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[edit] Thank you for your Poland-related contributions

Hello JRWalko! Thank you for your contributions related to Poland. You may be interested in visiting Portal:Poland/Poland-related Wikipedia notice board, joining our discussions and sharing your creations with us.

-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  18:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Martin Brodeur

Thanks for fixing the other parts about the record in Martin Brodeur. I forgot about those. I'm glad someone realized I didn't fix them. Bsroiaadn 01:56, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

lol. Yup, very much so. I was sitting there watching the game...my heart was beating so hard. haha. And yea, Marty's better. :-) Bsroiaadn 02:29, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] English names of Polish medals

My reply is at User talk:Logologist. Thanks. logologist|Talk 02:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikidefcon

Wikidefcon code for you ((Wdefcon|align=<left right or center>)) <font size="5"> NoTe: pLeAsE rEpLaCe (( )) WiTh {{ }} cOULD NOT POST CODE CORRECTLY (mAKES WIKIDEFCON THING APPEAR INSTEAD OF CODE) :)

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[edit] Kyle Baran

I asked a friend who is into hockey. Briefly: such a player exists but some stats in the article are very wrong.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  05:03, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Polish contribution to World War II

that Image cannot be on the page see the reasons on the image page itself, we need a FU rational. without that we cant use the image. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 19:15, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Architecture

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  5. List of tallest buildings in Detroit promoted to FL on 8 December 2007. Rai-me 07:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  6. List of tallest buildings in Dubai promoted to FL on 21 December 2007. Cheers. Trance addict 19:31, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
  7. List of tallest buildings in Cleveland promoted to FL on 7 January 2007. Rai-me 00:12, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
  8. List of tallest buildings in Tulsa promoted to FL on 7 January 2007. Rai-me 04:25, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
  9. 5th Avenue Theatre promoted to GA on 20 January 2008.--Skotywa (talk) 05:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
  10. List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester promoted to FL on 19 February 2008. Cheers. Trance addict 02:11, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Poland as a major ally

I sympathise completely with what you are saying. I dislike the distinction between major and minor, which I think is spurious, but have been over-ruled in this matter by other English Wikipedia WW2 editors. France has a lot of "fans" among editors, even though its contribution was arguably less than that of Canada or Australia, let alone Poland's heroic efforts. I have even had to fight other editors to include China as a "major ally", when the Chinese contribution was both huge and longer in years than all of the other allies! Anyway, the major allies are regarded as such because of objective criteria such as inclusion in the Big Three, the Four Policemen and the Council of Foreign Ministers. Grant | Talk 02:26, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tatars in Poland

Like Kashubes or Gorals, Tatars in Poland consider themselves to be Poles, the name is only as a reference to them as an ethnographic group. What differentiates them is their religion, in this case Islam. Norman Davies wrote about his shock that during his forst visit to NYC's Pilsudski institute, it was a Polish Tatar woman who was his tour guide. See Islam in Poland for further clarification. --Orestek 01:55, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

"Actually, there are some, very few, Muslims in Poland. In Wroclaw, where I live, there is a Muslim community house, in the north of the city, there was even a weekend of Muslim awareness open to the public.

Considering wider view, there are some Muslims in all Poland, very few, but still. There are some newcomers, but also some families living in Poland since 15th century. They speak perfect Polish and it's just religion that makes them different."

I would like to differentiate between the concept of 'Ethnic Group' and 'National Orientation'. Gorals and Kashubes are both separate ethnographic groups, yet are undoubtedly 'Polish'. Goral's origins are in Romanian Wallachia (DYK that Romanian Nationalist consider JPII one of their own? Voitila is supposedly a Romanian origin last name). Tatars are considered Poles by virtue of this fact in the same way that they identify their 'National Orientation' as Polish. Any Polish Tatar I know is insulted when you question his Polishness. Notice also that in the Polish Wikipedia article 'Tatarzy w Polsce' they are not identified as 'mniejszosci narodowe' like people of Jewish extraction in Poland but as 'mniejszosci etniczne'.

