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WP:FILM November 2010 Newsletter[edit]
--Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 05:43, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
In the interest of full disclosure...[edit]
Today, on the Rihanna discography featured list discussion, I was snarky with someone (you) on Wikipedia for the first time today because you told me not to be snarky for (truly) randomly using the word "idiot" in a post to describe a type of user but not anyone specific. I am sorry for throwing you shade online. I guess I was just really surprised since it was so innocuous in my eyes. I am very invested in articles related to the Caribbean. I will be extra extra extra careful to word things impeccably in future discussions. I understand that you are an administrator with amazing mighty administrator power. Please do not kick me off of Wikipedia for tossing the word "idiot" into a sentence relating to no specific user...please don't...I beg of you, dude. I absolutely assure you that I have no intention of harming or harassing anyone who wants to vandalize the Rihanna discography at their will. I will simply revert the vandalism and keep my opinions to myself. I promise. (mikomango (talk) 08:01, 1 December 2010 (UTC))
Popcorn Peace Offering[edit]
I give you this popcorn as a peace offering and a show of my sincerity in wanting to be understood as someone who is genuinely here for the love of it! I hope you will assume good faith! :-)(mikomango (talk) 08:12, 1 December 2010 (UTC)) has given you some popcorn. Popcorn is crunchy goodness, and is wonderfully delicious!
On Wikipedia, they promote love and sincerity. Hopefully, this one has made your day happier.
Spread the goodness and sincerity of popcorn by adding {{subst:Popcorn}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message! Give one to someone you've had disagreements with in the past, or to a good friend.
FYI, I have switched the image to the svg version for the nomination and the article. Thank you for your input. Jujutacular talk 22:27, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
WPF1 Newsletter (November)[edit]
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Images Below is the F1 Picture of the month (found here). The picture has to be one uploaded in the last month and only from the current season.
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Article of the month – 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix, current Featured Article candidate
 The 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix (formally the XXIII ING Magyar Nagydíj) was a Formula One motor race held on August 3, 2008, at Hungaroring in Mogyoród, near Budapest, Hungary. It was the 11th race of the 2008 Formula One season. Contested over 70 laps, the race was won by Heikki Kovalainen for the McLaren team, from a second position start. Timo Glock finished second in a Toyota car, with Kimi Räikkönen third in a Ferrari. It was Kovalainen's first Formula One victory, which made him the sport's 100th driver to win a World Championship race, and was Glock's first podium finish. The majority of the race was dominated by a duel between Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa, who drove for McLaren and Ferrari respectively. Hamilton started from pole position on the starting grid but was beaten at the first corner by Massa, who passed him around the outside. The two championship rivals began a battle for the lead that was resolved when Hamilton sustained a punctured tyre just over half-way through the race, giving Massa a comfortable lead. The Ferrari's engine, however, failed with three laps of the race remaining, allowing Kovalainen to win. Räikkönen set the race's fastest lap in the other Ferrari, but was hampered by a poor qualifying performance and was stuck behind Alonso and Glock in turn for almost all of the race. Robert Kubica, another championship contender, finished eighth after finding his BMW Sauber car to be uncompetitive at the Hungaroring. (More...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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--Midgrid(talk) 00:31, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
WikiProject East Asia Scope & Ratings[edit]
Hello. This message is to inform you that I have called for a reexamination of the scope document and the ratings system used by the project. The ratings system especially has run into problems and could benefit from a simplification and generalizations. The scope, too, could be reexamined to the same end. Please come to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject East Asia and discuss the matters so that we can reach a community consensus. I'd like to have it done before Christmas, so I can spend the break making any necessary changes. The importance discussion is at the top of the page. The scope discussion is at the bottom, but we can move them together if we need to.
