User talk:Kakofonous/Archive 3

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Archive 2

Archive 3

Archive 4

Archive 5

Master Juba

Hi, Kakofonous. I'm curious whether the article Master Juba fits under the banner of Wikipedia:WikiProject Percussion. Since I know you read the article and that you are a member of that project, I hoped you might offer your opinion. One of Juba's greatest legacies was the addition of African American percussion to American dance, but I'm not sure if that counts for your project. At any rate, feel free to add the banner to his page if you think it belongs there. Thanks! — Dulcem (talk) 04:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Not sure if Master Juba specifically fits, but juba dance definitely does. If you want to help me do some work on it (as it's not in the best shape right now), that would be great, as it's a project I'm considering taking on. Cheers! Kakofonous (talk) 22:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I've got juba dance on my watchlist. I can't say that I have access to many helpful sources, but a few of the ones used for Master Juba do have a little here and there. I'll be keeping an eye on things and will gladly pitch in where I can. — Dulcem (talk) 23:04, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good; I've got a good source for expansion, just don't know exactly when I'll start. Once again, great job on Master Juba! Kakofonous (talk) 23:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Grime

Yo, nice work on the above article, your edits there are going to make it tremendously easier to maintain that page. Happy editing! Jdcooper (talk) 17:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Kakofonous (talk) 22:39, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Old Court-New Court controversy

Thanks for your review of Old Court-New Court controversy. Just wanted to make sure you had seen my comments on the article's talk page. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 14:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the pass. I will try to find more information on these cases when things settle down for me a bit, especially if you think it has FA potential. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 16:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Writing for the Signpost

Hello. You expressed interest in writing for the Wikipedia Sign?post (sorry for the delay in responding). I'm sending this message to everyone who commented, so if you have any questions I haven't answered, please feel free to ask me, and I'll try to respond to specific questions.

Essentially, what I'm looking for is writers who can step in and write on subjects that are newsworthy from week-to-week. The content of the stories obviously varies each week depending on what's happening; this is discussed below.

There are three major parts to writing an article:

Choosing a topic
Writing the article
Submitting the article

Part 1: Choosing a topic

As said above, topics will vary from week-to-week. For this week, these particular issues may be newsworthy:

~~Bureaucratship candidacies~~ — There are a lot of bureaucratship candidacies this week, for the first time in about six or seven months. I'm personally covering this one for next week, but this is a good example of what might be newsworthy.
Encyclopedia of Life — This encyclopedia of species has been getting some press, and relates somewhat to Wikimedia project Wikispecies.
Hidden categories — For those technically inclined, this is a new feature that has some interesting implications.

For more ideas, and for ideas in the future, check the tip-line -- there are usually some good ideas there.

Once you've decided on a topic, make sure to sign up for it in the newsroom, under "Special stories", so that users aren't duplicating each others' work (though multiple writers are certainly free to work together on a story).

Part 2: Writing the article

Now, you've decided on a topic and signed up for it. To write it, create a subpage in your userspace. For my story this week on the bureaucratship candidacies, for example, I'll create it at User:Ral315/Bureaucratship candidacies. The name isn't a big deal, of course -- I'll change it if necessary.

Formatting the story isn't important; for your first article, you should mainly focus on writing a good story, and I'll take care of the formatting when we publish. Try to write it in a newspaper-like tone, avoiding personal comments and opinions in favor of straight-forward facts. The size of an article varies based on what the story is, but a good minimum goal for most stories is two-to-three good paragraphs. Longer articles are even better, so long as they're well-written.

Part 3: Submitting the article

Now, all you have to do is post a link to the article in the newsroom, where you signed up for it earlier. That's it! You're done!

Again, if you have any questions at all, please contact me, and I'll try to respond as soon as possible.

Thanks for your interest in writing for the Signpost. Ral315 (talk) 03:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, seriously....

I've been seeing you all over my watchlist, and all around RfA/other adminish areas. Are you interested in an RfA? Because you're awesome. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂0) 09:49, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I think I'd like to stick around for a few more months and stack up a few more (thousand) edits before I take the big plunge. Thanks for the support, though! If you want to nominate me then, I'd more than happily accept. Thanks again, Kakofonous (talk) 11:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I'll keep my eye on you ;) (and don't worry, I had this page watchlisted). dihydrogen monoxide (H₂0) 11:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Jacques Plante

See my reply on the talkpage. I've fixed all but one issue. Thanks for the review; I was waiting for a good five weeks for it. :-( Maxim_(talk) 18:39, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Re Baltimore Club

I did? Wow, I'm very sorry. I was trying to revert the vandalism by 24.152.141.47. As I'm looking at the logs though, I think I'm very confused as to what I'm doing. My apologies. Tabor (talk) 05:00, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

The March 2008 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is ready! Dr. Cash (talk) 06:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Still feel that way?

