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DYK for Thor Heyerdahl Upper Secondary School

Got hit, this one. Hafspajen (talk) 16:16, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Yup, I saw :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 16:22, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
You mean this? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:29, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Yes I did, thanks :-) Did anyone ever add Gingerbread house? Yngvadottir (talk) 16:32, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
I see it on that same page (not added by me), - you can also look "What links here" and then look for "stat", --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:00, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Näh. One of the few I ever created ... I think. I just go and give IDEAS to others. I actually forgot completely how many I created - 2-3? Is there a place one can check? Hafspajen (talk) 16:34, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
That is one great hook! :) But what do they do should a lightning bolt ever strike the building? De728631 (talk) 17:38, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Article Butchery

Here we go again. [2] And things removed were actually sourced. Hafspajen (talk) 15:51, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Looks like you have it under control. Make a note on the talkpage, partly to document what you've agreed is unsourced and removed - occasionally someone will find a source much later. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:05, 25 January 2014 (UTC) See ed not.
GRRR. So far. Hafspajen (talk) 16:18, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
<3This user likes Wikipedia very, very, very much indeed.

-- an userox for you?

Better House for Drmies.

LOL, not so much as the real power users, I fear :-) I see from the links in Kevin Rutherford's Signpost article that I'm only # 2782 by edit count. And I won't be editing by smartphone in the car on the way to the library today the way Drmies would :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 17:31, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

  • I admit I've Wiki'ed off will sitting at the Y during swim lessons. Smartphone editing is a bitch--but I've said that before. We went out to an urban farm today and played with chickens, and ate Venezuelan food. I need a few hundred thousand dollars, maybe a million, to buy some old Victorian-style properties on the bluff above the river and the city. Buy one to live in, the one with the great deck and the great view (it's now a law office or something), and a few more to fix up and help gentrify a neighborhood. (It was cut in pieces by the interstate, and now it's a mess all over.) Drmies (talk) 19:31, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
  • It's a hospice. Type in 540 Clay Street, Montgomery, AL 36104. The back deck is spectacular, with lots of windows and a gorgeous view. It's maybe a 30-foot drop right behind it to Maxwell Blvd; you can see the farm ("Hampstead Institute Downtown Farm") on the other side of the Blvd. What you can't see is that it's another 20 or 30 feet from the Blvd down to the farm, so it really is a bluff, in a part of downtown that will increase in value in the next few decades. So y'all should invest, through me. Only problem is no backyard for a pool. Maybe I should buy the house to the right, with its weird red front, and built a pool in the lot next to it. Drmies (talk) 19:34, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Copyeditor's Barnstar
You should have had this for days ago, all the time, all the time, all the time all the time lyrics. Hafspajen (talk) 21:44, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


Aww, thanks ... (blushes horribly). I still make typos myself ... :-( Yngvadottir (talk) 04:56, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

How to make this work

File:Gold Bars.jpg
Gold is commonly formed into Yngvadottir.

{{Expert-subject }} Want to put that into the Voltaire islam section. Hafspajen (talk) 12:43, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

It seems there is no template for "This section needs the attention of an expert". So as you figured, use {{Template:Expert-subject}} at the top of the article. You will probably want to indicate the area of specialisation in the reason= parameter. Then on the talk page, put {{Template:Expert-talk}}, whose instructions say that a message below will indicate what sections need the expert attention. The suggestion to also bring it to the attention of a WikiProject may or may not be useful. Can't hurt, it seems to me. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:36, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
HOW DO i ADD REASON.. ?{{Template:Expert-subject|Voltaire and religious aspects, especially Islam|}}
{{Expert-subject|Religion|ex2=France|talk=Put here the heading of the talk page section you have started|reason=Voltaire and religious issues, especially Islam|date=January 2014}}
Try this, but do also use the talk page template. And you may have to preview and add WikiProject: in front of the 2 Wikiproject names. (I've commented out the templates above because they put this talk page in a category.) Yngvadottir (talk) 14:17, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
little trolls invading
Groan . Hafspajen (talk) 19:16, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

If it's cited to somebody's Tumblr ... ? Yngvadottir (talk) 20:20, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Well, I can't check that citation. I think it is highly unlikely that V wrote that. His religion is wise, strict, chaste, and human: wise, because it doesn’t fall in the foolishness of associating any idea to God, and because it doesn’t have any “mystery”; It may be a citation from the play, they chose to build on, ... Let's say, "Pierre" or "Martin" - runs in the stage and says this: His religion is wise, strict, chaste .... Do you follow me? It can be something totally different, but still his words. I don't have the book V total woorks. But it SOUNDS weird. Sounds feel like someone drugged V or he is out of his mind. It doesn't sounds like him. V is kind of - ironical. Hafspajen (talk) 20:25, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
.*This I found. http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/essa/voltaire-botar-fanatismen/Hafspajen (talk) 23:38, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Re: Speedy deletion as foreign

Okay I don't know that language so I was just thinking it should go there-was unsure of what to make of it. Well thanks.Wgolf (talk) 18:45, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

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Urgent

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--Pratham 13:26, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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Considerably less urgent.  :-)   Methinks this fails the reliable-source test. http://www.publicinfopath.com/about/ Being used for hectares and for "14 classrooms" quote. Why is the WP:CALC on the number of classrooms controversial? Just to try and teach Pratham about sourcing? Or do you actually object? King Jakob's objection to the claim of 10k books is what it is, but the counts of classrooms and buildings and hectares and such seems pretty not-worth-challenging. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 01:27, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
The source was added by King Jacob, our GA reviewer and AfD nominator, in this edit. I had rejected that source as one of the many directory entries I mentioned at the AfD that I had found. But since he added it as an RS ... frankly, I don't think the number of classrooms in a school is generally encyclopedic - for one thing, it tends to go up and down. I have no idea why it's in that infobox except that pretty much everything except the kitchen sink is. It's not worth calculating, but I also do think it's a dubious thing to calculate. Best solution: leave it out. Second best: find another source with a number Pratham can live with. Hectares I believe is on school website #2. Where oh where is "continues to tertiary education" number, which would be worth inclusion? Registration number is at the board listing, BTW. (P.S.: Back on IRC, lurking as usual, remember I have an exotic schedule but then you may also :-) Feel free to ping Rihan. Freenode, which for all I know may be a WMF side project. Also at least one other network, so if you see that nick, it may also be me. Or it may be a Rihanna fan.) Yngvadottir (talk) 17:48, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I'm guessing you are secretly naming yourself after Terry's kid the Duchess of Kven. Are you a discworld fan, or a hofstadter fan, or a hitchhiker's guide fan, or a heinlein fan? Nahhh... those are far too clubby-wubby, right? Right. :-)   p.s. I'm aschedule. — 74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:05, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Hah, none of the above. I'm guessing "aschedule" means afk. This is my weekend so my own is different today. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:15, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
afk==AwayFromKeyboard? wikt:aschedule, by analogy with wikt:amoral (or maybe wikt:amorality).   The typing of this self-referential sentence was an ascheduled event, performed by an aschedule person. p.s. You know that wiktionary only requires attestation of use on the internet, including usenet and presumably facebook, right? Nudge nudge wink wink, say it more. — 74.192.84.101 (talk) 02:05, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks from User:Ryk72

Hi Yngvadottir, Hopefully you don't mind the new section. I just wanted to drop a quick note to thank you for your support, encouragement & good advice over the past few weeks. I greatly appreciate the warm & friendly welcome and everything that you've done. Thanks also for following up to see how things were going, and keeping my spirits up. Looking forward to working on building a better encyclopaedia! - Ryk72 (talk) 12:36, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Hey Hafspajen, I got out! In no small part due to the continued efforts of the good Yngvadottir. BTW, thanks for your help with Sapience; really appreciate you having cleaned it up. A little bit more effort from VirtualAvi & I and it might be almost ready. :) - Ryk72 (talk) 13:37, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
EH, can you imagine, some newbie moved schmidt hammer lassen too Schmidt Hammer Lassen uhhhhhh. Hafspajen (talk) 18:14, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Not that new any more, and apparently a bit of a page mover. But you moved it back :-) These architecture firms with their lowercase are a bit confusing. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:24, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Just styling around. They probably think THIS MAKES THEM SPECIAL - or - minimalism? (UPPER CASE ONLY)T There were books written in lower case only around 1900 -s something, ad loads of poems too. Maybe a new artice? DYK that... ahhh Hafspajen (talk) 18:27, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
A second thought. I predict more possible movers. I don't want to get into a conflict with every grammar specialist on Wiki. Is there a warning or solution for this<+ -Or - Wonder if it is not possible to block the page that only administrators are are allowed to move it. Hafspajen (talk) 18:59, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
It is, but first let's see what happens. It may not occur often enough to worry; architecture firms are known for such shenanigans. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:23, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Well, just wanted some backup on my action... To show that I am not alone with the idea. Hafspajen (talk) 19:27, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Yngvadottir, Hoping that you might be able to give me some advice. After adding the Sapience Analytics link to Wisdom#Sapience, I added the page to my Watchlist; (so that if there were any issues with the edit, I could go to discuss on the Talk page). So, I was notified of [this edit]; which I don't have a major problem with, but I think is less accurate, and doesn't really make the encyclopedia better - "correct" being strictly less accurate than "right" when dealing with morals, ethics, etc.
What would be the correct course of action? Simply reverting might be seen as rude. Would it be better to put a note on the editor's Talk page? Or is doing both the more usual method? Or something entirely different?
As I say, it's not a major objection, but I thought it would be good to understand the best approach for future reference.
Thanks in advance for any insight you, or anyone else reading this, can offer. - Ryk72 (talk) 09:23, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
PS. Hope things are going well. :) - Ryk72 (talk) 09:27, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
I'd revert it then, and mention in your edit summary "See talk", then explain in a new section on the article talk page (rather than the editor's - it's an IP, so it could change at any time; plus on the article talk, more people get to see it, including in the future). But if 74 says something different, I defer to their wiki-wisdom :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 13:05, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

NOT neutral?

Souffler à l'infini

Muslim enslavers is so totally... oh. Oh wait. Nevermind.  :-)   You want a piece of this unrelated action, which I found on Drmies talkpage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bladesmulti#mentor

You never know, it might be fun.  ;-)   TFIW. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 21:21, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Gosh, you sneaky bad user. Hafspajen (talk) 21:26, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
No thanks, I am told I suck as a mentor, besides you and at least one other person seem to be off to a good start :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 23:04, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
no problemo kemosabe. You like gary Larson?  ;-)   74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:25, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
By this time, 74 went nuts and turned everything upside down all over the page confusing everytone, incuding Bladesm. May god have mercy on us all. Hafspajen (talk) 00:42, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Oh I don't know, those are good lessons, a fast version of Worm That Turned's mentoring programme. Yngvadottir (talk) 00:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Where is the WTT Programme? Do they have a write-up, or at least, do you know somebody that went through it? Ryk72 and I will need it, for the Jungle Survival Manual. ...speaking of which, maybe they will help me. They can keep Hafspajen occupied *elsewhere* while we rewrite the Obama page, maybe. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:25, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Who is the worm in this case? Hafspajen (talk) 01:06, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I've wondered that also. WormTT is on Arby's now, but I don't know if they have a username explalantion on their userpage. But maybe Yngvadottir knows. Tell us a bedtime story Yngvadottir, we want the royal treatment, pictures and everything. Contributions/74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:25, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Worm's adoption center. Note that he credits Hersfold for at least the adoption center page. One of his graduates, Rcsprinter123, has an adoption program based on his, and one of his graduates, Go Phightins!, has one too. There are probably other lineages. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:36, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
Look at this, Yngvadottir - apropos, French - fr:Sarbacana and 74.192.84.1 how is the pet doing? Hafspajen (talk) 21:57, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
That's pretty wild, Hafspajen - especially the lady standing on the cliff :-) I note it's drawn in large part from the organisation's website, with OTRS permission. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:47, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Well, what do you think? Hafspajen (talk) 14:54, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
About Sarbacana? I think someone closer to the world of meditation and martial arts should write it up; there appear to be enough references, but I'm not sure how many of them are independent, so it should be someone who knows where to search in the journals. Leaving a redlink there for someone to notice - and a pretty piccie :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 16:05, 30 January 2014 (UTC) ... However, noting the date of foundation, Kobnach says the page is un grand poisson. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:49, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
'I don't know about this method. But - who knows. Maybe it is an April fish. Hafspajen (talk) 19:51, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

That is going to scare people :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 20:04, 30 January 2014 (UTC)


Well, there is Zen in the Art of Archery, and also Kyūdō that uses arrows for meditation, but using a blowgun, that is something new. Hafspajen (talk) 21:48, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

John Stanley Coombe Beard

I see you've worked a lot on the John Stanley Coombe Beard article. To me it looks unbalanced now, not unlike the "List of works by [Name of famour architect]" articles elsewhere. Do you think it would be a good idea to split the article, creating a List of works by John Stanley Coombe Beard article, leaving John Stanley Coombe Beard as a biographical article with a simple list of works? Sionk (talk) 00:08, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it is unbalanced, because I couldn't find more sources on his life. I don't think he has the stature to merit a split though; I just think that's the nature of the info on some architects. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:08, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Your Advice my friend

Not sure if you remember me but you were very helpful in my gaming article related edits, and your advice was very good on my talk page. However, it seems that senior wiki:users have been not reading the sources unlike gentlemen such as yourself and are trying to get me in target view. Saying my edits are disruptive, and the continue to support sources with fake quotes or statements that are not even mention in any part of references inputted. They are also not fully communicating because they know they don't have to (because they are senior members), not using my or other talk pages, usually using the "describe your edit" box for indirect conversations, and even so far as getting me on edit warring blocks (when one of them also did the same thing recently but not a word was said) which I find frustrating. I have a few arguments with some of them which may not have helped, not that they read my sources or saw my view even in the talk pages.

What is your advice one what i should do? One users is trying to put the target on me as we speak. Even if this is all a misunderstanding, such users such as User:indrian refuse to talk directly or to even acknowledge sources, using the edit description to communicate or to send rfc threats, If he actually is not abusing his senior time here or others like him, then you would think they would send me a message to my talk page or something. or maybe actually discuss sources instead of just doing full reverts and expect me to sit there and do nothing.

Your advice if you have any is greatly appreciated.Jakandsig (talk) 02:01, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure I can offer much advice, I'm afraid. One isn't supposed to use the edit summary box for conversations, but in practice it happens. Do note that since Google News Archive is no longer available, it's harder to track down old newspapers, and thus there may in fact be a source in support of something that you are unaware of; I would ask on the talk page for a quote rather than assuming a statement is "fake", because someone may have an actual clipping or on- or off-line access to an archive. In general, don't assume ill will; it's counterproductive (the nature of the project is that you will run into the same people editing in a particular area, and it's fundamental to the way we work that things get changed by others, so one has to get along with people as far as possible) as well as being contrary to policy (assume good faith). The project doesn't go as much by seniority as you appear to think; however, you are still very new, and there may be things you are not yet aware of. How much people go to each others' talk pages to discuss varies between editors; many feel it's a better idea to use the article talk pages, because then the discussion is available for others to benefit later. However, I do wonder why Toddst1 suspected you of using sockpuppets (the edit to your user page). Did you go to his talk page and ask? You have been having a problem with edit warring; it can be hard to avoid that, and sometimes the only thing to do is to walk away from the article. But I see you making use of the article talk pages to talk about the issues, and that is good. Continue doing that. That's about all I have, I'm afraid. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:29, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Urgent help is needed! Please provide your referencing skills.

Can you please help recreate my Antrim Forum article in a more notable fashion? I know you have the skills to do so. This is what I have so far:

Antrim Forum

The Antrim Forum is a multi-purpose activity centre located in Antrim, Northern Ireland.[1] It opened in 1972 as the largest of its kind in Northern Ireland and still is to this day.[2] The Antrim Forum has been home to the Antrim Hockey Club since 1991.[3]During the 1980s it was a popular venue for concerts, hosting acts such as Ozzy Osbourne, Meat Loaf, Dio, Status Quo and Metallica.[4]

References

  1. ^ http://www.thenafl.co.uk/grounds/id/134
  2. ^ http://www.nitkd.com/?page_id=20
  3. ^ http://antrimhockey.hitssports.co.uk/pages/page_17069/History.aspx
  4. ^ http://www.setlist.fm/venue/antrim-forum-belfast-northern-ireland-73d6ce7d.html

Category:Sports venues in County Antrim Category:Music venues in Northern Ireland Category:Field hockey venues Category:Music venues completed in 1972

okay, this is weird

Someone plopped in a 5th reference. Was this a joke?

Someone's obviously been trying to help :-) That was from a discussion up above; I've made it go there. Sorry about that. But I'm afraid I doubt I can help with this one; I saw the AfD and would have helped out then if I'd thought I could find any further reliable sources. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:58, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Hindu Kush thing is now at AN/I

Hello Yngvadottir of legend, authoritah demands that I notify you, that your article-talkpage discussion (per ping at Haus O'Drmies), hath been linked at a noticeboard. Sorry!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Khabboos

Thanks for improving wikipedia, aloha, ad astra. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:05, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Soccer (disambiguation)

Hi! I saw you in the recent changes. :-) May I ask you to take a look at the page referred above?

  1. How "soccer" is a "shortened name of association football"? Maybe there's something I don't catch with my poor English. ... Ahhh!!! I see! How curious! :)
  2. Do you disambiguate homophones too in en.wiki? I guessed only homographs...
  3. All pages beginning with "Soccer"/All pages with titles containing "Soccer": interesting tools. Are they customary in the en.wiki disambiguation pages?
  4. Last but not least: why the page refers to "the end of the world"???

