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The WikiOkie Reporter WikiProject Oklahoma's Newsletter Issue 1 - September 2007 Discuss this newsletter	Your second or third stop for WikiProject Oklahoma News Sign up to receive this newsletter Oklahoma Portal Current article statistics
WikiProject Oklahoma releases new newsletter September 2007 brings a new face to WikiProject Oklahoma: a newsletter. As in all of Wikipedia, the new WikiOkie Reporter (tenative name) is intended to be a collaborative effort among editors. Anyone can edit it: this month's newsletter is placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/aug07, but next month's will be placed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/oct07, with the following month at /newsletter/nov07, and so on. While this month's article's were initially written by User:Okiefromokla, it is hoped other editors will be excited to contribute to articles, content, layout, and ideas. This is a completely new child of WikiProject Oklahoma, and it should reflect the collaborative work of everyone who's bored and has nothing to do for a few minutes. As such, anything can be discussed here: anything - layout, color scheme, pictures, content, etc. The behind-the-scenes workings for the WikiOkie Reporter will be simple: anyone wishing to receive the newsletter in their talk page may place their name at sign-up list, but they are more than free to remove their name from the same list at any time. Anyone wishing to discuss ideas or anything at all related to the newsletter may look no further than here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oklahoma/newsletter/talk. Several WikiProjects already have ongoing newsletters, including Wikipedia: WikiProject North Dakota, from which WikiProject Oklahoma's newsletter has been based. For the time being, Okiefromokla will assume distribution responsibilities for the newsletter, maintaining the template, and writing articles from scratch if other editors have not done so by the 1st of the month. Promotions on the rise For many Wikipedians, summer is a time to kick back, relax, and make an occasional minor edit to their favorite few pages. Not so in WikiProject Oklahoma. Between May 12 and September, editors have been busily working on Oklahoma, Tulsa, and Woody Guthrie, and all three have been promoted. Prior to May, there were only seven Featured or Good articles in WikiProject Oklahoma. On May 12, Tulsa was promoted from B-class to FA class after a few months of extensive editing. Its primary editors were User:Nmajdan, User:SandyGeorgia, User:Okiefromokla, and a handful of others. On August 25, Oklahoma was promoted from B-class to FA class after a month-long blitz. User:Okiefromokla, User: SandyGeorgia, and several anonymous IPs contributed heavily to the article. On June 13, 2007, Woody Guthrie was promoted from B-Class to GA class after two failed attempts at promotion. User:Dannygutters, User:Gaff, User:Maenpong, and a handful of others contributed most to the article.
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hoodshow1 (talk • contribs)

Hi Gaff. After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

• Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
• Rollback should be used to revert clear cases of vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
• Rollback should never be used to edit war.
• If abused, rollback rights can be revoked.
• Use common sense.

If you no longer want rollback, contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some more information on how to use rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback (even though you're not an admin). I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, but feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Thank you for helping to reduce vandalism. Happy editing! Yunshui ^雲_水 12:04, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Gaff,

You tagged my two article for deletion ( Mascot Misty heights, Ajnara belvedere ), I am new at wikipedia, please help me to write non-promotional article because i really want to contribute at wikipedia. please help me for following point.

1) what words should i remore? 2) or whole article need to change.

Thanks Sampatrik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sampatrik (talk • contribs) 06:16, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• An admin deleted your articles based on A7 criteria found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#A7 thank you. —Gaff ^ταλκ 06:21, 5 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

With your recent edits (1, 2), you’ve added Category:Hymenoptera and Category:Arthropods to the Bee article – despite of it already belonging to their child Bees category.

Could you please explain how this aligns with the A page or category should rarely be placed in both a category and a subcategory or parent category (supercategory) of that category rule at Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization?

Thanks.

⁓ [Gyft Xelz · talk] 13:09, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• • Fixed. thanks. —Gaff ^ταλκ 17:24, 6 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Alberta Arts District. Since you had some involvement with the Alberta Arts District redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 05:57, 7 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Gaff,

Rakesh is a notable personality in the Indian IT industry. He has contributed a lot for the industry and holds a key position at Syntel. Besides students from his alma mater, key industry personalities and media persons find him influential and often derive from his career graph.

Please be assured that this is not a business page. Also, I had consulted Jim F Bleak [1], a fellow wiki editor before publishing the page.

I would appreciate if you could share more pointers on how to make this page more person-oriented and lower the "business" tone of it.

Regards, Vishal Yajnik 04:40, 8 September 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishalyajnik (talk • contribs)

Thanks for the feedback. At this time, your comments are best directed to the discussion page regarding the article deletion (see link on the article page). There is really nothing that I can do for you from my talk page. Good luck! —Gaff ^ταλκ 14:43, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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—EncMstr (talk) 03:33, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I noticed your recent edit to Grant Park. The photo on the page of the Ramona statue clearly shows that the statue is not splashing in a fountain. Was there once a fountain there, or is the source wrong? Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 07:29, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• The source is correct. The fountain is just not turned on when that pic was taken. But the Falcon Guide source reports she is splashing in the fountain. I confirmed this as well, while playing there with my daughter earlier today! Cheers! --—Gaff ^ταλκ 07:33, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see— looking at another picture I took that day (not uploaded here) I can see that there is indeed a perforated slab in the middle of the concrete that could be a fountain, but apparently it isn't turned on in the winter. I should visit Portland more often in the summer! Thanks & regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 07:43, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]