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Erciyes

Jo-Jo, I'm sorry it took me so long. I've been kind of busy. I wanted to ask you about a few things:

1) In the second-to-last paragraph in Erciyes#Local is the following sentence:

• Both domes are formed by rhyodacite and accompanied by pyroclastic deposits.

Shouldn't the first part read:

• Both domes are formed of rhyodacite...?

2) The third paragraph in Erciyes#Petrology is:

• The dacites taken from the summit display a noticeable variability in their composition and texture, and their temperatures varied between 734–989 °C (1,353–1,812 °F).

I know "their temperatures" refers to the temperature of the rocks at the time they were formed, but because the first half of this sentence is about recently-found rocks and is in present tense, the switch to past tense in the second half of the sentence sounds a little odd. Isn't the temperature of the rocks at the time of formation related to the variability in composition and texture? If this is true, then the connection/relationship could be shown in the construction of the sentence. You could attempt to do that, or explain the relationship to me and I would attempt the re-wording. If you don't want to do that, you could just change the last part of the sentence to:

• ...with their temperatures at formation varying between 734–989 °C (1,353–1,812 °F).

That way, you avoid using a past tense verb ("varied") and the switch in mid-sentence from present to past tense.

3) In the middle of the first paragraph in Erciyes#Glaciation is the following sentence:

• A late Holocene glacial advance extended down to 3,850 metres (12,630 ft);[3] dating of these moraines has yielded ages of 1,200 ± 300 years ago.

Shouldn't the last phrase be 1,200 ± 300 million years ago or 1,200 ± 300 thousand years ago? I thought 1,200 years ago didn't seem very long ago.

Well, that's all.  – Corinne (talk) 04:12, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Greetings back then, Corinne. Made the first two changes, but #3 is right as some glacial advances took place during that time. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:31, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Narrative Capital

Dear Jo-Jo Eumerus: You deleted a page called Narrative Capital but since the lack of third party references the company has been mentioned numerous times for an upcoming project on a Super Bowl star as well as the release of the film Lion.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: New England Patriots Super Bowl Hero's Life Story to Be Told in Biopic (Exclusive) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/malcolm-butler-biopic-will-tell-life-story-super-bowl-hero-975885 FOX NEWS: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2017/02/15/super-bowl-hero-malcolm-butler-is-getting-movie-made-about-his-life.html Lion: http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-oscar-movie-financing-20170216-story.html http://www.imdb.com/company/co0512601/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtromba1323 (talk • contribs) 15:44, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Greetings, @Mtromba1323: These sources are either unreliable (IMDB) or mention the company only in passing. We'd need sources more focused on the company. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:19, 1 March 2017 (UTC)

Eiko Shimamiya

Hello. I noticed that you deleted this article following an AFD discussion. However, from what I understand, she meets a number of criteria listed in WP:NMUSIC: #2 (while it was mentioned in the AfD that her highest charting single was at #39, it was still on the Oricon chart, the de-facto main music chart of Japan; the same can be said of her other singles and albums), #5 (she released three albums on a major label, the label that today is known as NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan), and #10 (she performed theme songs for the Higurashi When They Cry franchise). In addition, this page has a number of interviews with her; it appears that this website is a reliable source. I was unable to participate in the AfD discussion as I had only learned of the discussion today. But in any case, would it be fine for you if I take the (now-deleted) article to deletion review? I feel like the arguments I'm raising here weren't taken up during the discussion. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 07:42, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

Greetings, Narutolovehinata5. I am not familiar enough with that stuff to know whether it'd merit restoration; I'd like to know what @Eggishorn, John Pack Lambert, Dissident93, and CAPTAIN RAJU: (the !voters of the AfD have to say about this. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:13, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

@Johnpacklambert: Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:14, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

I'm unfamiliar with the reliability of Japanese music sources (unless they relate to video game/anime composers), so it's possible that those interviews could count as one (not all interviews do, it depends more on the website). But even still, how much importance do we give to the fact that she got a certain number on Oricon, over something like a well written article about her? ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 16:21, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

As the nominator, I should chime in. I'm not sure at this point why I stumbled on Eiko Shimamiya, but when I did, I noticed that the articles about her and her music had the appearance of a WP:WALLEDGARDEN. All her articles seemed to connect to each other only, and there were few to no connections from outside similar articles.

I raised this concern on Wikiproject Japan and got no response. I also contacted two members of the Wikiproject Japan Music Task Force and got a negative reply from @Dissident93: (and thank you for that) and no reply from the other.

