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Barry Bonds et al vandalism

I do not understand your action on my vandalsim warning. Please advise. Please respond to my user page. However, I will be logging off in 5 minutes. TonyTheTiger 22:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

The IP appears to have stopped vandalising, having made no changes for approximately 3 hours before your comment on their talk page. Although the other user may be a sockpuppet, they only made one edit and have also stopped. Blocks are only made for vandalism that is currently ongoing, which in this case it isn't. Cheers TigerShark 22:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Your 3 hour rule is a reasonable one in most cases. However, look at this guys history of ignoring warnings. It is an I.P. address that is used solely vandalism. I have seen blocks issued specifically stating that the block is because the account is solely used for vandalism. Furthermore, this guy may have figured out that if he vandalises pages that aren't likely to be policed non-stop he will get away with it because WP does not chase after people if they are not vandalising at that moment. TonyTheTiger 15:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Sure. I understand your concerns, but the IP seems to be a school and the previous vandalism is very intermittant (less than 40 edits since last May) so, unless the vandalism is currently ongoing, a block is probably not going to do much good IMHO. They have not edited since, although that is probably because it is the weekend, but I will try to keep an eye on the IP. Cheers TigerShark 18:00, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

School or not virtually every edit from that IP is vandalism. It should be blocked because of that. It should not take more than 40 vandalism attempts to get blocked. It should take about 3 or 4 different days at most. We are talking 37 edits and 12 vandalism warnings. This is a serious problem for any single user or IP. TonyTheTiger 18:06, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

P.S. What makes leads you to conclude that it is a scholastic IP. Why doesn't it have a {{SchoolIP}} tag if that is the case? TonyTheTiger 19:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

You are right, it is probably not a school IP (I am not sure why I thought that, I must have been getting confused with another recently reported IP). However, my reasoning for not blocking it was not primarily related to whether it was a school IP. The main reason was that the vandalism was not ongoing at the time the block was requested. If vandalism has stopped then a block should not be applied. In the case of very frequent vandalism, with recent warnings then a block may be appropriate because it is likely that the vandalism will restart soon. That is not the case when there have only been 37 edits in the last 8-9 months. I appreciate that this may be frustrating, but that few edits over that period of time, from what could be a shared IP does not warrant a block. The blocks must be used to prevent vandalism, rather than punish it. Given that there are usually days, and often weeks, between edits on this IP means that it is very unlikely that a block here would have prevented vandalism (the maximum block would only have been 24 hours, for a first block on an IP). Cheers TigerShark 22:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I am trying to learn more about fighting vandalism. I have recently been following along at CAT:RFU. I see User:TechBear has a {{Checkuserblock}}. It seems to me that in a case like this with extensive vandalism warnings, where there have been several earlier vandalism attempts in a given day (albeit ending a few hours earlier) a 12 or 24 hour block should be issued. As you have noted given the usage patterns of this IP address, this would likely not prevent vandalism. However, it would also likely not punish it either. Thus, it would give us a record of a having administrator involvement (I.E. a first admin block). At some point, even if no one catches this guy online, we have to start to take action since it seems to be a vandalism only IP address. A short term administrator block would seem to give us a record so that future vandalism attempts would be by an IP address that had been previously blocked. P.S., I am not really certain it is not a school. I admit I don't really know policy, I am just speaking about how I think it should work logically. Again, I will be logging off at 5:00 PM Central (8 minutes) TonyTheTiger 22:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I understand what you are saying and it does make perfect sense. However, the generally accepted policy is that we do not block if it would not be preventative. There is a record of warnings on the talk page, and although a record of blocks is more formal they should really only be given for the preventative reasons rather than to create a formal record. Although blocks may still be applied in the case of exntensive vandalism, I would still say that the level of vandalism from this IP, means that no real action is required here (except of course future preventative blocks if appropriate). I will keep an eye on this IP, and if the rate of vandalism increases, then I am happy to carry out a tougher course of action. Cheers TigerShark 23:06, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Our friend came back to visit today: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethiopia&diff=prev&oldid=105832126 TonyTheTiger 18:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I noticed he had a block log. He was blocked for 99 hours last May and today he got blocked for 1 week. TonyTheTiger 19:22, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Cheers TigerShark 20:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Nice to be in touch again

and it really does not matter to me what format gets used to record sources and/or resources. I take a look at what you posted and act accordingly. Congrats on your . . . ....... promotion? Carptrash 02:05, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

