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Hi AA, on Death of Osama bin Laden can reflinks fill in more of the reference than just the title, and leaving bot generated title? You could add an access date, publication date, and if you get more persistent an author publisher and work. Others are having to clean up afterwards. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 11:11, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
No worries. I have come across one of those senior editors... perhaps they should use DSL instead of dial-up. :P — James ( Talk • Contribs) • 9:20am • 23:20, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I'm here again to bother you (again and again... sorry). Things seem to go much better at MOTD, right now. THANK YOU!!!
The reason why I'm writing you is the following: next Sunday (8th of May) is
Mother's Day. I know that it is celebrated on different days around the world, but I'd love if we could (and are able to) make our "very-little" contribution in honour of all the mothers in the world. For the upcoming 8th of May (Sunday) there is already a motto in schedule, but I think that we can move the motto approved for that day to another date and to put one about mothers in place of it.
Here is my nomination.
Thank you in advance and all the best! –
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I award the MOTD Barnstar to Ancient Apparition for helping to keep our project "alive" during this difficult time. Without you and your so precious help and contributions, we all probably would have seen the end of this project. A BIG THANK YOU!!! – pjoef ( talk • contribs) 19:38, 3 May 2011 (UTC) |
A brief note, please, read it carefully, especially the last part in bold: The last time we (our project) gave awards to our (its) members on last Summer, then the number of new nominations and reviews of the existing nominations has been diminishing. The end result was the "April crisis" with no mottos for about an entire week. On the contrary, I hope this award will help to maintain our level high or, at least, appropriate to its needs, the needs of our project. I think that around 10 minutes a week to "devote" to the project, when it is possible of course, should be more than enough to achieve the desired result.
Of course, I gave you this award personally, in a personal way and not in the name of the project. This is just a way to say a BIG thank you, so, refrain from returning the award to me or I would be overwhelmed by stars and banners and it is not my intention to "profit" on this, really! Please, do NOT return the award! And, there is no need to thank me, it was my pleasure.
Thanks again (I think I can speak for all the contributors to MOTD) and all the very best!!! –
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Hi James,
I've got a quick question for you. You tagged the Stephen R. Hilbert article as not having reliable sources. Which sources are you referring to? All of them are either mathematical papers published in academic journals, university records, links from the frequently cited Mathematics Genealogy Project, or other pages from university websites (all terminating with .edu). I'll be glad to search for alternate sources, but first, please tell me which ones you do not deem acceptable.
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Ancient Apparition, I don't know where you have appeared from, but it obviously isn't Sydney!
Firstly, let me state that I loath and abhor those Cathedral boxes, even though that one has obviously been improved from the last. One problem is that the box gives about a zillion options, and people who do not actually write articles come along and fill them in, right down to the very last lay canon and probationer, if you give them half a chance.
I keep saying, and I'll say it again: all those option ought to be in horizontal boxes at the bottom. Why? because they disrupt the article and take up the whole of the precious right hand space where pics illustrating the subject matter can go. The article now has a neat box, but the pictures are a stuff up.
Also
It is partly for reasons of this type that I hate these boxes. You can't put this church in any convenient boxes, and to try to do so is inappropriate. Moreover, the more the box is left there, the more people will be tempted to add the sort of information that does not rate a first-page mention on any cathedral website.
If you are any good at devising these boxes, it would be a real service to me and others who write about churches, if you were to create one of those "pull down" horizontal boxes for Clergy and staff, and another on for dimensions. The dimensions would be particularly useful, and the staff could include everybody down to the last sub-assistant without getting in anybody's way.
Amandajm ( talk) 10:46, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
PS: I note your comment about the lack of references in that article. I'm sure I can find plenty more. I'll see what I can do! Amandajm ( talk) 13:51, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hello again, James. I've been anxious to get a reply ever since I contacted Adam to ask about the copyright status of the suspended FSC, but pending his recent retirement it looks like, since you were the last to comment in the nomination, maybe I figure you could help clarify what's wrong with it. I know it must be very busy for you and all, but this is the only way I know about how to get this matter laid to rest. I hope you can respond soon.
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It seems HBC Archiveindexer bot has not bee updating my archive index for the past 3 months and I have no idea why this is, if someone could tell me what I did wrong or why this is that'd be great. Thanks in advance, — James ( Talk • Contribs) • 11:40am • 01:40, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
James, please see my reasoning for only promoting this one file. cheers -- Guerillero | My Talk 05:52, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Re your question, what you have asked about isn't exactly what I had in mind, but sounds useful! What I had in mind was a horizontal box or boxes that goes at the bottom of the article and is "pull down", with dimensions and personnel. These boxes exist for a whole range of topics, notably there is a list of the cathedrals of England. The Leonardo da Vinci articles have a good box at the bottom as well.
