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June 2007 Wikiproject Christianity Newsletter

The Christianity WikiProject Newsletter Volume I, no. 1 - June 2007
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Eliza Marsden Hassall

On 13 July, 2007, Did you know?' was updated with a fact from the article Eliza Marsden Hassall, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Hi

Wiki-Alert

A James Bond wiki you should try is Bondpedia Please come along and contribute by editing or joining for more information contact User:Highfields who is an admin on the site and self proclaimed 'Head of Bondpedia Advertising on Wikipedia'

References are not my strong point

I tried to put in the references for Anthony Kiedis, David Beckham, etc. Yikes! But I did find them when I searched it. Just search "(subst. name)" "Kabbalah". Like I said I tried to do it myself but it didn't go well. But I do see how that link is only Demi Moore and Donna Karan if that's what your talking about. Lighthead ^þ 22:41, August 15 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject History!

Welcome to WikiProject History! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to history. Now that you're a member you might want to drop by one of our Working Groups. It is also recommended that you watchlist our talk page as well. Working Groups at WikiProject History: Assessment · Collaboration · Review · Outreach · Task forces

my rfa

If you voted in my RFA...

...thank you for your participation. I withdrew with 83 supports, 42 opposes, and 8 neutrals. Your kind words and constructive criticism are very much appreciated. I look forward to using the knowledge I have accrued through the process to better the project. I would like to give special thanks to Tim Vickers and Wikidudeman for their co-nominations.

Thank you again and, best regards. VanTucky ^Talk

This RFA thanks was inspired by Lara❤Love's

Somewhat-Belated RfA Thanks :-)

Tapadh Leibh (Thank You)...

...for helping me navigate the waters of my surprisingly peaceful RFA, which closed successfully with 85 supports, 1 oppose, and 0 neutral.

I would particularly like to thank Acalamari and Alison, my nominators, and everyone who watched the page and ran the tally.

If there is anything I can do to be of service in the future, please feel free to contact me. (Oh, and if you hate RfA Thankspam, please forgive me. I promise I won't block you for deleting it ;-))

And forgive me if I need a Wikibreak now and then (like now. I'm exhausted!). You wouldn’t want to see me climbing the Reichstag, now would you?

Off to flail around with my new mop! (what?!)

Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫
This RfA thanks inspired by Neranei's, which was inspired by VanTucky's which was in turn inspired by LaraLove's which was inspired by The Random Editor's, which was inspired by Phaedriel's original thanks.

Latin Freemasonry

Is the merge tag still appropriate? The anti-clericalism is much smaller now and other aspects have been added to it. The debate on the merge certainly has not reached any consensus. The article really can not move on, for example with the name, while the merger is still being debated (or not as seems to be the case). JASpencer (talk) 20:08, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That was quick. JASpencer (talk) 20:19, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? was updated. On 15 December, 2007, a fact from the article Ebrulf, which you recently nominated, was featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Archtransit (talk) 22:38, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Laos

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2008 from the Bald One ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 13:30, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I've put my name down for Wikipedia:WikiProject Southeast Asia/Laos work group. I'd noticed missing content on Laos like Burma and Vietnam. You still didn't respond to me about the Zinta article. Surely it meets GA criteria now referencing and POV has been addressed? 23:21, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks I'll see you Monday. Its just it is a kind of long term issue that needs resolving I think. It has had a tremendous amount of work on it and I don't like to see hard work by others such as Shahid go to waste -I feel it could very easily be a GA and agreed by everyone. There is also a film Unnale Unnale which I think could become a GA -Keep up the good work with the tagging anyway ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 12:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi John. Amazingly Thailand doesn't have its own wikiproject yet. I know you are very busy but would you be interested in helping create a WikiProject Thailand. I can't believe it doesn't exist yet as there is so much to cover and discuss. The WIkiProject South East Asia is far too broad I think to aim at developing a series of countires as a whole -I;d imagine you agree. What do you think?. WiseKwai and Ahoemeister would perhaps be interested amd myself. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 13:19, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Awesome work with the tagging and setting up projects!! Great work!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 14:53, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps we need create a SE asia task bar to connect the projects together? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 14:54, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

