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The Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go"
Hey. You wrote:
The song seemed to strike a chord in the USA as, while on one level it can be seen as a simple tale of a failed relationship, it can also been as capturing the spirit of the time after the assassination of JFK, racial tension, deepening problems in Vietnam and forseeing the end of the early optimism of the 1960s.."
But where does the quotation start? :o Purpleturple (talk) 03:39, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
SNLF
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Tony Blair talk page
I'm sorry SmokeyTheCat, I fairly rigorously undo anything vandalistic, including rude remarks, and in my hurry I saw your comment as being on the main Tony Blair page as opposed to the Talk:Tony Blair page, so I apologise, I shouldn't have removed it. Feel free to add it back. Thanks. MarkThomas 11:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Susana Reche
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AfD Nomination: Susana Reche
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Tony Blair, worst Briton
I have removed this from the article as it falls foul of WP policies, please see Talk:Tony Blair#Hundred Worst Britons The18thDoctor 10:11, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
The limits to encyclopedias
Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia by creating the page
The problem with the article was that it was your original opinion. See Wikipedia:No original research. NawlinWiki 14:10, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
<<It was a very anodyne and inoffensive article which many people might have agreed with. You didn't give anyone a chance to read it.>> Doesn't matter if it was offensive, inoffensive, or the next Gettysburg Address. Because it's your original opinion, it's not appropriate for an encyclopedia. NawlinWiki 15:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, Just browsing.... The limits to encyclopedias sounds interesting, and suitable as a Wikipedia essay or Userspace essay. You might consider asking for userfycation (undeletion and move to User:SmokeyTheCat/The limits to encyclopedias. Do you still have I copy? I'd be interesting in reading it. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 06:51, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
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- Pardon me for butting in, but I saw your message on Talk page guidelinesspecify that Talk pages are not for general conversation. Keep discussions on the topic of how to improve the associated article. Irrelevant discussions are subject to removal (emphasis mine). That is, the talk pages can be used to discuss about the associated article - its strengths, weaknesses and how to improve it; and not for having a general discussion about the subject of the article. Your edit asked for opinion about Windows Vista, not the article about Windows Vista. As such, it was not a suitable topic for discussing on the talk page, and by Wikipedia policy, subject to removal. What you wanted to talk about is worthy of a discussion forum, not an encyclopedia. It was only this reason Warren had deleted your message, not to be rude to you or anything.
- Also, please 12:02, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
It seems a bit rude and unnecessary of you to remove my contribution to the talk page on this. I didn't touch the main article and was making an intelligent contribution, hoping to get some feedback. SmokeyTheCat 11:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
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RE: Help please!
Hi Geoff, i added some extra stuff on your page, i might off moved some boxes too. I'm not sure if that was what you were going for, let me know! =) LaNicoya •TALK• 18:01, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
- I hope i got it right =) Thank you so much for the barnstar, its my first one hehe! LaNicoya •TALK• 15:10, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi again, i looked at it... it seems fine " SmokeyTheCat •TALK•" is it the time stamp you dont get? When you sign your name and want the time to show up after it enter that code with five "~" after it. LaNicoya •TALK• time stamp ---> 18:34, 21 May 2007 (UTC) 10:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)SmokeyTheCat 10:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
- Well, i just found out how to get your sig. when you sign your posts with the four tilds =). At the top of the page you'll see a link that says "my preferences", click on it and enter the code for you sig. where it says "Signature" and check the box that says "Raw" right under it and then save. LaNicoya
•TALK• 13:57, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Testing SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 10:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC) Testing ... SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 10:12, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
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FLSN Page
Your help is requested at the Sandinista National Liberation Front page. Specifically, the POV pushing taking place in the Red Dawn inspired KGB section. Thanks in advance. Abe Froman 19:33, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
- You want to turn this into a "who can grab more friends", we can play that game. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 19:36, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
- TDC, Please do not stalk me. Abe Froman 19:39, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Sarah Jane Morris
Hi, I fixed up the situation with the two different people of the same name.
The page that *was* at Sarah Jane Morris (disambiguation) didn't work because anyone typing in "Sarah Jane Morris" was going to go straight to the actress's page, and *that* didn't mention the singer, nor the dab page.... they'd never have come across them(!)
