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Contents 1 Regex request 2 Thank you 3 2 second IP address lookup 4 Wikibreak 5 Community Portal colors 6 My RfA 7 DatabaseSearch tool request 8 Manifold (disambig) cleanup 9 Metropolitan 10 CITE 11 .NET Bot Framework 12 Admin coaching 13 American Academy of Ophthalmology deletion 14 RE: Admin coaching 15 Thanks 16 Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2 17 WP 1.0 18 WP 1.0 new strategy 19 Rush 20 Latin America won! 21 Thank you 22 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 23 Barnstar 24 Hey 25 Happy Easter! (or whatever it is that you celebrate) 26 Guess My Name Challenge 27 Old Skool Esperanzial note 28 Table automation and bots for WVWP? 29 Thanks! 30 SCOTW 31 .NET Bot Framework Update 1 32 Re the whole de-bureaucrating thing 33 Individual NBA All Star Game pages 34 Toy as new COTF 35 Inquiry 36 User:Gflores/Sandbox 37 Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3 38 Smile 39 Business now COTF 40 beginner question 41 Please help on Mathematics 42 Album Cover Problems 43 Large Hadron Collider is Science Collaboration of the Week 44 Please help on Ancient Egypt 45 Manitoba (band) 46 re: trace a post 47 User:David91 48 AID 49 Biopharmaceutical is the Science Collaboration of the Week 50 Best of luck 51 A short Esperanzial update 52 SCOTM 53 Image copyright problem with Image:KateBeckinsale-Instyle-Cover.jpg 54 WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America Newsletter - July '06 55 August Esperanza Newsletter 56 September Esperanza Newsletter 57 A request for comment 58 WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request 59 Album infobox conversions 60 Happy birth day 61 Image tagging for Image:10cc-The_Original_Soundtrack_(album_cover).jpg 62 Image tagging for Image:13th_Floor_Elevators-The_Psychedelic_Sounds_of_the_13th_Floor_Elevators_(album_cover).jpg 63 WP:FILMS Newsletter 64 social anxiety 65 Doing something about the ridiculous date autoformatting/linking mess

[edit] Regex request

I've heard you're pretty good with regex. Can you create a regex that removes the links a page. For example, it'll change Foo into Foo. It will also change American ([[United States|American]]) into American. This is for disambig cleanup. Also, [[America]]n should be changed accordingly. Dabs should only have minimal links, per the guideline. I have a few other minor requests that maybe you can do for me, if you have time (such as removing bolded text ('''). Let me know if this requires more explanation. Thanks. Gflores^Talk 18:02, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

One more thing which may make it more difficult. I was wondering if it could ignore the first link at the beginning of the sentence. For example, Amiga (disambiguation). It will not do anything for the first link... note, it's not the first thing in the line, it's actually a '*', then the link. In this case, it's "*" then "'''" then "[[" then "term" then "]]" . (ignore the quotes). However, not all of them are bolded and there isn't always a link at the beginning of the sentence. Dab pages vary a lot unfortunately, but if the regex works for 60% of them, that'd be great. Gflores^Talk 18:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

From what I understand, you want to go to a disambig page and remove all links except the first in each line. For example, on Amiga (disambiguation), you would remove record label, 1994, etc on the last line. This would pose a few problems. For example, since the link is not always the first word, the regex would delink all but the first link on each line. However, on line one of Amiga, you would want to delink the first link. Therefore, maybe it's better to assume that all "good" links appear first and then you can do the rest manually afterwards. Secondly, will you be using AWB for these regex fixes? I'll start working on the regexes now and I'll get back to you with them later after I get more info from you about the specifics. Thanks. --M@thwiz2020 21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I almost forgot - belated congrats on your RfA! --M@thwiz2020 21:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, assume the first link is good even though that won't always be the case and delink the rest. I can manually correct any errors. I won't be doing it using AWB, although I can if need be. I use an firefox extension for my search and replace (regex). A few more examples [1], [2], [3], [4]. Also, if it's possible, remove all bolded words. The regex doesn't have to be perfect, I can clean up what it doesn't do. Thanks! Gflores^Talk 21:56, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

