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The Photographer's Barnstar
For your time and effort in capturing some great photos of
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, I award you this Photographer's Barnstar. You made a good article better... and reminded me of some quality time that I'd spent there. Many thanks!
Carptrash (
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21:11, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
In one of those misguided moments that we all (
opinion) subject ourselves to, I put all my slides of
stained glass, including quite a bit of
John LaFarge's work, in one folder. Now I can't find it. I don't suppose that you've seen it? Cute quackers. bye the way.
Carptrash (
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01:29, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
Well what I am looking for is a three ring binder with a bunch of my stained glass slides from 25 years ago when I was doing pilgrimages to various people's works, including La Farge. If a mind is a terrible thing to loose, loosing slides is even worse. Your pictures should probably go to commons - making them easier to fond,
Carptrash (
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15:26, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm ashamed to say I like his legs. But those too-tight hot-pants have gotta go. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? -
Tim1965 (
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13:55, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Sunday I played in the 42nd Annual Hippies vs Indians softball game, and while I played okay we got out butts kicked 24 to 15 or so. As a result I can hardly walk now and would be a sitting duck for any lazer (or any other ) action. But go ahead, put me out of my misery.
Carptrash (
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02:06, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, APK! I am a babe in the woods when it comes to wikipedia compared to you, but see we sometimes work on the same articles, so just wanted to make contact, thank you (including a thank you for some photos of yours I've used), and wish you continued success! I do wonder if you ever take photos of people, in addition to buildings. I would love to have a photograph of some activity of Bet Mishpachah, to go with the article I just created (and to go with your photo of the building they use!).
NearTheZoo (
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13:33, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Howdy! I'm glad you've made good use of the images. I rarely take photos of people (
buildings don't stare back at you, wondering what the heck you're doing...ha), but a friend of mine has attended
Bet Mishpachah's services. I'll ask him to snap a few pix.
P.S. Since you've written several articles related to Judaism in Washington, D.C.,
this will help if you're uploading images.
Thanks, APK!! If your friend could take a photo or two of Bet Mishpachah, that would be great. I don't know what their policy is about photos during Sabbath services, but perhaps he could get permission to take a photo before the service, or at a special event.
Meanwhile, I am going to order Jewish Washington, since there is an inexpensive used copy available on Amazon. I do have The Jewish Community of Washington, D.C. I'll also look around for the book on Southwest Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, I'll also check the wikipedia and wikipedia commons pages you recommended -- and if I get energized, I'll even consider creating a page on Washington Jewish history! Thanks again!!!! (PS I'm getting ready to launch another article, on the annual White House Hanukkah Party.)
NearTheZoo (
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00:32, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Wonderful! Just added the second cornerstone photo. (Love those old photos!!). Not sure about the interior ones, although I do enjoy seeing them! Thanks!! (By the way, did finish the White House Hanukkah Party page. Learned a lot of trivia!).
NearTheZoo (
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02:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi again, APK!! Just wanted to say that if your friends at Bet Mishpachah are willing to take a photo or two, that might be the only way we'll get one for the page! I've been in touch with a few of the big mucky-mucks, who promise to get something to me, but nothing seems to be happening! They may eventually come through, but I really do think that a photo with people would spice up the page, since the building (DCJCC) is the only photo there now -- and that one is there thanks to you! Best wishes -- and congratulations on all your continuing good work!!
NearTheZoo (
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13:41, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Arthur L. Willard
Thanks for adding the pic of
Arthur L. Willards former home in Washington D.C. I wonder if I might ask a favor. Since you're in the D.C. area (I assume) would you be willing to check with Library of Congress or other sources for a photo of Willard himself, preferrably in uniform, that could be added to the article? I've done some online searching as well as e-mailing with the US Naval archive people and had no luck. Only photos are of Willard in a mass group and not very clear. The admiral was raised in my hometown, so I've taken sort of a special interest in this largely forgotten naval hero. Any help much appreciated.
Sector001 (
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01:15, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
First I apologize for the Newseum piece; I didn't mean for you to eliminate your photo. I am OK if you want to take it back to your original. Second, I was looking at Union Station, Washington, D.C. I don't know enough about HTML to correct the gallery section. On my screen it appears the photos are overlapping and I knew you could make the technical corrections. Thanks
Karen Nutini (
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15:09, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
1920 x 1200 How weird. Two photos are overlapping when at full screen. But when I slightly minimize the window the USGS photo floats up and down the left side. I'll need to look at it later on my work computer. Thanks, APK.
Karen Nutini (
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22:36, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Hoping to avoid a dispute over whether David Nesenoff is an Jew and a Conservative rabbi
Hi, I noticed that you removed the American Jew cat and said in the edit summary that you were removing Conservative rabbi cat. He is both, so I am re-adding. Hope that is all right with you, but if not, we should discuss.
