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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.
Yeah, Skäpperöd, I figured, but I don't know enough to tell if the two wikiarticles should be merged. Anyway, I prefer using the same vocabulary as in the ref/source. Thanks for the note. --PFHLai (talk) 16:16, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
DYK (#901~#907)
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thanks for working on the Nephila komaci article. would you consider changing the style concerning big inline citations? it makes the text very hard to edit without special tools, cluttering enormously. even i get the creeps when encountering an article with many citations like this, imagine somebody not very versed in wiki markup, he'll be completely lost. i myself, and several other editors i talked to, have from time to time even refrained from editing an article because of inline blocks like these. as a compromise, there is now the practise to add the citation like <ref name="kuntner">Kuntner 2009</ref> inline, list all these under a Notes section, and then list the full references under a References section. This is really useful for taxonomic articles, to keep the text clean and editable, while at the same time being able to sort the citations cleanly at the end (by date, or alphabet, instead of first occurrence). thanks! --Sarefo (talk) 21:57, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Sarefo. You're welcome. Thank you for your work on the Nephila komaci article.
What you're telling me seems like a pretty good idea. I've never thought about it. Thank you for enlightening me on this.
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Regarding Prelit Trees, they are classified as electrical products in most countries such as the United States, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, and the rest of the European Union. Regards Deutsch Fetisch—Preceding undated comment added 01:28, 20 November 2009 (UTC).[reply]
Just wanted to let you know, because it was categorized under Category:Artificial Christmas trees. Deutsch Fetisch—Preceding undated comment added 6:20, 29 November 2009 (UTC).
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Hi PFHLai. I am Cargoking and you probably have seen me around ITN. I have identified you as an ITN regular, so I thought I would inform you of a discussion opened on 5 December 2009.
MSGJ suggested on Arsonal's (who's fairly new to ITN) talk page, that ITN suggestions made on the candidate's page would be put on separate pages, such as Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/2009-12-05. The past seven days of discussion would be automatically transcluded. "This would avoid the need for archiving and it would also leave the history of the page intact. It might also make it easier to create new days because we can use preload templates, etc." The only disadvantage to this proposal would be that each new comment would not show up on people's watchlists.
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...once again! I just noticed this on a quick incoming links check. Appreciate that! Let me know if the article needs any further polish or clarification. I just went out to the location yesterday to get a photograph from the same spot as that c.1900 photo for a before-and-after effect, and put that in. Cheers! Antandrus (talk)21:24, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome, Antandrus. Thank you for the nice article. It should be on DYK soon.
Nice work on the photo. I'm impressed that you actually went there to take the photo from the same site. I've placed your photo in the Summerland, California article, too.
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Thank you also for the many nominations. But no deleting my posts, please. ;-) (Though I assume this happened because the server got crazy in some way, but oddly enough the intervening edit did not get reverted.) Ucucha18:38, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OMG! Sorry, Man! I have no clue what happened there! I had no intention of deleting anyone's posts. I wasn't aware of your post being there, nor was I aware of your post disappearing. Why that happened the moment I posted my nom is really beyond me. I wish I could say "I didn't do it", but... that's what the Wikiservers have attributed to my editing. Yes, the wikiserver must have gone crazy in some way.... --PFHLai (talk) 10:22, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It was not even the only one. No problem, of course - it's not your fault. We might want to think sometime about doing something that would prevent this, but in the meantime we'll just have to stay focused and revert when something gets lost. Ucucha13:36, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This is very strange. I'm glad that you caught it, Ucucha. Thank you, again, for undoing the damages I somehow inflicted on T:TDYK. I wonder if it would help if the noms are posted on daily subpages transcluded on T:TDYK. At least moving "==Older nominations==" up at midnight UTC would be easier, I suppose. --PFHLai (talk) 18:00, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for your interest in this topic but the nomination that I made on December 12 is already in queue four, so I removed your re-nomination. Jezhotwells (talk) 12:12, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, Jezhotwells, I've fixed the DYK bot's recent errors. Hope you're happy. For the record, I have posted enough complaints about this recurring bot error (example) and I don't really want to make a big fuss on WT:DYK again. Shubinator, who appears to be busy and away from the wiki these days, has been fixing them every now and then since May. I see another bot error on your usertalkpage. I'll fix it in my next edit. --PFHLai (talk) 08:31, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
DYK (#940 & #941)
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Well, BorgQueen. If in doubt, leave it out. I favour mistake-avoidance. I'd also avoid things that get people to write long posts on Talk: MainPage -- right or wrong, I'd rather people spend time and energy working in article space instead of debating copyright eligibility of one replaceable image on Talk: MainPage. That's my 2 cents. Hope this helps. --PFHLai (talk) 17:51, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much nomming it at DYK. It turned otu to be a very interesting subject. Now I'm up to my eyeballs with John Hamrick, who is also turning out to be very interesting and to have owned many historic theaters. Thanks again. ChildofMidnight (talk) 19:08, 20 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Cool. That looks good. I'd prefer something more specific to the theater business than the more general businessman, but I can't think of better terminology. :) Thanks again. I'm struggling a big with the Blue Mouse because the one remaining open is kind of notable, but there were other much larger ones in the past with the same Blue Mouse name but in other places. It's kind of a bit messy and confusing. Let me know if you have any suggestions. And thanks again for your insterest and assistance. I appreciate it. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:28, 21 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad that I could help. May I ask that the spelling of "theatre/theater" be double-checked for the article and the DYK hook, please? I'm not sure when the British spelling should be used. I thought this is an American theater.
