User talk:Nousernamesleft/archive3

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who congratulated me on my RfA; I appreciate it! Nousernamesleft^{copper, not wood} 14:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Congrats (and thanks for the LOL re your thankyou) ... Re the point below, there's no pressure to sign up for recall, it's a voluntary system and many admins (including myself) have not done so. Orderinchaos 14:51, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Congrats! I hope you know that I voted in good faith, it is just that all users were bothering me and giving me a hard time for voting the way I did that made me insist on keeping it, which might unfair to you. Anyway, no hard feelings?

A man of honour (talk) 18:53, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes!....hm.... NO!.....hm... maybe?

Hello,
It will be a good sign if you make yourself open to recall, and since you intend to continue the same level of high quality contributions, you should have no problem at all. I am slightly leaning towards a "yes".... Whatever you choose, I am sure it will be wise.. Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 14:38, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Again "Whatever you choose, I am sure it will be wise.." :)

Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 15:02, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Failed GA article

I interpreted the questions differently. In any aspect, the article has still failed, due to the lack of information to support the subject. I am sorry for my misinterpretation on the actual meaning of the questions, and will use the information you have supplied to judge other articles. I will pass your article if you are to expand and add some more information on the subject, and also add some more pictures to help identify the article and its content. Happy Editing, Dusti^{talk to me} 16:53, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Re: Failed GA article

Ok, let me look at the article again and I will let you know. Thanks for the bar :)....I thought it was a good idea. Kudo's to you!!! Happy Editing, Dusti^{talk to me} 18:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, to start off with, is there any more information about the IMO that you can put into the article? Meaning, more information about the group or historical information, to lenghten the article? Also, can you find any pictures of IMO in progress or something to make the article a little more lively? Happy Editing, Dusti^{talk to me} 18:09, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Good job on the pictures, now, is there any more information that can possibly be added to the article? Happy Editing, Dusti^{talk to me} 18:53, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Message you left me.

I noticed you left a message on my talk page, but reverted it. I hope you don't mind my answering your question here, because it was a good question that I do wish to address. The answer is that yes, I know my editing has been sparse and drawn out, but time permitting I do hope to contribute more regularly. scetoaux ^{(talk) (My contributions.)} 20:10, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

actually...

There are a multitude of usernames left, let me know if you need any help selecting one. --Niyant (talk) 00:59, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Cheer up, just because you were the last one to sign up here, and by default the 'rotten egg' doesn't mean you have to express such sadness.--Niyant (talk) 04:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

crappy t-shirt*** lol . --Niyant (talk) 23:56, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

You did all of that? :)

Did you really post all these "thank you for !voting" messages manually? Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 09:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Opps, I almost forgot, here you go:

:)

Cheers!

Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 20:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

OhanaUnited's RFA

.: Thank you! :.

Thank you for participating in my 2nd RfA and supporting me! My RfA passed unanimously at 79 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral. I would like to take this opportunity to thank AndonicO and Rudget for nominating me. I also want to thank LaraLove for persuading me to keep going after I failed my first RfA. To be really honest, I am surprised that my RfA passed without any oppose or neutral. Being an administrator means more responsibilities, especially when I'm now an administrator on both English Wikipedia as well as WikiSpecies. I promise everyone that I will use the tools effectively to serve the community. If you need help on anything, don't hesitate to leave me a message on my talk page and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Last but not least, remember the motto for Ohana: "When it comes to family, nobody gets left behind." Once again, thanks for placing your trust in me to help the community. OhanaUnitedTalk page 18:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: RfA thanks

Hello Nousernamesleft! Hope you're working well with your new mop. :) It seems your thankspam has stretched out my talk page. Would you mind taking a look and seeing if you can fix it? Thanks in advance. GlassCobra 05:06, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Close, but no cigar. Turns out the thousand pixel picture was the problem. I got it though, thank you for looking! GlassCobra 18:28, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:AFC Backlog Drive

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Admin coaching

Actually I put it there so that one day if I apply for admin, I can say that I tried to get coached. I would not mind you coaching me; some tips here or there will not harm anyone. Thanks! Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 17:17, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I noticed you match me with yourself on the coaching page, I did not expect to get a response that fast...The page is so backlogged.

Regarding the subpage, I do not know. You are the coach, you decide for me ;) The school is exhausting my brain that I can not longer think properly. I do not think a whole subpage is needed nonetheless, I am not that new to WP anyway (or new for that matter.

