This page is an archive and its contents should be preserved in their current form;
any comments regarding this page should be directed to User talk:PFHLai. Thanks.
And real life is very much in the way these days.
I probably won't be able to log in as frequently and contribute as much as I would like. Messages left here probably won't get a quick response as before. Your patience would be very much appreciated.
You're welcome, Williamborg. Thank you for the interesting article. Till I came across this article of yours, I didn't know that things happening on the North American coast affect the Antarctica like that. Thank you sharing the knowledge. Please feel free to post alternate hooks for DYK on T:TDYK. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 23:59, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
My congratulations too, 1000 DYKs is off course a great achievement after which you have all rights to retire :-) If not, then Michaelwild might need your help with updating/defending the hook for that nom. Its a good article, but I'm not sure the diabetes part is justified for main page - it is a massive research and I want to be careful with not stirring scientific world by a post at WP main page. Use in oriental medicine is Ok with me though. Materialscientist (talk) 08:19, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much, Materialscientist, but I ain't retiring yet! I am quite busy in real life, though. An alt.hook about tradition medicine is now posted on T:TDYK#Trema orientalis. Thanks for the suggestion. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 06:43, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Michaelwild. I'm aware of the similar results. Thanks for the reminder, anyway. In Wikipedia, if you feel strongly that something should be mentioned in a particular article, you revise the article to include whatever you think should be mentioned. Please feel free to edit the Trema orientalis article the way you want. (Someone else may follow and edit it the way they want.) It's the wikipedian way! If I have to make a suggestion, I'd would encourage starting the Trema micrantha article, and when you're done, please feel free to nominate it for DYK. Go right ahead. Happy editing. Cheers! :-) --PFHLai (talk) 22:21, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand. This edit appears to change it so that all relisted things are invariably sorted under "Relist", as opposed to whatever their AFD subpage name is. Or am I reading it wrong? harej14:40, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I meant "<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>" there. Thank you for pointing this out to me, harej. Is it better now? --PFHLai (talk) 14:55, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Salut, PFHLai!
I'm wondering why you removed the stub tag from the Giono article when it basically only covers his first three books, makes it sound as though his career was over by the nineteen-thirties, says nothing about his pacifism and consequent problems during and after WWII, doesn't even mention his change of manner and second period . . . it looks like a stub to me. What do you think? Awien (talk) 22:22, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Salut, Awien!
I was only stub-sorting. While I removed {{Stub}} from the top of the wikipage, I posted {{France-writer-stub}} at the bottom (the usual place for a stub tag) in the same edit. The article is indeed quite short and incomplete, but it seems longer than most articles I've seen tagged as stubs (those with scant/basic info). I hope that with stub-sorting, the wikibio will get expanded by Wikipedians familiar with the subject soon. I hope this helps explain things a bit.
OK, I see - I just didn't scroll down to the bottom. So let's hope we get some response, or if not, maybe I'll have time myself some day. Thanks! Awien (talk) 02:30, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Nicely done, Awien. Your good work expanding the article should get the spotlight on MainPage as a DYK soon. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 23:39, 14 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey
I'm very happy to see you are still around. I recall working together on articles with you in 2004! Still busy in meatspace then... JFW | T@lk20:02, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
On 25 May 2010, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Trinidad and Tobago general election, 2010, which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page.
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On 1 June, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Taphrina padi, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Hello! Your submission of Jordan Romero at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!
