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LZ 129 Hindenburg

I reverted your recent edit to LZ 129 Hindenburg; there wasn't any reason to remove the comment that changing from helium to hydrogen allowed adding more passenger cabins (as they did in the 2nd season). The grammar was also awkward as you had left it. Generally, it looked better before than after, so I reverted. Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 02:39, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

The sentence I had an issue with was "Despite the danger of using flammable hydrogen there was no alternative to Helium that could provide sufficient lift." The issue there is "there was no alternative to helium". You probably meant something like "Hydrogen was the only alternative".

By the way, normally, one responds to a comment on one's own talk page, to keep the conversation in one place. Most editors will "watchlist" a talk page they have modified, so responses in the next few days will come to their attention. You can add a {{talkback}} (see Template:talkback) to the other's talk page if you want to ensure they see your response. Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 03:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

I agree that my removing the 'added rooms' phrase was a bridge too far. Thank you for that change. There was no grammar error in my edit but rather a content error in that the phrase "there was no alternative to Helium" should be "there was no other alternative to Helium". Neither an 'economy of production' phrase nor an 'adequate quantity' phrase should be a part of the section; there just are no alternative gases; just those two. Steam (Water Vapor) is technically possibility, but lift is poor and the structure must keep the water in a vapor state. Ammmonia, Carbon Monxide, Methane, and various mixed industrial fuel gasses can provide a poor lift, but those gasses a variously posionous, corossive, flammable, and sometimes all three; all these gases have lifts that run about one third that of Hydrogen and Helium. That leaves Neon, which being a noble gas is inert. But Neon has even less lift; about 35% that of Helium and about 32% of that of Hydrogen. Neonorange (talk) 03:03, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

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Discussion about novelist categories

Greetings! You are invited to take place in a conversation happening Category_talk:American_novelists#Stalemate here about how to move forward with discussion on subcategories of by-country novelist categories.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 16:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

-- FYI, the novelist discussion is at stalemate, and I've asked an uninvolved admin to close the discussion. Until then, I'd suggest you don't move any more novelists. Thanks! --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 05:04, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Aren't you the quick one! I understand your request and will honor it. I've been away from regular access to the Internet (in some cases no Internet, cellphone or even GPS [long distance rail travel through the Rockies]), but have tried to catch up on the discussions about American novelists. Your option 1 seemed pretty clearly the favorite - but then I'm new to this. (and I've been watching YOUR talk page to get a clue to how it all works) Neonorange (talk) 05:29, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the note. If you want to clean up the novelists category further, you can use this tool to see which articles are in which categories. The link above will show all novelists in the "century" categories which aren't yet in the "women" or "male" categories. You can reverse the parameters to find the inverse. There are around 6700 novelists, but only around 3910 in the male + women novelist categories, so there are many that aren't classified. There are also likely to be a few that are of ambiguous gender, so you should just leave those out I think. In any case, this tool is faster than looking at articles one-by-one... keep up the good work and cheers, --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 23:08, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Recent edits to Kurt Vonnegut

Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit(s) because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! Andrew_pmk | Talk 23:31, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

• Though I am sure you reverted my reversion in good faith, I DO believe that the pharase/elipsis "And so it goes." DID improve the biographical article "Kurt Vonnegut". Just in case you haven't read much Vonnegut, the phrase appears often, for ironic effect, in his work "Slaughterhouse-Five". In fact, the Wikipedia article on "Slaughter-Five" contains the following sentences .The story continually employs the refrain "So it goes." when death, dying, and mortality occur, as a narrative transition to another subject, as a memento mori, as comic relief, and to explain the unexplained. It appears 106 times.' The biographical article is enriched by appropriate use of the phrase. I don't feel that I HAVE to change your reversion, but I wish you would. Neonorange (talk) 01:50, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

tp stalker here. I haven't read that work, and wasn't familiar with that phrase - many Wikipedia readers may be in the same boat. As such, it's probably safer to leave it out, as it may sound insensitive and rather casual to those who don't know his books, esp at the end of a rather morbid sentence Otoh, if you can find a quote from a eulogy, or an inscription on his gravestone that says that, it could fit if phrased properly - but as a 'from the voice of Wikipedia phraselet?' - I think it goes too far. Cheers, --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 03:50, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Glad to see you are all chipper and engaged again. I was going to be lazy and wager you a small sum (to be given to charity) that I could find the use of 'And so it goes' in a Vonnegut obituary. But then my better angels grabbed me by the throat and forced me to find a cite first. And, of course, I did ... first try - The New York Times Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84 from April 12, 2007. The obituary contains more than one obituary within the obituary, quoted from Vonnegut's novels, as follow

