What's the status on this? I would like WikiCup points for this one, but the deadline is in a week and I still don't have a review...any chance you could finish soon? Thanks. GoPhightins! 19:39, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Yes. It's a definite pass, and I can finish the review tonight. In all likelihood, I will not be editing for a week or two after this, but can finish the remaining reviews soon. —Theodore! (talk) (contribs) 00:16, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much! GoPhightins! 01:20, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Nagore Dargah
Hi, there was a second opinion and quite some changes have been incorporated. Please have a look at your convenience.Ssriram mt (talk) 00:42, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, Thanks a lot for taking up and completing the comprehensive review of Nagore Dargah with such precision. The comments were very constructive and i am taking this as an input for other articles i am editing. Once again, thanks a lot. Ssriram mt (talk) 04:03, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
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I have unreviewed a page you curated
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Gaddafi
Hey Theodore! Chances are, my internet is going to be down this coming week, so I probably won't get the chance to make any alterations to the Gaddafi page. Nevertheless, feel free to finish your GA review whenever convenient and I shall respond to your comments when I can. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:39, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
Hey there Theodore; just a note to say that I am available again to respond to any comments on the Gaddafi GA review. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:05, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Just checking that you haven't forgotten the GA review... Midnightblueowl (talk) 14:03, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, there's no real rush on the Gaddafi page; I just wanted to check that you hadn't disappeared off Wikipedia forever! Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:24, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Theodore! I've responded to BoogaLouie's comment, which I take great issue with. My opinion is that they wish to accuse the article of NPOV in order to push it into a very western-centric, explicitly anti-Gaddafi POV direction. I don't think they are consciously doing this, and accept their good faith on the issue, but it concerns me deeply. But nevertheless; you are the GA reviewer in this situation, so I shall allow you to make your decision based on all the information. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 13:43, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
No worries! I was not criticising your comment on my talk page, more BoogaLouie's assertions over at the GAR page. I have had arguments with them over the trajectory of this page before (they have been very critical of much of my work there), and I felt – rightly or wrongly – that they were launching personal attacks against myself during that time, namely in implying that I was a Gaddafist apologist. So that might explain why I've been a little over-defensive on the issue. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 18:41, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
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Thansk you for reviewing my page. Yes, I'm not finished with this yet. I still have the sources, the album cover and complementary data on the album (producers, sound engineer, etc...) zubrowka74 20:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
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HI, thanks for taking the time to review me, I'll check some of those links out you gave. Original Authority (talk) 10:37, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
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I have unreviewed a page you curated
Hi, I'm Northamerica1000. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, Le Corse-class frigate, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you. Northamerica1000(talk) 02:12, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
I should point out that List of Christian synonyms is my 680th wikipedia article. I do know what I'm doing. You could have at least let me finish, rather than nominating it four minutes after creation. Badly done, I'm afraid. StAnselm (talk) 04:13, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
I did not realize how recently it was created, and my apologies for the haste. At the same time, many of these kinds of articles are not updated, and a recently created article with the initial content did not meet GNG. It obviously does, and I will withdraw the nom ASAP. —Theodore! (talk) (contribs) 04:22, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. I will be working on it for the next couple of hours. StAnselm (talk) 04:26, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks...although I should probably be a bit more cautious (see the above error!) —Theodore! (talk) (contribs) 04:26, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
DRN
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Begich and Landrieu
Hi, Theodore! Just wanted to let you know that I responded on my talk page. As I said there, I think your analysis is spot on, but I think that the user in question needs to address his "disputes" on the article talk pages. The "cases" imply his issue is with me and me alone, and while I was the user who undid his (very problematic) edits, I don't intend to engage further aside from ensuring wp:npov and wp:blp aren't trampled in his attempts to get his partisan viewpoints into those articles. I hope this (and the slightly greater explanation in response to you on my talk page) help clarify. Really admire your good faith and willingness to try to help others resolve issues, though. Please hang on to that! :) user:j(talk) 05:10, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments and concerns. I have a full reply on my talk page. I think this experience is an opportunity to help make some simple, yet seriously overdue changes that, I think, will go a long way to improving the attitudes I spoke of.
