MistyMorn

Since I feel the need to remain logged out of Wikipedia for the time being, I'm blanking this page. Best wishes to my friends. Sorry, —MistyMorn (talk) 08:16, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Miss you

MistyMorn, Hope you return when the time is right for you. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:38, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Indeed. Breaks are good, and returns are cause for rejoice. Slow & steady wins the race. —Quiddity (talk) 23:03, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

This is unfortunate, evil (POV pushing, personal attacks, vandalism etc etc) thrives when good men do nothing. I do hope this is just a longish wikibreak rather than a walk out...lesion (talk) 17:23, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Also, a pointer that Mr riley has returned, so you'll be in good company when you decide to do the same. =) —Quiddity (talk) 21:03, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Sending best wishes. Go gently. Span (talk) 00:59, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 12:42, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Hey Misty, I hope you're doing ok and are enjoying the spring, maybe hiking over the hills. Perhaps see you back here sometime, if it feels right. Best wishes Span (talk) 13:12, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

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Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:32, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Navboxes on author pages

Since you have over 25 edits at Talk:Charles Dickens, you might want to participate in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels#Derivative works and cultural references templates regarding including navigation boxes for adaptations of and related subjects to an authors works on the author's bio page.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:44, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Good to see your name

It's good to see your name again on my watchlist. I responded to many in the RFAR, - simply look for "Tim riley" to find what should interest you! - To my knowledge, nothing like you described happened in 2013, at least nobody showed me any incidence, - I kept asking, but am happy that things got more friendly, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:59, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

infobox

I am intrigued by your contribution to the infobox case. A theme rattling though my head is "some of the dispute arises because the two 'sides' aren't really in opposition, even though they think they are, and some aspects can be resolved though better information". One of the examples appears to be the desire of those supporting infoboxes to use them to deliver metadata. I've heard more than once that one can provide metadata without having to create an infobox. I'm aware of Persondata. Is this what is meant, or is there something more? I'd like to get more up to speed on the subject.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 23:46, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

(watching) One could supply metadata within the text, but so far that is a concept to dream of or to work on. Until then, the infoboxes are the next best approach,.Persondata don't help. - However, metadata is just one aspect, there's more, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:32, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Infobox controversies

You are right that infobox controversies are not limited to classical music. They may be particularly noteworthy there because there is a strong anti-infobox culture who push back against the infobox pushers. A particularly ugly controversy involved Soviet Union, where the issue had to do with the successor states of the Soviet Union. There was an edit war between those who wanted to include the Baltic Republics and those who wanted to exclude them. Full page protection was imposed for one week, and there was an RFC, but that didn't end it. Eventually a modified infobox template had to be developed to identify the continuator state (Russia), the restored states, and the successor state. The basic problem is that infoboxes, by their nature, simplify, and sometimes the question is what is the "least wrong" simplification. One of the participants in the Soviet debate invented a new method of SHOUTING on talk pages, the use of markup to increase the font size, which is far more disruptive than ordinary shouting. Another of the participants was eventually identified as a sockpuppet. Infobox controversies are not limited to music. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:04, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Infoboxes ArbCom case opened

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Good grief!

I thought I had spotted your name somewhere recently, which made me hope you were back editing WP. I am delighted to see that I was not imagining it, though I nearly fell off my chair when I saw the content of your user page. Be that as it may, I am on a round-robin brain-picking mission of English-speaking music lovers, in re A Hero's Life. I posted a suggestion on the article talk page back in April to the effect that as orchestras, Grove, record companies, concert promoters and all comers refer to the piece as "Ein Heldenleben" it would make sense if WP followed suit. Since then no-one has added any comment, pro or con, and I'd be interested, if you have a few minutes, to see what you think about the suggestion. Tim riley (talk) 14:06, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Pescara Grand Prix

As I mentioned earlier, see 1957 Pescara Grand Prix. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:24, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

See User talk:Stemonitis#U.S. political leanings? --Redrose64 (talk) 19:21, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2013

by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs)

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Just to let you know -- Missing Wikipedians

You have been mentioned at Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. XOttawahitech (talk) 01:47, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

This is the edit. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:47, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey

I was really pleased to meet you yesterday. I hope we'll get the chance to chat properly over the next few days. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 08:03, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Medical Translation Newsletter Aug./Sept. 2014

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
by CFCF

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Feature – Ebola articles

Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion

During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!

Just some of our over 60 translations:

• Xhosa
• Northern Sotho
• Zulu
• Tsonga
• Venda
• Hausa
• Igbo
• Yoruba
• Kinyarwanda
• Swahili
• Tigrinya

New roles and guides!

At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!

New sign up page!

We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!

Style guides for translations

Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.

Some more stats

• In July, 18 full article translations went live (WP:RTT), and an additional 6 simplified versions went live (WP:RTTS)!
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• We were mentioned in a Global Voices Online report by Subhashish Panigrahi at Doctors and translators are working together to bridge Wikipedia's medical language gap
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Further reading

• Translators Without Borders
• Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign

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Welcome back

Hi, just saw this edit (good edit, btw). Hope to see you again soon. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:08, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

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Greetings

I spotted your addition to the beloved Brian Boulton's page and was so pleased to see your name on WP again. I have very special memories of your contributions. Do come back and join us some day. Tim riley talk 19:15, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Yes, Oxford meetups have continued since your last visit, but are currently suspended. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:27, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

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