Thank you, Sven Manguard Wha? 07:13, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
I need help adding an article about my father, the late actor Robert Dunham.[edit]
Hi Matthew,
I need help adding an article that had existed on wikipedia about my father, till yesterday. I had tried to add information and correct it, as well. Someone had posted misinformation about him, many years ago. I haven't had time to make corrections, till now. I run a fan site for him on Facebook and I did not realize that he had so many fans. My father was an American actor working in Japan, during the "Golde Age" of Cinema. He starred in many movies (about 15-20) but his most famous was Godzilla vs. Megalon, Mothra, The Green Slime, and Dogora, as well as other non sci-fi films. I'd like to email you the draft of the article, which I wrote myself. I have had to check and re-check facts because there was a lot of misinformation about my father's acting career. In addition, he wasn't only an actor ~ he was also a stunt man, a race car driver with Peter Brock of Brock Racing Enterprises, (which isn't even mentioned on Peter Brock's wiki site). I have a magazine article from "Grassroots Motor Sports" from 2005 about my father's race car driving career with Pete Brock. Plus, he was a family friend. All the other personal information is from me, since I am his daughter and would know more about my dad's career, than anyone else. Do you think you could help me with this article? I am not familar with all the ins and outs of putting in an article, such as adding italics for this and semi-colons for that.
In addition, when the wiki article was here before, I tried adding a pic and it would always give me an erroe message saying it was a fake jpg or something. Some of the pics I tried to download were pics that I own, myself.
If you could help me put this together, I would sincerely appreciate it. I have no clue what I am doing on here. I've tried to follow along with everything but it's too confusing. I'm not that computer saavy. Thank you. I will email you my copy.
Sincerely,
JadeHunter11 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:16, 21 December 2010 (UTC).
WPF1 Newsletter (December)[edit]
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Article of the month – Indianapolis Motor Speedway, current Good article nominee.
 The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana (an enclave suburb of Indianapolis) in theUnited States, is the home of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and the Brickyard 400. It has existed since 1909, and is the original Speedway, the first racing facility historically to incorporate the word. With a permanent seating capacity for more than 257,000 people and infield seating that raises capacity to approximately 400,000, it is the largest and highest-capacity sporting facility in the world. Considered relatively flat by American standards but high-banked by Europeans, the track is a two-and-a-half-mile, nearly rectangular oval with dimensions that have remained essentially unchanged since its inception: four 1/4-mile turns, two 5/8-mile long straightaways between the fourth and first and second and third turns, and two 1/8-mile short straightaways, termed "short chutes," between the first and second, and third and fourth turns.  A modern infield road course was constructed between 1998 and 2000, incorporating the western and southern portions of the oval (including the southwest turn) to create a 2.605-mile (4.192 km) track. In 2008, the road course was modified to replace the southwest turn with an additional infield section, for motorcycle use, resulting in a 2.621-mile (4.218 km) course. Altogether, the current grounds have expanded from an original 320 acres (1.3 km2) on which the Speedway was first built to cover over an area of over 559. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, it currently remains the only such landmark to be affiliated with automotive racing history. In addition to the Indianapolis 500, the speedway also hosts NASCAR's Brickyard 400. From 2000 to 2007 the speedway also hosted the United States Grand Prix for Formula One. The inaugural USGP race drew an estimated 225,000 spectators, setting a Formula One attendance record. In 2008, the Speedway added the Indianapolis motorcycle Grand Prix, a Grand Prix motorcycle racing event. Since August 19, 1909, 248 automobile races have taken place, with 137 separate drivers winning. After winning his fifth United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2006, Formula One driver Michael Schumacher holds the record for most victories between the three major events (Indianapolis 500, Brickyard 400 and theF1 USGP), with all taking place on the Forumula One version of the road course. A. J. Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears each won the Indianapolis 500 four times on the traditional oval, and Jeff Gordon has also won four times on the oval in the Brickyard 400. No driver to date has won any combination of the three major events, with only one driver, (Juan Pablo Montoya), having competed in all three, winning the Indy 500, finishing fourth in the US Grand Prix, and placing second in the Brickyard 400. Johnny Aitken holds the record for total wins at the track, with 15 victories (all on the oval), during the 1909, 1910 and 1916 seasons. (More...) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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