User:Dr. Blofeld/January 2016

Happy New Year

Happy New Year, Señor Doctor, and thanks for all your constructive support over the past year! Looking forward to further collaboration in 2016.--Ipigott (talk) 14:36, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Wishing you all the best in the coming year. Thank you for all of your guidance and support throughout the previous one. Your mentoring has meant a lot to me. SusunW (talk) 15:10, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Thankyou both, here's to a productive 2016!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:14, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year 2016!

	Happy New Year 2016
	Looking forward to working with you in 2016! Rosiestep (talk) 17:31, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Yes Rosie, you too, here's to a productive 2016!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:35, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

2016

	Happy New Year 2016!
	Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters.    – Cullen328 Let's discuss it 03:54, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

2016 year of the reader and peace

2016

peace bell

Thank you for inspiration and support, including three five excellent GA reviews in 2015, - thanks with my review, and the peace bell by Yunshui! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:35, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Thankyou Cullen328 and Gerda Arendt! Wishing you both the best for the new year! Love the bell!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:37, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

The bell is ringing on the German Main page, today and tomorrow (in a section equivalent to DYK), pictured today, - one of my better achievements in German where I write little but translations of articles of the missed, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:28, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Stand corrected regarding the number of your reviews ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:32, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Five sounds better haha. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:37, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Didn't I already say you were a magician?

Thanks for finding those great images for Ida Silverman! Yoninah (talk) 20:17, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Cheers Yoninah!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:45, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you both for Silverman. It's a much better piece for your collaboration. Wishing you both a very happy new year. SusunW (talk) 21:35, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Thankyou SusunW, great job, hope to see many more GAs from you in 2016!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:42, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

• Merry Christmas, too :~) Aymatth2 (talk) 23:42, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Dr. Blofeld!

Happy New Year!

Dr. Blofeld,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 01:17, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Dr. Blofeld!

Happy New Year!

Dr. Blofeld,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 10:52, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

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Thankyou Rubbish computer and Davey, all the best for 2016!!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:43, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks and to you too :), Bet you're sick to death of the sight of these now .... Thank god it only happens once a year! –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 21:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Not at all, it's nice to see good wishes from people, especially on such a generally negative website!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:52, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Dr. Blofeld

Pratyya ^(Hello!) — is wishing you a Happy New Year! Welcome the 2016. Wishing you a happy and fruitful 2016 with good health and your wishes come true! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year! May the 2016 go well for you.

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Thankyou Mr. Ghosh, may your new year be productive!♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:39, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

And from me as well. I was going to use this template, but then I thought I'd piggy-back on this one instead. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 17:57, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

You too! The years are going by like the rain! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:19, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Jean Sibelius

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Your GA nomination of Newton House, Llandeilo

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Your GA nomination of Caesars Palace

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Your GA nomination of Desert Inn

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Wow, that bot is so efficient ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:51, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Don't worry Blofeld, it spammed me and Gerda too. I complained on WT:GAN. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 19:45, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

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Badi Maa

While patrolling the speedy deletion queue, I came across an article you created, Badi Maa (1945 film) which was nominated for deletion as a duplicate of Badi Maa which you also created. As neither are recent, I declined the speedy deletion request, but we do still need to resolve the Topic duplication issue. I would suggest redirecting one to the other, but I will leave it up to you to figure out how you want to resolve the problem. Monty₈₄₅ 04:01, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Kaayay is excellent at that sort of thing. Can you expand Kaayay?♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:54, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

 Done :) A Very Happy New Year To You! Kaayay (talk) 10:30, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

You too Kaayay, wonderful work as usual!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:42, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Ode de Pougy, Notre Dame aux Nonnains, Manassès II de Pougy, Church of St Urbain set

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Beeton... The next step

Hi Doc, Following your excellent review of Isabella Beeton, the article is now at PR for comments and consideration. If you could add me to the end of your review list I'd be much obliged. Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 19:55, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

@SchroCat: interestingly Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is a GA candidate. Don't know if you want to review it, it's been there months. At first glance it looks a fail. If you perk it up I could review it.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:22, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Re: Esparza's

Thank you for reviewing and promoting this article. Much appreciated! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:16, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

You're quite welcome, keep up the good work!♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:39, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

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Invitation to a virtual editathon on Women in Music

Women in Music
	10 to 31 January 2016 Please join us in the worldwide virtual edit-a-thon hosted by Women in Red.

