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I've added refs to the pasty as Cornwall's "national dish". Rest assured I'm not trying to push a nationalist POV in doing that (I'm more usually castigated by nationalists in Cornwall and Wales for being either an English nationalist or a unionist, neither of which are true either, so I think I'm pretty neutral), but I think that refs to it as such are notable and supported by reliable sources. I've not tried to add it in at National dish - I think that is a battle I will leave to others. Regards, Ghmyrtle (talk) 07:45, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Following on from the Cathedral library: I have filled in a link for one of the 18th century deans (Lyttleton, he has half a page in Lloyd (1967), p. 16). Do you know of a useful source of information on the missing 19th & 20th century deans?--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 09:06, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
It's great to see the work you're doing on this article, long overdue, but The Sun will fool nobody as a reliable source for anything other than what was published in The Sun. Malleus Fatuorum 23:58, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello, There are some gaps in the List of Archdeacons of Cornwall and I wonder if you could suggest any useful sources of information.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 19:34, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Smalljim, I've reviewed your nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Victorian restoration and there are issues with referencing. Could you take a look at my comments and reply at the nomination page after addressing the issue? Thanks. Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:21, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello Smalljim, in adding wikilinks to Victorian restoration with AWB, please could you leave the formatting of citations alone with regards to whether or not source names are in italics. According to the manual of style, generally website names are not rendered in italics. There is some disagreement over this, but without clear consensus, it's best to leave it up to the preferred style of the original editor. Thanks, --BelovedFreak 18:26, 24 September 2011 (UTC) (Nice work, by the way, it's an interesting article.--BelovedFreak 18:36, 24 September 2011 (UTC) )
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will automatically render its content in italics. Adding italics marks will flip back it into plain type. I have seen some editors use it this way, but it is far from usual. I hope that answers the question. --Ohconfucius ¡digame! 02:31, 28 September 2011 (UTC)![]() | On 27 September 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Victorian restoration, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that a club started by two undergraduates in 1839 was central to the spread of Victorian restoration which determined the character of most English churches and cathedrals today? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Victorian restoration.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Materialscientist (talk) 23:22, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
at Gothic Revival architecture could use a reference if you have one handy. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:54, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
I was not even going to request a citation from your addition except that I asked myself "What would you do if that edit came from an unregistered editor?" and the answer was "I'd do something", so I contacted you. The "Ecclesiology" thing is what I call a "cute" edit or link and I do them myself on occasion. It's not (opinion) a good habit. I was at a community theatre play last night and there was a quick scene where an optometrist is having a blindish patient read a letter chart starting with a huge "E". The patient is not getting it until he turns his head sideways, and then says "M". That is sort of how I need to look at ecclesiology to get it to work. But as long as I don't have to spell it, oh well. It did remind me that i was planning to take a run at the cemetery section of that article some time ago and should try something .... keeping in mind that you are likely to resopond to my edit with a "so, do you have a reference for that statement?" Carptrash (talk) 02:15, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
How dare you delete such a good and useful article. I have permisson to distrubute it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spookiejjr (talk • contribs) 19:50, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Jim, I noticed the thread at the convert template. You were very kind to do some manual fixes. I hope the faulty edits can be fixed soon, so please let me know if the issue is unresolved by a day or so. I'm a wikifriend of Lightmouse's, and am keen to see him continue his good auto work; so clearly this glitch needs to be righted. Thanks. Tony (talk) 10:42, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Oh come on. You may both think you're doomed to fight, Eternal Champion-like, until the end of all things; but please go and do it in another dimension, you're making a mess on my carpet. —SMALLJIM 09:35, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi,
I'm surprised that you deleted the band Gnarboots from wikipedia. Gnarboots is a fairly large band in San Jose, CA, and probably has the largest name recognition in the South Bay of the San Francisco area. Plus, they are due to release a record on Asian man Records, one of the four largest punk labels worldwide, in additon to their previous releases.
