User talk:Simon Burchell/Archive 11
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hi from Wendy
Hi simon. I now have a user name and I look forward to reading your many Wikipedia articles. --Culmi01 (talk) 17:57, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Wendy, I've not been around for the past week but it's good to see you on-wiki. If you have any queries, please let me know. All the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 20:42, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
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DYK for Bigbury Camp
 | On 7 June 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bigbury Camp, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bigbury Camp, the only confirmed Iron Age hill fort in east Kent, is thought to be a fortress that Julius Caesar's Seventh Legion stormed in 54 BC? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bigbury Camp. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
DYK nomination of Cross dyke
Hello! Your submission of Cross dyke at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it 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! czar · · 02:31, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Cross dyke
| | On 20 June 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cross dyke, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that English Heritage considers cross dykes (example pictured), earthwork barriers built throughout upland Britain, to be Bronze Age territorial boundaries of national importance? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cross dyke. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:02, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
- NB: nice work! Hchc2009 (talk) 19:10, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks! Simon Burchell (talk) 19:23, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
DYK nomination for Río Azul
Hello! Your submission of Río Azul at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it 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! --FoxyOrange (talk) 06:39, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Río Azul
| | On 4 August 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Río Azul, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that judging from sculptures discovered in the ancient Maya city of Río Azul, it is believed that the local elite was sacrificed after a takeover by Tikal? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Río Azul. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
Your GA nomination of North Acropolis, Tikal
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Your GA nomination of North Acropolis, Tikal
The article North Acropolis, Tikal you nominated as a good article has passed 
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DYK for Tazumal
| | On 17 August 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tazumal, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the ancient Maya architectural complex of Tazumal, in El Salvador, contained some of the earliest known metal artefacts from Mesoamerica? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tazumal. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
WP:FOUR RFC
There are two WP:RFCs at WP:FOUR. The first is to conflate issues so as to keep people from expressing meaningful opinions. The second, by me, is claimed to be less than neutral by proponents of the first. Please look at the second one, which I think is much better.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 07:32, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
DYK process proposals/discussion thread
Notifying you that I have posted at WT:DYK some ideas how we can avoid problems of the kind we just had, in future. Contribute if you can, and thanks :)
DYK nomination of Chacmool
Hello! Your submission of Chacmool at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it 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! Rosiestep (talk) 17:03, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Chacmool
| | On 29 August 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chacmool, which you created or substantially expanded. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chacmool. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
Allen3 talk 00:13, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- Very nice! Johnbod (talk) 01:16, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks Johnbod! Simon Burchell (talk) 06:46, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Article Feedback Tool update
Hey Simon Burchell. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.
We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.
Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 21:34, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Request for a spotcheck.
Hello Simon Burchell! I was wondering if you could please do a spotcheck for Fijación Oral, Vol. 1, as I read on foreign language reviewers that you could Spanish sites. Thanks! Erick (talk) 18:37, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- OK - I'll take a look. All the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 18:51, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you very much! Erick (talk) 19:11, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
continueing
Hi, I want to finish my list. did you check my contributions? can I continue? I am not new user I was admin in fa.wiki and wikidata (Reza1615). Now I am solving Interwiki conflicts Yamaha5 (talk) 14:35, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
- I did, and I am sure you are editing in good faith, however I think you should hold off for now - I'm worried that you are effectively decoupling en wiki from fa wiki - the links are being removed and are not being replaced, preventing navigation between the sites. Keep an eye on the admin noticeboard to see what develops. Regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 14:38, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
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Invitation to join MILHIST
Hello, Simon Burchell, you are hereby invited to join the Military history WikiProject! We're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history, theory, and practice. You can add your name to the list of members, browse our showcase, train at the Academy, weigh in at current discussions, read the news, or find an open task. We hope you will join us! Anotherclown (talk) 11:06, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the invite - I'll take a look! Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 12:52, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