• “Slaughterhouse-Five” provided another stage for his fictional alter ego, Kilgore Trout, a recurring character introduced in “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.” The novel also featured a signature Vonnegut phrase. “Robert Kennedy, whose summer home is eight miles from the home I live in all year round,” Mr. Vonnegut wrote at the end of the book, “was shot two nights ago. He died last night. So it goes.
• “Martin Luther King was shot a month ago. He died, too. So it goes. And every day my Government gives me a count of corpses created by military science in Vietnam. So it goes. ”One of many Zenlike words and phrases that run through Mr. Vonnegut’s books, “so it goes” became a catchphrase for opponents of the Vietnam war.

In the section of the Kurt Vonnegut article that immediately follows the line about his death you can find this line

"Vonnegut's well-known phrase "so it goes," used ironically in reference to death, also originated in Slaughterhouse-Five. "Its combination of simplicity, irony, and rue is very much in the Vonnegut vein." and THAT line is from the Kurt Vonnegut obit from the Boston Globe.

The Kurt Vonnegut Wikipedia article is diminished and flat WITHOUT 'and so it goes' - it acknowledges the man, his work, and his outlook.

It occurs to me that a good hook for DYK might be 'Did you know the phrase "and so it goes" is used more than 100 times in the novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut?

And I really do think the phrase enriches the bio article. Read the two Wikipedia articles [[Kurt Vonnegut}] and Slaughterhouse-Five plus the NTY and Boston Globe obits and see if you don't agree. And better yet, read "Slaughterhouse-Five".Neonorange (talk) 08:05, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Hmm. In any case we're now having this convo on the wrong page. We should bring it over to the Vonnegut page and see what others think. I think inserting it into the prose as plain text is a bit off, but let's move the convo over there and let others weigh in.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 19:53, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Asimov

Please see Talk:Isaac_Asimov#Jewish_descent. Debresser (talk) 01:31, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for indicating the discussion in section 2.19 of Talk:Isaac Asimov. However you will have to give a clearer explanation for me to understand your point since WP:DUBCAT is non-existent. Also, though you may disagree with the definition of a particular category, that really is not a good argument. Not to mention that the author of a multitude of books likely deserves to be in a multitude of categories. B^) Finally, I don't think there is necessarily anything sinister in three editors making a category change on the same day; in my case it's merely that I patrol the article and look at EVERY change there. Neonorange (talk) 02:43, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi

Nice meeting you today! LadyofShalott 02:11, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

LadyofShalott, thanks for your kind note. I am so glad we were all able to meet up after mile wide cordon around the Civic Center. It was also a pleasure to be able to spend a few hours together at TWO restaurants - much more my kind of activity than trudging through the streets of Atlanta in 80+ weather! As you can see, if you look at the next section on my talk page, I have now spent more time attempting to upload my few images than in making them - and only two actually have much merit B^) Neonorange (talk) 04:35, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Upload to Commons

Hi Neonorange, it was nice meeting you yesterday. Here is how you can upload your photos:

1. Find the building on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fulton County, Georgia page.
2. Click the Upload image link in the second column.
3. On Commons upload wizard, select the file from your computer.
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Hi Ganeshk. It was great to meet you and the other Wikipedians on Saturday. Thanks for the offer of help in up-loading my images. I am having trouble. First of all, I did not realize there was a particular destination (Historical Places listings in Fulton County, Georgia) to use. So I just used the commons wizard and used completely identifying file names (Building identification plus street address. BUT, only two images successfully completed. I shot Sony RAW files and converted to .tif (except for the historical marker I sent for identification only as a .jpg file. One .tif file completed and the .jpg file completed. The other six gave various error messages, some pretty generic some 'Token 3 error'. I tried sending the images one-by-one since the .tif images are so large (~40 MBytes). Still no success except for one .tif. Should convert all the images to lossless .jpg?