One solution would have been to put a "dab" line at the top of her page like
- For the English singer, see Sarah Jane Morris (singer)
but I chose to move the actress's page to Sarah Jane Morris (actress) instead, and to make Sarah Jane Morris itself the disambiguation page.
Hope this helps.
Fourohfour 18:57, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
NPOV
Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Ronald Reagan. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. The Evil Spartan 17:07, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
- So you and your fellow Reagan fans can quote far-Right sources like the Cato Institute and this constitutes neutrality???SmokeyTheCat 10:30, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not even going to dignify that with a response. You were inserting improper POV, and you know it. As for me, I've never even touched the Reagan page, thank you very much, except to say I thought it was too long. The Evil Spartan 14:56, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Please stop vandalizing Nigel Short. Quale 02:55, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
It's not vandalism. It's a piece of trivia that is of interest. SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 08:20, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
FSLN page again
Greetings. Somehow stumbled upon your edits and I like the cut of your jib. There's a little edit war brewing on the FSLN page. I'm trying to keep the civil war from reigniting, but the casualties are mounting. As someone who's edited the page before, would you mind checking in and helping the kids before they kill each other (over who killed each other). Gracias Notmyrealname 18:24, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
- Please don't get them started on the whole KGB/Marie Osmond conspiracy theories! Notmyrealname 15:07, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
Invitation
- We need any members who can make collaborative helps within the scoupe of the project, you are very welcome, even only if you know about few artists, but artists that you like a lot. Think about it further. Eduemoni↑talk↓ 20:23, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Ronald Reagan
Yes, this man's page needs some work. Although there are many polls which show how many stupid Americans think this man was a great president, I think it is quite difficult to convey to these people that his actions have ruined our nation. Do you happen to know where I can find any scholarly criticism of him? And I do appreciate your encouragement. Fighting right wing bias is certainly an uphill battle. Notecardforfree 19:10, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Your comments on the talk page of Bono
I've left a message for you at Talk:Bono. Chupper 21:24, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
Your questions at Talk:Alice Walker
I've answered your recent questions to
{{LGBT-stub}}
I changed and added categories and the stub template. But I'll leave it for you to expand the article :) User:Barliner chat 11:12, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Possessing the Secret of Joy
Hey, I am aware of the book--I think I deleted the article because it was spam. Fear not, it should be quite safe. jengod 17:48, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Notability of Gay Ex-Jehovahs Witnesses
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Vandalism to Ronald Reagan page
Please stop. If you continue to blank out (or delete portions of) page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Ronald Reagan, you will be blocked from editing. Happyme22 17:38, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- It was not vandalism. I was correcting a factual error. The Nicaraguan government at the time was not communist so the Contras can't have been anti-communist. SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 15:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Reagan
I noticed your comments on Hapyme22's page and thought you might like to know that the article is up for FAC review. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Ronald_Reagan Wikipediatoperfection 15:59, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Saint Ana
Hello, Smokey. I recently discovered the article
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Tori King
I'm sorry if I got carried away. I go through the New Pages list and we get hundreds of people that put "I am famous" on one line and/or use WP for advertising. Again, If I got carried away, I'm sorry. If this is an article you feel belongs then please put a {{hangon}} tag right under the CSD tag and it'll hold the article there. That'll give you some time to expand and provide context for keeping the article. If you just take the CSD tag off you'll get noticed by the admins, cause they hate that. Let me know if you need some help, I'll do what I can. Padillah (talk) 13:38, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Aquatic ape hypothesis
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Narnia
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For the record, yes, there is The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Alientraveller (talk) 18:23, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry, that's not how you phrased it. I'll add a link in the lead. Alientraveller (talk) 21:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
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Sassy
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Articles for individual songs
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- The articles haven't been deleted but they have been redirected back to the Countdown to Ecstasy article. I've merged in the factual information regarding the My Old School incident and the sampling of Show Biz Kids to the main album article. The rest of the text was either redundant or commentary on the lyrics which is not useful. Exxolon (talk) 22:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- I'll try again. I have NOT deleted your work. I've simply edited the articles to point to the main album article. If you go to each article and click the 'history' tab at the top you will be able to access your version and retrieve whatever you like. However as each article stood there was insufficient information that could be sourced about each song to warrant an individual article on each song. You are better off expanding the Countdown to Ecstasy article instead. Please note that commentary on lyrics is not something that we normally have here unless it's sourced and relevant.
