User talk:Halvorsen brian/Archive 10

WPORE COTW 2.0 - the picture edition

Greetings one and all. For some of you, this will be your first time receiving one of these messages, as it has been a year since the WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week (COTW) was a regular thing. My hope is it gets back to being a regular thing.

Usually I would go over the past COTW, but we are basically starting out anew. So, without further adieu, this edition is our semi-annual picture drive. We usually try to do it when there is decent weather in the state, and today seems to fit the bill. Now although you are encouraged to go out and take pictures, you can also just search the internet for images that have the proper licensing and upload those. Flickr is one site that has a fair amount of content with the proper licensing (most images on Flickr are not compatible). See WP:COPYRIGHT in general. For some “free” sources, check out the our dormant subproject that has some links to sources.

Lastly, if you need to know what images we need, here are the requests. Please remove the request from the talk page if you add an image.

Finally (this is not image related), as the years have passed, we have lost many good editors, and others, like myself, are no longer in school or are working full-time or both, and thus are less active in the project. The project lives on, but it has created a bit of a power vacuum without a de facto cabal still around all the time. With that in mind, I encourage newer project members to step-up and fill some leadership type roles. Granted, we have no formal ruling junta or anything and no real defined roles, but there are many maintenance type tasks that some of us just took on to keep the project going. For instance, I ran the COTW, was pretty much the only one doing assessments, updating the portal, and even handing out the awards. I am sure others in the project can name what things they have done. The point being, that while I enjoyed those and still do some of those, I simply no longer have the free time to do all of it at a level that the project deserves. That said, I hope to start a discussion at WT:ORE where we can see if some newer editors would like to step-up and take on some of these tasks, which will hopefully make for a more inclusive project, and maybe get us back to the heyday of say 2008 when things were really rocking for WikiProject Oregon.

As always, please click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Aboutmovies (talk) 22:18, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to take part in a study

I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to Main Study. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates about 20 minutes. I chose you as a English Wikipedia user who made edits recently through the RecentChange page. Refer to the first page in the online survey form for more information on the study and me.cooldenny (talk) 03:55, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Southern Cross Pitch, May 2011

THE SOUTHERN CROSS PITCH The Australian Baseball Task Force Newsletter Issue 7 – May 2011]

"We did what you have to do to win. We got three very good starts, we played some outstanding defence and the bats came alive and we peaked at the right time." — Perth Heat manager Brooke Knight after winning the Australian Baseball League Championship News and announcements We have a new baseball-exclusive Good Article to take our tally up to three: 2010–11 Australian Baseball League season. New ABL-themed userboxes are now available to go on your user page. Each of the six teams have a standard one ready to go, while the Blue Sox have an additional one using the crowd chant as heard on Triple H FM. If fans of the other teams want a similarly adjusted userbox, let me know and I'll have it up as soon as I can. As always, if you've got an idea for the newsletter or for the task force as a whole, please add it to the task force's talk page. Featured content The following articles have been promoted past start-class, or included in the task force's scrutiny, since the last edition: Good Article status: 2010–11 Australian Baseball League season B-Class status: Australian Baseball League

News from the diamond Australian Baseball League: The inaugural ABL champions are the Perth Heat. They defeated the Adelaide Bite 2 games to 1 in the championship series, held at Baseball Park in Perth. In late breaking news, the Heat will now get the opportunity to compete in the Asia Series in November this year, against the winners of the Japan Series, Korean Series and Taiwan Series. Australia Women's Championships: Congratulations to the Victoria Blue team, defeating New South Wales in the final at Narrabundah Ballpark in Canberra to claim the National Championship. Country New South Wales defeated Western Australia to claim the bronze medal. Australian Provincial Championships: After the finals were washed out at Blacktown Olympic Park in Sydney, Western Australia were declared champions at the conclusion of round robin play. They finished in a three-way tie with Country New South Wales and Victoria with a 3–1 record, but finished ahead having given up fewer runs. With its head-to-head win, Country New South Wales claimed silver and Victory bronze. This newsletter was composed by  Afaber012 . If you would like to contribute to future newsletters, please leave a message on the newsletter talk page. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter anymore, please remove your name from the subscribers list on the main newsletter page.

 Afaber012  (talk)  07:41, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

User:Halvorsen brian/William Rumler

Hi there, I saw this page that you have been working on while I was patrolling recent changes. It looks great, you should move it to the mainspace. It looks definitely ready to be in article space, and is very well referenced. Let me know what you think. Cheers. Steven Zhang ^{The clock is ticking....} 23:33, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

No problem. I was just surprised when I came across it that it wasn't already an article in mainspace. Keep up the great work. :) Steven Zhang ^{The clock is ticking....} 23:47, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Bill Stein

On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I thank you for your contribution to one of wikipedia's latest WP:GA's

This user helped promote Bill Stein to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:32, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Nick Koback

Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Good Article promotion

	Congratulations!
	Thanks for all the work you did in making Adam DeBus a certified "Good Article"! Your work is much appreciated. I know you're not on all the time anymore... but if you feel up to it, you may wish to review one of the Good Article nominees that someone else nominated, as there is currently a backlog, and any help is appreciated. All the best, – Quadell (talk)

1900 United States Census?

Hello, may I ask where you're getting information from the 1900 United States Census from? I'm expanding Duff Cooley and could use it to add a few sentences to the "Early life" section. Best, Albacore (talk) 23:21, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, thanks for your editorial contribution

This user helped promote Adam DeBus to good article status.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:40, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks

On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, thank you for your editorial contributions.

This user has helped promote Jiggs Parrott good articles on Wikipedia.

--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 21:55, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Andrew Baldwin (baseball) for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Andrew Baldwin (baseball) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Baldwin (baseball) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Giants27(T|C) 02:37, 28 August 2011 (UTC)