Sadads- I have no issue with your edits but I had a question for you. I saw that 22 days ago you edited the page "The Mind's Eye (radio company)" There are no external links nor references on this page. I am really interested in learning more about these productions and seeing if I could attain copies of them. I grew up listening to them on cassette tape and really miss them. I was hoping perhaps you had some info. Thanks, Leon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.248.247.237 ( talk) 05:37, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Hello Sadads, I have a question and I was wondering if you have any idea about the following: I would like to upload some images with 3D objects (coins and engraved gems) that belong to the Cornell University Library (CUL). I read that I have to specify the copyright of the objects which are in public domain, using PD-Old tags and with a second copyright license for the photographer and the description, using creative commons. Do I need to archive this permission in the Wikimedia OTRS system? If yes, should I submit a letter of permission from CUL and send it to the OTRS team? Do you know where I could find a sample such a letter? I found a sample letter at https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Model_projects/OTRS_letter. Would this letter work? Or should we start a GLAM-project first? Thank you very much in advance. EVDiam ( talk) 18:39, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi. I don't think it's canvassing to let you know about this discussion involving red links in templates, since you were the editor who was in at the start of the discussion, which has now gotten quite large on another page. Randy Kryn 21:49, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your prompt reassessment. I tend to agree with your comments, esp. plot summary too long, but I was reluctant to prune someone's hard work. I think the original Importance of "mid" was justified as the work is out-of-genre for Koontz, but I bow to your broader experience. Mainly I wanted to upgrade it from Stub to Start & I see that is done - thank you. Would you agree that the plot summary should be redacted? D A Patriarche, BSc (talk) ( talk) 20:03, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering why you removed the tags stating Carter Kane is of interest to WikiProject Novels and the fantasy and Percy Jackson task forces. As far as I can tell, it is probably under the scope of the parent project (Novels), and it is most definitely under the Percy Jackson task-force's. Seems to be a similar case with the article Percy Jackson; both are about a fictional character in a children's fantasy series by author Rick Riordan -- and yet Percy Jackson is under the project's scope and Carter Kane is not. Thanks in advance. 2ReinreB2 ( talk) 17:14, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
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I wanted to touch base with you about some recent edits to the List of breweries in Vermont. There are a few of us who regularly curate the beer-related pages, and any extra help is appreciated. We've tried to be pretty diligent about keeping unsourced redlinks out of these "List of beers" pages [ie. WP:ListBrew. That one, in particular, has a pretty large number of redlinks. In your editing note you noted that it was "fine." I wasn't too clear on what that meant in the context of a page full of redlinks. Any clarification is appreciated. Prof. Mc ( talk) 22:35, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
I got carried away. At any rate, I din't realize that the NPR source would have sufficed: "as close as Basra was to me, falling victim to terrorism". The same article is found here plus the transcript of the interview.
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It was not a good idea to delete my new online direction to the text, rather than to a printed edition that few have by them to check. And since I also added that my later revision included putting right faulty grammar, you should not have reverted wholesale. I think you are not crediting me with good faith and are turning this into a contest. Mzilikazi1939 ( talk) 15:20, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Sadads; Your user page indicates your interest in literature articles. The GAR at Auden has been open for just over one full month now, and there appear to be no editors coming forward to support the top editor there or the old 2009 assessment. I did list it at all of the WikiProjects listed on its Talk page. Could you close out the GAR for Auden as you see best for the article. MusicAngels ( talk) 19:51, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Sadads, at Wikiconference I believe you said that people are working on a template for {{cite archive}}. I know someone who would love to work on that. Do you have any contacts? (Thanks again for all that you did at the conference.) - kosboot ( talk) 04:03, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your recent assessments to these four articles -- Nine Yards of Other Cloth, The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, The Gold at the Starbow's End, and The Man Who Lost the Sea. All four were assessed as Start class, suggesting that you see some need for improvement. If referencing is your concern in these four articles, I'm interested in hearing your comments on the following observations.
