User talk:Whyaduck
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[edit] Welcome, from Journalist
Welcome!
Hello, Whyaduck, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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- Since others have mistook me for a program or bot of some kind, Ill just like to start putting it out there that Im 100% real :)
[edit] Welcome to the Southern California WikiProject
If you have any questions or comments about the SoCal WikiProject, or the Wikipedia in general, feel free to contact me.
Also note that for statewide issues, there is the California WikiProject. BlankVerse 10:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Historic landmark categories
Hello! I understand your concern: let me explain. My robot's recent edit did not "remove the category" from Fox Theatre (Atlanta), it merely changed the category from Category:Registered Historic Places in Georgia - which is now deleted - to Category:Registered Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) (and it also tidied up the remaining categories on the article). This was done because of this consensus to disambiguate some Georgia (U.S. state) categories from possible Georgia (country) categories. No change was made to the contents of the category. If there are Historic Landmarks in Georgia that are not in the List of National Historic Landmarks by state, then by all means add them to the list! Let me know if you still need further explanation or help on this. Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 10:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Million Dollar Theater and MWD
Thank you for your clarification for the Metropolitan Water District and its relationship with the Million Dollar Theatre's office building. It is the (MWD) wording on the exterior of the building that stimulate me to look into the fact. Geographer 12:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] CHICOTW
I do not actually believe that you currently reside in Chicago. However, on the chance that for some other reason you may have an affinity for Chicago related articles I hope you will accept the following notice:
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Last week you helped edit the Chicago COTW, but did not vote. Thank you for your help! Your input in future selections would also be appreciated. This week Rich Melman has been chosen. Please help improve it towards the quality level of a Wikipedia featured article. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see an open tasks list.
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TonyTheTiger 00:35, 31 January 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 23:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikiproject Biography March 2007 Newsletter
The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 22:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] CHICOTW
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Last week you helped edit the Chicago COTW, but did not vote. Thank you for your help! Your input in future selections would also be appreciated. This week Union Stock Yards has been chosen. Please help improve it towards the quality level of a Wikipedia featured article. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see an open tasks list.
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TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 18:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New NRHP Collaboration Division
Hey, saw you were a participant in the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject. I thought I would let you know that there is a new Collaboration Division up for the project. The goal of the division is to select an article or articles for improvement to Good article standard or higher. There is a simple nomination process, which you can check out on the division subpage, to make sure each candidate for collaboration has enough interested editors. This is a good way to get a lot of articles to a quality status quickly. Please consider participating. More details can be seen at the division subpage. IvoShandor 11:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your question
I clicked on your This link above. Is this a prank of some sort? I'm confused. Whyaduck 23:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
- Not sure what you think is a prank? I had linked to a page belonging to a user - that page was a draft of some ideas regarding how to deal with pages that do not have adequate references. Since then the user Snottygobble has changed their username, and my link no longer has anywhere to go. The name is actually that of a tree in Western Australia. Regards. SeanMack 03:06, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] GW Smith
Yaay! Somebody else cares about George Washington Smith! Thehappysmith 18:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Slim & Slam , Fleet (for Foot), head rhymes, &c.
I'm sorry, User:Whyaduck, but I am right and you are wrong.
Relying on Google hits to prove anything is a notorious error, into which all too many people fall. Three days ago, I had in my hand an antique vinyl of Slim & Slam, owned by a friend - and on that it has, as clear as day: Flat Fleet Floogie (with a Floy Floy). (Of course, I then went on to listen to it - and the words were unmistakable!) If that doesn't suffice, I also looked the matter up in the "Rough Guide to Jazz" (which was the only reference I could lay my hands on at the time) - and it confirms what the old Slim & Slam cover said - adding that the substitution of "Foot" (or "Feet") for "Fleet" was an error - a modern interpolation.
As for using Google - may I remind you of a British cartoon (in the style of the pre-WWII cartoonist Bateman), published about 10 years ago. It was entitled: The man who confused Information with Knowledge. Misinformation is everywhere on the Internet - with the Wikipedia system, we get a chance to fight against it (to however small an extent). That's what I was doing - and I can prove that I am correct (vide supra).
Also, far be it for me to use a concept (probably) invented in the context of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, but "Flat Fleet Floogie" (with or without a "Floy Floy") is a rather lovely example of a head-rhyme.
So: please change them all back ...and if you don't, I will. Hair Commodore 16:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Anaheim Hills
Thanks for being observant and for fixing things. The background is that an editor user:Ericsaindon2 is obsessed with Anaheim Hills, a neighborhood of Anaheim, California. ES began to make delusional edits as if it were a city- adding it to lists of cities, even creating a "city seal" for it. The whole thing became too much and he was finally banned for adding false information and being disruptive. Anyway, the banning had little effect on his behavior. He still wants to make things his way and tries to find creative ways of sneaking stuff in. I wish there were a better solution. -Will Beback · † · 07:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007
The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published.You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. BetacommandBot 20:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Chicago Theatre GA
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You were a contributing editor to Chicago Theatre during its tenure as CHICOTW. It has successfully achieved Good article status thanks in part to your efforts. See its GA review and help us raise it towards the featured article classification level. Recall that during its tenure as CHICOTW we achieved the following Improvement. See our CHICOTW Improvement History. Note our good articles.
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Contributing editors:AKeen, ChicagoPimp, SmackBot, Speciate, TheQuandry, TonyTheTiger, Whyaduck, (Darwinek, ERcheck, Lonnyw, MarkSutton, VirtualSteve).
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TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5
 Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007 |
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The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page
Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up.
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