Please stop bulk changing tons of article classes from their specific class to list. It is up to specific projects whether lists are rated as list class or on the scale, so many of your changes have been done in error and are having to be reverted. Thanks. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 21:51, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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Hey maclean, I've made a few changes to the list - would you be kind enough to let me know if I'm heading in the right direction? Cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 16:35, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help finding sources for The Time Traveler's Wife and The Historian! I really appreciate having sources appear in my inbox. :) Awadewit (talk) 16:23, 21 June 2009 (UTC) |
Hello. To begin, every member of WikiProject Novels will be getting this message (the joy of macros) so if you wish to get in touch with me, please post a message on my talk page. I would encourage anyone who so wishes, to stand in the Coordinator Elections. If you wish to stand, please do so by 23:59pm, June 27. Voting will the continue to 23:59pm, July 21. Can everyone please check-out the Coordinator Elections page. Also, the collaboration of the month is The Tin Drum, so if you have any spare time, please check it out. And I apologise to the seven of you for whom this will be a repeat message. Regards, Alan16 (talk).
HI; I gather from your work and previous comments elsewhere that you're from the Peace....as you probably know I started a geographic-category system for BC based on the "traditional regions" - Okanagan, Cariboo, Omineca etc. although in smoe cases I've just left it at Category:Northern Interior of British Columbia, or used the relevant mountain range as a category (e.g. for Thutade Lake, Category:Omineca Mountains will suffice as it's not really in the Omineca Country as such. I've put off for a while now creating Category:Fort Nelson Country (a term heard commonly enough in weather reports, no?) partly because I don't know where the division point with Category:Peace Country would be; somewhere around Pink Mountain I'd think. Also pondered Category:Liard Country but wonder if maybe Category:Alaska Highway Corridor might not work better....if either do. Also have pondered what to do with Fort Ware/Kwadacha and Mackenzie and can't qualify as Category:Greater Prince George (which is where I think I put McLeod Lake and Summit Lake...before Lake Williston came along, that area had been the "Finlay-Parsnip Country", focussed on now-vanished Finlay Forks). Also given your expertise in that area please note the creation of Rocky Mountain Foothills and the expansion of Monkman Provincial Park et al.....anyway your thoughts on the Fort Nelson/Peace distinction requested; for now things up by Fort Nelson, unless they're in th Rockies (e.g. Muncho Lake), I've just put in teh Peace category; I know that's not right - or is it acceptable from the perspective of Fort Nelsonites?Skookum1 (talk) 13:18, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Fine with those. Should I let the FAC sit until some other voices come in on the Usenet issue, or take any preemptive measures? ZeaLitY [ DREAM - REFLECT ] 21:52, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks, not a problem, anywhere where it will get more eyes. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 20:02, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
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Talk:The_Post-American_World/GA1 - it is close to passing and only a few minor things. When the above is corrected, I will be listing it under "Politics and government", as it is a non-fiction work discussing politics. Cheers. Ottava Rima (talk) 14:13, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
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Thanks. This text actually describes the contents of the book in general. So in my humble opinion it would not violate any guidelines. It is like the preface of a book saying that E=MC2, and we repeating it in a different context. Regards
Thanks for that GAR, I enjoyed it! Now I must get to work and review someone elses... Sasata (talk) 04:56, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, I was wondering if you have time to do a copy edit on Davenport, Iowa. I'm almost ready to renominate it for FA, and need some good copy editing. Thank you! CTJF83Talk 20:01, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the head's up. Sure, I'll approve the nomination. I'm especially interested to see what you believe is most in need of specific citation. Best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 20:25, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your careful, insightful review of the article. It was a real pleasure working with you. All the best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 16:57, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. I removed the request MisterBee1966 (talk) 08:36, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
In regards to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request#Review_of_Books, I am able to supply you with the WSJ article. If you still need it, please email me using Special:EmailUser/ThaddeusB & I will be happy to reply with either the text. --ThaddeusB (talk) 02:06, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
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But I really wanted to show my appreciation for the in-depth reviews you gave to the 2009 Giro d'Italia articles. I had intended to get 2009 Giro d'Italia up to FA after passing GA, and your fine review gets it a lot closer already than I'd have thought possible. Thanks so much. Alex finds herself awake at night (Talk · What keeps her up) 02:08, 16 October 2009 (UTC) |
I addressed your issues in the GA review. I also added a print source to verify the chart positions and Grammy wins. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 20:46, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
It seems like you only had one concern at Talk:Encyclopedia of Chicago/GA1, which has now been addressed.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:15, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
I passed the above article. It was a good read. I liked it. I left only one suggestion at Talk:How the Scots Invented the Modern World/GA1. Cheers. Ottava Rima (talk) 03:18, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, that's it. I must have just forgotten the template. Sorry. Geraldk (talk) 23:43, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Nice catch. My constitutional law prof'd have my head if he saw that. Steve Smith (talk) 00:05, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi there - The JMA released their best track information on Etau and have downgraded it to a tropical storm. Whilst the primary author has updated the infobox he has not yet corrected the MH.Jason Rees (talk) 16:04, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
As a past WP:FOUR awardee you may wish to comment at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Four Award.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:27, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
I've taken care of the review comments there. Feel free to continue it. The Flash {talk} 16:32, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Back in July you posted a request at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request/Archive_103#Review of Books for some articles related to The Post-American World. I can provide those if you still need them; just drop me an email. Dr pda (talk) 21:12, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Materialscientist (talk) 13:14, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
