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WP:Canada Welcome!

Hello, OttawaAC, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia

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Your contributed article, Women and education

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Hello, I notice that you recently created a new page, Women and education. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page - Female education. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Female education - you might like to discuss new information at the article's talk page.

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Anjou, Isère

Hello, I fixed Anjou, Isère. I suggest looking at the articles Wikipedia:Cheatsheet and Help:Table, for information about basic wiki code and table use. Another tip: you can click on "Edit this page" at the top of the page, then on "Cancel" at the bottom if you only want to see the code of a page. Sorry for the late answer and welcome to Wikipedia! Comte0 (talk) 22:30, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Come hang out with us!

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that we have created an IRC channel for "countering systemic bias one new editor at a time", aka closing the gender gap! Come hang out at #wikimedia-gendergap. I hope you'll join us! (And if you need any IRC help, just let me know!) See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 01:11, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Rose Doudou Guéï

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A tag has been placed on Rose Doudou Guéï requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:35, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

RE: Rose Doudou Guei Biography Redirect

Hi there. I'm more than happy to undo my actions in this case. Apologies for the inconvenience. Take care, — Joseph Fox 09:06, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Wanted categories

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Paderewski

Sorry I wasn't clear - space limitation in edit summaries don't have much room. The Wikipedia:MOS#Images goes into some detail on this. Basically, the article isn't the place for a gallery of photos - that's what Commons is for. Of course, a few illustations in the article are OK, but the text should always be dominant. Here are the pertinent guidelines:

  • Images should be inside the major section to which they relate (within the section defined by the most recent level 2 heading)
  • Use Commons to link to more images on Commons, wherever possible. The use of galleries should be in keeping with Wikipedia's image use policy.

I'm glad you've taken an interest in Paderewski. I consider him to be a far greeater pianist than he's usually given credit for.

Cheers.THD3 (talk) 23:22, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz

The article Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

non-notable person. Fails WP:PROF.

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Awa Marie Coll Seck

Regarding your recent new article about Awa Marie Coll Seck, I just wanted to let you know that we already had an article about her at the title Awa Marie Coll-Seck. I'm not familiar enough with her to know whether the version with or without the hyphen between Coll and Seck is the more appropriate title, and I haven't compared the two articles in enough depth to know whether there's information present in one that isn't in the other, but we don't normally keep multiple articles about the same person at different spellings — so the two pages should actually be merged into one article at whichever is the more correct title. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 18:44, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Instead of deleting it, it would actually be better to redirect it to the other title by replacing it with the text
#REDIRECT [[Awa Marie Coll-Seck]]
after you're done moving the information. For one thing, there are a couple of links from other articles to the unhyphenated version that you created — if the page is deleted, then those will become empty redlinks again, but if it's redirected to the title that we're keeping, then they'll link properly to that article. Bearcat (talk) 22:06, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Contact

Hi OttawaAC! Feminist Economics would love to provide you a short-term subscription to their journal to aid in your contributions to Wikipedia, based on your application. If you could please send me the email address you would like to tie to your description, that would be fantastic. Please pass it along to: jwild@wikimedia.org Jwild (talk) 01:37, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

History of feminism

Thanks for cleaning up the History of feminism article! I'm amazed some of that stuff was in the article to begin with. Kaldari (talk) 18:20, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Idea Lab medical photos discussion post-mortem

Not posting this there as it is not on the actual topic, but rather a reply to your reply to my post. I think you have misunderstood my intention there. What I was saying is that I could not see any point in my continued involvement in the discussion because you seemed to be all alone in your position, which appeared to be becoming more extreme as the conversation continued. I never said you had to stop discussing it, or that you needed permission to have begun the conversation, and I have no idea what made you think I had said that.

Wikipedia works by building consensus, even in the idea lab. I happen to agree with you about the value of bolded voting in such a conversation, but voting and seeking consensus are not the same thing. We seemed to be moving further, not nearer, from coming up with anything useful, and nobody seemed to agree with your position at all, hence "the rest of us" refers to the rest of the users in the conversation, not the entire body of Wikipedia editors.

