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[edit] Robin Cook (novelist)

Sure can. Check out the Coma book. Follow that pattern. The norm is to put a disambiguation into the title - as you did for Robin Cooke himself, and a pipe - | - between the link you want people to see, and the link to the page, sort of like this only in square brackets: ((Coma (novel)|Coma)). Hope this helps. Oh, and I think the bibliography would look better as a bulleted list (start the line with * rather than line spaced as you have it. Have fun. --Tagishsimon

[edit] In umbra, igitur, pugnabimus

Hi, I'm not sure if you saw this yet on Talk:Latin, or how fast you needed a response, but that phrase means "therefore we will fight in the shadows." Adam Bishop 22:30, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Cool...what was the bet? I know about the collaboration of the week votes, I voted for medieval warfare when it came up and I've voted for ancient warfare too. Thanks! Adam Bishop 16:19, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikifun

I moved "Wikifun" out of the main namespace since that's the namespace for articles. Project pages that have to do with Wikipedia, as you now know, have the "Wikipedia:" namespace. To rename any page click the "move" tab at the top of the page. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 21:55, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikifun

Hi Larsie, seems like an interesting project you have there. Maybe you should find some places in the Wikipedia namespace to link to it to get it some more recognition. Andre (talk) 17:18, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

What I mean is, pages that start with Wikipedia: that would perhaps benefit from a link to Wikifun. For example, Wikipedia:Wikipediholic might merit a link in the See also section. Andre (talk) 20:52, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)
ahhh... so 'Wikipediholic' is preferred to 'Wikipediaddiction' ... so the malady is at least recognised, good. Where can one obtain help to fight this insidious addiction?Pedant 18:58, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)

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[edit] West Corporation

I realize the anonymous user that created what turned out to be a duplicate of West Teleservices is probably part of how you ended up blanking the older article and cutting and pasting the old contents into the new article, but that ended up separating many edits from their page history, which, if I understand correctly, puts Wikipedia (or at least that article) in violation of the GFDL license WP is distributed under, in addition to making it inconvenient to see where the text came from, so is greatly discouraged. Ideally, name problems are found before someone creates a new article at the proper name, so the page can be simply moved. If the new article is discovered when it's still small and has only one or two entries in its history, the best solution is to add those edits to the longer/older article, then get an admin to delete the new one and move the old one to the better name. If both have significant histories (like they did when I discovered the old one had been blanked), it takes an admin to merge the page histories, so it's best to either post the issue on the Village Pump, or leave the merge tags on both articles, or leave a request on the talk page of an admin you know, or one from Wikipedia:List of administrators (preferably one that appears to be on line). The good news in all this is it finally forced me to find and read Wikipedia:How to fix cut and paste moves and Wikipedia:Viewing and restoring deleted pages by sysops and do my first page history merge, which I had been putting off out of fear of doing it wrong, but it seems to have worked fine, so I can stop having to ask other admins to do them for me. :) Oh, and #REDIRECT [[West Corporation]]? was the 'template' you couldn't find. Anyway, no harm done, and I'm glad you're contributing, I'm just commenting in hopes of saving us all from some extra work in the future. Niteowlneils 03:51, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

No problem. We were all new here once, and there are so many editing guidelines I believe it is impossible to memorize them all. If you check my Talk archive, you will see that I, too, have been the recipient of similar "guidance" (eg here). Since almost anything can be fixed, I agree with the general advice to be bold. Again, I'm glad you're here, sharing your knowledge. Niteowlneils 18:22, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] You made two copies of Wikipedia:WikiProject when you last edited it

Please don't do that. People made changes after you did, and probably some of them got lost when I just removed the lower one. It would be appreciated if you would go through the history and reinstate any lost changes. Please be careful in the future. JesseW 08:49, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

sorry about that i was actually fixing while you were but you were able to finish first. --Larsie 18:41, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] wikifun

I just added a couple questions without clearly reading the directions. I'm getting older and suffer from premature edit syndrome... but the wikifun thing looks cool. Have you seen Wikipedia:Six degrees of Wikipedia? I began reading encyclopedias almost as soon as I could read, and one of my favorite pastimes was to take a book at random, read a random article, and try to 'surf the wave of information' from the original article, through the related articles, to see how far I could get from the first subject. 6 degrees of WP is very reminiscent of that game for me. Nice to meet you, and thanks for the friendly message.Pedant 18:54, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)

[edit] Wikifun - the next generation

Hi Larsie!