KeptSouth (
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15:27, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Sorry I misunderstood the edit summary {"External links: remove parent cat of Category:American Conservative rabbis)" and thought that meant you were removing the Conservative rabbi cat. Thanks for explaining that that meant you were removing the American Jews category.
I didn't mean to imply you would start an edit war, I was expressing my intention first, before I did anything with anyone's edit. The way I look at it general defensiveness is the order of the day b/c someone was indef blocked for a while due to a content dispute in which he was mainly if not entirely in the right. The block was reduced by another admin to about 5 days total; the same penalty I have seen others get for having up to 8 confirmed sock puppets, some of which voted on the same ANI's or Afd's and faux-debated each other.
The entire episode is chilling - to think that someone who is in the right or merely disagreeing on content can be run off WP so easily, and I know others have been desysoped for the same "offense".
It seems false allegations are often made on these Arab-Israel conflict related pages of vandalism, sock puppetry, arabism (whatever that is), and even support of terrorists, if an ed. is going against the grain of one point of view and attempting to balance the articles per WP policies. And, if you are not familiar with the disputes, they are now over the most small and trial of points. I have little problem with debating content - except now I see the false allegations, forum shopping and all kinds of other dirty tricks succeeding so well. Sorry to bother you with all this, I was just explaining my position as defensive on these articles, and as not meant to be a personal attack. If you haven't already re-removed the American jews category, I will. - Regards
KeptSouth (
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15:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
FYI, My wife just got a picture on Cake Wrecks...It's the Fathers Day one shaped like a Y...Thought you would get a kick out of it.--
kelapstick (
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01:28, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Have you ever submitted anything to them, if you did, then you could upload it here and add a picture to the article. Would be an improvement.--
kelapstick (
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03:24, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for checking and approving
Falling Waters State Park. The link in question works fine on the computer that I used to expand the article and it works on the one I am now using as well. I am going to leave things be. Thanks again.
Dincher (
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01:29, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey APK, I noticed your reviews of various article submissions for "Did You Know?" and was wondering if you could briefly check out my article,
Mordecai Barbour, and give me some guidance as to what I can do to improve it for submission. Any comments or critique you could provide would be of the greatest assistance. Thanks! --
Caponer (
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22:04, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Howdy. I'll be happy to take a look. Four suggestions - 1) The birth/death dates include four citations. I'd stick with one or two if at all possible.
This reference says he was born in 1763, while
this one says "Sep 1753". The Wiki article says 1764 and January 4, 1846, which seems to match
thesereferences. I suggest removing the conflicting two citations. 2) Barbour's relatives are mentioned in the lede, but I don't see the need to mention their birth/death dates until later in the article. 3) Since Barbour was an American, I suggest "Americanizing" the dates. (4 January 1846 ===> January 4, 1846) Someone will probably do it when the article is linked on the Main Page. 4) Possible hooks - mention Barbour having served under the command of
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, or his participation in the
Siege of Yorktown. I hope that helps.
APKwhisper in my ear02:27, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I do not wish to suffer The slings and arrows of your discontent. I will therefore not propose a DYK hook for
Little Thetford again. I have now read the
rules. I am in the process of creating a
new article in my
user space. The article is currently 3,448 bytes long. It will grow to be around twice that within the next few days as I continue my research. The article is similar in topic, but different in prose style, to
Dunaverney_flesh-hook. In particular, I hope to broaden the subject by including more detail as I find it. I have also sourced an image of the artifact. I am waiting for the image to be cleared for copyright and then uploaded into wikimedia commons. As you can see, I am not sure when I can complete the research to make this article a nice article for DYK. This is why I have created it in my user space. I hope this does not break any rules I have missed. Also, I am slow at verifying my research material :(
Got my DYK passed. Slight problem with someone editing my UK English Artefact for US English Artifact and I had not noticed, but all is well now. Thank you for your help earlier. --
Senra (
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20:07, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
What a little turd
this person is! I was working on an article about a wilderness study area in Montana, which
can see I started on June 27. This little thief came along on July 2, and stole that article off my Talk page!!! He even
it with incomplete sections and errors still intact! I can't believe it! He didn't even bother to rewrite any part of it! I am appalled! (Note that I completed the article today and tried to create it, only to find — to my astonishment — it had already been created, and that little pinhead had stolen it.) What a rotten little so-and-so! -
Tim1965 (
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00:27, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Oh no, he didn't! Takes off earrings and high heels. Someone did that to me in 2008. (I think the article was speedily deleted and I recreated it.) It looks like Qao-bou was blocked as a sock and you've already tagged the article for deletion. All betterz! I still feel like
fighting. Hardcore gayngsta!
