User talk:Scartol/Archives/2009/January

Peer review...

Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937. Any inputs you can offer would be appreciated! Thanks. 03:59, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

That bird is still caged...

...And it will be until its Wikipedia article becomes FA! ;)

Hey Scartol, I wanted to check-in with you about I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The last time we spoke, before the holidays, you had looked at a few of the improvements based upon your feedback that I had made to it. Are you finished with that? If so, what's the next step? IIRC, you had mentioned another peer review and suggested that we elicit some input from Awadewit. Is that where we are right now? I'd like to move forward, but it's not like I don't have things to do. For example, I've in the research phase of article development of Sesame Street, and having a good time with that. It's time to return to this article, though, since my goal is to get it to FA sometime this year, the 40th anniversary of the book's publication. Thanks, and happy new year! --Figureskatingfan (talk) 15:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Saw your note, and no problem. Sorry to hear about your sick dog; hope she gets better. I know what being super-busy is like, especially at the end of the year. Take your time, please. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 19:22, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. I will make the further changes tonight, but I wanted to express my gratitude and appreciation now. I'm very excited! How's your dog? ;) In other news, I think you might be interested in my other project, Sesame Street. I'd love for that article to reach FA by November, which coincidentally, is the 40th anniversary of its premiere. It's way complicated, so I dunno, but I'm fairly certain I can get its ancillary, History of Sesame Street, to FA. The other weird thing is that just like Caged Bird was created after a dinner party, in 1968, so was Sesame Street, in 1966. How weird is that, eh? --Figureskatingfan (talk) 05:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

South African Scout Association peer review

Good day

I am not sure if this would be the correct place to place this.

Could you please help to perform a peer review on the South African Scout Association article. Thanks in advance. -- YiS, Jediwannabe 13:39, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Hope life treats you kinder soon :) -- YiS, Jediwannabe 15:51, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Barton Fink

I just watched Barton Fink today, and obviously I headed to the film article to read the commentary. It was a very enjoyable read! The article is one of the very few out there that "plunges the depths" of a film. I hope that you will pursue the FAC process in the near future; it is definitely a shining example, especially in the thematic sense. Great work! —Erik (talk • contrib) 18:54, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Whoa, that was John Mahoney!? I only knew him as Frasier's dad... did you get my email about Literature/Film Quarterly, by the way? —Erik (talk • contrib) 18:10, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

And now for something completely different...

Scartol, regarding your offer to look at History of Sesame Street: thanks for the offer, but there's a long way before that article is even ready for you to look at. Well, I mean, you can look at it; it's a free country, but it'll be awhile before it's ready enough for you to consider for FA. Heck, I think it should get to GA first, and even that's a long way off.

All that to say that I have something else that I'd like you to look at: Stanford Memorial Church. I happened upon that article after seeing it in Recent Changes. After a minor controversy that was easily resolved, I improved its references and after doing a little research about it, got more and more intrigued and hooked. After it became GA, I was certain that it would never have the potential to become FA until last week, when another editor came up with some more resources that allowed me to expand it further. I'm very proud of what we've been able to do to it. It lies outside of my normal WP-interests, but it's been great fun learning about this really interesting little church. No, I didn't go to Stanford (although my sister-in-law did); I've never even been on campus. But there's something about the church that drew me in. Plus, it was a welcome respite from rape and children's TV.

Anyway, when you've got a breather from all your school-stuff, would you be so kind as you look at this article? I think that I need to get some input from some musicians regarding the Organs section, but I'd like your input as well. Thanks so much, as always. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 06:58, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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Peer review request

I need someone to do a peer review for List of Popotan episodes which is up for a WP:FLC and the only thing holding it back is grammar. I was told to get someone outside the wikiproject to do the review and your list looked like the best candidate.じんない 20:32, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Jada Pinkett Smith

Hi there! Hopefully you remember the useful suggestions you gave to me during the FAC of Jada Pinkett Smith. Unfortunately, the article was not promoted and I am at a complete loss as to how to improve it. If you have any spare time, could you please go through the article and leave any suggestions either here or on my talk page. I would forever be in your debt. I just need some fresh pair of eyes that are great at improving prose. Let me know. If not, no worries, but maybe a suggestion as to what I should do would be fantastic! Thank you either way. – Ms. Sarita ^Confer 23:59, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Scar, sorry it's been a couple of days. It's *my* turn to be busy.

It looks like Awadewit has gotten around to copyediting the Caged Bird article. Now that that's happened, do you think that this article is ready to be submitted for FAC? I wanna make sure it's ready, so that as you've said, the process goes easy and smooth. My last FAC was brutal, and I'd like to avoid all that pain!

I'd also like to thank you for looking at the MemChu article. My progress notes for work were due this week, and a client is in the middle of a crisis, so I haven't been able to tackle your feedback and comments. I intend to get to that by the weekend. I don't think it's smart to have two FACs in the fire at the same time, so I'll probably work on that article and wait until the Caged Bird article passes before I submit that one. Again, thanks for your help. You've kinda of become my WP-mentor, and I really appreciate that. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 05:51, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Policy question

Hey again Scar. Man, I've been spending a lot of time on your talk page! ;)

Anywho, I had a question that came up as I've been working on the MemChu article tonight. As you've probably already noticed, Erp, whose strength seems to be research (which is cool because he's been able to find some helpful sources), has identified some turn-of-the-20th-century New York Times stories about Jane Stanford and the church's first chaplain, Heber Newton. As I said on the article's talk page, that has brought up a WP-policy question for me. I know that I've read somewhere something about how sources on WP need to be easily accessible. For example, if you use a newspaper article, it's not recommended for the reader to have to pay a fee to access it. I looked for that policy this week, but wasn't able to find it. Is there such a policy, and if so, where is it?

The reason I ask this is that when I went to go search for the articles Erp talks about, the only way I would be able to access them is to either become a Times subscriber (ain't gonna happen--we watch Fox News in our house!) or to pay a fee to an archive service, or I could of course go to our local university and fisch 'em. Is it a good idea to include a newspaper article that doesn't have a link? I mean, we do it all the time with books--nothing in this article, but several sources in the Caged Bird article.

Okay, so I have more than one question. But I'm curious about it, or at least where I could find the WP policies about this stuff. As always, thanks. --Figureskatingfan (talk) 05:49, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Hi, I just wanted to congratulate you on bringing Barton Fink to FA status. Keep up the good work.--Music26/11 17:06, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy birthday!

Sorry it's a couple of days late, but since you advertised it, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. Hope you had loads of fun! --Figureskatingfan (talk) 06:12, 27 January 2009 (UTC)