See my progress here. I can't seem to get the Apache link on the last line right! One more thing that might make me have to change the regexes: can you give me a link to the extension you're using? I want to test out my regexes in that extension since sometimes different regex scripts work differently. --M@thwiz2020 22:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm using a bookmarklet here. I can use AWB if it'll make things easier for you. Gflores^Talk 22:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I have to go somewhere soon so I'll continue this tomorrow, but how do you install the bookmarklet? --M@thwiz2020 22:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Bookmarklet. To install it, add 'searchtextarea' to your bookmarks and then click on it when you want to open it and a window will appear with search and replace, etc. Firefox may block it as a popup though, so be sure to let it open. Gflores^Talk 01:06, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Hm, odd. When I click the bookmarklet, nothing happens. (Well, when I click it on this page I get Firefox's popup-blocker warning, but when I bookmark the javascript and click that, nothing happens.) --M@thwiz2020 17:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't know what to say. It works for me. You may have to add wikipedia and that site to your exceptions list in Firefox preferences or disable pop-up blocking altogether (temporarily) for it to work. Does the regex work on AWB? I could just use that, it's no problem. Gflores^Talk 00:23, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Silly me. It does work, but only when I'm on the edit page. I kept trying it when I wasn't editing and it wasn't working, but when I clicked on "edit this page" and clicked the bookmark, voila! I'll try to perfect the regexes as soon as I can - I just have to iron out that one problem. --M@thwiz2020 02:13, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I got it! It took me a while to figure out the discrepancies between AWB and your bookmarklet (for example, AWB calls the first subexpression $1 but the bookmarklet starts with $2), but I finally got it! There is just one more bug I want to fix but don't have to (my regexes make it so that it only corrects the second link in each line so, for example, if there are five links in a line you have to run it four times). I'll work on that problem and then give you the regexes. --M@thwiz2020 16:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I could make a regex that would do everything in one run - however, such a regex would delink all links that do not come immediately after the *, even if they are first (so * ''[[Hello]]'' would be delinked even though it's first). I have a regex that will never delink first links, but you have to run it multiple times. Each time, it will remove the last link in each line until there is only one link in each line. I could probably write a javascript bookmarklet that would run it multiple times automatically and will if you ask. If you want to know, I can also explain why you have to run it multiple times, but I won't explain that now. Anyways, chatter aside, here are the regexes:

This removes the bold tags:
Search: '''
Replace: (nothing)
Replace till end selected (the rest of the options don't matter)

This removes the links:
Search: (.*?\[\[.*?\]\].*)\[\[([^\]\|]*?\|)?(.*?)\]\]
Replace: $2$4
Replace till end '''must''' be selected (just regular "replace" doesn't work for some reason)
Other options: regex on, wrap off, find in all doesn't matter

If it doesn't work, just tell me and I'll fix it in a few million jiffies (with each jiffy being 1/100th of a second, so one million jiffies is 166.6 minutes, almost three hours). --M@thwiz2020 17:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for your vote of confidence in my recent request for bureaucratship. Even though it didn't pass, I greatly appreciate your support and hope I will continue to have your respect. Thank you! Flcelloguy (A note?) 23:04, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2 second IP address lookup

Hi, please consider looking up an IP address that you wish to block to see if it looks like a proxy.

Not only did you ban an entire University (!!) from posting on Wikipedia by banning a proxy address, but you also didn't do much to stop the vandal because there are a few different proxies here with different IP's for a sufficiently determined vandal (that's why you can read this).—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rpf (talk • contribs).

[edit] Wikibreak

Just noticed you are on a Wikibreak, you may already be back, but either way I hope it is/was relaxing! :) -- Natalya 16:10, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Community Portal colors

Do you have some suggestions for colors for Draft1a? Can you show me the colors you'd prefer, or provide links to them? --Go for it! 00:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Hi Gflores. Just a quick note to thank you for your support in my RfA, which recently passed 62/13/6. I will do my very best live up to this new responsibility and to serve the community, but please let me know if I make any mistakes or if you have any feedback at all on my actions. Finally, if there is anything that I can assist you with - please don't hesitate to ask. Cheers TigerShark 03:49, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DatabaseSearch tool request

Hi, looks like someone beat you to it, as a total of 13 main space articles link to hip hop, and most of them are redirects. Martin 08:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Manifold (disambig) cleanup

Hi Gflores, I notice you did a significant cleanup of the Manifold (disambiguation) page. Thanks for your efforts, but I just wanted to check one thing; was the removal of the link to the diving regulator article from the scuba-context line intentional? If so, why? Thanks. David Scarlett 09:21, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Metropolitan

Why did you remove the link to the article Transmetropolitan on the disambiguation page for Metropolitan ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.72.85.46 (talk • contribs).

