Table of Contents Notability of Taskbar shuffle[edit]A tag has been placed on Taskbar shuffle, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If you feel that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion. To do this, add For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. --Finngall talk 22:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
License tagging for Image:Dog Vista.jpg[edit]Thanks for uploading Image:Dog Vista.jpg. Wikipedia gets thousands of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images. For more information on using images, see the following pages: This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 15:06, 5 May 2007 (UTC) RE: Terry Wogan Assessment[edit]Just dropping a line to say thanks very much for the rating and the comments. The criticisms are justified and constructive, so it will give me something to work on to try to get it up to GA Status. Cheers --Fritzpoll 22:37, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
GA "review" of Terry Wogan[edit]I'm not sure if you actually read the article before promoting it to GA, but it appears that you need to read over the Good Article Criteria before "reviewing" anymore GA nominations. In addition to passing an article that failed on multiple levels, you also did not leave a review. If GAN reviews are something you feel you want to do in the future, please read over the criteria, WP:CITE, WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:MOS and other related articles, policies, and guidelines. Regards, LaraLoveT/C 16:38, 16 May 2007 (UTC) Your revert on my talk page[edit]Please don't do this :) Never mind re: GA status - would rather it made it there on its own merits anyway. --Fritzpoll 21:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC) Re: Apparently not[edit]Well, I wouldn't give up on it - have a look at her comments when she gets round to the review. She wasn't the only one to think about it - it passed 3-0 of review. Looking at her comments will doubtless help you get it right on your next review :) --Fritzpoll 21:28, 16 May 2007 (UTC) John Martin Scripps peer review[edit]I have read your suggestions and edited accordingly. I added a new section - please see the peer review page for a summary of what I changed; perhaps you'd like to review the article again? Thanks! Resurgent insurgent 19:16, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Welcome![edit]User:Wikihermit/Christ --TTalk to me 21:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC) No, not forgotten about it - but just haven't the time right this second - three big exams this Thursday, Friday and Monday are looming large! Thanks for all your help, though --Fritzpoll 07:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC) Prepare your barnstar![edit]Don't rush yourself. I don't expect anyone to rate the articles in less than a week. I'm more concerned on tagging articles that weren't previously tagged before. OhanaUnited 09:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
John Martin Scripps peer review[edit]I have read your suggestions and edited accordingly. I added a new section - please see the peer review page for a summary of what I changed; perhaps you'd like to review the article again? Thanks! Resurgent insurgent 19:16, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
No, it's nothing to do with littering either... nowadays I'm not even sure whether we still have Corrective Work Orders. They definitely receive no coverage in the media nowadays. Resurgent insurgent 16:20, 3 June 2007 (UTC) Welcome![edit]User:Wikihermit/Christ --TTalk to me 21:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC) No, not forgotten about it - but just haven't the time right this second - three big exams this Thursday, Friday and Monday are looming large! Thanks for all your help, though --Fritzpoll 07:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC) Prepare your barnstar![edit]Don't rush yourself. I don't expect anyone to rate the articles in less than a week. I'm more concerned on tagging articles that weren't previously tagged before. OhanaUnited 09:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
I will be very busy for next couple days because Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 is getting closer. Read up that article, it's a really sad story and I know that many cried while reading mid-way through the article. Anyways, I got off topic and time to get back.
