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With the reference from the Jerusalem Post that you added, I would say that notability is now asserted. That was the only roadblock, in my opinion. I put the reference into proper Wikipedia form (which is a bit tricky, so don't feel bad if you're not up on the technique — I have to check a "cheat sheet" myself, and I've done this a number of times), and I removed the warning tags. You're good to go. Realkyhick17:29, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome v.2
Hello, Orestek. I wanted to extend a personal welcome and let you know about potentially helpful resources.
If you are interested in Ukraine-related themes, you may want to check out the Ukraine Portal, particularly the Portal:Ukraine/New article announcements and Portal:Ukraine/Ukraine-related Wikipedia notice board. The New article announcements board is probably the most important and the most attended one. Please don't forget to announce there the new articles you create. Adding both boards to your watchlist is probably a good idea.
Finally, in case you are interested, similar boards exist at Russia portal as many editors contribute to topics related to both countries. The respective boards there are: Portal:Russia/New article announcements and Portal:Russia/Russia-related Wikipedia notice board. Of course there are also many other portals at Wikipedia or you may just get right into editing.
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See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American artists. There is currently a discussion taking place on the article talk page with a view to recreating this list in a more viable format. It should not be recreated until consensus on this has been reached. I am also not happy about the large number of red links you placed on the list, as this is meant for notable artists, who would normally have their own article. Red links are likely to be removed if there is no evidence presented of notability. Tyrenius01:46, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! I wantedd to tell you that I am adding the link to Tolerance Monument to List of places in Jerusalem instead of Jerusalem, since I think that is a more appropriate place for it. I also was interested in reading your Polish church article. As I passed by on the way to O'Hare, I would always pass by and wonder about those grandiose buildings. Best, nadav23:55, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Excellent idea, Piotr. I'm just fascinated by this article and these churches. There must be plenty folks reading Did You Know would like to know about. KP Botany21:35, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
While not an expert on the matter, I am sure a large number of synagogues in Israel (mostly older ones I suspect) are built in styles from the diaspora. However, synagogues in Europe were usually not built to be as large or imposing as the churches. For more information, I would ask someone more knowledgable about such things. Maybe Chesdovi or someone else at Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism. nadav16:28, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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Avondale, Chicago
I was thinking about music samples, not pronunciation. Believe me, my voice is not intented to such samples :) However, I have requested Halibutt to do so. Thanks and best regards. —Visor (talk·contribs) 08:20, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Joseph Molitor (architect)
I was wondering what your plans are for this article. At present it needs reliable sources to show some level of notability. Without it, it could face deletion. I did not mark it for deletion but someone else may. JodyB talk00:51, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
DYK
On 31 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Supraśl Lavra, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Suprasl was not recognized as a lavra in the Russian Empire. Numerous Orthodox monasteries claim to have been called lavras from times immemorial, but that doesn't make the title official. We should always take ecclesiastical legends with a grain of salt. --Ghirla-трёп-18:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Cleveland's ecclesiastical architecture
Thanks for that contribution. EurekaLott has unilaterally struck a lot of material out of that article that they felt didn't belong. It's too bad they don't rely on Wikipedia's policies and guidelines as much as they do on their preferences. Makes it hard for people making good faith and properly supported edits. MARussellPESE02:45, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. I'm more familiar with the Wilmette House of Worship than most. I lived within ten miles of it for fifteen years, and spent a year-long internship there while in college. Have you visited?
One thing I think is very interesting is that the interior and exterior concrete work is of decidedly distinct styles in detail, with the exterior Sullivanesque and the interior more Deco, yet they blend quite naturally. Louis Bourgeois is credited with the building, but he didn't finish plans for the interior prior to his demise. The interior was designed in the late '40s by Alfred Shaw of Shaw, Metz & Dolio. The successful blending of these styles is a credit to Shaw, and something I should add to those articles.