Thanks again. Neonorange (talk) 02:55, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

The Fulton places helps pre-fill GPS cords, category and location ID. I could not find your uploads on Commons. I checked your contribs and it was empty. Please login to Commons before you start the upload. Yes, convert them to lossless jpg and try again. — Ganeshk (talk) 03:11, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Ganeshk, thanks for the additional explanation. How logical! However, I still am getting technical errors ('Bad token', for example.) And then, at times, after successfully uploading an image I get another type of error; yet, when I try to up load the images again I get a message that identical content has already been up loaded. AND I can not find any of the images I uploaded to wiki commons, even those for which the upload and release have been accepted. Could it have anything to do with the size of my lossless jpeg file sizes (~ 12 MBytes)? I will try higher compression so at least I will not have to wait 30 minutes to find out if the image did not make it all the way through the process. (Personally I think the upload is, a worst, buggy; at best it has very user unfriendly error messages - too little information too late in the process; not what I was raised to consider a release-ready program). Thanks again for your help and company! Neonorange (talk) 04:24, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

I see the 4 files that you have uploaded now. They look great. — Ganeshk (talk) 04:30, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Please post your feedback at Commons:Upload help. I am sure the devs will find it useful. — Ganeshk (talk) 04:46, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for sticking with me. I finally thought of the brilliant idea of searching on my user name - and now I see all of the images I uploaded. Neonorange (talk) 05:04, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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Container categories

Thanks for your recent edit to Andrea Dworkin. Although you are correct that the article shouldn't be assigned directly to the container category "American novelists", the correct fix is to reassign it to a diffusing subcategory, not to simply remove the category. Cheers. Kaldari(talk) 08:29, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Kaldari, thanks for the note. I know what you mean; I just don't see what you are talking about. The article has been in Category:20th-century American novelists since 10 May 2013 (put there by User:Johnpacklambert using HotCat and in Category:American women novelists since 26 June 2013 (put there by me using HotCat). If you look at the Category box you will notice that your edit did not make a change on the page. Evidently, if an editor adds a category that is already present, the added duplicate category is ignored. Notice you placed the Category:20th-century American novelists (not using HotCat) toward the end of the category list, between Category:Radical lesbian feminists]] and Category:American women novelists, but Category:American women novelists remains in the same position after your edit, the same position it was in after my just prior edit (3rd position).

In other words, fixing was not necessary, and your edit changed nothing. My 'simply removing the category' was correct - and all that was necessary. You could self revert and there would be absolutely no change to the list of categories.

When the number of categories that apply to an article gets large it is easy to overlook the presence of a category; perhaps the category list order should be alphabetical? (And that's a change for the programmers... perhaps you could suggest it?) - Neonorange (talk) 10:08, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

COI at Melville?

Just checking.

As I read WP:COI, which is a guideline, not a policy, though a very important one, it doesn't apply to your good intentioned undo at Herman Melville. The reads, "Using material you have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is relevant, conforms to the content policies, including WP:SELFPUB, and is not excessive. Citations should be in the third person and should not place undue emphasis on your work....," then goes on, "Museum curators, librarians, archivists, and similar are encouraged to help improve Wikipedia, or to share their information in the form of links to their resources. If a link cannot be used as a reliable source, it may be placed under further reading or external links if it complies with the external links guideline. " Let me know if I'm wrong!

In any case, as an unbiased and uninvolved editor, I think I'm in the clear to restore this very useful site. Cheers, ch (talk) 06:50, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes. I've more thoroughly read the initial website pages and I agree with your reinstatement of the link because now an independent editor has agreed with the value of the link. Without a doubt the main effect of the link in the article is valuable. Had there been an explanation of the link's addition in the article talk page I would not have felt the need to revert. Thank you for checking and for reinstating the link.

I've just read your user page and especially found the list of Wikipedia observations of great interest. My background is in journalism, so I perhaps see conflicts of interest in somewhat different light than you, as an academic, do. But I'm willing to learn. Thanks again. - Neonorange (talk) 18:38, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. The COI policy is important and it's hard to strike the balance between encouraging specialists to contribute and discouraging them from self-promotion, but I thought I'd give it a try. ch (talk) 00:15, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

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Are you completely unaware that I am posting on your talk page? Please read my comments on your talk page. Please consider my good faith attempts to communicate with you on your talk page. Why act unilaterally AND make unnecessary threats when I am trying to ask for collaboration? Another good reason to keep a thread on the talk page in which it started. - Neonorange (talk) 22:22, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for the message about my Tennessee Williams mistake.

