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Hi, Thank you for your comments about my work on the invention page. Please understand that it is a work in progress, very far from finished and I can only work on it part time. I am not able to work on it full days. I happened to find a number of fascinating quotes that I feel give a lot of insight into invention and the process of inventing. I am totally aware of the fact that there are too many quotes on the invention page now. But I left them in for now because the page is a work in progress and very far from finished. As a work in progress, the invention page is in my view better off in its current state with the quotes supporting than without them. Frankly I am hoping that someone else or maybe multiple other people start contributing content to the invention page too. If you read over the Creativity page you will see a dramatic comparision. I am not adding any original content to wikipedia. Much of the information I wrote on the invention page is taken directly from a very good website which is the site of the Invention and Innovation Center at the Smithsonian Institution here in the USA http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/. If you are not familiar with the Smithsonian Institution please take a look at it. It is truly a wonderful resource. The site provides a ton of information about invention including lots of interviews with many inventors. As I continue on the Invention page over whatever amount of time it takes, and hopfully with the contributions of other people to this page, the problem of having too many quotes on it will get resolved and the information on the page will get more substantial. I have met a number of people who are very knowledgable about subjects related to the inventive process who I may be able to talk into contributing to wikipedia. Thank you.--Sara USA (talk) 11:36, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

The problem with the quotes is just one aspect. It simply is not even close to looking like an encyclopedic article and if you are using a lot of information from the smithsonian site you should be linking to the specific places on that site which serve as your references. Frankly, I think the current state of the article is verging on unsalvagable and really do recommend that you read the wikipedia style guidelines as I suggested. GDallimore (Talk) 11:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


Thank you for your comments. Kindly look at the content you just deleted from the Invention page more carefully. It is all taken directly from this book which I cited and you deleted: Patenting Art and Entertainment by Gregory Aharonian and Richard Stim, Pub. Date: Jun 2004, Nolo Press, ISBN: 9781413300321. You can find this book online and even read excerpts from it online. Anyone can look at this book and see that the information I added came directly from it. The book describes inventions in art, design and architecture, as well as inventions in other arts. I do not agree with your deletion of the content I just added to the Invention page from this book. I think that if you look at the book yourself you will change your mind.--Sara USA (talk) 13:53, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Please read the Wikipedia guideline I referred you to and add the information and the reference in line with those guidelines. GDallimore (Talk) 13:57, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] London Agreement

Thanks. Didn't know. Cheers. --Edcolins (talk) 09:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

...for fixing the vandalism to Mousepad. That will teach me to look at all four digits on the IP. I thought Rollback would fix it. My bad. SHEFFIELDSTEELTALK 21:42, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem. That's the thing with all these special anti-vandalism tools - you never know quite what they're going to do when you use them! GDallimore (Talk) 09:02, 6 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Alphabet song.png

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[edit] Hugo navbox

I think it's a nice idea, but ultimately too cluttered. I think a link to the list article is probably better. Graevemoore (talk) 16:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree that the full version will get too cluttered for normal article use, but the mini versions such as {{Hugo Award Best Novel 1946-1960}} wouldn't be and could be added to the end of the relevant novel articles. I've just added the full template for nor to show people the work in progress and try to get some support in implementing it.
I think it would be useful to be able to easily get an immediate picture of the larger historical context in which a book won the award, rather than just the immediately preceding and succeeding ones. Have a look at how well it works here: [[1]]. The Academy award templates were the basis for my templates. GDallimore (Talk) 16:47, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] References on Invention Page

Hi, Just a note to let you know that I will do more work on the Invention page to make the references more specific, according to Wikipedia standards, as you noted. I just need to do this as you suggested, more slowly. Although I have recently been able to spend a lot of time working on the Invention page, I am not able to do this now. I will finish the work on the Invention page slowly. All the best. --Sara USA (talk) 19:15, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the input

GD, my gratitude for your input to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It demonstrates the collaborate nature of WP, which is a marvelous thing. I appreciate editors who actively improve articles, especially my pet projects which always need a non-biased look. Keep it up! --Figureskatingfan (talk) 17:01, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oladevi

Hi GDallimore - thank you for your input on the DYK debate. I have proposed this new wording - please let me and others know what you think. Vishnava(talk) 17:25, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Looks like it's all well in hand. Good luck! GDallimore (Talk) 18:26, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 24 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Uncommon Sense, 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.

--Olaf Davis | Talk 09:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DYK suggestion

Hi. Sorry it took me a while to respond to your suggestion about the DYK template. My answer's now on my talk page. Best, Olaf Davis | Talk 16:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Last Five Years

Hi, re your recent edit to Song cycle, did you have a peek here?.

interesting userpage, btw. Re Did You Know, I was recently startled by a reference to "jarring seeds" in Purcell's Hail Bright Cecilia in what I had once ignorantly thought of as the age of caloric theory. Sparafucil (talk) 00:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Oops. No, I hadn't seen that. As it happens, I disagree - the plot is so vague that I think both shows qualify. That's the problem when you start getting unreferenced lists of things that various people think sound like they fit a particular category. Two people disagree and there's no way to resolve the problem.
I'll take a look at those articles you mention. Sounds interesting. Thanks! GDallimore (Talk) 07:36, 5 June 2008 (UTC)