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Andrew Gray (talk) 21:09, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Wadewitz!
I've just relisted my first ever FA attempt - which was closed last week due to lack of commentary. I'd be grateful if you would give it the once-over. I'm sure you'll find Norman Selfe to be a fascinating character! (nomination).Wittylama 09:41, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
Do you know whenish Education Program:Chapman University/Survey of Jewish History (Spring 2013) will start editing? --Guerillero | My Talk 04:34, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
A plea for a moment of your time. I have a problem with Jane Cobden, which I have worked up from a stub. The difficulty is - what to call her in the text? The surname convention is problematic, as the article deals also with her father, Richard Cobden, and other Cobdens too. Referring to her as "Jane Cobden", which I have done in the lead, makes wearisome reading if applied throughout. For the moment I have done what her biographical articles tend to do, and mainly referred to her just as "Jane". Can you suggest an alternative that might work better? Any help would be much appreciated. Brianboulton (talk) 23:35, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Adrianne, just a heads-up that Jürgen Ehlers, to whose peer review you kindly contributed, is now an FA candidate here. Markus Pössel (talk) 17:48, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
I am going to make work specific templates. The huge template has a lot of content that is related, but it is formatted differently than a lot of other great writers. When I am done the bottom of this page will look something like Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Creating works specific templates allows for some tangential content that is relevant to the work but not the general audience for the author. I am notifying you because you are one of a handful of editors with more than 5 edits to the template. Ping me if this is a problem.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:01, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/LA/SDCC1. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 20:02, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Time to update your blog! Drmies (talk) 17:02, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi - I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your blogposts on the current controversies. There's lots of emotion involved - nobody likes to think they have been relegated to the junior varsity team (even if that is just their perception); nobody likes to put in a bunch of hard work over a long period of time and get accused of a) sexism, and b) being part of a monolithic Borg that has "an" opinion; and nobody likes to be personally called out by the whole Internet, led by the New York Times, as being sexist, "shadowy", "misguided", or whatever. And, being that we are all human beings, stuff happens...
I have mixed feelings about the whole practice of using gender in categorization. I think there is a certain amount of validity to the criticisms expressed, and I am not saying that everyone couldn't stand to be challenged on what they think, why they think it, and how they came to think that way (that is true for many things) but I think that a lot of this drama stems from reactions to perceived group insults. And, I think that while there may be some merit to the argument to discontinue use of the female subcategories for writers and novelists, there are still times where there is some utility to gender-based subcategories, just because of the fact that members of a certain gender are uncommon in a certain category. For instance, I thinkCategory:Female heavy metal singers is appropriate, because people generally don't think of females when they think of heavy metal singers.
I hope this turns into more of a discussion/debate/brainstorming session of how the display and nesting of categories ought to work. Maybe design it so that users could choose to display all the lowest-level categories for an article, or the highest level, or some combination thereof. (Of course, all categories do not follow a child-->parent--> grandparent structure, so we would need to figure out what to do about that. Maybe invent some extra systematic tags for certain categories?)
On a side note, I have had the following on my wishlist for a while:
Show Venn Diagram type of feature for two categories - Example: Thomas Jefferson is inCategory:United States Secretaries of State and also Category:Presidents of the United States.James Madison is also in both, as are James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, andJames Buchanan. Have a feature where you can bounce the members of the Secretaries of State category up against members of the Presidents category and be able to view overlap.
In any event, I am confident that no matter how long this controversy lasts in the media, or what direction it goes, that eventually Wikipedia will be the stronger for it, whether from a vetting of assumptions about gender-based categorization, or invention of ways to better display and organize categories, or bringing in more people who have never edited before into the community of editors. KConWiki (talk) 12:06, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Wadewitz, please first excuse me for being in a foul mood (busy time of year, eye strain, and so on) but wanted to drop you a line re your blog post. My feeling is that not only have the media excluded WP women from the categorygate issue but the WP men are hell bent of solving it as quickly, as expediently and wonderfully as possibly without accepting input from a woman (who might have subject knowledge). I remember when I first began to write here: you were active, as was Moni3, SandyGeorgia, Karanacs, Maria, KafkaLiz and many others - all women, all bright and capable, all now gone. I remember when I first heard of the "woman problem" a few years ago and though, naw, doesn't exist. I've changed my mind since - it's very real and seems to be getting worse. Anyway, thought of you and considered sending email but decided to plop this here instead. Sorry if it's a bit of a rant - when I'm less tired, I'll be able to think more clearly. But in the meantime want you to know that you hit the nail on the head. The question is: what to do going forward? Truthkeeper(talk) 19:29, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Access to the following?
