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Messages from August 4, 2014 to September 25, 2014

Vimeo?

I saw on a page in my watchlist that you reverted an edit because "vimeo is an unreliable source". I'm not too familiar with Vimeo and I'm wondering why, given the popularity of YouTube citations and news articles making use of YouTube. -bleak_fire_ (talk) 04:51, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Vimeo is self-published like YouTube. That doesn't mean that it's always bad (videos by news organizations or notable experts are okay), but they should generally be avoided. I tend to be especially cautious with PC-protected BLPs. --Jakob (talk) 13:22, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Porter St.

I don't understand why you and some others remove all the content relating to PS's "End of America." This is one of the most interesting things about him, and whether his predictions have come true is also some-thing I think most readers would want to know. If the writing is POV or sloppy, it can be cleaned up. I only found what I wanted by looking at old, deleted material -- and that's not the way an encyclopaedia should be used. Kdammers (talk) 06:26, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

@Kdammers: You're talking about the Porter Stansberry article, right? I didn't actually look at the content too carefully. What happened was, I accidentally clicked the rollback button and reverted the removal of content. I then noticed my misclick and reverted it. See the page history of the article. That said, the references provided were in fact broken. --Jakob (talk) 13:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Frozen Run

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Chalcogen

Why have you rerated this article as GA? You did not leave an explanation at the talk page. It should never have been rated as GA in the first place.Axiosaurus (talk) 12:10, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

It passed the Good Article Nominations process. Just as it is against policy to unilaterally promote articles to GA without review, it is also against policy to unilaterally demote them. I have nothing more to say about this article. Discuss it with WT:ELEM instead; they are experts, I am only an amateur. --Jakob (talk) 12:15, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Sure will buddy!

I started a GAR at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Chalcogen/1. Double sharp (talk) 12:29, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

@Double sharp: Could you or one of the other people competent in the subject matter try to fix it according to Axiosaurus's suggestions, please? This kind of work is way beyond my limited knowledge of chemistry. --Jakob (talk) 12:34, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

I'll go look in Greenwood & Earnshaw and attempt to cover it better. (P.S. In my experience, if you read through that kind of textbook, your limited knowledge of chemistry will become much less limited! You ought to try it for one chapter and see what happens. I've done so myself for groups I'm not so familiar with.) Double sharp (talk) 13:01, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Header

You said at tea house you need to refresh for comments added by "Join This Discussion" to show up. I refreshed, but it didn't help. Naytz (talk) 20:05, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

@Naytz: Perhaps you didn't save your comment. --Jakob (talk) 20:31, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

I did, but thanks anyway. :) Naytz (talk) 20:05, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)

Just wondered why you changed "BC" to "BCE", or, if it was done just to be consistent with the few other dates there, why "BCE" to begin with. CorinneSD (talk) 01:25, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

It was for consistency. I tend to prefer BCE since it's secular. --Jakob (talk) 01:28, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Lake James (Indiana)

Hello Jakob. Thanks for reviewing Lake James. I can resolve the spelling for Kimery Island (vs. Kemery Island) when I get home tomorrow (Thursday) night. (The island is discussed in the Description section.) Hopefully, I just did not spell it right in the infobox, but two sources may have spelled the same island differently from each other. Also, I'm not sure if I will get any help on new pictures soon. What did you think of the Bledsoe's postcard? Any additional areas that could be improved? TwoScars (talk) 01:29, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Looks fine to me. I think it can be passed now, since the pictures I requested are by no means a requirement for GA. --Jakob (talk) 01:34, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. It is Kemery—that has been fixed. TwoScars (talk) 21:41, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Spruce Run (Little Fishing Creek)

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DYK for Lake Chillisquaque

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link to meta petition

Thanks for linking to that! I've added my signature and posted the link on my user and talk pages (are you OK with me copying your text? If not I can change it). Double sharp (talk) 12:36, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

@Double sharp: Sure, that's fine. Thanks for signing the petition! --Jakob (talk) 13:24, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mahanoy Creek

