User talk:EricCable/Archive 2
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Re this...
...why English majors? :D Sven Manguard Wha? 14:09, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- Just a theory I have which is intended to be more of a snub to colleges what matriculate people with Liberal Arts degrees that they won’t be able to earn a living with than a snub to the people themselves.
Eric Cable | Talk 14:15, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
WLL
Hi EricCable! Thanks for putting together the Wikipedia Loves Library event in MN. It'd be grand to have a report about it (no matter how short or long) for This Month in GLAM. I do hope you or another attendee can provide a description of how the event went, outcomes and perhaps images (with links to any Wiki space). Please visit here and contribute if you can. It can be in the main features or the briefly section. Thanks again for coordinating the event and for contributing to Wikipedia :) SarahStierch (talk) 20:46, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
NC Masonic Lodges
Eric, there has been no actual deletion request. Blueboar asked me a question, and I answered. If it progresses any further, you would be notified. There are some concerns on the Talk page, but the article hasn't been touched since August 2011 to address any of that.
We do realize there is a lot of work in the article, but that is unfortunately secondary as to whether it is an appropriate article per WP policies. To be honest, you've sourced the article to one document (dead link aside), so really all it is is a reformat of a single source. Generally speaking, that's never good enough to meet the basic notability guidelines.
The information in the article is also well beyond what is encyclopedic; it is very much a directory of every lodge in the jurisdiction with their meeting nights, etc, and that is well outside the scope of the encyclopedia. Clearly, something needs to be done to it, if only because it is far too big - before the code was cleaned up, it was a 386K article. MSJapan (talk) 04:48, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for the note. Plagiarize away ;-) --Codrin.B (talk) 20:05, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
The article Masonic Lodges of North Carolina has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- Unsourced list, no verification, indiscriminate. No other state has a list of every masonic lodge.
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Nomination of Masonic Lodges of North Carolina for deletion
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Thanks for the nomination
Eric, Thanks for the nomination. On the one hand, I do get the hint; on the other hand, I'd come across the group before, and I'm glad to run into a few others whose views are "in line" with mine in a sense. So thank you for the reference, and sorry that the discussion on your article caught some folks' attention.
For what it's worth, the article is very well-done and comprehensive (even if it is virtually all from one source, something that I hadn't actually noticed until now)...it just strikes me as what I said (and I actually had no idea there were that many lodges in NC).Tyrenon (talk) 13:51, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Masonic Lodges of North Carolina
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- Turns out this person was a sock puppet. I have added him to my Shit List. Eric Cable | Talk 15:38, 24 February 2012 (UTC)