User talk:Drenched

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Contents 1 WikiProject Musicals 2 Bayside, Queens 3 RENT 4 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 5 Musicals Project 6 License tagging for Image:Mamma mia.JPG 7 A Smile for You 8 Image:HarajukuT.jpg 9 Help, please 10 Apologies 11 W. S. Gilbert FA candidate 12 Orphaned fair use image (Image:Propaganda jap1.jpg) 13 Stereotypes in the American media

[edit] WikiProject Musicals

Hi! I'm leaving you this message because your name is listed as a participant in WikiProject Musicals (previously WikiProject Broadway) or I feel you may be interested in the project. It seems that the project has laid dormant for quite awhile, but I would like to work toward getting it up and operative. I have a few ideas that I've outlined on the talk page, and would love your input. Working together, I think we can signifigantly improve the quality of the articles relating to musicals on Wikipedia. —  MusicMaker 06:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bayside, Queens

You have a very low threshhold of rocking, but I greatly appreciate the kind comment. You did the real work on the article. I'm just the janitor who goes through and cleans up to make everything look nice. Thanks for putting in the time and effort! Alansohn 01:42, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RENT

On behalf of the RENThead community, I would like to thank you for you substantial contributions to the article RENT. Someday, I would like to see it featured... Anyway, for your efforts, I give you this Barnstar of High Culture! You earned it!

		The Barnstar of High Culture
		For tireless and excellent contributions to RENT! Viva La Vie Boheme 16:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Wow... I was going to tell you did a great job with the RENT page, but looks like someone beat me to it. Anyways, congratulations and thanks! --Dakart 07:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Musicals Project

Hello, D. I'm a New Yorker, too. Although I'm a little too crazed to put up new articles for musicals for the next couple of weeks, I'd be happy to act as a second pair of copy editing eyes for any you create/expand. Best regards, --Ssilvers 00:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

D...I like that. But anyways, thanks for the offer, sounds lovely! I really appreciate your added eyes/help/expertise etc. :) I'll keep my article editing list on my userpage current. And likewise, if there's any article you are working on that you'd like me to look at, please let me know! Happy editing --Drenched 03:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi, D. I added some stuff to Marin Mazzie's article. Still needs more. --Ssilvers 03:11, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey, your changes look awesome! It's really starting to look like an article rather than a random list of facts. =P But yes...a lot more can be said of Marin Mazzie! --Drenched 04:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Mamma mia.JPG

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Whoops, forgot to tag. Fixed now! --Drenched 03:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Smile for You

Thank you for your kind comments about the Article Structure for WP:WPMT

--omtay38 03:39, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:HarajukuT.jpg

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I can undelete the picture if you know which license tag you'd like to use. If you have any other questions, please let me know. Shell ^babelfish 19:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help, please

A person has been attacking certain articles I have edited and started an AfD against one that I created called Joseph J. Romm. Would you please weigh in at the AfD? Thanks! --Ssilvers 19:05, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Of course. It looks like it's a pretty unanimous keep as it is though =) --Drenched 00:09, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Hope all is well with you. I added a little more to Mazzie.  :-) Ssilvers 22:57, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem, hope your articles have turned out all right in the end. And thanks for the edits! You're way more diligent than I am. =) --Drenched 00:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apologies

Hey, sorry I haven't really had time to work on the revision of the stereotypes article. I've been really busy, and I'm actually preparing to go on a two-week trip, so I really won't be working on it for a few weeks. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 15:03, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

You've been such a huge help; I really appreciate your contribution. I'll try to work on the revision in the meantime, but I'll also be pretty busy too rounding the corner into midterms season. I hope you have a pleasant trip! --Drenched 00:43, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] W. S. Gilbert FA candidate

Hey, D!: The W. S. Gilbert article has received a lot of work in the past month (and we responded to two peer reviews), and it has been nominated as a Featured Article. If you can get to it, please review it and then weigh in on the nomination at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/W. S. Gilbert, or else let us know if you have any further comments or suggestions about the article. Regards, -- Ssilvers 02:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Stereotypes in the American media

Hi,

I have commented on the AfD for Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims that the title of the article (and its sister "Stereotypes of ..." articles) should have "in the American media", "in Western popular culture", or something similar added to the title as this is the actual focus of the articles. For instance, the Arabs and Muslims article does not, for instance, include stereotypes of Arabs among Israelis, among Africans, and so on. As you are the creator of all of the articles, I wanted to get your thoughts on the idea.

Cheers, Black Falcon 03:40, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey, you definitely have a good point. This issue was brought up here when I originally suggested the split, but there wasn't much feedback. Since the parent article was from an American perspective, the split articles definitely have an American bias, which is problematic (e.g. Stereotypes of Asians has been tagged with the "globalize" tag, and there is also a discussion about worldwide POV on its discussion page as well). I think the scope Western for the pages is better than just American, because I feel that many of the stereotypes of non-Western ethnicities are the same or similar across Europe, America, Canada & the Western world in general & it'd be silly to have separate pages for each Western nation doing the stereotyping. I agree it would be more descriptive & accurate if we included "in the Western world" or something like that to each of the titles, but it would be cumbersome as well so I'm not sure how that ought to be rectified. Non-Western stereotyping of various groups really hasn't been addressed much on Wikipedia in its own right. Non-Western POVs currently don't have a home & their categorization would be tricky, but the content also doesn't currently exist yet (except maybe in other contexts). So while it is a valid concern, I'd personally worry about it when the issue arises. What would you suggest? --Drenched 04:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I think you make a good point about "Western" being more appropriate than "American". However, there are articles that deal with individual countries (e.g., Irish settlement in Argentina). That said, such articles may well come under criticism for being too specific. The shortest title I can think of is [[Stereotypes of [Group] in Western media]] (without the "the" that would be necessary for "Western world"). It is long, but it is also informative (although then the article should include references to non-American media as well). I do agree that splitting the main Ethnic stereotypes in American media was a correct decision as the article is quite long. I will take a closer look at the other articles and will comment here if I think of something else. I suppose waiting until someone raises the issue (hopefully with suggestions) is sufficient for now--maybe some ideas will come up in the AfD. Cheers, Black Falcon 04:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)