If I come across something useful and reliable, I'll stick them into the article to enrich the coverage. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 17:07, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for including me. I feel humbled. I am working two projects and need to pump out an article today so it's within the five day window for a DYK nom. I will revisit Jordan Romero hopefully before an admin reviews it for the DYK nom addition. I don't know if you want to expand the article. What I would recommend is looking the See main article I created using the Mountaineering terms. Some of terms are not a separate Wikipedia article but you can force a wikilink by linking a word in the list. For example, ascend. I will put this in now. ----moreno oso (talk) 10:37, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
On 1 June, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jordan Romero, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Congratulations and thanks again for including me in the DYK nom. BTW, you and I share something else today: we both had double DYKs on the same day. My other one comes for Alden John Bell. ----moreno oso (talk) 12:14, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. Sorry about the referneces; they are my weak point on wikipedia. The short references were "references within a reference" from [2] so I can't provide more details on where they come from. I did a quick web search but can't as yet find the original documents online. I will try to put in footnotes on the description and distribution. Also just to note that I am not 100% certain if the pictures are of the said varieties - need to get an expert to look at them to confirm. Also the taxonomic status of these trees may still be in confusion; an expert needs to look at that too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelwild (talk • contribs) 17:00, 2010 May 30 (UTC)
Oh, well, Michaelwild, please do you can and what you think is best. I've tagged the article with {{refimprove}} for now. Contact Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check as you see fit. I'll be off-line the next little while, so good luck with the DYK nom. If it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be. Don't worry about it. (Maybe some expert can fix things for you.) Happy editing. --PFHLai (talk) 18:13, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I've never made it toward the D.Y.K. page before. The article is in terrible shape, having just been created, and its purpose was to be a model for an alternative to making a separate page for each earthquake in the area. The only reason that it has as much information as it does is because User:Yngvadottir had tracked down sources and brought them to my attention during our debate Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2009 Germany earthquake, and one of those sources had the historical info. However, I can add citations fairly quickly and I'll improve the article, regardless of whether it gets chosen for the display case. Mandsford15:24, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the DYK nomination! The reason I didn't nominate it is that I'm really out of my depth on the topic. Someone who likes to create stubs on disasters created one on the September 2009 quake, that is at AfD, I argued for retaining it based on sources I found and added, and Mandsford was convinced there should instead be a global article. I can read German so I pointed out the German article on the Cologne Bight seismic zone, but declined to create the article . . . he did, but he apparently doesn't read German so it was a bit of a mess, so I improved it, including translating the meat of the article to go with the list he had imported and summarizing material from 2 German articles on specific historical earthquakes that have their own articles on de.wikipedia, and then stuck the "expert needed" template on it since that was as far as I figured I could go. I can try to find refs for the geology section other than the ones that are already there (official German geology and seismology sites), but I really hope someone else who knows the stuff can do that. (I was thinking that when I had time - I put aside 2 articles I was improving to fix up this one - I'd look for info on the 1951 Euskirchen quake. That was a 5.8 and prompted the creation of the German earthquake monitoring station. Surely there is material in newspaper archives on that.) The stuff about the effects of the Düren quake, however, is taken from the Monheim book, which is full view on Google. It's just in German :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 15:59, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, both of you, Mandsford & Yngvadottir, for your [[Wikipedia|collaborative writing of an encyclopedia article]] on earthquakes in Germany. The article is not FA-quality yet, but it has a very good start and most certainly qualifies for DYK, a section on Wikipedia's MainPage to showcase new additions to the encyclopedia. Please feel free to add more stuffs such as the 1951 Euskirchen quake to the page. I could see the article grow into a GA in the near future. (It has ITN potential, too, but for the sake of the people who live in Germany, I hope it never will get there.) Keep up the good work! Happy editing. --PFHLai (talk) 17:19, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Just to be consistent with the rest of MainPage. Almost an unwritten MOS for the MainPage to me... Anyway, thanks for putting that on ITN. You beat me by maybe 20 seconds.... :-) --PFHLai (talk) 03:17, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome — I just saw Petraeus' photo and was surprised that we didn't have a (pictured) for him; always glad to find a good reason to edit the Main Page :-) I've never before noticed the italics; when I include photos in my DYK nominations (the only way I typically contribute to the Main Page), I always do (pictured), but checking shows me that the last several updates of the template have (pictured). Nyttend (talk) 03:23, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure who started this, but it seems that we've been italicising those parentheses on ITN for at least 4 years. (example). Time flies.... --PFHLai (talk) 03:45, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please let me point out that the "strong oppose" was posted more than 10 hours after the blurb was added to ITN. --PFHLai (talk) 16:58, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello PFHLai, I sourced and updated the article to get it listed on the main page if you want to check it out. Thanks for working hard on the Rafael Nadal article.BLUEDOGTN16:47, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Bluedogtn. I did so little. Thank you for your hard work on the Serena Williams article. Glad to see this tennis news on MainPage. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 09:15, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the footnotes! I've nominated your new article for DYK. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 19:30, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the ITN barnstar, HJ. I have that many edits there? I guess I must have started to accumulate edits there a long time ago..... :-) Thanks, again. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 23:44, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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and therefore, I've officially declared today as PFHLai's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear PFHLai!
