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User talk:Wadewitz/Archive 24
Missed your commentHi Awadewit. Really sorry, but I missed your comment in the ToaT FAR. I just saw it now after someone answered your question. Dmoon1 recommended a book concerning the period of the Restoration, but I believe you were asking about genealogy of the various sects mentioned? Most stuff I learned from a History of Christianity course I took when I was in university. I'll try to find my notes and books. --RelHistBuff (talk) 07:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
On another topic, I was going to ask you about this peer review, but seeing your note above, no problem, I will find someone else. I know you are going through a busy time now. In my case, the physics research and the thesis defence was easy. It was the part in between, the writing, that was the hard part! I hope you might be able to come back to reviewing other topics in the summer? --RelHistBuff (talk) 07:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
If you're not too busy, would you please (informally) review the progress I've made with Candide since your last GA review of it? What remains to be done with the article? Thanks. -- Rmrfstar (talk) 22:09, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Peer review of List of National Historic Landmarks in New YorkHi Awadewit -- I'm a long-time listener, first-time caller... :) I enjoyed watching development of Joseph Priestley House, and I now see also you are to be credited for the Mary Wollstonecraft featured article the other day, which was a nice change of pace as feature, I thought. :) Your input is invited. I've gone ahead and asked for peer review on the List of National Historic Landmarks in New York list, including the List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City (hopefully to be considered by the peer reviewers as well). Open at Wikipedia:Peer review#List of National Historic Landmarks in New York. By the way, Steepletop, aka Edna St. Vincent Millay House is one of 9 author homes on that list, not sure if she is among the women writers you have interest in. Sincerely, doncram (talk) 23:47, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I would certainly be greatly appreciative of any assistance – provided, of course, it does not impose upon you. I’d feel badly if the article were to draw your energies from pursuits more important to you. ЭLСОВВОLД talk 05:24, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I can’t thank you enough for looking up that information. I’m obviously out-classed by your research skills. Would you mind checking over the new information in the article to ensure I haven’t mischaracterized anything? (BTW: Wikipedia email routes to my German account, so I won't be able to get it until this evening.) ЭLСОВВОLД talk 21:43, 15 February 2008 (UTC) Literal-minded Helen ;)Hey A, Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this awakening of my partner-in-crime, this day when the Helleborus and Artic raspberries are emerging from the snow. He was very hard to wake up and motivate — so slothful! :( But now nothing shall stay our combined craft and guile from its appointed rounds, even if diametrically apposed. ;) It was fun and didn't take long. I did it listening to a great album of Celtic jigs, which kept me smiling the whole time — well, that wasn't the only reason. ;) Willow (talk) 19:53, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your lovely letter, A, but can I change my wish? Instead, if you're inclined, please go the extra mile to help a promising young student who really wants to learn, but who might be a little shy and insecure? Surely you must have such a student, or will one of these days. Je le saurai, sans doute; je sentirai tes bontés comme si j'étais versé avec les pétales roses. I think that would make me happier instead. :) Willow (talk) 07:53, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Fight ClubHello, I hope you remember me from our conversation about films and themes. One of my primary contributions, Fight Club, has been nominated by someone else for the FAC process. However, there is a theme-related issue; I have a subpage of resources that I've hoped to develop into a sub-article about the unintended themes of the film, since the article only has intended themes. I'm not asking you to comment on the FAC process, though -- since you helped open my eyes a bit in terms of films and themes, I was hoping to get some advice about the "completeness" of this article. I have a couple of comments at the FAC process page in regard to this. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 02:11, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
