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DYK for Interdenominational Theological Center

On 23 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Interdenominational Theological Center, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, a cooperative effort involving six Christian denominations, has been described as "one of the more successful ventures in black ecumenism"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Interdenominational Theological Center. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Holiday cheer

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Thanks for the good wishes -- and the spirit that goes with them! --Orlady (talk) 05:40, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Belva Davis

Orlady, is this one ready yet? I see that you did some editing to the article after Muboshgu's latest additions, which are discussed on the nomination template, but haven't responded there. Whether it's ready for approval or needs new work, it would be nice to know where it stands. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:13, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Reply at DYK nomination

DYK for Lupton City, Chattanooga

On 27 December 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lupton City, Chattanooga, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Lupton City in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was created in the 1920s as a planned community for a thread mill and its workers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lupton City, Chattanooga. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Gatoclass 12:04, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs

Hi Orlady, If you have the time, could you look at the recent edits on ACBSP to see if they are neutral and the sources valid/suitable? Many thanks. Audit Guy (talk) 07:46, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Request your view especially on the "Criticisms" sub heading and the references cited. Thanks. Audit Guy (talk) 10:09, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Orlady, Saw the review/edits you made which have a better and accurate reflection of the situation pertaining to the sources cited. Many thanks. Here's wishing you a very Happy New Year! Audit Guy (talk) 03:08, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Queue help

I can never remember precisely how to do the queues. Can you look at Template:Did you know/Queue/2 and fix what I did wrongly? Nyttend (talk) 12:44, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!-RFD (talk) 18:25, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Bow tie

Hi Orlady! First of all a happy new year! :-) There are some notes on the talk page of the list of bow tie wearers. One question: do Albert Schweitzer, Roger Martin du Gard, Kafū Nagai or Alexander Fleming qualify for the list? Cassandro (talk) 13:17, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Glad to have your interest in the bow-tie list! Recently, my main focus has been on making sure that the people who get listed truly belong on the list.

The main criterion is that there needs to be a reliable source indicating the person's association with bow ties. A photo, or a mention of one time they wore a bow tie, doesn't suffice. Fleming is a good find, as there's a reliable source commenting on his habitual wearing of a bow tie. However, I removed Schweitzer from the list because the source mentions only one time that he was photographed in a bow tie. For the others, it would depend on whether reliable sources describe them as "bow tie wearers", or mention their preference for bow ties, or something of that sort. (I haven't looked for sources...)

I see that you added life dates for several of the people. I'm not sure why the dates are in this list. A long time ago, one journalist (Robin Day) was added with dates. Then, in November 2008, Alansohn added dates for several more journalists. I don't think the dates are a problem, but I'm not sure why people thought they were needed. You may have some thoughts, but I suppose that's a topic for the article talk page. --Orlady (talk) 16:10, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi! On Schweitzer. I found some sources about it but I found the most reliable the Barazon biography. I viewed it just on Google Books, so maybe there are more sources in it. (I found also e. g. a site about an exhibition on him in NC but I am not sure how appropriate a source that is). In the case of the life dates I just wanted to make look the list more unified. I am open to change it but maybe it can be of use to see tha bow tie wearers are to be found all over the 20th and 21st century. Cassandro (talk) 21:30, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

OK. I ran some searches on Schweitzer, and it's clear that the black bow tie was part of his image, as known to the world. For example, this is a newspaper story that mentions his "usual black bow tie". And this memoir mentions his attire as always including the bow tie. I think we can add him. However, it can't be based on just one source describing him as wearing a bow tie on one occasion. --Orlady (talk) 21:53, 2 January 2013 (UTC) This is also good. (You may not be able to see all the items I'm mentioning -- Google Books dishes up different results in different countries.) --Orlady (talk) 21:56, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Can you please put it into the article? :-) There are also some suggestions on the talk page (I am trying to find a reliable source for Herter). Cassandro (talk) 07:29, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Blood donation in Bangladesh

There's been a reply here to your last comment and proposed ALTs, and yet another ALT proposed. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:01, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks -- that reply skidded right past me on my watchlist! I've added a new reply. --Orlady (talk) 20:37, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

I replied there!

Roger Alan Wade

Care to add those sources to the article? Ten Pound Hammer • 19:28, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Erm, but I'm not particularly interested in the topic. I saw the page on the Tennessee delsort list and looked into his notability... --Orlady (talk) 20:31, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Interaction ban?

Be prepared for a ban proposal. Nyttend (talk) 17:21, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Gerald Feldman

Hello! Your submission of Gerald Feldman at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! NinaGreen (talk) 18:12, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Deletion review

Your comment at DRV didn't address my proposal; would you mind remarking on it? I'm not complaining, just trying to get additional input. There are more bits that I didn't mention because they're irrelevant to the copyright issue: as you may have seen, there was a footnote of "Note, however this would seem not to be covered in Ohio Historic Places Dictionary online book; there's nothing about all of Morrow County", which is quite incorrect because the building does appear there, starting on this page and continuing to the next. What's more, the quotation is the final sentence of the statement on the previous entry, Old Bartlett and Goble Store; the authors of the book only observe that the old school has a Greek Revival appearance. Nyttend (talk) 19:44, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. Hoping to get onto a random historic site for a little while, I looked at your "collection" link and was interested in your comment on BOC Site. All I can discover is that it's a Woodland period site, since it came from an MPS of Woodland-period sites; most of my hits for <"boc site" woodland> refer to a wooded British Oxygen Company site in County Durham. NPS is unhelpfully down; the MPS link gives me a 408 error, and even the link for the nomination form gives me a 408 instead of the "Not yet digitized" that it should give. Nyttend (talk) 19:59, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

