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DYK for John Marshall (publisher)

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

John Marshall (publisher)

Thanks for the message re John Marshall. I have added some more stuff and re-arranged things slightly. I hope to be able to add some more factual info under Children's Literature and Teaching Aids, and perhaps split it into two sub-sections later. I hope you don't mind but I have retitled your interesting section on Children's Literature as 'Marshall's Place in Children's literature'. david --Das48 (talk) 10:53, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 10 May 2010

Re: FAC nominations viewer

Explained in the docs at Wikipedia:Nominations Viewer: "NOTE: Oppose is hidden when not hovering because opposition is often struck. Compare the "Number of Participants" to "Support" for a better impression of support for a nomination."

As indicated in the TODO list at the top of the script's source code, I have planned to eventually show supports and opposes after those that are struck are removed. I haven't had time to get around to that, though. I'll probably also add the ability to let users show/hide supports/opposes as they please in the future. Gary King (talk) 03:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Middlesex (novel)

Hi, Awadewit. I used To Kill a Mockingbird for the basis of Middlesex (novel) which I hope to bring up to FA status. I noticed that you gave some advice for improvements to the TKAM article. Would you take a look at Middlesex (novel) and provide some feedback on the prose, organization, or anything else? I plan to take this article to FAC at the end of May or the beginning of June. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 03:28, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Sure - I'll review it. I'll leave my comments on the talk page. Lucky you caught me while I was skimming the peer review page looking for something to review! Awadewit (talk) 03:31, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Thank you! Cunard (talk) 03:37, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Signpost: 17 May 2010

British Musuem and Wikipedia idea

Awadewit, I just had another one of my wild ideas. If you look over the Signpost you just got and [1], you will see that there is a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the British Museum. Anyway, I was thinking. What if we got some people from the FA-Team together and worked on an article that we thought could utilize this new resource. I think it would be a great way to test how Wikipedia and institutions like the British Museum could help each other. If it succeeds in some way, so much the better! Let me know if you're interested. Wrad (talk) 21:28, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Wrad, I think that would be great. I know Liam, the said Wikipedian-in-residence and he is awesome, so I'm sure he would be open to your ideas. What do you have in mind? Awadewit (talk) 21:54, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Well, first we ought to contact everyone and all decide what article to focus on. Wrad (talk) 23:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Personally, I think that the article we could work on that would have the most lasting effect in encouraging other museums to follow suit would be British Museum. See Talk:British_Museum#Wikipedian_in_Residence Wrad (talk) 23:55, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

MW 2010 pic

See File:MW2010.jpg Raul654 (talk) 17:30, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

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Peer review-request

Hello Awadewit! After having seen the topics you are interested of reviewing, perhaps this article : Hedvig Catharina Lillie, may be in your taste? I have recently developed and expand it. Whenever you have the time! Best wishes --Aciram (talk) 10:33, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Where would you like the review? On the article talk page? Awadewit (talk) 03:39, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Where ever you wish; the article talk page would be fine. Sorry for my late response. --Aciram (talk) 18:47, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Edmund Evans

Hi Awadewit, hope all is going well for you. I wondered whether you could take a look at Edmund Evans—Victorian color printer who printed children's books, most notably working with Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway. I expanded from a one sentence stub to a GA and it continues to develop, so I'm thinking it might be worth submitting to FAC at some point. Johnbod has recently been helping with the intricacies of the printing business, but I'd like another set of eyes. Most problematic has been finding sources. As is now the article is still in development (lead needs expansion; prose a copyedit, etc.) so I'm most interested in your input regarding organization which I'm afraid may be drifting a bit. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 12:32, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

The organization looks fine to me - see my comment at the article talk page. Awadewit (talk) 04:06, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Joseph Priestley and Priestley Riots

Thanks for the note. I'm not sure what I've added to Joseph Priestley that might be considered contentious. I'm glad to see that the quote on Priestley Riots now looks like a quote and not just another paragraph. Martinevans123 (talk) 06:35, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

You can thank Scartol for that template. Awadewit (talk) 02:21, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Message from WikiProject Children's literature

WikiProject Children's literature has been invited by the Wikipedia Signpost to feature in the WikiProject Report in the July 19 issue. Please contribute to this report by answering the interview questions here. strdst_grl (call me Stardust) 10:33, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Ping

Pong.