I am notifying you that since you were a discussant for my last successful Michigan Wolverines football/National Football League player FAC (Tyrone Wheatley - see FAC here), you may want to comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cato June/archive1, which currently is in need of further commentary.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:23, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
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no sweat <br. />--NBahn (talk) 23:56, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Maclean25: I just prepared my first article in my user sandbox (link in User Page), and I was hoping you could kindly give it a quick peer review. Thank you /User:RickardA /User talk:RickardA —Preceding unsigned comment added by RickardA (talk • contribs) 22:12, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
I have sent you an e-mail. --Tenmei (talk) 07:13, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello Maclean25! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 1,894 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the ((unreferencedBLP)) tag. Here is the article:
Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 22:25, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
In December 2008, Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 December 8#SPoT Coffee was closed as allowing your userspace draft to be restored to the mainspace. Having looked through the draft, I believe that it's ready to be moved. Best, Cunard (talk) 22:58, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for passing this. Since you reviewed it quite quickly, i thought I'd let you know about User:Wizardman/GA incentive, where if you have an article or two that you think should be reviewed at GAN, I'll gladly take a shot at it to help reduce the backlog. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 23:16, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Wondering if you might have sources that would improve the article referenced here. --KenWalker | Talk 19:23, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to disturb, but I just wanted to say thank you for your nice message on my talk page re passing Talk:Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester/GA1 the other day. I was a bit distracted by an unforseen development. I also restored a sentence in the article to your version, of which I mistakenly believed there was a third way, when it was the old one ... Thanks again and cheers! Buchraeumer (talk) 03:09, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for carrying out this review. I believe that I have fixed all the issues. I have itemised the cases where I have acted differently from your recommendations as Talk:Twice Through the Heart/GA1.--Peter cohen (talk) 14:16, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Materialscientist (talk) 00:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
No problem - it took me a while to understand how to process it.Jason Rees (talk) 16:23, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hi just saw your removal of the notability tag, and I don't understand your edit comment "again". yes, I see all the references, but those are local-news and also industry-media, partly based in th company's own press releases. I know of a chain of candy shops that once had four outlets in Merritt, Lillooet, Hope and Princeton, and they had some press copy in local papers - does that make them notable? This page has been conflated and expanded by a COI contributor who has also taken out stuff "not submitted by the company". e.g. this edit. Also see User_talk:Ctremewen#COI_on_Saltspring_Coffee.Skookum1 (talk) 16:36, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
I completed the GAN, and I placed it on hold pending one small prose error I found that needs you to correct. See Talk:Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary/GA1 for details. –MuZemike 23:33, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I am awaiting an official peer review, but was told by a FAC delegate to get as many people looking at the page as possible. The page just received GA status today. At your earliest convenience, could you take a look at the Stephens City, Virginia page and review it (placing it on the page's talk page or mine is fine) independent of the official peer review. I would open to any and all requests during the review. Thanks...NeutralHomer • Talk • 01:23, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Yeesh Thanks. How silly. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:11, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I have finished up with the changes you suggested I make to Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass in order to get it ready for a GA review. Though I did have a question on one of your points on the talk page. Could you go take a look at it? And, please let me know if you think there's anything else I need to change or add in the article. SilverserenC 21:13, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
As a reviewer at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tyrone Wheatley, I thought you might consider commenting on another FAC of a Michigan Wolverines star from the early 1990s at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Juwan Howard/archive2.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:40, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your review of the GAN for 2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl. I believe I've addressed all of your concerns; please review and let me know. –Grondemar 15:43, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Maclean, thanks for your review, I think I've addressed all your concerns. Cavie78 (talk) 20:23, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Maclean - many thanks for the review of Zaculeu - it was helpful and constructive! Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 19:24, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Wow, you do a lot of these GA reviews! Thanks for taking on another. I'm not hugely familiar with what makes a fair use justification acceptable, so I may well have fallen the wrong side of that rule. I thought that image was quite central to the plot and showed the aesthetic of the attic room, and it was an image used in promotion of the film too, but if it doesn't add understanding then it can certainly go. I've removed it, and instead I've add a couple of screenshots showing the use of lighting in the attic room to indicate the 'correct' placement of objects as Marie prepares her suicide room (Image:Story of Marie and Julien lighting.jpg). I think the fair use justification for this new image is OK - what do you think? Fences&Windows 20:48, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
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The Chetwynd is a small town in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Situated on an ancient floodplain, it is the first town encountered after emerging from the Rockies along Highway 97 and acts as the gateway to the Peace River Country. The town developed during the construction of infrastructure through the Rocky Mountains in the 1950s, and was used as a transshipment point during the construction of hydroelectric dams in the 1960s and 1970s and the new town of Tumbler Ridge in the early 1980s. Home to approximately 2,600 residents, the population has increased little in the last 25 years but is significantly younger than the provincial average. Chetwynd has dozens of chainsaw carvings displayed throughout town as public art and is home to the weekly newspaper, the Chetwynd Echo, and a Northern Lights College campus. Nearby, there are four provincial parks, two lakes, and several recreational trails. Highways 29 and 97 intersect in town with Highway 97 connecting it to Prince George and Dawson Creek and Highway 29 to Tumbler Ridge and Hudson's Hope. Its economy is dominated by the primary industries of forestry, fossil fuel extraction, and transportation. (more...)
