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Move request on Thomas Keightley (historian)

As past editor to the article, you are encouraged to participate in the discussion at Talk:Thomas Keightley (historian) to rename Thomas Keightley (historian)→Thomas Keightley since requirements of usage and lasting significance under WP:PRIMARYTOPIC appear to be easily met. Also "Thomas Keightley (historian)" would seem to be a misleading label to many nowadays who recognize him as mythology/folklore writer primarily.
Since you added his Crusades history, Greek history and secret society books to the bibliographical info on the article, you may not entirely agree with this assessment, but when I did perform a scholar.google search, most of the scholarly activities were folklore/mythology related rather than historical. --Kiyoweap (talk) 14:31, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Work Stress Claims

You may wish to keep an eye on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Work Stress Claims. Someone removed my vote to speedy delete the article. If it happens again, we may need to contact an admin. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:48, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Noted. Philafrenzy (talk) 10:37, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Firstly, I assure you that I am not connected from any firm in the United Kingdom but I have read about work stress claims reputation in the UK. They are doing superb job by serving people without charging any penny so according to me the page must be there on wiki so that all people will get more information and also get free assistant by them and I also request you please let it stay on wiki. thanks a lot Sajid.mumbai ♥ (talk) 13.11, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

They are lawyers working entirely for free? How generous! Philafrenzy (talk) 12:02, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

many lawyers charge for the service of making a claim whether it is a successful one or not but Work Stress Claims Firm tackle almost every case and charge no upfront fees; if the case has a positive outcome and you are awarded compensation you will also keep 100% of this as they charge their fees whose fault (other party). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sajid.mumbai (talk • contribs) 12:27, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

It really doesn't make any difference how they are paid. They either qualify for an article or not. Add your comments to the deletion discussion please. This is not a negotiation between you and me. Philafrenzy (talk) 12:35, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

In the End, I would say let's see 1 or 2 week, may be someone edit content in that page and make it more informative Sajid.mumbai ♥ (talk) 18:58, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Please add your comments to the deletion discussion, not here. Philafrenzy (talk) 18:09, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Fame at last

[1]. Cheers, Johnbod (talk) 14:23, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I had seen it. I may start a section on my user page "things I have been called" like you. But I doubt anything will beat "professional misanthrope". It's nice to have my malady diagnosed after all these years. The best doctors had been unable to do so. Philafrenzy (talk) 18:55, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Well, you wouldn't want to be a mere amateur, would you? Edwardx (talk) 10:18, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
If I am a professional, shouldn't I be paid? There's something wrong here Edward.
Spot the difference competition: Members of Voice of the Listener & Viewer vs. People who have a Waitrose loyalty card. Philafrenzy (talk) 12:53, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Yes, but any payment would have to come from the Misanthropy Society, and they would hate to pay anyone, even you. I am not a VLV member but I do have more than one Waitrose card. That way, one can enjoy a second daily coffee and a Telegraph as well as a Guardian, in the interests of balance. Round my way, there's a Little Waitrose popping up on every corner. Edwardx (talk) 18:54, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
I've noticed. I was in the one opposite Harrods today. Needed a baby Elephant and supposedly Harrods can sell you one, but they were out of stock. Regarding the Misanthropy Society, as a professional I despise those amateur misanthropes. In forming a society at all, they appear to have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of the discipline (see my definitive guide, in all good bookshops soon). Philafrenzy (talk) 19:33, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Broadband Providers

It makes sense to check whether these one line articles are speedy deletion candidates before nominating them for AfD (in fact as far as I know they can still be speedy deleted while at AfD). It saves everyone a lot of time and work. Bye for now! Sionk (talk) 22:09, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Noted. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:49, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

AfDs for Keir Thomas and Puppywolf

Both articles were written by User:Keir who is Keir Thomas. You should have mentioned in your AfD rationale that they are self-promotion.--ColonelHenry (talk) 17:59, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

I think you have made that clear. I didn't make the connection at the time. Philafrenzy (talk) 18:12, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Page Jean Dunand (en)

Hello Philafrenzy,

Sorry, i'm french, so its not Shakespeare's english ;o)

After several warnings of Pablo029 (vandalism, no neutrality), the user ARTUNAD was recently blocked 24h on French Wikipedia for R3R violation and multiple passages strength. This is a repeat offender.