When I'm talking, what I say is what I mean, I don't screw around with hidden subtexts and innuendo, so looking for them in my remarks was a waste of your time. And I'm not trying to yell at you or embarrass you by commenting here either, just hoping to avoid similar miscommunication in the future. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:46, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

UnWarranted Warnings and reverts

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You sent me a bunch of warnings for various articles, including one on Ida B. Wells that referenced a joke. There were no jokes in my edits of the Ida B. Wells article. As for the rest, you made minor changes to photo captions, or removed well referenced material from articles. There was no vandalism, or POV problems. All the things you changed were well referenced. If you want to make a minor change, as you did on some occasions, fine, do it. But I can't see any reason to take the hacksaw approach you did. It is obvious that you went down my contrib list and took a shot at each one.

Brechbill123 (talk) 00:10, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. You also referred to my captions as "pro Nazi" in the Home Front article edit. I am not a Nazi, and I did not create pro-Nazi captions. (Deleted pro-Nazi propaganda captions in photos and created NPOV captions) This is an unacceptable personal attack.Brechbill123 (talk) 00:51, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Making diffs

Hi, I came across your post on the admin's noticeboard and truncated the hyperlinks into diffs for you. To make diffs is a simple matter of wrapping your link with square brackets. As an example, http://en.wikipedia.org to [1] --Blackmane (talk) 12:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Senegalese tea culture

Awesome stuff... I wish you had submitted this to Did You Know. It's an awesome topic, and an under-represented geographic area on Wikipedia, well referenced, it deserved front page exposure. -- Zanimum (talk) 15:26, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Women and governance

Please do not make cut-and-paste moves or renaming: such actions sever the article from its attribution trail in violation of Wikipedia's attribution requirements and copyright scheme. If you want a different title, please use the "move" function which will simply rename the article and move its entire history and talkpage to the new title. Please make sure you've gained consensus on the talkpage before doing so. I've deleted the new title, without prejudice to the renaming: it's purely procedural to maintain the article history. Acroterion (talk) 00:35, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

User:Zanimum

Constructive contributions are appreciated and strongly encouraged, but your recent edit to the userpage of another user may be considered vandalism. Specifically, your edit to User:Zanimum may be offensive or unwelcome. In general, it is considered polite to avoid substantially editing others' userpages without their permission. Instead, please bring the matter to their talk page and let them edit their user page themselves if they agree on a need to do so. Please refer to Wikipedia:User page for more information on User page etiquette. Thank you. 117Avenue (talk) 01:46, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Evgenia Bosh

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Girls' games and toys

Thanks for your message. The main point is that the article had originally been allocated to categories that are used as parents or roots, designed to hold only main subject matter articles in addition to housing a system of sub-categories. This article does not belong in category:Games as the category page's notes make clear. An attempt should have been made to find an appropriate sub-category and I think the same applied re the other main categories that were allocated. ----Jack | talk page 09:14, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Congratulations

for your translation on Wpen from Marie Crous in french. If you want to go further in this way, you may have a look on the pages i wroten about french mathematiciens of the XVI and XVII th century. here. I haven't translate evrery thing i've done on Wpfr to Wpen, but your'e welcome... Alas, a little few are women (Catherine de Parthenay, Elena Cornaro). Better to talk on my french page. Jean de Parthenay (talk) 21:59, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Mistakes

You have made too many mistakes, enough already. Take it to the talk page on the article...Modernist (talk) 14:08, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

A copy of the original publication (well out of copyright) of Beeton's Book of Household Management, which also has that table, is at http://www.archive.org/stream/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft_djvu.txt; another from Project Gutenberg is at http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/0/1/3/10136/10136.htm. Should I revert your (understandable) edits to avoid copyright violations, and insert these as references, or do you wish to do it? Thanks... Allens (talk) 05:37, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Dominica tea culture

Hello! Your submission of Dominica tea culture at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Aymatth2 (talk) 22:22, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello. :) I quite frequently work on copyright issues on Wikipedia, and wanted to drop by and explain our approach to using source materials after your note here was brought to my attention.

