Contents
- 1 As author of an edit on Shostakovich's Symphony No. 12...
- 2 Ebola Virus Article
- 3 Archive
- 4 Elvis' Golden Records
- 5 Adolf Dobrovolný
- 6 770 Account listed at Redirects for discussion
- 7 Antonín Sova
- 8 Filip Fabricius
- 9 Hatnotes
- 10 A barnstar for you!
- 11 Earth Similarity Index
- 12 Ebola outbreak Thanks
- 13 Émilien of Nantes
- 14 Ebola article
- 15 Precious again
- 16 Ebola epidemic
- 17 "Liberia" fix
- 18 Would You Consider Overturning my Ban?
- 19 John Singleton Copley
- 20 Halloween greetings!
- 21 A cup of coffee for you!
- 22 A barnstar for you!
- 23 comma again
- 24 Thank You
- 25 Jerk (physics)
- 26 sorry about that
- 27 Seasonal Greets!
- 28 Disambiguation link notification for January 10
- 29 Stylization of the "common name"
- 30 hi Art
- 31 Cirex
- 32 Reflinks bug
- 33 Infobox Improvement
- 34 Light-hearted listed at Redirects for discussion
- 35 A cup of coffee for you!
- 36 Happy Easter!
- 37 Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 21, 2015
- 38 List of stars in Libra
- 39 Email
- 40 Happy 4th
- 41 Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 2015
- 42 ebola
- 43 Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia
- 44 November 2015
- 45 Happy Thanksgiving
- 46 ArbCom elections are now open!
- 47 How margin of error works — Statewide opinion polling, Democratic Party primaries, 2016
- 48 He Leadeth me
- 49 Happy Holidays/New Year!
- 50 Season's Greetings!
- 51 Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!
As author of an edit on Shostakovich's Symphony No. 12...
Please review the question on the talk page for the symphony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Symphony_No._12_%28Shostakovich%29#Strange.2C_unclear_statement
Thanks for any clarification.Tgkohn (talk) 23:51, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
- I answered this at Talk:Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich). By the way, it is customary to add new comments at the bottom of a Wikipedia talk page, not the top. Art LaPella (talk) 01:00, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Ebola Virus Article
Dear Art LaPella,
Why did you remove my previous edit at the Ebola Virus Epidermic Page? Your not allowed to blank stuff out.
This is your removal (line 362)
It didn't violate copyright or anythign like that so please restore it back or I will thanks.
- I'll answer at User talk:109.98.31.48, because I'm not sure he'll find it here. Art LaPella (talk) 20:27, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Ok sorry I fixed the edit, now it has the proper citations. You can take a look here, please tell me if it's correct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_epidemic_in_West_Africa
Thank you for helping me edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.98.31.48 (talk) 21:18, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
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- See the bottom of User talk:109.98.31.48 for more information. Art LaPella (talk) 01:56, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Archive
Old discussion is archived at:
May 11, 2007 thru April 18, 2008 archive
April 19, 2008 thru October 5, 2008 archive
October 11, 2008 thru February 16, 2009 archive
February 17, 2009 thru February 1, 2010 archive
February 5, 2010 thru November 30, 2011 archive
December 2011 thru November 2013 archive
Elvis' Golden Records
Thanks for the tip. I made a correction so it should be okay now. Jimknut (talk) 16:49, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Adolf Dobrovolný
Hi Art and Happy new year! After a long time of having duties with a baby I've added an article here and tried to apply for Did you know... Can you please give a check-peep on it? Thank you.
- ... that in August 1924 Adolf Dobrovolný (pictured) presented commentary of the first broadcast sports event in Europe on Czech Radio - a heavyweight boxing match?Aloysius (talk) 21:22, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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- I think I did more Wikipedia:Manual of Style edits than English language edits. I changed two occurrences of the word "autor" to "actor", but is that right or did it mean "author"? Art LaPella (talk) 00:05, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
770 Account listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect 770 Account. Since you had some involvement with the 770 Account redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. ~TPW 17:55, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
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- Answered at that discussion. Art LaPella (talk) 19:33, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Antonín Sova
Thank you for Adolf Dobrovolný correction. It experienced some trouble with the photo but eventually got to DYK. This month I discovered the 150th anniversary of a Czech poet so I have tried to hook it for DYK like this: Did you know that Czech poet Antonín Sova gained national fame having answered in verse to Theodor Mommsen's letter calling the German historian "covetous dotard" or "arrogant spokesmen of slavery"? Thanks for wading through my muddy English.Aloysius (talk) 20:16, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- I'll do the DYK hook first: "Did you know that Czech poet Antonin Sova gained national fame for answering Theodor Mommsen's letter in verse, calling the German historian a "covetous dotard" and an "arrogant spokesman of slavery"?