These warnings relate to François-Louis Schmied, Jean Dunand, Jean Goulden and Gustave Miklos pages. ARTUNAD is a great admirer of Gustave Miklos (worshiper would be more accurate) and considers that Miklos designed most of geometric patterns for Schmied, Dunand, and Goulden. For ARTUNAD, Schmied, Dunand and Goulden are not "artists", only Miklos is an artist. More serious, he says Dunand, Goulden and Schmied exploited Miklos, that they are conspirators, and he despises them. I'm not at all agree with him, Art Deco experts either (eg Félix Marcilhac). Miklos was a friend of Schmied and Dunand, he sold them its draft designs (like Lambert-Rucki), but Dunand, Goulden and Schmied were also artists, who can design themselves their own geometric (or not) designs.

ARTUNAD's main source is the book of Mrs Danuta Cichocka Gustave Miklos. Un Grand oeuvre caché, published in September 2013 by her own publishing house (so without no review committee). This book was rejected as source on French Wikipedia because it has no reputation (it is just allowed to appear in the bibliography section).

You may also notice that A(r)TUNAD = DANUTA backwards.

To monitor ARTUNAD's changes on French Wikipédia, Heddryin put the R3R blindfold on Miklos page, and Pablo029 put the R3R blindfold on Goulden, Dunand and Schmied pages (and he also reversed ARTUNAD's last changes). Now, ARTUNAD can not make forced passage on French WP (otherwise it may be blocked longer), but i see that, since 28 January 2014, it changes the Jean Dunand page on English WP : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean_Dunand&action=history

For example, he removed the word "artist" in the introduction. ARTUNAD said "Last discovery proved" because Danuta Cichocka said it was she who discovered the Miklos collaboration for Schmied and Dunand. This is false, Félix Marcilhac already speaks in 1991, in his book Jean Dunand: His Life and Work (London, Thames and Hudson), and in an other book in 2010 : Gustave Miklos, Joseph Csaky (Kalman Maklary Fine Arts). Félix Marcilhac also said Miklos has provided much less drawings for Dunand than for Schmied. ARTUNAD said Dunand has developed any of its geometric patterns, but this is a mistake.

In externals links, ARTUNAD put http://www.gustave-mikos-monograph.com : this is the site where everybody can order Danuta Cichocka's book (225 euros). This link and the other external link (http://fr.cyclopaedia.net/wiki/Gustave-Miklos) allow ARTUNAD to promote Mrs. Cichocka's book, but they contribute nothing to Jean Dunand and I do not see what they do in his page.

Modified pages by ARTUNAD end up being unbalanced because it puts Miklos everywhere... In french, we say ARTUNAD mikloïse Wikipédia articles.

ARTUNAD skillfully blends the real and the fake...

Regularly i watch the Jean Dunand page on WP French (and Schmied and Goulden pages), but I do not want to do the same on English WP: could you deal with it please? Or should I contact someone else to help me?

Warnings and blocking of ARTUNAD are shown here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_utilisateur:ARTUNAD#Pas_une_source

Regards,

BerAnth (talk) 14:51, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Try posting a message at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Visual_arts. Thanks Philafrenzy (talk) 18:16, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

SPA from the Work Stress Claims AfD

Hello. I notice that you were the nominator at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Work Stress Claims. One of the SPAs at that AfD, User:Sam.Leach is now adding links to what might perhaps be described as "advertorials" (they do contain some discussion of the law in addition to advertising) on that company's website to our articles. I have not looked at the contributions of the others. I imagine this might count as spam, but I am not overly familiar with the rules relating to this, and I don't really have time to look into the matter. I mention this because I imagine you might be interested. Best regards. James500 (talk) 07:24, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Branding section in the Jean Dunand page

Hello Philafrenzy,

February 5 2010, the Branding section was added by IP 207.139.42.35. This section promotes a brand of watch (with a link to commercial site of this brand). This Swiss brand, created in 2003, uses the name of Jean Dunand only for marketing purposes, because of the notoriety of this name. The design of some of its models inspired loosely style Jean Dunand. I wonder if this section in an encyclopedic article on Dunand is legitimate. I have the impression that the contributor is using WP for advertising purposes.

