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Blue Mountain Pottery

Hi Schwede66, Thought you might be interested in this article: Blue Mountain Pottery. The article dates back to about 2006, but was pretty short. I came across it last week and spent the past few days bringing it up to a "Start" class. I think it's an interesting account of how some Czechs brought their entrepreneurial and pottery skills to Ontario post WWII, which then became a local icon in Canada. (Yes, my parents, among many Canadians of their generation, had some Blue Mountain in their house. :) ) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:52, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Nice one, Mr Serjeant Buzfuz. The funny thing is that I had a long chat with a potter today who I met for the first time. In Tākaka, though, and not in Collingwood; I live in between those two places. Oh, and my closest neighbour is a very good potter. Schwede66 04:25, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

And given that you've exceeded a 5x expansion, I hope that you'll nominate the article for DYK. Schwede66 04:26, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Glad you liked it. Interesting coincidence. 😊 Doubtful re DYK. Didn’t enjoy my last couple of go-rounds there. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 06:01, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing dashes & apostrophes. I never quite remember how they’re supposed to be. (Sigh) Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 06:03, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

It's a team effort! Schwede66 06:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Alright, you persuaded me. Just did the nomination. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:10, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Splendid, @Mr Serjeant Buzfuz! Schwede66 03:21, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

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DYK proposal

If you like it. I don't need credit for it - that should I expect go to you and, if they would like it, the editor who started the article (User:ForsythiaJo). I will as usual perform the QPQ if posted.

... that Adam Berdichevsky is representing Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, 11 months after he and his family survived the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel?

Sources: "On the morning of Oct. 7, Adam Berdichevsky was awakened ... In their kibbutz’s WhatsApp group, the Berdichevskys learned that Hamas terrorists were going into the houses." and August 30, 2024: "The busy days of the Paralympic games continue today (Friday), when the one who started his journey is the Israeli tennis player, 40-year-old Adam Berdichevsky, who opened the first round with 2:6 and 5:7 against the Italian Luca Arca"

I hope you've been well. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:C184:EB59:3D6D:1CF2 (talk) 01:37, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Sure. No worries. Will do. The QPQ rules have recently changed and one ought to be provided at the time of nomination. I’ll get onto it once you can supply one.

BTW, one of your nominations requires your input; a new hook has been requested ("tallest member of her family" was seen as not being interesting enough). I couldn’t see another hook . Schwede66 15:50, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

• • The assumption made by the editor, and presented as fact, does not seem to quite stand up when one looks at the actual facts.--2603:7000:2101:AA00:F804:C954:1D4C:5D11 (talk) 03:35, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Great. Interesting (and sensible) change. My QPQ is WCCN. I will get to the other issue when I can later .. best. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7000:2101:AA00:587E:4EDE:255:173E (talk) 22:18, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

 Done at Adam Berdichevsky. I've added a crop of the photo to the nomination. Schwede66 08:07, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Have you seen that Template:Did you know nominations/Max Greyserman needs your attention? Is the article recoverable? Schwede66 15:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. Had missed that. Have been addressing it. Though I think the view that a league source is not an independent source for a player is perhaps questionable. That it seems to me is more relevant to an interview, the player's own webpage, and perhaps the team's webpage. But not a league page - if one considers the purpose of the rule. Plus, many of the league cites were belt and suspenders. And all stats of papers are built off of league stats. So, a curious complaint on a number of levels. Still, I've been paring the league refs. --2603:7000:2101:AA00:F804:C954:1D4C:5D11 (talk) 02:33, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

I think that your comments are reasonable. Schwede66 03:10, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Quentin Mcfarlane

Hi there, Thanks so much for your comments on the Macfarlane page. Rather embarrassingly I went back and looked at all the ChCh Press citations and see what you mean about them needing urls to be of much use. Anyway I have done that so they all have them now! Thanks also for making my talk page look like it is the work of a grown adult. Cheers, Manymanydogs (talk) 05:16, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