- "having answered" sounds OK in English (if it were "having answered Theodor Mommsen's letter in verse"), but it left me wondering why Sova gained national fame. Did he call Mommsen names, and then become famous for something else? But the article makes it clear that Sova became famous because of his poem.
- I didn't know what a "dotard" was until I looked it up. At first I changed it to the more familiar-sounding "covetous and senile", but then I realized you were citing someone else's translation, so I changed it back.
- "spokesman" not "spokesmen" because Mommsen is singular, not plural. Your article says "spokesmen" but its reference says "spokesman". If there is some reason the reference translation is wrong, then we need to rewrite the sentence somehow, because Mommsen was only one person.
- "and" not "or", because Sova used both phrases, not just one.
- I'll get to the article tomorrow, Pacific time. Art LaPella (talk) 06:57, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
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Done. I think Google Translate is wrong to translate "kantor" as cantor. So you might want to click the word "here" at the bottom, where it says "Please help Google Translate improve quality for your language here." Art LaPella (talk) 00:37, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Filip Fabricius
Hi Art, thank you for your detailed inspection of the Sova article and I would like to ask for another one. Can you check the correctness of my new hook and article, please?
- Did you know... that Filip Fabricius was given an epithet of Hohenfall (literally "of high fall") after he had survived the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618?Aloysius (talk) 23:02, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
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- The hook looks OK, and I edited the article. I didn't edit this puzzling phrase: "... secretary of German expedition of the Bohemian Court Chancery, the highest office in Bohemia." Some websurfing showed that Bohemian Court Chancery is apparently the same as the German name Böhmische Hofkanzlei. So I made a redirect from Bohemian Court Chancery (and Chancellery) to Judenplatz#Bohemian Court Chancellery, the best description I could find in English Wikipedia. So it's in Vienna.
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Hatnotes
Hi,
Please don't confuse "see also" with "see instead". That is, when you are disambiguating between similarly named but otherwise unconnected articles, you don't want to offer a "see also" - you want to say "did you perhaps mean..."
For better alternatives, check out WP:HAT. Cheers, CapnZapp (talk) 13:12, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
- I agree that {{see instead}} would be better than {{see also}}, if it existed, and I have often reviewed WP:HAT. Is there a specific template that is better for "similarly named but otherwise unconnected articles"? I've also used {{distinguish}}. Art LaPella (talk) 14:17, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
- Never mind, I just saw Phil Hartman and Philip Hartman. Art LaPella (talk) 14:21, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Thank you so much for helping in the cleanup of the "List of stars in x" articles! Keep up the good work! StringTheory11 (t • c) 18:18, 3 June 2014 (UTC) |
- Thank you. I'll copy it to my user page. Art LaPella (talk) 18:50, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
- Also thanks for catching that vandalism on my userpage. I would never have even noticed :). StringTheory11 (t • c) 21:16, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
- Also again, thanks for catching the errors I occasionally make when expanding the lists. With so much to do in each edit without any automation on my part, it would certainly be hard to do it error-free, so your software really helps matters here. StringTheory11 (t • c) 04:57, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- One solution would be that perhaps you could tell me when you make such an edit. I watchlisted Scorpius only because I edited it. Art LaPella (talk) 05:05, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- Good idea; I'll do that. I generally work on the larger ones such as Scorpius and the upcoming Vela over a few days, so it may be a while before I actually save the edit. StringTheory11 (t • c) 05:41, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- Done the first part of the edit on Vela's list: removing the Gould column, linking all the notable stars, and adding variability to the notes column. Still have to add the missing notable stars and check for naming of variable stars. StringTheory11 (t • c) 02:56, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
- Did my corresponding first part. Art LaPella (talk) 03:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
- Vela is now done. Also, the reason I delinked a few of the stars is that they are not notable enough for their own articles per WP:NASTRO. StringTheory11 (t • c) 01:11, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- Should CPD -57 2874 be in Carina? The coordinates in the list and in SIMBAD are in Carina, a degree south of the constellation boundary. But the article shows question marks instead of coordinates. Art LaPella (talk) 01:59, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- Done, except for CPD -57 2874 as above. Art LaPella (talk) 02:11, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- Ah, you're right; just checked using VizieR. Will move it now. StringTheory11 (t • c) 02:59, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- Vela is now done. Also, the reason I delinked a few of the stars is that they are not notable enough for their own articles per WP:NASTRO. StringTheory11 (t • c) 01:11, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
- Did my corresponding first part. Art LaPella (talk) 03:57, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
