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Oh, it's really my fault. So sorry for my stupid actions. I didn't know about that before. Sorry for my bad grammars Lam —Preceding undated comment added 07:10, 25 April 2018

Stubs

I regret that you are not fond of leaving stub templates on stub pages, seeing that most of your articles created are stubs. I understand your sentimental connection to stub pages that were created by you. You are no longer welcome on my talk page. Kind regards. DoctorSpeed (talk) 13:50, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

@DoctorSpeed: I'm happy to see appropriate stub templates on stub pages: I'm less happy when someone adds {{stub}} at the top (wrong place - see WP:ORDER) of a page which already has a specific stub template in the right place, as you did to Lecrín (not an article I'd created). PamD 15:50, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

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Kim Timby

Thank you PamD, for sorting the Wikiprojects on Talk:Kim_Timby. Another editor DGG inserted the "News Release" template "news release|1=article|date=July 2018" and I have written to him asking him why he did so. Can you see anything in the article that might lead one to read it as a 'press release'? Thank you for your opinion and guidance on this. Jamesmcardle^(talk) 10:05, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

@Jamesmcardle: I watch DGG's talk page and that was what led me to the article - I'm waiting with interest to read his reply to you as it doesn't strike me that way, though I suppose that if you had been a paid editor commissioned to do a piece about her it might have come out much the same way! I've looked at the Ecole du Louvre website hoping to find the sort of profile of an academic which one can usually find, but failed: it would have been a useful "External link".

I've just found a book by her listed in Worldcat. Worth adding to the bibliography, as books carry much more weight than journal articles. If you can find any reviews of it whether in scholarly or other sources, add them ... googling on "Timby" and "Lenticular" finds some useful-looking stuff like this one. Good luck. PamD 10:16, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

@PamD: Thank you for getting back to me so quickly...and for the link to the Leonardo review...how had I missed it?! Yes, "3d and Animated Lenticular Photography: between utopia and entertainment" is listed in the bibliography in another edition "Between Utopia and Entertainment: A History of 3D and Animated Lenticular Photography". Perhaps as yet Timby has not produced enough books, but she is one of vey few researchers dealing with the history and social impact/uses of the lenticular image and of colour printing in magazines, work I've found very valuable to my own research. Not enough credibility is given to exhibition curatorship...perhaps I'd better add a section? Should I shorten the article? Perhaps in an effort to set out how the intellectual progression of this research topic from anthropology and history I have become long winded? Jamesmcardle^(talk) 10:32, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

@Jamesmcardle: I think splitting the book out shows it off better, and adding ISBN provides a link to Worldcat and other sources. I see you've used angled quotes for the titles of publications: Wikipedia doesn't. It can be useful to use the {{cite journal}} template, to format things in Wikipedia's chosen way. I think before making any major changes it would be good to wait for DGG to explain his thinking, though if you've got good sourced stuff about exhibition curatorship, especially material which discusses her rather than the exhibition, it would be useful to add. PamD 10:46, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

@PamD: Thank you - I learn something every day on WP (though not much of the coding sinks in, I'll remember to use {{cite journal}}). Amongst the reviews of the exhibitions I will be able to find references to her role and will add as you advise, but I'll call it a night for now and see in the morning what DGG has to say. All the best, Jamesmcardle^(talk) 10:52, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Southern Villages (Southern Highlands, New South Wales) for deletion

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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ()

Hello PamD, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

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• Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

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The Telegraph

Hello PamD - I wanted to drop you a note about my undoing your edit at The Telegraph, so you didn't think I was rude. I understand your reasoning, but that's an issue with SIAs of this type in general and not just this one in particular. There was a suggestion at the (lengthy, probably inconclusive) RfC at Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation#RfC: INTDAB links to non-dab pages that would address the issue you raise, but it's going nowhere. Now the heat has died down on that RfC, I'm not sure what to do next - probably nothing! Regards, Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 17:17, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

• @Shhhnotsoloud: Thanks for your note. It's a mess, then. A link to The Telegraph ought to show up as a link to a disambiguation page, whether for editors with the gadget which turns it orange, or for bots looking for links to dab pages, because that link will be an incorrect link which ought to be something else for the sake of the reader. If it goes to an SIA page, no such detection occurs. Perhaps The Telegraph should link to the Telegraph (disambiguation) and thence to the dab page, but that would inconvenience the reader by giving them an extra step to work through. Perhaps the gadget which detects links to dab pages should also detect, maybe in a different colour, links to SIA pages. I still reckon that SIA page is pretty much a dab page but am not going to waste energy arguing it. I'm starting to feel tired of Wikipedia and some of its structures, perhaps need to back off from editing for a while. PamD 08:58, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Yes, it is a bit of a mess, and name pages have the same problem. Please stay with us! Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:17, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your expansive editorial participation. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Alarichall submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

{{{I nominate PamD to be Editor of the Week. This editor's achievements are conveniently summarised on their user page. As a creator of nearly 500 substantial stubs and full articles over more than 12 years, PamD has done much to improve the representation of the biographies of women from around the world, playing a part in the Women in Red project. They have also made particular efforts to improve coverage of rural northern England. Alongside these page creations, PamD has worked quietly and tirelessly to sort stubs, tidy up disambiguation pages, and create helpful redirects. On the occasions when my path and PamD's have crossed on Wikipedia, PamD has always been polite and encouraging, making Wikipedia a more cheerful place.

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