basis. The information is displayed as a bar graph; to know the exact number of views on a given day, place your mouse over that day's bar. If you want to know the page views for an earlier month (say, the month the article appeared as a "Did you know..."? item), you can choose that month from the dropdown menu (format: 201208 is August 2012). Any more questions, just ask! --MelanieN (talk) 17:51, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Stanford page's lead

Hi! Sorry to disturb. I saw your edit summary on the page of Stanford University, and I understand what you meant. However, I think both the academic Schools' organization and the acceptance rate belongs to the original third section which is the academic profile in the intro. A new discussion has been just launched on the talk page and you may want to have a look on it. Thanks! Biomedicinal (contact) 15:41, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

History of CA

Thanks. I was going to try to get around to sorting that out later once I saw that the IP had the correct date for the Alamo, but you beat me to it, and well done, too!— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 19:12, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Eva Haller

This is my first article on Wikipedia, but I did A LOT of research for it, to avoid this specifically. Although the only reference that you said was trustworthy was her late husband’s obit, there are article in the page from Forbes, the Huffington Post, Jane Fonda’s blog, University websites, and many more. I’ve been using Wikipedia for years, and I’ve seen tons of people with less ‘notability’ than this woman. Understandably, some of the information from these references came directly from her, but some absolutely did not. I invite you to go and read the two books I cited, and the book that comes up when you search for her via the book database on the AfD page. I read them in their entirety.

To me, there’s also a principle of the matter. People from her generation, especially that did a lot before the Internet age, don’t have an extensive online record of their life. I went through all of the information that could be found online, which is extensive and consistent, and THEN more external sources to make sure that this is a reliable article.

For many people who aren’t necessarily at celebrity status, like this woman, there is no one place that lists everything that they’ve done, except for Wikipedia. If she isn’t ‘notable,’ there are thousands of other pages that should be taken down. She is the Board Chairwoman, at 83, for the largest non-profit in Canada, Free The Children. She's been around since their inception… and because of their work incorporating all of society into a child's education, their success is used as a model for other charities and people trying to build in Third World countries!

She’s a Nazi survivor, philanthropist, and change maker. Three of her projects have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (one is Free The Children). She is not only notable, but she is significant. She’s made much more of a change through being on these Boards, it seems like, than you or I will probably ever make in our lives! We need to keep a record of these people that have helped create and shape society so that when generations upon generations after us go back to look and find out who was responsible, the record will accurately stand!

If we write her off, then we are essentially going to be writing off an entire generation of people's information that have limited resources from which we can research… They had the unfortunate experience to be born before the Internet age… what we are telling them is that their accomplishments and contribution to society did not matter. The purpose of Wikipedia is to be an encyclopedia to record all the important people and events that we would find throughout history, not just the ones who happen to be fortunate enough to be born in the Internet age!

This is a woman who has been given awards by the United Nations, AARP, Forbes, and many others, at the very least, that is notable.

Let’s find a way to make her page stay. You have to realize, that when you say we should delete it, you’re essentially writing her life off as not notable enough to be remembered and unbiasedly reflected upon on Wikipedia, based of off a number of reliable sources. United191 (talk) 22:45, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

I hear you, United191. I could tell she was a remarkable woman, and I'd love to find a way to keep the article. In fact I enjoy rescuing articles when possible, and I'll look a little harder to see if I can find some additional sources. I see that you put these same comments at the discussion, and that's good. That's where the decision will be made. Whether it stays or goes will be up to the consensus of the experienced editors who comment there. Good luck with it! --MelanieN (talk) 23:14, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

By the way, if it looks like the discussion is heading toward "delete", you could ask to have the article put into your private space - your userspace. That means it is removed from the encyclopedia but it is available to you. You (and others if you want) can work on the article, improve it, and later put it back into Wikipedia if it has been significantly improved. The way to get that is to ask that the closing administrator "userfy" it to you. If it looks as if the result is likely to be "delete" (it's not to that point yet) you can post a note in the discussion asking to have it userfied, or you can wait until the decision is made and then ask the closing administrator on their talk page; they almost always grant such requests. --MelanieN (talk) 23:26, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks very much, Melanie. Even if we do have to make some edits, I want to find any way possible to keep her here. Through doing all this research on her, it's pretty clear that she deserves it! I'm hoping you can help with making sure we can do that. She definitely does meet the criteria for [[WP:BIO}}, as I just explained in the talk page... I think we just need to figure out what to keep. United191 (talk) 05:32, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Richard Strozzi-Heckler

Hi MelanieN - An article I wrote has been nominated for deletion and seeing your interest in rescuing articles I would love feedback from your more experienced perspective if you have the time. The editor who nominated it cited a lack of 3rd party reliable sources in the references to establish noteworthiness. This was my first article and I was very careful to follow wikipedia guidelines in writing it. If I made a mistake I'm happy to learn from it and start again with something else but the editor who nominated it has been very vague and somewhat dismissive as far as clarifying what is objectionable about the sources I've used and it gives me the impression of someone having a problem with the subject just because he or she is unfamiliar with it. After putting much effort into creating a quality article, this is discouraging. Would you be willing to look at the article and its sources to give me some unbiased feedback? Many thanks,SympatheticResonance (talk) 04:42, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello, User:SympatheticResonance, and thanks for your note. I took a quick note at your article and also did some additional searching. I'm afraid don't see any way to improve or rescue the article. You have done a fine job writing the article, but the problem is not with your writing; it's with the subject himself. The rule for an article to be here is that the subject must be notable, which is defined at WP:BIO as having received significant coverage from multiple reliable sources. You supply one such source: the Wall Street Journal article about his work with the Marines is significant coverage from a Reliable Source. But the guidelines require significant coverage from MULTIPLE sources, and IMO that's the only such coverage in the Richard article. There are books mentioned, but there's no way to know what they say so they don't help to establish notability. At the Strozzi Institute article I found a Huffington Post blog about him, but there is considerable dispute at Wikipedia about whether HP blogs can be considered to be Reliable Sources, so that is shaky. You may feel that Mr. Strozzi-Heckler is famous or notable, but the multiple independent reliable sources to prove it don't seem to be there. Frankly, I would tend to say the same about the Strozzi Institute article.

I see that you are pretty much the only author on both of these articles, and that almost all of your Wikipedia activity has been devoted to them. I understand that you have spent a great deal of time (more than two years) trying to develop and maintain these two articles, and that you are upset at the idea that this one might be deleted. But Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia, and it has to have standards for inclusion if it is to maintain its credibility as an encyclopedia. In my opinion Mr. Strozzi-Heckler does not meet those standards and the article may well get deleted. (That decision will be made by consensus at the discussion.) One thing I would suggest is that you make a personal copy of this article, references and all, either offline or in your own userspace. Copy it from the edit window so that you get all the formatting. Then if it gets deleted, you will have access to the information, and you could merge it into the Strozzi Institute article to make that article stronger. --MelanieN (talk) 05:27, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

• Thank you for taking some time to look at this and write back to me, Melanie. Your feedback was very helpful. If the article doesn't fit here that's useful to know - it's makes a difference to hear that from someone who has given it some attention and consideration. I'll see if I can post some links to the Google Books previews of reference sources on the AfD page so people can read what they say and leave it up to the community. Thanks again!SympatheticResonance (talk) 05:54, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Request

Sure. I have added the article to my watchlist.

Couple of things: a) let me know when you're back! I now try to avoid articles where they have great editors and don't need me! b) I am not as dutiful as I once was. I may skip days, but will try to keep up. c) I normally lag by several days, hoping that someone else will rv the vandal first (usually happens too!)

Enjoy your vacation! Student7 (talk) 17:59, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. For the record, I DID check in several times and noted that it was being well handled and didn't need my intervention. Hope things went well. Student7 (talk) 00:51, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Have a look

Hi there, can you have a look on this user: Haseeb Ahmed Malik 789 he has repeatedly uploaded all copyrighted images without proper attributions. We should warn him. please see his contributions. Jim Cartar (talk) 16:22, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, User:Jim Cartar. I know very little about copyright issues and I am not an administrator, so I am not able to deal with this issue myself. I will see if I can call this to someone's attention that knows more about this than I do. You were right to look for help from more experienced users - rather than trying to warn him yourself. --MelanieN (talk) 17:02, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

OK, I passed your question along to an admin who has lots of experience with files and images. --MelanieN (talk) 17:12, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

I am hesitating to warn him as I am also a new user that is why I told you to do. Thanks for taking actions. I will continue to bring issues into the notice of experienced users. Jim Cartar (talk) 00:18, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

I have seen that you have "Autopatrolled" rights. That mean you have given Wikipedia some good articles and have good experience on creating them. So can you take a look on this article which is actually a draft waiting for review The Early Nationalists of India (Moderates) and tell if there is still issues left to be fixed or if I can nominate it for DYK after it passes the review. Jim Cartar (talk) 00:51, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Feel free to ask again whenever you see a situation that you think needs action. If I can't handle it, I'll find someone who can. I am very busy in Real Life but will try to find time to look at your article in the next day or two. --MelanieN (talk) 03:27, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Okay. :) Jim Cartar (talk) 06:43, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Clara Breed

Thanks MelanieN! I just added a bit more information and I would love to have Clara Breed nominated for Did you know...?Petercannon usf (talk) 01:30, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

MelanieN I did some of the edits you requested and added some electronic sources. Let me know how it is now. If I need to do more let me know. There is not much on the Serra system, however, except what I added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petercannon usf (talk • contribs) 20:45, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

MelanieN thank you so much! I am so excited about this and have told everyone I know about it. You are so helpful and a real asset to the Wikipedia community. You're right, I love doing biographies, especially about librarians. Thank you for the tips. I will definitely follow them to make my pages better. You are the best.Petercannon usf (talk) 01:12, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

This is awesome MelanieN! Thank you so much for making this possible!Petercannon usf (talk) 18:35, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Infinite