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Cam 00:30, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
In my opinion, I think you should lower the # of articles assessed to receive an award. Right now the # doesn't encourage those who just want to pitch in and help out a few assessment. I would recommend giving WikiCookie for assessing 100 articles. Then amybe another one for 250, 500, 1000 and so forth. If you would like to, I can work out and show to you on what # of articles corresponds to which award that person will receive. (Hey! These are given out for free so we can be generous!) OhanaUnited 09:03, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Wikiproject environment[edit]Hello and welcome to wikiproject environment!--Alex 12:45, 30 May 2007 (UTC) Need some support[edit]I just started User:OhanaUnited/Local Events and Culture and I need some support to help kick start the page. See if you can help. OhanaUnited 04:12, 1 June 2007 (UTC) WikiProject Biography Summer Assessment[edit]Can you please leave a fancy message on my userpage about this, and I will make a banner for this? Thanks. Miranda 23:56, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Good Article template[edit]Thanks for letting me in becoming a member of award committee. As for good article template, it seems like we have to hold on to the idea until the arbituation committee resolves the problem before we start a drive on adding the good article template to existing good articles. You want to help out when I start this drive? OhanaUnited 17:04, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Much Appreciated![edit]Thanks for looking over my recent work. I'll start using that tool you suggested when I sit down tomorrow for more wiki. CaseKid 04:00, 4 June 2007 (UTC) June 2007 Wikiproject Christianity Newsletter[edit]My Own Test[edit]Congrats to you and Geometry guy on getting the comments bit moved down and around! Carcharoth 17:18, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Reply[edit]See here for my suggestion of the real user to thank. :-) Carcharoth 08:16, 10 June 2007 (UTC) Challenge[edit]I won't rise as quickly to it as you expect. :( The reason is: I've got exams for the better half of the coming week, following which I want to finish writing that one Singapore article I told you I would (and by "finish writing" you know where I really want to push it to... ;) ). But whether I can thrust forward with Ted's article depends on how much Factiva and my local library can give me. I've developed a new habit of looking for only offline sources now. Resurgent insurgent 09:14, 10 June 2007 (UTC) Re: ABF[edit]"...Rather, I'm doing a little bit of civil disobedience re. a project that I think is not a good idea, and is creating a certain amount of unhappiness among other editors..." That's the reply I got from Opus a little while back when I asked him about it. Basically, I highly doubt he'll stop, but I'll keep an eye out on him. If he keep edit warring, I'm obligated to block him.--Wizardman 22:02, 10 June 2007 (UTC) WikiProject Biography[edit]Although I am not a member, I have been assessing articles for your Summer Drive. May I make a suggestion. I see that there are alot of automated stub articles, which have probably been assessed as stub by a bot. You should probably run that bot again because since the Spring Assessment Drive there have been 22,000+ articles added (91,021 at the end of spring to 113,385 at the start of this one), to help you in the backlog, you could perhaps run those again. Just a suggestion. SpecialWindler talk 23:20, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
Hmm, I just gave you the suggestion, but by looking at that page, it seems that they ran the bots some time ago, and haven't been used since, which is why I gave you the suggestion, because when assessing some articles, I notice that they have stub templates yet they are not stub automatically. SpecialWindler talk 01:33, 11 June 2007 (UTC) {{#ifexist:{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Comments|complain about complexity of template|}}[edit]The template is a bit of a mess, yes! Anyway, I think I have fixed it so that it includes comments when they exist, more or less as described in the heading: the point is to generate some non-whitespace text for the #if to detect in this case. I checked it on Joseph Haydn, and also on Isaac Newton (which has no /Comments page, amazingly). Good luck getting the colour right. Geometry guy 13:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC) WPBio Assessment Table[edit]Thanks for updating it! Even with a calculator my math skills are wretched! --Ozgod 16:03, 15 June 2007 (UTC) The WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive[edit]Hi Psychless, I saw that you created the WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive and I wanted to know if I can be a part or it and help. Please