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[edit] Westport Country Playhouse / Lawrence Langner

You wrote: I happened upon your comment on Talk:Westport Country Playhouse, and I couldn't help but wonder if you were related to Lawrence Langner. Are you?

I'm not sure. There are three or four Langner families, all originating from Germany, and I'm not sure which one Lawrence Langner is from. Karol 11:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I was interested in his life some time ago, and the Playhouse. Actually, I started both pages, if you look at the history. On a related note, Karol is a male name ;) Karol 15:31, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Westport Country Playhouse

Brilliant work! I only did a cursory read through, but it looks pretty darn good. The only thing that jumps out at me is the quality of the pictures: they're too good... are you sure they are licensed under the GFDL? I'll peruse the article later; right now I'm up to my neck in stuff to do for Atomic line filter which is a current FAC.

By the way, can you take a few days off of work to go to Wikimania (this could be one of those "rare exceptions"... show them all of the free publicity you just gave them)? My father and I are going; I thought you might like to join us, (we'll drive). See http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/. Oh, and don't forget to sign you comments. -- Rmrfstar 16:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Halo 2 Skulls

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[edit] AutoWikiBrowser

Could you have used the AutoWikiBrowser for your recent theatre categorizations? -- Rmrfstar 23:33, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Westport

It's not that I won't help with it, but my main focus is now Hippocrates. This is, for me at least, a much more interesting subject. -- Rmrfstar 03:10, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Playhouse peer review

The peer review I was doing at Wikipedia:Peer review/Westport Country Playhouse/archive1 started out well, but the more I delved into the sources and images, the more copyright issues I found. I've tagged the images and delisted the article GA (see Talk:Westport Country Playhouse); please respond to the copyright issues on the peer review as soon as possible, or I'm concerned that other items may need to be tagged as copyvio. Regards, Sandy 07:46, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Stupid" sentence about 91

I think that what whoever wrote that "stupid" sentence at 91 was getting at is that 91 is a pseudoprime in relation to base 10. The article does mention pseudoprimality in relation to 3 mod n, but perhaps it is not worded in a way that makes sense to the less mathematically proficient among us. Anton Mravcek 15:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Francium

I like what you've done with the place... -- Rmrfstar 02:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ian Thorpe

I removed Wikipedia:Featured article review/Ian Thorpe from WP:FAR per the instructions there. ("Please do not add reviews for pages that are Today's Featured Article or listed as one of the three recently featured.") Pls feel free to resubmit when a sufficient number of days from mainpage date have elapsed. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zoobkar

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[edit] what do you think?

A discus
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Abridged 15:02, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

That's an impressive image (of the elements by article quality); Creative, and makes a good userbox, too. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 22:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Francium a GA

Congratulations on the GA pass... now finish the job! -- Rmrfstar 02:18, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Twofer/Grelco

Hi there... spotted your post on the Stagecraft WikiProject about what you've been up to. I'm a UK member of the project and can clarify that the UK name for a Twofer is actually a Grelco. I don't remember where that name is routed though. 'Grelly' would be an abbreviation, which I have heard used. It typically relates to a Twofer for our 15A power connections, and is usually an integral block rather than a plug with two cables leading to two sockets. Where single plug goes to 3 or more sockets it is known as a Trelco. I'm contemplating creating a Grelco page. Haven't decided whether it is better to create a specific page or redirect to your Twofer page and put the info there. Suncloud 08:15, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vasily Zavoyko

Hi, my text was based on Russian Wikipedia article that in turn is an exact copy of the public domain Zavoyko article in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. I have originally put the {{Efron}} at the bottom of the article. But I agree that it does not show what info is from the Brockhaus and which is for another sources, thus I put the references to the online version of the Brockhaus Encyclopedia. There is also a short Addendum to the Brockhaus article showing the deathdate of Zavoyko (Brockhaus was printed in 1890-1908 and probably the Z articles were printed before the 1898 (Russian Z is the only 13th letter of Russian alphabet out of 32) Alex Bakharev 08:32, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vasily Zavoyko

Updated DYK query On 15 April 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Vasily Zavoyko, 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.

