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Thanks for welcome Sarah

Hi Sarah thanks for the welcome to WikiWomen. I hope I can help in some small way with articles. Interests are in UK comics; business and politics. Apologies for any errors I make as am new to all of this and probably a bit older than most of your users. Thanks again Cheryl. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Muffeiy (talk • contribs) 12:29, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

DC happy hour on Thursday, February 28!

Please join Wikimedia DC for Happy Hour at the Capitol City Brewery at Metro Center on Thursday, February 28 at 6 p.m. All Wikipedia/Wikimedia and free knowledge/culture enthusiasts, regardless of editing experience, are welcome to attend! All ages welcome!

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Barnstar

Why thank you *blush* Happy to be of help. The "women artists" category has been unwieldy for some time, and this has been on my to-do list for a while.

I'm out for a walk; I'll try to do some more tonight.

Happy editing! --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:25, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Saint Mother Théodore Guérin ProperRight.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Saint Mother Théodore Guérin ProperRight.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Also the following images:
I removed the gallery containing these images from the Saint Mother Théodore Guérin (Clark) article because Wikipedia policy generally does not allow galleries of non-free images; see WP:NFG for more information. —Bkell (talk) 06:35, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
hi i blogerfied this set of images here [1], since some of the flickr links are broken. let's talk about public art (i sense a full circle) Farmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 03:56, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

I saw your interview, that was interesting

I wonder why so few female Wikipedia editors. Perhaps it's a vicious cycle, women don't contribute because they see that women don't contribute? But it would be interesting if the ratio became around 50/50. You're very beautiful, by the way, but I assume you get a lot of comments about your stunning beauty. MVillani1985 (talk) 21:23, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

This isn't a dating site, BTW. Kaldari (talk) 22:10, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
Ha! That would be WikiDate™. I will now begin to make lots of money. Binksternet (talk) 22:59, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
The correct compliment for Wikipedia is: "I think your references are really reliable, but I assume you get a lot of comments about your stunning references." Or a little more personal: "I'm completely enchanted by your use of unspaced em-dashes." Kaldari (talk) 23:42, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Images of Thousand Island Park Historic District

I saw your Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places#Thousand Island Park Historic District about images of Thousand Island Park Historic District. Because the historian (from what I can tell from your message), will be donating images belonging to an organization, the process is a little more complicated.

  • The standard way is to upload them at Commons but he/she will have to send an email to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org to certify that he/she is authorized to make the copyright release on behalf of the organization that owns the images. The process is explained at Commons:OTRS and help is available at Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard.
  • Probably the easiest way would be to upload the images to the official webpage with a copyright release, something like "These images are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license" and I can upload them to Commons from there. (Just let me know if/when that is ready.)

Feel free to contact me with any other questions. --GrapedApe (talk) 23:28, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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A beer for you!

I will not be able to attend the DC get together, although I use Metro Center. Have a beer for me please Coal town guy (talk) 23:51, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

merge discussion

Hi. I notice that you recently closed a discussion on the merge proposed between Hayreddin Pasha and Khaireddin (Turkish statesman). I was the editor who proposed the merge in the first place (26 August 2012), as you can see from the histories. It would have been helpful if someone could have alerted me on my talk page to the formal merge discussion, which I missed, having a rather large watchlist. There is not the slightest doubt that these two are the same person, since both refer to a senior Ottoman statesman called Arabic: خير الدين, of Circassian origin, educated in France and active in Tunisia, who died in 1890, etc etc and short of a DNA test it's difficult to know what more proof of identity is needed. Given the discrepancy in length and quality between the articles, it might be easiest just to replace Khaireddin (Turkish statesman) with a redirect, since leaving it as a requested merge seems to be problematic. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 16:15, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

It can be reopened, the discussion. Feel free to re open up the merge! SarahStierch (talk) 18:15, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

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Bluegrass rules!

Dear Sarah:

I have been reaping the benefits of your work at the Teahouse, but I didn't know that you were a fellow bluegrass music enthusiast. Thanks for creating the page about James Shelton. —Anne Delong (talk) 19:23, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Need Help!