--Ipigott (talk) 11:06, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

We could do with more articles on women guitarists Ipigott. You or Rosiestep feel like creating a list?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:12, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

@Megalibrarygirl: is the guru of list creation so pinging her, too. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:28, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

List of women guitarists would be really quite useful.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:30, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

@Ipigott and Rosiestep:, You'd rather a separate list, or add to the women in music list? I'll see what I can dig up. :D Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:40, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

I think there's probably enough to qualify for its own page. I've made a start anyway!♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:41, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Category:Female guitarists. Ipigott is also great with such lists. There should be missing articles in the list too.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:48, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

The list should probably be reserved mainly for soloists or proper guitarists, not every woman in a band who happens to strum the instrument very basically. Perhaps we should keep it to List of women classical guitarists?♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:58, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

The list looks great so far! I added some classical guitar redlinks to our Women in music list. :D Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:05, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Cheers. I think I'll move it to List of women classical guitarists. That way we avoid mixing in the very basic ones who happen to strum in a band with the proper professionals.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:06, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Category:Women classical guitarists

Created, and I've begun its population. Will continue when I have a chance - tomorrow, mayhap. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:45, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Using displaytitle

As a regular user, can I use displaytitle (as you have done at the top of your userpage) to format my username? Are there any restrictions? Leeds United FC fan (talk) 17:27, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

You can do what you like, except being an imposter with my own user name!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:30, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

I accidentally removed my warnings on User talk:209.189.162.3 and User talk:Jeremiah silvesan because I misread WP:Vandalism, should I undo my edits back? Leeds United FC fan (talk) 17:54, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

About the above, if you're unsure feel free to say, but a response would be great. Thanks. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 20:42, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Whatever you think is right, I rarely deal with vandalism so aren't the one to ask!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:11, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Do you think it matters either way? The second account linked has received another warning of the same level and therefore it wouldn't change anything anyway? Leeds United FC fan (talk) 21:13, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

If somebody else warned them then you were probably right to have warned them!♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:27, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Ok, I rewarned the first user. Leeds United FC fan (talk) 21:28, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Albert Ketèlbey

Dear Doc, Many thanks for your recent comments on the Albert Ketèlbey peer review. The article is now at FAC for further comment, should you wish to make any. Many thanks – SchroCat (talk) 17:09, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Electra

I've made a start on translating the German entry. Nice little project. But I'm having trouble with a sentence:

"Nach einem Blitzeinschlag brannten Strohdächer der Kulissen ab"

which means something along the lines

"After a lightning strike the thatched roofs of the scenery were destroyed by fire"

Question: Was this an accident while filming, or is it a scene from the director's version of the Electra story?

If you've seen the film, you'll probably know the answer already. If not I can always ask Mr Lugnuts who's done most of the previous work on the entry and looks to be a(nother) movie buff. If all else fails I will go back and ask Dr Google at greater length than till now I did. But I thought asking Dr Blofeld might be quicker! And thank you for thinking about it.

Regards Charles01 (talk) 17:19, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Charles, Lugnuts? I can't remember seeing a fire in the film, but it's quite likely that they were destroyed during production and they had to rebuild it?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:53, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Ode de Pougy

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DYK for Abbey of Notre Dame aux Nonnains

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DYK for Manassès II de Pougy

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DYK for Basilica of St. Urbain, Troyes

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Mayabazar

Mayabazar turns a FA! Thanks for your contribution as a reviewer. Pavanjandhyala (talk) 02:46, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Der Brænder en Ild

