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Should ceaseless hangovers and clumsy, inebriated behavior ever sour you on the drinking scene, you could do worse than while away an evening in one of SF’s many pan-Asian dessert cafes. Cheap prices, pleasant late-night crowds, cultural cachet… the sole caveat being that, for the neophyte dabbler in casual Asian cuisine, menus can approach this side of incomprehensible. This thought came to me midway through ordering at Tapioca Express (1522 Fillmore, (415) 346-6600, [Please visit their website to see all their many international locations near you] www.tapiocaexpress.com). A whim had struck me for bubble tea, but in my naivete, I had come unprepared for what lay ahead. A universe of flavors, forms, and toppings were at my fingertips – it’s not unusual for a cafe to feature more than 80 bubble tea options; variations on form, flavorings, and toppings (“free crystal glass,” which to me sounds like a great deal...). Even ignoring the savories, I was at a loss. But I squashed the disorientation and walked away with an avocado [Snow BubbleTM], a tapioca-beaded milkshake whose creamy taste will dispel any hesitation you have toward desserts made from nacho ingredients. Sitting with my prize and savoring the peaceful, nonalcoholic hum around me, I knew: I was hooked. I needed more… thus it began, the adventures of a white girl in the land of taro, grass jelly, and [tapioca].” The forefather of the bubble tea invasion, Tapioca Express... The Los Angeles Times April 28, 2010 Updated The forefather of the bubble tea invasion, Tapioca express is still the go-to spot for quality bubble tea. Highlights include almond bubble tea and lychee icee (with bubbles or boba). Throw in bubblegum-pop tunes and you'll be sliding down that sugary slope in no time.
Good evening, Distinguished Guests, ladies and gentlemen, It is our great honor to be awarded tonight. Tapioca Express was founded in the fall of 1999.?After four years of hard work and dedication from all our partners and employees, we grew from one store to more than fifty stores in the U.S. and Canada.?Tapioca pearls, some people call it boba, are made from all natural cassava root starch.When you add the pearls into our tea, coffee, or juices, you have a drink that fun to eat! We are proud to be a part of positive contribution to the enjoyment of good food and creative drinks. We would also like to congratulate all other winners.?We are very fortunate to live in this great country at this time.?This is truly a land of inspirations and opportunities.?As long as there is dedication, courage, and teamwork, we stand a very good chance to succeed. Tapioca Express will continue to try our best to be a good corporate citizen. As we celebrate tonight we want to express our appreciation to our staff and our family members who have gone through many challenges with us.We would also like to thank our partners who run the stores day in and day out, trying to provide the best possible quality drinks to our customers. Last but not least, warmest thanks go to Asian Business Association for their good work to encourage the Asian American businesses and community.
One hundred thirty-two people stream through in the space of an hour. Guys and gals behind the counter greet them, pouring chilled tea into a cocktail shaker, mixing, serving. The menu boasts 149 flavors -- sprinkles of peppermint honey, mocha snow, hot grass jelly. Nothing costs more than $2.59. Customers lounge, their lips glued to the hottest craze found at the bottom of a beverage -- boba -- marble-like balls that are not swallowed but beg to be sucked and chewed, one by one, through imported, plump straws. This is Tapioca Express, south county's place to be for the young, hip and Asian, who swarm the Irvine shop from noon to midnight, twirling convertible keys, lugging tots and ordering up a storm. "We sell at least 1,000 drinks on a Saturday, some 700 on a weekday," says owner Christina Chan, who can barely be heard above the din, sitting in her hip-hugging jeans. Boba is made of tapioca and it's addictive, youths say, like Skittles, Gummi Bears or M&Ms. They roll into your mouth, melt and your taste buds scream for another round, "I get it, totally, every week, It's more fun than Starbucks, and I work at Starbucks, but we don't have these juicy treats in our drinks," offers Jenny Le, 17, tossing back highlighted blond streaks. "We can go to Jamba Juice and get a smoothie, but this isn't heavy," adds her cousin, Nguyen Le. "It's cool." Boba bars carne about in Taiwan nearly two decades ago, when they popped up block to block and a lack of zoning saturated the market. It didn't hit Southern California until a few years ago when places from Monterey Park to Koreatown to Little Saigon opened their haunts, advertising milk tea, iced coffee and red bean pudding laced with the irresistible swirl of boba. Parents started dropping their teens at hangouts, hardly worried, because there's no alcohol. At Chan's shop, which she runs with partners James Chuang and Sergio Yang, two chenille couches lure those wanting to play checkers or channel surf, some tapping their feet to tunes blaring overhead. Asian adults load grocery carts at the nearby 99 Ranch Market with kumquats and sashimi while their kids hang out here, discovering their own community within the much larger communities. North of this shop, wedged between Love Music and a plastic-surgery clinic is Boba Express in Garden Grove, where customers get a free drink with every order of jumbo popcorn chicken. Happy hour starts late -- 9 p.m. -- but that hardly matters to the fanatics. "Pizza? Who cares? " shrugs Matt Tran, 23. "That's too much for this time of the night, when this, this is like a light meal," he says, slurping from a cup filled with coconut At Cha for Tea in Westminster, some boba enthusiasts like their drinks a just tad sugary, others really sweet. The bars -- unlike cafes -- count on students and young professionals rather than early-morning commuters simply because they often don't do business until the middle of the day. And as a way of keeping the clientele, some are starting poetry readings and art shows. Classmates bring their buddies to soak up the atmosphere, as Viktor Corpuz does with Clint Collins one afternoon. He first tasted boba in the Philippines; it surfaced in his cereal. Corpuz wanted to introduce it to his non-Asian pal, Collins. The juniors at the University of California, Irvine, study biology. They lean back with snow bubbles in peach and watermelon, similar to Icees, and survey the scene. "Lots of girls," Collins murmurs, his eyes lighting as a skater breezes in wearing an Abercrombie & Fitch crop top. At the next table sit two women with Burberry bags; near them are other women in pastel capri pants. Some basketball players put down a stack of PC and e-Gear magazines, leaving and making way for a bigger group. We are what we eat, but we are also what we drink, Chan knows, as she details plans to open a franchise just down the way from this walnut Avenue joint, across from UCI. She has 23 employees and is still hiring. "It's a cultural drink, it's fun and it's not a fad," she says, revealing the next step. They plan to head south. "Mission Viejo,? she says. "I want to take it beyond the traditional areas."