The article Mahanoy Creek you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mahanoy Creek for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Jamesx12345 -- Jamesx12345 (talk) 22:43, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

@Jamesx12345: Thanks for passing the article. I took a lot of pictures (eight I think) of Mahanoy Creek on Monday, but I haven't uploaded them to Commons yet. I'll add some of them in when I do so. --Jakob (talk) 23:07, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I couldn't really find any on Google images, even non-free ones, so a bunch of images would be great. Thanks, James^x12345 09:32, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Blackberry Run

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DYK nomination of Big Run (East Branch Fishing Creek)

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DYK for Sullivan Branch

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Deep Creek (Pennsylvania)

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DYK for Big Run (East Branch Fishing Creek)

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:03, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Stony Brook (Mehoopany Creek)

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DYK for Deep Creek (Pennsylvania)

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Fallow Hollow

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Regarding your review of Template:Did you know nominations/Knockeen Portal Tomb

Hello, thank you for reviewing this article. You stated that you could not find three or so items to be sourced, so I have provided the refs on the DYK template with instructions to find the cited items, and the third paragraph you asked about was cited to the same cite as the forth, only that I had split the paragraphs, so I have fixed that too. Cheers o/ ~ R.T.G 13:49, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello again, you have asked me to put any quoted phrases in quotation marks, but the thing is that the whole article is in my own words, so I checked MOS:QUOTE to see if there was some way that I was supposed to quote individual words, but there wasn't... So I'm not sure... ~ R.T.G 16:33, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

@RTG: Since it is in fact you're own wording, then it is slightly promotional language. Perhaps "internationally well-known" would be better. --Jakob (talk) 16:37, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Renown:- "the condition of being known or talked about by many people" (Google), it is actually the concise term for what you have suggested to replace it with. But isn't the nature of the prose irrelevant to DYK review these days anyway? Apparently it is now only citation and copyvio that is relevant. ~ R.T.G 16:51, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

I changed the hook so that it just says "internationally renowned". I think that sorts it as it is sourced "of international renown"? ~ R.T.G 06:53, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Blackberry Run

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:03, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Jakec

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DYK for Fallow Hollow

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DYK for Huntington Creek (Pennsylvania)

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DYK for Beaver Run (Catawissa Creek)

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A Suggestion Please

Hello Jakob, you helped me on July 30 by telling me how to contact StarryGrandma via useremail. She has been editing my AFC and I have responded with information she requested.

We both confirmed that useremail was not working by sending to ourselves, to each other and to third parties. We then agreed to communicate on my Draft talk page, Draft talk:Janice (Jan) Richmond Lourie. StarryGrandma transferred all our previous communication to that location.

She is a conscientious and considerate editor. It is now five weeks since I have had any communication from StarryGrandma and I am concerned. Will you please help me again by suggesting a next step?Janvermont (talk) 19:38, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Janvermont, it seems that StarryGrandma hasn't edited in a month. My advice would either be to send her another email or to leave a message on her talk page, so she'll see it when she returns to editing. --Jakob (talk) 19:50, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, Jacob, for the prompt response. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janvermont (talk • contribs) 13:13, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Mahanoy Creek

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DYK for Mehoopany Creek

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DYK for Mine Gap Run

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DYK for Fisher Run

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Your GA nomination of Kettle Creek (Pennsylvania)

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The article Kettle Creek (Pennsylvania) you nominated as a good article has passed. Well done!! If you would like to further improve it (maybe shoot for FA), I left a suggestion on the article's talk page for continuing improvements. Folklore1 (talk) 19:17, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I might try for FA at some point. --Jakob (talk) 13:18, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Province of Palermo QPQ

Hi Jakec, can you put the tick again on the nomination page? After your review a few issues were raised which have been cleared now. Thanks.--Skr15081997 (talk) 16:21, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Kettle Creek (Pennsylvania)

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DYK for Towanda Creek

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