Thank you. --Pequod76 (talk-ita.esp.eng) 16:24, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, not sure why you picked me, but I took a look :-) The See also link to The End was added without explanation in January (there is a search tool linked on the history page for each article) and I reverted the addition. Those are indeed interesting tools that you mention, and I don't recall seeing them before on disambiguation pages, but why not: potentially useful. As to homophones, I believe it's editorial discretion more than it is policy, but there are so many ways of pronouncing English, making many words homophones in some varieties and not in others, plus the spelling is such a challenge including for native speakers, that I do believe it's useful to include rather than exclude. As to the etymology of soccer, yes, that's what it is: the relevant page for such formations is Oxford "-er" (although I became aware of it personally as a 1920s phenomenon rather than an Oxford one dating back to the Victorian era). Yngvadottir (talk) 16:38, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I picked you because I saw you in the recent changes, but the time I spent in writing about the issue, with my scarce knowledge of the English language, you could be well away from the screen! :D I can understand English, but to me it's still hard to articulate, so that I am slow and quite probably incorrect.
Homophones: Yes, actually in Italian the case is very rare. (or null?!?)
Thank you again. --Pequod76 (talk-ita.esp.eng) 21:27, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Well... mumbling... we have some homophones in Italian, like hanno: they have; anno: year; ho: I have; o: or; è: is; e: and; ha: has; a: at/to... but this is because the h is used as a disambiguation mark (not exactly the case of soccer/soca). We have many cases of homophony that come out from syntactic gemination. Ah, but you can understand Italian! Well, you surely know what I am talking about. Ciao! --Pequod76 (talk-ita.esp.eng) 21:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Hamburg demonstrations

de:Gefahrengebiete in Hamburg im Januar 2014 Hafspajen (talk) 21:08, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, will link on Wikidata. But please, no more edit conflicts - I'll remove the "In use" template when I'm done with the emergency rewrite and into the second step of looking for German sources. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:10, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
'Ok. Hafspajen (talk) 21:43, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Was just on my way to tell you at your talk page - I'm now done with Step 1 so have removed the In use template. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:45, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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Replied. ~TheGeneralUser (talk) 16:31, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Replied again. -TheGeneralUser (talk) 21:45, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
No time today, but thinking :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 22:16, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

32 Men

Topic`new .. DYK.. or What, [3]Hafspajen (talk) 18:17, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

You should totally expand that, but you're not going to have enough prose for DYK. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:53, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
  • An unripe pineapple from Nepal
    An unripe pineapple from Nepal
  • A pineapple field in Ghana
    A pineapple field in Ghana
  • Pineapple field, Hawaii (1958)
    Pineapple field, Hawaii (1958)
  • Red pineapple
    Red pineapple
  • I've been meaning to run this one by you, too:
  • An unripe pineapple from Nepal
    An unripe pineapple from Nepal
  • A pineapple field in Ghana
    A pineapple field in Ghana
  • Pineapple field, Hawaii (1958)
    Pineapple field, Hawaii (1958)
  • Red pineapple
    Red pineapple
Yngvadottir (talk) 20:32, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Hm, yours look better. Jacob Severin was one of the 23. Maybe we should start to call 74 as 23? By the way, how do you ping an IP? Hafspajen (talk) 20:39, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
  • Here's a set with verticals as well as horizontals:
-- You can't; have to go to their talk page and jump up and down, because they have neither Echo notifications nor a watchlist. (It's discrimination!) Yngvadottir (talk) 20:50, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
God kväll, farbror!

:::::::* Well, -- then have to go to their talk page and jump up and down... - until this headstrong 74 gets an username like 74-23 Mandy. Hafspajen (talk) 21:31, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

  • <reverb guitar> Might as well jump ... can't you see me pinging there I got my back against the Echo machine ... oh can't you see what I meeeeEEEEEaaaaaannnnnnn.... :-)   Jump, you discrim'tory pseudonym-username-types, you, and say "how high" on the way up! As for me, I met 71 today, and we had a very pleasant monologue, no vulgar "thank" notifications required. Hmmph. Mandy Of The Kvens is *not* amused. — 74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:34, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Bisexuality in the Arab world is not seen upon lightly in the Muslim countries. Beware for bad feelings, not fun. Hafspajen (talk) 19:25, 1 February 2014 (UTC).
That school does not exist any more. [4] and [5]. Not sure that is much point writing an article on a school that stoped existing 1951, but we all have our green pigs or what is called - käpphästar. This site is the most reliable site for looking for people, in whole Sweden, you might just as well save it somewhere. (Riksarkivet) http://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=8321 This guy was the person initiating that school, initiativtagare till Södra Sveriges fiskerifören i Aneboda, Kron, 06, förest för fören:s försökskurs o fiskeriskola . Hafspajen (talk) 19:26, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! So that's where Riksarkivet lives. Notability does not expire, so I suppose I should run it by Deletion Review. I really regret not having seen that item on my watchlist. (The deleted version says classes were still held there in the 1960s.) Guy was born in Viipuri and spent most of his time running Finnish fisheries, I see. So many articles, so little time ... BTW hobbyhorse. Got to run for a while, now. Thanks again. I'd be grateful if you could help me reach the editor. He's really truing hard. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:43, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Will try hard myself. Hafspajen (talk) 19:47, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
Ehm, any chance for a DYK, when I worked so hard, now? Hafspajen (talk) 12:43, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on the book article! I will be casting an eye over the rest of it when I get a chance - so far I only had a chance to look at the lead. Ask Drmies to nominate it '-) Yngvadottir (talk) 13:05, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Please, Drmies to nominate it '-)!!!!!!!!!!!! Hafspajen (talk) 13:08, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
LOL I was returning to the keyboard to point out you can nominate it yourself .... Yngvadottir (talk) 13:09, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
The Anecdotes de Suède? But it was me who did the work... or? Hafspajen (talk) 13:44, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Yup - you can self-nominate, it's completely normal. If you've had 5 DYKs, you'll have to do a quid pro quo review, is all. Whoever nominates it, it would be nice to ask if SenfBaum can get credit for creating it; they started the article on the 25th, 3 days outside the 5-day window, but that rule can often be bent (or could when I used to do DYK). Yngvadottir (talk) 13:59, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Might be normal, but I am not. Don't know how to do it. I make a mess every time. Hafspajen (talk) 14:34, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
The Anecdotes de Suède, User:Drmies - but you got that, I think, nice of you. Hafspajen (talk) 15:17, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
It's not ready. Parts are unclear and uncited. For instance, the first sentence in what is now called "Author and publication" is unverified by the reference for the second sentence. The link to the antikvariat might verify that, but is it reliable enough? And why does it matter that some library holds one of his manuscripts, and where is that verified?

The second paragraph of that section also has issues. The entire first sentence is unverified, and it's one of the most important statements in there. The antikvariat does not verify this. You're linking to the wrong Olof Palme, and the footnotes for the last two sentences are unclear: the last parts are not referenced, and so it's unclear whether the two Palme-sources are supposed to verify everything in those two sentences. Well, the WorldCat one can't verify anything, except that Palme was responsible for one of the book's editions, which should be mentioned as well, I think. Sorry--but you know I'm mean and old. Drmies (talk) 15:45, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

The first part is from the Swedish Wikipedia, their reference, that library holds one of his manuscripts.
Didn't realised that it was wrong Palme. not old an mean, scientific... You should se my university guide, he is mean. Hafspajen (talk) 15:50, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for further editing it, Drmies. I may be able to polish things up a bit today depending on the degree of chaos around here; there is plenty of time for Hafspajen to get the DYK, what concerns me is getting the new editor some credit too; I don't know whether the Swahili rule survived all the changes over there. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:06, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm not familiar with that rule, but I endorse it (you have to pass it and then I'll read it!). It's a new editor, creating new articles, and it's only just outside the window. New editors should be encouraged and DYK is a great way to do it. If you add them, I will support it at the nomination if needs be. Drmies (talk) 16:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
I'd like it if you'd assist Hafspajen with nominating it when you judge it ready, because he should definitely get expansion credit. The "Swahili rule" was part of the supplemental rules, and went something like this: Articles must be nominated within 5 days of creation or 5x expansion. However, "5 days" can mean "about a week" in Swahili. That is to say, there can be some flexibility on this rule at reviewers' discretion, especially if there are nominations still unreviewed for articles created or expanded on earlier dates. ... The rules were rewritten by Tony1 and I believe the word "Swahili" disappeared then; there have been many changes since, including much worry about mounting backlogs of unreviewed nominations, so these days it might need a post to WT:DYK making the case for a special exemption. And I will see if I can alleviate your sourcing concerns today. (I believe DYK still only actually requires one ref per paragraph '-).) Unfortunately I can't promise. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:44, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, will be looking. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:44, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Yngvadottir and Drmies. Found an older version of it (Svensk uppslagsbok), the Nordisk Familjebok, that is free to access and everything is there alright. Stuff thou were missing and so. Hafspajen (talk) 22:58, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Ah, it's the newer version of Nordisk familjebok - that I know well, it's online at Project Runeberg. Bed now, sorry, more tomorrow. Yngvadottir (talk) 23:12, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
That's it, yes, now in the public domain. DYK, Rape in Sweden? kind of a surprise, we apparently rape people ower here... Hafspajen (talk) 23:19, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Just checking your diffs from here - it is impossible with such a heavy page like that 74's is by now talkpage to view it and come back to it too. One just fly away on the way back. [6]; [7]; [8]; [9]. Ostriches have been known to wallow in the mud and carry colored eggs?????????? Lol. Hafspajen (talk) 21:22, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Yes, I'm sorry, I had an off-wiki task and then I seem to have started to get sick yet again. I'll see what I can do, and we'll have to hope Drmies can sweet-talk 'em. Yngvadottir (talk) 06:19, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Mr Drmies seems to has problems with the constitutions and other stupid things, like an account he has that I think he should NOT be forced to declare. If it is good enough for the Arb, then it should be good enough for anyone. Hafspajen (talk) 13:43, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Yes, but he already revealed it at the WMF delegate election page, as per WMF's rules. One of many serious reservations I have about the WMF is they do not appear to appreciate internet anonymity, for which there may in some people's cases be very serious reasons. We have a policy against outing, but I see the WMF brushing aside the concerns for their stuff. But I do believe he can handle it. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:09, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
  • It's 2nd on my list for today now. Don't worry, it will be nominated in time for you to get credit - though not by me!!! - the question is whether we can get the MustardTree guy his credit. But I'm sorry, I'm sick again and it makes it hard for me to concentrate. First, the article that is in danger of deletion. Then, sharpening up the referencing and explication about the book. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:12, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Bless you, my child. What danger? Hafspajen (talk) 20:27, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
5 Javanese men .

Hamburg demonstrations, should at least have a chance to be evaluated at AfD; it was so incoherent it was in danger of outright deletion, but I have begun to rewrite it. This first, then the book, assuming I don't have to lie down. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:30, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

' What's wrong, cold? Hafspajen (talk) 20:31, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

@Drmies:: I think Anecdotes de Suède is ready for DYK nomination (I checked and Hafspajen expanded it 5x and it's still long enough), and I trust you to make an eloquent plea for SenfBaum to receive credit for originally giving us the article. Or you could walk Hafspajen through creating the nomination and then add the note. Please? Yngvadottir (talk) 20:54, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

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Hello. I need for you to look in my talk page because the same Goku user is using an anonymous account and keeps harassing me. Thank you. 99.46.224.17 (talk) 18:09, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the headsup; I'm sorry you're getting that, and I see others reverted it. I've opened a sockpuppet investigation. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:24, 6 February 2014 (UTC) And blocks were meted out. Yngvadottir (talk) 14:18, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

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Do you know what should be done about additional personally identifiable information here? The same editor who referred to me by my real name has provided a link to an old account from five years ago where I use to disclose my real name. I made some bad COI edits from that account and got embarrassed when I was busted. Obviously I learned better since then. Also, what should I do about the user page in general? Is there a way to blow it up to remove the personally identifiable information, while providing more transparency/records into my historical edits? I think I have asked before and there was no way to merge the edit history with my current account. CorporateM (Talk) 19:31, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Argh. Conflict of policies here. I'll ask him to self-redact, as a first step. An old user page can be deleted, and replaced by a placeholder statement. But edits can't be merged, and user talk pages should not be deleted. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:40, 7 February 2014 (UTC) ... and now I have to go afk. I suggest you e-mail another admin regarding the broader issue. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:50, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Yah, I don't want to hide the edit-history - if anything I would ideally bring more transparency to them (no manner how embarrassing). Just would like to get personally identifiable information off without it showing in my contrib history. I'll ping user:Drmies here and see what he says. CorporateM (Talk) 19:53, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Well, I'm leaving the office literally as we speak, and I mean that metaphorically. I'll ping, in turn, Writ Keeper, who knows most everything. Sorry Corp, can't help you right now in this somewhat tricky matter. Drmies (talk) 19:56, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
It's not that tricky. Redact/revdel, send it to oversight, and let them sort it out is my standard approach. We're allowed to err on the side of caution (that is, on the side of redacting) when it comes to personal information. Even if you decide not to revdel, sending it to oversight is still a good idea. The worst they can do is say no, and they're the real subject matter experts when it comes to this type of thing. As for teh rest, well, we could rename the account to something that doesn't include your name, nuke any mentions of it in the page history, and then you can link to those from your current account. I don't think this'll eliminate all traces; I think you'll still need to file the paperwork, so to speak, at CHU/S, which will leave traces. But it'd be better, at least. (Forgive me for being somewhat scrambled and incoherent; I'm jetlagged and have 2 hours of sleep in the past 36.) Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 20:30, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

I think just changing the username would work. Anyone really persistent may be able to figure out who I am, but I think most editors have better things to do. I only need it to be hard enough to figure out so that a certain company I have in mind will not sue me for adding properly sourced negative material, or that my edits to articles on PR agencies do not inhibit my job prospects at some point in the future, etc. etc. Would I just do that through the normal username change request? CorporateM (Talk) 21:38, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Yep, through WP:CHU/S (as you know). You'll probably have to log into the old account to confirm it's yours, if at all possible. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 22:11, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks Writ Keeper! Looking through the contribs of that account, I found another one that I did not realize existed. No idea why I ever made that one. Don't want anyone to think I'm socking, I was just very sloppy back then. That one is only three years old or so too. CorporateM (Talk) 23:01, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

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I'd feel better if I had the sources in front of me, but that now more closely resembles the Swedish. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:39, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

....:*I put some sources in it. There is the Herman Hofberg, Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon, and it coresponds quite well wirth the article, from the Swedish Wiki. I just Goorgled it. With very poor results. Hafspajen (talk) 19:31, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

  • Good. I felt a bit odd relying on the Swedish to be correct. His wife sounds interesting; note that she is said to have worked in pastels, and to my eye that's what she's using in the dual portrait, not paints. BTW Karin Larsson draft is begun in my user space, but I just felt compelled to try to save an Icelandic rapper, and I now ought to do something off-wiki. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:52, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Yews, she's using pastells in the dual portrait, as you say. Good that you didn't forgot her. Karin Larsson deserves an article too. Have you ever wondered why the Husbands get more credit and fame? You try to save an Icelandic rapper? Are they in any danger? Hafspajen (talk) 20:25, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
Happy Valentine's Day
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Thanks!! That's very sweet :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 13:24, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

New additions refs

Found one...

Did_you_know_nominations/Alexander_RoslinHafspajen (talk) 10:24, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

I'll swing by there in case any spellings etc. need fixing :-) Otherwise I'll pretend I didn't see that, but ... she isn't painting, she's making a portrait using pastels. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:03, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
.Yes I know, but I don't know the term for that -pasteling? Drawing is not. Pastels can be used to make very fine portraits, whatewer one is calling that. They are like charcoal. I don't use them, they tend to vanish. Hafspajen (talk) 16:17, 15 February 2014 (UTC).
creating a portrait using pastels, working on a portrait in pastels ... yes, you have to use a spray fixative. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:20, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Changed to working on a pastel painting... Hyacinthe Rigaud is a mess, and full of hidden French text, will you look at them, please? Maybe it should be removed, if they don't add to the article. tryed to sort out some of the mess.. But ... I will remove those French texts if you c an't translate them, they are just anoying. Hafspajen (talk) 17:04, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Not sure I follow re: not a good idea, but re: Rigaud, many of these French articles need a lot of wrestling into shape: the traditions of prose style are very different in French. Warning you I'm uncommonly busy even for me (I've just managed to make use of a book that I ransacked the library to find almost 3 months ago, and I promised yesterday to rewrite an article on a German-English chiromancer and sexologist from the ground up), but I'll make a note to look at it (and find the hidden French in the history if you've removed it by that point). Yngvadottir (talk) 19:02, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
If busy - just think Roslin - for the DYK, only. The other - no hurry - it was like this for ages. The hidden text is real long. You won't miss it. Hafspajen (talk) 19:15, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Idea' [12] , [13]
Went through Roslin. Then I noticed it now has an infobox :-( It looked better without. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:58, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Hey, that was NOT me. I never do Infoboxes. Ever. Hafspajen (talk) 21:26, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Now they have chased him of from wiki [14]. Not nice.

