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Your GA nomination of Bell Tower (University of Portland)

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Your GA nomination of Bell Tower (University of Portland)

The article Bell Tower (University of Portland) 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:Bell Tower (University of Portland) for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Hawkeye7 -- Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:01, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Bell Tower (University of Portland)

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This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2018)

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Waves in Lake Ontario
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Lake surfing

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2018

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2018).

Administrator changes

readded Al Ameer son • Randykitty • Spartaz
removed Boson • Daniel J. Leivick • Efe • Esanchez7587 • Fred Bauder • Garzo • Martijn Hoekstra • Orangemike

Interface administrator changes

removedDeryck Chan

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, the Mediation Committee is now closed and will no longer be accepting case requests.
  • A request for comment is in progress to determine whether members of the Bot Approvals Group should satisfy activity requirements in order to remain in that role.
  • A request for comment is in progress regarding whether to change the administrator inactivity policy, such that administrators "who have made no logged administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped". Currently, the policy states that administrators "who have made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least 12 months may be desysopped".
  • A proposal has been made to temporarily restrict editing of the Main Page to interface administrators in order to mitigate the impact of compromised accounts.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

  • In late November, an attacker compromised multiple accounts, including at least four administrator accounts, and used them to vandalize Wikipedia. If you have ever used your current password on any other website, you should change it immediately. Sharing the same password across multiple websites makes your account vulnerable, especially if your password was used on a website that suffered a data breach. As these incidents have shown, these concerns are not pure fantasies.
  • Wikipedia policy requires administrators to have strong passwords. To further reinforce security, administrators should also consider enabling two-factor authentication. A committed identity can be used to verify that you are the true account owner in the event that your account is compromised and/or you are unable to log in.

Obituaries

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December 2018 GOCE newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors December 2018 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the December 2018 GOCE newsletter. Here is what's been happening since the August edition.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the August blitz (results), which focused on Requests and the oldest backlog month. Of the twenty editors who signed up, eleven editors recorded 37 copy edits.

For the September drive (results), of the twenty-three people who signed up, nineteen editors completed 294 copy edits.

Our October blitz (results) focused on Requests, geography, and food and drink articles. Of the fourteen people who signed up, eleven recorded a total of 57 copy edits.

For the November drive (results), twenty-two people signed up, and eighteen editors recorded 273 copy edits. This helped to bring the backlog to a six-month low of 825 articles.

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A Star Is Born soundtrack

Hi AB, can I request your eyes on the credit section of A Star Is Born and see if it can be rearranged better and divided into subsection? I cannot seem to find a way to do it :( —IB [ Poke ] 14:01, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@IndianBio: To be honest, most of the time I create a Personnel section, I do so as a simple list (like the current version) unless I see credits in another format. Sometimes production personnel are separated out. I do notice some of the entries need to be converted to lower case after the endashes, but otherwise, we might need to look at the album's liner notes to see if any subsections or other ways to organize the names would be appropriate. ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:01, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of A Tremor of Bliss for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article A Tremor of Bliss 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/A Tremor of Bliss 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. Qwirkle (talk) 21:03, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Weather machine scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the Weather machine article has been scheduled to be rerun as today's featured article for January 6, 2019 (previously run on January 6, 2014). Please check the article needs no amendments. If you're interested in editing the main page text, you're welcome to do so at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 6, 2019, but note that a coordinator will trim the lead to around 1000 characters anyway, so you aren't obliged to do so.

We also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors on the day before and the day of this TFA. Thanks! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:17, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jimfbleak: Thanks for the heads up! ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:13, 8 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

Precious
Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:27, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the article! - Looks like they pick the TFA by the precious date ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:15, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Eric Clapton's Happy Xmas Album

The interview I quoted from is all about the album - Clapton explains the way the album was made, and tells interesting (IMHO) stories about all the songs. It isn't "too much content from a single source" because everything I wrote is taken from one 50-minute video. Since I am obviously not English, you're free to rewrite those contents in a more stylisitically correct way, but I very frankly can't see the point in removing all of it. Ugo1970 (talk) 18:01, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I stand by my edit -- there was way too much content being sourced by one interview. ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:05, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:The Conjugal Conjecture