As it happens, I looked at that same BOC page a few weeks back. I found some other documents that provide a teeny amount of insight into "BOC Site", but no clue on its name. My guess is that it is named for the property owner, which very likely that same BOC (BOC Gases). Regardless, given that the site is "address restricted" -- and not in a region known for mound-building (or similar activities that can make archeological sites visible), it would be best to merge it into a yet-to-be-written article about the Woodland culture in the lower Connecticut Valley (or a similar geographic area). (I've found a few documents on that general subject.) I also have a vague intention of doing an article about Selden Neck (which is actually an island -- and that gives its name to another of these sites), which is associated with Selden Creek, which in turn turns out to be the namesake of one of the cultural periods in that area. --Orlady (talk) 20:13, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, I had no clue that BOC Gases would be in that area. I've only ever seen their trucks in western Ohio, so I figured that they were a small local supplier of natural gas and propane. Unhelpfully, NRIS gives an alternate name of "61-57", which is either a typo or a thoroughly different naming convention from the one used by archaeologists in much of the country, including Tennessee, which uses statenumber-countynameabbreviation-sitenumber. I've found information on sites by searching for names when NRIS provides the number or vice versa. Nyttend (talk) 20:19, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Anyhow, that's just one of several National Register-listed archaeological sites in that same area. He started stubs about only a few of them, possibly because of a disambiguation project. IMO, rather than having people beat themselves silly trying to document an individual site whose discoverers don't want it to be found, it would make more sense to write an article about the area's Woodland Period archaeology (I have found some general content about lifeways and artifacts), including a list of the Woodland sites that are on the Register. --Orlady (talk) 20:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

"Lifeways" — either you've been reading a bunch of anthropological material, or you've been talking with anthropologists. I don't remember ever hearing that term (or "foodways", or other "___ways") except in a thoroughly anthropological context, such as an anthro Ph.D longtime roommate. Regarding your beating-silly counterproposal, that's part of the reason I was looking for the MPS. I think we've conclusively demonstrated that we can't support a decent article with freely-available online sources, but I'll look through JSTOR. Assume that I find nothing unless I tell you otherwise. Nyttend (talk) 20:46, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I do interact with anthropologists and their work from time to time. FWIW, two other sources I found are used and cited in Roaring Brook sites. One of those refs is a report that has some information on where in the landscape archaeological sites are typically located, and a wee bit of speculation on what this indicated about how the people lived. I don't think the report referred to "lifeways". I think I found something else, but I can't put my finger on it now. --Orlady (talk) 02:03, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the input on Orators. While some sites are well known, I have the advantage of studying at a major research university whose library has extensively collected in archaeology. For example, citation #5 on Orators is to a thoroughly obscure book that spends most of its text discussing minutia of Hopewell society (using theoretical approaches that I'll never be able to understand); I can't imagine finding it outside an academic library. Only near the end does it have sections useful for me for Misplaced Pages: understandable language being used to discuss individual sites. Perhaps even more important for me is my library's journal subscriptions; obscure sites like Spanish Fort Site (Holly Bluff, Mississippi) wouldn't have been possible for me to write without journals. Besides the fact that I've visited lots of Ohio and Indiana sites (now almost 50% of Ohio and almost 90% of Indiana!), I concentrate on them because I have tons of sources available; if I were in Connecticut, perhaps I'd know where to look to learn more about the BOC Site. Nyttend (talk) 05:36, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:Orlady/List

User:Orlady/List, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Misplaced Pages:Miscellany for deletion/User:Orlady/List and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Orlady/List during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Rich Farmbrough, 01:34, 6 January 2013 (UTC).

As perhaps you've seen, Rich has withdrawn it, so in the absence of anything except "Keep" votes, I expect it to be speedy kept. Meanwhile, the MPS form for the BOC site is supposedly not digitised (even though we found it with WP:MPS a long time ago), so I doubt that we can do anything more with it. Nyttend (talk) 01:16, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Childhood cancer

Orlady, can you take a quick look at this one? Espresso Addict thinks the topic coverage is inadequate, and thus not appropriate for DYK. Whether you agree or disagree, I'd like to get closure on it, and don't have enough of a feel to do it myself. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:40, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much for checking. It's disappointing that earlier reviews didn't see the copyvio. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:27, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Indeed it is! --Orlady (talk) 00:52, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

DYK: no queue available, promotion in 35 minutes

Orlady, we have no queues loaded and one prep set available, and the bot will be looking to promote a queue in 35 minutes. I'm starting to work up new prep sets, but what we really need now is that one prep set to be promoted. I'm hoping you can do it; you're the first DYK admin I've found who's on line. (I'm pretty sure I just missed Crisco 1492.) Thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 15:25, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Done. --Orlady (talk) 15:35, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I'll try to get a couple of prep sets up in the next hour. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:44, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

For letting me know about the DYK fact from Blood donation in Bangladesh. That was unexpected! Best wishes, Sminthopsis84 (talk) 19:19, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

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