User talk:Jfingers88

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Archive 1 (February 7 to April 7, 2006)

[edit] Marsden

It's what I believe the entry's worth. The short entry has all the pertinent details of a minor issue. The big version is senstational and wallows in details for the sake of the fact this woman is a newspaper columnist and is very attractgive. Seems like cvheap voyeurism to me.

[edit] thanks

thank you for supporting me in the AC elections. I Lov E Plankton 03:33, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[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. --Cel es tianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Help

Sorry about the delay, just haven't been active for a while. Anyway, I just wanted to know how to change background colors, add borders, and make tables. Not much.

Thanks, Drahcir ^{my talk} 00:42, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thank you for helping me with "Eruch Jessawala" numbering problem. I appreciate it.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cott12 (talk • contribs) .

[edit] Sandbox

Just wanted to let you know that I added WP:SAND to the shortcut box. If there are more shortcuts to be added in the future, just find this line and add to it in the same way I did:

|<includeonly>{{Shortcut|[[WP:SB]]}}</includeonly>

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                       vv

|<includeonly>{{Shortcut|[[WP:SB]]<br>[[WP:SAND]]}}</includeonly>

—G.H e 03:15, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching
The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
Stressbusters
The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome!
Note from the editor
As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log)
Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon.
Signed...
Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 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, —Cel es tianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

FYI, I am going to de-list your Bombard Tower → Bombard tower move request. The steps for requesting a page move were not followed so no one else had a chance to see or vote on the request. Those steps put the article in a category and make a convenient place to vote. Feel free to re-list the request. —Wknight94 (talk) 02:10, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Googleearthdomination.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Googleearthdomination.jpg. Wikipedia gets thousands of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images.

For more information on using images, see the following pages:

This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 03:08, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expletive in 32nd G8 Summit Article

I understand that Wikipedia is not censored, but it still feels unnecessary. Everyone can tell what word it is by writing it with an asterisk; why not just write it like that and sound more formal and encyclopedic?

[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)

[edit] "rm double redirect"

You made some edits with this summary. I don't think you understand what a double redirect is. Please read Wikipedia:Double redirect and Wikipedia:Redirect#Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken. Thank you. --NE2 01:51, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

You're supposed to edit Annual average daily traffic to make it redirect to the new title. However, that should probably be the title - see Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Lowercase second and subsequent words. --NE2 01:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] November Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Admin Coaching (needs coaches!)
Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach. Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
What's New?
The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one!
A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts.
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

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)

[edit] Dear Serial comma User & Future Administrator

Thank you very much for informing me about the Spell checker Fox or Modzila? Anyway, I downloaded it - now all I need to know is what I have to do to use it in a Wikipedia page.

Now I want to tell you that I enjoyed learning from your page about the "Serial comma."

I've had a preference for it since H.S.- but never new what it was called.

Now I will copy from your User page that Box about it and let everyone know that I also have a preference for it.

Now tell me what is required for me to qualify for a Wikepedia francise - by which I mean the right to VOTE - because when elections come, I certainly wish to give me my vote to elect you to be an Administrator. Do I qualify? How "Democratic" is Wikipedia, anyway?

Thanks a lot, and best wishes for you, future WP Administrator! Ludvikus 06:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I tried to "edit this page" (your page), so to speak, because I wanted to copy the "rectangles" which indicate "Bibliophile" and "Serial comma," etc. But you must have "locked" your User/Homepage ... because I couldn't find the code for these WP images, or whatever you call them. Can you advise me so that I too could improve the appearance of my Homepage??

Also — it just occurred to me — why don't we place these "rectangles" in each page where concept is explained - that way we all could just "Copy" and "Past" them whenever we want to???

Don't you think that is a good idea? Even, perhaps, a Revolutionary idea? It may be a way of spreading literacy more effectively - at least amoung us Wikipedians, no?

Regards, Ludvikus 07:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comma & Period Before, or After, a Quotation Mark

Dear Mr. Split infinitive avoider,

I thought you might know about - and be interested in - the rule which says that a Quotation mark comes after the Comma and Period, but before the Question mark and Exclamation point. Can you tell me anything about this rule, and where in Wikipedia, if anywhere, it is to be found? Thanks.

In return, may I inform you of my interest in, and contribution towards the Octothorpe as well as the Ouroboros?

Looking forward to your response, Ludvikus 07:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:What do you need help with?

I responded to your comment on my talk page. Squirepants101 15:51, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Jfingers88! Wishing you a very happy birthday and an awesome upcoming year! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

Best regards from the Birthday Committee and myself! --lov e laughterlife♥^talk? 03:32, Thursday December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Party!!

Dear Jfingers88 , Happy Birthday! May you enjoy many more. Hope all goes well for you, and have a great day. Dfrg.m s c ^{1 . 2 . Editor Review} 05:07, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Happy Birthday From Randfan

The Wikipedia Birthday Committee, myself, and B e a rly 541 wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy your special day. Hooray! --Randfan _{please talk talk to me!}

This guy is your personal B-day red panda! Congrats for being one year older and staying with Wikipedia this long. Much too many people create new accounts, do a few minor edits, and just quit. Happy B-day! —¡Rand fan ! 21:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC); _{so how does it feel? :)}

Happy b-day! Hope it's a good one! Cheers! :) —Rand fan!! 00:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday in Java

String HB="Happy Birthday";

String 2U="to You";

System.out.println(HB + 2U);

System.out.println(HB + "dear Jfinger88");