- Done the first part of the edit on Vela's list: removing the Gould column, linking all the notable stars, and adding variability to the notes column. Still have to add the missing notable stars and check for naming of variable stars. StringTheory11 (t • c) 02:56, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
- Good idea; I'll do that. I generally work on the larger ones such as Scorpius and the upcoming Vela over a few days, so it may be a while before I actually save the edit. StringTheory11 (t • c) 05:41, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- One solution would be that perhaps you could tell me when you make such an edit. I watchlisted Scorpius only because I edited it. Art LaPella (talk) 05:05, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- Also again, thanks for catching the errors I occasionally make when expanding the lists. With so much to do in each edit without any automation on my part, it would certainly be hard to do it error-free, so your software really helps matters here. StringTheory11 (t • c) 04:57, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
- Also thanks for catching that vandalism on my userpage. I would never have even noticed :). StringTheory11 (t • c) 21:16, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
I expect that I will finish list of stars in Cancer within the next day or two as well. StringTheory11 (t • c) 19:30, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
- Watchlisted. Art LaPella (talk) 19:39, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
Done. My software pointed out 6 stars, including TW and TX Cancri which are slightly brighter than their maxima, but the only actual edit I made was to re-sort. Art LaPella (talk) 17:32, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
- Gemini is next. For the order, I'm just going reverse order of 88 modern constellations by area (probably not the smartest decision I've ever made, but w/e I'm already 2/3 the way through so I won't change it now). StringTheory11 (t • c) 05:39, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
Earth Similarity Index
I saw your post at Talk:Earth Similarity Index. I can't answer your question, but I thought you might be interested in a discussion about the article at User talk:CorinneSD#"...would likely have...". You can ignore the parts about the word "likely". The other parts seem related to your post. Feel free to answer my question about the pairs of figures. CorinneSD (talk) 23:11, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
- I found "pairs of figures" in the BBC article. If the question is whether the BBC article is good enough to use, well, that's pretty much the same question I asked (I'm not an astronomer either). If we remove the end of the table which comes from the BBC article, then that would resolve my contradiction except for Kepler-186 f 0.64. Art LaPella (talk) 23:38, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
Ebola outbreak Thanks
Thanks Art for correcting my grammar and spelling errors. I am partially sighted due to Multiple sclerosis and tends to miss spaces. My first language is not English as well.
Kind regards Brian
BrianGroen (talk) 18:11, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Art LaPella (talk) 18:14, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
Émilien of Nantes
I was sort of hoping he could do something about the weeds in my driveway. You never know. Aymatth2 (talk) 00:43, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Ebola article
Art, For the love of god, please feel perfectly free to copy edit anything I write! I try hard but I have no natural or otherwise ability when it comes to writing. Commas worry me to no end. I know good writing when I see it, but as for producing it myself, that's another thing! Best, Gandy Gandydancer (talk) 14:58, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
- Did you mean this and this? Not your comma. My writing gets removed or rewritten often enough so that I pretty much limit myself to spelling, grammar, and clear-cut errors; Wikipedia has plenty of those to be fixed. Art LaPella (talk) 16:12, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
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- What resources? I think you mean Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa#Responses. I studied the splitting instructions more carefully this time (I do computer programming, but I'm not a writer), and the least mechanical part of the process is composing a summary to be left in the main article where the responses section was removed. That's a lot more text than I usually write, so maybe you should do that part. Art LaPella (talk) 14:42, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
- Well Art, yes I meant Responses. If the truth be known, I was madder than a hornet yesterday and even more prone than usual to make mistakes. :) I have prepared an intro and placed it in the article, so it's ready to be split. Thanks for doing it. I guess that if my life depended on it I could manage, but it would take many hours and possibly even many days to get it done. Gandydancer (talk) 16:29, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
Done Art LaPella (talk) 19:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
- Well Art, yes I meant Responses. If the truth be known, I was madder than a hornet yesterday and even more prone than usual to make mistakes. :) I have prepared an intro and placed it in the article, so it's ready to be split. Thanks for doing it. I guess that if my life depended on it I could manage, but it would take many hours and possibly even many days to get it done. Gandydancer (talk) 16:29, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
- What resources? I think you mean Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa#Responses. I studied the splitting instructions more carefully this time (I do computer programming, but I'm not a writer), and the least mechanical part of the process is composing a summary to be left in the main article where the responses section was removed. That's a lot more text than I usually write, so maybe you should do that part. Art LaPella (talk) 14:42, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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- Thanks, and be sure to write those split directions down for further use. :) (Art, I don't know why it is, but I always feel I want to joke around with you - is that OK?) Gandydancer (talk) 22:04, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