2010-08-08 is my day ?!?! Whoa, thank you, Rlevse! Not sure what I have done to deserve this, though. Thank you, nonetheless. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 08:19, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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(double DYK hook)... that the voyages of the Otter
Thank you for your nomination for a (double DYK hook)... that the voyages of the Otter (ship)...
Does this mean it appears twice?
The article about Peron still needs work and is perhaps not quite up to standard.AWHS (talk)
I just noticed your nomination of the article I wrote on James Milson, thanks for that as well. These are now ready to go I believe? AWHS (talk)
You're welcome, AWHS/Majormax. I think they're more than good enough for DYK. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing more of your work featured on MainPage. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 23:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for alerting me about the duplication. I'll see what I can do about your other nice contribution to Wikipedia. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 06:11, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
No prob. I actually like your hook wording better than Gerda's, so maybe suggest it as an alt? Thanks for taking an interest in my work. Cheers.4meter4 (talk) 06:14, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've nom'ed three of the five articles you suggested. The Zerola hook could use an extra footnote in the article. I didn't nom Salvatini because I couldn't come up with an appealing hook, and articles with only {{one source}} are often rejected for DYK. For Siboni, I thought you may like a compound hook -- if you're interested in starting the articles very soon:
A hook about Siboni founding the Royal Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen would also work. But again, if you're interested, you would have to type fast, or the Siboni article would be too old to qualify for DYK. Due to deadlines at work, I'd most likely be away from Wikipedia the next little while, so you're on your own. :-) Hope this helps. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 19:13, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Selected anniversaries on September 10
Hi, becuase Eid ul-Fitr will be celebrated in many important countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and many others on Saturday, do you think we should correct it. --Sakitalk09:16, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, yes, Saki, it should be fixed, but it's too late now. I have been away and I wish I knew about this sooner. Thanks for the note, though. Maybe next year. --PFHLai (talk) 20:51, 12 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
DYK (#1067~#1079)
On 13 September 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kulhar, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
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Hello, David. Thank you for the cookie. Don't worry. I don't feel any hostility at all. We just happen to disagree on the meaning of the word "awarded" in the ITN blurb. It's perfectly alright.
Here's some milk for you. Milk goes well with chocolate chip cookies. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 04:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello PFHLai, my article on Infanta Urraca was mainly a translation work, I translated it from Spanish, that is why it has a spanish language box, sorry if this means it won't feature. Thank you--David (talk) 19:53, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I don't see why translation makes this ineligible for DYK. Anyway, if you have more sources, please stick them in to the article. We might get lucky. :-) Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 20:01, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
DYK for Mesobuthus martensii, my 2nd "DYK creation"
On 29 October 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article BmKAEP, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 29 October 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mesobuthus martensii, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it 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.