Thanks for this article. Looks like you contribute quite a few! Could you provide the reference for your information? I found little on Google, probably because this is not too recent. thanks! —Gaffταλκ07:31, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In my opinion, two images of Belz Coat of Arms (1508 and 1772) ought to be presented in the article (like in Polish version). I am trying to add an image of Belz Coat of Arms, 1508 but unfortunately without success. Would you be so kind to do it ? All the best, Mibelz17:53, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WP:WPChi ratings
(also posted on WP:WPChi talk page) I would be cautious with just changing importance ratings merely because of AIA inclusion. By default an individual building listed on the National Register of Historic Places gets a "mid" and those not but listed as Chicago Landmarks by the city are listed as low. Chicago architecture represents the cumulative importance of all the individual buildings, archictects, styles, techniques, etc. Many individual buildings may be high for international cultural reasons. However, don't go down a road similar to the WP:ILIKEIT used in deletion discussions for changing our ratings. Review our assessment scale for more info as suggested above. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:10, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
St. John Cantius in Chicago
Thanks for contributions to St. John Cantius in Chicago. Also, thanks for calling our attention to this ratings oversight. During ratings often cursory glances at pages are used to determine a rating that follows an article around. Unfortunately, due to the limited volunteer manpower available in comparison to the volumes of work to be done this is necessary. If you have any further rating problems, call our attention to them at WP:CHIASSESS. I have set up a new section for importance assessments and reassessments. TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 16:50, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Generally, a Landmark District should have its own page if at all possible. Many people feel very strongly about neighborhoods having separate articles from the official Community areas of Chicago. In general we have been at a pretty good equilibrium with respect to this issue. What neighborhoods did you redirect?
Gateway Theatre (Chicago) has the same problem as the above article. The problem with an article with a bunch of interesting facts that are not cited inline is when the WP:NPP guys come by and look at your page they may see it has a lot of interesting claims that they can't find very easily. If the line was too long at Starbucks that day, they might WP:AFD your page because they don't know how to find all your claims. If they are interested in putting you to work they might tag it with all kinds of things that make your article look bad like {{unreferenced}}, {{Citations missing}}, {{cleanup}} or {{wikify}}. Whether or not they put these tags on the article they might put it on a watchlist to be AFDed in 6 months or a year as unsourced blatherings. I strongly encourage you to cite the articles inline while you remember where all the interesting facts came from.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 20:49, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Orestek, not to be nit-picky, but instead of using See Also sections to connect your articles, please consider just mentioning them inline, or creating (or using existing) categories, infoboxes and templates. Ask TonyTheTiger for advice in this regard. Speciate05:43, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Ciesze się, że podjęłeś próbę stworzenia angielskiego hasła o katedrze PNKK w Chicago. Hasła związane z Polskim Narodowym Kościołem Katolickim (PNCC) są mi niezwykle bliskie, bowiem jako członek Kościoła Polskokatolickiego (Polish Catholic Church), jestem też członkiem PNCC. Narazie jednak opisuje głównie parafie i katedry Kościoła Polskokatolickiego. Wyrażenie "Cement Stone", można przetłumaczyć jako "cegła".
Opisywanie kościołów PNKK (Polski Narodowy Kościół Katolicki (PNCC)) jest dla mnie troche niełatwe, ponieważ nie znam, aż tak dobrze języka angielskiego. Ciesze się natomiast, że ty interesujesz się Kościołami PNKK (PNCC). Spróbuje skontaktować się z ks. bp dr Janem Dawidziukiem, ale nie wiem czy zna on na tyle dobrze j.polski. Wierni Kościoła Polskokatolickiego (jak pisałem Kościół Polskokatolicki (PCC)) jest w unii z PNCC) z obawą obserwują zanik polskich tradycji, obrzędów i języka w działalności parafii PNCC. Jest nam przykro, że narodowi katolicy ze Stanów Zjednoczonych i Kamady rezygnują z liturgii w j.polskim, oraz że oba kościoły nie współpracują ściśle ze sobą. A ty Orestek jesteś członkiem Polskiego Narodowego Kościoła Katolickiego, jeżeli tak to z jakiej parafii i czy w waszym kościele są kultywowane jakieś polskie tradycje, obrzędowe lub językowe?
Bardzo się ciesze i dziękuje za zainteresowanie Polskim Narodowym Kościołem Katolickim. Szkoda, ze juz tak mało polaków w Stanach Zjednoczonych wie o istnieniu PNCC. Jeszcze raz dziękuje za przekład artykułu o kotadrze PNCC w Chicago. Spróbuje więc nawiązać z bp Dawidziukiem korespondencje w j.polskim - może uda mi się uzyskać od niego jakieś ciekawe informacje lub fotografie.
