User talk:Pinkville

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[edit] my RfA - Ta!

Gwen gleans, wending keen by the wikirindle.

Thanks for so strongly supporting my RfA, which went through 93/12/5. Your thoughtful words helped so much! I'll be steadfast in this trust the en.Wikipedia community has given me. Cheers! Gwen Gale (talk) 01:11, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Seydou Keita

Greetings! You recently created somewhat of a mess by moving Seydou Keïta (footballer) to Seydou Keïta II (footballer). Moving pages can sometimes be a bit complicated (I have also created similar messes in the past), and I see you have taken steps to solve the issue. May I just point out that instead of disambiguating two persons with the same name and profession by naming them I and II it's better to disambiguate by adding nationality, or, if nationality also is the same, birthyear (in this case Seydou Keita (Malian footballer) or Seydou Keita (footballer born 1980). In this case there seem to not have been a dab-issue in the first place, so moving Seydou Keïta II (footballer) back to Seydou Keïta (footballer) would solve all issues (even if I'd prefer Seydou Keita (footballer) which is the most common spelling). Respectfully, Sebisthlm (talk) 15:19, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah... if only the two names had actually been identical! I got entangled in the Seydou/Salif Keïta net, but the key problems have been resolved and I'll tidy up any loose ends. Thanks for your comments! I decided to keep "Keïta" for both footballers since they are relatives, previously the surname had been rendered differently for each. Pinkville (talk) 16:38, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I see. The reason I moved Seydou to "Keita" is that after a brief search I didn't find any sources that suggested that he uses diacritics (including both the sources in the article and the official FC Barcelona Site). Moreover, the initial move from Keita to Keïta was made without discussion, and not by you (otherwise I would of course have consulted you). In alignment with the spelling within the article and other articles like Centre Salif Keita and Stade Centre Salif Keita, I thought the article should be at "Keita" unless reliable sources would suggest a different spelling. On the other hand, as a Swede I'm sensitive to the use of diacritics (Å, Ä and Ö are letters in their own right in Swedish) so if it can be established that mr Keita actually spells his name with diacritics I'm all for a move back to Seydou Keïta (footballer). I also notice that of the articles in other languages the Spanish, Italian and Latvian versions use diacritics. Sebisthlm (talk) 19:59, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

I think you were perfectly right. I looked into the sources for Salif Keïta, and they exclusively gave "Keita", without diacritical, so I think this article should be moved accordingly - but I can't do it myself (the move requires an administrator). As for the other languages, it's possible that the diacritics derive from Spanish, Italian or French transliterations, given their closer colonial proximity to Mali, if you see what I mean. But the linguistic issue is territory I know next to nothing about. I'll see about getting Salif Keïta (footballer) moved to Salif Keita (footballer). Pinkville (talk) 01:26, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Um. Hoary (talk) 01:38, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

You mean I could have typed less? thanks again. Pinkville (talk) 02:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Interestingly, most instances of "Keita" in the Library of Congress Authorities (very reliable, authoritative source for name orthography in English) prefer the variants without diacritics, but for Salif Keïta, the singer, they give the following scope note:

Keïta, Salif, |d 1949-

670 __ |a Ambassadeurs Internationaux (Musical group). Dance music from West Africa [SR] p1984: |b label (Salif Keita) container (b. in Mali; musician & songwriter; not to be confused with soccer player of same name)

Hard to conclude from this that the footballer also uses the diacritic, but the suggestion is there. (There is no entry in the Library of Congress Authorites for the footballer.) Furthermore, the Wikipedia article on the singer does not use the diacritic that LibCon prefers. So very messy.... Pinkville (talk) 01:41, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] quelle iconnerie

So put me straight, please. . . . Hoary (talk) 01:08, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Now you've done it! You've compelled me to go to the university library to dig into books that I'd hoped to have laid to rest... Pinkville (talk) 13:17, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] could you please do me a favor?

Hello,

I am a master student at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently I am wrapping up my master thesis titled “Can Wikipedia be used for knowledge service?” In order to validate the knowledge evolution maps of identified users in Wikipedia, I need your help. I have generated a knowledge evolution map to denote your knowledge activities in Wikipedia according to your inputs including the creation and modification of contents in Wikipedia, and I need you to validate whether the generated knowledge evolution map matches the knowledge that you perceive you own it. Could you please do me a favor?

1. I will send you a URL link to a webpage on which your knowledge evolution map displays. Please assign the topic (concept) in the map to a certain cluster on the map according to the relationship between the topic and clusters in your cognition, or you can assign it to ‘none of above’ if there is no suitable cluster.
2. I will also send a questionnaire to you. The questions are related to my research topic, and I need your viewpoints about these questions.

The deadline of my thesis defense is set by the end of June, 2008. There is no much time left for me to wrap up the thesis. If you can help me, please reply this message. I will send you the URL link of the first part once I receive your response. The completion of my thesis heavily relies much on your generous help.

Sincerely

JnW^talk 07:32, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure. I'd be happy to help. You can use my Wikipedia email to send me the URL. Pinkville (talk) 11:19, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] howdy

sorry to pop up out of the blue like this, but i was wondering if i could just ask you a favor - the article on Naomi Klein is pretty regularly besieged by pov editors attempting to violate WP:undue by focusing disproportionately on the minority of criticisms of her recent book while failing to acknowledge the overwhelming majority of praise. whatever one's personal feelings on the book, it's pretty inarguable that it was well reviewed by most people, which wikipedia should naturally reflect. sorry to ask you, but i've been dealing with the same people for months, and it gets pretty boring reverting the same silliness over and over. i got into a thing like this over on the ralph nader page a few months ago with a user who was later found to be a sock puppet and blocked. if you could just keep an eye on it from time to time, it would be much appreciated. i'll be posting this message on a few other user pages just in case you've got your plate full or just plum don't wanna do it. thanks Marshmellowgoggles (talk) 13:15, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd be glad to help out as much as I can. If it weren't for the good work of people like Klein, et al we'd have many fewer opportunities to use our editing skills... ;~) Pinkville (talk) 13:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

cheers man! Marshmellowgoggles (talk) 16:52, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Emile Gsell

Thank you for changing links on the French arcticle.

Your culture in photography (and your work on wikipedia) is very impressive.

Jatayou (talk) 21:36, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Happy to help. Thank you very much. Pinkville (talk) 21:43, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination

Hi. I'm glad you've accepted. We'll start it soon after mine has finished. Regards. Epbr123 (talk) 05:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good. Thanks. Pinkville (talk) 10:50, 7 June 2008 (UTC)