let me know. Thanks, Psdubow 01:18, 16 June 2007 (UTC) Salem Witch Trials Coverage on Wikipedia[edit]Hi Psychless, I know that you are very involved in Wikiproject Biography. That is why I need your help. Wikipedia's coverage of the Salem Witch Trials is absolutely terrible. Most of the people involved don't even have biographies written about them. Plus, the biographies that do exist are horrible. They are ridden with vandalism, nonfactual information, spelling and grammar errors, and they do not have a Neutral Point of View. Most of them probably have to be re-written! Also, most of the existing biographies are stubs anyway. That is why another Wikipedian, Cocoaguy, and I created Salem Witch Trials Task Force. Unfortunately, we only have two other members. And four people alone can not do all of this work! Is it possible that we can team up with you and Wikiproject Biography, so we can get more members for our task force and hopefully improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Salem Witch Trials? Thank you, Sincerely, Psdubow 16:02, 16 June 2007 (UTC) (Copied from Psdubow's talk page) Ugh, I see[edit]Okay, I'll join the task force and the wikiproject. I think our first priority needs to be getting this wikiproject organized. The main page of WikiProject Massachusetts needs to be redone, possibly based off WPBiography. I have an idea for incorporating your template into the Massachusetts template. I'm not going to do it right now though, I have too many other things to do, unfortunately. --Psychless 04:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC) RE: Ugh, I see[edit]OK. Thanks for taking on the challenge of helping out The Salem Witch Trials Task Force, I think I speak for all of it's members when I say "Thank you!" Also, take you time, whenever you get time to join and help out is fine. Again, thanks, Psdubow 20:16, 18 June 2007 (UTC) Re: assessment requests for racing articles[edit]Thank you for your assessments - I'll get on improving those articles right away. While I am writing, would you have any recommendations for Yuji Ide ? It actually is well-referenced and I want to make it a B-class article. Thanks, Guroadrunner 19:33, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Okay, well...[edit]I need to know the requirements for each class, like, what does an article need to have to be a stub, start, B, GA, A, OR FA? Wikipeep 494 17:43, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Which article?[edit]Hi Psychless. I'd be happy to take a look at your article again, but I have been doing a lot of peer reviews and FA reviews and I don't remember which one was your article. If you could let me know I'll take another look today :) Karanacs 13:55, 21 June 2007 (UTC) Environmental Record Task Force[edit]
WPBiography (Template)[edit]Hi Psychless, I saw on the discussion page WPBiography Template Talk that you had recently been involved in updating the WPBiography Template. I've not been using Wikipedia for long but many of the articles I've made edits to have used this template and I noticed some presentation issues with this template when it was used with the nested flag. Specifically within WikiProjectBannerShell. None of the items listed are important and needing immediate attention but if you should return to look at the template again perhaps you could consider how easy it would be to address the formatting when nested. A link to the discussion section is here. One other post on the talk page mentioned a presentation issue but this was prior (17 June) to the release of the new template on 22 June so may have already been addressed. Having briefly looked at the Template script for WPBiography you have my respect for tackling the syntax and providing the functionality that already exists. Regards, Asperal 23:28, 24 June 2007 (UTC) DYK[edit]Thank you very, very much for agreeing to review the article I wrote. I have attempted to implement as many of your suggestions as I could. I do have questions about two them, though, which I put one talk page. Best, nadav (talk) 08:22, 26 June 2007 (UTC) I made the changes. If you see anything else I should change, I would be glad to do it. nadav (talk) 00:22, 27 June 2007 (UTC) WP Biography Template - Reprised[edit]Hi Psychless, thanks for the response last time. I noticed on the WP Biography template page that some additional changes are being proposed. Looking at the new template could you please add in a colspan = '3' (in place of colspan ='2') around this section - code as amended shown: {{#ifeq:{{lc:{{{nested|}}}}}|yes| ! colspan="3" style="text-align: center" {{!}} [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography{{!