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Nomination of Mathis Touré for deletion A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mathis Touré is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted. The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mathis Touré until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:20, 3 January 2025 (UTC) Melbourne Meetup 47 on Sat 8 Feb 2025 Hi @Ashlar - Inviting you to State Library Victoria for a Meetup on Saturday 8 February: Wikipedia:Meetup/Melbourne/47 if you can make it. Pru.mitchell (talk) 00:38, 31 January 2025 (UTC) Signature Hi, thank you for participating in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaur B (Singer) but can you please sign your comment as it's not showing at present, regards Atlantic306 (talk) 20:55, 13 March 2025 (UTC) Sorry. Done! ash (talk) 23:50, 13 March 2025 (UTC) A cup of coffee for you! Thanks for signing on support for Wikipedia:WikiProject Bahamas a few days ago. I am exploring do a project on the Bahamas with government data sets. What is your interest in the country or Wikipedia content about it? Bluerasberry (talk) 16:58, 19 March 2025 (UTC) Hi Lane, I'm from the Bahamas and most of the articles I've created are related to the Bahamas. If there's anything I can help with, please let me know. Cheers ash (talk) 06:20, 20 March 2025 (UTC) A kitten for you! For being an all-around awesome person! Grumpylawnchair (talk) 04:00, 29 March 2025 (UTC) Question I am refraining from editing the article Andreas Papandreou, as I do not want to be in the way. All this instability has caused me anxiety while, at the same time, the article is under GA nomination for review, and I do not want to jeopardize it. I know a native speaker could do a far better job at rewriting the intro, and I honestly do hope you achieve this. How much time do you need? Also, if you have questions about Andreas, do not hesitate to ask me on my talk page or Papandreou's talk page. I hope you understand my frustration with the other user. Enjoy the weekend. A.Cython (talk) 06:09, 5 April 2025 (UTC) @A.Cython I understand. I'm happy to have a look at a version of the lead section before it was tagged and see if I can address the issues while staying true to the account. Just send me a link to that version or let me know what date and time that was. Cheers ash (talk) 07:10, 5 April 2025 (UTC) Here is the last stable version . Again, I am not saying this is best, so you should write as you (and other experienced editors) think best. All I am saying is that this version briefly covers (maybe not in the best English) most important topics of Andreas. Here is also some info that might be useful to keep in mind (not necessarily explicitly described in the lead but might help you prioritise what and how to say it) and that I might have failed to convey in the previous intro. Andreas had been called "Maverick" because he managed to return to the political scene after being universally blamed for inciting the Junta. He managed to do this by effectively convincing a significant part of the Greek society that (capitalism/imperialist/US/NATO) forces were responsible for the Junta and, later on, the Cyprus invasion, instead of him. This anti-Americanism rhetoric defined him politically even though Andreas was a politician through and through, i.e., he was not an ideologue. Continuing Andreas governed as Center-Right but his rhetoric was so far Left sometimes that even the Greek Communists were feeling that it was too much. Again, this is not because he believed it, but this way he was able to 'steal' the voters from communist parties and win elections. His rhetoric was infused with hyper-nationalism, as this was necessary to demonstrate that he was a patriot and somehow calm down the Greek military, they were almost ready to perform another coup right after the elections of 1981. This also explains his hyperbolic statements against Turkey (a NATO ally). The military had a bad opinion of Papandreous (father and son), but considered Turkey the number one threat due to the invasion of Cyprus and other historical reasons. One of the reasons that some of the colonels intervened was that they considered Andreas a "foreigner" since he served in the US Navy instead of the Greek army and was comfortably living in US, avoiding the Axis occupation in WWII and the destructive Greek civil war that followed deeply affecting the Greek society for generations, and so the military did not wish a Papandreou to be their leader. Andreas was presented as an economist wizard who would magically fix the economic issues of Greece, particularly the high inflation and low productivity due to the oil crisis of the 1970s and the lack of technology, respectively. He did not tame the inflation, not because of incompetence, but because of political reasons. Greece was governed by a conservative government since WWI, with harsh repressive measures against communists. These harsh measures became even harsher after the civil war (1946-49). So it was critical in the mind of Andreas to establish a popular and leftist political party. So, instead, he heavily relied on massive-scale patronage by overburdening the Greek state. This was possible not only because of the free money that started to flow after the entry of