User talk:Cryptic C62

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Combination Company

Hey so i looked over combination company. The writing looks fine to me but there were a few issues that I found. You make reference to "generic properties" in the second paragraph of the Repertory v. Combination section without making it clear what they are. Also, the mention of Laura Keene in the Origin section seems a bit abrupt, perhaps give a few words on who she is as well as the link. Hope this helps.--Ylime715 · Talk 13:52, May 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Cryptic C62. I made a lot of changes for my Article "Niqab in Egypt". Please take a look at the changes. do you think it is ready for Good Article nomination? Thanks for you help Noosaelgamoosa (talk) 21:07, 23 November 2010 (UTC)noosaelgamoosaNoosaelgamoosa (talk) 21:07, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Spinal cord injury peer review

Hello, you recently peer reviews this article and offered to give more specific feedback. Is that deal still on the table? Thanks! Peter.C • talk 16:03, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

Absolutely! I will be sure to take another look in the next day or so. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 22:09, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Negawatt Power

Hey Cryptic c62, I am working on my article for Dr. Tang's class and I was wondering why the "Anti-nuclear movement" linkage within Wikipedia is highlighted purple and not blue. Any red flags here? Thanks!

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Ready to take in mentees?

Hi Ryan, I am currently assigning mentees from the Indiana University class. Would you mind mentoring Nocturnaleagle (talk · contribs), L5Sewell (talk · contribs), Sima1808 (talk · contribs), and Lolita2010 (talk · contribs)?

They are currently semi-active although they had experimented in their sandboxes. They might be getting active over the next few weeks due to their assignment datelines.

If you are able to mentor them, can you please leave a mentorship-offer message on their talk pages? Please indicate in your message that you have been assigned to them.

Once you've done that, please update Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Mentors with a list of your mentees.

If you are not able to mentor them or can only mentor a certain number, please let me know.

Thanks, Bejinhan talks 13:45, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Done! --Cryptic C62 · Talk 21:38, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Iron Fist Campaign

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Heads up with mentees

Hey, your mentees working on Negawatt power have made some major editing there, could you help with feedback/questions? Thanks, Sadads (talk) 16:49, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

		Wikipedia Ambassador Barnstar
		For excellent work advising students on how to improve their articles, and for thoughtful participation on the ambassadors mailing list, I award Cryptic C62 the Wikipedia Ambassador Barnstar.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 19:37, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks mate, this means a lot to me. I do worry that my feedback is viewed as unnecessary pessimism, so it feels good to know that my input is, at the very least, tolerated. :P --Cryptic C62 · Talk 02:32, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

AfDs

I think that the query you posed at a recent AfD was spot on -- "Can we reasonably expect our readers to search for this person?" To that end, I wonder whether we should not at AfDs start looking at the number of hits an article is getting, as partial answer to that question.--Epeefleche (talk) 22:39, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Are you a regular contributor to AfDs? I generally shy away from that sort of contributing unless I happen to stumble upon an article that I have a strong opinion about. I hadn't realized that my question and use of statistics was innovative -- it seemed like a fairly logical connection to me. While page views are obviously no substitute for notability and good sources, it seems like an obvious way to gauge whether or not Wikipedia will benefit from an article's inclusion. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 03:39, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I've contributed to a good number of them over the years. I agree that your suggestion was fairly logical; I think it would be good if incorporated into the "is this notable" analysis. Not as an end-all and be-all, but as yet another tool. We are just struggling in the dark to define an elusive concept through second-hand indicia. "Did RSs report on it? Did RSs in more than one country report on it? Did RSs report on it over a period of time?" All those are simply proxies for "is there interest in it". Which, to my mind, page hits go to as well. This isn't something that is generally alluded to at AfDs, but I think that your suggestion is spot on.--Epeefleche (talk) 03:51, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Cool, I'm glad you dig it. Like I said, I'm not particularly interested in AfDs, but I am interested in working to (gradually) find the best methods for everything. Maybe I'll throw the idea at a few more AfDs and see if it sticks, and you're obviously welcome to do the same. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 04:06, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Sounds great. If you do have an area or two of interest, one way to see if any AfDs pop up in that area btw is to watchlist the relevant deletion lists here. Best.--Epeefleche (talk) 08:12, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Mentor for team of students