Hi Sarah Stierch, I think someone has vandlized the WikiWoman's Collabrative post on my talk page. Since you posted it thought I should tell you. I can't delete the vandlisim without taking out he whole post. Any ideas? ~ Missionedit (talk) 20:14, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi there! Looks like Slowking took care of it :) SarahStierch (talk) 23:33, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
mystery - apparently, someone edited over the template div box [4], it broke all your notices. some counseling may be in order. Farmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 23:58, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Your Edit-a-thon

Sarah, for your edit-a-thon, are you going to be stopping by the Teahouse to ask questions? If so, as I am the current maitre d', I will try to round up a few people to make sure we're "staffed". Are you talking about during the day Friday? (just so I know for the message I plan to put on the Teahouse talk page). Go Phightins! 02:51, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. We might have a few people post questions, but, don't expect a major onslaught of questions being asked (since this will be an "in person" event and people can ask me questions in the flesh). It will take place from 3-5 PM on Friday, and then we have the edit-a-thon on Saturday. But yeah, I'll be mainly doing the profiles - and encourage people to of course welcome those new editors on their talk pages if they like :) Thanks for all your hard work! SarahStierch (talk) 02:54, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
All right. I just wanted to organize something if there was going to be an onslaught. We should be fine, but I'll post something on the talkpage anyway. Thanks for your continued wonderfulness. Go Phightins! 02:57, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Please help plan Wiki Loves Monuments 2013

Hi, I was told you helped plan last year's Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States. I would like to invite you to help plan this year's contest. Now is a good time to start planning, so if you're interested please add your name at the 2013 coordination page or contact me. Cheers, Mono 01:43, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

GLAM related post

A while ago I remember reading a blog post where a university that donated images to wikipedia/commons stated they got more traffic from wikipedia than from their students following the donation. It was either the archives official blog or wikimedias. Any chance you know what I'm talking about or have the link...I'm hazy on the details =/.Smallman12q (talk) 00:07, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure what is being referred to about a university and students and so forth. I'm sorry, I don't know. I haven't been involved in a university project and I'm not sure what one it would be. :( SarahStierch (talk) 18:15, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

WP:GLAM, and how to solicit for content

I gather you're very involved with the GLAm program, and I have started a discussion at the Village Pump you might be inteersted in. If you can thinking of anyone else that might be interested, please let them know.--NickPenguin(contribs) 16:48, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Nick. I passed it along to some people.SarahStierch (talk) 18:13, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

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How are things going? I'm dying to hear about it. – SJ + 20:26, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Real Life Barnstar
Sarah, thank you so much for providing an orientation to the Wikipedia community, teaching me how to create and edit entries, offering me pointers on my first article, and encouraging me with the WikiWomen's History Month award. Your presentation was engaging and richly informative. Thank you so much for your help! TiffanyGallicano (talk) 01:46, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Question & Thanks

You rock so hard. Thanks for the new wikiaddiction.

I was noticing that University of Oregon doesn't have a Campus Ambassador- do you know anything about this program? I'm done with my Fembot/Ada responsibilities at the end of this academic year, and would be interested in doing it. Then we could have a write women into wikipedia EVERY TERM, and I could start convincing colleagues to do wikipedia writing for class projects across campus. Thebrycepeake (talk) 05:57, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Gah! Thanks. Missing your face already :D I think the CA project would be great, and yes, UofO! Can you email me and then I'll put you in touch with the right person to talk to? SarahStierch (talk) 23:24, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Lada St. Edmund

The DYK project (nominate) 00:23, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

resources

If you haven't already seen, this is a nice collection of resources I stumbled across; good for references for edit-a-thons? cheers, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:46, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

pps you should register & rdr user:Sarah Stierch; I can never remember your username :P -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:47, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

wiki can't edit

could you make Thai airways semi protected shorter. Now it ends in June could you change it to April or may??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jommy2 (talk • contribs) 02:37, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Zack Norman article