OK I've started Template:WP SE Asia Sidebar. Perhaps you can think of some things to add to it ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 15:20, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Note that Singapore and Philippines don't have wikiprojects or task forces only the announcements/portal type pages ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 15:31, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I think the Singapore and philippine spage then should be moved to standard wikiporject naming then ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 15:36, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to disturb you again but I am going to rename Category:Cities in Burma as Category:Cities, towns and villages in Burma. I've just seen the encarta map and have realised that most places from places like Burma and Laos are completely missing. There are literally thousands missing. I think I should be aiming to set up articles like Hnonae with locators. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 19:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I couldn't agree more (I could see you were busy). Thats exactly how I feel. What I have a problem with is uneveness in coverage and that even large towns in other parts of the world haven't even been started yet when equally sized towns in the US and UK even have articles on the local leisure centre etc and multiple categories for it alone -and then you see how many other things could be covered as well!! -quite frankly it gives me a headache to think about it -it is larger than you can possibly imagine -but I am certain that this site has the potential to do this is in the future. We've got to start somewhere (at present there are one liners on cities with 500,000 people in China and Japan!)-it may be at least ten years before it begins to reach a more universal coverage-I am very pleased you have set up project places all across the world to try to at least begin to address the bias problem -this is the best thing that can possibly be done. At present though once again I'm finding it difficult to find a reliable and detailed resource for such places -due to incorrections with the place names etc and just lack of available details. All the best ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 16:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Heres something you might be interested in . It would make a good DYK actually if I do some more work on it and add references. St. Paul's Cathedral, Mdina designed by Lorenzo Gafa is built on the spot where the shiprecked St. Paul met the governor Publius. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 16:57, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Hey no problems its Christmas time!!! Hope you liked my card. Hey have you seen the film The Motorcycle Diaries? It is an Argentine film and I saw it the other night -a brilliant film. The journey of the young Che Guevaro and his amigo when they were young physicians across South America. They crossed the Atacama to CHile and Valapaiso and into Cuzco and Macchu Picchu and Lima and then took a paddle steamer to a colony in the Peruvian jungle where they stayed at a leprosy clinic and disobeyed order to remain on oppositie sides of the river to those affected by the disease. Based around 1952 or 1953. A great film and the scenery was spectacular. The Bolivians and the Peruvians definately looked like they have CHinese ancestry -in fact some of the old peruvians looked curiously similar to the Tibetans (who are of course of Mongol descent). Two places in the world which are close to my heart, Tibet and darkest Peru!! (Paddington Bear was a childhood pal of mine LOL!!) Regards ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 22:13, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Alan Keyes A-Class Review

A while back, when Alan Keyes was submitted for review, you made a few comments on things needed to improve the article. I believe Stormie and myself have responded to these criticisms and fixed them more than adequately. Since only yourself and DrKiernan have looked at the article, I would appreciate it if you could go back through it and see if its up to A-class in your eyes now. Please come by if you can. We have DrKiernan's support. Now we only need yours. Thanks. --Jdcaust (talk) 20:08, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for coming by and checking it again. Good luck in the future! --Jdcaust (talk) 20:41, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Gavin Donoghue lead section

As i understand you are part of the Lead Paragraph Cleanups wikiproject, so i would be really grateful if you could expand the lead section of the article, because articles can't have clean up tags if you want them to be in a copy-edit. I would be really grateful i you could, but if you cant can you please forward my request to another person. Thanks. Sunderland06  21:24, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for expanding it, can i remove the lead expansion tags. Thanks again.  Sunderland06  15:35, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry

Previous warning (see edit history) was a misunderstanding - I came across a heavily vandalized article that I took to be an attack page and TWINKLE automatically notified you of the speedy deletion notice. However, I then noticed it was vandalised and have reverted. Sorry for any confusion! Stephenb (Talk) 10:14, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Palau

The article Palau you nominated as a good article has failed , see Talk:Palau for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a reassessment. Rt. 17:21, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Template:WPMacau

Hi, a member of the WikiProject Macau recently highlighted that an option in the above template {{WPMacau}} is not available or functional (See here). I tried to assist but unfortunately I wasn't familiar with its parser functions. According to the history log, I noticed that u are the creator for the template earlier. As such, cld u assist on his request asap. Thanks! -- Aldwinteo (talk) 04:26, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Lead Section Barnstar

Do you want a lead section barnstar to be made to award the user for expansion of lead setions. It would be no problem. But you might have to tell me what picture to use in it. Thanks.  Sunderland06  15:42, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

I have made a barnstar so far it looks like this i am busy putting the image into the actual star. Tell me if you like.

