User talk:Kerowyn/Archive 2

PUT IT BACK!

on lost ship of desert please put back the media timeline i tried the undo and it said no. im not sure what to do to undo what you did. im dislexic so it was very hard to create that list in the first place. (thank the lord for spell checkers) The article you will note is listed under american mythology and folklore so much of it will be things like "someone said" or "people claim that" that is what folklore is storys that change with each telling The Lost ship's uniquness is that it is well Documented folklore. the purpose of the Media Timeline was not so much a reference but to show How the Stories about the lost ship changed with each decade of people telling about it. that is why only the stories that could be found through the internet were listed and the verbal variants were left out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.102.81.151 (talk) 09:47, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Please consider

"The deleted material you refer to...". This is a quote from your last message to me. Here is how the syntax should be: "The deleted material to which you refer....".

With intellectual integrity, please do consider that you are not qualified to be an editor of anything. You do not even know our language. --wterrell

reply

My "rant" as you refer to my note, is concerning the deletion of information, prime source material, and pictures that have previously been approved, on the page for Steyr Mannlicher M1894. --wterrell

your definition of 'encyclopedia'

Is this wiki to be encyclopedic or not? You seem to want to reduce it to short summaries instead of being encyclopedic, extensive, detail, and referenced. And you are editing areas in which you are not an expert.

As a favor I have corrected the spelling on this page. You should review your qualifications to edit an encyclopedia if you cannot give attention to detail and accuracy (ergo: your spelling).

Cleanup by month

I spend most of my time in cleanup-by-month. There are a number of people working on these, I believe. (Someone is updating the counts, I think there's a bot now). Towards the end of each month there is a big press to close out a month that is down to just a few entries, but newer months have a lot of entire (thousands). I'm all for more people working on cleanup but there's 17,000 articles waiting for cleanup, I don't know if we can make a real dent. The other problem is deciding when they are cleaned up enough. (And we're behind on closing taskforce articles, which is a different problem). RJFJR 14:50, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

East Coast Swing

I'll see what I can do. I tried to avoid that because I didn't want to get into a controversy about what ECS is (there are many different interpretations of the term). While I know quite a bit about the dance, most of it doesn't come from published research (which is a problem that has been discussed on the Dance WikiProject since that holds true for many other dances as well). I will see what I can put together though. --Cswrye 06:26, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Mayerling and Mayerling Incident

Just looked at the articles and the edit histories. Good work. Sorry I haven't been around much; I've been busy both with school and with my own wiki. I plan to help out more, but not before November 14th, 2006. If I contribute before then, consider it a bonus! :-)

David P. A. Hunter, Esq. III ^{Let us to it,} _Pell-Mell 09:18, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Copy/paste moves

Please see WP:MOVE -- it's generally much better to use the "move" button (assuming you're using the default skin, it should be at the top of your screen, along with the discussion and history tabs). Thanks. Luna Santin 21:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

These two, for example: [1] [2]. Unless I missed something, they look like c/p moves? Sorry if I'm in error. Luna Santin 21:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Cleverly hidden, they are. :) I was honestly reading Wikipedia for years without even noticing the talk pages, heh. Happy editing. Luna Santin 21:42, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Janeway

Well, if a single source can corroborate multiple sentences in that section, then no. But, right now it's unsubstantiated and vitriolic (and this from the perspective of someone who thinks Voyager is a wretched series). I dropped in all those {{citation neded}} tags to point out the various claims scattered around there. It's uncited non-NPOV; if no one can drop in some means of verifying the claims in that section, then it/they should be deleted. --EEMeltonIV 01:21, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Granting even that it's vitriolic (and it is less so than previous iterations; you're right), it still lacks verifiable citations. --EEMeltonIV 02:30, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