Thanks for your assessment just now of Handbook of Religion and Health. I was wondering if you could put on its talk page a sentence or two or three about what changes you saw as needed in order for it to make class B? Is it primarily more description of content, or do you see other issues? Many thanks -- Health Researcher (talk) 02:18, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Congrats on getting Chetwynd, British Columbia to FA and TFA status. Good to see more smaller town articles being moved to FA. :) There is just one more step in your "journey" with the article though....WP:DYK. Since you have taken it from new article, to GA, then FA and now TFA, it wouldn't hurt to give DYK a go. Let me know if you are able and I will nominate you for a FOUR award. :) Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • 06:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Maclean, I will try to keep this short. I noticed your rewrite and you did some good work (and a lot of it too) and thanks for that: plenty of review references also. Although I actually prefer the original but this is probably a matter of style and preference. The good side is that now the original is defunct and no longer published at Wikipedia I can effectively take it back for myself at least by fact although I know not really by law. I am going to move on from Wikipedia into my own blog... Things have a habit of getting dumbed down here particularly into mediocre and ineloquent English. It is a bit cookbookish now: section by section of the Author's book... Also I don't actually like the Background paragraph style as this should go into the Author Bio page otherwise you would have repeat it for ever Article for every book by that Author!? Hence the downside of a cookbook or templated approach. Question: are foootnoted references to say comparison with other Authors considered original Research? Also I couldnt find your original ref online but Martin Scoresse does not appear on Cinemaginaire's page for the film as an executive producer - given his preemminence I would pretty much take this as indicating that he is no longer associated with the project? Also although you keenly summarized/precis some of the quotes (particular the first intro one) there were a few bits (perhaps cut down) I would still like to see in the article particularly from his concluding remarks "an ice age hunter gather, clever but seldom wise" etc and the last Easter islander bit as they are muost poignant and expressive rendered thus in the authors own words than in a cookbook summary of the book. (I had this same difficulty once summarizing Nietzsche for an essay and in the end largely used the authors own words: how can one after all precis Nietzsche!) Please don't be offended. Maybe we should collaborate a little as I have no doubt that we will get a better result than either of us would otherwise on our own. Respond here or at my User Mattjs discussion page. (I rarely log in any more but will do so to check.) I will check back here in a few weeks or so (maybe longer) and make a few changes above after your feedback. Regards 122.148.41.172 (talk) 10:15, 15 November 2010 (UTC) (Now i'm off to print and save an older copy of the original Article (and largely mine) for myself ;-))
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Greetings! I've requested a peer review of the Warren County, Indiana article. Your name is on the list of volunteers for geography-related articles, and I wondered if you would have any interest in providing some input. I and another editor have spent a lot of time improving it, but we need other experienced eyes on the it at this point to ensure that it is as good as possible. Thanks for your consideration. Omnedon (talk) 03:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the award! May we all be Determinators. ZeaLitY [ Talk - Activity ] 02:26, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
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Just a question: how recent do some of the improvements have to be. I just recently changed The Hunger Games trilogy from Stub to Start, and then it was reassesed at C. Thanks, Glimmer721 talk 16:07, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
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HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:02, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
HI Maclean25, thanks for reviewing our article, Rebecca Harding Davis, our group has gone through and hopefully fixed all the mistakes with citation etc. Genesse23 (talk) 21:09, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you everyone who participated in the January Collaboration, it was quite a success with 5 new C class articles, 3 stub kills and several articles were removed from our backlogs. In support of the Great Backlog Drive, the WikiProject Novels Collaboration for February is going to help remove backlog candidates in the backlogs related to WikiProject Novels. Please join us, and help us wikify, reference, clean up plot sections and generally improve Novels content, Sadads (talk) 21:46, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
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Hello Maclean25, Thank you for your quality assessment of Kristubhagavatam, here, in which you rated it class C. To help with further improvements, I was hoping you might put a few remarks on the talk page HERE about what specific features the article lacks that could enable it to become a class B article. Hopefully this will not require much time for you to do, because I see from your contribution log that you performed your original assessment amazingly quickly (it seemed to me), on 12 Feb 2011 between two other edits at 19:07 and 19:08, in less than a minute! Many thanks in advance -- Health Researcher (talk) 17:08, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello User:Maclean25, and thanks for your rapid quality assessment of Mantram Handbook. When or if you get the time, I would be interested in your appraisal (e.g., added to the book's talk page), of what changes/fixes you think the article would need in order to qualify for the next higher quality level, i.e., B-class. (NB: Though I've so far only partially implemented your suggestions for Kristubhagavatam, the remaining suggestions you offered are like precious money in the bank that can be turned to when next addressing the article!). Many thanks -- Health Researcher (talk) 18:45, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
