User talk:Kosboot/Archive 4

Wikipedia Day Celebration and Mini-Conference in NYC Saturday Feb 23

Doing the "Open Space" thing at one of our earlier NYC Wiki-Conferences.

You are invited to celebrate Wikipedia Day and the 12th anniversary (!) of the founding of the site at Wikipedia Day NYC on Saturday February 23, 2013 at New York University; sign up for Wikipedia Day NYC here, or at bit.ly/wikidaynyu. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience!--Pharos (talk) 02:27, 2 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tour of Consumer Reports' laboratories

Wow! Laboratory tour!

On Tuesday January 15 at 3pm Wikipedians are invited to join a tour of laboratories at Consumer Reports in Yonkers. If you would like to attend please RSVP at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/January 2013. If you have questions feel free to ask on that page or contact me on my talk page or by my office phone at 914.378.2684. Thank you. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:39, 9 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Drexel 4041

On 19 January 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Drexel 4041, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Drexel 4041, a manuscript in the New York Public Library, is a major source of music for the 17th-century British composer William Lawes? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Drexel 4041. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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.

The DYK project (nominate) 09:47, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

The King and I is at FAC

Hi, Kosboot. I hope you're doing well! The King and I has been nominated for FAC. It would be great if you could take a look at the article and give comments at the FAC. Thanks for any time you could spare! -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:21, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on the AFT5 Request for Comment

Hey Kosboot - this is to notify you that there is a discussion starting on the Article Feedback RfC talkpage that has ramifications for the RfC itself. Your input is much appreciated :). Thanks! and apologies if I've missed anyone Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:43, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GA review of Minetta Creek

Hi. I notice that there has been no activity on Minetta Creek since 10 February, and wondered if you were still interested in getting it to GA. Regards. Bob1960evens (talk) 18:55, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am - just haven't had the time and was sick all last week, and I have an important deadline on Monday. But I plan to start resuming work on it by Tuesday March 5 - is that ok? -- kosboot (talk) 19:27, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes that's fine. I'll keep it on hold. Bob1960evens (talk) 21:55, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your patience! :) -- kosboot (talk) 22:27, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I have failed the GA review, as it has been on hold for two months and the suggested time limit is seven days. As mentioned at the bottom of the review, if you can get the issues sorted, then renominate it, and if you want me to conduct the second review, drop me a note and I will be happy to do so. Regards. Bob1960evens (talk) 23:03, 12 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at WikiProject Opera

I'm writing to members of WikiProject Opera who have been active on the talk page over the last year. We currently have a proposal to add infoboxes about individual operas to their articles. As this would involve a fairly major change from our current practice, and lead to a potentially lengthy transition, it would be helpful to hear the views from as many project members as possible. The discussion is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera#Opera infoboxes. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 09:04, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Meetup NYC this Sunday April 14

Hi Kosboot! You're invited to our next meeting for Wikipedia Meetup NYC on Sunday April 14 -this weekend- at Symposium Greek Restaurant @ 544 W 113th St (in the back room), on the Upper West Side in the Columbia University area.

Please sign up, and add your ideas to the agenda for Sunday. Thanks!

Delivered on behalf of User:Pharos, 18:11, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Libraries!

Hi! Yes, I'm excited to work on this. I replied on my talk. best, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:59, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

May 3 2013, 19-20h UTC, GLAMout Google Hangout Link Location is Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout#Link

Hello, You signed up to participate or view in this month's GLAMout. We'll be using Google Hangout, but unfortunately the link to the Hangout won't be available, until 15 minutes beforehand. We'll post the link as soon as possible at Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout#Link

Time: 12pm-1pm Pacific Time (3pm-4pm ET | 19-20h UTC) Coordinator: Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Anchor topic: VIAFbot and authority control in EN:WP, and on Wikidata.

EdwardsBot (talk) 05:06, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

South Pacific (musical)

Please comment on our PR for this important musical at the PR page, here. We are on the way to FAC -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:34, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Libraries

Replied on my talk. I'm working on cleaning up the outreach pages... am thinking that can be the multilingual/global portal/collection of past resources. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 04:12, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Opera Project stuff

Hi Kosboot, I'm writing to members who participated in the March 2013 discussions about the possibility of developing an opera infobox. We now have a reasonably stable and usable box with examples of how it would look in articles at Template:Infobox opera and a new discussion re its potential addition to the project's Article Guide as an option for opera articles. The discussion is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera#Opera Infobox update. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 08:00, 5 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment there, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:27, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

E-mails

Hi, Kosboot. I've sent you a couple of e-mails. Would you kindly respond one way or another? All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:44, 16 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Takes Brooklyn! Saturday September 7

Please join Wikipedia Takes Brooklyn scavenger hunt on September 7, 2013! Everyone gather at the Brooklyn Public Library to further Wikipedia's coverage of— photos and articles related to Brooklyn, its neighborhoods and the local landmarks. --EdwardsBot (talk)

Article Feedback Tool update

Hey Kosboot. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.

