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Amy Tan Award |
Thank you for participating in the First Annual Litquake Edit-a-thon on October 11, 2014 in parallel with Litquake, the San Francisco Bay Area's annual literature festival. Your content contributions and community collaboration helped make the event a success, and are appreciated! Rosiestep ( talk) 22:47, 29 November 2014 (UTC) |
Hi, I was really sorry to read about what you have gone through. Just wanted to say that I consider you a fine editor and a good colleague here on wikipedia, and I hope things will work out for you and your situation improves soon. Incidentally I speak from experience when I say that not being a sysop after being one is actually really liberating, and can dramatically increase one's enjoyment from editing. User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 16:06, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey Sarah! So, it looks like you're kinda in a shitty situation, and that really sucks - I'm sorry for that. You mentioned in the Arb case If people want to remove my administrative rights that's fine. I can live with that.. What I would suggest is maybe a reconfirmation RfA, or if you're not attached to the admin bit, voluntarily giving them up. That seems to be the scope of the case and while it currently looks like it's going to be refused - this could help completely avoid this or other avenues that interested individuals may pursue. I don't want to see that, and I think you'd rather just go back to a quiet environment. Just some food for thought, virtual hugs, and wikilove. -- Dusti *Let's talk!* 18:26, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
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The Purple Star | |
I honestly cannot think of a good reason for the recent ArbCom request, and sincerely hope that this example of what I consider ridiculous stupidity does not leave too strong of an impact on you personally or on your editing here. John Carter ( talk) 21:42, 3 December 2014 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
Please accept this barnstar in recognition of your resilience and persistence on and off-wiki. I know you have a long history in helping to make our online community more inclusive and welcoming to contributors that are open about their gender, sexuality, and celebrate the value of experience and viewpoints they bring to this project. Fæ ( talk) 20:13, 3 December 2014 (UTC) |
The committee has voted to decline this case request. Given the nature of the request, my view was that the decision to reject it needed actioned as urgently as possible. Although I am an arbitrator, I have therefore performed the clerks' function in this matter by removing the case request so that it is delisted from the arbitration request page as speedily as possible. It could have been a number of days before a clerk became available to remove the case request, and given your statement at the requests page I did not consider this acceptable. This is both an explanatory note and also the mandatory notice that needs served to parties when RFARs are declined. A copy of the declined request is available here. Yours, AGK [•] 23:05, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Hallo Sarah Strietch / MissVain
Thanks for your Teahouse invitation. I used to edit Wikipedia several suns ago but left because of all the nasty men here, and can't get back into my old account because I lost my email ID along with the domain name in 2012.
Yesterday I created a fairly well researched and sourced article for this amazing Indian feminist Anny Kohli, and was working on it when User:Secret deleted it silently and now refuses to discuss it.
Since Wikipedia has changed considerably since I was here, and its even more hostile to female editors and female article subjects than before, what do you suggest can be done ? Indohispano ( talk) 11:47, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:36, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
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Good work on the Ferguson article! — Keithbob • Talk • 17:44, 9 December 2014 (UTC) |
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Thanks for reviewing draft in my sandbox. Understand that there are lines in the Background section which were directly picked from the NGO's website. I will be revising the article as suggested. Yndesai ( talk) 07:03, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Just revised and resubmitted the article. Yndesai ( talk) 07:38, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!! |
Hello Missvain, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
seasonal occasion. Spread the
WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2015. Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
We haven't talked much other than the odd AfC thread, but of all the prolific Wikipedians, I think you deserve more than most to have a very happy and peaceful Christmas amongst your family and friends. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:20, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello Missvain, not that often I come across an Admin I haven't 'seen', heard of, 'met' with 112k or so edits!
I saw you making a possibly vain
attempt to get
62.25.109.197 to preview their edits. I templated them re edit summaries, but maybe I should have looked at exactly what they are doing first. I think anyone who can add 11 info-boxes to pages in under an hour is a real asset! It also looks like they started at A and are going to go through to Z wherever an infobox has been requested. They are just powering along! It's amazing, maybe they are a bot!?⊕
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of
Borg
15:31, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
To you and yours
FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 21:42, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
Missvain Season's greetings.
Hope you are enjoying the Christmas. Thought to ping you since my earlier message got archieved.
