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Image copyrights

Thanks for uploading Image:Pallas PS.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, — Edwin Stearns | Talk 21:50, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

White-winged Tit

Yes, that paper would be very helpful. Thank you. Shyamal (talk) 03:55, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

James Bolton

You wrote:

Dear Iss246! You are from New York? Is it possible to provide me with a copy of following? http://clio.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=5082330

   * Anon. (1799): Obituary of James Bolton. Leeds Mercury or General Advertiser, Saturday, january 19th, vol. 32, no. 1668: p. 3

Holding: Butler Library, 535 West 114th St., New York, NY 10027 I only need a copy of page 3. If You can help me anyhow, I will be very glad and grateful, Kind regards, Doc Taxon (talk) 05:39, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I would have been able to get what you wanted a month ago but not now. For more than 25 years I taught a biostatistics course for the Dept. of Psychiatry, and by virtue of that appointment had access to all CU's libraries. I took advantage of the library card too. Like Walter Alston of the Dodgers, I had a series of one-year contracts. But alas, I was not renewed on July 1. My library card is no longer operative. I wish I could have helped you.

If you or someone you know knows a Columbia student, that student can have access to the document, and transmit a copy to you. You probably know someone who knows someone who knows someone who is either a student or faculty member at Columbia. I imagine that by the time I have written to you, you will have solved your problem of access. Best wishes. Let me know if you succeeded.Iss246 (talk) 12:27, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

James Bolton

I shall be in Leeds Central Library sometime this week, I'll see what I can find. Regards, Mtaylor848 (talk) 11:33, 8 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Request

I'll see what I can do.--droptone (talk) 20:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

thanks a lot in advance! Doc Taxon (talk) 09:09, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Filled.--droptone (talk) 19:19, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mariposas de Chiapas

You know those pages refer to the notes and appendix, and that the book is in Spanish, right?--droptone (talk) 17:43, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the file.--droptone (talk) 15:19, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your offer of help

Hello Doc Taxon, I'd much appreciate any help you can offer! Let me know - thank you. Best, WikiJedits (talk) 18:27, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Doc Taxon, sorry for the delay. I haven't been on here for a while. Thanks very much for the additions to the article – I think you filled in the name I'd not been able to read, which was what I wanted. Thank you!

I have no idea how to transfer a file – I have never done this on Wikipedia before. Let me see if I can find out. Some of the regulars on the resource exchange desk seem to be uploading them to Windows Live sites http://cid-d7eef6a0e20c1e42.office.live.com/browse.aspx/Wikipedia or Google sites https://sites.google.com/site/droptone/ but I do not know how they set this up. Best, WikiJedits (talk) 18:03, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dynamo

Thank for the message on my talk page. Yes, it is still open as far as I'm concerned although user:Edison was the primary objector to the article's statements on Jedlik. I see the section has acquired a new reference from Nature 53 1896 since I last looked. However, the insertion is from a now blocked user who was placing a lot of dubious Hungarian related material on Wikipedia. Are you able to obtain a copy of the Nature article? We need to verify that it does contain an article on Jedlik, and if so, that it supports the claim made. SpinningSpark 06:33, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arroyo toad

Hello, Doc Taxon, and thanks for your note on my talk page. I am not able to scan those articles for you, but you might ask for information at the San Diego Natural History Museum, http://www.sdnhm.org/about/directory.html . Or you could ask the San Diego Public Library directly, http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/services/asksdpl.shtml . Good luck with your research! --MelanieN (talk) 13:12, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re;739

I've been busy dealing with drama and some other stuff, sorry :| - No I no longer need those. Also, next time, let me reply to someone on my talk page. ;)Mitch32^{(Transportation Historian)} 14:20, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

University of Manchester query

Hi, apologies about the delay - been busy in the past week. I do live in Manchester but I'm not a student at the University of Manchester. Although I'm a college student at a college in Manchester - the problem is that local students (from Greater Manchester colleges) are only allowed to just visit the library for reference (not borrow books). And even then, you have to sign up for access pass, which I am told is an unnecessary long winded process by my college librarian. Sorry, I couldn't be of more help - regards Stevo1000 (talk) 16:37, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Thank you anyway, Doc Taxon (talk) 18:03, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Percy Cyril Claude Garnham