First, if your concerns are about the unsourced plot summaries, it is my understanding that the work itself serves as the source for the summary (see WP:PLOTSUM#Citations and WP:FICTIONPLOT). I also note that the plot summary for The Sun Also Rises (a Featured Article) does not use sources in its plot summary. Two more Featured Articles ( To Kill a Mockingbird and Pattern Recognition) do cite references, but only for exact quotes from the text.
Second, if your concerns are about the Publication History sections, I note that there is an in-text attribution of the source (see the final sentence of each section). I chose in-text attribution because there seems to be a general practice of including the ISFDB site as an external link in articles about science-fiction works, and I didn't want to duplicate the link with an in-line citation. But I have no strong objections to doing that. Alternately, the final sentences could be re-written to read "The foregoing was taken from the story's listing at ..."
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Your mission if you decide to accept it, Mr. Sadads, is to see if you can get The Mariner's Mirror added to the Taylor & Francis Arts & Humanities package. I really, really want online access as thumbing through bound issues is really pretty hit or miss.-- Sturmvogel 66 ( talk) 19:10, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
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Sadads, can you re-name the article as such, please. -- 176.239.129.171 ( talk) 16:49, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Sadads, can you kindly rename Patlıcan salatası as Patlıcan kızartması? Thank you very much. -- 176.239.119.162 ( talk) 22:36, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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I'll leave your linking of "novelization" alone for the time-being, but have asked here whether it's appropriate. My feeling is that the term is common enough that it shouldn't be linked. DonIago ( talk) 14:08, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
Just curious about this edit. Why do you feel he doesn't qualify for WP:WikiProject Novels, but does for WP: WikiProject Children's literature? Just seems odd. - theWOLFchild 09:07, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
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Notability for the breweries needs to be demonstrated by footnotes to newspaper or other media, showing that these breweries: 1. Exist (most important!); 2. Are notable in some way. The section of the page at WP:ListBrew contains some guidance on this. I see from your most recent edit/revert that you plan to "work on this later," which I think is awesome. These breweries have been redlinks for a long time, so anything to improve that is much appreciated. A group of us including @ IronGargoyle: and @ Mudwater: are trying to patrol the various "Brewing in <State>" pages to clean them up a bit. So instead of us reverting and you re-reverting and going back and forth, maybe you can give an idea of the <very general, of course> timeline for adding footnotes or other evidence of notability. That way we can let the Vermont page rest a bit before coming back to it. Prof. Mc ( talk) 21:47, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
Per the AfD, I have merged the stubs and added some information about the non-stub articles. All yours now. Best, Ya sh ! 05:26, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
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I see that you work on WikiProject Novels. Well I have been mostly working on horse articles and just created a new novel article. User:Horsegeek/Spirit Animals (novel) Is there anything you could help me with or suggest? Thanks Horsegeek (talk) 23:28, 14 February 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek
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Hello, Sadads. After a lengthy overhaul GBS is up for peer review, and if you have time and disposition to look in—perfectly understand if not, naturally—your input would be exceedingly welcome. Tim riley talk 16:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
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I'll ask you to just open up the book e.g. [2] and search for "March 4". The whole story of March 4 and the calendar are within 2 paragraphs on either side of this. Unfortunately, I can't find an edition with page numbers on it, so it is difficult to cite, but it is definitely there. It is no more OR than 2+2=4. Poligraf says he got his name from the calendar and the name day is March 4. Thank you for your time. Smallbones( smalltalk) 00:56, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Sadads. I see that you restored the information sourced to Powell's book. As you know, it needs a page number, and apparently no one has access to the book. I did a massive copy edit on the article and have nominated it for GA status, and I'm concerned that the reviewer might mention the page number issue. Do you think we should just remove the tag and leave it as is? Biblio ( talk) WikiProject Reforming Wikipedia. 16:56, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
Hello Sadads. Regarding your reversion of my edits of Saturday (novel), it was not my intention to discriminate between paywall and nonpaywall sources. My purpose was to streamline the edits so that the citation problem that appeared would be banished. I reinstated the edit. The article by Scurr remains a source. It did not go away. The citations now are tidier. Iss246 ( talk) 17:16, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Sadads, I could add 3 references from 3 sources. Notability: He was secretary of state, he has an article in dewiki and the grave is obtained, after retirement he worked for the church, he has an article in "Deutsche Biographie" and the Prussian Machine, this should be enough. Regards-- Buchbibliothek ( talk) 09:43, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