After the film caught my fancy, I decided to start a GA-improvement. After some copyedits by Diannaa, I went ahead and nominated it just now. Since I noticed you uploaded the infobox image of the films DVD cover, I figured you might have an interest in the motion picture, and was hoping you would review the short article. Let me know. Best, Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your prize!) 15:20, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Film any good? I've not seen it. I only added the image after Lugnuts started it. I used to do that at random quite a lot.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:22, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Offhand it looks too short to be GA level. There should be more on it in German newspapers which can be gleaned. Right ChrisGualtieri? A minimum one would have a fair sized reception with critical quotes and commentary and at least a paragraph summarizing its production.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:23, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

I assume you mean Danish, not German newspapers. :) Regarding the articles length, I've brought shorter articles to GA-status (Erhard Heiden, Maria Limanskaya, Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders). And yes, the film is very good. A classic Korch film. If you wish to see sometime, let me know and I'll upload the film to YouTube or mail you a stream-able version. Best, Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your prize!) 23:33, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Would be good to see it sometime. :-) Perhaps Ipigott could find something on it if its Danish? The current article isn't resourceful enough for GA. We have more detailed ones on lost silent films from the 1910s!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:41, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Haven't been able to find much in Danish. There are a few details here and I see it was released as a cleaned-up DVD in 2004. Couldn't find any critical assessments. It looks to me as if the essentials are already covered in the article. There are also a few details on its reception here.--Ipigott (talk) 15:21, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

The philm source is already used in the article. I will, however, include the this source in the article and mention a bit about home media. Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your prize!) 16:05, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Okay, I've made quite a few changes and did my best to find further sources. Have a look! Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your prize!) 17:20, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Have you really been through google books?@@@@

I have, but no other books besides Martin Piil 2008 mentions the film in detail. Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your prize!) 17:52, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Just asking a question

Hello, I saw your work on O'hara and Sinatra articles and am very impressed of what you have contributed. There is one thing I want to ask, how do you actually find all those photos? :) User:LoveFromBJM (talk) 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Glad you recognize just how many images have been uploaded, that part generally isn't talked about. A tooth fairy visits me every night and leaves them by my pillow ;-)♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:59, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

I KNEW it was magic, but I was sure you had a wand. SusunW (talk) 18:55, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

James Lanphier

Hi, I just created an article on The Pink Panther actor James Lanphier, and I was wondering if you know if it is possible to find a free picture of him to illustrate the article. Thanks. Cheers, κατάσταση 18:42, 11 January 2016 (UTC) I recognize him! I don't think there's a free image available though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:38, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Well, he's not a very notable actor and there's little info on him, unfortunately. I think I'll upload a non-free screencap from Pink Panther, then. Cheers, κατάσταση 15:05, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Malliswari (1951 film)

Corinne has completed the c/e process and i have nominated it. Would you like to commence the review? Pavanjandhyala (talk) 14:49, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Will Randall for deletion

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Sorry for the prank

Sorry that was me that put Christopher Waltz on your user page XD--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 22:01, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

No worries, but for me His Evilness will always be Donald Pleasance!♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:12, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Telly Savalas and Charles Grey need some love too!--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 15:27, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Charles had to be the campest of the Blofelds. Entertaining seeing him being cloned I guess though.♦ Dr. Blofeld 15:33, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Fissini Street Archeological Collection

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Proposed deletion of Folk Art and History Museum of Pilion

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Am I bovvered?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:20, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Folk Art and History Museum of Pilion for deletion

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User:FuriouslySerene, I'm starting to get HappilyPissedoff with you ;-). User:Boleyn made a list of the museums needing expansion, why not just take them all to AFD instead of prodding me for every single one?♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:02, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

FuriouslySerene, it's User:Boleyn/List of museum articles tagged for notability if you're interested. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 20:24, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld: @Boleyn: Sorry, I didn't know about that list! Just came across both at the same time. Didn't mean to spam up your page or pile on. Looks like some of them do have sources so I don't think I'd nominate them all at once though. I think they'd likely need to be considered case by case, from what I can tell. No hard feelings I hope... FuriouslySerene (talk) 21:55, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

