Jump to content

User talk:Solomon7968/Archive3

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


This Month in GLAM: August 2013



Headlines
Read this edition in full • Single-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 08:23, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Alfred Legoyt

This article is too short to be approved for DYK. Perhaps research and then add more new info. --George Ho (talk) 02:01, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the note (in place of the automatic twinkle message). I have started expanding it. SL7968 03:15, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited List of Presidents of the American Philological Association, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Howard Crosby and George A. Kennedy (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 12:01, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Harvard

I responded to your post re professorships, and in return (well, maybe just out of the goodness of your own heart) perhaps you will be brave enough to wade in at Talk:Harvard_University#Cheating_scandal. I ask that having no idea what your view of things will be, but we could use a Solomon there, for sure. EEng (talk) 18:59, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Will comment there. Solomon7968 03:56, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Note there are 4 separate subsections on 4 disputed passages. Pace yourself -- subclinical paranoia runs high, complete with comparisons to Watergate [1]. Several people keep saying there's a worldwide conspiracy of powerful Harvard graduates manipulating Wikipedia articles along with interest rates and world copper prices. (In case you were wondering, that's actually true, but don't tell anyone I told you.) EEng (talk) 04:16, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
I don't want to impose, but you could look at each of the 4 subsections and comment on each. In most cases that will require reading the sources cited, because the general problem here is that one editor misinterprets those sources. Sorry to ask again but this has been a very long, rather silly argument and we badly need new blood. EEng (talk) 23:05, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Will comment there. Solomon7968 07:23, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
We really, really need help breaking this stalemate. EEng (talk) 13:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Alfred Legoyt

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited List of Presidents of the American Philological Association, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Charles E. Bennett (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 12:47, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Meeting at Night

Hello! Your submission of Meeting at Night at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it 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! Antidiskriminator (talk) 08:37, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Scottish Church College alumni

I have responded on the talk page of the article on the college. Pradosh Mitter (talk) 18:37, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: September 2013



Headlines
  • Belgium report: Europeana Fashion Fashion edit-a-thon; Wiki Loves Monuments
  • France report: Aerial pictures of Versailles; In Brief
  • Germany report: Reaching out for new partners
  • India report: Wiki Loves Monuments in India
  • Italy report: Italian Wikipedia takes libraries
  • Mexico report: Wiki Loves Monuments 2013; edit-a-thon in La Merced historical neighborhood
  • Netherlands report: Wiki Loves Monuments; ECNC photo competition; Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thon Antwerp; Fourth Dutch Wikipedian in Residence; Wiki loves libraries workshop; 10 years of CC licenses
  • Spain report: Amical projects: Catalan Culture; Wiki Loves Monuments
  • Sweden report: Sign language and case studies
  • Switzerland report: New cooperation with Botanical Garden; History of Alps update; OpenGLAM workshop at OKCon
  • UK report: The Morning After the Month Before
  • USA report: Wikipedia at the Metropolitan New York Library Council in New York
  • Wiki Loves Monuments report: The world's largest photography contest has struck again, but missed many countries
  • Open Access report: Thanks, OKCon, featured content, stats and a final
  • Calendar: October's GLAM events
Read this edition in full • Single-page

To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Unsubscribe · Global message delivery 07:43, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Meeting at Night, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page John Kenyon (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:58, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to provide thoughts

Hi, Solomon7968!

Since you provided comments on this discussion, I invite you to look at the discussion for a system of automating article requests I have been working on independently.