Hi Sarah! You probably don't remember me, but a couple months ago I submitted an article (actually, it was a re-submission) to Wikipedia on actor Zack Norman, which you yourself rejected/declined on December 23, 2012 due to formatting issues but mainly due to the fact that most of the source references I cited (from the Internet Movie Database, or imdb.com) were not acceptable to Wikipedia. I wrote and asked if if the New York Times would be an acceptable source instead, and you advised me to consult the Teahouse, which I did, and was told that yes, the New York Times is an acceptable source. Delighted and excited by the prospect of a light at the end of the tunnel, I wrote to you telling you how the Teahouse had ruled, then I rewrote the article, reformatting it and replacing all the imdb.com reference source footnotes with New York Times reference source footnotes, only to have the article once again rejected for the same reason you had given me: that my sources (which were now from the New York Times) weren't acceptable. As you can imagine, I found this very frustrating, but patiently wrote to both the new rejecting editor (someone named "Darkwind") as well as the Teahouse again, explaining this ongoing problem, but neither ever got back to me, so I'm hoping perhaps you can enlighten me as to how I should proceed. I really want to figure out how to do this the right way, and will do anything necessary to be in compliance with Wikipedia standards for acceptance. Might it be possible for me to resubmit the article to you directly? So that you could see the changes I made according to the directions of the Teahouse as per your suggestion..? Please let me know, and thanks so much for everything, MatthewMatzohboy (talk) 23:28, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Zack_Norman

Welcome to Wikipedia

Thank you, Sarah!:) Módis Ágnes Vadszederke (talk) 18:09, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Wish I could

I am really sorry, but I dont have a full internet access, so i cant be on facebook, or twitter or conecting with any other site but Wikipedia- not even wikimedia or the other wikies. But when i be able to do it, i surely will. regards.Miss Bono (talk) 19:03, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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Changing the "Main article" link on a section of a Wikipedia page

On the Wikipedia Page: "Electric field" at the section: "Energy in the electric field", I found that the "Main article" link links to a wrong page: "Electric energy", Instead I think it should link to: "Electric potential energy". But I have not been able to change it. How this should be done? Thanks Ciro.Landolfi (talk) 23:06, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Did you realize that ...

About 40% of Wikipedia's article on BP (British Petroleum) was written by a BP employee, and the the source of this text is not disclosed to our readers? BP was also the source of the horrific Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It recently pleaded guilty to lying to Congress and to lying to its own investors, but those facts are not included in the article, nor is there anything in the article about BP misleading our readers.

If you'd like to know why independent editors are leaving Wikipedia, please read User talk:Slim Virgin#Re: BP <Retired>

Smallbones(smalltalk) 02:11, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

You are invited to a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29

In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Women in the Arts are teaming up to organize a Women in the Arts Meetup & Edit-a-thon on Friday, March 29, 2013 from 10:00am - 5:00pm. The event is focused on encouraging women editors while improving Wikipedia entries about women artists and art world figures. This event is free of charge, but participation is limited to 20 volunteers, so RSVP today! Sarasays (talk) 23:09, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Are you allowing anyone to add artists to the list? Or do they need to be vetted first? I found a lady miniaturist in the SAAM collection the other day who lacks an article. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 14:11, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Feel free to add people! No vetting required. We are simply trying to compile notable women who need a better presence, and whose articles might be bolstered by Smithsonian or NMWA research resources. I will make a note of as much on the event page. --Sarasays (talk) 14:18, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

The Global Women Wikipedia Write-In

You might already be aware of this, but if not, I thought I'd pass along the link with info on the The Global Women Wikipedia Write-In happening on April 26th. And so, without further ado: http://dhpoco.org/2013/03/21/the-global-women-wikipedia-write-in-gwwi/ Arthistorygrrl (talk) 00:41, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Sarah its --Thorgodofwar (talk) 02:33, 23 March 2013 (UTC)Thorgodofwar. Thanks for the info re: the image--I didn't know how to go about uploading it! I have uploaded it and now it's displaying, but I don't know how to get rid of the dead link. Can you help please? Thank you!

Zack Norman bio

You commented on Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Zack Norman so I wanted to let you know I found more sources and I think the guy is notable. However, I think the article needs to be trimmed per WP:NOR and expanded with not-so-flattering material per NPOV. Binksternet (talk) 02:47, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Binksternet, thank you for responding. I'll trim the article according to your recommendations and resubmit. When I do so, is there a way I can refer to your affirmation of notability? Thanks! Matzohboy (talk) 22:17, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Libertad Green

Can you help me get Libertad Green listed among the people on the Libertad page?

How about on the Jezebel page?

