User talk:Sadads/Archive Late 2009-2010

DC Meetup

- - How did it go? SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:36, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

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Unreferenced BLPs

- - Hello Sadads! 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 905 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

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

- Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 06:12, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

- - Thanks a lot for your assessment of the urban fantasy article. -- James26 (talk) 07:38, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: Dan Jester

- - Hello Sadads. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Dan Jester, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Links provided are a credible assertion of notability. PROD or take to AfD if required. Thank you. GedUK  20:25, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Help needed.

- - I know this is a bit outside of your preferred area, but I need some help getting the remaining articles from Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)/New Georgia Encyclopedia merged in. It's a particularly important project - if we are able to do a professional job incorporating the ten articles released by the New Georgia Encyclopedia for our use, they will allow us to import their entire collection of over 2,200 articles. Please help out if you are able! bd2412 T 03:26, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

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• Perfect - thanks! bd2412 T 16:17, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

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• • By the way, I hope you'll be pleased to know that if and when the NGE lets us import their entire corpus, there are over a dozen articles on specific novels/literary works, and dozens of articles on specific authors. Cheers again! bd2412 T 16:20, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

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The American Senator

- - Thanks for your rating of The American Senator. After launching the article and eagerly watching the page-view statistics, I'd begun to despair of whether it had been noticed at all. [Wipes away self-pitying tear]

- - Could you make any suggestions on how it might be improved? It might be beyond me—I have no formal English-lit qualifications, only an enthusiasm for Trollope novels—but I'll do what's within my power to make it a better article.

- - --Ammodramus (talk) 17:47, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks for your advice on the article. I'll try to read it again after a week or two has elapsed during which I haven't looked at it; that might allow me to look at it with a better eye for passages that seem to be WP:OR. I assume that this doesn't apply to the plot summary. I can't do much about images right now, as I'm writing from a small town in Nebraska; would it be advisable to put an image-requested tag on the talk page?

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--Ammodramus (talk) 22:01, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:The Letter of Marque cover.jpg

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Veteran

- - Sadads, did you mean your talk page or mine? Wanted to know more specifically your thoughts on compliance with MoS. Bvrly (talk) 19:27, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Quicksilver (novel)

- - Hi Sadads!

- Decided to respond here instead of the article talkpage. Hope that's okay.

- I've read most of the article (to be honest, it's been on my watchlist for months, but I got caught up with Hemingway instead) and am pleased to see the development. Some points to consider: plot could use some trimming (excruciatingly difficult in a work this size) so the reader isn't greeted with a wall of text. In my view, the best way to do this would be to present only the most important plot developments. On the other hand, the themes section could use some development. I haven't had a chance to see what's available critically, or whether scholarly sources exist, but by now I'd expect criticism to exist in more than the popular press. Trying to find a Publisher's Weekly review would be helpful. Finally, try to avoid falling into Stephenson's prose style by using 17th century capitalization rules (i.e. Science, Mathematics, etc.). Will return with more. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 20:00, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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The Windup Girl

- - Hi

- i inserted the infobox! Managed to do the image too. i think it is free. The book is available for free download, and I got the image from http://io9.com/tag/thewindupgirl/. Help me out with this one, please. Copyright spins my head.

- - I think i can figure it all from here on. (I'm not done with The Windup Girl yet). Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iceman87 (talk • contribs) 12:25, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

- - Ok. I like synopses to be pretty detailed, so please don't chop off too much. Maybe it would be preferable to put in the book jacket stuff in the synopsis and move the current synopsis to a different heading. Like "The Story" "Story Outline" "Plot Summary". Could you decide it and make the changes? I'm also putting in "Major themes" list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iceman87 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 7 March 2010 (UTC)