Victoria Gardens Cultural Center
Thanks for your help on the article and all of the work you are doing on Wikipedia and the theater group!--Tm1000 (talk) 08:03, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Newsweek
Thanks for reverting the latest IP edit on Newsweek (the one that added "left wing" as a description). I already removed two similar references, but by different IPs, and didn't want to risk breaking WP:3RR. Also, thanks for the addition clarifying the format/focus change of the magazine (2008-2009 Repositioning section). That was some good information and a good find. I hope you don't mind my revisions to it -- if I can find the actual May 23 issue online I'll add some citation of why Meacham claimed the changes were made (can't compete with the instant online news, don't want to re-report what's been reported elsewhere). Anyway, thanks for your help here! -Sme3 (talk) 15:07, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
WikiProject Theatre - Article Assessment
Hi Mdukas, good work so far on assessing all those theatre articles. I'll try to help out when I get the time ... it'd be nice to see everything prioritised at last! - danyoung - 21:36, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
- Every time I look now there are fewer and fewer articles! Thanks for you help too, it's a team effort! I've starting looking forward now to getting some energy back into the project, and I think some more specific goals might help. I might post something on the project talk page ... see you soon - danyoung - 18:24, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
- Done!!! For now, at least. Now, only 492 unknown-importance articles to prioritise! Yawn. I'm guessing almost all of them are 'low' but I might scan through the category looking for articles that might deserve a higher rating. Plus, I don't think that anything like all the theatre-related articles out there are tagged, so there's still a long way to go! - danyoung - 22:09, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
- Hey, thanks for the barnstar! I see you're busy away with assessing articles for importance - amongst everything else! Keep up the good work - danyoung - 23:43, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Methuselah
Thank you for your commentary. I will keep your remarks in mind when I rework the article. Wugo (talk) 17:58, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
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Giuliano Mignini
Hi Mdukas. Thanks for your edit to Giuliano Mignini. Can you provide a reference citing that he was indeed a prosecutor involved in the Monster of Florence Case? It seems strange to me at first glance that he would have been given that the murders were in Florence and that he was a prosecutor in Perugia (different region). Also, some of the murders took place before he became a lawyer (1979 according to the source provided?). The sources I read say he investigated the death of Narducci in 2001 (well after the MoF murders) and tried to connect it to MoF... your edit suggests he was the prosecutor in the original MoF case. Can you clarify? Many thanks! (Connolly15 (talk) 12:33, 6 December 2011 (UTC))
- Thanks, will remove for now as you suggested, but feel free to reinsert later. (Connolly15 (talk) 09:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC))
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It was small but I did use the Fresh Air interview for an edit to the article. I tend to lean toward using External links only for uncited sources and so would lean toward removing your edit. I think I'm in line with a general bias against (the "last resort" sort of thinking; WP:PL) Ext. links in Wiki. Another way this round has made me think: External links are not a bibliography. Another way: double listing is not encouraged. Any thoughts? I'll check back. Thanks. 00:20 PS I was doing some other bits there and I'd convinced myself so I went ahead. Still open to discussion even (maybe) reversal. Cheers. Swliv (talk) 00:36, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- I may be a bit more contentious (all in the interests of efficiency and ...); or maybe I've just been through more battles. (Maybe that says it all.) Anyway, I keep the "server farms" in mind when the "more" bug catches me. I've used Ext. links for exactly the same purpose often, except not if I or someone else has (had) the energy to integrate the source into the article. I even had to think, when I was weighing how to approach you on this first, that my small use of the interview was a way to get it into the article without going to Ext. links. Recalled further, though, this was my second round on pronunciation and the first one did run into flack (and I do like this one; and the last one, at Peter Gleick) .... And I've faced my share now of summary deletions of Ext. link additions; elimination from the article completely; which has stung.
- SO. All told. I have already deleted it and am inclined to let that stand. I totally share your feelings as expressed re: TGross et al. ... That's right: If you want ... to see ... a tangle ... I got into (not directly parallel ... but ...; well, here, and two edits back ... and a few more a bit further on, at Key Largo (film)) you'd maybe appreciate it.
- Final comment: I didn't say it y'day but response here would have kept the exchange together; and I do, and most do, check back (by checking the bold "top" designation in the "My contributions" list; if the "top" is gone a response has maybe been made; is what I do). There's also this talkback template (template being the part in the double "{" curly brackets) which you can use though I've not .... (Hit "edit" there to get access to the template format, adjust wordings accordingly, Show previews until it works ....) (Questions for clarifications always welcome, too. And apologies if I'm wrongly assessing your level of mastery of Wiki arcanity.) Cheers. Swliv (talk) 14:52, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments. You are right, my level of "mastery of Wiki arcanity" is rather low. I am interested in learning how to do things (and what to do and not to do) as long as it does not involve being flamed. I got turned off during the "BLP - mass deletion campaign" and found myself discouraged from being a contributor by the tone of that debate. So, I admit that I am clueless on the underlying issue about the External Links, and I should learn to understand what is the concern or issue. I have looked at the "server link" page but still was unclear on the reason(s) not to include external links. Is it because they might be "commercial" sorts of sites that Wikipedia does not want to promote? Or is it something else? I would appreciate understanding the issue better if you could explain to me in simple terms what is the issue. I looked at WP:PL but I did not get the point about external links from there. So, I can avoid making the same mistake again, if I can understand the problem better. Thanks for your indulgence. P.S. I routinely download the "Fresh Air" interviews to my phone and listen to them every day as I walk around. So I had the idea that it would be "helpful" to add links to them as a source of info about particular topics (authors, issues, people). Not as an inline citation on a particular fact, but more as a background coverage of an issue. Is this a bad idea for a plan?
