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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for November 2007
The November 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the December 2007 issue. Dr. Cash 01:25, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
Ohio counties
Look at Allen County, Ohio: although we had confusion over the naming (whether Ethan Allen or John Allen (soldier)), a user has provided definitive proof: the Ohio legislature passed a resolution in 1976 stating that it's named for John. When you get back from your semi-wikibreak, would you please work this into the county etymologies and county list pages? Nyttend 03:45, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks
Thank you for supporting me in my recent RFA which unfortunately did not pass at (47/23/5). I will be sure to improve my editing skills and wait till someone nominates me next time. Have a great day(or night)! --Hdt83 Chat 05:42, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Rememberance Day
OhanaUnitedTalk page 05:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for blocking my impostor User:Gomzo_fan2007. Your work is appreciated!!
Gonzo fan2007 talk ♦ contribs 02:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
OhanaUnited's RfA
Thanks for nominating me at my RfA. Unfortunately, the result stands at 51 support, 21 oppose and 7 neutral which means that I did not succeed. Originally, the intention of the block/ban question was good but it backfired. As many expressed their appreciation of my works in featured portals during my RfA, I will fill up the vacuum position of director in featured portal candidates to maintain the standards of featured contents in addition to my active role in Good articles. Have a great day. OhanaUnitedTalk page 03:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
My adminship
Thanks for nominating me and for adminship and guiding me through the process! My nomination has passed, 39-1-0, so I now have the tools..."With great power comes great responsibility". Nyttend 05:48, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
- Had the chance to rollback one edit so far...it's nice to be able to do it easily :-) Nyttend 05:55, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
- Question: I decided to do a few minutes of recent changes patrolling and saw the creation of Miwolve1. I looked at it, saw that it was worthless, deleted it, and then placed a uw-create1 on the author's talk page. Is this proper procedure? Or do I have to warn the author first? Or do I have to have someone else delete it? Nyttend 14:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
DYK
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Thank you
Dearest Wizardman,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 137 supports, 22 opposes, and 5 neutrals. Your support is very much appreciated and I look forward to proving you right. I would like to give special thanks to The_undertow and Phoenix-wiki for their co-nominations. Thank you again and best regards.
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Sorry...
about messing up my own nomination and accidentally sticking it at the end of yours... I corrected it immediately.--Alexia Death the Grey 07:18, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Reliable source?
Hey Wizardman - I value your opinion and would like you to comment on this question if you have a moment: Wikipedia_talk:Reliable_sources#Wikinews_Interviews_as_Reliable_Sources --David Shankbone 21:07, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
Featured List of the Day Experiment
There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 17:30, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Joe Nathan assessment
Hi, I'm a bit busy studying for exams right now. I'll be free to check the article tomorrow, though. :) Nishkid64 (talk) 03:25, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
RE: User talk:70.56.17.72
The vandalism on your talk page was done because you and another user vandalized my work on the Cotton Hill article. Please do not vandalize other people's work if you don't want your pages vandalized. 70.56.17.72 (talk) 21:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Re:admin
Thanks for leaving the nice note on my talk page, especially considering the beating it's been taking lately.
I have thought about throwing my hat into the adminship ring, but unfortunately I don't have much article writing experience. Ninety-nine percent of what I do is vandalism reversion and warning miscreants. I fear that I would get torn to pieces if I ever showed up on WP:RFA!
However, if I do change my mind, I will drop you a note to see if you are still interested in nominating me. Regards ... discospinster talk 22:22, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
I left a comment at the peer review. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 04:18, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
DYK help?
Can you help? Over an hour in the red. I have added to the next updates so you only need to put it in the main page. I am contacting you and another admin, both of whom edited in the past hour, as it is only 1.5 hours late, not 6 or 7 hours. Thank you! Mrs.EasterBunny (talk) 18:48, 19 November 2007 (UTC) Done, thanks anyway! Mrs.EasterBunny (talk) 19:20, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Howdy!
Hello, Wizardman … you left an "I'll comment later" message about my Request for comments on protocols and templates for proposed and speedy deletions on a previous IP talk page (back in early September) … just thought I'd ping you to share my current IP address and invite your contribution to the latest discussions on this discussion page … Happy Editing! —141.156.234.101 (talk · contribs) 00:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
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ArbCom questions
Hi. I'm Ral315, editor of the Wikipedia Signpost. We're interviewing all ArbCom candidates for an article next week, and your response is requested.