Infinite thanks for your persistent assistance, support and advices. Actually I have send you a talkback when I found myself helpless. Due to the blocking, I cannot even communicate with any other user by for help. When I found that no one is responding after mentioning there names, (mainly:You, Stfg and Anna) my fear of losing another account made me more breathless. After waiting for few minutes, I decided to send a email to Anna (Actually trying to contact you first but you haven't provided any email). 30 mins passed no reply came. At that time thousands of thoughts started creating grief feelings (even I thought you all are ignoring me). You already know that you are one of my best friends here in Wiki, so I give it a last try. Quickly logged out, came to your talk page, asked for help. Then again logged in and found two notifications from stfg. Both the messages made me happy again at the fact that some one is there, who really cares. After few hour you too replied which made me belief that you both are true friends. I don't know if you both think me your friend or not. But I can gladly say that I have supporting friends like you. :) Thank you again. Your true friend. Jim Cartar (talk) 19:43, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome, User:Jim Cartar. I did see your talkback notice but I deleted it from my page, because you should not have been posting anywhere other than your own talk page while you were blocked. I understand your concern. You panicked when you found yourself blocked. But you need to be more patient in expecting responses from people here. Many of us are in very different time zones than you - we may even be asleep - and all of us have "lives" outside of Wikipedia, so we are not necessarily here online at the moment you try to contact us. When you mention us anywhere, we do receive a notice, so "talkback" notices are not really necessary anymore. (Talkback goes back to the days before the automatic notification was introduced.) As I said on your talk page, you do have people you can turn to when you need advice or help, and I am one of them. Hang in there and take the advice people keep giving you: create content, edit the encyclopedia. That doesn't necessarily mean creating new articles. IMO the best way to get comfortable at Wikipedia is to make small edits to existing articles. Anyone can do that, and you don't need anyone's permission. Your edits will improve the encyclopedia - and if someone reverts your edit, you haven't lost anything. --MelanieN (talk) 20:02, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

"Panicked", yes that was what happened. I know time zone matters even now every alive things in my time zone i.e. 5.5+ GMT were in deep sleep except me. Okay I will try to improve with minor edits. But I also like to create articles. But as you said I will follow advices and try not to get my edits reverted. But are you telling me to not to create any article ? —Jim Cartar (talk) 20:29, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Certainly you can create articles! I know that you have at least one article at AfC right now. But, as you have found, the AfC process is slow and sometimes frustrating. It can take weeks or longer to get your article reviewed. Meanwhile, you want to be doing things. So you can make an edit to an existing article, and it takes effect immediately. No waiting, no frustration. So I would suggest that you do some of both. You are eager to help us improve Wikipedia, and that's good. You can do that by creating articles AND by improving existing articles.

Where to find articles to improve? You can simply read articles of interest to you and see if anything needs correcting or improving. Or you can choose articles from Category:Articles needing cleanup - or if you want to focus on articles about India, look at WikiProject India articles needing cleanup. Suppose you choose the article Basanti Devi College. I see that it has some bad grammar, incomplete sentences and so on; you could fix some of those problems.

From that cleanup list at WikiProject India, you might (for example) decide to work on articles that are orphans - that means articles that are not linked to, from any other Wikipedia articles. If you create one or more links to that article from other Wikipedia articles, you can delete the tag at the top of the page that says "orphan". For an example, take a look at the article 2006 Mangalore riots. It is labeled as an orphan, and you can confirm that it is an orphan by clicking on "what links here" under the "tools" menu on the left side of the page; you see links but none of them are from Wikipedia articles. So you go to the article Bajrang Dal and add a sentence about the riots under the "controversies" section. Include a wikilink to "2006 Mangalore riots". Then go back to the "2006 Mangalore riots" page, verify that it now has a link from "Bajrang Dal", and delete the "orphan" tag from the article. Presto! You have just solved a problem and helped Wikipedia! This is the kind of thing I mean when I say "improve existing articles". Ask if you have questions! --MelanieN (talk) 22:51, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

P.S. I'm not going to ping you (that means put in your username so that you get notified) every time I post to you here. I think you have this page on your Watchlist, and besides we are involved in an ongoing conversation. --MelanieN (talk) 23:04, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes, your talk page is on my watchlist. I have started improving existing articles especially orphaned, and gardenwall articles. I have deleted the orphan tag from 2006 Mangalore riots after linking it with Bajrang Dal. And will start copyediting Basanti Devi College shortly.

By the way my draft is still now waiting for review. I'm now really getting frustrated. User:Sitush said he will review it. But 4days passed and no sign of review has been seen till now. I want to take it for DYK but no one is reviewing it. So, I request you to review it. I don't have choice. Please do it for me friend. And you can make the needed changes require. If you can take it to DYK and if it passes then you will have one more article on your DYK list. And similarly I will have my first DYK article. You did some great job in Clara Breed, I request to do the same with my draft. Thanks. — Jim Cartar (talk) 14:48, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

As everyone keeps telling you: AfC is a slow and frustrating process. It can take weeks or months. Four days is nothing. The system is very backlogged, and the people who review those articles have many things on their to-do list. The article will get reviewed eventually, you have to be patient. If it does get accepted, you will be able to nominate it for DYK then. In the meantime, there are lots of things to do here at Wikipedia. --MelanieN (talk) 14:54, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Okay.

I have seen some one who claims Hi I'm the mobile product manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. in his userpage. I don't know if any such type of product manager really exist or not. So I want to confirm if he is telling the truth or not. You can see that user here. [2] please verify. If he is lying then we have to take the issue on WP:AIN. Jim Cartar (talk) 17:04, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

I see no reason to doubt him. The initials (WMF) after his username are used only by WikiMedia Foundation employees, writing in their official capacity. However, since you asked, I checked a list of WikiMedia employees, and sure enough, he is the mobile product manager. You do ask the strangest questions! --MelanieN (talk) 18:22, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Ohh. I didn't know that WMF employees use that postfix. Actually I found his userpage and talkpage so simple like a new user that I started doubting him. Sorry. Jim Cartar (talk) 18:32, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

That's OK. Asking me was the right thing to do. When you wonder about things like this, always ask me or one of your other advisors; never go public with it yourself. --MelanieN (talk) 18:54, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Hmm. Okay.  :) — Jim Cartar (talk) 20:12, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks - that was fast! --MelanieN (talk) 01:26, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

4 min? I say: "Not fast enough!" (t) Josve05a (c) 01:30, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

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Dang it! I was just posting to say that I beat you this time, and edit conflict revealed that you beat me - again! 0;-D Gotta hand it to you, you are quick! --MelanieN (talk) 02:13, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

(I suppose I could always be a little more careful about brackets...) --MelanieN (talk) 02:14, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

That's one solution. As the Swedish saying: "What you don't have in the head, you'll need to have in the legs." (t) Josve05a (c) 02:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

LOL! My husband's family has a very similar saying: "If you don't use your head, you use your feet." --MelanieN (talk) 02:20, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Might be the same, I just translated from Swedish to English as best as I could. Coincident? I think not! (t) Josve05a (c) 02:22, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Most likely the same saying. My husband's family is Norwegian - close enough? --MelanieN (talk) 02:31, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Swedish, Danish, Norwegians (SCANDINAVIANS) are all the same. We share almost 60% of the same language. (Exceptions for different dialects) (t) Josve05a (c) 02:34, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Notability (people)

Thanks for fixing/completing my revert, MelanieN.--Bbb23 (talk) 02:28, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Some one who reverts

Look at this guy [3]. This user repeatedly reverts other users work without any reason or without following guidelines. Some of the other editors (including me) also told him about this reverting issues. I think he/she should be adviced by any experienced one, to not revert edits like this. Jim Cartar (talk) 12:08, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

It's true he was wrong to restore the orphan tag you deleted. But he accepted your correction and then added another link. I checked a bunch of his edits and most of them are correct and helpful. IMO he is a productive editor who spends his time here making small improvements to articles. In less than a year he has made more than 3,000 edits, almost all of them to articles. Rather than warning him, I would suggest you follow his example - to spend more time improving the encyclopedia and less time worrying about what other users are doing. Compare his edit record to yours and you'll see what I mean.

I see that you have fixed some orphans and that's good. When you add a link to an article, it would be better to put the link into the text, rather than under "see also" which doesn't provide any context. For example, instead of adding "See also Advance Gold" to the "Jeff Berwick" article, you could add a sentence saying "He is on the board of directors of [[Advance Gold]]." In any case, "Advance Gold" was not an orphan; it already had links to it from half a dozen articles.[4] So you could have deleted the "orphan" tag from Advance Gold without adding anything to Jeff Berwick; just use an edit summary like "Not an orphan". You will find that a lot of articles are like this, where the orphan tag is wrong and can simply be deleted. --MelanieN (talk) 15:37, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I will and he has an average of 11 edits per day. And I have more or less 15. After 10 months and 11 days. I'm going to have 4650 edits if everything remains perfect. And I will try more to contribute in articles. Jim Cartar (talk) 16:11, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

WP:FLOW

Hey, have you tried WP:FLOW. It is a whole new experience of discussion and commenting. You can try how Flow works here in the developer test page. Please let me know if you liked this new method of commenting and discussion. Jim Cartar (talk) 11:23, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

I haven't looked at it. I like the current system. I know FLOW is coming but I hope it takes a while - and that somebody else works out the glitches. --MelanieN (talk) 14:47, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Hear hear to that :)) --Stfg (talk) 15:20, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

I have tested it and frankly it has dozens of problem. First of all we cannot see the differences between two edits. Secondly there is no undo to revert any post. When we comment there, we cannot even put our custom edit summary. Some times this system creates a confusion between reply and comment. Only an admin can delete comments, other editors can only hide them. There are more such issues raised here by others. I want to put this issues on public but I'm afraid to do. Even I'm confused how one can archive the older topics, none of the existing bots might work there. Another possible problem maybe with "add new sections", currently we put our topics at the bottom of the page, but here the topics were going to be posted at the top of the page.