}}WikiProject Biography]]{{#if:{{{class|}}} | (Rated {{ucfirst:{{{class}}}}}-Class)|}} }} This, mostly, fixes the problems I previously flagged. On the template history page I think I also saw another edit to do with background colors in a Royalty branch. Having taken some time to learn a little about the template language (principally from this template.) I did consider, if it were being substantially revised replacing some of the switch statements with #ifeq and, if it works, embedding lc{{x}} or even uc{{x}} in some of the switch statements of assessment to cut down on the number of branch test cases necessary. Then again I do believe a great deal in the old maxim - {{#if it ain't broke|don't fix it}}. :) Good luck with the new changes. Regards, Asperal 19:57, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Bio Project[edit]Hey there. I think I will stick with the Cs. We will get it all done, eventually. As for the Outriggr Script, I don't know how to use it. ludahai 魯大海 01:34, 30 June 2007 (UTC) I have failed your GA nominee Serranus Clinton Hastings. Details have been left on the article's talk page. You have a good start; I believe that with some more work, this could be a GA. Acdixon 14:42, 1 July 2007 (UTC) [edit]I've made some modifications to your edits to WikiProject Iowa, aimed at improving clarity. One edit which I've left alone for the time being, but would appreciate your input on, is your addition of a "|government" parameter to {{Project Iowa}}. I'm curious as to why you added this - and whether it's set up so that the bot which updates the assessment area for the Project as a whole will also be updating information for that parameter. Additionally, I'm curious why you added a table to WP:IOWA/Government that needs to be manually updated - I don't see the need for the template myself - clicking on one of the categories the articles will be automatically placed in when the "|government" parameter is added will provide a list of articles in that category. Cordially awaiting your response, Tim4christ17 talk 00:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC). Ah well[edit]We cannot please everyone and we must continue doing what we do. Being an administrator does place someone higher up in the Wikipedia hierarchy; rather they just have access to maintenance tools that regular editors do not. Everyone is entitled to their opinion - so if our assessment drive bothers them - then so it does. We will just continue working towards out goal. --Ozgod 02:05, 2 July 2007 (UTC) Bishop Henry[edit]Thank you for taking time to peer review Bishop Henry! --Drieakko 20:16, 3 July 2007 (UTC) Nominated it now for FA: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bishop Henry. --Drieakko 07:38, 6 July 2007 (UTC) You helped choose carbon dioxide as this week's WP:ACID winner[edit]Spamsara 22:32, 4 July 2007 (UTC) Service award[edit]Just to let you know, you qualify for this. This award is determined strictly by your time on Wikipedia and edit count. Congrats! --BrokenSphere 23:51, 4 July 2007 (UTC) Eleven easy steps to a B article[edit]Hi, I was wondering why it was you removed the "idiotic" eleven easy steps to producing at least a B article on the WP Biography page [1]. Was it discussed somewhere before its removal? I ask because I personally find the links and suggestions very helpful in editing Biography articles, and I wanted to make sure you weren't merely removing it for personal reasons while others may object. Thank you, María (críticame) 12:31, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
You have done a lot of hard work on this article, and I am just wondering why you removed the succession boxes here, were they inaccurate or is there some other reason that is not apparent to me? --Drappel 13:18, 6 July 2007 (UTC) James Temple[edit]Thanks for rating the article on James Temple. Were there any ommissions that particularly struck you? (I'm not sure I could fill them, but it's worth trying.) Rjm at sleepers 06:17, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
Re: bot[edit]I should be done with the major paperwork at work in a couple days, after which I will begin coding a MadmanBot module for your task. Thanks! — Madman bum and angel (talk – desk) 00:03, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Hastings article[edit]Your thanks doesn't sound strange at all; I had a similar experience with my first featured content nomination, List of people from Kentucky. I'm sorry I won't be able to conduct a very thorough review due to an abundance of projects in real life, but here are my cursory comments:
Now I'd like to ask for a return favor. I'm having a lot of trouble with my current FA nom of Confederate government of Kentucky. The issues raised at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Confederate government of Kentucky have spilled over onto the article's talk page in trying to find a compromise. I'm not asking you to support or oppose the nom, but if you have any feedback on how to make the article better, or if you have a different take on the article's merit as an FA than has previously been expressed, I'd welcome it. FA noms stress me out, but I'm hoping this article can form the basis of a featured topic, so I'm going to try to save it. Thanks in advance, and good luck with your Hastings article. Acdixon 18:14, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
