User talk:John Broughton/Archive 17 2013


James Goodnight

Hi John. I've pinged a good 4-5 people to try to get someone to fulfill the request edit with no dice. Since you have already evaluated the article's sourcing, would you be comfortable doing the merge? SlimVirgin said she would try to take a look (but no promises) and a couple others who had edited the article in the past didn't respond. The Request Edit is about one-month old now. CorporateM (Talk) 20:19, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi John. You mentioned I could ping you for Request Edits that are over a week old. I would actually be happy to wait a month per WP:NORUSH, but I have one case where the non-free image in draft space is going to get deleted Wednesday and I think I might get in trouble if I keep uploading it for a third or fourth time. I wonder if you could take a look if no one responds tomorrow. We actually trimmed the promotionalism substantially here and there is nothing controversial where our COI is compelling except that it is always hard to write neutral product articles, but I did point out some of the sourcing for its version history is not exactly mainstream. It could use some editorial smoothing, but a GA reviewer might help with that. CorporateM (Talk) 14:16, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi John. Appreciate you following me around with B and C class tags. Sort of gives me a score to chase after, so I can work up to GA incrementally. I got my first two GAs, but on a volunteer basis (which is much easier).
It hasn't been a month yet (2 weeks), but all the relevant editors have been notified of my JMP (statistical software) article without response. My proposed edits are pretty non-controversial considering they are mostly based on the feedback of other editors. I was wondering if you were comfortable doing the merge and/or providing feedback on what it still needs to hit the GA mark. CorporateM (Talk) 22:59, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi John. Just wanted to see if you were going to get a chance to take a look. No big deal if I need to wait another week or two ;-) CorporateM (Talk) 01:16, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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COI template

I have initiated a discussion at Village Pump Proposals regarding applying Template:COI editnotice more broadly, in order to provide advice from WP:COI directly onto the article Talk page. Your comment, support or opposition is invited. Cheers. CorporateM (Talk) 19:49, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Facebook

I was waltzing by some archives and found this. I chuckled on how you told me you weren't familiar with Facebook. Have you heard about it by now? LOL Feedback 02:52, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Assistance with COI request

Hi John, I have a couple of small requests I wonder if you would be able to help with, creating a couple of redirects and adding a logo for a new article I wrote for Rally.org. As I wrote this on behalf of the company, I have a COI so I'd prefer not to make these edits myself. I hope you don't mind me asking, as I noticed that you're a member of WikiProject Cooperation. For background: the article passed through AfC, and an editor at there reviewed it, as did an editor from WikiProject Cooperation. Both these editors are now busy, so I'm looking for an editor to wrap up some loose ends on the article. The full details are in my request at Paid Editor Help. Can you help? Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 19:42, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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Input request

Hello John Broughton,

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) 21:25, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

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NIH

I am going to be meeting with the NIH next week. I remember that you and Tim organized an event there a few years ago [1]. Wondering how it went and if there was interest to build upon things when you were there? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 12:06, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Josh Urbiztondo

Thanks for helping to replace the stuff his daddy was putting in. --Orange Mike | Talk 12:42, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

WP:General sanctions

Hello John. Regarding this change. The two header items you removed are presumably intended to explain the entries in the 'Type' column of the table below. Both general restrictions and revert restrictions are currently mentioned in the Type column. Those are the two things you removed. So the rationale for your change is unclear. Do you really want to insert in GS a pointer to WP:RESTRICT so people can see the full enumeration of sanction types? Even so, that would not cover the complete set of sanction types that are currently in use in in GS. I have always found the GS page rather confusing, so improvements are surely possible. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 04:21, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

Hi John.

I thought I'd let you know that I created the article infobox and used your book Wikipedia – The Missing Manual as one of the sources. Mindmatrix 23:21, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

June 2013

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Thanks re: Reverse T3

Dear John;

Thanks so much for your note! I appreciate your concerns about the appropriateness of the content.

I will, as you have suggested (thanks, didn't know that!), create a sandbox and get my article into it as quickly as my learning curve permits.

Your offer was wonderful: I'd really appreciate your taking a read-through and sharing your opinions with me.

Oh, my wife Natalie and I left Santa Rosa just a year ago - small world!

Thanks again! Alan McDaniel. Njmcdaniel (talk) 19:39, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello again!
John, I hate to bother you. I've run into a snag, it seems and I wonder if you might know the solution.
In following the suggestions you sent, I've tried to download the file given at Help:WordToWiki but it isn't working.
My computer-savvy nephew wrote: "I'm having a Word 2007 issue. I've corrected the "normal.dot" to "normal.dotm" but it still won't debug to upload. Also tried the normal1.dotm and that didn't work, either."
Have you any suggestions? Thanks again! Alan. Njmcdaniel (talk) 17:47, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Dear John; Thanks for your speedy response. As it happens, I just started to muddle away and have made decent progress in my own sandbox, as you'd suggested. I will treasure away your suggestions and with my nephew's benign oversight, will try to apply them later on. For now, slow and steady! I'll drop you a line when I've gotten the job done to a degree of satisfaction and I'm very anxious to find out how suitable it seems for Wiki! Thanks again - Alan. Njmcdaniel (talk) 18:30, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

don't judge a wikiproject by edits to the project page

Re WP:ENLANG: You neglect to consider the possibility that people are working on the actual articles. Which is what everyone should be doing. • ServiceableVillain 02:43, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

@ServiceableVillain: If you have any data that suggests that WP:ENLANG is an active project - one that somehow coordinates its work and has lots of interested editors who connect with each other without many posts on the project and project talk pages - then I highly recommend that you post that information at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-06-05/News and notes. That page is where some other editors actually offered data that you appear to believe misrepresents the situation.
You're entitled to your opinion, but without any data, I do question how informed it actually is. In any case, posting here and User talk:Chris troutman doesn't seem as effective use of your time as working on articles. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 04:52, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

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Help on IRC

I saw you helping at the Help Desk and wondered if you helped in #wikipedia-en-help connect. We get lots of questions relating to both images and AfC drafts there, so if either of those are your forte then we'd appreciate the help :) Charmlet (talk) 01:05, 16 June 2013 (UTC)