Thanks for the message. I didn't realize I made a silly mistake. I'm gonna try to correct it immediately. Mr. Brain (talk) 00:51, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks very much - it's my first barn star! I think this last editor who keeps inserting redundant chunks is working in good faith, but evidently hasn't the patience to actually read the article. I'll be in San Francisco this October and I may visit Alcatraz. Thanks for all the work you put inti the article. - Neonorange (talk) 06:54, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Alice Walker

After reflection, your edit and comments were quite correct. It is right to allow the entire spectrum of Walker related activism to be faithfully represented by extensive quotes, from all quarters. It allows for a NPOV presentation for the reader to take into consideration, and make their own judgement. The article is much stronger for that. I apologise for the unthought-through reversion. Cheers! Irondome (talk) 03:08, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your note, and for your gracious explanation. I fell into watch-listing Alice Walker almost by accident, in the process of emptying 'Category:American novelists' and filling by-century categories in its place. I stayed with this article because editing it is difficult, what with WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, and her activism in a closely watched conflict. Reading the FP interview made me realize there was an argument in her reply to the question, not just assertions. I think the answer could be condensed, but we must be very careful not to edit direct quotes in a way that effects meaning or nuance. - Neonorange (talk) 04:28, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the kind word about the JC Oates false entry. (Why on earth do people do that?) I am more a Wiki dabbler than anything, so I probably won't register, but I can't help fixing the obvious errors (including grammar and spelling--nerd that I am.) Thanks for your volunteer work as an editor! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.10.222.229 (talk) 21:08, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

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NYIT

Could you please add Harry Hurwitz and Morrie Yohai under "Notable faculty, staff and board members" section on NYIT. Thanks--77788er (talk) 15:48, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for bringing Harry Hurwitz and Morrie Yohai to my attention in connection to NYIT. First, I only read the NYIT article today, and that because I was trying to rescue this article, and am still working to expand it. Even the Edward Guiliano article is outside my regular interests, I just felt compelled to help rescue it from seemingly dirve-by attacks from disruptive edits. The NYIT article seems in good health, so I don't have much interest is working on it. However, I did read the Wikipedia articles on Harry Hurwitz and on Morrie Yohai]]. I'm afraid I'd need a lot more to go on before placing either one in 'Notable faculty, staff and board members' in the NYIT article. Hurwitz and Yobai are notable for activities outside academia, and these outside notabilities justify each of their Wikipedia articles. But this does not transfer into notable academic. In one case, there is no mention of Hurwitz in his Wikipedia article having a connection with NYIT; for Yohai, there is no indication of what level of college administrator he had at NYIT. The external sources used for the two articles don't help make a case for inclusion.

So, I feel it would not be justified to add the two persons you suggested on the basis of the sources so far available. Keep in mind, even if WP:Academic notability is established, it does not follow that this is sufficient to list under "NOtable faculty, staff, and board members - that is a higher standard. If you come up with a Lot more sources, I can't follow-up. Why don't you take up this work? This would be a good place to begin Wikipedia editing? - Neonorange (talk) 17:03, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

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J.D. Salinger

I accept your decision to delete my new input on J.D. Salinger and I understand your reasoning. Yes, I am one of the publishers of this new book by J.D. Salinger. However, I felt that Salinger fans and readers would want to know about the first legitimately published book by Salinger in 50 years. I tried to write the information in a way to provide information without any hardcore promotion. I suppose you felt differently and I concede to your opinion. I will not attempt to add information in the future that has any direct promotional value to my publishing company.

However, I must assume that some expert on Salinger at some point in the near future will add the information about Three Early Stories. I hope you will believe me when I suggest that this was as much a labor of love as any promotion for me.

Thank you.

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Thank You for helping me out on the SR-71 Tomorrow song. I am new here, I do know how to put reliable sources and stuff like that but I was too lazy to just add one up. I like how you change it. Thank You so much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikeis1996 (talk • contribs) 14:49, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Fixed stray character

Hope you don't mind that I fixed a stray character that you left on the PC 2014 Close talk page. PaleAqua (talk) 19:23, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

No problem at all! Seems fair, fixed a stray character, message went astray (to me rather than the actual perp, j⚛e decker^talk). I'd say we are all even. All we need now is a photo of the closers sitting in a room holding up current newspapers. B^) - Neonorange (talk) 19:45, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Heh. Sorry about that, and thanks! Ever in San Jose, drop me a line, I'll buy the (beverage of choice). Have a great day. --j⚛e decker^talk 19:48, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

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Nice work finding that BAFTA ref for Cane Toads: An Unnatural History‎. I looked for a ref yesterday without success. Meters (talk) 19:25, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Typo?

