User talk:WikiDon

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"Mr. Wiki? This is the Thomas Crown School of Dance and Contemporary Etiquette. We aren't going to call again. Now, you want these free lessons, or what?"

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05 Archive 05 # 2 Image Archive

[edit] Skipanon

Hope this is the proper place to talk? You requested a clean-up of Skipanon River. I've read the links and talked with Mwanner on possible © issues. Are there other style problems with it? It's my first attempt, so I may be missing things. Thanks.

LH --71.111.112.245 11:49, 6 November 2005 (UTC) (formerly known as 71.111.146.208)

[edit] Dunedin

Sorry i was unaware of the vandalism. I just turned up at the page and noticed some things that i could fix, i had never seen the page before so i couldn't notice the vandalism. Swarve 22:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dawson Creek, British Columbia

I have opened a peer review of the Dawson Creek, British Columbia article at Wikipedia:Peer review/Dawson Creek, British Columbia. I would appreciate any comments you may have on the article. If you are able, I would like help with the reference formatting (not my strongest area). Also, is the prose clear and does it flow well? Is there anything I should expand on or that I am mising? Thank you for taking a look into this. --maclean25 04:30, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 306th Bomb Group

WikiDon, The 306th Bomb Group did not become the 306th Bomb Wing. The 306 BG inactivated in the 1950s and stayed inactive until redesignated the 306 FTG and reactivated at the Air Force Academy. Your history is incorrect and incomplete. I will not correct errors if you don't want the help, but I was just trying to make sure the true story of the 306th Bomb Group was told. Chris

[edit] Help

WikiDon, please review my edits to pre-Code (movies) and tell me if you believe that they are unworthy of being posted. The Irish mob (Jtdirl, Demiurge, Ali-oops, and Djegan) is again colluding to censor (ironically) a page about censorship. Everything I posted (under Rms125a@hotmail.com) is factual and based on the truth, a truth they evidently do not want posted because they find it disagreeable. They don't even review line by line, just revert and give boiler plate responses.

Thanks!! Rms125a@hotmail.com (I am not logging in now, although I did previously because Jtdirl blocked me on two different IPs and I am sufficiently computer illiterate to think that if I log in, the block might recur. Either that or he only blocked me for a very brief period, which doesn't sound like him).

[edit] Sources for Harry James and Chassis knock-down

Hello, good work on Harry James, and thanks for the contribution. However, you did not provide any references or sources in the article. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a push to encourage editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. Can you list in the article any websites, books, or other sources that will allow people to verify the content in Harry James? You can simply add links, preferably as the inline citations, or see citation templates for different citation methods. Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 13:26, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi, me again :-) I noticed that you wrote Chassis knock-down, which would also greatly benefit from some references (not least to verify that this is a term with some currency). Thanks! Lupin|talk|popups 03:28, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nominating the redundant OU logo

Hi, I just want to inform you that I nominated your Image:OUlogo.PNG image upload for deletion because I updated your Image:OU-Logo.PNG which makes the non dash one meaning less besides having a lower resolution. :-) --J. Nguyen 05:31, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year, WikiDon. Hope the holidays were pleasant for you.

I am writing about the "List of Catholic American Actors", with which, obviously, I have been involved in updating, etc., although it must be pointed out that I did not CREATE the list, nor any other religious list (Lutherans, Mormons, Jews, etc). I just wanted to expend my expertise and meticulousness on what I thought would be an enjoyable diversion.

This has not proven to be the case. The "List of Catholic American Actors" contains non-U.S. citizens. I made a request for any editor/administrator to change the NAME of the list to something more inclusive, like, say, "List of English-speaking Catholic actors", or "List of Catholic Actors from English-speaking countries". Because as it is the contents of the list (although I removed natives of non-English speaking countries, except Ricardo Montalban, because he's been in the country for over 60 years) do not match the name of the list in question.

Of course, "Demiurge", tells me (4 January 2006) that my request is "nonsense", and that I should play in the sandbox. He has turned into an automatic reverter of almost any edit I make with the boiler plate "vandal" in the edit summary.

I know I have made some enemies at Wikipedia and that saddens me, and I know I bear some of the responsibility for having axes to grind, however factual in nature.

I can't even sign in because "Jtdirl" had me on some kind of autoblock that I told Jason Lunkwill about. Jtdirl lied to Jason and told him he was not blocking me, so I copied something from "Jtdirl"'s blocking history and pasted it in an email to Jason, who declared it "interesting" since apparently "Jtdirl" had created a secret account of some sort. Don't ask me you know I don't understand that degree of cyber-esoterica.