It's the summer of boba for the South Bay's young and hip. Stores selling boba - sweet, gelatinous marble-size tapioca balls added to cold teas, coffees, smoothies, juices and slushies that are sucked up through an oversize straw - have been popping up in areas with large Asian populations such as the San Gabriel Valley for the past couple of years. Now the black boba "pearls" are making inroads on South Bay suburbia where college students and children are enthusiastically embracing the trendy drink. Boba Zone opened in May in a west Torrance strip mall at Anza Avenue and Del Amo Boulevard catering to a clientele that is 60 percent youngsters, said 25-year-old manager James Choo. Alhambra-based Tapioca Express, the nation's largest boba chain with sleek, stylish stores that often play pop music videos, has opened franchises in Rolling Hills Estates, Torrance and Carson in the past four months - in addition to existing shops in Gardena and Torrance - and plans to open a second Gardena location shortly. And even some coffeehouses are adding the drink to their menu - the Caffeine coffeehouse in Gardena near EI Camino College began serving boba at the start of the year and has seen its overall business leap by 20 percent, said owner Michelle Kim. "It has been expanding very fast in the past half year in the South Bay area," said Laura Lin, a former Rancho Palos Verdes resident who recently moved to the San Gabriel Valley to become marketing director at Tapioca Express. "We are expanding into the mainstream market for sure." Boba was invented in 1981 in Taiwan - the name is Taiwanese slang for "big breasts" - and has gradually expanded its reach throughout Asia and overseas. Asians have long been familiar with the beverage, but now the market is rapidly expanding to other ethnic groups. When boba paradise in Rolling Hills Plaza opened last fall, its customers were primarily Asian, said owner Jerry Yeh, 25, an Orange resident who opened a store in Torrance because of the South Bay's steadily increasing Asian population. Today, in a "surprising development," 90 percent of the store's customers are non-Asian, he said. "I'm an addict," admitted Katherine Russ, 21, of Wilmington, an unemployed graphic artist taking advantage of boba paradise's free Internet access. "It's kinda like eating and drinking at the same time." Boba appeals on several levels. There's a boba drink for every taste it would seem: Tapioca Express has about 150 variations on the theme on its menu - and will soon offer even more. The cool drink is the perfect antidote for a sweltering summer day - although some people also drink boba in hot teas or coffees. And it's a fun drink with an element of surprise in more ways than one, which is perhaps why Boba Zone has posted a sign outside its store that warns its young customers, "Please do not spit out boba." "I love boba, it's cute," said 24- year-old Carson-based paramedic Jessie Cordray, while conceding the drink is an acquired taste that she didn't initially like. "I kind of got addicted to it - these kind of funny, sweet, chewy things in your drink." " It's like a phenomenon. They (Tapioca Express) could be the Starbucks of tapioca drinks. - PAUL GIANNOTTI, whose company supplies equipment to boba stores Boba imbibers are a social bunch - the solo drinker is rare at Tapioca Express, Lin said. "A lot of (boba) stores are open really late, so it's a good hangout place," said 21-year-old college student Aki Inoue, a three-year boba drinking veteran. "Every one drinks it." Still, the scale of the boba craze has caught even those in the restaurant industry unaware. Paul Giannotti, whose company supplies equipment to boba stores, said he was amazed to see people lining up outside a Tapioca Express store in San Diego before its grand opening. "It's like a phenomenon," he said. "They could be the Starbucks of tapioca drinks." If trends continue, boba stores could soon be as ubiquitous as coffee houses. Tapioca Express, which has 37 stores, plans to have 100 locations by year's end, Lin said. Choo, of Boba Zone, opened a store in west Torrance because other areas of the city are becoming saturated with sellers of the drink. Yeh, of boba paradise, which opened last fall, said he has counted at least 10 boba stores in Torrance. "After we opened up all these other places started opening up," he groaned, adding that boba paradise has begun offering free delivery to offices and other places that order a minimum of 10 drinks in an effort to differentiate itself from competitors. "(The marketplace) is getting tough," he added. "There's only so many boba drinkers." Although part of the challenge of boba entrepreneurs is educating the uninitiated, some are already wondering whether boba is a fad that will peak and wither. Consultant Janet Lowder of Rancho Palos Verdes-based Restaurant Management Services, said juice and yogurt stores are closing. Not only has the craze for those products faded, but the demise of stores that specialized in them was hastened when larger outlets such as Dairy Queen and Baskin-Robbins muscled in on the market, she said. The same thing could happen to boba. But Giannotti believes the thirst for boba won't soon be over. "I don't think it's a fad because it's already a staple in other parts of the world," he said. "I see absolutely no signs of it letting up. It's too late to say it's a fad and too early to say it's a permanent fIxture. ... I think the end of the tunnel is a long, long way away."
