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[edit] DYK

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[edit] Education Minnesota

Hi Tim. I hope I didn't muck things up for you there. I noticed you had added EM to the List of trade unions so I thought I would add the infobox - if I don't do things right when I think about them I stand a pretty good chance of forgetting and never doing them :) Nice work on expanding the article. Cheers. Chris --Bookandcoffee 23:45, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Not a problem! That's what the back-button is for; backing up two pages let me find my added text, and I was able to dump it right back in. YAY! Tim1965 23:47, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your article nomination on DYK

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--Kimchi.sg 04:56, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894

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GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 19:41, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Fabulous article. Italo Svevo 04:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree! This article is awesome. Other than the red link problem, I'd say it's almost featured article material; at the very least, a good article. ♠ SG →Talk 05:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Gosh, thanks for the very kind compliments! As for red links, they are always a problem in labor articles, I think. There are so few articles addressing labor! Almost none of the major figures, unions, or events in the U.S. labor movement even have stub articles about them. Almost no public domain sources exist which I could use. I'm trying very hard to collect books and articles about the U.S. labor movement to write stuff, but it's tough slogging: Aside from the sheer expense, few libraries own the books or journals needed, the information is scattered across many texts, and in some cases the only information available is in original-source documents to which I do not have access (either because of distance or access issues). *sigh* I'm pushing ahead as fast as I can, though, and recruiting as many people as I can to write more labor articles. Tim1965 14:41, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
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--Mgm|(talk) 20:53, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Strike cat

Hi Tim. I see you put up the List of strikes on the project page. Good idea. I tacked up the Category:Labor disputes in the category section... does it make sense to put strike categories under that? I see there is already a Category:Miners' labor disputes, but I think it might be worth spliting them out by country. What do you think?

Maybe:

  • Category:Labor disputes
    • Category:Strikes by country
      • Category:Strikes in Canada
      • Category:Strikes in South Africa
      • Category:Strikes in the United States
      • and so on... --Bookandcoffee 20:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
How'd I miss this category? Arrgh! I completely agree that they need to be split out by country. I think there may be enough articles to even do a U.K. category. I'm just learning the rules on how to create and sort Categories, but I think that Category:Miners' labor disputes should really be a Sub-Category of Category:Labor disputes. What's your opinion? Tim1965 14:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, it already is. I suppose that rather than Category:Strikes by country the wording should be Category:Labour disputes by country to keep things more general (although then we run into that damn labor/labour thing again...:) nonetheless, if you agree I think we can just go ahead and get the ball rolling. BTW, categories are a little different than stubs - I think we're on pretty safe ground if we create the labour disputes by countries cat and then add the sub-cats as needed without worrying about a 30 article threshold or anything. (one more wrinkle - WP:NCCAT keeps track of category naming conventions, but I think it should be Labour disputes in Canada, not Labour disputes of Canada... (yeah, we have to worry about things like that! :)) I'll leave a note at the naming conventions project page and hopefully it travels through without too much controversy. But you never know. --Bookandcoffee 16:53, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Note posted at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (categories)--Bookandcoffee 16:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
  • So I went ahead and started Category:Labor disputes by country. Of course the first thing I did was accidentally create Category:Labour disputes in the United States instead of using the US spelling! I fixed that, and started putting the articles into their countries. Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 23:15, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of photographers known for portraying males erotically

As you had made contributions to this page in the past, I thought you might be interested in participating in this AfD. You input and/or suggestions regarding a Category title if it should go that direction would be appreciated. Thanks. Doc ♬ talk 12:38, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment department

Hi Tim. I've been working with this new assessment thing - and I just wanted to leave you a note about the quality scale. I've marked Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (and a couple others) as "B-Class" - but I didn't want you to think that was because I thought they were sub-standard. My reading of the scale being used means that this is the highest class available until the article has gone through the Good article nomination process. (Which, incidentally, is something that should be done with a lot of your articles!) Cheers. Chris --Bookandcoffee 18:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Back!

Hi Tim. Glad to see you're back. No thanksgiving up here (we have it in October), and instead I have 6" of snow on my sidewalk this morning - very unusual for Vancouver. I hope you like the assessment thing, it seems to have taken off over at Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects. In the last few weeks I've actually scaled back the amount of time I let myself work here (you know - life, and all that), so I'll be a little more intermittent around here, but I’ll see you around I’m sure.

Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 19:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I know what it's like. It's partly why I took my own (lenthy) break. I was committing way too much time. Geez, and they say Net porn is addictive. No way! For someone who likes research, writing Wiki articles is like intellectual meth! I don't see how Italo Svevo writes so damn much. I'm glad of it, but it amazes me nonetheless. Tim1965 18:11, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On November 29, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article David Brody, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thankyou for your contributions. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On December 5, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ralph Fasanella, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Many thanks again Tim. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for the labor historian articles

Thanks for your excellent work writing new articles on various labor historians. It's something I've been thinking about for a long time, and I'm glad you're working on it! 71.77.12.236 04:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! I chanced onto the category, and thought it such a great idea that I kind of put aside some other labor projects to work on it. There are more coming, too. Tim1965 00:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

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--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 21:29, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

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--GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 19:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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thanks for the article Tim. Keep up the good work, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 07:13, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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--Yomanganitalk 15:54, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Sandra Feldman, was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On January 6, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Sandra Feldman, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 01:51, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Florida Education Association, was selected for DYK!

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Thanks for your contributions! ++Larbot - run by User:Lar - t/c 03:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, United Teachers of New Orleans, was selected for DYK!

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 04:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968

Can you provide a citation in the Florida statewide teachers' strike of 1968 article — for the statement that it was the first statewide teachers strike in the nation? Thanks. — ERcheck (talk) 03:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Easily. - Tim1965 04:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Thanks. — ERcheck (talk) 05:56, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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--Yomanganitalk 12:01, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wapping Dispute

Hi Tim. You rated Wapping Dispute "low importance". Would you object to me changing it to high importance? The actions of Murdoch (methods aside) broke a strangling hold of the unions over newspaper production in the UK. I have read quite a bit about this and although I am not a conservative I have to say that the way the unions brought The Times and The Sunday Times to their knees is sickening. I'm not sure to be honest how important this issue is in the wider UK trade union movement, however its effect on the newspaper industry alone is worthy of high importance in my opinion. Mark83 22:03, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Oh, go ahead!!! Change it! I'm no expert on U.K. labor relations, so that was just a wild guess as to "Importance." - Tim1965 22:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Mark83 00:47, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George Odger

Thanks for your great work on labour-related issues. I'm interested to know why you rated George Odger as being of low importance. He was probably one of the two or three best known trade unionists of his day, and as the article shows, he was prominent in a wide variety of labour-related organisations. Warofdreams talk 20:11, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Because I'm clueless, that's why. My primary goal was to get the {{LabourProject|class=|importance=}} code onto the "Talk" page, and I neglected to change the class and importance tags within that code. Absolutely -- change it! I know nothing about British labor history ("TUC"? What's that?). - Tim1965 20:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK!

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Thank you for your contributions! Nishkid64 00:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK!

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Thank you for your contributions! Nishkid64 01:28, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK!

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Thank you for your contributions! Nishkid64 17:19, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK Medal!

The DYK Medal
It's amazing at how fast you are able to whip out high-quality DYK articles! I really appreciate all the articles you have made about organized labor and such, and I want to give you a token of appreciation for all you have done. Keep up the great work, Tim! Nishkid64 17:46, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seconding

Here, here. (Or is that hear, hear? :) Either way, I wanted to agree with Nishkid64. Thanks for the continued excellent work Tim. Chris --Bookandcoffee 17:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

  • STOP IT! You guys are gonna make me blush. - Tim1965 17:31, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] USPS article

U.S. Postal Service strike of 1970 is a nice artice but USPS didn't exist in 1970. USPO Department became USPS July 1, 1971. Article needs to be renamed. House of Scandal 06:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC) [1]

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Federal Corrupt Practices Act, was selected for DYK!

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 02:04, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Woo! to you, too! Warofdreams talk 02:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Stop it... I'm not working. What else do I have to fill my time with? It's people like you, who have jobs and lives and stuff, that are doing the heavy-lifting. - Tim1965 04:26, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, National Security League, was selected for DYK!

