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Looking for suggestions (Bio of Marco Averà, CEO of Snam)

Hi TonyTheTiger, I have recently submitted a draft containing the biography of Marco Alverà, CEO of Snam, the main natural gas infrastructure company in Italy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Marco_Alver%C3%A0). I read several biographies curated by you and I thought this content might be of interest. I was wondering if you could have a look and tell me what you think. Thank you in advance! Anna Sai (talk) 13:08, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

    • Hi Tony, thank you for the time you spent visiting the draft. Can you pls suggest any member involved in the WP:AFC process for a final check? Thank you!

Anna Sai (talk) 13:49, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Template:Our Town requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion because it is an unused duplicate of another template, or a hard-coded instance of another template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

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DYK for Optima Signature

On 12 October 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Optima Signature, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that residents of the top 15 floors of the Optima Signature (pictured) have access to a private club in the building? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Optima Signature. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Optima Signature), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Alex ShihTalk 01:47, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

Coordinates for Optima Signature

Antonio, your coords were off a considerable distance for the Optima Signature. Where did you get them? I fixed them. Abductive (reasoning) 03:38, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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I have unreviewed a page you curated

Hi, I'm Blythwood. I wanted to let you know that I saw the page you reviewed, The Rooster Bar, and have un-reviewed it again. If you have any questions, please ask them on my talk page. Thank you.

Blythwood (talk) 07:08, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, clicked on the wrong button by mistake! Blythwood (talk) 07:23, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Edgar Wallace

Hello. Thanks for adding the Edgar Wallace template to articles. My only question is regarding the addition to What Have You Done to Solange?. According to the articles prose, the film was promoted as being based on an Edgar Wallace novel in Germany, but it does not actually really base anything off of it, outside some girls wearing a green pin from the novel of the same name (The Green Pin). Should this template still be used if its not really an adaptation? Not sure what our standards are on this. Andrzejbanas (talk) 17:28, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

DYK for NUDE

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Art Institute, works and possible Wikipedian in residence

Hello Tony. Was in Chicago and at the Art Institute recently on a trip, and met with a representative to suggest that someone work on putting up pages about works in their collection. She was going to talk to the administration and seemed to be generally interested in improving their coverage here. I left your user name as related to the Chicago project. Their overall Wikipedia presence is pretty weak (see Category:Paintings of the Art Institute of Chicago) with only 35 category entries (I added a link to the 35th earlier, and there are probably others not categorized, I'll hunt around the site to see if I can find more). But a majority of their important works do not have pages, including the Chagall stained glass window (!), many of their impressionists, Pollacks, and others. So maybe an Art Institute of Chicago Wikipedian in residence could be arranged. Just an idea right now, but wanted to pass the thought on to you. This is a grand museum in the tradition of the Paris treasures, yet, to the detriment of them, the art world, and this encyclopedia, is underrepresented here. On a side note, they only seem to have one Pre-Raphaelite painting (one of the three Beata Beatrix's, I spent at least 20 minutes "with" it), which is a hole in their own collection. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:27, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

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Trump Waikiki

My earlier edit was per this footnote on the Trump Waikiki Website:

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Wanting to avoid an edit war...HangingCurveSwing for the fence 22:42, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

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Soup Cans

Hey Tony,

I'm a little shy about making a dramatic addition to the very old, stable, much-viewed featured article Campbell's Soup Cans, but the description of the works there as silkscreens isn't supported by the Warhol Catalogue Raisonne and info put on MoMA's web site since the bulk of the article was created. Do you mind having a look at my draft changes before I put them in? Thanks. User:KR26740/sandbox/Soupcans

Thanks, I've learned a lot from looking at your articles. KR26740 (talk) 18:34, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Zak Irvin

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Photo Substitution

Representative Mary Flowers has requested that the current photograph on her Wikipedia biography be changed to the photograph located on the current IL General assembly web page -- http://www.ilga.gov/house/Rep.asp?GA=100&MemberID=2296 KRDew1947 (talk) 22:04, 20 November 2017 (UTC) KRDew1947 (talk) 22:07, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

I have communicated with the photographer of the IL House Democratic Staff who is responsible for distribution of photographs of Representative Flowers. He responded with the following: "As far as your worries on the copyright issue, since the state has the copyrights to the photos, we can dictate what we do with the pictures. So you should be fine." The photograph was taken by a Legislative Staff photographer and provided for use on the Illinois General Assembly website that displays short State Representative biographies. Representative Mary Flowers has authorized use of this, her official photograph. I have been provided additional photographs by the same photographer. The same photograph is displayed on another unofficial website referenced in the Wikipedia bio of Representative Flowers. KRDew1947 (talk) 03:27, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

The other external website using the same photograph of Mary E Flowers is a Profile at Project Vote Smart -- https://votesmart.org/candidate/6324/mary-flowers#.WhOdyHlrz3g KRDew1947 (talk) 03:31, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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Nomination of Kim Cloutier for deletion

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New Page Reviewing

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As one of Wikipedia's most experienced Wikipedia editors,
Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; currently Wikipedia needs experienced users at this task. (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 21:26, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

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Derrick Walton

Regarding the numbers, I left an explanation in the sophomore section of the review. However, the "Comparable quantities" part might be open to interpretation, so you can do what you think is best. Thanks. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 03:08, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

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