- Yes it's OK; you've perhaps read some other stuff in my user space, which is often not so serious. The split directions are Wikipedia:Splitting#How to properly split an article, which I consulted at every step. Art LaPella (talk) 05:52, 4 October 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks, and be sure to write those split directions down for further use. :) (Art, I don't know why it is, but I always feel I want to joke around with you - is that OK?) Gandydancer (talk) 22:04, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Art thanks for fixing my abominably bad English. greetings Brian BrianGroen (talk) 18:49, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
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- Hi Art Art LaPella sorry seem we were busy on the Liberia section on the same time wioth refwerences . i hope i havn't interupted or affected yours .. greeting BrianGroen (talk) 15:56, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
- No. My edit summary: " The reference was simply a repetition of the quote, without attribution. I tried to substitute a real reference." was an invitation to fix it. :) Art LaPella (talk) 15:59, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Art Art LaPella sorry seem we were busy on the Liberia section on the same time wioth refwerences . i hope i havn't interupted or affected yours .. greeting BrianGroen (talk) 15:56, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
Precious again
corrections
Thank you for quality educational correction of mistakes in spelling, grammar and meaning, to make articles look their best on the Main page, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (4 June 2010)! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:54, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Two years ago, you were the 269th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, repeated in br'erly style, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:52, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
Thnx for the corrections on hobby horse polo. I think it would be interesting for you to have a look on Olim le Berlin as well. Best regards Serten (talk) 12:06, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Done Art LaPella (talk) 19:30, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Ebola epidemic
Hi Art, I changed the dab into a redirect, and so it's now just like Ebola outbreak, and included in the redirect hatnote at List of Ebola outbreaks. Widefox; talk 10:06, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- Well, that will work, but I think most people searching for "Ebola epidemic" or "Ebola outbreak" are thinking of the current epidemic, now and in the future. If they were thinking of something obscure like Kikwit, they would have recognized the need to specify which epidemic. So I provided a more direct, obvious way to get to the West African article. Art LaPella (talk) 14:07, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
- "Epidemic" and "outbreak" are so close that that logic may apply to both terms. Epidemic is slightly stronger as a candidate to redirect to the current African epidemic article but that may be RECENTISM. As a dab page it may have a primary topic of the list article (rather than the current African outbreak article, or some regional spread article), and examples of that primary topic which shouldn't be listed per WP:DABCONCEPT / WP:PTM. As such, 1 or possibly 2 valid entries. We seem to be specifically set up against WP:NEWSPAPER / WP:RECENTISM / WP:10YT. That's tempting to resist with such current popular topics. Navigation: for readers, they now get redirected to the more general list article which has a hatnote (I think the hatnote isn't technically meant to be either per WP:RELATED but I'm not going to remove it), so it's still only 1 click away, and it's now 0 clicks for the minority of readers wanting any of the epidemics. Widefox; talk 10:03, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
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- Oh 100% agree with your sentiment and reasoning. We're just not a newspaper. Widefox; talk 19:03, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
- ?! You did notice I just responded to that point in the "time machine" sentence? Art LaPella (talk) 20:46, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
- I heard a projection of >1M cases in months, so yes it may dwarf the other epidemics put together by orders of magnitude, but there's still several of them (and no pandemic yet). We could redirect to the Africa outbreak article as a primary topic, and use a redirect hatnote there to the list. There's already several 2013-2014 outbreak articles, and the list has them now. I notice Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 has a hatnote to that pandemic, so I really don't understand if we're meant to abandon WP:RELATED which would be the easiest for readers to find the outbreak article with "Ebola". Widefox; talk 00:59, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
- Even if it doesn't reach 1M, the list article says 4,555 for West Africa and 1624 for all the others combined. 4,555 is widely agreed to be significantly undercounted, and it's hard to imagine that there won't be at least a few thousand more before it's over. The 2013-2014 outbreak articles are all subarticles of the main article (outbreak in Liberia, outbreak in the U.S., responses to the outbreak, etc.), not separate epidemics, except for the unrelated Congo outbreak. So if a reader types "Ebola epidemic", he won't be surprised it doesn't take him directly to Sierra Leone. The African article's infobox will take him there, if that's what he really wanted.
