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Contents 1 Welcome! 2 Saying Hi 3 Australian Cleavage 4 LGBT WikiProject Newsletter 5 Project News 6 WP:LGBT comes around... 7 LGBT Template 8 LGBT WikiProject Newsletter 9 I like you! 10 Happy King Day 11 Your help needed 12 LGBT WikiProject Newsletter 13 WP:LGBT Coordinator Election Notice 14 Template:Transgender footer 15 LGBT WikiProject newsletter

[edit] Welcome!

Hello, AliceJMarkham, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Saying Hi

Hi there! I read your comment on the LGBT project page, and I just wanted to say welcome and I am sorry you feel excluded. If you ever need any help on Wiki, please feel free to call upon me. If I can do anything--even if it's just giving you support--I will be happy to do so. Jeffpw 11:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I second this. Also, I am going to create a separate Bisexual infobox, different to the generic LGBT one; would you mind creating a Transgender one if you can? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 06:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I've created the bisexual infobox. We now have Template:LGBT, and Template:Bi - do you want to create a transgendered infobox, or do you want me to do, or shall we not have one? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll be quite happy to create it, but I probably won't get to it until around xmas/new year. My life in the real world will slow down a little when I take holidays. :) --AliceJMarkham 02:31, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok. Take as long as you want. We can use the LGBT one until then. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:26, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, it happened quicker than expected. I also noticed (but couldn't figure out how to fix) that the {{Bi}} 'edit' link takes you to a 'create page' for the template 'Bisexual'. --AliceJMarkham 01:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

...It doesn't, so far as I am aware. I've just tried it and it works fine. How strange. Good job on the template though, we have a full set now. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:39, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I just tried it again and it's broken for me. I'm talking about the little edit link in the bottom right corner of the template itself, not the edit this page button at the top. --AliceJMarkham 21:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah, right. I've fixed it now. It was linking to Template:Bisexual, and not Bi. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 21:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Cleavage

Hi. Slang terms are rarely globally used. We could delete all slang, but that would make for a much dryer WP. I could find a reference for Australian Cleavage but there are more important things I should be doing. As a compromise, I moved neathage to the first term. H Bruthzoo 19:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue I - December 4, 2006

[edit] Project News This is the first newsletter of the LGBT studies Wikiproject! Come and discuss your thoughts on it at the Wikiproject talk page. An LGBT Barnstar has been created for editors who have contributed significantly to LGBT-related articles. The LGBT Portal has been revamped and tidied. It's various sections could do with updating on a weekly basis. Please pitch in if you have the time. The main page of the Wikiproject has also undergone a bit of a rewrite. Your participation is welcome. James Robert Baker became the first known LGBT biography to become a Featured Article on November 22. It was written and nominated by Jeffpw. Well done Jeff! A discussion has been started on the WikiProject talk page about how to get the WikiProject going. Your thoughts would be welcome. Finally, five new users have joined the Wikiproject: Jeffpw, Ikasawak, Dev920, AliceJMarkham, and WereWolf. Please make them feel welcome!

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[edit] WP:LGBT comes around...

See - give 'em something they understand and they can dig what you're saying :) Personally, I'm a big fan of tagging the makeup article :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT Template

Hi Alice! I see that you've added the LGBT template to the Hair removal article's talk page. Please feel empowered to include an article rating too in the template if you like (or not if you don't). You can find more information about rating articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject_LGBT_studies/Assessment. Thanks! --Tiger Marc^ROAR! 03:13, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue II - January 1, 2007

Happy New Year to all our members! Project News Several new templates have been created: {{Bi}} and {{Transgender}} by Dev920 and AliceJMarkham respectively. SatyrTN also created a {{LGBT Welcome}} template to welcome new members. Thanks to them all. The LGBT Portal's various sections could do with updating on a weekly basis. Please pitch in if you can. Latter Days became a Featured Article on December 31. It was written and nominated by Dev920. Congratulations Dev! A new assessment system has been implemented - we have tagged and assessed over 1100 articles so far! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system. A fledgling monthly LGBT Collaboration has been started, with Homosexuality as the December article and Gay stereotyping as our January article. Please contribute to this if you can, even if it's just correcting typos. A Translation department has been set up, to translate LGBT articles from foreign language Wikipedias that may have more information than our equivalent article. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English. We have a brand new unique Project! Jumpaclass is a new semi-competition to improve our lower quality articles - see the subpage for more information. Please sign up and get it going! Finally, our membership numbers have exploded! 21 new users have joined the Wikiproject: AdelaMae, WJBscribe, Trodaikid1983, Jtowns, Agne27, Boyau, NickGorton, Dialecticas, DaliJim, Tonei, Cabbers, silent, Textorus, GLGerman, Haiduc, Hornandsoccer, Bopopop, NinaOdell, Badbilltucker, DanB DanD, and Tiger Marc. Please make them feel welcome!

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[edit] I like you!

