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GA Review

Thanks for your review, edits and suggestions on Egyptian Theatre (DeKalb, Illinois). I worked hard on the article and hope to improve it further. Information is sparse beyond what I have. I have been looking for some good books on Egyptian Revival but have yet to find reference to the architect, perhaps he isn't notable enough, not sure. I also put in a request with the National Register of Historic Places for the nomination form which are usually full of info about every facet of the listing. So hopefully I can improve it further. Thanks again. IvoShandor 07:52, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Also your user name is very humorous. : ) IvoShandor 07:55, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/GA nominees task force/GAC backlog elimination drive. However, I have some concerns over your recent promotion on few articles. You didn't show us why the article is promoted to GA. Please read Wikipedia:Good article candidates throughly before doing any evaluation. If you need an example, you can take a look at Talk:Kritosaurus#GA Review and see how it's done properly. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 19:14, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your information. I thought you didn't go through the checklist (as someone did at the moment) so I was just brining the checklist to your attention. It may be best to use the checklist to show others that you did check for them. The checklist is not mandatory in the review, but strongly encouraged to be used. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 05:29, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Rookery Building

I made some comments at Rookery Building. I attempted to address your comments for the on hold. Though I don't agree that the picture issue should keep this article from GA once the expansion I did on "light court" is considered. If you think anything else needs addressed let me know and I should be able to accomodate, I own several sources. If everything is a-okay, then go ahead and pass it or do what you do. : ) (Note: I didn't work on or nominate the article in question until today). IvoShandor 20:28, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

GAN review - thanks

Hi., thanks for the review of Kapil Dev as Indian national cricket coach. I was out of town and will address your comments within the next couple of days. --Kalyan 04:23, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I have addressed your GA comments. Please let me know if there is anything else i need to do. ---Kalyan 07:04, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Ordinances of 1311

Thanks for the GA pass! Lampman 11:34, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

New England Quarter GA Review

Hi Meowist; thanks for your comments on the New England Quarter GA nomination. I've addressed the points you made, and have updated the talk page. Hassocks5489 20:32, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for coming back so quickly and passing it! Hassocks5489 22:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Samuil

Greetings! In my mind some of the moments you have pointed out don't need clarification. But I will try to discuss them one by one.

Aron "sympathized with the Romans". In fact that doesn't sound very well in Bulgarian too but these are exactly the words of Skylitsa; he used that collocation in other cases regarding some of the Bulgarian Khans in 8th century who supported a peace with Byzantium.

As far as Roman is concerned he was castrated, so what is to be clarified here: ) The same can be said for the wound of Samuil: it healed at such an angle, because of the journey home; the distance was too great and they had to reach a major fortress as soon as possible, so they could not properly take care of the wound. Again the same for the battle of Skopie, the Byzantines defeated the Bulgarian army in almost the same circumstances as they did at Sprecheios which was very strange indeed having in mind that Samuil was a skilful general.

So you might now ask me exactly what do you want to know for the points that need clarification (as well as other question for the matter). If you wish you might move that to the talk page of the article. --Gligan 15:25, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Hellenistic Civilisation

Hi, I see a comment from on you on this translation requested Wikipedia:Translation/Hellenistic civilization to say you have started it, if so could you please change the stage to 2, and put your name against it, so that it is no longer at the requested stage... if you are not working on this please let me know, I will be happy to take this one up... :-)--Mayalekhni 23:38, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

GA Reviews

It has been a few days since you selected Diet of Japan, Reincarnation research and Renewable energy commercialization in the United States from the Good Article candidate list. I was wondering whether things are progressing or if there has been some unforseen delay. -- Johnfos 10:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

GA review

When you get a chance, would you mind responding to my questions about your comments at Talk:The History of the Fairchild Family? Thanks. Awadewit | talk 09:19, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

References in multiple columns

Hi - I saw your comment in the GA review for Seige of Eritria regarding having refs/footnotes in multiple columns. This can be done in two different ways:

• using {{reflist|2}} (or even {{reflist|3}} for three columns). This will also reduce the text size slightly to further compact the list.

• using the full wiki markup, which is <div class="references-2column"><references /></div>. This gives the columns but won't reduce text size.

