Hi, Bearian. You blocked
Special:Contributions/12.44.252.196 for a week a few hours ago for vandalism, but I don't see any recent vandalism from the IP and I see no warnings since July. I think this may have been in error. Could you look into it? Thank you.
WODUP05:40, 5 November 2008 (UTC)reply
Bearian,User:Sourcechecker419 is still at it. I couldn't find anything new on his User talk:Sourcechecker419 page. What do you suggest? Probably best if you respond here. Bellagio99 (talk) 02:08, 6 November 2008 (UTC).
Bellagio99 (
talk)
02:10, 6 November 2008 (UTC)reply
That was tagged and deleted as
G11 not
A7.
Note the use of "our" as in "Crunch health clubs are home to a unique fusion of entertainment and fitness, one that we have pioneered from our inception". I usually wouldn't disregard another admin's {{
hangon}}.
Toddst1 (
talk)
00:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)reply
Arena Leisure Plc
Hi, Bearian I created the article after finding several red links to them. Im not a big fan of stub articles but felt that they were Notable enough as they control so many of the UK's race courses and are a major share holder in the race broadcasting company with Sky. Its a start for somebody with more knowledge of the subject to build on -
BulldozerD11 (
talk)
03:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)reply
In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.
I don't believe in template RfA thankyous so this is a short handwritten note to say thanks for your support in my RfA which closed successfully a few hours ago, and I'll work hard to meet the expectations of all those who took part and had a say. I note your comment re
WP:AL - it needs more content editors more than anything else but I'll certainly continue to cotnribute to it in any way I can. Feel free to stop by with any advice or suggestions, regarding either admin actions or potential improvements to the quality of Australian law articles and ways to encourage more participation in the WikiProject. And thanks again.
Euryalus (
talk)
11:53, 12 November 2008 (UTC)reply
Wake up WP:LGBT! It's time to kick in gear and get some things done!
Project News
Wake up!
I say this to myself as much as I say it to all of us. I work a lot by myself or with individual editors who spend time at
Featured Article Candidates. It seems on November 5 a fog was lifted off my brain that helped me realize that we have massive potential in this project to get things done. Take this allegory, for instance: On Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1980, my 10th-grade American history teacher started class by unfurling The New York Times. She pointed to its triple banner headline: “Reagan Easily Beats Carter; Republicans Gain in Congress; D’Amato and Dodd are Victors.” “Save this paper,” she told us. “This is the start of a whole new era.”Judith Warner from The New York Times
It definitely seems a start to a whole new era now. If planets align correctly to remind us that whatever advances we may have made in electing what appears to be an
extraordinary president in the US, the moons that revolve around those planets also serve to illustrate it's not that simple. Florida, Arizona, and California all appear to have banned
same sex marriage. As someone who was married in California and lives in Florida, this is particularly poignant. We seem to be at the juncture of two converging paths. If we maximize our efforts and take the right ones, we might just be able to affect some change for ourselves.
Though what we do is an interesting hobby for some, we have the power to make a difference. California's ballot initiative to ban gay marriage was a fierce fight. It's being challenged right now, but just look at how Wikipedia played a role in that: in October 2008, 360,238 people read its article. On November 5, an astounding
467,000 people read it. I commend the editors who work on that article—both those who support and oppose it. A look at the talk page shows a concerted effort to keep it civil and accurate.
What can we do?
How do you fight ignorance? With information. That's what Wikipedia is for. This project is overwhelming with 8,576 articles in its scope. We can continue to work piecemeal as we have in the past, or we can focus on goals. These are examples of areas we can concentrate on.
Current political events
LGBT Media and Literature
LGBT History
Sex and sexuality
Articles about political issues in the US and around the world that have been especially relevant within the past 5 years
Depictions of LGBT people and issues on television, film, newspapers, magazines
Topics about gay rights activism and the opposition to it
There are more than 8,000 articles to work on. Can we build a list of priorities? Can we build enough enthusiasm to work on these? What if we had editors who oversaw progress in these areas and reported to the talk page or in the newsletter? Surely someone here wants to report on the progress of sex articles.
Tony Perkins (
irony) from the conservative Family Research Councilwas heartened by the recent passages of gay marriage bans. The Republican Party is without direction. What's going to take the place of a moderate voice will not be pleasant to our ears. Watching and improving articles of subjects that have opposed gay rights in the past will be of vital importance very soon, I predict.
But WP:LGBT is not a very active project
All we can do is start somewhere. The first step is answering this newsletter on the project talk page. Join in the discussion.
More things we can do
Give out more barnstars, and let each other know that what they're doing is valued.
Create a guide to stave off burnout, because editors in this project get burned out faster than others. There are many hills to climb.
Bring back the monthly collaboration project.
Participate in LGBT Peer reviews.
Get familiar with the characteristics of Good Articles and get our top priority articles to
WP:GA.
Use the Newsletter, Moni3! You can suggest what to send out in the newsletter, too!
Offer research materials, copy editing, ideas, and support to your fellow editors.
Keep the project talk page informed of problems and discussions we should know about.
Proposal: Put Importance Levels on articles
If this was decided long before I was a member, maybe it's time to revisit it. Other WikiProjects, such as
WP:Novels determine that some subjects have an importance category: Top, High, Mid, Low, or None (undetermined). If we decide that our most core articles, it might help to organize which articles to address first. Top importance, for example, would be
Gay,
Homosexual,
Lesbian,
Bisexual,
Transgender,
Sappho,
Oscar Wilde,
Stonewall riots, for example. High importance would be
Homosexuality and psychology,
Harvey Milk,
Mattachine Society,
Harry Hay, or
Daughters of Bilitis, and so on. This can be a matter of discussion, or perhaps we could have someone in charge of determining these levels for all the articles we have tagged.