Greece into the EU in 1981, but also because of the cheap loans as a member of the EU family and Greece's initial low debt. Of course, after a decade of doing the same thing, the debt had skyrocketed, and the budget deficits were untammable. Note that the civil servants that PASOK and later governments were hiring were permanent since the state could not fire them. In other words, once hired, the state must pay them for the next 25-35 years. Only now, in the 2020s, the majority of people who got jobs in the 1980s have retired, effectively lighting the heavy load upon the state created by Papandreou. To understand the magnitude. In the US, a country of 300+ million, they complain about 2.5 million federal employees. In Greece in the late 1980s there were nearly 0.9 million civil servants in a population of 10 million. So when I wrote "extensive patronage," I was toning down. Since the economy was not getting better, Andreas engineered a constitutional crisis in 1985 to win the elections of that year. Note that foreign reserves were nearly depleted then, and Greece was saved by a massive loan from the EU (probably because they were feeling bad for the 7-year Junta). Only then did the harsh austerity measures come to be as an effort to tame the roughly 20% inflation, after which he abandoned for political reasons. However, by the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Greek economy was in such bad shape that there were serious concerns both nationally and in EU circles about whether Greece could stay in the EU, hence the "black sheep" characterization. The problem was that with all the money the EU was giving to Greece, there were no improvements under Papandreou's governance. What defined Papandreou governance in 1985-1989 was two things. His very public divorce of his second wife (who greatly helped in advancing women's rights in Greece) for a woman half his age (he was nearly 70 at the time) and numerous scandals (over 200), of which Koskotas scandal took the lion share in media attention. You may also want to have a quick look at the Yugoslav corn scandal as well (become DYK today); the only scandal of PASOK where a politician was sent to prison (after a while, PASOK pardoned him). His defence for the fraud was of "national interests." The public divorce and his relationship with Dimitra Liani dominated the public discourse in these years (1988-and early 1990s). Again, to understand the magnitude, one of the conservative newspapers got nude photos of Liani sunbathing on the beach (you can google them) and made it the front page. Papandreou then used Koskotas (from the scandal) to buy the newspaper and close it down. However, these photos kept reappearing. Another defining aspect of Papandreou was his soft stance on terrorism. Note that TV was exclusively controlled by state. So you can imagine the sharp contrast before 1981 (mostly anti-communist rhetoric) to suddenly advocating for freedom fighters and terrorism acts as just a struggle for freedom. Anyhow, I will stop now. I hope I was helpful in unloading my thoughts; otherwise, disregard what I wrote. Happy editing. A.Cython (talk) 17:07, 5 April 2025 (UTC) @A.Cython Ok, I've revised that earlier version at Andreas Papandreou lead. ash (talk) 01:59, 6 April 2025 (UTC) Looks great, far better than mine. My only comment would be a very public divorce The "very" might be subjective, so we can drop it. I tried to keep most of his personal life out of the article. I do not know what future WP editors will do. It might also be more economical... If you are also happy, feel free to include it in the main article. Thank you; you are a lifesaver! A.Cython (talk) 05:17, 6 April 2025 (UTC) All done. Good luck with the GA review. ash (talk) 08:06, 6 April 2025 (UTC) Thank You! Just wanted to say thank you for the help in still pretty new to this HCPM (talk) 11:46, 18 April 2025 (UTC) @HCPM Happy to! 🤗 ash (talk) 13:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC) Your submission at Articles for creation: James Gordon (poet) has been accepted James Gordon (poet), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer. If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation. If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback. Thanks again, and happy editing! Theroadislong (talk) 07:13, 3 June 2025 (UTC) Discussion at Talk:James Gordon (poet) § Requested move 3 June 2025  You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:James Gordon (poet) § Requested move 3 June 2025. Proposed move to common name of Jim Grahame Peaceray (talk) 19:33, 3 June 2025 (UTC) Thanks for letting me know. However, I'm not the creator of the page (just the person who bit the bullet and submitted it for review). That was @RomeoHT. Strongly suggest inviting him to the discussion. Rgds. - ash (talk) 00:40, 4 June 2025 (UTC) I invited each editor of the article, the talk page, & even the editor who changed the label on the Wikidata item. Peaceray (talk) 04:40, 4 June 2025 (UTC) Ta. ash (talk) 05:14, 4 June 2025 (UTC) Welcome to the drive! Welcome, welcome, welcome Mmemaigret! I'm glad that you are joining the June 2025 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles. Fix a random page lacking sources Cielquiparle (talk) 02:23, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

