User talk:Hamiltonstone/Archive 3
Thanks for the recommdations for potential copyeditors for this article. Unfortunately, things have not worked out as I had hoped. User:Yllosubmarine simply checked for em dashes and User:Shoemaker's Holiday seems to have disappeared. I have given up going on to FA review with this article for the time being, since a thorough copyediting by a third party does not seem to be in the offing. Jonyungk (talk) 14:05, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
This just passed through GA review a little too easily, in my mind, but I was still thinking of submitting it for FA review. If you have the time, could you please take a look at it and pass along any suggestions? Thanks. Jonyungk (talk) 05:54, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
ComplaintCould you stop vandalism, please? I don't like other users to delete important information that I have compiled. Thanks! 134.245.108.65 (talk) 06:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
GA Sweeps invitationHello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you. We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 08:15, 8 May 2009 (UTC) Hey Hamiltonstone. I would just to update you on some developments with the WP:Good articles/recent page. Following a bot request, it became apparent that it would be handy to have a bot pipe new additions to WP:GA onto the /recent subpage. Now, I admit that the bot's been having a few problems, but I hope these have now been worked out. It should mean that every 5 minutes the newest additions are added automatically, so all users like you have to do is add the newly listed GA to WP:GA and let the bot do the work. Of course, you're allowed to do it yourself, but you don't have to. Essentially though, you can either carry on as normal or take advantage of the bot, as you wish. - Jarry1250 (t, c) 12:05, 21 May 2009 (UTC) Thanks for the beginning of your review. I've contributed some comments at the review page, which I hope will be helpful! ╟─TreasuryTag►hemicycle─╢ 07:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC) Courts and Legal Services Act 1990They couldn't at all, although afterwards there still wasn't an application system. Prior to the Act, appointment was based on a little set of cards the Lord Chancellor would collect on prospective judges, and he would appoint someone based on talking to other senior judges. The cards were started and added to based on the interactions between the senior judiciary and the potential judge in the senior courts. Since the solicitors couldn't work in any of the senior courts, they were by convention completely ruled out. Ironholds (talk) 01:53, 2 June 2009 (UTC) FACWelcome to Featured article candidatesHello! I noticed that you've been reviewing nominations at Featured article candidates. Thank you for your help, and I hope you will continue to contribute! You may already be familiar with the FAC criteria by now, but in case you aren't, you can check out the Featured article criteria. Also, the following dispatches are useful for reviewing nominations:
The best way to learn is by doing, but here is a quick reference of the things to check for each nomination you review:
Thanks again for your help! I look forward to continuing to work with you at FAC, and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask me or anyone else at FAC. Now get to reviewing some noms! Karanacs (talk) 17:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC) We are always happy to see new reviewers. I hope you like the atmosphere and we see more of you :) Karanacs (talk) 17:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC) Donald Duck talkI have added a supporting reference plus videos showing how Tony Anselmo who took over from Clarence Nash makes the voice. Tony Anselmo's face is also very clearly making the sound with a buccal "bubble" on side of his face see at 1.00 here (Part 2/2). He also particularly notes the difficulty of making nasal speech sounds like "r" that is characteristic of buccal speech see Weinberg B, Westerhouse J. (1971). A study of buccal speech. J Speech Hear Res. 14(3):652-8. PMID 5163900 that finds nasal sounds to be the least intelligible.--LittleHow (talk) 10:02, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Re: GA sweeps - possible volunteerThat's some nicely done GA reviews. So follow the Sweeps process and use this page to keep track of articles. OhanaUnitedTalk page 02:29, 4 June 2009 (UTC) ThanksThanks so much for helping Poyt448 out with the DYK submission for Thorny Yellowwood. It really is not easy to learn how to do this properly, especially when you are so new to Wikipedia. But Poyt448 has been writing quite a lot of very promising new articles on rainforest trees in NSW with good photos he takes, and I am happy that this one looks as though it will become his first DYK. Thanks again, Invertzoo (talk) 12:55, 4 June 2009 (UTC) And so much thanks to Invertzoo for her wonderful assistance. She has been outstanding in her support. Incidentally, it does say on the Rutaceae page in the first sentence, that this is known as the Rue or Citrus family. i.e. Rutaceae, commonly known as the rue or citrus family, is a family of plants, usually placed in the order Sapindales. So, you may wish to restore the citrus hook. However, I'm very happy as it stands.