A few weeks ago, you and Epbr123 gave me a pretty high compliment. It looks like Epbr123 has retired after a pretty rough RfA. If you still feel that way, I think I'm ready. Toddst1 (talk) 23:23, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I still feel that way. I'll start writing a nom. --Kakofonous (talk) 23:41, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I'm male. Toddst1 (talk) 00:05, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Paleolithic references

Thanks for the advice--Fang 23 (talk) 23:45, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Santogold

Heh, a strange coincidence. I am the only person currently fulfilling music requests at WP:RA, and I try to single out previously deleted or protected pages, since they've already got strikes against them. When Santogold hit my radar the need was obvious. As for the jazz...T. Anthony alerted me to the fact that, depressingly, the German Wikipedia had several hundred articles on American/British jazz musicians that the English Wiki did not. So I set myself to correcting the imbalance...and I'm not even close to done. If you've got time to dust off the Feather, there are still plenty of musicians in there needing pages... =) Chubbles (talk) 05:20, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Also, you can go right ahead and edit my userdraft of the Santo page if you like. Chubbles (talk) 05:22, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

RfA

Thank you for your help. We'll see how this goes. Toddst1 (talk) 05:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Mamadou Diabaté

Hi,

I noticed that you created the article Mamadou Diabaté. I was thinking of nominating the article to be featured on the DYK section of the main page ... however, I noticed one discrepancy: the third and fourth references are clearly distinct in terms of text, but link to the same website. Is this a copy-pasting error?

By the way, the DYK "hook" I had in mind is:

...that Mamadou Diabaté, a Malian kora player, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005, but lost to his cousin Toumani Diabaté?

What do you think?

Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 08:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing the link. Counting pure body text, exlusive of the appendices, discography, and infobox, I arrive at a figure of 1505 characters. It's right at the threshold, but may be worth a nomination... Black Falcon ^(Talk) 16:51, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

With the refs taken out too? I came up with something like 360… --Kakofonous (talk) 16:55, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh nevermind...I was looking at word count, not character count. Feel free to nominate! --Kakofonous (talk) 17:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I was just going to note that and was edit-conflicted. ;) As for the nomination, done! I hope you don't mind, I also copy-pasted your original nomination to offer the selecting admin some choice. Black Falcon ^(Talk) 17:31, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Oasis (band)

Okie dokie, I've had a stab at the points on the article's talk page. Tell me what you think now. Thanks for your time! Scarian ^{Call me Pat} 18:30, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I've had another stab: Yay or nay? Scarian ^{Call me Pat} 18:46, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! :-D I owe you one! Scarian ^{Call me Pat} 18:58, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Blakey

After checking an original tracklisting for, what is in my opinion, a 'mainstream' or revered Blakey record and being extremely disappointed with the discography, I decided to make use of my days sick at home. I have to admit I'm new to Images and dealing with them properly. How would you recommend amending the licensing and copyright issues? Tried to hunt and peck around..LeRoytheKing (talk) 02:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 10 March, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mamadou Diabaté, 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.

--Royalbroil 13:52, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Vandalize?

So censoring and stopping someone from writing the truth is not worse than vandalizing?

Many times I posted a new section on how it's now.. how books and papers are coming out proving that west world and oil companies were behind the revolution.

wikipedia - it's full of censorship. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rux (talk • contribs) 14:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

RfA - Toddst1

Kakofonous, Thank you very much for taking the time to nominate me for my RfA. You clearly went out of your way to do that and I truly appreciate it. I'm sure you've seen by now that it passed (42/0/0) at 09:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC). Now, to learn to use the mop. 8-) Toddst1 (talk) 15:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Peer review idea

Hi, I have made a proposal that no peer review request be archived without some response. To aid in this, there is a new list of PR requests at least one week old that have had no repsonses beyond a semi-automated peer review. This list is at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog.

There are just over 100 names on the PR volunteers page, so I figure if each of these volunteers reviewed just one or two PR requests without a response from the list each month, it would easily take care of the "no response" backlog (as there have been 2 or 3 such unanswered requests a day on average).

If you would be able to help out with a review or two a month from the "no responses" backlog list that would be great (and much appreciated). Please discuss questions, comments, or ideas at the PR talk page and thanks in advance for your help, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 00:03, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

AfD

Hello, since you contributed to New Haven school Skittles incident, I would like to let you know that the article has been proposed for deletion. Please join in the discussion if you'd like. Johntex\^talk 02:05, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Positive Black Soul

On 16 March, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Positive Black Soul, 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.

--BorgQueen (talk) 17:32, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

re. Not your night...

Hello, Kakofonous. You have new messages at Glacier Wolf's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Cheers, Glacier Wolf 02:19, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

DYK for Daara J

On 17 March, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Daara J, 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.

Good work! Bencherlite ^Talk 09:42, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Rudiment draft

I've been busy this past week, but I'm planning on finishing the draft by Friday or Saturday for presentation to the project (which is mostly, at this point, us two and Brad). On the upside, because of my being busy, I'm now an Eagle Scout. Just letting you know. --Evan ¤ Seeds 04:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Actually, I've just finished all the rudiment descriptions. I'll start a discussion on the WP page and link in certain places. --Evan ¤ Seeds 04:25, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Success! Rudiment. --Evan ¤ Seeds 23:46, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Classwork

Hi Kakofonous. I'm responding to a message you left on the Grime talk page. You noted that similar editing patterns and accounts created around the same time seemed suspicious, as if it were one person masquerading as several. You needn't be so paranoid. All of the accounts in question are operated by (different) students in a class I'm teaching on "global hip-hop" at Brandeis University. Weekly Wikipedia edits are regular assignments. I'm glad you didn't find any of the edits disruptive, and I hope that in general we are helping to improve things around here. Wayneandwax (talk) 20:20, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Happy First Day of Spring!

