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Contents 1 Thanks! 2 Tulsa FA nomination 3 User Smallmac435 4 Re: OU FA 5 Tulsa architecture 6 Thanks for your Interest 7 Thanks! 8 Oklahoma 9 Thanks! 10 Return the favor? 11 Proposals 12 Marshall, Texas 13 Barnstar (Oklahoma) 14 Fair use image use 15 WikiOkie Newsletter September 07 16 Wikiproject Oklahoma Newsletter 17 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 18 WP OK Newsletter October 07 19 Random Smile! 20 Oklahoma on Norwegian. 21 Tulsaschoolboard 22 Consulates 23 Oklahoma 24 Stupid accounts 25 Ad 26 WikiProject Oklahoma Newsletter November 2007

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for the compliment [1] on the photo I took! I really appreciate it! --Kralizec! (talk) 17:46, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

ORU made a great photographic subject. I think the photo I took at the campus entrance [2] is one of the best pictures I have ever taken. Thanks again for the kind words! --Kralizec! (talk) 18:02, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tulsa FA nomination

I have added my support for the nomination. I do apologize if I have seemed unreasonable or anything. I realize that others may have different views of what needs to be in an article, but I can only voice my opinions. I think in the end the article was significantly improved. (I also hope that the statue gets built so it can be in the lead. :) ) Dsmdgold 23:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I see that the article has been promoted Congrats and good job!!! BTW, I saw one article through to FA article status and found it so exhausting and time consuming that I haven't attempted it since. I hope you are made of sterner stuff :) Dsmdgold 00:20, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

I just looked at the Tulsa article for the first time. GREAT job on this. You should be very proud. (From another Okie... a Tulsan, in fact.) Philippe 07:36, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User Smallmac435

I noticed you warned User:Smallmac435 a few days ago about vandalism - he vandalized Oklahoma today and it looks like he's vandalized a few other pages as well since you warned him. This is all the reporting I am going to do, just letting you know. Thanks. Okiefromokla•talk 03:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I reported the user and the admin blocked him/her for a day. Corpx 04:43, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: OU FA

I'm not giving up. Merely taking a break. I will still work on it occasionally but just not as much as the month or so leading to this FA. It'll get there eventually. And I definitely feel the same as you on some of the issues brought up.↔NMajdan•talk 00:02, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tulsa architecture

Hi, you may remember from the the Tulsa FA article discussion that I wanted more discussion of the significant architecture around town. That discussion started me thinking that perhaps a History of the architecture of Tulsa, Oklahoma article would be a good idea. To the end, I have been compiling a list of important buildings in Tulsa's history, with the idea that when the list is complete, the article could written around the list. Please take a look at the list and tell me what you think. I have tried to explain my thoughts on the talk page, I would appreciate your comments there. Dsmdgold 04:42, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your Interest

Thanks for adding my articles on the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Light Opera OK and the Tulsa Signature Symphony to your project. I have also recently created an article on the Tulsa Ballet which you may choose to add as well.Nrswanson 19:48, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for your helpful advice in getting Grand Forks, North Dakota to FA status! --MatthewUND^(talk) 22:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

And thanks for the barnstar, too! --MatthewUND^(talk) 00:46, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Okie, thanks so much ! It was very kind of you to think of me. Keep up the good work, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:26, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oklahoma

It's looking good (I guess you can tell I'm not a great copyeditor). Why did you remove the word "nation's" from "Oklahoma is the second-largest producer of natural gas, fifth-largest producer of oil, holds the second greatest number of oil wells, and ranks fifth in crude oil reserves"? Those numbers are relative to other states, not the world, right? Also, what do you think of specifying "crude oil" whenever you use the world "oil" (that's correct for the oil industry). Revert anything you don't like. Would it be good to name the Fortune 1000 company? "Home to six Fortune 500 companies and one Fortune 1000 company, the state had the fastest growing gross domestic product in the nation from 2005 to 2006, with a 10.8 percent rate of growth, totaling $134 billion in 2006." Awkward, it reads as if the rate of growth totals 134 billion, when that is actually the GDP, I suppose? This sentence needs an as of date: In descending order of population, Oklahoma's largest cities are: ... I hate cite templates; they really make it a bear to edit. (I avoided them completely in Tourette syndrome, doing all citation manually, so the article would be faster-loading and easier to edit.) I think this is a very fine article. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:46, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, I just skimmed over it to find anything that would make me oppose it. I worked a bit on the Grand Forks, North Dakota article (my hometown) and I think you reviewed that for the FA nomination.--milk the cows (Talk) 22:24, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem...sorry it took me a while to get to it. I'm pretty confident that the article will be granted FA status. Good luck! --MatthewUND^(talk) 02:38, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Congrats on on reaching FA status with this article! It is a well deserved designation. --MatthewUND^(talk) 23:10, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

But, you know, "...reviewers here have their time cut out just reviewing and trying to maintain standards". Ouch! --Folantin 16:45, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Return the favor?