	Leader of the pack
	Thank you for expanding the lead section of the Gavin Donoghue article. Thanks.  Sunderland06  16:13, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Proa lead

I expanded the lead paragraph for proa; I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and see what you think. I'll be happy to add more detail if there are any aspects you think are lacking. scot (talk) 00:29, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK nom - Rasso

Did you know? was updated. On 24 December, 2007, a fact from the article Rasso, which you recently nominated, was featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

~ Riana ⁂ 10:54, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Joyeux Noël

The composer of my favorite Christmas carol.

I just wanted to wish my fellow Wikipedians a Merry Christmas! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 21:37, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Same here, from S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s ^{(Merry Christmas!)} 02:34, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Merry Christmas, John Carter! Wishing you a very Merry Christmas! Best regards from myself! -- S♦s♦e♦b♦a♦l♦l♦o♦s (Merry Christmas!) Post this merry message on any other user talk page you can find.

Wishing you the very best for the season - Guettarda 06:04, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject contemporary music

Hello, could you help us add a rating grid at Wikipedia:WikiProject contemporary music, like this one? Badagnani (talk) 22:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Invite to WikiProject Equine

This is the official word: WikiProject Equine was quietly created by someone while the rest of us were endlessly discussing a WikiProject Horse. We have an official project! So let's go with it, and I am officially inviting you to formally join! Go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine, add your name to the list and see what you can contribute. If you haven't already joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Horse breeds or one of the other "child" or "affiliated" wikiprojects at WikiProject Equine, please feel free to do so. Just trying to tag articles with the new templates has awakened me to the fact that there are over 1000 equine articles in Wikipedia! (My watchlist alone is now at something like 700+) There's much to do and plenty for everyone! Thanks! Montanabw^(talk) 09:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Invite to WikiProject Equine

This is the official word: WikiProject Equine was quietly created by someone while the rest of us were endlessly discussing a WikiProject Horse. We have an official project! So let's go with it, and I am officially inviting you to formally join! Go to Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine, add your name to the list and see what you can contribute. If you haven't already joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Horse breeds or one of the other "child" or "affiliated" wikiprojects at WikiProject Equine, please feel free to do so. Just trying to tag articles with the new templates has awakened me to the fact that there are over 1000 equine articles in Wikipedia! (My watchlist alone is now at something like 700+) There's much to do and plenty for everyone! Thanks! Montanabw^(talk) 09:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Dear Warlordjohncarter, I hope you had a wonderful New Year's Day, and that 2008 brings further success, health and happiness! ...and more battles for the cause of good! ~ Blnguyen (bananabucket) 06:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

File:010105 fireworks2.jpg

MP cleanup

Happy Holidays John. I cleaned up the remaining MP problems on Ebionites-related articles, except for Tabor. That will take a bit longer to check. I removed your POV tags on Joses and Clopas and made a few minor revisions. Those disputes were getting stale, as no one has been working on the articles. Cheers. Ovadyah (talk) 21:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Template for deletion

I recently created a template Template:Townships of Yangon and started the districts of the city. our Burmese friend follwoed my example and made a template for the Mandalay Division of which he has recently visited (and has uploaded images to place slike Kyaukse etc!! However it is up for deletion. Incidentally it it the same editor who recently tried to tell me what wikipedia is!! Please leave your thoughts at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Townships of Mandalay Division. thankyou. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 14:23, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

