User talk:Joseph Solis in Australia

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[edit] My RfA

Thank you for voting in my RfA, which closed unsuccessfully with 25 support, 18 oppose, and 6 neutral. Thanks for the support and I'll look forward working with you. --BritandBeyonce (talk) 06:55, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Image:John_kundla.jpg

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[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:JoWHiteBos.jpg

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[edit] Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Fotolab.jpg

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[edit] Date changes in Kerry Sibraa

Hi! With regards to this edit to Kerry Sibraa, the dates you changed both appear to have been correct previously. According to his ParlInfo biography, his first term as a Senator was "deemed to have begun 1.7.75", not June 30, and his second term began when he was "Appointed by the Governor-in-Council of New South Wales on 9.8.78", not 1987. I have changed those two dates back. --Stormie (talk) 22:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] USS Ronald Reagan edits

Mr. Solis, regarding your edits to USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), they appear to be moot. As Wikipedia:Dates#Autoformatting and linking points out, when dates are linked as those were, they will appear however the user has deemed when they set their preferences. For readers who are not users and thus don't have the benefit of setting a preferred way to view dates, the previous format was perfectly acceptable. I have not reverted your edits, but wanted to make you aware of this feature. Regards, Daysleeper47 (talk) 15:36, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:LhudsonSTL2.jpg

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[edit] Dates

Noticed you changed at date at Mwai Kibaki from [[15 November]] to [[November 15]]. Dates in wikilinks are automatically adjusted to display according to your own Wikipedia preferences on the Date and Time tab, so such changes don't need to be made to wikilinked dates in articles. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Autoformatting and linking--Jeffro77 (talk) 11:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry. I did some checking, and mm/dd/yyyy is indeed the typical date format employed in Kenya, so your edit was better for those users who have not set their own date preference, as it will default to teh preferred local Kenyan setting of having the month first.--Jeffro77 (talk) 10:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Tagalog Wikipedia

Tagalog Wikipedia Campaign March 2008!

Tagalog Wikipedia is campaigning for your participation in writing, editing, assessing and translating articles!
The purpose of this campaign is to expand and improve articles at Tagalog Wikipedia. Your participation will be highly appreciated by the community.

There are over 16,000 articles to view, read, review, edit, and expand, so please visit the Wikipedia Café and the WikiProject Philippines at Tagalog Wikipedia to help out!

The campaign includes seeking your assistance in:

• Providing requested pages
• Providing requested articles
• Providing articles required for all language Wikipedias
• Starting or improving pages that need translation

Or just anything you can do to help us just like what you are doing there at the English Wikipedia.

Thank you in advance and regards, Tagalog Wikipedia Community

Finally, Wikipedia is the 7^th most visited site in the Philippines. Then why is it that the Tagalog Wikipedia, the Wikipedia in your own language remains unknown to most of the Filipinos? The mission of this campaign is to change that. Will you join us?

[edit] Image:MarinWas.jpg

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[edit] NBA WikiProject Newsletter

The NBA WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 1 • April 9, 2008 • Written by: Basketball110
News Project and league news: As of April 8, the following teams have clinched a playoff berth: Boston, Detroit, Orlando, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, Toronto, New Orleans, San Antonio, Los Angeles (Lakers), Utah, Houston, and Phoenix. Heat coach Pat Riley, former Knicks center Patrick Ewing, former Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon, former Rookie of the Year Adrian Dantley, Pistons owner Bill Davidson, and college coach Dick Vitale were elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.	Features Featured NBA articles of the week: National Basketball Association Boston Celtics Michael Jordan	Project Collaboration This feature isn't available yet. You will be notified when it is ready.
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[edit] collectivisation > collectivization

Was there a discussion about these moves somewhere? To my understanding, you're supposed to keep articles in the same spelling form they started in (in this case British English). - TheMightyQuill (talk) 13:59, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfD nomination of Ʒuˈɐ̃w̃ dɨ ˈbaʁuʃ

I have nominated Ʒuˈɐ̃w̃ dɨ ˈbaʁuʃ (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. – ThatWikiGuy (talk|_Co-kingship) 09:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilinking years

Re this edit. Stand-alone years are usually not linked per Wikipedia:CONTEXT#Dates unless there is a very good reason for it. I thought you should know. Renata (talk) 16:34, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfD nomination of ʤɔɹʤ ˈwɔːkəɹ bʊʃ

I have nominated ʤɔɹʤ ˈwɔːkəɹ bʊʃ (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. RichardΩ612 16:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 2007 census

While you're changing some of the data on the provinces, how about incorporating the existing 2000 data to give more encyclopedic information. For example:

"Based on the August 2007 census, Mandaue City has a total population of 318,575 people. This figure is up by 58,847 from 259,728 persons recorded in the May 2000 census, giving an annual growth rate of 2.96% during the 7-year period--significantly higher than the national average of 2.04%. If this growth rate were maintained, Mandaue would double its population in 24 years."