Someone deletes my entries when I do it myself. Honestly, I feel as if I'm being bullied by Wikipedia editors Altered Walter and Harry the Dirty Dog. William Mortensen Vaughan, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant (Retired) (talk) 20:24, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

HI there. Do you have reliable sources that say that the Libertad Green is notable enough? Basically, that means we can't list it unless it meets our notability guidelines. Meaning lots of reliable sources that are verifiable (newspaper articles, magazine articles, etc). I'm pretty busy with my real life job, but, it might be a good idea to stop by the Teahouse for faster help. They can usually help out and aren't bullies - I started the Teahouse to help editors like yourself! SarahStierch (talk) 21:26, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

No hurry, Sarah! I've been working on this for years, and Libertad Green herself has been

working on this for even more years. I'd rather work with you on this, since you've taken a

personal interest in it, as well as a general interest in women artists.

Yes, I have reliable sources that say Libertad Green is notable enough, or at least more notable

than other people who have Wikipedia articles, the authors of which are apparently not bullied

the way Libertad Green and I are.

To start with, Libertad Green, as an actress (I'll discuss some of her dancing, modeling, fencing

and beauty pageant credits later) is as notable as Libertad Leblanc, who is listed among the

people named Libertad on Wikipedia. Libertad LeBlanc's Wikipedia article lists no

filmography, perhaps because she is best known, according to IMDb, for her role in The Pink

Pussy: Where Sin Lives. Her IMDb filmography consists of 31 titles. The one with the highest

rating is La culpa, with a rating of 5.79/10; the one with the most votes (17) is The Pink Pussy,

and has a rating of 4.6/10.

Libertad Green's filmography on IMDb lists 42 titles, as opposed to LeBlanc's 31, the most

popular of which is The Foot Fist Way, with 6,847 votes, as opposed to LeBlanc's max of 17.

Libertad Green has 17 titles in her filmography with more than 17 votes - 8 in the hundreds, 4 in

the thousands. Her title with the highest rating is the Asian F episode of Glee, with a rating

of 7.99/10. She has 8 titles with ratings higher than LeBlanc's highest, of 5.79.

Libertad Green is among few women, such as Paulette Goddard and Sônia Lima, to have played the

role of the Biblical Queen Jezebel in a live action film. Both Goddard and Lima have Wikipedia

articles. Lima's, in Portuguese, has one reference and one external link - to her IMDb page.

Goddard has Wikipedia articles in English as well as Portuguese and various other languages.

Goddard's acting career is obviously more notable than Libertad Green's, but her English

Wikipedia article has only 5 references and 6 external links, one of which is to her IMDb page.

Lima has more titles than Green in her IMDb filmography, but only two of them have ratings, the

highest of which is 6.80/10, as opposed to Green's 7.99/10. Only 3 of Lima's titles have votes

on IMDb.com, the highest of which is 140, as opposed to Green's 8 titles with hundreds of votes,

and 4 more with thousands.

In addition to Libertad Green's IMDb page, the following are references which indicate her

notability as an actress:

http://www.dove.org/reviewpopup.asp?Unique_ID=8737

http://www.eeriedigest.com/wordpress/2011/06/interview-with-actress-libertad-green/

http://www.christianfilmdatabase.com/review/blast-and-whisper-elijahs-story/


http://wn.com/blast_and_whisper#/videos

http://www.amazon.com/Blast-And-Whisper-Mehran-Haq/dp/B005GISDXW

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-blast-and-whisper-iram-haq/22809600

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Blast-And-Whisper-Elijah-s-Story/17492289

http://www.answers.com/topic/blast-and-whisper

http://www.filmfestivals.com/film/blast_and_whisper

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blast_and_whisper/

http://nypl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/19421080052_blast_and_whisper

http://skokielibrary.info/s_audiovisual/av_lists/av_ls_Movies/faith.asp

I could provide more references to verify Libertad Green's notability as an actress, but I've

already provided twice as many as there are on Paulette Goddard's Wikipedia article, and I

haven't even started listing references for Libertad's modeling, dancing, fencing and beauty

pageant credits.