Odczytałem Twój wpis na mojej stronie w pl-wiki na temat Kościoła św. Trójcy. Masz absolutnie rację, że trzeba to hasło po polsku rozbudować i chyba mogę to zrobić, ale za chwilę, bo pracuję teraz nad innym projektem. Rozumiem, że Twój polski to jest Twój Second Language, ale radzisz sobie znakomicie, brawo! Ja dość rzadko zjawiam się na swojej stronie w en-wiki, dlatego raczej proszę o kontakt na mailu: belissarius26@gmail.com. You may use both Polish and English language, I shall respond. Pozdrawiam belissarius03:41, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
...redirected to Polish Cathedral Style. Przeczytałem - bardzo dobry artykuł, gratuluję! W wolnej chwili (bo teraz pracuję nad hasłem Austro-Węgierska Marynarka Wojenna, przede wszystkim w oparciu o artykuły w en-wiki i de-wiki) jeśli pozwolisz zajmę się tłumaczeniem "Polskiego stylu katedralnego" na język polski. And one more thing - Orestek, please, do not call me "Panie Belissarius"! W wikipedii nie ma "panów". Ty jesteś Orestek, ja Belissarius i to wystarczy. Nobody's age counts, OK? Pozdrawiam serdecznie belissarius19:30, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge templates
The date syntax is: {{Merge|other arguments|date=August 2007}}, but if you leave the date off it will be added by a WP:BOT. RichFarmbrough, 10:57 18 September2007 (GMT).
Polonia
I wonder if the average English speaker knows what Polonia means. There was a category, "Chicagoans", that was replaced with "People from Chicago" because (it was argued that) people from outside Chicago wouldn't know that it wasn't Chicagoers, Chicagoites or Chicagoians or whatever. As an example, what are people from Seattle called?
Anyway, since nearly all the other members of the Category:Diasporas have the word "diaspora" in them, and no others use their native language's word for it, "Polonia" stands alone. Is diaspora a distastful word for Poles? If not, what objections do you foresee with renaming the category "Polish diaspora"? Thanks, Speciate02:02, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Polonia would be fine as the title of the article on the Polish community outside of eatern Europe, but as a category I am sure "Polish diaspora" would be better received. Anyway, there's no rush to change anything, maybe I'll look around at other ethnic groups' talk pages for inspiration. Speciate18:18, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Flags you have seen
It’s good for me that you’ve visited both the Czech republic and PR, because this allows me to easily compare their flags. Many similarities, but also many differences
Along these lines it is also good for me that you have visited both Poland and Monaco. (though naturally, I thought at first that one of these flags was Indonesia’s flag) (I often forget which of these flags have red on top, and which have white on top.). Since you’ve already visited the Ukraine, you only need to go to Sweden to accomplish a rare flag hat trick. (I class these two together because their flags share the same colors. If they play a televised soccer match against each other, videotape it for me). Or since you’ve already visited Lithuania, you could accomplish this feat by visiting any number of nations with red, green, and yellow flags. I have studied flags, because I think they are symbols that tell us something about people who use them.
Not to be a killjoy, but since this is the English Wikipedia, I suggest using the English names. Even better than those lists would be a nice map. Speciate08:04, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your edit on Mayfair (Metra) station. It would certainly best for somebody who's actually from the Chicago Metropolitan Area to work on articles relating to these stations, but I still found a great deal of them to be fascinating. Just out of curiosity, can you get an image of the station to submit to that article? I notice that Metra doesn't have one for their official website. ----DanTD (talk) 02:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Parks
Good work with the addition of the Parks subsection to the city article. I noticed that you have made a link to the Chicago Parks District. I fixed the link, but the article is kind of a mess. Would you be interested in overhauling it? Ryecatcher773 (talk) 05:59, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Milwaukee Avenue
Nasze zasoby zdjęciowe z dawnych lat są ubogie. Z podobnym pytaniem przyszła do nas dziewczyna, która robi dyplom z tematu "Dziennik Związkowy" i też szuka zdjęć. Ona nie miała wysokich wymagań, więc posłużyła się reprodukcjami z gazety; tu jednak będzie trudniej. Niemniej zapraszam do naszej redakcji, może wspólnie coś wymyślimy. Namiary są takie:
adres 5711 N Milwaukee (między Brynmawr i Austin),
telefon do mnie (773) 763-3343 #242,
najlepszy termin to każdy piątek godz. 12 w południe.