Could you check out History of American football as a quid pro quo? Thanks... --Jayron32|talk|contribs 18:00, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposals

I just re-read your proposal (in regards to naming of US cities) and realized I misread it earlier, and that we essentially have the same proposal with different wording. I would move mine to yours, but mine has already received more attention than yours, so I'm not quite sure what to do. New England ^{Review Me!} 01:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I just broke off your re-write of my guideline (proposal 4) into a subsection of proposal four. I like your wording of it better than mine, but I rewrote yours to clarify that the moves would be discussed individually on each cities talk page (there was opposition to discussion all the moves on one page). see here New England ^{Review Me!} 19:36, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Marshall, Texas

I was the primary editor of the Marshall, Texas article. I am retired from Wikipedia, but unfortunately I several garrulous friends who are not; thus, on occasion I am informed of something that transpires on Wikipedia that tempts me to come out of retirement or at least make a brief appearance. As the primary editor of the article, I am tempted to revise the article to conform to contemporary FA standards. However, in the several years that I was an active Wikipedian I realized that Wikipedia’s standards have a high degree of impermanence and are never equally enforced. Therefore, I do not intend to squander my time updating the article to conform to whatever the arbitrary and ever altering FA standards are today, as invariably on Wikipedia the excellence of today will be the rubbish of tomorrow. -JCarriker 21:44, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar (Oklahoma)

		The Original Barnstar
		Nice work on Oklahoma, state articles are a lot of work and it turned out great.Ravedave 00:44, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

No problem, it's well deserved, especially when you look at some of the terrible state articles WP has (several have no refs) -Ravedave 00:55, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm guessing it because state articles are an overwhelming amount of work, I almost gave up on MN several times ([3]) -Ravedave 01:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I got lucky, a wonderful team popped up. This same team is responsible for History of Minnesota, Climate of Minnesota,Geology of Minnesota, and several others. I'vesaid, this is my favorite part of the MN article, the great subarticles. -Ravedave 01:17, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use image use

Image:Oklahomastateseal.jpg is a copyrighted, fair use image. Per terms of WP:NFCC item #9, the use of such images in portal space is not permitted. Three times now I've removed this image from Portal:Oklahoma/Intro. Please do not add it back again, as you have twice done. If you have questions about this, I'd be happy to answer. Thanks, --Durin 19:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiOkie Newsletter September 07

The WikiOkie Reporter WikiProject Oklahoma's Newsletter Issue 1 - September 2007 Discuss this newsletter	Your second or third stop for WikiProject Oklahoma News Sign up to recieve this newsletter Oklahoma Portal Current article statistics
WikiProject Oklahoma releases new newsletter September 2007 brings a new face to WikiProject Oklahoma: a newsletter. As in all of Wikipedia, the new WikiOkie Reporter (tenative name) is intended to be a collaborative effort among editors. Anyone can edit it: this month's newsletter is placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/aug07, but next month's will be placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/oct07, with the following month at /newsletter/nov07, and so on. While this month's article's were initially written by User:Okiefromokla, it is hoped other editors will be excited to contribute to articles, content, layout, and ideas. This is a completely new child of WikiProject Oklahoma, and it should reflect the collaborative work of everyone who's bored and has nothing to do for a few minutes. As such, anything can be discussed here: anything - layout, color scheme, pictures, content, etc. The behind-the-scenes workings for the WikiOkie Reporter will be simple: anyone wishing to recieve the newsletter in their talk page may place their name at sign-up list, but they are more than free to remove their name from the same list at any time. Anyone wishing to discuss ideas or anything at all related to the newsletter may look no further than here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/talk. Several WikiProjects already have ongoing newsletters, including Wikipedia: WikiProject North Dakota, from which WikiProject Oklahoma's newsletter has been based. For the time being, Okiefromokla will assume distribution responsibilities for the newsletter, maintaining the template, and writing articles from scratch if other editors have not done so by the 1st of the month. Promotions on the rise For many Wikipedians, summer is a time to kick back, relax, and make an occasional minor edit to their favorite few pages. Not so in WikiProject Oklahoma. Between May 12 and September, editors have been busily working on Oklahoma, Tulsa, and Woody Guthrie, and all three have been promoted. Prior to May, there were only seven Featured or Good articles in WikiProject Oklahoma. On May 12, Tulsa was promoted from B-class to FA class after a few months of extensive editing. Its primary editors were User:Nmajdan, User:SandyGeorgia, User:Okiefromokla, and a handful of others. On August 25, Oklahoma was promoted from B-class to FA class after a month-long blitz. User:Okiefromokla, User: SandyGeorgia, and several anonymous IPs contributed heavily to the article. On June 13, 2007, Woody Guthrie was promoted from B-Class to GA class after two failed attempts at promotion. User:Dannygutters, User:Gaff, User:Maenpong, and a handful of others contributed most to the article.
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[edit] Wikiproject Oklahoma Newsletter