The lack of any sort of reliable third-party source is the entire problem. From Wikipedia:Verifiability: "The burden of evidence lies with the editors who have made an edit or wish an edit to remain. Editors should therefore provide references. If an article topic has no reputable, reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on that topic" (or part of an article, e.g. the bulk of the controversy section). --EEMeltonIV 03:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Um....

in the Hyde biography...it doesn't mention the fact he stars in "Last Quarter" with Chiaki Kuriyami from "Kill Bill Volume 1".

pink bunnies rule the world 23:56, 18 September 2006 (UTC)Sachi

September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself! The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it! TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly! Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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AfD Nomination: Harold Berman

An article that you have been involved in editing, Harold Berman, has been listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harold Berman. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. --Eastmain 03:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

--Eastmain 03:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Image licensing question

Someone left a question for me about image licensing and I'm not sure of the answer. Could you look at this and give me your opinion? Or do you know someone who would be good to ask? So far I don't know and the first person I asked didn't really know either. Thank you. RJFJR 17:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Please check an answer I gave

Can you check my answer to a question left on my talk page about using a temp page for a rewrite? I've answered it but I'm not positive my answer is complete and correct. Thank you. RJFJR 13:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. RJFJR 13:35, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

November Esperanza Newsletter

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The last AC meeting (full log) The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived. There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia. The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested! In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias. A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted! Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, The Halo, Shreshth91 and HighwayCello 20:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Cleanup Taskforce

I added 2 articles to your desk. One is fiction, one is history. Both are problematic in that they might almost be ready to close or need extensive work. I need an opinion, please. Please look at them and accept, reject ask for reassign or determine if they are ready to close. Thank you. RJFJR 14:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

I added Vasai-Virar to your desk. The first thing it needs is a rewrite to clear CV. your opinion would be appreciated. pelase look at it and comment, accept/reject, or let me know and I'll reassign. Thank you. RJFJR 17:13, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Hospital upgrade

I've have some proposals to upgrade functionality and wider (less US-centric) scope of the Template:Infobox Hospital (with then a merge in of the UK-centric Template:Infobox NHS hospital). I think the additional optional parameter names are as generic and succint as I am likely to get - but I would be grateful if you could have a quick glance at the list of parameters and let me know if there are any obvious problems in the proposal. Thanks, yours David Ruben ^Talk 00:46, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for comments - I've mainly replied on my talkpsge. Additional location parameters would be optional and allow for the template code to apply automatic wikilinks and List of Hospitals in .... In UK a single Medical School may make use of hospitals from a number of different NHS Trust organisations, and not all of an NHS Trust's facilities will be involved in student training - so there is no automatic 1-to-1 equivalence. Classification parameter re US emergency/trauma level will indeed need to be dropped entirely in due course. :-) David Ruben ^Talk 03:00, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors

Dear Cleanup Taskforce member,

I noticed that you've listed yourself as a member who's interested in copy-editing. I'm a member of the League of Copyeditors, a project dedicated to managing the sizable backlog of articles needing a copy-edit. We're always looking for new members, and you'd make a great addition to the project! We've started a participation drive for the remainder of February. If you're interested, you can help clear the backlog by adopting the following goals each week:

• Select an article to copy-edit from the backlog. After your copy-edit, list the article in the ready for final proofread section.
• Select a different article to proofread from the ready for final proofread section.

Thanks, and happy editing! BuddingJournalist 07:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey, no problem! In the future, if you ever find yourself making copy-edits to an article as part of something else, feel free to list the article in our proofreading page to have one of our proofreaders take a look at it. We also accept copy-edit requests from anyone needing help, so keep us in mind. BuddingJournalist 00:41, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

John Carr

Ridiculous though it may sound, I had it in mind to reference most of that list. I'll put stuff back as and when I do though. Some of it did look a bit dubious though, and the article certainly looks better after your trimming. Regards, CiaranG 23:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean reference as in placing sources in the article or using Wikipedia as a source? I only kept the things that had a wiki-link attached to them, since those might be notable enough that a mention is worthwhile. We certainly didn't need the man's entire CV. Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 00:02, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I mean reference as in placing sources in the article. Not all of them were worthy of mention anyway of course, it looks like it was pasted in from somewhere, but a surprising number of them are. The existing wikilinks are not a good guide as to which ones either. CiaranG 00:06, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Source for Burkitt's theories

Could you please tell me the reference where you found that Burkitt believed that squat toilets might be protective against Appendicitis? I'd like to mention it in the Squat Toilet article, which includes several theories on the benefits of squatting.