BTW, the Blue Mouse article is only ~200 characters short of being long enough to qualify for DYK. If you want to go for double-DYK hook with the Hamrick article, you might want to add a couple of sentences, plus refs, to mention the fact that the Proctor one is the only one of Hamrick's chain of Blue Mice that is still standing and operating, etc. Just a thought. Happy editing. Cheers! -PFHLai (talk) 05:38, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
They seem to have used the Theatre spelling in those days pretty consistently and it seems to be a tradition that is continuing for the old tyme theatres. I never understood the advantage of double hooks, but I changed the Blue Mouse article to be about all the theatres that went by that name so it should be no problem to make it long enough. What else is cooking? :) Now I'm up to my eyeballs in other obscure American architects. Lee Arden Thomas is getting interesting and he worked in Bend with Hugh Thompson (architect) . But their projects that are on the NRHP don't have articles or photos yet. So the matrix is pretty weak at this point. Thanks again for your help. Much appreciated. Party on. Tedder and Katr were helping on a couple other articles which is nice of them. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:47, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, ChildofMidnight, I just want to be sure it's correct in the article. Thanks. Bunching DYKs together means we don't have to come up with so many different hooks. And there's less waiting. Please be encouraged to nom the architect biographies. (I might do it if I can come up with a hook.) Happy typing. :-) --PFHLai (talk) 06:01, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Just to let you know that I always appreciated your attitude in handling troubled DYK noms. Surely, I would prefer those noms never happened, but c'est la vie. Having fewer dark noms would brighten our lives though. While I'm here, Merry Christmas and Happy forthcoming New Year! Materialscientist (talk) 06:47, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merry Christmas to you, too, Materialscientist. Thank you so much for your help at DYK. It's the careful screening of hooks by helpful people like you that prevents mistake noms of mine on T:TDYK from becoming embarrassments on MainPage. Much appreciated. May your 2010 be fun-filled and productive on and off the wiki. Happy holidays! Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 21:39, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Cirt put it as a lead in prep1, but I restored it at T:TDYK and asking your opinion - shall we hope for 3x or 4x nom or promote it? The time can certainly wait. Materialscientist (talk) 22:37, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for letting me know about this, Materialscientist. Please go ahead and use the author's hook for Oriental Theatre. My hook will still work with one fewer bolded link whenever the articles actually get created. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 22:42, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Please check the hooks for this nom at T:TDYK: Cirt made it single, but it can well be double, with another picture (I can quick-fix refs. in Lee Arden Thomas). Ah, and you can reply in one place - wherever you prefer - I always watch (for some time) a talk where I posted and remember my comments ;) Materialscientist (talk) 22:55, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your concern, Materialscientist. Let's leave things the way they are on P2 (except that "ceiling pictured" should be after "United States" -- I would've fixed it if the template isn't tagged with {inuse}.) It's okay. I'd let ChildofMidnight work on the refs in the L.A. Thomas article. I might come up with a different hook later. Thanks, again. --PFHLai (talk) 23:15, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
For MainPage purposes, the country should be there to give geographical context. IMO, "(ceiling pictured)" can go either before or after the string of place names, but not in the middle and interrupting the sequence. :-) Hope this helps. --PFHLai (talk) 23:34, 26 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I imagine this won't be the last time that part of the blurb is altered. We can't ever agree on how to properly present U.S. cities on the Main Page. -- tariqabjotu06:00, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I have to agree with PFHLai that the part wasn't really necessary, and was a bit pointless. Michigan where? That U.S. state is not that globally well-known either, no more than Detroit is. --BorgQueen (talk) 06:06, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, Tariq, the other Detroits listed on the disambiguation page are so much less notable than Detroit. And I'd say that, outside the USA, many people know where Detroit is but not as many people know where Michigan is. Mentioning the state in the ITN