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You made a comment on the Chili Bowl article using the term "gotcha". Someone else wrote an article about Gotcha Day, and they made a comment about how you used the term in your comment. I never heard of the term "Gotcha Day". Please comment on the Gotcha Day's hook. I hope you can understand this message because it was hard to write. Royalbroil00:10, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
On April Fool's, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Asher Roth, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
While the 200 DYK mark was something I did work toward, the beauty of the program is that each article is its own reward. When I see one of these articles was edited on my watchlist, taking another peek at one of my creations reminds me that I filled in a little hole in Wikipedia, adding information about something that never appeared here before. While the individual DYK notices of a latest entry being added to the main page are more than enough of a reward, I do appreciate your recognition, especially as it comes from someone who has a wide and fascinating portfolio of DYKs. Keep up the great work, which should be a reward of its own. Alansohn (talk) 14:20, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Wikiquette
Thank you for your comment. I feel that the comment you object to was perfectly reasonable, given the circumstances, but you are entitled to your opinion. -- Scjessey (talk) 02:22, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
My point was that the circumstances don't matter and that the whole Wikipedia process breaks down when we talk to each other like that. It's not merely my opinion; civility is one of Wikipedia's core principles. At any rate, thanks for taking my message under consideration. --Boston (talk) 02:26, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
How did you know I was from the South, and missed some good greasy, artery-clogging, lip smacking, finger licking fried chicken? I appreciate the time you took to send me some "comfort food." Sometimes, it is the little acts of kindness that make all the unpaid, and often thankless hours of tedious work on Wikipedia worthwhile. So thanks again for taking the time to consider that people have feelings, and we aren't just mindless automatons. You are a great asset to Wikipedia, and I'm sorry that I acted like an ass during the discussions. Uncle G was not nearly as hard on me as I've been on myself all day for being such an ass during the discussions yesterday. I gave myself a time out, and have apologized to everyone I may have slighted during my emotional response yesterday. Thanks again! --OliverTwisted (Talk) (Stuff)03:09, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Boston, I hope you are doing well. If you would have liked to remove those comments you are more than welcome to do so. Hope you will have a blessed retreat and a Happy Easter. With regards, AnupamTalk02:39, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I'm editing after posting my Wikibreak notice (bad form, I think!) I'll see if I can cut them out without making the flow of conversation seem odd. Best wishes...I hope April showers will bring May flowers where you live. --Boston (talk) 02:43, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
APK bought you some Easter eggs, but he had some mayonnaise that was about to go bad. He decided to make some deviled eggs instead. APK is really sorry about eating your Easter present, but promises to make it up to you on Cinco de Mayo. (although he's likely to drink your present) Happy Easter.
Does the source call her an outspoken lesbian? I can't find it anywhere but if you can confirm it I will look again. She seems if anything to be a bit dismissive of the whole thing – as though she just wanted to get that bit out of the way and get on with her life... I'm also uncertain about the source and its reliability on the subject. It is four years old but it is also from a British newspaper. Her background appears to be a Catholic in Northern Ireland and then it could become overly political (although, and I'm possibly running away with things a bit, but is it best to rely only on this source for describing her personality/sexuality?) There must be something from Ireland as well to balance it out a bit... "outspoken" and "lesbian" does seem a bit much, especially for an encyclopedia – perhaps keep one and drop the other? Although I still can't figure out how she is outspoken about the subject just because she wrote a book... the ending is a bit eerie where she hopes they'll meet with zimmer frames when they're eighty... she didn't even make seventy... --candle•wicke19:35, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Well, she's out as a lesbian for certain. And for an Irish celebrity, she's an "outspoken lesbian" but the article doesn't use that two word phrase specifically. As I said here, I think mentioning that she is a lesbian adds context and interest to her statement about working exclusively with men. Nevertheless, I was going to let this matter go as I was getting a sense that User:Snappy thought it sounded closed-minded (i.e. we don't say when someone is straight, so why mention that someone is gay?) I felt less sympathetic to User:Snappy's viewpoint after our discussion about including the pronunciation respelling "bwin-ish-TYOH-ir" (which I cited to a "Learning Irish" website) resulted in some very uncivil comments. Since for the past year, you haven't challenged the two points that User:Snappy wants changed, I thought you'd like to opine. Now, I'd advise you against engaging this editor in dialogue unless you're in the mood for someone to be rude to you without provocation! I posted a note about the latter issue at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts; whether anyone will think it's worth comment is uncertain given the bigger fish we usually have to fry. PS - Do you say "Maundy Thursday" or "Holy Thursday"? Have you heard both terms in use? The re-naming discussion about this is over but I am curious. --Boston (talk) 19:54, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