They were started from a hotlist drawn up by the museum project for Greek Heritage I think. The list strongly inferred that they were all notable museums and recognized as such by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Very stubby and useless as they are, but the idea was that the museum project got expanding. It didn't happen. Most of them could be saved I'm sure, but it's a case of who is going to want to put the work in. A few have been expanded, like Folklore Museum of Velventos. I thought Rosiestep had an updated list saved somewhere. I'm sure Nvvchar would happily tackle a few more, but not that amount.♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:58, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I would agree that they should be looked at case-by-case. I've taken a small number to AfD and some have been deleted/redirected but most have been kept after improvements. For anything non-English language, I personally favour AfD as I can't easily rule out missing non-English sources. I wouldn't expect you to know about the list at all - I don't think it's attracted anyone to work on the articles other than Dr Blofeld and me. I have posted at Wikiproject Museums but got no response. Thanks for taking the time to look them over; many have been tagged for notablity for a long time, and need some TLC and evaluating. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 22:04, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Nvvchar and Aymatth tackled a few but are obviously unwilling to tackle the amount needed as I'm not. You'll find as Boleyn says, most are expandable with only a limited number of duds. The problem though is who is going to expand them!♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:06, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I will see if I can pick off a few. But I can't be seen editing too many article, I have to keep up appearances. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 22:09, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

I have absolutely no motivation at the moment to expand any of them even a bit, so that's much appreciated.♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:12, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Arc-en-Ciel

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Isabella Beeton

Many thanks for your comments at the recent PR for Isabella Beeton. I have dropped the good lady into FAC for comments and thoughts. If you have time for any, I'd be delighted to hear with them. Cheers – SchroCat (talk) 15:05, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

PR request

Would you please take a look at this? I think it has an FA potential. I would appreciate your gesture. Thanks.Krish | Talk 16:57, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

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Nomination of Monster aus Versehen for deletion

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Der Nominator scheint dich vergessen zu haben. Seems the nominator has forgotten to notify you.  Ben Ben ^(talk) 14:18, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi

I am a new editor. Nice to meet you. I am here to defeat the forces of evil. Lelozvibritanniar2 (talk) 20:15, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Good luck with that, wikipedia has more than its fair share of clueless idiots, right Jsharpminor?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:12, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Brahms Inlet for deletion

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Nomination of Harris Peninsula for deletion

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Nomination of Rohss Bay for deletion

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Bartlett and Robertson

Hi, I just wrote this article for the Women in Red's Women in Music virtual editathon. I wonder if you could dig up a free picture of these two at their pianos? Thanks for your help, Yoninah (talk) 01:52, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Yoninah Done, great job!♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:25, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks so much! BTW, his name was Robertson, not Robinson. (I made the same mistake while I was writing it.) I'll try to ask for a page move at Commons. Thanks again! Yoninah (talk) 20:14, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I added links to some photos. Not sure that will help. A record label might be used, too. 7&6=thirteen (☎)

Bradner

Bradner Smith & Company may interest you. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:26, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

The hotel does that you started, I've still been meaning to add to that but can't find the motivation at the moment!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:25, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Spanish churches etc

Hi, In case you go on another spree of creating religious building articles, please don't leave the original titles untranslated. It should be Sant Pau, Fontclara or "Church of Sant Pau, Fontclara", but not "Sant Pau de Fontclara" (that's a Rosiestep one). Now people are going round moving other Spanish churches, claiming these as precedent. Thanks Johnbod (talk) 18:50, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Johnbod Highly unlikely I'm going to create another article at the moment, let alone a spree of religious buildings.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:19, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Four years ago ...

shining article creation
... you were recipient no. 2 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:33, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

What an excellent memory you have ;-) !♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:36, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

For such important things yes ;) Did you see I created another one? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:51, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Lovely. The sooner WM wake up to this sort of thing the better. Making editors feel welcome and praising/rewarding them for hard work I think is so important on such a negative website.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:55, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

In memoriam --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:12, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Go do it! While Precious is my personal thing to give to people who help me, Impact is for everyone who wants to praise someone who left positive impact. The templated model is easily adapted. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:42, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon

Hello,

CIS-A2K is going to organize an edit-a-thon between 25 and 31 January this year. The aim of this edit-a-thon is creating and improving Geographical Indications in India related articles.