So, what is your first tip? :)

 ;)

Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 17:30, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem, I will reply here if you do not mind.

I have all of them (TW+AWB+VP), although I do not use the latter.

SO, here is a brief summary of what I did on WP: <bragging>

• I fight vandals, patrol new pages, recent changes.
• I work for WP:GL from time to time. Also I work for WikiProject neutrality and WikiProject Spam. More recently, I have intensified my efforts to get this WikiProject into shape.
• I copyedit, review GA article nominees, and vote at RfA's, AfD's and FPC's.
• 2.7 K of edits, 1K mainspace edits.
• 1 GA so far, but I am pretty sure the other article which is being reviewed right now will pass, then i will go for an FA.
• hmm, what else? oh, yes.. I have been welcoming new users since my first days on WP.

</bragging>

I intend to use the tools to protect and delete pages, block vandals instead of reporting them, and delete pictures...also some at the DYK area will help the folks there.

Cheers!

Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 17:50, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Great tips. As for welcoming users, I do not believe I welcome a great number of them. It's just that recently I have been testing templates and user Java scripts to reach the perfect combination to allow a fast personalized customized welcome, which I finally did today...working with mgactions only made me realize that working with WP DOM is really difficult. Now, I can place a Welcome in less than 2 seconds..the script I am using is the simplest thing I came with.

By the way, do you think {{W-Auawise}} violates any policy and I should move it to a user subpage? I have found absolutely nothing against it so far.

I will use WP:Snow more in the future...

I have to go now, I have like a 60 page Physics homework due tomorrow, I'd better start writing now.

So, thanks for coaching me today and for the tips....

Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 18:10, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

Give me a couple of days.. At the beginning I did not use the "subst" thing so this will cause some problems with transclusion. I will move it once I finish putting "subst" into all user talk pages with this template.

I agree with you, but I really found nothing that says it must be general for it to keep its name.

Cheers!

Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 18:28, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello coach!

I did start a subpage and put the questions there, I have not answered all (3) of them! I am working on it.

Yes, I finished substing the template, and then I moved it to a user subpage. A BOT will take care of the page, links, redirects, etc.

Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 15:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello!

When it comes to mainspace editing, I tend to edit scientific articles, Biology and Physics in particular.However, I shy away from articles related to literature; not my area really. You might have also noticed that I have a particular interest in I.Q. and its effects.

If needs to, I edit articles related to WikiProjects I am involved in (recently WP:IRAQ and WP:KOSOVO) and articles concerned with schools.

I am open to other areas, but the above constitutes interests.

What is the assignment anyway? This feels like a job interview where I have to give correct answers to get the job... :)

Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 08:05, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

(Outdent) Sorry about the talkpage, I will have Misza bot clean it for me. By the way, we can use this subpage for conversation to get some "privacy".
The assignment is a challenge given my lack of interest in history, but I like challenges and will do my best there. (You used your BOT to come up with this assignment, right? I am guessing because my recent history might reflect my interest in WikiProject Iraq but it also shows that I very rarely edit an Iraq-related article)
With 356 members, this project is extremely popular among wikipedians. Many Sysops are part of this project. I think you should however consider how much help you can offer there, I have always thought of you as a person who is interested primarily in maths and maths history, so I am understandably surprised to find you interested in an area that can not be described as not being dissimilar to maths. I personally like to help projects which really need help, projects that experience no progress in months.....

Anyways Nousernamesleft Peter, Cheers! :)

Λua∫Wise ^{(Operibus anteire)} 14:43, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry, I haven't been on lately. Yes, I gratefully accept your offer, and I'll definitely be on quite often during the month of March. Redmarkviolinist ^{Drop me a line} 15:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

AFC Backlog is GONE

		The Articles for Creation Barnstar
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RFA

Thanks for participating in my RFA, which closed successfully with 40 supports, 13 opposes, and 4 neutrals. For those of you who supported my RFA, I greatly appreciate it. For those who did not, I'm also thankful for your constructive criticism. If you need some advice or have some pointers for me, you know where to reach me! A special thank you to Majorly for all his time and effort he has placed in my nomination. Once again, thank you all for your helpful comments. Now off to new admin school! Cheers, Icestorm815 • Talk 01:15, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Research on the RFA process

Hello, I am an anthropology student researching the Wikipedia Requests for adminship procedure. As you recently completed this process, I was wondering if you would be willing to answer a few quick questions.