Noble Doctor

A landscape

Oh, noble Drmies, what do you say? I was thinking about asking Thomas to take a look at this DYK -well. asking him because there is so many Swedish references in the article that nobody dares to check, it looks like - and he is gone. Hope not for long. Hafspajen (talk) 19:33, 16 February 2014 (UTC)Hafspajen (talk) 19:29, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

  • Oh, noble Drmies, because I don't know how to use auto-template-fill-in kind of thingy. You people went on developing, but I am still back in the 2009 years as about my knowlegde time. What is that? How about Lost artworks. Why would you leave Pinterest out? Hafspajen (talk) 05:54, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
File:Blurredeevee.jpg
I am no good at references or English...
  • Hafspajen, I have to go to work in like 10 minutes and I am soooo busy, but I will try and get to the references, they do need work. Pinterest is a (pictorial) blog site, so we should avoid refs from there. I personally don't like the citation templates - without the widget Drmies refers to, which one has to download and a big scary warning appears at the download page, they are fiddly, and they output stuff in a weird format from my point of view - so I advise against converting the article to use them. But that's me. Someone else may well have got to it by the time I am able, I don't know what kind of work shift it's going to be. Yngvadottir (talk) 06:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Ok. Some day someone might tell me how to make beautiful refs, I be willing to listen. Hafspajen (talk) 06:18, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

PS. It is probably this you two mean, citationas? What do you think about this Mayhem ? Hafspajen (talk) 07:00, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Aww, Teddy Bear :-) mys mys :-) I am being delayed by a conversation on IRC with 74 plus impending dog walking. I still have some rummaging about to do in the article. Will return to it. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:19, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you, saw you working on it. I am happy you did that. I added back that guy, Hyacinthe Rigaud I a´m sure it was in some of the references.? And this: but could also paint psychologically incisive portraits is in here. [15] and [16] (Now I don't know how to add bach that one without spoiling your work on the refs.) Hafspajen (talk) 22:14, 17 February 2014 (UTC)


At some point 74 is going to run out of words. Or maybe they're stealing other people's words--I have noticed that my former prolixity is indeed a thing of the past. Drmies (talk) 03:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

      • They's talking about us Martha! They say it's COPYVIO! What shall we do? Say nothing Harriet; just ignore their prattling with dignity. But Martha... Harriet I said no and I meant no! There is no cause to be going around letting the neighbors into our beeswax, and that is final. You know, I heard... Harriet, if you cannot control yourself we are splitting up. Oh dear Martha, there is no call to go looking to split up, when we've already got personalities of our own. Physical splits, they is just pointlessly messy, in such a situation, and besides, think of the others! 74.192.84.101 (talk) 22:28, 18 February 2014 (UTC) (( My impressionist implementation of John Cusack in Identity. Pretty dern good movie, I thought, despite the usual Hollywood implausibilities. ))


  • Well, 74 is not going to exhaust him/herself not by taking too me, anyways. Kind of silent nowadays. Drmies, keep talking to us, please ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ About Alexander Roslin here -> More about psycological incisiveness, [17] A book and [18] [19] <-this has some book as a reference, AND ->this one (PDF) says -> http://www.nationalmuseum.se/Global/PDF/Skolan/L%c3%a4rarhandledningar/L%c3%a4rarhandledningar/Alexander%20 the intro ***Makt (Power) **I Alexander Roslind målningar kan vi som betraktare frossa i en överflöd av intryck. Modellernas gester och blickar, de pudrade perukerna, de fantastiska färstarka kläderdräkterna i dyrbara material med broderier och spetsar,- allt lockar och förför ögat. Roslins briljanta och förföriska illusionsskapande måleriteknik blev hans varumärke på den Europeiska marknaden. If you can't reach it take this and click on PDF down there, *Handledning med faktatexter, övningar och bilder. [Roslin/handledning_portratt_identitet_gymnasiet.pdf]. ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................I think I picked up the Roslin was a member of the Academy of fine arts in Florence. at the French Wikipedia fr:Alexander Roslin the Quand il arriva à Florence, Roslin avait déjà la réputation d’un peintre de valeur et il fut associé sans difficulté à l’Académie de cette ville et invité à faire, pour la collection des Uffizzi, son propre portrait. I thought i better read the French too, since he was living in France and he is their little darling too... (Yes, I speak French - sometimes. And Latin, Italian, Norvegian, Dutch, Danish, some Hungarian and very poor English - as Jonnybod thinks)


Anne Vallayer-Coster. The weird thing that we uploaded this as an ev, selfportrait of her...?

När Alexander Roslin, en av den franska huvudstadens ledande porträttmålare under l'ancien régime, avbildade sin minst lika berömda kollega Anne Vallayer-Coster år 1783 stod han på höjdpunkten av sitt yrkesliv. Roslin som vid tiden främst porträtterade Parissocietetens ledande representanter har här med sin sedvanliga skicklighet målat en för eftervärlden mest intressanta personer. Motivet på tavlan, porträttet av Vallayer-Coster, var en av sin generations mest begåvade stillebenkonstnärer. Paret Roslin och hans hustru samt Vallayer-Coster och hennes man bodde båda i Louvren, där kungen av tradition upplät bostäder för särskilt gynnade konstnärer och andra hovfunktionärer. På Salongen i Paris år 1783 ställde Roslin ut två tavlor, den ena ett självporträtt och det andra var denna tavla föreställande konstnärskollegan, vilket var första gången den visades för en större publik. Roslins popularitet hos såväl den utländska som den svenska publiken under hans livstid men även idag är oomtvistad. Han skriver in sig i historien som en av de främsta porträttörerna från sin tid och vida känd var hans mästerliga förmåga att återge sidentyger, spetsar och guldbroderier i dåtidens moderiktiga klädedräkter. Men även Roslins förmåga att fånga personligheten hos de människor han avbildade gjorde honom populär bland beställarna och gör att vi än idag, ett par hundra år senare, ändå känner att vi kommer nära de personer han målade av. Smickrande förskönade många gånger, enligt tidens ideal, men ofta med en vaken blick som följer betraktaren blir de närvarande genom tid och rum. Många av Roslins porträtt från samma tid föreställer idag okända skönheter, dåtidens parisiska societet men här har han lyckats återge damens personlighet såväl som skönhet och tavlan blev mycket omskriven redan efter Salongen som exempelvis i Le Véridique au Salon där den beskrevs som att den ”hörde till konstnärens bästa”. Bland den stora ström av tavlor utförda av Roslin i Frankrike under 1780-talet, då han stod på höjdpunkten av sin karriär, är detta ett exempel på relationen konstnärer emellan. Anne Vallayer-Coster var känd för sin stora talang som målare men också för sin skönhet. I sitt konstnärskap var hon tidlös med sina säreget vackra stilleben. Tavlan är till sin eleganta komposition och utförande typisk för Roslin. I den milda svala färgskalan har han återgett sin modell i grönt, vitt och blått. Med konstnärsattributen, hennes redskap palett och penslar, och med vänster axel vänd mot betraktaren har tavlan jämförts med den samtida konstnären Elisabeth Vigée-Lebruns berömda självporträtt och länge misstolkades denna tavla av konsthistorikerna som ett självporträtt. Anne Vallayer-Coster, som är känd i första hand som stillebenkonstnär, fick själv ett antal porträttuppdrag. Well, we did it too, in her article this is marked as Anne Vallayer-Coster selfportrait. Somebody should change that oncommons, we have two articles we use it as a selfportrait of her, also here. Women artists.


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.So, this is all Drmies fault. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam He is drilling us like some poor students. More, more, better!!!!Hafspajen (talk) 09:07, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
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Resistance is futile. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 21:54, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

LOL - yes, it would be only fair, as well as nice, to be able to thank IPs. And it might reinforce the message that no, IPs do not just vandalize!! However, I must now get back to my German-English-Jewish sexologist/hand analyst, who needs saving from deletion. Sorry. Poor teddy :-( Yngvadottir (talk) 22:03, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
'Did you saw, page History:Tag: Possible self promotion in userspace... Hafspajen (talk) 22:37, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Yes, a lot of his edits get that, I'm not sure what triggers it. Still sexologisting ... Yngvadottir (talk) 22:43, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
[30]. Hafspajen (talk) 22:44, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Eh, what did you say, get back??? How about poor Alexander Roslin standing there on DYK, an people just rating it? For almost .. how many days? four now? Hafspajen (talk) 22:48, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
I'll get back to Roslin - thanks for the extra refs. above! Right now I would pass it at DYK, except for the "missing painting" part of ALT2. Yngvadottir (talk) 23:03, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
The original, and still the best. Interesting footage, 3 mins long, File:Teddy_Roosevelt,_San_Francisco,_1903.ogg, but only at 2:24 to 2:26 seconds can you see TR very well. Only president to ever win a knife-fight with a cougar (so far).

These are an improvement.

Well, okay, some are an improvement.


  • El president estatunidenc Theodore Roosevelt visitant una escola de San Francisco (1903).
The American president Theodore Roosevelt visiting a school of San Francisco (1903).
The U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt visiting a school in San Francisco (1903).
  • 1903年に時のアメリカ大統領セオドア・ルーズベルト(馬車に乗っている人物)がカリフォルニア州サンフランシスコを訪れた際の映像。
When in 1903, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (people riding in the wagon) visited San Francisco, California pictures.
Video when the (person riding a horse-drawn carriage) U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt when visited San Francisco, California in 1903.
  • Американскиот претседател Теодор Рузвелт на смотра на учениците во Сан Франциско (1903)
Amerikanskiot pretsedatel Theodore Ruzvelt on review at učenicite in San Francisco (1903) ((billg misdetected the macedonian language as *russian*))
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to review student in San Francisco (1903)
  • Prezydent Roosevelt wizytuje szkołę w San Francisco (1903)
President Roosevelt visits a school in San Francisco (1903)
President Roosevelt visits a school in San Francisco (1903)
  • 美國總統西奧多·羅斯福在1903年檢閱舊金山學童的影片
United States President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, review the San Francisco School videos
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt children's movie review San Francisco in 1903

p.s. *I* know what triggers it that self-promotional-tag-bullshit. Caste-systemic bias!  :-)   No worries, I'm on it. — 74.192.84.101 (talk) 23:17, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Lovely. MUCH BETTER than the Teddybear article. With two teddybears and one more slaughtered. (see talk page) - the teddy bear gallery war. Hafspajen (talk) 00:04, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

some other topic

  • Hafspajen, why are you competing with my teddy bears? Hey, you *swiped* one of my teddy bears. I've got my eye on you!  :-)   Okay okay, you started the teddy bear trend. I'm just a copycat knock-off. That's why you are the spy-handler and I'm just a lowly field-agent.
  As for the here-we-go-again, what is your complaint? The person seems to be adding stuff about policy.[33] They are out to protect the kiddies, which is a noble cause, from what I can tell. Are you thinking that the nudes in art, and the nudes in child porn, should not be linked with see-also? Or are you just wishing that the language was more indicative of the complete subject-matter-changeover, from historical-art to modern-criminalization? Right now it says this:
See also: Nude (art) and Child erotica
whereas I would instead prolly do something like this....
See also: Nude (art) for the artistic treatment of human nudity overall
See also: Child erotica for the modern criminal justice aspect
which gives links to both topics, but does not conflate them into the same see-also. Is that what was bugging you? 74.192.84.101 (talk) 00:12, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Mandy dear, yuojus go back on Yndvadottir talkpage se the naked discussion, and why I started editing art articles lately. If you mot förmodan, do not undestand, I can give you tha topic in a nutshell - that aticle was gross. I did studied art history and arts - so I decided to make that article into a serious article. Se history how this looked like before I astarted working on it. What was the cause, it was Mrhere we go again. By the way Yngvadottir I added some new content to it, Andrea Doria, a nice mature guy. It was this that probably that freaked im out . Hafspajen (talk) 12:40, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Types of teddy bears

This should be in the article Teddy bear. But it is going to be removed when I put it there. Hafspajen (talk) 02:05, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Friedrich Adolph Lampe

Hi, can you translate this from Dutch/German? I've mentioned Bramshill on Eric's talk page BTW.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:22, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

At a glance, that looks like it doesn't need much more, and I am still snowed under - saving Serge Guinchard is going to take a lot of time and concentration, and I just re-expanded Charlotte Wolff in the nick of time yesterday. But I'll swing by there later and see whether anyone else has added translated material by then. As to Bramshill House, don't you realise Eric's left? However, Giano was going to make us plans based on those in the book; that's the main reason I uploaded those very bad images. The article could use those very much. Also it may have sold; someone with access to UK newspapers should find out. Otherwise, someone else uploaded the entire book to Commons in pdf, so you can all pore over it there; I doubt many of the photos and drawings I uploaded are useful, but if they are, the images need cleaning up and in many cases rotating, or new images can be made from those Commons pdfs. My uploads were all to en.wikipedia, not Commons. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:38, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

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kewl kat

Hafspajen, notice the squadron number. Squeeeeeee!  :-)   — 74.192.84.101 (talk) 17:01, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

.What number? 74? Hafspajen (talk) 17:52, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Battle of Britain. I'm not giving any more hints.  ;-)   — 74.192.84.101 (talk) 20:13, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Don't kmow. What's the clue. Hafspajen (talk) 21:35, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

DYK for fixing the hook Alexander Roslin

The DYK project (nominate) 11:07, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

LOL. But I'd told you part of that hook wouldn't work!!! Yngvadottir (talk) 17:10, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahna_Mahna#Versions_by_the_Muppets .... apparently, the song was originally Swedish! Well. Kinda.  :-) 74.192.84.101 (talk) 19:30, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Fencing

Could you translate it in English , please ?

de:Liste der Fechtverbände — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.136.135.249 (talk) 18:33, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Where

Where do you go with the issue self promoting users [37] when some user add her own works to an article? Is there some forum for self-promoting editords I don't know of?

I dropped her the Conflict of Interest Welcome template and a note, edited the article and put a note on the talk page about her article on es. She may or may not be notable, but the credit in the caption was over the top in my view. (Also yarn bombing is characteristically anonymous or by a group - she appears to be primarily a yarn artist.) Yngvadottir (talk) 20:42, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Exactly. There is video on her knitting beautifully. But that is not an excuse, of course. Are there such things as Yarn Artists? Hafspajen (talk) 20:45, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Sure. It should be covered under fiber art. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:57, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Can't see any mustangs under section notable fiber artists. Hafspajen (talk) 14:46, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Francis I of France

Thank you for the advice. I believe that the best to do is to simply go ahead with the change I was suggesting in hidden comment, hoping this will not ruffle feathers, which it shouldn't. Regards, --90.2.113.193 (talk) 13:23, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 February newsletter

And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
  2. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
  3. United States WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 00:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

.

If you want I can jump into the fountain...

Sorry you thought this. I really think you do deserve it. And I am sorry if I offended you by adding a new section. It was not what I had in mind. It was not my meaning. I just thought that it is a controversy around this picture of him that sometimes is called the depicted Elisabeth-V-L's self-portrait. And I thought it would be good to add it before DYK to Roslin. He deserves the credit of it for his work. And you too. Or was it the new criticism on the Roslin Talk page? I am sorry about it too, more work , beside all we already have to sort out. 74 should have known better Hafspajen (talk) 09:29, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

LOL no fountain jumping required! It just became apparent you were moving ahead too fast for me to keep up - I saw the recent discussion at Drmies' talk page and got pinged once, I think, that's all - haven't looked at the article since Drmies failed it, to my surprise. I would still not advocate citation templates - there are (or were) multiple references to kinds of things that the templates don't stretch well to - but it's up to you guys, and the rule on consistent citation format is more of a guideline. I got an article rewritten approximately 40 minutes before the AfD closed - with someone leaving nasty remarks in the AfD about my not having rewritten it yet - and I have an immense amount of work still to do on another article that is at AfD, although luckily it got continued for another week. Don't worry, Roslin will get his appearance on the Main Page, you guys can handle it :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 12:38, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
We might but I want to give you that credit, please. You did half of the work before since Drmies failed it, (surprise - maybe it his way of saying don't bother me with such crap...) so I really want you on the DYK, othervise it would not be fair. Please. PLease revert yourself, othervise I will put you back anyway. Hafspajen (talk) 12:45, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
No, I appreciate the gesture, but it's been changing since I worked on it, it wouldn't be right. And of course he didn't mean that - he meant what he said, some stylistic tweaks were needed at that point. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:50, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Ohhhhhh what whining! What caterwauling!  :-)   You two are too very mucho silly-o. (I have been practicing my Spanish!)
  Yngvadottir is feeling bad, because they don't work "hard" enough. Only on wikipedia twelve hours a day! Lazy Yngvadottir, lazy. Not like Drmies who is on wikipedia even in the toilet... good thing they invented tablets, otherwise the good doktor would have to lug around COMPAQ TRANSPORTABLE.
  Hafspajen is feeling bad, because they want Yngvadottir to get more credit. Yngvadottir only has fifteen teddy bears this week, and not enough barnstars, and nobody appreciates Yngvadottir! Pity party.  :-)
  You two stop wasting time arguing about this stupid thing. Drmies, you be the coinflip WP:3O person here. Does yngvadottir go into the list of DYK credit, so Hafspajen feels satisfied that credit was given where credit was due, or does Yngvadottir stay out of the list, feeling humble and behind-the-scenes? As for you other silly people, Hafspajen and Yngvadottir, not another word about caterwauling. Instead, I suggest we make a fresh new talkpage section with cats, ersatz or otherwise. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 16:25, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
  • You monkey. We don't need mentoring on poor Swedish painters, already chewed to pieces. See, Yngvadottir doesn't even recognize her work. We need Doctor say enough. Hafspajen (talk) 17:00, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

minimalizm

[1] you are my sunshine Hafspajen (talk) 18:48, 25 February 2014 (UTC) ... you make me happy, when skies are gray, you'll never know dear, how much I love you, so please don't take my sunshine away!  :-)   74.192.84.101 (talk) 19:05, 25 February 2014 (UTC) Hafspajen (talk) 19:35, 25 February 2014 (UTC). http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Hugga_Wugga kinda-on-wiki link. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 19:39, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Axiom: articles can be objectively rated (in terms of their level-of-quality ... stub-class/start-class/C/B/A/GA/FA/TFA)
  • Corollary: we should raise all articles to a minimal-class-rating (aka this task should be a priority for priority for editors/wikiprojects/WMF/whatever)

without arguing the philosophical axiom, i define the minimal-class-rating as follows, which i will dub minimally-useful-class