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- Courtesy notice. I've asked for assistance at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:SmokeyTheCat. Exxolon (talk) 22:42, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Good manners
Wikipedia works because we all cooperate, which is why we have a
Regarding songs
In general, the consensus has been that information about individual songs belongs on the page of the album, not on separate pages- that way, it's easier to find and use. There isn't much reason to have an article on a single song unless it's a song that has its own importance and there's so much to say about it that it wouldn't fit conveniently on the album page, and so many
Apology accepted.
No hard feelings - if you need a hand with anything you are welcome to drop a note on my talk page. Exxolon (talk) 22:58, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Is everything ok atm? you can just write the song description in teh album page if there is too much of a disagreement as to the location. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 02:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Ethiopian famine dispute
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Official warning for repeatedly deleting valid text from Africa
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Young Americans (album) vs Countdown to Ecstasy
The pertinent policy here is
- I restored the redirects here; if you read an earlier message from me that's still on the talk page, you'll remember that individual songs only require separate articles if there's something verifiable to say about that song's importance. As a rule of thumb, you shouldn't create an article about a song without referencing at least two reliable sources that discuss the importance of that song. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 11:25, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Brixton
Hi there, i have extended Brixton and the Brixton riots... maybe you want to ahve a look and contribute. --SasiSasi (talk) 23:15, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London
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Richard Wright and Pink Floyd
I noticed you posted a note on the Pink Floyd talk page, with some formatting problems, then removed it. I'm not sure if this is the reason you removed it, but the news about Wright's death is already mentioned. In fact, during the week which followed his death, the article (and many other Pink Floyd related articles) were edited hundreds of times by people trying to add the information again, or change how it was presented. I presume this happens a lot when famous people die. If you think there is still something that needs to be changed in the article, feel free to post again. As to the formatting problem, a box around a paragraph usually means there is a space at the beginning. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 17:53, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Ronald Reagan WQA
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AfD nomination of Maxine Harvey
Peasants Revolt
I reverted your addition. Please note that history articles should be sourced from works by historians. Etymologies should come from sources like dictionaries. The notion that "fob off" comes from the village of "Fobbing" is a factoid and unworthy for the encyclopedia. Itsmejudith (talk) 14:44, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
- Of course you can put it back if it's a good reference. Itsmejudith (talk)
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Duke Karl of Brunswick / Count Isouard
RE: Brixton Riot 1985
True, but you did make it out to read like you were actually a rioter, I apologise if I labeled you incorrectly. Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 08:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Your virtual novel sounds interesting though, I would be glad to help in some way if I can =). Police,Mad,Jack (talk · contribs)☺ 08:26, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Elvis: racism
We already had this discussion. For relevant quotes, see, for instance Talk:Elvis Presley/archive11. Onefortyone (talk) 19:46, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
January 2009
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An adventurer is you?
