User talk:Oldag07

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OldAg07 is getting a life. . . peaceOldag07 (talk) 23:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


  • I hope it is OK to leave a message on your nice clean page. Thanks for your update on the Glossary article. I'm glad to see that it improved through the process and I agree with you that it will probably pass if renominated shortly down the road. I hope you enjoy your wikibreak and I hope to see you back in the not-too-distant future. Best, Johntex\talk 15:07, 6 March 2008 (UTC)


Hi Oldag07,

My name is George and I work at City Year Headquarters in Boston, MA. First of all, I would like to thank you for all of the time and effort that you have put into the development of this City Year Wikipedia page. You are certainly knowledgeable on City Year history and culture, and it is great that you are trying to get the word out by positive and fact-based means. In trying to ensure that information about our organization is updated, we wanted to get involved with sites like Wikipedia in order to play a role in the messaging that goes out to people interested in City Year. We understand that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that everyone has the right to contribute to, and as such, have been exercising our right to contribute while trying to update the page with information that isn't entirely biased. As I am new to the wiki world, I did not realize that I was not logged in, and was actually the user with the outside IP address making edits to the page. It is actually very comforting to know that there are people, like yourself, looking out for people plagiarizing City Year's material. I do update the wiki page under the scope of a City Year staff member though, and am therefore authorized to use words from our materials. As Copyright owners, we are in the process of taking the appropriate steps with the Wikimedia foundation to ensure that the our right to post our copyrighted work is guaranteed. Please refer to the section on "Copyright owners who submitted their own work to Wikipedia" under Wikipedia:Copyright problems. In splitting this project between a few different staff members, I post the content, and someone else posts the references. We ask that you bear with us and leave the content up until it can be sourced, which I promise will be a reasonable amount of time, as we don't want a page that doesn't credit City Year's copyrights. If you have any questions at all or would like to voice concerns, please message me. Once again we would like to thank you for the care and consideration that you have put into updating the City Year Wikipedia page.

Sincerely,

Gbarch (talk)

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[edit] Note to self

Add to texas page

[edit] FYI

[1] — BQZip01 — talk 18:57, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Texas

Hi Oldag, nice to hear from you again! I'll definitely take a look at Texas, but it might be a few days. I've got a list of articles I promised to look at for others and I've had a hard time finding the time to get to them. Karanacs (talk) 13:45, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Texas further reading

Hi I noticed that you deleted a large section of the article "to save space". Wikipedia does not have any space restrictions, and material should not be deleted "to save space". However, the article is horrendously long (over 100,000 bytes), and long ago should have been split up into subarticles. You can even create a "Texas bibliography" article as a subarticle. The goal should be to keep the main article about 30,000 to 40,000 bytes (Edit byte count) by splitting off sections that are large into their own subarticle. The United States article, for example, when you include all of its subarticles is over 2 Megabytes, and while it also needs to have the main article trimmed to less than 40 kB, that trimming will not decrease the size of the article nor the amount of information available about the subject, it will just make it more accessible. Most people who go to an article are just looking for one factoid, for example, in the Texas article, I might be only interested in knowing whether the capital has always been in Austin. How long should it take me to find out? Should I need, on dial-up, to wait for a 100 kB article to load just so I can click on the right subarticle to drill down to what I am looking for? I notice that you have a History of Texas subarticle, but you have five unneeded subsections to History in the main article. Move them all to the subarticle, and organize the History of Texas into the five subsections that are in the main Texas article, and aren't even in the History of Texas article. Anyway I hope that you will use this advice in a positive frame. 199.125.109.105 (talk) 01:34, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

oldag
Thanks for the advice Oldag07 (talk) 01:50, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
NP. If United States wasn't semiprotected I would trim it down to 30-40 kB myself - by moving stuff into the subarticles. 199.125.109.105 (talk) 01:53, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I agree with geometry guy. you have made lots of great contributions to wikipedia, and i think you would greatly enjoy the benefits of an account. as for quality, my goal in the long run is to get the Texas article to featured article status. Thanks for the help! Oldag07 (talk) 01:58, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. I have no interest in registering an account. I wish to commend you on your work on the Texas article, and hope that you are speedily able to get it to FA status. I will trust that you have gone over the checklist to see what needs to be done? No answer required. 199.125.109.105 (talk) 02:23, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Texas

Oh, yeah, I was questioning that in my head. You seem like a good contributer and I was wondering why you did that. I don't know if I should let that go or not. May I notify someone about this? -- RyRy5 (talk ♠ Review) 02:06, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, me and some others agree that your edit was in good faith. Better safe than sorry. Thanks for telling me your edit was in good faith. Cheers. -- RyRy5 (talk ♠ Review) 02:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
No problem. :) Just be careful next time. It may help to read the name of the page your editing. Cheers. -- RyRy5 (talk ♠ Review) 02:41, 15 May 2008 (UTC)