Cześć, ucieszyłam się, że zechciałeś zamieścić moje zdjęcia w artykule, a przede wszystkim tym, że na en taki artykuł powstał :-) Niestety, posiadam bardzo marne umiejętności techniczne i nie umiem przenieść zdjęć na Commons. Wpisałam się do dyskusji w Ludźmierzu, ale bez skutku. A Ty nie mógłbyś mi pomóc? pozdrawiam serdecznie, Jadwiga —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.78.236.225 (talk) 12:18, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Dzięki za instrukcję. W czwartek (wieczorem) postaram się, aby zdjęcia były. Dam Ci znać jak się uda (jak nie, to też :-) pozdr. Jadwiga —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.78.236.225 (talk) 22:17, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your thoughts on Our Lady. It is not just for culture but she is so powerful and my life had been centered on her. I gave up in commons since the international laws on copyright are so tough. I dream and hope that the article of Our Lady of Manaoag will have a pics. Flickr does have many there and commons allow it[1]. But there are lots of tiger admins there. And Flick uploading is not that simple, it has long FAQs. So, I suggest, that you get another if not from Flickr, and go thru a kind administrator here, not in commons. The Coffee, our Filipino admin is kind one, and others too. So, please go ahead, be the one to upload it with my suggestion. There is nothing wrong if they delete it. Regards. - --Florentino floro (talk) 07:07, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Is this the preferred standard on wikipedia or just a personal stylistic preference [?]
The answer is neither; it's bcz of a problem i've never encountered before, and i'm guessing you missed what i put on the talk page at Talk:Nelson Algren#Quotation problems (8 hours ago; don't be distracted by my less relevant cmts in the subsection, 1 hour ago). If you read it and don't follow me, ask me a question or two. --Jerzy•t04:14, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
That's part of a sentence with two independent clauses, and i moved the 2nd of those clauses to a later point; that may have been a mistake, getting confused between the two novels mentioned as controversial. As to the first clause, i tried to find its basis in the source (in order to reword it) and IIRC came to believe it doesn't map to a single sentence, which is why i moved it since for me fixing was too big a job, and my purpose was to deal with the quotation problems. Were you the editor who contributed it? Can we collaborate on rewording it? --Jerzy•t 04:44 & 05:08, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I just struck thru above my confused account of my being confused; my confusion of titles didn't affect any of the article text, as far as i can see. --Jerzy•t05:08, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I'm about 5-10 minutes from sleeping, but if you don't have another plan, i'd be helped tomorrow if -- assuming you can easily locate the passages, i assume in the cited Chicago Talk page, that you relied on in composing your version of the sentence i gave up on -- & show me. It's pretty long, so it may help a lot to identify each with the number of its bulleted section (counting within the series of them) and the number of its 'graph (counting within the series of them in its bulleted section) -- My thot is that sometimes the context a sentence lies within clarifies or changes its meaning, so it helps to be able to count the way to each. --Jerzy•t07:37, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Talk-page ToC
I get no table of contents on this talk page, and unless you intentionally caused that, my guess is that it's a wanted or unwanted side effect of the Welcome in the lead section, and you may be able regain your ToC by either editing in __TOC__ at the start of a line, or removing the welcome, say to a new subpage User talk:Orestek/Welcome. Especially where there are many sections and some accumulate edits after new sections get added, it helps cut down on the scrolling effort for you and others who come here. (I've given myself a 4-year disqualification from criticizing failure to archive old talk -- can you guess why? -- so i'll say no more about reducing the number of sections.) Ask me questions or use Help:help if that doesn't make sense. --Jerzy•t08:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations. Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland has reviewed your contributions and decided you are an active member. Thank you for your encyclopedic contributions! But creating content by yourself is only part of the collaborative Wikipedia user experience, there is an active community of editors discussing how to better improve the Poland-related content; please consider joining our discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland. There are many editors who would like to work more closely with you, benefit from your insight, and help you with their experience! PS. Please also consider editing your entry in our participants list to state your areas of expertise/interest.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:58, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
While the country does need to be in the list - thanks - the content is considerable. Normally we just include the intro paragraph as it is a summary of the whole article. Smkolins (talk) 18:04, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for clean up of Architecture of Chicago
Thanks for setting the columns for the "Styles and schools" section. I would have done it, but didn't know how until I saw how you did it. So, I guess it is also a thanks for the lesson. Pknkly (talk) 01:19, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Expansion of the article isn't the issue here. An article can be huge and filled with info and not be notable. When you put the {{hangon}} template on a page that's been tagged for speedy deletion, you're supposed to then list your reasons for opposing its deletion on the talk page, not add more content. Thewtfchronicles (talk) 08:22, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'll try to find more sourced informations to add to the article, e.g. names of Polish organizations in Northern France. I'm currently an active member of the Jewish Labour Bund Task Force and I mostly write on related subjects, but I'm interested in all minorities. If I can help you translating sources in French, tell me.--Pylambert (talk) 01:53, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Re: St. Mary of the Angels in Chicago