Here you said "I do not understand how you can mankind ...."

What does "mankind" mean? Did you mean ".... can make ...."? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 05:49, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that typo, davidwr. It was iPad auto-correct at its finest. That and my bleary eyes when I proofed. And it was't the only one. I fixed the typos, and just left the run on sentences. I hope my comment now makes better sense. - Neonorange (talk) 14:44, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

"Two air is human, too really foul things up takes a computer" - Murphy's 5th law of unreliability

I hope I got that write. I ran it through a spell-checker just to bee sure. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 19:49, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

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Hey Neonorange,

just to inform you, the group RedHack itself went several time live on air and told that they are a marxist leninist hacker group. Link: http://emekdunyasi.net/ed/guncel/20787-redhack-imc-tvde-canli-yayina-cikti

I will try to edit the article asap, link correction, grammar, let it look a bit better. Fluxfingers (talk) 11:09, 4 June 2014 (GMT)

Thanks for the note. I will read the article with interest as you improve it. - Neonorange (talk) 14:18, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

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Andrew Maloney

Hi. I see from your recent conversation with User:Duke Maloney that you are working on a page on Andrew Maloney. Please keep me in the loop in your development of this article. If we are indeed talking about the former US Attorney, it is likely that the earlier article was deleted by an editor who did not do his research properly. It shouldn't be difficult to establish notability. RomanSpa (talk) 03:26, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it is indeed that Andrew Maloney, the one that gets 4000 hits in a search of the NYT archives, beginning with this "NEW YORK AT WORK; Facing Gotti, A Prosecutor Hard on Mob". And yes, I could use some help on the article, thanks for asking. And the problem goes way past proper research; I left a message for DGG, who replied. The 'problem' is best left to him, I think. - Neonorange (talk) 03:41, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

I was about to bring him into the conversation when I discovered he was already there! I'm beginning to suspect he has super-powers of some sort!

As for Andrew Maloney, perhaps the best approach would be if you and User:Duke Maloney could re-create what has been written so far as best you can, and I'll review it for bias, and perhaps add some non-Gotti stuff. RomanSpa (talk) 04:13, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Taking care of 'encyclopedic tone' is the first task. With that, for this article, 'bias' takes care of itself. (By "way past proper research" I was alluding to the improper 'speedy' and the lazy deletion.) Help with the language and readability is what I need. - Neonorange (talk) 23:41, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

PC2

Thanks for all the productive discussion on PC2, and best of luck for the next round. - Dank (push to talk) 22:06, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

A pleasure watching you work; thanks for sharing your thoughts along the way. - Neonorange (talk) 23:47, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

It was a pleasure, really. I hope you can get some support for testing your idea of "super-autoconfirmed". - Dank (push to talk) 00:36, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Selma movie

Hello, and good to meet you. I've enjoyed your additions and comments on the page, and look forward to the article becoming quite full and an important addition to Civil Rights Movement history. Getting my popcorn ready to watch it now. Randy Kryn 20:27 4 June 2014 (UTC)

I've been watching your edits on several articles on US Civil Rights Movement history with interest. I don't really know much about James Bevel, and I hope to read some of your work. Seeing your post here was a surprise - I happened to be on Hosea Williams Drive when I read it! I would have replied sooner, but I was using an iPhone; I gave up on my first attempt to edit Wikipedia on that device; and I'll never try again.