APKwhisper in my ear05:40, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
It looks like the article has been deleted and recreated by you. I really dislike these thieves. —MC10(
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Hello, APK. You have new messages at
Template talk:Did you know. Message added 00:36, 3 July 2010 (UTC). You can
remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Hello, APK. You have new messages at
Template talk:Did you know. Message added 16:37, 3 July 2010 (UTC). You can
remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
On
July 8, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Diego's Hair Salon, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (
here's how,
quick check ) and add it to
DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the
Did you know? talk page.
This is an interesting article and not spam as the title might suggest. It is very short but so entertaining, I will nominate it for good article. Passage will require some work, though.
Hello again. I wondered if I might ask a favor? I have just set up Mizabot to archive my talk page, which had gotten ungainly. I wondered if you might have a look and tell me if I've done it properly? Many thanks and enjoy your holiday.
MarmadukePercy (
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13:26, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey. It looks good to me. Your watchlist is going to have a large, red number (my guess is -150,000) the next time Mizabot visits. ;-)
APKwhisper in my ear13:35, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
It's not a dumb question. A tourist asking me "Where's the stores?" (while walking on the
Mall) is a dumb question. You can take a look at my archives. Everything stays intact; barnstars, DYK templates, images, etc.
APKwhisper in my ear23:20, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Okay, I'm confused. It says mizabot archived my page, but no archives exist. Do you happen to know where all that stuff went? Thanks.
MarmadukePercy (
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18:02, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
I found the archives, but for some reason mizabot named them archives 22, 23 and 24, and they don't show up on the archive box on my talk page. Weird.
MarmadukePercy (
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18:12, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Fucking tourists, with their complete disregard for subject-verb agreement. (And, FWIW, the arrival of
LiquidThreads will make page archiving / archive bots obsolete, though who knows when that will be activated here.) --
MZMcBride (
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00:01, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
A British editor changing date formats on an American-topic article is extremely annoying. If I tried the same thing, on say,
7 July 2005 London bombings, the Brits would be screaming bloody murder. Today is July 9, 2010; not – gag me – 9 July 2010. USA, USA, USA!!APKwhisper in my ear13:34, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Try writing on Canadian topics - the convergence of British and American spellings and usage is nightmarish. As a West Virginian, I have enough trouble with my native grammar, distinguishing when to use we'uns vs. us'uns, not to mention them'uns and you'uns. Acroterion(talk)14:36, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
14 and 49 are my favs. 30 leaves me with many, many questions.
You'll never go wrong by randomly adding "Eh?" throughout Canadian articles.
Try it! My grammar ain't that good, but my strong Southern accent has improved somewhat since college. You should have heard me recite Richard Cory in Speech 101. My professor cringed.
APKwhisper in my ear16:01, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Dammit!
It's like buttah. Now I'm verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic: The Holy Roman Empire. Neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire. Discuss.
It reminds me of
this scene from QAF. I rented the first season DVDs and just watched episodes one and two. The first time I watched those episodes was the summer between my freshman and sophomore years at college. I would rent QAF from Blockbuster and watch it when my mom wasn't home. Oh, sweet memories! Thanks for the link. It's now on my favorites list.
APKwhisper in my ear01:59, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you! I wonder if I could copypasta the text from these and use them to expand the articles? Seems like National Park Service documents would be public domain. What do you think?
Kindzmarauli (
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05:26, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
De nada. NRHP forms are usually prepared by private citizens, which means they're not public domain. For instance, the Little Walnut River Pratt Truss Bridge form was prepared by "Kerry Davis, Architectural Historian, & Elizabeth Rosin, Partner" (their names are on page 4).
APKwhisper in my ear07:03, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. You claimed
here that I am being disruptive. My edit maybe is not great but at least helps in readability of the wikicode. How your edit benefits of anything? What's the reason of a pointless revert? --
Magioladitis (
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07:34, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Your bot is making pointless edits (
1,
2,
3) to countless talk pages and my watchlist doesn't need any more clutter. No one cares about "readability of the wikicode" because the talk headers and project banners are fine as is. Your bot needs to be shut down if it can't find anything substantial to improve. In regards to a pointless revert, I might ask you the
same thing.
APKwhisper in my ear07:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
I think I explained why I did this revert. Just keep in mind that many editors don't watch bots' edits so your reverts probably cluttered more watchlists than my bot's. I am not planning to go further on it. This work is not my bot's main task anyway. --
Magioladitis (
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07:46, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
FWIW,
WP:NOTBROKEN (and from that page,
this helpful page) explain pretty clearly why bypassing redirects is a stupid idea. Magioladitis, I know you know this. And, as far as I remember,
AWB is designed specifically to not do purely cosmetic changes by themselves for this very reason (cluttering watchlists and page histories and annoying contributors). --
MZMcBride (
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22:43, 11 July 2010 (UTC)