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[edit] Your vote to move Hala Ludowa

Thank you for supporting the requested move of Hala Ludowa. Since in the meantime I have changed the request to rename it to Centennial Hall, could you vote again ? I know that might seem overly bureaucratic but it's better to do it this way so that the voting is not invalidated later. --Lysytalk 05:07, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] World Trade Center Tower 5

What makes you believe that a separate article is in order and that the title you have chosen is the best choice for that separate article? The text you have provided is full of the word "unofficial", leading to the conclusion that there isn't much to say about the new building at this point. Beyond that, the title chosen violates the well established name scheme for the series of buildings on this general building site. Erechtheus 02:30, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. I'll wait and see if more discussion seems necessary. Erechtheus 02:36, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion on Business projects organization

Thanks for your note on my talk page regarding this, I agree it would be good to work together on proposing something to the members of the current projects as the current setup is not effective. My take on it is slightly different, I feel that scope needs to be more targeted on these projects in order for them to become more effective. I see four logical areas around which projects could be organized:

  • Business concepts (Board of Directors, Business Plan, SEC etc.) - what B&E is currently mainly concerned about
  • Companies - as I proposed
  • Economics - as is
  • Finance - as is

As there is still going to be overlap between these projects we'd also want to make sure they are talking to one another and that there are guidelines in place for working together.

Business Leaders I see as a collaboration between the Biography & Companies projects, either as its own project or a task force/working group. It seems as though the Biography folks have infoboxes for many other professions, so adding one for Business Leaders should be possible.

I'm sure there are more details to work out but that is my thoughts so far. Let me know what you think. I'm also going to go ahead and start the discussion on the B&E talk page to canvas their opinion. Richc80 01:21, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi again, just wanted to let you know that WikiProject Companies is now up and running. Please feel free to stop by and sign up if you are interested! Cheers Richc80 05:59, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query On 28 June 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lajkonik, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri 18:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Polish Briton

Dlaczego usunales ze spisu Polish Britons Michaela Marksa?, polskiego Zyda, ktory wyemigrowal do UK, wiec jak najbardziej mozna go do tego grona zaliczyc. Kowalmistrz 20:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Striking your vote

Hello JRWalko,

Thank you for your interest in the Wikimedia Board Election. The Election Committee regretfully informs you that your previous vote was received in error and will be struck according to the election rules, described below.

The Election Committee regretfully announces today that we will have to remove approximately 220 votes submitted. These votes were cast by people not entitled to vote. The election rules state that users must have at least 400 edits by June 1 to be eligible to vote.

The voter lists we sent to Software in the Public Interest (our third party election partner) initially were wrong, and one of your account was eventually included to our initial list. There was a bug in the edit counting program and the sent list contained every account with 201 or more edits, instead of 400 or more edits. So large numbers of people were qualified according to the software who shouldn't be. The bug has been fixed and an amended list was sent to SPI already.

Our first (and wrong) list contains 80,458 accounts as qualified. The proper number of qualified voters in the SPI list is now 52,750. As of the morning of July 4 (UTC), there are 2,773 unique voters and 220 people, including you, have voted who are not qualified based upon this identified error.

In accordance with voting regulations the Election Committee will strike those approximately 220 votes due to lack of voting eligibility. The list of struck votes is available at https://wikimedia.spi-inc.org/index.php/List_of_struck_votes.

