User talk:Johnsoniensis/2016

Cressingham Gardens

As an outsider- could you glance at and assess Cressingham Gardens and put a few comments on the talk page. I am concerned that objectivity has been lost- I have made too many edits to be considered unbiased. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 18:12, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

R. S. Lewis Funeral Home

Hi there. I see you gave R. S. Lewis Funeral Home a low importance rating today. Martin Luther King, Jr. had his first funeral there the day after his assassination. Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:49, 16 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Ryecroft, The Private Papers of listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Henry Ryecroft, The Private Papers of. Since you had some involvement with the Henry Ryecroft, The Private Papers of redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 19:48, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Philatelic assessments

I see you are going through some of the unassessed philatelic articles found in this table User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Philately. I presume you are familiar with this page Wikipedia:WikiProject Philately/Assessment and with your current work you may want to join the Philately WikiProject. Good luck. ww2censor (talk) 10:24, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That was a quick signup! ww2censor (talk) 10:36, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:List of successful English Channel swimmers

Hi Johnsoniensis! On Talk:List of successful English Channel swimmers you accidentally added the redlink {{WPNIO}}. Could you please fix your typo? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 02:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

History of Carthage merge

There is a discussion regarding merging History of Punic-era Tunisia: chronology and History of Punic-era Tunisia: culture into History of Carthage being held at Talk:History of Carthage#Merge. You are being approached as you are a recent or significant editor of one or other of the articles, or because you have expressed interest in the merge previously. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 19:03, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Clara McDonald Williamson

I noticed that you added a couple more WikiProject banners to the Talk page of my most recent article, Clara McDonald Williamson. Thanks for that! But I'm curious about the banner with boilerplate about the ArbCom: "The Arbitration Committee has permitted Wikipedia administrators to impose discretionary sanctions on any editor editing this page or associated pages......". Why is that there? First time I've seen this anywhere, so I'm curious.Alafarge (talk) 16:53, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

March 2016

Recently I have come across a number of edits by you like this - eight times in the last three months, including this and this where you made exactly the same mistake. You have not learned from the edit summaries that I have left when reverting; accordingly, Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made, reduces edit conflicts, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

The "show preview" button is right next to the "save page" button and below the edit summary field.

It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:30, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sonnets

Hi. I see you've begun grading the Sonnet articles, thus fixing a "problem" I created by tagging them with the poetry template. Thanks. I'll just mention that I'm in the middle of systematically updating/adding the "Structure" sections (if you see my little × /s, you know I've been there -- currently I'm up to Sonnet 86). While I'm in there, I also try to fix any really obvious blunders, bad formatting, etc., though I am not necessarily even reading the entire articles. If you think that my updates may affect the grades you would give, then it will be advantageous to stay in my wake, as it were. If not, not. While I do have some other future improvements in mind, they mostly tend toward structure/features, rather than content, so probably wouldn't affect your assessment. Cheers. Phil wink (talk) 17:15, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Thank you for the advice.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 19:32, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for your assessments. Phil wink (talk) 15:58, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Need assessment

I just created David Hall (publisher). Can you give it WikiProjects. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:31, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That was quick -> thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:37, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you.

Thank you for adding the class designations to the WikiProject templates on the Kartika_(knife). As a new editor, I'm learning my way around yet I don't yet know the procedures for determining classes, so I'm glad you do and that you added them. Best, AD64 (talk) 19:34, 7 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

p.s. The grading also gives me a fair and accurate picture of what is needed to improve the article quality. This is very helpful. Best, AD64 (talk) 20:14, 7 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The West Country Challenge

Hi, Are you going to join in at: Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge. I'd particularly appreciate your help with getting the right things included in the core articles & missing articles lists at this stage as we are still preparing for the contest.— Rod ^talk 20:37, 7 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject banners

Hallo, I see that you removed my addition of {{WikiProject Women}} on Talk:Hadieh Shafie. I was following the instructions here which tell me to add both the "Women" and "Women artist" banners. Why did you remove it, I wonder? I'll replace it for now. PamD 16:32, 12 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

West Country Challenge core articles

Can you explain why you substituted Earl of Devon for Duke of Devonshire? I didn't understand your comment and my intent was to add the highest noble title for each county. Also, don't forget to update the core list for the individual county.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 12:56, 21 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2016 Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Community Survey