Wayne Lin wants his business to become the Starbuck's of "boba" drinks. For the uninitiated, boba refers to the globules of tapioca that sit at the bottom of a cup and then are covered by a tea, milk or fruit juice concoction, sealed and sucked through a large straw. The drinks, with flavors ranging from the familiar coconut or strawberry to the more exotic sesame or Iychee, originated a decade ago in Taiwan and have been gaining popularity in the United States for the last two years - especially in areas like West Los Angeles and Pasadena. South EI Monte-based Tapioca Express Inc. claims to be the first company to bring a "boba" franchise to the United States and currently has 40 stores, with plans for 100 units by 2003. Tapioca Express' original store opened in Alhambra, and began franchising in areas with large Asian communities in Southern California and the San Francisco Bay area. "Word of mouth" The drinks became popular through word of mouth, allowing the company to grow rapidly, said Lin. Tapioca's president and chief executive. He owns the business with three partners, all originally from Taiwan. Interested franchisees need $65,000 to $195,000 to open a Tapioca Express. The company's corporate office receives at least 12 calls a day from people interested in franchise possibilities, according to Laura Lin, marketing manager for the three-year-old company (no relation to Wayne Lin). A typical Tapioca Express store generates $30,000 to $40,000 in monthly revenue, according to company officials. "Their revenues are on par with a yogurt, bagel or juice shop," said Janet Lowder, president of Restaurant Management Services, a restaurant consulting film. Comparatively, a fast food restaurant like McDonald's typically brings in more than $100,000 monthly. The Tapioca Express menu consists largely of hot and cold teas, coffee, shakes and smoothies, which are most commonly served with the tapioca "boba" balls. A few snack items are available. Prices for a 12-oz. drink average $2.50.While the company's formula has worked in areas with many Asians, the true test will be the appeal of the drinks outside the two coasts as the chain expands nationally. The company plans to open stores in areas like Co1orado and Texas where demographics are less likely to be primarily Asian. "They might encounter the same problems as El PolIo Loco." said Lowder. "Its concept came from Mexico and had a tough time outside of Califonia. It's going to be a challenge to attract customers in Middle America." Laura Lin said, however, that the clientele in its Old Pasadena shop is 80 percent non-Asian and the company is using its San Diego location as a testing ground for their nationwide expansion. Retooling the concept Company President Wayne Lin began by hiring a store manager who worked as a trainer for Starbucks in Taiwan. He also added typically un-Asian fare. like mochas, lattes (coining the phrase "Iattea") and a selection of cheesecakes to its menu to appeal to Amcan tastes, he said. While "boba" has been a hot commodity for Tapioca Express, basing business around one product is risky, and can easily be wiped out if a large chain adds it to their menu, Lowder said. "It happened to yogurt companies in the late '80s when chains like Dairy Queen and Baskin-Robbins added yogurt to their menus, "she said. South Pasadena-based Panda Restaurant Group has introduced the "boba" beverages into eight of its Panda express locations. The Chinese food chain currently offers three flavors -- honeydew, passion fruit and milk tea. But no competition from Starbucks yet. "Starbucks is always looking to expand our tea business and has looked into a variety of tea beverages, including the 'boba drinks." said Starbucks Corp. spokeswoman Kelly Hewitt. "But we do not have plans to introduce a similar drink in our stores at the time."