An adventurer is me as well. What happens to be your in game name in KOL? ...Ω.....¿TooT?....¡StatS!.. 02:22, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
- Ah. Killimanjaro, is my handle, personally. Did you quit before or after NS13? ...Ω.....¿TooT?....¡StatS!.. 02:22, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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Request to add some science to a locked page
Hi there! I am one of the editors on the medical cannabis page. I have added 3 studies to the cannabis talk page, with a request that it be added to the article as i cannot do it myself. Thanks! 68.13.134.213 (talk) 18:36, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
- Why not just become an established editor then you can can edit the article? It's free and commits you to nothing. SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 10:43, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
AfD nomination of Lesliana Pereira
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Cannabis
Hi! You wanted to add some more reliable references to cannabis_(drug). It would be really helpful. If not I try to improve this section according to wiki standards. Have fun, Panoramix303 (talk) 20:51, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
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About Alexander
About Alexander the Greats birthday. It has been concluded that he was born on July 22 but many philosphers believe that the calenders are different from then and now but it is still believed that he was born on the 22. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anubislayer (talk • contribs) 19:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
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Dylan Live 1966
Hi SmokeyTheCat, I replied here [1] Mick gold (talk) 07:07, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Reggae Greats: Lee "Scratch" Perry
You need to do something about your article on a compilation album called Reggae Greats: Lee "Scratch" Perry. the article is written entirely in personal opinion, you put no citations, and their isn't even proof that the CD exists. Judging by the editing history, it looks like you pretty much made the whole thing. YOu need to either fix it, making sure all the info is well cited facts, or get rid of the article all together.Iminrainbows (talk) 22:41, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
At least change it so it is less opinion and more what is concrete fact. you can't just make a wierd page and hope that someone else will fix it totally.Iminrainbows (talk) 17:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Oh excellent with the Reggae Greats thing, it's much better now. I don't think it should be deleted, now that it's benn fixed.Iminrainbows (talk) 01:22, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Your Comments at RFCN
There is no official admin recall process yet. If you have a problem with an administrator, it is best to talk to them on an individual basis. Some admins have their own recall process set up, but the name you used in the header (LessHeard vanU) states on his user page that he has no official recall process, just talk to him, and if a bunch of people say it's a problem, he will consider giving up the mop.
Short version: Talk to LessHeard vanU, or any admin you have a problem with.--Unionhawk Talk E-mail Review 16:10, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
- And to clarify, according to the deletion log, that article was deleted under A7, which is a perfectly valid administrative action. --King Öomie16:24, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
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Why thank you very much HairyWombat! SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 17:07, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
Steelyard Blues is my all time favourite film. You might like to move the barnstar from your talk page to your user page. It is your choice where you display it. HairyWombat (talk) 19:34, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
Relisting notice
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- What is preventing you renaming Ian Page to Ian Page (musician)? Have you never seen a move option on each page? (In a pull-down list with my skin.) — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 18:50, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
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- Sure, delete her if you want. I don't really understand people like you who seem to have a mania for deleting articles which some people might find interesting but you feel that the presence of this article makes Wiki a significantly worse place then go ahead. I don't care. SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 12:22, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
- Just as a matter of idle curiosity why did you want to delete the article? Like I say I don't mind but I don't understand. Okay, she was of very minority interest but how is Wiki improved by her absence? I've been an editor here a few years now and It's never occurred to me to want to delete any article.
- Just wondered. SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 10:19, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
- I didn't reply at length because you had proposed that I had some mania for deleting articles—it didn't bode well for a serious conversation. The Giselle Lorimer article was unverfiable and uninformative. I didn't see a way I would ever be able to improve this article, so I proposed deletion. No one in that AfD objected. I was a bit surprised you didn't participate.
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- If you think Giselle Lorimer is likely to become notable in the near future, you might request
- You can also create an .
- I very much doubt that Giselle Lorimer will ever become notable. Her books are very much minority interest and will probably stay that way. She seems uninterested in publicity anyway. There are numerous hits on her but all they just just cite her three books and her publisher. Not a word of biographical information. She interests me tho and I wrote her a snail mail but I doubt I'll ever get a reply. One of those many little small mysteries of the WWW.
- Anyway, thanks for the information, happy Wiki editing and I'll see you around no doubt, George George aka SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 08:42, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
- I can imagine erotica writers often choosing to remain anonymous. For what it's worth, in an author article the work, and then the career, are usually more important than personal details. Hardcore biographical information is not needed in most BLP.
- I don't know anything about Lorimer, but I'd say if self-published) cult that sprang up around his Gor novels, which most agree are poor writing but distinctly valuable as erotica. The anonymous graphic artist Dolcett has been deleted at least 3 times, despite having a somewhat interesting publication history, a passionate fanbase, and occasional WTFnotice in somewhat straight internet-based media.
- Until someone does some serious research on these topics, I don't see how they can have Wikipedia articles—without the Wikipedia:Reliable sources restrictions, Wikipedia would quickly be packed with articles comprising rumors, scams and promotion. I wish it were otherwise.