Some users think that it will be a good change for Wikipedia, It will look something like facebook (If you have ever used facebook then you have noticed that the system used there to comment is very similar to FLOW). I totally agree with you @MelanieN but some consensus were going on in some Wikiprojects to call Quiddity (WMF) for the implementation of FLOW in there Noticeboards and discussion pages. What do you and Stfg think. Is it a good idea to implement FLOW now?. Jim Cartar (talk) 18:56, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

They're not asking us. They already know that established Wikipedians may not like the new system. They are going to implement this anyhow, because they think it will be more intuitive and user-friendly for new users. I do hope that it gets thoroughly beta-tested and introduced gradually (unlike the disastrous introduction of the VisualEditor last year). Blessings on any projects that are willing to be the guinea pigs. Personally I'm not volunteering. --MelanieN (talk) 19:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately, someone (I will not tell the name) has proposed the plan to implement FLOW in this Project (willing to be a guinea pig). I have voted it support initailly but now I'm going to oppose. Jim Cartar (talk) 20:14, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Clara Breed

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:47, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Thank you so much for all your help in rescuing Clara Breed and making it possible for the whole world to see her courageous story. Our mission has been to rescue famous librarians from being lost to history. You made a difference.Petercannon usf (talk) 16:04, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

I enjoyed helping with this. But hey, you wrote the article - and it didn't need rescuing, it was fine. Anyhow I'm glad I was able to help shine a spotlight on this remarkable woman. BTW one thing I noted in one of the references, although it isn't in the article and probably shouldn't be: she didn't appear to get into any trouble or suffer any retaliation for her strongly expressed support for the Japanese Americans in this case. In fact she was promoted. My hunch is that there were a lot of people who agreed with her, but didn't have the nerve to say so, or the dedication to do something to help the victims. I'm glad I stumbled across this article while it was new enough for DYK. (You linked to it from a page on my Watchlist.) If you need any help with similar articles in the future, just let me know. --MelanieN (talk) 16:16, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

BTW if you like userboxes (some people insist that the plural is userboxen) you can now add this one to your user page: {{Template:User DYK|1}} --MelanieN (talk) 16:22, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! I would love for your help in the future. I will definitely follow my new Wiki-Sherpa's lead. Thanks for all the advice. BTW, is the counter broken or did we get over 8,000 visits. That's what it says on my end. Seems high.Petercannon usf (talk) 02:04, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

WOW!!! Seems high is right - that's one for the record books! It will get listed in the DYK Stats (when they get around to it), as is done with any DYK that exceeds 5,000 views. My counter show 7,324 views on March 1, plus another 377 on Feb. 28. I don't know how they will break that down, because it depends on what the date was per "Universal time" (what we used to call Greenwich time). Anyhow, that is a fabulous response - the most viewed DYK I have ever been associated with. Congratulations! --MelanieN (talk) 03:21, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Not going to be present

I have seen your messages on my talk page. Thank you for your helpful comments on AfD. I contribute by mobile phone i.e. (Wikipedia vs small screen) which creates problem while previewing pages. That is why I have to save - check - edit - save.

BTW I'm going to be offline for the next 24 days (due to my exams) so I was wondering if you can do the things that you have mentioned on my talkpage i.e. Inline citation etc. And if you don't mind can you put my AfC draft on your watchlist so that if it passes the review then you can nominate it for DYK on my absense. Meanwhile if there is any very important news for me then you can send me an email - rev.wedderburn@live.com else you can leave me a message on my talk page which I'm going to reply after my exams. Thank you again. Please let me know if you can do this. I will be active only for next few hours. Jim Cartar (talk) 12:10, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Will do. I see your problem. Posting from a phone does limit what you can do here. BTW I will be AFC (Away From Computer) for a while myself, starting the end of this week. --MelanieN (talk) 14:41, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Jim Cartar (talk) 15:23, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

A cup of hot coffee to Welcome you back. Jim Carter (talk) 07:36, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! --MelanieN (talk) 21:31, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Your resolution on Mira Mesa being changed back to misinformation

Hi Melanie, my name is Julia Schriber and I am a president of the Sorrento Valley Town Council. You have earned my great respect when you found a compromise on a Mira Mesa neighborhood article. Although neither side got exactly what they wanted, everything in your resolution article was factual.

I would like to ask for your help again. The Mira Mesa article was edited to take it back to misrepresenting the facts and to claim Sorrento Valley as just a part of Mira Mesa. It was also done under the sign in name JSchriber, which implicates me in making the edits. In addition, the Sorrento Valley neighborhood article was also edited to in effect shrink Sorrento Valley to a small area by the train tracks. As a partial party and to avoid bickering that happened last time (my hubby Schriber participated in that), I am hesitant to make any edits. I would greatly appreciate your help and advice on how to proceed. JuliaSchriber (talk) 01:16, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I do have those articles on my watchlist, so I'm surprised I missed the changes; it must have been when I was traveling. I'll take a look and see what's going on. --MelanieN (talk) 01:21, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

OK, I agree with you. The changes to the Mira Mesa article were in contradiction to the hard-won consensus on the talk page, and I have reverted them all. I see that changes were also made to the Sorrento Valley and Sorrento Mesa articles, but they have already been reverted. (It occurs to me that we just had community planning group elections; I wonder if this particular turf war breaks out in connection with those elections?) Thanks and keep me posted if there are further problems. --MelanieN (talk) 01:41, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Melanie. Mira Mesa Community Planing Group did not have elections this year. I am not sure why Mira Mesa is stacking a claim to Sorrento Valley and Sorrento Mesa. We are trying hard to keep our identity, but it has not been easy. I also wanted to let you know that I posted a few sentences on the "talk" part of the Mira Mesa page. I had to assert that I had not made the edits even though my name was used. I am so sorry this mess is spilling out into the wikipedia pages. I will let you know if further problems occur, so the mess could be minimized. Thank you again! JuliaSchriber (talk) 04:42, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Request to find some source

Hello MelanieN, I'm here to request you something after a long time since you was AFC (Away from computer). Can you please find some sources for this AfC draft. My connection server is currently so weak that I can hardly open any web page. So I was wondering if you can do this. The draft is about an Indian village.

Your help is very much appreciated. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 08:58, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello, User:Jim Cartar! The first thing I notice on a search is that there are many villages by this name, and that a Wikipedia page called Kamalapuram already exists here, as a disambiguation page. So you need to check if the village you are writing about is one of those that already have a page. If this is a new village, you will need to change the title of your article; you can't call it Kamalapuram but will need to add the state or some other disambiguation. --MelanieN (talk) 14:31, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

I think both the villages are different. There are two villages with the same name in Andhra Pradesh. One lies in Khammam district and the other which lies in the other. Beside this, coordinates of both the villages are different. I will change the title into Kamalapuram, Khammam after moving it to mainspace. I have already added a disambiguation link at the top of the draft. So, if you can find some sources ?? Jim Carter ^(talk) 14:50, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Checked it is a new village. Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:15, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

OK, so what are you going to call the article? You can't call it Kamalapuram. --MelanieN (talk) 15:29, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Why not? I'm going to move the disambiguation page into "Kamalapuram (disambiguation)", i.e. Kamalapuram to Kamalapuram (disambiguation). So that I don't have to change the name of my article. Will it work ???. Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:41, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

No. You could only do that if your Kamalapuram was obviously the "primary topic" for that name. But it isn't. It is one of half a dozen villages, any one of which could claim the name. You have to distinguish it just as the others are distinguished. --MelanieN (talk) 15:57, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

P.S. And your plan to change the title after moving to mainspace won't work. You can't introduce an article which has the same name as an existing article. We'll have to fix the title before moving to mainspace. --MelanieN (talk) 15:59, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

So, we have to change the name from Kamalapuram to Kamalapuram, Khammam while moving it. BTW have you got any sources??. Jim Carter ^(talk) 16:22, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

I think you could change it right now - from Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kamalapuram to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kamalapuram, Khamman. (Do you know how to move an article?) That would solve that problem. You already have a couple of good sources, I will look for more. The main objection your reviewer had was not so much sources but style. I don't agree with them about some of their comments - your article does not have WP:peacock terms for example - but here are some suggestions to make it more Wikipedia-like. First, you have three sentences in the lead paragraph that don't belong there; the comments about hospitals and police should be moved to the body of the article. Also, don't use italics for the names of nearby villages and lakes. Also, information like agriculture and water supply is scattered around in different sections; let's reorganize. Based on typical city articles here I would suggest the following sections: Lead paragraph; Geography (including location and size); People (population size and characteristics); Economy (the info about agriculture and crops); Education; Infrastructure (the roads and water supply); Government. --MelanieN (talk) 16:42, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm striking my comments about the review. That was not a review of your version, but of the much earlier unimproved version. Your article does not have the problems that were referenced back then. --MelanieN (talk) 17:02, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

I added one more reference, but I'll stop for now so that you can work on the article and we don't edit-conflict. --MelanieN (talk) 16:56, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

I think you have not seen the draft history, did you? It is not my draft. I have just saved the draft from getting deleted by G13. It was in a very bad condition. It was full of WP:peacock words, I just rewritten the full draft. The draft was orginally created on 2013. Actually I'm the reviewer of this type of drafts now. I improve drafts that are on the line to get deleted. I have already improved-reviewed-and moved two articles. Muthunur and Nawanagar are the two articles which are just hours away from getting deleted. But I have improved both of them and now they are on mainspace.

BTW thanks for adding sources. User:Anne Delong, who is a AfC reviewer, who said me to save this type of endangered drafts. She was the reviewer of that draft before I started improving it. Jim Carter ^(talk) 17:23, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

I did notice the draft history, after writing the above, and I struck out my comments about the previous review. Your version is totally different and I think will easily pass review now. You might ask User:Anne Delong about how and when to move the draft to a new name. --MelanieN (talk) 17:27, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

She said on her talkpage that there is no need to inform her. I think she mean that when the draft is ready I can move it myself. I know how to move. I have already done that before. And now I'm going to move it to mainspace. Thanks for your help. Any comments?? Jim Carter ^(talk) 18:11, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

OK, I do think it's ready - except for the title. Good luck and thanks for your work to improve these salvageable articles! --MelanieN (talk) 18:18, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done The article is now on mainspace under the name Kamalapuram, Khammam. Thanks for your help. Is it ok to assess the article start class. Jim Carter ^(talk) 19:49, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Good job! Congratulations, the article looks in very good shape. Yes, I think "start" class is appropriate. --MelanieN (talk) 21:12, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much. BTW, can you please archive your talkpage i.e. this talkpage. I'm having trouble loading this page. It is too large now. My mobile phone keeps on hanging, loading large pages. You might need an archiving bot for that. Anyways, thank you again. I will contact you if I face any similar problem in future. Jim Carter ^(talk) 21:38, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder; I forget that the size of a page can be a problem. I have noticed that a lot of people move their barnstars to their userpage. I think I'll do that, it would remove a lot of bytes from this page. --MelanieN (talk) 21:53, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

So Kamalapuram, Khammam needs {{copyedit}}; An editor thought that something might be wrong with Kamalapuram, Khammam. They can't be bothered to fix it, but can rest assured that they've done their encyclopedic duty by sticking on a tag. So I feel it is better to fix the problem than to use page curation for tagging something, since nobody knows exactly what the tagging editor was worked up about.