One hundred thirty-two people stream through in the space of an hour. Guys and gals behind the counter greet them, pouring chilled tea into a cocktail shaker, mixing, serving. The menu boasts 149 flavors -- sprinkles of peppermint honey, mocha snow, hot grass jelly. Nothing costs more than $2.59. Customers lounge, their lips glued to the hottest craze found at the bottom of a beverage -- boba -- marble-like balls that are not swallowed but beg to be sucked and chewed, one by one, through imported, plump straws. This is Tapioca Express, south county's place to be for the young, hip and Asian, who swarm the Irvine shop from noon to midnight, twirling convertible keys, lugging tots and ordering up a storm."We sell at least 1,000 drinks on a Saturday, some 700 on a weekday," says owner Christina Chan, who can barely be heard above the din, sitting in her hip-hugging jeans. Boba is made of tapioca and it's addictive, youths say, like Skittles, Gummi Bears or M&Ms. They roll into your mouth, melt and your taste buds scream for another round,"I get it, totally, every week, It's more fun than Starbucks, and I work at Starbucks, but we don't have these juicy treats in our drinks," offers Jenny Le, 17, tossing back highlighted blond streaks. "We can go to Jamba Juice and get a smoothie, but this isn't heavy," adds her cousin, Nguyen Le. "It's cool." Boba bars carne about in Taiwan nearly two decades ago, when they popped up block to block and a lack of zoning saturated the market. It didn't hit Southern California until a few years ago when places from Monterey Park to Koreatown to Little Saigon opened their haunts, advertising milk tea, iced coffee and red bean pudding laced with the irresistible swirl of boba. Parents started dropping their teens at hangouts, hardly worried, because there's no alcohol. At Chan's shop, which she runs with partners James Chuang and Sergio Yang, two chenille couches lure those wanting to play checkers or channel surf, some tapping their feet to tunes blaring overhead. Asian adults load grocery carts at the nearby 99 Ranch Market with kumquats and sashimi while their kids hang out here, discovering their own community within the much larger communities. North of this shop, wedged between Love Music and a plastic-surgery clinic is Boba Express in Garden Grove, where customers get a free drink with every order of jumbo popcorn chicken. Happy hour starts late -- 9 p.m. -- but that hardly matters to the fanatics. "Pizza? Who cares? " shrugs Matt Tran, 23. "That's too much for this time of the night, when this, this is like a light meal," he says, slurping from a cup filled with coconut. At Cha for Tea in Westminster, some boba enthusiasts like their drinks a just tad sugary, others really sweet. The bars -- unlike cafes -- count on students and young professionals rather than early-morning commuters simply because they often don't do business until the middle of the day. And as a way of keeping the clientele, some are starting poetry readings and art shows. Classmates bring their buddies to soak up the atmosphere, as Viktor Corpuz does with Clint Collins one afternoon. He first tasted boba in the Philippines; it surfaced in his cereal. Corpuz wanted to introduce it to his non-Asian pal, Collins. The juniors at the University of California, Irvine, study biology. They lean back with snow bubbles in peach and watermelon, similar to Icees, and survey the scene."Lots of girls," Collins murmurs, his eyes lighting as a skater breezes in wearing an Abercrombie & Fitch crop top. At the next table sit two women with Burberry bags; near them are other women in pastel capri pants. Some basketball players put down a stack of PC and e-Gear magazines, leaving and making way for a bigger group. We are what we eat, but we are also what we drink, Chan knows, as she details plans to open a franchise just down the way from this walnut Avenue joint, across from UCI. She has 23 employees and is still hiring. "It's a cultural drink, it's fun and it's not a fad," she says, revealing the next step. They plan to head south. "Mission Viejo," she says. "I want to take it beyond the traditional areas."
It's almost midnight on a Thursday, and the nearby Starbucks has long since turned its chairs upside-down on the tables and locked up for the night. But at the newest cafe on Palo Alto's California Street, Black Pearl, if you want to lounge on one of the black leather couches, you might have to ask someone to move over. On one couch sits Christa Demeke, 26, who is sipping the cafe's most popular drink -- taro pearl milk tea. It's pale purple, and sitting on the bottom are what look like black marbles. "We're the pearl milk tea fan club," says Demeke, who comes by a couple times a week for late-night study sessions. "I love it -- it's a special treat, like dessert." This Taiwanese import, which used to be found only in Asian specialty stores like Ranch 99, is now winning over the cappuccino and chai crowd. Pearl milk tea, also known as bubble tea, is a unique beverage experience -- it's kind of like drinking Thai iced tea and eating Gummi Bears at the same time. The milky black tea is often flavored with something like taro or mango. And spheres of chewy black tapioca wait to be slurped up through an enormous straw. It's a mouthful of entertainment. "If (pearl milk tea) were hot, it would be British and I would be sitting here talking in an accent," says Hamilton Tran, 27, one of Demeke's friends. "But it's cold and sugary, and has these pearls -- it's fun." Since the late 1990s, close to 1,000 pearl milk establishments are estimated to have opened in the United States. In the Bay Area, a recent mini- boomlet has introduced a new kind of cafe culture to the Peninsula. Strolling around downtown Mountain View, you can get a good indication of how trendy pearl milk tea has become. >From the corner of Villa and Castro Street, there are four establishments within a block of each other. In the past six months, Lucy's Tea Shop and Verde have been joined by Tea Era and Tapioca Express. On a recent afternoon, Verde was packed with young Asians standing in line. The atmosphere was peppy; the walls are bright lime, the stylish stainless- steel tables were packed closely together, and cheerful Asian pop music mingled with the sound of blenders and other drink machinery. Two Asian guys, one with long bleached blond hair, sat at the counter, putting together the plastic pieces of a Toyota Celica model toy. The ambience agrees with Peter Godden of Mountain View, 19, one of the few white guys in the cafe. He's playing Othello with his buddy Steve Lai, also 19."It's a different scene, a different environment," says Godden. "Do you ever see board games like this? People in coffee shops are serious and don't smile."Verde supplies board games and stacks of Asian magazines. "When there's nothing to do, it's the first place that comes to mind," says Lai. "It's a cool place to chill." Pearl milk tea got its start in the early 1980s, when an enterprising street vendor in Taiwan added tapioca pearls to his drinks. Today, the drink is as ubiquitous as soda, and the