You had reviewed my Draft on Nature Club Surat and provided valuable inputs. I have revised the draft and thought you could visit it again. Yndesai ( talk) 12:34, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi Sarah! Back in the day, as you know doubt remember, you agreed to have your name attached to some of the daily Teahouse invites sent by HostBot. Are you still interested in having your name included in some of these invites? If not, I'm happy to remove your name from the list. Hope all is well in your world :) Cheers, - J-Mo Talk to Me Email Me 00:04, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Hey Missvain. (Note: This message might feel a little familiar from your Teahouse-building days. :P) A small team of us are building a new mentorship space called the the Co-op, and we are looking for mentors who are interested in teaching one or two editors. We plan to run a pilot in late January for about one month. The idea is that mentors will be doing one-on-one teaching based on how an editor wants to contribute, and it's not some huge commitment to teach or learn comprehensively about Wikipedia. We also want to make to easier for new editors to find mentors as well. You have extensive experience working with new editors, and personally, I think your enthusiasm for this kind of work is contagious, and it's pretty great. If you're interested, feel free to sign up here and peruse, make suggestions, and ask questions about the discussion we're having about how Co-op will work. Thanks a bunch (and Happy New Year!), I, JethroBT drop me a line 04:56, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Dear Missvain,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! A new year has come! How times flies! 2015 will be a new year, and it is also a chance for you to start afresh! Thank you for your contributions!
From a fellow editor,
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Missvain,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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10:41, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Missvain. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled " GSCopyPro".
The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply {{db-afc}}
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo ( talk) 21:07, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
104.55.170.242 ( talk) 02:21, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
I would like to know why the article was rejected. What can I change? I personally love the music of Ms. Lindsley and would like more people to know about her but I want to know what to change.
Is it content? Is it references?
This doesn't belong in article space as it isn't an "article". It should be moved to Wikipedia:Project namespace. Bgwhite ( talk) 08:36, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
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I didn't find this edit of yours helpful. They are not "random women mentioned in articles", so much as women listed in DNB indices on which our DNB Epitome pages ( example) are based.
The convention is, if they have an article, give them a tick. If they do not, either leave them alone or, as yo did else where, explain why they fail GNG.
Please think it through. I'm spending long hours fishing these people out so that we can consider them. You're coming along and throwing my work away with a glib comment. Not happy. -- Tagishsimon (talk) 09:13, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Since WikiProject Women as proposed at the IdeaLab may take some time to realize, and based on a discussion on the proposal's talk page, I have started a test Kaffeeklatsch area for women (cisgender or trans-woman, regardless of sexual orientation) only. If interested, your participation would be most welcome. Lightbreather ( talk) 19:41, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
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128.164.20.229 ( talk · contribs) added the confused. I simply formatted and added the template. 128.164.20.229 deserves the credit! Both Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Arthur M. Sackler Museum Cheers Jim1138 ( talk) 22:18, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Category:Smithsonian Institution Archives related, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor ( talk) 19:15, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Sarah, long time no talk. How are you? I think you have changed your username. Anyway, as you are a participant of WP:WikiProject Orphanage so I want your opinion about another backlog drive. The last backlog drive was happened an year ago in 2014. The number of orphan articles is huge so I want to start a backlog drive (again). This time the aim will be to start de-orphaning from the oldest months. What you say? Jim Carter (from public cyber) 09:48, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
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Category:World Digital Library related, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. DexDor ( talk) 23:28, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Missvain. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled " Bohdan Pawłowicz".
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo ( talk) 18:50, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Missvain, since you welcomed me to Wikipedia I'm writing to ask your advice or direction as to where I can find an answer to some questions. I attempted to use the TeaHouse and look in other places, but frankly got lost. I am a long-time Wikipedia user but new editor. My question is this - Based on my reading of various Wikipedia guidelines, if I think that an edit is inappropriate (e.g., irrelevant quote, using a blog opinion as a "published source", or biased statements or quotes), can I change or delete them if I explain my reasons for doing so, or am I only allowed to suggest the changes in the Talk section, and hope that whoever submitted them will make the change? Also, what is the best way to depersonalize a discussion about edits or ask for intercession by an experienced editor if one party takes offense? For example, I had changed somebody's edits and the person responded in a highly personal way. I attempted to explain my changes, but the other person was apparently unwilling to provide either a rationale for their edits that seemed logical to me or to civilly explain why they disagreed with me. Since I'm not willing to engage in any sort of polemical discourse or written altercation simply because someone takes umbrage, should I just walk away or are there alternatives? Thank you!-- Civlaction ( talk) 21:24, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michelle Leonardo; i mention you as AFC approver. I think it is generally understood that articles can be accepted in good faith at AFC, yet sometimes show up at AFD later; i don't think you have to defend yourself or comment at all, though you are welcome to comment of course. Thanks for your AFC participation, it's important! cheers, -- do ncr am 22:38, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi! I'll be facilitating another edit-a-thon with Kaitymh at the Foundation in March for WikiWomen's History Month, and wondered if you had plans for hosting at Cal again? If you do, have you decided on a date? I didn't see anything on the events calendar, but thought I'd ask nonetheless so the 2 events aren't on the same weekend. :) Best, -- Rosiestep ( talk) 15:03, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
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Is this happening on Friday or Saturday? The wiki page says Friday but the linked Eventbrite says Saturday. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 22:57, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Your list of lists of women is the most comprehensive list of lists of women I have ever come across whilst surfing the web. You earned a kitten.