On looking further into the sources given for Eiko, I saw the given sources were dodgy, at best. As I said in the AfD nomination: Sourced to a music school's webpage where she is apparently a teacher, a blog, her Twitter, the webpage of her production group, and Anime News Network. WP:BEFORE turns up other blogs, music lyrics and download sites, and social media.

When I interpret SNG's for guidance in AfD discussions, I am aware that they indicate some-one "...may be notable..." and still expect to see at least some RS coverage. Especially considering that she did reach a music chart, I was expecting that there would be some independent coverage, coverage I did not see in my searches.

Turning to @Narutolovehinata5:'s points, I had seen the chart position and the albums, but no reviews or profiles or any other coverage that usually accompanies a notable musician. I had not seen the interview page and I'm not going to comment on it. I would not oppose DRV if an admin thinks that those are enough to reconsider them.

I will also include the caveat that, despite my effort to comply with WP:BEFORE, I am hampered by not being able to effectively do anything more than the most basic search using Japanese characters. I should also note that, having nominated the artist, I have PROD'ed the basically-unsourced song and single articles. User:Narutolovehinata5 may be able to create a good article for the artist and her music out of the current walled garden, complete with navigation template, that seems to lead nowhere. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 16:40, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

• @Eggishorn, Johnpacklambert, Dissident93, and CAPTAIN RAJU: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2017 March 6#Eiko Shimamiya Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 17:29, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

D.Gray-man image review

Thanks for the review. I did all the changes you told me. However, I'm afraid Hoshino's image is clashing with the cosplayers. Do you think it would be better if I moved Hoshino back to the production section and change the caption to something like "Manga author Katsura Hoshino based several concepts of D.Gray-man from her one-shot Zone. What do you think? Regards.Tintor2 (talk) 21:34, 6 March 2017 (UTC)

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/Lawrence Kopp

Hello,

I'd like to submit to you a revised copy for a page you flagged for removal.

Can you please take a look - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaroldJohnson21/sandbox?

Thank you HaroldJohnson21 (talk) 14:45, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

@HaroldJohnson21: I'm sorry, but that's far too much material without sources. I also think that these sources are merely driveby mentions and don't make the topic notable. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:14, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

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Deleted John Cunyus wikipedia page

Please reconsider the deletion of this page in light of the new information cited below, establishing notability and providing independent sources.

Third Party References to The Latin Testament Project and John Cunyus

General Information www.Searchlight-Press.com www.JohnCunyus.com

Scholarly Interaction with Latin Testament Project 1. The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Roczniki Humanistyczne 2013 | 61 | 5: Neofilologia | 7-27 English Equivalents of dicere in Prose Translations of Jerome’s Psalters Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-dafedf7b-e22c-4bda-81e0-13ac5677a9bd

2. The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Adeptus 2016 | 7 | 84-101 The soul in the mediaeval Psalter Lis Kinga http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-101150b3-9461-4778-b43a-21f4e3c66419

3. The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Roczniki Humanistyczne 2013 | 61 | 5: Neofilologia | 27-45 Principles of Equivalent Selection in English Prose Translations of Jerome’s Psalters: A Study Based on exaudire and videre Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik , Jerzy Wójcik http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-258b203d-3635-4357-aa2b-9287c55e6445

4. Linguistics Beyond And Within 1 (2015), 152-168 "Is there a method in this… madness? On variance between two manuscript copies of a Middle English Psalter" Kinga Lis John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

http://lingbaw.com/2015/Kinga-Lis.pdf

5. "Young Minds. Old Questions in Linguistics" Proceedings of the Fourth Central European Conference in Linguistics for Postgraduate Students Edited by Anna Bondaruk; Anna Bloch-Rozmej; Wojciech Malec; Ewelina Mokrosz; Sławomir Zdziebko http://cecils.webclass.co/proceedings/CECILS4.pdf

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Jgc searchlight (talk) 16:30, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

@Jgc searchlight: Most of these sources either just mention him in passing or do not look like reliable sources to me, so they probably don't justify restoring the page. @DGG, Tokyogirl79, and K.e.coffman:? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:43, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Seriously, six independently-verifiable citations in scholary publications, four newspaper articles in English, and a review by the New Testament professor at Southeastern Seminary don't "look like reliable sources"? What else could I provide? Jgc searchlight (talk) 17:09, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Many of these citations are too short to justify notability. I've also asked the users who !voted in favour of deletion to assess these sources. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:45, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