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Muammar Gaddafi GAR
Hello there Theodore! Just here to stay that I think that I have undertaken all of the necessary revisions and what not over at Muammar Gaddafi. If there is anything else regarding the page that you would like me to work harder on, or would like to discuss further, please do not hesitate to let me know. All the best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:21, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
Hey Theodore; just wanted to say another massive thank you for reviewing the Gaddafi page for GAR! I hope that you gained something from it! Kind regards, Midnightblueowl (talk) 16:17, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
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Hello. I found your name in a list of volunteers to help in a dispute resolution. I picked you as you are interested in history, and this topic has some relevance to this. I recently opened this dispute to prevent the escalation of an edit war with a "few" users who keep reverting back to their erroneous edit. The case in regard is with reference to the pages "Pashtun People" and "Pashtun diaspora" .
Please see Wikipedia dispute resolution notice board for details. In a nutshell, the users are trying to increase the number of Pashtuns in India from 11,000 to 11 million. The users cannot justify this increase. This has been going on for the last couple of months.
Please help if you can, else can you please point me in the right direction?
Keep Visual History but change the name: History of Visual Culture
I do agree with argemedia: "I am really sorry to say that to delete or to redirect Visual History would be a historical mistake for our common Encyclopedia. Visual History is a new science. Of course, it deals with Visual Culture, but it is a History of this Visual Culture, as you have a general History, a History of Art or Arts, a History of Medias, a History of Images. This History of Visual Culture is a global history of all visual matters: images, objects, arts, architectures, landscapes... It has been founded with the World Dictionnary of Images (in fact, not only images, but all aspects of visual culture from Prehistory) written by 475 authors from all over the World (publisher: Nouveau Monde). Nevertheless there is a problem with the name in English, because Visual History could mean also a way to show History through various images. So, my suggestion is to keep it but to change the name in order to make it more clear for everybody in English: History of Visual Culture. I may do this if everybody agree. argemedia" malexartMalexart (talk) 07:29, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
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DR/N
I would like to thank you for your revitalized efforts at the Dispute resolution Notice board. Keep up the good work!--Mark Miller (talk) 01:22, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your excellent and ongoing work at DRN. I'm the DRN coordinator this month and am trying to make sure all parties are notified that their/your case may be closing soon due to lack of participation. If I'm crowding you in any way please let me know. It's my intention to be helpful, rather than getting in the way of competent and experienced editors like yourself. I look forward to working together. Cheers! — Keithbob • Talk • 01:53, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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Thanks my friend! -- — Keithbob • Talk • 21:57, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
Shouldn't current "Nightclub" entry be re-titled "Dance Club"?
Please see the Wikipedia "Nightclub" entry.
The term "nightclub" was well-established (long before the advent of discotheques) as a term primarily referencing what's also known as a "cabaret."
In the US at least, the term "nightclub" continues to refer to a range of establishments open predominantly at night (potentially offering food or alcohol) that exist primarily to offer various forms of entertainment.
Dance clubs are a form of nightclub, but so, too (unquestionably), are jazz clubs, comedy clubs, and many other forms of nighttime entertainment venues. The Wikipedia entry titled "nightclub," which discusses only dance clubs, is therefore grossly misleading.
The "nightclub" entry should be retitled "dance club," and an entirely new entry for "nightclub" should be created, surveying the range of venues -- or at the very least, recast as a "disambiguation" entry linking to entries for the various types of venues that the term "nightclub" subsumes.
I've entered the above as topic on the entry's "talk" page. It appears that this matter has been discussed under some of the other talk topics, but it hasn't been resolved.
To some extent, the problem may be a divergence in terminology between the US and the UK (where "nightclub" is apparently taken for granted as referring to dance clubs); the divergence may also be generational (derivative of youth-culture colloquialisms like "clubbing" or "club kids," generally associated with dance clubs). Ironically, I stumbled on this situation as a 64-year-old gay man from New York, now living in California, when I was seeking material on the 1970s disco scene, and the entry for "Discotheque" redirected me to "Nightclub" -- as if the two terms had an identical meaning.
Given that my father was a jazz afficionado who hung out at the 52nd Street jazz clubs in 1940s-50s NYC (my longtime sense of what constitutes a "nightclub"), I was utterly shocked!
What do you think of my retitling/disambiguation idea?
