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Happy New Year!

DragonflySixtyseven,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Hello! I see you cited my review of **Myrrha** in your article on the story. How did you find Galactic Journey? :) --Neopeius (talk) 04:27, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Originally... probably via File770, or possibly while doing the reading for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine. While writing the article on Myrrha... probably just Google.

Interestingly, a post on GJ is directly responsible for me writing the article about Antoni Przybylski. DS (talk) 04:39, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, in case the ping didn't work, I mentioned you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#New user repeatedly citing Wikipedia, does not communicate. DuncanHill (talk) 14:46, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I’ve lived with this ridiculous entry for years and I can continue to live with it, but it’s utter nonsense. The Trumbos never wanted or asked for the physical Oscar statue back; my dad, who fronted for Trumbo, and Trumbo were fast friends for life, and the idea that I would have anything to do with it is nuts. The Oscar sat in the bottom of Ian’s filing cabinet for decades. In ‘93 the Academy “restored” Trumbo’s story credit and had a ceremony giving the family a new Oscar, and I was at that ceremony with the Trumbo family; Mitzi Trumbo was my roommate. The graf in the McFadden book about tv producer Dan Curtis doesn’t even say what the Wiki bio says, though I don’t have the citation with me now. I’ve never given a damn about this stuff, but some outraged friends have indeed tried to delete or correct it. Anyway, the idea that the Trumbos asked Ian to give back the physical statue is completely false; and the idea that I, his son who had nothing to do with any of it, was ever involved or asked for anything is even more nuts. In fact, I was mostly responsible in helping Trumbo’s son, Chris, to get the Writers Guild to restore Trumbo’s name on the actual screenplay credit (the Oscar in ‘53 was in fact for best original story). Listen, I’ve had a long career myself and have managed to live with this nonsense and survive quite nicely; but if you’re the guy who keeps putting in that the Hunters, me specifically, refused to give their close friends The Trumbos back the actual ‘53 Oscar statue, I have to tell you it’s a completely spurious entry. I leave it to you, Dragonfly. Salut/Tim H 179.50.232.64 (talk) 04:07, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I read your essay on the philosophy of the Cultural References section before hitting "restore" on that section for the Floating Island page. Yes, it's people eating food, but this is not a common dish--I went to look it up on Wikipedia after I watched the Hepburn/Tracy movie and thought this old cinematic reference would be interesting to Wikipedia users. Then a few other users listed a handful of other references, which I found interesting and cool. This is my first "talk" entry, so sorry if I miss some formatting thing.Winnifred Goldring (talk) 14:59, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Source: https://www.facebook.com/JohnConroe/posts/pfbid02UgNaDV3sYgG9oeX4gSkewwgZ5BysMeYP59uh79GDczjh8F2HrbqE3fmfKRNm8tpEl?__cft__[0]=AZVLVO5X8evwH8vmQ1JKfhiB9AeawDJiBvaLr6H9I0SNr2sE7GWFF5tiUWqNmk3zJqmxvTvU2UZaLn_ndDR1_CQ-gsCOJzAH0-19dTO7Cq3D07ytIIOe9fSqH91p-M6lAv2AjpVnFIfNO6iUtfLHfHwZSCyTQd_fDK3Nj5EEc5qZVg&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

If this happens how long would it take to get a page for it on Wikipedia and would that mean the author could get his page created on Wikipedia? CarverSindile (talk) 00:19, 3 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dragonfly. I've been submitting possible redirects for the User:DragonflySixtyseven/Marquis necrology list via WP:AFC. I've found a few that appear to be typos in the original book:

• "Winfleld Smith" = Winfield Smith
• "Anton S. Hesing" = Anton C. Hesing
• Elizabeth Eleanor Greatorex = Eleanor Greatorex (may be confusing Eleanor Greatorex (1854-1917) with Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897)?)

74.94.190.241 (talk) 16:02, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, but if you find any more that are such obvious errors, just correct them in the source.

