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[edit] Image:Isiahleggett.jpg
I noticed the file Image:Isiahleggett.jpg currently does not have any fair use rationale as to why this file is acceptable under Wikipedia's restrictive fair use policy. It will be deleted soon if rationale is not added. Thanks. --tomf688 (talk - email) 03:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Leonard Orban
Thanks for assessing this article. I have contributed to the article and I would like to improve it. Could you write at Talk:Leonard Orban what improvements in your opinion are mostly needed? --Michkalas 23:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for your comments. They have really helped me a lot. I have tried to follow them and improve the article. So now there is an expanded lead section and more details on his personal life and his career. I have added also a few words on his political leanings. For the time being, I have no more English language sources that I could consult -though a better search may provide something more. The EU has announced that Orban will have his own website, but until then probable there are very few things to add from English sources. Some Romanian language sources may help for his earlier carrier. I have asked some Romanian wikipedians for possible Romanian sources, but nothing came out of it. So maybe it is now time to ask for a peer review.
- Please answer at Talk:Leonard Orban. --Michkalas 20:57, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
- I have taken the initiative to submit the article for peer review at Peer review/Leonard Orban on 28 January. Well, no reaction for the time. Of course, many articles are submitted, but, maybe, the article on Orban is not really interesting for a wider audience. Anyway, you were for the time the only one to provide some feedback, an ideed very useful feedback - and on your own initiative! Thanks! --Michkalas 22:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Anne of Great Britain
That was awesome work ! I'd love to point you towards this list of royalty articles that are uncited. Thanks SO much for a fine job. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- oh my gosh, and you've been on Wiki for less than ten days - I should also say "Welcome" !! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:08, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] ISBN & Google Books
Hi, welcome in Wikipedia. The reason of using ISBN is that we don't choose particular website, either Google Books, or Amazon, etc., to link a book. With ISBN, you simply point to a wikipedia page. For instance, just type ISBN 0-660-13063-7, the mediawiki will give a link directly to the WP ISBN page. There, you can choose which website you want to look for the book. However, old books do not have ISBN, so in that case, I think, it is okay to link to Google Books. Cheers. — Indon (reply) — 16:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ahmat Acyl
Hi Mocko, and welcome again to wikipedia :-) I've noted you've assessed as "start" the article Ahmat Acyl. Since you've seen the article could you give me some input so to rase the quality of the article, and remove defects? Ciao,--Aldux 21:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] State Democratic Parties
I'm writing because I see you have been creating articles about the Democratic Party branches in various states which just reiterate their titles. Do you anticipate that you will be adding more content to these articles? I personally am not going to submit these articles for deletion, but other editors might do so if they find them to be lacking in content. --Metropolitan90 20:06, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] BRoy class ratings
Just thought I'd drop you a quick message to say a big thanks for your assessing so many articles! Cheers! – DBD 18:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Francesco I Sforza
I've just sectioned the article as per your request. Maybe you can give it a better rate now, as I seem it's well written and informative. Bye.--Attilios 19:23, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] George Calvert
Thanks :) I think it could do with another copyedit - try the league of copyeditors - at times the prose seems clunky and at some points unclear - "He also suffered the insults of a Puritan minister named Stourton who went to the Privy Council to accuse Baltimore of harbouring the practice of Catholicism, though the Council dismissed the charges." - hadn't he declared himself Catholic when he left politics? And can you make it clearer that it was his new wife that fled south to Virginia? RHB Talk - Edits 13:43, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Great work!
Not at all. I thought it might have been a mistake. BTW, I don't know how you find the stamina to find citations and review articles so quickly! Well done! DrKiernan 15:37, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] RE: WikiProject: Biography Assessment Drive
Thank you very much for the heads up regarding the assessment drive. I will definitely be helping out as much as possible. Cheers, Thereen 03:18, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Eric Gascoigne Robinson
Regarding your notes on the talk page, 1) Was a typo, I corrected it. 2) Was part of a completely different sentence I dragged there by mistake and then missed on the read through, I removed it. Thanks for your review, was there anything else you saw which needed investigating?--Jackyd101 17:47, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kevin Beary
Thank you for responding to my "request for assessment" with respect to the Kevin Beary article, I was wondering if you noticed that there is an AFD vote pending with respect to the article. If you have any thoughts regarding the matter, I urge you to share them. --TommyBoy 04:07, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Eskaya
Thank you for the great review. I did as you suggested in Talk:Eskaya. Perhaps you can check again and let me know if there are still other edit/s i can do to pass WP:GA. Thanks. --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 03:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you. You have made my province of Bohol, Philippines proud! I cannot begin to tell you how much this means to the province, especially at this time! --Ate Pinay (talk•email) 06:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Aeschylus/Prometheus Bound
Mocko, thanks for making those changes. I edited the article a bit more, and explained on the article's talk page; see what you think. And thanks for all the work you put into the article, it's a huge improvement. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:49, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Boy Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)
Thank you for your work on helping Boy Scouts of America meet GA. We had Boy Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) up at the same time too, but it was turned down and we've reworked it now and I've relisted it for GAC. I thought you may want to take a look at it for GA too. Feel free to join the ScoutingWikiProject too. Thanks again.Rlevse 12:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
- Done, pls look over again, thanks. Rlevse 14:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Calvert
I was relieved to have your note, as I was worrying I might have upset you by seeming to attack your good work. I am always ready to help with a history or literature article at FAC, though, and all I want is for an article to meet the standard and pass.