And he did seem ever so nice when he requested I create his favourite television show a few months ago... :( yet from your conversation with him I can see where the username might have come from... a reaction anyone could fall victim to in reality but I didn't think it possible to such an extent what with "save page" and "show preview" options... and he's also been meddling with some of my templates... :-( grrr... :-) I know the colours on the Celebrity Bainisteoir one were horrendous but must all colours be removed from templates? I didn't think it was offensive to have some colours in my templates... I've noticed it in television shows from other countries... but whatever do you mean by "for an Irish celebrity"? Do non-Irish celebrites speak out more on the subject of lesbianism? I probably should have looked this article through in much more detail last year... but I suppose since I'm the only one who seems to be contributing to this area on a regular basis (as is the case with some other areas) I probably didn't find the time... I'm not even sure I'd pronounce it that way myself... especially the first syllable... but that must be down to the different dialects... --candle•wicke23:36, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Lol, it's okay. I mean we probably can't find 100 out lesbians from Ireland notable enough for Wikipedia while we could certainly find that many from a larger country like United States. --Boston (talk) 00:01, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I shall consider that a worthwhile challenge! Some day, maybe next month, maybe even a decade from now, I will return and dump the names of all one hundred of them across your talk page! ;) --candle•wicke00:18, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Actually it is appropriate to write about that in these articles. I notice the Sampan, for instance, wrote about when the health center planned to expand into Quincy, MA: [1] Because reliable sources cover this, it is appropriate to post this in Wikipedia. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:40, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies, I partially misread what you wrote. We don't typically list street addresses; that and the content of the references threw me off when I read the change. I've restored the edit by moving your edit and the mention of Tufts Medical Center to a section on "Health care" within the Chinatown, Boston article. Best wishes, and again, I apologize for my careless edit. --Boston (talk) 16:53, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! - As another idea related to neighborhood articles, why not try to discuss which public schools are in certain neighborhoods. I'm not sure how much information Boston Public Schools releases, but it would be useful to explain which schools have ties to which neighborhoods. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:04, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You can certainly include information about what school is physically located in what neighborhood. I won't discourage you from doing that. I just don't recommend trying to do this so that it has a practical benefit to readers as Wikipedia isn't intended to be a directory. You will never be able to comprehensively demonstrate what school serves what neighborhood as none of the Boston neighborhoods are officially defined (I can refer you to proof of this if you're skeptical). You might say "Joe Q. Doe Elementary school serves Dorchester and parts of South Boston and Roxbury" only to find people saying that their Roxbury street served by JQD is actually Dorchester since JQD serves it. Will they be correct or incorrect? Neither and/or both, because of the ambiguity of boundaries in Boston. Also, there are so many types of schools in Boston -- ordinary public, private non-parochial, private parochial, test schools, charter schools, etc. Also too, schools in Boston are always opening, closing, re-opening, moving, getting restructured and otherwise changing. With that in mind, the best you could do is take a "snap shot" of the situation and that's not very encyclopedic. My advice is joyfully forge ahead, but don't worry about consistency or completeness in bringing more info about Boston schools to Wikipedia articles about Boston neighborhoods. Include what you can, when you can, and have fun editing. --Boston (talk) 19:46, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, it seems like the way Boston's zones are complicates things. In my work in Houston articles, school boundaries mostly tend to stay the same in the central neighborhoods, so usually the school info lasts a long time. Also HISD provides info on when schools opened and closed, so that helps make the sections less directory-like. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:49, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
In that case, make sure it emphasizes that it is the largest in terms of book volumes. When I first removed the statement it merely said "the largest municipal public library" - Largest in what? Now that we know this specifically, it helps to say "largest in terms of book volumes" as that is specific. WhisperToMe (talk) 21:54, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the encouraging words. That was the fun of it: Finding out that there were loads of sources out there that could be used for this. Facts stranger than fiction make great Wikipedia subjects. When the inevitable AfD comes, I hope you'll be on the barracades. -- Noroton (talk) 01:04, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Am I gonna get my third Oddball Barnstar for answering this? When two nouns form an adjective, it gets a hyphen in most stylebooks. That's pretty standard style in the U.S. and even the U.K., where a lot of people also drop the hyphen (barbaric practice). Check out Hyphen#Compound modifiers (which repeats the Brit barbarism, but at least only asserts that it's an alternate form). The hyphen is useful in this case to prevent the horrors that would result if a reader should glance at the article name and think the subject is about folding of any old paper in hotel toilets. That subject, for which I'd write a WP article if I could find sources for it, would be titled "Hotel-toilet paper folding". See the difference? This is how we uphold civilization. -- Noroton (talk) 02:26, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
