User talk:Long Shrift

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		Great work at DYK! Keep it up. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 00:02, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

CYK for Komrij's patentwekker

I saw your comment on encyclopedic standards--would you be so strict as to deny articles to wrestlers, porn stars, monster trucks, and anime? Tsk tsk.

I appreciate your weighing in--surely DYK pages are not meant to turn into discussions, but I felt I had to address the comments (and the same editor commented on other nominations of mine). If the patentwekker doesn't make it to DYK, that's fine, but I'd hate for it to happen due to one editor's squeamishness. Thanks again, and thanks for all your good work at DYK! Drmies (talk) 13:17, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

I haven't had the pleasure of a monster truck article yet (or sampled the delights of a porn star come to that). I'll look forward to both. Long Shrift (talk) 13:33, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

At one time I got interested in cleanup, and landed in the monster truck genre. It was not fun. I've never gone looking for porn stars on WP, but they come by at AfD every now and then, which is where I learned there is WP policy on the notability of porn stars. Is WP:PORN a blue link? (Yes it is!) Enjoy! Drmies (talk) 13:41, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

(passing by) I belive you mean WP:PORNBIO.--Giants27 (c|s) 22:04, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Too too kind. Long Shrift (talk) 22:08, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the edits on Decareau

Good edits on the Robert V. Decareau article. Thanks. Chris (talk) 19:31, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

It just got DYK! Thanks! Chris (talk) 00:35, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Hi

Could you please hekp me with something. Could you please tell me what's wrong with this hook [1] and why it can't be promoted. Thanks! Mario1987 12:16, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

If you are referring to the original suggestion, it is questioning whether you knew something that didn't occur and you wouldn't expect to have occurred, analogous to asking whether you knew that a minor athlete didn't compete in the national championships, to which the answer would be "no, and I wouldn't expect them to have done so". More interesting in that article is the fact that the leader broke away from the only elected sitting representative. Long Shrift (talk) 14:00, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

To expand: The original strikes me as a lazy DYK suggestion, as it presents something that didn't happen and that nobody has any reason to expect to happen as if it is something of importance or relevance and attempts to contrast it with an unrelated fact. When the misdirection is stripped away the original suggestion for that article is "that the Norwegian political party Stop Immigration held one seat in the city council of Drammen?" Is that interesting enough to make it to DYK? The format of "Did you know...that something you wouldn't think likely to be true, isn't true, but that something only vaguely related is?" isn't useful. Taken to extremes we can come up with all sorts of outlandish hooks: Did you know that mice don't milk cows but they do eat cheese? Did you know that no fish has ever been a member of an Olympic water polo team but they are excellent swimmers? Did you know that Ghengis Khan never visited New York, but he did expand the Mongol empire across Central Asia? Long Shrift (talk) 17:01, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry i gave you the wrong link. Here is the correct one [2] about the Insomnia Summer Show. Mario1987 07:39, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

MaterialScientist argues that it is insufficiently notable, though the suggestion that it may be suitable for the Romanian language (not country) wikipedia undermines this argument to some extent. I don't think the "lacks notability" rationale is sufficient grounds to exclude it from DYK: if it is deemed sufficiently notable for inclusion in the encyclopaedia then DYK is open to it; if not, then there is a process to have it removed. Long Shrift (talk) 09:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Grub Street

Many thanks for this. I will investigate further, I have seen some sources say the street was half one, half the other. It was however entirely outside the city walls. Parrot of Doom (talk) 16:53, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

See page n23 (scanned page 15) - Cripplegate Ward. Confusing isn't it! Parrot of Doom (talk) 16:56, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Ferret legging

Nice work with the copyediting, much appreciated. --Malleus Fatuorum 23:25, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Glad to help. Long Shrift (talk) 11:17, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein

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		Thanks so much for cleaning that article up! I think it'll be able to get a DYK now. Cheers, The Flash {talk} 15:26, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

DYK problems

"that inventor Brutus de Villeroi tested the first French submarine in the commune of Noirmoutier-en-l'Île on 12 August 1832?" Citied with reliable book source. Himalayan 12:00, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Noirmoutier-en-l'Île

Yeah, it was me. See my comments at the DYK discussion page. Sorry about that. Doubtless someone will come along with a broom and clean up my mess :-( hamiltonstone (talk) 12:15, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

No problem. It was easily solved. Long Shrift (talk) 12:51, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

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