Yay! I would definitely like to put up some tasks. I still have to have a look around though. Would you like me to present them to you before posting them? In what time intervals have you published your tasks?

Best regards, Ravn 09:27, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I've put up the first task and moved the old answers to Wikipedia:Wikifun/Answers (Round 1). I made a few more edits, I hope they are all in your interest. ;-)

[edit] Wikifun - the next generation II

Thanks Larsie. The second task was created by User:Rmhermen actually. I was a little surprised when he posted it but I saw that you announced the second round as open round, so I did not object. Maybe we should set up a note to keep the pace down to one task a day, but I wonder how this can be realized with all the time zones around.. do you have an idea?

[edit] Dept. of Fun

I'm in. I suggest to link to Wikipedia:Unusual articles.

How about an initiative to create new games within wikipedia. Do you know nomic for example? I'd really like to find a few people for a good game of nomic.

Best, Ravn 20:35, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I added [[Image:Wikifun1.png]] because I think the page needed some images. This image is a temporary image, so it would be easy to change the image when someone gets tired of this one, simply copy an image from somewhere on wikipedia, save it as Wikifun1.png and upload it. The caption is generic enough so it works for any image. Hope you like the idea. Thanks for the fun space.Pedant 03:49, 2004 Nov 3 (UTC)

You got it, Larsie. (the pic does indeed represent what you said it does) I was surprised to find out that that wikipedia really existed, I thought it was just a humorous case used an example of the silliness that wikipedia could descend to. Apparently we are already there. I wonder if there are people who actually consider thamselves to be a parto f a fictional race or culture, the whole idea intrigues and disturbs me. ... I'll try to pop in a new picture every few days, if nobody else does. I like the idea of a freebie... that anyone can upload a new pic to it, without having to win a round. BTW, Have you heard of the 'wikijunior' project? It's being discussed on meta:Pedant 18:03, 2004 Nov 3 (UTC)

[edit] links to tlhIngan Hol wIqIpe'DIya and "Wikijunior"

where can i get to the klingon wikipedia and wikijunior? --Larsie 19:10, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wow, Larsie, I think I need to put a link to your talk page on my user page, your talk page always has something interesting going on! ... The complete list of all wikipedias has all of the different language wikipedias on it, but the tlhIngan Hol (Klingon language) wikipedia is here: tlhIngan Hol wIqIpe'DIya ([[tlh:wikipedia]] -- the language code is 'tlh', for "tlhIngan") You can also find it at the bottom of the main page, under 'wikipedias with less than 100 articles' link. But that first link is a useful tool to have on a handy page.
Wikijunior is being discussed at: Wikijunior ([[meta:Wikijunior]]) on meta, it's a new project, so it doesn't have a real name or namespace yet. Nice talking to you again. I'll be offline for a few hours, except for finishing up the Bonsai article on simple:wikipedia. See you soonPedant 20:14, 2004 Nov 3 (UTC)

[edit] Your village pump image question

We have galleries at Category:Wikipedia image galleries. If you're going to look for images on the rest of The Web to incorporate into the Wikipedia, then it is extremely important to remember the following two things:

  1. Whenever possible, avoid uploading images that cannot be licensed under the GFDL or a compatible license. When the Wikipedia is "finalized" and converted to a distributable CD, all such non-free images will be removed from it. We only want images we can redistribute freely from now until the end of time, and those are hard to find.
  2. No matter what sort of image you upload, for the love of Bob, don't forget to add a copyright tag to it. Otherwise, it may get moved to Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images and then deleted, even if it's a good image. We have no use for images whose copyright status is uncertain, and personally, I hate looking at articles and seeing untagged images in them. It's just plain careless, and it gets my goat.

Having said that, you may now go to Wikipedia:Public domain image resources and see if one of the hundreds of external links there doesn't contain an image that suits your fancy. There's also Wikipedia:Requested pictures if you'd like someone else in the know to help you look. --Ardonik.talk()* 08:10, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] wikiproof

Dude, I would be honored to proofread your article. Send me a message on sunday.--Chrispy 01:14, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hey i also want to start my own project page, how do I do that?