blurb doesn't really help. (I find that distracting, too.) Hence the change. --PFHLai (talk) 06:11, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, although it can't possibly be less productive, Wikipedia-wise, than my 2009. At some point I'll finish working on the Cairo article, although I'm afraid that point won't be until the summer. Happy New Year to you as well. -- tariqabjotu06:29, 27 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) I never said the change was wrong. I was simply pointing out that there never seems to be agreement on how to properly present major cities in the U.S. -- and really, from anywhere -- on the Main Page. Up until a few minutes ago, the Main Page clarified that Montreal is in Quebec, Canada (well, it tried to say that), and it is not at all uncommon to find places like Baghdad, Mumbai, and even London noted with their respective countries. And because of this disagreement, I at no point suspected the Detroit, Michigan, formulation, as originally suggested on ITN/C, would stay forever:
I think it's useful to mention the cities the flight was flying between, but I'd be okay with saying "between the Netherlands and the United States". I imagine someone may add USA to the Detroit, Michigan, description, or replace Michigan with USA, but we could be here all day debating that (although to be honest, I think Detroit could have even gotten the point across too).
Well, Tariq, I didn't say what was wrong, either. I don't really mind specifying where Montreal is in POTD, as long as the sentence structure is not messed up by the additional information. Unlike ITN, there's lots of room down in POTD. Furthermore, the two cities are probably "major" enough in the world stage to be mentioned on their own at ITN. --PFHLai (talk) 03:25, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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I’ve recently created an article on Rukhsana Kausar, who single handedly killed one LeT militant, injured one and made the other run for his life, when they berged into her house. I intend to promote a fact from it to DYK. So I request you to have a look at the article and let me know whether it is eligible enough to nominate and if yes how I should go ahead.
Hello, Xeteli. If an article is new enough (<5 days old), long enough (>1500 characters), and properly referenced, it is usually good for DYK. I have nominated this article on your behalf, using {{NewDYKnom}} in the DYK nomination space. You can do the same for your next new article. If you like, you can also post your own hook for this article by you next to my hook at T:TDYK#Rukhsana Kausar. One concern I have about this article is that Rukhsana Kausar may or may not qualify for an article under WP:SINGLEEVENT. (I am not sure.) Getting a National Award may be a second event. However, National Bravery Award needs to be updated to include Rukhsana Kausar. Moreover, I am not sure if she indeed is getting this award, which is meant for children. She is reported to be 20/21 years old in the newspaper articles used as references in the wikiarticle. You may want to check. Hope this helps. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 16:15, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome, Sir. If you don't mind, please quickly remove or confirm that Rukhsana Kausar has indeed won an National Bravery Award. The National Bravery Award is usually given once a year in January. For brave acts committed in September 2009, as in the case with Rukhsana Kausar, winners will be awarded in January 2010 at the earliest. So the wikiarticle, right now in December 2009, cannot possibly say "she has been awarded the National Bravery Award". Please check and confirm this fact. Ref.#6 in the wikiarticle right now only states "The Centre has announced a bravery award for her" without specifying what bravery award she is getting. Maybe it's some other bravery award? Please check and fix this before the article gets featured on MainPage as a DYK. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 05:43, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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On behalf of the Did you know? project and the many article creators you have introduced to the Main page, I congratulate you on far surpassing the milestone of 500 DYK nominations. As well, you are the first editor to achieve this goal! Binksternet (talk) 16:44, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Whoa, Binksternet, thank you so much for the pleasant surprise.
I'm the first one with the 500-medal? Cool. Thank you very, very much.
I hope I can get the 1000-medal soon. :-)
Happy editing. Cheers!
--PFHLai (talk) 03:07, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, ChildofMidnight. A number of the 500+ DYKs were your articles, and you did a lot more work than I did. Thank you! --PFHLai (talk) 18:33, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
500!!!!
