User talk:Coffeegirlyme

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Hello, Coffeegirlyme, 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] Please sign your posts with ~~~~ and use the + tab for new sections

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button Image:Wikisigbutton.png located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you!

BTW: The easiest way to start a conversation on a talk page (or pages like the village pump) is to use the + tab at the top of that page. When you added Talk:Louis_XVI_of_France#Austrian hate and Fear??, you goofed. Your header had only one equal sign on the right. This caused the server to treat the second equal sign on the left as part of the title. I corrected that problem for you. Will (Talk - contribs) 06:49, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject France

Welcome Coffeegirlyme, to the WikiProject France! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on France-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template {{WikiProject France}}.

A few features that you might find helpful:

  • The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you.
  • Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to watchlist it.
  • We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful.
Wikipedia:France-related tasks
You can help! Vous pouvez aider!
 Here are some France related tasks you can do:
view • edit • discuss • history • watch

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project!

STTW (talk) 23:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cataphile

Salut!

Thanks for your edits to the Cataphile article. I wanted to note that some of your translations from French aren't exact. For example, "carrieres" does translate to "careers", but only in the sense of working (i.e., someone might say "I am thinking about a career in translation"). But "carrieres" in the sense that you mean would be "quarry" in English. A good website for these kind of things is http://wordreference.com/ (and see http://www.wordreference.com/fren/carrieres for the example about "carrieres").

I've also tried to edit the part on tagging to be more neutral, i.e. not pro-tagging but not against either. All links go at the bottom, in the links section rather than the content section, so I left the FC link there and deleted the other. If you have other links to add, please do so! Only remember that wikipedia isn't for advertising, and every link should bring something new to the page -- either more information, or photos, history, different points of view, etc.

I put back the part about rumors, because I don't understand why you deleted it. So if you really think it doesn't belong, please explain why, either on my talk page or on the article's talk page.

And, lastly, when you edit you'll see a box at the bottom that says 'Edit summary' -- here is the place to tell other editors what you've changed in one small sentence.

Happy editing! -- hibou 09:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

The parts I deleted where because I didn't quite understand what you meant. If you re-add them, can you explain more? I'll add a 'rumors' section per your suggestion :) Thanks -- hibou 12:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Also, about being neutral and tagging. I've edited this part once again, but if you could add more it would be appreciated. Write now the article says:

Tagging, a form of graffiti consisting in a stylized signature, is a controversial subject for cataphiles, and urban explorers in general. Some cataphiles tag but others look down it as a form of degradation.

So as you can see I've explained why some cataphiles don't like tagging. But I don't quite understand why some cataphiles do like tagging -- so if you understand and want to add that in, or explain to me and I'll add it, that would be great. Thanks -- hibou 12:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Newsletter n°1

Bonjour and welcome to the first WikiProject France newsletter!! It should become a monthly special of our project, but until the next issue, here are some points to consider for the month:

  • In an effort to determine the active members from the inactive, all members are asked to simply sign on my special userpage.
  • I have slightly rearranged and updated the Project page, putting all the featured lists in collapsible tables. This unclutteres the page and you only have to see them if you want to. Give your feelings at the talk page.
  • I have made a Wikipedia advert for our project, Image:Qxz-ad108.gif, what do you think? Personally I feel the words need improving ...
  • There are still map problems at Template:French commune - any help at resolving them would be greatly appreciated.
  • What about starting a monthly drive? We currently have no Featured Portals (except for the Basque Portal which really isn't French any way), so how about improving Portal:France??? I don't know what's exactly wrong but the criteria can be seen at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria.

It doesn't seem like a lot, so I hope we will still have enough problems for nexts months issue. Salut till the next issue, ChrisDHDR (17:13, 10 November 2007 (UTC)).


[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Goodtimes.jpg

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[edit] WikiProject Newsletter n°2

It's been one high aiming month! The French WikiProject and related pages have been aiming high for Christmas - and have received an equal number of presents in return!

Well, that's this issue. Au revoir et à bientôt till the next time, ChrisDHDR (18:59, 9 December 2007 (UTC)).

[edit] Your message to me

In reply to User talk:MBK004#Question:

Yes, there is a way to make a redirect page, but as Tony Bruno already exists the issue is much more complex. I would like to direct you to an administrator Wikipedia:List of administrators. They can help you. I am currently in the middle of final exams week at university. -MBK004 04:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mino Cinelu

Hello, I just realized that you had been working on translating this article, I went ahead and finished it not realizing you were working on it, sorry about that. Are you familiar with the Tranlations page? If you update the status there other translators can see if you are working on something. See [[1]] for example. Regards, Vrac (talk) 20:03, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of Steve Friess

A tag has been placed on Steve Friess requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --Finngall talk 21:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

The question is not how many articles he has written, it's how many articles have been written about him? There's thousands of "freelance journalists" out there, and most of them don't even come close to meriting an entry in an encyclopedia. Do you have non-trivial verifiable references in reliable sources to show that he meets the notability guidelines for biographies in general or creative professionals in particular? Not only was no evidence of this provided, but there was not even an assertion that he meets these guidelines, which is why the article was eligible for speedy deletion. --Finngall talk 22:00, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Coffeegirlyme. Wikipedia policy is that any article about a person who doesn't seem to be notable enough to deserve an article is deleted on sight. This is necessary to prevent people cluttering the encyclopedia with unimportant people (often themselves or their friends). Please have a look at Wikipedia:Notability to find out how notable someone has to be.
What I suggest is that if you are working on an article about someone who is notable then you include the reason they are notable in the article as soon as possible. If you don't have that information handy then either delay starting the article or create it as a subpage of your userspace e.g. User:Cofeegirlyme/Steve Friess. Then when the article is ready you can move it to the main space.
If you want to reply to me please do so on this page. I will see anything you write here. DJ Clayworth (talk) 13:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, i have the page as: user:coffeegirlyme/stevefriess Could you look at it for me? --Coffeegirlyme (talk) 17:28, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Coffeegirl

I had a look at your new version of the article. It's certainly better than the first, but in my view it's still not enough to show that he is notable. Some of the claims would possibly make him notable (first person to break the butterfly ballot story, first person to profile Yao Ming) but in my personal view they are not backed up by enough references to be credible.

The trouble with the references are:

  1. The first reference is by the subject and so not really useful in judging whether he was really the first person to break the story nationwide. Plus the full article is only available through subscription, so we don't really want to spend money reading it. What we really need here is an article by some other news agency saying that SF was the first person to break the story.
  2. The second is simply Steve's profile. How do we know it was the first? Once again we need an article from a reputable organization (not written by Steve) saying that he was the first person to do this.
  3. The third website isn't very useful, because there are thousand, if not millions, of websites all awarding honours to people. To be relevant we would have to be shown that the website was a well-respected organization, at least in the Vegas area. Even then a local award would probably not be evidence of notability.

My recommendation is to go and find third-party articles to back up the first two claims. If you can do that the article would stand a chance of being accepted. If not then it would probably be deleted on sight again. Even with that extra info it's survival chances might be low.

I should say that my view is not necessarily definitive - in the end it comes down to the Wikipedia community's consensus. Feel free to get some other opinions. However I would be surprised if things didn't go down the way I've indicated. Can I also suggest you try working on some other articles - it always looks bad people think you've come to Wikipedia to get one specific person included. Whatever happens, I hope you have fun editing here. DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:54, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

k thats cool. Sometimes I take on pet prjects but i try to do stuff here and there.--Coffeegirlyme (talk) 01:59, 8 June 2008 (UTC)