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June 2025 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

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		This award is given in recognition to Mmemaigret for collecting more than 36.0 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's JUN25 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing over 9,500 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – DreamRimmer Alt ■ 15:54, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Regarding the maintenance template in the article

@Mmemaigret: In the Pandukabhaya you had mentioned the article isn't written in encyclopedic manner, I hope we could collaborate and solve the issue.ThanksTeenX808 (talk) 09:12, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Citoid

I tried to ping you at Wikipedia talk:The Wikipedia Library/Citoid#Visual editing - auto insertion of citations from newspapers.com but got an error message saying the ping did not work. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:06, 19 September 2025 (UTC)

Norman Frederick Astbury

Thank you so much for the time and effort you have put into creating this new structure. I think it works very well. Kestrel2Zero (talk) 11:22, 20 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for advice in TeaHouse

Thank you for your advice in a recent Teahouse discussion. I had decided to "drop the stick" as another editor suggested, and in fact logged out of Wikipedia for two weeks. As a result, I didn't see your comments until the discussion had been archived. I appreciate them.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Aurodea108 (talk • contribs) 06:12, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Numbers or Words

As per MOS:NUMERAL, integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in words (16 or sixteen, 84 or eighty-four, 200 or two hundred). I know a number of Wikipedia editors who are blind and use translating machines to read and edit articles one of the consistent bugbears they have is when numerals are used rather than words as sixteen is translated as one six and twenty as two zero. That's why I had the changes. My apologies for not providing an edit summary. Dan arndt (talk) 07:55, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers § MOS:NUMERAL and screen readers for more on this. My take as a blind person is quite the opposite, FWIW. Graham87 (talk) 15:22, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

@Dan arndt:, I remember you! Long time no talk. Graham87 (talk) 15:36, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Annah Stretton has been accepted

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Margaret Miner (October 25)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Josedimaria was:

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

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João^hola 05:54, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

@Joao The tone seems fine to me. I did notice the word "prestigious" and someone else thought possibly "community leader" but that doesn't seem enough for decline. Are you able to provide more details? Thanks MmeMaigret (talk) 07:11, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Margaret Miner has been accepted

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Theroadislong (talk) 07:29, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Draft:Hugh Rawson

Hello, thank you for your work on Margaret Miner! I thought based upon your work on her article, you would be interested in the draft I created for her husband. I’m hoping once the article is completed to nominate it for Did You Know with a hook related to their work together. Best, Thriley (talk) 17:12, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks @Thriley. I've had a had look at the draft and made some changes. Cheers MmeMaigret (talk) 09:06, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Naroditski

The link to the imdb page was removed for a reason (I called it "bizarre" on my edit summary). Your re-instatement was unwarranted. The page is garbage. Marcus Markup (talk) 09:45, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Hello, I found you because you are a member of WikiProject Bahamas. I see from your user page that perhaps you live in Melbourne. I will be in the Bahamas in Nassau on Thursday and Friday 19-20 November presenting at events which include Wikipedia editing with students at the University of the Bahamas. If you are there then could we meet, or if you know other Wikipedia editors there, then could you put me in contact? Thanks Bluerasberry (talk) 14:29, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi Lane, how are you? I would have had loved to have met up. However, it's been a long time since I've been home. I'll think about who I might be able to put you in contact with. Wish I were going. Enjoy! 🤗 MmeMaigret (talk) 08:16, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

So, I missed making contact this time. I am in the process of uploading some images I took and sorting out Wikidata development. I pinged you at Keva M. Bethal and also I uploaded a set of university buildings at Commons:Category:University of The Bahamas buildings. I have more coming.