--howcheng {chat} 06:09, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tuesday

See you Wednesday. And yes, I'd say this is a very reliable medium for me. Also my Gmail is quite often checked (not as often, though). -- Rmrfstar 01:06, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Divisibility rule rewrite

Some dude is planning a rewrite and splitting of Divisibility rule. See the talk page and give your consent, if indeed you have some to give.

And I shall refrain from commenting on the Francium FAC until there is a satisfactory resolution of the solution issue ;): If you can't solve what's solvent and what's the ion involvement, you won't get good contributions from me, but a poor resolution of the candidacy! -- Rmrfstar 22:49, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Russian-Circassian War

Thanks for taking a look at the article and its FAC. I have addressed some of your points and would appreciate further comment! Thanks SGGH 07:59, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ian Thorpe

Hi Cryptic. In regards to my referencing style. Generally, the book formed the backbone, and I left a thing at the bottom of each paragraph, generally pointing to the range of 10 pages in the Hunter bio for events. After Taxman pointed out that having more than one source was desired, I went and supplemented them with individual Swiminfo reports. However, these are often not as detailed as the article text and the biographical book. (Unfortunately Swiminfo isn't that rich, since Swimming is not a rich sport, so they only have 1-2 journos writing these things, so their reports aren't as detailed as perhaps an Australian newspaper, except that most of the newspapers aren't online). What is your opinion on the fact that I only put one book ref per paragraph at the bottom? Do you want me to pair tehm up with all the webrefs? Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Francium

Congratulations! -- Rmrfstar 06:37, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Atomic line filter

I did Atomic line filter while dating Rachael: you're wrong. -- Rmrfstar 13:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Russian-Circassian War

Thanks for supporting the above articles FAC. It was successful, thanks! :) SGGH speak! 10:26, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Halo

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[edit] Constant Star

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[edit] Tazewell Thompson

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[edit] Jam & Spice

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[edit] Cambrian explosion

Hi,

Some time back you were good enough to leave some feedback on the Cambrian explosion article. I've tried to address all your points, and have finally finished referencing the article; I'd very much appreciate it if you could take another look and see if you feel your points have been addressed: and if you can spot anything else that could use a tweak, before we embark on the FA process!

Thanks a lot,

Verisimilus T 15:28, 19 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Image:Periodic Table by Quality.PNG

You seem to be taking care of this picture and I had a suggestion: in case you have the chance to, update it as .svg type. Nergaal (talk) 13:04, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Periodic Table by Quality.PNG

It seems that you are the one taking care of it. I have recently went through the articles about elements and did a fresh reassesment. If you could, it would be great if you would update the image with the new assesment. Also, it seems to me that GA-articles are better than A ones - plutonium for example did not manage to be GA but is an A one (I might be wrong here, but at least GA has a fairly objective reviewing process, while A can be rated by a single random person). Thanks if you could help with the image. Nergaal 11:08, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of List of Gatorade flavors

I have nominated List of Gatorade flavors, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Gatorade flavors. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Marlith T/C 20:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I appreciate the feedback regarding my article Trucking industry in the United States, however, perhaps putting it on hold might have given me some time to rectify the problems facing the article? Failing it outright was perhaps a little hasty, but that is not for me to question. I will fix the issues that were pointed out and resubmit it for another review. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 01:05, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you can help me define what is a statement that "needs" to be referenced, because everybody seems to have their own definition.[who?] I could very easily cite every sentence in my articles, which it seems would be necessary to satisfy everybody (not just you), but that would be a waste of time. While I could easily state "paper checks are easily forged"[citation needed] it says nothing about how easy it is to actually cash a forged check. Yet someone always wants a citation about how easy it is to forge a paper check. Where do you draw the line between statements that are common sense and unverifiable and statements that are not well known but easily verifiable? If I say most trees have green leaves in the summer,[not specific enough to verify] thats common sense but totally unprovable. But if I said 70% of Iowa is populated with white folks, that can be proven with census reports.
I've only been on Wikipedia for a month now, I've read the "five pillars" and "how to cite articles" and all that junk. I've managed to write a few articles, and tragically, I've never heard of this peer review stuff before I submitted my articles for GA status. Other people have told me, "if you can't prove it, don't say it." Which is good I guess... but if I have to add a cite for every statement I'm going to make I'll never finish anything! Maybe I've just been spending too much time in this place and I need to get out and see the real world instead of reading made-up crap about it on Wiki.
Perhaps I'm ranting to the wrong person, and perhaps you don't care, but I'm not just saying this because you reviewed my article. I'm saying this because Wiki is totally lacking in any sort of consistency, and one person's idea of a great article is another person's idea of toilet paper. This is way too subjective for me, I need hard and fast rules... I'm a man of logic. Where are the rules? --ErgoSum88 (talk) 12:35, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I see what you mean. In other words, cite everything, no matter how trivial. And if you can't cite it, don't print it. Thanks for your help. :) --ErgoSum88 (talk) 01:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks dude!