Sorry, my bad. I'm just starting to use Huggle and I haven't fully developed my sense of when something is wandalism. I'm getting better, but I'm still getting waaay too many false positives (too many = more than 0). :( - Pingveno17:56, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I am having trouble finding evidence of Wacławowo in Avondale. There don't appear to be any sources; is it possible that the spelling is off? Speciate (talk) 06:04, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Wikipedia rules clearly state "Since both Wikipedia and Wikitravel are now licensed under the Attribution ShareAlike license, appropriate content can be shared between the two." Why have you deleted this content?--Orestek (talk) 06:32, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, Orestek. Thanks for your substantial addition to the gallery section at Art Deco. I'm wondering if maybe the section is now not a little, well, too much. I'm not sure I've seen one quite as large on Wikipedia. One way we might be able to fix this is by removing some of the images that are already commonly used on Wikipedia — like the shot of the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, which already appears on 27 other pages. When I set up the gallery, I tried to use images that were unique to the gallery. Also, I tried to spread the examples out over the areas of architecture, trains/cars, ephemera/graphic arts. By adding so many architectural examples — and putting them all in at the top, squeezing the "blended" images down to the bottom — that balance is now out of kilter. Do you think you might trim back some of your contributions to eliminate repetitive ones, and then distribute them throughout the gallery so the top is not so architecture-heavy? Thanks. Cordially — HarringtonSmith (talk) 19:18, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I also included architect/designer credits in each caption where they existed. Could you provide that information in your entries, please? Thanks. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 19:23, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I added some architect and date details to some of the captions, and rearranged a few others so they'd fill out the lines better and hence stack better. I came up bone dry on Shaw's Oyster Bar, both architect and year. I'd like you to consider a few more deletions: the Rivoli Theatre, the Canadian Supreme Court and St. Wenceslaus are not as emblematic of the style as they could be; with this many photos in the gallery, and the vast universe of art deco to choose from, I think each image needs to be totally spot-on Deco. In the same vein, isn't Metropolis considered more Expressionistic than Art Deco? Also, that particular image is not from the Commons and so will need a Fair Use Rationale posted for it if it stays. I have more detail work to do, but tonight I'm beat. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 06:23, 11 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. I restored the original 16 images to the top of the gallery because their positions in the rows were carefully chosen to spread the categories — architecture, ephemera/graphic arts, transportation and wall sculpture — out in a balanced, structured way; since the body of new images is still in flux, every time an image was added or deleted at the top, it changed the careful stacking of the original 16. I also substituted two closer shots: the statue in Poland and the Buffalo Union Station. The closer shots provide more detail and therefore are (and I hate this term) "more encyclopedic." Hope that's okay; put 'em back if you disagree.
I'm still concerned we have too many images. The image gallery guidelines say: "Images in a gallery should be carefully selected, avoiding similar or repetitive images, unless a point of contrast or comparison is being made. Just as we seek to ensure that the prose of an article is clear, precise and engaging, galleries should be similarly well-crafted. See 1750–1795 in fashion for an example of a good use of galleries. However, Wikipedia is not an image repository. A gallery is not a tool to shoehorn images into an article, and a gallery consisting of an indiscriminate collection of images of the article subject should generally either be improved in accordance with the above paragraph or moved to Wikimedia Commons." If it were my planet, we'd have a hundred images in it, and they'd be larger, too. But what I'm afraid of is some Barney Fife from the Wikipedia Thought Police coming in and taking offense to a 37-image gallery and dumping the whole thing. Or maybe worse, taking it upon him/herself to choose which few s/he feels are appropriate.
I don't know what our final image-count goal should be. 32 might be a good first step, then maybe 28 after that. The largest gallery I ever saw was at Alexander Calder and it got eradicated — though I think there were copyright issues as well as gallery size. Here's a list of shots I'm looking at for adjustment:
Original 16 images
Phillips radio — I see better, more emblematic deco radios on old radio websites, but the photos are all copyrighted. On the plus side, it is an example of industrial design and if we replace it, I'd like to replace it with another, better, radio
Municipal auditorium chandelier — Love the subject but the photo quality is C–
Teatro Eden — Great building, but photo needs cropping; easy enough, I guess
19 new images
Coliseu do Porto — Great building, but terrible oblique angle on it. No detail visible except on the tower
Oyster Bar — Much as I love this shot, particularly the colors, I'm wondering if it's authentic 30s/40s deco or some modern recreation. Are you a Chicagoan? Do you have any local sources about dates and architect?