I talked with different organizations there about organizing Wikipedia editing events. I cannot name them now because I do not want to obligate anyone who declines, but I shared the idea with them. If I do not get organization collaborations out of this, then at least I have some individuals at organizations who are sharing data with me for Wikidata. That is my update for now. Thanks for offering to introduce me to people and sorry on short notice that I was not able to connect. Bluerasberry (talk) 23:19, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

The Flamin' Oh's

Hi Mmemaigret,

I recently moved the topic The Flamin' Oh's as its own article with more citations independent from the subject itself, the photograph was also removed from the page due to Copyright issues, that is my fault. I do believe that the band itself it noteworthy and deserving of its own page, not only for its contribution to Minnesota history, but also for its contribution towards musical groups from Minnesota. Citations have all been included. Thanks. HappyHistorian1862 (talk) 19:21, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Harvard–St. George School moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Harvard–St. George School. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because Private schools must pass WP:NCORP. This has not been demonstrated to do so. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 15:30, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

@Timtrent Why would you move this to draftspace instead of having a discussion on the talk page? Why do you think the Chicago Tribune and McPherson source don't count as SIGCOV in IRS? MmeMaigret (talk) 00:15, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Since it was not in my opinion ready for mainspace, and since you had left AFC artefacts on it, I concluded that, as a prior draft, it had two routes. AfD or Draft. I chose Draft. I do not believe it passes WP:NSCHOOL/WP:NCORP. You do.

You seem to me to have three possible routes:

• move it back to mainspace
• submit it for AFC review unchanged
• do some more work on it to demonstrate conclusively that it passes and take either of the prior routes

I would have been content to send it to AfD which would have limited your time to work on it were the outcome to be deletion. Draft gives you plenty of space. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 08:42, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jack Hubley (December 9)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Drmies was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

User:Mmemaigret did an amazing job cleaning this up (thank you), but what I see is a biography of a person with some local importance but nothing outside of that--so no encyclopedic importance, not for this encyclopedia.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Iris Dixon has been accepted

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MelbourneIdentity (talk) 18:42, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Mmemaigret and @MelbourneIdentity for cleaning up this biography – it is a great improvement over the version that I declined. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 02:52, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Reveca Torres

Hello Mmemaigret,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Reveca Torres for deletion, because it's a redirect from an article title to a namespace that's not for articles.

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

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Great wee historical, packed full of goodness.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: A-F-R-O has been accepted

A-F-R-O, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Ecourter (talk) 19:37, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

December 2025 AfC backlog drive award

	The Working Woman's Barnstar
	This is awarded to Mmemaigret for accumulating more than 100.5 points during the December 2025 AfC backlog drive. Your dedication and contributions to Wikipedia's content review process were crucial in reviewing over 9,000 drafts during the drive. Thank you for your participation and helping to reduce the backlog! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:38, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

December 2025 AfC backlog drive re-reviews award

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		Many people review drafts. You review the reviewers. You peer-reviewed the peer reviewers and supported your fellow Wikipedians. :) This is awarded to Mmemaigret for completing more than 50 re-reviews during the December 2025 AfC backlog drive. Thank you for your efforts and teamwork! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:22, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:Tony Reddy (architect)

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Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Mmemaigret! I'm glad that you are joining the March 2026 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Jim Carroll (futurist) has been accepted

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MediaKyle (talk) 23:56, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

C.W. Kim Draft at Afc declined by you - paywall url question

I hope this is a proper place to reach you for a question about your wanting url's rather than the basic citation format I used for nearly all my references because I do not have access to the Wiki newspaper library. First, thank you for your help improving wiki. Second, I haven't been able to get help with converting the basic citations to url's, except one for the Los Angeles Times even though there were 2 different articles. I have done much investigation to see if there is any way I can access url's without a paywall but none of my efforts have worked. So, I need to ask you whether you want me to insert the very, very long paywall url's that I get when I go to the Newsbank website for the articles cited and whether this approach will actually solve the burden of your citation checking, since I have no idea whether you or wiki will be able to get through the paywall when you click on the same paywall url. It would be a costly and time-consuming effort, but I am willing to do it if it solves the url issue for you. Once I know which citations I can actually get for you through the paywall, I planned to eliminate others that are duplicative in part to address your concern about too many references. Emanresu0 (talk) 20:23, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Emanresu0, great to see you trying to find the urls for Draft:C.W. Kim. Articles without links are some of the last to get reviewed because a reviewer needs to check that the source says what you cited it for and that the source is reliable. If they don't know or have access to the source and they can't do that, they might skip and review another article. Inserting urls helps the reviewer and other users if the page is accepted. Also if a page is nominated for deletion, it helps people defend the page.

