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Contents 1 Thanks! 2 Circulating Coin Sets 3 Re:Portal 4 Thanks 5 Re: Portal:Military of the United States 6 Challenge coin association 7 "Randomized" portal components 8 Award 9 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VIII - October 2006 10 assessment of circulating currencies 11 November Esperanza Newsletter 12 Portal:Military of the United States tabs 13 External Links from 67.23.165.237 14 Irish punt 15 Category tree 16 Award 17 Improvements to the Psychology portal 18 Texas Portal 19 Signpost updated for November 20th. 20 Thanx for your welcome message 21 Science portal 22 The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue IX - November 2006 23 Greetings 24 Signpost updated for November 27th. 25 Thank you 26 I would greatly appreciate if you could weigh into an issue 27 Signpost updated for December 4th. 28 Featured list nomination 29 Hey Joe! 30 Signpost updated for December 11th.

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the thes ;-) Yeah, I know, my English really sucks. --Dijxtra 08:13, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Circulating Coin Sets

I am currently providing images of circulating coin sets of the world to About.com Some of them can be seen at http://coins.about.com/od/worldcoins/ig/World-Coins-Gallery-Index/index.htm I will be happy to contribute these images to Wikipedia as well. I have previously granted Wikipedia full open use access to my coin images at worldcoingallery.com Let me know if you are interested! 134.67.6.11 12:20, 2 October 2006 (UTC) don@worldcoingallery.com

Thank you for the invitation, I think they would make a great contribution. There is legal mumbo-jumbo in your email box. Thnx again. Joe I 18:23, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Portal

Thanks for the offer. I need some help with the topics and categories section of the page. I'm not that familiar with all material relating to business, so any help there would be appreciated. I think I got a handle on everything else though. --Nishkid64 19:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the barnstar! The gold color looks really nice. By the way, I had some comments left at the project talk page about the images file on Commons. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 22:46, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Portal:Military of the United States

Ah, it's quite nice! Can I talk about how much I like the click-for-new-content setup? ;-)

A few (fairly trivial) points that ought to be looked at, though:

• The image credits should be (somehow) written out, rather than being simple numbered external links.
• I'm a bit surprised at both the small number of entries in the "Topics" box and the fairly ectlectic selection. Is there something I'm missing here, or were some of them chosen almost at random?
• The font shrinking is overkill, in many places.
• It's a bit surprising to see a portal with no "Things you can do" box, and not even a WikiProject link.

Kirill Lokshin 05:11, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

As far as the font shrinking goes, the "Topics" and "Resources" boxes have font that goes through several levels of shrinking. Even one isn't always a good idea; multiple ones just make the thing undreadable. ;-) Kirill Lokshin 22:10, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Challenge coin association

Hey, I noticed you rating a few articles, thnx. Do you remember why Challenge coin association was deleted? Joe I 02:22, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Administrator User:Sarah Ewart said that I didn't assert the importance of the subject. In the future, when I have the energy to invest in the article, I will make it look like similar Numismatic Associations found on here, and their shouldn't be any problems. --JAYMEDINC 02:50, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I was wondering cause it should be on here, we have plenty of other assosiations. Such as: American Numismatic Association, Canadian Numismatic Association, and American Vecturist Association, you can base the article to look like those. If you have any other problems when you do create it, please come to me or Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics and let us know.  :) Joe I 02:57, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Yes, I would like some help/advice when creating the article. I fear that when I write about CCA, it comes off as an advertisement or something like that. --JAYMEDINC 18:41, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, I had some time today so I created the article again. I used the based it on the other numismatic associations, so I am convinced there will be no problems this time. Please feel free to give it a look. --JAYMEDINC 04:38, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Randomized" portal components

I see that you're a portal guy now. The pseudo random component is a good idea, and I'd like to take a step further. So instead of