Hi... I have added the snake DYK into the DYK Hall of Fame: [5] However, I wasn't sure if all the editors are listed in the final column (it is headed "Nominator"). Do you have any experience with this? Thanks. EdChem (talk) 10:07, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, EdChem. Sorry, I don't know. I don't edit that wikipage. IMO, the header of that column should be changed to "Article Contributors", instead of "Nominators". Hope this helps. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 21:30, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
On 6 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article SS Utopia, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
There are tons of usable FA/GAs out there, except hardly anybody knows to nominate their own FA/GA. I've been harvesting a few from a prolific FA/GA writers on "important" things but it will be rather glacial while hardly anyone cares, or only complains without helping to dig, or only complains about topics they don't like. So we have a few more Brazil and classical music now, but I wonder if you would like to help scan FA writers' userpages. I did suggest to a few to self-serve but they didn't respond in any way YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 03:48, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, YellowMonkey, I have been contemplating a return to SA work, anyway. Thank you for asking! :-) My problem is that I no longer have as much free time as I used to. And frankly, the list of events on the "Days of the Year" wikipages need to be refreshed, too. So this will be quite a bit of work. I'll see what I can do. May I ask what you mean by "scan FA writers' userpages"? Any suggestions which users I should start with? --PFHLai (talk) 04:42, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well WP:WBFAN has a list of people with FAs, and I meant, going through their listed articles, and other GAs on their userpage to see if they have good hooks and date relevancy. I tried encouraging some of them to self-serve/nominate but none of the few I asked ever responded. Maybe I give off a nasty vibe and you're more jolly :) ? YellowMonkey (bananabucket!) 04:52, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, it's not like I get a response that often. My suggestions for DYK get ignored all the time. It's okay. .... I won't be able to start work on the SA templates right away. But I will work on them soon. I might start with the first contributor on the list at WP:WBFAN, so this poor fellow won't get yelled at again for putting wikilinks to his own work on MainPage. :-D Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 05:23, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, and thank you very much for your comments at the DYK nomination page. All of the currently used volatile anesthetic agents, including methoxyflurane, are fluorinated haloalkanes. With the exception of halothane, all of them are also halogenated ethers. All of them, including halothane, were first synthesized as a direct result of research that was conducted in support of the Manhattan Project. The first of these to appear in clinical use was halothane, in 1956.
First however the uranium had to be rendered into a gaseous form. Uranium hexafluoride (UF6) was selected after chemists figured out how to synthesize UF6. Among the team of chemists involved was William T. Miller, the man who first synthesized methoxyflurane as a byproduct of this organofluorine chemistry research. So you can see that the volatile anesthetic agents of today are really a spin-off of the technology developed during the Manhattan Project.
On 22 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1932 Changma earthquake, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the 1932 Changma earthquake in the China resulted in a surface rupture of approximately 116 km (72 mi), the largest rupture observed for a reverse-slip event in Asia in the 20th century? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 22 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Muscle cuirass, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the muscle cuirass is one of the elements that distinguished the attire of a senior officer in the Roman Army? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Hi, Easchiff. Thank you for your article on Neon lighting. I see that you've posted a link to it on the SA/OTD template. I had previously nominated this article of yours for DYK for tomorrow for the 100th anniversary. I have withdrawn the nom. to avoid having the same thing on MainPage twice on the same day. Please feel free to undo/revert should you decide to have your work featured on DYK instead. (Entirely up to you.) Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 22:09, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate the DYK nomination; sorry that I hadn't noticed it before. I think OTD will be just fine; let's leave it there. Cheers, Easchiff (talk) 23:46, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I had written the article, and cleaned up some related ones, for the December 3 centennial. So I was pleased that it got quite a few looks. Thanks for your support. Cheers, Easchiff (talk) 12:38, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
A question about this edit. Do we restart the clock whenever a story is updated like this? It seems reasonable to me to update a blurb as events change, but if we shift the date back every time we do, then it ends up staying on the main page far longer than other items about things that aren't as fluid. It would seem more reasonable to me to keep it's place in line, but update as new info becomes available. Otherwise, it doesn't make as much sense to keep items current if it means extending their stay on the main page. If you could explain why restarting the clock is better, or point me to a guideline or discussion somewhere, I'd appreciate it.