It took me a while to find what it was that you were refering to since I can't actually see it on my screen. I did eventually find it in the history section. Well I will give it a try and see what develops. Carptrash 02:17, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Sure. I am S....L........O............W................L...............................Y starting to get the hang of the new style (for me) of referencing. It's not natural yet, being all of a day old. Carptrash 16:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Whatever you are doing has gotten me back to Chicago. You get to decide if this is a good thing or not, but if it helps me with this reference thing, it seems like a good thing. Pretty soon i should come busting out with my Alvin Meyer article, for example, and I'm not sure quite how to reference some of that since much of my research goes back 20 years or more and is loosly lumped under my unpublished Architectural Sculpture in America umbrella. Part of the fun of life is seeing what will happen next. Carptrash 19:30, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

As thousands of police will testify, nabbing a criminal and getting him/her behind bars are two very different things. I have created 2 CDs of songs for my radio show (KLDK) that all have LOVE in their titles. I could send copies to this shark fellow if you feel it might help? Carptrash 19:45, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I have a fairly low tolerance for vandals figuring that if a school gets blocked, for example, they can deal with it. Find the person who is doing it and ban them from the internet for a week or two. I find that I spend a fair amount of my daily wikitime just patroling my 900 or so WATCHED pages for all sorts of junk from "Fred Farted" to the wiping out of whole articles. Anyway, good to see the traffic at the Marquette Building and elsewhere. I've been doing Detroit more than Chicago recently, but it is sharpening my reference skills, so that's a good thing. Carptrash 19:54, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

RE: Block of 207.228.211.35

I reverted a few of his moronic efforts at vandalism, but it was Gwernol who did the actual blocking of that IP. Unfortunately, I don't have blocking capabilities. I kind of stumbled across this guy. I do not know anything regarding the blocking of his sockpupet, because I'm not an admin. Let me know if I can be of any additional help. Cascadia^TALK|HISTORY 19:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

CHICOWT Good Article

Hi Tony. Are you sure you want to recommend Rich Melman for GA? It's kind of small, I was wondering if maybe Washington Park or South Loop would be better? Also, in the list of contributing editors, could you use my current account name from now on (TheQuandry)? The old account was set up under my real name and I abandoned it a while ago because there are some not-so-nice people out there. Thanks. TheQuandry 20:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, sounds fine. TheQuandry 21:12, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

School ip

I would hesitate in this case for two reasons. First, in my experience, that template is usually not used for institutes of higher education, but rather K-12 schools (plus their international equivalents). The other -- I think the notion (as discussed in the {{SchoolIP}} template) that the ip could be blocked for up to 6 months is a bad idea in the case of an institution we know to have many separate, possibly dynamic, IP addresses, as U Mich clearly does. Mangojuice^talk 21:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

New Flag system available

Would you be interested in some templates that I developed for the "Where I have been" section of your user page? Check out {{User:Will Pittenger/templates/GetCountryFlag}} and {{User:Will Pittenger/templates/GetProvinceFlag}} for just flags. For nation and/or province names, use {{User:Will Pittenger/templates/GetCountryName}} and {{User:Will Pittenger/templates/GetProvinceName}}.