- / edg ☺ ☭ 14:13, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
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July 2010
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Hey, sorry to bother you, but your signature seems unnecessarily distracting to me. Would you possibly consider making it smaller? Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
- I've replied to your post at HJ's N419BH17:16, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
- Paste the following into your custom signature box in preferences:
- [[User:SmokeyTheCat|<span style="border:2px solid Red;padding:2px;"><b><font style="color:Black;background:Red" > SmokeyTheCat </font></b></span>]] [[User talk:SmokeyTheCat|<font color="Red">•TALK•</font>]]
- Copy it right off this page, don't click "edit" then copy as you'll get the <nowiki></nowiki> tags (you don't want those). You'll get N419BH17:35, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
- Copy it right off this page, don't click "edit" then copy as you'll get the <nowiki></nowiki> tags (you don't want those). You'll get
No problem, glad you like it. It's still a touch on the big side though (basic rule is if it covers up the bottom of letters like "gpjq" etc. it's too big). You could add a <small> tag at the very beginning and a </small> at the very end to get this:
How about:
[[User:SmokeyTheCat|SmokeyTheCat]] [[User talk:SmokeyTheCat|(talk)]]
The current one is pretty garish and you need to change it. The one BH offered is a tad better in that it integrated the talk link, but it's using the from-hell font-element.
<span style="font-family:Arial,serif;border:1px solid Black;">[[User:SmokeyTheCat|<span style="color:White;background:#c00000;">Smokey</span>]][[User talk:SmokeyTheCat|<span style="background:White;color:#c00000;">TheCat</span>]]</span>
Cheers, Jack Merridew 20:25, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
All Wi Doin' Is Defendin
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Okey-dokey. It's your perfect right to remove the tags. I will send it to
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Do you really thing that single is worthy of wasting any time on at an AFD? Its not worthy of its own article and you should let it be deleted and should not have removed the prod.
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File:Andi Osho.jpg doesn't have a license and stuff. Even if you add one, it will probably be deleted since there's no reason to think that the stuff on her Facebook page is free to use. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:14, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
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Azed Examples
Hi Smokey,
With great reluctance, I have removed your example clues from the Azed article. As well as some intrinsic problems with their text, you’ve put the clues into The competition section where they interfere with the main explanation of the set-up. Could you perhaps clean up the text and give them a section to themselves (possibly just before or after the Well-known Azed competitors section)?
What do I mean by "clean up the text"?
1. You didn’t quote either clue accurately. Before I decided that I had to delete, I had already corrected Don Manley’s clue to get rid of your non-anagram. I’ll let you check with & lit and adjust Colin Dexter’s. Your version wouldn’t have won the First Prize.
2. Get rid of your personal opinions – "elegant", "admirably brief", "very neat" (see NPoV, Verifiability). As it says at the beginning of Verifiability, "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth— whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." I agree with the opinions you expressed but you and I are just little editors hiding behind pseudonyms. Our opinions must not feature in the encyclopedia - unless we can provide in-line citations to show that they are opinions previously expressed in a reliable, authoritative and verifiable source.
3. Take Don Manley out of the main text. His authorship of the clue may merit mention in a footnote but not in the main body of the article, I feel.
4. If you want to credit Don Manley, do the same for Colin Dexter
5. Perhaps revamp your layout a bit. The way that sample clues are shown in
Also, would you like to consider whether the inclusion of a clue from Jeremy Morse (the other member of the Big Three) would improve the balance? My favourite clue of his (one of the eight used by Azed in his tribute puzzle No 1906 and described as "wonderful" by him in the Slip) is that to RAMILLIES. Its ingenuity and erudition took my breath away when the competition results came out (this was before the Internet and Google made everybody experts on everything). You may prefer a different clue, of course, but I think it should be one of Azed's eight. Since this is a brand new suggestion from me, I’ve written some text for RAMILLIES and include it below.
- Marlborough’s second crusher in conclusive quartet of victories (9) [1]
for RAMILLIES. Ramillies, in Chambers as a hat or wig, was also the second of Marborough’s four major victories in the War of the Spanish Succession.[2]. In the wordplay, Marlborough’s second is "a", "mill" is the crusher and these go inside "ries", the last four letters of "victories". The whole clue defines Ramillies, the battle.