My remaining reservations are to do with the thinness of the early part of the English section: in particular, I was surprised when I read Krugler and Codignola to find that Calvert's Catholic family had been forced into religious conformity when he was about twelve, and that his mother never really had conformed, though his father had, at least for appearances' sake, to ensure preferment. This is too signicant and revealing a detail to be left out, in my opinion, since it casts light on the background and motivations behind Calvert's conversion.
I also feel that the lead is misleading in places. Certainly I do not agree that little scholarship has been added to the nineteenth-century sources. And the following analysis seems to me somewhat shaky:
...though he lost much of his political power after his support for a failed marriage alliance between Prince Charles and the Spanish royal family. Rather than continuing in politics, he declared his Catholicism publicly in 1625 and resigned his political offices, though he was granted the title of the 1st Baron Baltimore upon his retirement.
Calvert took an interest in the colonisation of the New World, partly as a result of his conversion to Catholicism and his ensuing interest in creating a refuge for English Catholics.
The first sentence here, though true, is unexplained and will not be of much use to a general reader on its own, I fear. The impression is then given that Calvert made his conversion known before his resignation, but the reverse seems to have been the case. "Retirement", it strikes me, is the wrong word for a resignation, since Calvert was only in his forties: and by retaining his place on the Privy Council, he remained in political office, though maybe not for very long (notice the contra-notes I've added on his Privy Councillorship: without having access to Browne, I can't assess the accuracy of the Browne reference to Charles maintaining Calvert as a Privy Councillor).
I don't think the evidence and sequence of events bears out that Calvert took an interest in the New World partly as a result of his conversion to Catholicism. His conversion seems to have taken place in late 1624, by which time he already owned holdings in Newfoundland—and even earlier he had been on the board of the Virginia Company. My impression therefore is that he became interested in the New World originally for financial reasons and that his interest in the Catholic mission came later, particularly after his encounter with Stock (this is Krugler's reading, essentially). Apart from financial and religious motivations, I believe that a political motivation emerged, too: when reading the books, I noticed that Calvert considered the colonies to be governed directly under the king's prerogative and therefore to be immune to parliamentary interference. This may also explain why Calvert continued to enjoy the support of the king in America despite having lost political influence at home.
I suppose my queries might be better raised on the talk page or the FAC page, but I don't want it to seem as if I'm picking on the article. I'm honestly not: I find the article fascinating, so many thanks for bringing it up to a level where the historical nuances are worth addressing. qp10qp 22:34, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Well, although consensus is important and I am outnumbered three to one, usually they won't pass until all objections are addressed. I think far more detail is necessary in the early English section and a greater variety of sources for the whole; I'm happy to address that to a point where I can switch my vote to "support", but I'm conscious that might seem like heavy interference. I do think it's possible to make this a fuller article, building on the base that you have established through considerable hard work, and for my vote to change. qp10qp 17:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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- By the way, I notice that something's gone wrong with the coat-of-arms image (picture of the Pope instead), and I can't work out how to fix it. qp10qp 19:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sunderland - GA nominee
Thank you for your excellent detailed analysis and suggestions for improving the Sunderland article to GA status. I plan to amend the article accordingly at some point within the next week. I will let you know when I am done. John the mackem 01:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies
Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 21:30, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you - glad to be helping out! It seems ridiculous that that many articles get tagged as part of the WPBiography but do not even get tagged with a simple stub tag. If we can get a good number of being working on this per day it is feasible to knock it out in one month. Again, thank you! --Ozgod 21:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] EJO Article
Thanks for the feedback on the Elsie J. Oxenham article. I've done some of what you suggested, in particular a lead paragraph. Also had feedback from Duribald which I have taken on board as well, and hope to get it to B or GA standard eventually --Abbeybufo 12:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Assessment Drive
Hi Mocko13. I added a rewards aspect to the Assessment Drive and an alternate way to begin assessing articles. I extended the time for the drive to one month. I also posted a teaser on the Community portal to drum up interest. -- Jreferee 16:14, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] EJO again
I've added quite a bit more now, so would welcome your feedback sometime when you have the chance --Abbeybufo 15:01, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks Mocko13, I still have a section on her use of places to add, then I'll think about peer review request --Abbeybufo 16:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Visual arts-related AfDs
Here's a template to use in an AfD, when it has been listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Visual arts (please do list appropriate AfDs there). I think it should go under the article details and above the nom statement, as it is a formal notice and not part of the debate. It will sign your name with date stamp automatically. Please pass on to others.
Mnemonic: List of Visual arts-related Deletions.
Template to use:
- {{subst:LVD}}
Result:
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletions. Tyrenius 00:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Tyrenius 00:14, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