I'm afraid that you cannot copy content like this from a copyrighted source:

There are many plants in the Botanic Gardens whose reported medicinal properties are unknown, or at least not widely known in Dominica; but these plants are known in the other islands, or in other parts of the world, for specific medicinal properties.

(The source says "However, there are many plants in the Botanic Gardens whose reported medicinal properties are unknown, or at least not widely known in Dominica; but these plants are known in the other islands, or in other parts of the world, for specific medicinal properties.") Doing so is not permitted under our copyright policy: Wikipedia:Copyrights. Aside from brief, clearly marked quotations used transformatively, you are only allowed to copy from previous sources if you can prove that they are public domain or compatibly licensed, and even then you cannot copy without indicating that you are doing so to avoid Wikipedia:Plagiarism. Otherwise, you must write content completely from scratch, being careful to avoid closely paraphrasing. This can sometimes be challenging and may seem illogical when the content is well written by a source, but it is required by policy. While you are free to use the information, you will in most cases need to use your own words and structure to convey it.

The duplication detector is overly sensitive, but where it finds limited duplication, there is often close paraphrasing around it. For instance, the duplication detector found matched the words " islands and the original". These four words out of context may not look like an issue; in context, they reveal a problem. Looking at the surrounding content, we see in the article the following:

Medicinal teas in Dominica have their origins primarily in the cultures of African slaves brought to the islands and the original indigenous Carib inhabitants.

The source says "In Dominica, the medicinal uses of plants have their origin primarily in the cultures of African slaves brought to these islands and the original Carib inhabitants." This is not rewritten from scratch as there are only superficial changes to the text.

Whether or not the history of the article needs to be deleted depends on how extensive the copied and closely paraphrased content is. We do not risk inadvertent restoration of material that violates our copyright policy. I don't have time right now to review how extensive the copying is, but it is important either way that the copying and close paraphrasing be dealt with as soon as possible. Please review Wikipedia:Copy-paste for some general guidance and edit the article promptly to remove the copied and closely paraphrased material. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:48, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I find lists befuddling, too. :) I had started creating a guideline on them at User:Moonriddengirl/Copyright in lists, but things are a bit up in the air right now following some advice from the Wikimedia Foundation attorney that we should be more conservative with those than we have been. It may nevertheless contain some information you might find useful. :) There are two basic questions you should start with: (a) is the data in the table/list/chart creative? (b) is the presentation of the data creative? If you answer no to both, it's probably okay to copy; if you answer yes to (a), you're limited to fair use. If (a) is "no" and (b) is yes, you may be able to monkey with presentation enough to avoid issues. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 01:20, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Mary I of England

I am reviewing the article for GA, and have a few minor comments at the review page which you may like to have a look at. Tim riley (talk) 15:35, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

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Argentine tea culture (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)
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Talk:Pregnancy#RfC: Which photo should we use in the lead?

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Pregnancy#RfC: Which photo should we use in the lead?. You participated in the previous RFC on the lead image, Talk:Pregnancy/Archive 4#Lead image RfC. Nil Einne (talk) 15:01, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Mexican tea culture

PanydThe muffin is not subtle 08:01, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

pic licence

Hi - I don't think you can take a picture of a magazine cover and license it under a commons license as if you own it... Off2riorob (talk) 23:26, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

your wikimedia pics of scarf

would love to get some more info about the beautiful scarf you posted. See discussion on ravelry http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/patterns/1917480/1-25 thanks!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.147.115.146 (talk) 21:23, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Cradleboard

Hello! Your submission of Cradleboard at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Choess (talk) 06:29, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

PanydThe muffin is not subtle 16:03, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Women in Government

The Original Barnstar
For all the great edits you've made- Turn685 (talk) 09:41, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Are you the person who updated/added/rewrote parts of Women in government? Because if so, then you are really really awesome. I've been working to try and get that article noticed. Now it's really looking great thanks to all the edits. :) --Turn685 (talk) 09:36, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Special Barnstar
I just read your new article on the Theatre a la Mode. What a great article! So nice to see someone creating articles about notable events in the fashion world, especially in the post-World War II era where (as the article states) fashion was an important industry. NellieBly (talk) 02:09, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Girls' games and toys

See T:TDYK#Where is my hook?: "Deletion occurs if the hook is more than about eight days old and has unresolved issues for which any discussion has gone stale. If you think your hook has been unfairly deleted, you can query its deletion on the discussion page, but as a general rule deleted hooks will only be restored in exceptional circumstances."

