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[edit] November Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Admin Coaching (needs coaches!)
Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach.

Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
What's New?
The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one!
A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts.
Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.
The last AC meeting (full log)
  • The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
  • There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia.
  • The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested!
  • In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias.
  • A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted!
  • Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello.
Signed...
Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, The Halo, Shreshth91 and HighwayCello
20:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Stieff Silver

I tried to improve the Stieff Silver article. If it survives the AfD process, the article should probably be moved to Kirk Stieff Company or Kirk Stieff. Could you please take another look at it? --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 21:17, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{Vermont-school-stub}}

Hi - I've reverted your changes to the vermont-school-stub template and re-deleted the category. The category was deleted not that long ago as being seriously undersized by the requirements of stub categories. Please, in future, if you wish to change the existing workings of a stub template and/or category, first propose the changes at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. If a stub template categorises articles in a particular way, there is usually a very good reason for it doing so. Grutness...wha? 04:51, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry. I thought it was simply a mistake that this category did not exist. NauticaShades 11:11, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar thanks

Thanks for the barnstar. It's been a while since I got one. :) howcheng {chat} 17:44, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FP handling

Thanks for taking care of some Featured Picture promotions and delistings. I just wanted to remind you to update the FP count on WP:FP when you do so. You missed it for the last couple of times, but luckily you did a promotion and then a delisting, so they cancelled each other out. :) howcheng {chat} 17:32, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Well how do you know that wasn't on purpose... just kidding. Sorry about that. I usually remember to do it, I just forgot this time. NauticaShades 20:45, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

Thank you for participating in my RfA discussion! I appreciate you contributing your voice to the debate and its outcome. I hope how I wield the mop makes you proud. Thanks!


[edit] Marc Cécillon

Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by VJS (talk • contribs)

[edit] FPC Promotion
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Tamias-rufus-001.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Mailer Diablo 19:35, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted
Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Ferrofluid Magnet under glass edit.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. -- tariqabjotu 16:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
POTD
POTD
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Hi NauticaShades,

Just to let you know that the Featured Pictures you nominated Image:Tamias-rufus-001.jpg and Image:Ferrofluid Magnet under glass edit.jpg are due to make appearances as Picture of the Day on February 24, 2007 and February 25, 2007 respectively. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the captions at Template:POTD/2007-02-24 and Template:POTD/2007-02-25. Thanks! howcheng {chat} 18:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

Hi Nauticashades, and thanks very much for your support during my recent RfA, which succeeded with a final tally of 64/0/0. I am grateful for the overwhelming support I received from the community, and hope I will continue to earn your trust as I expand my participation on Wikipedia. It goes without saying that if you ever need anything and I can help, please let me know. Wait, I guess it does go with saying. ; ) --cholmes75 (chit chat) 15:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter, Issue 7, November 2006


WikiProject The Beatles Newsletter
Issue 007 – November 2006
Issue of the Month

Again, the issue of the month is inline citations. A Day in the Life, A Hard Day's Night (song), and Get Back have all been defeatured, as they failed to satisfy criterion 1(c) of What is a featured article?, and other song FAs are due for the chopping block. Inline citations are an important aspect of articles—they ensure verifiability and reliability, and they remove original research. Additionally, they give readers the option to read the original source material and view it within context.

Basically:

  1. All direct quotations attributed to Beatles members pooled from interviews need full inline citations.
  2. All critical comments about songs or albums need full inline citations to notable music critics, magazines opinions, or reviews, as opposed to being merely comments by Wikipedians.
  3. Inline citations need: author name, article name, publication date, and name of publication. Such info is still preferable even if quoting from an interview posted upon a website; when this is the case, place the URL link at the end of the citation with the date it was last accessed. (This will help editors retrieve the page using the Wayback Machine, should the link go dead in the future.)
Beatles News
  • The Beatles are due to release a soundtrack album, LOVE, at the end of November, as a companion to their Cirque du Soleil adaptation of the same name. It will feature remastered and remixed versions of their previously released songs, including some new medleys.
  • Paul's getting a divorce. Pain, arguing, and fighting abound.
Project News
  • The Wings tours are really nicely documented now (see Category:Wings tours), but Category:The Beatles tours is almost empty. Kingboyk and the rest of us would love to see (and read) articles on each Beatles tour, including the pre-fame tours of the UK—and the Hamburg trips, of course!
  • The hottest Project page this month has been Paul McCartney, involved in the Featured Article drive, as mentioned above.
Member News
  • Our project members are too modest to report any awards they may have given or received.
From the Editors

Wherever possible, editors should help to trim down on list-like prose within Beatles articles. They should convert list-like sections into fluent, cohesive prose which ties an article's sections together. Lists make articles disjointed, awkward, and difficult to read.