Dmerker (
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07:49, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi. You blocked this editor for a bad username, and unticked "Block account creation". Would you mind if I spamblocked him, and prevented new account creation? I ask because the userpage (now deleted) was promotional. (I tend to spamblock where the username is a product and the userpage is promoting the product.) Also, I just blocked another of his accounts [User talk:Descargar whatsapp para android|here]] (which was created before your block).
Best wishes,
Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 09:07, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
Why did you delete the talk page? (Just asking, I don't know what was on it.) — George8211 / T 18:24, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
It's simply Albert Pyun. He has a long history of vandalizing wikipedia. Readyforanderson ( talk) 00:13, 17 February 2015 (UTC)Readyforanderson
Just so you know, I re-nominated Banque Morval for speedy deletion, not for significance, but for copyvio. It was deleted once before for copyvio, and this page is an exact duplicate of the previous copyvio issues. I have a suspicion that the initial contributor to this page is a paid advertiser for this bank. - War wizard90 ( talk) 02:44, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Missvain. Any idea what's going on with the strange deletions of things as redirects to " Average (sports)" such as this? This looks like a case of mistaken redirecting, as those should not have redirected to that article in the first place, but elsewhere. As far as I remember, most templates in Category:Medal infobox templates had their talk pages redirect to Template talk:MedalTop for centralised discussion. It makes no sense at all to delete the talk page of something like Template:MedalTableTop (20,000+ transclusions). Any idea what happened here? SFB 01:09, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
there was another article nominated for deletion in this AfD. can you please delete as well. thanks. LibStar ( talk) 05:55, 17 February 2015 (UTC) Thanks for keeping an eye out User:LibStar! Missvain ( talk) 05:57, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Done
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06:14, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
I saw that you recently approved this article via AfC. Please note that this article has been deleted via AfD and speedy deletion on multiple occasions. I won't wheel-war with you, but I trust that you had taken a look at the history before moving this into mainspace. Thanks. -- Kinu t/ c 07:01, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello Missvain, Thank you for your review of my article for Matthew Duss - Do you expect that article would be deemed sufficiently sourced if I were to add links for each of the media outlet appearances that I refer to, or is there a different section of the article that's problematic?
Best Regards, and Thanks, JGGjr JGGjr ( talk) 00:27, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you declined this submission and recommended that it be merged into an existing article at Kylie Auldist. However, as you can see from the redlink in the previous sentence, there is no existing article to use as scaffolding. I am not the original creator of the draft, but I did some improving of it once I was apprised of its existence. I'd be happy to move it to mainspace myself, since it now demonstrates that the artist meets multiple criteria at WP:MUSIC, but I'm not sure if this is permitted, since I am not Cutest Penguin (the original reviewer) nor do I have any official affiliation with AFC. Chubbles ( talk) 21:28, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
I am not sure whether this is the right place for my message, but I did not find any other place to put it.
I don't understand why the article I wrote was turned down. The message I got was that it did not show that the organization (European Association for Lexicography, Euralex) I described was important enough. However, I took the entry of a very similar organization (Dictionary Society of North America, DSNA) as a template and improved it by adding some structure. Is the DSNA more notable than Euralex? Moreover, the text I wrote is full of references to other articles which refer to the organization I describe (people, a journal). In some cases, there is even a red link, which I interpret as a request to create such an article. Does this not show that by adding this article, the internal coherence of the encyclopedia is improved?
In short, the decision seems to me arbitrary. If this kind of ill-founded decisions is normal wikipedia practice, I will not contribute any further articles.
HFS-er ( talk) 21:18, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Sorry Missvain, I DO need help -- and after this I think I might give up!!
