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Home Barnstars, Badges, & User Boxes Talk to me Creations Proposed deletion of Road Runners Motorcycle Club The article Road Runners Motorcycle Club has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern: The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (organizations) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back. Thank you, While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons. You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 16:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC) Thanks! Hi Brianhe. Thanks so much for joining us at the critical edit-a-thon this past weekend and for helping a newish Wikipedian to work through some of the struggles with sources and notability. Thanks for being a good sport, too, re: feminism and the deleted HCDE article. :) --Mssemantics (talk) 16:58, 16 February 2015 (UTC) It was a pleasure to meet the established Wikipedians like you, and to welcome the new ones. — Brianhe (talk) 05:55, 18 February 2015 (UTC) New to Wikipedia I'm really sorry. Obviously, I'm new. Just trying to update the page with the most accurate information about the company. I'm not trying to be promotional, just factual. I thought by noting that I work for Papillon that I was being transparent. I'm sorry I didn't note that properly. I appreciate the links and I will get more familiar with the guidelines before I edit anything again. Thank you, --Mar-cb2000 (talk) 01:36, 28 February 2015 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:All Wave logo.gif ⚠ Thanks for uploading File:All Wave logo.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 23:17, 6 March 2015 (UTC) WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 2 For this month's issue... Making sense of a lot of data. Work on our prototype will begin imminently. In the meantime, we have to understand what exactly we're working with. To this end, we generated a list of 71 WikiProjects, based on those brought up on our Stories page and those who had signed up for pilot testing. For those projects where people told stories, we coded statements within those stories to figure out what trends there were in these stories. This approach allowed us to figure out what Wikipedians thought of WikiProjects in a very organic way, with very little by way of a structure. (Compare this to a structured interview, where specific questions are asked and answered.) This analysis was done on 29 stories. Codes were generally classified as "benefits" (positive contributions made by a WikiProject to the editing experience) and "obstacles" (issues posed by WikiProjects, broadly speaking). Codes were generated as I went along, ensuring that codes were as close to the original data as possible. Duplicate appearances of a code for a given WikiProject were removed. We found 52 "benefit" statements encoded and 34 "obstacle" statements. The most common benefit statement referring to the project's active discussion and participation, followed by statements referring to a project's capacity to guide editor activity, while the most common obstacles made reference to low participation and significant burdens on the part of the project maintainers and leaders. This gives us a sense of WikiProjects' big strength: they bring people together, and can be frustrating to editors when they fail to do so. Meanwhile, it is indeed very difficult to bring editors together on a common interest; in the absence of a highly motivated core of organizers, the technical infrastructure simply isn't there. We wanted to pair this qualitative study with quantitative analysis of a WikiProject and its "universe" of pages, discussions, templates, and categories. To this end I wrote a script called ProjAnalysis which will, for a given WikiProject page (e.g. Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek) and WikiProject talk-page tag (e.g. Template:WikiProject Star Trek), will give you a list of usernames of people who edited within the WikiProject's space (the project page itself, its talk page, and subpages), and within the WikiProject's scope (the pages tagged by that WikiProject, excluding the WikiProject space pages). The output is an exhaustive list of usernames. We ran the script to analyze our test batch of WikiProjects for edits between March 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015, and we subjected them to further analysis to only include those who made 10+ edits to pages in the projects' scope, those who made 4+ edits to the projects' space, and those who made 10+ edits to pages in scope but not 4+ edits to pages in the projects' space. This latter metric gives us an idea of who is active in a certain subject area of Wikipedia, yet who isn't actively engaging on the WikiProject's pages. This information will help us prioritize WikiProjects for pilot testing, and the ProjAnalysis script in general may have future life as an application that can be used by Wikipedians to learn about who is in their community. Complementing the above two studies are a design analysis, which summarizes the structure of the different WikiProject spaces in our test batch, and the comprehensive census of bots and tools used to maintain WikiProjects, which will be finished soon. With all of this information, we will have a game plan in place! We hope to begin working with specific WikiProjects soon. As a couple of asides... Database Reports has existed for several