Libertad Green's most notable dancing credit is, perhaps, that she is, effectively, the face of

the Hawaiian hula on Google. For approximately two years, when Googling the phrase "Hawaiian

hula," the first video listed is Libertad Green's "Hawaiian Hula dance," which now has over 1.76

million views. She has also placed 1st in HipMix.Net's International Belly Dance Diva 2011

contest (http://www.hipmix.net/places-detail.php?pid=23), and 6th out of 138 contestants from

around the world in BellyDance.com's recent belly dance photo contest

(https://www.facebook.com/bellydancecom?v=app_448952861833126&rest=1).

She also placed First in two of my own international belly dance contests, before I married her,

winning more than 2,000 U.S. dollars in prize money. I disqualified her and discontinued the

contest once we became involved and I could no longer judge the contest objectively.

Libertad Green's chops as a model speak for themselves; just Google images associated with her

name. Tear sheets are also available at:

http://www.libertadgreen.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=12104108

Perhaps her most notable modeling credit is the poster I saw in the Washington D.C. subways

before I had even discovered anything else about her, little knowing that she and I would meet,

date and marry in the years to follow:

http://www.libertadgreen.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=150249645

As for fencing, she played the fencer and the lead role of the girl kissing the boxer at the end

of the Australian band Cut Copy's music video "Need You Now":

http://vimeo.com/20059858

Another example of an actor with a Wikipedia who is less notable but less bullied by Wikipedia moderators than Libertad Green is Timothy L. Raynor. When I first discovered his Wikipedia article last year, it had only two external links (to his IMDb page and a bio he obviously created and posted himself on aa free website). At the time, it had no warnings, but I mentioned it when my Libertad Green article was marked for deletion, so now it has 2 orange warnings and 2 references. His IMDb filmography has a mere 15 titles, even though he's been acting since before Libertad was born. One of his titles has a rating higher than her highest rating on a title, but none of his titles have 1,000 votes.

Daisi Pollard is an actress who also has a Wikipedia article. Hers has no warnings. She has no filmography on Wikipedia, and her IMDb filmography has only 2 titles, only one of which has a rating, which is 3.20/10, and not even 100 votes.

William Mortensen Vaughan, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant (Retired) (talk) 13:10, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for the resources and invitation, Sarah - so excited to help SIA build on the brilliant work you did here. Hope to draw participation into wider events and continue to build linked webs of knowledge through the amazing people and resources here at SI/Archives & Wikimanians, too. Cheers and enjoy the strutting kitten. -M

meghaninmotion 14:14, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

DPLA metadata

Regarding the launch of DPLA, could you provide more details about the metadata. I'd like to see if it can be integrated here. See also Commons:User_talk:Bdcousineau#DPLA_.7E_send_in_the_bots.Smallman12q (talk) 13:33, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm not involved with DPLA...they are going to be releasing metadata CC0 but I'm not sure in what capacity or what the situation is yet. SarahStierch (talk) 17:03, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Cream Delight

Hi Sarah, I was wondering what I should do with the article Cream Delight. I don't think it meets Wikipedia's guidelines. Can you check it out? ~ Anastasia (talk) 19:08, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. After some research, I think we should nominate it for deletion. You could always as at Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink, but, I think it's okay to nominate it. It will either get kept and improved...or deleted. No big deal either way. Besides, Wikipedia isn't a cookbook :) SarahStierch (talk) 19:14, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

You're invited to the first-ever Wikipedia Iconathon!

Help build the visual language of Wikipedia at the first ever Wikimedia Foundation/Noun Project Iconathon

The Wikimedia Foundation is partnering up with the Noun Project to run the first-ever Wikipedia Iconathon on April 6th at WMF headquarters, and you're invited!

What is an Iconathon: An iconathon is a co-design process where Wikimedia staff, the user community, and a few graphic designers collaboratively discuss what symbols could best represent a concept for an icon – for example, what's the best icon for New Editor, Revert or Oversight? Sketches will be converted into high fidelity icons by Noun Project graphic designers, and will be released under a free license for use by anyone on the Internet. Help build the free encyclopedia icon set that anyone in the world can share and reuse!

Logistics: The event runs from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm on April 6th at the Wikimedia Foundation office in San Francisco. Follow the signs at the door! We'll have plenty of paper and pens/pencils for sketching.

