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Caspar Diethelm

Caspar Diethelm may interest you, needs translation from German fully.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:22, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Excellent job!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 16:13, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

RE: Image is part of hidden instructions

Sorry about that :3 —  dain- talk   06:45, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Notification

As you were one of a number of editors who participated in Misplaced Pages talk:Did you know/GibraltarPediA Options last September, I thought I would notify you that I have suggested a change to the wording of the restrictions to clarify what is being restricted. Please see WT:DYK#Proposed minor wording change to Gibraltarpedia restrictions for the details. Prioryman (talk) 22:06, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I cannot participate in DYK any longer out of respect for the declared consensus. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:11, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, that went over my head a bit - what is the "declared consensus"? Prioryman (talk) 22:24, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

The in my view ill-judged but nonetheless theoretically binding consensus that was declared in the RfC on GAs being included in DYK. I don't participate in either GA or FA - processes designed to rate articles and reward editors for meeting criteria of excellence are not my thing. And I cannot endorse the placement of a cuckoo's egg in the DYK nest. But I have to respect consensus (even though as I told the closer, I believe they made a mistake). So sad though it makes me - I care a lot about DYK and I enjoyed helping out there; also, less importantly, I would have liked to share articles such as Stukas (film) (which I actually pulled after it had been accepted) - I'm out until that decision is formally reversed (and I recognise that it may never be; clearly I'm in the minority as seeing the two projects as having incompatible aims). That's life in a big, complicated project; consensus is important here, even when in my opinion it was wrongly declared. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:33, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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Need your Advice and Guidance

Dear Yngvadottir, I need some advice and guidance on how to effectively create new articles, expand/add new well sourced content and hopefully promote well written article's to good article and featured article status. I see you have a vast amount of experience in writing articles and creating new ones. Therefore I needed someone who I can trust and is well experienced in this area like you. Majority of your edits are in the article namespace and I would like to learn the good article editing skills that you have :) Your help in this regard will be very useful! ~TheGeneralUser (talk) 12:21, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, Firefox momentarily stopped slowing to a crawl on me and then crashing, so I looked at your contributions to try to see why you think you need help :-) I must be clear that I can't help with anything related to GA. I don't do GA or FA - see above - but there are plenty of people who do. But I'm still a bit puzzled. You haven't opted in to the bar graphs yet, but you continue to be very active at noticeboards and performing other cleanup and clerking functions; what's been stopping you from doing more content? Is it that you can't see where you could be useful, or think of topics for new articles? I could easily point you to places to find redlinks or other obvious gaps, and there are lots of listings of articles that need expansion and/or cleanup, but I presume you can find those too. Is it that you doubt you can find info? If you have access to a good university library, you actually have a leg up on me in that respect; I'm using Google Books and a limited interlibrary loan consortium very heavily because the college library I have access to is not very good on most topics. If you think your interests are too narrow and/or can only read English-language sources, don't worry - look at the last successful RfA for someone who works primarily in a limited and non-traditional content field. But I'm an outlier in that respect - except for science, business, and political and philosophical theory, I can usually manage to make sense of the sources. If that's why you're thinking of me, fine - but how can I help? If it's evaluation of sources or copyediting, I can advise you, but there are others who are more expert and/or better regarded in both fields. Have you joined or lurked at the pages of any wikiprojects in fields that interest you? Have you made a list anywhere of articles you'd like to write or improve? Have you seen any AfD articles that you thought you could fix up and save? (I have several AfD categories on my watchlist - do you?) Have you read the GA reviews of any articles, to see what the issues were that the reviewers picked out as needing improvement, and how they were fixed? Maybe that's enough questions. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree as to what you think you need help with. If I'm not, lemme finish what I am currently fixing and I can have you look at the diff to see the kind of changes I think you could be making that would help the encyclopedia and give you confidence. Oh, and thanks for the confidence in me :-D Yngvadottir (talk) 19:27, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

That's good advice. Also, have you tried User:SuggestBot? Might give you some interesting ideas. --John (talk) 19:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. (Blushes). Here's that diff, in case it's useful. It illustrates what I often do - I noticed copyediting was needed (stray "the", "grocer's apostrophe" on "Albert's"), that the movies weren't wikilinked, and that there was a dead link in the refs. I decided that since the place had closed, I had better check all the refs, and I found things including incomplete referencing - omission of authors, dates, and in some cases, such as the USA Today, where the ref came from - and another couple of dead links. Anybody with a computer can fix up that kind of stuff, and with older articles using news sources, it tends to be needed. However, I also found one of the sources was a mine of information that hadn't been much used, so I added some info. Also, I had come to this article as follows: I checked Drmies' user talk for Uncle G commenting on new stuff that needed articles (! - but his suggestions tend to be pretty erudite, at least there, Drmies being a professor) and for possible responses to a bit of steam-venting I had done there a day or two ago. I found there was an ongoing issue with a new editor who has created deleted articles, and checking his talkpage, I saw that one on an amusement park ride had not been deleted. So I looked at it out of interest and wound up clicking on gyro tower because there was no picture and I was unclear what kind of ride it was. That included a list of examples, which included one at this defunct park in Coney Island, which led me to look at the article in hopes of finding a pic to jog my memory from when I was at Coney Island. And there we are :-) Now .... a significant number of Misplaced Pages editors don't do this; they stick to a few areas in which they are interested and feel they have useful expertise. But if you want ideas and/or want to be useful, this kind of sticking your nose in things and following links till you find something that strikes you as a project works well. And I'd hate to be typecast '-) Yngvadottir (talk) 20:01, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

FYI

I'm not trying to drag you back into one of the most unpleasant mud fights in the world, but I Commented here about how the DYK proposal got started, and your draft is mentioned. Comment, or not, I don't care. I thought it fair to tell you I did that. — Maile (talk) 15:08, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me. I also came up with the 2-review suggestion that wound up being adopted. However, I can't comment there since I'm out of DYK for the foreseeable future (see above). It's all a damned pity. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:26, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I've known for a while you're been out of it. And I understand completely. I just think it's common courtesy to notify you. — Maile (talk) 15:30, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Gary Lineker

Hi Yngvadottir, just as a courtesy flagging that I re-added (albeit slightly differently) the Twitter deletion stuff that you removed from the Gary Lineker article. I hadn't seen your edit prior to adding it in, but I've provided 3 refs and with (as it turns out) 1.3m followers I think it is probably worth adding. FWIW, I've also appropriated your "This user is a mammal" userbox, so ta! danno_uk 02:18, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Ah ok, you have indeed added refs substantiating it and showing it matters. Thanks :-) Yngvadottir (talk) 05:07, 19 January 2013 (UTC)