years on Wikipedia to the satisfaction of many, but many of the reports stopped running when the Toolserver was shut off in 2014. However, there is good news: the weekly New WikiProjects and WikiProjects by Changes reports are back, with potential future reports in the future. WikiProject X has an outpost on Wikidata! Check it out. It's not widely publicized, but we are interested in using Wikidata as a potential repository for metadata about WikiProjects, especially for WikiProjects that exist on multiple Wikimedia projects and language editions. That's all for now. Thank you for subscribing! If you have any questions or comments, please share them with us. Harej (talk) 01:43, 21 March 2015 (UTC) Gerechtigkeitsspirale has been nominated for Did You Know Thanks and appreciated Hi Brianhe, thank a lot for your effort to improve the first article I wrote (Jeffrey Polnaja). I speak Indonesian and English. I am happy if I can contribute article to Wikipedia. Let me know if you need to translate articles from Indonesian to English. Hopefully, I can do a favour. Many thanks, cheers !--AdvPrima (talk) 22:19, 4 April 2015 (UTC) You are welcome. Will let you know if a translation need comes up. Brianhe (talk) 22:50, 4 April 2015 (UTC) Precious again motorcycles Thank you for quality articles for project Motorcycling, such as Curtiss V-8 motorcycle, for dedicated reviewing, and for winning an award such as "Most understandable online friend", - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:04, 7 April 2013 (UTC) Two years ago, you were the 448th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, - thank your also for poetic translation regarding justice - righteousness - equity - rectitude - right living, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:23, 7 April 2015 (UTC) DYK for Rogue Beard Beer Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 7 April 2015 (UTC) WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 3 Greetings! For this month's issue... We have demos! After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things: A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area. We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page. Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there. While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects. Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like. We need volunteers! WikiProject X is a huge undertaking, and we need volunteers to support our efforts, including testers and coders. Check out our volunteer portal and see what you can do to help us! As an aside... Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point. Harej (talk) 00:57, 19 April 2015 (UTC) DYK for Gerechtigkeitsspirale PanydThe muffin is not subtle 14:31, 23 April 2015 (UTC) Thank you for reflecting and translating the Gerechtigkeitsspirale! Did you know ... that a church's 1510 spiral of justice declares: "Justice suffered in great need. Truth is slain dead. Faith has lost the battle"? The poem ends with "Praise the right thing". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:47, 24 April 2015 (UTC) Reseaching Intellectual Capital RE: your edit for Intellectual Capital. A search using Google Scholar for the term "components of intellectual capital" would be worthwhile. The first six articles would provide a solid foundation in the history of the topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.244.10.230 (talk) 01:58, 29 April 2015 (UTC) Your point is what? The lede as you left it is gibberish. — Brianhe (talk) 02:04, 29 April 2015 (UTC) Speedy deletion declined I declined your speedy deletion nomination of ITrip with no prejudice against its deletion through WP:AfD because G11 does not applies to articles with Minor promotional wording. The argument per your edit summary that No real reference for five years is not a valid reason for speedy deletion per G11. However, no prejudice against its deletion through WP:AfD if the notability is in doubt. Thanks! Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 13:21, 7 May 2015 (UTC) A barnstar for you! The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar For keeping an eye on the bad guys. Pine✉ 02:36, 9 May 2015 (UTC) Some explation Hello. Although I do not tend to explain myself, I do wish to point out to some things. I have been suggested to create new article using my sandbox to avoid multiple edits. However, I was not aware of splitting the page history issue and I thank you for informing me. This was a personal attach on me, where user, for some reason, took this company's founder name as it username, a posted this on the discussion. He/She was blocked for that reason, as you can see here. As you can see, I patrol recently created articles and many of my "suspicious" edits come from there. I also patrol articles for creation entries as well as old article for creation and userspace entries. Some of my pointed edits come from there. I will assure you that I do not have any connection with named editors and CheckUser will confirm that. I am not a native English speaker and sometimes it is hard for me to express myself when writing, so some of my statements might look odd or badly written. You could also see that I have more than 10k of edits and that I have done major job patrolling Wikipedia and cleaning out bad entries. In the end, that you for letting me know about the history splitting issue. all the best, --BiH (talk) 12:12, 9 May 2015 (UTC)