We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.

Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 22:01, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Inno delle nazioni

On 3 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Inno delle nazioni, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Giuseppe Verdi's secular cantata Inno delle nazioni, his first collaboration with Arrigo Boito, contains three national anthems? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Inno delle nazioni. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Howard brothers

If you could get to it right away, we can get it on DYK. -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:06, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is a lot of disagreement among the sources about exactly what the brothers did up to about 1904. When you look into this, see if you can comb it out. Right now, in the article, I have chosen the facts given by what seem to me to be the most persuasive sources, but if you look deeper, you may be able to give the early years more certainty. For example, which amateur nights did they compete in? What professional performing, if any, did they do between 1897 and 1900? -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:44, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Great job expanding the article. Is the clipping that you refer to from a newspaper or a magazine? Let's specify. Also, there are a few places where you added a cite to a newspaper article, without a page number. I've tagged those. Can you take another look and see if you can find a page number for them? If there is no page number available, just remove my "page needed" tag. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:31, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - they're all newspaper clippings. In many cases there were no page numbers apparent. I did the easy part. There were lots of articles that had discussed their kind of comedy and had selections from their comedy routines, but that's going to take longer. Eventually the part about Willie is going to be much longer since he had the longer and more prominent career. -- kosboot (talk) 15:49, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Is there an online archive for the New York Herald Tribune that might help you find the page numbers, and also give urls? -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:05, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nope - the NY Times owns the Herald Tribune but I think they are deliberately withholding making that archive accessible online. I could go to check microfilm but that's a lot of time that I don't have. -- kosboot (talk) 16:09, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yeah, unless this eventually goes to FAC, going into the microfilm would be beyond the call of duty!  :-) Happy editing! -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:12, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia NYC Meetup! Saturday October 5

Please join the Wikimedia NYC Meetup on October 5, 2013! Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for education, museums, libraries and planning WikiConference USA. --Pharos (talk) 22:03, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You know who

Yes. We would need Dr. Emma Sculate (formerly of TIT, the Texas Institute of Theory, http://web.archive.org/web/19990127234125/ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~bogo/tit/home.html) to solve the case, but I think she retired quite some time ago. -- Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 08:21, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Julia Gerity

Hi, I'm Sulfurboy. Kosboot, thanks for creating Julia Gerity!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. orphan tag. otherwise great article. thanks.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Sulfurboy (talk) 04:00, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Pluggers" vs. "demonstrators"

I believe these are different things, that song pluggers went around to publishers, while song demonstrators worked in department stores, singing songs to encourage people to buy the sheet music. If I'm incorrect, do you have a source saying so? Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:21, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No I don't have a source specifically defining the difference, although I've never heard of people going around to different places in order to plug a song. -- kosboot (talk) 20:57, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, let me see if I can find anything. Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:05, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Julia Gerity

On 14 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Julia Gerity, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in the 35th year of her career, blues singer Julia Gerity lost much of her performance materials, including gowns and music, in a 1947 fire at Coney Island? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Julia Gerity. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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.

The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

E-mail

Hi, Kosboot. Please check your e-mail. -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:25, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon" at Queens Library! Friday December 6

Please join Queens Open History Edit-a-Thon on December 6, 2013! Everyone gather at Queens Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for borough articles on the history and the communities. Drop-ins welcome 10am-7pm!--Pharos (talk) ~~~~~

The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi^t | c 15:59, 9 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Kosboot. You have new messages at Template:Did you know nominations/Dorle Soria.
Message added 12:38, 22 December 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Matty.007 12:38, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Precious again

music library
Thank you for quality articles on music, such as David Chan and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and for adding your professional knowledge to the discussions of the music projects, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:45, 24 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A year ago, you were the 344th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize. Thank you for precious help during the last year, looking forward to more music, some today! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:27, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, you were the 344th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:54, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Gerda!! kosboot (talk) 11:50, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Dorle Soria

On 27 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dorle Soria, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Dorle Soria, a founder of Angel Records, helped promote Leonard Bernstein's 1943 debut with the New York Philharmonic? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Dorle Soria. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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.

Harrias ^talk 12:04, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to see her, thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:12, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]