Not complaining, just asking. I saw your weekdays edit notice; there's no rush on this, I'm just curious. I'm not looking to change it back or anything. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:52, 6 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Floquenbeam. Thank you for your question. Sorry to keep you waiting. Real-life gets in my way too often...
Items on ITN are listed chronologically. More recent events are always higher up. Items can move up if both the line on ITN and the article are updated and there are significant developments in the story, as in this case (IMO) with the swearing of the two Prez, after the original line simply reporting the outcome of the election got posted on ITN 2 days earlier. (If the update was just a slightly higher death toll of some disaster, no, the line stays where it is on ITN.) I wouldn't reset the ITN clock without a brand new item, though. When it comes to time spent, well, sometimes an item enters ITN in the middle or near the bottom of the template just because the article updating took too long or there was too much time-wasting argument on ITN/C. These items come off the template sooner. So, time spent on ITN is quite variable. It's not FIFO. How long each item actually can stay on ITN also depends on how often ITN gets new additions afterwards.
Poor choice of words on my part, saying "restart clock"; I didn't mean the update-every-24-hours clock, I mean more like a restart on the time it's on the main page.
I see that this is really just a minor difference of opinion on the significance of the change; I think of the swearing in more like an update on a death toll. Judgment call, I can see your point, and no worries.
On 10 December 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Woodwrae Stone, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that when the foundations of an old Scottish castle in Angus were cleared in 1819, a floor slab in the castle's kitchen was found to be a Pictish stone, the Woodwrae Stone(pictured)? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
I saw you put the 1777 Christmas Island thing back on OTD for today. Tomorrow, there's another entry for Christmas Island, except it's a completely different year (1643) and island. How much confusion do you think that's going to cause? If you think that's a little too weird, I'll swap the 1643 guy out (or you can, take your pick). howcheng {chat}02:39, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Howcheng, for reminding me about Christmas Island already scheduled for use tomorrow. I just wanted something quickly for MainPage balance. It's now taken off today's SA template, and replaced by the end of the War of 1812 in 1814. Thanks, again. --PFHLai (talk) 04:16, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Actually it was a different Christmas Island. You put on Kiribati, which is an independent country, and I had on Christmas Island, which is a territory of Australia. I was just thinking that people would see "Christmas Island" on twice and get confused. howcheng {chat}08:56, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, they are not the same? Thank you for pointing them out to me. I shoud've paid more attention.
I wouldn't worry about people getting confused. As long as the blurb on MainPage is clear which "Christmas Island" we are referring to, it's alright. Maybe we should keep both on. This may get people intrigued enough to click. :-) Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 11:27, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please notice the last sentence: If not, somebody else will do it for you; these tasks don't require admin tools! It is not mandatory for the posting admin to do it. --BorgQueen (talk) 19:06, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On 22 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article SS Ussukuma, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that a wreck off the coast of Argentina was identified in January 2008 as the passenger ship Ussukuma, which was scuttled in 1939? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 26 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Peucedanum galbanum, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the surface of the South African plant Peucedanum galbanum(pictured) is covered with blister-causing toxins, and that exposure to sunlight could make the blisters worse? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
PFHLai has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, so I've officially declared today as PFHLai's Day! For being a great person and awesome Wikipedian, enjoy being the star of the day, PFHLai!