If someone like you could create such boxes, I am sure that there are numerous people out there who would just love to fill them in. It's the sort of thing which occupies pedantic Wikipedians very happily, and keeps them too busy arguing out the last point two of a centimetre, and distracts them from continually hounding contributing writers over the MOS.
Oh I am abso-lutely stuffed! Mother's Day dinner at the local pub was incredibly delicious! The chef excelled himself!
Cheers! Amandajm ( talk) 10:15, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Great work on this! I was thinking we should include the List of Anglican churches in the Diocese of Sydney and the List of Anglican churches in Melbourne, but I couldn't see of a good way of fitting them in. St Anselm ( talk) 23:44, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
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Freddie, you are a little wonder!
Now, can I suggest that a little tweak? Put the heading Cathedrals above Churches, because that is how the episcopal hierarchy works.
I am so impressed! (thinks: and this person is not even Anglican!)
Incidentally, I wrote most of St Peter's Basilica, "St Mary's Cathedral" and also Cologne Cathedral and a few others.
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Thanks Guerillero :) — James ( Talk • Contribs) • 9:33am • 23:33, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi James
Re. Wikipedia:Files_for upload#Elizabeth Regina Love .28Queen Elizabeth II.29 Cypher
The draft article is at: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Elizabeth Regina Love (Queen Elizabeth II) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.99.59.84 ( talk) 19:47, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
OK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.105.118.193 ( talk) 06:55, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
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The archive index is getting updated, but it doesn't seem to recognise month names :S is there a wildcard character or something that can make the bot recognise month names? Ancient Apparition.alt ( talk) 01:23, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
I do not understand why the request to move File: Carroll Building Norwich.jpg to [[File:Rockwell Building Main St Norwich.jpg]] was declined. It is mislabeled, which is aim #3 of the file mover policy, correcting such inaccuracies. How can it be put into use if it cannot be found? 71.234.215.133 ( talk) 07:58, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, the template wording is under discussion here Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Request_for_Comment_February_2011#Notices - perhaps you would like to input, thanks. Off2riorob ( talk) 09:26, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, just curious... what's "TE"? Presumably not Tennis Europe... Catfish Jim & the soapdish 12:23, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
I don't think it's a good idea to be discussing this onwiki. / ƒETCH COMMS / 17:50, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hi James,
somehow I missed you nominating yourself for an RFA until after it was all over. I can see that you are keen. A way to help in success is to wait for someone to nominate you. You have hardly started yet on the training that you need. But at least you now have a clue as to what the process is like from personal experience. It became evident that you need to have more practical experience with speedy deletes.
One point to start with speedy delete is to look at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and see what should be rescued rather than needing administrator action to delete. The A1 no context can often be rescued by writing another sentence to clarify if you can work out what they are talking about. For A7 see if you can recognise a claim of importance and then you can remove the speedy delete tag. For G11 you can remove promotional text and leave the factual material behind. G1 nonsense is often a mistag as there is a strict definition for WP:nonsense. This can often be changed to some other speedy delete criteria or a prod. For authors attempting to delete their own material, you can check if they are really the author. If they use some other tag you can check the history and change it to G7 if it makes more sense that way. A2 for foreign material is often a mistake, as it should already be posted on another language Wikipedia. If you can translate it you may find it is a speedy delete candidate for another criterion. You can also give feedback to the speedy delete tagger so that they do not repeat tagging mistakes. For an exercise you could rescue/retag 100 CSD articles. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 11:05, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know the birthdate and Old Style/New Style has been previously discussed in various permutations before, at the present those discussions are all in the Talk:George Washington archives:
In my opinion this particular lede is always teetering on the brink of unwieldy. Personally, I think the previous form of the inline cites appearing later is fine (I seem to remember - in an MOS sense - that the lede does not have to have inline citations as long as its assertions are sourced in the main body?) Anyway, in this instance, the birthdate information along with the change from "Old Style" to "New Style", are all referenced in the first sentence of the main part of the article (Early Life section).
Also, in looking at your edits I see you removed a citation to an image of the Washington family Bible (from the Washington Papers Archive at UVA). This particular image shows the birth information as it was contemporaneously recorded along with hard to find birth information on some of Washington's siblings so for now I have added this cite back into the articles.