Refs
- ^ Sir Jeremy Morse Azed No 419
- Oudenarde and Malplaquet
Incidentally, Wikipedia's motto is be bold, isn't it? And when you do, it seems as though everyone jumps on you and tries to kick your teeth in (today it's me, tomorrow Joe Frazier, perhaps). I think the basic problem is that Wikipedia is using unpaid amateurs while trying for the standards of a top-grade professional encyclopedia. An employee at Encyclopedia Brittanica would expect to take a long time before getting things right first time – here it’s a nasty shock when you're told you haven't. There’s a very steep learning curve but a lot of satisfaction when you get it right.
Regards,
Dinoceras (talk) 12:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Sorry – I forgot to leave you your original text to re-edit. Here it is below complete with non-anagram.
Examples of elegant winning clues include:-
- Item gran arranged family slides in. for MAGIC LANTERN (An anagram of ITEM GRAN with CLAN inside and giving a literal definition.)
- A representation of M Hilda say. for SHIELD-MAY (A shield-may is a woman warrior and this admirably brief clue by Don Manley references Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Hilda Thatcher in a very neat anagram.)
Regards,
Dinoceras (talk) 21:13, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Rather than propose this for deletion, I'm going to suggest removing the POV and merging what's left of it to
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Please don't create essentially unsourced biographies. The link you used was not a reliable source. I have made an attempt to source the article, but I can find little indication that she is notable. Fences&Windows 21:23, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
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speedy delete reasons
Hi Smokey
your nomination of Amazing Mr. Waller, Vol. 1: Jiving with Fats Waller deletion was declined, because your reason was not a valid speedy delete reason. If you think no one will contest your deletion proposal you can use prod. Otherwise you will have to go with the effort of an AFD if there is controversy potential. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:06, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Fats Waller
Easy — it's the
Dear Smokey, I noticed a discussion thread on the Trafalgar discussion section about black british sailors. The subject is somewhat a hobby of mine. I have been researching and writing about John Perkins (linked above) for a while. He was, to the best of my research the first black british officer to serve in the armed forces of the crown. Arguably there were people who served in the Ethiopian and Black regiments during the American War, like Colonel Tye although these were militia units and not regular army units. I wrote the wikipedia article and the article in the BASA newsletter (no.47) and an article on the http://www.blackpast.org website. I'd be more than happy to dicuss Perkins or any of my other research with you if you're interested. All the best, Corneredmouse (talk) 11:43, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not sure where this is specifically dealt with although I shall take a look at a few books tonight. I do know that there was a significant enough presence that at least one black sailor is included in the sculpture at the foot of Nelson's column in Trafalgar square. The sailors who posed for the sculpture (if I remember correctly) were sailors who served on the Victory during Trafalgar. The link to the National Archives page is [2]. Also a link to an article in the Independent [3]. Also, Tom Wareham at the Museum of London in Docklands is quite a good contact. He has access to a lot of facts and figures. Corneredmouse (talk) 13:57, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Duke Ellington's "Guitar Amour"
Hi Smokey,
The Duke's composition "Guitar Amour" appears on several recordings:
- Paris Blues (United Artists, 1961) - two versions (one titled "Bird Jungle") recorded on 2-3 May 1961
- Duke 56-62 Volume 2 (Columbia) - titled "Bon Amour" recorded 25 October 1961
- Midnight in Paris (Columbia, 1962) recorded 30 January 1962
- In the Uncommon Market (Pablo, 1986) recorded 6 or 7 February 1963
- All Star Road Band (CBS) recorded 31 May 1964
I would suspect that the version you are looking for is on either of the last two albums. A good source of Duke detail is at the Duke Ellington Panorama.
Hope this is of assistance
DISEman (talk) 02:40, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Smug twat
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- As reviewing administrator, I deleted it. I think they are just a generic drug manufacturer, and therefore not significant unless there is some special reason of major business presence or market share, that would take references. Companies with products of their own --those are the ones where there is might be an implied claim to importance even if nothing more is indicated. DGG ( talk ) 00:14, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
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