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Contents 1 Advert 2 Vandalism Question 3 Userbox 4 Line break 5 new pages 6 PNUT Jewelry 7 Userbox 8 Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2 9 Old Skool Esperanzial note 10 Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3 11 Category:Aspergian Wikipedians 12 A short Esperanzial update 13 August Esperanza Newsletter 14 September Esperanza Newsletter 15 IRC cloak request 16 IRC cloak request 17 Question concerning block 18 User Page Help 19 Gruntmaster 6000 20 Userpage cleanup

[edit] Advert

If an article is a blatantly obvious ad, is that grounds for speedy deletion? If so, is there a template for it?

I usually use {{db|advertising/promo}} . . . just put the reason after the pipe. You can find more info here: Template:Deletiontools. (Arundhati Bakshi (talk • contribs)) 00:52, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

It is not a grounds for speedy deletion. Advertisment is a POV...that's a reason for cleanup, not a reason for deletion, certainly not speedy deletion. The criteria are listed, as I said before, at WP:CSD. NickelShoe 01:43, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism Question

Is there anything I can use to emulate a admin rollback for vandalism?

You will find a lot of helpful links on WP:CUV, including a script to do what you are looking for! --JoanneB 22:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, click history compare the last two versions. Keep going back to older ones until you see it's vandalism-free. Then make sure you're on the last vandalism-free version and just click edit. And you don't have to change anything, just save the old version. Tada. That's what the page Joann referred you to calls "old school" and that's what I always do. NickelShoe 21:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

I don't use userboxes myself, but I see nothing particularly wrong with the one you asked me about. NickelShoe 21:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Line break

For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to make a line break in a wikipedia article. Any help?

Not sure what you mean. Line breaks aren't used as such, since different people have different width screens so you wouldn't know where to put the line break. Paragraph breaks on the other hand can be acheived by leaving a blank line. e.g.

Para 1

Para 2

If you wanted to do a list then you'd use the other items such as * at the start of a line to indicate a bullet

• Item 1
• Item 2

--pgk^(talk) 20:05, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] new pages

Is there any kind of "new page patrol" the way there's an Recent Changes patrol? If so, where's it's homepage? (and don't tell me special:newpages, as if I didn't already know that.)

WP:RCP covers both Recent Changes Patrol and New Pages Patrol. — flamingspinach | (talk) 01:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PNUT Jewelry

If you think it's more appropriate for a PROD or a AFD, go ahead and put it there - I don't mind. Andy Saunders 20:42, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

Thanks for the END userbox. And I'd also like to thank you for taking the time to personally thank me for using your userbox. Keep up the good work!

[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

Barnstar Brigade The Barnstar Brigade is a new program aimed at giving more very deserving yet unappreciated users barnstars. It will officially start on 2006-04-09, but signing up is encouraged before this date: "Here in Wikipedia, there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go un-appreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go un-noticed. Sadly, these editors often leave the project. As Esperanzians, we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. A project the size of Wikipedia has thousands of editors, so there are plenty of people out there who deserve recognition, one just has to find them. The object of this program is not to flood editors with Barnstars, but to seek out people who deserve them, and make them feel appreciated." Stress Alerts The Stress alerts program aims at identifying users who are stressed, alerting the community of thier stress and works in tandem with the Stressbusters at trying to identify causes of stress and eliminating them. Information Welcome to the second issue of the new format Esperanza Newsletter - we hope you still like it! This week, it was delivered diligently by our new dogsbody. MiszaBot (run by Misza13): any execution complaints should go to him. Content comments should be directed at the Esperanza talkpage. Thanks!

The last AC meeting (full log) The next elections: Approval voting as before and, also as before, an previous leadership member can run. Please submit your name for voting in the relevant section of this page. Voting starts on 2006-04-23 and ends on 2006-04-30. There will be three places up for grabs as KnowledgeOfSelf is leaving Wikipedia. Please see the previously linked page for full details. The Code of Conduct is now ready for extensive discussion! Specific comments should go to the Code of Conduct talk page, discussion of having one at all should be directed to the main Esperanza talk page. The current process for accepting proposals for new programs has been deemed fine. All Advisory Council members and the Admin Gen are to endevour to be bold when viewing discussion. If they feel that consensus has been reached, they will act accordingly. A plea from the editor... The propsed programs page is terribly underused! Please leave any comments, good or bad, on the page, to help us determine the membership's thoughts on the ideas there. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 19:53, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but 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. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Aspergian Wikipedians

Category:Aspergian Wikipedians which you have included on your user page has been proposed for deletion you can comment at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Wikipedians by mental condition. The is also a proposal to create an association to meet the needs of users with mental health conditions. --Salix alba (talk) 18:54, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! What's New? In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed! The In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List.

[edit] September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself! The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it! TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly! Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List.

[edit] IRC cloak request

[edit] IRC cloak request

I am recon on freenode and I would like the cloak wikipedia/recon. Thanks. --Recon0. (talk) 01:09, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question concerning block

{{helpme}}

I make edits from my school a lot, but my school is in imminent danger of being blocked. User talk:65.220.126.190 is it's talk page. If my school's IP gets blocked, will I still be able to make edits using my account? Recon0. (talk) 13:09, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

That can be decided by the administrator who blocks it. If you go to the talk page you linked above, you might want to place a message there saying that a block will affect legitimate users, and ask for a 'soft block' (that is, a block that doesn't affect registered users), to make sure that you aren't blocked by mistake. --ais523 13:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User Page Help

Hello. Since you were in Category:Wikipedians requesting help improving their user pages, do you need any help? Please reply on my talk page. S.D. ¿п? § 19:40, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Also responsing to your help-me request. My main advice would be to get rid of the userboxes that do not actually tell other Wikipedians anything Wikipedia-useful about you (your soft drink preferences, etc.), or at least move them to a /Personal sub-page, and then sort the userboxes into categorizations, and add plain prose about your editing activities, etc. See my user page for an example. It has quite a few userboxes, but they are interspersed with regular text, and the result is probably (I hope!) a bit less bewildering. — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 19:47, 13 February 2007 (UTC) Mmm Make a wiki table? Like this:

header 1	header 2	header 3
row 1, cell 1	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

--Spixels 22:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

What about something like this? --Andrew Hampe | Talk 19:30, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gruntmaster 6000

Another editor has added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Gruntmaster 6000, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Oo7565 04:57, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userpage cleanup

You requested userpage cleanup, so here's what I could do: click. The only thing I couldn't keep was the WP:BABEL box, so I made those userboxes separate. ~ thesublime514 • talk • sign 02:57, April 9, 2007 (UTC)