Thanks.

Jonathan --Jonathan108 17:57, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I noticed that you restored the language about "dismissing" the toilet theory, and said it has never been supported. This puzzles me, since the fiber theory has never been supported either. All the "evidence" for the fiber theory was from epidemiology. Fiber was just the interpretation given to the geographic prevelance of appendicitis. The toilet theory has as much right to be considered, and the fiber theory has as much right to be dismissed. But why would anyone dismiss a hypothesis that has never been tested and which does not contradict any known facts? That seems unscientific. Please explain or revert.

Thanks.--Jonathan108 18:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

The long article in the Medical Journal of Australia says that "Dietary theories, notably an inadequate fibre intake, have been advanced to account for the geography of the disease, but it is clear that diet can not fully explain the epidemiology."

The article shows no awareness of the toilet theory, and certainly has not "dismissed" it. Unless you can show evidence that the theory is "known", has been discussed (and dismissed), I believe that your wording is misleading.

When I brought awareness of this theory to Wikipedia a couple of years ago, it was considered by the MD-editors like JFW and Alex.tan to be like something from outer space. It has been completely under the radar and has never been given any serious consideration by health practitioners. 99% of them have never heard of it. --Jonathan108 12:56, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't suggesting giving Burkitt's theory more space. The version which you recently changed took the same amount of space, but was more accurate. The new wording says:

"Most health practitioners accept Dr. Burkitt's first cause as a contributing factor, but dismiss with the second one, which has never been supported."

This wording is incorrect for 3 reasons:

1. It states that most health practitioners dismiss the toilet theory. You have provided no evidence that this is true. I have never seen anything in writing dismissing the theory (or even discussing it.) Your recent comments to me said that "most health practitioners wouldn't agree with it." That is not a fact, but an opinion -- one for which you have provided no justification.

2. It states that the theory has never been supported. This implies that it has been tested but has failed the test. It would be more correct to say that it has never been tested. That would be a more neutral point of view.

3. It implies that one can dismiss a theory which has never been tested simply because it has never been tested. This is contrary to the scientific method, the whole basis for medical advances. A hypothesis can be challenged if there is evidence contradicting it, but can't be challenged simply because it has never been tested.

--Jonathan108 02:42, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Revert of University of Colorado at Boulder

I have reverted your change to University of Colorado at Boulder with the school colors. The official school colors are Silver and Gold. Your changing the colors despite the note to see the talk page was not appropriate. The talk page contains a link that certifies these are the school colors. This was clearly a bad faith edit on your part for completely ignoring the note and failing to see the talk page first. I stopped short of giving you an official vandalism warning because of your edit history, but failing to see the talk page is a serious problem, especially considering the note you changed. --MECU≈talk 02:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

My apologies then. I must have clicked to view revisions that included an edit to change the colors. This has been a sore point for me and it appeared to me you had changed it, and the note with it. I humbly apologize. --MECU≈talk 05:25, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I really feel bad about this, especially since I went off on you, and to your further credit, you replied sanely and calmly. If there's ever anything I can do to make it up to you, like some chore on Wikipedia, please let me know. I really think I owe you for this terrible error on my part. --MECU≈talk 14:48, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I still live near Boulder and work there. I'm planning on going to the CU Spring football game on April 14th so I plan to take images then. I'll take a bunch and post them all so you can go through them and pick the best ones perhaps. My photography skills are the best, but they should suffice. Thank you for your kind understanding. --MECU≈talk 20:20, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

I hope I have completed my penance. I believe I got all the important places. The "back" side of Norlin is dark because the sun wasn't in the right spot but you can still make out the text on the building. Thank you very much for understanding. MECU≈talk 17:56, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Boston, New York

I removed Sullivan Expedition from history, it never reached this part of NY. Thanks for trying anyway, Stepp-Wulf 01:29, 18 May 2007 (UTC).

