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Merry Christmas!!

	Time To Spread A Little Happy Holiday Cheer!!
	I decorated a special kind of Christmas tree in the spirit of the season. What's especially nice about this digitized version: *it doesn't need water *won't catch fire *and batteries aren't required.
	Have a very Merry Christmas - Happy Hanukkah‼️ and a prosperous New Year!! 🍸🎁 🎉

Happy holidays

Hi Fowler&fowler, thank you very much for the card, and I hope this note finds you well. Wishing you and yours all the best for the holidays, SarahSV 07:17, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Wishing

you a merry Christmas, a happy New Year and pleasant holidays! And, here's hoping to see more of your excellent craftsmanship over our articles .... ∯WBG 15:53, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Io Saturnalia!

		Io, Saturnalia!
		Wishing you and yours a Happy Holiday Season, from the horse and bishop person. May the year ahead be productive and distraction-free. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:58, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year

Thanks for the card f&f. Happy holidays and best wishes for the, hopefully roaring, 20's!--regentspark (comment) 17:40, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Assuming that the questions answered herein aren't covered by the 24 wait you've asked for...

Regarding Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Coropuna/archive1#Comments by Fowler&fowler as far as I know there are no special conventions from the Wikiprojects in question. Regarding "wikilinks instead of descriptors" it's a tough question - wikilinks require one to leave the page, but descriptors often shake the flow of the sentence. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 21:33, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

OK, Thanks very much @Jo-Jo Eumerus: Fowler&fowler«Talk» 04:12, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 00:59, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you very much @Bzuk:! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 04:11, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Season's Greetings!

		Faithful friends who are dear to us
		... gather near to us once more. May your heart be light and your troubles out of sight, now and in the New Year. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:51, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you very much @SandyGeorgia:. This is a beautiful card, as are its thoughts. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 04:07, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

Hello Fowler&fowler: Enjoy the holiday season, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Misplaced Pages. Cheers, DBigXrayᗙ Happy Holidays! 15:16, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings1}} to send this message

And to you too, @DBigXray:. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 15:40, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Coropuna FAC

		The One-third Barnstar
		Awarded to User:Jo-Jo Eumerus, User:Fowler&fowler and User:ComplexRational – for having the fortitude, diligence, resilience and "sound moral principle" to show the rest of us the best way to approach a featured article candidacy. Here's to you all three of you! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:48, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you @SandyGeorgia: I like this barnstar. I had no idea that such precision existed in rewarding! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 16:01, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Someone gave it to me once ... I can always peruse my sub-page to find a Barnstar for any situation, even though sensible editors have said that barnstars belong on barns (along with Coca-Cola signs :) Best regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:10, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

:) I like cookie salad. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 16:20, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Seasonal Archiepiscopal article?

Greetings, both seasonal and normal. Back in the dawn of time (nine years ago nearly, aargh!) I took part in the peer review of your rewrite of Mandell Creighton. The Rt Rev has had a cameo role in the article on Randall Davidson on which I have been working during the past month. I now have RD up for peer review, and if you were minded to look in and let me have your thoughts it would be esteemed a favour. Perfectly understand if you aren't disposed, naturally. I have clocked the history of the Creighton FAC, including the intervention of the achingly missed Brianboulton, and will be v. happy indeed to help if I can in having another pop at that, too, at some point – yours to command. Best wishes, Tim riley talk 17:19, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello. @Tim riley: Season's greetings to you as well. I'd be happy to look at RD, once the Christmas madness is over.

It's funny I was thinking about Brianboulton the other day myself, about his generosity, and about Creighton. As you know I withdrew the article from FAC2 with the intention of reading the sources he had suggested. I never did read those sources but did manage to buy WG Fallows's older biography, Mandell Creighton and the English Church (ca 1964). No sooner had the book arrived than, as they say on WP, real life intervened, and I managed to lose Fallows in the recesses of our home. Anyway, it was found, definitively, and I've been reading it. I've only read the introduction which is a pithy biography of MC, and a joy to read. (It reminded me of an early-1960s (?), interview with Bertrand Russell, during which he said he owed his style to Milton (for the passion) and Baedekers' Guidebooks (for the brevity). I don't know if Fallow's Chapter 1 has passion, but it certainly has an attractive brevity.) The rest of the book is written in a more relaxed style. ... There are a couple of other books that have appeared since, which might be useful. The one I remember is, Historians and the Church of England: Religion and Historical Scholarship, 1870-1920 by James Kirby, OUP, 2016. Then there is always Lytton Strachey's character assassination in Eminent Victorians (probably worth rereading). Anyway, if you can give me a month, say until the end of January, I'd be able to give you a better assessment of where Creighton "is at." If you want to help write it, it would be an honor. I'm glad you wrote here. I need some prodding for refocusing. Meanwhile, I'll stop by RD. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 21:13, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