Or you can use the most capable version that I use. It's {{User:Will Pittenger/templates/Nation Flag Entry}} and {{User:Will Pittenger/templates/Province Flag Entry}}. Enjoy them. I created them for myself, but knew, and somewhat hoped for, that they would be used in user boxes and other users' pages. Will (Talk - contribs) 01:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

sports families

I think it's okay if some families have their own categories (the Bowdens) and others do not (Karl Malone and Cheryl Ford). Make categories only when there's a large number of members, I'd say. Maybe four as a minimum.--Mike Selinker 09:17, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

• I used the phrase "make their marks" because I don't think the category should define what success is. For example, John Harding Lucas III hasn't become a success in the NBA yet, but he got fame for being related to his dad and his accomplishments in college. So however they're noteworthy, the category should welcome them.--Mike Selinker 21:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Museum of Contemporary Art

Hi, looks like you are making good progress. I think the article needs more depth but I will remove my hold. Good luck to you. Best wishes. -Susanlesch 23:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Saad Sami HADDAD

Dear Tony the Almighty Tiger,

Thank you for putting my father's Articles for deletion. May I know how can I improve the article, or seems to be the reason(s) for you considering to put it under deletion? Your answer would be most welcome. Thank you for your time. Walid HADDAD —The preceding unsigned comment was added by WALIDHADDAD (talk • contribs) 18:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

Dear Tony,

Again I thank you for pointing me in the right direction, it is thanks to people like you and user Danski14 that Wikipedia is a Thrustworthy Source.

1.I do not know if I clearly understood you but you need external evidence (links) on someone's notability to validate his or her or it's article. So do i need to provide a newspaper article? There is one but it is not to be found on the net should I scan it?

2.Should I remove the grandfather line from his site.

3.Since I am his son, I did wanted the bio/article to be as objective as possible, so that he would not be appear to be too notable. (I do not know if you get my point)

Finally Please feel free to delete any parts of the article/bio. But at least give me time to make it better.

Thanking you again in advance. Walid HADDAD 19:20, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Dear TonyTheTiger,

To my surprise and after a whole week of changing and updating my father's bio, and although in his pages i had some "keep" and do no delete appeals it was deleted yesterday. Although I have followed all the wikipedians instructions and made modifications such as adding a stub. It was Finally it was removed. In the future i hope no one would be in my case where he would proudly announce to his own father hey i listed in wikipedia, then two weeks later, well you were finally deleted. I mean how would a 72 years old man feel about that?

Again I have suggested that all articles would be listed in a wait zone prior to their publication on wikipedia so they can be screened and avoid online deletion process. It would be better i beleive. This is a true Flaw in the process of deletion. I would love to hear your comment on this please.

Thank you again.

PS:I understood that he is not that notable beleive me, and that his bio failed wikipedia's rules. I only thought that at the end I brought the bio to the standards of approval as low as they can be. Walid HADDAD 09:36, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Little Italy

Actually, I don't think the deletions were haphazard. I deleted information that was irrelevant (too much info on Cabrini Green, which has it's own article and moreover does not affect the Taylor St. area), extraneous food information (Kraft foods?), and a bunch of repetitive information about the existence of many restaurants in the area. But if you think something needs to be there add it back. - AKeen 20:00, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

As stated on the Little Italy talk page, Cabrini Green is nowhere near the location of Taylor street, so it's linking with the gentrification of Taylor street is not necessary. It has already been covered in the Little Sicily section which actually WAS bulldozed by Cabrini Green. Little Italy was bulldozed by UIC, and that led to its gentrification.... Little Italy is a separate entity from little Sicily. - AKeen

Cyber Girl of the Year

My edits to Cyber Girl of the Year were actually done in good faith:

• I added {{Unreferenced}} because the article didn't cite any references
• I added {{cn}} to the trivia item because, while true, it seemed speculative
• I removed "Warning: contains nudity" from the external link, because the link says it goes to playboy.com, so a warning seems redundant; I would have no problem with a notice like "Note: Website contains nudity," or something a bit less POV than "Warning...". The Honorable 03:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Campbell's Soup Cans

Hi Tony. You might want to reconsider the sentence One might make further interpretations of Warhol's motivations by considering his work in other media such as film and print where he was also well respected. We do not attempt that here. This could be considered borderline POV or editorializing. I'll have a look at the rest right now. TheQuandry 17:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I made some minor tweaks. Cheers! TheQuandry 18:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it would necessarily hurt anything to mention that he was involved in film and music as well, but since this article is about a specific art piece/series, I don't think it's important. I'm sure the Andy Warhol article discusses all of this. TheQuandry 19:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wii Health