I wrote somewhere else in response your comment -- goodness knows where -- but will try again here with the same message:
I do not have nor have had any office or employment from the Australian Directors Guild. I am not even a board member, nor have I ever been. I am merely a long time member trying to contribute a little task that I saw needed doing -- namely, to put the history and information about the ADG on wikipedia. I find contributing to Wikipedia a bit confusing at times....but I did read the various guidelines and I don't know where there could be a conflict of interest. I have over the years written many articles about film and film business for Australian magazines and saw this as just another. Could you be more specific about what might be wrong with the article. Thanks very much for any help you can give MarthaAnsara (talk) 05:43, 18 February 2015 (UTC)Martha Ansara MarthaAnsara ( talk) 05:57, 18 February 2015 (UTC)Martha Ansara
Do I need to submit the Australian Directors Guild article somewhere else? Sorry, I think I'm not up to this but want to complete what I started. Thanks MarthaAnsara ( talk) 05:57, 18 February 2015 (UTC)Martha Ansara
Hi, thank you for reviewing the article. I just want to share with you my point of view about it. Better Decisions Forum is not a company, so there's nobody payed for doing this: some people interested in Decision Making process rounded up and created the event that is freely sponsored by different associations. Everybody who took part the events is involved, so maybe I'm biased, but I in order to reach a right neutral point of view I mentioned a lot of reliable different sources from press and online press, like: Wired, Il Sole 24 Ore, Fight The Stroke, Institute for Scientific Interchange, etc. I decided to write in the article only sentences related to third part articles, I think that in this way the article is poor of contents but neutral. Can you please help me to understand how can I improve it in order to be accepted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.57.24.131 ( talk) 09:18, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Draft:Centre for Study of Insurance Operations
The note you left said the sources aren't verifiable. I don't understand how they aren't verifiable. They are all fully independent, verifiable sources from within the Canadian insurance industry. Can you be more specific about what the issues are?
24.52.243.152 ( talk) 22:55, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
OK but let me ask you this. ACORD is basically the same organization, but based in the US instead of Canada. How does their wiki page get approved when it only has one source? /info/en/?search=ACORD This wiki page is LESS well-referenced that my draft submission, and yet it's on wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.52.243.152 ( talk) 23:01, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Regarding secondary sources, wouldn't you agree that this one is a secondary source? http://analysis.tu-auto.com/insurance-telematics/qa-csio-efforts-standardize-ubi-telematics-data-north-america It's not a press release. It's an interview/journalism piece from an entirely independent organization, based in the UK. So are you saying the article needs more resources like this one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.52.243.152 ( talk) 23:08, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Dear Missvain, Thanks for the review my article related to BIStrainer. But i do not understand how can my article have copyright violations as i have written the Article related to BIStrainer LMS and the url ( http://www.trainanddevelop.ca/learning-management-system-lms/) is all about this LMS. I would request to please help me more regarding this article as i have not added the content from the trainanddevelop. So can you please guide me or provide me valuable solution on this as i think BIStrainer LMS is one of the top LMS and it should be added on Wikipedia. Help me on this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sharma.ashoks ( talk • contribs) 04:17, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your information and help, i just want that wiki users also know about this new great LMS software. Can you help me to write on this LMS so that other also aware of this. Thanks again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sharma.ashoks ( talk • contribs) 11:17, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
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![]() ![]() Dear fellow Wikipedian, In celebration of WikiWomen's History Month, the SF Bay Area Wikipedia community has two events in early March -- please consider attending! First, we have an ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon, which will take place at the Kadist Art Foundation from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 7. We'll be one of many sites worldwide participating in this edit-a-thon on March 7th. So join us as we help improve Wikipedia's coverage of women artists and their works! Second, we will be celebrating International Women's Day with the International Women's Day edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 8 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wikimedia Foundation. Our editing focus will be on women, of course! I hope to see you there! Rosiestep ( talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 18:06, 20 February 2015 (UTC) To opt out of future mailings about SF meetups, please remove your name from this list. |
Dear Missvain,
I noticed that you have declined the submission based upon the reason that it was my personal Wiki. It is actually not my personal wiki. It is a wiki page submission for a highly respected, quoted and a prominent literate on Indian History who has contributed a lot to the comparitive religion studies. Professor Ahuja was a highly acclaimed historian with over 50 published books to his credit. He was awarded many national honors for his contributions and research. Yes, my last name and his last name are the same.
Please let me know what we need to do get this reviewed again. Any help and guidance will be highly appreciated.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahujaalok ( talk • contribs) 18:16, 20 February 2015 (UTC)