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Ebonics

Hey there, I can't help but notice the rash of new editors working on the Ebonics article. I'm not familiar enough with the subject (it's on my watchlist but just for vandalism purposes) but since you seem to have a handle on things I'm not too worried. It just seems odd that all of sudden we have all these people interested in this article and not much else. SQGibbon (talk) 16:58, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

It is indeed odd, but it's not obvious that any of them is doing anything wrong, so I suppose that it's OK. (I mean, I disagree with some of the edits, but they seem constructive, or at least intended constructively.) -- Hoary (talk) 11:06, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Not good at writing articles

I'm not good at articles. Can you work on the articles I've started? Neptunekh2 (talk) 02:00, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

If their subject interests me, perhaps. ¶ I took a quick look at the list of your most recent contributions and none of the titles really stood out, other than Robert Frank. In this pair of edits you changed

an important figure in ] ] and ]

to

an important figure in ]-] ] and ]

However, (i) though he's Swiss, he's not important in Swiss-American documentary photography or film (whatever either of these may be); he's important in American photography, maybe in American film, and maybe in Swiss photography or film or both; (ii) Swiss is a redirect and American is a disambiguation page. So I'm about to revert this pair of edits. -- Hoary (talk) 12:35, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Plans and interiors of Mentmore

It'd be great if you could bring it up to some reasonable level. I'd asked Giano about it and he thought it'd be better to start from scratch.   Will Beback  talk  02:21, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't know that you'd asked Giano.

Maybe "my" library has a copy of the relevant volume of Pevsner; I'll try to remember to check. -- Hoary (talk) 09:34, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

History of Photography Ambassador for WikiProject MoMA

Hi Hoary. I don't know if you noticed my comment at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject History of photography#Seeking History of Photography Ambassador for WikiProject MoMA; are you interested in possibly filling this role? With your interest and experience in the broader subject, you would seem to be an excellent fit :)--Pharos (talk) 02:26, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the invitation. I've read about it and it sounds valuable. I imagine that the two hours per week could easily become longer, which alarms me a bit. Moreover, while I appreciate the importance of helping and not biting newbies, I'm not at all sure that these are among my few strengths. Still ... maybe. There's talk of it lasting a semester (or perhaps a term, I forget); from roughly (or even precisely) when to when would this run? -- Hoary (talk) 11:47, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Well the main goal of the History of Photography ambassador would just be to serve as an effective interface between WikiProject History of Photography and WikiProject MoMA on article creation and improvement. This is inspired by the university Misplaced Pages:Ambassadors program, but is more corely a part of the push for WikiProject GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums). As to term, there is no official time period yet, but let's just say you can stay on for a summer fling and see if you like it :)--Pharos (talk) 18:03, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

OK then! (Irrelevantly: If you're in NYC you've probably already seen the video at the top of this ... but it doesn't harm to watch it a second time.) -- Hoary (talk) 00:44, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

BTW, I think you might be interested in Misplaced Pages talk:GLAM/MoMA#Mega-lists, and especially its applicability to the MoMA Department of Photography.--Pharos (talk) 15:29, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Plans and interiors of Mentmore

A tag has been placed on Plans and interiors of Mentmore, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to an article talk page, file description page, file talk page, MediaWiki page, MediaWiki talk page, category talk page, portal talk page, template talk page, help talk, user page, user talk or special page from the main/article space.

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Good call, bot! I deleted it. -- Hoary (talk) 06:20, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Japan

The japanese surrendered a few months after germany. Why didn't the Japanese surrender at the same time as Germany in wwII? Pass a Method talk 15:15, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

If you read and digest a general history of the second world war, you will understand. -- Hoary (talk) 23:19, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

We're recruiting art lovers!

Archives of American Art Wikimedia Partnership - We need you!

Hi! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about art to participate in furthering art coverage on Misplaced Pages. I am planning contests and projects that will allow you access, no matter where you live, to the world's largest collection of archives related to American art. Please sign up to participate here, and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 00:14, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the invitation. I wish you well, but I fear that I'll have little free time in the next few months and, perhaps rashly, I have already said yes to an invitation to spend time with people based at or writing about MoMA (see above on this talk page). So I'm reluctant to call myself a participant. But if I notice that somebody in your team is doing something in an area about which I'm not so ignorant, and in which I am interested, I may pitch in. -- Hoary (talk) 02:36, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Daisaku Ikeda

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Quotations, there is nowhere states that the official websites are not the reliable sources of reference for his honors and accomplishments. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.197.80 (talk) 17:47, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Please see this, and continue the discussion at Talk:Daisaku Ikeda. -- Hoary (talk) 00:25, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

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