What info do you need to re-instate the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.131.5.200 (talk) 18:12, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
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Good grief! I certainly didn't mean to do that. (Beehive ammo article) I thought that I had deleted the vandalism! Lord knows what actually happened, but I was called away for domestic reasons and seem to have made some sort of cockup. Bee all that as it may, many thanks for fixing it! JonRichfield (talk) 11:22, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi Smalljim. Thanks for building an article on TimeClock Plus. I wrote the Data Management Inc. wiki that you used. I'm writing because I built a TimeClock Plus wiki yesterday and it's in queue for review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/TimeClock_Plus. The View History shows it was built on 11/15 and your article was created today (11/16). Can you remove yours? I didn't want to flag it or involve Wikipedia, but just talk to you directly. I've put a lot of time and thought into this research project (this past summer and these past months), researching Data Management and TimeClock Plus through articles and interviews, with the cooperation of Data Management Inc. So this has been a passionate project for me that will hopefully be approved. You had no way of knowing this article was already built so I totally understand. Please let me know. Dmarkwilliams (talk) 16:08, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I understand the conflict of interest. That concern was presented to me during the Data Management Inc. wiki so I sought out good, solid articles on the subject, from notable sources, independent of the software provider, and interviews, which allowed the Data Management Inc. wiki to be successful. When I wrote the TimeClock Plus wiki, there were not enough secondary sources, so I had to re-write it, which I did, and now everything in that article is based on literature provided by secondary, reliable sources, strictly describing the purpose, use of this system, and features with the goal to be as informative as I can be on the subject. The sources I used were used for my Data Management Inc. wiki so the article should pass. Your version is taken directly from my Data Management Inc. article. I understand that you're just trying to build a topic (we have the same goal), but it's research that I've spent months building, so I really would like to be the contributor of that. Also my article was already submitted for review, so it would mean a lot to me it if you could honor that. Dmarkwilliams (talk) 19:11, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
If something in the article specifically strikes you as promotional then please tell me and let me improve on the already submitted article instead of creating another under the same name. As far as a "combination of both our versions," with respect sir, there is no "our" as the content you're using came straight from my Data Management Inc. wiki. Please appreciate how much time I put into researching this (some of that research cost me as older news articles were archived). If you want to suggest ways for me to improve on the article I submitted yesterday then please do, but this isn't right. I really need to be the original contributor of this because the information, e-mails, phone calls, interviews - everything - took months of my time. Dmarkwilliams (talk) 20:29, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
Editing is a collaborative effort and much of these months have been spent working with other editors. They've coached me so that I have been able to produce good, solid articles that are based on secondary sources, including prominent publications. Your existing article was not only posted after a TimeClock Plus article was already in queue for review and improvement, but there is a copyright violation that has already been reported to Wikipedia (after I conferred with editors at the live desk), since you took content, including quotations gathered from personal interviews (such as the development of a DOS version) and the logo which was licensed for me to use by Data Management Inc., and pasted it. I understand you plan to change that, but that logo is not yours, and the article you created was already created, but being reviewed. You even took the sidebar I tweaked (which is a minor point). I appreciate you trying to build an article, but one was already in queue, and if you have some concerns with it, you need to send those to me, and I'll work with you. You can be a contributor to it. If you had beat me to the punch, I would stand down, but you didn't.
I'm sorry we can't agree on this, but I was advised to file an official complaint to Wikipedia council. I presented my concerns, with a background including dates and times of our articles because this is something I put a lot of time into, so I'm sorry. I will defer to their judgement since they will know better than either of us how to proceed. Dmarkwilliams (talk) 21:58, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
I do appreciate your experience. I do not expect my content to be static. I understand and expect it to change. I like the idea of working with other editors. My concern is that my article was already posted and being reviewed and improved upon. I'd love to work with you on making my article better, but I'd like to make changes and expand on the article I built. If you want to completely change it, I'm open to that idea, but again, the original article. Does that make sense? Dmarkwilliams (talk) 22:49, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
And you would be willing to delete your article once we agree upon a better version for Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/TimeClock Plus? This means a lot and I really do look forward to getting your input on how this article can be better. Dmarkwilliams (talk) 00:07, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, I appreciate you looking into this, but the link took me to the article you created. I may be misunderstanding, so forgive me, but the article I created, currently in queue for review, is the one I'd like us to make changes to, expand on, etc. The idea is not for a tag or anything to show I wrote the article, but for us to make changes to the article I created, so that it shows up as an article that I created. I'm not one of those users who wants to have hundreds of articles for bragging rights, but I'm really proud of this project, and invested a lot to get the information, so I'd like it to be on my list of created articles. I hope that makes sense. Dmarkwilliams (talk) 02:13, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
Forgive the late response. I did not have any time yesterday and I probably won't get to it today, but I did take a look and I like a lot of the changes you made. I agree, let's discuss the article further on the article's talk page. Thank you again for honoring the investment I put into this and for helping me improve on it. It's nice to have a partner on here. My last question on your page relates to wiki process: how did you do it (shift origin)? For my knowledge. Dmarkwilliams (talk) 14:24, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Right, I'm sorry. I had planned to first thing this morning, but I got pulled away. I'll comment on it now. Dmarkwilliams (talk) 16:57, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
I posted my desire to end the mediation, made some changes just now to it to briefly reflect the confusion (since our discussion is a lot to read through), and as a further gesture of appreciation, I posted a comment on your talk page (under mediation) as I do not want it's mention to possibly give you a bad reputation. Once more, thank you for understanding my need to have title of this article. It means a lot. On the TimeClock Plus article, we'll be in touch. On future contributions, I hope you will continue to be a resource. Dmarkwilliams (talk) 17:20, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
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Fabulous work over there. Thanks!— alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 20:49, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
Probably for the best, true, but why are you also trying to cover up this information, eh?— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 20:55, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Smalljim:
While I appreciate you trying to encourage the work of new users, I would like to point out that, in my opinion, the list does not add in any way to Wikipedia: the list is already present in the navbox (and might I say it? it's more organized and compact in the navbox insetad of as an article). This, as well as the fact that all the books are already listed out, along with plot details, in the main Warriors (novel series) article. With these points in mind, I would personally either redirect it, or request CSD A10.