As for Greatorex: you're probably right that Marquis conflated the two, but given that it was a list of people who died between 1895 and 1901, they most likely meant Eliza Pratt, not Eleanor Elizabeth. DS (talk) 16:19, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In [this diff], I don't understand what you mean by "Not mentioned in MOS:S". It's very clearly mentioned. The noun spelling is "licence" in all varieties of English except AmE, in which it is "license". The verb spelling is "license" is used in every variety. "Licence" (and hence "licenced" etc) is always an incorrect verb spelling, except in archaic texts (and that's why it appears in Wiktionary). It's really not contemporary BrE usage. Bazonka (talk) 20:04, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's implied, but it's not present. DS (talk) 20:09, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You are splitting hairs. What's there is clear enough. Bazonka (talk) 20:12, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! We were chatting on IRC about c:File:Centre of New Industries and Technologies, 2006.JPG/File:Cnit.JPG because the image is not acceptable for Commons (no Freedom of Panorama in France). Could you please undelete File:Cnit.JPG so I can take care of the Commons file? Best, — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 14:20, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Restored. DS (talk) 14:59, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to see that you created a page on Miss Caroline. It may be worth noting that the panels which ran in newspapers were mostly -- but not solely -- reprints of panels from the book, and also that in 2020, About Comics reissued the book, expanded to include the additional panels. Both facts are referenced in this press release -- which as a press release doesn't add notability, but does give information. I won't be adding this information myself, because I'm the publisher of About Comics, so COI-city!, but noting collections is pretty common in strip articles. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 00:44, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi you met me in Wikichat, I was OrangeOcelot32 and I asked advice from you for making my first article about an Iloilo City Government official. Thank You for entertaining my questions, I might pester you again to improve my article! Regards! :D Charles Jayson Zaldivar (talk) 05:05, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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There is currently a discussion at WP:ANI regarding reason for discussion. The thread is Request for Resolution of Undisclosed Paid Tag on Article "The Chenab Times". The discussion is about the topic The Chenab Times. Thank you. ❯❯❯ Chunky aka Al Kashmiri (✍️) 08:19, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please ignore! Sausage fingers when scrolling my watchlist. So sorry. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 18:06, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, i hope you're doing great. I saw your message to Jamiebuba seeking clarification to why he rejected the article I created, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ola_Oresanya

I am doing everything to improve the article, have followed all the instructions and advice of other editors who have even helped to correct the article.

respectfully, I have seen many articles with less references, citations and less quality in the content approved here. I feel the articled meets notability deserves an approval, or better still given more chances for corrections.

Please i need your honest opinion and review of the modified article i created after making some adjustments and adding more references. Here is a link to the new article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Oladimeji_Oresanya

Thanks for your time Semilore90 (talk) 18:05, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's good! I want to run it in the Signpost. This is good, yes? May I? jp×g 18:25, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly. Make sure to include the context (i.e., the quote from Collect).

Can I ask how it came to your attention in the first place? DS (talk) 22:20, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dear DS Hello I restored a previously deleted draft (Draft:Hossein_Mohammadi_Vahid_2i) and added new material and sources to it, and included a televised interview of his event. Please check if these resources can turn a draft into an article.I checked and saw that the text were not copied from another site. Jackpet11 (talk) 16:34, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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For Melancholia you said the etymology was indeed "Gall Bladder" and provided a source. Someone has since said it is actually "Black Bile" using that same source. Where did you get the idea that it was "Gall Bladder"? Player02110 (talk) 23:56, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No idea, sorry - it was five years ago. DS (talk) 01:03, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The least you can do is vote for this redirect to be deleted. Kailash29792 (talk) 05:37, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

thank you Elijahwordpress (talk) 20:47, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello DS - thanks for responding to my help request. I've added affiliation on my userpage and placed the COI header on Kenneth Zaret's talk page. Would it be best to revert to the old version (15:18, 1 May 2023‎) and then I can follow the Edit COI template to start the process to update to Zaret's page? Birch1896 (talk) 15:36, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I feel this file must be deleted as the image is not a poster (the first version of the file wasn't one either but a video cover), is miscapitalised and has an unwanted space. May I get this to RfD, or can you easily just delete it? Kailash29792 (talk) 07:04, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For whatever reason, I'm not comfortable with doing that unilaterally. Go to RfD. DS (talk) 03:06, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Gone to RfD. Please feel free to vote. Kailash29792 (talk) 04:17, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DragonflySixtyseven,

I noticed your deletion of this file redirect. Although the logs are slightly confusing, it appears to have been an ((R from move)) from File:Raat (movie poster).jpg, which was at that title from 2009 until recently.