{{/box-header|''Selected pictures''|Portal:Military of the United States/Selected picture/{{#ifexpr:({{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} mod 22) >= 0 | {{#expr:({{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} mod 22) + 1}} | {{#expr:-({{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} mod 22) + 1}} }}|}} {{Portal:Military of the United States/Selected picture/{{#ifexpr:({{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} mod 22) >= 0 | {{#expr:({{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} mod 22) + 1}} | {{#expr:-({{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} mod 22) + 1}} }}}} {{/box-footer|[[Portal:Military of the United States/Selected picture|More pictures...]]}}

it would be replaced something like with

 {{aNewTemplate|PortalRoot|ComponentSubpage|ComponentHeader|maxNumberOfInstances}}

But before being bold, I'd like to ask you if you have seen anything like this or any talk about that. I just want to avoid duplication of effort or having two or more competing templates that do the same thing. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 04:59, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

No, it's news to me. Might wanna check someplace like Wikipedia:Portal or Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals, to be sure. I'm no template man tho, I just use what I've seen on other portals. I got the rotation bit from Portal:War. If that can be done tho, it seems so much simpler. Joe I 05:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Done with Portal:Military of the United States, Portal:Numismatics, Portal:War, and Portal:Texas! --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 12:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Whoa! So we don't even need the box headers now? That's great! Joe I 14:50, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, nevermind, I see them now. :) Great work. Joe I 14:56, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Award

You deserve it! Btw, I noticed the table of content on your user page. I'm not sure if it's deliberate. If you don't want it, you can add __NOTOC__ anywhere in the page and the TOC will disappear. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 11:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I racked my brain all night abouth the NTOC thing, but couldn't do anything bout it so I knew it looked silly. Anyways, thnx for the star, I like the spinny one. :) Joe I 16:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue VIII - October 2006

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[edit] assessment of circulating currencies

I thought u said any circulating currencies would be of high importance? what happened to Hungarian forint? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 02:38, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Must of slipped past me. I usually do things to fast. :) Joe I 08:09, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Portal:Military of the United States tabs

Hi, Searchme. If you're interested, I could customize the tabs at the portal so they match the color scheme and are flush right. Regards, Rfrisbie^talk 18:51, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Yes! I was gonna ask someone, but decided not to. I know I want the color to match, we'll see how the flushing looks. Thanks. :) Joe I 20:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Cool. The typical set-up is to have the "current" tab white or some light matching hue, with the "other" tabs a mid-range matching hue. I'll set them up with parameters so you can play with them. Also, if you anticipate more tabs eventually, I can made a "middle" tab. Let me know if you have anything particular in mind and I'll start them off that way. Rfrisbie^talk 21:33, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Definatly set up for more tabs. I think I'm gonna add another real soon for a category tree. As far as the colors, try "khaki" as the light and "darkolivegreen" as the other. If I'll be able to change them, I'll see how that works and go from there. Joe I 21:38, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay, another question. If you're going to be adding tabs, do you want the "page-width" tabs like at Wikipedia:Introduction or "text-width" tabs like at Wikipedia:Tutorial? Either style can be a single line high. Rfrisbie^talk 21:45, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

I like the page-width better. Looks more uniform. Joe I 21:49, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

There you go. See Portal:Military of the United States/Header and Portal:Military of the United States/Things you can do tab/Header. The two green shades on the portal were too dark IMHO for a tab, so I went with a lighter shade of olivedrab (H80 S40 V75 - #A6BF73). You can see realted shades at User:Rfrisbie/Palettes/HSV and User:Rfrisbie/Palettes/Headers for Hue: 80. The colors use parameters, so you can try something else if you want. Rfrisbie^talk 01:37, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Links from 67.23.165.237

Hey Joe, I'm not quite sure what to do with this. This anon user was putting quite a few external links on numismatic articles. I followed the links and the pages had only one paragraph of content that for the most part was already in the article so I reverted them.

He left a message for me that he added pictures, well all of the pictures are taken from coinfacts and no credit given, so I reverted again. He now claims that he will put the credits and has resumed adding links to pages with little content and "borrowed" pictures.

Another thing that bothers me about this is the entire site is driven by Zen Cart, which is 100% designed for ecommerce. Makes me wonder if the intention is to get all the links before the ecommerce, then filter in the sale products and hope no one notices.