How to sign up: Please register here using the code 'wiki'

More info:

About the Noun Project About Iconathons

Hope to see you there! :) Maryana (WMF) (talk) 21:45, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Article you may want to look at

One of the students in a class I was working with wrote Networked feminism and I remembered that it is within your expertise. cheers --Guerillero | My Talk 04:31, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Awesome! Yes, that's what I do :) SarahStierch (talk) 15:44, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Merge discussion for The Gates Ajar

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A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
thank you for sending me the teahouse request and introducing me to the world of wikipedia. Uncletomwood (talk) 15:57, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

186.88.129.224

Hi, did you intend to block 186.88.129.224 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) indefinitely? You also used {{uw-vaublock}} which is generally only used for violations of the username policy. --Closedmouth (talk) 14:03, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

WDL

Thanks for your links on Arabic Wikipedia (though they usually require a little rewriting) - I am wondering if these manuscripts are available in plaintext so that we can put them on WikiSource? It would be useful to search them in one database for keywords.--عبد المؤمن (talk) 03:45, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah...yes, I'm using Google Translate when needed. It's not all external links.. :) (I'm building a crowdsourced list of content for us to work on...I just add external links to good stuff when citing isn't an option really). Right now they aren't going to be releasing any media to Wikisource. They have over 50+ partners, and not until a partner decides to "give" up content. It's a year long residency, so perhaps we'll have some luck when I start to meet with partners. Fingers crossed. SarahStierch (talk) 03:59, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
These documents are over 150 years old, surely they've gone out of copyright?--عبد المؤمن (talk) 04:09, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Yup, but it's not my decision. Lots of institutions bring in a form of income releasing high resolution versions of their images. It's a challenge. We'll see. (I have dealt with this three times now as a Wikipedian in Residence..so I ask for understanding and patience!) I just spent two days speaking about this for the US OpenGLAM launch. Trust me...I know :) SarahStierch (talk) 04:21, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for adding them anyway. Could you just add them with the title, though? The automated translations are time consuming to correct. --عبد المؤمن (talk) 15:02, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Arabic documents

Greetings!

Contributors to Russian Wikipedia have recently noticed that you are massively editing various pages, adding links to digital copies of some Arabic (??) manuscripts that are in best of the cases valuable for a very narrow circle of specialists. In that respect, I'd like to ask - why are you so sure that Ru-Wiki needs these links and these documents so much? The editors are not very happy about that activity, in fact (and about the computer-translated passages that accompany them, as well). --Andiorahn (talk) 04:14, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

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Looking for some help

Sarah, you are probably aware that the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is one of the great repositories of material related to women's issues.

I happened to be there today doing some research.

In a very serendipitous coincidence, the researcher who was helping me, has recently begun a project to add some material to Wikipedia about notable women. Her entry into Wikipedia got off to a bit of a rocky start, but I offered to help. However, I am heading to New Orleans for a week, so cannot do much over the next few days. I do not know her schedule whether she will be starting right away or over a longer time period, but no matter what, I thought you would be interested. I know Wikipedia in general, and you in particular, are interested in helping women get involved. While I have some interest in the subject matter, I won't pretend to have your knowledge, so while I can be helpful navigating the rule forest, you'll have more knowledge of the subject matter. We briefly discussed the fact that she want to reference some material that is unpublished. I provided some very quick thoughts, and posted some general help to her talk page. I thought you might introduce her to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women's History and other related resources. Her talk page is here: User talk:MJessup.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 22:05, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

One other note, she mentioned GLAM, so she knows it exists, but I don't know how much she knows about it.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 22:06, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Breakfast

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To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 20:58, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


GLAM activities in the USA in March 2013

Hello SarahStierch, You have written before for the newsletter This Month in GLAM. I see the USA is missing regarding the edition about March 2013, do you perhaps have any idea what GLAM activities were done in the USA in March? Can you perhaps write about those? Or do you know who I can ask to write about it? Thanks! (Deadline of the March edition is Monday 8 April.) You can start writing via the page outreach:GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom. If you wish to be informed by e-mail next time, please write me at this page. You can reach me the best at nl-wiki talk page. Greetings - 84.28.175.203 (talk) 02:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Elise Andrew

Materialscientist (talk) 14:05, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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A brownie for you!