  1. no blatantly obvious copyvio / attackpages / nonsense
  2. refs, at least 3, must be broadly wp:rs
  3. content not blatantly inaccurate
  4. english that is understandable to most readers
  5. enough topic-coverage to be useful to readership (in a practical gaining-knowledge kinda way)

for contrast, here is another set of definitions, with a diff't end result, which i will dub minimally-correct-class

  1. no copyvio (but plagiarism is somewhat-tolerated)
  2. ideally references, and if there are references, they should be to reliable sources and they must not be misused
  3. accurate content
  4. correct English

discuss amongst yerselfs. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 18:33, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

  • Sticking head in briefly to take responsibility for the second list of minimal standards above - except for the mention of plagiarism, which paraphrases a clarification I made, that is quoted from me on IRC. Discussion may now continue. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:50, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
  • Heh, over the top is my style.  :-)   This is something Yngvadottir and I were thinking about. I want to have some WP:RETENTION fun-quick-wiki-teaming, to try and expand stubs, help out at WP:AFC with brand-new-draft-articles, that sort of thing. Yngvadottir has been telling me about GA-class, and FA-class, and DYK stuff, and how that is run nowadays. Folks like Eric Corbett spend a lot of work, bringing articles up to FA-class. This requires special skills, excellent writing, and so on. But I'm more interestd in the 4m "crap-class" articles, than in the ~140k "pretty darn good" articles that Eric works on. So the question is, what should a group of beginning editors, who just have a few edits under their belt, aim for, when expanding a stub? 74.192.84.101 (talk) 19:04, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
.Lovely Yngvadottir, go ahead and disscus. I had enough of mentoring crises... this word is not in the refs, this date might be slightly wrong, take care of reliable sources... Hafspajen (talk) 22:55, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
This is unrelated to Bladesmulti-mentoring, as well as to Roslin-sourcing, silly-billy. I'm the Victor Meldrew here (like Mandy only grumpier), trying to figure out a jungle survival manual, with ryk72's help, so that people can contribute to wikipedia in fun-quick-wiki-bursts of a few minutes, and then go back to their normal lives. That means, I need to come up with some rules of the road (the five pillars + a primer on wikiCulture), but it also means that I have to come up with some GOALS and some structure.
  Yngvadottir is trying to teach me the lingo of English-as-a-second-language, because Yngvadottir is worried that articles with incorrect English like that Hamburg protests thing, are going to be difficult for native-English-speakers to understand, and borderline-impossible-for-non-native-English-speakers to understand. This is a question of detailed goals: when somebody working in a fun-quick-burst sees a messy article like Hamburg Protests, or a stub article like Hoerskool Jim Foute, what should they concentrate on that will give maximum improvement in minimum time? Goals will help improve wikipedia, but also help the participants have fun. The basic approach we are discussing here is Yngvadottir is arguing for something along these lines...
0) avoiding perceived illegality, 0) avoiding blatant illegality,
1) wikiGnoming the English into good form, 1) avoiding nonsense-grammar by aiming for understandable-slash-useful form,
2) verifying accuracy of existing content, 2) avoiding nonsense-level inaccuracies in existing prose,
3) adding refs if there is time. 3) adding 3+ non-inlined RS as pre-emptive anti-AfD medicine,
4) et cetera 4) expansion using those RS if there is time.
Currently, we are trying to figure out a working-definition of 'understandable' English, as part of my point#1... with Yngvadottir arguing that what *I* might view as understandable, is colored by being a native speaker of English, and a computer-person used to dealing with horrid helpdocs.  :-)   We agree on the basic goals, of what the low-hanging-fruit looks like, but we disagree on the strength-level for the emphasis/prioritizing of each subgoal. Expect to see nice but staggeringly boring charts of English-speaking-population-by-country-and-grade-level-reading-and-writing-equivalence reasonably soon.
  Some goals that I considered for FQ, but decided were too difficult for beginning editors: 5) adding pictures to articles ... requires an eye for art && wikimarkup && clear understanding of copyright law. 6) formatting-slash-expanding existing refs ... requires serious understanding of wikimarkup, and might be possible to automate. 7) de-orphanization && see-also && wikilinking && categorization ... touchy wikiPolitics with MOS/OVERLINK/BLPCAT issues plus requires hard thinking. 8) creating infoboxen ... wikiReligious dynamite && requires serious understanding of wikimarkup. 9) adding IPA pronunciation for the title ... requires specialized keying and specialized linguistic skill and content-specific knowledge. 10) content-subset-specific tasks like adding coords && maps to places, temperature-tables to cities, subject-listings to schools, membership-timelines to bands, bibliography-formatting for professors, player-lists to teams, et cetera, etc ... all this stuff is helpful, but there tend to be Niche Vested Contributors that do this sort of thing, or in some cases bohts that automate it, as I presume happens with climate-tables ... like stub-creation, these are specialist tasks, not particularly suitable beginning editors.
  What *is* suitable work for beginning editors, can be found in the AFC queue in spades: thousands of articles with blatant illegalities, horrid grammar, wild inaccuracy (often spammy-promotional or BLP-attacking in nature), incredibly poorly sourced, and needing significant expansion from RS. There are also many articles like that in mainspace.. but not enough editors to systematically go through them all. Hafspajen, maybe you and I can work through some of the breakfast-article-subsections, as part of the experiments with fun-quick-burst-sessions. Those need sourcing and cleanup, right? 74.192.84.101 (talk) 15:54, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Cheesecake

Geeeeeeeeezzz, that's me nose!!
/¤ (/¤ is 74 coded) never whines.

Hey, did you know that the Swedish national food is the Ostkaka? The Riksdagen has made up his mind.[38] Hafspajen (talk) 19:38, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

A good choice :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 21:58, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Bah, Sweden's national food remains sushi/Thai kiosk/kebab. The ostkaka was just a Motion in 2004, very properly bordlagd and then resoundingly rejected. Bishonen | talk 14:36, 2 March 2014 (UTC).
What is your favourite food? Hafspajen (talk) 22:05, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Jello, chicken noodle soup, ginger ale, aspirin, apple sauce. Not mixed together of course. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 12:38, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Poor you. So you are here? Hafspajen (talk) 13:34, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I survived. But now have to pack up laptop and prepare to leave work. Poor spaniel! Yngvadottir (talk) 14:17, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
  • Tea
    Tea
  • Omlette
    Omlette
  • Mushroom Soup
    Mushroom Soup
  • Darwinbish has stolen the wonton noodle soup. She loves that stuff.
    Darwinbish has stolen the wonton noodle soup. She loves that stuff.
  • Spargel sauce hollandaise
    Spargel sauce hollandaise
  • Roast Turkey
    Roast Turkey
  • Smörgåsbord
    Smörgåsbord
  • Kalles
    Kalles
  • Ham
    Ham
  • Saffranspannkaka
    Saffranspannkaka
  • Nyponsoppa
    Nyponsoppa
  • Sushi
    Sushi
  • Les Oeufs
    Les Oeufs
  • Irish stew
    Irish stew
  • Salmon
    Salmon
  • Rogan josh
    Rogan josh
  • Mushrooms
    Mushrooms
  • Creme Caramel
    Creme Caramel
Hope Yngvadottir is not vegetarian. Hafspajen (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Bishy, you make me crazy with all these different apparitions of yours. Hafspajen (talk) 16:09, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, I am afraid I am vegetarian - and not supposed to eat eggs any more :-( However, here's some stuff you didn't yet picture:
  • Yorkshire pud
    Yorkshire pud
  • Spotted Richard, think of the children! Your friend Darwinfish.
    Spotted Richard, think of the children! Your friend Darwinfish.
  • icecream sundae
    icecream sundae
  • Swiss cheese
    Swiss cheese
  • strawberries
    strawberries
  • cheeeeesy bread
    cheeeeesy bread
  • pizza muncher
    pizza muncher
  • Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy Bish....
    Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy Bish....
  • Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy Bish....
    Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy Bish....
  • Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy Bish....
    Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy Bish....
  • Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy Bish....
    Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy Bish....
  • Wonton noodle soup Bishonen, bishy Bish....
    Wonton noodle soup Bishonen, bishy Bish....
  • Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy for Bishzilla....
    Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy for Bishzilla....
  • Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy for Bishzilla....
    Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy for Bishzilla....
  • Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy for Bishzilla....
    Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy for Bishzilla....
  • Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy for Bishzilla....
    Wonton noodle soup Bishy, bishy for Bishzilla....
  • What, no soup for Bishzilla? ROARRR!!
    What, no soup for Bishzilla? ROARRR!!
Have you found some food?

Now to the supermarket to buy lots of soft foods. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:35, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

... I have discovered it is almost impossible to keep rice from straying into the other side of one's mouth. And I am having Adventures in Drug Side-Effects. Also I am not allowed coffee. So I am not good for much right now. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:05, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Some Tea

Wikipedians also recommend biscuits with tea.

-TheGeneralUser (talk) has given you a cup of tea. Tea promotes WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day ever so slightly better.

Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a tea, especially if it is someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy!

Spread the lovely, warm, refreshing goodness of tea by adding {{subst:wikitea}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Just stopping by to share some tea! This will hopefully re-energize you and remove your stress when you edit a lot :) Cheers. -TheGeneralUser (talk) 22:31, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Heh, thanks, that's sweet :-) But they still forbid hot drinks :-( Yngvadottir (talk) 22:40, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Really? that's so sad. How about Ice tea ;) -TheGeneralUser (talk) 22:56, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Good Grief

I appreciate you comments.

My main objection *is not* being criticized or "schooled" on things I have done wrong, I take CONSTRUCTIVE criticism very well.

Two issues:

One: I have been accused of being a "sock puppet", and in a most ungentlemanly way. Right off the bat. Not "you made some edits that are wrong / outside the WP standard" ... But... "YOU ARE A SOCK PUPPET"

Not a nice way to approach someone. Rude and quite frankly, non-productive.

Second Issue:

I was not approached by either of these "established" editors in a polite and productive way. The first and last communications were accusatory, rude, aggressive, and yes "bitchy".

So "I Am Your Ken" or whoever doesn't like being called a "bitch"? Perhaps he should not act like one.

Perhaps, and this is just a wild idea, Mr. Ken should treat people like he would like to be treated? Just an idea.

I am *not* the "aggressor" here, I accused no one, I am not the one who took a gigantic smelly dump on the Talk Page of a new editor.

Yet, I am getting all the "heat"

And remember: I don't need to edit Wikipedia, Wikipedia needs me to edit Wikipedia. In other words, without new people coming into the Wikipedia "fold", Wikipedia will become a stagnant house for entrenched editors that have a vested interest in driving people away. As we see from Mr' Ken's behavior.

Perhaps this is a club I don't want to be a member of. Taco Viva (talk) 17:18, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello Jake, your wild idea is actually policy. WP:NICE. However, in the past couple years, it has become trendy for people entrenched in the wikiCulture (aka "what is done" as opposed to "what the written policy is") to be rude, aggressive, snide, snarky, and in general non-WP:NICE. There are no consequences, for two reasons. First, wikipedia is under increasing pressure from spammers and vandals... many of them who are ACTUAL sockpuppets avoiding actual blocks/bans. This is a serious problem, obviously, and would be nice to solve. Second, *because* we have fewer editors to defend the pedia, the ones that remain have less time than ever to be WP:NICE, and even good folks like Drmies tend to be so busy-busy that helping beginners like yourself is seen as a luxury, and disciplining aggressive bad-faith snark is seen as futile. Which obviously, makes it a self-reinforcing decline.  :-) Anyhoo, I will not candy-coat the take-home message: wikipedia is in trouble. We have a problem with driving away beginners, with snark and bureaucratic bullshit and UTTERLY unfair caste-system stuff. BMK will continue as they were, 99:1, whether you leave or stay. *I* would like you to stay, because I want things to be better around here, and methinks you can prolly help achieve some improvements. But simply pointing them out, which is what I started out thinking would be enough, should be sufficient but isn't. If you do decide to "join the club" of wikipedians, Yngvadottir and I can teach you the ropes, and you can help me try and fix the wikiculture, so that there is wikiLiberty and wikiJustice for all, someday. It won't be quick-n-easy, but I think it's worth doing. Hope this helps. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 17:54, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi Jake, 74 is cynical but I am still hopeful. I've dropped a note to BMK. None of us can make you stick around, but I'd like you to. (For one thing, you're showing yourself to be a good writer.) BMK does not appear to be online (to appear here or to tell me to butt out) but I am, until the pain killer lays me out for the count. So meanwhile, do you have any questions I can help with? Yngvadottir (talk) 18:26, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
I may continue to edit in small ways - punctuation. But seriously, people like "Ken" need to "dial it down". A popular phrase: "get a life". As you can see I am learnig about editing possibilities, Italics, bold... "quotes" ... And as a person that is not a moron, I learn about politics....Taco Viva (talk)
Well, you are welcome in whatever role/capacity you choose. Wikipedia needs your help, and I appreciate it too; thanks. For punctuation, see WP:WikiGnome, which has the Official Rulz.  :-)   As for wikiPolitics, they are very simple to navigate: always stay serene, never lose your cool, and keep the high moral ground. Avoid hitting save in anger, and if you do, redact it ASAP. Yngvadottir is a good egg, follow their lead, you'll be fine. Wikipedia is a bit of a jungle right now; sorry about that! We are still in the frontier-days, in many ways. When drmies is back from the conf, and yngvadottir is off the painkillers, they can guide you further. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 20:16, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
I also hope you do. As I said, feel free to ask me questions ... including about markup :-) If I can't answer, someone else can. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:21, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
  • I might add that Yngvadottir is a better choice, well - because Dr Mies has too many people jumping on his head - who knows why. Probably because he is so lovely. Hafspajen (talk) 20:23, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
I meant sick, but I was maybe to discrete. You haven't even noticed the thing the way you usually do. Hafspajen (talk) 00:20, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
No, I hadn't seen that - it hasn't been added to any of the deletion lists I have on my watchlist. I'm happy to see Eric back though! Yngvadottir (talk) 00:25, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
They should be happy that there is an ecumenic spirit into this. Iona Abbey and Taizé is also same kind of mixture. Hafspajen (talk) 00:50, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

I am offended by Who The Fuck Is Ken, and his "innuendo" and attitude. Mr. Ken seems to have a great deal of "power" here, but I suspect much of it is due not from actual quality editing, but rather intimidation. What a shame. He's clearly a "power" to be "reckoned" with, but is it because he actually contributes value to Wikipedia in terms of quality content? Or is it because he "cows" other editors, and "bullies" his way until others simply acquiesce?

My Is Your Ken is a BULLY.

Why do you people put up with it? A BULLY? It is places like Wikipedia that BULLIES like My Ass's Name Is Ken can beat and oppress people. My guess is that Ken had a tough time in High School and didn't get laid in college, and is now taking it out on people who have less "power" at Wikipedia than he does. What a shame that intelligent and cogent people are cowed by BULLIES like My Cat's Name Is Ken. Really a shame. Taco Viva (talk) 03:58, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Taco Viva, enough. You are allowed to think that BMK is a bully, and you are allowed to express your protests about his behavior, spiritedly if necessary, but that does not give you license to attack him outright. Do not speculate on his personal history or manipulate his username like that again, or blocks will follow. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 05:15, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
  • Stop with the personal attacks right now, please. I understand you're hurt, but we're not here to rate each others' caliber as editors or speculate about each others' psychology. I note you've been editing articles some more (and that someone provided the citation at Alain Resnais - that's what we're here to do. Is there anything I can try to help you with? Yngvadottir (talk) 05:14, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Question regarding image upload

Hey! I would like to thank you for explaining me the matter over my talk page. Well, I have a question regarding a image upload. I have sent a email to the one of the member of Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani office for sending his image which I can upload on Wikipedia.