David Yates is now being renominated for GA status. If you have any comments on the article, feel free to add them to the review page linked above. Geometry guy 20:22, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
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Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard, a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet. The novel's central theme involves the examination of the human desire to detect patterns or meaning and the risks of finding patterns in meaningless data. Other themes include methods of interpretation of history, cultural familiarity with brand names, and tensions between art and commercialization. The September 11, 2001 attacks are used as a motif representing the transition to the new century. Critics identify influences in Pattern Recognition from Thomas Pynchon's post-structuralist detective story The Crying of Lot 49. The novel is Gibson's eighth and the first to be set in the contemporary world. Like his previous work, it has been classified as a science fiction and postmodern novel, with the action unfolding along a thriller plot line. Critics approved of the writing but found the plot unoriginal and some of the language distracting. The book peaked at #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list, was nominated for the 2003 British Science Fiction Association Award, and was shortlisted for the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke Award and Locus Awards. (more...)
I am soliciting opinions on how percentages should be shown in electoral district results tables here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Electoral_districts_in_Canada#Formatting_results_tables. Your opinion would be welcome. Regards, Ground Zero | t 02:27, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
I've started the review for Enemies & Allies. -- James26 (talk) 21:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated this for peer review at Wikipedia:Peer review/Knowle West, Bristol/archive1 as I would like to take it to WP:FAC. Any comments that would help achieve this will be most welcome. Jezhotwells (talk) 22:41, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the Booklist review you emailed me. I'll probably be adding some more to the article later (it's currently at T:TDYK), so I'll keep this review in mind. But of course you're welcome to add to the article yourself if you want to. —Bruce1eetalk 06:47, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the referencing adjustments you've made on Moonrise (novel). I really appreciated it. Here's a kitten for you.
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I noticed that your are one of the peer review volunteers for geography. Can you do a peer review on Wikipedia:Peer review/New York City/archive2. thanks, OpenInfoForAll (talk) 15:07, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
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That was nice of you to give Astrocog the barnstar for reviewing Blair Waldorf, and to make the comments that you did. Cheers. -- James26 (talk) 23:44, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
Thank you so much for choosing the article "Reservation in India" for review. I am working on it with one of my classmates on the article for a class at Mills College and all your reviews are appreciated. Thank you and hope you find the article interesting. Kkhari29 (talk) 18:41, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
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The article Soon I Will Be Invincible you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Soon I Will Be Invincible for things which need to be addressed. Redtigerxyz Talk 12:49, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. I'm just a little confused by it all. Why are some: Sanctuary (season 2) allowed as GA but others are "featured lists"? Also, shouldn't the previous article I nominated be listed as "list class" and failed on the same grounds? 90210 (season 3). New to all of this, but any help would be greatly appreciated! Jayy008 (talk) 14:59, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
Ah, right. Thanks so much for all of your help. As a final note, in your opinion, all individual television seasons should be list-class? I'll make the changes now. Jayy008 (talk) 15:30, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! I came across your comments about GA reassessment at Talk:Object permanence/GA1. I see the article still has the GA icon despite lacking a full review, and was planning on removing the icon until I saw your note. Was this brought to GA reassessment and I missed it, or did you decide it should stay listed? I just want to make sure it is not inaccurately listed as a good article. Thanks, Ruby 2010/2013 04:48, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your review of this article. I appreciate the care you took in specifying the weaknesses in the article. I am a bit surprised by the clear expectation many contributors have that articles on language processes should cross writing systems. My preference would be to specify a writing system. That will give me food for thought. I wanted to express my appreciation for the review and in general for the way that Wikipedians are welcoming student editors and writers. This is an excellent experience for them in terms of writing for the general public. Paula Marentette (talk) 04:03, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks so much for your feedback on the GA nomination of the RHD article. Since I'm the teacher of the SFSU class, and since the article is a student project, I can't really make any edits. However, I can guide and nudge - - and I'll point the RHD student group to some additional sources etc. As a scholar of American literature, with a speciality in working-class lit - - I can assure you that Life in the Iron Mills is regarded as a pioneering work in American realism. This judgment of Life in the Iron Mill is so ubiquitous that it's almost become common sense - - and hence not something that's argued or even addressed explicitly. Likewise, I can't think of one literary critic who wouldn't agree that Life is Davis's most significant work - - though folks are trying to recover and re-value her other work. In any case, I'll point the students to some general treatments of the book that laud its importance for American realism and its status w/i Davis' resume.