Looks like a good project!--Nkrosse (talk) 23:20, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion Review for No Use For Nickels

An editor has asked for a deletion review of No Use For Nickels. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this article, speedy-deleted it, or were otherwise interested in the article, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Juliancaza (talk) 18:21, 19 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Hello

I know you don't like to read, or follow links that people give you... still, I'm going to suggest you do both simultaneously. You'll be glad you did.

http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html

Also, I'll be seeing Romeo and Juliet next weekend. Expect me. -- Rmrfstar (talk) 20:30, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the heads up on this, which I agree is quite suspicious - I left a note at the author's talk page. I can dig around in the next day or so and see if I can find the source. If not, I will list it at the proper noticeboard, just have to figure out which one. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:56, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

  • It was deleted by another admin - guess I should have been bolder. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 12:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alaska Steamship Company

OK, it's good to go now. Daniel Case (talk) 23:30, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alaska Steamship Company

Updated DYK query On 25 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alaska Steamship Company, 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.

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[edit] Help (Candide)!

Your favourite veteran techie asks for a favour. Would you do a copyedit of Candide? I'd really appreciate it, (especially considering the good work you're doing in peer-reviewing the Everglades articles). P.S. You scratch my back, I'll say "thanks". -- Rmrfstar (talk) 14:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Complexity in action

The Reviewers Award The Reviewers Award
This reviewer's barnstar is for Cryptic C62, for peer reviewing the very long and involved articles: Indigenous people of the Everglades region, Geography and ecology of the Everglades, Draining and development of the Everglades, and Restoration of the Everglades very thoroughly. Moni3 (talk) 00:32, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I knew it was time to give out a barnstar because I was irritated (a few days ago). I got over it, but it's usually a sign that I need to get over myself a bit. You've been very thorough, and you've had exceedingly high standards. I wrote these articles very quickly to "strike while the iron is hot", and in my haste, jumbled some facts and prose. Your reviews have been for me rather a good example of character building in a Catholic sort of way. That is to say, through suffering. Perhaps we have both suffered. At any rate, I know I can't bring all of these to FA without help, and yours has been invaluable. Thank you. I'm almost in mortal fear of trying to tackle Everglades. --Moni3 (talk) 00:32, 11 June 2008 (UTC) (Grace in action.)

Hee, my first Barnstar! Thank you! I'm quite the happy clam. I must say though, you've given me a bit more credit than I deserve: I never reviewed Geography/Ecology or Draining/Development, as the PRs were closed before I had a chance to try. As for Everglades, go for it! You've single-handedly churned out more information in the satellite articles than any one person ought to know about the Everglades. If anyone is prepared to take on the main article, it's you. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 00:46, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Ah, well I'm glad I'm the first to give you a barnstar. Good for me. As for PR's, who cares about those? Talk pages make excellent substitutes. Any time you want to review either of those, just post away. --Moni3 (talk) 00:51, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
I will add them to my Current Projects list. Candide and List of elements by stability of isotopes take priority at the moment, but I've got the whole summer ahead of me! I'll personally review the two remaining satellites once my wikischedule frees up a bit so I can truly earn the barnstar. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 00:56, 11 June 2008 (UTC)