Thanks much! ~ Matthewrbowker Make a comment! 18:35, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Harvardization for deletion

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

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harvardization until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. EEng (talk) 13:18, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but I just don't see a coherent concept here around which an article could be formed. What would prove me wrong would be sources specifically discussing the term in some detail, not just as a cute catchword for something vaguely related to Harvard. EEng (talk) 13:27, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Ha, thanks for the note. However the concept does seem to meet WP:NEO. Will comment there anyways. Solomon7968 14:25, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
I think you'd do better to add appropriate sources to the article. EEng (talk) 23:51, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Meeting at Night

The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Letters to a German Princess, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Size (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:34, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Anita Bose Pfaff

Hi User:Solomon7968. Thanks for rewriting the lead at Anita Bose Pfaff. I still don't see the claim to notability, though. The article is on my watchlist if you'd like to reply on that talk page. Thanks! Garamond Lethet
c 20:45, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

I was intending to fix the article a while back and watchlisted it but got distracted by other issues. The relevant notability guideline for her would be WP:GNG, WP:AUTHOR, WP:POLITICIAN, and WP:PROF. She does not pass WP:PROF as an economist but she passes WP:POLITICIAN as member of German Parliament. Reference:
  • Harihar Swarup (1 January 2010). Power Profiles. Har-Anand Publications. p. 46. ISBN 978-81-241-1525-1.

Solomon7968 08:57, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Dinesh Thakur

I left a comment at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dinesh Thakur but in case you didn't see it: you wrote there "This article submission has been approved". Why was it approved? Where is the evidence that the subject passes WP:PROF? —David Eppstein (talk) 16:37, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the note here (I didn't noticed it). His citation record does have two 3 digit figures. While not so great, one of them is from the Annals of Mathematics. This might be a borderline case of WP:PROF. (BTW, "This article submission has been approved" is an automated message). Solomon7968 16:53, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
Also, please don't move articles from titles so that new articles can be moved there from AfC. The new article should have the disambiguation (if it passes the AfC criteria, which in this case it apparently hasn't), but you shouldn't be moving pages such as you did. —SpacemanSpiff 09:19, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
@SpacemanSpiff I agree that the theatre director is the primary topic here. I intended to move the theatre director back to "Dinesh Thakur" after accepting the AFC (since if the page history is only redirect then it can be moved via over redirect i.e. G6 is not necessary) and moving the mathematician to "Dinesh Thakur (mathematician)". Apparently AFC namespace pages cannot be moved over redirect hence the problem. Hope it helps. (BTW, the original decline reason of the AFC is not valid; unless an academic is Nobel laureate or so, secondary sources [other than CV or university Homepage] aka gossip stories are not readily available). Solomon7968 10:39, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
I don't understand why you need to do that, you can just as well move the AfC candidate to "FOO (dab)". Why you need to move FOO to FOO (dab2) and then move AfC to FOO, and then move FOO to FOO (dab) and then move FOO (dab2) to FOO is what I don't understand. I'm not involved in the AfC process so I have no idea about that -- all I saw was one comment saying not approved and another questioning approval but eitherways that doesn't affect my concern with the move. cheers —SpacemanSpiff 12:31, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited John Black Atkins, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Marlborough (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 14:22, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited John Black Atkins, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Marlborough (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 20:39, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Walter Eugene Clark

Hello! Your submission of Walter Eugene Clark at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it 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! Edwardx (talk) 23:10, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Walter Eugene Clark

The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Model list

Hi. Started List of populated places in Adilabad district. Very time consuming but so far I've already redirected some villages. If you actually see most of the major towns even those could largely be summarized in a table. I'm taking a break from it for now, haven't done the coordinates from M onwards though if you want to continue. See the template I created at the bottom for other districts. Ideally we should have this sort of thing for every district and state of India. But it's too much for me to take on. It would take over two years to do it all, all day, every day!! I'm going to add a lot of missing villages and try to make this a model list for others to follow. But if we could somehow create automated lists of settlements with coordinates and a table to fill in it could become a gradually thing to fill them and redirect the more redundant/problematic articles. Let me know what you think.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:02, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for John Black Atkins

The DYK project (nominate) 17:18, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Letters to a German Princess

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:02, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for George V. Bobrinskoy