--seav (talk) 10:04, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for adding the reference of "Spanish variants" back to the Castilian Spanish page at the bottom. It was my first time adding a citation to a page, so I didn't realize that I had deleted something that was already there. Appreciate it. Kman543210 (talk) 10:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Asturias

Two topics:

• Origin of the name Asturias, and the related "Principado de Asturias".
• It can be useful to have access to the economic aid program of Asturias, it`s easy to note that my village is used to give hundreds of thousands euros in aid in America. This small townhall in Cebu can find this information quite useful.

• Asturias, Cebu, Philippines
• Principado de Asturias

--85.181.106.91 (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Project

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[edit] NBA WikiProject May Newsletter

The NBA WikiProject Newsletter
Volume 1, Issue 2 • May 5, 2008 • Written by: Noble Story
News On May 5, the first round of the NBA Playoffs were completed. In the East, Boston, will face Cleveland, and Detroit will face Orlando. In the West, the Los Angeles (Lakers) will face Utah, and New Orleans will face San Antonio. For more up-to-date information, visit the 2008 NBA Playoffs. The end-of-the-year awards are now being handed out. So far, Byron Scott has been awarded the Coach of the Year award, Kevin Garnett has been named the Defensive Player of the Year, Hedo Turkoglu has won the Most Improved Player award, and Kevin Durant has been named the Rookie of the Year.	Improved Content On April 9, Dirk Nowitzki was given Good Article status. On April 19, Yi Jianlian was promoted to Good Article status. On April 29, Yao Ming was given to Featured Article status. On May 4, the List of Houston Rockets first and second-round draft picks was promoted to Featured List status. Current Projects Update all the 2007-08 Playoff game logs that are located in Category:National Basketball Association game log templates As the playoffs continue, keep the 2008 NBA Playoffs article up-to-date.	Collaboration of the Month Magic Johnson has been chosen to be our very first Collaboration of the Month article. Although this is article is already a Good Article, it still can be improved. The goal is to improve this article by the end of May so that it can be nominated for Featured Article status. In particular, free-use images should be found for the article, all Manual of Style guidelines should be followed, and a neutral point of view should be maintained throughout the article. If there is anything you can do to improve the article, then please help out.
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[edit] Image:NixonLA.jpg

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[edit] Rəʊˈzeɪʃə

A tag has been placed on Rəʊˈzeɪʃə, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from an implausible typo.

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[edit] Please participate on Wikimedia Philippines discussions

-Jojit (talk) 03:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] UP Sigma Rho

Question: Why did you remove the reference section? You did so 4 minutes after the latest revert by a soon-to-be-blocked editor. The references will be added back once an admin blocks User:Duck You for violating 3RR. You should undo your edit. Thanks. APK ^{yada yada} 07:05, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting that. Cheers. APK ^{yada yada} 07:14, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Poor Joseph

Putting the Related Section is biased, too, since the editor who had wrote the section don't have concrete evidence to the claim (other than newspaper articles, which is obviously very opinionated). having this as a reason, I think, it is just appropriate to delete it.

Question: of all fraternities who has rumble histories, why Sigma Rho? Bitterness is a fatal sickness. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Duck You (talk • contribs) 07:24, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Response to User:Duck You

This corrupt User:Duck You is very biased to his fraternity. His accusation that I am poor editor is not true and it is a deception and the true poor editor is User:Duck You.--Joseph Solis in Australia (talk) 07:41, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:HAU/OC

Hello . The Highly Active Users project has gone through a complete revamping per popular demand. We believe this new format will make it easier for new editors to find assistance. However, with the new format, I must again ask you to verify your information on this page. With the extensive changes, I may have made some errors. Thanks again. bibliomaniac15 01:51, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] WP:HAU

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[edit] WikiProject National Basketball Association June 2008 Newsletter

