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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

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Hey Amaryllis. I wanted to ask if you might be interested in mentoring one or more editors during our pilot of the mentorship space called the Co-op. We plan to run the 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/learn comprehensively about Wikipedia. We also want to make to easier for new editors to find mentors as well. Your experience at the Teahouse, antivandalism work, and copy-editing skills will be useful for new editors just getting started with clean-up. If you're interested, please sign up here and feel free to peruse, make suggestions, or ask questions about how the Co-op will work. Thanks a bunch (and Happy New Year!), I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 05:55, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

@I JethroBT: Signed! Thanks for the invite! :) --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 14:22, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi there Amaryllis Gardener! I just passed by your talk page to find out how you are rollbacker, autopatroller, and reviewer. I mean, How do you do those tasks? Ikhtiar H (talk) 17:20, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

@Ikhtiar H: Well, I use the rollback rights to fight vandalism, as it makes it easier to revert edits, and you can use Huggle with it. The autopatroller right is for article creation, editors who don't have many articles created have to have their articles patrolled, but users with the autopatroller rights have theirs patrolled automatically, so it basically reduces the workload for new page patrollers. The reviewer right is so you can edit pending changes protected pages, and accept edits up for review. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 17:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your contribs to Wikipedia! Bananasoldier (talk) 16:42, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Well thank you, Bananasoldier! :) --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 16:43, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

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@Becky Sayles: Thank you so much! :) --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 23:21, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Dear Ms. Gardener,

Thank you for your comments on my first submission. Accordingly, I have used the reference lists for the references and have added a few more sources. I have submitted this revised version via speedy deletion wiki.

I am ready to comply with other requests for changes.

Thank you very much. Michel Carael 2A02:A03F:80:2900:ECB0:8060:892:BA7F (talk) 20:52, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

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Hi AmaryllisGardener! I know you must be really busy, but if you could knock out 1-2 of the links at Talk:Dishwashing_liquid#Help_me_use_these_references.21 it would help me a lot. I've been swimming in dishwashing refs! Thanks, Bananasoldier (talk) 11:35, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

@Bananasoldier: I'm involved in a few discussions right now and then there's RL, but I should be able to help out some later today or tomorrow. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 14:36, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi there. Thanks for taking the time to review redirect requests at WP:AFC/R, sadly the page is much neglected these days, I must have handled 40 or so requests yesterday. I just wanted to ask if you wouldn't mind using the appropriate archive template when you deal with a request. Otherwise, they still show up as 'pending requests' in the script menu. Thanks again. Bellerophon _{talk to me} 20:03, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

@Bellerophon: I use AFCH beta, it didn't archive that one request because I only partially fulfilled it. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 20:04, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Oh I see, I use Beta too. I wasn't aware of how it handled partially fulfilled requests. Never mind then. Keep up the good work :) Bellerophon _{talk to me} 21:01, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi AmaryllisGardener!

Thank you so much for inviting me to the Teahouse! I had a quick question for you--

Everything I post, no matter how many secondary sources, how above average it is in number (see my BP Cooper article) or how my sources meet Wikipedia's guidelines, is given an instant deletion request by user McGeddon. So I of course feel terrible, go back and find a bunch more sources (again this is the BP Cooper article) and he nominates it for deletion within less than three seconds of my updating it and thanking him for his suggestions. He could not have reviewed my new sources (5 of them) in this time. I started a talk page with him over the deletion and he hasn't responded. I see from his user page a lot of people have had this experience with him.

Could you give me some insight? I want to do a good job! I think I am obeying all the guidelines - it's a little tough to do third party sources in entertainment because the entertainment industry runs entirely off kinda wonky sources like IMDB. I just want commercial producers and indie directors to get a little more recognition. It's a bummer when I go to a festival and everyone "doesn't exist" as far as the online community is concerned - despite being in the field for decades and creating new techniques. I thought crafting wikipedia pages would be a good way to contribute to this effort, but apparently McGeddon has flagged everything I've ever done in my paltry existence for deletion, and when I make the improvements he requests he doesn't even look at them before nominating them for deletion at a higher level. for deletion.

If you have any ideas I'd really appreciate it! Thank you, Amesion (talk) 17:55, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

@Amesion: Well, just make sure the sources talk about BP more than a passing mention. Have you read WP:GNG? That is what we go by here, when it comes to notability. Let me know if you need anything else! :) --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 18:13, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your message and warm welcome. I am looking forward to being a part of the Wiki family.