Again - -thanks for the time and labor! You've really helped the students - - who are now getting very excited about contributing to Wikipedia and the elusive grail of GA status! Profhanley (talk) 15:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. I am in Jayzzee's class. Thank you for your great intro to Wikipedia.Kasob (talk) 15:05, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
As Kasob said, I'm currently in Jayzee's class, and thanks for the intro! Reading over your user/talk pages, I see that you're from Northern BC. I'm from Fort Nelson, so...it's always nice to meet another Northerner around here! Matthew.murdoch (talk) 16:38, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
HI! I am also in Jayzzee's Psychology class and looking forward to editing on Wikipedia!
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Hello on-line ambassodor. I am also in Jayzzee's personality class. I look forward to editing articles on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Owleye769 (talk • contribs) 19:35, 26 January 2012 (UTC) Owleye769 (talk) 19:52, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
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I am in Jayzee's university class. I am wondering if you recommend articles to have some points/bullets in them to make them easier to read - as opposed to "standard" university style essays - in terms of structure? Thanks. Owleye769 (talk) 04:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey Maclean. I've started an article for Gibson's new nonfiction collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor. I'm going to try get it to DYK, but time's running short. I know you're well versed in things Gibson, if you want to help out, please do. I think I'm going to do a "Background" section first, maybe talk about Gibson's reticence about non-fiction writing. I haven't read it yet, but the reviews have a lot of notes about the individual pieces. We could do a run-down of a few notable ones. Lots of sources out there, new ones appearing daily. Anyways, best to you, The Interior (Talk) 22:02, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
I remember that there was somewhere that my students need to check in (or sign ~~~~) to declare that they are part of my course. Do you know where that is? And will it work retroactively in accumulating stats (they started editing Wikipedia two days ago).Areil314 (talk) 23:29, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi Maclean25, a few other editors and I have been working on Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and I'm trying to get it up to GA or maybe even FA standards. I saw that you got The World Without Us up to FA, I recall reading our article on the book a few years back and finding it very interesting. Do you think you could take a look at Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and give us some feedback about possible issues/ways to improve the article? That would be much appreciated, thanks. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:20, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Maclean25: Thanks very much for volunteering to be an online ambassador for my environmental history class. The students are just getting organized into their teams now and I'm sure they will be in touch with you in the following weeks. They are newbies to WP and will appreciate your help - as will I (I'm a newbie too). --Greentina (talk) 05:29, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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is this the right place to ask question about wiki? I am wondering how to make sandbox visible to everyone. How to create sandbox? --Catetoma (talk) 16:35, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Maclean25 -
I'm a grad student at The New School in New York, taking a class on Urbanism. My class has been assigned the task of creating a new wiki page on "Urbanism" and my role is figuring out the best way to go about this. I saw that you're interested in cities and so I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions about what you think makes some wiki articles more legit than others. Our goal is to provide expert information while keeping the article accessible. Please let me know if you're interested and we can go from there. This could be via e-mail, phone, skype, or whatever works best for you.
Thanks.