Ironholds have tagged the page; I don't know if copyediting is needed or not, can you have a look; I mean, can you please fix the problem, if any. Jim Carter ^(talk) 06:48, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes but not for a day or two. I'm out of town. MelanieN (talk) 06:53, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

No problem. Enjoy. Jim Carter ^(talk) 07:38, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Jim, hi Melanie. I've done a copy edit on the article for you. Jim, please don't get annoyed when people tag articles like that. They are working with you to improve the encyclopedia. It's perfectly OK to ask for copy editing like that when they don't want to do it themselves for whatever reason. There's one sentence in the article that needs further attention: "According to the local governing bodies ration facility have already been started for the under poverty villagers." It isn't clear enough for me to correct the English. Does it mean that the local government provides a supply of free food for villagers below the poverty line, or something else? Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 11:12, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you @Stfg:. According to the....villagers mean –The local government claims that they provide free foods for under poverty villagers but it has not been proved that they actually do that.

I know that it is OK to ask other editors to carry out copyedit like things but some people always tag something instead of doing it themself. Anyways I have seen I no longer accept requests to carry out copy edits, this on your talk page so I haven't ask you for help. But now I think there are some exceptions. Jim Carter ^(talk) 12:25, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi Jim. If there's disagreement I think you should only include it if there is a reliable source to cite. Otherwise, we may be accusing the local government without good reason. I don't accept copy edit requests, but I do copy edits where I see a reason. In this case, I wanted to help you just this once, that's all. Cheers, --Stfg (talk) 13:49, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you very much for helping me, @Stfg:. I will delete that part. And please do help me again and again whenever I need help. You, MelanieN, and Anna Frodesiak are the people from whom I ask for help whenever I'm in trouble. So please don't take me otherwise when I say "I haven't ask you for help" because I was joking. I have already lost one of my wiki friend Titodutta and I don't want to lose anyone else. So please don't get angry because I make plenty of mistakes. And you are one of them who mentors me. Thank you. Please don't mind. I was actually telling that you always accept my copyedit request cause you are my Wikifriend. Jim Carter ^(talk) 14:54, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

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Fixed. Jim Carter ^(talk) 09:45, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Stfg! Thank you, Jim Cartar! Looks like I have very efficient talk page stalkers! 0;-D --MelanieN (talk) 17:57, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Welcome! efficient editors always have efficient stalkers (Talking about Stfg and others not me) Jim Carter ^(talk) 22:35, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Web Series Post

Hey Melanie,

I was advised by Peridon that you were the right person to help me get up my article..

It was deleted, but i got the draft.. is they any possibility i can get it posted?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shazbaz12/N%27everland_(Web-Series)_draft

Regards, S. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shazbaz12 (talk • contribs) 09:18, 23 March 2014 (UTC) Shazbaz12 (talk) 12:22, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, Shazbaz12. I will take a look at your draft and see what I can do. I'll put my comments at your talk page. --MelanieN (talk) 17:58, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank You MelanieN for the information, i understood what you meant :)

I have got it listed on IMDb, hopefully we also become a hit to be on wiki one day.. Again thank you for checking out what you could do :)

Regards, S.

08:04, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Shazbaz12 (talk) 08:04, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

ecoATM on Sorrento Valley page

Melanie,

You removed the ecoATM reference from the Sorrento Valley page, citing that it's not significant enough. I'd like to differ with you, and see if you agree. Since ecoATM was acquired by Outerwall (NASDAQ: OUTR) in July 2013, it is now part of a $2.2B corporation. San Diego is the corporate home for the ecoATM line of business, however, Outerwall also owns the Redbox and Coinstar kiosks, which are significant businesses as well as household names. We could list ecoATM as "Inspired by Outerwall" which is the tag line, and add a link to Outerwall corporate home page instead ... but I think ecoATM is significant enough to list, being part of the Outerwall, Rebox, and Coinstar families. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lheminger (talk • contribs) 05:50, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

The fact that it is a small part of a large business does not make it notable. But according to this ecoATM is active in 40 states so that's probably big enough for a mention. I will add it back using this as a reference to show significance. --MelanieN (talk) 16:09, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Need your opinion

Hello MelanieN, need your advice and opinion again. I'm a participant of the Wikiproject Orphanage. The main work the project members do is to de-orphan articles tagged by {{orphan}}. But I noticed that the project is becoming inactive. Only few participants were working. Although almost all participants were regular on Wikipedia but the are not cooperating with this project. Hence the backlog of orphan articles reached sky high with more than 200,000 orphan articles since 2008. I noticed that members are not having interest in joining the project again. If this continues then I'm sure that this project will also become inactive.

Just like saving an old abandaned draft, I have decided to save this project from being inactive. I have started a new backlog drive system. Just like AfC it will also send backlog drive notification to its participants with attractive offers like giving them rewards in the form of barnstar. This will automatically attract the attention of users and they will join again so that the project will become fully active again. I have created a backlog drive notification template {{WPORPHANdrive}} and the list of members who will be notified is here. But it is impossible for me to send them re-join and backlog drive notice on there talkpage (There are more than 40 members). So, I need mass message right for aleast someday to carry out this. I have learned, that to request mass message right I need support from atleast two other Wikipedian (Not compulsary). So I was wondering if you can support me in this matter. Along with your opinion a small comment is also appreciated. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 13:12, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Good for you! that you are working on this kind of project. However, I'm not familiar enough with the mass message system/requirements to offer a recommendation. I wonder, too, how do you know that "only a few participants are working on the backlog"? There may be many people working on it, in particular areas rather than through the wikiproject. I know there are people doing this, because I have seen articles get tagged as "another article successfully de-orphaned". And I have worked on the California backlog myself. I doubt if such people would appreciate getting a message saying "come on, get working on this!" Anyhow, I wish you luck but I don't feel like I know enough about it to offer a support message. --MelanieN (talk) 16:03, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

@Jim Cartar: one way you could handle this would be to find one of the people on your list who is an administrator and discuss your idea with them. They would be able to send out mass mailings or give you that right. Two of the admins on the list are User:TLSuda (the one with the Russian letters) and User:SarahStierch. Hope this helps. --Stfg (talk) 21:14, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

I know because I regularly follow the category of orphan articles. I see changes in newer created articles but I haven't seen any change in articles older than 2011. BTW I follow them by this type of codes {{Rounddown|{{formatnum:{{PAGESINCATEGORY:Orphaned articles from November 2008}}|R}}|-2}}- this code gives me alerts of any changes occur (You can also use it on your junkbox). Most of the participants are established so they are too busy to give time on this. I have also mentioned a opt out instruction here so that I they can stop getting messages. @Stfg: I like your idea. But before approaching an Admin, I need support, oppose or neutral from you guys. So that I can refer that admin to this discussion. Thank you both. Jim Carter ^(talk)

That was a great idea from Stfg. I also recommend that you approach an admin who is interested in orphan articles, to discuss the idea and get their input about whether the mass mailing is a good idea, or what other approaches might work to revitalize the project or maybe recruit new members (that might be a better approach than trying to get existing members back working on it, if they have moved on to other things). I think Sarah in particular would be sympathetic and helpful. We are suggesting an admin, not because admin tools are needed necessarily, but because they would be interested in the project and will give you good advice. To talk to someone, you don't need an opinion from me, because I am not a member of the orphanage project and my opinion really doesn't matter. I guess my opinion is Neutral - in other words, whether to do this or not should be decided by members of the orphanage project, not by me. And I don't know enough about mass messaging to give a recommendation on that either. Sorry to be so wishy-washy! --MelanieN (talk) 03:21, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you both. I will contact Sarah soon. I expect they will like my idea. Jim Carter ^(talk) 03:45, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

SarahStierch has accepted my request. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 02:38, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Hillary Rodham Clinton move request

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Question about reflists

33em, or whatever, is generally better then a fixed column layout. This is because by specifying the width of the column, the text is flowed into the available space based on the size of the readers screen, the font they are using, the size of the viewing window and several other factors. So choosing a fixed size is wrong for many readers. The problem with a variable size is that for some users it may add or reduce the number of columns they see. There is no one right size, but variable is almost always better then fixed. I use 33em since that seems to work best on a number of devices, some of which seem to have a break point between one and two columns around 31em or 32em. As a side note, the new fonts may also affect things so once those are settled, I may need to look at the number I use. Vegaswikian (talk) 17:38, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, Vegaswikian. What em size should I use if I WANT it to come out in double columns? --MelanieN (talk) 17:54, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks! 0;-D --MelanieN (talk) 14:46, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Welcome! BTW wait for the next three weeks and you will get a surprise. ;) Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:18, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Need to know something

Hello Melanie, actually I want to create an article about "Swan Canyon" but I don't know if this topic is notable or not and I don't have much knowledge about the subject so I was wondering if you can help? Jim Carter ^(talk) 06:08, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Are you talking about the Swan Canyon neighborhood of San Diego? Or some other Swan Canyon? --MelanieN (talk) 14:25, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes I'm talking about the neighborhood canyon of San Diego. I have seen it is not covered on Wikipedia yet. So, I was wondering if I can create it. But for that I need your help, since you are one of the Wikipedian from San Diego. Can you help me? Do you know about that canyon? Jim Carter ^(talk) 14:42, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes - not as a canyon exactly, but as a neighborhood or rather a sub-neighborhood. (San Diego has dozens of small canyons within its boundaries; they often give their name to the nearby neighborhood.) Neighborhoods and even sub-neighborhoods do have articles here, several of which I have written, so an article seems possible. Swan Canyon is part of the community of City Heights, San Diego and is mentioned at that page. I didn't find much in the way of independent sourcing; what were you planning use as sources? Or if you don't have any in mind, how did you hear about it, or what made you think about doing an article about it? --MelanieN (talk) 15:02, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I know there are many similar canyons example: Fox Canyon. I will find sources from books or any independent site or from any journal. If I can't find much about this place then I'm going to create articles about Teralta or Darnal. Do you know about them? Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:19, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I would say that Swan Canyon is better known than they are. In a quick Google search for Swan Canyon, I mainly found information from real estate companies, which won't help you much. Here is a link to the city of San Diego's mentions of Swan Canyon; again, that may not help you much, but at least here is evidence that it exists. Here is a map of the neighborhood, so you can tell what its boundaries are. The article should be titled Swan Canyon, San Diego and could be modeled after some of the Point Loma sub-neighborhoods such as Roseville-Fleetridge, San Diego or Loma Portal, San Diego. --MelanieN (talk) 15:34, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks for the help. Since you know much more about Sand Diego so you can help me creating them. I will work on them as a draft. Since I'm creating a article about location, I think it will easily pass WP:NGEO. Do you know how come I know so much about San Diego? Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:55, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I would be curious to know that! --MelanieN (talk) 16:08, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm going there in my next holiday, my uncle resides there he told me about all this.