I have been nibbling at the edges of the Hosea Williams article. I live in the Atlanta area, but far enough from the city that I don't have easy access to large libraries. I am finding better sources now that I have HighBeam and Questia access, so I hope to make some progress in improving this article. I've added an image from the Alabama Dept. of Public Safety in the 1960s id book to the Williams article. I got the image onto Commons, and I think that other 'ID Cards' from that publication should also be added there. Commons is very weak, I think, on US Civil Rights movement images, and is especially weak on images of leaders other than MLK. Perhaps you can take a look at the online source (given in the Commons description). I am a bit leery in pushing for more of these cards on Commons, not wanting to risk losing the one there now. And, of course, I would welcome any US Civil Rights movement sources you recommend. - Neonorange (talk) 03:47, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, just got back to your page and I've enjoyed your edits on the Selma movie page. Good to meet you. Being near Atlanta you have a lot of research possibilities, the King Center among them, and access (with a little travel) to all of the people alive from the movement years in Alabama and Georgia. Are you going to attend Selma's 50th next year? More on that later. Hosea Williams gave Bevel the strategy credits, although he did some good strategy himself. The popular civil rights sources have major holes in them regarding some of the main people and events in the movement. So picking among them I'd suggest looking at their references, many are just copying earlier references in books which copied earlier references (and from there it's turtles all the way down). On Williams, I did two phone interviews with him, never met him unfortunately, and he was a fun person to talk to (he seemed to know how to enjoy his alcohol). I can't recall if he wrote a book or if a full-length book has been written about him. He's a good topic for research and for article improvement and expansion, good choice. I've never played with the Commons area of Wikipedia, and don't really know how it works, and my main experience with it is finding that categories listed there show up as red links when I tried to apply them to articles here. Lots to talk about regarding civil rights topics, and it's a very nice field to work and explore within. I'll check out the Williams page. I know Bevel had some go-arounds with him and King about Williams' SCOPE Project, and wanted the movement money not used in Selma or that which came in after Selma used in a different way. One of Bevel's and King's agreements centered around asking for and collecting money only when a specific movement was up, running, and occurring. edit: I just checked the Williams' page and was surprised SCOPE isn't mentioned - it was Williams' signature project and the cause of much discussion. And it looks like his papers are in Atlanta, and he has a daughter who's promoting his work. She'd be fun to hang out with. Randy Kryn 11:42 6 June 2014 (UTC)

p.s. Here's a source if you haven't looked at it, Civil Rights Movement Veterans, run by Bruce Hartford who I actually just met on his talk page here (user:Brucehartford) after I saw that the article here on his important organization was huffed when it had inadequate support. And so it goes. (heh heh). You can read our short discussion on his talk page. Thanks for aiming my mind in some of these directions. Randy Kryn 12:14 6 June 2014 (UTC)

There is a lot missing from the Hosea Williams article, and I've removed some material. I've been active editing Wikipedia for just about a year, spending 90% of my time here getting an understanding of the structure and process. To this point, I'm lucky if an hour results in two edits. I am aware of the primary resources available in Atlanta, but [WP:OR]]. I saw some of that primary material come into existence. And had some; but bit-rot happens (well, not bit-rot, but rather iron oxide flaking from tape: over years rather than decades for early videotape). Thanks for your suggestions.

By the way, I am a bit concerned the hierarchy 'code', 60s and 10s, in this article may be off-putting for readers.- Neonorange (talk) 03:45, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi. I didn't mean for you to actually use quotes from letters or private papers on his Wikipedia page, or from your personal experiences, but Williams' papers must include articles about him. Unless he wasn't a packrat. Not everyone is. So lots is lost or never collected in the first place. There were so many little newspapers in the 1960s which I don't think anyone has copies of anymore. On the Selma film topic, I'm not clear on what you mean by "hierarchy code, 60s and 10s". Lost me there, please explain if you have a few minutes. Thanks. And your description of your time on Wikipedia is interesting, and your grasp of the structure must be very solid by this time. For myself, I enjoy adding to lists and templates, and linking those to the principal pages involved via inclusion or See also additions. Sometimes I bump into a page which then takes me on a tangent I didn't expect, check out the List of Stone Age art I'm creating little-by-little over the last few days (found the list under a different name, it didn't have many entries, and was just sitting there with its door open and windows fallen out. So I renamed it and am playing with the concept of honoring the prehistoric artists as the main focus of the page, with their artwork presented as real art and not as artifacts. "Gotta give the cavemen respect, bro," could be posted above the entrance. Randy Kryn 3:37 8 June 2014 (UTC)

As to my overly cryptic 'hierarchy code': you and I both tried to add a more nuanced view of what we are assuming will be the pivotal event in Selma; a film only part way through principle photography, after a long gestation. Who led which march and what section of which organization. And that's an ongoing conversation. Then my recent reading at the film infobox template and Erik's point to the Paramount press release, leading to my attempt to navigate the production credit minefield (all I knew before was the five producer limit for Academy best film nominations). And then I got into making the prior film portrayal section. I think this article just can't support the level of detail we'd perhaps like to see. And maybe ought to be allowed to go quietly, with more attention paid to the Wikipedia article 'Selma to Montgomery marches'. Leave further development of this article until the film speaks for itself. I just read a June 5th, 2014 Selma Times-Journal (note the descriptive line on the masthead); three articles - the location shoot, the Boynton former house, the Selma public pool.