How can I most productively proceed in trying to resolve this without gargantuan effort? I'm not able to monitor the "talk" page constantly, and (as a Wikipedia non-member) I'm not sure whether the proper metaphor for what I fear I'm confronting is "major surgery" or "quicksand," but I'd be happy to receive and respond to email: mitchell@mitchellhalberstadt.net
173.241.20.165 (talk) 13:48, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
You make many valid points, but I would wait until you receive more feedback on the article talk page. It looks like someone else has already agreed with you there. Good luck with your efforts! —Theodore! (talk) (contribs) 22:55, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
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RfCs re "assault weapon" and "high-capacity magazine"
Since no-one else is involved at this point, a couple more questions re your advice.
The disputed terms have been disputed on multiple articles related to firearms, laws, and politics. I would like to place the RfCs someplace other than a gun, gun-law, or gun-politics article - and publicize it to a wide array of editors, not just gun, gun-law, and gun-politics editors. Any suggestions? Thanks. Lightbreather (talk) 20:40, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, Theodore. I'd appreciate it if you'd post another friendly reminder on User talk:MarkusSchulze. If, as I hope and assume, he's acting in good faith here, another reminder doesn't hurt. But if he were considering taking a more wikilawyerly stance, and participating only insofar as he saw things going his way, I think that seeing somebody else paying attention would help dissuade such behavior. Homunq (࿓) 16:06, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Theodore!. I am Mark Miller (Maleko Mela), a volunteer at DRN along with you. I will be closing the Voting system filing because there is an open RFC on the talk page that involves this dispute. Please let me know if you object and how you wish to proceed if that is the case.--Maleko Mela (talk) 01:56, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know about this; I agree completely. I shouldn't have opened discussion in the first place given the RfC; I think we should let that run its course, then revisit the DRN thread, if necessary, later on. —Theodore! (talk) (contribs) 02:45, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Antigovernment Page a disambiguation page or stub?
Hi I didnt understand what happened during dispute resolution on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
I asked for guidance from a senior editor on a specific question: Is the antigovernment webpage a stub or a disambiguation page?
I wasnt able to participate in the particular 36 hours that you were able to donate time to answer the question. I believe I made edits prior to your deadline but I assume you felt as thought the primary questions were answered. Whether so or not I was hoping as a senior editor you could offer me your opinion on the question (in bold is it WP:Stub or WP:D?). Thanks. Mrdthree (talk) 05:09, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi Theodore!, I wanted to let you know I had closed the Southern Poverty Law Center dispute for a couple of reasons. There was no participation from the listed parties beyond the filing editor and went past the time we generally wait for everyone to participate, but also because this is mainly a "one against consensus" dispute. Technically if the editor could show a good argument per policy and guidelines that the consensus should change and everyone listed showed up, we could have kept it going. But it appears that the general consensus of the uninvolved editors was that linking to the disambiguation page was against guidelines. The best solution would be for editors to collaborate on creating a new page specifically for a link to "antigovernment" or to use existing page articles that could be anything from "Sedition" to "Conspiracy", depending on how the article is using they term. As usual, if you object in any reason, please feel free to re-open the filing, even if it falls into the archives.--Maleko Mela (talk) 23:32, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
Sounds good; I agree with your reasoning and will not reopen the case. Thanks for all of your hard work at DRN! —Theodore! (talk) (contribs) 02:08, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
My work has been thrown out. I am not worthy of the board so I encourage you to continue as I have just lost any further interest in the place for the moment. Don't look further into it, it will just confuse you. It confuses me. I encourage you to continue on DRN.--Maleko Mela (talk) 23:12, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Theodore!: this is a notice that after a MfD and two RfCs, the Editor Review process has been officially retired. You should not expect further comments on your open Editor Review, which will be archived soon. In the coming weeks there may be information available on alternative processes that you can pursue if you so desire. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 21:09, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.
Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone!
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Roger Jourdain you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Varnent -- Varnent (talk) 23:02, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
The article Roger Jourdain you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Roger Jourdain for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Varnent -- Varnent (talk) 00:02, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
17 July 2014, From Huntsville a city in north Alabama, U.S.A.
Dear Theodore!,
Earlier I sent this request to another Teahouse reviewer but have not received a response so I am appealing to you for assistance.
We want to cite an important history book, entitled “A Mighty Fortress of Faith” It has been submitted and is awaiting approval.