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Lambert review

Thank you kindly for your review and words of encouragement. "Worked in the law" means he apprenticed as a law clerk; I'll clarify it. This GA is the last thing I need for the Napoleonic triple crown, so thank you very much indeed. Cheers! – Scartol • Tok 03:13, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Hugh Grant

I went over your comments on Talk:Hugh Grant and fixed the article accordingly. Cheers, All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 08:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

re:MOS

Sorry about that, I think I gave you the wrong link. What I was reverting was instead of using – it should be the standard –. Sorry for the rest, I jsut thought at first that you were one of the newcomers/anons that go on there and add dumb stuff. Afterwards I looked at your userpage and noticed you weren't. Sorry about that :P What exactly is the difference between a space and ? Burningclean _[speak] 01:40, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:PERC

Hey, it seems to me that we're kinda stagnating. I'm trying to think of ideas to get new members and to really light a fire under those who are already joined. I'm considering writing a little newsletter and wonder if you had any ideas, whether they be for writing the newsletter or in general. Thanks, Evan ¤ Seeds 03:35, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Gil

Bear with me on the typos; having a bad night. Ceoil (talk) 00:44, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Multiple Edit Mystery

You are very observant! My guess is that these other alias are used my classmates of mine who are in a global hip hop class together. We each make edits every week on various scenes around the world (check out Panama, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Tanzania, South Africa/Kwaito, Brazil, France, and now Germany). That would explain why they are similar, we are working from the same materials and off of the same deadlines. However, it is annoying to have a lot of repeated material so I will pass it on to my professor that we should keep an eye on repetition.

Thanks!

-eduhkay —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eduhkay (talk • contribs) 21:32, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Ima Hogg

This edit was against talk page consensus; did you intend to participate in that discussion before unilaterally adding an infobox? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:33, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
- Removed. --Kakofonous (talk) 01:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
  - Thanks ... you didn't have to remove it, you can initiate a discussion on the talk page, and if others want it, I've no problem with the consensus ... pls do initiate the discussion on the talk page if you feel strongly about having it, since we have a broader audience now. I just didn't want it to interfere with the FAC, since it's not a WP:WIAFA requirement. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:40, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
    - I am in two minds about the infobox question—while I agree with what you've said about their clutter-like aspects, I don't agree that they're totally useless. I like having something condensed to get the "essential facts", but I don't feel strongly enough to go through an entire discussion. In the end, it's just a box, right? --Kakofonous (talk) 01:48, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
      - Yes, but ... we might as well get the discussion on the table again, since someone else may come along and insist. I started a discussion on the talk page. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:50, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Master Juba peer review

Hey, Kakofonous. I thought I'd let you know that I've put Master Juba up for peer review here. If you get the chance, I'd really appreciate any feedback you can give to improve the article (particularly with an eye toward featured article candidates). Thanks! — Dulcem (talk)

Have reviewed. --Kakofonous (talk) 21:54, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks. I'll try to address concerns/respond sometime today. — Dulcem (talk) 23:24, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Ellie Mannette

I've been expanding the article about Dr. Mannette. Thank you very much for having a look at it and correcting my english. --Panmaker (talk) 19:58, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Dont worry i am reviewing the album

I do this all the time, i use them as a way to help me with my review. I remove them latter. Realist2 (talk) 16:56, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

OOPs poor spelling, im rushing obviously. Dont worry i go back and sort them latter. Realist2 (talk) 17:00, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes this 1 works, ill put this in the article and see if it works.Realist2 (talk) 17:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Give some more detail on album reviews perhaps even if it is just or the 3rd album. Realist2 (talk) 18:50, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Ideally id like it to get closer to 11-12 thousand bytes. Realist2 (talk) 19:53, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

It also says it needs to by diverse which it is not. The other sections need .... something.... Realist2 (talk) 19:59, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

The earlier albums really need somethink added. I will consult another reviewer for their advise on this. Im not sure what the rules are when its physically impossible to obtain information. Try to expand on the original albums if possible, ill seek a second opinion since i like your article so much. Realist2 (talk) 20:13, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Maria Bethânia

On 3 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Maria Bethânia, 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.

--howcheng {chat} 23:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

April GA Newsletter

The April issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter is now available. Dr. Cash (talk) 03:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Is there anybody out there?

Hey... Since you've declared yourself retired for now, I removed your entry from the Adopter's page. I do hope you come back, however, so I left your entry in a hidden comment within this message. I hope life is treating you well! xenocidic (talk) 02:43, 27 April 2008 (UTC)