Thanks for creating the article on our colleague Rémi Mathis! :) Ijon (talk) 07:09, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

DC meetup & dinner on Saturday, April 13!

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For more information and to sign up, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 36. Hope to see you there! Kirill [talk] 18:59, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Elise_Andrew for deletion

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Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars, LOL; siris says: Sept. 1966. Dedicated Aug. 1968. (without copyright notice) [5] why don't you clean up the licenses, none of the noobs know who WSPA is, lol. Slowking4Farmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 02:48, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Great talk

GLAM-WIKI in Real Life Barnstar
Great work on the GLAM-WIKI presentation.
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DC meetups on April 19 and 20

Wikimedia DC invites you to join us for two exciting events this weekend:

On the evening of Friday, April 19, we're hosting our first-ever WikiSalon at our K Street office. The WikiSalon will be a twice-monthly informal meetup and collaborative editing event to help build the community of Wikimedia enthusiasts here in DC; please join us for its inaugural session. Light refreshments will be provided.

On Saturday, April 20, we've partnered with the George Washington University to host the All Things GW Edit-a-Thon at the Teamsters Labor History Research Center. Please join us for behind-the-scenes tours of the University Archives and help edit articles about GWU history.

We look forward to seeing you at one or both of these events! Kirill [talk] 20:04, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Missvain, we moved your Teahouse host profile

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Slowking4

Hi Sarah, I am a little concerned that someone in a position such as yourself - especially when you pronounce yourself dedicated to "free knowledge" on your user page - should have posted the Wikilove message on the above user's talkpage after they had been blocked for persistently and disruptively uploading non-free content, wasting a large amount of time of a number of editors. Black Kite (talk) 18:43, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

There is no reason to be concerned about me. Trust me. :) SarahStierch (talk) 18:44, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
I wasn't worried about you. I was more worried that your message might give the idea to Slowking4 that it was OK for him to keep on editing like that - which seems to be the gist of his talkpage messages - in which case his "resurrection" would be very brief indeed. Thanks, Black Kite (talk) 18:47, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
I've known Slowking offline for about five years now. He tends to do things on his own accord, trust me! Without any influence (he's a grown adult, and quite an independent one) of other people. He'll sort it out for himself, and make his own decision on what to do. I have a feeling he's well aware of the consequences of his actions. SarahStierch (talk) 18:49, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
Fair enough. Sorry to bother you. Black Kite (talk) 18:51, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Award

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Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

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my Name is Haidar , am from Iraq ... when i made this acount (long time ago) you invited me to join your team am really sorry for my late in reply but i want you to be sure i will be so happy to join you and your team also i will invite all my friends and try to collect any info. you need ... i just read that you want to leave Wiki :( if u just want to do that because no one help then i hope you will change your mind at this point i wish to work in the team. Sorry again for being late

Hi Haidar! Welcome back. don't be sorry. I think you are referring to the Teahouse? Feel free to come by the Teahouse anytime if you need help! It's never too late to be a part of the community. SarahStierch (talk) 06:12, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Frieda Ekotto

Re: Frieda Ekotto page. Hi Sarah thanks for the notes about the page. I had trouble finding secondary sources on Frieda Ekotto's biography. However, I can probably use a review or so to substantiate her scholarly work. Would that help? Also, how do I untag what you've flagged once I'm done adding these sources? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thorgodofwar (talk • contribs) 00:21, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Thorgodofwar! That's usually one of the biggest issues when writing about academics - lack of reliable secondary sources. A good guide for reference is WP:ACADEMIC which sets out the notability guidelines for academics. If you can find some reviews of her work, that'd be great - also folks who cite her work in their writing. It can be stuff listed behind paywalls (i.e. on Jstor). My biggest fear is that if we don't find enough reliable secondary sources for the article it could be nominated for deletion :( All you have to do is remove the templates at the top of the page, you should see them up there, it's just above the infobox mark up. While they are rather unsightly, they serve as an attractor for other Wikipedians to help improve it. Thanks for contributing - it's a challenge! And if worse comes to worse, we might have to just wait a few more years to include her. Fingers crossed that isn't the case. :) SarahStierch (talk) 00:28, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
p.s. don't forget to sign your posts whenever you write on a talk page (even your own). You can do that by typing 4 tildes: ~~~~. That way we know who writes it and a bot doesn't come by and have to do it for you. :) SarahStierch (talk) 00:28, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Sarah. I found an interview with her and some reviews and will add. Will drop you a note when I'm done so you can check whether this makes it better? Thanks for your help. Thorgodofwar (talk) 00:35, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Sounds good! SarahStierch (talk) 00:36, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Sarah, I've updated the page and added 3 secondary sources (1 interview and 2 reviews of her work). I've also removed your tags. Please let me know if this is ok. Thorgodofwar (talk) 01:25, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Awesome, good work :) Can't wait to see it improve as time goes on. And thanks for being bold and removing the templates. Can't wait to see what you contribute next! SarahStierch (talk) 05:53, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Karen Lord