WP:FILEREDIRECT states that [i]n most cases the file redirect should remain, except if the original name falls under one of the revision deletion criteria...or shadows a file on Commons - neither of which appear to apply in this case. Therefore, unless there is something I’m missing (in which case I apologise), please could I ask that the redirect is undeleted?

All the best, ^user:A smart kitten_meow 13:23, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What you're missing is that someone took it to RfD, and I decided to shortcut the process by just deleting it. That was procedural; however, it's clearly very important to you that this redirect continue to exist, so I've restored it. DS (talk) 00:44, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:49, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year!

DragonflySixtyseven,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Abishe (talk) 14:38, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DS, I saw your edit to that page. What part of Canadian Jew was unsourced to you? That he was born in Vancouver and is Jewish are the first 2 sentences in the early life section and sources currently in the article mention both. Nobody (talk) 06:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No idea how I didn't see that. Thank you for pointing that out. DS (talk) 14:14, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may find User:SD0001/RFUD-helper this helpful when doing REFUND requests. It provides some handy options, and will reply to the request with "done" or "not done", etc... which is a common courtesy. I'll mark your recent refund as done... - UtherSRG (talk) 17:44, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, 19 years ago? Sorry, I don't recall. --Elonka 05:10, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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On 6 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Joseph S. Bartley, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after Joseph S. Bartley was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzlement, he tried to have himself declared legally dead? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph S. Bartley. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Joseph S. Bartley), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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I understand dnw Dr Jackson is not rweal (talk) 22:43, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Heh..[(●¥●)] Dr Jackson is not rweal (talk) 04:19, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024) - Wikipedia This page has been subject to numerous edits without any evidence given. Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

User contributions for Unidosporasensio - Wikipedia In addition to this user not providing any sources or evidence that the protests are still ongoing, I have reason to believe that it is a sock account of this user, User contributions for Dreimouse in an nutshell - Wikipedia, who has been making identical edits and arguments without evidence, despite repeated warnings. Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia Talk:Spanish protests against the amnesty (2023-2024) - Wikipedia User talk:Dreimouse in an nutshell - Wikipedia

Given that this has been ongoing for weeks and no one has given any evidence that these particular protests are ongoing, I ask that the page be restored to 2023 Spanish protests against Catalan amnesty, that the page be put on full protection, that both of these users be banned for constantly making edits without giving any sources, and for using sock accounts, since the edits and the lack of sources strongly implies its the same person, and that the protests be declared definetifly over. Thank you. (2607:FEA8:7221:F600:6D6D:96B4:58C3:9331 (talk) 23:11, 10 February 2024 (UTC))[reply]

You left a note asking that I be more formal, having taking issue with the details of an article I wrote. I have issue with details that corroborate what I have tried to convey about people; are deleted by editors whom appear to have no use for those details. I did not say that in reading the cite it came across that the commodore was in his later years prone to injecting into his converse language not suitable for delicate ears, and that while he kept a talking bird the curse words it repeated has been described thusly. He cursed, the bird cursed and if you have a better way of stating this, please, have at it. Deleting the entry does no service to this decorated seaman and hero of WWI & WWII. Plain spoken has always meant to allow for the language used below decks.

In Bahia he picked up a talking parrot he named Barnacle Bill, which became a salty sea dog itself, the captain always had a ready smile and was very plain-spoken, the Transatlantic Commodore was the epitome of an old sea salt.

The edit to this trashed hours spent trying to find a cite for this bird, in real life, the 1909 cartoon for the talking bird wasn't good for publication, but the commonalities between the cartoon, Randall's bird and Popeye's (salty sea dog) bird had me looking for that connection (WWI hero had talking bird = Popeye's talking bird) but I could not find any published connection. It's not just the talking bird, but the connection to a popular cartoon fiction of the bird making fresh comments to the Bluto character. I intended that the link for Bahia Bill not go to the popular sea shanty or to the genus Parrot, but to a TALKING BIRD. Please restore any edit to the original. Thanks CaptJayRuffins (talk) 16:20, 13 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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