The discussion was closed fairly quickly, yet not as a speedy; was this an invocation of WP:SNOW? Also, I thought that only administrators could close AfD discussions. Dancter 21:13, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Thanks. I forgot to mention it. TonyTheTiger 21:21, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I believe the rules state that non-admins can close discussions only if the result is keep. This is for the simple practical reason that if the result is delete, an admin will have to delete it anyhow, so you're not saving the admins much work. YechielMan 23:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

O.K. so my known mistakes are now 1. Not expressly mentioning WP:SNOW, 2. Using early closure to delete. Not so good for a first AfD close. Should I request that an admin complete the close for me? TonyTheTiger 23:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't think you need to. They should find it on their own. I know that two admins who frequently close afd's are User:W.marsh and User:Mailer Diablo, so a message to them wouldn't hurt. YechielMan 00:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I've re-opened the discussion. Non admins should not close anything as delete unless it has been speedy deleted. --- RockMFR 00:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

List of Argentine films

As I explained in most of the starters page I have stated in complete so please give me time to completely fill in the filmogrpahy adding details of the directors, actors, genre and notbaility of the films info on awards , basic plots etc. It will eventally look very good and be in order by date from 1897 to 2007!!!! very useful for understabding the cinema industry of each country. List of Argentine films:2000 is a bit better but please don't go tagging every page for cleanup as it is part of a task that needs completing asap. Once it is all completed and some images and paragrpahs on the that year in film - an overview it will begin to look good.

In the intro to all the pages I have stated the list is incomplete anyway, Give me severla weeks or so an I guarantee you it will all be looking great!!! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 18:33, 10 February 2007 (UTC) Ernst Stavro Blofeld 18:32, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks it s a mammoth task but I beleive it is a start and can develop very quickly. I also aim to remove the red links eventually also and produce full length detailed articles but I need over a hundred people to do this!!! I am aiming to set up and document the cinema industry by coountry and set up sub-wiki project cinemas to specialize in contributing in this field. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Argentina/Cinema of Argentina that I recently set up for greater organization. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 19:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks I'll be needing it . I found a VAST!! missing area of wikipedia which motivated me to attempted to make it a little better -The World's Largest Encyclopedia/Site shouldn't have missing information! - but it'll take time to build the entire project into the greatest work of human history!! Have you noticed how the article count is accelerating - mid decmeber we hit the 1,500,000 now we are 1,630,000 already!! Lets hope those many stubs develop properly. All the best Ernst Stavro Blofeld 19:11, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

CHICOTW

I'd love to help out once I get settled into my new job. Ace-o-aces 18:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

John Drake dab

Hi. Thanks for your work on the John Drake dab page. It's usually good form, however, to make sure when you move a page like this that you also make sure all the links pointing to the page have been updated. Please check the "What links here" link for these links. In the case of John Drake there are a number of articles that now need to be updated. If you could do this as soon as possible, that would be much appreciated. 23skidoo 01:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Blackstone

As a publisher, I am quite familiar with ISBNs. However books published in 1917 (and in fact most books published before the 1970s) do not have ISBNs. Shsilver 19:19, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Replied to your question at AN

Just letting you know, I replied at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#CAT:RFU opposition. – Luna Santin (talk) 20:49, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's an email I got from User:Jesup explaining the situation:

Marshalbannana aka Marshal2.0 aka Jacknicholson (indef-banned for puppetry) has a long history of puppetry and anon-IP edit-pushing (on Katana, trying to insert a youtube video for months, eventually resulting in full protection being required). After I (Wikipedia User:jesup) accused him/Jacknicholson of sockpuppetry here, he started abusing my user page and later (after user was sprotected) my Talk page occasionally (still doing it as of last weekend).