• Do you believe that the current RFA process is an effective way of selecting admins?
• Do you notice a difference between users who are nominated vs selfnoms?
• Is a week an appropriate length for process? Should it perhaps be longer or shorter?
• Do you think the user's status in the community changes while the user is undergoing the RFA process? How about after the RFA process is over?

If you are willing, please leave your answers on my talk page or e-mail them to me.

This research will not be published academically, as this research is primarily to demonstrate the feasibility of doing online ethnography in online only communities such as Wikipedia, though I intend to make my findings available on Wiki. Your name will not be associated with any information you provide in any published work. If you have any questions please let me know. Thank you. --Cspurrier (talk) 18:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Admin Coaching Re-confirmation

Hello, previously you expressed interest in participating in the Wikipedia:Admin coaching project. We are currently conducting a reconfirmation drive to give coaches the opportunity to update their information and capacity to participate in the project. Please visit Wikipedia:Admin coaching/Status to update your status and move your entry to the Active list. Also, please remember to update your capacity (5th table variable) in the form of a fraction (eg. 2/3 means you are currently coaching 2 students, and could accept 1 more student). Thank you. MBisanz ^talk 09:28, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I know, you were the last one to add and now I ask you to go back and do it again. Sorry! Couldn't think of another way to make sure everyone listed a capacity. MBisanz ^talk 15:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Your ER

Hi, I'm working on the backlog at WP:ER, and your empty review from December is at the bottom. Are you still interested in getting reviewed? If you don't still need a review, it would lighten the load to archive it, but of course if you do still want one, I'm glad to do it, probably in the next couple days. Let me know. Peace, delldot on a public computer talk 10:35, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

hehehe

So I think my latest idea is the best yet, check out my user page--Pewwer42  Talk  06:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Its a stick dude vandalizing and another reverting the vandalism. then he is asking people to help fight vandalism and the "the more you know" is a joke on an NBC thing.--Pewwer42  Talk  00:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

usually helps :P--Pewwer42  Talk  00:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations

Go Peter! Good job! The AMC 12 does not matter now! I think you will be a good admin. By the way, what's with the shirt? And what should I make edits to?TheDoctor80 (talk) 21:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Scripts

I'm not sure what did that, it could be the reflist format being used? Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 03:07, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Well, there's {{reflist}} and {{reflist}}, I'm not really sure either. You could always try removing scripts one at a time and seeing which fixes it, that's what I usually do when something breaks. Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 03:26, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks

Redundancy Ex 3G

Thanks; addressed. Tony (talk) 14:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

RE: Haha

I suppose it is... WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN ^{aka john lennon} 20:56, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Nah, that'd be far too obvious... WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN ^{aka john lennon} 21:06, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I might use that... *yoink* WEBURIEDOURSECRETSINTHEGARDEN ^{aka john lennon} 21:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Re:the Apollo Moon Landing talk page

I'm not entirely sure which page you're talking about.. SMC (talk) 23:27, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok, go ahead :) thanks. SMC (talk) 03:24, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