These are the editors I've seen working (and I know I'm forgetting a few). There's more of you out there I haven't seen. Some of you are new. We need all of you. Please help.
Miami, January 18, 1977 after the gay rights ordinance was passed: While
Bryant and the others were creating the beginnings of the repeal effort, (gay activists) Basker, Campbell, Kunst, and the other (gay rights) ordinance supporters congratulated themselves on their success and then quickly disbanded... There was no organized recognition or celebration of the victory. As one activist remembered, "We just went home." They had little idea of the battle that was before them. - Fred Fejes in Gay Rights and Moral Panic, 2008
To stop receiving this newsletter, or to receive it in a different format, please let us know
here. If you have any news or any announcements to be broadcast, do let
Moni3 know.
CU is granted by arbcom and they just gave out 4 a month ago. CU has nothing to do with being a crat. Crat is by RFB. You get CU by requesting it from arbcom, but few are given. The next most likely time is after the arbcom elections are over. —
Rlevse •
Talk • 00:04, 13 November 2008 (UTC)reply
I see Rlevse and Kojidude have helped me and answered your questions. I'd just like to add to what Rlevse said, though. I, for one, don't see us recruiting anymore checkusers soon. It is by no means a regular occurence, and it seems like we have enough for now. If, once elected, some of the new Arbitrators intend to help out there, then we will almost certainly give them checkuser rights, as has been the custom for a very long time, but I doubt we'll be recruiting any time soon, even after the Arbitrators are elected. --
Deskana(talk)06:55, 14 November 2008 (UTC)reply
I have taken off the "hoax" tag and other maintenance templates you put on this article because, rather to my surprise, I find it correctly reports what Koestler says in The Act of Creation. However a bit of searching has left me in some doubt as to whether Koestler adopted a name which, in medical terms, had another meaning, so I have rewritten the introductory sentence, put an {{expert-subject}} tag on, and explained my doubts on the talk page. Regards,
JohnCD (
talk)
21:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)reply
The brain is very odd indeed - I heard of someone who after a minor stroke could not remember the names of vegetables. Just vegetables - everything else was fine.
JohnCD (
talk)
21:48, 17 November 2008 (UTC)reply
Hi Bearian, can you look
here please? I've attempted to explain everything, without effect. I don't want to look after uncommunicative and disruptive users. Is it possible to do something with this? Thanks. Have a nice day. --
Vejvančický (
talk)
20:14, 18 November 2008 (UTC)reply
Gerard
On the whole I agree with you
[1], except it is not you family IP, and God knows what details this strange peson has got hold of - you might feel differently if it was. Can you not see that? We all have a right to privacy.
Giano (
talk)
23:44, 19 November 2008 (UTC)reply
Bearian, thank you very much for participating in
my Rfa, which was successful with 80 Support, 5 Oppose, 6 Neutral. The comments were overwhelming, and hopefully I can live up to the expectation of the community.
I would also like to thank my nominator
Realist2 and my co-nom
Orane(talk), and special mention to
Acalamari and
Lenticel(
talk) for the kindness from the start. Regards,
Efe
Thank you to all who participated in my RFA- regardless of whether you supported or opposed, all feedback is important to me. I look forward to proving in the coming months that the trust placed in me by the community is not misplaced. Mizu onna sango15
Thank you to all who participated in my RFA- regardless of whether you supported or opposed,
all feedback is important to me. I look forward to proving in the coming months that the trust placed in me by the community is not misplaced.
—
Mizu onna sango15Hello!
Bearian, I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent
Request for Adminship, which passed with 112 supports, 4 opposes and 5 neutrals. A special mention goes out to
Stwalkerster and
Pedro for nominating me, thanks a lot for having trust in me! In response to the neutrals, I will try to double check articles that have been tagged for speedy deletion before I CSD them and will start off slowly with the drama boards of
ANI and
AN to ensure that I get used to them. In response to the oppose !votes on my RfA, I will check that any images I use meet the
non-free content criteria and will attempt to handle any disputes or queries as well as I can. If you need my help at all, feel free to simply
ask at my
talk page and I'll see if I can help. Once again, thank you for your participation, and have a great day! :)
TheHelpfulOne22:11, 25 November 2008 (UTC)reply
design by
neurolysis | to add this barnstar to your awards page, simply copy and paste {{subst:User:Neurolysis/THOBS}} and remove this bottom text | if you don't like thankspam, please accept my sincere apologies
Since you haven't responded to
User_talk:Ronz#Paralegal, I thought it might be easier to discuss it here.
I'm not sure what your objection is. Removing the links, thinking the links are inappropriate, characterizing the edit as "linkspam", or something else. --
Ronz (
talk)
17:06, 26 November 2008 (UTC)reply
time's over!
Hi, Bearian, don't you think it's time to delete the pages "
Neuropsychophysiology" and "
Michele Trimarchi" as they didn't add anything useful to improve the issues so far? It wouldn't seem serious to leave them on Wikipedia, don't you think so? Have a good work and a nice night. Julien Sorel —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
80.104.234.37 (
talk)
19:24, 26 November 2008 (UTC)reply
hi brian i am new to article posting and no knowledge of article posting right now so can you guide me how to post articles because i ve just make a first attempt and it got a delete tag on it waiting for your reply. thanks —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Jawadakr (
talk •
contribs)
21:02, 26 November 2008 (UTC)reply