tea shops are practically on every street corner. They've become a major social gathering place for the younger set, from middle-school to college-age kids. "In Taiwan, parents are not so comfortable with their kids going to KTV (karaoke bars) and other dimly lit places," said Laura Lin, the marketing director for Tapioca Express, the first pearl milk tea franchise in the United States. Alex Rosten has never been to Taiwan, but one of the reasons the 23-year- old Stanford grad decided to open Black Pearl was to create an after-hours place for students. "When I was an undergrad I hated that there was no place to hang out," he says. "Everything closes at 10 p.m. and, if you're under 21, there's no place to go except for doughnuts and Denny's." On most weekdays, Black Pearl stays open until 1 a.m.; on the weekends, until 2 a.m. Over at Tea Era, owner Danny Han has noticed how his clientele includes businesspeople, not just the young Asian crowd. He's hoping to win over more non-Asian customers by steering them toward a specific flavor. The sign in his shop reads: "Special Recommendation: Roasted Barley Milk Tea." It may not sound like a hit, but Han says it's their best selling drink. "It tastes a little bit like coffee, so lots of Americans like it,' says Han. The variety of flavors can be mind-boggling. Compared to Baskin-Robbins, most pearl milk tea stores are way ahead when it comes to choice. Tapioca Express, for example, offers plain old tapioca milk tea, plus 147 other drinks. You can get 20 different flavors of milk tea, but you can also get pearls in a latte, a snow bubble (a sort of fruity milk shake), and even something called honey and egg juice. While some of these drinks sound pretty far out, they're offered in nearly 40 other Tapioca Express stores around the country. "It's always fun to look at a million different flavors," says Irene Yeh, 20, who likes her pearl milk tea made with green tea. "I look at the board for 20 minutes, even though I always get the same thing." While the pearls get all the attention, it's the tea that connoisseurs focus on. Ten Ren, a Chinese company that has been producing tea for 50 years, is said by some to have the best pearl milk tea in the area. Fans will also tell you that eating while drinking requires a little bit of concentration. "If you run out of liquid first, you have to be careful with the pearls," says Raheleh Mansoor, 24, who just graduated from Stanford Law School and is studying for the bar. "Once I was here (at Black Pearl) studying for 11 hours. I had two pearl drinks -- and I choked on both of them. But I keep on coming back for more." |
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Tanit Phoenix
I am Tanit Phoenix, this article is about me... This is crazy! The entire web has my wrong age because Wikipedia is the place everyone sources from, now IMDB has my wrong age too. How am I supposed to send you my correct age when everything on the web leads back to Wikipedia. Do you have an email I can email you a scan of my passport? —Preceding unsigned comment added by T2663475 (talk • contribs) 18:20, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Tanit Phoenix, correct birth year
This is my personal, Official Website, http://www.tanitphoenix.co.za/topten.php and my age and birth date and place of birth are listed here. I will email askmen.com right now to change it, I had no idea they has the wrong date. I have already had to send through a copy of my passport to IMDB.com to prove my age, and I am waiting on their team to get to it. This is frustrating. Everyone, all newspapers and magazines, I do interviews with checks my age with me because the web has all sorts of dates, and I am asking that you check my official website and change my date of birth on Wikipedia to its correct date, 1984. Then please put a block on anyone else changing it back. Thankyou very much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by T2663475 (talk • contribs) 18:36, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
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Dear "Ukexpat",
I am a chess fan and small contibutor to Wikipedia. A few months ago I made a major update to an article about a chess master and teacher who is very famous in my country, but because of different reasons, his Wikipedia page didn't exist and it has been deleted repeteadly. I was provided with a copy of the article in question which I reformatted and submitted for review. After that, the article was approved by Wikipedia contributors and put live on Wikipedia. Now, a few months later I received a message saying that since the article was previously deleted, it has been deleted again. My question is: Is there any way for this article to go Live again and who I may turn to, in order to request the article to be reviewed and reforematted even more if needed. Here is the link for the article in question - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_%22Tiger%22_Lilov. Thank you for your assistance!
Sincerely,
Dejan Stoynov —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chesszorro (talk • contribs) 16:22, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Reinhardt University
Thank you for your copy edits to this article. Most are fantastic, but I feel some are arbitrary - i.e., changing one secetion titled "A humble beginning" to the boring "Foundation." Too, certain links were deleted out of text - i.e., to the Falany Performing Arts center, etc. Can you tell me why those links were removed? Again, I appreciate you cleaning up the page and having it appear more in line with other Wiki articles, but not sure why the title change? Carsonmc (talk)
- Glad I could help. To answer your specific questions: I changed the heading because the former heading was unencyclopedic, see WP:MOSHEAD. "A humble beginning" sounds like something out of a travel guide or promotional pamphlet, not an encyclopedia. I removed the in-article external links per WP:ELPOINTS, specifically item 2. Hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 17:28, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Leslie Nielsen film stubs
I see you are fan, but do you really think all of these movies meet the WP:NFILMS guidelines? – ukexpat (talk) 18:56, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
Try AFDing them and find out...♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
OK here's the average one here. Do you have any idea who Ted Post is? Probably 20 times more notable in cinema history than his article currently would vouch for.. I am going through and adding cast and a source shortly. Shirley you can't be serious with this?♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:04, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
- Joking aside, yes it was a serious question about a bunch of film stubs whose only claim to notability, as they exist at the moment, is that Nielsen was in them. But let's move on... – ukexpat (talk) 19:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
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How do I get my page moved? It was marked for deletion.