Hi, SarahStierch! Thanks for your comments on the Karen Lord page. I'm aware of the fact that WordPress is considered to be an unreliable source, but in this case, it's only referenced because it's Karen Lord's primary professional website. It is not used as a reference for any of the data (as far as I am aware) -- those citations are to secondary sources. What is the recommended procedure in these situations?

The article is looking good! I just get extra paranoid about women's biographies, since I'm so used to having them nominated for deletion or questioned on notability due to sources we often use - so I like to make sure we (and me!) cover our butts. Anything that isn't cited with a reliable secondary source can be removed or challenged on Wikipedia, so I always try to replace content with non-related websites as best as possible. The external links have a lot of great content, we can keep expanding it using that - so great work at building all the citations and links out. The next move is to expand out the article using interviews, reviews, write-up's about her and her work, etc. I think the article will only get improved at this point! I've never heard of her until now, so thanks for writing this - I'm in need of some new reading material :) If you need anything, let me know - and I hope you'll keep contributing. SarahStierch (talk) 06:06, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
p.s. one more tip: don't forget to "sign your posts" - whenever you write on a talk page (your own, someone else's, or an article) you should sign your post. It's a common thing most people don't do when they start editing - but it let's us know who wrote what without having to check our history (we're lazy). You can do that by writing 4 tildes at the end of your posts: ~~~~. SarahStierch (talk) 06:08, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

RESPONSE TO SARAH AND TO JOHN CD

Dear Sarah and John,04:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)04:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)Littlelulu89 (talk) I am confused about what the problem is regarding the submission for information on Phillip J. Petillo, Luthier-Engineer. I am sorry if I violated any rules but I assure you I have all documentation, letter, bibliography and all information regarding the work and life of Phillip J. Petillo. I am currently writing a book for a publishing company on his work from 1966-2010 when he died suddenly after being awarded three Core Patents from the USPTO. I am sorry if I presented the information incorrectly. I have letter from ROALD HOFFMAN, Nobel Prize winner on Dr. Petillo's work with the use of BORAX in the last three CORE Patents that were awarded and being considered for use by US SUBS. Do you have a service that could help me to conform to your rules? I assure you I have all the documentation since 1966 and his 30 patents covering the Musical, Medical and Energy Venues. His sons continue his legacy and his medical devices are still being used, one is currently in the Smithsonian. It would be a shame not to have him in your publication for my lack of utilizing your COMPLEX rules which can be quite confusing. I would be glad to pay someone to do a PROPER presentation of the all the documentation I have and that is already published since 1966 with some on you tube with Bruce Springsteen. It can be very confusing when trying to follow all your specification that can be confusing to the lay person. Thank you for your insight and I look forward to hoping you can help me present the important work that was discovered by Dr. Petillo and that his work is still being carried on today by his son, David and our entire family. I would be happy to pay for assistance if you have such a service offered to do this correctly to accommodate your rules properly. I apologize for whatever I have presented incorrectly. Thank you for your time. Sincerely with Appreciation. 04:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)Lucille A. Petillo CEO, Phil-Lu Inc./Petillo Masterpiece Guitars Ocean, NJ 07712 USA04:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC) 04:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)Littlelulu89 (talk) 04:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. I think you have maybe the wrong Sarah..or..editor? I'm unfamiliar with the situation and might not be the best person to ask. I'm sorry :( SarahStierch (talk) 06:01, 27 April 2013 (UTC)