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Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Josiah Rowe! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. Please note that all biographies of living persons must be sourced. If you were to add reliable, secondary sources to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current 400 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

1. John Dempsey (lyricist) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
2. Dana P. Rowe - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 23:19, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

I've now added references to these. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 20:30, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Review for Dalek

I have nominated Dalek for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.Cirt (talk) 22:20, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

I kinda don't have time to do a proper review today, but I'll try and give it another look tomorrow or thereabouts. If I don't respond ping me—I'm pretty forgetful :) Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 14:32, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Dalek Attack

Hi,

I added some info to the Dalek Attack page recently. Being a n00b, I just added the info I knew, so someone with wiki skills could come along and make it fit the Wiki Way. Sorry for the mess...

I changed the word "designed" to "coded" in the section mentioning the programmer for the Spectrum and PC versions, and now it has a "citation needed". I am a first hand witness of the fact. I worked at Alternative as a trainee programmer, and playtested the game (not as fun as it seems) every time a new version came in.

Looking for some info, I came across my name credited to the game (not sure where that came from, as there are no credits on the box, and I was not mentioned in the secret room!). Unfortunately, I could not find a reference to the programmer for the PC version.

How can I supply a citation from a non electronic form?

Chris —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.35.159 (talk) 19:50, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Chris. First of all, thanks for updating the page, which was in pretty bad shape before your edits. Every little bit helps. Second, sorry for my belated response here — I was off-wiki for a little while.

Now, about citations and first-hand knowledge. Generally, Wikipedia doesn't like to rely on first-hand knowledge for articles, because even though it may be true, it's not verifiable. It may seem strange, but the rule on Wikipedia is that information should be available for the readers to verify for themselves, and unfortunately they can't do that with your eyewitness account — unless it's been mentioned in a reliable source. Now, that doesn't need to be something that's available online; plenty of print sources are considered reliable, and they're verifiable because the reader could theoretically find them in a library or similar institution. So in this case, the question is where you found your name credited to the game. If it was in a news article or review of the game, that would probably be fine. We could use that as a reference, whether it's available online or not. If you're asking about formatting, the way to do that is to use <ref> and </ref> after the sentence being cited, and put the source information between the tags. If you want, you can use {{cite book}} or {{cite news}} or another template in that family, but it's not necessary; the important thing is to indicate where you found the information, and where an interested reader could find it if they wanted to check up or learn more.

I've responded here instead of on your talk page, because the comment came from an IP address that hadn't been used for anything else. If you want to, you could create an account, to make communication easier (but that's by no means required). I'll drop a note on the IP's talk page, just in case you miss the discussion here. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 17:35, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

FA review of Sydney Newman

I have nominated Sydney Newman for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here.) Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:41, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Kings article - date formats for references

Thank you for your comment. This is one of those areas which has evolved considerably in recent years. The de facto standard used within the Wikipedia community appears now to be to use the international standard for dates, for all the usual reasons, especially for references. The Manual of Style does recommend that existing date formats be retained, especially for regular text, but sometimes an argument can be made for fix-ups in specific areas of usage for reasons of style and consistency. I agree with your suggestion that discussion is often warranted prior to large-scale changes, including mass reverts.Yeng-Wang-Yeh (talk) 11:54, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:Yeng-Wang-Yeh. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 17:01, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Again, thank you for your comments. The wide array of opinions on Wikipedia is part of what makes it such an interesting place, especially considering the effort we all put into it for no pay whatsoever!  ;) Yeng-Wang-Yeh (talk) 21:51, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

UCC?

We do know that Obama is a United Church of Christist. He resigned from the Trinity UCC because of the Wright controversy but so we have any sources to say he quit the religion? Maybe there are no sources to say he quit the religion so he still belongs? Often people change churches but most people don't change their religion suddenly.

Is this likely? Original research shouldn't be in articles but we must engage in original analytical thought. Otherwise, if we see a reference that says "Nelson Mandela is an African American" we quote it. If we use thought, we say "hey, wait a minute, he's African, not an African American". In real life, a reporter once did call Nelson Mandela African American and Mandela corrected him (I'm African African).

http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Nelson-Mandela/49852 Nelson Mandela is an African American leader who fought for the rights of his people. Through trials and tribulations he stood his ground and kept on fighting.

I commend you for helpful discussion. Some people in that article talk page are accusatory, incivil and sour. You deserve a barnstar for logical discussion. JB50000 (talk) 04:27, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Friendly notice

Hi, this is a friendly notice from me that a discussion is taking place here in which you might be interested. Groupthink (talk) 22:39, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Good Tweak on Wrinkle in Time

YOur tweaking of my contribution on the liberalism of the NY cathedral and Madeleine L'Engle was a significant improvement on my wording. Thanks.--WickerGuy (talk) 04:28, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Glad to be of service. :) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Just wanted to say hi!

I've just started editing and yours is the first username I recognise from other places on the web - probably Gallifrey Base - so I literally just wanted to say hi to a familiar face!

All the best

Ceadge (talk) 11:43, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

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Picture candidates

Previously you voted at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Barack & Michelle Obama. I have nominated it at WP:VPC as well as several other Chicago related candidates that could use some feedback. Please stop by and help us make some decisions.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 22:52, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Magnius

I feel like magnius is attack the article "Amén" ! Can you help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.217.203.15 (talk) 16:44, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Sydney Newman

Thanks, but I have to confess that its front page presence came as a complete surprise to me - nothing to do with me at all! Nice to see it there, though. Angmering (talk) 08:59, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Beyond the veil (festival)

A tag has been placed on Beyond the veil (festival), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to a nonexistent page.

If you can fix this redirect to point to an existing Wikipedia page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you also fix the redirect. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Bobby122 Contact Me (C) 05:22, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

nice edit

I just wanted to tip my hat for one fine edit on National Organization for Marriage. You managed to put a very important bit of balance into a small space, and RS'd it like a sunovagun. I'm impressed. --Nat Gertler (talk) 05:03, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I'm honored to receive a hat-tip from the inventor of 24-Hour Comics Day and One-Armed Carl! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:41, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

(I just remembered that our paths crossed once before on the web, back when Scott McCloud was doing Choose Your Own Carl.) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:00, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Ah, that's how you know of me. I was surprised when you knew the sources of my fame, for I am one of those secret famous people that nobody knows about. --Nat Gertler (talk) 12:15, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Audio theatre an article to audio dramas

Please if you have time and you know anything to it (I have seen that you have made edits in the article area which owns relations on it) , please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what you would say to the merge and the delete discussion. )-: Merry Xmas --Soenke Rahn (talk) 03:45, 22 December 2010 (UTC)