User:Alafarge/archive2

ARCHIVE 2015

This is an archive of 2015 posts to my Talk page, to help keep the Talk page decluttered. For archived Talk page posts from 2011-2014, see Archive 2011-2014. Old posts are also, of course, available through the Talk page edit history.

Mary Holmes College

Great article. This would also be a good resource. I'll try to capture some photos from it, as it is likely public domain (a US govt publication). Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 07:27, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Mary Emilie Holmes

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 09:56, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Precious

women and technology, women in the arts
Thank you, editor "filling in some of Wikipedia's gaps regarding the history of women and technology, women in the arts" on scientific background, for quality articles such as Mary Emilie Holmes and Susanna Wright, for "leading Wikipedia workshops for new editors around Southern California" and listing the work of your students, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:53, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1154 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:33, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

LA edit-a-thons on March 18 (tomorrow!) and 28

Wadewitz memorial edit-a-thon (3/18), Redondo Loves Wikipedia (3/28)

Dear fellow Wikipedian, The LA Wikipedia community has two events in this second half of March -- please consider attending! First, there is a memorial edit-a-thon in honor of the prolific LA Wikipedian Adrianne Wadewitz, which is being held downtown on March 18 (tomorrow!) from noon to 8pm as a part of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies' annual conference. Please drop by to contribute your own work or teach other users how to write for Wikipedia. Second, there will be an event at the Redondo Beach Public Library (following up on last month's session), in collaboration with the Redondo Beach Historical Society. Please join us from 10am to noon on Saturday, March 28 at the main branch of the Redondo Beach Public Library! I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:39, 17 March 2015 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

A kitten for you!

You are most very welcome for your kind Thanks about Dr. Elzada Clover. Yours, Tom Martin

RRFWTommartin (talk) 22:04, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Lagetta lagetto

Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Charles Frederick Eaton

Hi there :) firstly I'd like to say, the article as a whole is very good. I tagged it in reference to body section recommendations, as I believe the article could benefit from having the main 'Biography' section broken down with subheaders. Have a look at section headings in the Manual of Style. These are all only recommendations, and I'm more than happy to remove the tag as the article is of a good quality. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! Samuel Tarling (talk) 15:07, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello!

It was great to meet you at the Edit-a-thon last week. I hope you come join us at AfC - your expertisee would be incredibly valuable, and it woud give us a chance to collaborate. See you there, I hope! Julie JSFarman (talk) 00:46, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Reference error

Hi Alafarge, I was wondering if this edit was unintended since Mrs E W Wirt is referenced in the article. Because her reference is no longer being used, there is now a list defined reference error in the reference section. Regards. CV9933 (talk) 10:18, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

I found the article on her after I wrote that, so that explained it. Coincidentally you might find this and this interesting from my side of the pond. CV9933 (talk) 18:26, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the links, especially the pointer to Miss Smith's really extraordinary drawings.Alafarge (talk) 18:37, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Nice article - that was a pleasant suprise. CV9933 (talk) 19:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Great meeting at Wikipedia:Meetup/ICI/4

Great meeting you! -- Fuzheado | Talk 20:32, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Likewise, and am sure our paths will continue to cross.Alafarge (talk) 15:07, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Architecture

Dates: 15 to 25 October 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Sponsor: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in association with Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, Women in Design, and Wikiproject Women Wikipedia Design Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a series of "physical" Guggenheim edit-a-thons. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in architecture and design to participate. The campaign aims to further the goals of Ada Lovelace Day for STEM, and Art+Feminism for art, in a field that by its nature combines both. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over a week and a half, inexperienced participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in this field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 14:14, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Great work on biographies

Hi Alafarge. I have been impressed by all the well researched women's biographies you have been contributing. In particular, I am happy to see how many you have recently written on women architects. All very good and interesting to read. There is nevertheless one minor improvement you could make when creating biographies: you should consistently use the Defaultsort template (accessible from the Wiki markup option at the foot of the edit pages). This will allow you to add the person's name used for alphabetical sorting first followed by the given names. For example for Edith Northman you should add "{DEFAULTSORT:Northman, Edith}" - it should be enclosed by two curly brackets instead of just one in my example and placed just before the categories. This will help people to find your articles in ordered lists such as those created for the categories. I've been through your more recent articles and made the changes myself but there may still be some older ones (up to the beginning of August) which need attention. Keep up the good work. I hope you will also participate in our Women in Architecture Editathon (see above).--Ipigott (talk) 15:08, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder; I was doing that initially but somehow it dropped off my radar. I'll go back and look through early pages. And by coincidence, I just added my name to the upcoming architecture editathon. Cheers—Alafarge (talk) 15:12, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Good to see you're joining the editathon. If you ever need any help, just let me know.--Ipigott (talk) 16:31, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for participating in Women in architecture

Thank you for your participation in the Women in Architecture Virtual Edit-a-thon, 15–25 October 2015, sponsored by the Guggenheim Museum, and hosted by Women in Red. In addition to upgrades, we created about 170 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated! --Ipigott (talk) 15:06, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Katherine Cutler Ficken

Thanks for that. I thought maybe one day I'd get around to it but you did a better job than I ever would have. It's a nice bookend to Howard Wright Cutler. JohnInDC (talk) 20:01, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind words. I really enjoyed finding out about Cutler by way of doing the Ficken article—it's one of the best things about editing Wikipedia, the way it leads you to read other people's writing on subjects about which you had no idea.Alafarge (talk) 23:26, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Science

Dates: 8 to 29 November 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host/Facilitator: Women in Red (WiR) in collaboration with Women scientists: Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Sponsor: New York Academy of Sciences Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR in parallel with a "phyisical" event during the afternoon of Sunday, November 22 in New York City. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in science to participate. As the virtual edit-a-thon stretches over three weeks, new participants will be able to draw on the assistance of more experienced editors while creating, translating or improving articles on women who are (or have been) prominent in the field. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 10:18, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

A page you started (Hazel Schmoll) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Hazel Schmoll, Alafarge!