- I heard a projection of >1M cases in months, so yes it may dwarf the other epidemics put together by orders of magnitude, but there's still several of them (and no pandemic yet). We could redirect to the Africa outbreak article as a primary topic, and use a redirect hatnote there to the list. There's already several 2013-2014 outbreak articles, and the list has them now. I notice Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 has a hatnote to that pandemic, so I really don't understand if we're meant to abandon WP:RELATED which would be the easiest for readers to find the outbreak article with "Ebola". Widefox; talk 00:59, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
- ?! You did notice I just responded to that point in the "time machine" sentence? Art LaPella (talk) 20:46, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi Art, an IP added that back [1]. Thanks for catching that. That is one of those stealth IP edits that editors always miss and hence they remain in an article for ages. SW3 5DL (talk) 22:17, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
Would You Consider Overturning my Ban?
Hi Art_LaPella, excuse me for ban-evading via an IP address to ask you to consider unbanning me, but I don't see any other choice. I was permanently blocked more than two years ago on charge of sockpuppetry, which I deny. I am asking you and three other administrators to look at it. I just picked you off the list, checking only that you were recently active.
I need to keep this invitation neutral, so the best thing is just to point you to my RFC/U (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Colton_Cosmic#Statement_of_the_dispute). I can't restrain myself from saying that the RFC/U was kidnapped by my long-term hounders, and that I was denied the ability to speak in my own defense (unheard of in RFC/Us and against their clear instructions.
I'll also risk saying, but judge for yourself, that I never socked Wikipedia, and that an injustice has been perpetrated against me.
I would answer your questions if I could but you'll have to unblock my talkpage, presumably a less-controversial act.
Colton Cosmic.
- I was made administrator in 2006 with the understanding that I would fix typos on the Main Page, and I have never blocked anyone, much less unblock anyone someone else chose to block, and much, much less unblock someone who has already been turned down by a long list including Jimbo. I was about to point you towards instructions for a more conventional ban appeal, but it's apparent now that you're much more familiar with that level of Wikipolitics than I am. Art LaPella (talk) 20:12, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
John Singleton Copley
Hi, Art -- I've been reading the article on John Singleton Copley. It's pretty well written, and I've only made a few minor copy-edits, but I have come across something that doesn't look right and I don't know what to do about it. It's in the middle of the first paragraph in the section John Singleton Copley#Move to London and the European tour. There are two quotes, but they are back-to-back:
- An early call was upon West, to "find in him those amiable qualitys that makes his friendship boath desireable as an artist and as a Gentleman." "In England, what [Benjamin] West and Copley did together was to create a new kind of history painting, one with modern, topical subjects, chiefly death scenes of heroes, in a historic manner, but with scrupulous attention to contemporary detail” (Johnson 441).
I don't normally see that on WP. If the quote is from the same source, but with words missing, then just an ellipsis would be enough, right, and if no words are missing, then the pair of quotation marks are not needed at all. Do you feel like looking into this? CorinneSD (talk) 16:21, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
- Alas, looking into it would require finding Art: A New History in a library, and my financial career doesn't take me anywhere near a big academic library. However, the first quote must have been written centuries ago because it contains 4 mistakes by modern standards: "qualitys", "boath", "desireable", and capitalized "Gentleman". The second quote has none, and discusses West and Copley as historical figures. So a good guess is that the first quote is Johnson quoting Copley in his book, and the second quote is Johnson's commentary about Copley. In that case, neither an ellipsis nor simple combination would be appropriate. It could be clarified by attributing the first quote to Copley and the second to Johnson, if that is what happened. Art LaPella (talk) 17:08, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Halloween greetings!
Thank you. Art LaPella (talk) 20:01, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
A message from the light-side:
'Happy Halloween'? Is not that something of a contradiction? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.96.106.72 (talk) 12:25, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
- Yes and no. Is there a better adjective to describe what makes people choose to be scared by Halloween, or by ghost stories or roller coasters? "Thrilling Halloween"? Art LaPella (talk) 14:04, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
A cup of coffee for you!