I have removed fair use violations from this page. Please, do not reinsert them. — Moe ε 04:30, 20 July 2007 (UTC) Stand-alone years should not be linked.[edit]I should would appreciate some guidance on this matter as I have a page I've been editing that is coming up for review where I followed this standard diligently. Thanks! ∴ Therefore talk 03:21, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
listas parameter[edit]Is this duplicated with Template:DEFAULTSORT, or do the two perform seperate roles? RHB - Talk 18:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Prefaces to HP7[edit]I noticed this and thought you might like to know that it is called an epigraph (literature). I added something on the epigraph to Wikipedia's article on the book, so have a look there as well, unless you are still reading it. Changing the subject completely, do you know how to add categories to the WPBiography template? Details at Template talk:WPBiography. Carcharoth 01:14, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
WPBiography template stuff[edit]I've been making some changes, and wanted to discuss a few things. I'm currently trying to make sure there are categories in place where needed to track the use of the parameters. There are around 280 categories, but not all parameters are tracked (eg. disambiguation, template, category and NA pages). One thing I noticed during the assessment drive was people using class=list. This fills in the class bit with a nice List template image, but doesn't actually do anything as far as assessment stats and other stuff is concerned. All the list stuff remains in "unassessed" categories, so theoretically people will find them and change them, but I do think that a list parameter would be useful, or to be more precise something that distinguishes non-bio, lists, articles about groups or pairs of people, and articles about a single person. The title is the guiding light here. If the title is a person's name, then that article needs to be distinguished from those where the title is the name of a group. I was also looking into the dab class, and it should display "this article does not need rating", rather than "has been assessed as dab-class". But more importantly, the dab and cat parameters have categories, but the template and NA parameters don't, so I'm intending to add those as well. Carcharoth 15:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Some more WPBiography template stuff here, where I took the liberty of mentioning your "assessor signs" version of the template. When do you think that will be ready? You mentioned wanting to find a way to get a bot to update the previous assessments - how easy will it be to do that? Might it be best to go ahead anyway? Implementing a coding that won't work and throws up a warning sign unless the assessor signs? Carcharoth 03:54, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Auto-signing for WPBiography assessments[edit]Took me ages to find it, but there is a way to enter four tildes inside a template and get a timestamped signature generated. This would be much more convenient than relying on people to type out their username and the time and date. See Wikipedia:WikiProject user warnings/Help:Template usage. Some templates which claim to allow ~~~~ as a parameter have since been changed, but I did find {{s/block}} which takes the four tildes as a parameter. I think the relevant coding is {{{signature|{{{1|}}}}}}. This allows the first person assessing to sign, but I'm not sure what happens if the first person placing the template doesn't sign... I found more stuff as well, and I've started a Village Pump thread here. Carcharoth 10:56, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
Hullo[edit]Greetings Josh; from one to another! Its nice to see people under the age of 18 contributing to Wiki. (I'm 14 myself almost 15) Just wanted to say hello, and to mention that I'm trying my hardest to make time during my day to assess articles for the Summer drive/wiki. ((Heck, I'm on vacation at the moment, its 12am and I'm typing this note.)) Keep up the good work. P.S. Colbert, and Uncyclopedia rock. P.P.S. Is a timestamp/signature required after filling out the assessment template? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lordevilvenom (talk • contribs) Please see User talk:Warlordjohncarter#Question about one of your assessments. John Carter 13:18, 9 August 2007 (UTC) Userboxes/Portals/Thingys on Project Talk Pages[edit]Hello, I've recently begun to set up WikiProject UK Trams, and I have noticed that you talk page, user page, and the comments made on the WikiProject Council Page seem to make you look like an experienced, or talented Wikipedia user. As a result, I am asking if you could maybe create the above things, aswell as other similar items for WikiProjects, for WP:UK Trams. The page, so far, can be found at User:Bluegoblin7/WikiProject_UK_Trams I would appreciate any correspondance on my talk page. Thanks, Bluegoblin7 18:08, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Do you still wish to make the portal for me? The project is now live, and i think it would be helpful to have one! Thanks again, Bluegoblin7 08:17, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