PS Another article which is half written, whose completion would be a worthwhile memorial to Brianb, is V. S. Naipaul. He had given me much needed encouragement on the article's talk page. Anyway, I don't remember the sequence of events, but I left the article in this state in 2014, and haven't gone back since. Naipaul, though, needs a lot more work. Some of his books will have to be read, or reread, their articles on WP written or rewritten, and so forth. But maybe if Creighton can be completed, I will feel more encouraged to take on Naipaul again. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 21:18, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Excellent! No rush at all for comments on Davidson, and as to Creighton, as lead editor it's for you decide when and what you want me to do. I can't make a similar offer for the Naipaul article as serious 20th century fiction is not my strong suit, but I'd be glad to offer suggestions at PR etc in due course. Meanwhile, Merry Christmas and a Rollicking New Year. Tim riley talk 21:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Aksai Chin

Let me know what you are seeing wrong with the Aksai Chin page and I will work to make it more in line with the standards for WT:INDIA. Geographyinitiative (talk) 15:34, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

Actually there is another article that we need help with.....

Many moons ago we buffed Betelgeuse...and then a few of us thought it'd be good to buff Rigel. All the folks who've worked on it have been people familiar with astronomy, but after your thoughts on Horologium and a peer review that attracted zero interest, I thought I'd ask and see if you could see how its prose could be more engaging....I'd like to take it to FAC one day....and it should be more coherent than a constellation. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 13:01, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

@Casliber: Well, it's early. I hope I haven't scared the others away.  :( Are you sure there is nothing more in the literature (for Horologium)?

The two above seem to have more meat. It may take me time, as I'm swamped right now. The general problem, as I'm sure you know, is WP-wide and plagues articles on all sorts of technical topics, medicine, drugs, all branches of science, mathematics, ... The main question is: can a WP article be written more or less at the level of a survey of the subject and its literature in a journal or subject-companion? There are exceptions, of course, I remember your own excellent article on depression. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 15:48, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

There is no time limit on Rigel at all...we've been a tad stalled for months...I will look for more on Horologium...pretty hard as all we have are astronomy guidebooks (generally bland) and scientifc articles, which treat constellations as addresses for patches of sky and nothing more really Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:22, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Problem with psychiatry article is that they are like...well, work. Still am trying to clean up schizophrenia (again!) and will one day get to bipolar disorder and some others...Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:25, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/James Humphreys (pornographer)/archive1

I am ashamed of you. Graham Beards (talk) 14:28, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

If you seriously think that a man, James Humphreys (pornographer), who has spent 7 1/2 of the previous ten years in jail, a small-time crook, jailed for minor villainy (in the nominator's own sources) who has opened a sex club, can be described as changing directions professionally (with all the errors and ambiguities of usage, not to mention WP:DUE), that the nominator's making his last stand on it and withdrawing, but not before heaping abuse on me, is just all right, then I'm ashamed of you as well, whoever you are. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 15:09, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

A pathetic reason for disrupting a FAC. Graham Beards (talk) 15:29, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

It was no more rigorous than at the Cactus Wren, Coropuna, or Horologium (constellation) FACs. But the nominators there are not reacting as intemperately (several instances of WP rules violations), and I haven't even got to comprehensiveness, to the absence of a survey of the literature much of which is not reliable. There are books written by policemen that offer a different perspective, that are not even mentioned in the page. Harold Challenor, with significant WW2 achievement, whose obituary appeared here in the Guardian, here in the Telegraph, who was treated for paranoid schizophrenia, which very likely was in its incipient stages according to the Telegraph obituary, is being described as making it so that Humphreys "had to" bribe him, with no other nuance, no mention of whether or not sex-clubs were legal in England at that time. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 16:13, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

This is a very busy time for me, but as and when I find time, I will be continuing the critique at Talk:James_Humphreys_(pornographer)#Other_issues_of_Fowler&fowler I have already opened a thread. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 19:15, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Don't be surprised if no one engages with you. Graham Beards (talk) 19:22, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

You think I've made that for others? Fowler&fowler«Talk» 19:25, 30 December 2019 (UTC)