[edit] Wikitask

I'm not much for trivia, but if you want an amusing one, check out Alferd Packer, in the Years later section. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:49, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 :) - Ta bu shi da yu 21:28, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki Junior Project

We are currently in the process of deciding what the first topics will be. We have already decided that the first humanities topic will be Countries of the World:South America. We need to decide what our first science topic will be. We already have plenty of pictures available for Big Cats, The Solar System and Human Flight. We're having a little vote to decide which one we should work on first. Please come to Meta:Wikijunior project first topics. Cheers! Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 07:57, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

As to a relevant picture, I have no idea. See if any related topic have a somewhat relevant picture. Best would be to create an accurate diagram showing the mutation and where it is. There are a number of good graphics/diagram creation software packages that people use, but I am not familiar with them personally. - Taxman 22:07, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

I won't have time today to redo my edits, sorry. That's one of the things you have to make sure you integrate in when you do an edit that conflicts. - Taxman 18:34, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

In your effort to get the article to featured status, I can tell you a few suggestions you would probably receive if you listed it for featured status today. One, it has too much medical terminology in it. You have to decide what's necessary for an encyclopedia article, which terms you can explain without making the article too imprecise, and which terms you can do away with. Two, people may tell you the TOC is too long, this is because you have many 1-paragraph sections. You may want to integrate these into parent sections. Three, you'll of course need a picture. Maybe a genetic diagram? Rhobite 00:51, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Choreoathetosis

Well done on an interesting and informative article(one of few created in the last 24 hours IMO). The big But is I just linked up chorea and Athetosis so you may have repeated some of their content. dpen2000 01:24, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC) PS Here is a link to Choreoathetosis dpen2000 07:52, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Lay folk

I worked as a medical editor for some years, so I didn't have a problem with the prose in your article, but I also recognized that there were many that required some familiarity with medical writing. Suggestions? Ok.

"...is a debilitating genetic condition affecting males, primarily. Those who have the disease will experience severe developmental deficits, possibly severe arthritis, gout, and difficulty in achieving normal function. The syndrome was first described by ...." "...The condition's genetic causes were established by ... and appear to be associated with the X-chromosome." "While it is not a common malady (affecting 1:380,000 live births), it is severe and requires an aggressive and lifelong treatment regimen."

Something along those lines before you go into the precise values, the hyperuria, the exact genes, the mechanism of disease. Just a quick hitter description that says, essentially, "not common, very severe, genetic, treatment but not cure possible, varies in presentation" so that readers know what it is, generally, before they investigate further to find out the exact nature, exact mechanism, exact treatment, exact presentation. At any rate, that's my advice. Geogre 17:36, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Alright, I think the lead looks quite good now. I did a minor dusting of the grammar just a moment ago, and I think it reads well and establishes the case. On the FAC page, I mentioned "summary sentences" at the outset of sections. These are, in my opinion, entirely optional, as I think we ought to welcome precise description with advanced terminology, but each would be a quick-plain summary. "When doctors establish the diagnosis of LNS, they look primarily at a constellation of symptoms" before the precise differential par., "The diagnosis in affected males can also be made by laboratory means" before the next one.... that kind of thing. Terribly simple "what I'm about to tell you properly" sentences that give lay readers a hook into the section. Again, those are just suggestions. Taxman's objection that each medical term by explained by a mini-definition isn't bad, but I, personally, don't think it's necessary. Still, it is an actionable objection, so.... Geogre 00:58, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikifun

All right, I'm ready. However, since I somehow have the impression that I was basically the only participant in the last round, I'd like to try out a new scheme:

  1. I'll announce the trivia contest on Wikipedia:Recentchanges in any case.
  2. I'll clarify the game field: all pages on *.wikipedia.org or *.wikimedia.org, as long as the text containing the solution is in English. Off-site web pages ("External links") do not count, but interlanguage links to another Wikipedia are valid game, if the foreign language page contains the solution in English. Mailing lists, mailing list archives, IRC channels or IRC logs are off limits.
  3. A previous contest at User:Quadell/Trivia Challenge got more lively participation, and I think Quadell's rules were quite clever. I'd like to try out this scheme here, too. 20 questions, all posted at once. The first ten questions answered get one point each for a correct answer. The second ten questions will be good for two points. The trick here is that the order of answering defines whether a particluar question gets one or two points. I think this makes sense since questions answered late in the game are probably also the more difficult ones. Furthermore, this scheme gives people who come late a chance to still win.