re: Betacommandbot[edit]Ive probably tagged ~5000 pages so far and Im guessing there are at least another 10k+ (very low estimate) as for when its done, I have no clue βcommand 01:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
reminder to mentor[edit]Hola Mentors! Im sending you this reminder because you volunteered to mentor my students in English Advanced B as they become contributing members of the Wikipedia community. We start working with Wikipedia in earnest next week. I ask you to take a look at your entry in the Mentor Table at Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Mentors Please update the information, esp. with what your technical and informational expertise is or, if you have decided that you no longer want to participate, please remove your information from the table. Please watch the pages associated with the project. Students will contact you via your user page and as soon as my students have user pages, I will put them on the navigation bar associated with the project. I don’t need to remind you that your job is NOT to write their assignments for them, of course. I certainly will tell my students that… and the fact that you are volunteers that don’t have to help them… so they need to be nice. If any students misbehave (tho I don’t expect it) don’t hesistate to contact me and I will take care of it. The goal of this project is to integrate successfully into the Wikipedia community. Anyway… what I really need your help with is helping students get oriented to Wikipedia, make appropriate changes and write about appropriate topics (see Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Syllabus for assignments). I also need your technical expertise… I am only an English teacher after all! I appreciate what technology does for us but I am no technical expert! Again, thank you for volunteering and you will hear from us again soon! Thelmadatter 19:51, 28 August 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter Help needed[edit]{{helpme}} I am forced to log in through the secure server because of HughesNet. I also have to edit on the secure server. Why can't I use the normal server? Psychless 00:22, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Bio assessment drive[edit]I added my nomination 2 days after deadline, does it still count? KGV (Talk) 05:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC) Another Review for Yasser Arafat[edit]Hello Psychless, sorry for such a late response on your Yasser Arafat review, I was overseas from july 21-aug 15 so I just decided to meet most of your suggestions on referencing and I expanded and clarified sections and statements in the article as well as put some more detail into the references and created several subsections for a more quality read. I have a simple request to ask of you and that is to review the article once more and point out any mistakes that are left or anything that still needs work on. I have not fully referenced the Political survival and controversy section in particular the middle text of that section. --Al Ameer son 22:16, 3 September 2007 (UTC) P.S. I also was wondering if you think a semi-protected lock on the article could be instated due to the very frequent vandalism of the article --Al Ameer son 22:16, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
End of WP:Bio assessment drive[edit]I have reraised the issue (see towards the bottom) as to whether assessors should receive all the awards they qualify for or only the highest one. Your input is appreciated. BrokenSphereMsg me 15:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC) Asking for your opinion[edit]We got into some trouble in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biography/Assessment/Assessment Drive#Awards. I hope if you can give us your insight on that matter. OhanaUnitedTalk page 01:03, 7 September 2007 (UTC) Psychless, can you please clarify your most recent marks. They can be read both ways. Thanks. BrokenSphereMsg me 01:24, 7 September 2007 (UTC) HI[edit]im really sorry i did not know that writting in caps could offend some people.... well we wanted help because we are going to write an article about mexican culture. And we need help twith the grammar and the spelling... So when the article is done we will send it to you. So that you could tell us what is wrong, whats good and what we should change,.