All good, Manymanydogs. I’ll take another look at the article. And if others want to follow the comment, this refers to the user page (not the talk page). Schwede66 16:23, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

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Copyright help

Howdy, I'm starting to work on an article for the Draft:PGC building (it surprised me when I noticed that it was right beside the Edmonds Band Rotunda, which I had just written an article on) and came across a good source by the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission. Because it contains so much information about the building, I've obviously got to be careful with paraphrasing and copyright as I'll be using quite a bit of it. Since you're quite active on Commons and you once answered a question I had, I figured that you may be able to help with the following question:

Do you know if the source is copyrighted? According to this page, Reply

Yeah, interesting case. The Royal Commission reports are indeed free of copyright. That means that you don't even have to worry about close paraphrasing; you can simply copy and paste the text at will. I suggest the following:

• Settle on a referencing system that can deal with using a source numerous times, but referencing different pages of that source. That could, for example, be shortened footnotes. This article uses Template:Sfn extensively. There are other referencing systems that do the same thing.
• Part of the setup is to have two headings for your references, e.g. "Notes" where the page references go and "References" where the book or report citations are stored.
• Those sources that have an open license or no license (as in this case) get marked as such in the second part, e.g. under "References"

I suggest you settle on a referencing system and set this up with two headings. I'm happy to look up how it's best done to mark a source as "no copyright". That should do the trick.

Nice to see that you are embarking on that article, Panamitsu. On the day of the February earthquake, I walked home on Colombo Street. I should have noticed that the PGG building had collapsed but I didn't! Schwede66 08:19, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. What an interesting note about walking home. I always enjoy hearing about what people did that day.

I've been a bit confused with page numbers here because that source I shared is a 20 page Word document which is just the PGC building section in the report. I assume (I haven't looked into it) that the proper report is several thousand pages long, so the more correct thing to do may be to use page numbers for the entire report rather than this PGC building section. I guess it doesn't matter too much so I'll just use the Word document pages.

I've marked the source with Template:Source-attribution I'm not sure if it is in the public domain or has some other licence. I've also created three headings: notes (I added a list of the dead), citations and references. ―Panamitsu (talk) 09:05, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

I'd say WP:NOTMEMORIAL would apply. With regards to page numbers, I'd go for the PDF files of the report; that way, you get proper page numbers. And I do have a complete set of the Royal Commission reports on my bookshelf. Schwede66 09:29, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

And with regards to what I did that day: Our company was in the Link Centre Building in Hereford Street. The Boxing Day earthquake had created a diagonal crack in our internal concrete wall that a structural engineer assessed as inconsequential. When the shaking stopped, I inspected the crack and it didn't look any different. I thus decided that the building was sound and we convened a staff meeting, planning what we'd do next as a company. That was done after 30 minutes, and we all went home. In Cathedral Square, I stepped over the spire of the Cathedral – that felt rather weird. I took a very poor-quality photo of the spire. Many parts of Colombo Street north of the Square were a mess, with facades lying in the street. The section between Kilmore and Peterborough was particularly messy. Later that afternoon, we went for a wander. The liquefaction in Manchester Street was quite something. The lateral spread along the Avon had caused massive damage. Schwede66 09:49, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

That's quite an interesting story there. My absolutely breathtaking (sarcasm) earthquake experience is having pantry contents fall onto the floor in the Kaikoura earthquake.

How did you obtain a physical copy of the report? It seems obvious now but I didn't realise that that was a thing people could get.

WP:NOTMEMORIAL is an interesting one because it mentions notability requirements rather than having a list of people in an article. I don't think a note is much of a big deal but I wouldn't have a problem with removing it nonetheless. ―Panamitsu (talk) 10:20, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Someone from our residents' group had something to do with CERA (was a community rep on one of their working groups) and had been given the set, but didn’t need it. I’ve also got a hard copy of the Blueprint, which is apparently rare. I just asked for it at the CERA reception. Schwede66 17:50, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Bruckner