Let's be friends/collaborators.:) NinaOdell | Talk 16:33, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• Hi. Thanks for that. If you've read my user page, you'll realise that with effort and time, you could be as weird as I am. :) --AliceJMarkham 21:36, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• • Oh honey - wander around mine for a minute...:)NinaOdell | Talk 21:55, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

• LOL. I did wander around your user page, subpages and linked articles before I responded. I'm still quite confident that I'm weirder. I'm resisting the temptation to add an external link to my user page - there are photos that show more than the ones in hip and buttock padding. :)

Nuh uh. I'm a freak for real. I'm Bipolar, Biracial, Bisexual, and fall right down the middle of that four-box masculine-feminine test. I was born on Beltaine, my boyfriend has more tats than most people can imagine, my (long distance) "girlfriend" is pierced and tatted.

Speaking of hip and buttock padding(or not, who knows), the article on Calpernia Addams could use some work. Specifically, she's in the film industry now. It could use section headings too. Really, the text needs to be re-organized.:)NinaOdell | Talk 15:35, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

• Biographical articles aren't really my speciality but I'll see what I can do. --AliceJMarkham 06:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Happy King Day

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul. - Coretta Scott King

From Commons. NinaOdell | Talk 13:13, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

• I have no idea what it means (is is american?), but thanks. :) --AliceJMarkham 06:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

January 15 was Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States. It became a Federal Holiday back in the early nineties, I believe. This year, Dr. King's wife died (back in January of 2006), so I decided to highlight quotations from her instead of Dr. King.

It's a very important holiday to me. I was fairly unhappy that I had to work that day, though I love my job. The fact that it's a Federal holiday at all is momentous. I remember there were debates on it - Arizona refused to recognize it at the time. Now that Coretta Scott King has passed, I simply call it King day.

I'll try to do some clean up of Calpernia Addams soon. She is a remarkable woman. If you ever have a chance, get the DVD of Soldier's Girl and listen to her commentary. She's a courageous, insightful, and interesting person to know about (plus the movie is so romantic - Troy Garity is a dreamboat!). NinaOdell | Talk 13:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

PS: Is it wrong to have a major crush on Eddie Izzard? I think he's hot hot hot...NinaOdell | Talk 15:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

If that's your inclination, I don't see anything wrong with it. :) Personally, I don't find males (including my own alter-ego) attractive. --AliceJMarkham 02:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

I have several inclinations. Men are hot. Men in skirts with makeup are even hotter. That's not a come-on, just stating an opinion (see, I told you I'm weirder than you!:) ).

I've done a fairly massive copyedit on Calpernia Addams, and I'll do more to clean up the English a bit. I hope she sees it someday and likes her article. Check it out sometime and let me know what you think. Cheers and cherry blossoms, NinaOdell | Talk 14:31, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your help needed

Hey, Alice, we're having a discussion on categories at Portal:LGBT/Categories, and Ganymeade says that the term "Transgender" should not be used as a noun. I have no knowledge of Transgender argot, so it would be good if you could weigh in on this. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 13:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue III - February 1, 2007

Announcement: If someone requests help or feedback on an article, please try your hardest to help them out if you are able. Thank you. Project News The LGBT Portal has once again been revamped and a work rota started. Efforts towards Featured Portal status are slowly coming together. The assessment system has been a great success, we have tagged over 4000 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system. The Translation department has changed its focus, to LGBT articles about non-English topics and people on which there may be more information on the relevant foreign Wikipedia. Please add your name if you are fluent in any language other than English. Jumpaclass is picking up slowly, with nine people having entered. With over 2000 stubs we need to improve our article quality. Please sign up and get it going! Challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub! There is an ongoing discussion about the current LGBT categorisation system here, here, and a little bit here. A special page has now been set up here to deal with this. A Watchlist has been set up to monitor controversial and/or highly vandalised articles. It can also be used for article disputes, just add a note explaining the nature of the dispute. With the influx of so many active members, there is now enough support for a LGBT studies peer review, which may be found here. It's in the beta phase at the moment, so bear with us if we make any mistakes. Feel free to peer review any articles you have been working on. It was agreed this month to start reducing the uses of the Notice board, as many members felt that it was not effective. An open tasks template has been created, bringing together important announcements, FAC/FARs, Peer reviews, XfDs, the COTM, and requested articles. You may desire to watchlist it. A Deletion sorting subpage is also now working to bring together XfDs - this should be bot-driven, but we have not currently tagged enough articles to make this fully automated, so please update the list with any LGBT-related XfDs you come across. Article news Two articles were recently shepherded through the Featured Article process by two of our members - Same-sex marriage in Spain and The Well of Loneliness. Congratulations go to (respectively) Raystorm and Celithemis! Member News We more than doubled our membership this month! 53 new users have joined the Wikiproject: Aleta, Koweja, Profriend, Andrewn, Carolynparrishfan, Cpnlsn88, Brian1979, Tullerk, Garydw, Ganymead, Celithemis, Burnley, Lquilter, Parammon, Forsakendaemon, Allyn, bcatt, Dfeuer, Raystorm, Fabienne1, Esprix, Antanta, Janusvulcan, Elizabeth Lund, Ashleyvh, E. Sn0 =31337=, MiraLuka, White hotel, Zythe, Athena2006, CosmicWaffles, Emiellaiendiay, Musimax, AlexReynolds, Swollib, Nield, Kriza, 100110100, Andral, thickslab, Ronline, Iamvered, FisherQueen, William percy, Viannah, Ssbohio, Ali-oops, Anyaanomaly, Revolución, Ender2155, LuciferMorgan, Kathryn NicDhàna, and Artgoyle. Please make them feel welcome!