The place of death is not clearly stated in doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0010, but he lifed in Farnham Common.--Stone (talk) 09:22, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

thank you! Doc Taxon (talk) 16:14, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Gabon Football Widows

My friend (who works in the Columbia University Law Library) got me the book today, and I finished scanning it. I need your e-mail and then I can send you the whole shebang. Best regards, ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃ (talk) 17:57, 2 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Carnegie Library

In regards your request for the article from the Carnegie Library, I'll see what I can do. It may be a week or two. — AlekJDS ^talk 05:50, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Greenwich Japanese School

Hi! That request is now closed. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 20:10, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Reculver

Thank you so much! It was very kind of you to pick this up, I didn't like to ask again so you've done me a big favour! I'll go and update WP:REX now. Cheers. Nortonius (talk) 16:43, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

you're welcome! -- Doc Taxon (talk) 17:20, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

William McCrum resource request

I am unable to access that Evernote notebook now. I don't remember accessing it in 2009 either. JMiall ₰ 21:53, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nihon ishigaku zasshi

Hi Doc Taxon. Thanks for asking, already got it. I've marked the topic as "resolved". Best wishes, Filip em (talk) 15:18, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

George Gould Strong

Hi, Doc, Well, I'm not sure how active the Resource Exchange is, but I doubt I'm going to get any further response. So probably it's fine to archive. - Nunh-huh 13:52, 4 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Jackie Magazine

Hello there - sorry for the delay in reply as I have been really busy. Basically the request has not been solved - I know that it has been some time now since the request was made, but I would still be interested in finding the information some how. I thought it was worth a try there given the collectors status Jackie magazines have.Rain the 1 17:22, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'll try to help you getting this interview. -- Doc Taxon (talk) 18:08, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - I would be really happy for the help. :)Rain the 1 21:00, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Request

Yes, the request is still open. Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 16:45, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! WhisperToMe (talk) 17:31, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It would be a copy of the episode so I can watch it and confirm what is stated on it. A transcript would also be good. I do not know if a transcript exists. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:48, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, it's Undercurrents :) WhisperToMe (talk) 19:45, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just posted the info on Lead's page WhisperToMe (talk) 18:35, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! It's still active! Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 15:14, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WP:REX#The Builder 1948 Vol 175 can be closed, thanks. Bencherlite ^Talk 15:37, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

whisper (dot) world (at) yahoo (dot) com :) WhisperToMe (talk) 16:03, 13 November 2012 (UTC) Thank you! WhisperToMe (talk) 16:22, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Doc! WhisperToMe (talk) 22:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Verification

It's not been satisfactorily resolved since different sources differ on the dates. The article now includes the differences for lack of a better solution. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 12:01, 13 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not necessarily. It was in the middle of a dispute back then, and hence the over-referencing. In fact the article has quite a substantial amount of over-referencing incidents. Some pruning would be greatly helpful. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 03:51, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hal Erickson

You recently added a birth year to his article. Any editor can remove this as unsourced but I didn't. Do you have a reliable source for it?--Canoe1967 (talk) 16:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have had huge battles over birth dates before. I even emailed Mr. Erickson about his source for Sondra Locke's. I will avoid it with his article though. If he reads the article he may decide whether it is accurate or not properly sourced.--Canoe1967 (talk) 19:17, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Yes I got the email - many thanks. I thought I had already replied but clearly my mind is playing tricks on me. Very interesting and useful reading. Thanks very much for your help. Bencherlite ^Talk 17:46, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Resource request

Hi. I found your listing at WP:REX and I'm hoping you can help me. I need a very specific piece of information (and, ideally, a quote and page number) from this book:

Strieder, Peter (2012). Dürer. Langewiesche K.R. ISBN 978-3784591421.

In previous editions of the book (in the 1970s and 1980s), Strieder did not accept Lotte Brand Philip's identification of a picture at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum as being Durer's portrait of his mother and therefore part of a diptych of his parents (see the wikilinked article for background). I need to confirm whether Strieder maintains the same position in the 2012 edition of the book—but it has only been released in German, so it's not very easy to find in the US.

I noticed that WP:REX has a link to de:WP:BIBA; would that be a good place to start? Any advice would be welcome. Maralia (talk) 20:13, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for ordering the book to help me with this—I just couldn't get my hands on it over here in the US. A few notes that may help you find the right passage:

The information I'm looking for would likely be in a chapter about Dürer's earliest work; he painted these in 1490, when he was 19, and they are his earliest surviving paintings.
You can see the portraits here: Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents.