Your hook was 30 days old and the discussion had gone stale with unresolved issues. If you had something to say about Kiefer's rejection of the article on 21st November, you had plenty of time in the last seven days to say it. You didn't do anything to the article in that time, or comment further at the nomination, although you had been editing elsewhere, so I closed the nomination. I wasn't going to waste my time working out whether Kiefer's point was a good one or a bad one – that's your job as nominator. Nominations can't stay open for ever just on the off-chance that the nominator might return to his/her nomination and respond to comments at some point in the future. T:TDYK has enough old nominations as it is, and the aim is to showcase new content. If you want to ask the DYK community at large whether the nomination ought to be re-opened, then ask at WT:DYK and if there's consensus to reopen it, then so be it. Regards, BencherliteTalk 23:41, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

"And yet the nominator is expected to check back every day for more than a month to address any random criticisms that might be posted at any time over the course of several weeks with no deadlines placed on the reviewer(s). Not very efficient in my opinion." (1) No-one made you nominate the article at T:DYK in the first place; if you don't like the way it works, then either push to make it better or leave it alone. (2) Who said you had to check in every day? Checking in once in the last seven days would have been enough; that's not much to ask. (3) There are no deadlines placed on reviewers because reviewing is a voluntary yet necessary act. Reviewers are in short supply given the history of DYK over the last few months. Out of interest, what would your sanction be for no reviewers reviewing a nomination within X days - the hook is deemed automatically successful? Well, that isn't going to happen, is it? BencherliteTalk 23:56, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
Every page has a "watch" button. Users can set an option in their preferences to add pages that they create/edit to their watchlists. As for the history of DYK over the last few months, try reading WT:DYK and the last few archives to get a sense of the arguments that have been going on. I stopped going to DYK for quite some time until the dust had settled. I don't think DYK is perfect, but many of the problems it faces are symptomatic of Wikipedia as a whole - backlogs, arguments about copyvios/close paraphrasing, arguments about reliability of sources, arguments about its purpose... Sheesh. BencherliteTalk 00:25, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Dominica tea culture

Materialscientist (talk) 00:14, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Cradleboard

Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 00:03, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Argentine tea culture

Orlady (talk) 22:47, 4 December 2011 (UTC) 16:02, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Palazzo trousers

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:03, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Théâtre de la Mode

Orlady (talk) 14:37, 20 December 2011 (UTC) 16:02, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Articles for creation/Senegalese tea culture

Hi. You made an Article for creation page, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Senegalese tea culture (2011-10-09), but it was never actually submitted for a review.

I have submitted it just now, so you should get feedback soon. Cheers!  Chzz  ►  11:04, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. However, the content was removed because the submission was composed of copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia. You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.
Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! CharlieEchoTango (contact) 19:03, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your generous help- Merci de votre aide

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Women in Islam

Salam alaykoum , Shalom, I saw your contribution on Women in Islam. I have in french language, one text. on women imman because I wrote somes pages on women rabbis in french wikipedia [2], [3] and in english wikipedia [4], [5] [6] My references is

Je vois sur votre page de présentation que vous parlez et comprenez bien la langue française. Nous pourrions peut être échangées ensemble dans cette langue. Je vous apprendrai quelques mots d'hébreu et vous m'apprendrez quelques mots d'arable. La vie est si fragile. Et les mots manquent surtout quand je m'exprime en langue anglaise. Now just for you a beautiful song by Souad Massi, a great arab poet [7]. Prenez soin de vous, Que la paix nous accompagne, הט. הזה שלום מלוה אותנו --Cordialement féministe ♀ Cordially feminist Geneviève (talk) 01:56, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Major women's sport leagues in North America