January 2008 WikiProject Chile Newsletter

The WikiProject Chile Newsletter no. 1 - January 2008
Project News This is the first newsletter of, hopefully, many more to come! You are welcome to contribute. We now have a Portal:Chile for Chile! A new project banner has been created: {{WPChile}} A new project invitation template has been created: {{WPChileInvite}} A discussion on a project barnstar has been going on at the project's talk page. Article News Newest featured articles: Antarctica Cape Horn Collaboration: Current requests are: No current requests Member announcements From now on members of this project make announcements or voice their opinions on anything	Members news Our new members: Likeminas (talk · contribs) Lady Kya (talk · contribs) Andersmusician (talk · contribs) Juan25 (talk · contribs) B1mbo (talk · contribs) bluflores (talk · contribs) From the Editors This first edition of the newsletter is going out to all the project participants. To ensure that you receive the subsequent editions, please add your name to the subscriber list. The newsletter will publish new collaboration requests every month. If there are a large number of requests, only the most recent requests will be published. This newsletter will now be delivered every month. We're looking for new writers to help write this newsletter. All those who wish to help must do is add news to next months newsletter before release Contributors to this Issue Kimon (talk · contribs)
Complete To Do List Find ways you can help and make requests for help below. Pages prone to POV pushing, vandalism, or that otherwise need watching Specific articles which have a tendency to require watching include: Atacama Desert - always subject to petty vandalism Chile - always subject to petty vandalism Chilean people - always subject to petty vandalism and POV pushes Patagonia - disputes about of amount covering of Chilean and Argentine Patagonia may arise Pisco sour - on-going disputes over its origin Specific requests for improvement Chilean wine - copyedit, expand, -- these texts read like 1999 and the industry has grown in leaps and bounds since then. How does one sign up to help? Is this project still active? Santiago, Chile - correct poor English; pick British or American English and apply to article with consistency Chile-Barnstars (Note: The official barnstars and templates should be chosen by voting of the members.) Put inline citation to: Valdivia, Chile so that it meet the Good Article criteria Cono Sur Vineyards & Winery - tagged as having a promotional tone Translate Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Chile/Translation Requested articles Wikipedia:WikiProject Chile/Requested articles See also Wikipedia:Chile-related regional notice board#To-do list Tools Clean-up listing (all | by category) WP 1.0 bot - sortable/searchable listing of project articles Assessment Progress Chile articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 4 9 1 16 FL 2 2 FM 11 11 GA 1 4 8 36 14 63 B 6 29 24 57 25 141 C 14 85 136 392 183 810 Start 31 153 313 2,288 764 3,549 Stub 3 65 224 4,461 1,666 6,419 List 6 32 32 306 5 46 427 Category 6,104 6,104 Disambig 2 3 12 17 File 1 28 29 Portal 4 4 Project 16 16 Redirect 1 8 9 44 200 262 Template 1 3 563 567 NA 1 8 2 11 Other 1 15 16 Assessed 63 380 752 7,610 6,960 2,699 18,464 Unassessed 3 41 456 500 Total 63 380 755 7,651 6,960 3,155 18,964 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 59,988 Ω = 5.46
To amend your subsription status please your entry in the appropriate section here.

{{OrientalOrthodoxy-stub}}

I noticed while sorting through the Egyptian biography stubs that you had placed this stub back in April on several biography articles of Coptic Christians who while notable, were not notable because of anything with respect to their religion. Stub sorting is not intended as a substitute for categorization, in part because we desire to keep the number of stub templates on an article to as few as possible. Standard practice is to use religion stubs on biography articles only if a person is noteworthy if they have served in a religious capacity, acted to ensure the civil rights of persons following their religion, suffered significant persecution as a result of their faith, or otherwise was notable because of their faith. Being in a faith and notable for some non-religious reason is not considered a reason to tag an article with the stub template for that faith. Caerwine Caer’s whines 20:20, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Ho hum, the compasses are a-trembling

A paras been removed in the FM article. You may also want to see what's being said about Deism in the same article. JASpencer (talk) 20:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

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Admin coaching

Hello John! I noticed your request on the admin coaching page, and was wondering if you'd like me to be your coach. If you already have another offer that's preferable, that's fine too. I've been through admin coaching myself, and would be willing to devote a lot of time to helping you improve as an editor, and eventually, become an administrator. Please tell me what you think. Best regards, Keilana^talk_(recall) 19:27, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I'd be delighted. You've done a lot of great work, and I seriously thought you were an admin until I saw your request. What would you like to learn about, admin-wise? Keilana^talk_(recall) 19:46, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Don't worry about it, take all the time you need. I'm an eventualist. :) Keilana^talk_(recall) 20:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

You don't need admin coaching! Get onto RfA already! :) (Actually, I'm not really joking. Wikipedia EN needs more admins, fact. Do you have any concerns that are holding you back? Anything I can help with?) --kingboyk (talk) 20:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm with Kingboyk on this one. Let's write you up a nomination and get this thing moving! It's far past time you had the tools. Pastordavid (talk) 22:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