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The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 5 - March 2008 February issue | April issue Project News There are currently 3,647 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. The backlog at Good Article Nominations is 185 unreviewed articles. Out of 237 total nominations, 42 are on hold, and 10 are under review. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Ian Browne (cyclist), Tony Marchant, Reginald fitz Jocelin, Annie Russell, Brodie Croyle, and Jimmy Moore. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (39 articles), Theatre, film, and drama (34 articles), Transport (23 articles), Music (21 articles), Politics and government (18 articles), Culture and society (13 articles), Places (13 articles), and World history (12 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 13 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! GA Sweeps Update Two members joined the sweeps team this month. They are Jwanders and jackyd101. Jwanders swept Physics sub-category quickly and is now sweeping "Astronomy and astrophysics". Meanwhile, jackyd101 is sweeping "Armies, military units and legal issues". During February, 66 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 33 were kept as GA, 21 delisted, 17 currently on hold or at GAR, and 1 was exempted as they are now Featured Articles. Reviewer of the Month Blnguyen is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for February, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Blnguyen is from South Australia and has been editing Wikipedia since 2005. 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Welcome to the 9 new members that joined during the month of February: Bibliomaniac15 (talk · contribs) Canyouhearmenow (talk · contribs) Chrisisinchrist (talk · contribs) Ed! (talk · contribs) Juliancolton (talk · contribs) Kakofonous (talk · contribs) LOTRrules (talk · contribs) Matthewedwards (talk · contribs) Nousernamesleft (talk · contribs) Did You Know... ...that the shortest timespan for a GA to be listed and subsequently delisted is 8 minutes? (The article is Project Chanology and currently listed on WP:GAR) ...that the current nominations system started on March 10, 2006? ...that in May 2006, number of GA surpassed number of FA? 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! One GA Requirement - The Lead Section By Geometry guy In this issue, we will focus on one of the requirements for good articles: a good article article should follow Wikipedia's guideline on lead sections. So what does this guideline say, why does it say what it does, and how can good article reviewers help? The lead section is particularly important, because for many readers, it is the only part of the article which they will read. For instance, they may have come to the article by following a wikilink in another article simply to obtain a quick overview before they continue reading the original article. They may only read the first paragraph, or even the first sentence. On the other hand, one of the joys of Wikipedia is the way that embodies the endlessly branching tree of knowledge; if a lead is well written, it may encourage even such a reader to read on and learn something new. This is reflected in the terminology: "lead" is a word taken from journalism, where it recognized that many readers will only read the beginning of a newspaper article, and so it is important to convey the key points first, before going into detail. Note that "lead", in this sense, is pronounced as in "leading question" and is sometimes spelled as "lede" by journalists to distinguish it from lead, the metal, which was once very important in typesetting. Wikipedia supports both spellings. Wikipedia:Lead section is written with all this in mind, and describes two different roles for the lead: first, it should introduce the topic; second it should summarize the article. This is not always as easy as it seems; indeed, it is almost impossible to write a good lead if the article itself does not cover the topic well. It has a side benefit that an article which satisfies this guideline is probably also broad: if the lead is both a good introduction and a summary, then the article probably covers the main points. The good article process is often the first place in which an article is judged against this criterion, yet many current good articles may not meet it. A common fault is that the lead is purely an introduction, while the rest of the article contains other information, which should be summarized in the lead, but isn't. So, how can reviewers help to improve this? One approach is to read the rest of the article, and not the lead, first. Make a note of the significant points discussed in the article. There is usually at least one important issue in each section. Then, go back to the lead and ask the following questions: Does the first sentence of the lead define the topic, as described in the article? Is the most important information mentioned in the first paragraph? Is the lead a suitable length for the article? The lead guideline recommends 2–4 paragraphs depending on the article length, but judgment is more important than counting. Are each of the significant topics that you noted mentioned in the lead? If the answer to each of these questions is "yes", then the article probably meets the guideline. If not, you may be able to fix it yourself by summarizing the article. If you can't, then it suggests that there are not only problems with the lead, but also the rest of the article. That is the beauty of Wikipedia:Lead section. Finally, there isn't universal agreement on whether the lead should contain inline citations. As long as the material in the lead is developed and cited elsewhere in the article, then inline citation is not required. There are exceptions, the most significant being quotations and controversial material about living persons. Good luck helping more articles meet this important criterion! From the Editors Well, this is somewhat GA-related but at the same time not totally GA-related. However, I think this is important. Thanks to everyone who supported me at my 2nd RfA. It passed unanimously at 79 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral. As many are impressed by my work in Good Articles processes, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone giving me a very enjoyable time at GA. There are 2 people that I want to explicitly say thank you to. They are Nehrams2020 and Epbr123. They patiently taught me how to do GA reviews properly in summer 2007. I couldn't achieve better without them. Now that I have the mop and the bucket, some of my time will be working on reducing Commons image backlog. Nevertheless, you will still see me once in a while in matters related to GA. OhanaUnited Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue here. Dr. Cash Contributors to this Issue Dr. Cash (Lead Editor, Distributor) OhanaUnited (GA Sweeps and Did You Know correspondent) Geometry guy (News Correspondent) 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) • Fort Jackson (Virginia) • The Great American Bash (2007) • Pacers-Pistons brawl 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

Hello

Why didn't you tell me you were an admin when we were talking about the GA article? Sorry if I offended you by failing the article. If you relist it, I will review it, and it will most likely pass since you added the pictures, that was really the only issue with it. Also, how can I edit the main page? Just a question. Dusti^{talk to me} 17:50, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

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