User talk:Jdlh

Hi! Please leave me a message by creating a new section to hold our conversation. --Jdlh | Talk 22:28, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle

Just wanted to say you were exactly right about your concern on the Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle article. I reviewed the article and made a number of changes. Joema 01:17, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. --Jdlh | Talk 06:13, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration Committee elections

Note to self: Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_January_2006/Vote by 22 January 2006, 23:59 UTC. Review candidate info there and in Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-01-02/ArbCom_candidates and in Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-01-09/ArbCom_election. --Jdlh | Talk 22:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

category:College and Univeristy Types

I saw your note on Deathawk's talk page about this category. I've moved it to Category:University and college types. In general, to change which articles are listed in a category, one must edit all of the articles themselves (they will all have [[Category:cat name]] in the article source, usually at the very bottom. If you run across another case where this would be a lot of work, you might want to check out {{Category_redirect}}. btm _talk 22:36, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apology

It was inadvertant, so I should apologise - I'll take more care next time. Keras.

Constitution of Japan needs update?

Hi, Beland, thanks for your efforts on behalf of Wikipedia. You tagged the section of Constitution of Japan regarding the LDP 2005 proposed reforms as needing an update. Would you mind putting a note in Talk:Constitution of Japan clarifying what update you believe is necessary? Have you heard about some specific developments, or are you just thinking that it's nearly a year later, so it's time for more recent information? Thanks, --Jdlh | Talk 17:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I posted a clarification there. Thanks for reading, Beland 02:05, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Churchill

Just added a picture to the discussion at the Churchill discussion, that guy who says he's serving is either a) lying or b) a bit thick :).. As for a published source about the Royal Navy officer hows this? http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2001/Apr/USS_Churchill.htm (although its not the man in the article anymore, its a woman as you can see by the other picture..)

Goose. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TheMongoose (talk • contribs) 01:16, 15 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks! I put that reference into the article. --Jdlh | Talk 06:36, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bellingham Alphabatization

I alphabatized by the name currently displayed. Seeing as the names are not Lastname, Firstname, listing by lastname would only make them visually disorganized. If you go ahead and change the name formatting, I'd be happy to re-alphabatize. I didn't want to change anything on the page, just organize the existing format in some fashion. --Notmyhandle 00:45, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Commons:Move toward Commons 2.0 !

I (Yug) leaved Wikipedia. The project -probably too pionner for the moment- didn't raised support. The ideas was to change commons into a big Wikipedia:Graphic Lab and fr:Wikipedia Atelier photographique, where people upload -yes- but also EDIT images, and help each other to improve theirs graphic skills. In editing images, or with photographic tips. Sorry for my english : I'm french.

The idea seems died (for now) since I leaved wikipedia. Bye Yug 08:19, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Meetup

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Pitching moment

Hi Jdlh. On 29 August you edited Pitching moment to restore a web link to Ray Preston's book, including the "Retrieved date" of July 2008. The reason the link had been disconnected appeared to me to be because the web link no longer works - the web site can no longer be downloaded. After your recent edit I still can't download the web site.

If you can get access to the web site please amend the article to correctly show the URL that works for you. If you can't get access you should probably revert your recent edit. Happy editing. Dolphin51 (talk) 06:35, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Invitation to Vancouver meetup

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Thank you!

While reading Talk:Malmedy massacre I was struck by your constructive tone, so I clicked through a bit. Read your notes and some of the links regarding "We stand by you". It brightened my evening a bit, so, thank you! Gijs Kruitbosch (talk) 22:06, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome! I appreciate your taking the time to write. --Jdlh | Talk 22:28, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Peter Tiboris article

[This is a continuation of a conversation which began at User talk:Dzeidman#Do_you_perhaps_have_a_conflict_of_interest?, regarding the Peter Tiboris article.]

