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[edit] Welcome to Esperanza!

Welcome, Verrai/Archive2, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member, you might be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee , KnowledgeOfSelf, JoanneB, Titoxd and FireFox. The elections have ended.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact me via email or talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to be!

Thanks! - Image:Ottawa flag.png nathanrdotcom (T • C • W) 22:14, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] J. R. R. Tolkien

This article is up for Featured Article nomination. PLEASE tell all your friends in the Middle Earth Group and anyone else you know that this is happening and vote on it, and help correct the final things this article need to be a featured one. Thanks much!! Judgesurreal777 09:33, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AID

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Great Leap Forward and Decline of the Roman Empire were selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help…

-Litefantastic 00:36, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Thanks Verrai/Archive2
Thanks for your recent support on my RfA which passed 91/0/0. If you ever need anything, feel free to leave me a message! Gflores Talk 06:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The POTD page

I had made a note on Talk:Main Page about the text in the FP section abutting the actual picture. I wasnt exactly sure how to get it to work. I didn't think the div would be the best solution, but I was too tired to figure it out fully last night. And honestly, I am crap at coding anyway, so it's no surprise I messed up. I think the problem got cleared up, but thanks for the offer of help. See you around, my friend. --LV (Dark Mark) 19:22, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How to join?

Could you please tell me how to join Esperanza? I looked at the page, but didn't really get a sense of how to do it. Alethiophile 22:04, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey... about Cyclone Larry

Hey Cuivienen (can I call you Tom? It's difficult typing out your whole username :P), just thought I'd give you a heads-up that two seperate users have seen fit to be incivil and make personal attacks against you for your comments over the strength of Cyclone Larry. One's already been blocked (hesmartly went on to criticise Titoxd, who had warned him), while I've just warned the other one. However, I am concerned that your words are triggering such strong reactions. Might it be possible to tone your argument down a bit such that you don't get attacks made against you and your argument is seen as a possibility, rather than a definite? Cheers, NSLE (T+C) at 07:32 UTC (2006-03-22)

No fair! You've protected your talk page so I have to respond here! Thanks for the heads-up; I'm going to be avoiding the Cyclone Larry page for a while because I don't think it's worth edit warring or arguing over something so trivial. I suppose I should thank you for blocking TydeNet, but I do think the block was rather harsh. If I return to the page, I promise to be less cutting. And you can call me Tom if you want. —Cuiviénen, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 @ 15:30 (UTC)

[edit] Request deletion

How do you request that a page be deleted? I installed Lupin's anti-vandal tool and found some things that need to be. Alethiophile 23:21, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit]  ??

What exactly is adminship? Alethiophile 20:03, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

I convey my greetings to you on my completion of one year as a wikipedian. Come here, we shall have a party tonight. --Bhadani 15:03, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] a reply

Hi. I was just being paranoid. There is no need to apologise. I think most other people are over the Cat3/Cat4 thing and NSLE has gone on wikibreak so I think it'll all calm down now. When NSLE comes back I'll try not to cause him any more wikistress and I hope that we'll all be able to move on. Happy editing. -- Adz|talk 00:36, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1964 Atlantic hurricane season

Just to let you know, 1964 did not have 5 Category 4's. It had Cleo, Dora, Gladys, and Hilda. Isabell was a strong Cat. 3. I changed the edits you made. Hurricanehink 03:34, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LOL

Well, at least someone admits it... ;) Titoxd(?!? - help us) 05:35, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

Hi Cuivienen, and thank you for taking time to vote on my RfA. I understand that my last 6000+ edits were not sufficient to convince you that edits like some of my early ones would never be repeated again, but I sincerely hope that at some point I would be able to convince you of my transformation. Looking forward to working with you in future. Regards, deeptrivia (talk) 03:11, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:FAC History of Puerto Rico

I have added references to the History of Puerto Rico sections as you had requested/suggested. Please let me know if any more are needed. Joelito 04:42, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #1

Reach out is a program aimed at allowing users to bring issues that they have had in Wikipedia to a listening, sympathetic and caring audience:
"No one can know how we feel if we do not say. We cannot expect to get understanding if we do not ask for it. No one will dispute that sometimes life's issues are too much for one person. It is fair to say that sometimes Wikipedia's problems fall under the same heading. This is a place where you can bring the bruises that can sometimes be got on this project for attention."
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.
Note from the editor
Welcome to this new format of the Esperanza Newsletter, which came about during the last Advisory Council meeting - we hope you like it! The major changes are that each month, right after the Council meeting, this will be sent out and will include two featured programs and a sum up of the meeting. Also, it will be signed by all of the Advisory Council members, not just Celestianpower. Have an Esperanzial end of March, everyone!
  1. Future meetings are to be held monthly, not fortnightly as before.
  2. Bans and Access level changes (apart from autovoice) in the IRC channel are to be reported at the new log.
  3. In the IRC channel, there is going to be only one bot at a time.
  4. The charter requires members to have 150 edits and 2 weeks editing. Why this is the case will be clarified.
  5. A new Code of Conduct will be drafted by JoanneB and proposed to the Esperanza community.
  6. The NPA reform idea is to be dropped officially.
  7. Charter ammendments are to be discussed in future, not voted on.
  8. The Advisory Council is not going to be proposed to be expanded by the Advisory Council themselves, if others want to propose it, they will listen.
Signed...
Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, KnowledgeOfSelf and FireFox 17:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Location lists

This is about List of retired Atlantic hurricanes, specificially the landfalls section. Like a number of other lists, this section lists locations using "&" in what I consider obnoxious ways: "Mississippi & Louisiana", "Bahamas, Florida & Louisiana". The latter is wrong grammar and should be "Bahamas, Florida, & Louisiana". However I don't like the use of & at all; we should spell out "and" if that what we want, or just use commas" "Mississippi, Louisiana" and "Bahamas, Florida, Louisiana". — jdorje (talk) 23:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: List of retired Atlantic hurricanes

I got it from various sources, though all U.S. ones came from [here, the list of costliest U.S. hurricanes at the time when they hit. I'll add my sources to the list. Hurricanehink 01:01, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More

Are you done with the {{inuse}} on this page? — jdorje (talk) 02:47, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You Have Died!

Well, not really...but sort of...[1]. Weatherman90 22:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I guess I should schedule a funeral. Actually, not joke time. Anyone dying is sad. —Cuiviénen, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 @ 22:49 (UTC)

[edit] Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #2

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."
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!
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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] Practical joke

LOL, I just went on your userpage to see something about your signature when I was to my shock I had a message in my talk. But it was a joke. That is very clever. — Hurricane Devon ( Talk ) 21:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Mwahahaha. Another one snared. —Cuiviénen, Friday, 7 April 2006 @ 02:20 (UTC)
Chalk one more up. Why didn't I look at where the link said it would go? The Sculler 19:33, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambig for me?

What does that mean? I saw your name on my watchlist and it had that by it. I dont get it... Cyclone1 05:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, nvm. I see whatcha did. Glad someone looks at my user page. I like that practical joke new messages thing. LOL! Cyclone1 05:06, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

To be honest, I grabbed it from BJAODN. It isn't original. I wish I were that witty myself. —Cuiviénen, Sunday, 9 April 2006 @ 04:10 (UTC)

==Welcome to VandalProof== Thanks for your interest in VandalProof! You've been added to the list of authorized users, and feel free to contact me or post a message on VandalProof's talk page if you have any questions. AmiDaniel (Talk) 03:12, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A KISS Rfa Thanks

Thank you for your comments, I've been promoted. pschemp | talk 01:42, 11 April 2006 (UTC)