User talk:AllanBz

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Smalltalk

Hi, I was told that you moved Smalltalk from "Academic" to "Industrial" in Template:Major programming languages small. Could you please explain your justification for this? —Sean κ. ⇔ 16:36, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Co-redemptrix

Please see the comments at Talk:Five solas#Solus Christus. --Flex 12:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Cynicism

Finally someone who knows what Cynicism really is. Thanks. Str1977 08:33, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What is BJAODN ? Str1977 28 June 2005 18:53 (UTC)

Ok, done. Str1977 28 June 2005 19:43 (UTC)

You may be interested

You might be interested in this current vote: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of Roman Catholics -Doohickey

Your signature

You did not sign your comment/vote at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of Roman Catholics ( just add ~~~~ to sign) NoSeptember 02:38, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Have you seen these?

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of Catholic Actresses and Actors and Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of Catholic Criminals Doohickey 16:34, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know that Wikipedia style is to place punctuation outside quotation marks (unless the punctuation is part of what's being quoted), and that we use the serial comma. Also, the subjects of articles shouls be referred to by their surnames, not their first names. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:22, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response; my apologies for suggesting that you hadn't used commas correctly — you had of course. However, the placing of punctuation outside inverted commas does indeed apply to titles (even if they did imply full stops, which I don't think that they do, that wouldn't explain placing commas inside inverted commas). I agree, though, that your work on the article improved it immensely. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:18, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels

Hi thank you for joining the WikiProject. Being a small group currently there is still plenty of scope for influencing things and making your contribution count. We are about establishing standards for Novel based articles and writing articles that meet our own and others high standards, and to improve Wikipedia's diet of articles on Fiction books, otherwise called Novels. If you have any questions, do ask. Please be very welcome. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)} 09:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

John Kinnamos

Hi Allan,

I'm sorry to say I don't know for sure. But Iohannes Tzimiskes is listed under John I Tzimiskes, so I suppose John can stay. Thanks for fixing double-redirects - that was slack of me. Cheers, Slac speak up! 23:31, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation style

Thank you for your work on NUC. Unfortunately, disambiguation pages do not follow the same stylistic rules as normal pages. In particular,

there should be only one live link per entry.
entries should show their true names and not use piped links.
alphabetical or chronological order is good, but when there is a small number of "most important" items, those should be placed at the top.

Please see the disambiguation style guide for more information. If you have any questions not answered there, drop me a note or try the help desk. By the way, I have already brought NUC into line with the guidelines. Matchups 12:33, January 26, 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I tried going through the history to figure out who had done what and I think I inadvertently attributed to you issues which had been introduced by subsequent editors. I will try to be more careful next time. I generally sign my posts and probably forgot because I had my handle in the body of the comment; I've corrected that omission above. Matchups 14:49, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XVII - October 2007

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Byzantine literature

Yes it's the 2007 version and don't worry, I'm not using their text. I rewrote the meaning of their text in my own words. I can't see how this could be cited with greater precision. Btw I kept the sections of the catholic encyclopedia, eventhough I believe they should be removed. Miskin (talk) 15:54, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XX - January 2008

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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXII - March 2008

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WikiProject Novels - 1st Coordinators Election

An election has been proposed and has been set up for this project. Description of the roles etc., can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Coordinators. If you wish to stand, enter your candidacy before the end of March and ask your questions of anyone already standing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Coordinators/May 2008. Voting will start on the 1st April and close at the end of April. The intention is for the appointments to last from May - November 2008. For other details check out the pages or ask. KevinalewisBot (talk) 12:02, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXIII - April 2008

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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXIII - April 2008

Project news

Elections are now taking place for coordinators of the project for the next six months. Any editors interested in seeking a coordinator position, or who want a say in who is selected, should indicate as much here.

Member news

The project has currently 381 members, 69 joined & 0 leavers since the start of March 2008.

Other news

The project's long-time lead coordinator, Kevinalewis, has announced he is not standing as a candidate for another term in that capacity. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to him for the extraordinary work he has done for this project.
To Kill a Mockingbird and El Señor Presidente were both recently promoted to Featured Article status. This brings the novel FA count to 14!
It has been suggested that WikiProject Sword of Truth be merged into WP:NOVELS, perhaps as a task force.

Task force news

The Shannara WikiProject was merged into the project as the Shannara task force. Anyone who can help would be appreciated.
Two inactive projects were converted into task forces, so Chronicles of Narnia task force and Lemony Snicket task force have been created. People interested in the aforementioned subjects are encouraged to support the new task forces. (Thank to Wassupwestcoast for the tip)

Novel related news

The science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke died on 19 March aged 90.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for 2007.

Current debates

There is a discussion regarding further task forces for other genres of fiction now taking place here.

From the Members

Welcome to the Twenty Third issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk), Initiating Editor

Collaboration of the Month

This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is A Farewell to Arms.

Newsletter challenge

Last month's challenge (South Wind) was completed by member User:Blathnaid with a nice starting stub.

The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Kate Christensen's 2008 PEN/Faulkner award winner The Great Man.

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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXIV - May 2008

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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXV - June 2008

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Calling all active WP:NOVELS members

WikiProject Novels Roll Call

WikiProject Novels is currently holding a roll call, which we hope to have annually. Your username is listed on the members list, but we are unsure as to which editors are still active within the project. If you still consider yourself an active WP:Novels editor, please add your name back to the Active Members list. Also feel free to join any of our task forces and take a look at the project's Job Centre to get involved!

Next month we will begin the coordinator election selection process. We hope to have more involvement and input this time around! More news will be forthcoming. Thanks, everyone! María (habla conmigo) 14:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Novels Newsletter - September 2008

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Proposed deletion of Valesius

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Valesius, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Erik the Red 2 ~~~~ 01:58, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability tag on Edward Catich page

Hi there! The Edward Catich page was not proposed for deletion. It seems this subject may indeed be notable, but that notability should be established through independent sources, not just through a bibliography of books written by the subject. I therefore tagged it as requiring more sources to establish its notability. Please see the guidelines on independent sources. You mention in your message on my talk page that search engines link to sources that verify this subject's notability. Those may include independent sources that the article could link to. Respectfully, --lightspeedchick (talk) 23:13, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RTTS

You've done an edit or two on RTTS. It's been nominated for deletion, according to some twisting of WP policy. Could you weigh in on this? --141.160.5.251 (talk) 20:44, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello AllanBz! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 2 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. 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 these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 7 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

George A. Spadoro - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Rachel Hadas - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 00:15, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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All I wanted to do was fix a prehistoric Shasta marine diapsid. Now I’m going through vandalized pages, fixing help pages, reading through templates. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in! Gah! Someone is wrong on the Internet! → AllanBz ✍ 20:34, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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