What do you think?

BerAnth (talk) 09:23, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of José Lorenzo Cossío y Cosío

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Nomination of José Lorenzo Cossío y Cosío for deletion

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Nonce word

Hi Philafrenzy, You will notice some edits and reverts of mine around nonce word. I am now not sure any more what is the best way to proceed. This is because I wonder what to do with 'meaning' in this context. I looked at the reference that your brother-in-law gave and I would really like to have the input of a scholar in linguistics and of course yourself as well as a contributor to this word. "Bank" is a word that has meaning. (And it is a "lexeme" according to the definition of lexemes)."Widget" infers meaning in texts in economics where there is none. "Foo" in computer science is a placeholder for something that might or might not have meaning. "Mux" has no meaning for the purpose of avoiding unintented interpretation. So Bank is not a nonce word, it is a defined word in dictionaries. The others are all words with no actual meaning or lemma in a dictionary. Are they all nonce words? I am more puzzled when I look up the meaning of "word". In the Cambridge online dictionary, it is supposed to have meaning. Any combination of letters might be a word, though many combinations aren't. I can't say that I own a fruckle, because the word has no meaning so I cannot define whether I own it or not. It is I believe a nonce word because I just created it purely for this discussion. But if I intentionally use a word that does not have meaning, like "wug" in this article, does it then not violate the definition of word because a word must have meaning? I could also argue that by using it, I create an assumption that I am trying to convey meaning (I am sending a message as a source to a recipient, and no one except myself can know what the message is, let alone if I am trying to convey a meaning in the word "wug" in my message because I might have an idea of what it is even though the recipient does not). So even if there is no meaning intended by using a certain word, there is always meaning assumed. A word like "wug" sounds soft (two soft vowels), "dax" sounds hard (two hard vowels) and cognitive theory explains that this implies meaning, or at least induces a feeling or an ideas. Could you please share your ideas? I would particularly like to know if you or your brother-in-law value the addition about computer science and the example "foo" to this lemma. Lafeber (talk) 23:46, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

I rewrote the lead a little. I agree that there is a difficult point about whether a nonce word with a meaning is different from one without such as "wug" used for testing children's language skills. It may be that both are valid uses of the term, which is what the article now says or that "placeholder" or meaningless terms are something else. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:44, 25 February 2014 (UTC) By the way, you may have misread the comments re "my brother in law". That was somebody else I think.

Cost of moving house in the United Kingdom page

hi Philafrenzy

Thanks for your thoughts on us adding our Moving Cost Calculator to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_moving_house_in_the_United_Kingdom

reallymoving.com has a huge amount of data on the cost of moving home (we help ~5% of UK movers), which we thought may be useful to the readers of this page. If there's no way we can reference it without any link being considered advertising, then so be it, but we thought that our free tool, which doesn't require registration, and enables a fairly accurate estimate of the cost of moving to be calculated could be valuable and very relevant to this page? But we don't deny we're a commercial organisation.

If there's another way we could contribute to this page we'd be happy to help.

Many thanks,

Rob

Director, reallymoving.com

Montydoodle (talk) 10:55, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

I will take a look at it again. Philafrenzy (talk) 11:14, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks, please let me know if there's any more information you need 81.96.152.213 (talk) 22:37, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of The Flask, Hampstead

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DYK for The Flask, Hampstead

Well, thank you for the article Victuallers (talk) 16:02, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. Philafrenzy (talk) 21:20, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to help at training editathon at the Royal Society - March 25th

I think we talked about this but I haven't sent you the message I promised, so here it is - Wikipedia:WikiProject Royal Society/Diversity in Science Edit-a-thon, Royal Society, March 25, 2014. The whole event lasts from 2-9pm, but the key periods for helpers are about 2.45-5.20 and 6.60-9.00 pm, when they are all actually editing. An extra hand at any parts of these periods would be very useful. If you can make it, please sign up at the event page. Nice cake & sandwiches, and we will go for a drink after. Alternatively, if you can think of any other Wikipedians who might be able to do it, please pass on, or let me have your suggestions. Cheers, Wiki at Royal Society John (talk) 15:50, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