The LA Times is a well-known reliable source, the best option is a url that is fully accessible. However, a link to the restricted page is still helpful. In the first instance, I would insert the ordinary url, eg https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-08-16-re-1468-story.html.

Wikipedia citations have an optional field for "access level" and you can indicate there that the access level is registration, limited, or subscription. If you use source editor the field is url-access, eg url-access=subscription.

Most, if not all, AfC reviewers will have access to the Wikipedia Library suite of resources, which includes newspapers.com. The newspapers.com link for the Emerald article is, if you want to insert it: https://www.newspapers.com/image/404474375

Finally, I have access to newsbank through my local library. I wouldn't suggest you pay for it just to insert the url for this article. But if you have a subscription and can provide a newsbank url, many of us will be able to access the database. Again, you would indicate the "access level" is subscription. Hope that helps. MmeMaigret (talk) 00:19, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

I do not have a subscription to Newsbank, so I would need to pay for a subscription that allows me to access all of the articles again to get their lengthy url's with the paywall. Most of the news articles I cited are subject to this paywall. Your reply seems to say that I should NOT go to the expense and effort to provide those urls, although you said they would be helpful. Please clarify. Another reviewer said he could not access these articles with a google title search also.

While working on this issue, would you let me know what you prefer for the Time Line of Works section that you said was too much like a resume? I took the format and content approach from the wiki article on Louis Kahn.

Thanks Emanresu0 (talk) 16:36, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

@Emanresu0

Refbombing

• Please reduce the refbombing by selecting the best sources in terms of SIG COV.

URLs

Please look for accessible links at google, google news archive, newspapers.com, the websites for the individual papers, the library of congress' chronicling america. If the link is behind a paywall, add access level.

Please also check that the titles are in fact correct.

Timeline of works section

Almost every work in Louis Kahn's list is itself notable, as evidenced by the fact that the works are the subject of their own articles. MmeMaigret (talk) 18:36, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Aircraft Article - Edouard Joly

Hi Mmemaigret, as I mentioned when I pinged you over at Resource Request I took a look at this article in the physical collection. The article is titled 'The Remarkable Robins' by Alan Bramson (pp. 79–82 in the April 1977 edition of Aircraft, Vol. 56). The bit missing from that screengrab is "...plane which was to provide the cheapest possible solo flying." The entire article is much more substantial and about Joly's creation of the D9 Bebe light plane. I copied the full text and I'm happy to send it to you. It seems I can't email you, so if you send me an email via Wikipedia with your best contact I'll get that across to you. Please let me know if you have any queries. Jack Frost (talk) 08:06, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Jack Frost. I've sent you an email. Cheers, MmeMaigret (talk) 09:12, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

C.W. Kim Draft and Stub articles

Thanks for what I think are your efforts but am messaging you here because your messages don't have a way for me to reply to you directly unlike others I have received. Bear with me since I am unfamiliar with this process. It appears that I am to continue working on the draft to address your comments, and meanwhile you or someone else has made edits to both the stub article and the draft. I saw something that is a very nice writing style, which I assume is yours from the cryptic wiki code and your userpage. You are definitely a writer.

I also saw new statements I think in in the stub article (my short term memory is shot) that are incorrect, but one would not know without reading many of the articles over many years to learn as much as I have come to learn about this architect in my research. For example, as much attention as the Spinakker Building got in reputable newspapers, and apparently many over a long period of time, believed it's construction was a certainty, ultimately it never got built! That is why my draft showed it as unbuilt with an asterisk in the Timeline, but I mentioned it in the article because the design was very unique in that era. Am I supposed to do anything about the mistaken facts in my draft or the stub article when someone else causes them? I am petrified to touch the stub article after having my original expansion reverted because someone thought it was LLM and the style was too promotional.

As for the Timeline of Works, I am still uncertain what you recommend. No books have been written on each Work listed of course. I cited references to newspaper articles, magazines, and a topic in one book. Do you want the entire section excluded? It was a lot of work putting it together but if you feel it does not benefit the article, I would rather swallow the medicine now than continue working on it.

