User talk:Deevincentday

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Request for Peer Review help

Thank you for you work as a peer review volunteer. Since March, there has been a concerted effort to make sure all peer review requests get some response. Requests that have gone three days or longer without a substantial response are listed at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog. I have three requests to help this continue.

1) If you are asked to do a peer review, please ask the person who made the request to also do a review, preferably of a request that has not yet had feedback. This is fairly simple, but helps. For example when I review requests on the backlog list, I close with Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, ...

2) While there are several people who help with the backlog, lately I have been doing up to 3 or 4 peer reviews a day and can not keep this up much longer. We need help. Since there are now well over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, if each volunteer reviewed just one PR request without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog. To help spread out the load, I suggest those willing pick a day of the month and do a review that day (for example, my first edit was on the 8th, so I could pick the 8th). Please pick a peer review request with no responses yet, if possible off the backlog list. If you want, leave a note on my talk page as to which day you picked and I will remind you each month.

3) I have made some proposals to add some limits to peer review requests at Wikipedia_talk:Peer_review#Proposed_limits. The idea is to prevent any one user from overly burdening the process. These seem fairly reasonable (one PR request per editor per day, only four total PR requests per editor at a time, PR requests with cleanup banners can be delisted (like GAN quick fail), and wait two weeks to relist a PR request after it is archived), but have gotten no feedback in one week. If you have any thoughts on these, please weigh in.

Thanks again for your help and in advance for any assistance with the backlog. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for copyediting

Hi. I currently have the article Insane Clown Posse up as a featured article candidate, and it needs some copyediting work. Could you help out? (Ibaranoff24 (talk) 02:29, 27 July 2008 (UTC))[reply]

Request for a copyedit

Hello! Could you check out the Ayumi Hamasaki article, please? Prose issues tripped up its last FA candidacy. Thanks! Ink Runner (talk) 18:57, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Removal from PR Volunteer List

Due to extremely low editing in the project within the past six months, you have been removed from the list of available editors at Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers. This is done to ensure those seeking volunteers are only directed to active editors who can respond relatively quickly to requests. If you decide to return to editing Wikipedia, feel free to readd your name to this list. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 03:13, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I was volunteering to help with articles on Architecture but people were requesting help with subjects about which I know nothing and therefore do not feel qualified to comment.Deevincentday (talk) 21:12, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Aedas

It's tightened up considerably - good work. It's still a little promotional, but much toned down compared to what it was. I still see no reason to have links to all those professional links and magazines - they have nothing specifically to do with Aedas and so fail WP:EL. Image galleries are also discouraged. A link to Commons {{commonscat|Aedas}} is the appropriate thing to do, once you've appropriately categorized them there. For Commons, are you certain that you have permission to post those as free-content images - I assume that they're your work (and nice it is, too), but isn't the copyright held by Aedas? Do you have permission from management to post them as freely-distributable content? Speaking as a principal in a (much smaller) architecture firm, I'm not sure I'd do that, and I'm normally an advocate of free content. Acroterion _(talk) 17:57, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Basiclly I worked for Aedas for a period of 10 months (technical author on their in house computer systems) and during my time there they kept trying to put an entry on Wikipedia but it kept getting deleted for obvious reasons. So in exasperation I told them that it was because the page read like a sales brochure. I told them I would sort it out because I am a huge fan of their work and felt they were notable enough to merit a Wiki page. At the same time I told them that it would be nice to have some images to illustrate the article so they provided me with some images to put on the page.

Upon checking my watchlist the other day I saw that a section had been added along with rewrites to other sections and your notice. So I had a chat with them on the phone and told them I was going to rewrite because the content again was unacceptable and asked if they had any images to add to the article. They sent me some via email and yes I do have their permission to add the images to wikipedia. The images are published in magazines all over the world so I am guessing they have in part been produced for publication purposes and distributed freely to architecture magazines. I am currently out of work as a result of the economic situation so have plenty of time to do this!

If image galleries are to be discouraged why do you not simply remove the facility from the Wiki? I regularly read through the wiki help and experiment with the features I stumble across. If you don't want people to use them why have them there? For me Architecture is very visual and the best way of informing people is to show them rather than writing down loads of facts that people may or may not be able to visualise. I therefore felt that the best way to show what Aedas does is to display it in a gallery. I am a professional technical author and documentation specialist and always like to apply a nice, visually pleasing layout to my work. In addition, my constant struggle to read a fair percentage of online content on the screen drives my desire forward. So I am afraid that if the facilities exist to achieve a pleasing easy to read layout then I am going to use them. If this is not correct then the fault is not mine but the wiki for making the facility available to me. Please note I am saying this with a smile not a snarl :-)!!