I am a lot older than Jason,a nd I could see that he had no serious intent to do anything about the situation and was just leading me about by the nose, so I emailed him early last month, partially in caps (which led him to accuse me of "screaming" at him) and he told me that he would not read anything from me until Christmas, and that even after Christmas he could/would not promise to help me. I declined his offer and contacted Catherine Munro (on 29 December) in a long rambling email to which she obviously never replied. Jason was also upset at me because I sent an email to Daniel Brandt defending Wikipedia b/c I felt Brandt was exploiting the Siegenthaler incident, and I sent a cc of my email to Jason and Pat Gunn. I did not have any bad intentions in doing so, in fact, I wanted them to see that I still supported Wikipedia despite the problems I was having. Jason told me I had placed him on a "public mailing list", but his email address is publicly available anyway at Wikipedia in the section re mediators. That's how I got it!!! Jason accused me of "cajoling" him!!!

Cheers!!

Robert Sieger email address: rms125a@hotmail.com

[edit] Rifle Research

Hi, I'm doing research for a novel, and I was wondering, since you created the Henry Rifle article, if you know of resources available online or to you regarding breechloader availability in the period 1850-1860. Specifically, how likely would it be that a cowboy could own a breechloader rifle during this time period? (Likely suspects: M1819 Hall rifle, or possibly the Henry rifle itself?) Thanks in advance, Guapovia 14:58, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks :) Actually, that's kind of how I got your name in the first place, seeing who'd said anything about rifles. Appreciate it much, though! Guapovia 08:44, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:DnkImg005.jpg

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[edit] Roller-compactor: suggested move to "Road roller"

Hello WikiDon,

I have photographed several road construction roller-compactors ("steamrollers"? "road rollers"?), and before updloading to Commons, did some Google searches to decide how to name them. From the results, I see the that the term "roller-compactor" is ambiguious: it is used also for several pharmaceutical/chemical/food-industry machines. E.g., the top Google result right now is [1], reading:

Vector Corporation - roller compactor, dry compaction, dry ...

Manufacturer of coating, granulating and drying equipment for pharmaceutical,chemical, food and confectionery industries for processing powders

And this seems different from another high Google result:[2]; etc.

Thus I suggest moving the "Roller-compactor" page to "Road roller", and perhaps Steamroller should also be merged to it?

Regards, RickP 17:58, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable to me. "Road roller" will make clear that the it is about an engineering vehicle. MathKnight 20:52, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Moved, and disambig created for roller-compactor. RickP 22:07, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:UTAH_SR-261.PNG

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:NMStateEconomicRegions.jpg

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[edit] Classic Rock

Hello. I was wondering if you would like to participate in my classic rock survey. I'm trying to find the most like classic rock song. There is more information on my user page. Hope you participate! RENTA^{FOR LET?} 21:47, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NBA Draft pages

What did you use for source material? I wanted to put the full draft up. --DNL 01:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Berge Stahl

Hi, sorry it took me forever to reply. I don't work for Bergesen, I just created the article quite on random. I'm not sure you can say that Berge Stahl means 'steel mountain', 'Berge' is just a name they use for all their ships, derived from 'Bergesen', and as for 'Stahl', I'm not quite sure what it means, but it sure isn't Norwegian. It sounds like German for Steel. As for the photos, the website released them into the public domain when I made my article. They just asked to be informed. Now the whole web site seems to be different though. Eixo 23:31, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belfast-Lough.PNG

WikiDon,

I edited the image of Ireland ( the Island) to include the capitals and I outlined Belfast Lough. But when uploading, I am not sure which copyright notation to use. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

(Gary Joseph 20:29, 18 June 2006 (UTC))

Hi, WikiDon, your image of Belfast Lough has been altered. Your original was more suitable for the article on the Belfast Blitz. So I restored your image as Belfast-Lough-2.png. Thanks for the image, Regards ClemMcGann 21:19, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Zealand Regions Map

Just letting you know that you have spelt Otago wrong in your picture.

Cheers,

Bjorn

[edit] JhnDyDam2.jpg

The image, Image:JhnDyDam2.jpg is pretty nice. A US army corps of engineers photo is public domain, but could you provide a source for the image? I found a source that helps prove it was a corps picture, but not one of the same resolution as you provided. If you possibly remember where you got the image from, could you put it on the image description page (preferably in place of the lousy URL I put)

[edit] Image:Reykjavik pos.png listed for deletion

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[edit] Source

Image:DmpTrck.JPG has no source. Do you have it? (you uploaded) --80.63.213.182 21:12, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trucks

Pardon for intruding, but would you be interested in supporting the creation of a project about trucks? Please feel free to sign up or just comment at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Trucks. Rotten Stone 16:31, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Terry Stafford