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Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 00:33, 3 August 2007 (UTC) Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 00:35, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Please re-register

Hello, Kerowyn! You are receiving this notice because the Cleanup Taskforce has been inactive, as a result of this all active taskforce members are being asked to re-register.

For more information see: Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Not Dead Yet

If you do not re-register here within 15 days of receiving this notice your name will be removed from the membership list (if you were unable to reply to this notice in time, you can just add you name back).

RJFJR 00:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

There are two articles on your desk. Please look at them and deteremine if they are ready to close, need more work or are outside your area of expertise. Please let me know if you would like them reassigned or are ready for more articles. Thank you. RJFJR 16:39, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup

Could you take a look at the intro to List of Linux distributions? The rest of the article looks fine to me and I'd remove the clenaup tag except I dislike the intro but don't know what to do about it. Maybe you have some good ideas. Thank you. RJFJR 15:19, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for improving List of Linux distributions. I've closed it. RJFJR 20:10, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

Please feel free to assign yourself tasks from the list of unassigned tasks at Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce. Arranging assignments is too much work for me to do by myself. We have a large backlog of unassigned tasks and there is probably something in there that will interest you. RJFJR 22:07, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

A friendly reminder

		Edit summary reminder
		Hello. I noticed that your edit to USS Colorado (BB-45) did not include an edit summary. Please remember to use one for every edit, even minor ones. You can enable the wiki software to prompt you for one before making an edit by setting your user preferences (under Editing) to "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary". Thanks, -MBK004 04:23, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Motto of the day

Hello, I notice you're using one of the {{motd}} templates, run by Wikipedia:Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.

When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.

If you have any questions, please let me know, or post on the project's talk page. I'm looking forward to reading your comments on the suggested mottos, and any additional suggestions you'd like to make. Until then, happy editing! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 01:39, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Hey Arnold characters

An article you have edited may be deleted. Take a look: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lila Sawyer Hellerick (talk) 11:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Manuel Agrella

An article that you have been involved in editing, Manuel Agrella, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manuel Agrella. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. jmcw (talk) 13:48, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Dushan Petrossi

Will you please help to create the article about Dushan Petrossi (Lion Music - Lars Eric Mattson record label)? Dzimozz (talk)

AfD

Hello - I was tagging some articles for Wikipedia:Proposed deletion and I noticed you made an AfD page for a certain article (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys), but never posted it to AfD. Let me know if you still want it to go on AfD or whether I should go ahead and keep on on Proposed Deletion instead. Neutrality^talk 00:27, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

1967 Philadelphia Student Demonstrations

Do not delete any of this article as this is a project of a number of people who have been working on this situation for sometime since 1967. There will be additions and there needs to be a second page of this information as this demonstration was the centerpiece for a number of actions in the prese4nt politics of Philadelphia. we will reestablish the internal link in the coming month as the links were all working when we tested then and we have had a number of people who have been looking at this page.