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Swapped draft with mainspace redirect, this isn't necessary.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:The Matrimonial Momentum

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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2018)

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Nuuk is the capital and largest city of Greenland. Pictured is the Nuussuaq district in Nuuk, with Sermitsiaq mountain in the background.
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Nuuk

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This Month in GLAM: November 2018

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Headlines
  • Albania report: Wiki Photo Walk Albania 2018; Wiki Loves Monuments Albania
  • Armenia report: Singing Wikipedia; Photographs by Vahan Kochar
  • Brazil report: Diverse milestones for the Brazilian community
  • Denmark report: Intercontinental digitisation efforts
  • Estonia report: Making contacts both internationally and in Estonia
  • Finland report: Art and edit-a-thons
  • France report: Bibliothèque publique d’information; 3D museum collections on Wikimedia Commons
  • Indonesia report: Conserving and digitizing texts in West Sumatra
  • Macedonia report: Wiki Training at National and University Library "St. Clement of Ohrid"
  • New Zealand report: Equity, Wikidata, and the New York Times
  • Norway report: Collaboration with The National Archives of Norway
  • Philippines report: Wiki Loves Art
  • Poland report: Archival image uploads, student collaborations and international projects
  • Serbia report: Photo finish of the WIR's
  • Sweden report: The Swedish Performing Arts Agency; Library data starts to take shape; Learning Wikipedia at the Archives; Wikimedia Commons Data Roundtripping
  • UK report: Sum of All Astrolabes
  • USA report: Wikidata Workshop at Pratt School of Information; Wikidata Presentation for the New York Technical Services Librarians; Wikipedia Asian Month; Cleveland Park Wikipedia Edit-a-thon; Historic Ivy Hill Cemetery Workshop
  • Wikipedia Library report: Books & Bytes–Issue 31, October–November 2018
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  • Calendar: December's GLAM events
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"Shallow" (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song)

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Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article "Shallow" (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper song) has been completed.

In the Development and Composition section this sentence, "A slow-burning, country[19] and folk pop[20] power ballad, "Shallow" features instrumentation mainly from Nelson's acoustic guitar and Cooper's piano with Cooper and Gaga trading verses." In the film, as I recall, Cooper is only shown playing guitar on stage. If so "Cooper's" piano should read "Gaga's" piano. I'll leave this to you.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:52, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Twofingered Typist: Thanks for reviewing the article. ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:53, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@IndianBio: I just wanted to make sure you saw the above comment. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:53, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes AB I saw it. Thanks for submitting it and I do apologize again for the nuisance I created around it. Still feel bad about throwing a fit :( —IB [ Poke ] 21:00, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@IndianBio: Don't feel bad, we all have our moments of frustration. Just keep in mind, I'm never purposely trying to annoy you, I promise. Consider me a fan of your work, just trying to collaborate and help when I can. :) ---Another Believer (Talk) 00:40, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the kind words AB :) —IB [ Poke ] 13:40, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Take part in a survey

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Hi Another Believer

We're working to measure the value of Wikipedia in economic terms. We want to ask you some questions about how you value being able to edit Wikipedia.

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One-sentence articles

Nomination of I Remember Warsaw for deletion

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File:I Remember Warsaw - Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra.jpg

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This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2018)

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A bookworm / beetle grub found inside a paperback book, showing some of the damage it has wrought
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Bookworm (insect)

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Category:Patriot Prayer has been nominated for discussion

Category:Patriot Prayer, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Bearcat (talk) 19:59, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13

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Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:

  • Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
  • I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
    • Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
    • If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
  • Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes, Issue 31

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The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 31, October – Novemeber 2018

  • OAWiki
  • Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
  • Global branches update
  • Bytes in brief

French version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!
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January 2019 at Women in Red

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January 2019, Volume 5, Issue 1, Numbers 104-108


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A barnstar for you!

