User talk:Geasterb

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If you have any questions please ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Thank you. UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 17:52, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Time for you to help too...

OK Geasterb, Ultraexactzz and I have restored your logo for the Council on Competitiveness article, I've written the proper non-free rationale and put it in the article. We're bending over backwards to help you here, we could just as easily delete all your work - now it's time for you to respond:

• Sign your posts on talk pages, you just type four tildes ~~~~ after your comment. It's not hard and I already told you how to do it, I think.
• Use the "Show Preview" button to see if your edits are going to work out. You flailed around trying to get the logo to show up, you didn't have to make all those edits - use preview instead.
• Add your latest comments to the bottom of talk pages so we can all keep track of what's going on. I don't know if it's come up yet, but we also prefer that you indent your replies on talk pages by putting in colons to indent your text, so do this: "::Hello, thanks for your input!~~~~". Those leading colons will indent your reply. Use that preview button to see what it looks like.
• Please clean up the Council article - there are lots of typos and grammar errors, you've only marginally rewritten the copyrighted text from the website, you have weblinks that shouldn't be there, and you still haven't added any links to reliable, independent sources such as a newspaper, that show why your article should be here at all. Why is your organization worthy of a Wikipedia article? I'm sure it is, but it's up to you to prove it.

We're trying hard to help you out, but you can't just type stuff in here and expect us to fix it all up, we need you to help out too. Please go through all those links I gave you at the top of this page, read them all 'cause this is serious stuff. We want you to stick around and contribute, but we also need for you to learn how Wikipedia works. Mostly, you need to clean up the Council article and put in some good third-party sources. Cheers! Franamax (talk) 01:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

First of all, sorry I messed up some formatting things like putting posts on hte bottom rather than top, improper signing, etc. I don't know anything about this webpage format, I've been teaching myself how to use Wikipedia by opening up the edit pages of other articles and figuring out what each thing means.

Second, I don't expect you to fix everything up for me, but I certainly appreciate it! Especially things that I haven't quite figured out how to do yet like catorgize things or how to properly site images. I just gave up trying to add an image beacuse I figured it wasn't worth trying to figure out how to properly post the logo, so thanks for doing that for me! I had planned on reviewing the site some more but I was being doing work and havent gotten the chance to look at is as much as I would like. One thing I think I have to clarify is that while I do work for the Council, I wasn't told to do this page/doing this isn't part of my job. I'm doing this on my own time beacuse I was surprised the Council did'nt have one yet.

I have made further edits to the texts, added third party sources (mostly news sources), and tweaked it a little more

Agian, thanks for all your help on this. Take a look and if you still have issues let me hear it.

p.s. I'm not sure what consitutes sending a "message" on wikipedia (like you did to me) so I posted it on my wall as well as both of yours.

Thanks, ~G 17:26, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Sending a message works two ways. If it's about an article and meant for the general audience editing the article, you put it on the article talk page (we don't like to call them "wall"s here ;). If it's a message to a specific person, you put it on that editor's talk page, and you can add their page to your watchlist, to make it easier to see when they respond. Normally, I would respond at my own talk page, but I'm putting this here to make things easier.

You're getting the hang of things, remember that you can always ask questions at the Help Desk or the newbie's help page. You still need to get the hang of signing your talk page posts with four tildes ~~~~. I'll re-read the article later today. You do have a conflict of interest, working for the Council, but you've declared it so there's no real problem there. As I'm sure you've figured out, we'll be happy to step on you if you get out of line :) Franamax (talk) 17:51, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Franamax hit the high points, so I'll just say that we're happy to help. It's a work in progress, and the whole point of a wiki is to get multiple sets of eyes looking at it - which we're happy to do. Best, UltraExactZZ ^Claims ~ Evidence 20:10, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Gregg Easterbrook

Thanks for the kudos on the Gregg Easterbrook article; it still has some way to go, however. Thanks for the work that I see you've been doing on it. Are you a big Easterbrook fan? So far as splitting the TMQ section off, I've never actually split an article either, but it doesn't look like it'll be hard. If you could, please take a moment to post your support of such a move on the article's talk page in the appropriate section; that'll demonstrate the change has support--be sure to sign your post with four tildes! — Jacob1207 (talk) 00:31, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, Geasterb, at this point I guess I should ask: you're editing the article on Gregg Easterbrook and your user name is Geasterb? Mighty strange coincidence that. As I've said above, your conflicts of interest are generally OK, so long as you declare them up front. This is not an area I particularly want to poke into, but I do have to point it out. Cheers! Franamax (talk) 01:06, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

hahah no I am not Gregg Easterbrook or a family member or anything like that, but my last name is Easterbrook which is how I first noticed this Gregg Easterbrook guy. the Geasterb username is my school ID which is a combination of my middle name and my last name (thats how my school does it) and I've started using that for all my online accounts for simplicities sake.

I don't have any conflict of interests other than he has the same last name as me, and when I read his page I thought I would improve it. I also noticed that it had alot of edits around the same time as the second wave of the matt Walsch spygate scandal (Easterbrook has been one of the most vocal critics of Bellicheck) and many of these edits were very questionable and sounded like they were written by angry patriots fans. There were many sections that read like "Easterbrook angrily tirades" etc. etc.

~G 01:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

OK thanks, I feel better. Just one of those things that makes me curious, I figured there would be a simple explanation. Makes sense that an Easterbrook would spot articles about other Easterbrooks. If you're worried about giving out your last name here, feel free to blank this section! Franamax (talk) 01:53, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Use of New Template

I have created a template {{WikiProject Maryland/flag/animated}} using a commons image that could be used on the front page of the Maryland project. As you can see, I have configured it to fly behind the wiki-puzzle-world logo in the upper left portion of the screen. I will leave it there for a couple of days and invite your comments as to whether we should use it on our front page, or not.--«Marylandstater» ^«reply» 16:32, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Please leave Support or Oppose comments here:

Nobel prize image in infobox

Please don't add the image to an infobox, as you did to Martin Luther King, Jr. unless it is listed in the parameters on the infobox's template page. Infoboxes have standard parameters and should not have new ones added unless there is discussion and consensus on the template's talk page. Otherwise templates would be chaotic with every editor redesigning it according to their particular whim. Thank you. Ward3001 (talk) 01:18, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

One year comparison Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland

• At the end of November last year there were 1300 articles in the Md. Project
• At the end of November this year there were 4000 articles in the Md. Project
  

An increase of 2700 articles.

• At the end of November last year there were 7 featured articles in the Md. Project
• At the end of November this year there were 10 featured articles in the Md. Project
  

An increase of 3 articles.

• At the end of November last year there was 1 (one) A-class article in the Md. Project
• At the end of November this year there was 1 (one) A-class article in the Md. Project
  

An increase of 0 articles.

Just put that out there for the project's consideration.
--«Marylandstater» ^«reply» 03:02, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Geasterb! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 16:44, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

GLAM Baltimore 2011!

GLAM Baltimore 2011 - You are invited!

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DC-area Meetup, Saturday, October 8

National Archives Backstage Pass - Who should come? You should. Really.
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