Very nice! Kudos to you, sir! --Kralizec! (talk) 19:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Just to give you a heads up since I will be offline for the rest of the night, we may have an WP:OWN issue on the article. --Kralizec! (talk) 20:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Looks like I jumped the gun; I am glad to see I was mistaken. Thanks for checking it out (two heads are always better than one)! --Kralizec! (talk) 14:26, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP OK Newsletter October 07

The WikiOkie Reporter WikiProject Oklahoma's Newsletter Issue 2 - October 2007 Edit this newsletter Discuss this newsletter	Your second or third stop for WikiProject Oklahoma News Sign up to recieve this newsletter Oklahoma Portal Current article statistics Past issues of this newsletter
Modest boost in assessed articles during September WikiProject Oklahoma's massive list of unassessed articles got smaller over the month of September, as 45 articles were assessed by bots and editors. Assessments made on August 31 bring the total to 62 assessed articles over the 31-day period. On September 15, BetacommandBot assessed 40 articles from no-class to stub and start class. This bot automatically updates the talk pages of articles included in more than one WikiProject if at least one WikiProject has already assessed the material, bringing each interested WikiProject's ratings into compliance with the assessment. No B-class or higher quality assessments were given out over September, and only a small handful of importance assessments were granted. On August 31, one Low, Mid, and High importance rating was given to three separate articles. Leroy McGuirk was given the lone high-importance rating. Oklahoma categories receive help from Texan TexasAndroid, an administrator, assisted WikiProject Oklahoma by categorizing nearly 100 Oklahoma-related pages on September 24. The additions were made mainly to Tulsa-related pages. "I've done the major cities in Texas in the past, and was thinking about what to do next, and decided to stay relatively close to home for now. Thus OK's big cities got done," TexasAndroid wrote on his user page. Shortcut: WP:TULSA Meet WikiProject Oklahoma's "sub-project" Taskforce Tulsa, a collaboration of editors operating under WikiProject Oklahoma, has been created to increase the scope of Wikipedia's coverage of Tulsa and its surrounding areas. Taskforce Tulsa is many things, but most importantly, it is a way for editors to have a place to put Tulsa-related requests (pictures, article, expansion, collaboration) for other editors interested in Tulsa. News, guidelines, and category trees related to Tulsa articles can easily be accessed and added through the task force's project page. The taskforce is not its own WikiProject. Instead, it works in conjunction with WikiProject Oklahoma to increase the quality and scope of Tulsa-related material. Because of the increased clutter and unnecessary waste of space that would be created with a new WikiProject, editors have opted for a taskforce, or workgroup project. Rather than having a Wikiproject Oklahoma banner as well as a Wikiproject Tulsa banner on most Tulsa-related pages, editors can simply add the Tulsa Taskforce note onto the existing Wikiproject Oklahoma banner. Cleaner, clearer, and more efficient. In edit mode, such a banner would appear as this: "{{WikiProject Oklahoma|class=FA|importance=Top|tulsa-task-force=yes}}". In other words, simply adding "tulsa-task-force=yes}}" to the existing Wikiproject Oklahoma banner on an article's talk page would include that article into the Tulsa Task Force. According to an explanation on the taskforce's project page, "The Tulsa Task Force is a 'sub-wikiproject' operating 'beneath' Wikiproject Oklahoma, and is designed to assist it by focusing specifically on Tulsa-related material. Editors who are interested in expanding knowledge of Tulsa on Wikipedia may wish to consider themselves part of Taskforce Tulsa as well as Wikiproject Oklahoma." Interested parties can sign up much like a stand-alone WikiProject.
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[edit] Random Smile!