The Teamwork Barnstar
Now that every episode of Fear the Walking Dead so far has been published into articles, I want to award you this barnstar as a way of saying thank you for doing your bit in helping me out with the articles. Go raibh míle maith agat! The Optimistic One (talk) 16:14, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@The Optimistic One: Wow, thanks! But, really, you're the one who put in more work, so I should be thanking you. :) ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:16, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I know I created them but you done some work on them as well, you deserve this! The Optimistic One (talk) 16:18, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

... I Lose Myself moved to draftspace

As per discussion on talk page. Onel5969 TT me 17:10, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please move the draft back into the main space. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:20, 22 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2018)

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A diagram that includes the scalp
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Scalp

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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.6

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Newsletter Nr 6, 2018-12-25, for WikiProject Genealogy (and Wikimedia genealogy project on Meta)

Participation:

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Now 100 supporters

At 3 December 2018, the list of users who support the potential Wikimedia genealogy project, reached 100!

A demo wiki is up and running!

You can already now try out the demo for a genealogy wiki at https://tools.wmflabs.org/genealogy/wiki/Main_Page and try out the functions. You will find parts of the 18th Pharao dynasty and other records submitted by the 7 first users, and it would be great if you would add some records.

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

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Happy editing,
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Proposed deletion of File:NBBJ - logo.png

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Unused logo with no article used, it's also can't move to commons because of an unused logo will be deleted as of out of project scope.

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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Hello Another Believer, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019.
Happy editing,
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Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

@Accesscrawl: Thank you, and happy holidays! ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:34, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Patriot Prayer

Template:Patriot Prayer has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 16:47, 26 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2018)

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Poster for a production of Boucicault's farce Contempt of Court, c. 1879. From the Library of Congress.
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Farce

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Best wishes for a happy 2019

The Hill Country (c.1913) by Walter Elmer Schofield, Woodmere Art Museum.
Thank you for your contributions toward making Wikipedia a better and more accurate place.
BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:13, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:41, 31 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the 2019 WikiCup!

Hello and Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year!

Another Believer,
Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! North America1000 14:28, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you! ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:20, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

One-sentence articles revisited

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I respectfully request that you cease creating articles which contain only one sentence. You have the experience on Wikipedia and the education outside of it to write an article of substance, fully sourced and consistent with Wikipedia rules and documentation. Why you have chosen to avoid doing so is unknown to me. Such a method amounts to piling unnecessary work onto the shoulders of busy editors. The most important currency we have is time. I would like to see editors spend their time more wisely rather than be smothered by pointless busywork. Cheers, mate. It's a good day to turn over a new maple leaf, eh?
Vmavanti (talk) 20:04, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Vmavanti: What work is being created for other busy editors? If you could be specific about some task that this editor or another willing editor can add to their article creation process and thereby reduce the burden that you claim exists, that would be helpful information. Is there some guideline or policy being violated by the creation of these new stub articles? Many excellent articles have begun as very short stubs. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:00, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Come on. Don't call me a stalker. On what page should I have brought up this subject?
Vmavanti (talk) 00:25, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I thought I was talking to AnotherBeliever. I don't know if you are breaking any rules or not. That's not the point. I work on the jazz Cleanup Listing which is released every Tuesday here. Most of the work is done by me and another guy. There are nearly 4500 articles that require serious work. This backlog goes back ten years. There are at least two approaches: to clean up problems and to prevent them from recurring. This latter role necessarily involves a degree of correction. One correction I would like to make is encouraging people to avoid creating stubs. An experienced editor, a mature, educated, responsible adult knows that a lot of effort goes into producing an article of substance. It's easy to create an article, add one sentence, then maybe a source, or not, then leave it to others to do the rest. I don't know where you grew up, but where I grew up that's called lazy and irresponsible. One doesn't volunteer others for work, particularly if one is capable of doing more. I'm not saying it has to be perfect. But is one sentence your idea of a good article?
It's hard for me to take a comment like this seriously: "If you could be specific about some task that this editor or another willing editor can add". Yes, how about adding content? Is one sentence your idea of adequate content? The most recent Cleanup Listing (Jan 1, 2019) has six articles under "Context needed". They were created by AnotherBeliever. Every one of those articles is one sentence long. The infoboxes have one or two entries. Why isn't the point I'm making obvious? I'm getting this information from the Cleanup Listing, by the way, not from stalking Talk pages, and frankly that's a dumb, paranoid, insulting accusation. One sentence doesn't cut it. If someone handed you a broom to sweep a floor, how much of that floor would you sweep? Six inches? I'm genuinely curious about how this has become an acceptable practice on Wikipedia. I'm being generous by calling these articles inchoate. I can think of less flattering words. Either do more to give beginning articles a good foundation or don't create articles. Don't create crap. Capece?
Vmavanti (talk) 00:57, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Vmavanti, Jonesey95 was not calling you a talk page stalker, they were self-identifying as a talk page stalker. I acknowledge your request, but I won't commit to not creating stubs. Also, you make it sound like I create sub-stubs about jazz often, when really I just created a handful of stubs for albums recently nominated for Grammy Awards after viewing the list of nominees. Not a big deal, in my opinion, and these articles will be fleshed out at some point. ---Another Believer (Talk) 01:23, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the clarification. But what's the problem? I have a ten year old backlog of almost 5000 articles which someone created, probably thinking they "will be fleshed out at some point". It's the old "If not me, who?" and "If not now, when"? Woulda, coulda, shoulda, as a friend of mine used to say years ago.
Vmavanti (talk) 04:55, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I'd be glad for some support