If you don't want to be coached, I'll write you a nom if you want, you'd probably pass even without coaching. Keilana^talk_(recall) 23:22, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Do what you think is best. If you feel you need to learn more about adminship before standing, that's fine - coaching is the way to go. If you're happy to learn on the job, my advice is to stand now. You have a good record, a good attitude (assuming I haven't missed any controversy you've been involved in :)), and lots of ability. I'd be pretty surprised if you didn't get the nod and - we do need more admins! --kingboyk (talk) 17:02, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Good luck! Rudget. 21:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Africa template

I should be finished tommorrow or the day after. I could also help out with admin coaching if you wanted ;-)--Phoenix-wiki 20:23, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Religion WikiProjects

Is there much overlap between the various religion WikiProjects? (in terms of templating) --kingboyk (talk) 21:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Somehow noticed your copyedits on a separate page for Preity Zinta. Thanks for taking care. I took the liberty to implement some of them on the article itself. I hope you don't mind. Although there were some mistakes for example "the" leading actress which is too praising.

I also didn't display the removal of cast members/co-stars which is a format in almost every possible FA and a sentences with lots of "also". Anyway, thank you so much for helping out. I just came to inform you that I displayed some of your changes, and that I hope you don't mind. Best regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 22:49, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

That's OK thanks, it's great that you're working on that, so that I can look and display your copyedits. Again, there were some mistakes, and info which was wrong, and some parts with too many full stops and "also"s, which I didn't display on tha page. That's why I'm happy that you're first doing it in on a separate page. That's how the goal can be achieved very soon. I really like to see this standard raising and improving. Great work, thanks and good luck!! Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:14, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Man why is it wherever I go Shahid seems to have got theit first!! Yes it would be great if you could get Zinta where it deserves. Hey what do you think of the new Tibetan Buddhism template I created for Tibet in Monlam Prayer Festival? I'm rather pleased with it, I tried to match the colour of the robes with the burgundy!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 22:19, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Provincial capitals like Pursat etc which have tens of thousands of inhabitants as yet don't even have basic facts and are still one liners, yet places on provincial capitals in the UK and America etc would have hundreds , even thousands of articles on that place alone. What concerns me is that few people seems to care about it, nobody has even attempted to try to develop the major cities in places like cambodia, vietnam, Laos etc let alone the smaller settlements. Basically if you compare it to a developed country such as the UK - with Cambodia only places like London, Birmingham and Manchester are covered and have half decent articles -the rest of the country - 99% isn't even covered. I'm discussing it with you because you seem one of the few people who actually care about covering places evenly and are actively doing something to change this!! Tell me John, once you have finished your work on setting up the wikiprojects would you be willing to work with me a bit and help me try to expand and add articles on places such as this? I can't do it alone!! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 12:27, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Freemasonry discussion topic started on Systematic Bias

Hi John. You'll probably want to comment on this topic [[1]]. Please note that although it may seem a bit strong I really do mean what I say about having no doubt about anyone's good faith.

JASpencer (talk) 14:25, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Endeavour River National Park actually included on World Heritage list?

Looking at above stub article' talk page history it seems you may have tagged this article as falling within Wiki World Heritage Sits project scope. Please note I have asked the World Heritage status of this Park to be verified, and have left message on the relevant editor's talk page to that effect.! Cheers Bruceanthro (talk) 02:34, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry .. as I actually live in the region, I'm probably more familiar with both the Wet Tropics plus available internet resources. I'll now post external link to alow resolution map of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area on Endeavour River NP talk page, arguing that Endeavour River National Park is NOT part of Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Perhaps, after a day, I may then remove World Heritage edit, categories, and tags?!