I am interested in your review and assistance for a submission I have been working and adjusting. A Wiki reviewer suggested I seek the assistance of Teahouse. I saw your interest in history and thought you may be the person to ask. We are attempting to get Wikipedia to accept an article about a book of significant regional history starting with the U.S.A. pre-Civil War era. If so, do you have access to Wiki sandbox articles, or do I need to send you the complete article? Are your interested? If not, could you recommend another reviewer?
Wikisjt3 (talk) 03:37, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
WikiProject Good articles Future GAN Backlog Drive
Hello everyone! Hope you've all been having a great summer!
TheQ Editor recently proposed the idea of having another Backlog Drive in either September/October or November/December of this year. For those of you who have participated in the past two drives you know I was the one who organized them, however, come September, this will be my most important year in school so I will not be able to coordinate this drive (if it happens). TheQ Editor has volunteered to be a coordinator for the drive. If any of you would like to co-coordinator, please notify TheQ Editor on his talk page.
If you would be interested in participating in a Backlog Drive sometime before the end of this year, please notify TheQ Editor. Also, make sure to specify what month(s) work best for you.
At the time this message was sent out, the backlog was at 520 nominations. Since May, the backlog has been steadily increasing and we are currently near an all time high. Even though the backlog will not disappear over one drive, this drive can lead to several others which will (hopefully) lead to the day where there is no longer a backlog.
As always, the more participants, the better, and everyone is encouraged to participate!
Participation: Thanks to everyone who participated in the July drive. Of the 40 people who signed up this drive, 22 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here.
Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2400 articles to 2199 articles in July. This is a new month-end record low for the backlog. Nice work, everyone!
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Hello everyone! We hope you have all been having a great summer!
As we all know, the recent GAN Backlog Drives have not had any big impact on the backlog. Because of that, me (Dom497), Figureskatingfan, and TheQ Editor have worked on an idea that could possibly finally put a dent into the massive backlog. Now, I will admit, the idea isn't entirely ours as we have took the general idea of the WikiCup and brought it over to WikiProject Good Articles. But anyways, here's what we have in mind:
For all of you that do not know what the WikiCup is, it is an annual competition between several editors to see who can get the most Good Articles, Featured Article's, Did You Know's, etc. Based of this, we propose to you the GA Cup. This competition will only focus on reviewing Good articles.
For more info on the proposal, click here. As a FYI, the proposal page is not what the final product will look like (if you do go ahead with this idea). It will look very similar to WikiCup's page(s).
The discussion for the proposal will take place here. Please let us know if you are interested, have any concerns, things to consider, etc.
WikiProject Good articles is holding a new competition, the GA Cup, from October 1, 2014 - March 28, 2015. The Cup will be based on reviewing Good article nominations; for each review, points will be awarded with bonuses for older nominations, longer articles and comprehensive reviews. All participants will start off in one group and the highest scoring participants will go through to the second round. At the moment six rounds are planned, but this may change based on participant numbers.
Some of you may ask: what is the purpose for a competition of this type? Currently, there is a backlog of about 500 unreviewed Good article nominations, almost an all time high. It is our hope that we can decrease the backlog in a fun way, through friendly competition.
Everyone is welcome to join; new and old editors! Sign-ups will be open until October 15, 2014 so sign-up now!
If you have any questions, take a look at the FAQ page and/or contact one of the four judges.
The article Roger Jourdain you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Roger Jourdain for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Varnent -- Varnent (talk) 10:23, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Greetings from WikiProject Military history! As a member of the project, you are invited to take part in our annual project coordinator election, which will determine our coordinators for the next twelve months. If you wish to cast a vote, please do so on the election page by 23:59 (UTC) on 28 September! Ed[talk][majestic titan] 22:15, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
You're up to take the position in 12 days. Just a reminder. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 19:21, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
On second thought: The DRN coordinator page says, "It will be best if you are active as a volunteer at DRN for at least the month preceding the date on which you are to take over the coordinator position so that you are familiar with the current issues, trends, and pending cases; if you are unable to do that, please consider posting a note to the DRN talk page asking for someone who has been active to take the position in your place." You've not edited Wikipedia at all since September 10. I'm going to take the liberty of moving your volunteer stint from December-January, 2014, to the open February-March, 2015, slot so that you can have the chance to be active at DRN during at least January (and if you don't take it then, I'm going to remove your name from the schedule altogether). If you object to any of this, even in the slightest, just drop a note on my user talk page and I'll gladly give it over to you during December-January without hesitation. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 19:39, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