Thanks for your patience. I'll get it right in my next edit - and put back your ref fix. Elvey(t•c) 04:17, 28 October 2014 (UTC) |
- Thank you. Art LaPella (talk) 05:08, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
- And rollback reverts multiple edits by the same editor. It doesn't work after an intervening edit like mine. Art LaPella (talk) 05:13, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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For fixing my abominably bad English..SEcond langauge by me... Thanks Art BrianGroen (talk) 06:08, 14 November 2014 (UTC) |
comma again
You edited the comma from the date just as I was attempting to save my edit. I copied my edit and got out of the edit conflict, then went back and put in my edit. That's why the comma was back. That's happened before. So if you see something like that again, that could be the reason. [2]. SW3 5DL (talk) 23:09, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
- OK. Art LaPella (talk) 23:33, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Thank You
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for your non-stop assistance on Ebola (west Africa) article Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:08, 19 November 2014 (UTC) |
and for putting up with my poor punctuation--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:08, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
- You're welcome. I'll put it on my user page. Art LaPella (talk) 20:47, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
Jerk (physics)
Hi! Danke für das Korrigieren meiner Fehler im Englischen! I'm not a native speaker and apologize for the work I cause on editing my flaws. I just saw, that my work and your corrections of it improved this article's rating from start class to C. I do not want to be insolent, but of course I strive for a B rating, so please, let me ask you, if you have any hints for me to reach this target. Thanks in any case! Purgy (talk) 19:13, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
- Bitte schön. Jerk (physics)#Notes has four Wikipedia:Bare URLs, which are discouraged, as that article explains. Besides that, although I have been here for years, my editing is basic proofreading as on your page (well, basic for an American anyway), and I don't write my own articles or have experience with ratings. I see you have already talked with people who know more about it than I do. Art LaPella (talk) 04:03, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks once more. Purgy (talk) 08:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
sorry about that
thanks for the edit (ebola/west Africa), its not the first time Ive forgotten to log in--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:59, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
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- Thank you. Art LaPella (talk) 01:39, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
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Stylization of the "common name"
In January 2013 there was a "RfC on COMMONSTYLE proposal" at WT:AT in which you expressed an interest. FYI there is a similar debate taking place at the moment, see Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Stylization of the "common name" -- PBS-AWB (talk) 12:19, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
hi Art
I was wondering if you might have the time to look at Dyslexia I have it for a GA nomination i know this is short notice, but I put a request for one ce on that list (the guild) they have and I have a feeling the GA nomination reviewer might beat them to the article, thanks either way--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 23:48, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Done Art LaPella (talk) 08:06, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
thank you Art--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 09:15, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Cirex
Regards La pella I was looking for active administrators who can help me with this draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Cirex Has been several weeks backlogged, I took my chances if it get not approved. Same article is on other 5 wikipedias... Please, hope you can help! :) Thanks in advacne Bnotepr (talk) 04:09, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- I proofread the article, which is what I do, as you may have read above. Art LaPella (talk) 06:38, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Reflinks bug
Thanks...I was noticing it a couple of times earlier this week, but then it disappeared before I had a chance to mention it, so I didn't think more of it. (I think it's already been repaired, as it didn't come up when I used Reflinks yesterday, and the redlinks of which you speak appeared to have been a couple of days old.) I'll keep an eye on future Reflinks edits and see if it reoccurs.
For the other - thanks. Didn't know it wasn't working any more. I'll remove it. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:09, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Infobox Improvement
Hello! Can I request for you to include an "Education" parameter to Sophie Hunter's infobox. Her school, St. Paul's Girls' School is a notable educational institution in the UK. I hope you can fulfill my request. Thank you very much! And keep up the good work here on Wiki. 109.161.219.248 (talk) 07:10, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- Done (whether it gets reverted is something else ...) Art LaPella (talk) 07:22, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- Art LaPella, I would be careful, this is a sock of Fairyspit. They ask editors to do their editing for them since they have been banned and continue to have their socks blocked. LADY LOTUS • TALK 12:22, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- Whatever, then I guess it's more likely to be reverted. Art LaPella (talk) 14:57, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- Please [feel free to] see the changes made today, at User talk:Guettarda#Hello.21 ...before I noticed that those changes probably "should have" gone here, instead. ((PS: This "revert" (deletion) edit might be of interest, too.))