Please advice me after getting photo what should I do next? -INPanda Talk 05:55, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!
A cup of tea for you, to compensate the chicken .............................do you drink tea with lemon or milk? Hafspajen (talk) 13:15, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, again! Later today I get to find out whether I am now allowed to drink it :-) I cheated yesterday by letting my coffee go cold. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:17, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Until then a milk jug for you, to look at.Hafspajen (talk) 13:53, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Léon Delarbre

I had a burst of activity (one thing led to another, plus I discovered I had dropped in the "article creation" rankings), but now I'm a bit tired. Perhaps you or one of your (French-speaking?) stalkers can take an interest in this painter, who looks like DYK material. Drmies (talk) 17:25, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, saw the paintings. It is maybe better without. Hafspajen (talk) 18:07, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
The paintings are not nice. People starving and really looking ghostly. Hafspajen (talk) 18:23, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Took a quick look, article looks more than fine, except for French version of that mysterious authority control thing that is probably an RFID chip or something :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 18:32, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
Looks fine? How about those weird wordings? I am trying to do something about it but is still weird, hey. like "all the while painting and exhibiting". Hafspajen (talk) 18:45, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Polish chicken

This is a rough translation of this source, that tis arguing for the Polish origin. http://www.portalhodowcy.pl/hodowca-drobiu/39-numer-3-2008/45-quo-vadis-czubatko-staropolska-dworska

Not very convincingly. Drmies was adventuring into this chicken business, so I tried to understand it. Hafspajen (talk) 21:56, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Polish chickens heaped, liliputy Polish, native poultry breed-these topics have become very fashionable lately. On the online forum "Aviaries", as at the date of January 10, 2008, in the "old Polish crested tit ' once popular hits, 43.705 was just a thread of Lilliput-50.464 entry. About the reproduction of the original chicken czubatej, also known as the visitors, noble, and more recently, Polish writing, and even dreaming biggest Polish authorities, which had the honor to host the magazine Aviary-professors Rutkowski, Mazanowski, Książkiewicz. I also personally deposited great and patriotic challenge-bring out the darkness of the past of this mammoth Polish. Have studied all available Polish literature, have engaged in contacts with the Polish museums in their collections with images of ancient hens, I drove up to several thousands of miles away to the Netherlands to watch the images of famous Dutch masters. However, before I will tell about their own, very difficult by the breeder, how I tried to recreate the mythical kurkę, you might want to first define what you understand by "old Polish crested tit", also known as the visitors or noble. The first fundamental question that you asked and I ask myself today was, and how the mammoth in fact look like? What they say about historical sources? Understandably there was no racial pattern of the cocks, nay, even there was no such proposal. However, I had something very valuable-the motivation and idea. And that's very much. Unfortunately, not kept too much archival material that would have been helpful in answering the above questions, and if encountered traces of anything said on this subject, only indirectly. An invaluable source of knowledge are old pictures, which I was able to locate. In the picture (fig. 1a and Fig. 1b-closeup) is the castle with the 1620, in the courtyard of the flock of hens tapering (retrieved from "Gekuifd", Luuk Hans, 2007, p. 19). The most famous of them is the work of Jan Steen from 1660, the year entitled "Dusty courtyard" (fig. 1 Fig. 1 c. This image has found its place in the permanent exhibition in the small size, but big in terms of number of outstanding works of art, the Museum of Mauritius in the Hague. Deliberately have been enlarged fragments of works with images of kur (fig. 1 d). Fig. 1 d. Aren't they appear to be similar to those found on the Polish villages? I visited the Museum of the national Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Central Museum in Utrecht, in search of other famous paintings by Melchior d'Hondecoetera, and including one of them from 1686 (fig. 2). I have in their collections released in the Netherlands, beautiful album with dozens of other images. I will not here he published their reproduction, because it presented the hens are very similar to the mentioned previously. In any case, the "dusty" motif in European painting was very popular and most often represented just the original hens heaped what can attest to the fact that this type of poultry was bred commonly in many contemporary European pens. Fig. 2.

In the Palace Museum in Wilanów is the image of an unknown painter (see posted next to a reproduction-fig. 3a and 3b) Fig. 3b. also showing the 17th century chicken heaped. In a similar style picture, by Bruno Szulc, can be seen in Gdansk. Both of these images, unlike the above represent the Polish poultry courtyards, which is very valuable for us. In the open literature I came across a few only descriptions of appearance, and especially the colors of both the medieval and later periods breeds of chickens. Wojciech Kozłowski in his work "housewife in Poland in the early middle ages" (Portfolio Historian, vol. 24, p. 19), he wrote: "to sum up the previous considerations, I consider that the hen was home ^ bird small, largely similar to its wild ancestor. The most common plumage was most likely spotted, which is a mixture of feathers black, various shades of red and yellow. " At a later period of time, until the early 19th century, when it began planning work, she has an infinite number of construction types and colors. In 1856 (Prof. Witold Prussia, Breeding of livestock in the Kingdom of Poland, 1815-1918, page 249), we read the following description of national varieties of chickens.

Gosh is it so long? Hafspajen (talk) 21:57, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Holy moly, I don't read Polish! (Well, I once pieced a news article together using the words that are related to Russian, with Google's help ... ) Plus, still doped to the gills. Plus, bedtime. After bed. Maybe after work. Argh. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:44, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
It looks a bit overwhelming, really. The only thing I was curious about if the reference is OK. Reliable. Hafspajen (talk) 10:15, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Van Gogh

  • A different van Gogh gallery

A barnstar for you!

The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
A verygood idea!!!........................................................................................................ Hafspajen (talk) 16:45, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks, but what? me, a good idea?! Yngvadottir (talk) 21:53, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

National Archives of the Faroe Islands

Can you translate this one from German?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:20, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Wow that was quick! Looks great. Yeah that's the beauty of wikipedia, one article unwraps several others which are missing....♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:19, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

National Library of the Faroe Islands was stubbed at the same time and also has a decent article on other wikis. Look how many wikipedias had an article before us! Don't want to burden you but if you could translate it too sometime this would be great of course.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:21, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Haha love your user box "This user tried the new Vector skin and hates it." True! So bland and uninspiring!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:28, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

National Dish

Why on earth would anyone remove those? As far as I can see those were quite correct. [39] Hafspajen (talk) 21:40, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

You removed at least 2 that had refs (although I think the Doner kebab is more a political commentary than an actual national dish). I note that the immediately preceding edit said something was a drink rather than a dish - but removed 2 items, one of which appears to be pork? Start a section on the article talk page. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:52, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

that is not a drink, not one of them-is a barbecue, Puerco asado, and Yuca con mojo, well Yuca con mojo is a Central American and Caribbean side dish made by marinading yuca root (cassava) one of Cuba's national dishes.

Well, I tried to restore what was removed and tryed to add that back, might lost something on the way. But here we have one of those removers, no ref-no way. See here. [40]

Yes, he's removing more than he says he is; but you've also removed a few referenced things. And in the meantime someone else has come in and made some much-needed grammar changes. Start that talk page section. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:30, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

This place is a mess, because while he/she removed like 15 dishes, added also some with references. It is implosible to go and add back them now without reverting back or at least partially so AND then add back those he/she added, right. But I never got that far because he/she already reverted me. That might be edit war. Also removing Pavlova as not New Zealand national dish is just provocation,[41] like most of these removals were. Hafspajen (talk) 22:54, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, the two of you were edit warring. Which is one reason you need to post on the talk page. I would also recommend restoring a version with both what the other person added and what they removed and you restored. That can be done - I would recommend drafting it in a word processor document, pulling from each line in the diffs and then adding the current version of the prose, with the grammar corrections. But it can wait a little while till after discussion has happened on teh talk page - or after you have given the other editor ample opportunity to discuss there. For example, saying there what you have said here about neither of those things being a drink. And maybe discussing whether the doner kebab should be taken seriously. And by "a little while" I mean at least a day. Take time to take stock, and maybe find refs for a few of the removed ones; is the above a reference that was in the article? If the other editor cares, he or she will join you on the talk page - either before or after you replace the text with the new combined version, with a mention of the talk page section in the edit summary - but he/she may have gone offline for the day or have to do so soon, give them a while. There may also be others who will come online and express an opinion. Yngvadottir (talk) 23:11, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
OK, posted, by the way I only put the things back once, and got reverted - I don't really call that edit war - I mean what I did. When I saw what happened I came here. Just once tried to put them back, and then stopped. Hafspajen (talk) 23:26, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Good man. Now see if s/he responds, or if anyone else coems along with opinions on specific ones. Yngvadottir (talk) 23:43, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
.Ugh, response yes, looks OK, kind of.

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Luminalia. Hafspajen (talk) 19:46, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Hmm? I made the title italic but otherwise see nothing too wrong. If there are pix, you're the man to find 'em :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 22:43, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Ah, I see. Yes, they knew how to amuse themselves. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:10, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you.--Bat21777 (talk) 22:09, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

No problem, hope it helps you understand. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:43, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

O-Ogonek Template?

Hello Yngvadottir, what would you say about a template that lets readers know that we don't use the o-ogonek outside of direct quotations on Wikipedia, with a link to our Old Norse style guide? That could solve a couple problems. :bloodofox: (talk) 19:21, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm not a good person to ask about templates; we have so many that I sometimes wish we could dial that back :-) Also, I would personally prefer us to use the ǫ; I believe the technical argument that it often does not display is outdated, it's right there in the list of Latin alt. chars. provided by Wikipedia, and I can't remember when I last saw ö being used instead in a scholarly work. As such I've been guilty of sticking it in myself a few times, notably at Sonargöltr. On the other hand, if that page indeed applies only to article names, as its title implies, I think that needs to be made a bit clearer; but that's not what you're saying. What I would view as more useful is a guideline of some sort that it should be made clear it's in most respects equivalent to ö, because one of the things readers will be consulting us for is the "correct" spellings of these unfamiliar names and terms, and part of that is what the almost wholly unfamiliar diacritic means. Whether that would best be done by template ... I dunno. But it seems we're in disagreement over the letter itself, although I agree it's not feasible to use it in article titles. (I just double-checked that I haven't done so ...). Yngvadottir (talk) 19:39, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
We actually agree here. I'd be up for killing the o-umlaut in favor of the correct o-ogonek in both article names and in the article body. Maybe we should be discussing that somewhere—or maybe we should just go ahead and do it as I doubt there'd be any disagreement. :bloodofox: (talk) 22:03, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Who made the original decision, do you know? Is there a discussion somewhere? I think in article titles would be offputting to non-scholars, and the IP known as 74 tells me there are still browsers/older operating systems that don't display it. Plus it's almost impossible to type into the search field. So I'm not sure we should use it in article titles, and if we did there would have to be redirects created from ö as well as o from the get-go. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:06, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
To be honest, I think an o-umlaut is going to be as off-putting as the o-ogonek for general English readers. Plus, general academic usage far outweighs pop culture mentions in this area, so the argument of "common usage" is going to generally be on our side. Searching isn't a problem because we can simply redirect whatever we need to. However, we can always make a template that notifies users that there should be an o-ogonek in the title to be clear. I'm up for whatever solution, but I think users need to somehow know that there should be an o-ogonek in these words. :bloodofox: (talk) 18:59, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Similar to the one that used to be used with ß? Yes, we apparently do concur on the main issue. I just am not sure I want to go as far as having untypeable names on articles - although that doesn't seem to matter with Polish, Vietnamese, or Turkish, there isn't even a 4-number code for ǫ. I note that typing both Jǫrð and Jorð gets the search page, rather than the software figuring it out that ǫ is a modified o and ð a modified d; I have a feeling some such approximations get sent automatically to the right page without need for a redirect, possibly e for é? Hmm. Have you dug up the original discussion? Where would we best put this up for discussion? Yngvadottir (talk) 19:12, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

I don't have as much knowledge as Yngvadottir thinks.  :-)   Hi bloodofox, nice to meet you, please call me 74. Yngvadottir uses "the IP known as 74" because of royal training; very formalized.  ;-)

  • Ogoneks on other vowels were introduced in the unicode block Latin Extended A, and are exceedingly well supported nowadays
  • Ogoneks that we care about were introduced in the unicode block Latin Extended B, and were not that well supported until post-2003, from what I can gather.
  • This is a question of font-support. If the font has the u01EB glyph, then the person's browser will display the article-title and body-prose properly.
  • If the person doesn't have the correct font... or has a browser which is too ancient to search for a correct font... or has (mis)configured their browser to a single font... then instead of a correct symbol, they will get a small box.
  • The question of the titles does not actually matter here, methinks. Wikipedia redirects will solve the problem, of people typing oUmlaut versus oUnadorned versus oOgonek, when searching for a page. Similarly, but by a different mechanism, when one cuts-n-pastes a URL, the browser automagically uses URL encoding with percent-signs, so the non-displayable character is never sent to the clipboard, and there is no possibility of corruption. Therefore, I suggest we concentrate on the body-prose, and assign the same decision we make for body-prose, to the titles.
  • The body-prose question is twofold. When somebody is editing a page, and they don't know how to type the oOgonek, what will they do? The answer is, they can cut-n-paste, or use charmap, or use alt-key-codes, or just use the regular old unadorned "o" and somebody can come along and fix it later. But there are only 30k active editors, not many of whom work on Old Norse articles; existing editors can show beginners the ropes. So we can ignore the editing-question, as well as the title-question.
  • That leaves us with the reading-question. There are 500m readers of wikipedia, or so. They have all kinds of browsers, operating systems, and so on. Some of them are on tablets; some of the tablets have less-than-perfect Unicode support. One *advantage* to tablets is that they all have very modern browsers. I believe that IE6 browsers were not capable of the oOgonek, but that is just a hunch, reading between the lines, I couldn't confirm it yet, and don't have one to test with handy. My guess is that the portion of wikipedian readership using browsers that will fail to give them proper rendering is vanishingly small, as of 2014. We have some stats-pages, I will check them and update back here.
  • My main question is whether there is a possibility of *misunderstanding* that can occur, rather than an overly-formal correctness. Is this a case where, if we have a word that is supposed to contain oOgonek, and then we replace that with oUmlaut, we might confuse the readership... be they PhD classicists, or be they 10th grade students? Methinks the answer is yes in both cases: some words that used to be spelled oOgonek in the 1100s, by the 1300s were being spelled oUmlaut, or maybe oStroke, therefore, substituting oUmlaut might make the scholarly types think a quote is talking about the 1300s, when really it is from the 1100s. As for the 10th grader, they aren't going to be confused thataway most likely, but they may well copy and paste the oUmlaut, and then see oOgonek used elsewhere, and assume those are different things. Or the 10th grader might ask some scholar at the university for help, which will give wikipedia a black eye. So I'm also in favor of converting over to oOgonek, as is correct, to best serve the readership.
  • There is a template which we can use, that will inform the readership what the square boxen are (those who have trouble ... which we think will be rare birds). Basically, the fix for not having a machine that renders things properly, is downloading and installing a proper font, and/or configuring one's browser properly. However, an easier fix is to simply use a different system: the smartfon instead of the ancient PC, or a different web-browser which *is* properly configured.

I think that about covers it. I'll retrieve some browser-and-OS-version-stats for enWiki, and then see if we have worrisome things crop up. We can ask over at WP:VPT to confirm our hunches. My last question is, what about other characters? Capital-Wynn, for example, is more prickly than oOgonek. Are we just talking oOgonek here? 74.192.84.101 (talk) 19:58, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportUserAgents.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
These are the raw stats, I will update later if any 'dangerous' stuff catches my eye. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 20:24, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks 74 ... Yes, I think we are ... Wikipedia has long used þ and ð, the other important Old Norse characters, and although they used to require Mac users to download the Icelandic keyboard, that's ancient history now; wynn only occurs in Anglo-Saxon and a few old books that choose to use it in Anglo-Saxon text (that's an Anglo-Saxon name). There are a few scholarly uses of æ with acute accent in Old Norse, but note that that is so weird it's not in the extended Latin character set provided to editors; I and everybody else I know still copy and paste it. I'm headed to bed, but I guess that means I should move Sonargöltr. I understand the relevant WikiProject is almost dead, but this discussion should be mooted there. Does either of you advocate doing anything else, given that we agree there must be redirects from both ö and o spellings, plus an explanation of some sort in the text? (I know when I first started reading this material I would have loved someone to explain what that character was.) Yngvadottir (talk) 20:37, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello 74! Nice to meet you. You seem quite knowledgeable in this area and I am glad that you working with us here.
I believe Haukurth (talk · contribs) and some other users, many of which I believe are unfortunately gone now, led the way to what we're using now. I know there was a lot of discussion regarding anglicizations in the past and how problematic they are, and I'm sure the o-ogonek came up. You can see a lot of discussion about all this stuff over at the talk page of Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Norse_mythology).
To get the o-ogonek rolling, I think we're going to need to use a bot to convert names over. Users can simply copy and paste the character in the search bar if they want more information about it, so I don't think we have to worry much about that. :bloodofox: (talk) 20:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
Nice to meet you also.  :-)   I am against the bot, but for different reasons than Yngvadottir. I think that the changeover inside any particular body-prose can be efficiently accomplished with the find-n-replace facilities of the browser. For the article-titles, I think we should leave redirects behind that use the old o-umlaut (or maybe o-unadorned) name, which will make the link-changeover something that can happen slowly. But the reason for leaving redirects isn't to make our lives easier, but to handle the case where a reader has bookmarked a page (or equivalently has emailed the URL or put a deeplink from a page on their blog to wikipedia or whatever). We don't want to rename the article to use ogoneks, and pull the rug out from under the readership that happens to have some incoming links from off-wiki locations that expect umlaut. Does this make sense? p.s. Once the renames have happened, methinks there is a feature of AWB (or is it wpCleaner?) which allows quickly fixing our internal wikilinks that point to redirects. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 02:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I have little to add. I always assumed that if the ogonek became well enough supported, we could switch to using it. If that day has come, then that's all good. Haukur (talk) 17:05, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, good to see you again :-) Apparently it has - I hadn't internalized that we weren't supposed to use it in article text, as opposed to titles, and no one has made a peep about my using it at Sonargöltr a while back. But I'm not pretending that taht's a high-traffic article, and partly since there may indeed be people out there using browsers that still don't render it, I think we need to have the discussion and see whether anyone turns up with persuasive objections. (There's also the faint possibility that I've missed recent scholarship in English-language publications that doesn't use it.) So could you stick your head in over there? Yngvadottir (talk) 17:42, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
For readership-privacy-reasons (and editorship-privacy too), WMF doesn't release the raw stats about browsers. However, reading between the tea-leaves, as of Feb.2014 it looks like ~95% of visitors are likely to support o-ogonek automagically, with no effort/inconvenience on their part whatever.
ok 27.00% win+chr 11.30% droid
ok 21.00% win+fox
ok 11.20% win+ie7to10 15.00% iPhone
ok 6.40% osx+saf 1.50% nokia+opera
ok 1.00% Lin+Opera 0.20% LinMob+foxMob
xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx
..? 1.40% winXP+fx3
..? 1.00% winXP+ns4
..? 1.00% winXP+ie6 0.50% winMob+ieMob
..? 0.10% win2k/98+ie6
..? 0.20% osx+ie5x 0.20% bb+bb
..? 0.10% psWii+nf 0.00% symb+wap
The stuff below the row of xxxxxxxx is conceivable to be a problem for the readership. However, as mentioned, this is a tea-leaf-reading-exercise, because I don't have good data. Second, even the WMF doesn't really have good data (browsers lie through their teeth). Third, many users in this 5% group have quite possibly configured their browsers to do the right thing with unicode (possible on most if not all of these tea-leaf-configs). Fourth, during 2014 use of ancient technologies will decline further. Fifth, people that have a device in this 5% prolly also have access to another (newer) device such as a desktop at work or a laptop at home or a friend/relative/librarian. Sixth, people that are reading the article with ogoneks are likely to be willing to go to a bit of trouble, methinks, to get the stuff to display properly. Seventh, those articles will still be quite readable/understandable, 99.999% of the time, even if the o-ogonek renders as a missing-fontglyph-box.
  All told, there is a case to be made that o-ogonek is supported widely enough now (compared to a few years ago when IE6 was still strong), that in my back-of-the-envelope opinion we can start deploying o-ogonek broadly. We should check with people that know more than me, however. In particular, there are about ten million readers aka 2% of our readership that are using mobile devices with Android 2.3/2.2 installed, rather than the latest 4.x version of Android. Does the o-ogonek display properly, in the default browser? We can ask for help at refdesk's computer-subpage, for this sort of answer, perhaps. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 02:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I do think this needs to be more widely discussed first, so I have proposed the change at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Norse mythology)#Revisiting o-ogonek and advertised the discussion at the Old Norse wikiproject. But I don't think a bot would be required. If we do move the articles themselves, there are not that terribly many of them, and since redirects would be made in all cases, there would not be an urgent need to change all incoming links then and there. (Indeed many articles still have incoming links from anglicized/continental Scandinavian spellings, and Hljod is still at such a spelling.) I would welcome the opportunity to pump up my edit count, of course, but I think we could take our time making the changeover within articles. More important, I think, would be to think how to explain the letter in either an explanatory note or a headnote template ... which takes us right back to your initial question :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 16:42, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Celebrations around the world