San Juan 450th
1971 issue
Cadillac landing at Detroit
1951 issue

The gallery formats that I have seen do not allow for stamps of different sizes to be proportioned adjacent to one another as in this example, but I am open to instruction. Thanks in advance. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 14:03, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

DYKs

If you're interested in a contributor credit, I will be nominating The Salisbury, Covent Garden (Nilsen connection?) and Ross McEwan (accountancy exam?) in the next few days. Edwardx (talk) 13:34, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks but I don't think I had anything to do with them, the credit is all yours Edward. I should have failed more exams, clearly it is the route to earnings millions. Philafrenzy (talk) 13:43, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
I was merely trying to incentivise you to contribute. If you can, especially for McEwan who hasn't yet reached 1500 characters, a contributor credit would be thoroughly merited. Edwardx (talk) 13:54, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
I will have a look. Philafrenzy (talk) 01:47, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Jan van Beers (artist)

Thanks for this Victuallers (talk) 16:57, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Over 12,000 hits already today. Edwardx (talk) 23:22, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
16 now. It is Sam Peffer that might blow the doors off though. James Bond + Swedish Nymphos + Nazis. It's got it all. Philafrenzy (talk) 01:20, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
Even better if we could find a suitably free image to meet the DYK criteria.Edwardx (talk) 09:49, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
25K for Van Beers. Given the time period, I don't know where a free image would come from for Peffer. Philafrenzy (talk) 13:02, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Leonard Wyburd

Leonard Wyburd is another person I stumbled across while starting an article (Rosslyn Tower who might interest you. Needs an image or two and a decent idea for a DYK hook. Edwardx (talk) 21:53, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Did a bit. Will have further look soon. Pity it has no nymphos. DYK that interior designer Leonard Wyburd was appointed head of Liberty's design studio aged only eighteen? Need to be clear that this is absolutely correct and what exactly the studio was called. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:41, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Categories, continued.

If we can return to our tutorial on Wikimedia Commons categories and subcategories. (sigh)

I just uploaded four stamps of the Panama-Pacific Exposition 1813-1815 issue.

  • Balboa explorer
    Balboa explorer
  • San Miguel Locks, Panama Canal
    San Miguel Locks, Panama Canal
  • "Golden Gate", San Francisco Harbor
    "Golden Gate", San Francisco Harbor
  • Spanish expedition to San Francisco Bay
    Spanish expedition to San Francisco Bay

I placed them only in subcategory "U.S. territories on stamps", as they are all related to the Panama Canal Zone (U.S. territory) or the Pacific destination, San Francisco in U.S. territory.

I used two at Territories of the United States on stamps, Balboa and Bay expedition, and Locks at my draft sandbox U.S. transportation. But I would like to create a category "Panama-Pacific Exposition on stamps" or the appropriate naming convention at Wikimedia Commons.

  • I notice although a search on Columbian issue on stamps brings up several of the Columbian Exposition Issue, they are not all nine arranged as a stamp collection, and several are heavily cancelled versus the mint condition images generally available at the NPM website.
  • A search on Louisiana Purchase Exposition brings an image of one of the five stamps and a link sends you to "Stamps of the United States" which is not a category, picturing only one of the five available at NPM website. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, completing these topics seems to me of more pressing interest than encyclopedic coverage since 1978, we can come back to that. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 17:41, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
"Panama-Pacific Exposition on stamps" would be fine as a category on Commons. Don't confuse pages on Commons with the contents of categories on Commons. It is easy to do so. You can't really control what goes in a category once it is created so mint and used and blocks etc all get mixed up together if they qualify for the category. I wouldn't recommend trying to create separate mint and used categories for each issue. You don't seem to have understood my earlier advice that you add all applicable categories to each image. e.g. it's a stamp from a particular year, it shows X on the stamp, it is a postage/revenue/savings stamp etc. Add them all for each image. Commons is nothing more than a huge finding aid for media. Philafrenzy (talk) 00:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
I thought I created subcategory "U.S. territories on stamps" but the upload wizard says it does not exist, although stamps are added to it.
I have read several pages of introduction guidelines to Wikicommons but I cannot find there or on search how to create a category.
I very much would like to add mint stamps to the collection, but I do not yet understand what categories to choose from other than randomly copying others but they are wildly inconsistent. Is there a guideline somewhere at the Philately project, such as how to categorize a stamp so it falls in a year group (1928) or a year bracket (1920s) [brackets] "Category:United States stamps [pipe] 1928" [brackets]?
The very best presentation I have found by accident of Stamps of the United States is a gallery which is very spotty and the coding there makes it difficult to figure out how to add to it. As you may have determined I am very much from the wrong (old) side of the "digital divide" in the generations. I would like to contribute for the pleasure of others but in a systematic way. It feels like I have stumbled into the wild west. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 04:30, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Ross McEwan

