User talk:MauchoEagle/Archive 3
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DYK for Waldemar Franklin Quintero
 | On 22 May 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Waldemar Franklin Quintero, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Colonel Waldemar Quintero of the Colombian National Police was shot and killed by the Medellín Cartel? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
DYK Battle of Fairfax Court House
First, I must say "wow" you must have read the article starting about the same minute I posted it. It is still less than 30 minutes. Second, there is a lot of confusion and several contradictory claims about which small skirmish or battle after the fall of Fort Sumter was the first land battle of the American Civil War. There were a few engagements between small Union gunboats and Confederate shore batteries in May and a few encounters between soldiers and civilians. Despite claims for the Battle of Philippi, West Virginia (June 3, 1861) and the Battle of Big Bethel, Virginia (June 10, 1861) as the first battle, it is quite clear that the Battle of Fairfax Court House, an engagement between soldiers of both sides in which each side sustained a few casualties and the Confederates sustained their first official combat death, must have precedence. I will give a little thought to your question about DYK. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 22:33, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
- I agree that the date would not normally be in the title, but there was more than one Battle of Fairfax Court House. I intend to add pages on the others as soon as I can. There are a few other missing articles or stubs on battles or characters that come before these, but the next one is near the end of 1861, which is why I used a month and year in the title. Donner60 (talk) 22:47, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
- Great, on the creation of the disambiguation page. I know what they are but I have not created one. I will give it a try before I call on you but I definitely will call on you for help if I can not figure out how to create one myself. Donner60 (talk) 22:54, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Your monobook.js
So, did you have fun copying mine? 
You can shorten the code by using
importScript('User:Σ/monobook.js'); //[[User:Σ/monobook.js]]
instead of copy+pasting the contents. Trouble is, you'll have or lose whatever I change, Igloo for instance.
By the way, change your FriendlyConfig.summaryAd - I don't want to get any messages intended for you. --Σ ☭★ 05:01, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
DYK review rules
Hi, I noticed you did a review for the DYK page while nominating your own hook. You might like to look over Wikipedia:Did you know/Additional rules before doing another review. According to Rule A1, the minimum article length is 1500 characters, not 1500 words. You can find out the character count by cutting and pasting the article (sans footnotes) into this link. Best, Yoninah (talk) 23:49, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Intelligence in Canada
Hello! Your submission of Intelligence in Canada at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that 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! Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:15, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
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DYK for Cartonema
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The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
DYK Battle of Fairfax Court House
You are quite efficient in managing and archiving your pages so I may be a little outside your procedure with my slow reply. If so, I apologize. I will leave this message here and on my talk page, for what it may be worth. I would have thought it easy to pick out a nice fact or two from this article but some relate more to the personalities and others are a little hard to put in capsule form. Here are a few thoughts.
How about something to the effect that 64-year old civilian and former and subsequent Virginia governor William "Extra Billy" Smith took command of a Confederate infantry company which was resisting a Union Army cavalry raid in the first land battle of the American Civil War, the Battle of Fairfax Court House (June 1861) after their captain, John Quincy Marr, had become the first Confederate officer killed in the war? Poland, Jr., Charles P. The Glories Of War: Small Battle And Early Heroes Of 1861. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006. ISBN 1-4184-5973-9. Retrieved May 10, 2011. p. 240. (I cite the internet site for a preview of the book, but since I own the book, that really was unnecessary.) Poland's book has the most thorough and detailed modern account of this battle.
You might have to tighten up the language a little. To be precise, I suppose it would be necessary to add after the Battle of Fort Sumter but maybe that could be implied in a DYK?
A curious fact is that more horses were killed in the battle (9) - also 4 wounded horses - than the total number of killed and wounded soldiers on both sides combined (8). The sources are in the notes for the paragraph just before the aftermath section. On the other hand, I just added a footnote stating that Tompkins (in his report a day later, same source: Moore) said he "lost" 12 horses - perhaps three wounded horses died in the interim. Picking up on that, less specifically, there were more horse "casualties" than human "casualties" in the battle.
There are several other interesting facts about this battle but some of them may be more appropriately taken from articles about the key individuals rather than the article about the battle.
Note that I have made a few additions and clarifications in the article. One is a footnote which lists many, if not all, of the additional skirmishes and small battles that occurred at Fairfax Court House during the war.
I am afraid that although I think this battle is an interesting and little known incident at the outset of the American Civil War, and has some interesting facts connected with it, I am not sure I have come up with a snappy fact or two for a DYK but perhaps this will give you a lead on putting one together. Donner60 (talk) 07:46, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
Talkback
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Proposition
Thanks for your proposition, let me think about it. What kind of work I can offer? I like to work on the articles nominated to DYK (ca. 960 edits). I like to compare the articles written on several wikis. Sometimes I have contact with vandals, but not to often. Regards. Leszek Jańczuk (talk) 00:49, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Not that the end result is different, but I strongly feel I appropriately tagged that article as a hoax. There is no Harry Potter and the Never War and the "Why another book" question poses a reasonable assumption that the author is going to suggest JK Rowling is going to write another one.--v/r - TP 02:55, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
- By the way, I love the font on your talk page.--v/r - TP 02:59, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
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RE: Email
You have a reply. ۞ Tbhotch™ & (ↄ), Problems with my English? 02:18, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
Re: Wikicleaner question
I'd recommend contacting the creator of the tool. Why? Because I don't know either :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 04:19, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
FYI
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BLP unsourced vs other more appropriate tags
Can you please try to use tags such as {{BLP sources}} and {{No footnotes}} instead of {{BLP unsourced}} for articles that have a source, but is listed as an external link or similar, such as this one, especially when the reference is generally considered as reliable. If it was to a personal website/facebook/myspace/twitter then I'd agree with unsourced, but to well established database sites or things like university faculty sites, then the sources and no footnotes still lets the article creator that we need more, but doesn't confuse him into thinking you must not have seen the reference that he provided. {{primary sources}} is another good one to use. Regards, The-Pope (talk) 12:44, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
Phew!
I feel your pain and will try to get those points down.
Hey Matt, um, I would like your advice on how to proceed. I have built up info on nuclear waste classification and it seems that a very powerful administrator deleted the page, as "random fork" but by which i suspect he meant redundant. Buuuut this is such a vast topic that IMO he could be convinced to let the article move forward. Here is what I have prepared for him although have not yet provided him with a
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DYK for Intelligence in Canada
| | On 6 June 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Intelligence in Canada, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that some of the earliest activities of the Canadian intelligence system involved guarding the Canada-United States border, and preventing U.S. infringement on Canadian neutrality during the U.S. Civil War? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- But socks deserve nothing! --The Σ talkcontribs 00:23, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- How...disappointing. I thought he was just an enthusiastic and unusually mistake-prone editor...never occurred to me he might be a sock. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 00:39, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- Well, you learn something new every day, I guess. --The Σ talkcontribs 05:03, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- How...disappointing. I thought he was just an enthusiastic and unusually mistake-prone editor...never occurred to me he might be a sock. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 00:39, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
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Nomination of Pingoatuk Kolola for deletion
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