Your thoughts on this? Bobby 19:31, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Irish punt

There's a discussion going on as to whether we should use the name punt or pound for this currency. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the matter.
Dove1950 00:04, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category tree

Hi, is there some documentation anywhere on <categorytree>? I couldn't find any. I can see some uses of it here and there if I can made it start out compressed, like the subcategories on a category page. Rfrisbie^talk 20:44, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't know of any. I took it off of Portal:Aviation. First time I remember seeing it. Joe I 09:30, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks anyway. I'll keep looking. Rfrisbie^talk 15:03, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Award

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		I, Reywas92, award Joe I this barnstar for being so kind for greeting me twice. Once as a newcomer, and once when I joined WikiProject Numismatics. Reywas92Talk 15:49, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

I have already begun to contribute to numismatics articles, such as Three-cent piece (United States coin) and Bi-metallic coins. I even put the image of a Norwegian coin on the member template.

Yes, I saw the memeber template, it looks nice. Thanks for the smiley face :) Joe I 18:52, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Improvements to the Psychology portal

Hi, I'm working on trying to get Portal:Psychology up to Featured portal status. Any tips you can offer on how to improve it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Rfrisbie^talk 15:52, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Texas Portal

As the editor who nominated Portal:Texas for featured status, could you please see my comment here. Thanks, --cj | talk 03:07, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Thanx for your welcome message

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[edit] Science portal

Okay, here's a big one! Please offer any feedback you have at its talk page on how to improve this portal to featured status. Thanks. Rfrisbie^talk 15:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Greetings

Thank you for your greetings. I'm really interested in numismatics, and I wrote a lot of articles in it:wiki. I'll try to add some article specially about coins of Rome and about ancient & modern Italy. I hope someone (You ?) will correct my english.

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[edit] Thank you

Thank you for defending my user page. I would never think that someone actually watch my user page. I know who did that, it's a friend of mine and not ill-intended. But still, it's nice of you to do that. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 03:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Sure thing, not a prob :) Joe I 23:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I would greatly appreciate if you could weigh into an issue

Hi Joe I, i see you have written about a user and an article I am currently having a small issue with and I was hopeing if you could take a quick look and let me know if you think I am handling this correctly, or am I totally off base.

This page Advanced Currency Markets and ACM Forex were both writen by the user Acmforex

These pages seem to have multiple problems. They are refering to the exact same company and they seem to be written as an advertisement. I tried to delete what I felt were misleading points in the article and I deleted one of the duplicate articles and had it redirecting to the first.

This lead to the user, Acmforex, to write angry messages on my userpage Drewwiki, and the reversion of all my edits.

Because almost no one visits these sights I feel somewhat alone taking on what I suspect is a company employee, i can't tell you what your outside perspective would mean.

Thanks in advance

--DrewWiki 10:02, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I also greatly appreciate

Dear Joe, Drewwiki was wrong. May be in their actual form, Advanced Currency Markets and ACM Forex are just a start and they will grow. But this is not an Advertising. Advanced Currency Markets does not need in anyway to advertise on Wikipedia, and never thing wikipedia is an adverstising site. But if you go to google for exemple, and search "acm forex", you'll obtain 346 000 entries. If you look at the advertising keywords part, you'll see every FOREX market maker use this expression. In facts, the expression ACM Forex is a result of the Advanced Currency Markets activty because of being a pioneer in giving online access to the forex. Now, ACM forex became an expression in FOREX, this is not a mark and wikipedia is the best way to explain it. Just read ACM Forex article, and read Advanced Currency Markets. Yes they are linked, but they are not the same.

Please remember to sign you comments, to do that it is 4~ in a row --DrewWiki 16:05, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, both got deleted. I tagged one for a merge into the other, but guess someone else didn't agree. Joe I 00:00, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Featured list nomination

As a person that commented on the prior nomination, I wanted to let you know that I have renominated the Featured list candidates/List of temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Please comment on the nomination - thx --Trödel 14:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Joe!

You seem to be well acquainted with wikipedia, what do you do if you forget your password, is their like a website administrator who can send it you or what? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.155.140.77 (talk) 19:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC).

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