In Love and Struggle Ken Heard Onward to the Truth in History his Page Exhibits!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kennieth (talk • contribs) 20:24, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify drive

Hello and thanks for participating in the June drive! I'd like to remind you to please be a bit more thorough in your wikifying though. For example, articles like Neurophilic could be further wikified—uncommon words like "fascicle" and "nervous tissue" should have been linked. Don't hesitate to link "biomedical" to Biomedicine either. Most of your work is done very well. For instance, I agree that Raindrop impressions probably could not be wikified further. Just try to be a bit more thorough. Thanks. Guoguo12 (Talk)  15:39, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Hey there Kerowyn, I have one other point to bring up. In a few of the articles you wikified, you didn't always link the definition of the article. Take Morrissey Hearing, for example. What is a Morrissey Hearing? It is a legal proceeding (sixth and seventh words in the article), and legal proceeding should be linked to Hearing (law) off of the disambiguation page. As a general rule "x" should always be linked in the format "(Article title) is an 'x' ", or "(Article title), born DOB, was an 'x' ". Those should always be linked somewhere, and I notice that you don't always do that. Otherwise, great job, and I hope you continue wikifying. :) Nolelover^{Talk·Contribs} 15:51, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Category

Hello. Just letting you know I've slightly adjusted a category link you had on your userpage. The way it was, the lack of a colon actually added your userpage to the category rather than adding the category as a link as, I suspect, you'd intended. LordVetinari 05:50, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the copyedit! Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 17:16, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Alamo cleanup

Beauty. Thank you so much for dusting that one off. Kuru (talk) 00:13, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Lead sentence

Hi. Concering the lead sentence in Gene Wiki articles, as discussed here and here, we have tried to make clear that these articles are not only about the human gene/protein, but also orthologs that exist in other species. The wording that was reached through consensus is perhaps a little awkward, but it is both accurate and concise:

• <recommended UniProt name> is a protein that in humans is encoded by the <approved HUGO gene symbol> gene.

The "that" in the above sentence is non-limiting implying that the protein (and gene) exists in other species besides human. Also since most of these articles deal with the function and properties of the protein, I think it is appropriate that the protein is mentioned first. If you disagree, please discuss this here before making any more changes. Thanks. Boghog (talk) 05:56, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikifying Hardy (hill)

Many thanks for finalising the wikification of my article above.MVO Rambler (talk) 21:18, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify Discussion Invitation

Sumsum2010·T·C 23:42, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Wikify's open positions

Hello Kerowyn! On behalf of WikiProject Wikify, I would like to invite you to become an "on-call" Administrative Officer! The main role of the position would be to assist with general tasks, like occasionally checking some of the articles wikified by drive participants. If you would like to help fill this position please let me know.(I've got your talkpage watchlisted) Sumsum2010·T·C 04:14, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Sure, why not? Like I said before, I'll be in school, so I can't promise a lot of time but I will be around. Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 04:17, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

This user is an Administative Officer for WikiProject Wikify

Here's your badge! That will be fine, we've got a few people that can help out if you become too busy. Sumsum2010·T·C 21:55, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to the team Kerowyn! As Sumsum has said, you wouldn't really have a "job" per se, as much as being available to answer questions and help out with general maintenance. Glad to have ya. :) Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 01:41, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

quotable

“Events can move from the impossible to the inevitable without ever stopping at the probable.” - Alexis de Tocqueville

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. ~ Albert Einstein (born 14 March 1879)

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ~ Arnold J. Toynbee

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. ~ Mark Twain ~

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ~ Henrik Ibsen ~

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ~ Douglas Adams ~

Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. ~ Chester W. Nimitz~

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction. - Helen Keller

in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. ~Michael Korda

WikiProject Wikify's August Newsletter

The Wikifier Your Wikification Newsletter – Volume I, Issue IV, October 2011 Front Cover • From the editor • General news Membership • August drive results To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. Past editions may be viewed here.

Major tip 'o the hat to you

I kept meaning to bite the bullet and work on The Secret Policeman's Balls mediagraphy, but after I saw what you have done...wow. Excellent work, converting everything to tables. Big kudos, and keep up the great work! Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 12:47, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Holy crap! Good work Kerowyn. Ryan Vesey Review me! 14:23, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

"This article and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go."--Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 16:07, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Year end awards

I've be contemplating a few ideas for year-end awards, and I'd like y'alls input, since we'll be doing all the work. I think we should announce it to the project via the newsletter, or with the call for the October drive, or probably both. I've put a draft announcement below in italics.