The only thing I'm unsure about is whether my questions are difficult enough so that the contest will last a while and not be over within a day. So, two questions:

  1. Would it be ok with you if I tried out these rules?
  2. Would you be interested to serve as a "guinea pig"? I'd send you the questions by e-mail, and you'd give them a try. Of course, you then could not participate, so if you plan to enter the third round, don't accept!

BTW, finding good questions is at least as difficult as finding the answers! Lupo 10:41, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] LNS

hey there paul i think it would be great if you could edit the intro back to what it was i just don't have the time now i gotta run pretty quick here--Larsie 03:51, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Larsie: Ok I've edited the intro, I hope you like it. ;-) Paul August 14:05, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
By the way, JFW | T@lk apparently accidently left the following message on Taxman's talk page (I'm copying it here to help foster a discussion between the two of you, I think he has a useful perspective to share. ;-))
Hey Larsie, I'd better discuss this here instead of on the LNS talk page. I hope you understand my efforts to copyedit this article. A glance at many other medicine pages will reveal that they follow a general structure, to which I'm converting the article now. It will improve the article. JFW | T@lk 12:02, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Regards, Paul August 14:05, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Larsie! I was just about to do some writing on the disease mechanism. I've obtained a copy of the article by William Nyhan (1997) on the discovery of the syndrome, so it's not quite finished. I will probably make some more edits over the next 2-3 days to reflect Dr Nyhan's experience as recorded in that article, and then some condensation may need to take place. My compliments again on all your work. JFW | T@lk 20:05, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

hey there paul i believe it was to be definitive, sorry about the late response. --Larsie 17:52, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC) - Not a problem ;-) Paul August 18:30, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] You wanted a list of pictures... (from VP)

Please see: Template:Article_resources. JesseW 10:30, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikifun

I just wanted to say that I think Wikifun rocks.--Jimbo Wales 20:58, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikifun image

Hi Larsie, Thanks for your compliments on the questions of round 4. I'm a bit afraid they might be too difficult; but we'll see. About the picture in question 8: I can see it both the browsers I use: Opera and Firefox for Linux. What browser are you using? It's a PNG image, created with the GIMP; just like the map in the infobox of Bronckhorst. Can you see that image? Eugene van der Pijll 22:14, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have now uploaded a jpg version. -- Eugene van der Pijll 20:01, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC) Image:Wikifun-quiz4.jpg

[edit] Check yourself

Yo Dad, nice compliment on wikifun. You definitely rock the MIC! --Chrispy 00:14, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hey what happened to West Corporation ? All the stuff about Vic?

Also have you seen Discordianism

[edit] King William's College quiz

It's a fiendish and very enjoyable quiz which I remember from being in The Guardian when I was growing up, but it would appear to be a copyvio, and I've been forced to list it as such. If it's being offered as a Wikipedia searching quiz then, assuming the copyright turns out not to be a problem, it should be in the Wikipedia namespace. There is, I think, room for a brief article on the history of the Quiz and its role at King William's College. Dbiv 18:36, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Department of Fun

You'd posted this on my user page:

pertaining to your concerns listed on the discussion page: if you see something that you deem something inappropriate go ahead and fix it. if someone dissagrees then state your opinions and surely we'll come to a resolution. --Larsie 18:41, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand what concerns you are talking about. I never objected to anything on the department of fun page. If you are referring to my comment about including User:Ardonik/I ate my cat in WP:DoF, my intention was to add that page to the list of fun pages, not to remove any of the pages from the list. BTW I've myself participated in User:Ardonik/I ate my cat. -- Paddu 20:09, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

Hi, Larsie. Congratulations on getting the article to featured status. No hard feelings. :-) Axl 10:12, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Most featured articles

Re your qn on the pump - probably User:Lord Emsworth at 44. Pcb21| Pete 22:36, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

See his user page for a list of his featured articles. I didn't so much find the information that is the most as just "know" it. I've been following the featured articles list since, well, way before it was called featured articles, and there just didn't seem another likely candidate. To be sure that I am right, an analysis of all featured articles would be in order! Pcb21| Pete 23:18, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Yep most of "his" articles are on popular topics and so were already begun before he arrived more than two years into the project. Saying "User:X's article" is a bit vague, it means something like "User:X provided the large majority of content for this article. Pcb21| Pete 21:49, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Possible stealth vandalism

Hello.