The DYK project (nominate) 16:04, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Precious

learning
Thank you for quality contributions to articles on education and awards, their people and writing, such as Letters to a German Princess, for page moves, questioning notability and fighting copyvio, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:54, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Gerda Arendt thank you so much for the kind words! Solomon7968 18:13, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Important Notice: Your 2013 Arbitration Committee Election vote

Greetings. Because you have already cast a vote for the 2013 Arbitration Committee Elections, I regret to inform you that due to a misconfiguration of the SecurePoll we've been forced to strike all votes and reset voting. This notice is to inform you that you will need to vote again if you want to be counted in the poll. The new poll is located at this link. You do not have to perform any additional actions other than voting again. If you have any questions, please direct them at the election commissioners. --For the Election Commissioners, v/r, TParis

DYK nomination of William Hastie

Hello! Your submission of William Hastie at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it 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! Yoninah (talk) 23:34, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Please see new note on DYK nomination page. Yoninah (talk) 11:05, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
THx4thx - I think William Hastie has come on quite a lot and we now have race, sex and class to add to religion and mysticism .... maybe we can find a better hook. Could you copy edit or clean up that photo of him? Interesting guy.... and we seem to have a better bio that the ODNB! Victuallers (talk) 15:33, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Yes he was definitely a Interesting guy, I will (re)read the Miss Pigot story and clean up it, maybe there should be an article about her and the orphanage? Thank you for the improvements. Solomon7968 15:55, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
Please see new note on DYK talk page. Yoninah (talk) 23:52, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Disruptive editing

I find it amusing that you've accused me of disruptive editing for politely reminding an editor not to add unsourced material to biographies of living people. Adding unsourced material to a BLP is a violation the WP:BLP policy, and we're admonished to "be very firm about the use of high-quality sources." For examples of truly disruptive editing, please see WP:TALKO (a guideline) which states that "you should not edit or delete the comments of other editors without their permission." I take both our BLP policy and our behavioral guidelines very seriously. I hope that you do the same. Pburka (talk) 17:23, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Adding unsourced material to a biographies of living people is a violation the WP:BLP policy, true, but this case wasn't. There were several sources readily available (the official facebook, twitter accounts also mentioned it but they are not WP:RS) so there was nothing stopping you from do a simple Google search or add a {{cn}} tag. What prompted me to revert you was not your revert but your enthusiastic template warning the editor. He is a veteran editor and knows policies well, I suggest you read Don't template the regulars. Solomon7968 17:40, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
Clearly the editor failed to add sources in this case, and the editor's comment ("added this because i wanted do know how he got to law after IIT. Will request all battling editors to be help wikipedia and keep the bits that are informative instead of wholesale reverts") seemed to suggest that the editor was unfamiliar with our policy on verifiability and reliable sources. (We don't keep information because it's informative; we keep information because it's verifiable.) Furthermore, I could not (and still cannot) find a reliable source supporting the claim that the subject attended University of Delhi. I understand that this article is the subject of some emotional editing because of its political subject, but I have no dog in that fight. I have also read the essay you linked to, and must say that the author's argument is not convincing. Pburka (talk) 18:10, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
Trust me, I have nothing "emotional" with Somnath Bharti. Infact I *never* heard his name and only it came to my notice by your template warning (of the editor). I get that you may not have realized that he is a veteran editor (he is editing since 2004). I am sorry if I offend you but blind reverts are never helpful (for editor retention and otherwise) and the said edit is by no definition a BLP violation. Solomon7968 18:22, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for William Hastie

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Edward Elbridge Salisbury, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page German Oriental Society (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:18, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Augustus Henry Mounsey

The DYK project (nominate) 04:43, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

On Abanindranath Tagore

Dear Solomon, I have taken this information from the book "Bengal Art New Perspectives" (http://www.pratikshanbooks.com/booksonart/index4.html). The essay "A Master Rediscovered" by Tapati Guha Thakurta elaborates on this issue. I have gathered the information from her essay, and wrote it in my own words. But I don't know how to cite a source or text which is unavailable online. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnkishore (talk • contribs) 15:03, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talk, we can continue there to keep discussion intact. Solomon7968 15:30, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Pathways to Housing