I added it back again.

[edit] CITE

Hi again. I read some of CITE, and I tried adding in cites for Northrop Grumman, but I can't get it to work. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Can you help me? TIA Sarah crane 16:03, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Nevermind, I got it working. Thanks anyway. Sarah crane 19:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! You were right, it's important to show both sides. It's just hard to find on the internet. Most of what I've found is their official sites, which seem to be talking to investors, not the general public, and then there are the sites that say how bad NG is (which I tend to agree with). But they don't really have much of a public fan club. :) Anyway, I'm trying to integrate that info in. We'll see how it goes... Have a great day! Sarah crane 20:47, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] .NET Bot Framework

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[edit] Admin coaching

Hi! Thanks for signing up for Esperanza admin coaching. Since you volunteered to help train a user, I've assigned Siva1979 to you and your partner, Jossi. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave me a message. Thanks again! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 05:17, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] American Academy of Ophthalmology deletion

Hi there,

I wanted to get a few details on the deletion. You cited a copy vio as your reason for deleting. Could you let me know what the issue was?

Thanks, John

[edit] RE: Admin coaching

Hello! I am happy to hear that you will be my mentor. Firstly, I feel that I need help on how to load USEFUL images on Wikipedia. For example, I have uploaded about 4 images so far but 3 of them were deleted by another user. Can I transfer some images from Wikimedia Commons to Wikipedia? If the images are not used in Wikipedia articles for about 2 weeks, will they be deleted from Wikipedia altogether? Must I transfer the images to my computer first and upload them to Wikipedia? I hope you can give me a clear answer soon.

Secondly, I would like to give you a hypothesis. If I were to take part in a RFA now, what do you think my success of being an admin would be? I have made over 5500 edits and have 3 months of experience in Wikipedia. I have a great desire to serve Wikipedia in a greater capacity and I wish to have a general overview of the duties of an administrator before going into the realm of the unforgiving scrutiny of edits I hope to receive your feedback soon and please advise me on ways to improve the quality of my edits. Thank You!

P.S. Glad to hear that you are a Manchester United supporter! Hope it is not too late for them to overtake Chelsea for the 2005-06 league title! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 14:46, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the well-wishes! -- Natalya 19:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

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[edit] WP 1.0

I thought since you are interested in this project you might be interested to see a CD version of en now exists see Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download. This is being discussed on the 1.0 project pages but progress breeds enthusiasm so I thought I would let you know. --BozMo talk 10:55, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP 1.0 new strategy

Hi, hope all is, well haven't seen you around for a while. If you're not too busy, could you take a look at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Qualifying? Thanks. Maurreen 06:07, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rush

Thanks ^_^ — Deckiller 02:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Latin America won!

Joyous | Talk 18:30, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Thank you

Thank you! Hello Gflores. Thank you for your support in my RfA! It passed with a final tally of 91/3/5. I am quite humbled and pleased by the community's show of confidence in me. If you need help or just want to talk, let me know. Cheers! -- Fang Aili 說嗎?

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Heh, I'm not interested in any of those articles. Oh well. :) Gflores^Talk 04:13, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

Take Care Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 09:17, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! :) Gflores^Talk 04:13, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

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[edit] Happy Easter! (or whatever it is that you celebrate)

Hey, Happy Easter! But even if you don't celebrate it (like me), you can't forget about the chocolate, right? ;) —Mirlen 19:41, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Guess My Name Challenge

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[edit] Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Table automation and bots for WVWP?

Hi, I know you're probably busy with exams and the like (I'm writing one right now on advanced organic chemistry, as it happens!), but I wanted just to alert you to some major changes that may be happening at WP1.0. Tito and Oleg Alexandrov are planning to try out a system whereby we will put assessment categories on article talk pages, then have a bot read them to a worklist table (and perhaps a tree as well) automatically. That way if something is reassessed it can be tracked automatically, once a day I think they said. We would also get a daily list of assessment changes. Do you have any comments to add to this discussion? Scroll down to get to the latest iteration of the idea. Cheers, Walkerma 03:23, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

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[edit] SCOTW

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[edit] .NET Bot Framework Update 1

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[edit] Re the whole de-bureaucrating thing

Hi, I never came to thank you for the message you left for me a month ago when I stepped down from being a bureaucrat. Thank you for the things you said, it's good to know there are still plenty of good people about in this project. I do not see myself standing for bureaucrat again anytime soon though who knows what the future may bring! Thank you once again. -- Francs2000 09:46, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Individual NBA All Star Game pages