If you don't mind, I think the lede having or not having these particular cites cites should be discussed on the article's talkpage, so I have opened a discussion there. If you disagree with my edit re the UVA Washington Arhives/family Bible image, just give me a Talkback & I'm sure we can come to some kind of consensus about it. Thanks,
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Hiya Ancient apparition (cool name) I was wondering if you would adopt me? —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheTrainEnthusiast ( talk • contribs) 22:51, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
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hey hello james and thanks for your help an this new article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Alexis_Mendiola but is difficult find a good source because this person is beginning his carrer in the football soccer, so I put some sources about this person, where they talk about his career or his stay at his club, anyways, I put a new source, where the person give an interview and talk about his career, i don't know if this can help me to create this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.153.78.176 ( talk) 08:43, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey James hello again, I'd want to ask you wich of my sources are wrong because I've edited again the article and I erased some of the sources and I saw some pages about other footballers in wikipedia and I put some sources that I think are good.
Hello, I'm just letting you know that you know that your PGP template is currently showing the default key ID instead of your actual key ID, which is 0x0A553464. Also, it's not on the linked server. If you want to fix it, your key is actually at http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x0A553464. Feezo (send a signal | watch the sky) 09:06, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Dear James (Ancient Apparition): Thank you very much for the time you spent in revising the page "Géa", which I created - I am a reader of the book, not its author. The page was not accepted, and so I've tried to improve it with the new subtitle "Géa - Citations and Notability", where I put the original Portuguese citations and the best translation I could do for these citations (and I don't know if it's better to let in the page only the English translations or both, the Portuguese original citations and the English translations). I am a Brazilian, my English is what you can see in the page "Géa" and here... Please! help me with the English, correcting it! And also, please help me in avoiding the "essay" style. I have done my best to avoid it, but couldn't do better. The book is really great, its Portuguese is perfect, but I and my "English" am not. Please help! 187.13.15.246 ( talk) 10:47, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the answer! I removed the Portuguese citations from page "Géa", and included a Synopsis. I will read now all the articles you kindly suggested and try to do a better job! Please read the citations (all only in English now - and I removed the Wikipédia citation), the sources are perhaps now relevant, as is the case of the Jornal da Tarde, who has an article in En Wiki. If you have time, please help me with the English in the page! It's my best "English" and I have nobody to help me in improoving it. Good luck for you too and regards!!! 187.13.15.246 ( talk) 11:19, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
I am very moved with you kind help! I'm working in the page "Géa", doing my very best! Excuse-me, please, for my "English" in the page! The References are already now in the page, and I'm working to follow all the suggestions you so kindly gave. Best regards! 187.13.15.246 ( talk) 12:04, 21 May 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.13.15.246 ( talk) 12:01, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry I am late to your reply to my oppose in your RFA since you closed your RFA. But I am here just to clarify my oppose if you did not understand my oppose. I was not holding a grudge against you for nominating my page for deletion. But you had given small reasons that were not worthy for deletion, which shows that you did not understand the main purpose of the page. Good luck. - Porchcrop ( talk| contributions) 06:41, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, James! Thank you for the answer above. I followed the best I could the suggestions you kindly gave: tried to improve the layout (but, please, if possible, improve it better for me) and included the references 3 and 4 to the book of Camilo Castelo Branco, now best specified, with links to external sites where it can be found and with the copy of the mention to the same book which is in the En Wiki Camilo Castelo Branco article. I hope you or other En Wiki member may analyze the page "Géa" again. If there are any new suggestions, please tell me and I will continue to work in that page! If you may help with the English text and a best layout, please do. I studied the Wiki page about layout you recommended but couldn't see, with my inexperienced eyes, where to improve more that aspect of "Géa" page.
I also included three illustrations in page "Géa", from "Géa" books. Please, tell me if that is a good idea or if would be better to remove the illustrations.