You should also know that some browsers have a problem with this, so sometimes even with the multi-column markup refs will only appear as a single column (ie the IE7 browser I'm using now at work always shows one column, but my Firefox browser at home renders correctly).

More info on this is at WP:FOOT. Hope this helps ;) EyeSerene^TALK 08:38, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Michael Chabon GA review

Hey, thanks for reviewing this article! I believe that all of your suggestions have been addressed (I've also added a little text about the writing and release of Chabon's novel Kavalier & Clay.) Thanks again, Hobbesy3 04:53, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Siege of Eretria

Hi,

I think the contributing editors have addressed your concerns. Would you like to complete the review process of this wiki now? Regards, AshLin 19:36, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

A reminder

[1] is awaiting your review :) D. Recorder 17:48, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Well on second thought, I'm withdrawing the nomination for now. I just finished a second wind of research and will be expanding the article in the next few days along the lines of the notes on the talk page. By all means, still leave comments if you would like :) D. Recorder 18:15, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

John Mylne (1611-1667)

Thanks Meowist for your constructive GA review of the above. I think I have addressed your comments as best I can, and would be grateful if you could complete the review. Regards, Edward Waverley 13:46, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Thankyou, Edward Waverley 08:07, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

GA Review for Mamilla

You have tagged this article at WP:GAC with the GAReview tag on 20:39, 29 July 2007, which is now going on six days. Please either review the article or remove the tag so that another editor may review it. Thanks! Dr. Cash 20:15, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Since you didn't respond, and left the GAReview tag up for 11 days after posting it (July 29-August 8), I removed your tag and reviewed this article. Dr. Cash 04:33, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

GA hold on Cheddar Gorge and Caves

On July 25, you placed the article Cheddar Gorge and Caves on GA hold pending fixes. This has WELL passed the hold deadline of 7 days (it is over 16 days now!) Could you please check the article and either pass it or fail it? Thanks! --Jayron32|talk|contribs 05:30, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

GAC backlog elimination drive

		The Good Article Medal of Merit
		Thank you for your participation in the GAC backlog elimination drive! Epbr123 21:28, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

GA Sweeps

This is a formal invitation to be a reviewer for WikiProject Good article sweeps. Only experienced and trusted reviewers are invited to participate in this task. If you decide to participate, keep track of your progress here. Everything you need is located on the project page. Drop a line on my talk page if you need anything. Regards, LaraLove 19:08, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

GAC backlog elimination drive

		The Good Article Medal of Merit
		Thanks for dropping by to help combat the backlogs of GA. OhanaUnitedTalk page 01:16, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

The Bronze Wiki Award With 29 excellent reviews for the August GAC backlog elimination drive, I, on behalf of WikiProject Good articles, present to you, Meowist, this award in appreciation of your hard work which tied you in the rankings for the #3 reviewer of the drive. LaraLove 06:16, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Image source problem with Image:Sn1181-Chandra.jpg

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Deletion/Redirect of Fisherfaces

I do not think Fisherface should have been deleted and redirected to Facial recognition system. It appears that the page was a copyvio and then was redirected entirely due to arguments that is too specialized and belongs in a specialist journal and not a general encyclopedia. The sole argument appears to be this:

"Delete. Topic belongs in a specialist journal, not a general encyclopedia. Previous information has already been removed as a copyvio; pointless to replace it when generic information on facial recognition software will suffice. Stretch 06:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)"

I disagree with the first point, as Eigenface is a wonderfully written and detailed exposition of the Eigenface method of facial recognition, which is what Fisherface could become if allowed. There may not have been much available on the topic in 2006, but now there's plenty of content about Fisherface at places like this [2]. The argument that the page should be deleted as previous information was copyvio is nonsense - delete the violating text, not the article. Finally, I do not agree that general information on facial recognition software will suffice. I want to read an intro to the algorithm so I can see why its "competitive" (according to the Facial recognition system page) to Eigenface,etc. Please consider reopening this article/deleting it or whatever is necessary so it shows up on the non-existent articles list and people can start working on it (like me). Meowist (talk) 13:18, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

I can't find any record of Fisherface or Fisherfaces ever existing. Can you please tell me the exact name of the page, or the username of the user who created it? Stifle (talk) 20:50, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

My bad, it's actually spelled Fisherface.

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