Hi, my name is James Fullerton, and I'm a teacher at Southern Lehigh Middle School in PA. Recently I've created a project that involves Wikipedia (WP) and small groups of students making a contribution to a WP article of their choosing, as long as the topic is related to the content of the course - being American Government, Civics, and Economics. For the past 4 weeks, students have become involved in the culture of WP, with many already narrowing in on a topic for their contribution. Here is the supportive material on Wikispaces (https://wikiedit.wikispaces.com/). Your assistance would be greatly appreciated! Would you be available to act as a mentor to a small group of students as they begin to offer additional content to an article of their interest? The team sizes are numbered between 5-7 students each. I will notify you as to who is in the teams with their WP user names. Jmfullerton (talk) 17:34, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Of course! I would recommend that you contact User:Ragesoss if you haven't already. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 18:37, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Helena Bliss

Orlady (talk) 06:03, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

CSI Effect

Hi Cryptic,

I noticed your extensive revisions to the CSI Effect article. Thank you for your attention to it! I wanted to throw in my two cents about one of your recent edits -- in the section about "jurors," you focus mostly on one particular test of the CSI effect. The earlier version of the page (prior to your edits) mentioned several different empirical studies that looked at the CSI effect in different ways. Predating the Shelton article, Podlas looked at what evidence CSI viewers used in a mock trial, and Schweitzer looked at how CSI viewing specifically influenced perceptions of forensic science. Also, right around that time, Cole looked at how jury decisions changed during the rise of the CSI shows. Each of those articles paints a somewhat different picture of the CSI effect, and I think that it would be good to include those different takes on it. I'd be happy to contribute some of this myself, but I wanted to wait and see where you were headed with the article. -Nick^talk 05:42, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey mate, thanks for the feedback! I chose to focus on the Shelton studies because it seems to be regarded as the best available thus far—and with 1,027 test subjects, it's not hard to see why. I have thus far ignored the Podlas article simply because Schweitzer thoroughly refuted the study in his article, though I had intended to look through the Podlas article at some point anyway. As for the others that you've mentioned, I simply haven't gotten around to incorporating them yet. My removal of previous sources was a result of my (perhaps selfish) desire to start from scratch rather than a need to push a particular POV. If you want to take a crack at adding some more studies, go right ahead! I'd love to have a partner in crime. Also, I was thinking of adding a Mechanism section to explain exactly how jurors form opinions, as described in the Ramsland article. Do you think this would be a worthwhile addition? --Cryptic C62 · Talk 16:53, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

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Fluorine

I am now working on fluorine, but I am not sure I can do it great. Are you interested to help me with fluorine? That Top-importance article deserves more than C-class it is now. I am sure you can do many useful things for me with that, even if these are just reviews - that'd also be very useful. Here's what I have with it now (for comparison, true fluorine). If it doesn't bother you, please, reply on my talk page, but I'll check your page periodically.--R8R Gtrs (talk) 11:34, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

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DYK for Hannibal (swan)

Thanks from the DYK project Victuallers (talk) 02:05, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

CSI effect

Sorry to make more work for ya, but have you seen this page? There's a lot of sweet links in there ... Sasata (talk) 06:09, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

My god, man, how do you find all this stuff? I'll start poking through the links there. Luckily, it seems as though I've already used a good chunk of them as sources. Thanks for the tip! --Cryptic C62 · Talk 02:31, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Perry Mason syndrome

Thanks for your help Victuallers (talk) 10:50, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

WP Elements Triple Crown

See: Wikipedia:Triple_Crown/Nominations#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Elements. Nergaal (talk) 06:11, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Mentor request

Hello, I am ThePerseid_SCD and this semester, my class is part of the Wikipedia US Public Policy Initiative. I was wondering if you would be my mentor. Thanks! ThePerseid SCD (talk) 21:45, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Elements Triple Crown

Your Majesty, I am pleased to award this special edition platinum triple crown to WikiProject Elements and its hardworking volunteers. – SMasters (talk) 10:03, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for all your hard work. May you wear the crowns well, and may the platinum crown motivate you to contribute more outstanding articles. – SMasters (talk) 10:03, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Sweet! I love metal. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 13:20, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 28 January 2011

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 1, 28 January 2011 This is the first issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program newsletter. Please read it! It has important information about the the current wave of classes, instructions and advice, and other news about the ambassador program. Classes get active, students requesting mentors First mentor responsibilities Other news Things you can do