I agree with what Jo-Jo Eumerus said above. It's necessary to actually read the references, not just list them. The first group are mere mentions, where the author of the article includes his translation of the Book of Psalms, among others. And I see that the author of those articles seems to be the only person who quotes it. They are not independent. One review is insufficient. Thenewspaper articles are local, and therefore not sufficient discriminating. The subsequent group just proves the existence of his translation of Psalms. DGG ( talk ) 19:44, 12 March 2017 (UTC)

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Hartslane page

Hi Jo-Jo Eumerus, last year you deleted the page Hartslane that I had created. I have now modified the content of that page and published it again. Please see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartslane Happy to hear your feedback — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crissy 00 (talk • contribs) 16:22, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Greetings, @Crissy 00: That page needs more inline citations and spaces before punctuation to begin with, I'd say. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:24, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

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Bah

RE Guardian-list, I spend 5 mins working out how to do it, and you pre-empt me! Only in death does duty end (talk) 15:57, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Ha! Practice makes perfect, even if it was last done one or two years ago. I was thinking of simply deleting the page but seeing as only the list is the issue, blanking made more sense. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:59, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

I was going to G12 the guardian one (which is basically the list and nothing else) and stub the other two (as they have more content than just the list) but I will hold off if you are dealing with it. Only in death does duty end (talk) 16:03, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

Got the other lists as well. 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction per the comment is an excerpt so it might be OK but you can offer it for review anyway. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:13, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

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On 19 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Licancabur, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Licancabur volcano (pictured) was venerated by the Atacamenos? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Licancabur. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Licancabur), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Excellent work! Feel free to add it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:39, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! So done. Imma be busy outside of South America for a while, though. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 11:45, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

File:Example.gif & File:Example.png

Hi Jo-Jo Eumerus. Could you please explain why these files should be moved to Commons? I reviewed your request, but they seem to serve a local-only purpose. Regards, FASTILY 20:41, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Greetings, @Fastily:. So that people on other projects can use them if they so like. Philosophically, I am of the opinion that all Commons suitable files should be on Commons. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:43, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

I agree that all Commons-suitable files belong on Commons, but is it really a good idea to move these? They clearly serve a purpose specific to enwp, deterring local uploaders from using undescriptive filenames. Regards, FASTILY 21:02, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

I think it is. Being on Commons does not harm the purpose of deterring enwiki users from bad uploads. Maybe the folks at Commons will start using them as well, too. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:05, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

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FAC request

Hi. When you get the chance, could you give my FAC an image review? One was already given, but the coordinator asked for someone more experienced to do it. If you can't, please reply. Thanks. MCMLXXXIX 22:31, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Sure! I'll look at it tomorrow afternoon Swiss time, I believe. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 23:21, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

Huh. Seems like Nikkimaria preceded me on this one. I'll leave it to her. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:01, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

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The article Ciomadul you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ciomadul 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 Tisquesusa -- Tisquesusa (talk) 20:21, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Lauca (volcano)

Hi Jo-Jo, I came across a set of nice publications about Lauca, so I decided to expand the article slightly and added an infobox and navbox. I rearranged the references, I don't know if you like it like this, but it separates the refs and bibliography where it's possible to have different pages from each pub. Also corrected the name of one author to Wörner (the Spanish have problems with German umlauts, but this appears his correct surname). Your production of GAs requires some assistance imho and happy to do it. When we can build a nice GA for a Colombian volcano together, give me a shout. Keep up the good work! PS: I saw you are Swiss, are you a geologist yourself? Swiss geologists are the best in the world... Cheers, Tisquesusa (talk) 19:32, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Greetings, @Tisquesusa: You may be surprised, but I am not a geologist at all (but yes, Swiss); biology student interested in volcanology. I'll admit that Colombian volcanoes aren't really my interest (Chimborazo has too many sources, although Atacazo and Antisana are on my long term work list), but maybe later. Regarding Lauca (volcano), the accessdate parameters don't seem to work, though. PS: Your GA reviews for La Reforma (caldera) and Ciomadul need completion. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:04, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Ha, we share opposites and similarities then. I like biology and write quite extensively about the biodiversity of Colombia, while being a geologist. I passed both articles for GA. My review may be more FA-focused (a GA I see as an almost FA), so based on your improvements I passed both. Yes, the accessdates do not show up when no url is given, but when it will be the date can be edited. Edited Tungurahua as well and added my own photo (panorama) of it. Unfortunately I was 1 week too early... I have a Colombian volcanic article in prep (apart from so many more), which ties in nicely with Fuegino (where I started looking for and downloading pubs when you asked me on my talk page for GA probability). So I may add those pubs to Fuegino so others can review that. Cheers, Tisquesusa (talk) 20:25, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