Karin Larsson

Hafspajen (talk) 15:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

I was thinking of creating a sub-category on Commons of Carl Larsson pics that feature her, but I was too lazy. Sadly there is not enough text in the article to accommodate the photo of her weaving. Yngvadottir (talk) 00:01, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Jónas Jónsson

Thanks for helping out. Google Translate seems to have an especially difficult time with Icelandic, but by now our article is better than the is-wiki one, haha. It's not easy to find sources in English; oddly enough, JSTOR had next to nothing. (I started this because of that scholarly article that's cited; I was looking for material for Jonas Jonsson (19th-century builder) and found, you guessed it, nothing. Drmies (talk) 00:38, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome. Google Translate is completely thrown by endings and often fails even to try with compound words; it's shameful. Long ago, I thought of working with a programmer to make a decent translation program based on TG (which was really made for machines, not humans). I ought to have done it. Yngvadottir (talk) 00:42, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Ha. No wonder Icelandic gives it such a hard time. I figured there were case ending issues in some of the words that I lifted--I also make it a point of honor to not copy the syntax so I wouldn't be surprised if objective forms turn up in the nominative in some of the articles I've created based on the Swedish wiki. BTW, I'm sure there's a transgender ending now to add to -son and -dottir--is there? Drmies (talk) 03:39, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Not that I can find, no, and þriðja kynið is still a redlink over on is. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:48, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Hmm, that's odd. I guess they simply need more editors... Drmies (talk) 03:50, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Also, are you familiar with editing infoboxes for localities? I'm having the hardest time with them, esp. with those pinpoint maps (is that what they are?), like on Boda socken, Grankullavik, Nabbelund, etc. Any help from you or yours would be greatly appreciated. Drmies (talk) 03:50, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
I fail utterly at those things, but pinging Markussep. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. I found all kinds of interesting things for Nabbelund: a ship burial! Now we're better than the sv-wiki--they have a map, but we have a ship burial with FOUR skeletons. More than a regular 'zilla can count, hrair! Drmies (talk) 04:26, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
To add a map to the infobox, you should use the field "pushpin_map". I added "Sweden" in the Grankullavik article, you can also use the län map (then use "Sweden Kalmar"). Here you can see which maps are available: Category:Sweden location map templates. Markussep Talk 09:57, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Kindly view talk page of ADVANFORT article

Reaction to your redaction in the MV SeamanGuard Ohio section. Kindly reply on the talk page [42] of the article.

@Yngvadottir : Can you explain this revertion [43] that you made saying "Removed reaction statement, tweaked"?
  • By comparing the differences, you can see that the changes made were : (1) changed the word "seek" to "sought" because the event is in the past, (2) said that the petition was by the families of the former UK soldiers, (3) inserted a quote made by a UK minister and (4) removed the small sentence about petitions because we have already spoken about the most important petition (the one with 136000 signatures [44]).
  • The statement by the UK minister is 'noteworthy' (and not a tweak) because it lends more weight to the claims made by the relatives of those detained in India that the 35 detained persons feel 'let down' by those who should be defending them in the first place.
  • BTW & FYI, reports (for example [45] [46]) have stated that the contract of the UK legal team (Ince & Co) was terminated by Advanfort on 19 march - the day prior to the 20 march court hearing for their bail leaving just the Indian legal-team assisting those detained.
  • There are also many articles (for example [47] [48] [49] [50]) about what the relatives think about the pace of the legal process and the help/attention that Govts are giving to this case. Citing/quoting relatives is the only way because those who are in jail in India are not currently free to access newspaper journalists and submit their version of events and impressions about their welfare [51] [52] [53] [54] during detention.
  • Can you also tell me why you deleted my BBC article [55] as a citation source ?
  • Why do you have concerns with this [56] article on Chronicle Live ? You also deleted source citation link where-in the British MP's quote was taken from.
  • Several media publications [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] have published news articles about this case over the past week and therefore there is reason to update the page with a summarized version of these happenings. This is what I attempted to do in good-faith and without including any controversial claims or biased inclusions.
  • If you wish to make-up any phrase to include these new events into the article in a condensed manner, do go ahead. But, kindly avoid redacting text which I included in good-faith with just cryptic explanations "Removed reaction statement, tweaked" whose logic I fail to comprehend.
Onlyfactsnofiction (talk) 08:26, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I think you may have misread the diff: I removed the reaction statement by the minister and "tweaked" (condensed) the account of what the petition sought to have happen. I did not remove any sources.
We clearly disagree about the importance of these details in an article about the company. I had seen press coverage of the distress about the British members of the crew; and also coverage about the captain and others. There has also been a plethora of Indian coverage. All of this needs to be weighed as to its importance to an article on the company; I expect to reduce a lot of it after the incident is finally resolved. Frankly, I didn't think the petition rose to the level of importance in an article about the company that would justify inclusion; you disagreed and put it in once it had been submitted, but it should be kept as brief as possible, without reaction quotes. (Note that I previously trimmed reaction quotes from Indian political figures.)
Thanks for keeping on top of the story, but the article is not about the story; it's about the company, in an encyclopedia. We're skirting WP:UNDUE as it is. (Have you considered writing about the incident on WikiNews? It strikes me as just the kind of long-running, international story they have the potential to cover better than print.) Yngvadottir (talk) 12:02, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Please reply on the talk page of the article. I prefer this discussion to be held there. ~To keep things simple I am not going to be checking any replies here. Onlyfactsnofiction (talk) 12:10, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I copied it there, but for my own convenience and because this was a question specifically about an edit of mine, I responded first here, where you had asked. Feel free to respond wherever you like - or not.

Hermann Fenner-Behmer

Hi- thanks very much for your editing to this blue Prussian. I've moved the article into (drumroll) mainspace, but unfortunately your contributions aren't recorded in the history, so next time I'll move stuff into mainspace first! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:19, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

No worries and you're welcome :-) I'm sorry I didn't find more - I suspect most of it is offline in books the local university library doesn't have. But for the sake of crossing the t's and dotting the i's, what I do is create a separate sandbox for each article, like ... User:Xanthomelanoussprog/Hermann Fenner-Behmer or User:Xanthomelanoussprog/sandbox/Hermann Fenner-Behmer; that way your earlier steps go along in the move, but you can do it at any stage before you mainspace it. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:28, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip. My local university library might have something- my intention to rejoin has not yet been matched by action! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 14:43, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Re: Psst

Re: your message: Yes, I misread the article. It should have been deleted under A7. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:44, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

This article

Looks like it was deleted.[63] [64] [65] Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche Kyabgön Phakchok RinpocheHafspajen (talk) 20:59, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Yup, deleted after being nominated for speedy by User:Sɛvɪnti faɪv (not 74) as pure promotion with no independent sources. It was also an autobiography. If you have independent sources demonstrating notability, you could write a new article about him. (The second article was a redirect.) Yngvadottir (talk) 04:04, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Too bad. An autobiography of a Tibetan lama would be something to have. Oh, yes I know about the rules... don't tell me. Sometimes things make me wonder... Hafspajen (talk) 04:31, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Anything

Wikipedia talk:Verifiability. So if ANYTHING may be removed and challengeed that doesnt have a reference that then I am going to remove the sections at Dutch cuisine. the whole section Northeastern cuisine, Western cuisine, Southern cuisine Foods,(edit conflict) and and Fast food also alcoholic beverage, that will leave about half of the article. If I was an Ip I would get probably a warning. But because I am not, people say- anything can be removed without a citation. And I am going to do this acording Wikipedia guidlines. Or maybe you want to look att the discussion page? Wikipedia talk:Verifiability. Hafspajen (talk) 04:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC) Hafspajen (talk) 04:14, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

It may be but doesn't have to be. Discussing at the talk page helps (and the article then usually winds up with more references). Did you put back those things? with the refs? I know you were also looking for refs. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:22, 17 March 2014 (UTC)


I am trying to change :Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be replaced without an inline citation to a reliable source.

into

Any material challenged or likely to be challenged lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be replaced without an inline citation to a reliable source. Hafspajen (talk) 04:30, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

  • The example above illustates what can happen if the wording ANYTHING figures. am I an article bucherer? No. I don't want to remove those sections, it would be madness. But it would be perfectly legal, as it is written now. Or, alternatively, I am going to remove them, and people will come from Wikipedias all corners and find sources, because each and every word is quite true and nobody lied. You will work on it, Drmies will work on it. And people will spend a lot of energy (that can be used for better things) trying to save that article because I have fit of idiotism and because I am an a**h**e . As it is now this is a perfectly normal legal scenario. Hafspajen (talk) 04:34, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Am I going to tagg a sentence that says: Duch people eat stampot? No. Why should I ? It is not a controversial fact. But if I read in an article: The pope is walking every Thursday in a green dress in Rom from the Vatican to the Fontana Trevi and has a Thursday bath in Fontana Trevi, I might remove that, or tagg that. Hafspajen (talk) 05:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
That's a cute sentence about the Pope :-) ... Yes, this is a constant problem. I sympathize about the foods, and hope you got 'em all back in by now. Yngvadottir (talk) 05:10, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
.No, because they are not there and al the diffs are so confusing so I give up and don't care. THAT is the second minus with this kind of behaviour. Why should I go down into those complicated diffs and work trying to find out what is what, I might just think, who cares for whole thing. What I am trying to say, would you care for clarifying here, Wikipedia talk:Verifiability, if you sympathize, and as you say this is a constant problem. I don't think they understand what I mean, and we were talking about changing this wording, but it is not easy to change anyting that is layed down. Hafspajen (talk) 09:22, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
You really don't want to be involved? The only thing people do there, is that they try to twist everything I say. Hafspajen (talk) 12:11, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
I think you're very brave to mess with policy pages ... see Wikipedia:You don't need to cite that the sky is blue vs. Wikipedia:You do need to cite that the sky is blue. I'm afraid I'm not so brave :-( Yngvadottir (talk) 12:45, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Ah, really. As far North8000, Mark Miller, Mercy11, TransporterMan, WhatamIdoing and Hafspajen were slightly positive to some kind of change, while Marshall, Blueboar and DonIago not. Hafspajen (talk) 17:42, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Psst

Why this? I don't understand a thing about this. This article was partly translated from the Italian Wiki. And reworded, no way that is copyvio. What Refs are all bald URLs? Aren't we using webbsites as refs? You did't said anyhing was wrong. Hafspajen (talk) 13:36, 30 March 2014 (UTC)


Hafspajen (talk) 13:31, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

First time I've looked at that ... and I see Drmies is editing it. But I see criticisms about bare URLs (easy to fix, seems to have already been fixed; the DYK reviewer should have noticed that and said something about it); bibliography formatting (no idea what that refers to); and failure to use quotation marks in the hook (also easy to fix and presumably now fixed). I wouldn't worry too much, but these things would have been better caught during the DYK review. It's always a fuss to pull something out and reinsert it. (I miss helping at DYK, but sadly cannot do that any more.) Thanks for including me in the nomination - I don't really deserve it, but you deserve to have that be a DYK, it's a pretty article that you worked hard to expand. Yngvadottir (talk) 14:55, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
  • They now include GAs; in my view that dilutes the whole purpose of DYK, and in any case I don't do GA/FA, not my kind of thing at all. To each his own obsession. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:00, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
In that case it is proper to just withdraw the DYK, no point in this. I don't want this any more. I don't do GA/FA, either, not my kind of thing at all. If the article has to fitt the GA standard then the whole point with DYK is failed. Hafspajen (talk) 15:03, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Noooo you misunderstood me. The DYK project now includes GAs. That doesn't mean that all the articles it includes are GAs; it just means that GAs are mixed in with the new/newly expanded articles. See the rules. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:05, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Show me rules. And I still think that it is about humiliating, sorry to say, no diplomacy, no nothing. Some people love rules, just run around the whole place and immediately punish people if something wrong. Some people like this game, and wikipedia is a good place to promote this kind of behaviour, it is even rewarded. Hafspajen (talk) 15:07, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
See the newest section on Drmies' talk page; the reviewer is apologising for not seeing and fixing. DYK has always been a very collaborative, workshop-type project; one of the reasons I liked it was that reviewers, people who promoted the hooks to the prep areas, and admins who moved the preps to the queues would all check the articles and help make them pass the rules. It was a good way for newbies, especially, to learn about referencing, avoiding copyvio, formatting ... and the community working together. The downside was when something slipped through; that's what happened this time, but the problems were minor and are getting fixed. Please don't be hurt. Summary of rules (notice GAs have been added to the list of kinds of articles eligible); additional rules/explanations. The rules have been rewritten many times; at one point I was going to rewrite them to make them clearer, but my knowledge is no longer up to date, obviously! Yngvadottir (talk) 15:22, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
The reviewer was not the problem, he/she asked for what was wrong, ticked it green, the second person too, no problem, closed the discussion and moved to queue. It was the third person who went on and stopped both me and the reviewer, the second guy who closed the rev. without discussing a thing with us, he probably feels powerful and important now. If not Drmies was coming to resque, it would looked too bad for all of us. Hafspajen (talk) 15:33, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
What admins admins who moved the preps to the queues would all check the articles and help make them pass the rules? Yoninah is not an admin. Hafspajen (talk) 15:47, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
  • Nope, that ship has sailed. It would be better if problems were caught during the review, but it's certainly better before it appears on the Main Page. In this case I do think the problems were minor - they should be all sorted out now.
There are at least three stages at which things can (and preferably should) be checked by at least 3 different people: (a) The DYK review leading to the check mark; (b) the person who assembles the set in the prep area; (c) the admin who moves the set into a queue waiting for the bot to update the Main Page section (the queues are full protected). I just checked; Yoninah mistyped - they removed it from the prep set, which had not yet been moved to a queue. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:55, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Well, on top of everything, mistyped. Wonder what Drmies would say about that. He put himself in the same class - who seems to be as picky as I am - Drmies? ... Hafspajen (talk) 16:05, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
Yeah, and Phil was upset all day. Me too. Phil was really working a lot with DYKs and was happy about it, it made her proud. And nobody ever did this to her, and the refs were partly hers. Just feels bad to put in all that work and enthusiasm into an article and get rewarded Remove from queue. Refs are all bald URLs...without discussing a thing with us, just rip the tick. We will not do any more DYKs probably for a good while... Enthusiasm = 0. Hafspajen (talk) 23:30, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014 March newsletter

A quick update as we are half way through round two of this year's competition. WikiCup newcomer Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) (Pool E) leads, having produced a massive set of featured pictures for Silver certificate (United States), an article also brought to featured list status. Former finalist Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) (Pool G) is in second, which he owes mostly to his work with historical images, including a number of images from Urania's Mirror, an article also brought to good status. 2010 champion (Pool C) is third overall, thanks to contributions relating to naval history, including the newly featured Japanese battleship Nagato. Rhodesia Cliftonian (submissions), who currently leads Pool A and is sixth overall, takes the title for the highest scoring individual article of the competition so far, with the top importance featured article Ian Smith.