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grevy's zebra

Thanks for taking the time. i'll probably start working tomorrow evening. LittleJerry (talk) 02:33, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Let me know if you have any more. LittleJerry (talk) 18:07, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Empire of Brazil

Of course! Any extra eye (or eyes) is helpful. I would be very glad if could review it. Kind regards, --Lecen (talk) 04:03, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

CSI effect

Hi, sorry your nomination didn't succeed, even though I didn't support it. Good that someone's doing work outside their "comfort zone". Interesting article all the same, and thanks for working on it. WP is better for it. Tony (talk) 09:38, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words mate, I really appreciate it. It is easy to lose sight of the fact that as long as the articles are improving, there really is no such thing as failure on Wikipedia. Anywho, I'm now working with Casliber to polish up the prose a bit before I nominate it again. You're certainly welcome to pitch in if you're not too busy. Otherwise, I'll simply ping you when the article has returned to FAC. Cheers! --Cryptic C62 · Talk 14:05, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Editing Fridays article for 11 February 2011

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Mentor Request

Hi, My name is Laura, and I'm a grad student at Indiana University. I'm doing a project for an econ class in which I will be creating a page about pesticide regulations in the US. I was hoping you would agree to be my mentor during the project. Thanks!! (Lauschro (talk) 03:19, 12 February 2011 (UTC))

marking mentees' userpages

Hey Ryan! This is just a quick reminder: please be sure to add {{WAP student}} (for an example, see User:Sfofana) the user pages of your mentees. And once they are working on articles, be sure to tag the talk pages with {{WAP assignment}}. Cheers--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:46, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up; I was not aware of these handy dandy templates. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 03:23, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Chess photograph (finally!)

See Sicilian Defence for a fruit of our collaboration. That particular image could do with some better editing (e.g. I made the black pieces look rather underexposed), so if you know anyone with 1337 photo editing skillz (and who isn't colourblind), you could ask him to do it right. I have the RAW data for that photo and for a bunch of other pictures which I haven't attempted to edit, (and which I think have potential,) including some depictions of a simple 1.e4 .... -- Rmrfstar (talk) 19:26, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Very nice! There's a guy I work with IRL who has the 1337 skills; perhaps I'll ask him about it tomorrow and see what he says. Perhaps we should also leave a note in the Village Pump to see if any active Wikipedians are up to the task. Why don't you email me the photos? --Cryptic C62 · Talk 01:37, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

The folder is about 1.5 GB, with each image ~15 MB: a bit too much to e-mail. I could set up a user account on my server and you could SCP them. Would that work? -- Rmrfstar (talk) 22:05, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

It depends on one important factor: what on earth is SCP? --Cryptic C62 · Talk 15:32, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Nevermind. You should be able to download all of the photos here. -- Rmrfstar (talk) 20:34, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Air Well

I have now modified my Air well (condenser) article along the lines you suggested some time ago. Please take a look at it and feel free to offer further observations at Talk:Air well (condenser). Thanks again for your help thus far. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 18:19, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey mate, I'm happy to hear that you continued to work on the article. I've got a lot on my plate right now (both on- and off-wiki), but I'll gladly take another look at the article in the next week or so. Cheers! --Cryptic C62 · Talk 03:16, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Next week will be fine - after a three month hiatus that is not long at all. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 08:23, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

There is an updated message for you at Talk:Air well (condenser). Gaius Cornelius (talk) 08:33, 4 February 2011 (UTC) Gaius Cornelius (talk) 19:14, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

I am happy to hear that you are feeling better. Can you find time to take another look at the Air Well article? Gaius Cornelius (talk) 20:25, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring students: be sure to check in on them

This message is going out to all of the Online Ambassadors who are, or will be, serving as mentors this term.

Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!

If you aren't mentoring anyone yet, it looks like you will be soon; at least one large class is asking us to assign mentors for them, and students in a number of others haven't yet gotten to asking ambassadors to be their mentors, but may soon. --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:05, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Gery Chico peer review

Thanks for peer reviewing Gery Chico! I've addressed your concerns, and hopefully in a few days the article will be ready for another go at GA! Cheers, Geread (talk) 22:10, 21 February 2011 (UTC)