My grasp of Wikipedia structure and process? Mainly, what I've learned is patience. Drop me an email if you'd like to continue this conversation off-wiki; I know I would. And, if you should see some really weird phrases in this post, put it down to my iPad. - Neonorange (talk) 05:11, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

@Randy: I hadn't intended to edit at Selma for a while, but Captain Assassin! pinged me, and I gave it my best shot under time constraint, and came up with a fourth DYK line. And made edits I considered necessary (at this midpoint in the film production); I removed the 'leadership' level of detail I told you I thought excessive, but I left in Bevel and your cite. I want to work on the marches article now; please help me there. (I think I will go to Selma during the shoot this month, to get a few images. After reading the Selma Times-Journal, can Selma still hold the number of people that may be there on the fiftieth anniversary? The image in the paper of the public pool brought to mind my high school town; under a court order to desegregate the public pool, the city filled it in with bulldozers.) - Neonorange (talk) 23:13, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

4th hook is best I think, I suggested it for the DYK and improved the lead section of the film's article according to the DYK's 4th hook. And yes, go to the production set in Selma to get images. --Captain Assassin! ^{«T ♦ C ♦ G»} 00:55, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Just saw this. I put a comment on the hook page. Have tweaked the wording in the lead, moving the SCLC organizers first and Lewis next. This was literally Bevel's creation, from almost start to finish, and his name should surely go ahead of the others and if I were writing it alone would surely mention that Bevel initiated the marches. I would like to email, where can I find your eddress? I've never emailed a Wikipedia editor before. Selma will be swamped next year, which will make it an interesting march reenactment (and actual march I assume). Randy Kryn 1:28 9 June 2014 (UTC)

I was being very literal, as in who stepped off in the literal line of the marches. I wrote just as I did just to avoid detailed discussion in this article. And I believe that there was an organizational seniority list: DCVL, SNCC, and SCLC - who got where first. Not necessary to cross every etc. in this film article. But, SNCC was there first and so forth and so on. For various reasons, reasons that I am sure Duvernay, Webb et. al. have heard over and over again; so not now, yet again, in this slim article. Could you take this into account, and tweak just a bit more? Poor Captain must think he's stepped into a dark room illuminated in brief flickers B^) - I'm now using my iPad again, watch for weird phrases. In the list, under tools, click on [Email this user]; an email window will open, use it as you would any other; Wikipedia will handle getting it to me (no attachments allowed).

How to email (ignore the brackets, I'm using them just to set off clickable links): if you to look in the column at the left of this page you will see [Tools] , which may or may not be expanded as a list. If necessary, click on [Tools]. Then click on [Email this user] and an email window will open; use the form as you would in sending any other email; Wikipedia will handle getting the email to me. It's just a way to protect anonymous accounts like mine (not that I care so much, but at this point don't want to contribute under my real name.) Also you can use it just, if for no other reason, to keep your email address from being harvested by spammers, commercial and otherwise. I await your email with interest. - Neonorange (talk) 02:41, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

You can now email me, or I'll send you one later in the day. As for the Selma movement, these quotes may go a long way in giving the history: "I'd say 98% of the plans and activities in Selma were Bevel's. The Selma Movement was Bevel's baby." - James Orange, and "We would have never gone to Selma, and there would not have been a Voting Rights Bill today if James Bevel had not conceived of the idea" "Jim was the originator of the idea of the march from Selma to Montgomery. Jim Bevel is the author of that." "Dr. King could not have done the things he did unless he had a James Bevel." - Ralph David Abernathy. Bevel was working with Nash and Orange in Alabama since September, 1963, away from SCLC's office but still holding the title of 'Director of Direct Action'. SNCC's team was run by Bernard Lafayette for years, and then others, and Lewis came in later. Amelia Boynton of DCVL kept inviting SCLC to officially join them in Selma, and King and the group finally agreed late in 1964 and put Bevel officially in charge of their actions there, and then Bevel finally came up with the movement escalation which would put the voting rights question both in front of the American public and the world: the Selma to Montgomery marches. I just tweaked the order of participants for accuracy. Your trip to the filming later this month should be quite interesting, and at a minimum a few good photos will really spruce up the film page. Randy Kryn 11:56 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Your email does not seem to be set up yet. I have no reason to disagree with you; my only goal was provide credit for those I knew were missing from the original film article led. As I said, I don't know anything about Bevel, never met him, and haven't thought seriously about the marches since the mid 80's; until this film article appeared. Looking back at the edit history for Selma, I see that the led in the version I first edited, MLKs was the only leader named, so I added John Lewis and Hosea Williams; in the order of John Lewis and Hosea Williams, being the front line of the Bloody Sunday march, and MLK as at the front of the Turnaround Tuesday march. And for the third march, lots of change-outs over several days. Just as simple as that. I have no agenda, but did want to side-step all agenda. (Not saying you do, but agenda exist.) Drop me a note, or I will when your email works. - Neonorange (talk) 17:09, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

