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On 17 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gulf Coast Lines, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in 1903, Benjamin Franklin Yoakum began building the Gulf Coast Lines in southern Texas as a link in a projected transcontinental railroad system stretching from Chicago to Mexico? 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. |
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Thank you! – Wdchk (talk) 01:27, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- Barnardo is not a topic of great interest to me, and I think my edits last June on his page were merely to correct some glaring error or omission I happeneed to notice. I didn't think the quote was too long, but if you do, it can easily be removed and paraphrased by saying something like "he was a devout member of the Plymouth Brethren as a young man, with a strong commitment to social work, for which his church sent him to London to be trained." Which I would do, but as I see you are already in process of rewriting the article, do what you like with it. Textorus (talk) 06:05, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thank you. To be honest, I'm not certain the excerpt is too long, which is why I tagged it so someone with more experience of copyright would take a look and give an opinion. If a rewrite is necessary, I'm happy to do it. I do think it's a useful source with valuable information. – Wdchk (talk) 11:40, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
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I suspect that the reason the image was removed was because fair-use is not generally taken to be valid on the Ref-Desk for reasons I've never quite fully understood. APL (talk) 03:49, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
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- If someone doesn't appear to get it, snarking at them is probably going to be unhelpful. And poor form, too.--Shirt58 (talk) 00:55, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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- Yeah, I noticed! Classic WP:Boomerang. And apologies for the slap on the wrist with a limp lettuce leaf - I really did think that was going to be the end of it - but it now appears there may be a possible CIR you later, alligator for that editor sometime soon.--Shirt58 (talk) 04:58, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
- Karma bites, don't it? Textorus (talk) 16:38, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
- "Thanked be Fortune and hire false wheel" The Knight's Tale, line 925
- "The wheel is come full circle; I am here." King Lear, Act V, scene III, line 197
- Hmmm... has an editor been blocked for excessive quotations from Chaucer and Shakespeare? (Hmmm... file under "be careful what you wish for".)--Shirt58 (talk) 13:44, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- Karma bites, don't it? Textorus (talk) 16:38, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah, I noticed! Classic WP:Boomerang. And apologies for the slap on the wrist with a limp lettuce leaf - I really did think that was going to be the end of it - but it now appears there may be a possible CIR you later, alligator for that editor sometime soon.--Shirt58 (talk) 04:58, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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I noticed your edit history with the "GRRR" in it, went to the article, and can't seem to find the change you evidently made. I imagine I'm overlooking something. If it causes such a reaction, it ought to be important to me, too. Please let me know what it was. Sorry to be burdensome; not meaning to be quarrelsome. Happy editing. And thank you. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:53, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
- Never mind. You were right about the misused semicolon. It isn't that we're ignorant of the rules, but it is possible, nigh even probable, that we mistyped. That's what comes from adding a lot of content. Thanks for the correction. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:56, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
- "Grr" is just an abbreviation save time instead of writing out "I fixed the misplaced semicolon," etc. Not to be taken too seriously. Though I did spot a few other errors after I made that correction, like "to much of a load" and "less that desirable," etc., so you might want to give it a good proofread. Just sayin'. Very interesting article, btw. :o) Textorus (talk) 02:50, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for nice comment on the article. I'll take a look.
- As you know, when editors copy edit this material there are so many difficulties. We've seen it before, so we don't have fresh eyes. One has to look at matters of form and wiki markup. And we dno't see waht is really three, our brian confabulates the rest. There is serious multitasking in article creation.
- The GRR growl is potentially easily misunderstood. I didn't get real excited about it, in part because I try to always take a look at who the editor is (user pages and edit history say a lot -- newbies might not be that thorough). But as we type instead of talk, we lose all of the nonverbal cues inherent in most human communication. We've seen lots of misunderstanding amongst our editors of late, and that is part of it. And of course, this is our first (that I remember) encounter, so we have no history and no implicit understanding, other than the general admonitions (e.g., WP:AGF). It was a pleasure chatting with you.
- Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11:06, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
- "Grr" is just an abbreviation save time instead of writing out "I fixed the misplaced semicolon," etc. Not to be taken too seriously. Though I did spot a few other errors after I made that correction, like "to much of a load" and "less that desirable," etc., so you might want to give it a good proofread. Just sayin'. Very interesting article, btw. :o) Textorus (talk) 02:50, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
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- Thanks for fixing. I had meant to leave a note as to the exact pages, but was busy working on an SPI. Cheers! Evanh2008 (talk|contribs) 05:58, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
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I wanted you to know I reverted your comma edit to Prop 8 moving a comma inside the quotation marks. I am sure you will be surprised to hear this, but actually MOS:LQ, which has our rules about punctuation, only allows punctuation inside quotation marks if the punctuation was present in the original text. Because the referenced article used a period, not a comma, it did belong outside after all. Best, AgnosticAphid talk 05:41, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
- Hello again, Textrous. I thought you might find this recent discussion interesting. I understand you must be frustrated. I hope you do decide to bust out the editing pen in the future after all. AgnosticAphid talk 17:46, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
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