- --Mike Schwartz (talk) 20:11, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
- If you're asking me to be more careful of Fairyspit, OK, although I'd hate to refuse every request because they might be socking. If you're asking for further administrative intervention to prevent the problem, I'm not the expert; try Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents if you haven't already. Art LaPella (talk) 23:43, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
- Whatever, then I guess it's more likely to be reverted. Art LaPella (talk) 14:57, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
- Art LaPella, I would be careful, this is a sock of Fairyspit. They ask editors to do their editing for them since they have been banned and continue to have their socks blocked. LADY LOTUS • TALK 12:22, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Light-hearted listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Light-hearted. Since you had some involvement with the Light-hearted redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mr. Guye (talk) 22:20, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
A cup of coffee for you!
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Hi Art this is a thank you to you for fixing my abominably bad English. Greeting Brian BrianGroen (talk) 06:16, 28 March 2015 (UTC) |
- Thank you; I put it on my user page. Art LaPella (talk) 15:15, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
Happy Easter!
Art LaPella A belated Happy Easter , just wanted to wish my fellow Wikipedian a Happy Easter Day! (though I know my grammar, typos,etc., are never a happy thing)...Sincerely, --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:29, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you (and finding such things from any editor is a relatively happy thing, like a crossword puzzle.) Art LaPella (talk) 13:41, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 21, 2015
Thanks. I see you make edits from time to time to TFA text; do you look at most of them? Any suggestions, or anything you'd like to do more of? - Dank (push to talk) 20:27, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- No. I look at every featured article blurb, and everything else on the Main Page, and I have done so for years. But not the featured article itself (to me, the readers' priority is the Main Page). However, if I do find a mistake in the featured article blurb, I check the article, partly to see if something there will persuade me it isn't really a mistake, and also because while I'm there, I can fix the same mistake in the article if it occurs both places. Art LaPella (talk) 02:52, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
- Impressive. You hadn't made many edits to the TFAs lately, and I wasn't sure if you were content or just sporadic. Glad to hear it. Carry on. - Dank (push to talk) 03:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
List of stars in Libra
I did it, finally! StringTheory11 (t • c) 16:14, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
- Didn't find anything. Gliese 581 is 0.01 brighter than its maximum, but I haven't been fixing that (different references). The hardest part was finding my software again, so note to myself: misc menu of my stock program. Art LaPella (talk) 01:21, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
I'm copying this email to document a big series of corrections to the spelling of Mr. Marriott's name:
Marriott spelling
People
Leo Marriott Today at 2:24 PM
To
[email address redacted]
Thanks for query. As you can see it is spelt with 2 x R and 2 x T as well as a dot over the i. Also the same as the well known hotel chain. As you mention, some publishers misspell it but by the time the book is published it is too late to change.
Regards
Leo Marriott
Sent from my iPad
Happy 4th
To Art LaPella, Happy 4th of July (actually this year it starts July 3rd/Friday) , wishing you the
best this time of year,happy Wikipedia editing, your friend --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:24, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
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- Thank you. Art LaPella (talk) 17:45, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 2015
Art, are you interested in writing any of these TFA columns? The 5th has already been taken; I haven't looked at the others yet. - Dank (push to talk) 17:49, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
- I don't know what a Today's Featured Article column is, but presumably no. When I write more than a few words of text, it gets rewritten or removed, and thus my experience is strictly with copyediting. Art LaPella (talk) 22:33, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
- It's what some call the TFA blurb. (I don't call it a blurb because it's the opposite of a blurb, it's a summary). Whatever you want to do is fine, of course ... but obviously I'm going to respect your style and choices, or I wouldn't be asking. I'll make lightweight edits if necessary to comply with FAC standards. If you're worried that others will heavily edit your stuff, that hasn't happened for me at TFA. - Dank (push to talk) 00:00, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- No thanks, if I start writing articles, the first one won't be for the Main Page. Art LaPella (talk) 02:40, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- Heh, okay. - Dank (push to talk) 11:19, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- No thanks, if I start writing articles, the first one won't be for the Main Page. Art LaPella (talk) 02:40, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- It's what some call the TFA blurb. (I don't call it a blurb because it's the opposite of a blurb, it's a summary). Whatever you want to do is fine, of course ... but obviously I'm going to respect your style and choices, or I wouldn't be asking. I'll make lightweight edits if necessary to comply with FAC standards. If you're worried that others will heavily edit your stuff, that hasn't happened for me at TFA. - Dank (push to talk) 00:00, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
ebola
hi, art...yes that's the edit I meant,(BTW thanks for the archive reference),...in regards to this,[3] it probably is a contradiction.... thanks as always--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:16, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia
Hi Art Art LaPella
Was wondering i spent considerable time on improving the Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia article.. Do you think i can remove the cleanup tag. BTW thanks for checking my edits i really appreciate it. English is not my first language and i am partilay sighted as well.