We welcome all of you to join this edit-a-thon.
Please see the event and add your name as a participant: meta:CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical_Indications_in_India_Edit-a-thon

Feel free to ask if you have question(s).
Regards. --Tito Dutta (talk) 18:14, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Malouma

Hi there. Thanks for taking an interest in the article - but you shouldn't ask me to do things if you're going to do them yourself. Didn't notice your edit until I'd done mine. Now we have two maps. Take your pick.--Ipigott (talk) 16:17, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm not "going to do it myself". I think it looks better without maps or photographs of barely related cities. I think I'll pass on this GA review now and ask Jaguar.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:20, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Too bad. I hope you'll reconsider. I had no idea the article was already under review. I thought the map I added would at least show where the Mederdra department was situated (and Rosso where she did her teaching diploma). But I certainly would not have added it if I had seen your edit. I think we were perhaps both reacting too quickly. My sincere apologies.--Ipigott (talk) 16:43, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

I think it looks better without a national map and barely related images of towns, but I did say you could probably get away with a regional locator of where she is from. I added one as a compromise here, but unfortunately you missed it and proceeded to add a second map in the lede. I didn't ask you to do anything, I was speaking to myself! I personally think it looks better with no map, but it's your article, readd the regional one if you like, that at least had more use to the reader. When I removed the maps/images I hadn't realized you'd added them, I see now that Rosie also removed one or two earlier on the same concern. For me personally, and I say personally as others might disagree, when somebody adds a country map or unrelated cities in a biography it sorts of screams "this is an obscure person from an obscure country that nobody has ever heard of". .♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:58, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately you don't respond well whenever there's a disagreement. I genuinely had no idea you'd just added an image, I simply started the review after doing Smith and began looking at it and saw a heck of a lot of clutter (two photographs, one map and a quote box) in the shortish early life section which looked redundant to me. It was most certainly not my intention to boss anybody about, but I just aired my thoughts on it and then did a compromise. As I had begun reviewing the article for GA, such comments/edits are always intended in good faith as part of the review and I wouldn't assume the critical stance in regular editing. As I can see you don't take that sort of thing well I abandoned the review.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Your essay about problems at WP

Excellent. Happened upon it by a series of tangents and ended up reading the whole thing. I've encountered many of these problems and mostly I agree with you. One thing, I think, important to keep in mind is something I was taught along time ago in regard to communication: something like 80 percent of it is from non-verbal cues (when in person). I reckon it gets even more dicey interpreting the intensions of others in situations here, being typed out on keypads. If one misinterprets an editor's intended playfulness as something hostile, they're likely to respond "in kind" (or, even more likely, to get the hell away from them, and maybe out of editing altogether). So, all I'm saying is, it's just that much trickier communicating on line than in person. Anyway, I found your essay to be quite inciteful and understandable. Thanks for writing it. Hamamelis (talk) 23:36, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Hamamelis!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:49, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

PR request

Hello Doc, a certain old thespian is currently waiting in the wings here for any comments or criticisms. I would be much appreciative for any thoughts offered, if you have the time. Many thanks. Cassianto^Talk 00:24, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Will try to look at it this weekend, an excellent expansion on one of the great British actors, a delight to see you back editing Cassianto!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:28, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Hollywood Reporter

Hi Dr. Blofeld. I saw that you had an interest in movies and thought you may be able to join this discussion on The Hollywood Reporter Talk page. It seems to have gone stagnant for almost a month. David King, Ethical Wiki (CorporateM) (Talk) 06:39, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Not sure if this is up your alley, but Barry O'Callaghan could use a pair of eyes with BLP in mind. It has stuff like "We did the milk round... you'd listen to some boring fart..." Many of the sources for criticisms about how he lost his fortune betting on the future of publishing don't actually mention him or are poor sources for other reasons. I'll dig into this eventually in my COI role, but that will take months and I figured it could really use some immediate BLP review from an editor that can edit boldly. Pinging @FreeRangeFrog: as well, since he has an interest in BLP issues. David King, Ethical Wiki (CorporateM) (Talk) 17:16, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Bit busy right now but I should be able to look at it tomorrow.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:32, 29 January 2016 (UTC)