- What positions do you hold (adminship, arbitration, mediation, etc.)?
- Why are you running for the Arbitration Committee?
- Have you been involved in any arbitration cases? In what capacity?
- In the past year, are there any cases that you think the Arbitration Committee handled exceptionally well? Any you think they handled poorly?
- Why do you think users should vote for you?
Please respond on my talk page. We'll probably go to press late Monday or early Tuesday (UTC), but late responses will be added as they're submitted. Thanks, Ral315 » 04:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened, and is located here. Please add any evidence you may wish the Arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters/Evidence. Please submit your evidence within one week, if possible. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Episodes and characters/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Picaroon (t) 21:05, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Wondering if an article is a B-class or a Start Class
Hi, Wizardman. I am wondering what the main difference is between start-class and B-class articles, like on Norma Elizabeth Boyd. I assessed this as start at first, but am thinking that this is a B article. I generally work with sorority related articles, and not the Wikiproject Biography, and I don't know the recent standards. Your independent assessment is helpful. Thanks. Miranda 14:00, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
- Another request, can you please review Ethel Hedgeman Lyle for B-class? It's currently at start. Thanks. Miranda 00:28, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for rating this! Miranda 05:56, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
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Spiffier triple crown, new awards available
Hi, I've been sprucing up the triple crown awards. Here's the new version of the standard triple crown you've already earned. Feel free to replace your old one with this if you like the new version better. I've also introduced two new triple crown awards for editors who've done a lot of triple crown work: the Napoleonic and Alexander the Great edition awards. If you're active in a WikiProject, check out the new offer for custom WikiProject triple crowns. I'll make those upon request if five or more editors qualify. See User:Durova/Triple crown winner's circle for more information. Thanks for your hard work, and cheers! DurovaCharge! 22:00, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter for December 2007
The December 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published. Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the January 2008 issue. Dr. Cash 01:21, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
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ArbCom table with portfolio links
Hello! As we did for last year's election, we are again compiling a Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Summary table. This table contains a column "Portfolio" for links that display candidates' pertinent skills. I will be going through each candidate's statements and gradually populate the column, but this may take some time. Please feel free to add some links in the form [link|c] if you feel it shows conflict resolution skills, or [link|o] otherwise. It would also be helpful if you can check if the information about you is correct.
My motivation is that as a voter, I don't want to just rely on a candidate's words, but also see their actions. Moreover, I believe a portfolio of "model cases" to remember in difficult situations can be useful for each candidate, as well. I believe that conflict resolution skills are most pertinent to the position, but if you want to highlight other skills, please feel free to use a new letter and add it to Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007/Summary table#Columns of this table. — Sebastian 05:41, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
- Alright, I'll look it over and see if I can add anything. Wizardman 00:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you, I liked what I saw! — Sebastian 01:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC) (I may not be watching this page anymore. If you would like to continue the conversation, please do so here and let me know.)
ACE
Sorry to see you withdrew. I felt you would've made a good arbitrator. Hope you run again next year. ~Sasha Callahan (Talk) 22:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
- Ditto. - Mtmelendez (Talk) 03:43, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Your withdrawal
I was very disappointed to see your withdrawal because I think you would have made an excellent arbitrator; but I look forward to seeing you run next year. --David Shankbone 03:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
GA Review
I'm pretty sure that I've fixed all of the problems on Luis Castillo (baseball) that made you fail the GA nom. Could you please take a look at it again? STORMTRACKER 94 22:02, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Thank you
Hi Wizardman. Thanks for adding the reference to Ryan Leaf's entry on NFL quarterbacks who have posted a passer rating of zero. I never doubted that such a game occurred, but this article was quite a mess with almost all entries unsourced and commentary running wild. Sorry if I was a bit abrupt in my edit summary. Thanks again, Chaz Beckett 20:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wizardman, I worked with admin Swatjester on fixing that whole Witch Hunt section a while back with my old alternate account to get that section into a mutually acceptable manner:
- (cur) (last) 02:50, 11 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - you need a different citation for this. Answers.com is a wikipedia mirror, and is not an acceptable source. Plus it links to an old version of the smear campaign page,) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 02:47, 11 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - removing ref name= tag, it's mislinking to the highschool football reference.)