I also note this possible mislocation has been carried over on to the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area page. I was keen to work on THAT page anyway, so I may also remove reference to Endeavour River NP from there, and begin the work of actually identifying and naming all those parks that ARE part of the Wet Tropics! In the mean time I'll add highly pertinent and relevant external link that page! Thanks Bruceanthro (talk) 00:19, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.. I'll remove World Heritage references, categories, and tags for this and for Wet Tropics articles. Heard nothing back from original editor. Cheers Bruceanthro (talk) 22:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Done at last

Well, it took a while but here it is {{AfricaProject}} Hope it's satisfactory--Phoenix-wiki 21:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Notice

Ok, John. This is to notify you that I am ready to move this nomination to requests for adminship. I, and many others who know about such things, have been trying to convince you that you would be a wonderful asset as an admin for quite some time, perhaps actually seeing the nomination in print will persuade you. I know that anyone who has your talk page watchlisted will happily agree that you are beyond qualified, and would make a great admin. If you will accept the nomination, I will move it into place. Pastordavid (talk) 19:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I took your answers to the questions as a positive sign, and it is now located here. If you just make a note under the "Accept nomination here" section, I will transclude it onto the main RfA page, and we'll go live with it. Pastordavid (talk) 20:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Away we go! Pastordavid (talk) 21:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Hiram Abiff

Came across this going through your edits for the RfA nom. May I make a suggestion? I would word this article in terms of "According to Masonic tradition ..." I say this primarily because the biblical account does not identify him as Hiram Abiff. Later Masonic tradition does, and it is from that tradition that the details come. By analogy, in dealing with WP Saints, there are many individuals about whom we say "According to Christian tradition ..." because there is nothing outside of the traditionaly accounts about their lives. In terms of WP Saints, this allows the reader to determine whether the traditional account is history or legend (or fiction), rather than drawing the conclusion for the reader, one way or the other. I think the Abiff article could benefit from the same sort of detached description. Pastordavid (talk) 21:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

African wikiprojects

John have you split the African wiki projects yet. I certainly think WikiProject Kenya should be sorted as with most of the others. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 22:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC) Looks like you;ve set up a taskforce but why isn't the parameter working e.g AfricaProject|kenya=yes? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 22:02, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Yeah your're not kidding about not being able to get access to the locked templates. Editors like you and I are clearly core editors on here and should have admin tools anyway -it is clear we are both very contructive and unlikely to "vandalise" them. I have never been able to even edit the Template:Actors fully despite having set up the project on Actors and Filmmakers itself!! I don't know how we are supposed to add the parameters and assess those articles then. I'm glad you've decided to go for adminship this will be very useful- see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Warlordjohncarter. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 22:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that but you'll have to discuss the changes with Shahid, User:Shshshsh rather than myself see if he is happy with it. I currently rather busy sorting out the museums by state. Of all the 250 million Americans its left to moi to clean up!!

Check out

I split mostly of them yesterday from a directory list and am making them encyclopedic by turning them into table format with images to liven up the boring pages!

You must be pretty pleased with the turn out so far at your rfa -amazing support. Nice to know you are appreciated huh (even if most people never thankyou or seem to be aware of the work you do!) Regards ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 19:04, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Good work John thanks. I;ve just split Category:Cities, towns and villages in Burma. I think it is necessary to set up the infrastructure ready to build it. PLease let me know what you think ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 19:09, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Can you find a way of putting them in alphabetical order? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk • contribs) 19:10, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks -I;ve just figured a way out to index them in alpha without bloating it into different letter sun headings -I;m fixing it now. As there are 35,000 settlements and thousands in each state it prepares for the growth. I awlays prefer to label the categories cities, towns and villages as I like it to cover all settlements and not have all sort of confusing seperate categories on cities, and villages labelled as cities etc. We should be able to get the main towns and citiesin the country set up within a week or so =then of course there will still be 34,700+ potential articles for settlements!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 19:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

You;ve set up so many work pages but I must admit I was a little surprised to not find any activity on a country as huge as Kazakhstan, I would have expected a small wiki project in the least. Does Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia/Kazakhstan work group have any parameters yet. Personally I think its best to set up seperate project banners and say it is part of the Central Asia group and then assess articles by country in sub categories and then link them in one WIkiProject Central Asia articles -what do you think? ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 20:03, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