Thank you Sadads! I will work on the references in the article, i think that i can uso bibliography as secondary source to hold it. -- LUMUMBA ( talk) 15:11, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
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I am deeply troubled by the way you approach the article on the Colorado Center for the Blind. Perhaps the biggest problem with Wikipedia is that it is overwhelmingly edited by males who so closely fit your own social, political, educational and non-disabled background. What you are doing to this article practically prevents blind people from editing Wikipedia. Although I doubt you've noticed it, there is a glaring absence of articles related to topics of importance to the disabled because it is so hard to edit Wikipedia with a disability. Here is an outside article for casual readers on the matter, but there are many detailed sources on this topic if you care to look into it further:
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I was even more disturbed by your posts on the talk page to the article where you argue your own motivations, intentions and self-applauding adherence to policy means anyone who calls you out on your biases is "attacking" you or "malicious"...all the while failing to recognize how intentions and rules damage the mission of Wikipedia when it means they become an organizationally-enforced bias against the blind. Your own charitable mindset, of which you are so anxious to advertise, is in my view of little consequence to the damage you do to people with disabilities trying to make their culture equal to those who are fully sighted or otherwise without physical/mental impairment. Take a different approach than a scolding schoolmarm when its so obvious an article is an effort to include the disabled into Wikipedia, please. Leidseplein ( talk) 06:25, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
I want to report an issue of several Wikipedia pages as {{ Hoax}}es created by user Info.Channels. You recently commented on his talk page, but all of the pages that user created is fake, no notability and no any reliable sources. I have been creating and associated with Hum TV for creating its drama series but i never heard about the drama/TV series that user created. SO please look into this issue or guide me in this regard. Nauriya ( Rendezvous) 21:55, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Sadads, I was wondering if you would be so kind as to look at Moby-Dick and point out what more you feel needs to be done before it can be submitted for GA review. For one thing, he reception section needs to be fleshed out some more I know, but it would be nice to get some input from somebody with some experience in the grading procedure. Best wishes MackyBeth ( talk) 14:39, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
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Would you please remove the phrase after the lead or add the beginning of it and move it? I'm not a native speaker to do it myself. Xx236 ( talk) 12:15, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.
It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.
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@ Sadads: Thanks again for the suggestion on the Wikipedia talk:Community portal page. Out of curiosity I clicked over to your page, and good GOD you've got a hefty "résumé" worth of edits! 100k and being 384 in rank is quite impressive. Keep up the awesome work! (as if you need my encouragement to continue what you've got solid precedent for :-P ) PolymathGirl ( talk) 23:44, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Sadads, I'm teaching a course in environmental law. Would you be up for giving some feedback to this student's page? /info/en/?search=Under2_MOU Many thanks Aarf613 ( talk) 05:49, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Sadads, Thanks for reviewing my student's article on Under2MOU. Aarf613 ( talk) 18:29, 16 December 2016 (UTC) |
I think your impression of his article was accurate. His work was pretty cursory and rushed. I'm expecting more. These are the other student articles by comparison.
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On 19 December 2016, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Birdsong (novel), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that one critic described the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks as starting a trend in the 1990s of British literature rethinking the legacy of the World Wars? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Birdsong (novel). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Birdsong (novel)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hi Sadads. Many thanks for updating my User Rights - a bit of a surprise because I imagined that I would need to ask for them. I have a warm and fuzzy feeling about being a 'trusted user'!
Thanks again. Regards. The joy of all things ( talk) 08:09, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
is it a nuisance to have left welcomes of the various types, just minutes before you or other admins zap for what you folks consider the obvious ? It would be useful to get a handle as to whether levels of obvious zappable 'starts' dont require formal statements of welcome on the talk pages.... or can be nuisance for admins about to do their thing JarrahTree 14:52, 19 December 2016 (UTC)