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Thank you, The Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Search Steering Committee via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:49, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

I just saw your name pop on my watchlist and took a look at your userpage; you're the first person I've come across on-Wikipedia with a link to QUB! When/what did you study, if you don't mind me being nosey? Josh Milburn (talk) 12:31, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How interesting; the university, as I'm sure you can imagine/will know, has changed quite considerably since then. I'm not even sure if library sciences is still taught... I don't think I've met anyone who's involved with it, if it is. I know College Gardens; I don't think any of the buildings on College Gardens are still used for teaching/research; there's a daycare and a few businesses, but (and I may be wrong about this) I think they're mostly just houses, now. I've just finished a doctorate in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy—which is about to become part of the merged School of History, Anthropology, Politics and Philosophy—on University Square, just next to the Lanyon Building and all the assorted buildings which may have sprung up since your time here. Anyway, nice to hear from you. Josh Milburn (talk) 14:19, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) There are a lot of us (retired) librarians around editing Wikipedia - I did my MSc in Information Studies at Sheffield, in what was then PGSLIS and is now Sheffield iSchool.Pam D 15:31, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

... and I early-retired from my university library post in 2003! PamD 18:28, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The West Country Challenge

Hi. I was wondering if you'd be interested in participating in Wikipedia:WikiProject England/The West Country Challenge in August. A chance to win £250 as well! If contests aren't your thing we welcome independent contributors too. If interested sign up at participants. Cheers!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:53, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Kliment Timiryazev

I have paraphrased the content you added to the above article, as it appears to have been copied from http://web.archive.org/web/20140601061743/http://www.guideinmoscow.com/site.xp/050056053.html, a copyright web page. All content you add to Wikipedia must be written in your own words. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa (talk) 22:02, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

If you want to, please take a look at the article about Anne Ramberg that I created today. Any help and improvements are welcomed. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 21:54, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Freedom of religion by country

Hi Johnsoniensis. I see you copied material from several articles into the above article. You may not have realized, but all the material you copied is originally from US State Department documents. While we do allow appropriate public domain content in our articles, in order to meet the Wikipedia guideline on plagiarism, such content must be fully attributed. This requires not only acknowledging the source, but acknowledging that the source is copied. There are several methods to do this described at Wikipedia:Plagiarism#Public-domain sources, including the usage of an attribution template. I have added the attribution for this instance. Also, you may not realize it, but when copying from one Wikipedia article to another, Wikipedia's licensing requires that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Such attribution is not required for this particular instance, since the US State Department is the author of the prose that you copied, but I just thought I would let you know for future reference. Please let me know if you have any questions. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:23, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 09:14, 6 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiProject rater gadget

From your contribution history it seems to me you might be interested in this tool for WikiProject-assessing: User:Kephir/gadgets/rater. I find it very useful and it has saved me countless hours of time already. Just wanted to let you know about it.

--Fixuture (talk) 17:33, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Salting the earth

Thanks for your work on the wikiproject headers. I do wonder why you classify this article as "start class". It uses multiple reliable sources, including five modern scholarly sources, in particular the most recent scholarly article on the topic. It gives a source for all the non-trivial claims. It refers to the relevant primary sources for the Shehem story and the 19th-century Carthage story. It is written in clear and correct English. I am not sure how the article could be expanded much more, unless we want to include textual references for every case in the ancient Near East (we already include solid secondary sources for them), or if we want to report on the detailed argumentation in the scholarly articles. What in particular do you think the article needs to progress beyond start class? --Macrakis (talk) 16:17, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the re-rating. If you have thoughts on what this article is missing to get it to GA or A, perhaps you could write it up in the article's Talk page? Thanks, --Macrakis (talk) 18:27, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Same request for English words of Greek origin! Thanks, --Macrakis (talk) 18:36, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Johnsoniensis. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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a big thankyou

Hi Johnsoniensis, thanks for all your hard work in rating the articles i've been creating. Coolabahapple (talk) 01:20, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Chimney sweeps

Do you want to projecttag this one as well? Chimney sweeps' carcinoma --ClemRutter (talk) 16:44, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]