DYK for Lakandon Ch'ol
| | On 31 October 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lakandon Ch'ol, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Lakandon Ch'ol are an extinct Maya people who were famed among their Spanish colonial neighbors for their warlike nature? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lakandon Ch'ol. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added 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. |
Pánfilo de Narváez
I don't know if you are following the article on Pánfilo de Narvaez, but from an exchange of comments a few weeks ago on the Talk page of the article on Indigenous Peoples of the Americas I thought you might know something about Spanish explorers of the Americas. I just saw an edit to the article on Pánfilo de Narvaez in which the editor changed a category entry from "Explorers of North America" to "Spanish Explorers of North America". I don't know if that was an improvement to the article or not, but I thought you might know.CorinneSD (talk) 15:33, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Corinne, I'm not following this article but I just took a look and the category change seems fine - category:Spanish explorers of North America sits within category:Explorers of North America; he was Spanish, and an explorer of North America, so no problem there... Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 18:50, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you. I was just concerned that that edit took him out of the category of Explorers of North America, but I see that it did not.CorinneSD (talk) 15:54, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
- No problem. Glad I could help. Simon Burchell (talk) 16:08, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Swept through
Apologies if "decimated" didn't work there. My concern was that "swept through" occurred in consecutive sentences. Is there a good way around that? Mark Arsten (talk) 22:14, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
- No problem - I had used "decimated" liberally when I wrote the article, but it was pointed out to me that interpretation varies from a lteral one in ten, to a general significant proportion. I'll take a look and see if I can think of an alternative. Thanks for the copyedit. Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 22:17, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Suriname
I've just started reading the article on Suriname, and I have come across a phrase I've never seen before. It appears twice in the first paragraph in the section "Etymology". It says "European encounter". Is that an accepted phrase? I had always heard "European contact". I had also never heard the word "encounter" used as an uncountable noun. (Also see my comment on the Talk page regarding another issue in the article.) – CorinneSD (talk) 00:53, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
- In the context it seemed rather clumsy - I suspect someone either didn't have a great grasp of English or found the first near-synonym they could. I've changed it to contact. All the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 15:41, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Kan Ek' approaches you!
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Thank you for editing article on Kan Ek'! |
| You expanded article about Kan Ek' so much! Miha (talk) 15:33, 10 November 2013 (UTC) |
- No problem - I've expanded/created a number of related articles as I wrote Spanish conquest of Petén. Simon Burchell (talk) 15:44, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
Pook's Hill
Hello, you might be interested on finding something Mayan related for Wikipedia:WikiProject Rosblofnari/Pook's Hill Lodge.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:20, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Doc, I'll see if I can dig something up... Simon Burchell (talk) 12:56, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
FAC
Hello and thank you for the review. I have replied.--Typing General (talk) 16:37, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Una pregunta
- Hola, Simon! Esto te escribo en castellano porque quiero estar entre nosotros. Gracias por lo que siempre han trabajado junto conmigo en Wikipedia. Pero yo tengo un secreto que me molesta — yo no soy la mujer, y por algunas razones personales tengo un nombre femenino aquí. ¿Qué piensa usted, si descubrir mi sexo verdadero, me penalizarán? Porque yo quiero seguir aquí en Wikipedia.
I hope you'll soon response to me, because I am always glad when we talk!--M. (talk) 17:10, 16 November
- Primero, no soy el único en el mundo (o en wikipedia en inglés) que habla español, entonces esto no es un secreto. Segundo, no quiero involucrarme en este tipo de asuntos. Solo estoy en wikipedia para trabajar en los artículos que me interesan. Good luck. Simon Burchell (talk) 19:29, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
T: template redirects
Hi, you participated in Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 December 29#T:, some of which I have relisted at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 November_18#T:WPTECH. Please come along and share your thoughts .. ;-) John Vandenberg (chat) 15:39, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
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Four Award | |
| Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Spanish conquest of Petén. TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:07, 22 November 2013 (UTC) |
--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 16:07, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks Tony! Simon Burchell (talk) 16:34, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
- Dear Simon, in Tuesday was celebrated International Men's Day. I hope you spent it happy. I also want to apologize; I was a coward for years and when I wanted to come out as a man on Wikipedia, I asked you in a way that someone would think that is your problem. It is even worse I asked in Spanish. I am sorry for that. I hope that we are still friends and that I can ask you for help when I need — I promise next time question will not be stupid!--Miha (talk) 16:49, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
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