What? What sort of an editor would revert the parameters? I really think its best to create seperate banners and cateogries and then have them feeding into a main regional project category like I suggested. Given time I don't see a reason why most countries can't develop enough activity -it will take time sure. What have you been doing with Africa then? ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 20:08, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Well thats the thing, your edits shouldn't have been reverted, each edit is valuable and time can't be wasted. It does disappoint me to be honest that some of the state groups in America are inactive. Given the global size of this project particular the high percentage of American users its not what I;d have expected. Yes I afully agree with you workgroups are the best way to start and you've done a marvellous job on this, but what I am saying is that it would be very useful to set up the necessary infrastructure -e.g seperate assessments and banners for each country and have them feeding into the main WP regional category. This way each country can have a rigid form of assessment and identity but at the same time the workgroup doesn't have to be a formal project. i think this would save a lot of effort in reasseeessing articles in the future if certain workgroups gain enough support to become fully fledged projects e.g Category:GA-class Kenya articles rather than labelling them "workgroup articles". Given my core priorities on wikipedia I should be helping you set this up every step of the way ♦ Dr. Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 20:29, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

I have displayed a major part of your copyedits on the page, and it looks terrific. There were some mistakes which I didn't display. Also, according to User:Sandy, words that are simple like dimple, basketball, cat, moon should not be linked.

I think that it can be nominated for an FA:) but it's better to wait for Dwaipayanc. For now, we can definitely nominate it for GA, but tell me please, can't we just ask some GA reviewer to review the article? The problem is that (from my earlier experience) it just takes ages! It took us two months, until we asked some reviewer to review the article. What do you say?

Again, thank you so so much. Regards Shahid • ^Talk2me 14:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Well the editor I asked to review it previously is now absent unfortunately. Anyway, thank you so muchh for your efforts. It's greatly appreciated. :) Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Preity Zinta

I'd rather not do that review, as it's at the bottom of the list in that section, meaning it was newly added as opposed to other editors that have been waiting for GA Reviews for quite some time now within that subsection (sometimes over a month, I know personally from experience from my own GA noms :) ). However, I tell you what I will do, I can review the article and give it an actual GA Review of my own opinion of how it matches up, pass or fail, against the GA Criteria, and make a detailed note of that on the talk page. That way, when a GA Reviewer does come by from WP:GAN, a review will be laid out for them ahead of time. Also, if you want to move things along, it is always helpful and appreciated to pick some other noms, from above your own in that section, and review those. Cirt (talk) 21:00, 9 January 2008 (UTC).

• I would still highly encourage you to do some reviews from higher up in that section. I always try, though I don't always do it on-time or hold myself to it, to review at least one or two noms for every one that I self-nominate at WP:GAN. Cirt (talk) 21:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC).

Please clarify

I'm wondering why you've added your name to the spurious Arbitration request which has been initiated by Onecanadasquarebishopsgate‎ here. You don't appear to have edited Principality of Sealand, participated in any of the talk discussions related to it, or had anything to do with Onecanadasquarebishopsgate‎ until today. --Gene_poole (talk) 02:01, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying that. The Arbitration request is such a preposterous blancmange of lies and misrepresentations that I'm sure that any Arbitrator who looks at it for more than 3 seconds will simply dismiss it out of hand. In my opinion the best thing to do is simply sit and wait for that to happen. --Gene_poole (talk) 02:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: Question

I just posted a follow up question clarifying what I meant. I was quite vague in my question so that's my fault. And also I don't think you were "evasive" answering the question about mistakes... I personally would have a hard time remembering too unless it was major and someone made a big deal out of it. Most importantly, you acknowledge you aren't infallible. :). Good luck on your confirmation (from the looks of it, it's going great). Dr.Kane (talk) 02:57, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Name

• User:John Carter

I'm not positive (since you've used the account), but I believe that you should be able to usurp the username, perhaps swapping edit histories. (They move the edit history of user John Carter to user:alternate name; Then they move user:Warlordjohncarter to user:John Carter; Then they move User:alternate name (which was user:John Carter) to User:Warlordjohncarter). Presuming that they will, of course. Normally the target account must have made no edits, but since this account is yours, they might?