Kind Regards Brian BrianGroen (talk) 15:32, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
- The cleanup tag says we are mixing U.S. English with British English. I don't care if you remove it, but the tag is certainly accurate. Complying would be a major project, starting with getting a consensus for which English to use. The other Ebola articles are British, but Liberia has a historical connection to the U.S., which may explain why the U.S. military went there.
- Most of the dates have the day before the month, which is much more typical of British English, although I found 11 dates with the day after the month. But the spelling is more U.S. than British; my U.S. spell checker found 4 British spellings, and I found at least 10 U.S. spellings. U.S. spellings are harder to find, because both my spell checker and my experience as an American make them look normal. Art LaPella (talk) 16:19, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks Art LaPella
The dates to me although British is more in line with all the other articles.. hence i did change the confusing to British.. I have clean up a bit more and will remove the tag for now.. I want to seriously haul that editor over the coals but whats done is done. I put in hours of work.
Kind Regards Brian BrianGroen (talk) 16:32, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
November 2015
Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Talk: Main page, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:50, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Robert McClenon: My edit is plainly not vandalism. It was a reversion that partially corrected vandalism, although it didn't correct the earlier vandalism from November 4. I was still looking that up in order to see what else needed reverting, when User:General Ization finished the job. Art LaPella (talk) 06:23, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Happy Thanksgiving
Art, wishing you, the best in this holiday season, as always (BTW [4] I was looking at ref #243 error, but am not sure how to fix, any ideas?)...your colleague --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:33, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Done Here's my edit. The red error message said there was a link in the work= parameter, but actually it was in the website= parameter, and clicking the help link didn't help. So I'll go to that help page's talk page, and tell them that their error message wasn't helpful. Art LaPella (talk) 21:13, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
- thanks Art --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:42, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
- I re-edited it, to answer an objection on the help talk page. Art LaPella (talk) 02:17, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- that's why I turn to you- you give 100% effort...thanks again, and Happy Thanksgiving, Ozzie--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:34, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- I re-edited it, to answer an objection on the help talk page. Art LaPella (talk) 02:17, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- thanks Art --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 21:42, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
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How margin of error works — Statewide opinion polling, Democratic Party primaries, 2016
User All4peace (talk) has initiated a discussion, on the article talk page on English Wikipedia about how we present MOE.
I would very‐much appreciate your participation ! Info por favor (talk) 23:28, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
He Leadeth me
Greetings. With regards to this; I noticed that JG senior did have an article, but it seems to me that in that case, a redlink is more appropriate than a redirect, because JG Sr. is not a reasonable destination for somebody searching for "he leadeth me." This is why I speedied, rather than replacing the redirect. Thoughts? Vanamonde93 (talk) 06:43, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
- To me a reasonable destination is one that gives the reader what information we have, which is one sentence. So looking again, Joseph A. Gilmore#Family is what would get him there. Perhaps Wikipedia has some conventions I'm unfamiliar with, but to me it's what the reader is looking for that counts. Art LaPella (talk) 06:49, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
- Well, I read through WP:R#DELETE and WP:R#KEEP again. It seems like this is a borderline case, because #10 of the delete criteria suggests delete, and #3 of the keep criteria suggest keep. I'm not hung up over it, so I'll let it be. Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 07:05, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
- I changed it to #Family as described above. Art LaPella (talk) 07:11, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
- Well, I read through WP:R#DELETE and WP:R#KEEP again. It seems like this is a borderline case, because #10 of the delete criteria suggests delete, and #3 of the keep criteria suggest keep. I'm not hung up over it, so I'll let it be. Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 07:05, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Happy Holidays/New Year!
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Best wishes for joy and happiness. Art, may you have the best holidays Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:12, 4 December 2015 (UTC) |
- Thank you. Art LaPella (talk) 15:12, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Season's Greetings!
To You and Yours!
FWiW Bzuk (talk) 19:14, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you. Art LaPella (talk) 21:21, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!
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Thanks again :) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:59, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
- You're welcome. Art LaPella (talk) 04:02, 29 February 2016 (UTC)