Only if you have time, and whatever you can do. GA nom as of 10 mins ago. --Moni3 (talk) 14:30, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Wow - that was fast! Let me know if you think any video clips are justified and I can work at making them. Awadewit (talk) 02:20, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
See my banter with User:Steve on my talk page here. Sorry for the extra chit chat. Topics on my talk page tend to go in many directions. --Moni3 (talk) 11:57, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

You appear to have User:Henrik/sandbox/google-search in your monobook.js. It now seems to work in the new Vector skin, should that be of use to you. If so, load the updated code from Henrik's page into your vector.js page, clear the cache, and you should be away. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:45, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

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British Museum prize

I thought you might be interested in this prize, if you hadn't already heard about it. Wikipedia:GLAM/BM/Featured Article prize. Remember (talk) 15:00, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

How do I lobby to get the Everglades into the British Museum? --Moni3 (talk) 15:06, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
I wonder how big an air conditioner they'd need to combat the humidity.... It's a great program, and I hope it results in some beautiful articles. Karanacs (talk) 16:06, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
No air conditioner! Build the humid-as-all-fuck-jesus-do-people-really-breathe-this-air-I-think-I'm-going-to-die wing. Give the Brits a slice of paradise. --Moni3 (talk) 19:32, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Bad idea. Brits start dropping when the thermometer hits 80. —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 03:37, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm resisting the urge to work on that competition - must work on dissertation! Awadewit (talk) 02:22, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: User:Awadewit/TeachingEssay

Wow. I can't explain just how interesting and thought-provoking that was. Now if only I was a professor and not a student... :) —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 08:46, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm glad you thought it was interesting! We aim to provoke. :) Awadewit (talk) 02:23, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
You saw the interactions on Calvin! You know, I was very glad that that editor came by. I never liked including those opinions on the impact of Calvin on modern society (Voltaire, Weber, Bancroft, Hall was removed earlier), but since the text was requested and brought in during the FAC process, I hesitated on removing them. That editor brought counter-opinions that allowed me to bring in the WP:UNDUE argument and pull back to the pre-FAC text. The editor was happy with the end-result as well! --RelHistBuff (talk) 09:54, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Your essay

I have just read User:Awadewit/TeachingEssay. Bravo! Very very interesting!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 07:10, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Awadewit (talk) 20:15, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Dude! Praise from Caesar, dude! Wicked! Scartol • Tok 22:27, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

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You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

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I. M. Pei at FAC

Hey there A.. Since I won't be getting my hands on any of the suggested additional resources for I. M. Pei (like it needs more content, right), I went ahead and nominated it to FAC. Perhaps you're bored (yeah right) and would like to weigh in? Cheers! Scartol • Tok 22:32, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

I started with an image review - will move on to more later! Awadewit (talk) 23:21, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
I've responded to the image concerns. When you have a minute.. Cheers! Scartol • Tok 23:56, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for responding.. I hope I wasn't too annoying about it all, and I hope whatever caused the delay isn't causing headaches. Scartol • Tok 23:32, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

The Temple at Thatch

Despite your semi-retirement your talk page remains as busy as ever, so I hesitate to add a request, but...the above is a tentative break by me into new territory, a very slender piece of Evelyn Waugh marginalia. I would value a brief comment, even if it's only "stick to what you know" (ice and music). Talkpage or peer review, it matters not; I would be most grateful. Brianboulton (talk) 12:56, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Ah, an article on a non-existent text! Wonderful! I put my review at the peer review page. (I taught The Loom of Youth in my children's literature class, by the way.) Awadewit (talk) 23:54, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Edmund Evans

Johnbod suggest I accept your offer for a more in-depth review. I have to agree that your scrutiny is always welcome, so if you have time, I'd appreciate it if you could have another look. Thanks. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 00:04, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Vanbrugh

Hi, I thought I'd have a look see to improve the referencing - you mention some quotations that are not referenced - I see the odd parenthetical reference without page numbers, but few actual quotes without refs. There's a statement in the Kit-Kat club and from the The Relapse section this - "They have no company at all", reports a contemporary letter in November, "and unless a new play comes out on Saturday revives their reputation, they must break"." Is it these to which you refer? --Joopercoopers (talk) 08:16, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

  • Downes proposes a role for an early Kit-Cat grouping in the armed invasion by William of Orange and the Glorious Revolution. Horace Walpole, son of Kit-Cat Sir Robert Walpole, claims that the respectable middle-aged Club members generally mentioned as "a set of wits" were originally "in reality the patriots that saved Britain", in other words were the active force behind the Glorious Revolution itself.
  • Vanbrugh died "of an asthma" on 26 March 1726,[4] in the modest town house designed by him in 1703 out of the ruins of Whitehall Palace and satirised by Swift as "the goose pie".
  • Critics of Restoration comedy are unanimous in declaring Lord Foppington "the greatest of all Restoration fops" (Dobrée), by virtue of being not merely laughably affected, but also "brutal, evil, and smart" (Hume).
  • "They have no company at all", reports a contemporary letter in November, "and unless a new play comes out on Saturday revives their reputation, they must break".
  • "This play (the Relapse)", writes Cibber in his autobiography forty years later, "from its new and easy Turn of Wit, had great Success".
  • "We are informed that Sir John Vanbrugh, in his scheme for new paving the cities of London and Westminster, among other things, proposes a tax on all gentlemen's coaches, to stop all channels in the street, and to carry all the water off by drains and common sewers under ground."
  • Cibber considered this projected outcome to be "too severe for Comedy", and such severity was in fact rarely to be seen on the English stage before Ibsen.