Def should be. Why aren't there?--DNL 15:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Toy as new COTF

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[edit] Inquiry

Hello! I hope you are feeling great! By the way, I would like to inquire about a minor technical aspect of certain templates. For example, certain templates uses this term &nbsp. What does this mean? If I do not type these wordings when I am editing templates, would this pose a problem? Allow me to give you an example:

Sussex County Football League First Division 2005/06
Arundel | Chichester City United | Crowborough Athletic | Eastbourne Town | Eastbourne United Association | East Preston | Hailsham Town | Hassocks | Horsham YMCA | Littlehampton Town | Redhill | Ringmer | Rye & Iden United | Shoreham | Sidley United | Southwick | Three Bridges | Wick | Whitehawk | Worthing United edit

(Follow the edit link to view the details of this template)

And,what does noinclude stand for? If this template is updated, will it affect ALL the similar templates used in different articles? Will there be an auto update? What are the consequences of the exclusion of these particluar terms? I hope you will give me an answer soon! Thank You! (By the way, I am feeling disappointed the Manchester United had failed to beat Chelsea. Credit goes to Chelsea for winning the league.) --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 02:44, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:Gflores/Sandbox

I noticed your suicide article in your sandbox. The article took a big reduction a while back and now it is very small. I don't know why it was reduced but perhaps we could incorporate the parts you have in your sandbox into it. The article is much smaller than it should be, for example, the German, French and Polish ones are much larger. Skinnyweed 00:41, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorted. Skinnyweed 15:38, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

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[edit] Smile

[edit] Business now COTF

You showed support for Sex at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics/Core topics COTF. This article was selected as our collaboration of the fortnight. Hope you can help.

[edit] beginner question

I wonder how I can report an abuse of a page (advertisement). Please contact me about this. I tried searching the FAQ's, but I didn't find anything. --Bernard François 00:02, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please help on Mathematics

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[edit] Album Cover Problems

Hello!

I noticed that you populated the UK cover of the Orbs Adventures beyond the Ultraworld. I just uploaded the US cover here to gel with the Ultraworld Wikipedia content i populated here.

For some reason I cannot flag the file as an album cover. Can you help?

Thank you!

--Ezi 22:16, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Large Hadron Collider is Science Collaboration of the Week

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[edit] Please help on Ancient Egypt

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[edit] Manitoba (band)

Hi, I see you left a link re Caribou (musician) on the Manitoba disambiguation page a while back. When I came across the page someone had reoved your entry. I added it back but it's been removed again. I'm going to keep a watch on the page and invite you to do the same. I'm not sure why someone repeatedly removes our entry but ? Take care Hu Gadarn 01:41, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] re: trace a post

Is it possible to find out a contributers ip address if they are un-registered and it does not appear? Thanks.

[edit] User:David91

Per a request on Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians, I'm trying to find out if anyone knows what happened to User:David91. He stopped editing around April 12, 2006, when he was admitted to the hospital for some tests. He possibly lived in Singapore (likely in or near Ang Mo Kio which he edited 3 times--but with enough detail to suggest a strong familiarity with the place), and was probably the oldest Wikipedian at the age of 94 (based on a reference from 2003 when he said he was 91). Based on his numerous contributions in law it is possible he was a retired lawyer of some kind. He also contributed to linguistics, sociology, and science fiction articles. He was part of Wikipedia:WikiProject International law (though it didn't really get off the ground) and he made nearly 5000 edits. He evidently was also a well-respected member of other Internet communities he was involved in during his retirement. Any information on David91 would be appreciated. Thanks, --Alabamaboy 13:23, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AID

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[edit] Best of luck

It's a shame to see you go, you are a great editor. Best of luck in all your future endeavors, and should you ever find the time or energy to return, we'd be happy to have you back. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 04:17, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

All the best Gflores. I hope you will come back some time.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:18, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Best of luck. I'm sorry to see you go. Take care. Anonymous_anonymous 10:29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

*tear* What? I'm so sorry to see you go, Gflores. You were one of the first editors who I really respected when I first started editing Wikipedia, and your contributions are so very important. I hope that whatever is causing you to leave corrects itself, but if not, good luck - you will be truly missed. -- Natalya 15:39, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SCOTM

I've removed you from this list since you have left wikipedia. Please feel free to rejoin if you return. pschemp | talk 03:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America Newsletter - July '06