With 26 people having already scored over 100 points, it is likely that well over 100 points will be needed to secure a place in round 3. Recent years have required 123 (2013), 65 (2012), 41 (2011) and 100 (2010). Remember that only 64 will progress to round 3 at the end of April. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page; if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to help keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk • email), The ed17 (talk • email) and Miyagawa (talk • email) 22:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Teamwork Barnstar
[66].............................. Plan B.............Plan CHafspajen (talk) 18:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Heh, thanks, but remember I am unclubbable as Mycroft. (74 will clue you in about that if s/he ever returns from whatever task is keeping him/her busy.) Yngvadottir (talk) 19:46, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, MYcroft. Is this why you save the asses of so many people in trouble? Hafspajen (talk) 19:52, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Ref

Do you call this reference blablabla from a student? [67]. Somebody just did it. Hafspajen (talk) 09:37, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Well, yes, actually - the only information there is that it's a paper by a student written for a particular course. Wikipedia sourcing guidelines make Master's theses not very good sources, doctoral dissertations things to use with care unless they have been published by a regular publisher ... seminar/class papers should be used with great caution. But I see you had 6 citations, so you don't need the student paper. My opinion, for what it's worth. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:26, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
OK. Which are the good references then? Hafspajen (talk) 13:57, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

[1]

[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

References

  1. ^ [Daniel H. Shubin History of Russian Christianity vol IV, ISBN: 0-87586-443-0 page 14...In modern terms, Rasputin might be described as an uncultured psycho- therapist ... a contemporary fool for Christ...]
  2. ^ [Rasputin: The Untold Story , Joseph T. Furhmann 2013, ISBN 978-111-817276-6 chapter: The Romanov's Holy Fool, page 63]
  3. ^ How Grisha the fool ended an empire. ...Rasputin was merely the last and most favoured of a quartet of "holy fools" or "elders" who provided spiritual sustenance and a supposed link to the common people...Alexandra's belief that her trusted "holy fool" was an envoy from God... The Guardian
  4. ^ [Ewa Majewska Thompson: Understanding Russia: The Holy Fool in Russian Culture. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987. ISBN 08191627 ...The most notorious holy fool known in the West was Grigorii Rasputin, who exercised such a strange influence over the family of the Tsar before the Russian Revolution. Rasputin was, however, only the latest in a long line of such men, and his hold over the royal family was not as unusual as it might seem...]
  5. ^ [Rasputin: A Short Life Frances Welch Atria Books ISBN 1476755507 (ISBN 978-1476755502)]
  6. ^ [Svetlana V. Kobets, Ph.D. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; University of Illinois, 2001 Dissertation: “Genesis and Development of Holy Foolishness as a Textual Topos in Early Russian Literature". Definition of Holy fool as follows: "Holy foolishness for Christ's sake, or iurodstvo, is a peculiar form of East Orthodox asceticism, whose practitioners feign madness in order to provide public with spiritual guidance but eschew praise for their saintliness. My doctoral dissertation, "Genesis and Development of Holy Foolishness as Textual Topos in Early Russian Literature," explores the phenomenon of foolishness in Christ through its various textualizations in the works of Early and Mediaeval Russian literature. ... Russian hagiographers of iurodstvo made it an integral part of Russian Orthodox spirituality, thereby expanding its meaning and import. At the same time they created the cultural and religious context in which this ascetic exploit blossomed in Medieval Russia. If the Life of St. Isaakii of Kievan Cave Monastery exemplifies peculiarities of the first image of the Russian iurodivyi and the first Russian interpretation of holy foolish sanctity, then the Lives of St. Avraamii of Smolensk and St. Feodosii of the Kievan Cave monastery reflect the application of holy foolish phenomenology to the development of a uniquely Russian notion of holiness ... By his feigned madness the holy fool opts to say that the lowliest of the low can be not the poor wretch he appears to be, but a holy one and God's prophet. He shares his power and authority with all the weak, mocked and despised thus symbolically destroying clear-cut distinctions between the profane and the sacred."]
And this? [68] Holy Foolishness in Russia: New Perspectives. Priscilla Hunt and Svitlana Kobets, Bloomington, IN. Mentions Rasputin sa Holy fool on line 27. Svetlana Kobets is not a bla bla student, but a Ph.D. from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures from University of Illinois,
  • "This tradition continued within the Russian Orthodox Church - the most successful recent holy fool to profit from this mystical aura who springs to mind was Rasputin." Manfred Pfister (2002), "A History of English Laughter: Laughter from Beowulf to Beckett and Beyond", p.39
  • "Rasputin was a wandering “holy man,” a Strannik (pilgrim) in search of God in the tradition of many Orthodox Russians. He was known alternately as a Starets (unofficial spiritual guide) and a Yurodiviy (holy fool)." Spencer C. Tucker, ‎Priscilla Mary Roberts (2005), "The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History, p.967
  • Aren't these quite enough for an information not to be removed?

Hafspajen (talk) 14:02, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Those all look better, yes, as someone else said there. The Kobets ref. is a dissertation; it would be better to find an academic paper she has published in a peer-reviewed journal and cite the point from there. The Guardian ref is a book review; it would be better to cite the book itself, or failing that, the reference should make clear that the point is in the book and is being cited from the newspaper's review of that book (if the review actually says that the book says that). But you don't need 7 or 8 refs. for the point anyway. Yngvadottir (talk) 14:16, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Holy Foolishness in Russia: New Perspectives. Priscilla Hunt and Svitlana Kobets? by the way on earth remowe them? Or it is just me... I am a red towel or what for everybody? Hafspajen (talk) 15:42, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

I really, really do not want to get involved in Rasputin or Christian mysticism. But Joshua Jonathan supported you on the article talk page and added the further refs with quotes. And looking at the last edits removing it ... the main objection is that it was stuck into something referenced to a particular source (Montgomery, if I remember rightly.) If that source doesn't use the term "holy fool", as the other editor says it doesn't, then it should not be slipped in there. Rather, since you do have references for it, I suggest you make a new sentence after that one with wording such as: He has also been regarded as a holy fool of a type found in the Russian Orthodox Church. (Please check whether the sources say it is just Russian or all Eastern Orthodoxy.) Don't put it back in the infobox; the other editor is right, it's not a profession. (Plus this is part of the problem with infoboxes; how does one define what is important enough to go in them. They are so abbreviated they don't suit anyone who was at all complex, and so large they overshadow the article on anyone who was relatively simple.) Then post to the talk discussion reporting what you have done. I would also suggest not using the dissertation or the book review, since you will still have half a dozen citations, some with quotes. But I haven't fully analyzed the sources because ... utterly not my field. Does this advice help? Yngvadottir (talk) 16:02, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
  • No, no need to be involved. I am the religion-expert, actually (don't tell anyone). What I love about you is your good faith, inocence and loveliness, still untouched after all years on Wikckedpedia. What do you want to prove? Are you starting a new sect? Do you need members? - was not about my refs... if I am going to do so, the next thing is they will be removed. Hafspajen (talk) 16:09, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, that was strangely hostile; but don't assume bad faith about the other editor (i.e., that they will revert it despite the refs.). Another editor has supported you on the talk page; I would suggest you put in the separate sentence, report that you have done so, and see what happens then. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:19, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Bless you my child. Right, let's say it will not be removed, but if that thing will be removed, what is plan B? Hafspajen (talk) 16:32, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Further discussion on the talk page, pointing out again that it is supported by references. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:35, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Scene = talk: Rasputin. Scene: act 3: Editor I. you do not understand ANYTHING, those books I am reading do not support this! And now you have seven references! TOO much! Way too much. Plan C? Hafspajen (talk) 16:41, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
What the... why is Sitush retired? [69] (not a joke, looks like)Hafspajen (talk) 16:50, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
See the last 3 sections on his talk page :-( I hope he does stick around; I'm glad to see him say that he's now getting some help with the latest mess. As to Rasputin, I can only repeat: put it in in a better place and not in the infobox, and then see what happens; planning reactions in advance doesn't strike me as useful, although it's very much your call. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:14, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
My prophetic instincts didn't fail me. No, it is not proved at all he said. Hafspajen (talk) 12:31, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
Joshua Jonathan has put it back in the article, with explanation, and seems to be handling it on the talk page, too. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:19, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Garden of Ninfa

Ha. Hafspajen (talk) 04:01, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Actually it is 1888 hits now Hafspajen (talk) 12:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
That's for the month. Still amazingly popular. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:01, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
I think is for 2-3 April that. https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/index.php?page=Garden_of_Ninfa&datefrom=2014-04-01&dateto=2014-04-31, or? How do you count this. I thought this was the https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiviewstats/index.php?page=Garden_of_Ninfa&datefrom=2014-04-01&dateto=2014-04-31 DYK thing. I don't understabd how you use this. Hafspajen (talk) 13:04, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
That first link - "live views" - is new. The one that's always been used at DYKSTATS is the "daily totals" one, which gives 16,492 for April 2. Since the article was posted at 16:00, it's acceptable to add the total for April 3 to the number entered at DYKSTATS; when the set is the last of the day, there are usually some views after midnight that come from the Main Page. But that's still today so we don't have an official total yet. However, views on April 1 don't count. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:01, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The world is big. File:Woodcrete bat box at Carstramont Wood - geograph.org.uk - 1429057.jpg Hafspajen (talk) 15:19, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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I want to create a Hindi Wikipedia page for my English Wikipedia Article - New R. S. J. Public School. Also i want to add map on my page. Can you do it for me or help me in doing so.Pratham 09:53, 6 April 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prathamprakash29 (talk • contribs)

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Erlendur Haraldsson

Can you clarify the MOS for using Erlendur Haraldsson's name in the article? I did some cleanup of overweight on fringe and primary sourcing. But I'm not sure what the MOS convention is to referring to the subject: Erlendur? or (last name) Haraldsson? Thanks. - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:32, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

I've just reverted your changes in that respect; it's an Icelandic name and tehre is a template indicating that as such, he should properly be referred to as "Erlendur", not by his patronymic. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:34, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
His academic papers are listed by last name first, "Haraldsson, E.", so that's why I used that order in the article. An easy mistake to make. - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:35, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
The MOS also specifies that Icelandic names should be alphabetized by patronymic for most categories, but by first name for Iceland-specific categories. If you look at the list of his books, it follows the same convention: the Icelandic ones are alphabetized in the Icelandic fashion, the English versions with the patronymic first, as if it's a surname/family name. I think this is what is happening with international databases of journal articles, that they treat the patronymics as surnames. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:40, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I think if you can build up the article with independent (non-parapsychology) sources that discuss his work in an objective way, the article will have a good chance of being kept. Best - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:45, 9 April 2014 (UTC)


Can you please properly assemble the pictures on New R. S. J. Public School. Also please tell me how to add map of the school and 3d image of school on page. Pratham 09:14, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

You are doing fine.

I just wanted you to know that you are doing fine with your recent edit. Very much appreciated. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:15, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Oh good, thanks. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:55, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Google Books URLs

Hello. You reverted me just now (diff) and I thought I should discuss the point with you. I have been trimming these URLs for some years now, with no adverse comment. I have discussed these URLs in a Wikipedia training session. I believe I understand the basics of the referencing system. Much of what is "extra" in Google Books URLs is details of the search being used.

You wrote, in the edit summary, "full Google Books URLs assist readers in finding text". I don't really see that: they allow perhaps reproduction of the search.

My view is that I don't trim URLs as a "cosmetic" change to a page, because it makes no difference to the content. But the long URLs simply make pages harder to read in wikitext, and harder to edit. The initial URLs are of course still there in the page history. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:44, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Betacommand Bot used to do the same thing; I strongly disagree with it and wish I'd reverted the bot when I saw it doing it on my watchlist, but I was still pretty new and timid back then. For the reader, as opposed to the editor, the length of the URL concealed behind a link is immaterial. In the article in question, I quoted a lot of the relevant text, but I rarely do: it makes for long, tedious-looking footnotes. So what if the reader wants to check that the information is correct, or see more about what is said at that citation? (Those are the two reasons we have footnotes.) A link on a citation is a courtesy; there's no requirement to use sources that are online. I provide them overwhelmingly for readers. Possibly the entire text will be online, viewable in the reader's country. But very often, Google will not serve up the particular page I saw. In that case, the exact search provides wording the reader can then search for independently (often someone has quoted it, or has said something similar, or a different copy of the same book or digitization of the same article is viewable, on Google Books or elsewhere, from where the reader is). Or sometimes the exact words in my search demonstrate that the information is accurate (I aim for that in fact, but the way snippet view works, I can't always manage it). Just knowing the page number provides none of those advantages - and very little advantage over not having a link, unless the reader is lucky and can see what I saw. In short, I can't see any advantage to shortening Google Books links other than a trivial easing of the task of an editor - and we don't write for our fellow editors - and it significantly diminishes the information available to a reader - albeit information that I imagine relatively few readers want, still, in my view they should have it available to them. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:07, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

You say But very often, Google will not serve up the particular page I saw, and I have to imagine reasons that might be true.

I'm aware of the issue of Google's restriction by country: in the case of the Dictionary of National Biography, on which I work, I have done plenty to work to bypass Google Books entirely in favour of Wikisource, to help out UK readers.

It is true that the book codes Google uses are not warranted: it does happen that they retire one scan, and presumably post another of that book somewhere else, and I have experienced that kind of effect. It may be that you are thinking of snippet views, which I wouldn't think of as proper URLs to post here.

As I say, I have used Google Books in training, and if I have to learn more, I wish to do so.

I never go to pages solely to change URLs, but the ones that roll over several lines seem to me to be illegible in a serious way. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:44, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Only to editors. I believe you are in fact making a purely cosmetic change, and since it reduces information, I regard it as detrimental, although I admit it must be unlikely for a reader to click on them (and indeed at least one person who reviewed articles of mine at DYK never seemed to notice that the page numbers were often links). Google varies not only by country but by its determination of what a particular user should see - an unavoidable part of its algorithms. (That includes showing some users page views and others only snippet view.) For many books, however, it has more than one scan available - I've sometimes linked to different ones for different page references. Using snippet view is deprecated because there may be something contextually important not visible - but that is part of my rationale for including the complete search URL, which contains the full phrase I determined was germane, often more than is viewable within the snippet. (I also do a fair amount of searching around to see whether important caveats or other problems are lurking outside the snippet.) If I merely gave the page number with no link - or a link to the page, which in a snippet view will usually return a blank space - no one would be able to check my work in this respect. But equally importantly, the actual words may matter to the reader (and so may something else on that page), so I view giving the reader the full data as a service, in addition to greater transparency. I know you mean well, but in my view these considerations, even as a minor courtesy, far outweigh the possibility of a fellow editor's having to count ref tags or otherwise being minorly inconvenienced by the length of a URL in edit mode. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:04, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your views. My own is conditioned by training, in part, which field-tests the idea that potential editors can manage existing wikitext simply. The perceived need for a Visual Editor is of the same general nature: the problem we have to solve with some urgency is to grow the editing community, and that problem has no pat solution. So I do prioritise things a bit differently. Charles Matthews (talk) 18:14, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

NPOV Noticeboard

Finnedi has now brought the matter to the Neutral Point of View Noticeboard, but since he failed to notify you, as he should have, I'm doing it for him. Thomas.W talk to me 08:33, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Unfortunately work is busy and my brain is fried; I think I'll have to wait until I've got home and fed some hounds before responding. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:28, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Finnedi again?

Just FYI: I've opened an SPI on Nuutinpoika. [70] It's not obvious like the other one was, but you might let me know if you see further suggestive edits. If it becomes obvious, I'll block without waiting for CU. (I understand they're backlogged.) Bishonen | talk 06:36, 14 April 2014 (UTC).

Thanks: I had noted, thought of opening an SPI, and decided there was insufficient evidence it's the same person. I'll keep an eye on the situation. Yngvadottir (talk) 11:40, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

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Rel your revert on the Hörgárdalur article

Hi User:Yngvadottir, Thank you for your prolific contributions to this encyclopaedia, especially the articles relating to Iceland. You've contributed significantly IMO to reversing the systemic bias that along with many other problems corrupts the integrity of the project.

Rel your reverts of my corrections to the above article, there IS a lot of authority, including WP authority (last pair of examples) for the use of semicolon as strong comma. In the case of your sentence that I amended, there is a comma breaking up the long introductory phrase attached to the second independent clause. As such, it w/b useful and appropriate to distinguish the break between independent clauses with a ; as a strong ,. However, if you as the article author are happy with it as is upon a second reading, I'll leave that up to you.