I'm digging into an obscure little French medieval poet who wrote in Latin, and data is rather sparse on the ground. Already searched through JSTOR, but these journals aren't in JSTOR. Any help would be appreciated!Ealdgyth - Talk 20:51, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
William of Blois (poet). I warned you he was obscure! Ealdgyth - Talk 20:43, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Hello Wadewitz,
I am requesting input from all participants in the discussion from the recent Signpost article on sexism in Wikipedia for a proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football/National teams#Proposed change: consistency in article title gendering. Thank you in advance for any contributions to the discussion. Dkreisst (talk) 21:23, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
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This is a note to let the main editors of Lynn Hill know that the article will be appearing astoday's featured article on June 17, 2013. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. If you prefer that the article appear as TFA on a different date, or not at all, please ask featured article director Raul654 (talk · contribs) or one of his delegates (Dabomb87 (talk · contribs), Gimmetoo (talk · contribs), andBencherlite (talk · contribs)), or start a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests. You can view the TFA blurb at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 17, 2013. If it needs tweaking, or if it needs rewording to match improvements to the article between now and its main page appearance, please edit it, following the instructions at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/instructions. The blurb as it stands now is below:
Lynn Hill (born 1961) is an American rock climber. Widely regarded as one of the leading competitive sport climbers in the world during the late 1980s and early 1990s, she made the first ascent without aid of the difficult sheer rock face of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley and the first free ascent in 24 hours. Hill shaped rock climbing for women and became a public spokesperson, helping it gain wider popularity and arguing for gender equity. She has publicized climbing by appearing on television shows and documentaries and writing an autobiography, Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World. She took to climbing at a young age and became a part of the climbing community in Southern California and Camp 4 in Yosemite Valley. During the early 1980s, she traveled around the United States, climbing increasingly difficult routes and setting records not only for first female ascents but also for first ascents. From 1986 to 1992 she won over thirty international titles, including five victories at the Arco Rock Master; she left competitive climbing in 1992. She has been described as both one of the best female climbers in the world and one of the best climbers of all time. (Full article...)
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Am currently reviewing this for GA - you weren't aware or had come across any articles critiquing or exploring the book?See Talk:Interview with the Vampire/GA1 Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:29, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi there - I noticed your name at the Meetup LA8 page for the wicnic so I thought 1920s in Los Angelesmight interest you. If not, no worries. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:29, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
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I'm just curious, is there a policy for names? I see in most articles, the names in the intro read like "John "Jack" Smith" or whatever the person goes by. Also, it looks to me like Lynn is part of her name. Carolynn, which is where I suppose the Lynn comes from. Beerest355 Talk 19:45, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
OK, I found it here: If a person has a commonly known nickname, used in lieu of a given name, it is presented between quote marks following the last given name or initial, as for John F. Kennedy, which has John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy. I figure I will add it back unless there is a reason. Beerest355 Talk19:50, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
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Good to meet you and your plus one today. Please let me know if you ever need support at Occidental. Chris Troutman(talk) 07:52, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Since you have over 100 edits at Jane Austen, you might want to participate in the discussion atWikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Novels#Derivative_works_and_cultural_references_templates regarding including navigation boxes for adaptations of and related subjects to an authors works on the author's bio page.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:50, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
Hey Wadewitz, how are you doing? Eric Corbett and I have been working on an article that falls within your field as well, methinks, and perhaps you'd like to have a look at the current FA review. Thanks in advance, Drmies (talk) 17:55, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Wadewitz, I'm sorry you were pulled into this. I tried to disengage, but the last comment to my page put me over the edge. You know my name, you know what I do for work (though not the exact specialty). I think that we have the right to divulge as much and as little as we want to whomever we choose and that shouldn't have any bearing on whether or not a reviewer's comments are heeded. I changed my user name from Truthkeeper88 toVictoria (talk) 02:20, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
...is at FAC. Am not hugely confident at assessing out-of-universe material WRT comprehensiveness.Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 06:08, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
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Hope all is well with you. I saw this BBC story and remembered all the soul-searching we had back in 2008 about the direction of the portrait. The version on the new £10 note bears a faint resemblance to the original. - Pointillist (talk) 14:45, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
There are several articles and sources about the first free ascent of the West Face of the Leaning Tower by Leo Houlding and Jason Pickles in 2001: http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Leo-Houlding-FA-of-Westie-Face-story/t10632n.html : http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/the-prophet . This one is very precise and technically detailed: http://www.stanford.edu/~clint/yos/midhf.htm . As you can see, there is a ladder at the bottom of this route, that makes it an only partially freeable route for any climber, including Houlding and Hill. I would love to learn that the mention "they freed the original bolt ladder on p5" would mean Hill and Brown would be the first climbers to have entirely freed this route, including the ladder?Akseli9 (talk) 12:22, 26 July 2013 (UTC)http://www.planetmountain.com/english/News/shownews4.lasso?l=2&keyid=33545
Wikipedia:WikiProject Dictionary of National Biography/Missing women is intended to cover theDictionary of National Biography missing women, for the editions that are in the public domain. It pretty much does that, with a caveat about the second supplement (which is on the way on Wikisource).Charles Matthews (talk) 15:01, 28 July 2013 (UTC)