If it were me, I would encourage the new user to help out instead by improving the numerous articles on the books themselves, which coudl all do with improvement, especially the newer ones.
Brambleclawx 23:16, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
(Following thread reunited, per my prefs)
Hi Jim. As a fellow admin, I see that you deleted Warriors book list as G11, which doesn't seem to be appropriate in this case - the list could be justified under WP:CLN for instance. Had you noticed the context (User talk:BRYAN DOYEN, User_talk:MikeWazowski#Warriors, and User_talk:Smalljim#Regarding_Warriors) before deleting? —SMALLJIM 11:58, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
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Nice work on Hyde Park Junior School. --Bob Re-born (talk) 17:51, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
I don't see how this was a speedy a7-- it asserted he was a university professor, had was president of a society. It'll need some checking, and I'm not sure we'll find the evidence for WP:PROF, but we might. (I know I have the ability to do so myself, but I want to ask you first.) DGG ( talk ) 21:32, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
sorry for that i did not finish the arcticle. but you were very fast for checking. can you give me a template for bio of living persons or give me a link to that. thank you ateamfan79 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ateamfan79 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 6 April 2012 (UTC) Thank you for the help ateamfan79 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ateamfan79 (talk • contribs) 13:34, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am the website designer for the website http://www.site.team2996.com/ and I am also hoping to create a Wikipedia page for our team. Several F.I.R.S.T. Robotics teams use Wikipedia to do research on other teams so that we can find how their team works and the history on them. For this reason, using Wikipedia was a resource to let the community know how we operate along with other teams. Our team is very professional and is run like a business, we also are very involved in making the community a better way, we consider ourselves an organization. Is there a reason you deleted our page and why I can not re-make the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2996User (talk • contribs) 20:55, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi 2996User. I've replied on your talk page. —SMALLJIM 22:54, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
I literally just destroyed my page and someone else had submitted. What did I do wrong? As someone with a strong page what would you suggest I do next? I know you are very busy. I am sorry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hershdavis (talk • contribs) 16:29, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I attempted to use factual information with good resources. I understand that self promotion is the worst thing you can do, but is it just cause I personally made the edits? I followed all suggestions, added 5 plus new references and took out a lot of the parts that were requested. Is it just cause I personally did it? I was very factual in my statements, have you looked at the article? I spent all night editing it up. I know it is not personal and the community at large should prevent self-promotion but I did look at the guidance of first article, but I did not personally submit the first article. Someone informed me that I was set for deletion so I tried to respond to the needs of the community. The information provided was all from reliable resources. Hershdavis (talk) 17:01, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar | |
Alot of the other Barnstars would fit you, but a special one seemed appropriate here, while we may disagree about this particular article, you have been patient,civil,kind,helpful,and followed WP:BITE and WP:AAGF diligently. I am also impressed with your previous work, and hope that when the View AfD is closed and the resolution at this point is most likely keep, you and I can work together to address concerns on both sides of the fence that have been raised in the AfD discussion Newmanoconnor (talk) 01:46, 22 April 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Smalljim, Smallpete here :-)
Could you possibly WP:USERFY the deleted article into my userspace, and let me know the who the editor who started was, or if that's not appropriate then email me about this? I had a little read of the en.wp article. Yep, a good WP:A7. But El Mundo appears to be of the opinion that Zatu is well "Old Skool"; see also es:Zatu and es:SFDK.
--Shirt58 (talk) 11:33, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
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