User talk:Whyaduck

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• Since others have mistook me for a program or bot of some kind, Ill just like to start putting it out there that Im 100% real :)

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If you have any questions or comments about the SoCal WikiProject, or the Wikipedia in general, feel free to contact me.

Also note that for statewide issues, there is the California WikiProject. ^BlankVerse 10:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I understand your concern: let me explain. My robot's recent edit did not "remove the category" from Fox Theatre (Atlanta), it merely changed the category from Category:Registered Historic Places in Georgia - which is now deleted - to Category:Registered Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) (and it also tidied up the remaining categories on the article). This was done because of this consensus to disambiguate some Georgia (U.S. state) categories from possible Georgia (country) categories. No change was made to the contents of the category. If there are Historic Landmarks in Georgia that are not in the List of National Historic Landmarks by state, then by all means add them to the list! Let me know if you still need further explanation or help on this. Best wishes, RobertG ♬ talk 10:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your clarification for the Metropolitan Water District and its relationship with the Million Dollar Theatre's office building. It is the (MWD) wording on the exterior of the building that stimulate me to look into the fact. Geographer 12:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I do not actually believe that you currently reside in Chicago. However, on the chance that for some other reason you may have an affinity for Chicago related articles I hope you will accept the following notice:

	Chicago Collaboration of the Week
Last week you helped edit the Chicago COTW, but did not vote. Thank you for your help! Your input in future selections would also be appreciated. This week Rich Melman has been chosen. Please help improve it towards the quality level of a Wikipedia featured article. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see an open tasks list.
	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago

TonyTheTiger 00:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 23:21, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 22:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

	Chicago Collaboration of the Week
Last week you helped edit the Chicago COTW, but did not vote. Thank you for your help! Your input in future selections would also be appreciated. This week Union Stock Yards has been chosen. Please help improve it towards the quality level of a Wikipedia featured article. See the To Do List to suggest a change or to see an open tasks list.
	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago

TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 18:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, saw you were a participant in the National Register of Historic Places WikiProject. I thought I would let you know that there is a new Collaboration Division up for the project. The goal of the division is to select an article or articles for improvement to Good article standard or higher. There is a simple nomination process, which you can check out on the division subpage, to make sure each candidate for collaboration has enough interested editors. This is a good way to get a lot of articles to a quality status quickly. Please consider participating. More details can be seen at the division subpage. IvoShandor 11:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I clicked on your This link above. Is this a prank of some sort? I'm confused. Whyaduck 23:35, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Not sure what you think is a prank? I had linked to a page belonging to a user - that page was a draft of some ideas regarding how to deal with pages that do not have adequate references. Since then the user Snottygobble has changed their username, and my link no longer has anywhere to go. The name is actually that of a tree in Western Australia. Regards. SeanMack 03:06, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yaay! Somebody else cares about George Washington Smith! Thehappysmith 18:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, User:Whyaduck, but I am right and you are wrong.

Relying on Google hits to prove anything is a notorious error, into which all too many people fall. Three days ago, I had in my hand an antique vinyl of Slim & Slam, owned by a friend - and on that it has, as clear as day: Flat Fleet Floogie (with a Floy Floy). (Of course, I then went on to listen to it - and the words were unmistakable!) If that doesn't suffice, I also looked the matter up in the "Rough Guide to Jazz" (which was the only reference I could lay my hands on at the time) - and it confirms what the old Slim & Slam cover said - adding that the substitution of "Foot" (or "Feet") for "Fleet" was an error - a modern interpolation.

As for using Google - may I remind you of a British cartoon (in the style of the pre-WWII cartoonist Bateman), published about 10 years ago. It was entitled: The man who confused Information with Knowledge. Misinformation is everywhere on the Internet - with the Wikipedia system, we get a chance to fight against it (to however small an extent). That's what I was doing - and I can prove that I am correct (vide supra).

Also, far be it for me to use a concept (probably) invented in the context of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, but "Flat Fleet Floogie" (with or without a "Floy Floy") is a rather lovely example of a head-rhyme.

So: please change them all back ...and if you don't, I will. Hair Commodore 16:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for being observant and for fixing things. The background is that an editor user:Ericsaindon2 is obsessed with Anaheim Hills, a neighborhood of Anaheim, California. ES began to make delusional edits as if it were a city- adding it to lists of cities, even creating a "city seal" for it. The whole thing became too much and he was finally banned for adding false information and being disruptive. Anyway, the banning had little effect on his behavior. He still wants to make things his way and tries to find creative ways of sneaking stuff in. I wish there were a better solution. -Will Beback · † · 07:48, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published.You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. BetacommandBot 20:37, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

	Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago/Chicago Collaboration of the Week
1908 Chicago Cubs season is the current Chicago COTW You were a contributing editor to Chicago Theatre during its tenure as CHICOTW. It has successfully achieved Good article status thanks in part to your efforts. See its GA review and help us raise it towards the featured article classification level. Recall that during its tenure as CHICOTW we achieved the following Improvement. See our CHICOTW Improvement History. Note our good articles.
Contributing editors:AKeen, ChicagoPimp, SmackBot, Speciate, TheQuandry, TonyTheTiger, Whyaduck, (Darwinek, ERcheck, Lonnyw, MarkSutton, VirtualSteve).
	Good Article

TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 15:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
Complete To Do List Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a bishop a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a lawyer a military person a musician a photographer a saint a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references adding categories Review an article Romano Volta • Suzanne Carrell • Mullá Husayn • John Gilchrist (linguist) • Thomas Brattle • Answer requests for comments Work on the Portal Portal:Biography Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles Assessment Progress Biography articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Core Other ??? Total FA 35 1,633 1,668 FL 204 204 A 1 131 132 GA 41 8,362 8,403 B 97 40,219 40,316 C 33 168,442 168,475 Start 2 763,441 763,443 Stub 1 1,032,305 1 1,032,307 List 8,145 8,145 Category 2 346,214 346,216 Disambig 8,118 8,118 File 31,983 31,983 Project 216 216 Redirect 3 45,582 45,585 Template 20,683 20,683 NA 910 910 Assessed 215 2,476,588 1 2,476,804 Unassessed 24,412 24,412 Total 215 2,501,000 1 2,501,216 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,822,668 Ω = 5.37
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You rated this as stub class. It's now more than that and a good article. Please re-assess. Marshall46 (talk) 12:37, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First off, I apologize for the spam. You are receiving this message because you have indicated that you are in Southern California or interested in Southern California topics (either via category or WikiProject, or I happen to know personally).

I would like to invite you to the Los Angeles edition of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art, a photography scavenger hunt to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 1:00 to 7:00 PM. All photos are intended for use in Wikipedia articles or on Wikimedia Commons. There will be a prize available for the person who gets the most photos on the list.

If you don't like art, why not come just to meet your fellow Wikipedians. Apparently, we haven't had a meetup in this area since June 2006!

If you are interested in attending, please add your name to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art#Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Please make a note if you are traveling to the area (train or plane) and need transportation, which can probably be arranged via carpool, but we need time to coordinate. Lodging is as of right now out of scope, but we could discuss that if enough people are interested.

Thank you and I hope to see you there! howcheng {chat} 00:40, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Whyaduck! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 12 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Malcolm McNab - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 05:23, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just a reminder that the WP:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest

will start on Friday, October 21.

Smallbones (talk) 22:58, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:33, 23 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]