I too have been around tor a few years and remember Wordstar very well along with View on the BBC micro, Amstrad and Sinclair word processing systems to name but a few. I gained a reputation as a young woman who was able to make wordstar do what I want while many struggled to type a letter. For that reason I worked as a trainer and helped literally thousands of people gain control of their software and then taking them further to more advanced topics. I have many years experience in communicating ideas and concepts in many forms and my aim is like that of the BBC, to educate, inform and entertain.

I only put the links in because I had feedback that there were not enough links on the page to establish relevance to architecture. Though quite why the then 4th (now 2nd) largest practice in the world was not relevant to architecture was never revealed to me. I personally did not see the need to have the magazine links there either, however, they are a good source of news about Aedas. Aedas are very active on professional bodies and in the UK they chair a couple of committees relating to carbon emissions and green architecture. Maybe if the link directs to the relevant area? I will have a look at that. I will also look again at the narrative to see if we could not bring this out a bit more.

Deevincentday (talk) 12:51, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

First, you have my complete sympathy with respect to being out of work. While it goes with the territory and happened to me (twice) early in my career, it stinks. I just had to lay off someone myself, who had done fine work and had worked hard for us, and I hated it.

As for image galleries, the policy seems to have arisen as a result of abuse and the creation of Commons as a central repository. In theory, Commons can show far more information than would ever be possible in an article, gallery or not. I do agree that for articles on architecture, and in particular a firm's work, a gallery is not out of place, but the policy lurks in the background. I'd leave it alone, knowing that someone might object. It would be better to have some variety and have some pictures of built projects rather than entirely 3DS renderings, though.

With respect to the images on Commons, I think you should double-check with Aedas concerning their posting. Placing them on Commons under a free content license means that anyone can use the images anywhere for any reason, and may create derivative works, providing only that attribution is correctly given. That doesn't mean that the underlying copyright on the design is compromised, but it does mean that control of the use of the images is entirely surrendered. Aedas should make sure to fully understand that, and to read the fine print. Publishing the images for use in magazines does not have nearly the same effect, as those images are just freely distributable; images on Commons are freely usable for any purpose at all.

I'd ignore the feedback on links - if they don't directly concern Aedas and add encyclopedic information on Aedas, they're not appropriate per WP:EL. The notion that a firm of this size has to resort to a lot of links to establish notability is ludicrous. I tend to lurk around the deletions and challenge proposed deletions like that - some time ago somebody wanted to delete Michael Webb of Archigram. I'm sorry I missed the Aedas debate. Acroterion _(talk) 14:30, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How refreshing to have a debate with someone who knows what they are talking about. I will certainly draw Aedas' attention to the points you raised surrounding the uploading of images. However, they are of poor resolution and sized fairly small so although they could be reused they will be of poor quality if blown up to any reasonable size which may explain why you are under the impression that all of them are 3DS renders. Maybe this is the basis on which they are happy to release these images to wikipedia. I know for a fact that some of them are photographs of completed buildings in particular Wicker Riverside in my home city, Sheffield and Forty Springardens in Manchester. I am also gathering together materials for a section on Aedas' work in the field of sustainability which should fulfil the need for more encyclopaedic content. I will invite you to review it once I have written and illustrated it.

It is indeed a pity you were not around for the deletion debate as there were some pretty silly statements made and at times I felt alone and in need of support from someone who knew what they were talking about. Support did appear asking for answers to the question of why Aedas were not notable or relevant but no response was forthcoming. Fortunately, although small, the support was enough to prevent the deletion.

I am always tweaking and improving this page and always welcome intelligent feedback.

Deevincentday (talk) 16:00, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, I'm the only administrator who's an architect, and there aren't more than a handful of architects active on Wikipedia, although Warofdreams (talk · contribs), a bureaucrat, has architectural training. Sometimes I just have to stamp my feet and say yes, this really is important! I would appreciate any help you can give to articles in the general field of architecture, as it's sadly neglected compared to articles on Pokemon, cellphone model numbers and obscure roads in Manitoba.

I didn't look closely at all the images when I was writing that comment, as I was at work writing a proposal to get more work and keep everybody employed, so thanks for clearing that up for me. Generally, yes, moderately low-resolution should be good for the purpose, sort of halfway to the fair-use images that are acceptable here on enwiki, but aren't at Commons. Acroterion _(talk) 17:02, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Aedas files

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Dee,

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1) You need to sign your entries, to sign a post, type four tildes (~~~~).

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Things are better with more effective communication. > Best O Fortuna (talk) 20:59, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your note. As you see I do not get to sign on very often. I do usually sign my posts but sometimes forget. After all I am human and not a bot. Not sure I know what you mean about the equals signs. I usually use the tab key to indent. More effective communication techniques are subject to opinion. If you read my talk page you may realise I have accessibility issues reading onscreen text so I try to do my best. Deevincentday (talk) 08:16, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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