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miranda is^[1] a user^[2]^[3] on English Wikipedia since January 14, 2007,^[4] where she is most active.^[5] She is not an administrator,^[6] but is a trusted copyeditor^[7] with rollback.^[8] Twinkle and huggleless, she has contributed^[9] good and featured content,^[10] made many many graphics,^[11] reviewed some articles,^[12] and designed Neil's awesome page^[13]^[14]^[15] and a RFA thanks template.^[16]^[17] A lover of society and ANTM^[18] (not drama),^[19] she participates in topics related to her interests and uploads many famous (and non-famous) pictures to Wikimedia Commons, a free media resource. Nearly (or barely) active with all of the projects presented by the Wikimedia Foundation, she is an exopedist. Frequently speaking her mind when issues matter the most, she is the epitome of coolness.^[20] Other than being an avid Simpsons fan and an expert scrapbooker, her interests^[21] are random.^[22] Her contributions are under CC-BY-SA 3.0, and her sock's name is adnarim. If you have any questions for her, leave a comment^[23] by clicking new section^[24] on her talk page^[25] or via e-mail.^[26]

^ not Matilda, or anything else beginning with an m
^ who used to be known as Real96
^ old userpage format when I was first new is archived there
^ first edit
^ making her a part of the .1% club with 30k deleted/undeleted edits
^ I r teh bad.
^ {citation needed}
^ Granted by Kylu
^ eep!
^ my old userpage is located at that link, along with general talk rules
^ No more requests please!
^ and helped copyedit some articles (including Natalie Holloway)
^ AWESOME...AWESOME...AWESOME...
^ and somehow designed NonvocalScream's me likey page while first drafting for Neil's AWESOME...AWESOME...AWESOME... page
^ see #11
^ where Nick, Rudget, Durova, Malinaccier, MBK004, Gatoclass, and Jza84 copied without attribution
^ :-(
^ ANTM - Bring Sexy Back!
^ Person One: "Shut the fuck up!
Person Two: No, you shut the fuck up!
Person One: {{indefblocked}}
Person Three: (to Person Two): Why did you block Person One? I am going to ANI to tattle on your ass!
...and the story goes on...
^ At least Phaedriel, Neil, and a couple of others think so. :-)
^ see userboxes
^ lolz @ teh randomness
^ psst...this talk page is archived by a bot
^ "blah, blah, blah" + ~~~~
^ which I will respond
^ If I am not able to respond, contact one of these users.

If you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything. — Anonymous

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1 thank you
2 User page and signature
3 Wikiproject Fraternities & Sororities Advertisement
4 Signpost updated for June 2, 2008.
5 Styleguide and policy page monthly updates
6 WikiProject Good articles newsletter

[edit] thank you

for creating Wyoming Arts Council. Cheers! Kingturtle (talk) 17:53, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User page and signature

Hello Miranda! How are you? I noticed that you designed the userpage of Neil. Great job! Can you help me design my userpage? I also want to change my signature. How can I do that? Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 14:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Kind of busy, but you can ask RyRy5 for help on userpage design or go to the userpage design center. miranda 16:49, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 03:05, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Fraternities & Sororities Advertisement

Hi Miranda--thank you for creating that .gif file but when I copy that code in, I get an error regarding the image. I'm not real familiar with the image map extension so I'm not 100% on what the issue is. Corsulian (talk) 17:22, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

You did it right, here. For the image map thing, I am not techy. So, you might want to ask Gurch about the problem. Cheers. miranda 17:29, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks--I got her. I just wanted to make sure clicking on the add would link to the project.Corsulian (talk) 03:32, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Clicking on the image links to the file. miranda 03:59, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Signpost updated for June 2, 2008.

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[edit] Styleguide and policy page monthly updates

Thanks for your kind words, Miranda! TONY (talk) 17:03, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Good articles newsletter

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Volume I, No. 8 - June 2008

May issue

Project News

There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at WP:GA.

The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 157 unreviewed articles. Out of 215 total nominations, 44 are on hold, 13 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!

The oldest unreviewed articles are: Choctaw, One Night Stand (2007), Justin Tuck, Tristan Tzara, The Stake Out (Seinfeld episode), Impalement arts, Backlash (2007), Adelaide Rams, and Sam Cowan.

The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)

The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 4 articles up for re-review.

GA Sweeps Update

The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.

We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and criteria. If you are interested, please contact OhanaUnited for details.

GAN Reviewer of the Month

Giggy (talk · contribs) (a.k.a. Dihydrogen Monoxide (talk · contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to Giggy (talk · contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!

Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:

Also, with 19 nominations, Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) is the nominator of the month, followed by TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs) with 8 nominations submitted.

Member News

There are now 216 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 6 new members that joined during the month of April:

Jack Bethune (talk · contribs)
Jordan Timothy James Busson (talk · contribs)
Limetolime (talk · contribs)
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Fan (talk · contribs)
Mm40 (talk · contribs)
Redmarkviolinist (talk · contribs)

This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!

New GA Review Process - Review Subpages

In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.

When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at WP:GAN in the appropriate category.

When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the Good Article criteria, as well as to the Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.

Did You Know...

... that there are slightly more than twice as many Good Articles (4,266) as there are Featured Articles?
... that Giggy has some really neat and useful tools to assist reviewers in conducting their reviews?
... that there are ten experienced reviewers listed on the GA mentors list that can offer assistance or a second opinion in reviewing articles?

From the Editors

A GA working party has initiated discussion on ways to improve the Good Article project and processes. The goal of the working party is to come up with suggestions for improvement based on recent issues and concerns raised in the past, primarily in the wake of the Great Green Dot Debate of May 2008. The discussion can be found here. Members of the working party include: Dank55 (talk · contribs), Derek.cashman (talk · contribs), EyeSerene (talk · contribs), Giggy (talk · contribs), Gwinva (talk · contribs), LaraLove (talk · contribs), Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs), and OhanaUnited (talk · contribs).

Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here.

Contributors to this Issue

Dr. Cash (Lead Editor)
Giggabot, Giggy (Distributor)

Improving Wikipedia one article at a time since 2005!

WikiProject Good Articles: Open Tasks This project identifies, organizes and improves good articles on Wikipedia.
Nominations: • Impalement arts • Backlash (2007) • Sam Cowan • U.S. Route 491 • Sphinx Head Reassessment: Madonna (entertainer) • Sweeps / List: references (All Categories), image tags (All Categories), article quality (All Categories) Possible GAs Needing References: Clarinet • Carleton University • Appalachian Mountains Task forces: Project quality • Unreferenced GA
Good article criteria \| Statistics \| GAN Report \| Changes log Nominations queue: 213 articles (42 of them are on hold) as of 08:00, 11 June 2008 \| edit