Best Regards! 187.13.15.246 ( talk) 13:56, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, James! I (the person who created "Géa" page) am moved when reading the magnificent work you are doing in improving the English of that page. As I read a note in the History of the page, where you say something like "to do not edit the page during it's revision", and as I read above in this entry your instructions about external links, please tell me if you will remove yourself these links from the body text and include them in the "External links" section, or if I can since now do it myself. Waiting for your answer, I will not edit the page "Géa" now. About the illustrations, I think they help to define the information and are relevant to the topic, because they are part of the book and also part of the work of the same author who wrote the book. Thank you immensely for the help in improving that page. 187.13.17.184 ( talk) 11:33, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind answer, James! I will look for the links inside the body of the text now and include them in the "External links". 187.13.17.184 ( talk) 11:40, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the answer. I am a lover of the book and an admirer of the author, it's very difficult for me to be neutral, but I am doing my best. About criticism, there are only applauses, which may be read in the massive page "Opiniões sobre Géa" (in Portuguese, site www.ccdb.gea.nom.br - the author's site). The criticisms in the articles and reportings I know are all applauses too, which can be read in the articles and reportings whose links I included in the page "Géa". I could not find any person or specialist who had read "Géa" and could say or write any word against. About the presence of links inside the body of the page "Géa", I removed them - please see if it is well now. Where there were those links I put the phrase "(see link for it in the "External Links", below)". I know it's long and cumbersome; please, transform it in a better English. For the moment, I am thinking but cannot find more ways I could of improving the page - but I will continue to read and reread it and try to improve it still more. Best regards! 187.13.17.184 ( talk) 12:13, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, James! I said above that couldn't find more relevant topics to include in the page "Géa", but I remembered two, which I included few minutes ago (with my "English"...) in the page. They are "Extraterrestrial languages" and "Cover". I included also a topic "Criticisms" in the page, whith links to the author's pages where he invites specialists for criticism and where therare opinions about "Géa" (several in English, the majority in Portuguese). Please, if you think one, two or all of them are not relevant, delete them; or if you like, please correct my "English". Regards! 187.13.17.184 ( talk) 12:32, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Congrats you are now a FS director. If you have any questions about this feel free to ask -- Guerillero | My Talk 01:28, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I learned that signing your posts to talk pages is good practice, and I already knew that signing your name to edits on articles is bad practice. I learned that articles must be well-sourced, and it's bad if they are not well sourced. I also read the page on verifiabiltiy, and found out what is and what isn't a reliable source. I learned that even if an edit looks like vandalism if it was made with good intentions it is not vandalism.
I learned that you must remain civil in conversations with other users. I learned that Wikipedia is centered around five (I think) core policies, and that the policies are not rules, they're just guidelines. I learned that if you want to make an edit, but you're not sure if it is right, be bold and do it anyway, because if it's wrong someone will come and clean it up and let you know that you've made a mistake. Oh, and I also learned that using edit summaries is good practice, too. TheTrainEnthusiast ( talk) 14:46, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Sure thing, as always I'm here if you need anything :) — James ( Talk • Contribs) • 11:02am • 01:02, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
OK, I added the box. Can you take a look at it? TheTrainEnthusiast ( talk) 01:07, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
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— James ( Talk • Contribs) • 9:37pm • 11:37, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
What is vandalism?
Vandalism is the changing of a page in order to disrupt Wikipedia.
List 3 situations where a edit which could be considered vandalism, may not actually be vandalism.
1. When a new user makes an edit but doesn't know exactly what they're doing.
2. When a reason is given for removing content, in the case of content removing vandalism.
3. Test edits to the sandbox.
What are obvious indicators of a vandalism edit while watching recent changes?
The tags sometimes indicate vandalism.
How do you revert vandalism?
With popups you move your mouse over the prev button and if it's vandalism, click rv. With Twinkle you click on the prev button, and if it's vandalism you click the "rollback vandal" button.
What warning template would you use if a user removed or blanked all the content from a page?
It depends. If it's their first time, then you would add the uw-vand1 template. If it's their second time, you would add the uw-vand2 template, etc.
What warning template would you use if a user add the words "i really hate wikipedia!" to an article?
See above.
How do you add an article to your watchlist?
By clicking the star on the top of the screen.
If you misuse such tools as WP:TW or WP:VPRF what could happen?
You could have your rights removed.
I'm not sure about a couple of these answers, so please tell me where (and if) I went wrong. TheTrainEnthusiast ( talk) 01:19, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
How do I upload an image? I have a photo of me and my grandson that I want to put on my userpage. TheTrainEnthusiast ( talk) 21:56, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requested moves/Closing instructions states that non-administrators should restrict themselves to closing "unanimous or nearly unanimous discussions after a full listing period". With that in mind, why did you close Andrew Mason (businessman) contrary to popular consensus without relisting or waiting for an admin to do it? You seem to have supervoted saying "there is no evidence that the subject is the primary topic" despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. You even forgot to add the correct formatting to your closure. I would have let this oversight go if it weren't for this butchered move (moved to the wrong place before the customary 7 day waiting period), or this one. Marcus Qwertyus 01:16, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
We're half way through round 3 of the
2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round.
Casliber (
submissions), of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by
Racepacket (
submissions),
Hurricanehink (
submissions) and
Canada Hky (
submissions) respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at
featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.
A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:27, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
What on Earth is the purpose of these? Chzz ► 05:36, 31 May 2011 (UTC)