I'm not even sure if I should be "talking" here. Sorry. I've fixed the things that needed fixed on my post. Just want to know what to do now. Please forgive my lack of knowledge. Contributing is MUCH harder than I imagined. ;-) Diane Burket (talk) 00:18, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
SHC change
Hey;
I'm sending this message in regards to the change you reverted. I was not trying to be nonconstructive. Clearly there is a topic on the possibility of SHC, and I have found that a picture is sometimes worth a thousand words. All I'm doing is adding a graphic that allows the reader to envision what that might entail. Please stop reverting the change. Thanks
Orangecommander. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Orangecommander (talk • contribs) 19:54, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Translations of Anna Chromy
Hi UKexpat
First of all, thanks for your help with my Wiki entries. I am trying to publish pages on Anna Chromy, the Bohemian artist and sculptress. I recently involved people from all nationalities to translate the English version I edited originally, into 15 other languages. German, French, Spanish, Czech, Italian, Dutch, Hindi, Hebrew, Russian, Chinese (mandarin), Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese, Greek and Indonesian.
This has been a carefully planned job but we are finding that many of the pages we are publishing are either being deleted or being edited shortly afterwards. Please can you advise me on what needs to be done to edit them (if necessary) and ensure these pages remain available in their respective language sections in Wikipedia.
Thank you
Surrealist lover (talk) 20:48, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for the message. Let's deal with the easy question first - for the non-English versions of Wikipedia, you will have to ask on the help desk, or similar, of those versions. En Wikipedia is separate from them and they have their own policies and guidelines. I took a look at Anna Chromý (by the way, it's always helpful to link to the specific article about which you have a question). The main problem is that it is very short on references to reliable sources to demonstrate notability per the guidelines at WP:BIO and WP:BLP. At the moment the only sources are the artist's own website and "'Anna Chromy Biography'. Surrealist Lover. 2010-12-04.", presumably written by you. The former is not a reliable source as that term is used on Wikipedia, and we will need more information about the latter to see whether it is reliable - has it been published, is the author a recognised expert in the field? One final point, no one owns an article on Wikipedia and unless the article is the subject of continuing and current vandalism, there is nothing that can or should be done to prevent editing by others. In fact when you contribute to Wikipedia, there is an explicit warning below the edit window that reads: If you do not want your writing to be edited, used, and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here. So if you don't want the article to be edited, don't create it! Hope this helps and if you have any more questions please don't hesitate to ask. – ukexpat (talk) 20:34, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Coining a phrase
What if I'm coining a phrase? Is that covered in the guidelines? In other words, do I have to point to my own blog as a verifiable source? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stumark (talk • contribs) 05:48, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
- Yes, that's covered by WP:NEOLOGISM and WP:NOTMADEUP and no, your blog would not be a reliable source. – ukexpat (talk) 14:43, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, outstanding. I'll keep studying the guidelines, to keep busy being born. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stumark (talk • contribs) 15:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hackney
Nice work! I've added it to Keeper of the Archives for good measure. Did you enjoy the trip? I forgot to ask. BencherliteTalk 22:33, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Humbly Asking For Help
Good Evening UK Expat
I'm contacting you as a new editor whom you have helped in the past and I need some help and advice I recently got involved in what was a minor editing disagreement with another editor which has not been resolved and I initially posted a comment (not a swear word at all) that caused a problem however another editor has now become involved in posting warnings on my page with out bothering to read my comments fully about harmony etc. I apologised on my talk page. I'm confused because even if I post a reply as to how we could have resolved this initial fraca, the second editor is not interested and it's not his dispute. Any advice as how best to proceed would most help thank-you as I don't know what I can do--Wales63 (talk) 19:08, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
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I can't find how can i begin to translate the page which is not translated in my language? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gergedava (talk • contribs) 14:18, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you!
Thank you! Jbs1985 (talk) 18:37, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Request
I urged the author of Wikipedia:FEED#Mutualink_Interoperability_Concepts to use the feedback forum, and offered to post a request. I don't think it would be fair for me to do the review (I've already provided some feedback). Any chance you could take a look at it?
