User talk:EWS23

I'm currently being coached in Esperanza's admin coaching program.

If you have time, please visit my admin coaching subpage and comment on my progress.

EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 19:16, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

A few notes about my talk page

• I will respond on your talk page, unless you specify otherwise. However, I may copy/paste my response onto this page if I feel it is noteworthy or want to keep the flow of conversation uninterrupted.
• Please sign your posts with four tildes (~~~~).
• Feel free to call me Eric. :o)

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Hello

Warning Hello you seem to be a busy body! Please leave me alone! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.9.67.107 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello! Sorry, as long as you continue to vandalize user pages, I cannot leave you alone. However, you are welcome to read Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers and Wikipedia:Five pillars if you are interested in contributing constructively to our encyclopedia. Thanks for your message! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 18:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Thankyou note

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my talk page. Gershwinrb 21:50, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. It seems Gershwinrb and I were vandalized by the same person. This person apparently created a vanity article which I deleted months ago. But he wants it back now and doesn't know how to send a message to users. Academic Challenger 23:21, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Elections

Hello EWS23. I have checked the votes, and they appear to be in order.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 03:15, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar!

This Barnstar is awarded to EWS23 for lots of hard work everywhere! Especially with the Esperanza Elections and disambiguation. -- Natalya 15:14, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Wow, my first barnstar! I'm so honored. Thank you Natalya! :o) :o) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 19:19, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

You are most certainly welcome - you absoultely deserve it! I just can't believe this is your first! -- Natalya 20:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. :o) I don't mind flying under the radar most of the time. The bottom line is that the work gets done. :o) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 06:20, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Augusta of Saxe-Gotha

Sorry, I didn't know. I just thought it was a better title for it. Would you mind changing the title? The princess part doesn't really need to be there.

Note: This message was intended for User:Titoxd, and was brought to his attention. EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 06:20, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

May the Force be with you.

Dear EWS23,

Thanks for voting on my RFA! I appreciate your faith in me, and was overwhelmed by the positive response to my RFA; for it shows that at least I'm doing something right. :) I've started working to improve myself already, and I hope that next time, things run better, and maybe, just maybe, one day we can bask on the shores of Admintopia together. Thanks and cheers, _-M o P-_ 21:50, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Redwall

By all means be my guest, the section does need a lot of work, and I don't really have time to do a proper job, so go for it. Have fun, if you need any help, let me know--Jackyd101 02:38, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

That is much better, it is well laid out, and actually explains to the uniniated what Redwall is. There are parts which do need further expanision (and I think the criticism section may still be too long), but its a good start.--Jackyd101 07:19, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Extreme Environments

Eric,

It's me again. I know I've been asking a lot of stuff from you, but what other extreme environments do you know of, other than: deep sea, volcanoes, (anything to do with deep sea-sea vents etc.), caves, polar ice caps, space and desserts. Also, do you know much about the Ben Franklin (submersible)? It was the one where six men had to go into the Gulf Stream for thirty days. --Abbopa 03:16, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

More Redwall

Hi EW, I've noticed that you seem quite knowledgeable on the Redwall series, and I'd like to invite you to participate on the actual Redwall wiki resource, http://redwall.wikia.com We are always in need of more editors. You don't need to respond to this message. --LordTBT 09:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for changing my talk page. I didn't even realize that when I stole it from Almac. Just one quick question though: How'd you come across my user page? schyler 12:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Extreme Environments and Submarines

Eric,

Thanks for all your help again... very helpful. I've especially chose to study deep sea, as an extreme environment. I know of most deep sea fish (that are identified-thanks) and I now know about the Ben Franklin. There's some cool diving geer, one of which being the Newt suit. It's really quite cool. Ever heard of it?Abbopa 21:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

User:24.144.84.178. report on WP:RFI

Despite my slowness in getting back to you I did actually act on that report pretty quickly... I don't know if you noticed but as I suspected something fishy I posted on WP:ANI for confirmation, and the account (yes it's a registered user, not an IP) has been blocked indefinitely for impersonating Jimbo's IP address. And yes the report was to the right place- it was "complicated, deceptive vandalism". The main problem with that page is getting enough admins to watch it/do something about things there, hence the need to push some things to ANI to get some attention. Cheers, Petros471 19:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Not-so-random acts of kindness

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thanks for your comments and inspiration on Wikipedia talk:Esperanza. I think you've given a very succinct explanation of what Esperanza should be about, even during this difficult time. It might even help me change my mind and come back, despite recent turmoil. Elkman - (talk) 16:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Reply...

Hi Eric, sorry I couldn't think of a better subject/headline... oh well. Yes, my studies are going well, thanks again for the pages about the Newt suit. I saw the second page already, but that's okay. :0) Abbopa 01:10, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Isn't it time...

...that you were on WP:RFA? I'm not sure how your admin coaching is getting on as your AC page says it's taking place on IRC, but I keep on thinking the above question. If you would like I could take a proper look at your contributions to double check you are ready and then give you a nomination? Or would you rather wait for your admin coaches to do the work? (I certainly don't mind if you'd rather they did it, but on the other hand if you think you are ready I'd be delighted to nominate you!) Petros471 19:58, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Ok, of course I understand you wanting to talk with your coaches first (if I was your coach, I'd probably want to be asked :-) I'll take a good look though, and let you know if there is anything that seems missing. Cheers, Petros471 20:16, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I've gone back to the start of 2006 and I'm finding it extremely difficult to find a single contribution that could be considered bad. The worst I've found so far is the edit summary "revert newbie test", as it uses the word 'newbie' (some people may find that slightly offensive). I stress, that is not a horrendous thing by any stretch of the imagination- and I'm sure you were only using that summary to avoid using the word 'vandalism' to avoid BITE in the first place!

What I've found good so far: Always civil, always assuming good faith, great use of edit summaries, enough edits to satisfy 'those who count', enough distribution of edits to satisfy the same, good familiarity with policy and process, good understanding of consensus, erm do you want me to go on or is this embarrassing you ;)

Things that might possibly be brought up in an RfA (I don't actually think you'll fail on any of these but it'd be nice to know the answers): Have you done much reporting of vandalism (e.g. to WP:AIV) to 'prove' that you would use the block button? Have you made many significant article edits in terms of expansion or creation? Personally, if you've read my RfA, or some of the ones I've contributed to, you would know that I don't believe this one to be vital to becoming an admin. However some people do oppose based on this, although not enough to make an RfA fail (in my case at least). Petros471 21:02, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind Petros getting the honors, and I don't see anything that makes me say no, so go ahead. :) Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 22:38, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Deep Space

Hi Eric,

I was wondering if you had any good websites for special equipment used to go very far out in space. Abbopa 16:28, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Wuice

Thanks for the interesting link. User:Zoe|^(talk) 17:30, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Redirects

Little of column A, little of column B. The correct title of the show has a capital "B", so those should be changed, the others... just felt "the need", I guess. And I read that thing, but I was just ignoring that little section. Thanks for the note and advice, though. Cheers. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 22:04, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Deep Space

Hi Eric,

You said that you could give info about probes for Uranus, Neptune, Pluto... and beyond. Have any good websites those? Abbopa 22:56, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks so much. From now on I'll know how to revert a page. I was wondering how people did that... :) Emily ^{(Funtrivia Freak)} 01:15, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Glad you enjoyed it

Thanks for your kind words about my little parody. I was quite pleased with the way it turned out. Bucketsofg✐ 04:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)