Guardian Bldg Interior — The vaulted ceiling, which dominates the shot, is not so deco-y to my eye; perhaps the background stuff is more emblematic, but in this shot, you can't see it. Also, it's on 7 other pages
Coit Tower — A nice enough deco structure, but it's not as eye-catching as others we have. Also, it's on 5 other pages
Queen Mary bar — I considered this one when I posted the original 16, but ultimately rejected it because it's a terrible photo: there's so much flare from the windows that the design detail is all lost. If we could find a better photo, like at night, I'd love to use the room
Asheville City Hall — I might like the building more if the photo were better, but it's small, grainy and really doesn't inform about the building, even when enlarged. I'll check if the LOC has something better, though we are looking to trim and this is a good candidate
Also, may I abbreviate St. Wenceslaus to R.C. from the full spelling Roman Catholic? It's a 5-deck caption and really needs to get to 4.
Made the trims, restacked the images to "spread the wealth" of the non-architecural photos amongst all the buildings. All in all, I think it looks a lot better, though I'm still concerned that 32 images are too many. I also converted everything to single-spaced format because it makes it easier to finagle the layout. Anyway, hope you like. Also, since you're interested in art deco churches, don't know if you're familiar with this one — Boston Avenue Methodist Church — but I always thought it was the gold standard. Regards. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 16:57, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Also, do you know any Polish? I'm trying to figure out if Stary Dom Poselski is the architect/designer of the bas relief in the Polish Parliament bldg. — HarringtonSmith (talk) 17:18, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I am absolutely flabbergasted at your impudence, your extraordinary rudeness and everything else that it takes to watch a person carefully reconstruct an article, then copy and paste it in its entirety to another page.....without giving the contributor the slightest clue that you were doing it.
Because this is Wkipedia, I cannot accuse you of plagiarism. But common decency and respect for other contributors ought to have prompted you to at least give some slight indication to the person whose hard work you were so busy cutting and pasting, that this was taking place.
Had you discussed the matter with me, I would have suggested to you that some of what you were using was indeed relevant to the other article. The remainder is much better left exactly where you filched it from: Architecture of cathedrals and great churches.
Why? Because an article that is called simply Church architecture, needs to deal with churches, not great cathedrals. There is a considerable difference in the architecture of a parish church and one built specifically to serve as a cathedral or a great pilgrimage church/basilica. The second article is needed.
However, if it simply repeats what has been said in other article, verbatim, then it is worthless. In the light of your cut and paste, a person would have to search in order to find the Pre-Orestek setions which contain pertinent information not included elsewhere.
Basically, all that the Church architecture article needed was appropriately placed links to the other article.
I cannot believe that you transferred the entire content of an article that had just been written, without any discussion! How dare you treat me so rudely!
The wooden church in Poland is brilliant. I have been temporarily derailed as my teenage son has been preparing a major project for his final high school exam. Amandajm (talk) 03:22, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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czemu przeniosłeś artykuł w wersie angielskiej "Marie Skłodowska-Curie" do "Marie Curie"
przecież prawidłowa nazwa to "Marie Skłodowska-Curie" nawet na grobie było dodane jej drugie nazwisko.
"Skłodowska-Curie" to jej pełne nazwisko. wiec proszę zmień to , — Preceding unsigned comment added by Winooo (talk • contribs) 13:46, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
the Baha'i section in Abrahamic_religions#Origins_and_history is far too large in comparison with the other religions. It needs to be far shorter. If a section on the religion outside of it's main section at the bottom is to be contemplated I'd suggest in the Eschatology section as it stands most distinguished from the other religions in that regard. See End_time#Bahá'í_Faith and Second_Coming#Baha.27i_Faith. The Abrahamic religions article has since intense editing in the past largely over due weight. Disregarding this balance will invite such attention again. --Smkolins (talk) 03:00, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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also, those articles will be included in our cleanup listing, which allows us to see which top-importance articles are in need for attention, and so on. We have tens of thousands articles in need of cleanup there, so if you ever need something to do, just look at this gigantic list. (I am currently reviewing the articles tagged with notability, either proving them notable or nominating for deletion; there are still several dozens left if you want to help!).