The Indigenous Peoples of North America Portal The Indigenous Peoples of North America Portal has been established, as a starting point for those wishing to learn more about the subject, with information and links on a wide variety of issues. It also contains news regarding the continent's various tribes and nations. It's a graphically pleasing site, and everyone is encouraged to check it out. Home Page Reorganization The project's home page has a new design, featuring tabbed subpages on participants, templates, articles, categories, and the to do list. Article Classification Move The Article Classification lists have been moved to their own subpage due to size. This is a sign of progress in the ongoing work of this project. New Talk Page Template The project's talk page template has been updated, along with the classification system, to include the assessment on the talk pages of the articles that have been classified and assessed.

Balance As the Project reaches its first six months of activity, the great effort all of you have invested in it has turned the vast information available on Indigenous North American topics from a deorganized cumulous into an excellent and easy to consult database. Although much work is still in order, few WikiProjects are able to obtain the amazing results we are proud to show today. To all of you, thank you and congratulations! What You Can Do to Help The assessment of articles within the scope of the project is still an ongoing process. We need people to help in this who are not contributors to the articles they are assessing. Also, there is the ongoing need for identifying and cataloguing articles that fall within the scope of this project. As of today, nearly 1,500 have been identified within the Project's scope. Signed by Aaron Walden & Phaedriel - 15:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! What's New? In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed! The In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List.

[edit] 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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[edit] A request for comment

I would like to request comments and suggestions for the following situation in Talk:List_of_major_opera_composers#Not_so_fast.__There_is_obvious_POV_gender_bias_here . This is a very long, complicated situation involving whether women should be included on this list of Opera composers. As a male musician who has done quite alot of research on women in music, I firmly believe that a representative sample should be on the list (I'm not suggesting 50/50 or even 30/70, just two or three representative women). When I first noticed this article, it was completely unsourced, and the "important composers" were chosen by a collegial system ("I like that." "I don't like that") without any mention of sources. I marked the article NPOV and Unsourced. The article quickly became sourced, but I continued to bring up the issue of gender bias and brought three sources to the discussion after consulting the International Alliance of Women in Music [[5]], all of which were dismissed because they only contained works by women. However, when the list was finally completed (I was asked not to participate, as I was considered to be have a POV agenda towards women and living composers), six of the ten lists used only contained the names of men. The other four only contained one woman (Judith Weir). If lists of only women composers are unacceptable, why are lists of only men composers acceptable? And was are sources which could prove the importance of women in music dismissed as having a POV agenda.

A colleague who is a teacher of Women's studies at an American University has suggested that this is a textbook case of "canon forming" or the creation of hierarchies using preconceived notions. The process involves making a hypothesis using the notions that one already has, such as "Important operas are only composed by dead, White, European males", using the sources already utilised for making the hypothesis for proving the statement and then dismissing contradictary sources or discrediting individuals who make statements which oppose the primary hypothesis.

I am certainly not asking anyone to get directly involved here, as this is already become quite violent and an RfA is currently underway. I would however appreciate any ideas concerning how to confront this sort of gender bias, any useful sources and other ideas, as well as general comments. Thank you Jean-Thierry Boisseau 20:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 21:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Album infobox conversions

Hey, I noticed you were once active at converting old infoboxes. Well, I've found a bunch that need converting, as I noted here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums/Needs infobox conversion. Cheers, Alcuin 03:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy birth day

I wish you all the best. And, I could not understand the meaning of :I've moved on. So sorry. Best of luck to Wikipedia. Anyway, life is a flow. --Bhadani 13:10, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

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Please take a look at the discussion page in the Natalie Merchant entry:

Merchant is married and has a daughter. [1]

                       --Jeffrey Henning 03:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you.

[edit] WP:FILMS Newsletter

The November 2006 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Cbrown1023 23:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] social anxiety

Someone deleted alot of stuff from the Social Anxiety page and being new to wikipedia i have noe clue how to get it back. could you?

[edit] Doing something about the ridiculous date autoformatting/linking mess

Dear Gflores—you may be interested in putting your name to, or at least commenting on this new push to get the developers to create a parallel syntax that separates autoformatting and linking functions. IMV, it would go a long way towards fixing the untidy blueing of trivial chronological items, and would probably calm the nastiness between the anti- and pro-linking factions in the project. The proposal is to retain the existing function, to reduce the risk of objection from pro-linkers.Tony 15:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)