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 15:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit to César Chávez

Hello, there have been some major revisions/copyedits to César Chávez's article since your assessment. Could you please review the talkpage and see what you think? Thanks, Ronbo76 22:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

  • I really only do assessments for the Organized Labour WikiProject. The article is already "High" on the Importance scale. Since the article hasn't formally gone through the "Good Article" vetting process, it can't be rated higher than "B" on the Organized Labour Project's "Class" rating.
Some helpful comments if you want the article to reach "GA" status?
1) It will have to have in-line citations to sources. That means using the "<ref>Dough, Jon. "What A Great Book!" New York: Best Publishers Ever, 2007, p.50.</ref>" citation after each fact that could be disputed, with a "==Notes==" section before the references and a "<references />" code beneath the notes (make sure that space exists before the slash!).
2) The article seems to lack some basic information, or it is out of place. For example: His father and mother's names should come in the first paragraph of "Early Life" not in the third. Did he have siblings (and how many, and his position among them - first-born, last-born, three of four)? Why the family moved around so much? (It is implied that they were migrant workers, but not all migrant Chicano families are agricultural workers, nor all farm workers migrants.) What happened to him from 1946-1948? Did he return to work as a migrant laborer? Did he continue to work as a migrant worker after marriage and while having children? Why did he go to San Jose? Who was Father McDonnell? (Just a local priest, or a priest active in the labor movement, or a radical priest, or...?) What was the CSO? (Some day, there may be an article on the CSO. Until then, the article should have a sentence describing it and what it did.) Those are just some comments on the first sub-section. But you can see how the article should be a lot longer.
3) There is no link to the Delano grape strike, even thought this is probably the event for which he is most famous. It would be a good idea, I think, to expand on why Chavez decided to hold the Delano grape strike. Why a strike at that time? Why grapes? Why that part of the country? Why a strike and not some other collective action? Did he encounter resistance for his ideas from the AFL-CIO or other unions or other workers' groups? The last sentence in the third paragraph says it was a major victory; how so? Did UFW sign a contract with the growers?
4) The article needs some Wikifying. Dates and place-names in particular are not linked.
5) Only five sentences describe everything he did in the last 20 years of his life. I think this section needs to be greatly expanded. This was a major turning point for him. The public's attention toward the plight of the farm workers had waned. What was Chavez's thinking about how get things moving again? What educational initiatives did the union establish? I know the union was involved in health care as well; was Chavez behind this?
6) The main article never mentions his U.S. Medal of Freedom. This incredible fact only appears on the timeline.
This article is pretty good. But it needs a lot of expansion, and a lot more about Chavez. This is one of the most important men of the last 40 years of the 20th century. Compare Chavez's article to the article on John Sweeney (labor leader). The Sweeney article is maybe too long, and its citations need to be in-line. But the article on Chavez should be at least as detailed.
GOOD LUCK!!! - Tim1965 01:47, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edwin D. Hill on DYK

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Thank you for your contributions. — ERcheck (talk) 22:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Victor Kamber, was selected for DYK!

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 22:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Sheet Metal Workers International Association, was selected for DYK!

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 21:09, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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--Yomanganitalk 10:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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--ALoan (Talk) 17:46, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ed Boyce resource

Under Ed_Boyce, in the section Ed_Boyce#Public_service, there is the statement, "He called for legislation to forbid employment of aliens..."

Is there a specific reference that can be cited for this statement? Thanks, Richard Myers 00:37, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

  • William J. Gaboury. "From Statehouse to Bull Pen: Idaho Populism and the Coeur d'Alene Troubles of the l890's." Pacific Northwest Quarterly. January 1967, p. 1422. - Tim1965 03:15, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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--BigHaz - Schreit mich an 10:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937 on DYK for 6 March 2007

Updated DYK query On 6 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thank you for your contributions! — ERcheck (talk) 02:53, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Inquiry about Labor Project class ratings re: Ludlow Massacre

I note that WikiProject Organized Labour for Ludlow massacre has "rated as no-importance" on the talk page. I've spent little time exploring ratings, so am looking for guidance on this.

When i check for the significance of no-importance, i discover this note:


Used only for disputed articles. Placed on articles which have no legitimate link to organized labour. Provide discussion related to the rating, as this rating is likely to be removed or replaced on sight without related notes.
(emphasis added)


This status certainly does not describe the Ludlow Massacre article, at least not in the opinions of hundreds of unionists who return to the site for the ceremony every year. I believe status of the Ludlow Massacre article is equivalent to the Haymarket Riot article, which is offered as an example of high importance.

I'm puzzled by the choice of status, as well as the lack of any discussion related to rating. Would someone be justified in removing this rating on sight in accord with Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour/Assessment relating to lack of any notes? Or is there something here that i'm missing?

Look forward to your response, thanks, Richard Myers 07:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

  • I would hazard a guess that it has received that rating because of the NPOV problems. Once those are resolved, then someone (even you) can change the importance rating. I would consult with Bookandcoffee, who knows much more about the rating process than me (he helped set it up). - Tim1965 02:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gregg Andrews

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--howcheng {chat} 23:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

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--Carabinieri 13:14, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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