Thank you for your help Victuallers (talk) 08:02, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Use of USPS template

Is there an example of appropriate use of the USPS template? The examples of USPS stamps of four battles in an article including five USPD stamps has been blanked without explanation at Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps. The reverter did not give an explanation, although they met the Wikipedia criteria for fair use. He did not discuss at Talk before the disruption, and to date has not supplied an example that can be found anywhere on Wikipedia that meets his "standards".

This is, at the very least, a bad joke on non-administrator editors, "for me to know and for you to find out--delete". On some pages it is asked, Why are the number of contributing editors falling off? Unsourced, unexplained, unsupported arbitrary restriction of knowledge at the online encyclopedia may be at root cause. Every objection is met in this case. All pictured are dead, the purpose for the image is for the stamp, not the image pictured, the topic is "xxx on stamps", the images of stamps are used to illustrate stamps. I, on the other hand, want to contribute regardless of WP:BULLY. Although right now I would like to work on exposition issues, for future reference, Is there an example of appropriate use of the USPS template? TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 11:50, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/The Flask, Highgate

Hello! Could you please check this again? PanydThe muffin is not subtle 15:05, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Sam Peffer

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 09:01, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

DYK for The Salisbury, Covent Garden

The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Your technical move request for the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture

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Template:Did you know nominations/Thigh gap

I think we're done here - could you have another look at it? It is now April 1, and it needs to be on today or its time will have run out.--Launchballer 13:04, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for The Flask, Highgate

The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Over 5,500 hits today, and for the non-lead DYK (ie no image) that is very good! Edwardx (talk) 17:58, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, but I am still sulking that Sam Peffer didn't do better. I was hoping for lots from that. Of course, that was before the Swedish people were removed from the hook. When will there ever be another opportunity to get that phrase on the front page? Philafrenzy (talk) 19:49, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority logo.gif

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DYK for Leonard Wyburd

Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 16:02, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Keta Lagoon

Keta Lagoon is the page I mentioned at the meet up. Wikimedia Ghana are getting involved in Wiki Loves Earth 2014 in May 2014, so there is potential for more photos. Do you think this has potential for a good article or featured article? (I shall also drop a note on Edwardx's talk page. 11:13, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Gordon Smith (philatelist)

The DYK project (nominate) 10:33, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Paulo Comelli

At 1580 characters, Paulo Comelli is already long enough for DYK. I've not contributed, so I can't claim any co-credit, but I could nominate him. Edwardx (talk) 12:19, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

I had thought if it but didn't see an obvious hook. Maybe something about the Xiphopagus Triplet when I create it? Hint: Lara Croft once raided a tomb to try to secure the triplet. Later. Philafrenzy (talk) 12:25, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Hooks are often rather dry. Just look at 3, 4 and 5 of the current front page set. How about "...that Paulo Comelli wrote a masterful history of the ownership of the Xiphopagus Triplet?" Already not bad, as the "Xiphopagus Triplet" itself sounds quite intriguing. My search for Lara Croft in this regard turned up nothing. Hooks can't all reach the heights/plumb the depths of the original Sam Peffer one. Edwardx (talk) 12:43, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
I will save the Triplet until I can do it justice. How about "DYK that gold medal winning philatelist Paulo Comelli featured on a Spanish postage stamp in 2011?" It's not much, and only a personalised stamp, but better than nothing. I fear people will tire of philatelists. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:56, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Hugo Goeggel

