User talk:Dominus/Archive (2010)


ITN for Millennium Prize Problems

Current events globe On 20 March 2010, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Millennium Prize Problems, which you substantially updated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page.

- Dumelow (talk) 11:11, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Pavel Alexandrov

Where does it site exactly that he was considered a homosexual on that page? I'm try to verify because it seems a little off. --ZacBowling (user|talk) 06:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Upper-right corner, second full paragraph, second sentence. Or you could search the PDF file for "homosexual", which appears only once. —Dominus (talk) 06:35, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Ah cool. Thought I had to pay to read it :-) Caught my eye on vandal patrol for a math article mentioning homosexuality :-) --ZacBowling (user|talk) 14:49, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I can send you the full PDF if you like. Thanks for your vigilant anti-vandal patrolling. —Dominus (talk) 15:07, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Harry Truman Article

Hi,

I agree with your points about people adding wrongly referenced, revisionist POV nonsense. I support your decision to remove that section. If you need me to support you on this, drop me a post. Cheers! Meishern (talk) 13:52, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

I have nominated Harry S. Truman for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Geschichte (talk) 17:58, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Overkill

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This actually is NOT with in the scope of the page, because this page talks about the story, not the biography herself. I've added this information onto the bio. If we had biographical data on every story article about the author, the articles would become unfocused. And long. It is arbitrary to decide what information to include regards to author information on story articles. This information does not belong on the story because it is long winded.174.3.123.220 (talk) 08:40, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree that it's unnecessary to mention that she was Scots, but I think her long residency in India is relevant and important for understanding her relationship to the book. Let's take the issue up on the talk page. —Dominus (talk) 16:38, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Percy Alexander MacMahon

Hi. Thank you for your attention to the copyright concerns in this article. :) I've blanked it for the moment, as we're not supposed to display the text in question until the matter is cleared through OTRS. I did a system search for the e-mail and did not find it. I searched for "Percy Alexander MacMahon", "MacMahon" and Garcia, created within the last 12 days. Is there a different term that might help me find it? If the letter used any of those terms it may have been lost and may need to be resent. In that case, please drop me a line when you resend it and I'll go take a look for it. We can backlog a week or more in that e-mail queue, and there's no reason to wait for it. :)

Meanwhile, I'll relist the article at CP. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 10:23, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

I just forwarded the permission again, with subject "Percy Alexander MacMahon". —Mark Dominus (talk) 01:46, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Got it! Sorry for the delay; I was out of town this weekend. :) I've checked all the necessary boxes and filed the papers and yadayada to clear the article. Appreciate your diligence there! --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:41, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Likewise. Thanks very much. —Mark Dominus (talk) 14:13, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

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Minor

Thanks for the guideline info. I plan to give the Truman issue another go, now that I have some idea of proper protocol - once I get a bit of free time (ha).DoctorJoeE (talk) 13:28, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Note

Hi, I deleted our little discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography so someone else can "properly" respond to your request. Good luck and best regards. Hekerui (talk) 20:25, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, and thanks for adding Mabel Lang to the Deaths in 2010 page, which I would not have thought of. —Mark Dominus (talk) 23:22, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Dominus! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot notifying you on behalf of the the unreferenced biographies team that 1 of the articles that you created is currently tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 14 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

  1. James Kushner - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:24, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Your RD answer

Your RD "non-answer" reminded me of Moon (film). Cheers, WikiDao ☯ (talk) 18:41, 18 September 2010 (UTC)