Congratulations! I am really impressed. I just dropped by to thank you for changing my hook for the Barnsley fern on the DYK page, but now I am here I can see you really have a talent for this and are something of an expert. Your hook is definitely better than mine was. DSP-user (talk) 20:09, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, DSP-user. Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad that you approve of my DYK hook. Actually, I should apologize for nominating your Barnsley fern article -- I didn't see your original nom! I've fixed things up at T:TDYK#Barnsley fern. --PFHLai (talk) 01:49, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You can go ahead and change my main hook and delete my ALT hook! I puzzled and puzzled over those and it was only after I read what you wrote that I realized the hook should be blatantly obvious from the opening paragraph of the article. The word "Barnsley", like parsley, does sound more like a fern variety than a person. This has been my first DYK nomination, and I guess you could say it's been a learning experience from the start.82.134.149.180 (talk) 04:32, 11 January 2010 (UTC) Oops! that was me not logged in DSP-user (talk) 04:35, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
So it's your first one, eh? Welcome to the DYK party, DSP-user! Please be encouraged to write (type) more wikiarticles and nominate them all for DYK. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 07:33, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
My fern made the main page today with the picture and your idea for the hook! I am SO thrilled and I called my Mom and she was thrilled too. So thanks again, and yes, I am already looking around to see if there are any other articles I could dream up, but this was something that I just thought was especially fascinating, and not all the encyclopedia articles have that effect on me. DSP-user (talk) 18:27, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations, although considering the number in the section below this, it seems a bit late. We should urgently create the 1000 DYK nomination medal, I am afraid. Ucucha10:01, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Ucucha. Don't you worry too much about making new medals. It's here already. Not that I'm dying to get one or anything..... :-) --PFHLai (talk) 07:33, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
DYK (#962 & #963)
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Would you please have a look at my article Jayanta Lahon? I self-nominated it for DYK on last 10th Jan and it is verified. The article has also been rated as 'Start" class on quality scale. But it has been nominated for deletion on yesterday. XETELI(HELLO)02:46, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Xeteli. Per WP:ONEEVENT, this young fellow, as described in the wikiarticle in its current form, should not get a wikibio yet, IMHO. You need at least a "second event". Is there anything else to write about this person? If he is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the youngest person to eat ghost chilli, or he goes on to do something else remarkable...., please include these things in the article. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 00:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
DYK (#964 & #965)
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PFH, would you mind if I asked you to quit adding noms to the DYK Suggestions page for a while? We have a ridiculous backlog, and we just don't need any extra noms right now. Gatoclass (talk) 08:44, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Does either a Limca record or an appearance on Shabaash India make anyone notable enough per Wikipedia:Notability? I don't know. Probably. Do other holders of Limca records and those who appeared on Shabaash India also have their own wikiarticles? Is there a category of such biographies? If so, please categorize the article accordingly. --PFHLai (talk) 17:17, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for nominating the article. I had thought of it, but other things intervened, and I hadn't seen the source at first hand. Nevertheless the title speaks for itself, and it checked out on amazon.fr. Acroterion(talk)18:13, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure when you'll get this, perhaps someone else would have already fixed the item. But if not, while I agree the wording was confusing for the Cadbury item was confusing, your change reintroduced a problem someone had already pointed out in WP:Main Page/Errors and someone had modified the wording in an attempt to improve. I've proposed a new wording in the Errors pages, feel free to use your own but your current wording is IMHO definitely equally misleading Nil Einne (talk) 20:41, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for letting me know about this. I've changed the blurb on ITN as suggested on WP:ERRORS. Hope this works better. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 23:35, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
DYK (#972~#1002)
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Sure, ChildofMidnight. I'll look into them. Is there any more info about Wilson? Right now, his bio has much more info about the Plum Street / Isaac M. Wise Temple than about him. So it doesn't look right. For Hammond, how about a double hook with the early 20th-century Cleveland landmark Hollenden Hotel? I'll let you know if I can come up with other ideas. Happy typing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 10:39, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Did you know... that James Keys Wilson designed two National Landmarks in the United States: Old Main (Bethany College) in West Virginia and Isaac something or other temple, where reform Judaism is said to have been established in the United States?