-WarthogDemon 04:37, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oklahoma on Norwegian.

Hello fellow Wikipedian. I come from norwegian Wikipedia. I translate the Oklahoma article from english to Norwegian. Here is my question: Is this true? "most of Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains and Ozark Highlands". I believed that the Ozark Highlands, as shown here, had just a small part placed in Oklahoma. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jannizz (talk • contribs) 09:14, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tulsaschoolboard

Honestly I don't really know my self, it just seemed like a nice odd name. Tulsaschoolboard 15:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Consulates

I have gone threw with this before and like before all pages were saved!!!!!! Daltnpapi4u 02:46, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oklahoma

Trapped in the Closet had a weak chance of making the main page because it was recently promoted, and an episode article was featured a month ago, but now that there is a plausible alternative, that is the nail in the coffin. I'll tell you what, I'll withdraw the request so that you can get Oklahoma up there. Get the request ready and message me when you want me to withdraw it. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 00:48, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Go for it, quickly before anyone else grabs it. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 00:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stupid accounts

What are you doing with these? They've been flagged up as long usernames to be blocked. They need to be tagged as alternate accounts not sockpuppets anyway.

• User:This user is a sock puppet of Okiefromokla
• User:This is a sock puppet of User:Okiefromokla

Any more? Secretlondon 06:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

I removed the accounts from UAA. They were flagged up because of their length. I don't see the point in changing them but you should probably edit their userpage to say that they belong to you (in case someone complains about impersonation). My User:Secretlondon's sockpuppet got blocked by someone because they thought it was impersonating me! I was made to change the tag to alternate account as well, as sockpuppet is seen as negative.. Secretlondon 04:36, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ad

Hi there. I've got a question and please feel free to get annoyed and say no. I've been looking into making an ad for Wikiproject Oklahoma; Is there any chance you (or perhaps someone else) who has made ads in the past be willing to help? I was planning on making one anyway, but it's been a while since I've made a GIF. Okiefromokla^{talk to me} 20:40, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes. I will make this one, but it will be ready next week. Miranda 20:41, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Great! Thanks! I am in your wikidebt. :) Okiefromokla^{talk to me} 20:43, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Y Done Miranda 07:16, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Oklahoma Newsletter November 2007

The WikiOkie Reporter WikiProject Oklahoma's Newsletter Issue 3 - November 2007 Edit this newsletter Discuss this newsletter	"Your second or third stop for WikiProject Oklahoma News" Sign up to recieve this newsletter Oklahoma Portal Current article statistics Past issues
Oklahoma to be featured on Main Page The time is here, and we knew it was coming. November 16 is Oklahoma's centennial, and, as expected, WikiProject Oklahoma's newest featured article will appear on the Main Page. Oklahoma will be the first article produced by WikiProject Oklahoma featured on the Main Page since October 23, 2005, when Black Seminoles was featured. Jim Thorpe has also been featured, coming on August 13, 2004. Though featured articles for the main page are always selected by Raul654, Oklahoma's 100th anniversary makes its main page appearance a near sure thing. As of early November 6, Oklahoma had 14 nods of support, with none in opposition. All are welcome and encouraged to help spruce up the article as much as possible for its main page debut, as well as lend a hand in anti-vandalism efforts on November 16th. Wikiproject Oklahoma gets a new Wikipedia ad Thanks to User:Miranda, Wikiproject Oklahoma has joined the ranks of WikiProjects with ads to welcome new editors. On November 5, the ad, in banner form, was completed two days after its request, becoming the 107th Wikipedia ad. The ad, located at Qxz-ad107.gif, can also be seen on WikiProject Oklahoma's project page. Those interested in having the ad on their user pages can add "{{wikipedia ads}}", which displays a random ad picture. An alternative is to simply add the image directly, avoiding unwanted ads. Over 100 articles added to project During the month of October, including Novermber 2, 104 new articles were added to WikiProject Oklahoma. November 2 saw 65 articles added to the wikiproject, all by User:SkiersBot, which adds articles to wikiproject corresponding to tags, such as articles with Oklahoma-related stub tags.
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