Lucian Sma (talk) 00:56, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. You are epic. If you'd like any help, message me on my User PageSonictheHedgehog99 (talk) 23:46, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, um, thank you. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 23:48, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

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@Bhootrina: Thank you! :) --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 13:56, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Welcomeyou can add it in your userpage--Bhootrina (talk) 15:16, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

It looks like you're good at reviewing GAs so I was wondering if you can take a look at this? Thanks! Jim Carter 11:19, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you.  :) Jim Carter 05:58, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Do you have some time? Can you review this? Thank you very much! Jim Carter 15:55, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Don't worry, it is just a lot of silliness. A bit of humor never hurts. When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a bit of sense of humour. ... Hafspajen (talk) 01:11, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

I know that humour does no harm to Wikipedia. I have more of a sense of humor than you might think when you first meet me. Anyway, thanks for the brownie! ^{(P.S. I use the spelling "humour" in the first sentence, and "humor" in the next, that sums up my WP English, alternating between British and American spellings. :P)} --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 01:15, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Try to keep everybody satisfied... (actually I did the same....) Hafspajen (talk) 01:17, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

@Hafspajen: Haha, didn't notice that! I'm not alone, yay! --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 01:20, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Hafspajen (talk) 01:21, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Would it be possible for you to review Euthanasia Coaster as a GA nominee? It's pretty short and feel like you can handle it. :P Thanks. Eurodyne (talk) 02:20, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

@Eurodyne: Sure! :) --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 02:53, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Don't want to be pushy or mean, but I do not think this article should be a good article. It is a bit short, also since the coaster is a concept and not an actual coaster, there isn't much information we can get out of this article as most of the content is trivial and based on the concept presentation. ///EuroCarGT 03:24, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

I was thinking it was a bit too short, but I didn't know what could be expanded, but I am seeing about 29,000 ghits for "Euthanasia Coaster". I just didn't quite know what to say. This reminds me of my GA, Kajaani, which was promoted too early and had to be improved afterwards. I wouldn't exactly know where to go to get more on the Euthanasia Coaster, but perhaps someone could contact WikiProject Death or Roller coasters? --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 03:31, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Although it is a bit short, I feel that I have nothing else to add. I think the article meets the GA requirements so I went ahead and nominated it. Eurodyne (talk) 03:42, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, like I said, it seemed so so short, but I wasn't sure about what to tell you to add. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 03:45, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Honestly, there was nothing else to add. As long as it meets the requirements, I'm good with it. Eurodyne (talk) 03:46, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Eurodyne: I think you should nominate it for WP:Peer review. Cheers, Jim Carter 04:00, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

As a member of WP Amusement Park and it's roller coaster's component, I have observed many roller coaster-related articles. Here was one of my roller coaster GA nom. I requested it to be close because it didn't have the sufficient information at that time. ///EuroCarGT 04:22, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello AmaryllisGardener,

I'll be putting out a formal update sometime soon, but I wanted to inform you that I've decided to push our start date back to mid-February rather than in January. There are number of reasons for this, but the biggest factor is that we are now facing the hard work of implementing our designs on the Mediawiki interface. It's a limiting environment to work with from a web-building perspective, and the team that worked on the Teahouse can offer similar testimonials to these challenges. We also want to make sure there is time for us and for you to test the environment out, ask questions at our project's talk page, and give us a little time to make any last changes before we start inviting editors to the space. If some of you know you will be unavailable during this time, it's totally fine if you need to bow out for the pilot. But we do need all the mentors we can get, so even if you can take the time to mentor just one or two editors, that would be fantastic.
Thanks a bunch, I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.

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You appear to have come over all conspiratorial and offensive with this edit. It's abundantly clear that I failed on an edit conflict, yet you seemed so happy to jump on it. I don't really care one iota what you think but I'm just giving you a chance to actually respond to the truth of the situation rather than the odd story you clearly have running through your mind. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:29, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: So you think there was an agenda behind that comment? We thought there were negative connotations with your comments ("well played", "mediocre"), and we were told we don't "get it" because we're Americans, so, what if I we're to say you misunderstood my tone because you're British, eh? And to explain what I was thinking (your comments are still unexplained, but anyway), I usually copy my comments and then go back to the latest version of the page, edit the page, then insert my comments. That, paired with the content of the removed comments, I didn't know what was going on. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 00:18, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Nice find! I bet things like that are incredibly rare! Lightspeed2012 02:59, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

@Lightspeed2012: Thanks! I was quite surprised that it had gone undetected for seven years, I was just looking through redirects, tagging and nominating inappropriate ones for RfD, and then I saw that (Too bad I read the year wrong, and mistakenly put down eight years in my edit summary). Redirect vandalism goes undetected because the title, when typed in, still redirects to the target. Anyway, I now have a record set on Wikipedia! :D --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 03:04, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Can you please move Arguedas, Navarra to Arguedas, Navarre and Jardinópolis to Jardinópolis, São Paulo on this Wikipedia?

