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Hafspajen (talk) 13:52, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

• North, WHERE ARE you? An experienced food editor is needed asap at the Danish pastry to clear up the mess... We need an experienced food editor - somebody who can give a clear and concise overview of the subject and keep a cool head. Hafspajen (talk) 06:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Danish pastries feed the masses

• Hi Hafspajen: I may opine there eventually, and it's possible I may not. With three new relatively detailed/long discussion threads on the article's talk page this month, there's a lot to sift through, and I'm presently working in several other areas. As per the discussion there, a new Pastry of Denmark article could be created, although I feel that this title would be best used to summarize all pastries from Denmark, rather than one.

For what it's worth, and as a side note, in contemporary times in the U.S., a "Danish" pastry is arguably a generic term for several types of pastries, which may differ from the original Danish pastry from Denmark. In my opinion, it's best to base the article upon the original Danish pastry, and include other types in the Varieties or other possible new section(s). NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 13:10, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

How do the US pastry look like, that's what I would like to know. Hafspajen (talk) 13:12, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

The problem is that it is different even among the Scandinavian countries. This is about how it looks [www.lantmannen-unibake.com/Global/.../Butiksbakat] in Sweden. It is called Wienerbrød [1] [2] in Norway. In Finland is called viineri [3] and looks like this. In Denmark they have several types. How does US Danish look like? Hafspajen (talk) 13:15, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Hafspajen: I hesitate to provide a definitive answer without performing adequate research, but here are some book links that provide more information:

• [4] (scroll up one page to beginning), [5], [6] (advertisement), [7], [8], [9]. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:43, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Very interesting. Nr 7 gives me that the classic filling is remonce. Hafspajen (talk) 14:48, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

New it was going to ***. They draged it to ANI. Hafspajen (talk) 23:07, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

North, I was thinking about this and I think that my cake-editorship ends here. You very kindly encouraged me and expressed support for my continued editing of cake articles, asked me to create more of them, but after this Danish pastry-experience - I will never edit any cake articles again. Appart from the fact that the wienerbröd (and a red link as you see) - the Swedish variety of this pastry - has indeed a huge cultural significance for us, Swedes, as a part of our variety of the the afternoon tea ceremony -Fika (coffee break) - something that other editors didn't understood - looks like everybody (incuding Floquenbeam and EdJohnston) thinks that we are all out of our minds. It might have been a culture shock - related issue, but this from now on will prevent me to enter cake territory again. I created one article, failed to make a point on an other, has been declared disruptve - and this is not my cup of tea. Never knew desserts make people react like this. I am very sorry but I will not create thos articles that I promised I will. I kinda agree with Floquenbeam comment here telling to one of the Danish pastry editors - I don't think interacting with you further would be of any use whatsoever; - I agree with him there. Hafspajen (talk) 12:02, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Do what you feel is best for yourself. However, I wouldn't extrapolate the situation that has occurred in re Danish pastry as likely to occur regarding all food articles. Actually, most food topics on Wikipedia are seriously lacking editors to expand and maintain present articles and create new ones. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:14, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

barnstar

	The Chicken shit Barnstar
	For taking my stubby stub and turning it into a nice little article. LadyofShalott 16:03, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

A manure car for the transport of chicken manure at a chicken house in Dolores, Colorado

• Hi LadyofShalott: Thanks. I have created a DYK nomination at Template:Did you know nominations/Chicken manure. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:27, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! You should get co-creation credit as should MelanieN. :) LadyofShalott 16:33, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

LadyofShalott: Feel free to addend the nomination with the above, if you'd like. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:34, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Count me out. I only contributed to the article Chicken shit. I have no interest in this agricultural article. --MelanieN (talk) 16:39, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

See Chicken shit, where the slang term has been moved back to. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:57, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Block request

Him. Nasty username. Cheers, :) Anna F remote (talk) 01:17, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Done. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:24, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!

Good morning! (at least it is morning where I am in Southern California). I wanted to first and foremost thank you for your numerous copyedits on pages I had recently worked on. Always great to have someone double check me and clean up my stupid typos. :-p I also wanted to talk with you and get your input about something. I noticed that you added a couple of lists to the US state fire department navigational boxes, such as the List of New York fire departments. I didn't realize that these lists existed so thanks for pointing them out! I'm curious whether you think these lists still serve a purpose. In my opinion these lists should really be deleted because they will never be complete. I was thinking of having them simply redirect to the state category, so for example List of New York fire departments would redirect to Category:Fire departments in New York since this category basically automatically updates.