(outdent for ease) I haven't taken a literary theory class before, unfortunately. I only have expertise with computers and business, which I don't pursue as a hobby on Wikipedia -- only film. I think that I should be able to access most, if not all, the resources on my subpage, and I'll try to tackle the ones that are for the faint of heart. :) I appreciate your offer to help, but I'm not going to rush into all this right away. (Too much going on this week to embark on a new wiki-endeavor.) I'm sure we'll be back on this topic sometime in the near future, though! :) I'll look into the book recommendation you gave. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 22:18, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Lisa GerrardI found today probably the finest vocal performance I've heard so far. I get a sence you would appreciate it, so here it is Ceoil (talk) 12:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC) HelloJust thought you might be interested in this: Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Feminism Task Force --Grrrlriot (talk) 23:32, 12 February 2008 (UTC) FannyHi Awadewit - I took a quick look at Fanny Imlay and although I didn't see anything in the text specifically supporting the "Fanny Wollstonecraft" that you had in the first line as a name she used, I can see that it was her legal name and I see it in one of the references. You do make the point that she was known as Fanny Godwin after she was "unofficially" adopted, so I think the way I tweaked the first line is the best you can do. It's a tricky situation, and MOS doesn't cover every eventuality - I don't know if others will agree, but I think the best thing to do is to spell out that Wollstonecraft was her legal name and Godwin another name she was known as - assuming that Imlay is indeed the most commonly used name. Hope this helps. Tvoz |talk 06:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Offline question about MLAHey there. First of all, thanks for your extremely valuable input at the Randall Flagg FAC. I have a question about MLA searches I thought you might answer since you seem knowledgeable in the subject. I have been searching by filling the "Author Subject" parameter with "Stephen King" and then narrowing the search to articles that mention "Flagg" in the text anywhere. Does this seems like a good strategy? I guess it's not, since I keep coming up with just the one article. I could remove the Flagg search, but then it seems like I would get articles that don't mention him. Maybe I need to talk to my librarian, but they are a surly lot at my location. --Laser brain (talk) 14:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
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Great work again Awadewit and another pictured slot. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
--Well done ... I see you got the credit for the pictured slot above :) (It was me who added the pic and put it in the no 1 slot!) Victuallers (talk) 09:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC) Signpost updated for February 11th, 2008.
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot (talk) 08:09, 14 February 2008 (UTC) Request for peerreview: NahuatlHello Hi Awadewit, if you have the time I think the article on Nahuatl which I have nominated for a pre-FA peerreview might be right up your ballpark. I would certainly appreciate any comments and suggestions you have that might lead me to improve the content, style and grammar of the article. Thanks beforehand. ·Maunus· ·ƛ· 15:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
2000 mockingbirdsSo, there's this novel that might make a nice Featured Article? I know you're super-busy, I wouldn't want you to get into any trouble over it, I realize that you've already reviewed it, and I've yet to absorb your comments there......but maybe I could engage you for another review in a week or so? I'm sure that your comments would mercifully prevent an acute attack of coulrophobia and bring everyone's labours to a happy ending. :) Oh, I'm given to understand that a tasty pastry should be arriving at your doorstep tomorrow or on Monday. It's kind of blueberry — you know, like Violet Beauregarde? The skin is a little puckered, but I'm afraid there's no hope for that; I did the best I could. :( Bon appetit et bonne chance! :) Willow (talk) 22:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
FTFHello, Awadewit! :) Thanks for joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Gender Studies/Feminism Task Force. Are you good at making templates or userboxes? I need someone on the force to make some templates and userboxes for the task force's use. If you are good at this sort of thing, Please let me know on my talk page or on the FTF talk page. Thanks!--Grrrlriot (talk) 17:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
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DuetsHi A, I think we are already playing duets, although the prospect of teaching you to knit is dearer still. :) I'll miss you awfully while you're gone, but as all your friends have said before, we want you to leave, to go where you're needed and do what will make you happy. :) My little stowaway didn't take flight this time, but I think he's biding his time to wing his way thither on another, happier day. :) I'm a little melancholy today, because I buried a dear friend — my Christmas tree. :( I chose him from the forest, and wept as I cut him down, since I hate to take life. But I brought him home to share my life for a few months, garlanded him beautifully, tended to him and sat with him every day. But even I couldn't keep him alive indefinitely, and today I had to realize that his spirit had fled. I gently disrobed him of his glories, stripped him of his needles, and laid his remains in my garden, his needles wreathing my blueberry bushes. That way, we'll always be together and I'll taste him next June; but I wept again, thinking how brief every life is. I go through this every February. :P It's sad but also comforting to know that all of us will sleep together in the sweet earth. On a more cheerful note, I can tell that Spring is coming. Something in the air has changed. Admittedly, I first noticed it as I broke the ice from atop one of my compost