Pukekom (talk) 20:39, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
Users Armsbf11 (talk · contribs) and User:Matthew.murdoch (talk · contribs) both seem to have the same topic for their respective Education Program courses. How should this be handled?Smallman12q (talk) 01:21, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, what's up? The books of Professor Shonku are not novels, in fact, they are collection of short stories. --Tito Dutta Message 19:42, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the heads up, pal. I've promptly notified in a review that I've written on the page. Associate J. (talk) 20:50, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
FYI... WikiProject Biography should be the first WikiProject banner on talkpages. Bgwhite (talk) 21:53, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Could you not add any new WP Biography banners for a few days. Your articles take more time as they are not the standard footballer or Olympic athlete. I'm getting swamped and need time to catch up. 300 new articles (including yours) to be tagged came in today. Boy, I was caught up Monday and actually did something else besides Wikipedia for a change... fleeting memories. Normally 80-100 articles would come in a day, but starting two months ago, it is now averaging ~185. Bgwhite (talk) 06:07, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for taking the time to do the GA review for Louis Riel (comics), and for the encouraging words! CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 03:07, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
Nikthestoned 09:59, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Just a friendly reminder to put |living=yes or |living=no to the Biography templates you're adding. It's a required field and otherwise shows up on the backlog. I've been adding them to the WP Israel biographies you're doing, but it's important to have it. Thanks! -- Michael Scott Cuthbert (talk) 04:14, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi I am not too sure how the students carry out their research prior to making radical changes to aerticles, but sometimes it would seem questionable. The Agosia articles reflect this lack of basic understanding of the overall picture of the related scientific issues, and related articles. So far the students have focused on apperceptive and associative visual agnosia, but have almost completely ignored apperceptive and associative Auditory and Tactile Agnosias. Would it be possible to correct this position in the next round of assignments. dolfrog (talk) 13:09, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
They have a bot going thru and tagging all biographies without WikiProject Biography. So, I guess your work is done. It was interesting how you skipped around countries. There's going to 55,000 of these articles.... without living or listas. Guess I'll have work to spare. Bgwhite (talk) 05:47, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Just wanted to say thank you for giving a GA review to my page at The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic; I intend to submit it for FA review next. All the best. (Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:06, 10 July 2012 (UTC))
Hi Maclean25, I'm afraid it's going to be a couple of days before I can give you a substantive response to your GA review of Cyrus Cylinder, but I'll pick it up shortly. Thanks very much for your assistance and patience! Prioryman (talk) 22:25, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your help with this article! Prioryman (talk) 07:16, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar. I'll probably get around to doing Category:Unknown-importance novel articles and the wp:lit backlog too. I finished up the unassessed novel articles the other day, and thought there might be just a few unknowns... ;) INeverCry 07:42, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
I noticed alot of author bio articles are tagged with wp:lit. I've removed a few, as I don't see where wp:lit covers authors, but I'd rather have a second opinion before removing hundreds of them. I know wp:poetry covers poet bios, but wp:lit would have to be hugely expanded to cover all other authors. Is there any way we could explicitly state this one way or the other on the wp:lit page? INeverCry 23:40, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Maclean25. I'd like to thank you for your comments on the talk page of A Thousand Plateaus, they were very welcome. For what it's worth, the IP editor who was trying to get rid of the material you commented on is now asserting that there is a "consensus" for removing it, and is trying to use your comments in support of that. As I read it, that's a misunderstanding of what you wrote: you did make some criticisms of the way Sokal and Bricmont's views were presented, but saw nothing wrong with including them in some form. I have taken your criticisms into account and modified the material accordingly, but the IP is still trying to use your comments in support of outright removal. I've started a discussion at the neutral point of view noticeboard about this. I can see from your edit history that you are the kind of editor who prefers to avoid getting bogged down in disputes and arguments over content. I understand and completely respect that; I'm not asking you to enter into a conflict over this article. If you felt like commenting on the noticeboard it might help, however. Polisher of Cobwebs (talk) 22:16, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I noticed you added the WP Project:Biography tag to my new article Bernard Marshall. I write articles about children's writers and their books, and I'm fairly new to WP, and am trying to get up to speed. Should I add the biography tag to every article I write about a person -- no limits or restrictions? Sounds like a huge project. But I could add it along with the Children's Lit tag if it would help a bit. Thanks for the info. Tlqk56 (talk) 21:30, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi;
Thanks for your feedback on the review - glad I made someone other than the nominating editor happy!
Regarding your statement "it must pass all the criteria to become a good article", I think you're misreading the document "compare good article criteria v featured article criteria". Only featured articles have to pass all the criteria. Whilst the page then says that "A good article must comply with only five style guidelines", it also says that a good article is an article that is considered "satisfactory". Now, I passed the article on four guidelines (and I think in the second criterion - factual accuracy and verifiability - I only failed it because of a possible instance of original research which I wasn't sure about), but I considered the article to be of a satisfactory quality to pass the criteria.
The Historian 16:11, 16 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thehistorian10 (talk • contribs)
Hello. You have a new message at Accedie's talk page. Accedietalk to me 02:00, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
I've put Berlin up for peer review. Comments would be appreciated. Kingjeff (talk) 04:21, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi maclean! Are you interested in being the Online Ambassador for any classes this term? We've got a few classes that are looking for ambassador right now (Canada, US), so if you're up for helping any, please do! Let me know if you have any questions, or if you'd like me to pick a course for you.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 18:05, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, I can't believe I missed that. - Theornamentalist (talk) 04:25, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
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Your recognition for 4 GA reviews at the last June-July GAN Review Round. Regards. Pyrotec (talk) 16:52, 23 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hello Maclean25. I'm the instructor for a section of students at Ball State University who are beginning a collaborative research project on Wikipedia for our Introduction to Digital Literacies class. I've been teaching with WP since Spring 2011; from my user page you can see a few example projects highlighted. We are currently in need of an online ambassador to advise five class groups on selecting topics and putting articles together: this means there will be five topics for an ambassador to assist with. Might you be interested in helping us? You can see the project timeline in my user area project subpage.