Hello Solomon7968, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Pathways to Housing, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: There is an article about the group by the Christian Science Monitory, enough to meet the threshold to pass CSD, take it to AfD if you still think it should be deleted. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. kelapstick(bainuu) 10:54, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Edit on Jaroslav Nešetřil

The 15th August 2013, you revised the entry Jaroslav Nešetřil, suppressing the indication of doctoral students as "not directly related to the subject himself and can be easily accessed via MathGenealogy". Nevertheless, doctoral_students is a standard entry of the Infobox scientist template (hence has been considered as relevant for scientist bio entries) and the possibility to find an information somewhere else does not seem to me to be an argument against its publication on wikipedia, specially in this very particular case, MathGenealogy being unknown to most Wikipedia readers (you don't need to be a mathematician to be interested by a bio). 195.113.16.254 (talk) 11:36, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me for the revert (the article was not on my watchlist). Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and I do not think all of his 20 students passes the notability criteria, hence the removal. However I am not going to revert you back, cheers. Solomon7968 16:07, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Welcome to the 2014 WikiCup!

Hello Solomon7968, and welcome to the 2014 WikiCup! Your submission page can be found here. The competition will begin at midnight tonight (UTC). There have been a few small changes from last year; the rules can be read in full at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring, and the page also includes a summary of changes. One important rule to remember is that only content on which you have completed significant work, and nominated, in 2014 is eligible for points in the competition- the judges will be checking! As ever, this year's competition includes some younger editors. If you are a younger editor, you are certainly welcome, but we have written an advice page at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Advice for younger editors for you. Please do take a look. Any questions should be directed to one of the judges, or left on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup. Signups will close at the end of January, and the first round will end on 26 February; the 64 highest scorers at that time will make it to round 2. Good luck! J Milburn (talk · contribs), The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 17:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Okay, sen is not of greater pride than bose

But numerous editors on the talk page have supported the inclusion of Sen, my edits are by no means unilateral. I don't know if you're Bengali, but Yunus and Sen are the most influential global Bengali icons and frankly I can't think of an acceptable collage without both of them. As for Netaji, why on earth are you taking his exclusion so seriously. I apologize. They both are of great pride.--Bazaan (talk) 01:30, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

And if you hadn't known, Bose was never in that collage until I added him last year.--Bazaan (talk) 01:36, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Nothing serious (compared to enWP standards!) but it really seems odd to have two economists (yeah I know the story of Yunus). But I am not going to edit war over it, will post on the talk page instead. BTW, best wishes for 2014. Solomon7968 01:44, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
You too. Thanks.--Bazaan (talk) 02:00, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited St. Valentine's Day at Girton, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Valentine (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 09:10, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Robert Clive

It is unnecessary to pipe links like [[Robert Clive|Robert Clive]] or to change redirects. Please also remember to move talk pages when you move the associated articles. DrKiernan (talk) 09:54, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Yeah agreed, I was using AWB and I disabled the automatic changes option which piped the links in the [[Robert Clive|Robert Clive]] format. Now fixed. Solomon7968 10:00, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Herbert Giles

I did a Google Books search but I didn't see a biography of him in it. However I did run into a citation for a critique of his translation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. I'm going to get the source from Wikipedia:RX and see what to do with it. WhisperToMe (talk) 07:22, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

Sorry for not replying further. I do use Google Books but a typical problem with Orientalists (Sinologists, Indologists etc.) is that the usual readily available sources are Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition or the Dictionary of National Biography. So unless someone has access to pay walled sources (which is not the case with me) it is very difficult to expand the articles. Wikipedia:RX off course is the last resort. Solomon7968 16:12, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 08 January 2014

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Solomon7968/Archive3&oldid=1076636910"