Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-25 Thread Sarah
this as a deliberate slight. Fred Fred, the point is that, if American women novelists is to be a subcategory, then American male novelists would have to be a subcat too. Otherwise the American novelists category would be default male, which is apparently what happened. Sarah

Re: [WikiEN-l] attitude- elderly man googling

2012-09-09 Thread Sarah
of sensitivity (if that is the right word) would be the norm. Sarah ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies

2012-04-19 Thread Sarah
articles related to that topic. Sarah ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-17 Thread Sarah
attention to you. That's basically what we're doing to people, and as with all things reactions differ. Some are flattered, some don't mind, and some get upset. It's not for us to say which reaction is correct, and that the upset people are being irrational. Sarah

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-16 Thread Sarah
we're going to ignore you. Sarah ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-16 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:26 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:18 PM, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote: It would be better to have a rule to never take the views of the subject

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-24 Thread Sarah
. Sarah ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Journalist admits socking on Wikipedia

2011-09-14 Thread Sarah
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 13:12, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: You just need to spend hours going through the edits and it will doubtless be obvious enough. That we never noticed him, or identified him, is not particularly surprising. He was noticed and identified, which is what led

Re: [WikiEN-l] JSTOR Early Journal Content access

2011-09-13 Thread Sarah
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:25, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: I've never understood how academic publishers view these issues. I have friends who had their PhDs published by their university presses

Re: [WikiEN-l] JSTOR Early Journal Content access

2011-09-12 Thread Sarah
of someone paying $34 for an old article on such an obscure issue are slim to vanishing, so the only consequence of the high price is that no one gets to see it. Sarah ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia?

2011-04-08 Thread Sarah
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 15:57, Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote: Already been done, Conservapedia. The most disgusting mockery of conservatives I've ever seen. Then again, isn't this one of the sites Jimbo runs? Definitely not. ___

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia?

2011-04-07 Thread Sarah
it was this ability to steer without micromanaging. Sarah ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 05:38, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: It fails our reliable source requirement.-- geni Wow. Geni that's truly the remark that encapsulates exactly what's wrong with BLPs, and the irresponsible attitude of Wikipedia. Nevermind our many biased

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Sarah
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: The requirements are good if people apply them properly. Self-published material by living persons is allowed in their bios, so long as -- we know they wrote it; it's not unduly self-serving; and they're talking about

Re: [WikiEN-l] Free Credo Reference accounts for Wikipedians

2011-03-21 Thread Sarah
possible there won't be 400 people wanting accounts, so perhaps I should add another list to the sign-up page not eligible, but would like one for the following reasons, in case there are accounts left. Sarah ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

[WikiEN-l] Free Credo Reference accounts for Wikipedians

2011-03-20 Thread Sarah
served. The list will open on Wednesday, March 23 at 22:00 UTC, and will remain open for seven days. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CREDO Feel free to add your name even if you're lower on the list than the 400th, in case people ahead of you aren't eligible. Good luck! Sarah http

Re: [WikiEN-l] Kafkaesque story on the English Wikipedia

2010-08-30 Thread Sarah Ewart
To be clear, John is not an OTRS agent. I believe he was saying that he had checked with people who are agents (multiple sources) but he's not one himself (though he is subscribed to the unblock-en-l mailing list as a former admin). On 8/30/10, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Mon,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

2010-01-27 Thread Sarah Ewart
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Sarah Ewart wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:46 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: Where was Robert Corell's article previously? Perhaps my search was inadequate but I didn't

Re: [WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

2010-01-26 Thread Sarah Ewart
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:46 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: Where was Robert Corell's article previously? Perhaps my search was inadequate but I didn't find it looking quickly... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Corell ___

Re: [WikiEN-l] Permission required on copyright expired images...

2009-09-18 Thread Sarah Ewart
Steve, that image is now PD in Australia. In Australia, the copyright of photographs taken prior to 1 January 1955 has expired and they are now in the public domain. The template for using PD Australian images on Wikipedia is here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-Australia and Commons -

Re: [WikiEN-l] Permission required on copyright expired images...

2009-09-18 Thread Sarah Ewart
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: Is that date taken or date published? This is why provenance of photographs (both photographer and publication details, and dates) is important. You should also make clear *who* is saying that this photograph was

Re: [WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

2009-07-27 Thread Sarah Ewart
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+wikipe...@gmail.com ddascalescu%2bwikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 06:23, elipo...@gmail.com wrote: This is similar to the whole fair use brouhaha at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madeleine_close2.jpg#Licence

Re: [WikiEN-l] Notability and Fiction

2009-07-04 Thread Sarah Ewart
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:54 AM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: The nonsense this can lead to is visible in a current AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hugo Austin , where the nominator's argument is that all the articles on all characters of the famous australian soap opera

Re: [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp

2008-12-30 Thread Sarah Ewart
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:02 PM, [[User:Thinboy00]] thinboy00+wikipedial...@gmail.com thinboy00%2bwikipedial...@gmail.comwrote: so are we calling the police or not? No, we aren't; it's up to the people who have been targets of death, rape and violence threats and whose children have been

Re: [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp

2008-12-29 Thread Sarah Ewart
On 12/30/08, Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote: Hey, guys! This whole thing could go away rather quickly if one (or more) of the persons who feel victimized by him simply made a formal complaint to the police. Marc Riddell I agree, Marc. I think we would find that most of this

Re: [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp

2008-12-24 Thread Sarah Ewart
I am not a lawyer so perhaps I say this in ignorance, however, I find it hard to believe that the best way of handling this is by arguing that Jeremy Hanson poses a public or common nuisance to the people of Virginia and that we should ask local a judge to summon a special grand jury to

Re: [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp

2008-12-14 Thread Sarah Ewart
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Jay Litwyn brewh...@edmc.net wrote: From: Sarah Ewart sarahew...@gmail.com: I think the only options remaining are to start reporting him to the police. If anyone else wants to know which police to contact, then these few things might be useful. Basically