Salam alaykoum OttawaAC, If you want, I can write you in French language. (It is my second language after the hebrew). Bonjour, j'espère qu'il ne fait pas trop froid aujourd'hui pour toi à Ottawa. Je te remercie de t'impliquer dans l'écriture de la page sur les grandes ligues féminines en Amérique du Nord. J'ai écrite le chapitre sur le hockey sur la glace. Ouf. J'ai faite tôt ce matin , des regroupements dans le texte Major women's sport leagues in North America , j’espère que mon geste ne te froisse pas. Si cela ne te convient pas nous pouvons revenir à la première version et ce sans problème pour moi. J'ai regroupé les championnats SIC qui étaient chacune seules dans leur discipline sportive respective (Cross Country, Curling, Field Hockey, Track and Field, Volleyball, Wrestling). Les ligues étaient seules dans leur discipline sportive contrairement aux ligues de Basketball ( 3 ligues) de hockey sur glace (3 ligues), de soccer (6 ligues), et de softball (2 ligues). J'ai tout regroupé les liques du SIC dans la section Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) women's championships in canadian university athletics. Il y a aussi une section américaine NCAA women's championships in americain college athletics du même type pour les différentes ligues étudiantes de la NCAA. Je ne sais pas si une personne américaine va écrire sur les nombreuses ligues féminines de la NCAA. Si oui nous pourrions alors regrouper dans le même chapitre d'une discipline sportive les ligues SIC et NCAA. Un peu comme le chapitre sur le hockey sur glace ou sur le Basketball. Bon j'ai aussi mise une annonce dans les projets pour avoir des contributrices sur les autres sports WikiProject Basketball, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/Women's football task force, WikiProject Football/United States and Canada task force. Espérant que des personnes américaines nous aideront car je connais assez mal les autres sports comme le basketball. J'ai discuté brièvement avec Clavdia chauchat qui est avec nous dans le WikiProject Women's sport. Elle est passionnée de football féminin (soccer féminin) mais ne connait pas beaucoup le soccer féminin des États-Unis. Je croyais qu'elle était américaine... mais il semble que non. Il m'arrive de me tromper sur l'origine des gens , surtout sur le net. Je vais poursuivre mon travail un peu plus tard car j'ai trois match de hockey sur glace à couvrir (je prend au moins 200 photos par match mais seulement quelques unes sont publiés) un mercredi soir à McGill, un vendredi soir à l'aréna Ville Mont-Royal et un autre samedi à l'aréna St-Louis de Montréal. Je devrai sortir quelques belles photos pour les pages de hockey féminin .... Laisse moi tes impressions ( en langue française ou en langue anglaise) sur ma page de discussion ou sur la page de discussion du Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's sport/Watercooler. J'ai répondue à tes questionnements sur cette page. Tu pourra lire, j'ai répondu du mieux que je peux car la page Major women's sport leagues in North America va évoluée avec les contributions de chacune ... Parfois le résultat final est surprenant et loin de ce que j'avais pensée au début. La page commence à prendre forme, c'est encourageant... Il faut simplement se laisser encore un peu de temps. Amitié à toi. דידות --Cordialement féministe ♀ Cordially feminist Geneviève (talk) 21:17, 16 January 2012 (UTC) [8]אני נותן לך צ'אסון אחר של סאואד מאסי

Nalo Hopkinson photo

Hi,

I just noticed that the photo that you added to the awards section of the article Nalo Hopkinson did not register in the article. I'm not sure how to fix this, so I thought I'd leave you a note. Dkreisst (talk) 23:28, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Al Columbia photo

Just wanted to say thanks for adding a photo to the Al Columbia article! InnocuousPseudonym (talk) 20:20, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

WP Women's History in the Signpost

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Women's History for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 01:12, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Apparently, blue-collar jobs are too trivial to be categories!

Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion#On the categorization of biographies by (perhaps) incidental occupation could use your input. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:49, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Your article has been moved to AfC space

Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:OttawaAC/Jacques Derrida on deconstruction has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Jacques Derrida on deconstruction, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article, if you have any questions please ask on my talk page! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 14:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Jacques Derrida

Per your request here, the errant AfC has been deleted. I would suggest that you write a summary about Derrida and Deconstruction for the main Jacques Derrida article and place {{Main|Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction}} on the main article to point readers to your new article. Shearonink (talk) 19:54, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

The Modest Barnstar
In recognition of all the work you’ve done lately! 66.87.0.254 (talk) 13:52, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

An award for you!

Mind the Gap Award
I, Sarah, hereby award you, OttawaAC, with the Mind the Gap Award for all of your excellent Wikipedia contributions in regards to women's history, feminism, and beyond! You're a tireless contributor to helping Wikipedia "mind the gap" in regards to the representation of women on the world's largest encyclopedia. Thank you. Sarah (talk) 03:21, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiThanks

WikiThanks
WikiThanks

Thanks for your recent contributions! 66.87.2.96 (talk) 20:04, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Writer's Barnstar
I, Kaldari, hereby award OttawaAC The Writer's Barnstar for their amazing work on the dowry article as well as numerous other articles related to Feminism and Women's History. Kaldari (talk) 05:33, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Translation

Thank you very much for your work in art and culture of francoism. I have made two modifications in the firsts paragraphs, related to the exact meaning of "familia" and "nacional" in the context of francoism (as fixed concepts in this context, can't be translated for the usual meaning of both spanish words). In other parts can be some mistakes (perhaps strange translations of names), but I cant do much more. Sorry for my bad english. --Ángel Luis Alfaro (talk) 06:48, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you again. There are many british and american hispanistas than you can read (just for the contemporary period, Gerald Brenan, Hugh Thomas, Raymond Carr, Paul Preston, Ian Gibson, Nigel Glendinning...) If you are interested in articles in spanish wikipedia of the culture of that period, I am very embarrased to propose you some in what I had worked, and perhaps you like: es:Ser de España ("Being of Spain"???), es:Oposición al franquismo ("Opposition to francoism"???), es:Franquismo sociológico ("Sociological francoism"???) or the more general es:Historia contemporánea de España ("Contemporary history of Spain"???). Nacionalcatolicismo y spanish nationalism are only partially translated in english wikipedia. --Ángel Luis Alfaro (talk) 17:40, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Devoré

An article that you have been involved in editing, Devoré , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. Mabalu (talk) 16:03, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Oh, I just saw you created both pages!! Please feel free to discuss - it seems a bit odd having separate pages describing what's pretty much the same thing, so hopefully we can work out the most suitable merging solution. Mabalu (talk) 16:07, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Eric Newman (producer)

Well done! I had a brief look around yesterday, arising from the AfD of the dab page, but couldn't find much for him. PamD 19:15, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Disability in literature

Hi I've just read the Disability in children's literature article that you mostly wrote. I notice that WP does not have a more general "Disability in literature" article. The very brief literature section in Disability in the arts could also be expanded.

Would you like to collaborate with me in this? I think we should first try to expand the section in the Arts article then take that as a "seed" to create a draft for Disability in literature.

While I am not an expert on literature I am quite experienced in disability issues and I'm a pretty good researcher. I'm a very skilled Google user! :P Roger (talk) 09:10, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

I've placed a list of possible sources on the talk page and put a set of section headings on the draft page to create a proposed structure for the article. Roger (talk) 18:29, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

The draft is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Disability/Sandbox/Disability in literature, the list of sources I have found so far is on the talk page. Roger (talk) 06:34, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Your creation of List of female film directors

I don't know if you were aware but a List of female film and television directors page already exists. QuasyBoy (talk) 16:00, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

OK, but what about the female television directors? Unless you want to move List of female film and television directors to List of female television directors, then making the list format the same as List of female film directors. Anyway I created a category for female television directors a while back: Category:Female television directors. QuasyBoy (talk) 18:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Cool QuasyBoy (talk) 18:13, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Stefania Wolicka

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Nomination of Jacques Derrida on deconstruction for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Jacques Derrida on deconstruction is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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