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[edit] WikiProject Paintball

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WikiProject Paintball News edit
  • The term "paintball gun" is no longer to be used in any article: please change this wherever you see it! We must use the term paintball marker at all times from here on out. Keep up the good work. RavenStorm, Lead Coordinator
  • It has been strongly suggested by fellow member Three ways round that we add references and sources to our articles and make this our priority for now, as expansion and addition of articles has been slow of late. Go find an unsourced article and get some good references! Together we can make the WikiProject Paintball more authentic and encyclopedic. RavenStorm, Lead Coordinator


Category News edit
  • The player positions pages have been renamed according to game type to be more accurate.
  • Two more subcategories have been created: Woodsball, and Speedball. If any new pages are created that are related to these, please use their respective category tags instead of [[Category:Paintball]]. Thanks!


Priority Tasks edit
To continue the project's drive toward FA status for the Paintball article, please review the project news and spend some time going over the article.
Sources: Articles such as Glossary of paintball terms have been tagged for not citing sources. Be sure to check around for more of these articles, and see if we can find some resources that can validate our information.
Current priority: The Paintball variations article needs to be synchronized with all other articles that mention variants of paintball games or paintball game types. Remember, to be consistent, that 'variants' are variants such as CTF, while 'game types' are woodsball, speedball, et cetera.


Welcome!

Hello, Donutmonger, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question. Again, welcome!
Runcorn 22:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


You can't just cut-and-paste from another source, that's a violation of their copyright. You CAN write something new that has the same information though, and the content there was definitely worth inclusion. (I'm assuming, of course, that your addition was actually copied and not rewritten - maybe you did rewrite it, it just struck me as extremely similar to something I had read somewhere before.)

--Raehl 21:54, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Boaltandthebay.JPG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Boaltandthebay.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. NMajdan•talk 05:37, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Electropneumatic paintball marker

While I certainly appreciate your motives in renaming this page, typically, an article whose name might be disputed would be listed at Wikipedia:Requested moves or at least discussed on the Talk page. If there is a standing WP:PAINTBALL policy for calling these objects markers as opposed to guns, please point me towards it. Regardless of the answer to that, however, marking such a change as "minor" is unwarranted.

While I thank you for being bold in making the move, any such change (especially one explicitly admitting in the edit summary that it is being done for political-correctness reasons as opposed to being done to enforce a community naming convention) is going to tend to invoke a lot of edit wars if not done carefully. I'll refrain from moving the page back, and indeed, probably oppose a vote to move it back, but I think it'd be appropriate to at least hold such a discussion on the article's Talk page at this point. Jouster  (whisper) 05:39, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Boalt Hall

The opening of the article should list this official name first, and common or nicknames later. The official name is the "School of Law". Boalt is the common name. Of course no one goes around calling it "School of Law" because it is either too ambiguous (where?) or too formal/long (vs. Boalt). But this is not the title of the article. We are not using common names at the opening. We are using the official name as it is displayed by the university. This goes for other divisions, such as the UC Berkeley College of Engineering (notice the difference between the name of the article and the bolded title in the lead section). --Jiang 07:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Why did you move the article? see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). the common name is Boalt Hall. The law schools at Va and Michigan are officially called those names. The law school at Berkeley is not. It's not about consistency. It's about using what is formal and proper.--Jiang

I've transplanted and continued this discussion at Talk:University of California, Berkeley School of Law.--Jiang 09:05, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:K&elogo.jpg

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

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[edit] Board Candidacy

Hi! I'm leaving you this note because we've had extensive and/or productive interaction over the course of my time on this Wiki. I (yep, little ol' Jouster!) am running for election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. I would greatly appreciate it if you would please take a look at my submission of candidacy, and consider endorsing me, as that is a requirement for me to stand for election.

If you have any questions or concerns about this notice, please don't hesitate to poke me on my Talk page. If you object to this solicitation for endorsement, please do not hesitate to remove it from your Talk page with my apologies; it will not appear again.

I look forward to serving you all on the Board! Jouster  (whisper) 18:38, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:CLR_cover.jpg

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:K&elogo.jpg)

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[edit] AfD nomination of Glossary of paintball terms

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[edit] Notability of Proto SLG

A tag has been placed on Proto SLG requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, 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 assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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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. Blanchardb (talk) 19:38, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Donut, thanks for the note on my talk page with the additional refs. What I've done is moved the deleted text to a new sandbox I created in your user space: User:Donutmonger/sandbox. Many editors use sandboxes to develop articles because here they can't get speedied while in-work. Add in the refs you mentioned, and when you're ready to go live, let me know. Thanks! AKRadeckiSpeaketh 17:49, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Electropneumatic paintball marker and Angel (paintball)

Nice work on Electropneumatic paintball marker and Angel (paintball). As the original creator of the former of those two articles, I couldn't help but notice that much of the content you modified was the same content I had written back in August, 2004! I'm both proud that my contributions held up as long as they did, and happy that they've now been reworked into a demonstrably-better form. Bravo, and thanks. Jouster  (whisper) 07:33, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

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