I am still relatively new and learning the ways of Wikipedia. Thanks for your assistance! Your colleague, --Zackmann08 (talk) 16:31, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Zackmann08: The lists can include content that categories cannot, such as descriptions, images, references, external links, etc. For more information about lists relative to categories see WP:NOTDUP. Also, categories often don't receive many page views, and hence aren't used much. For example, see (check views), but ignore the most recent figures on the bar graph, which are skewed per the page views I have done there today. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:04, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Ah good points! Thank you for pointing that out. :-) --Zackmann08 (talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

A strange page move caused a AFD to go away it seems

So I marked this Martin Hristov (footballer, born 1997) as a duplicate article of a article that is up for a afd Hristov Martin. Instead of the user participating in this he just moved all of this and now the AFD is kind of messed up looking now. Not sure what to say. Wgolf (talk) 23:25, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

-Looks like it was fixed! Wgolf (talk) 23:41, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Wgolf. Yes, everything appears to be in order at this time for the most part. Martin Hristov (footballer, born 1997) (with the comma) now redirects to Martin Hristov (footballer born 1997), which was handled by Cryptic (diff). At the AfD discussion, Cryptic provided notes about some differences between the versions, with the redirected article perhaps needing more content merged to the redirect target. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:04, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Symphony

Hello, some time ago you launched a campaign to introduce WP standard referencing practice on Symphony, and if you will look at the Talk page you will see that your point of view carried the day and achieved (reluctant) consensus. Might it be appropriate for you to go ahead and make the change? Opus33 (talk) 23:43, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Opus33: I had performed this once before, but it was reverted, so I started the talk page discussion. Despite the rough consensus ("rough" per limited participation) at the discussion to use inline citations, I hesitate to perform the work again, because someone may very well come along and revert it again. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:16, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Chicken manure

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I am trying to leave a message on the projects talkpage, but I can't edit it because it has Flow enabled. I then thought that if I removed the Flow template temporarily I could leave a message and restore the template, but what I removed was not the flow software, but some informative template, and then I wasn't able to restore it, and each edit I then made got worse, and I can't work out how to restore it, because the page doesn't behave normally and allow undo. Would you look into it for me, and repair the mess I made. And, if you know, could you tell me how to leave messages on flow enabled pages. Regards SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 14:31, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi SilkTork: Due to the interface at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Breakfast, I can't access it to edit. As such, I will notify people who work on Flow with talkback messages to this discussion in hopes to obtain input/resolution. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:27, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping, Northamerica1000. Hi SilkTork, I've partially fixed-up the header, and will now file bugs for the problems with the text-entry box not expanding properly, and the WikiProject banner template not saving as expected (visible <table> code). They'll be adding (undo) links to the history, soon (phab:T90073).

As for posting a message in Flow, click on "Start a new topic" (screenshot) to begin. Please let me know if you have any other problems or questions. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 17:07, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Quiddity: Thanks very much for your fixes regarding this matter. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:11, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting this guys. Sorry for the mess. And as regards clicking on "Start a new topic" - I tried that. I wrote in the box with the blue bar. Couldn't enter it onto the page when I finished. Tried the box below that. Again couldn't enter it onto the page. Tried writing in both boxes - using the one with the blue bar as a heading. Still couldn't enter it on the page. After banging my head on the wall three times I then tried removing the flow enabled template. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 17:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Members of Asphyx headbanging, during a concert in 2007 in London

SilkTork: Rather than banging your head on a wall, you can try headbanging! NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:53, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

I've done a fair bit of that in my time! SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 10:11, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

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TfD

NA, I think you're pretty clever and geeky. Can you have a look at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Requests_for_closure#Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion.2FLog.2F2014_November_29? Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_November_29#Template:Grey_line looks like no consensus, Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_November_29#Template:Infobox_Electoral_reform is a pretty clear delete. Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_November_29#Template:Infobox_gunpowder_plotter is tricky, probably no consensus, and God only knows what Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_November_29#Template:Quotation results in. I'd ask Plastikspork but they're on the Bahamas, I think, and I'd do some myself but I don't know the process. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure is a bit backlogged and poor Cunard is running out of coffee and carbohydrates, I fear. Drmies (talk) 17:51, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Drmies: I'll keep the suggestions in mind. I have a pretty full plate with various present and planned activities, so I may not get to these. One person can only do so much, and I don't want to burn out by trying to cover to many things at once. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:48, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

If you know anyone else with some relevant skills, ask them please--it would make for nice cleanup. I wish that the TfD process were automated, like AfD. Drmies (talk) 20:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Sandwich: Great Eats from All 50 States

Hi Northamerica1000. You added sources to and de-prodded American Sandwich: Great Eats from All 50 States, which is now at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Sandwich: Great Eats from All 50 States. Cunard (talk) 20:40, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

• Cunard: Thanks for the notification. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:00, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Fanelli Cafe

Thank you for the barnstar — very kind of you. Yeah, I was completely surprised that Fanelli didn't already have an entry. But then, neither did the Empire Diner until I added it not all that long ago. Go figure! --Tenebrae (talk) 01:04, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

• Tenebrae: Thanks again for creating Fanelli Cafe, as well as Empire Diner back in the day. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:26, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

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