Talk:District of Columbia (until 1871). As I see it, WP had no article on the District of Columbia, and there should be one. No other article does it. It's this sort of thing that gets me quite discouraged.

Also Talk:Encyclopaedia Britannica#Demise of 244-year-old Britannica in 2012, but that one I’ve given up on. deisenbe (talk) 19:44, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'll let others decide, but I've posted requests for feedback at WikiProjects United States and Washington, D.C. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 00:35, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi and thanks for your help. I am just getting to learn my way around and wasn't finished with the wiki page information you deleted. I was still putting information under the correct headings and making sure all my cited links were correct.Asr1014 (talk) 00:55, 5 January 2019 (UTC))[reply]

@Asr1014: Sure, just please don't continue to use the official website as a source. Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 01:33, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Vmavanti: You might want to take a look at this article as well. ---Another Believer (Talk) 01:33, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
What about it?
Vmavanti (talk) 01:34, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thought you might like to see the expansion of one of the stubs mentioned above. ---Another Believer (Talk) 18:23, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I was unaware that official website are not sources and will replace with citation from outside publications.(Asr1014 (talk) 01:37, 5 January 2019 (UTC))[reply]

@Asr1014: Yes, please do! Sources like newspaper and journal/magazine articles are acceptable. ---Another Believer (Talk) 01:39, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Liberty Bell

Hello Another Believer ! As you know, I'm trying to translate the article of the Portland's bell and I've got few questions / remarks :

  • About the fact that the bell is 25-year guarantee against breakage. According to the reference n°2 (Bell cost $8,000), I understand that the guarantee is for the first replica, not the second.
  • About the Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs (reference n°10), I don't find the bell on the list...
  • I can't access freely to the reference n°5 (Chicago Tribune), can you give me copy or an extract from the article? It could help me more :)
  • Do you have any informations about how the decision to buy a Liberty Bell replica in 1962 was made?

Merci d'avance ! --TaupeGun (talk) 09:10, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@TaupeGun: Thanks for your work on the French article, and for your comments here. I wish I had better answers. ---Another Believer (Talk) 15:50, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Conde Edmond Dantès: Wanted to make sure you saw these comments as well (since you worked on the PT Wikipedia article), in case you are able to view of the sources. ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:16, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bummer, I remember the bell being listed on the Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs website, but now I'm wondering if this sentence should be removed since the website does not currently list the bell as a memorial. ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:24, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Good news, the information can still be accessed with the internet archive ! --TaupeGun (talk) 17:12, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@TaupeGun: Good find! I've updated the article accordingly. ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:20, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've found this : according to this source from the Portland website, the second replica was located at the Terry Schrunk Park before. What do you think? --TaupeGun (talk) 18:18, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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