The draft is under this name, your help to expand it is very much appreciated. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 16:28, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Great! You will like it here. --MelanieN (talk) 16:34, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

He resides at Grantville. I think we could have a wiki meetup if possible. Anyway thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 16:48, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I would like that! (BTW ask him to take a look at Grantville, San Diego and suggest what should be added.) --MelanieN (talk) 16:59, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Okay. I guess he is not here in Wikipedia. But I will ask him to join. And I will let you know when I'm going to arrive at San Diego so that a meetup can be possible. Jim Carter ^(talk) 04:17, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

I can make some improvements to that article myself. Maybe tomorrow. --MelanieN (talk) 04:19, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

Useful link is dead

user piechart: This useful link is dead now. Jim Carter ^(talk) 04:36, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I replaced it with the new link https://tools.wmflabs.org/supercount/ --MelanieN (talk) 21:13, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Notification of the discussion on Jimbo's talk page about the Hillary Clinton move

I altered a couple of things to that notification, but did not change your words or meaning. I took the link out of Jimbos name so it is not a direct copy of his signature and added quotation marks so it was clear this was quoting him and not him actually posting there. If you object to that please feel free to revert.--Mark Miller (talk) 01:10, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Mark Miller, no problem. Thanks for your modifications, and thanks for letting me know about them. --MelanieN (talk) 03:28, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Re: AFD

Hi Melanie, I didn't get a chance to reply to your query at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Contiki Tours (2nd nomination) before the AFD was closed but I thought I would reply here. Both books (effectively the same book under different titles by the same author) talk about Contiki in detail as a "right of passage" for Australian and New Zealand "bogan" young adults (see bogan). "Ignorance" is ironically appropriate, but certainly not on your part. When I have some time I'll try to find a few more... academic... sources to put WP:N beyond doubt. Thanks for your input there. Cheers, Stalwart111 02:10, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the update - and for rescuing the article. --MelanieN (talk) 03:47, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Your edit summary and content deletion on the Doug Manchester article

Friend,

1. On April 11, you made these edits to the Doug Manchester Wikipedia article. Your edits deleted content that I had added to the article.

2. In your edit summary, you wrote "uncited."

3. The evidence that my edits were cited are shown here.

4. Therefore, your claim of "uncited" is false.

Please write true statements instead of false statements in your edit summaries. Doing so will uphold the integrity of Wikipedia.

Thanks a million, Jacknjillauburn (talk) 16:09, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, User:Jacknjillauburn. Since you also posted it on the article's talk page, I am responding there. --MelanieN (talk) 17:52, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Need urgent

I need an urgent help my phone has suddenly started malfunctioning but my article Early Nationalists is currently on mainspace. I cannot nominate it for DYK. It is already 2 days old, we have only 3 days left. So, I thought you can nominate it onbehalf of me. This is the hook [....] that the Early Nationalists were the formal beginning of the organised national movement in India? It is in the lead section and it also has a reference, Sitush and Philg88 verified it and found no problem. Some minor problems have also been fixed. So I though you can help me? Thank you very much for your help. I may not reply you since my phone is not working properly but I will keep a watch through a public computer by its IP. Thanks again. Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:35, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Done. See Template:Did you know nominations/Early Nationalists. Nice article! --MelanieN (talk) 16:04, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Melanie, Not as nice as your articles like Point Loma, San Diego etc. Interestingly three autopatrolled users were involved in one article. I'm lucky. 0:-) Jim Carter ^(talk) 13:09, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

User:Jim Cartar, please note that the reviewer has made some comments and suggestions at the DYK nomination. Are you able to take care of those? --MelanieN (talk) 00:31, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping, I have  Fixed the problems raised by the reviewer. Thanks again. Jim Carter ^(talk) 11:21, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Ok, it's been moved into the "queue" and will be appearing on the front page in less than 24 hours. You can use the table here Template:Did you know/Queue to calculate exactly when it will be up there. --MelanieN (talk) 15:16, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Swan Canyon, San Diego

Take a look here. It's a stub now but I think you can expand it. Do you know the actual coordinates of Swan Canyon? The current coordinates may not be accurate since it was calculated by me. So, please help improve it. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 14:37, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

OK, good that you have been working on it. Do you mind if I make some corrections? --MelanieN (talk) 14:40, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

You have special rights to edit everything I have created :) Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:00, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

LOL! --MelanieN (talk) 15:03, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

That's all I have time for this morning. Could use some expansion. Maybe some information about the actual canyon, Swan Canyon, which runs through the neighborhood. Here [5] is a reference showing that volunteers clean the canyon of trash and debris every month. And here is a thing about the state of California taking action to restore Swan Canyon; it has a lot of information (if you can view PDFs). BTW, although your article is still in userspace, it shows up on a Google search! --MelanieN (talk) 15:24, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

I will expand it soon. Thank you for searching sources. I think there is a problem with module userspace detector. So instead of noindexing the page, it's indexing. Although it is not an article yet but the module is detecting it as an article. Thank you again. Jim Carter ^(talk) 16:11, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

I see that you launched it into mainspace, so I went ahead and added the canyon information. I didn't know if you would be able to view it on your phone. Nice work! --MelanieN (talk) 14:47, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought of adding those canyon informations after moving it to mainspace, but I see you have already added them. All the credit goes to you, I have just created the page but all the stuff was added by you. I think you are the original creator. Good work!

BTW can I edit your userpage? I want to add something. Jim Carter ^(talk) 10:11, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. But I don't promise to keep it! 0;-D --MelanieN (talk) 15:09, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Just added Swan Canyon to the list of articles you have created; Since all credit goes to you.  :) Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:43, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

LOL! Well, thank you. I'll keep an eye on it, and maybe add to it as possible. But you should really take credit for it, since it was your idea; you started it including the infobox. And you launched it into mainspace so you are the creator of record. All I did was add some material. Let's both claim it! --MelanieN (talk) 18:16, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Yep.  :) Jim Carter ^(talk) 03:36, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Btw, does we have articles on San Miguel Mountains? Jim Carter ^(talk) 13:07, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

There are several mountain ranges by that name; none of them have Wikipedia articles. Currently San Miguel Mountains redirects to San Juan Mountains in Colorado; apparently it's a lesser known name for the San Juan Mountains. That redirect could easily be expanded to be about something else. But there are several mountain ranges called the San Miguel Mountains - one in New Mexico and one in Mexico. In the San Diego area (actually in Chula Vista) there is a San Miguel Mountain, also called Mount San Miguel; I think Mount San Miguel is the more common name for it. Confusing, isn't it! 0;-D --MelanieN (talk) 14:44, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Ouh! Too confusing... Currently I'm working on creating an article about a politician, I will work on Mt. San Miguel after finishing my work. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:35, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Wait for some hours and you will receive a surprise. Jim Carter ^(talk) 18:37, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

I love surprises! --MelanieN (talk) 20:18, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

I know.... But I don't know why it's taking so much time. Jim Carter ^(talk) 04:42, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Early Nationalists

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 06:38, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week, for long-term excellence in both articles and mediation, avoiding conflict, and being an overall fantastic Wikipedian. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Jim Cartar submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

An editor with more than 80 articles, 27 DYKs, 2 Good articles and more than 313 rescued articles. She deserves to become an Editor of the Week. Not only this, she has been on Wikipedia for more than 5 years and has 27000+ edits. A constructive editor with the patience of eternity; I have never seen her in any conflict. She has never refused to help anyone (One can see it on her talkpage). Even a feud between myself and User:Titodutta was stopped by her, in mid-March. She is a true wikipedian, yet her qualities are "behind the scene" so I want to nominate her because, again, she deserves it. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk)

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

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Thanks again for your efforts! Go Phightins! 12:11, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Really? WOW! Thank you, User:Jim Cartar, I had no idea! And thank you, Go Phightins! --MelanieN (talk) 14:32, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

I see you put in this nomination more than a month ago - and have kept it secret all this time! Amazing! Yes, I was really surprised. --MelanieN (talk) 14:37, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

A great award for a great user. You truly deseve this! I just wish we has a "Wikipedian of the Year"! (t) Josve05a (c) 14:53, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

• Congrats. You are a role model for how editors should treat each other. ```Buster Seven Talk 16:19, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

As other editors said, you are a true Wikipedian! I don't have words to explain how good you are. That is why instead of rewarding you a barnstar I thought of nominating you. Honestly you deserve it! Jim Carter ^(talk) 16:32, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

You can also add

{{User:MelanieN/Editor of the week screen}}

to display your Editor of the week screen shot. Jim Carter ^(talk) 17:39, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Well..... OK..... for now anyhow! (blushing) --MelanieN (talk) 19:23, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

• Way to go Melanie - very well deserved. Dohn joe (talk) 16:15, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

• I just now noticed this, and glad to see others have noticed Melanie. We both started in 2006, so I've seen you poking around here and there for years. Every time I see you, I see good things. You aren't one to jump out and steal the spot light; instead, you are are model Wikipedian that puts information above politics. Excellent pick, and I'm personally glad to see you get a little recognition. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 23:42, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Another DYK

Hi Melanie, can you please nominate Anubrata Mandal for DYK. As I told you, I was working on a politician. It is ready and on mainspace. Well cited, 1739 characters, no copyvios, recently created etc. The hook is .... that during the panchayat elections of July 2013, Anubrata Mandal publicly encouraged Trinamool supporters to hurl bombs at the police?. I'm not a expert in DYK. So, I thought if you can help me nominate. Thank you. Jim Carter ^(talk) 08:04, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

OK. I have copyedited it a little and rearranged the sections. It is long enough (barely!) and should pass muster. I'll go ahead and nominate it today. --MelanieN (talk) 18:04, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

OK, it's at Template:Did you know nominations/Anubrata Mandal. I suggest you watchlist it so you can respond to any comments. --MelanieN (talk) 18:55, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks for rearranging, copyediting and nominating. I will keep it on my watchlist. Thank you again. Jim Carter ^(talk) 03:39, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Article titles

It wasn't a comment that I deleted, it was an erroneous notice to "centralize" the discussion, when they're separate discussions:

FYI

 – There's an active RfC about this at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Comics#rfc2, so please centralize discussion there.