I have gone through the appropriate channels and application documents with the Wikimedia folks in charge of education programs, but have not heard back in nearly two weeks (I've emailed Jamie Mathewson twice). But time is getting short and we must begin—thus I'm taking the liberty of contacting potential ambassadors directly. Thanks for your consideration and good luck with your projects! (Pardon the duplication—I will also send this by email). –Webster Newbold (talk) 15:39, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Maclean25. I have posted two comments in your sandbox regarding Woodstock Library commentary. If I said something offense, please accept my apologies. I am interested in working together to improve the article, and would like to see the article promoted to GA status. Would it be possible to transfer your article-related concerns to the regular GA review (rather than your sandbox), perhaps leaving the personal matters aside? --Another Believer (Talk) 23:31, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Maclean25- I am approaching you for some advice and help since I notice that you are an online ambassador, and I like the way you have responded to folks on your talk page. (I have not found this friendly, helpful tone in dealing with some of the Wikipedians with whom I have crossed paths recently, so I am a bit ‘gun-shy’). I came across your name in the article on ‘The Ingenuity Gap’, on which you did several major and well-crafted edits. Lately, I noticed that you had to revert some damaging edits of this article, which has so far, thankfully, been left intact. Your work on this book was the pattern I used for my recent edits of “The Upside of Down,” another important Homer-Dixon work. I thought I had created a useful article adhering to NPOV. I admit I am new at this, and seem to have ruffled quite a few feathers along the way. One thing I have learned is that many of the crucial ‘guidelines’ in Wikipedia do not become evident until you break them. I am in the process of dealing with the COI issues, but feel that ‘The Upside of Down’ may have been unfairly treated. (I personally think that in the interest of maintaining a comprehensive, inclusive, and useful Wikipedia of impartial articles, time would be better spent monitoring WHAT is in the articles rather than WHO edited them.)
So, as someone interested in good articles on worthy books, would you please try to find the time to take a look at this one and do what you can to salvage it? Thanks. Jbghewer (talk) 17:21, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
coming soon --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:30, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for quality articles on people and their stories, such as David Suzuki: The Autobiography and Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (7 December 2010)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:05, 15 November 2012 (UTC) |
A year ago, you were the 305th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:02, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
I've started a review at Winter: Five Windows on the Season; it's a very well done article, and only 2-3 tiny issues need attention. Thanks for your work on this. -- Khazar2 (talk) 21:35, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks for your work to promote Winter: Five Windows on the Season to Good Article status. Keep up the good work! -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:02, 4 January 2013 (UTC) |
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Hello MacLean25, I notice you offer to do peer reviews of towns and settlements. I've listed Giffnock for a peer review and would appreciate if you could take some time to have a glance over it. Cheers, Cabe6403 (Talk•Sign) 17:10, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
G'day Maclean25. I've finished the article "Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors". What do you think? The summary is a little longer than your recommended five paragraphs, but I worked tirelessly to condense the most important points into eight paragraphs. Since the nature of content could be seen as controversial, I felt it was necessary that some of the points be explained. I haven't seen any Wikipedia style guides that rigidly prescribe the length for a non-fiction book summary – plus I've seen articles with longer ones – so hopefully it is acceptable. Many thanks, Hayden120 (talk) 13:31, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi, I've made a considerable addition to the Disco Demolition article to cover the points you've raised, see here. Could I ask that you revisit your comments at the FAC, to indicate if you feel this adequate or if not, what more you would like to see? Oddly I never thought to check JSTOR … so I'm grateful for your pointing out an oversight on our part. It's a little wordier than it was but I think it's a much better article for it.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:01, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Dear Maclean - I appreciated your discussion comments on some of my edits to J.D. Salinger's A Perfect Day for Bananafish (talk section) and thought I'd ask for your evaluation of another of my recent submissions: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Chappaquiddick incident conspiracy theories
Here is an exchange I had with one of the Help Desk reviewers: Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk :
Hello - My recent submission Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Chappaquiddick incident conspiracy theories was rejected by reviewer User:GAtechnical on the grounds that the article "reads like an essay". I understand the difficulty in evaluating these postings, but I wonder if you'd look at it to determine if it's fundamentally flawed in that respect.
The subject of "conspiracy theories" no doubt raises red flags with some editors, but as encyclopedians, we should maintain a dispassionate approach. Can you give me a frank evaluation of the article? I would encourage you to take a look at some existing articles - John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories and Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories - for examples of "essay"-like contributions. I feel fairly certain that the article I've submitted avoids these "literary offenses" and provides adequate secondary sourcing.