The proper name on the other hand, does need some help to pronounce per the WP authority I cited in my second edit summary because the initial letter in "Þelamörk" bears no resemblance to a modern English symbol. English readers must not be asked to learn Icelandic--although I am 100 percent in favor of them doing so!--to understand pronunciation of words in English WP articles. This is logically necessary as well: What is the point of placing a symbol with no clarification, so that almost no one comprehends what it says? It is no different from any other alphabet that shares only SOME letters in common with ours. In Cyrillic, for example, there are many such letters in common, some of which even have the same sound as their English counterparts. Nevertheless, transliteration is always required for Cyrillic text. Please fix it however you wish since you did not like the way I did it. I grant that all EXCEPT the first letter are adequately Roman/English. Kind regards, Paavo273 (talk) 20:20, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

I don't know whether you noticed that I kept the new sentence where you had made it, but I think the semicolon suggests too much of a break - the ridge is on the other side of the valley from those high western peaks (which I would have said, only that's OR from a map '-) ). On Þelamörk, in my view pronunciation guidance would be useful if it were to be worthy of an article, but I don't judge that it is, or it would have joined all the other red links. We don't invent anglicised versions of placenames, and I haven't seen this one anglicised in the guidebooks - so the other argument comes into play, that mentioning it with accurate spelling and a bit of an explanation helps those who may want to look it up on a map when planning a tour, or seek it out on Wikipedia after seeing it on a map or in a book. But until I find it referrred to somewhere - which is always possible, with either archaeological digs or saga mentions or both - I don't think it's worth it. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:33, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi again and thanks for the super-fast reply. I see now you changed the semicolon I placed to a period and started a new sentence. Rel the naming, in addition to the substantial authority I cited above, there is the logistical problem that in English we simply don't have that symbol. Not only can the English reader not UNDERSTAND it, he/she cannot REPRODUCE it. I really don't want to cause you grief about this. You've done Wikipedia a great favor by adding an article about this beautiful place as with the many other articles you've created. Could you just please put the transliteration in parenthesis after the proper Icelandic name or not object to my doing so? We don't need to Anglicize it; just transliterate the foreign symbol so English speakers/readers who want to write it or REFER TO IT using their own alphabet instead of learning a new one can do so. The usage on Google seems to be "Thelamörk" for English, and German, too. IME it's common for English to borrow, and within WP guidelines to use, the diacritical marks with letters English has in common with foreign languages, especially vowels, but not so much whole new letters. Thanks. Paavo273 (talk) 21:15, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
As I say I would if it were worthy of an article, but it's just an aside. The guideline appears to refer to articles. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:11, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm going to put it in parentheses as you suggest, since after a search of my own I see it being discussed as a source of geothermal energy and it's just barely conceivable someone may search on it (although they are perhaps equally likely to search for the hotsprings baths). However, I do think you are overgeneralising a guideline meant primarily for article names, and secondly for terms (i.e., words the reader needs to understand rather than just read), as opposed to placenames with no common English version. And obviously it all applies more obviously to words in other alphabets. Yngvadottir (talk) 07:46, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
  • Hi and thank you for adding the English transliteration.
  • The guideline I cited is from the WP manual of style, the first sentence of which states, "is a style guide for all Wikipedia articles"; and I can find no suggestion there that this particular guideline applies only to article titles. (The request, "Spell a name consistently in the title and the text of an article" in the third paragraph of the spelling and romanization subsection provides IMO no basis to infer the subsection is referring only to article titles.) If you have some actual basis to believe that this refers only to article titles, please point me to it.
  • IMO there doesn't need to be a specific JUSTIFICATION for following the rule nor a foreseeable probable use of the term in question, although I would agree if it were a stupid guideline, there may be grounds to change it or just disregard it. In this case, IMO, logic, common sense, and reader useability are all on the side of the guideline.
  • There is further direction HERE (third paragraph), which states, "If there is a reason to include a term in a non-Latin script, it can be placed in parentheses."
  • In the final analysis, it comes down to being able to USE and REPRODUCE the word in English. As I've studied these "guidelines" more, IMO pronunciation would be only a secondary issue if at all.
  • I grant that Icelandic is perhaps a little unique inasmuch as only a few symbols/letters, especially including the two (voiced and unvoiced) TH symbols, are entirely foreign to and unrecognizable in English. Paavo273 (talk) 03:23, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
Exactly - Icelandic uses the Roman alphabet plus 2 additional letters; it is not non-Roman. The same issue comes up with several other languages, though: off the top of my head, Turkish has an undotted i and there's a schwa sign in one or more Central Asian languages. As I say, I am reading the guideline differently from you insofar as its mention of article titles and emphasis on words (rather than names) make it seem aimed at things other than what we have here: a brief mention of a placename, not even red linked. I accepted your argument that it does occur in English-language sources with the initial Þ replaced, but I remain unconvinced that the guideline is meant to be applied to every proper name mentioned in passing in the encyclopedia, or even every one where the name starts with an untypeable letter. For one thing, as I've said, I believe what the reader needs most in such cases is the accurate name plus the information from our article of what it is; secondly, we are part of the internet, so copying and pasting is trivial; thirdly, unless one happens to know how to type the particular character in one's operating system (and has the extended keyboard, in Windows), items starting with any other alt. characters present the same problem, so if we carry this to the logical extreme we would have to pepper the encyclopedia with transliterations in case a reader wanted to look up a geographic name, or a person's name, where the first letter has a diacritic and where there is no wikilink. (Our own search brings up diacritic versions of letters, but not, I believe, when it's the first letter, unless someone has provided a non-diacritic redirect as is proper). As I say, it's not that I hold the rule in comtempt, it's that I believe you're overgeneralizing it. However, since my own search found what you had found, that there are English-language mentions of the placename with Th, I went ahead and added it. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:46, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

My Apologies

I humbly and sincerely apologize for naming you as a blocked troll: a Finnish or Finnophilic troll has been churning out a large number of sockpuppets, including "BryndisYngvadottir," in order to harass user Favonian ever since Favonian blocked it for vandalism/editwarring. I got confused when the troll was re-editing Favonian's talkpage.--Mr Fink (talk) 20:53, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes I guessed as much - Finnedi was who you meant, he's why this page is semi-protected. That's ok, I just wondered what I'd done :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 20:56, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
Have some cut cheese as a peace offering?--Mr Fink (talk) 21:12, 15 April 2014 (UTC)


I want to add a language (Hindi) of my school page. How can i do so.Pratham 04:25, 18 April 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prathamprakash29 (talk • contribs)

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Thanks for helping me in past. Hope you will continue helping me. Pratham 10:22, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

The map which i added was removed by some wiki user. Can u please bring it back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prathamprakash29 (talk • contribs) 09:46, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

I deleted them as they were copyright violations. Please use OpenStreetMap instead as it provides good-quality maps under Wikipedia-friendly licences. Nick-D (talk) 10:13, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Category:Monuments and memorials in Finland

Hi. Can you find the Finnish equivalent cat? You might be interested in populating the category a bit!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:21, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

They don't appear to have one. The general category of monuments is fi:Luokka:Muistomerkit, within which there are subcats for US monuments (Yhdysvaltain muistomerkit), Indian monuments (Intian monumentit ja muistomerkit) and monuments in St. Petersburg (Pietarin muistomerkit), but I can't find a country-specific category for Finland itself. Looking at articles in the category, I see relatively few that are Finnish monuments and haven't come across any I would want to translate; however, I found the category via fi:Turengin junaturma, on the deadliest train crash in Finland, on 12 March 1940 with 39 dead. If sources can be found, that is probably worth an article; or knowing how many rail mavens we have, it may already be written up somewhere. It's referred to in terms either of TurkuTurenki or of Harviala (Swedish Harvila), which is now part of Janakkala, and occurred during the Winter War; a troop transport train was involved. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:01, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
(tps) It's mentioned in List of rail accidents (1930–49)#1940 but there's no accompanying article. U.S. and British train crashes tend to be over-represented. One reason for this is the paucity of sources in English for other railway systems- for example the main English-language source for Ciurea rail disaster is a couple of paragraphs in a biography of L. B. Billinton with a passing mention in another book. That can be compared with the sources for Quintinshill rail disaster- half a library shelf! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:27, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I'll do a search at some point; thanks for confirming that it isn't hiding under some other heading. I'm actually supposed to be doing my taxes today so I'm trying not to geek out on Wikipedia too much! I'm correcting myself above by the way - I don't really read Finnish. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:35, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

OK! If you do have time though to translate the remainder of Schottengymnasium and from German wiki I'd be grateful!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:20, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

There's a lot there - no promises. I expect to post the thrice-damned tax forms today, but I'm also expected to help out with rewriting and adding refs to an AfD'd article, and a Dispute Resolution case is taking a lot of my on-wiki time. Sorry. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:22, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
@Xanthomelanoussprog: There were no contemporary press reports because of the wartime context, but the source cited at the list article, which is also the source given for the Finnish Wikipedia article, is quite good: it includes two newspaper articles and was posted online in association with a documentary on DVD. I also find another newspaper article, which, however, I can't evaluate because of a paywall. I was intending to boldly create a short article and hope those with the required language skills and better access to books and newspapers might eventually expand it (the monument was erected in 2000, so there is surely at least press coverage from then). However, right now I'm disinclined to work on new Finnish material, so unless someone else wants to pick it up now (in which case, ask and I'll add what else I've found), it will have to wait. Two odd things are that the monument does not appear to be mentioned anywhere in the article on the Turenki station, although that's apparently its location, and we don't have an article on the station, either. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:14, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
I had a look at the source (via auto-translate). It mentions a junior railway official from Harviala station as being found guilty of gross negligence and manslaughter, which suggests that the accident happened as a result of the official allowing a train to proceed when the line ahead was occupied, thus causing the collision. I've had a look at the area in satellite images, and there's two lines running to Turenki from the Harviala area, one of which is disused (it appears as a narrow tarmac track alongside a road). There's a road which crosses the other line at Harviala- this road is blocked by a steel fence. Next to the line at this point is an old wooden house which is parallel to the line- I'm guessing this is the site of the station (oh the wonders of Google!) …and the ghost of the official is still causing trouble! Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:41, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
(addendum) I've just found a photo of locos in the Harvialla area, on a narrow-gauge forestry line, which is probably the disused line. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 07:44, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, my understanding is he was a trainee and had been on duty for something like 36 hours straight. He pled guilty and was sentenced to prison plus restitution. There had been another serious accident elsewhere on the Finnish rail network earlier the same month - several children who were being evacuated died. I'm glad the drivers were able to prevent the later accident. But Turenki station is still there, Google maps shows it, although I was unable to get Street View to show me the monument in situ, partly because they've redesigned their interface. You may have found the junction where the accident occurred; it was somewhere between the two stations. I hope one of our Finnish(-reading) editors writes it up; I could only do it briefly, staying within what I understand and being unable to see that other newspaper article. If no one does, I may come back to it. I think it's a needed article. Yngvadottir (talk) 12:37, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Took me ages to find it- the rear of the memorial is visible from the road to the station- it's in the car park. There's a distant view of the old sugar mill, but I was unable to locate it on the map. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:03, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Ah yes, got it now, thanks - with a little path leading up to it. Hope someone writes it up. And the earlier one too; monument in a cemetery in Helsinki. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:11, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

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Nice Iclandic house for you to hide in...

By the way, where is 74- /¤? Hafspajen (talk) 14:31, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Heh.
I'm afraid we may have lost him/her :-( They were talking with me on IRC almost every day and mentioned several times that they had got sick - then *poof* no more 74 :-( I hope it's just normal Real Life. Yngvadottir (talk) 14:55, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
OH, no. I don't wan't to lose... 74. Hafspajen (talk) 15:30, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Me either. I respect his/her privacy and hope it's just a fantastic new job or something. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:40, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Fantastic I hope. Broadway, Hollywood or such. Hafspajen (talk) 16:51, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

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For the excellently well-measured response to User:B!ttu, and for taking the correct and appropriate steps at each point. Slashme (talk) 20:45, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, but he has decided not to accept the solution. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:47, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Wolf of Kabul

I noted your revert of my edit. You are right, but it still looks a bit odd with the repeated "as". I also noticed that someone else has done the same as me. I suggest that it be change to "at least as much as", which is what is written in the associated ref. If you agree I'll go ahead. Putting your talk page on my watchlist. Thanks.  Jodosma  (talk) 09:48, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Copying the source would be inappropriate, but you're right - people repeatedly misread it as an error. So I've changed it to "as being as", which grates on me but is clear. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:40, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
What grates on me is laziness; "inapprtopriate" and " I'ce". Are you seroeus? :).  Jodosma  (talk) 19:49, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I am sometimes a key masher :-) Better now? Yngvadottir (talk) 19:52, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
No, I'm not a lot better. I will be if you can give me an answer to my next question (below). By the way, smiling when you're really laughing is not good.  Jodosma  (talk) 21:02, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
I meant, is the copyedited response better. Apologies for my smiley, which was intended to be self-deprecating. I've responded to you below, and I did give you what I thought was a clear edit summary - you want to move the article, we do not do that by copying and pasting to produce a second article at a different title. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:11, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Ha, for you

A no Motive Barnstar
No message... stop... a dog for you ...stop...hope you will like it...stop... Hafspajen (talk) 19:49, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

LOL, cute, thanks :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 19:53, 23 April 2014 (UTC) Hafspajen (talk) 19:56, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Hans Christian Mamen

We meet again! Can you explain why Hans Chr. Mamen is a better name for this article than Hans Christian Mamen?  Jodosma  (talk) 20:27, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

No, I considered moving it, but the answer is probably that that's how his name is usually written (WP:COMMONNAME) - I suggest you ask the article creator, Geschichte. However, if it's at the wrong title, the solution is to move it, not to create a duplicate article out of the redirect! That is why I reverted you, as I said in my edit summary. I see you have now PROD'ed it and notified Geschichte of the PROD; I'm going to decline the PROD and I suggest you post at Talk:Hans Chr. Mamen proposing a move. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:04, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
I give up! what is the point of Wikipedia if it doesn't concern itself with the truth. Any other encyclopedia would give this article the full name of the person it discusses. To do anything else would be disingenuous. I don't care how his name is "usually written"; what we need is his real name. You don't even know his real name as you indicated by using the word "probably" (above), and what do you mean by "usually"? Not happy :{ .  Jodosma  (talk) 21:30, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
You have a valid point, but I can't read the mind of the person who created the article. By "usually" I mean: notice that the two interwikis are also at "Chr." The thing is, you went about moving it the wrong way. Please post to the article talk page giving your reasoning for moving it. Yngvadottir (talk) 03:55, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
His name is not even Christian... Geschichte (talk) 17:55, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I actually created the Hans Christen Mamen redirect after I noticed that. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:14, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
I hold my hands up. This has all been an error on my part and I shall be more careful in future.  Jodosma  (talk) 08:54, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
As I say, you do have a point; multi-letter abbreviations for names are no longer common in English (things like Chas. for Charles). Just, next time, please ask the article creator first, or post to the talk page ... and if an article title seems completely wrong, try moving it first. (I moved one myself within the past 24 hours: City of Chester (ship) to SS City of Chester.) What you did produces two articles, which is no good - especially since the one created by copying and pasting does not provide attribution to those who worked on it. I hope that makes sense, because you may well run into an article that does need to be moved. Yngvadottir (talk) 11:43, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Point taken, thanks.  Jodosma  (talk) 08:24, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

SS City of Chester

I think this article should qualify as a DYK for the main page. I'd be happy to nominate it. if i do, or if you do, make sure that im NOT significantly credited, as i only created a stub, and you and others really created this.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 17:05, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Too late. I've e-mailed someone to nominate it because you deserve credit for starting it :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 17:08, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Vogelnestjes follow-up

So as to not torment poor Drmies any further I thought I'd post a few things here by proxy. It seems that this combination of boiled-egg-in-a-meatball is pretty common in Europe (Czech style, ze Germans like it bigger) and even in India (nargisi kofta). And now I'm hungry again... De728631 (talk) 21:37, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

HMM..nice. Hafspajen (talk) 03:53, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Heh, yes. :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 04:23, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

User:Sagaciousphil/The Rose of Hildesheim´.. a new dyk project is on. Gerda is occupying herself with the cathedral. Also DYK. Hafspajen (talk) 16:49, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

LOL rose bush! Very nice. Not me though - remember, I don't do DYK and avoid Christian topics :-) Also Dr. Blofeld just asked me to translate a German officer article; I'll be trying to get to that after some off-wiki distractions end, although the military vocabulary looks a bit daunting. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:56, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
OK, no DYKs for you. Why not? Because of the to high cravings around? Yes is silly. But I think about the people who will read about something interesting. Not only things like did you know that the left wing of the roman barn in Whoooleysville is ten inches shorter than the right.... And you can see it as a Holda - project. Hafspajen (talk) 17:00, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
I think I've told you - the inclusion of GA's drove me away. Poor old DYK project is in trouble again, they are formulating an RfC at WT:DYK, although I'm not sure what I'll be able to say once they launch it, I'm pretty definitely out for good. Yngvadottir (talk) 17:13, 30 April 2014 (UTC)


Looks like a pretty big mess. They want to eliminate the QPQ, and most weird arguments are flying around. As far I can see it is only Matty who is trying to put some common sense into it, and see some stupid thing will soon happen again. Hafspajen (talk) 17:56, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
  • Yngvadottir, you sitt here and keep silent. Why? You let other much less brilliant editors change the course of things... Why? Get upp and get owver there and say what you think. I thing we need you and your voice, come on!! Here RfC at WT:DYK, Hafspajen (talk) 13:48, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
Well, I am sure you would contribute very well. I am trying to show some points and I have learned that from YOU; hey, at least you can read what we discuss. Hafspajen (talk) 23:12, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
I appreciate you're citing me, especially since it was anonymous so I may not get in so much trouble! I've looked a few times. I still care a lot about DYK. It made me very sad to have to leave it, and Wikipedia hasn't been as much fun since. But all I see is people going round and round, and there may not be a workable solution. I hated QPQ - I think my first post to that page was about how bad an idea it was - and I was shocked at AN/I by how many people said they had left DYK over that. But I still can't think of a better solution! An editorial board - discussed way back when Sharktopus was still around - would be horrible, quite contrary to the spirit of Wikipedia, and making it like GA or FA would amount to the same thing because a few people would take control, deliberately or not. Plus it would mean never-ending discussions, and would do nothing to solve the problem of evaluating articles on recondite topics (like the mathematics hoax article; or Crisco 1492's Indonesian films; or some of my peculiar things, mostly saved at AfD and therefore someone has already considered them just too odd to be notable). I was going to rewrite the DYK rules; I didn't do so for political reasons, and in the same way but all the more so, since I have left DYK, I ought only to participate in an open-ended discussion like that if I had a good idea. And I don't. I have a nasty recommendation that nobody will like to hear, so I will keep it to myself. But even that wouldn't guarantee these problems would not arise again. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:27, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
HM. Don't say you want to chuck it too. DYK is fun... Just because time to time there are good articles among the rubbish. Not everything is good, but then it is like this everywhere. Hafspajen (talk) 20:38, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Hoops gza and List of Nazis

User:Hoops gza, whom you may recall tried to unilaterally expand the scope of List of Nazis several weeks ago, has resumed adding Nazi-resister August Landmesser to it, and adding him to category:Nazis, contrary to consensus. I have attempted to engage him, but he simply denied the previous discussion took place and has since ignored me, except to revert every revert I make. I've reported the problem on the admin noticeboards for general incidents and edit warring, but perhaps because I'm the only person expressing concern, I've received no help there. Would you mind adding your thoughts? -Jason A. Quest (talk) 14:40, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Friedrich von Gerok (officer)

Can you translate this from German?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:44, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

That's alright. Even a few sentences would help!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:14, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Looks great, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:54, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

DYK for SS City of Chester

and congrats from me for your excellent work in building the article up from my tiny stub! I didnt even see it as being potentially that good, or relevant. this is why crowdsourcing is so fantastic.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:49, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
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