bins, but it was the way that the ice broke away that told me the world is waking up again. Oh, if my ambassador doesn't show up by Tuesday, please let me know. You'll want a stick to deal with him, but be gentle as you beat the stuffing into him. ;) Thanks so much for volunteering again for TKaM, we'll try to make it as perfect as we can before calling you in from Mt. Parnassus. :) Willow (talk) 02:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Poor you! :P I hope someone is treating you right, that you're sleeping well and on the mend. When I have the flu, I drink lots of tea with honey? Ordinarily, Darjeeling is my favorite tea when drunk alone; but with that much honey, any tea except Lapsang souchong will taste as good. :) I keep thinking of taking up bee-keeping, because I love honey and could use the wax, not to mention the extra pollination for the garden. There's also a really nice woman in the next village who offered to help me get started as well. But I've been slow about it; it would take time, I get lots of bees in my garden anyway, and I'm a little worried that I wouldn't be able to keep them alive. I'm not sure if you know, but the recent years haven't been kind to honey-bees, at least from what I'm given to understand, and hives can be fragile. Please don't worry about TKaM! I haven't worked on it lately, but Moni and friends have been busy. I'll probably drop in tonight and see if I can help somehow. I'll confess, I'd feel a little anxious if you dropped in before the article was ready. I'm so glad that you're still thinking of my heroine! :) Dax would indeed be excellent, although I was kind of hoping for someone more human, more earthy. I thought of another, who just might be the person I was trying to think of, the super-competent character I thought I had seen in a book or a movie: Pippi Longstocking! :) Admittedly, she's not a suave fashion model with genius-caliber scientific/engineering training and she's not even an adult, really. But consider: she's incredible strong and clever, good-hearted and loyal, and it's probably not a coincidence that things always turn out as she wants them to. :) A good person to have on a team, don't you think? I at least hope that I made you laugh in your sickbed. :) Get well again soon, and reassure me on my little bird when you're recovered, Willow (talk) 03:15, 20 February 2008 (UTC) PS. Catullus 2 and 3 were discussed on NPR for Valentine's Day! :) WillowW (talk) 03:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC) The thing with feathers, reduxThe nun of Amherst is finally up for FAC, and I thanked you in my Oscar speech. :) If you can tear yourself away from your busy bee-ness, a look-in would be much appreciated. Take care, María (habla conmigo) 17:20, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
SGGK againI've finished going through all of your notes. Wrad (talk) 20:34, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Recommended to review Milton Friedman FACHi, I nominated Milton Friedman for a FAC and you were recommended as a notable article reviewer. If you have a chance, could you take a look at the article and make any comments at the FAC page at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Milton Friedman? Thanks! Gary King (talk) 20:05, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
WhilstThere is nothing archaic about "whilst", though it may not be AE. What is this "[a]s ..." stuff? Not standard surely? Johnbod (talk) 14:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
This may interest you... and other belles-lettristes who visit these pages. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC) English/BritishSorry, but before you make such edits and reverts you should understand the terminology you are trying to use. I have noted that you have changed most of these English descriptions to British and created articles describing English people as British, but articles on people from Scotland as Scottish. There is a major flaw there, which you don't appear to see. English, Scottish and Welsh people are all British - not just English. British isn't another word for English. To single out English people is wrong, and you are essentially removing information from the articles. Also, in regard to to the era most of these people are from, they wouldn't have even referred to themselves as British, regardless to the act of union in 1707. I also believe there is a conensus on wikipedia to use the English/Scots/Welsh descriptions if it is known if they were English/Scots/Welsh as they are far more informative. I would appreciate it if you would revert the edits back. 172.141.205.144 (talk) 17:29, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, but no. They are ALL unarguably English. You changed to British because you believe that to be the correct term for people from England. Describing them as English was completely correct - if there was any reference to Scottishness or Welshness, British would be fine - but this was not present in any of the articles. Roger Davies - it certainly doesn't lead to endless hair splitting. All the Scottish artists are described as such, and there are editors going around changing English descriptions to British because they don't understand the terminology. You are also ignoring wiki concensus. I would appreciate it if you would revert the edits back. 172.206.212.62 (talk) 20:47, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
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