This can only cause confusion at an RfC that has already been rebooted once due to confusion. Please revert your revert. Curly Turkey (gobble) 04:48, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

It looks as if the notice you disagree with has already been dealt with in the usual way - by commenting on it, disagreeing with it, discussing it. Other options would include asking the person who inserted the notice to remove it, or inserting a counter-notice. That's the Wikipedia way. Deleting the person's edit isn't. --MelanieN (talk) 13:53, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

ITN

So? Should I ask someone to take Synthetic DNA for ITN? Jim Carter ^(talk) 19:54, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

I just did. Hope I did it right. Thanks though! --MelanieN (talk) 19:58, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Just a minor mistake, which I fixed now. BTW someone has raised a possible issue please take a look at the nomination page. Cheers, Jim Carter ^(talk) 20:35, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Synthetic DNA

Hi Melanie... there are already a bunch of related articles on this. Drbogdan added news of this to them last night (see that user's contribs), and I followed after and moderated those additions. In light of articles we already have like Synthetic biology (which is the key article for the news piece, Expanded genetic code (which needs a ton of work), and especially Nucleic acid analogue which is exactly analogous to the article you created on Synthetic DNA, I don't think we need the new article. Would you be OK merging Synthetic DNA into Nucleic acid analogue? Additionally, as per WP:MEDRS content on this kind of thing should receive minimal weight until there are scientific secondary sources that discuss it -- many things in biology turn out not to be replicable by other groups (has happened many times in the stem cell field, for example, where big splashy news turned out to based on papers that were later retracted. We are WP:NOTNEWS especially with regard to biomedical science. Jytdog (talk) 20:37, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your note, Jytdog. I looked all over for any coverage of this before creating the article; I couldn't find it in any logical place and was puzzled why nobody had reported it. Apparently that was because it was buried under titles where no one would think to look. "Nucleic acid analogue" is a horrible and inaccurate title; these are nucleic acids chemically, not something else that resembles a nucleic acid. "Synthetic DNA" is a much better title IMO. (I guess as long as it remained as a redirect, people would be able to find the information.) The article "Expanded genetic code" could be a target, except that it is written in science-ese too dense for the average reader. About a merge/redirect, I need to think about it and get input from additional people. Offhand I'm inclined to think we need an article under a WP:Common name. --MelanieN (talk) 21:03, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

thanks for talking. i agree that the whole suite of synthetic biology articles is too technically written and really needs to be knit together to make a coherent whole. i don't really care which way a merge would go but we have two completely overlapping articles now. actually Nucleic acid analogue cannot be merged into "synthetic DNA" because the "nucleic acid analogue" article talks about RNA too; it has to be the other way. This is pretty hardcore biology stuff and I don't know how much you know about biology. When you get down into detail like this (and this is indeed pretty drilled-down detail) the information is technical. I am sorry that you didn't find the content that was created last night, but again I am not sure how much you understood of what you were looking at... please don't be offended I am not trying to be a dick but competence does matter when dealing with technical stuff like this. I do agree that the current articles need to be written less technically! There is so much work to be done in many many of the biology articles and there are not nearly as many editors working on them as there on, say, video games. Jytdog (talk) 21:09, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

I shouldn't have to defend my competence, but just so you know: my degree is in chemistry and I have worked in the medical lab field for many years. I am not a molecular biologist, but someone with my background should have been able to find the information - and should be regarded as capable of writing about it. I believe Wikipedia articles are supposed to be written in a way that would be understandable to an average college graduate, at least; if one needs a degree in the field to understand what the article is saying, then it needs to be rewritten. And if one needs ESP to find the information because of the article title that has been chosen, that is also not the way Wikipedia should work. I assure you I spent 20 minutes looking to see if anyone had written anything on this subject, before I decided to write an article. As you saw, I did find the article "Artificial gene synthesis," a fairly obvious target - and when even that hadn't been updated I decided no one had done anything.

For your part, I notice a very strong element of WP:OWNERSHIP when it comes to medical and scientific articles, and I hope that isn't going to be a barrier to our working together. I have also been a professional medical writer, rewriter and editor, so I could be of some help in reducing jargon and putting articles into shape where they could be read by a reasonably educated layperson - but not if someone like you feels entitled to overrule every decision and revert everything that doesn't meet your standards. (Might your attitude be part of the reason why there are "not nearly as many editors working on" biology articles? Give it some thought.)

Actually I see that you have already proposed the merger, since I didn't immediately agree to it, so there may not be much need for further discussion here. --MelanieN (talk) 23:46, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

@Jytdog, MelanieN, Drbogdan: Hello, I'd like to read more on this development before I comment or edit the new entries. There are not many qualified editors in this subject so I really look forward to enjoy an easy-going collaboration. Two things: Do you have a copy or access to the whole article? This one is behind a paywall. The other thing is that I think that we should use both the WP:Common name and the technical name (to be determined); at the moment, my suggestion is to write it now as a section in Synthetic biology and later, create its own article with a technical descriptive name for precision. I agree in that "analogue" is incorrect, as the new nucleobases are not competing or substituting for an exiting one (they seem to be an expansion of the 4 natural nucleobases), and "expanded genome" should include genomic RNA, which is not quite this case. I hope I will be more useful in the days to come as I read the new literature and your current edits. Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 23:56, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Hey Melanie I apparently did insult you. Sorry about that. Hopefully we can indeed work together productively. Jytdog (talk) 01:15, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

to me, it is away out of bounds to cite someone's struck comment, as you did here with regard to my remarks above. hence, outta here. again sorry to have upset you and that we got off on a bad foot. good luck. Jytdog (talk) 15:57, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Oh, was that the problem? OK, sorry. I have fixed it. --MelanieN (talk) 19:04, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Hello MelanieN, I want to acknowledge your skills at writing a very complex molecular biology article while using easy to understand terminology. Not an easy task on such subject; it takes guts and higher education. As you are aware, we will likely be doing either a merge or a move, but your great text will remain. I hope you don't mind this natural evolution of Wiki articles :-). Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 13:51, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Hmm. So you are a Biologist? Jim Carter ^(talk) 18:58, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

No. My degree is in chemistry, but I have worked in the medical laboratory field for a long time. --MelanieN (talk) 20:28, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Good to know that we have a good chemist with us :) Jim Carter ^(talk) 20:31, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

If you are willing...

Not that I have made any secret of this issue/these issues, I would still like to discuss them with you without fear of retribution. If you are willing, can you email me? Thank you.... Dr. Matt PresidentistVB (talk) 03:23, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

PresidentistVB, whoever you are - I have no idea what you are talking about. You must have the wrong person. --MelanieN (talk) 05:06, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

(I minored in Chem at William & Mary, just FYI.) I saw you as a commentator/admin? in the IRS Scandal WP:NPOVNAMING section of the NPOV Noticeboard, and I thought I read where you stated the IRS (Scandal) title did not meet the NPOV requirements. I have a title I was hoping you would look at in order to render a decision. I think it, too, is biased. That's all... I thought I sent you an email. Apologies, if this Is still the wrong person. Thanks. Dr. Matt PresidentistVB (talk) 06:52, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Oh, OK. You didn't send me an email because I don't have email enabled here. But you are welcome to join in the discussion, or to propose your alternate title here on my talk page if you prefer not to take part in the discussion. Or to forward your comments to someone else in the discussion who has email enabled. --MelanieN (talk) 06:57, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

@MelanieN:: OK I am ready. How do I initiate a discussion re. WP:POVNAMING and WP:NPOVTITLE? Maybe you should find some time to look over everything first? The alternate title I propose for "John Punch (slave)" is either "John Punch (servant)" as was ruled in the 1640 case, which modern historians wish to anachronistically rewrite to mean the Council actually ruled him a slave, or simply "John Punch (colonist)" just as the WP article, "Anthony Johnson (colonist)" alive at the same time, is entitled. John Punch is "entitled" to the same convention, if not courtesy as his fellow black servant. Thanks. cc to WLRoss Dr. Matt (talk) 01:02, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

To User:PresidentistVB, I have no interest in pursuing this myself. But if you want my opinion about how to go about this: the proper place to propose a title change is on the article's talk page, using the "requested move" format (see WP:RM for how to request a move). Then if you want you can post a brief note at the NPOV noticeboard, which is here: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard, asking people to come to the talk page and chime in on the move discussion. Here is how I worded the note; it should be neutral, not soliciting a particular opinion one way or the other. --MelanieN (talk) 01:24, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks MelanieN. The talk page is a lost cause - an exercise in futility. There's a pit bull who guards it. (My new name comes from the source of this effort.) - Monkey Two (talk) 02:32, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Anubrata Mandal

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 01:34, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Move review notification

Because you participated in the most recent discussion regarding the proposed move of Hillary Rodham Clinton, you are hereby notified per Wikipedia:Canvassing#Appropriate notification that the administrative determination of consensus from that discussion is being challenged at Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2014 May. Please feel free to comment there. Cheers! bd2412 T 19:22, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Pio Rehpotsirc

i quit :-) how can i delete my user page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pio Rehpotsirc (talk • contribs) 15:26, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Ask an admin, and they might do it for you. However, you'd have to be polite, and not edit poorly, as it's at their discretion. Origamite^{\(·_·\)(/·_·)/} 00:54, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

2011 end times prediction

One the wording of the lead, it is not necessarily "standard style for the lead sentence to begin by citing the article title in boldface and defining it". There are exceptions, please see WP:BEGIN.--ukexpat (talk) 17:44, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, ukexpat. I see that it isn't absolutely required - especially in cases where the title is descriptive, as this one is. However, I think it is still best in most cases to define what the subject is / what the title means. I think the current version does that without being too awkward, but I'd be happy to look at other ways of handling it. Should we do that on the article's talk page rather than here? --MelanieN (talk) 18:17, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Sure, but I am not sure what other ways there are other than the current version and my (slight) rewording.--ukexpat (talk) 18:23, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Your intelligence

Since User:Omnedon has claimed that I've attacked your intelligence, I just want to say for the record that nothing I've ever thought much less said questioned or attacked your intelligence. I do wonder whether you read the Move Review statement since you claimed we were "rearguing the case", but this was not attacking nor questioning your intelligence. If you don't understand the issues raised at the move review, I'm sure it's due to a lack of reading and/or thinking about the issues raised in the statement, not due to a lack of intelligence. I hope you understand. Thanks. --В²C ☎ 17:50, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

I didn't take it as an insult. In fact I would not have responded to your comments at all. You can ask questions if you want, but I am not obligated to answer them - or to explain my reasons for not answering them. Thanks for the note. --MelanieN (talk) 18:27, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

See? A very intelligent response. We're in complete agreement on this. No obligation to answer. Thanks. --В²C ☎ 18:35, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Reply

Thanks for the notification.