I don't think I have done anything awesome to qualify for this honour, but thank you very, very much, Neutralhomer! You have an awesome day, too. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 12:19, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On 29 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sweetwater Dam, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the Sweetwater Dam(pictured) near San Diego, when first constructed in 1888, was the tallest masonry arch dam in the United States? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 6 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lake Ahquabi State Park, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that after successful restoration efforts in the 1990s, anglers in Lake Ahquabi now catch twice as many fish as in most other lakes in Iowa? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
On 7 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hamaxitus, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Hi! Thank you for nominating all those articles for DYK! If you need me to do any work on them let me know. I'm currently going through all the plants on the US endangered species list and these tend to have many juicy resources and research papers to cite, indicating good DYK potential. And I'm only on the C's! Thanks again and great work! Cheers, IceCreamAntisocial (talk) 18:35, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You are very welcome, IceCreamAntisocial. You have been doing good work and your good work deserves the spotlight on Wikipedia's MainPage. Please keep your nice articles on rare flowers coming. I am not around every day, so I am bound to miss out at least some of your goodies. So please be encouraged to nominate your own articles for DYK. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 05:06, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
On 8 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Carex specuicola, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the habitat of the rare Navajo sedge is limited to the shady side of steep, often vertical, cliffs of red Navajo Sandstone of the Colorado Plateau at elevations between 5700 and 6000 feet? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
Hey, I got your message. Sorry about the late reply, I don't really check my talk page much anymore. I've fixed the update template so that it has a flattened category "All Wikipedia articles in need of updating", which the bot should now use to update with. This template change should propagate and be picked up by the bot over the next couple of days. If you run into any more problems, Special:EmailUser/fl goes straight to my personal email which is checked daily. ~fl07:44, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, fl. Thank you so much for coming back and fixing things so effectively. That UPDATE line on OPENTASK is now properly stocked. Your help is very much appreciated. --PFHLai (talk) 02:45, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies for doing this, but I had another look at the double 'no-hitter' DYK I reviewed, and I'm not entirely happy with my prose calculations and whether the article text duplicated between the 'no-hitter by franchise' lists counts or not. I've switched to a query and I'm hoping it can be discussed there or someone else will have a look to see which way things should be calculated. Carcharoth (talk) 11:22, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Some of the text in the table could be put in prose form. It might be a stretch, though with such short lists, but hope it works out. Carcharoth (talk) 11:53, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Why did you make so many changes to the prep areas? I can't see any beneficial difference between what I had done and the current state of things. I spent a lot of time promoting articles and organizing them in what I believed were well balanced groups. You totally re-did most of them; some of which I think are less well organized than previously. If this is what helping out at DYK is like than I'm simply not going to do it anymore. It's a waist of my time if what I do is going to be completely changed. Sorry if I sound upset at you, but I am kind of miffed. If what I had done was somehow wrong, I appologize in advance. Best.4meter4 (talk) 08:59, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your msg, 4meter4. I am disappointed that my editing has caused such distress and anger to you, but I'm glad that you've let me know about it. Maybe I could explain why I did what I did. As you wrote, I made many changes to the DYK prep areas yesterday. I don't remember the how and why of everything I did, but here are a few things I do remember:
This set of hooks on P3 seemed a bit too Euro-centric. And then the last hook was problematic, per this post on WT:DYK. So I took out one Euro-hook and the problematic last hook, and then completed the set with more non-Euro hooks from T:TDYK. The revised set is currently on MainPage. The removed hooks went to a prep area slated for a later update to allow time for discussion on talk. I was buying time, so to speak.
This set on P4, if moved on queue as it was, was slated to appear on MainPage today. The lead hook is too similar to the TFA today. Putting two British battleships on MainPage at the same time next to each other seemed a bad idea. So I built a new set of hooks in P3 (already on my screen and empty) to be used on MainPage before this set, pushing the battleship DYK to tomorrow (UTC) instead. I started the new set on P3 with a few hooks already on P4 because they were already screened by someone (which turned out to be you) and therefore good to go, and I needed space to slot in the aforementioned problematic hook, effectively buying another 6 hours of time for discussion on WT:DYK.
This and this were done to even out the space to take up on MainPage, per previews. Both articles are US-bios. The difference is only one line. I must concede that these were minor cosmetic changes. But it's better to be consistent, and not inconvenience admins working on other sections on MainPage to adjust for left-right balance.