email sent, seems I didn't check the final box in the sign-up process. I have my fingers crossed that you are Anne Hathaway. Randy Kryn 20:37 9 June 2014 (UTC)

I was right! You are Anne, may the gods be praised. Thanks for your thanks. Did you see Oprah herself is playing Annie Lee Cooper? I wonder if she knows that Cooper was the first person Bevel told right after he thought of the march (she was working as a night clerk at the Torch Motel, where Bevel came up with the plan as he himself was walking around and around outside). Cooper was the woman who beat up Sheriff Jim Clark, so Winfrey will give it her all (I hope). Randy Kryn 19:28 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Haven't heard back from you from the email. What may have happened is that my email name also includes my user name here, including the "Randy" part, and some email systems read it out as racy and put it in the spam folder. Check in there to see if my messages are mixed in with the other nonsense. Thanks. Randy Kryn 4:04 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Randy, the fault is not in the email transmissions, but in me. I have a junk mail diversion folder, and check before deletion, so I'll never miss goodmail. Just to check, I've sent two emails through Wikipedia to you, and received one:

• to -> beginning with Your email account now seems 9JUN14
• to -> beginning with I see by the time stamp 10JUN14
• from -> beginning with Hi, and thanks for your work 11JUN14.

Not keeping score B^) just checking the process.

My apologize for letting my reply slide. Suddenly my Wikipedia presence heated up (more messages in the last week than in the previous year. I just saw you good edits on Selma to Montgomery marches, took a look, and made a minor tweak to avoid the Voting Rights Act redirect (the Wikipedia article is titled Voting Rights Act of 1965. The link you put in still works, but through a redirect. I'll reply to your email now. - Neonorange (talk) 04:41, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

P.S. I've learn much from working on this article - I'm so glad the Captain got it rolling. Without that, our conversation might not have gotten started. Aside from the learning more about the movement, I've been learning more Wikipedia syntax stuff. Take a look at what is the 'preferred' way to make a list! Who'd have thought? The 'nowrap' probably makes the infobox too wide, too bad there's not image; that would make judging the layout effect easier. - Neonorange

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/So Happy Together (film)

Just to explain why it looks like I reverted your AfD !vote...

It looks like the edit accidentally moved some things around in such a way that affected display of the page. Seemed easiest to revert and manually re-add your comment. --— Rhododendrites ^talk |  22:32, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks; for the fix and the explanation. Wasn't my intention; wonder how I managed that. - Neonorange (talk) 00:07, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

MOS:FILM

See WP:FILMPLOT. In film articles, plot/synopsis sections are not required to have citations. :) Schmidt, ^{Michael Q.} 20:43, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks; seems I should have left off that last sentence. (pounding in my 'Keep', likely from my perception the nomination was a bit lazy, considering WP:RS wasn't that hard to find, and that IMDB status is in dispute, rather than forbidden) - Neonorange (talk) 21:14, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Proper WP:BEFORE is highly recommended under WP:DEL, but sadly not a mandate. Lack of BEFORE is always a problem, and usually results in an AFD being used to force improvements. Too often some of the most well-meaning nominators do not show understanding of policies WP:DEL#REASON and WP:ATD. Faced with laziness, it becomes the burden of those wishing a "keep" to show that sources exist and that the topic is notable. When sources do exist, simply being unsourced is not a proper deletion rationale and IMDB is always suitable as a tool to expand searches for sources. Schmidt, ^{Michael Q.} 19:30, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the helpful information; I'm still working through it. And I think it applies to more than films. - Neonorange (talk) 06:12, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

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