• See Wikipedia:Changing username and Wikipedia:Changing username/Usurpations

Hope this helps : ) - jc37 03:53, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. I've listed myself there. There seem to be rather a few listed in front of me, but there's no real rush here, I hope. John Carter (talk) 20:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

You're very welcome. If there seems a backlog, you could post a note at WP:BN. Here's to hoping : ) - jc37 21:17, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Email re: Jaron Lanier

Thank you for your message on my talk page. I just sent you an email, but I couldn't forward the emails from Jaron using the "email this user" link, though. As I think it's best if I forward them to you rather than copy/paste. Thanks again. → GeeAlice ♥ 19:55, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, I forward the emails to you. Hope I sent them correctly. Let me know what you think, and any direction for me would be very appreciated. Though, as you probably can tell, I'm ignorant of Jaron Lanier's area, and not good with biographies, at least those I know nothing about. → GeeAlice ♥ 20:53, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I didn't expect a reply back from him so quickly, if at all. Now that I have, I feel responsible for the article. Dang-it. ;p I agree about the B/W image, but like you said -- it is clearer. Though I have another concern about the image more-so than it being B/W, I believe it to be a professional head-shot. That means even though Lanier is the subject, the copyright may belong to the photographer and that photographer may want credit for it. I'll look around for more images and email Mr. Lanier about the sources of another color, but clearer image. As for the missing information in the article, I too will try editing a bit in the next couple of days. But, I reserve the right to change my mind. lol. Thanks for all your help. It's appreciated. :) Cheers! Oh, what do you think about posting the email to the talk page of the article. Well, not the whole email, but what he feels is missing from the bio? -- in order, hopefully, to attract other editors more knowledgable becoming involved. What do you think about that? → GeeAlice ♥ 21:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to keep bugging you. (from my talk page): Even though he gave me permission to "pass the note" along? How can that be problematic? Is it because of COI? It can't be privacy, can it? As you saw the email where he even asks to pass it along. I'm just trying to do the right thing, for both Wikipedia and the subject. Thanks again. → GeeAlice ♥ 22:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Images

Hoz that for an image?. Thats going straight on the Vietnam main page. I have sorted out some image permits from flickr -Mike Russia at flickr has banks of images from burma, cambodia and vietnam which he is licensing under GFDL (this will probably need giving an OTRS ticketing). If you are interested have a look at the images I've uploaded so far. He's one great photographer! It make ssuch a big difference and I guarantee there are millions of image we could use if we asked ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 20:36, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Its an almost iconic image of the south china sea isn't it with the sunset and the fishing boat. I remember they tried to emulate it in Tomorrow Never Dies with Wai Lin and Bond off the coast on the boat remember -but failed miserably! Have a look at the images I managed to get for Hsipaw. The local school as well. I love images of places which are normally very difficult to get hold of. Hopefully we can get tons of images of El Salvador and Guatemala - my sister is visiting there alone in the summer. Crazy isn't it. Those countries have a strong reputation . I've made good progress with Ekyaw today anyway -over half of the provinces now have templates and the core places started. Anyway if there are any places which you know of which require images such as Bolivia etc feel free to give me a list and I'll look at making some more "alliances" with flickr users and upload them. Can you think of any towns/places offhand with are in desperate need of images? ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 20:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Category:WikiProject Mexico articles WP Mexico which is even an official project doesn't even have any article assessment yet either. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^Talk? 21:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Hm..please see your email

I had to start a new heading because something is wrong with using the section I had begun before

Anyway, please see your email. I have received another email from Jaron which I forwarded to you. It's getting more complicated now. → GeeAlice ♥ 02:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I got your email, and replied. I'm going to research some of those terms he mentioned in the first email. He did say to Google them, to see what I'd get. Oh, I also colorized the B/W image that is on his homepage. I think I'll use that one, until or if he sends me another one. He did say he would be willing to do that. I do have his permission right now to use the one on his homepage. Gonna try doing that now, and hope BetacommandBot, or whatever that bots name is, won't kill it. ;p → GeeAlice ♥ 03:30, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

		Thanks for your support
		Thank you SO MUCH for your support in my unanimous RFA. Take this cookie as a small token of my appreciation.--Jayron32|talk|contribs 06:16, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Chief

Chief, as you know, until we get a 3rd member (at which time there will be no titles) you are Chief of the WikiProject Africa/Democratic Republic of the Congo and I am the Assistant Secretary to the Chief.

What do you think about this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Turtlescrubber

I came with a neutral observation and call for peaceful consensus in an argument which I was never involved in. There is so much hate there. What would you do, if anything? As an observer? As an observing admin?

My objectives are clear...help 2 people do their 2 articles to reach FA, work on the Toyota Prius article, and then do Congolese related articles. Good luck on your RFA which I've supported and hope that the chief will become administrator and chief. Congolese fufu (talk) 07:25, 11 January 2008 (UTC)