In order to reward continuous participation in WP: Wikify, we have decided to create a series of year-end awards. For the purposes of these awards, we will only be considering articles wikified in the past calendar year which have been recorded as part of the bimonthly drives. A calendar year shall be defined as 00:00:00 UTC 1 January 2011 to 23:59:59 31 December 2011.

1. Most articles wikified in a calender year
2. Participation in all drives (Participation is defined as having wikified at least 1 article for each drive)
3. Most leader board appearances
4. Most wikification in a single article. (can be an article wikified any time in the past year, does not have to be part of a drive.)

I'm not sure about 4. It would be nice to reward people for taking on a major project. The easiest way to do it would be to have people submit diffs if they think they did the most. I don't want to do just the biggest article wikified, cause frequently big articles don't need that much work. I see a lot of potential for whining and moaning over this one though. Obviously, officers would be ineligible for all of these.

As for awards, I think a single "year-end award" template with the specific reason the award is being given (like an Oscar for editing!). Just as long as it is unique compared to the current awards. Number 2 has the potential for numerous awardees, but otherwise I think we should just give out one award per category (2 in case of ties).

So yeah. Comments? --Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 00:53, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

That seems like a pretty good plan to start with. Sorry I've not been active much lately due to recently starting school, once I get the routine figured again out I should be back on much more.Sumsum2010·T·C 01:14, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

I like it, I sort of think coordinators could be eligible if the other 3 coordinators agree. I'm particularly proud of the work I did on Thomas Bridges (Anglican missionary) from its prewikify state here. I'm not sure that the article will be the "most wikified article" but I never would've seen it if it weren't for the Wikification drive. Ryan Vesey Review me! 13:08, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

One, two, and three all sound great, but I'm not so sure about four. Seems a little...I dunno...subjective, I guess. I'd suggest leaving that out. As to officers, how about we look at who would have won first? I have a feeling that the only one any of us will even come close to is the participation in all drives, and since there will probably be many winners anyway, there might not be any reason not to include officers for that one. Maybe make that one a bit less of an award then the others? Anyway, Kerowyn, do you think you could work on this whenever you find the time for the next few weeks? Ryan's off to college, Sumsum seems to be busy with school, and I'm having a lovely time at WT:AWB and Template talk:Wikify. Totally swamped, in other words. This is on the backburner until some other things get sorted out, unless you'd like to do the prelim stuff (mainly figuring out which awards for which blah blah). We'll get a newletter out soon (now there's tons of news :P) and we'll mention this in there. Other then that, it will just be here until the end of the year. That alright? Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 13:50, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Ending the drive

I'm not going to be around at the time the drive ends, and Ryan and Sumsum are both out for school, so do you think you can end the drive? It's pretty easy - edit the log page and remove the "<!---" and "-->" around that top notice. It's no big deal if you can't - I should be on within a couple hours. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 16:40, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Alright, so I went ahead and closed the drive. Please don't ask me why I was on. ;) Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 00:02, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

And I was just wondering whether to update the leaderboard or not...--Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 00:06, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Go ahead! I'm still wrapping some other stuff up. Ties are fine, but we only want 10 spots (if that means 15 editors get awards, so be it). Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 00:20, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

So, interesting story. Assassin's Creed didn't list any of the articles he wikified in the log. I glanced through his user contributions and there's a lot of wikification done, but none of it noted in edit summaries or anything. I'm going to leave a message asking him to list that stuff for us. Should I tell him to just ignore the 'do not edit' notice and put it in the August log, or have him just post a list on my talk page?--Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 01:58, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Hmm...we may have a problem here. I'll get back to you on that. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 15:10, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

We may need to set a time so we can all have a discussion about this. Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 16:46, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Didn't WWF have a IRC channel? Mmm...this is when I miss Guoguo. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 16:57, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

I logged into #wikipedia-wikify and it looked like it worked. Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 17:05, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

yup, I'm in there too. Now if we could get Ryan them on... Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 17:09, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

August Wikification Drive ribbon

This Wikification Ribbon is given to Kerry for completing 18 articles in the August 2011 Wikification drive and just being an all around awesome help. Thanks, and get back to work! ;) Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 15:15, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything Sing-Along Songs And More!