(Thanks for the help you have been providing, of course, those that do the most get asked to do more) --SPhilbrickT 16:21, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
Deletion of Clive Nolan article
As the original author of the Clive Nolan article I strenouously object to its speedy deletion. It was claimed that this was done because of a copyright violation in the text. The exact nature of the violation is not stated, and, since the article was deleted before I could do anything about it I no longer have the means to verify it. In any case, if the text was at fault would it not have been a simple matter to paraphrase the offending piece of text rather than simply deleting the article? From where I'm sitting this looks too much like execution without trial. Lee M (talk) 14:46, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
LLERY
Thanks for the speedy reply
Thanks! I found the tilde. I also found that the latitude corrections had stayed. I still can't figure out how to add pictures to the Everest Base Camp article. First I uploaded them to Flikr. Then (I thought) I uploaded them to Wikipedia. I saw them on a requests site, but then couldn't find that site again. Did I upload them to a commons site? Should I start over? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12345joy (talk • contribs) 19:04, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- Before worrying about how to upload, you need to consider copyright. If you found these images on the internet in all likelihood they are copyrighted - even if the page you found them on does not say they are are copyrighted, in the absence of an express copyright release or license we must assume they are copyrighted and so they cannot be uploaded to, and used on, Wikipedia. If they meet all of Wikipedia's non-free content criteria (the tests are stringent), they can be uploaded to Wikipedia; if copyright is not an issue, either because they are public domain or suitably licenced, they can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. So first of all, let me know where you found the images and we will take it from there. – ukexpat (talk) 19:36, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- I took the pictures myself when I was at Everest Base Camp in September.12345joy (talk) 20:12, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- I just blundered back to the requests page (I still don't know how) and found that my picture of climbers had been approved and placed on the wikimedia commons page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Climbers%27_tents_at_Mt._Everest_Base_Camp,_Tibet.jpg
- So had the picture of the approach to base camp at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Approach_to_Everest_Base_Camp,_Tibet.jpg
- NOW, how can I upload them to the Everest Base Camp page?12345joy (talk) 20:29, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- You use the following code at the appopriate place in the article: [[File:Climbers' tents at Mt. Everest Base Camp, Tibet.jpg|thumb|''caption text'']], which will create a thumbnail like this:
- – ukexpat (talk) 20:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- THANK YOU! THANK YOU! It took me a while, but I got the pictures up onto the page. Now I just have to decipher the directions on "stacking" 12345joy (talk) 21:30, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
- Don't worry about stacking, I added some {{Fix bunching}} templates to deal with the formatting. – ukexpat (talk) 21:46, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
OOPS! I may have accidentally undone what you did to fix the stacking. Could you tell me how to put the 4 "stacked" pictures horizontally in the North section? I tried to do it, but was unable to use the template correctly. (Or please, just do it for me!) I agree with an earlier comment that the directions for adding pictures are diabolical. I also added some more information to the South base section. Adding text is easy!12345joy (talk) 08:59, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
- Galleries often work just as well as "stacking" or, if you are feeling adventurous, the {{Gallery}} or {{Image gallery}} templates. For the moment I have left them as right-aligned. – ukexpat (talk) 14:50, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
More thanks for helping a beginner. I tried the gallery template, liked the results, but wish the pictures were a little larger. I was afraid to mess with the size parameters.
I think I need a sandbox to play in!12345joy (talk) 17:13, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
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Timothy Labor discussion
Thanks for your note and I agree. I wasn't quite sure I knew what I was getting in for, but appreciate your experience and this advice. I am a somewhat private person and feel my inclusion in wikipedia is not right at this time, regardless of whether I have achieved documented standards of notability (I should not have allowed myself to be convinced otherwise). As the subject I would like this page deleted at everyone's earliest possible convenience.Timlabor (talk) 08:23, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Clive Nolan
Hi UKexpat- merry Xmas to you.
I saw you remove that copyright granted comment, it shouldn't be there I agree. I think there has been an OTRS declaration from the subjects personal bio and that is the otrs ticket on the talkpage, it was deleted as a speedy copyvio last week, I read a couple of associated discussion if you need them but there does seem to be some communication with the subject and he has given permission to duplicate his personal hand written unconfirmed auto-bio here at wikipedia, although, why we would actually want to I don't know. Off2riorob (talk) 22:37, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks, same to you and yours! I am aware of the recent history as I tagged it for speedy when I discovered the copyvio. – ukexpat (talk) 22:52, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Paul West (writer)
Hi Ukexpat, Thanks for the quick work. I'm a Wiki-newbie as you can surely tell. Been attempting to add citations. Think I'm on the right track but wouldn't mind if you'd confirm. One more project for you, if you can: On the disambiguation page, Paul West is still (poet). Can this also be altered to Paul West (writer)? Thanks again.