Hello, WikiDon, thanks for improving my Terry Stafford article. Not that I can find any reference to myself in the history, but then I am fairly new to Wikipedia & don’t know all the tricks by any means. Another example: how did you manage to capitalise ‘Stafford’? It was uncapitalised because I always type in the search box in lower case & the article originated from there - Rothorpe 18:52, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Don, I reckon you deserve the epithet Wiki after all that stuff you have written. Thanks for the explanation re ‘Terry stafford’. It seems he had a sad life, the archetypal one-hit wonder. I didn’t know he was also a songwriter until I researched the article. Yes, I like various kinds of music, as you can see from the list, though some of my favourites are missing, Miles Davis, Delius, Sibelius, Beethoven, Dylan. Nice funeral selection - Peter Sellers, though, had a different approach… You deduced I had cats from the user page, right? Eva is in charge of the photography around here, and I don’t think we’ve got any pictures of our current pair - we’ve had about a dozen, I reckon. Sad about Fiesta. There was a dog where we lived in Guimarães who eventually died. He was named Dany by a member of Eva’s family - I spelt it that way because of the Café Dany down the road, which turned out to be named after the owner, a Frenchwoman called Danielle. Dany the Dogg never had a proper owner before me, as he was officially Eva’s mother’s dog, but she didn’t like animals, so he took to following me around - at one time I used to take him for a long walk every afternoon & again after midnight. Nice maps of Iceland. Have you been there? - Rothorpe 23:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago Theater on DYK

On 5 March 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chicago Theater, 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) 04:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elmer Harris Entry

WikiDon:

I was pleased to encounter what seems to be your entry on Elmer Harris, playwright, etc.

Numerous details are in error, however--perhaps a consequence of the understandable difficultly one experiences when collating online sources and when continuing research reveals new information.

For example, the broom factory referred to was not Harris' father's, and it was his eldest brother who worked there (his father was a lay minister); the San Francisco earthquake damaged the San Francisco Call-Bulletin's headquarters and ended Harris' association with it, but the earthquake did not end the newspaper itself; Harris *probably* worked on translations with Cora Older, but this has not been verified; Harris did not, despite his own claim, help found the artist colony at Carmel-by-the-Sea, but was merely an early member, which perhaps has the retrospective effect of seeming to be a founding member (this was also true of his membership in the PEI colony); Harris did not, as you state, travel back and forth from Manhattan to San Francisco, as his professional interests were in Los Angeles, not San Francisco; _Sham_ was neither Harris's first play nor even his first American play, as _Sham_ as this was preceded by production of _Tempesta_ in Germany in 1902 and _The Offenders_ in 1908; Harris wrote _The Offenders_ and _Trial Marriage_ in someplace other than PEI as you state, as he had not acquired the property at the time of his writing; the sentence in your text that reads, "He would see the transitions of the motion picture industry of both the move from New York to Hollywood, and from silent flims to sound" includes a misspelled word ("flims") and I believe needs to substitute the "of" with "from" to clarify your meaning; your sentence "For the next twenty-years he was very prolific, collaborating on, directing, adapting, or supervising the production of almost 35 silent and "sound" films, while also writing seven original screenplays of his own" is unattributed plagiarism of my own sentence, "Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Harris wrote more than seven original screenplays and had adapted, collaborated upon, directed or supervised the production of almost thirty-five other silent and "sound" films" (the definition of plagiarism admitting that an inexact reproduction or only cursory rewording constitutes such a violation that is not mitigated simply by providing a link elsewhere on the page--a concern that applies equally to your next sentence); Harris had written a good handful of screenplays before _The Lottery Man_, as is supported by records at the Library of Congress (and often poorly reported elsewhere); it's probably not exact to state that he spent half his time in New York City, ply that the other half was in California, and then suggest he spent summers in Canada, as this would consitute something over two halves; and, if you'll forgive me, please change "Lydia" Dingwell to "Belinda" Dingwell.

I imagine that one of the predictable shortcomings of trying to write such texts based solely on internet sources rather than based on your own research lends both to the inadvertent reproduction of errors, and, in your case, the inadvertent creation of unintended new meanings as you reword others' writings. It is analogous perhaps to the difference between copying from an encyclopedia in order to create a quick book report and actually going to the library: the first method is expedient and, compared to the second method, error-prone and lacking in intellectual rigor.

Alas, I admit my own work has plenty of errors--lots of them--and that's my problem, and I have to correct them as I research about them. The operative difference in our cases might be, however, you seem to have borrowed uncritically from your sources without questioning them and then, worse, presented others' writing as your own (one has to wonder why you attempted to rewrite my work at all, and didn't simply cut, paste, and attribute it accordingly. At least in this way you would cede responsibility for any errors).

When time permits, and when I've completed my current research, I'll look into collaborating with you on a revsion of Harris' Wikipedia entry. For now,

Regards, http://elmer.hipbo.org/ 12 Mar. 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 143.112.32.4 (talk) 15:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC).

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