76.20.25.243 (talk) 06:27, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

 Done, and the title Jardinópolis is now a dab. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 14:34, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Hey AmaryllisGardener, it's been a while. The Co-op team has been hard at work during over the winter, so let's get right into what's been happening:

• Graphic design work is nearing completion and development work is coming along slowly but surely. The main components of the space, profiles, the landing page, and the mentor landing page have all been built, and we're basically just putting the pieces together. We have close-to-final draft of the landing page, which is currently at User:Slalani/Landing_page, and in the thumbnail to the right. You can check out other components over at User:Slalani if you're curious. Soni, Slalani, and I are working together on some of the front page elements. We've also been doing some testing on test.wikipedia.org for profile building and matching. If you're curious about checking that out, let me know.
• We've finished up a survey for newer editors to assess their experiences of using existing help spaces (e.g. Reference Desk, Teahouse, IRC, The Wikipedia Adventure) on en.wikipedia. Gabrielm199 is putting together a summary of that survey, and in the meantime, some findings from that survey of 45 newer editors include:
  • On average, editors found contributing to Wikipedia to be easier after using the help space compared to before.
    • However, after using one or more help spaces, only half of editors reported that editing, addressing social challenges, and resolving technical issues were easy or very easy. The other half of editors were either neutral, or reported that these matters were difficult or very difficult.
  • Just under 30% (11 of 38 editors) of newer editors said they probably would have stopped editing entirely had they not received support from the help space they used.
  • Editors frequently reported either 1) that they would not have been learn what they needed without the help space, or 2) That they could have found it, but admitted that it would have been difficult or taken much longer.
• We will be making one final move of the pilot start date to March 4th, 2015. This is the last move (I promise), because we can't afford to run the pilot any later than that. So there it is: March 4th or bust! But we won't bust, because there are just a few things left on our plate before we can run our pilot successfully. I'll be alerting you about when you will be able to make mentor profiles soon, so when you get a message about that, please take a minute or two to create your profile here (otherwise, you won't get matched to any editors!).

Thanks to all of the new mentors who have joined over the past few months. Big thanks to Missvain to posting about our little project here to the gendergap-l mailing list. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 00:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC) on behalf of Wikipedia:Co-op.

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The case has been closed, and there's been some serious personal attacks on me, but no hard feelings. I hope you enjoyed the show, ANI is a disgusting venue and there are many people who literally spend their entire Wikipedia life there. It seldom solves anything. I didn't respond point by point to your opening case but would be happy to do so whenever. I fear that you believe my motives to be misplaced but after nearly ten years, perhaps you're right, perhaps i don't have the best for wikipedia in mind? The Rambling Man (talk) 17:54, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: I never said you didn't have the best for Wikipedia in mind, just that you're comments we're consistently rude and often incivil. People who don't want the best for Wikipedia seldom stay here for as long as you have. I don't want you to leave Wikipedia or anything, I just want to see you practice civility and apologize (sincerely). That would mean much more to me than a passed proposal for a tban. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 18:02, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps next time understand that I'm here to improve the encyclopedia. You were the person who asked for a topic ban. Thanks, best we no longer talk since our positions seem clearly opposing. The Rambling Man (talk) 18:50, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

@The Rambling Man: I just want to clarify that what I meant by "People who don't want the best for Wikipedia seldom stay here for as long as you have.", was that you do want the best for Wikipedia, and that your time here is proof that you want the best for Wikipedia. As I've said before, my English is not the best. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 19:01, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

I understand that, I deal with non-English speakers all the time. That you decided to attempt to get me banned from ITN says it all. Thanks, and goodbye. (P.S. for all your complaints, who posted Richard von Weizsäcker to the main page?) The Rambling Man (talk) 19:02, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

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Yes, we shall. Let's put that chapter behind us, but before we do, I'd like to take this time to say I am sorry for my part in that unnecessary fiasco. A Merry Christmas to you too! :) —Bloom6132 (talk) 04:33, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! I'd also like to apologize, for my rudeness. New chapter begins now! :) Happy editing, --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 04:47, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

@Jim Cartar: Thank you! :) --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 04:47, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

The following names of these page must be moved.

• Colonia San José, Sonora to Colonia San José, Chihuahua
• Potrero del Llano,Chihuahua to Potrero del Llano, Chihuahua 76.20.25.243 (talk) 09:39, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

 Done --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 13:39, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I have a friend named Amarilis, so I made the wrong assumption. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:42, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

@SarekOfVulcan: No need to apologize. The "Amaryllis" part refers to Hippeastrum, commonly known and sold as "Amaryllis". I'm quite used to the gender confusion. --AmaryllisGardener ^talk 20:45, 20 February 2015 (UTC)