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Happy February!
[edit]1. Oops, I'm a bit late returning your seasonal greetings card, thank you.
2. If you don't want to be bothered by the DPL Bot ever again, you can check WP Preferences → Gadgets → Appearance → "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange", and it does exactly that, which saves a whole load of bother. Personally I try to check every single WL I ever make, but even so a recent attempt to link to the French film production company Eclair failed, leading to Éclair. In fact, have one.
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4. Best wishes for the coming year, MinorProphet (talk) 01:59, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
Proposed revision of Lucia Fairchild Fuller article
[edit]Greetings. I see that you have made contributions to the Lucia Fairchild Fuller article. I have become interested in the topic and have drafted an expansion at my sandbox: User:CornishFourColumns/sandbox. You are welcome to make further edits before I transfer it into the article space. Additionally, I welcome comments that you may have at User:CornishFourColumns/sandbox. Sincerely, CornishFourColumns (talk) 16:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
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Read this (if you're so inclined)
[edit]@Carptrash, Lockley, Beyond My Ken, Smallbones, and Ser Amantio di Nicolao:
Okay, I've been off on one of my major obsessions, but I've been curious about Joseph Harrison Jr. since college. Who the hell WAS this guy? How did he amass the wealth to build one of the grandest city houses in Philadelphia? And how did he assemble such an extraordinary art collection?
So, now I'm feeling sated and happy. No disappointment at even beginning the article (this time). It hits a lot of my buttons -- Philadelphia, Architecture, History of Technology, American Art. I hope you guys -- why are almost all of my wiki friends guys? -- will like it, too.
Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 01:03, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
- Just got back from one of the first jam sessions in a long time. Will check it out tomorrow. Carptrash (talk) 06:56, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
- Ed that is Good Stuff! What a satisfying arc of a career. And of course Harrison was the Iron Worker -- that makes me wonder how he was received by Philadelphia society, a mechanic returning with Russian money. To the 19th century -- (clink!) --Lockley (talk) 09:22, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Lockley: Thanks. Imagine what it was like to live surrounded by those masterpieces.
- My impression is that the REAL Philadelphia snobbery began after the Civil War, a reaction to the Robber Baron mega-fortunes of people like Peter Arrell Brown Widener. Of course, he was a crook, with a net worth at death of $27 to $29 billion (in 1999 dollars). Still, all three of his children married into Old Philadelphia families.
- Directly across Rittenhouse Square from Harrison lived Fairman Rogers, a friend of Thomas Eakins and architect Frank Furness. Rogers's sister married Furness's brother, and Furness expanded Rogers's city house. Rogers taught engineering at Penn, so I suspect he appreciated the value of Harrison's inventions.
- Best, BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 22:17, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
Some Building Research Help
[edit]Hi BoringHistoryGuy. I'm doing some research for the American Philosophical Society on the origin of some of our buildings. I was researching the Library Hall and the preceding buildings. I found some information on Wilson Brothers & Company about the Drexel Building which was incredibly helpful. However, it was lacking sources for me to verify the information. I saw that you made the edit and was hoping you could point me in the direction of where you found this information. --CfoxAPS (talk) 01:27, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
- @CfoxAPS: Hello, Craig Fox. I started this article more than a decade ago, when I was much less scrupulous about citing sources. Much of the information came from a lecture by George Thomas in the mid-1980s (when he was still at Penn). Thomas compared Drexel Brothers' 10-story expansion hemming in 3 sides of the bank next door with what Donald Trump did to a modest Atlantic City bungalow, whose owner refused to sell out for his casino's parking garage.
- Little has been written about the Wilson Brothers, but Thomas (at CivicVisions) and Jeff Cohen (at Bryn Mawr College) should know a lot. For photos of the Drexel Building's façade (and the bank next door), look in the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Photo Albums (1903-1908) at HSP. The PRT photos were taken for insurance purposes to document all the buildings ahead of blasting for the Market Street Subway.
- == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 11:04, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks so much! Any chance you remember the name of that lecture or if it is digitized anywhere? --108.2.126.97 (talk) 00:16, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
- @CfoxAPS: You're welcome. The lecture was part of a graduate course I took with George Thomas in Spring 1984. I doubt it was videotaped.
- I recall that there was something special about the X-bracing Wilson Brothers used for the Drexel Building expansion. (I don't remember what, specifically.)
- == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 14:01, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
- Ok. Thanks for all the help. It has already proved to be useful for my project. CfoxAPS (talk) 20:51, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
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Happy Christmas!
[edit]Season's Greetings | ||
Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Adoration of the Kings (Bramantino) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 14:50, 22 December 2021 (UTC) |
- @Johnbod: Thank you, Johnbod. I wish the same to you. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:21, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
[edit]Hello BoringHistoryGuy: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 18:47, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
@CAPTAIN RAJU: Thank you, Captain. Right back atcha. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:29, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
Season's doohickey and all that
[edit]Hi, hoping you are well. Remembering happy times with the exploded Shakespeare. MinorProphet (talk) 14:21, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Season's greetings
[edit]--Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 19:51, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
- @Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Thank you very much. I wish you the best this holiday season.
- You may be interested in my current obsession: Widehall, a Georgian house in Chestertown, MD. About 20 years ago the restoration architect then at work on it gave me a private tour, and she spent perhaps two hours explaining the details and decisions, from the cellar to the widow's walk. It's a day I won't forget (although I can't remember her name).
- Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:23, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
[edit]Thank you as always for your end-of-year message. I hope 2021 treated you well and that 2022 does too! — Mainly 17:32, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
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[edit]I want to thank you for the New Year greetings that you sent me. Health wise it has been a tough year for me but, when I receive greetings like yours, it makes my life much better. May the Lord cover you and your loved ones with wonderful blessings this coming year. Tony the Marine (talk) 05:35, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Happy New Year, BoringHistoryGuy!
[edit]BoringHistoryGuy,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Happy New Year!
[edit]Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 19:44, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
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Wall of Honor
[edit]For your awesome contributions and countless editing, you have been inducted into my "Wall of Honor" Tony the Marine (talk) 20:16, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
2021
- @Marine 69-71: Thank you. You're very kind. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 14:06, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
happy new 2022
[edit]Happy New Year to you and yours, BHG, with continued admiration for your work ethic and your patience. All best! --Lockley (talk) 00:02, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Lockley: Thank you. I wish you and yours the best, also. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:54, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year, BoringHistoryGuy!
[edit]BoringHistoryGuy,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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- @Davey2010: Thank you. I wish the same to you. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:57, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year!
[edit]Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia, and a Happy New Year to you and yours! 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:17, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
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- Thank you. I wish you the same. Hope all is well in MI. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 14:07, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
[edit]One year! |
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Happy 2022, and thank you for good wishes! Let' build the mansion of friendship. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:13, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Thank you very much. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
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in friendship
[edit]in friendship |
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Thank you for being around, and your good wishes! - Happy new year, in friendship! - One of my pics was on the Main page (DYK) and even made the stats. - In this young year, I enjoyed meetings with friends in real life, and wish you many of those. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:16, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
- It's a fine photo. Congratulations.
- I too am hoping for a return to normalcy. After a relatively free October and November, the Omicron variant is forcing meetings back onto Zoom. This coming week is expected to be its peak in the U.S.
- Best == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:30, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
- Let's hope! - More pics when click on songs ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:29, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
- ... and still more pics, and more to come --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:09, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
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- my joy - more on my talk - + more pics--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:41, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt:Very nice. Thank you.
- February is Black History Month in the United States, and my church is programming hymns and anthems by Black composers for the four Sundays. Some of it is pretty jazzy, but Lent doesn't begin until March this year.
- Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 19:03, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Valentine's Day edition, with spring flowers and plenty of music, including new hymns --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:55, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
- stand and sing --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:20, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Jeanne Tripplehorn edit
[edit]I have reverted your addition of a date of birth to Jeanne Tripplehorn . In addition to Wikipedia's basic principle of citing sources (Wikipedia:Citing sources), a special need for citations applies with regard to elements of a biography of a living person (WP:BLPPRIVACY). Feel free to add a date of birth when it is accompanied by a citation to a reliable, published source. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:55, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Teblick: It wasn't until after I restored the DOB that I read your explanation for why you had removed it. I found perhaps a dozen sources that list the same DOB, including IMDb.[1] But I don't know that any of them are acceptable sources for Wikipedia. Did you try to verify or correct the DOB before you deleted it? == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 14:40, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
- A good place to start to see whether a source is reliable is Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. Some user-generated unreliable sources are listed at WP:USERGENERATED. You might also want to read Wikipedia:Reliable sources, which provides guidelines to help editors evaluate sources for reliability. I did not try to verify or correct the date of birth. Providing a reliable source is the responsibility of the editor who adds content to, or changes content in, an article. Eddie Blick (talk) 15:18, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
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The Signpost: 1 January 2023
[edit]- Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief
- Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"
- Essay: Mobile editing
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The Signpost: 16 January 2023
[edit]- Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020
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- In focus: Busting into Grand Central
- Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100
- Featured content: Flip your lid
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 4 February 2023
[edit]- From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function
- News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan
- Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos
- Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter
- Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias
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- Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea
- Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT
The Signpost: 20 February 2023
[edit]- In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage
- Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?
- Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK
- Featured content: Eden, lost.
- Gallery: Love is in the air
- From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!
- Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song
The Signpost: 9 March 2023
[edit]- News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?
- Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy
- In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propaganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?
- Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter
- Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events
- From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago
The Signpost: 20 March 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
The Signpost: 03 April 2023
[edit]- From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
- News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
- Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
- Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
- Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
The Signpost: 26 April 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns
- In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia
- Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman
- Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping
- Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022
- News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation
- Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two
- Humour: The law of hats
- Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme
The Signpost: 8 May 2023
[edit]- News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU
- In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics
- Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions
- Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists; My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion
- News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation
The Signpost: 22 May 2023
[edit]- In the media: History, propaganda and censorship
- Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"
- Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles
- Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs
The Signpost: 5 June 2023
[edit]- News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea
- Featured content: Poetry under pressure
- Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye
The Signpost: 19 June 2023
[edit]- News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing
- Featured content: Content, featured
- Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics
The Signpost: 3 July 2023
[edit]- Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia
- Featured content: Incensed
- Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?
The Signpost: 17 July 2023
[edit]- In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia
- Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)
- Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!
- Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master
The Signpost: 1 August 2023
[edit]- News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server
- In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change
- Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!
- Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!
- In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia
- Opinion: Are global bans the last step?
- Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July
- Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party
The Signpost: 15 August 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects
- Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them
- Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing
- Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether
- Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed
- Traffic report: 'Cause today it just goes with the fashion
Category:African-American cabinetmakers has been nominated for merging
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The Signpost: 31 August 2023
[edit]- From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online
- News and notes: You like RecentChanges?
- In the media: Taking it sleazy
- Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia
- Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties
- Humour: The Dehumourification Plan
- Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday
The Signpost: 16 September 2023
[edit]- In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?
- Obituary: Nosebagbear
- Featured content: Catching up
- Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
The Signpost: 3 October 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published
- Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"
- Featured content: By your logic,
- Poetry: "The Sight"
The Signpost: 23 October 2023
[edit]- News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?
- In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing
- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
- Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!
- Traffic report: The calm and the storm
- News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes
The Signpost: 6 November 2023
[edit]- Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015
- In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
- Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk
- WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023
- News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia
- Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
- Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.
- Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare
The Signpost: 20 November 2023
[edit]- In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
- News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health
- Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads
- Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom
- Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships
The Signpost: 4 December 2023
[edit]- In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns
- Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"
- Comix: Bold comics for a new age
- Essay: I am going to die
- Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence
- Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain
- Humour: Mandy Rice-Davies Applies
The Signpost: 24 December 2023
[edit]- Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?
- News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023
- In the media: Consider the humble fork
- Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI
- In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU
- Technology report: Dark mode is coming
- Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
- Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture
- Crossword: when the crossword is sus
- Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!
- From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^
- Humour: Guess the joke contest
Christmas greetings
[edit]May the bells of Christmas ring for freedom![1]
May peace be upon us.
And have a happy and prosperous New Year. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:42, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
Precious anniversary
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Happy New Year! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:50, 3 January 2024 (UTC)}}
The Signpost: 10 January 2024
[edit]- From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!
- Special report: Public Domain Day 2024
- Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit
- News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!
- WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine
- Obituary: Anthony Bradbury
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023
- Comix: Conflict resolution
The Signpost: 31 January 2024
[edit]- News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail
- Opinion: Until it happens to you
- Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry
- Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"
- Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down
- ^ Malpas, Anna (December 24, 2023). "How Ukraine independence song became a Christmas classic". AFP.