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[edit] Have a look

At [1] and send it to others if you agree. all the best Lear 21 00:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] European

Hi. I just made a suggestion there [2] and I'd like your opinion but since that page is so inactive, I felt like notifying you here...KarenAER 12:18, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. I made a bunch of copy&paste's for starters. I think it should be similar to Iranian peoples article in format. That seems to be one of the few featured articles in ethnic groups articles... KarenAER 19:40, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Do you think we can add one of those ethnic group boxes in the European people article?? KarenAER 02:07, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Oh good luck. Population section will especially be hard, I guess. Not everyone who lives in Europe are ethnic European and many European countries seem not to collect ethnic data.
And by the way, you may want to join the new Wikipedia:WikiProject_Europe KarenAER 02:16, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] European people

Please do not revert edits blindly. I made "some" changes, and you deleted fact tags and left large images against MoS. Please object one at a time. I have every right to make changes to any page I feel fit. - Jeeny Talk 04:27, 21 August 2007 (UTC) Also I had put fact tags, which your revert removed. It also added back unsoursed and improperly sourced material. Thanks. - Jeeny Talk 04:33, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey August 2007 Newsletter

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WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear JRWalko! You are receiving this newsletter because you have signed up as a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey. The purpose of this newsletter is to update on the goings on of the project, as there have been major changes, and a lot of new recognized content in the past few weeks. If you are an inactive user, you probably won't recognize the new and improved state of the WikiProject!

From the project, Maxim.

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New recognized content

By Maxim
There have been a lot more Good and Featured articles written in the past few weeks. Here is a list:[1][2][3][4]

Featured articles
Good articles
Featured lists[5]
Notes
  1. ^ All articles are in order of promotion, as written on the main WikiProject page; FA's have official dates of promotions.
  2. ^ A star represents a featured article or list
  3. ^ A green circle represents a good article
  4. ^ Stanley Cup is an A-Class article
  5. ^ The lists system differs from articles, and doesn't give an official date of promotion
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Article Improvement

By Maxim

Upon some discussion on the WikiProject talk page, the Article Improvement Drive page was revamped by Krm500 and Maxim. It was renamed Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Article Improvement, and it includes two section. The first section is called articles in dire need of improvement. It list articles, usually important, that are in very poor shape. The second section is called requested help. Users list an article they request help improving a certain article, which will facilitate collaboration, which is the aim of any WikiProject. There is one article currently listed there, Henrik Lundqvist, here. The goal is to at least get it to Good article status.

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Diacritics

By Maxim

In the past few weeks, there has been quite heated discussion about the use of diacritics in article name. The current guideline is using diacritics in the pages of articles of all player names which require them, but redirects are exempt.

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Task forces

By Maxim
There have been two new task forces started within the WikiProject to coordinate major topics.

Sweden Ice Hockey task force

This task force was initiated by Krm500. Its current goal is to improve Henrik Lundqvist to Good or Featured article status. It covers all Swedish clubs, leagues and competitions and associated articles, players and coaches that are Swedish, or have played/coached for a Swedish club, and arenas in Sweden. They plan to eventually operate as a sort of a sub-project, which will have its own articles for creation, ranking importance and quality of articles, and co-ordinate article improvement. Its current members are Krm500, Bamsefar75, and CLAES.

New Jersey Devils task force

This task force was initiated by Bsroiaadn. Its goal is to improve New Jersey Devils to Featured Topic status. Although it currently meets the required article count, the task force wishes to improve it further. Its area of coverage is very similar to the Sweden Ice Hockey task force. Its members are Bsroiaadn, JHMM13, FutureNJGov, Sportskido8, Michael Greiner, JRWalko, and Soxrock.

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Requested Images

By Maxim
After discussion on the WikiProject talk page, Serte created a page for Requested Images. The page encourages users to license images for use on articles. The page also has section to request images for players, arenas, game situations, miscellaneous, and team and league logos. The page has been quite popular; since it was created on July 21, there have been six completed requests. There are four currently outstanding requests:

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Article assessement completed

By Maxim
On July 12, Kaiser matias announced that he had completed assessing all the articles with a {{ice hockey}} tag, sorting them into Category:Unassessed Ice Hockey articles. Kaiser matias has ranked about 9000 articles in that category, and most were stubs, and "have no information at all", according to him. Everybody is encouraged to expand the stubs into real articles. This effort took around 5 months. A big thanks goes to Kaiser matias from me and all the project.