Paul West (footballer) (born 1970), English soccer player Paul West (poet) (born 1930), British-born American poet & novelist Paul West, pseudonym of Stephen Clarke (writer)
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David Marcou article
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Hoopedia.com
Dear UKexpat -- I have been adding articles about basketball to hoopedia.com because it is easier to create articles there. How might I transfer these articles to Wikipedia, which uses a similar format? Wikipedia articles are better because they allow us to provide footnotes/references, while Hoopedia (while easier to create the articles themselves) does not. Thanks!Keith Ellis (talk) 20:44, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
- The problem is that according to their terms of use, hoopedia retains copyright to all submissions, so you will not be able to copy content from there and paste it into a Wikipedia article. It will however work the other way round - Wikipedia content can, if the terms of WP:REUSE are complied with, be used on hoopedia. So content from hoopedia would have to be rewritten for Wikipedia, whereas content from Wikipedia could be used as-is on hoopedia. Hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 21:32, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hoopedia.com 2
What if I wrote the Hoopaedia piece -- can't I reprint it on WikiPedia? I've already transferred articles from WikiPedia to Hoopedia -- are they now disallowable as Wiki-pieces? It's an odd issue, but could seriously impact where I decide to place articles first. Thanks.Keith Ellis (talk) 18:50, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
- On reflection it's probably not even OK to copy from Wikipedia to Hoopedia as Hoopedia's terms of use are incompatible with WP:REUSE. Hoopedia's terms do not appear to permit copying from hoopedia to Wikipedia as hoopedia claims copyright over all contributions. – ukexpat (talk) 04:52, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
- Two questions: (1) Should I care about Hoopedia's "rights" over what we've already written a long time ago on Wikipedia & recently added (out of pity) to Hoopedia and (2) exactly how do I "join" the Sociology list as you (the great UKexpat) have suggested? Thanks.Keith Ellis (talk) 00:05, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- Responses: (1) Yes, assuming that you believe in intellectual property rights. Wikipedia content can be reused but only in accordance with the terms of WP:REUSE. If Hoopedia will not accept those tersm then Wikipedia content cannot be used there as it will be a violation of the Wikipedia reuse license. (2) The invitation to the Sociology Project was for me (though I have still to figure out why!), so please ignore it. You will see that I have moved your questions to the existing thread - it always helps to keep relevant talk page discussions together. Hope this helps. – ukexpat (talk) 14:31, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
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Jackie Bethards article
Dear UKexpat,
I have just completed what I consider a major article on seminal pro basketball player/performer Jackie Bethards, on my user page. May you please add it as an article? Once added, I may brush it up a bit but the userpage article already contains the footnotes/references. Thank you and Happy New Year!Keith Ellis (talk) 19:23, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Jackie Bethards 2
UKExpat -- my User/Talk page says I have a new message from you, but I don't see it in regards to Jackie Bethards. Just checking. Thanks & Happy New Year!Keith Ellis (talk) 15:40, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
ALSO added an article to the Userpage entitled Jack Mann (needs disambiguation from another athlete of the same name). Once created the Mann article will receive hefty footnote/referencing. Thanks for your help if not too much trouble.Keith Ellis (talk) 17:12, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
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Norrisia
Hello,
In your post on the question page, you note there are tow pages that are very similar. Your last statement is correct--there should be a page devoted to the genus of Norrisia and then one to the species. Since Norrisia is monotypic, there is only one species in the genus.
Thanks for your help. I look into the aspect of moving a page.
Cheers, SteveLonhart (talk) 22:44, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
- I will convert Norrisia into a genus-only article, but I suspect that someone will propose that they be merged. – ukexpat (talk) 22:52, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
Norrisia genus
Hello,
I just modified the page to reflect its focus on the genus rather than the species.
Cheers, Steve Lonhart (talk) 22:57, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
- And I edited it slightly. – ukexpat (talk) 23:06, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
More Norrisia
Hello,
Is it possible, or even the best procedure, for you to look at my sandbox and the Norrisia article that I have been writing there? I am working under the impression that once I feel I've done as much as I want to for that article, I can make a wholesale change from the existing Norrisia norrisi article to the one I wrote. However, it seems like a very good idea to have you or someone else review the content first.
Thanks, Steve Lonhart (talk) 02:09, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
no pic 2011
Hey Pat, thanks for tidying up after me at those lists. I haven't got a pic but thanks for your contributions and assistance in 2010 and very best wishes to you for the new year 2011. Off2riorob (talk) 02:23, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
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Dear Ukexpat: Stop imposing your aesthetic preference on Wadham's page. It's about time to change the photo, it has been there for ages.
Good wishes, Wadham Postgrad — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bahen (talk • contribs) 21:13, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
71.164.114.50 re-attacked me :(
Please assist, after your warning the user 71.164.114.50 re-attacked me and wrote some long amazing post on my page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nahome&oldid=405228494 User claims to be from Newport - quick Google of the store they claim to be from says Newport NH But IP traces entirely to someone/somewhere else entirely (I'm sure that is just a lie like everything else). Please block them from being able to attack me or Wiki any further. Nahome (talk) 22:54, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
- Please assist! That same user keeps re-attacking me. I even tried calling the store he said he was from, they had no clue what I was talking about. It is just more tricks please stop them from doing this http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Nahome&oldid=405250909 Help!!! Nahome (talk) 01:08, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
- I cannot help you - I am not an admin. Please report personal attacks to WP:ANI. – ukexpat (talk) 02:16, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Dear UKexpat, At the risk of sounding like a broken record -- Can you please make my two UserTalkpage articles entitled Jackie Bethards and Jack Mann into full-fledged Wiki-articles? I will add footnotes/referencing to the Mann article thereafter (the Bethards piece already is referenced). Thanks & Happy New Year!Keith Ellis (talk) 16:38, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
James Murray_(English actor)
Question: why is the James Murray in Chaos Fan site not included when you have a fan site in the external link, also with new (www.peterpan-movie.co.uk)? The James Murray in Chaos Fan site is close to that in that it contains the latest series news, with reference links to articles as its primary content. When the series starts, it will include episode synopses and production news. Currently, this site appears on the first and/or second pages of Google searches for production and is often the first site to get such information Request reconsideration; I will reword the tag if necessary to reflect the news orientation.
Smokeygirl19 Smokeygirl19 (talk) 21:21, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Understood, but with respect, the James Murray_(English actor) page does have a fan site, very similar to ours, listed and allowed. Just trying to understand what the difference is, since ours is just as news oriented and referenced as theirs. Thanks, Smokeygirl19 68.98.93.174 (talk) 21:43, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
- I have also removed the fansite link from the EL section, per WP:ELNO. – ukexpat (talk) 21:49, 3 January 2011 (UTC)