Dear Hamiltonstone, My most recent DYK nomination has languished for nearly a week, it's been commented on only twice. And I instantly addressed the issues raised. Is it possible you could assist in finalising this nomination? Mount Banda Banda. thank you, Poyt448 (talk) 21:13, 25 June 2009 (UTC) Dear Hamiltonstone, Your alternative hook is excellent, and I'd be happy to go with that. Kind regards and thanks. Poyt448 (talk) 04:31, 26 June 2009 (UTC) Pakenham windmillI've answered your query on the talk page. The source quoted as a ref (Dolman) states that there were three pairs of stones. Mjroots (talk) 11:27, 5 June 2009 (UTC) DYK for Great Southern GroupGiants27 03:49, 6 June 2009 (UTC) TalkbackHello, Hamiltonstone. You have new messages at Dottydotdot's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. I've added some more info. but am unsure if it's enough. Can you tell me how many more words I need to add now please? Thanks, sorry for the hassle! Dotty••|☎ 07:32, 10 June 2009 (UTC) ReplyHey I replied here, I'm pretty sure I fixed your concerns.--Giants27 (t|c|r|s) 00:20, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
DYK imagesDYK images should be protected while on the Main Page. Protection is quite complicated (I should make a flowchart sometime). Long story short, it's the admins' job to make sure it's done correctly, and regular users can't do much except alert admins. If the image is on English Wikipedia (not Commons), you can add a {{m-protected}} template to let others know the image will be protected because it's on the Main Page. When the time comes, the image will be protected automatically by the cascading protection of the Main Page. If the image is hosted on Commons, administrators have to do the work. The image either needs to be a) temporarily uploaded to English Wikipedia and tagged with {{c-uploaded}} (note the admin does not have to manually protect the image, the cascading protection will do it) or b) protected at Commons by a Commons admin. Hope this helps (and isn't too confusing), Shubinator (talk) 02:31, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
ReplyHello, Hamiltonstone. You have new messages at Dougg's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Huh?Huh? Since when is the fact that another article at DYK mentioned something grounds for disqualification? – iridescent 14:37, 12 June 2009 (UTC) Okay, took care of most of this. Going to be a bit on the feudal relief redlink, I'm taking a break to eat lunch. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:09, 12 June 2009 (UTC) Lauritz SandIn this edit, it would appear there was agreement to use one of the alt versions, but did you notice you promoted the "hardest tortured person" version, which is now in Queue 6? Art LaPella (talk) 04:26, 13 June 2009 (UTC) DYK for The LoverI don't know how to look at the history for a DYK entry. Did you submit or approve the DYK for this article that was posted today? Unfortunately, the information that was taken from the article and used in the DKY was wrong. The 1958 film The Quiet American was filmed in Saigon (see [1]), so The Lover definitely wasn't the first Western film made in Vietnam. LargoLarry (talk) 18:33, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
First of all, when did I ever say South Vietnam is the same as Vietnam? This is another example of how you twist everything. And since I don't know how to look at the history for a DYK entry, how was I supposed to know you were the one who nominated the article for DYK? I didn't even know the DYK existed until I saw the discussion about the inaccuracy in it someone else started on the talk page for the article!!! LargoLarry (talk) 13:52, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hamilstone, I contacted you simply because I was concerned about the inaccuracy of the DYK. It was Collectonian who decided to drag the discussion that started on the article talk page here, which was inappropriate. I apologize for my part in it. However, while the article was corrected to show the film was the first one made in Vietnam after the reunification of the country, the DYK still claims it was the first one ever made in Vietnam. I was just hoping to have the DYK statement clarified the way it was in the article, that's all. Thank you. LargoLarry (talk) 14:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC) Hello! After a lengthy peer review, I have finally nominated H.M.S. Pinafore for Featured Article. I think you will be pleased with the improvements to the article since you last saw it. In any case, please comment or vote at the FAC. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:17, 15 June 2009 (UTC) Perhaps you could copy your comment to article's talk page, as the DYK's page will be reset soon, and is probably not read by most article's editors anyway? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:10, 16 June 2009 (UTC) Hi! I started a peer review for Ram Narayan. You looked at the GA nomination, perhaps you want to take a look here too? Thanks :) Hekerui (talk) 15:24, 16 June 2009 (UTC) FYI: I quickly scanned the article and noted that Laws had been honored with military decorations. This qualifies him as "notable" by Wikipedia standards, and thus not a candidate for deletion. Georgejdorner (talk) 04:49, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