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Hi, I noticed you were involved in the infobox of different Polish diasporas. I want to add a Polish language version of History of the Poles in the United States. I don't know why I can't, but right now wikipedia won't allow me to link them. Also, the Polish language wikipedia has immediately taken down the polish version. If you can help me put it upon the Polish language version, I would greatly appreciate it. I want Polish readers to have access to historical information about the Polish diaspora here. Also, if you are in the Chicago area and can get copyright-free photos of Polish pride parades or Polonia in general, I would love to put those images on here to enhance the page. thanksPola.mola (talk) 19:30, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for your recent articles, including Fourth Partition (film), which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like {{WikiProject Keyword}} to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here19:08, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Metra - From Union Station, it's about 10-minute walk. Refer to Google Maps for directions from the station.
Nearest Bus Lines:
Northbound:
MichiganAvenue buses — 3, 4, 6, 26, 143, and J14 stop at Michigan & Monroe, walk across Michigan and you'll be right where you need to be!
Southbound:
Michigan Avenue buses — 3, 4, 26, 143, 147, 151 stop at Michigan & Madison/Monroe, walk south to corner, cross Monroe, and you are at the library.
State Street buses — 2, 6, 10, 29, 36, 62,146, 148 stop at State & Monroe, walk (under the South Wabash elevated tracks) along East Monroe block and a half to the library.
Clark Street buses — 22, 24 stop at Clark & Madison & Monroe, walk lakeside (away from the South Wells elevated tracks and toward the South Wabash elevated tracks) along East Monroe three blocks and a half to the library. Can transfer at Monroe & La Salle to J14 for less walking (walk south to corner and 1 block west crossing La Salle).
Eastbound:
Monroe Street buses — 850, 851, 855, J14 stop at Monroe/Wabash, walk (away from the South Wabash elevated tracks) along East Monroe half a block to the library.
Washington Street buses — 20, 56 stop at Washington & Wabash, walk as suggested above (along East Washington). The library is 2 blocks to the south.
Jackson Street buses —1, 7, 28, 126 stop at Jackson & Wabash, walk as suggested above (along East Jackson). The library is 2 blocks to the north.
Best navigation/schedule of buses/trains aid:
Google MapsAndroid or iOS App SHOWS IT THE BEST, as well as moving 3-D contours of Loop buildings as you move the map:
type: prit and select Pritzker Military Museum & Library from the list of Chicago Pritzker institutions (1st item),
zoom in/out, move the map until you see nearby bus/train icons
tap bus/train icon once for stop name,
tap stop name for list of lines + three next arrivals.
The Pritzker is on the corner of Michigan and Monroe in the Monroe Building (across Michigan from the Art Institute). Our event is likely to be on the 3rd floor of the building, where you can get a nametag and information on the day's events.
When?Saturday, April 18th 2015 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM.
What else do I need to know?
Participants will be given lunch and their entry fees to the Pritzker waived, but they must sign up at the bottom of this event page. All you have to do is check in on your arrival.
The general agenda will look like this:
We will meet initially at the Pritzker at 10:00 AM, get ourselves situated and introduced, and begin some planning and editing.
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After lunch, we'll head back to the Pritzker where we can resume editing and take some time to check out the Pritzker's excellent art gallery and collections. We'll finish up around 3:30.
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Given your high fluency in Polish, I am reaching out to you in regards to the History of the Poles in the United States article. It has no Polish equivalent, and any time you can spend towards translating in any capacity would be much-appreciated. I would be more than happy to help any way that I can.
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Adding a citation for Chicago is not justification for restoring all of the other entries in this section that were appropriately removed.[3] As I wrote in my edit summary "Latest addition is unsourced, the others are for the LGA, not the metropolis".[4] Only the first part applied to your edit, the remainder was quite correct and the content shouldn't have been restored. The cities listed are sisters/friends with City of Sydney, the core Local government area (LGA), not the metropolis itself. There are 31 LGAs in the Sydney metropolitan area and, according to City of Sydney's website, it has the friendship agreement with Chicago.[5] This is appropriately included in City of Sydney, but should not be included in Sydney, which is about the area covered by all 31 LGAs. --AussieLegend (✉) 11:23, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for your recent articles, including Wągrowiec Abbey, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like {{WikiProject Keyword}} to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here02:43, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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