User talk:GregJackP

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AFC Backlog

Articles for Creation urgently needs YOUR help! Articles for Creation is desperately short of reviewers! We are looking for urgent help, from experienced editors, in reviewing submissions in the pending submissions queue. Currently there are 3331 submissions waiting to be reviewed and many help requests at our Help Desk. Do you have what it takes? Are you familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines? Do you know what Wikipedia is and is not? Do you have a working knowledge of the Manual of Style, particularly article naming conventions? Are you autoconfirmed? Can you review submissions based on their individual merits? If the answer to these questions is yes, then please read the reviewing instructions and donate a little of your time to helping tackle the backlog. You might wish to add {{AFC status}} or {{AfC Defcon}} to your userpage, which will alert you to the number of open submissions. PS: we have a great AFC helper script at User:Timotheus Canens/afchelper4.js which helps in reviewing in just few edits easily! We would greatly appreciate your help. Currently, only a small handful of users are reviewing articles. Any help, even if it's just 2 or 3 reviews, it would be extremely beneficial. On behalf of the Articles for Creation project, TheSpecialUser TSU

Rio Alto Mining

Hey Greg,

I am the author of the Rio Alto Mining page you highlighted for deletion. Please pardon me, that article is my first Wikipedia page I have written. That said, I believe the topic is notable -- according to the Wikipedia corporation guidelines, almost all public corporations are notable, and Rio Alto is much larger in terms of market capitalization and net income than many other comparable companies that also have Wikipedia articles.

Given that it was my first article, I am not especially familiar with what makes a good Wikipedia article. I copied the template for the existing Iamgold (another Canadian gold miner) article and updated the information so as to be relevant to Rio Alto. I am happy to edit the article in whatever way necessary so as to be credible and not promotional. Please advise me as to what I should do in order to avoid deletion of the article. Thanks.

Article Feedback Tool update

Hey GregJackP. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.

We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.

Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 22:10, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

DelRev

Yes, of course I knew you meant it to be humorous, and I think it was. The person who calls me that the most frequently is my longterm Wikifriend OrangeMike, I hope I didn't inject an unduly serious tone into the proceedings. DGG ( talk ) 04:43, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

No, you were good. GregJackP Boomer! 11:07, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Valiant Return Triple Crown

Your Valiant Majesty. It gives me great pleasure to recognize GregJackP as a recipient of the Valiant Return Triple Crown, for earning all the elements of a Triple Crown after a legitimate return from ArbCom. Thank you for rewarding the good hopes that people had in you – you're an inspiration to others. — ΛΧΣ21 07:23, 8 September 2013 (UTC)