Those are the quotations that need to be cited to particular books. Listing the work isn't enough - we need to have specific editions, page numbers, etc. Awadewit (talk) 00:05, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Okeydokey - many thanks. --Joopercoopers (talk) 10:39, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Feminism

Hello, Feminism Task Force Member! Please accept this invitation to join a discussion on creating a full-fledged WikiProject Feminism. If you support this idea, please register your support here. All feedback is appreciated! Thanks!

The Wikipedia Signpost: 21 June 2010

Where will your dissertation go?

On this chart?

Where is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Everything Hemingway ever considered writing? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Whatever Edgar Allen Poe was on? Chart incomplete. Grade reflects lack of comprehensiveness. Return assignment when completed. --Moni3 (talk) 16:24, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Chart features Balzac in top spot where he belongs, 50 points extra credit. Scartol • Tok 10:53, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Cyrus Cylinder

Thanks for your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cyrus Cylinder/archive1#Awadewit. I've now addressed all of the issues you raised - I'd be grateful for feedback. -- ChrisO (talk) 22:56, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

I've responded. Awadewit (talk) 22:44, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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Royal Gold Cup

The article has been promoted, pre-empting your full review, but I would be very interested in any comments you may have. I intend to work through what is currently "further reading", which I think will clarify some issues, especially what the later inventory records reveal as to when various bits went missing. There is surprisingly little general critical and stylistic material. I can see you are busy; if you haven't read through the whole article it might be best to wait a week or two anyway. Johnbod (talk) 15:48, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Strange, Norrell, Gaiman and Clute

Hi, Awadewit. Been a while since I've been around, but I hope you are doing well. I wondered if you had an opinion on this edit to the Strange and Norrell article. Since it was in the version that passed at FA (apart from any other arguments that might be made), I'm of the opinion it's worth including, but I thought I'd refer the question to you. Thanks, Kafka Liz (talk) 23:01, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Featured Article Nomination

Greetings. You expressed interest in reviewing the article Sentence spacing when it was nominated as a GA. It is now nominated as an FA at the featured article candidate page. The nomination is not garnering a consensus either way, so if you are still interested in the article, I invite you to weigh in on the nomination. Best regards, --Airborne84 (talk) 20:49, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

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Roald Dahl task

Hello, Wadewitz/Archive 46, We are wondering if you would like to join the Roald Dahl task force as you have contributed a lot to the articles in our scope. We hope you can join!

Please feel free to add to this list. If you feel a task has been completed feel free to remove it and start a new one!

  1. Become a member of the task force and encourage others to do so.
  2. Tag articles for the task force.
  3. Improve: George's Marvellous Medicine.
  4. Improve: Going Solo.
  5. Work on all Roald Dahl related articles mainly focusing on stubs.
  6. Assess articles on class and importance.
  7. Get Roald Dahl to FA or GA

sillybillypiggytalk to me sign! 16:51, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

The Author's Farce

Hello. I'm back again, but this time not with Nocturne articles. Remember The Author's Farce, when we both entered finals week and neither of us had the time or comfort to do it justice? Well, I've got free time now (and I really hope you do too).

To address concerns raised at the FAC:

  • Assumed knowledge of readers: To be completely honest, I walked into this with absolutely zero knowledge that The Author's Farce even existed in the first place. I would argue the claim of assumed knowledge on the basis that I understand exactly what's going on. Further, most of these points have been addressed, I believe. Would you mind doing another sweep (sorry for the repetition if this task) and checking?
  • The critical reception section: This follows a great deal of Ottava's other literature FACs. While I agree that it's a tad more quote-heavy than most (I examined Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet) I'm not sure how exactly these quotes should be converted without delving into the realm of original research and synthesis. Just give me a singular example of how it should be done and I'll try to go from there.
  • Redlinks: Who am I to decide whether the articles I link are notable or not? Romeo and Juliet has a singular redlink while Hamlet has two; redlinking would add around five redlinks to a singular paragraph in Sources, arguably making it "less pretty". Don't really think redlinks should be imperative to an FAC anyway; someone else is just as likely to complain about the inclusion of redlinks.

I think that's all. Sure hope I didn't miss anything. Cheers. ɳOCTURNEɳOIR talk // contribs 17:48, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

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Emily Taylor

Emily Taylor, a newly-created stub at present. There is more (see the Talk page) and this might interest you, I think. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:09, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

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FA criteria

Hi, could you have a look at WT:FA?#Minor redundancy? (Sandy suggested I ping you.) Ucucha 19:35, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

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