CSD request[edit]Hi, why do you want Talk:Jaymz Tuaileva deleted? John Vandenberg 02:45, 17 September 2007 (UTC) Adamello-Presanella[edit]Hi Psychless, you asked me for the references I used for the Adamello-Presanella article. Part is from the Britannica edition of 1911, part from German wikipedia de:Adamellogruppe, and part from Michelin maps of the area (see http://www.viamichelin.com for instance). Markussep Talk 08:10, 17 September 2007 (UTC) Mapit[edit]Thanks for working on those infoboxes, but please be careful not to remove the mapit links: they provide useful and helpful links at the bottom, and the coördinates that they place at the top of the page appear even in a featured article such as Cleveland, Ohio. Nyttend 15:11, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
WP:Bio summer drive follow up[edit]It's been more than a week since any discussion or activity on the drive page and its talk page (near 2 weeks since your last comment re. the awards distribution), and I understand that you're likely busy right now. However, between you and OhanaUnited, is it possible to implement distribution and thus close the awards issue sometime soon? Thanks. BrokenSphereMsg me 20:25, 18 September 2007 (UTC) Biography Assessment Drive[edit]Sorry for not able to reply to you, I was (and still is) busy in real life. I handed out gold, silver, and bronze wiki to top 3 but not the biography barnstar. Then I awarded biography barnstar to 4th and 5th place. Do you want to split up the work (ie you award particular barnstar and I pick another one)? And would you mind if you award BrokenSphere barnstars? It's just against my idea that a person gets awarded more than once for doing the same work. OhanaUnitedTalk page 00:09, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
Newsletter[edit]Looks good! The notice about the meeting is particularly useful. Unfortunately, it looks to me like the project's two old backbones, Kingboyk and Plange, are kinda AWOL right now and that hasn't helped the project much. I don't know whether there's a bot out there which delivers newsletters and the like, but I think I could try to find out if you want me to. John Carter 21:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC) List of counties in Iowa[edit]Hello Psychless! I noticed your work at List of counties in Iowa and I have just a few suggestions: 1. Please, remove the Established column because it really doesn't matter when a county was established because it couldn't work as a county until it was organized. Plus, there is overtemplating going on that page. There are too many templates in use on that page (well over 300). That's why the last few templates can't be shown. And since there is a {{dts}} template on every field in the "established" column, the "overtemplating" problem would disappear. 2. In the Area column, just leave the number showing how many miles the area is and the {{countyrow}} template will calculate the kilometer equivalent automatically. Plus, you have some glaring errors. For example, 381 squared miles for Dickinson County states that it's equivalent to 631 km² while the real equivalent is around 986 km². Hope that helps. --Crzycheetah 00:59, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Yasser Arafat peer review[edit]Greetings Psychless, I dropped in to inform you that the current Yasser Arafat peer reviewer, User: Scartol, is almost finished up with her review (just another proof read perhaps). You can now start on yours anytime you are ready. Cheers. --Al Ameer son 19:08, 2 October 2007 (UTC) I moved your suggestions to the peer review discussion page. I completed the extreme majority of them. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Peer review/Yasser Arafat#Quick peer review. --Al Ameer son 22:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC) I have nominated the Yasser Arafat article as an FAC. You should leave your comments here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yasser Arafat. --Al Ameer son 20:35, 14 October 2007 (UTC) WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5[edit]To receive this newsletter in the future, please list yourself in the appropriate section here. This newsletter was delivered by the automated R Delivery Bot 16:03, 7 October 2007 (UTC) . Content review[edit]Hello. While I'm not particularly involved in biographies, I noticed this from the bio newsletter while floating around: "A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project." See the just started: Wikipedia:Content review/workshop and it's talk page. I'm anti-IRC, incidentally; perhaps whatever's said on the 13th can be summarized on this related workshop. Cheers, Marskell 13:05, 8 October 2007 (UTC) Newsletter[edit]No problem! I have an arrangement with User:R and User:Animum to deliver the newsletter on the 20th of each month (We delivered it to 400 users last week). By the way, I hope you saw the new signpost report; Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-08/WikiProject report. It's amazing and I think it was inspired by the newsetter! I hope you can help me with the writing each month, cos it's a lot of work for one guy--Phoenix 15 13:02, 9 October 2007 (UTC) Reassessment[edit]There simply isn't that much information there. Maybe it's because that much is not available, but either way...B articles are usually long articles that cover the subject fully and in-depth, which means they tend to be longer. Also, the sources could be better. IMDB is not a reliable source and should never be used. Try and find information from books and/or news cites, as they are far more reliable. Moreover, you may have a conflict of interest here, if you are the main contributor to the article. Assessments should be done by