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Talkback

Sohambanerjee1998 12:12, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Laboratorio update

Hello Huon: long time! Just a quick update: the (Spanish) guy (Taichi) who blocked my 'Laboratorio' page virtually the very moment I created it (promocional – how could he know, I had only entered the title!!) would not budge and told me that the matter is now in the hands of the ‘bibliotecarios’ with whom I have lodged an appeal, awaiting a reply. I am, at the moment, making good, albeit extremely slow progress, though, on the Spanish sandbox page you advised me to use – it was a shock to learn that the Spanish editorial codes are quite different from the English ones, so I am having to re-edit all the refs and biblios from scratch, hence the slow progress. Saludos (Pronacampo9 (talk) 07:40, 4 September 2013 (UTC))

I'm sorry to hear of your problems at the Spanish Misplaced Pages. Unfortunately I don't know anything about their editorial codes and cannot offer much help beyond moral support. Huon (talk) 02:49, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Thanks for your help on IRC Chat. Keep up the good work. SchreiberBike talk 19:55, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

George Halley update

Hello Huon. I've reworked the article and the references as you suggested and would appreciate it if you could provide another critique when you get a moment.

Thanks, Semmes868 Eric Albert 21:07, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Though you might appreciate

Hi Huon, I was walking around town and noticed this. I took a picture because I thought you might appreciate it. - tucoxn\ 10:11, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! I didn't know there was such a street - now I'm curious what it's named after. Likely not my literary namesake. Huon (talk) 10:15, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

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Fort Bard

In the Aosta Valley official website it is called "Bard Fortress", and this should be the most reliable source, I would say. What do you think? In my opinion "Fort Bard" indicated "Bard" as the name of the fort itself, while in this case "Bard" is the name of the hamlet beside the fort, but I'm not a native English speaker, that's why I need your opinion. --Simoncik84 (talk) 16:39, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

I had done a quick Google Books search, and the vast majority, from scholarly books like this biography of Lannes to this 19th century travel description, use "Fort Bard". Search results for "Bard Fort" were fewer, many of them not about the fort at all, and others were due to unconventional word order, such as "Bard, Fort, siege of", with the text itself calling it "Fort Bard". Results for "Bard Fortress" were far fewer still, and again included false positives such as "Bard, fortress of". Thus I'd say "Fort Bard" should be the name of the article – apparently "Bard" is the name of the fort as well as the town. Huon (talk) 18:33, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

I was born and raised in Aosta, and I can confirm that Bard is the name of the town and not of the fort. The fort takes its name from the town beside it. I think that this confusion derives from the fact that the Aosta Valley is not an English-speaking zone, so that in many cases a false name might have been created... could we establish a source hierarchy? The Aosta Valley official website should be the most reliable source, but this is just my opinion. --Simoncik84 (talk) 08:52, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

The preferred name is the one "most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in reliable English-language sources)". Thus it's "Milan", not "Milano", and "Rome", not "Roma", and I'd say this criterion also favors "Fort Bard", not "Bard Fort". See also Google Scholar:

• "Fort Bard: 139 hits, many of them relevant and in English
• "Bard Fort": 19 hits, one relevant but Italian, plus two false positives of the "Bard, Fort" dictionary entry kind
• "Bard Fortress": 6 hits, three relevant, but one or two of the three don't capitalize "Fortress" and thus don't treat it as part of the name.

Google Books results had a similar ratio. That looks rather decisive to me. Huon (talk) 13:43, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Since these are the criteria here on WP and since it sounds alright to an English speaker, I must obey ;) Thank you for your time. --Simoncik84 (talk) 13:13, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

HEY

How are you Huon? Could you do me a favor and restore my page :) thank so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TamikaLamison (talk • contribs) 00:07, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Charmlet moved the page to WT:Articles for creation/Make A Film Foundation. It is not in an appropriate shape to be turned into a live article. It's unduly promotional (in fact I just deleted a copy of the article for that reason) and not written in a tone appropriate for an encyclopedia. You should also add inline citations to clarify which of your sources supports which part of the article. Several of the sources just seem to mention the foundation in passing without providing any details; those are likely useless. See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. Huon (talk) 02:20, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello. You have a new message at Iryna Harpy's talk page. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 10:39, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Luis D. Ortiz

I see that you have helped in the past protecting the integrity of this article. However the user LuisDOrtega continues to alter it to fit his own views. What do you recommend in order to prevent this from happening? Regards, Americanoexpress (talk) 13:00, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Shuisky Michael, opera singer

Hi, I can not find out our talk via help desk where I asked help how to create a Gallery. You were so kind to answer me, after that I asked you more questions. So would be so kind restore our chat.
Шуйская (talk) 22:13, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

The AfC help desk is archived every few days to prevent the page from becoming unmaintainably large. If you want to ask more questions, please don't modify the archive (there the question is almost guaranteed not to be seen) but add a new section at the help desk itself.

Regarding the newspapers, the problem was not the newspaper themselves, but that you merely quoted them, and that many of the quotes were in Russian, which isn't really helpful for most readers of the English Misplaced Pages. As I said you should summarize in your own words (in English!) what those newspaper articles have to say about Shuisky. Foreign-language sources are accptable, foreign-language article content usually is not. Huon (talk) 00:44, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Donny Hay and Michael Yellowlees

Dear Huon,

Many thanks for reviewing the above articles. I understand your frustration at the quality of the references for the articles, I feel the same way. Unfortunately, both had their careers when the internet was in its infancy and there are very few surviving articles from that era, other than those that I have been able to find. (Hence, the stub) I know both men played at the highest level in international competitions and were central figures during that era. I was hoping that if published, someone might be able to provide more information. I know there are articles for sportsman that have fewer references. Would you please reconsider?

Many thanks for your time. Gomach (talk) 09:11, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

I am not quite sure what you want me to reconsider. I have tagged the articles as needing better sources, but I have not nominated them for deletion, nor do I expect that they would be deleted if I did so. Huon (talk) 15:31, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Many apologies, I have just noticed the articles have been published. Thanks. Gomach (talk) 15:51, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

An Infantry Tank Mark II, General Staff Specification A12 for you!

	An Infantry Tank Mark II, General Staff Specification A12 for you!
	Here is a Matilda tank, advancing through the Huon Peninsula, to help you celebrate yesterday's 69th anniversary of the start of the Huon Peninsula campaign! --Demiurge1000 (talk) 18:58, 23 September 2013 (UTC)