User talk:Sterry2607/Archive2007-09/10

Teens

F day was spent taking 4 hours + the youngest around his newspaper round for the first time, and getting a phone call from daughter mid afternoon - what do you want? the better half had been away all weekend - her present - leave me with them :) so I have sogyal rinpoches take on the bardo thodol, and i brought myself the mr beans holiday dvd on on monday to compensate :) ho ho ho SatuSuro 07:14, 4 September 2007 (UTC) gmail response to that SatuSuro 07:38, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

speedy deletion?

STerry - I have come across a very nasty page. How can I mark it for speed deletion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Meredyth (talk • contribs) 11:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I found the page and read the text. There was a template to add which worked. Thanks. There are some very unpleasant people around. Stellar 11:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Award for Sterry2607

		The Working Woman's Barnstar
		For all your contributions to Wikipedia over the past few months you well deserve this award. Boylo 14:34, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Consistency

Is the problem indeed - my thing is how it looks in oggle and popups the first line should have the main subject mentioned and in bold - and after that thats where the chaos creeps in - I need to look v closely at the WP MOS and lead sentence/ para offocial policy again - but remember these issues from the getting arts to Feature statis SatuSuro 00:58, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

list of Aust novelists

STerry - isn't this list interesting? I haven't gotten to the end of it yet but keep getting diverted on sidetracks. I am glad it was not deleted. Stellar 12:28, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

I saw your note on the literary awards, and agree - formatting the parent and child is a great idea. When I get back to the remaining Children's awards that structure will be very useful to display them correctly. Stellar 12:30, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

If there are lists it makes more sense to order them - yes, I agree. With the categories it is not possible to put in additional info. What is displayed is only the names. With the list pages (as in the novelists) date of births, titles of books or even genre are listed. This I think is more interesting for me. Categories seem to me to be like indexes - where you know what you are looking for. Lists are more for analysis, although the lists because they are manually created generally are incomplete.

I have noticed that there are not many articles on Australian crime writers or science fiction writers. Both these genre are lifelong interests for me. ... more work ... see you soon. Stellar 13:12, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Wilberforce

I didn't have time to drop you a note this morning, but my apologies for my mistaken edit. I thought I understood what you had done, but sometimes there is none so blind as those who cannot see! Sorry and thanks for teaching me a new trick too! --Slp1 20:29, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

ratings

hi, first off, congrats on all the work u've been doing! re ratings, good question, took me a while to find the guidelines, this pretty much sums it up: WP:ASSESS we are allowed to rate anything up to b-class, including 'our own' articles, after that there's all sorts of process. there's probably more specific criteria for ie bio articles somewhere at that project, will have another look later. keep up the good work, ben.  ⇒ bsnowball  01:13, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
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Jean Isherwood

Thanks for your contributions! Amandajm 10:17, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

More about Ms Isherwood

She was quite a fearsome teacher, because she was so very exacting. She was quite stout when I knew her and had a florid complexion, a rather long nose and extremely dark reddish-brown eyes with a very challenging expression. Jean didn't suffer fools gladly. But she was an excellent teacher. She was working in a situation which was not at all easy for the older members of the staff whose work was mainly figurative and who teaching depended on older dsciplines. Abstract was in, and figurative was out. I remember being hauled up before the head of the National Art School by a ridiculous Design Teacher who could not concede that a figurative design on a book cover was as revelant to the design process as an abstract one. All that silliness has stopped, thank goodness, but it was hard to live through, at the time.

Jean just did what she did. I believe that she also painted portraits, but I only saw one of them, a magnificent painting of one of her grandchildren that was exhibited in the Royal Easter Show. Anyway, it was quite a privilledge to have been taught by her. Amandajm 03:18, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

invite

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