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Pomological watercolors

Thanks so much for all your work on articles around the USDA's pomological watercolor collection and the artists who contributed to it! I really appreciate it.

I'm the one who's been uploading and recategorizing the images on Commons since the USDA released high-res copies of the images (which is sort of a long story!) If there's any way I can be helpful to the work you're doing please let me know. ParkerHiggins ( talk contribs ) 08:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm so thankful you took the trouble to upload the entirety of that remarkable collection. I consider it a national treasure. I've been slowly adding galleries to all the artists' pages (in addition to the Wikimedia Commons) but haven't finished that task. That's all I can think of right now, apart from the fact that a few of the artists like Bertha Heiges still don't have Wikipedia pages because I haven't been able to turn up enough substantial information on their lives. If you had any special access to government files, there might be information hidden away somewhere. Alafarge (talk) 15:33, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Haven't yet found that info, but I might try to track it down. At risk of self-promotion (SORRY) I gave a talk about the process of finding and uploading the collection at Wikicon in DC last month. Maybe you're interested! ParkerHiggins ( talk contribs ) 22:44, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Louisa King

It would appear that we both had the good idea to work on an article for Louisa Boyd Yeomans King. I pushed out my draft a couple hours ago, and I have just noticed that you have a draft in progress as well. I also see that you have access to some sources that I don't.

In my online research, I turned up some material about Louisa King's mother-in-law, at https://books.google.com/books?id=lR86c3Ssk7wC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=national+arboretum+louisa+king+dogwood&source=bl&ots=x3l_iCdEci&sig=o7XOuSTFyKofygnCqHgQjc06ySc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBGoVChMIzK2Gq8XvxwIVyXE-Ch2zOAia#v=onepage&q=national%20arboretum%20louisa%20king%20dogwood&f=false Perhaps that material can be incorporated into the article as well.

The National Arboretum here in D.C. has a collection named for King (http://www.fona.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/fona_fall2012.pdf). I hope to contribute a photo of the memorial plaque to the Commons.

Here's to a more complete article on Mrs. King.Dgorsline (talk) 04:43, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Kudos to you for putting up such a solid article. Though I have to say a mild "aaargh!" that you got there first ;) Anyway, of course I'll add what I can to further improve it. Wikipedia ftw!Alafarge (talk) 16:36, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Elizabeth A. Wood for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Elizabeth A. Wood is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you so much for all of your wonderful writing about women in science and technology! You do a great job. Keilana (talk) 15:48, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Katherine Cutler Ficken

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Marie Serneholt

If you want to, please take a look at the article Marie Serneholt, which is this weeks TAFI article. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 20:12, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

A page you started (Annette Frances Braun) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Annette Frances Braun, Alafarge!

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Good article on a female scientist, the sort of thing that helps reduce the STEM gender gap.

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DYK for Edith Clements

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:01, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Helen Maitland Armstrong

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Thanks for participating

Thank you for your participation in the Women in Science Virtual Edit-a-thon, 8 to 29 November 2015, hosted by Women in Red together with Women scientists. It was held in parallel with a meet up at the New York Academy of Sciences on 22 November. In addition to improvements, we created well over 300 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated!

Hope you will also join us for the WiR Women in Religion Virtual Edit-a-thon from 5 to 15 December.--Ipigott (talk) 10:50, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Annie Armitt

Hello! Your submission of Annie Armitt at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! SusunW (talk) 04:26, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

@SusunW: Thanks for the heads-up but I didn't nominate the page. Will take a look at the issues, though.Alafarge (talk) 15:31, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

Dates: 5 to 15 December 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in religion to participate. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here←--Ipigott (talk) 10:15, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

A page you started (Wilfrid Ball) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Wilfrid Ball, Alafarge!

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Please add page number(s) for the Hughes, 2005 reference. at nearly 400 pages, page number(s) are a must!

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Proposed deletion of Mary Jane Coggeshall

Hello, Alafarge. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Mary Jane Coggeshall, for deletion because it's a biography of a living person that lacks references. If you don't want Mary Jane Coggeshall to be deleted, please add a reference to the article.

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Thanks, Alvin the Almighty (talk) 13:37, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your participation

Thanks for joining the Women in Religion Virtual Edit-a-thon, 5 to 15 December 2015, hosted by Women in Red. Over 125 articles were created or expanded. Your contributions are appreciated! Hope you will also join us for the WiR Women in Music Virtual Edit-a-thon from 10 to 31 January.

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A Dobos torte for you!

7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it. To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

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Thank you for creating American Iris Society

Thank you for your work on horticultural societies. I was particularly glad to see the AIS topic being created and the iris template. ChemGardener (talk) 23:00, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

ANI

Some edits of your have led to Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#List_of_people_with_surname_Carpenter_is_an_anthroponomy_article_or_must_have_similar_names_re-directed_to_disambiguation_pages.3F. PamD 08:24, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

I think the thing you could learn from this mess is that links to disambiguation pages must always be through a "Foo (disambiguation)" redirect (see WP:INTDABLINK). That's so that they can be distinguished from accidental links to dab pages. A bot detected these, flagged them up, and then the fun started! The question of whether or not there should be multiple name-holders in one list is a matter of choice, but the dab page rules about "only one blue link per entry" don't apply to a list (ie not a dab page) like this. Happy edting! PamD 15:57, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

PamD Helpful pointers, thank you.Alafarge (talk) 16:03, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Annie Armitt

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 22 December 2015 (UTC)