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[edit] People's of Europe

Have you read Becoming National ed. by Eley and Suny? Some of it covers Europe and if you are not familiar with it, I highly recommend it. Slrubenstein | Talk 14:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey newsletter

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WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear JRWalko! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been more new thing going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in August, there's been great changes. Read on to find out! Maxim(talk)

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Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has just been promoted to featured list status, while the bot was delivering the newsletter. Maxim(talk) 02:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

And I've just promoted Art Ross Trophy. And Clarence S. Campbell Bowl is at FLC. This should be the last update. Maxim(talk) 00:40, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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New recognized content

By Maxim

Especially due to the featured topic drive, there have been many new featured lists promoted concerning NHL awards. Here's the full list of all the 13 FL's promoted since the last newsletter.[1][2]

  1. Featured article Hart Memorial Trophy
  2. Featured article James Norris Memorial Trophy
  3. Featured article Vezina Trophy
  4. Featured article Conn Smythe Trophy
  5. Featured article Frank J. Selke Trophy
  6. Featured article Lady Byng Memorial Trophy
  7. Featured article Lester B. Pearson Award
  8. Featured article Calder Memorial Trophy
  9. Featured article Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy
  10. Featured article King Clancy Memorial Trophy
  11. Featured article Jack Adams Award
  12. Featured article Presidents' Trophy
  13. Featured article List of Calgary Flames players

There have been no new good articles or featured articles. Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy has been given A-Class status due to multiple issues raised at FLC.

  1. ^ The last one, List of Calgary Flames players, is the only one not associated with the featured topic drive.
  2. ^ At the time of publishing, there were 5 lists at WP:FLC and 2 lists in the "Holding cell", as there's been an accepted guideline to not put more that 5 trophy lists at the same time to, "compensate for the sanity of the reviewers".
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Did You Know?

By Maxim
There have been 4 new articles featured in the Did You Know section? on the Main Page since August.

...that Wally Tatomir, head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, holds four patents on ice hockey-related equipment?

...that ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates, where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record?

...that Garth Butcher was a member of Canada's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League?

..that the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States?

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Featured Topic Drive

By Maxim

Started by User:Scorpion0422, the aim of this drive is to make NHL awards a featured topic. A featured topic is basically a set of very high quality articles (good articles and featured articles/lists). In this case, the topic is NHL awards. Many users have helped, including Scorpion0422, Resolute, Serte, Hasek is the best, Maxim, Croat Canuck, Spike Wilbury, FutureNJGov, and T Rex/Dinosaur puppy. The progress has been very good; there are 12 featured lists promoted, and 2 good articles:

  1. Featured article Hart Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
  2. Featured article James Norris Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
  3. Featured article Vezina Trophy (Scorpion)
  4. Featured article Conn Smythe Trophy (Serte)
  5. Featured article Frank J. Selke Trophy (FutureNJGov)
  6. Featured article Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (Scorpion)
  7. Featured article Lester B. Pearson Award (Scorpion)
  8. Featured article Calder Memorial Trophy (Croat Canuck)
  9. Featured article Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (Maxim)
  10. Featured article King Clancy Memorial Trophy (Maxim)
  11. Featured article Jack Adams Award (Maxim)
  12. Featured article Presidents' Trophy (Scorpion)
  13. Good article Stanley Cup (Earlier collaboration, very many involved)
  14. Good article Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup (Maxim)

Check the project page if you are interested in helping out. Although it's closer to being done than not, there's still work to be done. The next topic that might be tackled is Stanley Cup, but this remains purely speculative and in discussion.


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[edit] Ask for help

Would you mind add some references of the Inter-service decorations of the United States military?