I am working on the paywall references in the meantime since I don't think the rest of the citations are available with a google search, or anything I can navigate.

I continue to work on this article now because I have spent so much time and effort on it, and learned so much about this architect in the process, beyond his hexagonal towers. When I think about what he accomplished as an architect, particularly in that era and with all the politics and economics that go into the construction of any major building or project, I am pretty sure it is worthy of an decent article in wiki.

I intend my future messages to be brief!

Emanresu0 (talk) 18:36, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

I've checked the edit history for the article. The Spinnaker reference was in the lead before you edited it. As for the draft, I think the only changes I have made are to improve your citations. But you can use edit history to look at compares. Mme Maigret (talk) 23:24, 8 April 2026 (UTC) Mme Maigret (talk) 23:24, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Emanresu0

Replying to my messages: I'm not sure why you're having trouble replying except that my username is slightly different from my display name. Mme Maigret (talk) 22:06, 8 April 2026 (UTC) Kim article: I added information to the article in mainspace from the sources that I could access (ie the NYT, the LA Times, Goldsea. I added material from your article, but I also added additional information I found in the sources. Spinnakker Building I don't actually know which one you're referring to as the Spinnaker building, I assume you mean the Hotel Intercontinental, the Columbia Center and Loews Coronado Bay Resort. But because we work from secondary sources, this will happen sometime. Editing the main article I don't think you should be put off entirely from editing the main article. You have to be mindful that if people disagree or think you're wrong, they will change what you wrote or amend it. That's the nature of Wikipedia. But nothing really happened as a result of the previous revert except that your material was moved to draft space. I think you always have to remember that you're working on a shared document that lots of people have an interest in. While you're interested in the subject, other people may have different interests, for example some may only be interested in the grammar, some in the reliability of your sources. If you think one of the buildings is wrong, just delete it. In the edit summary, I suggest you clearly state that you're deleting it because it was never built. But your edit summary can get buried over time so I suggest you add a topic to the article's talk page and explain why you don't think it was ever built. Mme Maigret (talk) 22:22, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

C.W. Kim stub article

You spent much time on this stub now that I better understand the "history" tab. Please let me know if what you have written is all that you feel is merited from what I have written in my draft article. Your writing style flows nicely. However, many of the facts mentioned are either incorrect or not nearly as significant as many of the fact included in my draft. For example, the long ago and relatively brief positions with The NewSchool of Architecture and the nonprofit boards are insignificant compared to the subject's Works as an architect. I also didn't think it was important to mention every job the subject had since none of his notable works occurred then.

Or instead, do you recommend that I ignore your changes to the stub article and instead work only on my draft article, perhaps incorporating your correct facts in the stub, with the idea of replacing the stub once my draft is approved? This process seems a bit messy, so clarification is appreciated. Emanresu0 (talk) 18:58, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

No, what I added isn't all I feel is merited but it was all I could "verify" from the sources. Because the Kim article was a stub (it might now be a start class article) with few if any "reliable" sources, I expanded it to reduce the chances of it getting proposed for deletion etc but also so that people get the benefit of more information now. But you also need to be prepared that the whole of your draft be copied and pasted into the article. Mme Maigret (talk) 22:58, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Many thanks for your replies. I understand a bit more. I will work on the references. Still need to know what you think I should do with the timeline of works in the meantime. Emanresu0 (talk) 02:49, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

C.W. Kim Article

After re-reading what you wrote to better understand this whole process, it appears that you have changed this page from a stub article to an article, and your content is all you feel is merited from my draft. I will wait until you reply with clarification about what you want me to do to improve the article, if anything, before undertaking more effort and expense on the references in my draft since it would be worthless if little from my draft is going to make it into the article. I see the missing footnote and I can provide that as well as move some of the images into the article, but I will hold off until I hear back from you. Apologies for all the questions. Many thanks. Emanresu0 (talk) 20:20, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Akilagpa Sawyerr (lawyer)

Hello! Your submission of Akilagpa Sawyerr (lawyer) 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) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Dahn (talk) 16:08, 10 April 2026 (UTC)