Can you explain Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Lars Olsen and also your cryptic messages on User talk:Chrispy about trying to avoid something being public and getting you kicked off Wikipedia. [2] [3]

It seems like perhaps you and Chrispy (and the two anon IP addresses) might be engaged in some kind of game. Can you explain this? -- Curps 22:38, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

OK, I'm not really familiar with Nomic or how it could be played on Wikipedia. Anyways, the main thing is I'd like to be sure there aren't any other hoax articles or stealth vandalism committed by the person who used your account. Can you check carefully at your list of contributions to see if you see anything there that doesn't look familiar? That would really be helpful. -- Curps 01:02, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
OK, since you vouch for the integrity of the other contributions made under your account name, I consider the issue closed. -- Curps 20:18, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I wouldn't really worry about the necessity of removing from page histories any record of the vandalism that was done using your account. I personally consider the issue closed, and I doubt anyone else would dig it up. I don't know of a standard procedure for approving the purging of page histories in the way you suggest... perhaps the best thing to do would be to bring it up at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard (you don't need to be an admin to post there) and see what other admins suggest. -- Curps 22:15, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Wikijunior name vote

m:Wikijunior project name Voting will end June 6, 2005 at 11:30 am EST. -- user:Zanimum

[edit] Wikipedia:Mind Benders

Hello! I've noticed your past interest in Wikipedia:Mind Benders and wanted to share the following announcement with you! I've taken over the responsibilities of Mind Benders, and the page will now be regularly updated. Right now, the pre-round is open (it's more of a creative artistic competition), and round one will open soon (the questions are done, we just need to wait for the pre-round to begin/finish)! So why not check it out? I'll keep you updated! Thanks, Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 01:44, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to pass this news on to other Wikipedians.

[edit] Wikijunior Solar System Needs You

Danny Wool has challenged us to get Wikijunior Solar System out to hurricane evacuees by October 3, 2005. This is going to be tough!

You expressed interest in WikiJunior. Would you be willing now to join the push to get Wikijunior Solar System completed? Come see Wikijunior Solar System!

Thanks --SV Resolution(Talk) 17:05, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to Esperanza

Welcome, Larsie, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member, you might be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee, JoanneB, Titoxd and FireFox. The April elections have begun.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact me via email or talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). If you're new to IRC, please see the IRC Tutorial, which was written by one of our members. I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to be!

Thanks! _-M o P-_ 16:09, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dr. William Nyhan

Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles. If you do not believe the article deserves to be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. Vegaswikian 17:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Administrators are free to remove articles that meet the criteria for speedy deletion when nominated by an editor. The article that was deleted clearly meet that criteria. You also created a second article with the same information and that was also speedy deleted. I suggest that you read the WP:BIO criteria to get an idea as to what is needed to meet the notability requirements for articles about people. Vegaswikian 17:13, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
    • 'I beleive you were too hasty in your deletion of the article, it was too "speedy".' When nominated for a speedy deletion, it is a simple question of does the article meet the criteria or not. How long since an article has been nominated is not a criteria in deciding if it will be deleted. Vegaswikian 17:21, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
      • It was empty, basically without content. It was apparently an attempt at a bio on an individual that did not meet any criteria in WP:BIO. Vegaswikian 17:47, 13 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. --Celestianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

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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, —Celestianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List
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  1. 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!
  2. The In development section of the proposals page has been created.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program.
  6. 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)
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[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.
  1. The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
  2. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage.
  3. 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!
  4. The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
  5. 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)
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] TFA/R revamping

I have proposed revising the WP:TFA/R process. After the recent rejection of my proposal, I researched Old FAs. You were the nominator of an article that was promoted to WP:FA before 2005, and you continue to be an active wikipedian. Your article has not yet been featured on the main page as a WP:TFA. I am wondering if you have ever made an active effort to get it featured and if you are aware of the new TFA/R procedure, which requires an active request. Please respond to my talk page. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 22:19, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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