@Tisquesusa: Um. I'll admit, that La Reforma (caldera) going from {{[[Template:Some improvements have been made but most of the issues are not solved, especially the lack of coherence between dates. In geological literature that may happen due to different dating methods, areas, etc. But it's the task of a writer to summarise and streamline those differences, not just simply replicating every age and create confusion where that isn't there in the first place. Infobox is marginal, article is just not ready yet. I have made a very detailed list of points of which some were addressed, but the most important ones still stand.|Some improvements have been made but most of the issues are not solved, especially the lack of coherence between dates. In geological literature that may happen due to different dating methods, areas, etc. But it's the task of a writer to summarise and streamline those differences, not just simply replicating every age and create confusion where that isn't there in the first place. Infobox is marginal, article is just not ready yet. I have made a very detailed list of points of which some were addressed, but the most important ones still stand.]]}} to "pass" with no intermediary comment is a bit surprising. So were the issues addressed after all? Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:56, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

External Development Summit

You closed Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:External Development Summit (XDS). It appears that this was re-created in what looks to be a very similar draft at Draft:External Development Summit (and which was previously moved from Draft:External Development Summit (XDS)). I would guess that the new author, like the old ones, has a WP:COI. Would you mind taking a look to see if it qualifies for a WP:G4? --Izno (talk) 00:30, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

The drafts are very different in text. The sources do not appear to match, either. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:48, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Kelso Wash

See Talk:Kelso Wash--Dthomsen8 (talk) 12:57, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Responded. Disambig links would be an issue for {{Dablinks|date=March 2017}}. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:01, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

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Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:30, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Protecting template redirects

Twinkle's addition of protection templates seems to be breaking redirects. They should probably be placed manually after the redirect. (I don't think meant to protect that for 50 hours, either...) — Train2104 (t • c) 16:36, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Argh. That's a bug with protection templates and redirects I had forgotten about... Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:37, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

No, they should not. For redirects, we never use the {{pp}} family - a different set of templates are used: {{R semi-protected}}; {{R template-protected}}; {{R fully protected}}, and these always go after the #REDIRECT [[...]], on a new line. Some redirects already have either a {{This is a redirect}} or a {{Redirect category shell}}, and for these, no extra template like {{R semi-protected}} is necessary since it's built-in and protection is detected automatically. Like this.

Also, please don't add {{pp}}-type templates to any template that uses either {{documentation}} or {{collapsible option}}, since these also automatically handle any pp icons that are appropriate. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:52, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

So, never trust Twinkle with redirects or templates with documentation. I'll remember it for the future. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:40, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

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• When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [19]

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• Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [20][21]

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• New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28. Other wikis will get it progressively. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction.
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(Follow up from "Protecting template redirects") Obsolete template/incorrect protection template change requests

Hello J-J. This redirect showed up in the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates today. If you could fix this that would be great. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 14:29, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

It's done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:29, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks. MarnetteD|Talk 18:45, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Hello again. This one now needs updating. I kinda wish they would all show up on the list at once so you could get them in one fell swoop. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 14:50, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Done and split off header. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:53, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

Page deleted?

would you mind telling me why my page was deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Astraontheair (talk • contribs) 05:26, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

Greetings, @Astraontheair:. The page was deleted because according to folks at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Astra (radio personality) it does not mention our inclusion criteria. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:39, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

As you can tell, I'm very new to this. The page was created by someone else and has been active for many years. If there was something that was added or uploaded that is not supposed to be there, I feel it would have been best to just remove that issue. How can we go about un-deleting the page and fixing the issues? Astraontheair (talk) 01:27, 1 April 2017 (UTC)AstraOnTheAir

You can't fix the issue until multiple independent reliable sources exist for the subject. If they do, writing up a draft on Draft:Astra (radio personality) would be the right way to proceed. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:28, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

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Did it yesterday. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:40, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

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• Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed. [25]

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17:53, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Lake Ptolemy

On 5 April 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lake Ptolemy, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a lake larger than Lake Erie existed in the eastern Sahara less than 12,000 years ago? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lake Ptolemy. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Lake Ptolemy), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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