Thank you.--东北虎(Manchurian Tiger) 04:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] PLC and languages

Could you edit the infobox there per your comments?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 19:46, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXII (December 2007)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Albuera
  2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
  3. Battle of the Gebora
  4. Constantine II of Scotland
  5. Francis Harvey
  6. Vasa (ship)
  7. Wulfhere of Mercia

New A-Class articles:

  1. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
  2. Evacuation of East Prussia
Current proposals and discussions
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Tag & Assess 2007

Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:

1. Bedford — 7,600
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9. Maralia — 2,000
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15. Raoulduke471000
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[edit] Activity survey for members of WikiProject Companies

placed on talk pages of all participants

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[edit] Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Józef Piłsudski

Since you commented in the last round, please note that the nomination has been restarted. Thanks for the comments and edits so far! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:29, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Milhist coordinators election has started

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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, and have salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).

Well also make preparations for our exciting Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, a free content photography contest for Columbia University students planned for Friday March 28 (about 2 weeks after our meeting).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

You're also invited to subscribe to the public Wikimedia New York City mailing list, which is a great way to receive timely updates.
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[edit] WikiProject Ice Hockey March 2008 Newsletter

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WikiProject Ice Hockey Newsletter

Dear JRWalko! You are receiving as you are a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey There's been many more new things going on at WP:HOCKEY, and I think this will help you to stay informed. Since the last newsletter sent out in October, there have been many new changes. I'm hoping to make this newsletter a bit more regular; Kaiser matias and Skudrafan1 asked for a new issue a week ago, but sadly, I've been a bit lazy and committed to other things hence this other delay. --Maxim(talk)

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New recognized content

Wayne Gretzky; this picture is featured

By Maxim
There has been numerous new recognized content, so much that it's too time-consuming to sift through the "trophy cases" on WP:HOCKEY. Some interesting achievements:

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Task forces

By Maxim

There was a new taskforce created within the WikiProject to deal with topics related to the Boston Bruins. It was originally founded as a separate WikiProject, but was quickly turned into a taskforce within WikiProject Ice Hockey. The list of participants is located here. Located at WP:BRUINS, the taskforce's goals are to make Boston Bruins and Bobby Orr featured articles. Good luck!

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New Administrators

By Maxim
Since October, there have been three new admins promoted within the project:

A previously admin-only feature has been made available for all users. The rollback feature allows a user to quickly revert vandalism with one click. If you wish to have rollback, contact an active admin or post a request to WP:RFR.

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Featured Topic Drive

By Maxim

The original featured topic drive, initiated by Scorpion0422, has concluded succesfully. National Hockey League awards is now a featured topic, with 24 articles in total. Of them, 20 are featured lists, one is a featured article, and the other three are trophy articles that were too short to become featured lists. Eight users signed up to help out, shown here. The next Featured Topic hasn't been decided upon, and the ideas and organization for it fell apart. If you have any ideas, don't hesitate to share them at WT:HOCKEY.

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Notes

  • More editors are needed to help out with the newsletter. Maxim doesn't have an infinite nor perfect supply of ideas, and thus he might omit some interesting news.
  • Portal:Ice hockey is being considered for featured status. Feel free to nominate features at Portal:Ice hockey/Suggestions.
  • Should Chris Pronger have been suspended for more than eight games for stomping on Ryan Kesler? Vote here!

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[edit] support in Central Europe

thanks for your comment in the talk on the proposal. You may consider expressing your support in the "voting" section, too :) Pundit|utter 17:36, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Requesting your input at Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/Featured Article drive

Since you are a member of WikiProject Economics, I would like to direct your attention to Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics/Featured Article drive. We are currently deciding on an economics-related article to bring to Featured Article status and we would like your input. Thanks! Gary King (talk) 15:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NYC Meetup: June 1, 2008

New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday June 1st, Columbia University area
Last: 3/16/2008
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, elect a board of directors, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).

We'll also review our recent Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, and make preparations for our exciting successor Wiki Week bonanza, being planned with Columbia University students for September or October.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

Also, check out our regional US Wikimedia chapters blog Wiki Northeast (and we're open to guest posts).
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