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[edit] WP:LGBT Coordinator Election Notice This is just a quick, automated note to let you know that there is an election being conducted over the next 7 days for the position of "Coordinator" for the LGBT WikiProject. Your participation is requested. -- SatyrTN (talk • contribs)

[edit] Template:Transgender footer

Re: {{Transgender footer}}, great job! I've added some extra topics that I feel are related and important enough to be in the template. Please review them and feel free to revert or remove some. WjBscribe 07:44, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LGBT WikiProject newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter! Issue IV - March 1, 2007 Monthly Challenge: Find 5 editors to LGBT articles and invite them to the project! Check out our recruitment tips if you need them. Good luck! Project News With such rapid development of the project, it was decided that a Coordinator was needed to ensure all the fiddly maintenence was kept up. Elections were held and Dev920 (talk • contribs) has been elected Coordinator for the next three months. She said "I am honoured and proud to be at the helm of such a fantastic WikiProject and look forward to our future". Congratulations Dev! The assessment system continues to be a great success, we have tagged over 5200 articles! Please tag any LGBT related articles you come across by adding {{LGBTProject | class=}} to the talkpage. Please see the Assessment Department for how to assess an article according to the grading system. Jumpaclass is proving to be quite successful! The winner at the end of the year gets to pick the January collaboration, so sign up and get going! Or challenge another user to see how far you can jump a stub! A new Community department has been set up to foster community amongst our members. It mostly acts as other WikiProjects' Outreach department, but also has a Quilt to which every member is entitled to add a square containing anything of their choice. The peer review is not getting much custom - please notice you can cross-list other peer reviews from different projects that also fall within our scope. Many people still seem to be unaware that the Deletion sorting subpage exists for XfDs to be listed: please use and watch that page instead of issuing "alerts" for ordinary AfDs on the project talkpage. WP:FILM has a current drive to give every film article an infobox. WP:LGBT successfully gave all 105 LGBT infoboxless films infoboxes, so a big thank you to everyone who participated. A new template, LGBT-footer, has been created for articles which are becoming to cluttered with infoboxes. Thanks to WJBscribe and SatyrTN for creating it. A very basic resources page has been started. Please add to it as you come across useful sites. A promotional poster for the project has been created: http://wplgbt.tripod.com/Wikipedianeedsyou.doc (you have to directly cut and paste the url, or it won't let you download it). Please distribute anywhere and everywhere you desire, such as gay libraries, cybercafes, community centres and so on. Also, please let Dev920 know where you have put it up, so she can keep track of our coverage. An LGBT Publications Taskforce has been proposed. Please sign up here if you are interested in being involved. An LGBT WikiProject has been set up on the Spanish Wikipedia! Set up by Raystorm, it has already gained six members and is developing an assessment system. If you speak any Spanish, please consider going up and lending a hand if you can! Article News An LGBT article, Homosexual readings of Jesus and John, made it onto the main page as a DYK this month. Congratulations to Haiduc, who wrote the article. Another article, Same-sex marriage in Italy, also made it onto the main page as a DYK this month. Congratulations to Raystorm, who wrote the article. And another article, George Cecil Ives, made it to the front page DYKs this month. Congratulations to Zefrog, who wrote the article. Member News Our membership continues to expand. 55 new users have joined the Wikiproject: HalJor, Brianna Austin, Kylehamilton , PeaceNT, Paradoxdept, Joie de Vivre, Bearcat, Avazina, Treybien, Xdenizen, Chalyres, Lisapollison, Stitchy CP, Wjhonson, Psicorps, Jliberty, Zuejay, DrGaellon, Mallanox, lwollert, Switchercat, Number301, emerson7, Ebyabe, Ashlux, Larrybob, Eirra, Alcarcalimo2364, DavidShankBone, Cedlaod, Mcguireka, Fireplace, Jacobshaven3, Buddmar, Yksin, Intesvensk, Justin_Eiler, kc12286, Kolindigo, PseudoPhoenix, Samanthabrennan, Anbellofe, roger_jg, Moni3, The Wednesday Island, Carom, Belovedfreak, My little needle, Fenoxielo, Arianna, Philippebeaudette, FrankCostanza, AmberAlert1713, A.Z., Fluffball70, . Please make them feel welcome! To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please drop me a line. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let Dev920 know.