User talk:Abramsky

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Enjoy! --Tryst (talk) 16:13, 6 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Lucio Dalla

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I have added a "{{prod}}" template to the article Lucio Dalla, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but it may not satisfy Wikiquote's criteria for inclusion, for the reasons given in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikiquote is not" and Wikiquote's deletion policy).

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#### thank you

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Thank you for adding #### (film) to List of films, much appreciated, -- Cirt (talk) 17:56, 20 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Julia Gillard

Latest comment: 11 years ago8 comments2 people in discussion

Hi Abramsky, could you add the source of the first quote here in writing?. The current link itself requires people to sign in first, but even so, interwiki links are unstable in time and for that not appropriate as source. Thank you. -- Mdd (talk) 11:38, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

That wan't an Interwiki link; it was a link to the Financial Times. I have changed the link to the BBC site, which is free.--Abramsky (talk) 11:43, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, it was indeed just an "external link". Now I updated the source data some more, still it is not the original source. Do you know in what media she originally made those comments two days ago? And don't you prefer to add those to the source info? -- Mdd (talk) 11:55, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

I can't see why the BBC shouldn't be an original source. It was said at a press conference and no doubt there was a BBC reporter there. I could probably find an Australian newspaper but that may be no more original.--Abramsky (talk) 11:59, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

If I am not mistaken, the BBC article doesn't mention those statements were made on a press conference, and I also noticed the BBC webarticle is from 26 june 2013 and not 25 june. -- Mdd (talk) 12:10, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

It doesn't say that those statements were made in Australia either. If you can find another source that you consider better, please do, but I cannot conceive that the BBC web site is not a perfectly good source.--Abramsky (talk) 12:13, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

I agree the BBC web site is a good source, and I realize that there is not one exact best solution. We can use different sources, and write it down in different styles. I noticed you have your own type of notation, different from mine, and I tried to restore that kind of notation, see here. I do think the source data should be consistent and as complete as possible, and my recent edits have improved both. -- Mdd (talk) 12:54, 27 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

That's fine; thank you.--Abramsky (talk) 11:29, 28 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Congrats on becoming an admin!

Latest comment: 11 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

Congrats on your recent RfA. If you have any questions about your new admin tools, feel free to give me a shout. EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:17, 5 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Congrats indeed! Thanks for volunteering to help out with the mop-and-bucket work. ~ Ningauble (talk) 16:34, 5 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
- Congratulations. -- Mdd (talk) 18:13, 5 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
  - Thank you all very much.--Abramsky (talk) 08:36, 7 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thanks!

I'm a historian and I've been following Wikipedia guidelines to expand articles and quotes by the Murrow Boy Bill Downs. It is a fun project and even the smallest input from other people feels good. And I fixed the lack of citations.