Pretty sure I didn't create this page, so I therefore have no attachment to it, but thanks for the note anyway.

No blood, no foul. Ckruschke (talk) 18:57, 13 September 2011 (UTC)Ckruschke

WikiProject Wikify Annual Award

So I put together some mockups (in MS Paint, so excuse the quality) of the year end awards. I thought it would be neat to take off of the "The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia", and call it the "The Order of the Most Ancient Superior Scribe of Wikipedia". You can see them here: [3]. Decide which you like best, and we can do it properly in Photoshop, or we can do something else. Or we could use the The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia, since the award system has changed.

In any case I thought it would look something like this:

	Most Articles Wikified in 2011
	congratulations for doing the thing! Kerowyn Leave a note 05:38, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Hmm, I think the barnstar-ish award looks great. That would work well for most articles wikified. As to the ancient scribe one, the Buddha-looking guys looks a tad goofy at that size, but shrunk down it I think he might work. Should we use the this barnstar you post here, I don't think we should use the ones on the right, since that star format is already taken. Maybe the top left then? I'm going to start setting up drive pages and the October newsletter, and weren't you gonna briefly talk about the end of year awards in the "From the Editor" section? If so, can you start thinking about that? It obviously wouldn't have to be much. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 16:44, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Newsletter announcement below. I like the top right as well. I had another thought after I posted that. We could also use the star image I used in the barnstar above, with a modified wikification barnstar in the center.Kerowyn ^{Leave a note}

Newsletter

As part of the revamp of WikiProject Wikify's award system, we have decided to add three new awards to the list:

1. Most articles wikified in a calender year
2. Participation in all drives (Participation is defined as having wikified at least 1 article for each drive)
3. Most leader board appearances in a year

The purpose of these awards is to reward continuous participation in the Project and to reward the outstanding dedication many editors have shown. For the purposes of these awards, we will only be considering articles wikified in the past calendar ( 00:00:00 UTC 1 January 2011 to 23:59:59 31 December 2011.) We also will only be counting articles recorded as part of a drive, just to make life easier.

We are still in the process of setting this up, so none of this is carved in stone. Questions and comments are welcome.

Marketable securities

FYI: Aourangzaib asked me about your change of Marketable securities to a redirect. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 18:12, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

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Request

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Query deletion ofpage

Kerowyn - I hope I'm posting this query in the right place? This is all VERY confusing and DOS like!

Can you send me my Cracking Productions page you deleted (I assume because it seemed to be promoting rather than informing?). I can then re-appraise, edit and re-submit with only bare total facts.

Thanks

Sam TasticSam Tastig (talk) 20:44, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

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...just without the garish template. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 20:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

For you :)

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		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar is given to Kerowyn for developing and coordinating a project that no one else seemed to remember. Your hard work, under the radar though it may be, is greatly appreciated. :) Nolelover Talk·Contribs 00:49, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

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Filial piety

Hi Kerowyn, What's not to like about this heading? Eddaido (talk) 02:39, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Have a look at this— pietas. Eddaido (talk) 03:53, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

and this " Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." from Ten Commandments Eddaido (talk) 06:38, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi again - please note I have never expressed a wish to discuss this matter on my talk page. Eddaido (talk) 01:19, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

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Happy Easter, Kerowyn! Hope your day is great! :) Like my singing? Ha-la-la-la-la-la-LA-LAAA!!! (talk) 10:48, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

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