Strieder's opinion on this is important because in addition to being a Dürer expert, he was for 25 years the head curator of paintings at GNM (which holds the mother's portrait). Thanks again for looking into this for me. Maralia (talk) 15:10, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so very much for the quotes! I get the meaning of them, but I would also appreciate a translation to make sure I've not misread anything. Really appreciate your help, and excellent timing: I am working on the article right now. Maralia (talk) 18:39, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! You seem to be reverting my changes to Wikipedia entries and MediaWiki Commons items which involve logos of the Namecoin project. Please stop: the purple logo is incorrect and is being pushed by an outsider who goes by the name "Sudo" and "Sudoquai". This person is not an official contributor to the project and these logos have NOT been adopted by the Namecoin project. You can verify this for yourself by checking out Namecoin.org.

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I am afraid it has been sitting in my Sandkiste for a long time. If that were en:wiki I would have opened a sandbox on the article- transferred it over then invited other users to correct it. My written German is not strong enough to do a full copyedit but the facts are fine and referenced. So I have done the next best thing I have copied over the text- and added it in comment brackets on the article page. If you have time- please do use it to replace the stub. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 17:12, 9 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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Books & Bytes
Issue 12, May-June 2015
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New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
Expansion into new languages, including French, Finnish, Turkish, and Farsi
Spotlight: New partners for the Visiting Scholar program
American Library Association Annual meeting in San Francisco

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Books and Bytes - Issue 13

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Books & Bytes
Issue 13, August-September 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
Expansion into new languages, including Viet and Catalan
Spotlight: Elsevier partnership garners controversy, dialogue
Conferences: PKP, IFLA, upcoming events

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Books and Bytes - Issue 14

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Books & Bytes
Issue 14, October-November 2015
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs)

New donations - Gale, Brill, plus Finnish and Farsi resources
Open Access Week recap, and DOIs, Wikipedia, and scholarly citations
Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref - a citation drive for librarians

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Books & Bytes - Issue 15

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Books & Bytes
Issue 15, December-January 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs), Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

New donations - Ships, medical resources, plus Arabic and Farsi resources
#1lib1ref campaign summary and highlights
New branches and coordinators

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

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Books & Bytes
Issue 16, February-March 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs)

New donations - science, humanities, and video resources
Using hashtags in edit summaries - a great way to track a project
A new cite archive template, a new coordinator, plus conference and Visiting Scholar updates
Metrics for the Wikipedia Library's last three months

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Iron edit

Your category addition on iron. Iron (native) is under telluric iron and meteoric iron. Thx --Chris.urs-o (talk) 03:22, 24 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes - Issue 17

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Books & Bytes
Issue 17, April-May 2016
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New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!

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Hello there.

I see that you offered your help with this request on the resource exchange. I was wondering which pages you could help the requester with.

The reason why I'm asking is that I can access all of the requested materials except for The History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1939-45. However, it would require me to go to the library and scan the pages.

Please let me know which ones you can do, and I can cover the other ones except for Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Thanks. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 20:25, 25 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@MrLinkinPark333: yes, you are right. The only possible thing is to go to the library and to scan the pages, even for me too. Often it's not possible to get the materials by online access. But there are many libraries here, who could help to receive the article. But it takes a little more time than usual. If you want to fetch the materials or if I fetch the materials, it's both the same. Doc Taxon (talk) 07:00, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Doc Taxon: We could divide up the sources. I can't access Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. If you could access that one, that would be great. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 19:28, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

yes, it'll be okay. Thank you, Doc Taxon (talk) 20:13, 26 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Books & Bytes - Issue 18

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Issue 18, June–July 2016
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New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

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Books and Bytes - Issue 19

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Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
New Library Card Platform and Conference news
Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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Books and Bytes - Issue 20

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Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

Partner resource expansions
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Books and Bytes - Issue 21

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Books & Bytes
Issue 21, January-March 2017
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Books and Bytes - Issue 22

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Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017

New and expanded research accounts
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Books and Bytes - Issue 23

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Issue 23, June-July 2017

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Books and Bytes - Issue 24

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Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017

User Group update
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