This set on P2, incomplete and not been edited for an hour, began with 4 consecutive Euro hooks -- okay, the lead hook counted as half, but still that makes 3-and-a-half consecutive Euro hooks -- and decided to re-order them as I took out the aforementioned problematic hook. I realized that there were no building-related hooks. We seem to have a small backlog of hooks on buildings in Europe, mostly UK churches, these days. I didn't count, but as I scrolled up and down on T:TDYK, they seemed to be growing in numbers. So I ended up removing a couple of Euro-hook along with the problematic hook, making room for a hook about a Euro-building coming in from T:TDYK. I proceeded to complete this set on P2 with some non-Euro hooks for geo-balance. This set was on MainPage a few hours ago.
I hope you now understand what was going on on my mind. I wasn't deliberately breaking up "your" sets. And I want well-balanced hook sets, too. Just that this is a wiki, when I see something that needs to be done, I edit accordingly, unless there is an {{in use}} tag. Also, I do move things around in the prep areas every now and then. There are hooks that I really dislike and I would not want to be the admin who put them on queue, but that's another story.... Anyway, please don't be miffed. Keep up your good work at DYK and in Wikipedia. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 09:19, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for taking the time to explain PFHLai. I'm not miffed anymore. :-) It's helpful to know what exactly you were looking for in the hook sets. Best.4meter4 (talk) 05:33, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I'm adding the credits- thanks for letting me know about that. But for the Batman articles, the last comment in the discussion was "Restored this deleted section. Referees said "move ALT2 to April 1 (done), promote ALT1a (to be done)". Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 23:23, 26 February 2011 (UTC)" So I think ALT1a is supposed to be promoted. --E♴ (talk) 05:26, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Ooopsss... Thank you, Yoninah. That was an error -- pressing Ctrl-V when I meant to press Ctrl-X to remove something. It's fixed now. --PFHLai (talk) 21:14, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I reviewed the DYK for the article earlier today, it's good to go. Would you mind if I added it to the holding area for 8 March (International Women's Day)? --JN46623:47, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, JN466, for your msg and for your DYK review. If you think March 8th is a good date, go for it! Please check with the article's author, too. Thanks, again. --PFHLai (talk) 00:13, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
PFHLai, would it be possible for you to review the Maureen Corrigan DYK? It's for 8 March, and time is slowly running out. The book I cited has google books preview; the relevant pages of Corrigan's book itself, also cited, can be viewed in Amazon. It shouldn't take too long out of your day. Best, --JN46620:08, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hey PFHLai, you moved these to DYK queues. They'll both be on for 8 March, International Women's Day, right? Both of them are Dutch, so the appropriate Dutch time zone would be appreciated. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 06:04, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, PFHLai. Both Dutch hooks are now on Prep 3. They should get on MainPage during the day in the Netherlands. Hope this helps. --PFHLai (talk) 15:20, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, the entry for Belinda Meuldijk, Wim Meuldijk, Pipo en de p-p-Parelridder, a triple nomination, is likewise Dutch and possibly appropriate for that day. It's been OK'ed. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 06:05, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
That's a great picture, Drmies, but not a picture of a woman. Let's save it for another day, to be used during the day in Dutch time. --PFHLai (talk) 15:20, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi PFHLai. Thanks for your work queuing DYK up for the Main page. I am just wondering if there's anything wrong with the DYK for Malati Dasi that it is seemingly being overlooked for the March 8 slot – or is it? Regards, Cinosaur (talk) 08:31, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Cinosaur. It wasn't overlooked. It's now on Prep 4. I was saving it in case we had more hooks for the day, and need a pic for another set on Prep 1. --PFHLai (talk) 15:17, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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And now another reviewer wants a page number for your ref..... Oh, well.... If you still have the book, please put in the number. Thank you. --PFHLai (talk) 01:37, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Honestly, I don't care about DYKs anymore PFHLai ([[User:Freechild/Awards|I used to), and your relating this reminds me why. While I appreciate quality WP content as much as anyone else, I do not feel bound to solely relying on reliable sources for minuscule information. In this case I culled a lot of information from online train aficionado forums- which I know not to be reliable, per se, but I also know to be the only source of information available to me beyond Google Books. DYK has become ridiculous, but thank you for trying. • Freechildtalk23:18, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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