36hourblock (talk) 20:27, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
There seems to be some confusion on the part of Huon regarding the "conspiracy theorists". One is required to present their published analysis if one is to write an article on the conspiracy theories they've presented on the Chappaquiddick Incident. This is necessary even if Huon holds them in low esteem. Does Huon want editors to cite sources "as if they were not reliable"? What nonsense! Huon wishes to introduce his/her own bias into the article - this won't do. Knight, and others cited in the article deal with the topic objectively; so has 36hourblock.
The "Official findings - conspiracy hypothesis" is used for clarity - a touchstone for encyclopedians. In fact, the format does anything but "mix them up". What is Huon talking about?
It is our responsibility to present the material so it can be understood, not as advocates for or against the "conspiracy theorists". That Huon is "not impressed" belies an attitude towards the topic which lacks objectivity. I would request that a less biased editor (and not an ally of Huon) take a look at the article and read it for comprehension.
Regarding the "square brackets": these can be removed if they are deemed objectionable.
36hourblock (talk) 17:51, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
Can you offer any insights? 36hourblock (talk) 18:37, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
Maclean - Thank you for your thoughtful commentary. Here are my answers:
There are TWO references that recognize the "conspiracies theories" - Knight el al, and Lange & DeWitt. Knight provides summaries of three of the general theories. He "compares various theories". Does this meet the standards of the JFK/RFK articles?
Mainstream publishers have recognized the existence of the Chappaquiddick conspiracy hypotheses. But a "catch-22" prevents the material from being presented here: Not only must the "theory" be acknowledged by a mainstream publisher - it has - but in addition, the "theory" must be win the seal of approval of a "non-conspiracy" interpreter and thus be elevated to non-"conspiracy theory" status. In other words, the "conspiracy theory" must have "legitimate" credentiasl bestowed upon it before it can be presented in a "conspiracy theory" page! As far as "independent" references go, there is never likely to be a so-called "reliable" book that recycles the information presented by the "conspiracy theorists", unless a publisher considers this profitable to do so.
Keep in mind that the caveat already exists, in that a separate article is provided - labeled "conspiracy theory" - i.e. it doesn't posess the credentials of the main article, according to Wiki policy.
This amounts to Medieval-like ordeal in which "theory" in question can never be presented as such, even when it's existence is acknowledged by reputable sources. Why have a "conspriacy theory" article, in that case, when the "conspiracy theorists" are deemed so thoroughly disreputable? This appears to be more than simply maintaining high standards for an encyclopedia, but a form of unreasonable censorship.
I agree with you that the "official findings" should be linked to non-conspiracy sources. The "conspiracy theorists" compare and contrast the official and non-official material to support their analysis of the event. I can substitute mainstream sources for those.
On the matter of the "red flag" and multiple sources, I agree that this may appear as "pileing on". I included them simply as a courtesy to those who wished to check the sources. (In the Look example, the reports of his observations vary a bit). I have not gone to the Inquest records or exhibits myself and cited them. That, of course, would be an egregious example of original research. 36hourblock (talk) 19:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Maclean. Thanks for all your patience! I realize the review is probably a bit burdensome with my editing so cautiously on account of having a COI and would be interested in any feedback on how I can go through the GAN process where I have a COI better in the future. Thanks again! CorporateM (Talk) 13:46, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
just saw your update; I'd had this page open last night, looking it over and trying to wade through the verbiage.....is this normal for a legislative sitting article? Seems full of too many particulars, almost like a throne speech done into detail........or an advert for "what this government has done"....or not done, I suppose. Another thought I had was about the listing of members; I think the "house" layout I used on the early elections articles may work better e.g. British Columbia general election, 1898 to pull one out of the hat; shows government members on the left, opposition/non-gov on the right, and better visually represents the House, no?Skookum1 (talk) 05:25, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Maclean25. I just started reviewing the article you nominated for GA status. See you there! ComputerJA (talk) 16:48, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
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I picked up your account details from the list of Peer Review volunteers and if you get the opportunity to look at an article I've been working on it would be very much appreciated! Wikipedia:Peer_review#Crystal_Palace, London, article at Crystal Palace, London. SheffGruff (talk) 12:41, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
There are two WP:RFCs at WP:FOUR. The first is to conflate issues so as to keep people from expressing meaningful opinions. The second, by me, is claimed to be less than neutral by proponents of the first. Please look at the second one, which I think is much better.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:04, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
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I tried to make changes to the Ripken article per your comments. Please take another look and see whether they were satisfactory or not; if not, tell me what I still need to do better. Thanks for your feedback. Oriolesfan8 (talk) 21:43, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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