story · music · places

(ping) I left a note on Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/September 4 about hopefully including Bruckner on his 200th birthday tomorrow. I forgot over Alexander Goehr, sorry. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:13, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, I had a look at it this morning, Gerda. I downrated the article to C-class as there was a lot of unreferenced material present. An IP editor has just gone through and placed a number of citation needed tags. That makes it unsuitable for main page posting – sorry. Schwede66 23:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, I should have done the same, but was a bit desperately working towards a different deadline, for BWV 78. So: "The Bruckner Orchestra Linz was also named in his honor.[citation needed]" - I feel tempted to simply revert such requests. What do you think. I know nothing about the article, but User:Meneerke bloem does. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:26, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Seems reasonable to have such a statement cited. Schwede66 15:42, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't imagine any other reason to name an orchestra after a person. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:09, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Today's story has 3 composers, I couldn't decide for the one on the Main page or the one who didn't make it on his bicentenary, so took both, and the pic has a third. Listen if you have a bit of time. The music, played by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, impressed me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:57, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

To celebrate the day, I listened to Bruckner's Eighth on radio, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:07, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Recommended reading today: Frye Fire, by sadly missed Vami_IV. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:33, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

DYK suggestion/request

Same as always .. if you agree, credit to you.

... Arab rower Saleh Shahin won a bronze medal for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, 19 years after he was injured in a terrorist attack?

Sources: September 1, 2024 article: "Shahar Milfelder and Salah Shaheen won a Paralympic bronze today" and "In 2005, he was injured in an attack at the Karni crossing on the Gaza border, when terrorists infiltrated the place"

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Poecilia vandepolli 2603:7000:2101:AA00:1979:BEF5:5AEC:99F4 (talk) 20:13, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

 Done at Template:Did you know nominations/Saleh Shahin Schwede66 23:18, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Semiprot

Reverted edits re Template:Wellington. Happened before on Template:Dunedin. A protection might be necessary. Alexeyevitch^(talk) 12:49, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

 Done Excuse the delay, Alexeyevitch. Schwede66 03:47, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

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Please help me

It is I, Panamitsu, in my ultra-rare IP form.

Please nominate me for the Wikipedia:Village stocks hall of shame. While I was creating a script to prevent myself from editing Wikipedia during work hours, in one edit I accidentally disabled editing functionality to my entire account permanently. This means that I can not edit any page on Wikipedia using that account, and I can not undo the edit that caused this to happen. (I knew this was a possibility and made it so the script does not disable editing functionality for javascript files, but that broke.) Someone else needs to edit that script, or my common.js file, so I can re-gain editing privileges. 115.189.128.170 (talk) 07:28, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

The problem has been resolved. I've discovered safemode. ―Panamitsu (talk) 07:36, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Do you still want to be put into the village stock? 😀 Schwede66 09:56, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Yes haha ―Panamitsu (talk) 21:15, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Dutifully implemented. Schwede66 04:12, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

DYK

If you like it. As usual I don't need credit - that should go to you.

... that Muslim Arab Elham Mahamid Ruzin won a silver medal for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, despite being legally blind?

Sources: "Elham Mahamid, a Muslim athlete and an Arab Israeli ..." and "Israel’s women’s goalball team won silver at the Paris Paralympics ... The goalball team features ... Elham Mahamid" and "Elham Mhamid ... happens to be legally blind"

Reviewed: Did you know nominations/Flag of La Guaira

Thanks.--2603:7000:2101:AA00:F804:C954:1D4C:5D11 (talk) 04:15, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

Pinging in case you missed this, given the timing. Thanks. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:A13D:8F1E:26A2:8F66 (talk) 05:52, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

I did miss that, sorry. Will do it now. Schwede66 09:25, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Elham Mahamid Ruzin Schwede66 09:49, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

wp:DICK

your constant wp:DICK behavior at ERRORS is a cause for concern. this was clearly an ERROR. Please stop being a WP:DICK at ERRORs. Thank you for your understanding. Therapyisgood (talk) 20:26, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, this doesn't deserve a considered reply. Schwede66 01:09, 11 September 2024 (UTC)