I'm going to take no action there, and instead defer to community processes.

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 21:14, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

masterstrack.com

The validity of masterstrack.com is currently being questioned Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#masterstrack.com. And editor is accusing it of being an unreliable source. You have used masterstrack.com as a reference in your editing. I would like to invite your comment. Trackinfo (talk) 07:45, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

dpapa187

Hi Melanie. Thanks for your help in regards to the AG leventis article. So i created a new one, care to check it out? I think this is what you wanted? Bare with me never used wikipedia to work on. Need to get this out for the company though. So i'll need all the help possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dpapa187/A.G._Leventis_Nigeria_Plc

here's my draft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dpapa187 (talk • contribs) 10:08, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I'll reply on your userpage. --MelanieN (talk) 13:08, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Hello! There is a DR/N request you may have interest in.

This message is being sent to let you know of a discussion at the Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding a content dispute discussion you may have participated in. Content disputes can hold up article development and make editing difficult for editors. You are not required to participate, but you are both invited and encouraged to help find a resolution. The thread is "Talk:Albert Einstein". Please join us to help form a consensus. Thank you!-- — Keithbob • Talk • 12:32, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Another dead

Another useful link is dead; It returns error 403 i.e. Account expired. Jim Carter ^(talk) 14:07, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Yes, for some reason the snottywong tools all seem to be dead now. I couldn't find where anyone has created a tool to replace that one (the admin scoring tool) - which was controversial when he made it. Too bad because I found it useful. --MelanieN (talk) 14:20, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

I can't find any substitution; BTW soon I'm going to be blocked from editing. :'-( Jim Carter ^(talk) 14:48, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Why??????? MelanieN (talk) 15:31, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

I have send a message to all the administrators present in Wikipedia. You can see the message in any administrators talkpage. I assumed good faith and was helping Anna Frodesiak for her proposal which has not been responded by any one. After I send that message to all the administrators about the proposal, they responded here (This discussion is going to be the largest discussion ever within few days) Now few of the administrators think that what I did was not correct and they felt I have spammed them. But honestly I don't have any such intension. Now a discussion is going on here and it is certain that I will end up as a blocked editor. But trust me I don't have any such intension.  :'-( Jim Carter ^(talk) 16:30, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Don't panic; you always over-react. You do not appear to be in any danger of being blocked. That discussion has already been closed, but I didn't see ANYONE saying that you should be blocked. I thought someone might suggest taking away your right to send mass messages, but that hasn't been suggested either. People do realize that you did it in good faith. The only comment at that discussion, before it was closed, was that you should be warned to restrict your use of the mass-message tool to the purpose for which you requested it, namely, the orphan project. And my personal suggestion would have been that before you sent this out, you should have asked Anna or some other experienced user whether it would be a good idea. --MelanieN (talk) 16:57, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Over react, he he he... I'm Sulphuric acid :D... I'm afraid that only a quater of the administrators have responded till now maybe some one will raise a issue and block me. BTW have you mentioned your comments on the proposal? Actually I told about this at Anna's talk page but she haven't responded. Jim Carter ^(talk) 17:30, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

DYK

Hi Melanie, how are you? I have created an article yesterday and moved it to mainspace today. The article is here. Can you nominate it for DYK? The article is 1,890 characters. The hook is [...] that Ek Hi Raasta was directed and produced by the Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner B. R. Chopra?

infinite thanks. Jim Carter ^(talk) 17:37, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

I'll take a look but I am very busy offline today. I'll definitely do it before the deadline. --MelanieN (talk) 14:43, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Just offhand: I don't see much in the article to establish the notability of this film. Just because the people involved in making it were notable, doesn't mean that the film itself was. Did it win any awards? Can you find any reviews? Any references in books or newspapers, documenting the importance of this film (rather than the people who made it)? I'll nominate the article for DYK, but in its current state, some people may doubt its notability. See WP:NFILM, and note that references do not have to be in English. --MelanieN (talk) 14:51, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

On second thought: I took a look at some other Bollywood film articles, and none of them seem to bother with evidence of notability. So maybe WP:NFILM isn't enforced as a requirement. In that case don't bother with my suggestions above. I admit I'm not really familiar with Wikipedia standards for films. --MelanieN (talk) 15:16, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

One other suggestion: In the lead sentence, provide a translation of "Ek Hi Raasta" as is usually done for films with non-English titles. --MelanieN (talk) 14:55, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Do you know the film was one of the first black & white films in India (See the image of the film poster). The film was released more than 60 years ago. So it is not possible to get sources online or film review about a film which was released 6 decades earlier. But I'm happy atleast two websites talk about the film and it is enough to establish notability. And in India we generally not give much priority to films. So, the NFILM cannot enforce in this case. I have also translated. It means The only way; I mentioned it on the lead. Now you can nominate it. If anyone ask I will give them the same information. Jim Carter ^(talk) 16:43, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

OK, it's nominated. It is here Template:Did you know nominations/Ek Hi Raasta (1956 film). I suggest you watchlist it. One comment about the hook: It might be a good idea to identify, in the hook, what kind of thing this actually is - as I notice many other hooks do. For example "...that the Bollywood film Ek Hi Raasta...." or "...that the Hindi film Ek Hi Raasta..." See what you think. --MelanieN (talk) 14:51, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

I watchlisted it. I have mentioned about Hindi film at the nom page. Please take a look. Actually this was not a bollywood film but a Indian Cinema because the film was released before Bollywood was created. And thank you very very very much for your help even when you are so busy. Jim Carter ^(talk) 15:48, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

I moved "Hindi film" to before the name of the film; it reads better that way. I see that the hook has been challenged; apparently the issue is whether Chopra was producer/director or just director. That's something you'll have to deal with. I see the poster only lists him as director and doesn't list anyone as producer. --MelanieN (talk) 16:09, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

P.S. ping I notice that the person who raised this objection has been in some disagreement with you before. It's IMPORTANT that you not respond to their comment on a personal level. You will be tempted to accuse him of following you, or picking on you, but don't. Just deal with the issue raised, and if necessary, correct your hook. I know how easy it can be, to let a content dispute become a personal battle, so I'm just advising you ahead of time: don't fall into that trap. --MelanieN (talk) 16:22, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

I wrote the above before seeing your response - which was fine. Apologies for the unnecessary advice. Your response was focused on his question, but it didn't really solve the problem. It's not enough for you to tell him that Chopra was the producer, or to point out how hard it can be to find sources. The hook MUST BE explicitly cited in the article, that's a rule. Otherwise we can't use it. --MelanieN (talk) 16:38, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind advice. Your advices are always helpful. I have solved the problem take a look now. I have added two reliable sources to support the hook as well as the release date. Thank you so much for your help and sorry for taking your time. Jim Carter ^(talk) 08:15, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

The comment at the DyK nomination said it might be a more interesting hook if this was the FIRST film produced by Chopra. In fact that is exactly what IMDB says,[6], although IMDB is not considered a reliable source at Wikipedia. There is nothing wrong with the hook the way you have it. --MelanieN (talk) 13:39, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Hmm. Other references only says that the film was released in 1961 and the film was produced by Chopra but they are not saying that this was his first produced film. Now since IMDB is not reliable I can't add this information in the article. Jim Carter ^(talk) 07:40, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Pt. Loma

I really enjoyed your page about my hometown! — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuttonClawson (talk • contribs) 15:27, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Glad to hear it, SuttonClawson! You will probably NOT enjoy the comment I put on the talk page Talk:Crisis bonding. I'm sorry, but in my opinion this topic does not qualify for an article at Wikipedia. I would be glad to be proven wrong. Please see that comment and respond there on the article's talk page. --MelanieN (talk) 15:31, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Pt. Loma

Actually Melanie, I have already been working with the help desk on this and another Wikipedia person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuttonClawson (talk • contribs) 15:38, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Sounds good. I hope the article can be improved to the point where it is no longer Original Research. --MelanieN (talk) 15:42, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Melanie, Given the crisis bonding page has moved and makes the talk page a moot point, please remove it. It adds no value to my research and actually deflects from it. Thank you. Dr. Susan M. Sutton Clawson 20:25, 9 June 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SuttonClawson (talk • contribs)

• Dr. SuttonClawson, thanks for making it clear that you want it removed. You will notice that the rest of us are in some uncertainty and discussion at the talk page about how to do that, given the Wikipedia rules about what qualifies for "speedy deletion". The easiest way to remove it is for you yourself, as the main author of the page, to request that it be deleted. All you have to do is go to the page and post at the top of the page, above everything else, this code: {{Db-g7}} . In the edit summary, say "I am the author of this article and I want it deleted, since it has been transwikied to Wikiversity." It should be gone fairly quickly. Meanwhile I will go to the article and revert the redirect that Amatulic put in, so as to restore the page and make it clear what you want deleted. Deletion will remove the talk page as well as the article page; they will no longer be listed as Wikipedia articles and will no longer be visible to the public. Sorry this turned into such a hassle for you; I hope Wikiversity turns out to be a good experience for you! --MelanieN (talk) 20:47, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

SD Co Admin Center

Hey thanks! I have expanded the text and added some of my own photos that I uploaded to Commons. Keizers (talk) 19:05, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

OK, done Keizers (talk) 19:51, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for San Diego County Administration Center

Hello! Your submission of San Diego County Administration Center at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Hi! Thank you for nominating this article for DYK, however, I noticed some issues when reviewing it. There appears to be close paraphrasing and a lack of inline citations in some places. If you or the article's creator fix these problems, it should be good to go. Thanks! MountainRail (talk) 23:11, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

I added the NHRP info boxes but would you be willing to edit the text so that it doesn't paraphrase? Keizers (talk) 01:54, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