The Wikipedia:WikiProject NBA Newsletter Volume I, Issue 3 - June 2008 Archives
Project News List of Houston Rockets first and second-round draft picks (passed on 2008-05-04) Memphis Grizzlies draft history (passed on 2008-05-21) Pau Gasol (passed on 2008-05-28) List of NBA champions (passed on 2008-05-30) Member News There are now 106 members of WikiProject NBA! Welcome to the 4 new members that joined during the month of May: Gamloverks (talk · contribs) Paulinprogress‎ (talk · contribs) Y5nthon5a (talk · contribs) Chickenmonkey (talk · contribs) If you are interested in editing article related to the NBA, please add your name to the member list, if you have not already. This Month in NBA History.. June 6, 1946 – In the Commodore Hotel of New York, the NBA is officially formed as the Basketball Association of America. Maurice Podoloff is named the first commissioner of the league. June 7, 1990 – In Game 2 of the 1990 NBA Finals, Terry Porter of the Portland Trail Blazers sets an NBA record by making 15 free throws in a game without a miss. June 9, 1985 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is named the MVP for the 1985 NBA Finals, after the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Boston Celtics in six games. At 38, he becomes the oldest Finals MVP in NBA history. June 16, 1996 – The Chicago Bulls' series-clinching win over the Seattle Supersonics in Game 6 of the 1996 NBA Finals draws a 18.8 Nielsen rating. The estimated 60 million viewers make the game the most-watched game in NBA history. June 24, 1901 – Chuck Taylor is born in Brown County, Indiana. As an adult, he designed the iconic Chuck Taylor All-Stars for Converse, which went on to sell millions of the shoes around the world.	Collaboration of the Month Last month's Collaboration of the Month, Magic Johnson was a great success. A total of 560 edits were made to the article during the month of May, and the article was eventually nominated as a Featured Article Candidate. Although the article was not promoted, it was significantly improved through the work of many editors. This month's Collaboration of the Month is Steve Nash. Although this is article is already a Good Article, it still can be improved. In particular, all prose should conform to Featured Article standards, all statements should be verified, and the text should be in a neutral point of view. If there is anything you can do to improve the article, then please help out. Collaborator of the Month The Collaborator of the Month is given to the editor with the most number of substantial, beneficial edits to the article chosen as the Collaboration of the Month. This month's Collaborator of the Month award goes to Chensiyuan (talk · contribs). Although he had previously helped Magic Johnson to became a Good article, he made literally hundreds of edits during the month of May. For his contributions, he is rewarded with the NBA Collaborator of the Month Award. However, all beneficial edits made by any editor was a help. Other members of the project that contributed to the article include: Basketball110 (talk · contribs) Chrishomingtang (talk · contribs) Crzycheetah (talk · contribs) LOL (talk · contribs) Noble Story (talk · contribs) Onomatopoeia (talk · contribs) Zagalejo (talk · contribs) Contributors to this Issue Noble Story (Lead Editor) Crzycheetah (Editor) Diligent Terrier (Distributor) Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.
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[edit] WP:HAU

Hello yet again. I regretfully inform you that the bot we were using to update the user status at Wikipedia:Highly Active Users, SoxBot V, was blocked for its constant updating. With this bot out of operation, a patch is in the works. Until that patch is reviewed and accepted by the developers, some options have been presented to use as workarounds: 1) Qui monobook (not available in Internet Explorer); 2) User:Hersfold/StatusTemplate; 3) Manually updating User:StatusBot/Status/USERNAME; or 4) Not worry about it and wait for the patch to go through, which hopefully won't take long. If you have another method, you can use that, too. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Useight (talk) 22:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

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[edit] Font size

Hello. Would you please not go around changing the font size of references, as there are people who don't like them smaller.[1] Gimmetrow 07:28, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

If four notes is "too long", then what in your opinion would not need changing? There is no need to use reflist for short lists of notes. Gimmetrow 07:57, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[2] That's the crux of the matter then. Please read the documentation of {{reflist}}, which says "Note that there is no consensus that small font size should always be used for all references". Gimmetrow 08:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

That's nice that you have a preference. Do you have to *vandalize* articles based on it? If you change every instance to reflist, you are acting as if it is policy, which it is not. Please do not change short lists of references to small font. The guideline used to say somewhere between 10-15 references was OK for small font. Gimmetrow 08:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I must say you have guts, making edits like [3] and [4] after this discussion. If you think all articles without exception should use smaller font for notes, then start a discussion to make that the policy. Until then, such edits make the font smaller for readers, which inhibits accessibility without a good reason, and are also "trivial" edits. Consider this a formal warning. Gimmetrow 01:45, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[5] [6] Again, if you want all articles without exception to use small font for references, please start a discussion to make that policy. Otherwise, please stop arbitrarily changing the font size of notes on articles with few notes, or you may be blocked from editing. Gimmetrow 03:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

As a person with less than perfect eyesight, I object to unnecessary changes to font sizes; reflist can be used when there is a long list of references, making it necessary. Otherwise, these changes are not necessary; please find a more productive way to spend your time on Wiki, and cease the personal attacks. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:45, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello again. Wiki editing tends to involve give and take. If it were up to me, all text would be the same size, since unlike a paper document, variable fonts gain us nothing. But others disagree, so we make compromises. I don't have a problem with [7] since it has quite a few notes. Could you consider leaving the notes be if the article already has a <references/> tag and 10 or fewer references? Gimmetrow 23:46, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WP:NPA

I noticed the personal attack you lodged at Gimmtrow's talk page: I hate you. [8]

See Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy and comment on content, not on contributors. Continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:45, 8 June 2008 (UTC)