The longest bar claim seemed to be made by the hotel itself. And it seemed to be a bit of a dive actually, but I think the five potus claim had an air of legitimacy. The bar things may be true too as a "hardest taskmaster on Wikipedia" type claim, but it's mostly in that context as far as I could tell. Nobody likes Kent State I guess. One little shooting incident. As an architect I would say doing the master plan and the first buildings there is somewhat impressive, although they don't seem especially gorgeous. Can't win em all. But since you're working up the Hollenden Hotel article anyway, feel free to use that in whatever nom you choose. ChildofMidnight (talk) 07:45, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, boy! Am I working up an article??? I thought you were, ChildofMidnight! Sorry, (besides being a taskmaster) I only make hooks in WP.
To me, becoming an architect is impressive. (But that's hardly hook material.) I know zilch about architecture. I go for things that readers can relate to when I make up hooks. I don't know Kent State. Now that I know it is a big university (I am so ignorant... good that we have a long article about it), I'll read up and work on a hook about it. --PFHLai (talk) 13:20, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the five potus thing is neat, and I was amused by your working in Grover Cleveland with the Cleveland thing, so that hook is fine with me. The Hollenden Hotel doesn't have an article and isn't well known (being out of existence for some time). Kent State is renowned, but mostly for the shooting of Vietnam ear protesters by National Guard, as I recall. But I too was surprised to see that it has 30 some odd thousand students. No division one football team of any merit though, so perhaps the article on it should be merged somewhere? ChildofMidnight (talk) 17:19, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have a hook for GFH & Kent State yet, but I'm glad that you approve of my POTUS5 hook. Instead, I have a hook for another article of yours: "...that John Eisenmann, designed the Cleveland Arcade, the first indoor shopping mall in the United States, and wrote the nation's first modern comprehensive building code?" Is the article done? There seems to be little biographical info on Eisenmann in his wikiarticle. --PFHLai (talk) 17:59, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Why do you need a Kent State hook if you have the 5 Potuses (and the Cleveland-Cleveland thing happening)? Eisenmann seems also to have designed the Ohio state flag? I didn't see anything in the article about building codes... but it does need expansion. Maybe when you're done with the Hollenden you can get to work on that biography? I've been working on a couple of other architects, one who designed some interesting buildings including Building 26 where the Bombe was developed and a house for the Wright Brothers. So much to cover! I supposed there's something be said for finishing one article before moving on, but I can't believe these interesting people arent' even mentioned in stubs. Go Dallas! ChildofMidnight (talk) 01:16, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
GFH is now nom'ed. Gotta do it today before the article is more than 5 days old and loses its DYK eligibility.
The J. Milton Dyer article's DYK eligibility expires tomorrow. You may want to add to the article the fun stuffs you mentioned above soon, if you want to nominate it for DYK.
The John Eisenmann article's DYK eligibility expires in two days. So you have a little more time. (Need to merge with John Eisemann?)
Yeah, many interesting people in history are missing in Wikipedia. We have to thank writers like you for contributing their wikibiographies to the encyclopedia. Happy typing. ... Sorry about the Dallas Mavericks. They're trailing by 10+ right now..... --PFHLai (talk) 18:40, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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You're welcome, Alexandru.demian. Glad that I could help. Thank you for starting the biographies of these famous people in history.
DYK is meant to showcase new contents of Wikipedia. Articles must be nominated within 5 days of the article's creation or 5-fold expansion in prose. I'm afraid Nansouty's wikibio is too old for DYK (unless you can expand it 5 times in length very quickly). Please be encouraged to self-nominate your next wikicontributions. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 09:31, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello! Your submission of Marshall's Hotel 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! . Not a problem per se, but the DYK hook that you proposed for Marshall's Hotel could be better IMHO. Glad you're bringing attention to this nice new article, anyhow. :) --doncram (talk) 22:11, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your note, doncram. I had left a note on T:TDYK, asking hook selectors to use the other hook proposed by the article creator. However, my original hook still ends up on Q2 unchanged. Oh, well.... --PFHLai (talk) 23:00, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations on being the first Wikipedian to receive this medal and thanks for nominating all those great and sometimes less great new articles. Ucucha01:48, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much for the medal, Ucucha. Great! It's cool to be the first. :-)
Thank you, Thelmadatter. Of the 1000+ noms, quite a few were articles written by you. Thank you for your contribution to my attaining the 1000-plateau so quickly. Happy editing. Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 15:49, 28 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