- (cur) (last) 02:46, 11 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) (Thats fine, and the material is ok, and sourcing it to the news paper is fine too, but not the web link, because it is STILL a blog, and does not satisfy the inclusion conditions per WP:RS) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 02:21, 11 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - noticed the same sentence twice in a row! deleted one of them!) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 02:18, 11 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (Hello. That's not just a weblog source. That is from an artucle by a professional journalist that also appeared in the paper, hence the source of the quote. I don't think it's the same as a regular) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 01:26, 11 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - removing blog source, per WP:RS. I like the edits, good job on the references, lets try to get a few more for the Plain Dealer print media to avoid potential WP:BLP concerns.) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 00:16, 11 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - fixed forgotten deletion of stuff; my bad!) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 00:05, 11 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - request fulfilled again! :)) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 00:02, 11 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - okay, made change less biased) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:59, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→History) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:57, 10 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) (no, the current tag really is not appropriate, because it is for articles about events, not places, however the witch hunt section might pass muster. BTW case names are italicized.) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:55, 10 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) (→Chiefs of Police - this section is irrelevant and non-notable. The mayor section is ok, Chief of police is unencyclopedic.) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:55, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→History - thanks, but should number 3 still get a current tag? (I just lowercased title, unless legally case titles are supposed to be in all caps?) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:54, 10 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - remove blog reference, which is not reliable source, NPOV, Some typos, and grammar changes. Some further cites are needed to satisfy WP:BLP concerns.) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:49, 10 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) (→History - tag irrelevant now that section is split off. Good edits, Wikipedian) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:47, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→Disputes Between City Government and Police Department) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:46, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - reworking section as compromise to all parties! :)) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:41, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt?) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:40, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→Mayors) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:38, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→A Witch Hunt? - better transition) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:36, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→History - making subsection with ? to avoid being biased as obviously people debate this) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:34, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→History - kind of a lot of references already for this section, but I'm cleaning it up some nonetheless; note: this is NOT a mere reinsertion of section, new sources and rewording included) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:24, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→Education) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:18, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→History - final citation included! :)) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:16, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→History) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:13, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→History - more references :)) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 23:06, 10 April 2007 Wikipedian, Historian, and Friend? (Talk | contribs) (→History) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 22:31, 10 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) (semiprotected due to vandalism, protection will expire in 7 days.) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 22:29, 10 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) m (Protected Parma, Ohio: sockpuppetry of blocked IP [edit=autoconfirmed:move=autoconfirmed] (expires 22:29, April 17, 2007 (UTC))) (undo)
- (cur) (last) 22:27, 10 April 2007 Swatjester (Talk | contribs) m (Reverted 4 edits by 172.136.156.120 to last revision by C-M. TWINKLE) (undo)
That new bit about the gas station ghost has received national media attention and for that too I sought feedback: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Swatjester#Parma.2C_Ohio
Mycroft.Holmes, however, is still doing his blanket deletions of anything he does not like regardless of discussions on the talk page or efforts to improve and reference the material. He has done this on and off for months on that article and has been blocked twice for violating the three revert rule. Anyway, I would like to convert some of the items listed under references into inline endnoted citations, but I wanted to touch base with you first to make sure that it wouldn't seem like revert warring. Best, --Le Grand Roi des CitrouillesTally-ho! 18:10, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Green Bay Packers WikiProject!
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Great success!
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Dear Wizardman,
Thank you for your participation in my request for adminship, which ended successfully with a final tally of (52/10/1). I was impressed by the thoughtful comments on both sides, and the RFA process in general. The extra buttons do look pretty snazzy, but I'll be careful not to overuse them. If you have advice to share or need assistance with anything, feel free to drop me a message or email. Thank you and good day! Cordially, Credits - This RFA thanks was inspired by Carlosguitar's RFA thanks and LaraLove's RFA thanks, which were both inspired by The Random Editor's RFA thanks, which was in turn inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks. |
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Reverting
You said my IP did something that was reverted... what did we do? as nothing has been edited to our knowledge. 172.212.35.30 (talk) 15:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)