- I did find this eventually: Wikipedia:External links--Mdukas (talk) 16:54, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comments. You are right, my level of "mastery of Wiki arcanity" is rather low. I am interested in learning how to do things (and what to do and not to do) as long as it does not involve being flamed. I got turned off during the "BLP - mass deletion campaign" and found myself discouraged from being a contributor by the tone of that debate. So, I admit that I am clueless on the underlying issue about the External Links, and I should learn to understand what is the concern or issue. I have looked at the "server link" page but still was unclear on the reason(s) not to include external links. Is it because they might be "commercial" sorts of sites that Wikipedia does not want to promote? Or is it something else? I would appreciate understanding the issue better if you could explain to me in simple terms what is the issue. I looked at WP:PL but I did not get the point about external links from there. So, I can avoid making the same mistake again, if I can understand the problem better. Thanks for your indulgence. P.S. I routinely download the "Fresh Air" interviews to my phone and listen to them every day as I walk around. So I had the idea that it would be "helpful" to add links to them as a source of info about particular topics (authors, issues, people). Not as an inline citation on a particular fact, but more as a background coverage of an issue. Is this a bad idea for a plan?
Yes, sorry for the typo. But no indulgence. I recognize this as part of a constructive overall editorial effort; 'monst so much; and it's great to connect with you, with your doubts/bad experience but also clearly (to me) the right impulse to contribute.
On the details: (a) The "server" is just the enviro-/electrical/hardware burden of this as any net/other activity. Every keystroke has a cost. (b) Typo aside, WP:EL doesn't particularly beautifully address our situation here either; which is another reason to "try it out" here with a specific case; I, or you, could yet improve that Wiki page. (c) I'm not familiar with the "mass deletion campaign" but think it'd be a good name for a ... what? Dystopian novel? Do you have a link to get a glimpse into that? (One suggestion: Always try to give a link. It's so easy; adds a lot I feel; and you don't sound like you feel I've "run you around" too much with my sometimes quirky ones. The wrong ones; they will happen; sorry again; I too am (always) trying to get better :-).)
(d) Commercialism is certainly one of the "wary" zones. But the other day someone replaced a specific Charlie Rose show link I went back and dug out for Jim Yong Kim with a template for "all CR shows"; which to my mind was "something lost"; which I can now see also as "something gained"; I think a reader's more likely to click on the specific show than "all shows"; but there were two appearances, the other a "green room" one. Well, I've left that contribution of mine "edited away", so far. But, to the original point, the template did feel sort of more like promoting CRose than contributing to the specific article. I don't know. Wariness, always; humility, too, right?
In short (not my strong point): It's one edit at a time with sometimes the urge to try to "improve the system". Do you look up your counterparts' contributions? My own last couple (since the above) felt pretty far "out there" but may be of interest in the context of this exchange. You know how to look on the history page? Hit the View history tab on the article page. Looking at the edits since yours (back to that "top" comment above; one of the tools; new ones first prob.; though I've done my share of digging back, too) is interesting and an important way to understand "what you're up against"; "the scene"; "how things evolve, come together, [at times] reach loggerheads"; hopefully "get unstuck". And for my contributions, for example, hit "contribs" on the history page next to my Sw- on my edits. How about page hits? Hit "Page view statistics" up top of that history page. I find it a useful feedback loop. Kim's were 7x the guess I made to myself on the big-news day itself; results are a day lagged, adjusted for any variance from UK (UTC) time; drag over the columns for stats. Also, I'd note that TGross usually has transcripts at the web site; which makes citation so much better; can quote (excessively, as I did with Philip Furia on "Moanin' Low", Key Largo, and got rebuffed); I give myself extra points for citing a transcript because I think it's an important service I want to encourage the outlets to continue to provide (build their page hits). Finally, if you want to wander and think, my work at Rajiv Gupta is some of the best in one place over time I can offer: in the history of the article over the last 6-12 months; on the talk page; my relationship (not to overblow it; but there was clearly some productive interaction) with User:My2011.
I also thought this was a pretty good showing by Wiki editors each (including yes me) and collectively.
Hope that's all some help. Glad I didn't just revert your EL. FAir fan! Swliv (talk) 19:44, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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