I left the message as a courtesy to you, because I left the same message on Laws' talk page. Let's just say, I did not want to be perceived as "talking behind your back." And, of course, the award of military decoration has to come from reliable sources. In this case, it came from an Air Ministry Bulletin. However, once that is established, I believe that according to Wikipedia:Notability (people) he is notable, based on the fact that "The person has received a notable award or honor, or has been often nominated for them." Georgejdorner (talk) 22:48, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
My apologies. I was confused, and passed the confusion on to you. Upon checking my computer's history, I realize the original comment about Laws was on Canglesea's talk page, and not on the Laws talk page. A case of too much Wikipedia, too late at night, renders the thinking process mushy. Georgejdorner (talk) 03:58, 18 June 2009 (UTC) Symphonic Poems (Liszt)—Help!Hi, I submitted this article to FAC after going through peer review and am already getting flak about not having it copyedited thoroughly before submission. I agree that's entirely my fault, but could you help me out by looking through the article? Thanks. Jonyungk (talk) 16:48, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
14A improvementsI've provided the requested sourcing. Please look at Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and let me know if I formally request reassessment. SMP0328. (talk) 01:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC) DYK for Rosella NamokWizardman 08:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC) DYK for Makinti NapanangkaRoyalbroil 14:35, 19 June 2009 (UTC) KintoreRe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kintore,_Northern_Territory First could not figure out how to add these comments to the Kintore page you edited.
The links were not so easy to find for historical information which seems of interest to others at Kintore and elsewhere with slight interest to learn a little of the community. Links hopefully raise interest enough to go searching for more ;-) Certainly be nice to see listed other works mentioning Kintore amd or Pintupi with links.
RE: DYK nomsHi, thanks for replying. You have not disappointed me. You were raising a genuine issue in good faith and you did not attack me or anything so that's not a problem. When I reread the comments I realised that they weren't so negative after all. My name was mentioned and Ottava left this to me ("Note - this is per the Wikipedia talk:DYK discussion about a series of bad articles put forth by you") which was a bit unhelpful as it made it look like you were all frowning on me and had all decided to nominate them for deletion last week without even informing me until this week. The matter has since got all the more confusing and I can't work it out. But I don't really blame you, you were trying to help and Ottava almost appears to have been encouraging deletion just for the sake of deletion in a situation where deletion was not even an issue at first and where nobody has actually agreed with him. I'm reading it now and it looks completely different to my first impression of it. But I've raised all this at the deletion discussion, athough it appears to just be me and Ottava exchanging comments with nothing getting anywhere. Anyway the main thing is I don't blame you, I'm sure you mean well, thanks for any help you've given me and keep up the good work. --candle•wicke 02:15, 23 June 2009 (UTC) Swaminarayan GAHi, v hv removed the long Temples/Ascetics sections and added a para on each. As for the beliefs, could you pl. answer Redtigers query? The only other thing I saw pending was the death line. Pl. state any further issues you may c. Thanks, Around The Globeसत्यमेव जयते 09:26, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Thanks for your quick response - been much quicker than other GA reviewers I must say. No prob - Wikiproject Swaminarayan is my priority on wiki - I do do other articles as well - but its Swaminarayan related tht takes up most of my time here. There are some other guys tht r involved as well - so dont worry - vl c this thru however long it takes. World has been working on the copy-edits last nite. I was juz taking an off chance tht ther wer no more issues! And lastly - no I dont no of the cite add-on tool! tc, Around The Globeसत्यमेव जयते 12:01, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
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