Appears to be a high-school student from somewhere in the south, perhaps Georgia, on a dynamic IP (BellSouth) which frequently changes or he forces changes.

He's started vandalising my userspace (look at my talk page history) now. Cheers, yandman 22:08, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and there's this at ANI. yandman 22:26, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Block review

No offence mate, but this was a bit of a slap in the face to the user in question, wasn't it? 〈REDVEЯS〉 22:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah! Read it the other way. Apologies. 〈REDVEЯS〉 22:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Unblock

00:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Does the message say who blocked you? There is nothing in your block log and the block of that IP [1] should have expired by now. Please copy and paste the full block message. Thank you. --BigDT 00:51, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Here is the full block message (unformatted): Your account or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Dmcdevit for the following reason (see our blocking policy): This IP address has been blocked temporarily.CheckUser evidence has determined that this IP address is being used abusively;the address has been blocked to prevent further abuse.

If you are a registered user and are seeing this message, please post {{unblock}} on your talk page, with a notereferencing this message. Please be sure to include the IP address (which should appear at the bottom of the block message). Administrators should not undo any block that is specifically called a "Checkuser" block. Period. The Checkuser knows something that you don't. If the unblock template goes up you need to ask the Checkuser why the block is there. The Checkuser might not tell you, but they will review the situation and decide whether the block can be lifted. It may not be obvious why that block is in place, but there is a reason.[1] (see: block log • current autoblocks)

Your IP address is 12.2.23.146. TonyTheTiger 00:53, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey -- it's probably a rangeblock, those are sometimes hard to find. I'll alert Dmcdevit and see if he can help. Mangojuice^talk 13:02, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

GAC

What do you think about the past two WP:GAC failures? Among the problems were copyediting. TonyTheTiger 19:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

If you mean Washington Park (racetrack) and Washington Park (neighborhood), I concentrated my efforts on Washington Park (park), which seemed to be our central piece. I didn't think we would concurrently submit the subarticles, so I didn't copyedit those. However, I did go in and copyedit (neighborhood) after I saw the GA failure notice, and fixed a couple other things, so we may be closer on that one. The note on the (racetrack) talk page is that the article isn't broad enough, although I'm not sure how we could really expand it any more. Readily available information about the track seems limited, even though it was a major track at one point. TheQuandry 20:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you want me to say, Tony. I've read your message a few times and you seem to be challenging the quality of my copyediting contributions. I don't know what happened with either Hull House or Near South Side, Chicago, but I probably just didn't have a great amount of time to spend on them. My job, my girlfriend and some other parts of my life come before Wikipedia. I notice some new people voting for the next round though, so maybe more help will be available on future articles. TheQuandry 21:13, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, my mistake. Sorry about that. I guess I would say that some of our articles are better than others and maybe it has to do with the amount of time the individuals have to put their thoughts down? I can see how some of the sentence structure in Hull House isn't quite up to par. Rich Melman may end up suffering for lack of content (maybe not though, who knows). Little Italy and Timothy Blackstone look pretty tight to me, but of course there may be things I'm not seeing. Is there some way we can get pre-evaluations or just some hints from one of the GA folks? I don't think any of us are going to catch all of the weak spots if there are any and it would definitely help to know what areas of the articles we should tighten up before submitting. TheQuandry 03:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I changed the notes formatting to the smaller version (I just think it looks better when we have more than three). It's really hard to know what the real issue is with the images because I think his points are aesthetically subjective. It's definitely arguable that all of those images are pertinent to the article, but actually placing images into articles smoothly isn't my strong suit. Maybe we could put one or two into the article body and the rest would work best in a gallery at the bottom of the page? TheQuandry 15:22, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I found out that image galleries are discouraged. So, I reshuffled the images throughout the article where they seem to match the text, and moved a few out into other articles (Museum Campus sign to the Museum Campus article, Soccer Federation image to US Soccer Federation article, etc.) I think it looks better now. I also shuffled the sections around, moved the printers row stuff to the bottom, of the page, edited some of the writing, added some subheads to try and break up the text under the history heading. Let me know what you think and of course make changes as you see fit. TheQuandry 16:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 22:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