third party users who are un-biased either way. Please, don't be offended that I re-assessed the article. Work on it some more. If you ever want me to reassess it again after you've continued to work on it, drop me a line. Nikki311 02:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC) The irc meeting[edit]I couldn't attend the recent irc meeting on #wikipedia-en-bio due to my moniter being damaged. Could you give me a quick summary of what went on? thanks--Phoenix 15 (Talk) 12:35, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Biography IRC meeting[edit]Sorry for missing it, but I was having trouble with the computer. This is what I proposed to say if I had been able to log on. I'm curious as to what you might think of it. John Carter 01:12, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Redirect of J. phoenix[edit]To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting J. phoenix, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. CSDWarnBot 09:02, 24 October 2007 (UTC) Hello again Psychless, Rest assured I have not forgotten your challenge for me to improve Ted Bundy. I've been thinking of it but honestly since I don't know as much about the U.S. crime world, I'm much more nervous about approaching this one. Secondly I have been busy with real life - I even moved Elyamani Khamis, an article I was planning to improve to FA-status, to my user space to give myself a timeout. So it might be a long time before I get to Bundy. :( Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 03:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC) Mentoring Barnstar[edit]
Some old business[edit]More than 2 months later what was said would be carried here regarding awards distribution for the summer assessment drive hasn't been carried out. You and I have both been working on other things, but I assumed that it would eventually get implemented, which hasn't happened yet. I was hoping that you would be able to carry this out over time given your connection circumstances and assuming that you didn't think that with time I would eventually give up and forget about it. I'd like to see the issue finally closed, as I still consider it open after an apparent solution was reached but never carried out which I held you to. Given the time of year, unless you're off somewhere enjoying the break, I think now might be a good time to finally carry it out so we can start the new year without this still outstanding. As all other interested parties seem to have forgotten about it or let it go, I guess that just leaves me. If it makes you feel better, I can comprise on this. In addition to the Bio barnstar, I'm settling on just the Barnstar of Diligence and Working Man's to help reduce administration on your end. Let me know what you think and if this works for you, so we can get some closure on this. Thanks. --BrokenSphereMsg me 17:59, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
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Mentor?[edit]This semester I am teaching academic writing to a group of teachers at my school. This course starts on Monday Jan 28. I would like to know if you are still interesting in "mentoring". You can see the syllabus at Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/SyllabusIf so, please leave a message on my talk page and update the mentor's page Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Mentors, if . If not, please remove your name and information from that page. Thanks! Thelmadatter (talk) 00:18, 25 January 2008 (UTC) Spring '08 drive, & suggestions[edit]Long time no talk, Psychless. I noticed that you're doing another Biography WP Drive. I've already signed up for it, and will attempt to edit as many articles as possible. I do, however, have a couple of suggestions for the organization and logistics of future drives. I noticed, during the previous drive (summer 2007)that overlap assessment tended to happen. In other words, I'd be in the middle of assessing, say, Politicians and Government, and return the next day to find the entire section finished, thus upsetting my assessment "mood". When the Military History Wikiproject began our 2008 B-Class Assessment Drive (BCAD), we divided the entire range into worklists of 200. Each editor then picked a worklist and completed the assessment of all 200 articles in that worklist. When the worklist was finished, we simply adopt another one and repeat the process. So far, it has worked exceedingly well. No overlap assessment has occurred in the two weeks that the drive has been going on. You might want to consider using the same system for the 2008 summer drive. The worklists are located here. If you need further information on the format, I suggest contacting Kirill. Best Regards, Cam (Chat) 21:59, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
Awards Center Newsletter[edit]I'm pleased to announce that the Awards Center will be getting its own newsletter shortly. If you want to receive the WP:AWC newsletter, put your name here. --Sharkface217 20:45, 30 March 2008 (UTC) WikiProject Christianity Newsletter[edit]
Jerry Garcia tie[edit]I notice you have a link to Jerry Garcia tie on User:Psychless/Untagged/3. I just moved that article to J. Garcia to reflect the actual name of the neckware line. (Despite popular belief, there is no such brand as Jerry Garcia ties.) I assume you will want to adjust your pages accordingly.--ChasFink (talk) 19:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC) WikiProject Christianity Newsletter[edit]Hi Psychless,
Interesting. Let's leave it like this until we find out what exactly Wikipedia would like. Daytrivia (talk) 02:44, 25 May 2008 (UTC) WikiProject Christianity Newsletter[edit]
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