The DYK project (nominate) 00:32, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

The Widow's Son, London

If you're interested, I have a Good Friday-themed article that I'm working on for DYK. Another pub, The Widow's Son, London. Edwardx (talk) 14:50, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Interesting custom and many references in Google Books, especially this one about the medicinal properties of the bread and the area's links to the port of London:

Philafrenzy (talk) 00:38, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I probably won't be able to look at that until tomorrow. Busy earlier creating articles for the rest of London's Grade I and II* star pubs. All done! Edwardx (talk) 19:05, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Brilliant work! And they said all the important articles had already been done. You have proved the naysayers wrong Edward. Philafrenzy (talk) 21:10, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
Thank you again. Expect another pub DYK or two to emerge. As for The Widow's Son, London, how about "... that the Widow's Son pub is named for a widow who every Good Friday baked a hot cross bun for her only son, in the hope that he was not lost at sea and would one day return?" Okay? Edwardx (talk) 12:14, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I tried to think of a better way to put it and couldn't. Difficult to sum it up in one sentence. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:34, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
That is indeed the challenge. Still can't think of anything better, so I've gone ahead and nominated it using that hook.Edwardx (talk) 09:48, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Category:Philatelic journals

Category:Philatelic journals, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Randykitty (talk) 18:20, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Dieter Bortfeldt

Only another 300 characters needed for DYK. Perhaps something about his "fifteen gold medals"? Up next for DYK is my expansion of Malin Byström. Then perhaps Crocker's Folly. The DYK process is apparently short of suitable noms at persent. Edwardx (talk) 10:12, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

I will add something. There is also Paulo Comelli if you can face another philatelist. Philafrenzy (talk) 10:18, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Free image added. Is that enough text? Will think about hook. Philafrenzy (talk) 12:09, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
It was not quite long enough, so I've added an education section. Fine now. Edwardx (talk) 12:22, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
"DYK that Dieter Bortfeldt, who was an expert in detecting forged stamps, won fifteen gold medals for his displays of the postal history of Colombia?" I think DYK for philatelists has probably run it's course for the time being or we will be accused of over-kill. Philafrenzy (talk) 18:31, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
Done! Edwardx (talk) 22:43, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

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Crocker's Folly

Nomination done, please see Template:Did you know nominations/Crocker's Folly. Edwardx (talk) 21:21, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. Newspapers require a £10 spend from Sunday. It's another assault on middle class values Edward. Philafrenzy (talk) 21:33, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
I'm in shock. And the coffee cups have got a bit smaller. Edwardx (talk) 21:57, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
They had this planned from the beginning - the fiends. Get us hooked on freebies then put the price up when we are addicted. Philafrenzy (talk) 22:02, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Tangential stamps

At History of Virginia on stamps Gwhillickers has taken exception to a stamp in the 'World Wars' section, the Iwo Jima stamp. I contend that the image was the model of the statue at the Marine Corps War Memorial, located in Arlington, Virginia, and the text explains that. The connection to the Memorial is mentioned in the write-up at the National Postal Museum at Iwo Jima stamp. Gwhillickers says it is too tangential to the topic, Virginia history on stamps, since the event did not occur in Virginia. I would appreciate your opinion. Thanks. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 07:52, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

I am inclined the agree the link is fairly weak. Philafrenzy (talk) 17:43, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. The stamp is removed. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 18:01, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. Philafrenzy (talk) 09:23, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for The Widow's Son, London

PanydThe muffin is not subtle 14:54, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Crocker's Folly

The DYK project (nominate) 16:04, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

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New topical philately article

Thanks for your previous encouragement at Puerto Rico on stamps. All eight of the USPS stamps described now have in-footnote links to specific images at Arago, per discussion with Masem. There is a restriction on external links in the body of the article, but not in footnotes. Citations themselves are written in text, not in links which may be broken in the future.

I've been working on a new topical philately article, History of Virginia on stamps. I would appreciate your look-see, comments and perhaps rating the article philatelically on the Talk page. Thanks. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 11:46, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Nairn Transport Company

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