Dear Jdlh, With all due respect, I am surprised that a year and a half after the Peter Tiboris article was accepted by Wikipedia you are questioning whether or not there was a conflict of interest in my creating the article. For more than a year prior to the article's acceptance, I received helpful guidance from other Wikipedia editors and tailored the document to meet all of Wikipedia's standards. I was a MidAmerica employee but created the article from scratch as I was told to do by Wikipedia editors. As for the photo, a letter was received from the photographer granting permission for its use and it was passed along to Wikipedia with a Wikipedia form and submitted prior to acceptance of the article. I had no idea that there was a problem with the photograph. I thought, erroneously, perhaps, that once an article was accepted, it had met the stringent criteria set by Wikipedia. As a side note, MidAmerica Productions has laid off all of its staff and is functioning now with a few part-time freelance employees. Dzeidman Dzeidman (talk) 17:36, 9 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Dzeidman. Thank you for replying so quickly! I'm glad to be able to discuss this article and your situation with you. Let me take a few parts from your reply, in turn. If it's easier for you, I'm glad to continue the discussion here. --Jdlh | Talk 03:32, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"I am surprised that a year and a half after the Peter Tiboris article was accepted by Wikipedia you are questioning..." Ah, welcome to Wikipedia. This is not a magazine, where articles are perfected, published, and never touched again. In principle every article is gradually getting improved, month by month, decade by decade. Weak parts are getting strengthened, stale facts are being refreshed with new developments. And Wikipedia is not a monolithic entity, that makes a decision once and is done. It is a set of principles and polices, and a swarm of editors (including yourself) that are making good faith interpretations of those principles and policies on the flawed and in-progress sets of articles currently in the encyclopedia. I don't know any of the people you worked with in developing the article. As I interpret the record, the big obstacle in getting the article approved for creation was your providing evidence for the subject's notability, and citing that from reliable sources. I see someone else did raise the issue of Conflict of Interest back in 2011. It's not just you, articles I created also get changed and improved all the time. --Jdlh | Talk 03:32, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"I was a MidAmerica employee..." OK, then you did have a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest at the time you wrote the article. I'll note that on the Talk page. It would have been great for you to have absorbed the Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide at the time. You might still want to read it now, because I hope you will be contributing to Wikipedia on other topics. And, it sounds like you are no longer a MidAmerica employee, so perhaps you no longer have conflict of interest regarding Mr. Tiboris. You are well positioned to improve the Wikipedia:Neutral Point of View of the article. --Jdlh | Talk 03:32, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"...but created the article from scratch as I was told to do by Wikipedia editors..." Yes, I see that you did some rewriting from scratch. However, that was in response to the copyright violation of using the bio text from the article subject's own website, right? I didn't see comments about your conflict of interest in that discussion. Two separate issues. --Jdlh | Talk 03:32, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"...MidAmerica Productions has laid off all of its staff and is functioning now with a few part-time freelance employees." Interesting! This fact would make a good addition to the MidAmerica Productions section of the article. Can you cite any Wikipedia:Reliable Source that documents this event? If so, post it in the article's Talk page, and I'd be happy to help you word it in a neutral way for the main article. --Jdlh | Talk 03:32, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Mr. DeLaHunt,

It is so nice to know that I am working with an editor who really knows about music! Did you know that at the same time you were singing in the chorus at Opera San Jose, Dr. Tiboris' wife, Eilana Lappalainen, was singing leading roles there? In fact, she was a founding member of the company.

I don't know the point of this discussion we are having. I would assume that it is so that I can improve the article that was previously approved and published on Wikipedia for a year and a half. Please let me know what needs to be done. I will be happy to fix the article.

And to comment on a point you made yesterday when you first contacted me, I will be happy to work on Wikipedia articles in the future, but first I need to devote my efforts to finding a job.

Thank you for your interest in this article.

Sincerely, Dale Dzeidman (talk) 15:04, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dale, I know of Eilana Lappalainen, but her stint at Opera San José was before my time. You ask, "I don't know the point of this discussion we are having." My primary goal was to see if you had a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest with respect to the article on Peter Tiboris. You have answered that question, thanks. I will go ahead and make improvements to the article as I get time to do so. Best of luck with your job search, and I'll see you around Wikipedia. --Jdlh | Talk 17:31, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I really appreciate any help you can give me regarding this article. Thank you so much. Dzeidman (talk) 14:27, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jdlh - Just this morning I became interested in Peter Tiboris through a mention of MidAmerica Productions in the article on Washington Adventist University. That article has a lot of semi-questionable material about its student music groups. I'm a pretty prolific and (I hope) skilled editor, and would be interested in collaborating on anything about Tiboris, MidAmerica, or Washington Adventist. I also have an interest in ships. Lou Sander (talk) 14:52, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Let's locate the collaboration at the Tiboris article's Talk page. JimDeLaHunt (talk) 19:24, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good! Lou Sander (talk) 23:25, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews

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"Not constructive." "Vandalism." Heh. Why don't we both go over to Talk:Janis_Joplin#"...one_of_the_most_successful_and_widely_known_female_rock_stars_of_her_era." and talk. --Jdlh | Talk 21:01, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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