As far as assessing biographies go, I would suggest you read over the guidelines [here] to get an understanding of how assessment works. Most of the [unassessed articles] are of the Stub and Start class, which you can find definitions of the in aforementioned link. I would suggest you start help tagging unassessed articles because it helps boost your edit count, but also helps you get the ball rolling on some articles. While I'm tagging some articles, I give a second to edit and add some necessary tags it will need to get it to the next class rating, usually {{expand}} {{unreferenced}} {{wfy}} etc. Just give the articles a quick glance. If it skin and bones and very short, it belongs to the stub class. If it has a decent amount of information, has an infobox and/or a picture, a start class assessment would be appropriate. Thank you for helping out! --Ozgod 06:02, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I do not mind helping you out at all. Most of the articles you have posted would all fall into the Start category. Most of the articles you have listed have fleshed out the primary information of the article - their life or their career. A B class article normally requires at least an infobox, a picture of the subject, and a good deal if information on both their life and the work they are known for. With the exception of Rob Pelinka, most of those articles would arguably fall into the Start category. For an ideal B class article, refer to Alfred Hitchcock. The aim of Biography project is get most articles to an A class, ideally a Featured Article Class. Right now the first step in moving articles in that direction is to at least get them most basic of assessments so they can move forward in the development process. If you get confused, just refered to the Biography Assessment page and bookmark it and refer to it you get confused. Again, thank you for helping out! --Ozgod 02:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

From what I have gathered the priority assessment has been put on hold for now. I would suggest leaving it blank so a more educated editor on the subject can correctly assess its priority value. The priority value is how important they are to their particular field (low, medium, high, top). Someone like Albert Einstein would be top. --Ozgod 06:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

It is up to you. I would personally put him into the stub category since he does lack an infobox and/or photo. But if the article is full enough that you can walk away understanding who he was, start class is fine. It is at your discretion what you consider stub or start. Stub is usually the most basic whereas start is a little more developed. Rob Pelinka isn't basic perse, but he lacks an infobox and photo, which I normally consider essential for a start class. If you can find the information within the article itself, then be an advanced editor and add it in there and then tag the article for Start. --Ozgod 06:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

What would be ideal in his case then would be a basic biography infobox - his name, date of birth, place of birth, any marriages, offspring. --Ozgod 06:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On February 27, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Rob Pelinka, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:18, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Copyedit on Hull House

Hi Tony. I have a little time today, so I'm starting a pretty heavy copyedit of Hull House. I'm not an expert on the House itself, so I wondered if you could help me with one sentence. It's ambiguous and I'm not sure how to restructure it. It's the first sentence of the second paragraph under "Mission" about Hull House attracting women who rose to become prominent. Did Hull host these women (and they later became activists and influential people), or did it attract the notice of society women who later used their political power to provide assistance to Hull? Any help is appreciated. TheQuandry 15:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll plow into CBOT this evening, I'm just waiting to be sure that the main writing is mostly wrapped up. By the way, I think I'm done with Hull House. If you have a minute, take a look, read through and let me know if you see anything weird. I restructured a lot of the sentences, especially in the intro. TheQuandry 15:52, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

I deleted the sentence about open forum vs structured debate. It didn't fit well with the rest of the paragraph and I wasn't sure how best to integrate it. It isn't necessarily wrong to include it in the article, but it should be in its own paragraph or subsection and possibly expanded. Actually, the whole "Mission" section might be better if the different elements were placed under subsections or something similar. Maybe a new main head "mission", with subheads of teachings" and "accomplishments". "Mission would be a short head with the actual quoted mission, the Paul Kellogg quote and other Mission-related stuff thereunder, the stuff about the juvenile court and related info under "accomplishments", and "teachings" discussing the classes and studies with the mention about open forum/structured debate? TheQuandry 18:47, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Maybe we should try to find some architechtural info. That did seem to be one of their big issues. TheQuandry 22:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

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