User talk:RA0808/Archives2016/September

Cambridge Five

Hi RA,

I just thought I would let you know that the Cambridge Five are mentioned in the second to last chapter of the book Deep Storm by Lincoln Child. I don't know how specific the mentions have to be in order to be added to the Wiki page, but I thought I'd at least let you know about it just in case you were unaware. They mention a few of the original members and one of the main saboteurs in the book is from Cambridge as well. That's all, BT2600:387:1:805:0:0:0:A0 (talk) 17:45, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Want to help test advanced new tools planned for Recent Changes?

Hi RA0808! I’m reaching out to you because our logs tell us you’re a very active Twinkle user (top 25, actually!). The WMF Collaboration team is working on new tools that we hope will be useful to people engaged in reviewing recent changes, fighting vandalism or supporting new users. We want to test them for usability with editors who are experienced with relevant wiki work. If you’re interested in helping to shape this new technology—we’d like to hear from you.

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Thanks! Dchen (WMF) (talk) 18:01, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Selim 2

Good morning, Thank you for your message. I was wondering what has happened to my changes. Regarding the section I added, I have retried this poem from a Turkish book and the language used was " Ottoman Turkish " which only a handful of people can read. If I was to cite this books name will this be fine? Second, I have many paintings of Ottoman Sultan's that do not have any identified copy rights over them, may I use them as some of the pictures here are of very low quality. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baburhan 1 (talk • contribs) 12:13, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

@Baburhan 1: Yes, citing the source should be sufficient. Faithful translations from other languages should, to the best of my knowledge, be permitted as long as the original is cited. Regarding the images, they cannot be uploaded to Wikipedia without their copyright status being known... please see Wikipedia:Copyright FAQ and WP:C for more information. Hope this helps! RA0808 ^talk_contribs 16:29, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Re: Disappearing blonde gene

Hello, I'm RA0808. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Disappearing blonde gene, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. RA0808 talkcontribs 18:51, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks RA0808, I intended to provide a source to substantiate the statement that European population is declining rapidly as a percentage of global population, but have not found a source that states that explicitly. It can be inferred from many sources, e.g.:

http://www.prb.org/publications/Datasheets/2012/world-population-data-sheet/fact-sheet-world-population.aspx

which notes that European population is flat while the global population continues to rapidly increase.

Perhaps that would suffice for now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.193.69.105 (talk) 19:13, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm afraid that would not be sufficient since that falls under Wikipedia's policy against original research, specifically because it is "combin[ing] material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources." If you were to find a reliable source that itself made that synthesis then it would be acceptable. Cheers, RA0808 ^talk_contribs 16:33, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Madonna as a gay icon

Hi

I believe the article to be an insufficient representation of Madonna as a gay icon and misses out the core reason for her alignment to our kind. I am 45 years of age and have followed Madonna ardently over the years. I feel the article needs to include the following

1. Madonna's very early years and her relationship with her gay brother Christopher, he influenced a lot of her artistic choices 2. Her relationship with the gay community especially during the AIDS epedemic in the 1980's when she lost very close friends to HIV; Martin Burgoyne and Keith Harring were very influential gay artists whom Madonna was not only creatively but emotionally linked to. She was also a vocal gay supporter when many in the 1980's who were gay, refused to acknowledge, she became a voice. 3. Her philanthropy - Madonna has given millions of her own cash to fund AIDS research, she has attended AIDS benefit concerts and events throughout her career such as AMFAR 4. Her pro gay stance and anti homophobic opinion - she chose to include a leaflet in her 1989 Like A Prayer album which aimed to inform people of the real facts about AIDS and to reduce stigma of how it was contracted 5. Her alignment with gay men and women of the arts - she has actively chosen to work with gay artists over the years and has fostered a deep connection with the gay community because of it and before many other artists thought it fashionable to do so 6. Her vocalness in support of the community be it on tour, in interviews or via her music. Her album Erotica contained many homages to gay culture and was viewed as a celebration of the 'different' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.39.215.34 (talk) 01:38, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi and welcome to Wiki! It's great that you want to make contributions, once you find some reliable sources that verify your points please do re-add them to the article. Please also be mindful of Wikipedia's policies on verifiability and neutral point of view. RA0808 ^talk_contribs 01:41, 30 September 2016 (UTC)