User:Trafford09
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The Felix M. Warburg House is a mansion at 1109 Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built from 1907 to 1908 for the German-American Jewish financier Felix M. Warburg, in the Châteauesque style, and designed by C. P. H. Gilbert. After Warburg's death in 1937, his widow sold it to a real estate developer. When plans to replace it with luxury apartments fell through, ownership reverted to the Warburgs, who donated it in 1944 to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. In 1947, the Seminary opened the Jewish Museum in the mansion. The house was named a New York City designated landmark in 1981 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1993, Kevin Roche constructed an annex to the house in Gilbert's style, built with stone from the same quarry that supplied the original mansion. Critical reviews of the original house's architecture have generally been positive while the extension received a mixed reception. (Full article...)
(Don't panic if the above item is in red.)
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If some of the above tickle you, do check out these: User:Ira_Leviton#About_me_via_userboxes - bravo Ira :)
How is Wikipedia considered, externally?[edit]
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- The above group has 553,705 fans, as at 4 Jan. 2011 (up from 366,372 fans as at 14 June 2010).
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"Wikipedia better than Britannica", claims experienced dictionary-writer. Good ol' Beeb. Several sections of the BBC have a policy of using Wikipedia unashamedly (good on them). BBC article March 2009: "UK politicians' Wikipedia worries" is largely pro-Wikipedia, despite its title. BBC article 2007: "Students 'should use Wikipedia'" it says, partially quoting Jimmy Wales. Some BBC articles rely heavily on directing readers to WP, e.g. this article on WW2 code-breaking. The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) (here) directs viewers to Wikipedia's Counting Single Transferable Votes article. The Daily Telegraph's on-line website section provides an RSS feed from Wikipedia (here), above its own Technology RSSs, but ironically still propagates old anti-Wikipedia stories (here) ! BBC article 2005: [1] The results of an analysis of a broad range of entries from the websites of Wikipedia and Encyclopædia Britannica] states that "... reviewers also found many factual errors, omissions or misleading statements: 162 and 123 in Wikipedia and Britannica, respectively.". But we've improved since then, I'm quite sure. Re. spam: http://rushprnews.com/2010/03/31/pr-consultants-should-think-twice-before-using-wikipedia-to-promote-clients How big is Wikipedia? This big! See also Wikipedia:Statistics. As of today, Thursday, May 9, 2024, English Wikipedia has 6,821,672 articles. Wikipedia has an "External peer review" page: Wikipedia:External_peer_review. Quotes from people that have made comments about Wikipedia as a whole can be found at Wikipedia:Testimonials and Wikipedia:Criticisms. See also Category:Critics of Wikipedia. See also Wikipedia:Press coverage 2010. |
Favourite articles etc.[edit]
Just a reminder to myself of what I rate as Good articles etc.
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 This Wikipedian recites the Wiki Prayer regularly. | God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit, The courage to edit the pages I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. |
See also[edit]
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Self-reminders[edit]
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See web-browsers & mIRC chat, for double-spacing etc. |
Read, get & use user:chzz/help. |
Read about using freenode Correct any misused templates, finding them by a search of WP Mainspace articles, like this. |
Ongoing[edit]
When the Moon is closest, it is at perigee, and it looks slightly bigger from Earth. Perigee is the point at which an object makes its closest approach to the Earth. Often the term is used in a broader sense to define the point in an orbit where an orbiting body is closest to the body it orbits. The opposite is the apogee, the farthest or highest point.
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Vandal-patrolling.
Help out with pages which need copy-edit.
Most-wanted articles - some 'missing" articles are still linked 140 times!
Help with Requests for feedback, as & when I get time.
Added {{Portal box|Law}} * In re & {{Clear}} to these "In re" articles.
Wikipedia Templates and User Page Metadata[edit]
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