I'll take a look at it and see what I can do. --MelanieN (talk) 01:56, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

OK, I think that should be better. --MelanieN (talk) 03:01, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

United States Custom House (San Ysidro, California)

New article I just created: United States Custom House (San Ysidro, California), you may enjoy it. Keizers (talk) 15:07, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Nice job! Let me think about whether I can find a hook for a DYK. --MelanieN (talk) 16:32, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker)Great job, Keizers - I'd been meaning to create that article for years! Dohn joe (talk) 16:59, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I live in Mexico City, often fly to Tijuana and walk by that building... So I just had to! Keizers (talk) 15:51, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

LOL, let's have a contest! See who can create more San Diego NRHP articles! (kidding) --MelanieN (talk) 17:05, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Keizers, I'm working on a DYK nomination, which means I need to have the hook well cited. I wonder about the "Old Customs House" designation in the lead - should it be Customs or Custom? I couldn't find Old Custom House or Old Customs House in the lengthy EIR document the name is cited to. --MelanieN (talk) 19:00, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Melanie, have a look again in the cited GSA document. There are 38 mentions of "Old Customs House" Keizers (talk) 15:51, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

OK, thanks, I found it. I'll file the DYK today. --MelanieN (talk) 17:33, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK is here: Template:Did you know nominations/United States Custom House (San Ysidro, California). BTW the picture you uploaded is much better than the picture which is currently at National Register of Historic Places listings in San Diego County, California; you might consider replacing it with yours. --MelanieN (talk) 18:54, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

By the way, I think I must have been in that building a couple of months ago - when I went to pick up my Trusted Traveler credentials. I did not see any signage designating it as NRHP listed, but I might have missed it. --MelanieN (talk) 19:02, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

New article

I guess I'm addicted to San Diego (or is it San Ysidro now?): Las Americas Premium Outlets Keizers (talk) 05:30, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

You go! Is this another of the places you walk through on your way to San Diego? 0;-D --MelanieN (talk) 21:55, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diplomacy

For your work on Dave Brat. It has been a breath of fresh air working beside you. Your patience, tolerance, cool demeanor and good ideas have been central to finding a compromise that is fair and benefits the entire encyclopedia. What began as a divisive slog, quickly turned into a genuine discussion and solution, thanks in large part to you. You are an extraordinary Wikipedian. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 13:04, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you so much, Dennis! You make me blush. There were a lot of other factors that helped that discussion cool down, but it was nice to see the way former antagonists began agreeing with each other. --MelanieN (talk) 13:36, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

That is what a good mediator does: finds the middle ground and gently draws the two sides together. I came there to do just that, but had no problem taking a back seat to you and supporting your efforts, which were right on target. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 13:39, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

It was funny to see how often you and I edit-conflicted each other. We were definitely working in the same direction and often with the same idea at the same time. GMTA as they say. --MelanieN (talk) 13:48, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

I was going to email you, but I see you don't have it active. A pity, but I understand. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 13:58, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Check your own email. --MelanieN (talk) 14:42, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Smell of RfA??? Jim Carter ^(talk) 16:48, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Not at this time. But thanks. --MelanieN (talk) 17:00, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Wait! I already thought you were an admin...I would stand behind your RfA when (not if) you decide it is time! (t) Josve05a (c) 22:04, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

I guess I fake it well.... 0;-D Thanks for the vote of confidence. Too lazy to wield a mop at this point; I have always hated housework! --MelanieN (talk) 22:34, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Initial Point of Boundary Between U.S. and Mexico

And another... Initial Point of Boundary Between U.S. and Mexico Keizers (talk) 15:33, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Nice work! Very well crafted and beautifully written. This one is a potential DYK except that it needs more citations. There are no text citations at all, and that wouldn't be allowed at DYK. I guess it's drawn almost entirely from the nomination form, which is fine for an article. Don't worry about this unless you want to see it promoted to DYK. Also, the DYK reviewer may not be happy about the direct copying from the nomination form - even if it is public domain. Again, don't worry about this unless you want to see it at DYK. --MelanieN (talk) 16:44, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks and no worries I know it cannot become DYK, and I don't have the drive to find other sources for something so obscure. I don't know if you saw but I created a template for articles about things on the border in SD/TJ: Template:San_Diego–Tijuana_Border and added it to some pages that are connected to the border in a major way.Keizers (talk) 19:25, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

I saw the template, didn't know you'd created it. Good work! --MelanieN (talk) 20:02, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Ek Hi Raasta (1956 film)

Materialscientist (talk) 08:58, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for United States Custom House (San Ysidro, California)‬

United States Custom House (San Ysidro, California) has been pulled from the Prep area. One source for the hook is 4 years old. At WT:DYK, The Rambling Man found a 2014 source that says the busiest border crossing is in Texas. — Maile (talk) 19:11, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Oh, exciting about the DYK for the Government Center. About the Customs House, maybe they will take the cached version of the nomination form? As for San Ysidro being the busiest border crossing it is confirmed by the US government as being the busiest in the Western Hemisphere here and here.Keizers (talk) 23:15, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Terrific, thanks for the cached version! I will share it. About the busiest border, there is very recent information suggesting that a border crossing in Texas may now be the busiest - due to a recent surge in crossings there. I am suggesting that we just say "one of the busiest". --MelanieN (talk) 23:28, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for ‪San Diego County Administration Center‬

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:39, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Did you know the architect of the SD County Admin Bldg...

completed research after the 1933 Long Beach quake which resulted in California earthquake codes, which are the basis for many earthquake codes around the world? And that this man was also the original architect for the San Diego Zoo? AND that he was the nephew of San Diego's most famous architect, Irving Gill. And this man didn't even have a Wikipedia article... until today: Louis John Gill.Keizers (talk) 15:23, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Yay! He's been on my to-do list for a long time. He was not only Irving Gill's nephew, he was also his business partner and collaborator. He's been a redlink in a lot of articles. Great that you did this and I'll take a look later today when I have more time. --MelanieN (talk) 16:08, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Blocked

You have been blocked for using puns. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 15:33, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Hey, you were the one who made the pun - I merely pointed it out! 0;-D Puns are the lowest form of wit, and I can prove it by using one: There was a baker who sold all kinds of baked goods but refused to sell any buns, because he believed that buns are the lowest form of wheat. --MelanieN (talk) 16:06, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

BTW - your ping to me today put me in some pretty high-powered company - I was flattered! --MelanieN (talk) 16:19, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

I respect your opinion, that is why you got in the mix. Admin bits don't make a person smarter, just more dangerous. As for the pun, I just had to pick on you. Faux blocking is an honor I reserve for friends with an impeccable sense of humor only. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 16:48, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

So recognized. My first block! A well deserved blemish on my heretofore unsullied record. --MelanieN (talk) 16:55, 23 June 2014 (UTC) BTW this will go in my Barnstar collection because that's what I consider it equivalent to. --MelanieN (talk) 19:05, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

My friend is blocked. Unblock her Dennis Brown else you are going to face serious trouble. Jim Carter ^(talk) 18:58, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Maybe you could unblock me, Jim. That's a special permission granted only to friends of the blocked person. Want to try? --MelanieN (talk) 21:02, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Yes... I unblocked you by my special unblock button. Warning to Dennis: I will block them who will try to block my friend. Jim Carter ^(talk) 21:41, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Y You have been unblocked Jim Carter ^(talk) 21:49, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Whew! That's a relief. I've been posting all this time, and I was afraid I'd get arrested for PBW (posting while blocked) and put in Wikijail. Now i'm safe! --MelanieN (talk) 23:17, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Fiesta del Pacifico

Hello! Your submission of Fiesta del Pacifico at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! ¿3family6 _contribs 22:50, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Please see new note on DYK template. Yoninah (talk) 19:48, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Louis John Gill

I think it's interesting that he had such an eclectic impact: the Zoo; landmark churches; as a big name in Spanish Revival; the Administration building (which is PWA Moderne, a new article I had to write and was surprised didn't exist). And then his research was the basis of much of California's seismic code (which didn't have an article either, so I wrote one). Keizers (talk) 18:04, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

User:Keizers, you are the greatest article writing machine at Wikipedia! And not little stubs, but really good well developed articles. How many have you written? Hundreds, I think. --MelanieN (talk) 18:16, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

BTW I couldn't resist adding my favorite quote about seismic standards to the article. --MelanieN (talk) 18:34, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Android

Do you ever have used any android device to access Wikipedia?? Jim Carter ^(talk) 19:35, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

No. Sorry. --MelanieN (talk) 20:44, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

No problem. I thought you use Wikipedia Beta app. Jim Carter ^(talk) 16:08, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Nope. I do little or no posting from a mobile phone, and when I do it's from an iphone, not an android. As for the beta app I wouldn't touch it; I like the original Wikipedia format with the Vector skin. Sorry, I thought you meant Visual Editor; I don't know anything about a beta app. --MelanieN (talk) 16:29, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

I find the beta app of little use on my Samsung S5 Android phone except for reading a bit. I use the web browser instead. Never tried to use it on my Samsung Tab 2 10.1, I just use the browser, which isn't a great experience to be honest, hard to post on or load larger, more complex pages like ANI. I won't even use my admin account on either, out of fear of screwing up and blocking someone by accident. I use my Farmer Brown account instead. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 16:35, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

I could not have said it better myself

It is a novel interpretation that contradicts the clear language of MOS and STRONGNAT.

I think you just put the entire discussion into perspective.JOJ ^Hutton 19:02, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Fiesta del Pacifico

 — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:34, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

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Fixed Jim Carter ^(talk) 06:24, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! --MelanieN (talk) 10:53, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Louis John Gill

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Second related article

Hi MelanieN, Thanks for your AfD nomination of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death. There's yet another related Wikipedia article, eco-imperialism, quoted from on the book's 'official website'. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 21:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. That article has enough different sources to suggest that the term is valid or notable. I'll leave it alone. --MelanieN (talk) 22:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

Help! Help! Help!

Hello Melanie, can you please help me expand this a little. It is already 1200+ characters but needs some more expansion. Since you have good knowledge in the topic. So, I thought you might help. It can produce a new DYK hook. Actually you helped me creating this article. While correcting a DAB link named Greenwood (found on your talk page few days ago, which you removed here) I found about this one. The credit goes to you. I know you are quite busy at the moment, so no rush. Thanks, Jim Carter ^(talk) 11:57, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page. --MelanieN (talk) 22:19, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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