Be sure to take part in the Featured Article drive, and don't forget those inline citations!

If you've just joined, add your name to the Participants section of Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!

Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 008 – December 2006). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

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[edit] Thanks for your input

Thank you for taking part in my RfA. The RfA was not successful, mostly because I did a pretty bad job of presenting myself. I'll run again sometime in the next few months, in the hopes that some will reconsider.

In the meantime, one of the projects I'm working on is A Wikimedia Administrator's Handbook. This is a wikibook how-to guide intended to help new administrators learn the ropes, as well as to simply "demystify" what adminship entails. If you are an administrator, please help out with writing it, particularly on the technical aspects of the tools. Both administrators and non-administrators are welcome to help link in and sort all of the various policies regarding the use of these tools on wikipedia in particular (as well as other projects: for example, I have almost no experience with how things work on wiktionary or wikinews). Users who are neither familiar with policy or the sysop tools could be of great help by asking questions about anything that's unclear. The goal is to get everything together in one place, with a narrative form designed to anticipate the reader's next question.

A second project, related but not entailed, is a book on wikimedia in general, with a history of how various policies evolved over time, interesting trivia (e.g., what the heck was "wikimoney" about?), and a history of how the wikimedia foundation itself came about and the larger issues that occurred during its history (such as the infamous "Spanish Fork").

Again, thanks for your input on the RfA, and thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide for the handbook. --SB_Johnny|talk|books 13:01, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dalbury's RfA

My RfA passed with a tally of 71/1/0. Thank you very much for your support. I hope that my performance as an admin will not disappoint you. Please let me know if you see me doing anything inappropriate. -- Donald Albury 02:48, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shiny new buttons

Two weeks ago I couldn't even spell administratur and now I are one (in no small part thanks to your support). Now that I checked out those new buttons I realize that I can unleash mutant monsters on unsuspecting articles or summon batteries of laser guns in their defense. The move button has now acquired special powers, and there's even a feature to roll back time. With such awesome new powers at my fingertips I will try to tread lightly to avoid causing irreversible damage and getting into any wheel wars. Thanks again and let me know whenever I can be of use.
~ trialsanderrors 06:16, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Steely Dan project

Hmm. I would definitely support the creation of such a project, although I'm not so sure I could really contribute (my main contribution to SD-related articles so far has been shooting down the FA nomination). I have mainly focused on geography-related projects.

But I might be able to do something here or there. Daniel Case 17:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for signing up, though.NauticaShades 18:01, 17 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Encyclopædia Britannica

Hi

Did you ever report Bramlet Abercrombie for violation of WP:3RR as you wanted to? [1] What was the result?

Did you notice he slyly reverted again and without any explanation or even an edit summary? [[2]] He definitely wants to hide things and is not interested in an unbiased and objective article. --Espoo 10:17, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

When I said I was goingto report him, I meant I would if he did it one more time. The second diff is him removing it as per consensus on the talk page. He's not a bad guy, he just felt it was POV, which I suppose in a way it was. Anyhow, we decided that we should remove it, but added the inforamtion elsewhere in article (as you can in the diff). Thanks for trying to help, though. NauticaShades 10:22, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

 I would like to express my appreciation of the time you spent considering my successful RfA. Thankyou Gnangarra 13:08, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion Award

Just to say that some new images have been uploaded and there is a slightly better explanation of the award. Simply south 19:37, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll check it out. NauticaShades 07:00, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your support at RFA

I wasn't going to send thank-you cards, but the emotional impact of hitting WP:100 (and doing so unanimously!) changed my mind. So I appreciate your confidence in me at RFA, and hope you'll let me know if I can do anything for you in the future. Cheers! -- nae'blis 22:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RfA thanks

Thank you for voting in my RfA, I passed. I appreciate your input. Please keep an eye on me(if you want) to see if a screw up. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 16:49, 29 November 2006 (UTC)