User talk:Ryan Vesey

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1. Update Barry Stuppler with new references  Partly done
2. Fix up Ruger mark III
3. Create the articles listed at User:Ryan Vesey/Minnesota State Legislators for Cottonwood County
4. Create a stub at minimum for User:Ryan Vesey/Victor E. Lawson
5. Finish User:Ryan Vesey/Xerotine siccative
6. Work on User:Ryan Vesey/Windom Area Schools (Call historical society)
7. Do some more work on User:Ryan Vesey/Missions to Patagonia
8. Modify User:Ryan Vesey/Pahayi information into a list of facts
9. Fix up Esperanza Rising

Pages that need creation

1. Minnesota Star City Program

style="Template:Gradient border: 1px solid #8a8; Template:Box-shadow Template:Border-radius vertical-align: top;" rowspan="3" | Welcome to my talk page. Here are some tips to help you communicate with me: Please continue any conversation on the page where it was started. Thus, if I have left a message on your talk page please reply there. I will have your talk page on watch and will note when you have replied. Add or respond to an existing conversation under the existing heading. Indent your comment when replying by using an appropriate number of colons ':'. Create a new heading if the original conversation is archived. To initiate a new conversation on this page click on this link. You should sign your comments. You can do this automatically by typing four tildes (~~~~). This is a modified version of {{User talk top}} You can feel free to transclude it yourself. You can find it at User:Ryan Vesey/User talk top template. It supports different background colors and rounded edges. Contact User:Ryan Vesey if you have any questions on parameters. Re: Coffee Painting and sig Hello, Ryan Vesey. You have new messages at Tattoodwaitress's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Talkback Hello, Ryan Vesey. You have new messages at Athleek123's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Talkback Hello, Ryan Vesey. You have new messages at AdventurousSquirrel's talk page. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Thanks for joining! Thanks for joining the umps task force! As Delaywayves said, we needed someone with experience. I can personally testify that some of that stuff is way over my head. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 13:53, 22 June 2012 (UTC) No problem, see Talk:Mike Estabrook (umpire) . Ryan Vesey Review me! 13:58, 22 June 2012 (UTC) What was I supposed to see? Also, pardon my ignorance but what did you mean when you suggested starting that missing articles page? I'd be happy to do it, if I can figure it out. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 14:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Oh, I see it now. (The Estabrook part, that is). AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 14:01, 22 June 2012 (UTC) On the missing articles page, the page should be created and it could contain a list of any umpires that don't currently have articles. It could also contain a section labeling useful information for finding sources and the like. Ryan Vesey Review me! 14:11, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Okay, I can try that. I don't know that there are many notable umpires without articles, but it is a good idea to have a place to help in finding sources. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 14:13, 22 June 2012 (UTC) The page has been created here. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 14:35, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I have slightly modified a invitation template that I found related to the Hall of Fame task force. Before I create it as an official invitation in template namespace, I'd appreciate it if you would be willing to look it over at my sandbox. The border color should be changed, but I don't know exactly how. Thanks. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 15:21, 22 June 2012 (UTC) No problem, what color would you like the border to be? Ryan Vesey Review me! 15:32, 22 June 2012 (UTC) It also might be good, once it gets created as a template, to create a documentation subpage, rather than having it directly on the template page. After that, I could use AWB to add it to the talk pages of people in the baseball wikiproject or we could do manual invitations. Message delivery bot would work too. Ryan Vesey Review me! 15:41, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I would like the background color to be blue. I don't really know how to create a documentation subpage, and the subst at the bottom of the page didn't work. I don't know how to fix that either. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 15:47, 22 June 2012 (UTC) An invitation for you! Hello, Ryan Vesey. We are pleased to invite you to join WikiProject Baseball's Umpires task force, a group dedicated to improving articles related to baseball umpires. If you're interested in participating, please add your name to the list of members on the task force page. Happy editing!  Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:11, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I made some modifications to the template just to see what you'd think. The colors directly coincide with the MLB logo. I modified it so you don't need to include a signature, it does that automatically, it is also outside of the box so the background doesn't affect signature visibility. I'm not sure what I think of the red text, I initially used white and it looked nice; however, then you didn't notice that the task force WikiLink existed. Do you like anything like this? Should we remove the in text shading? Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:11, 22 June 2012 (UTC) It looks spectacular. What is the next step? AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 16:14, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I can move it to the template namespace and create the documentation subpage. Do you think people will understand that the white text is a wikilink? Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:26, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I'll actually have to copy paste so I don't destroy your sandbox, I'll provide attribution. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:27, 22 June 2012 (UTC) That sounds fine. I think they should be able to figure it out, seeing as the text is a different color and hopefully they will at least scroll over it to check. I am hoping that after you create the subpage, the subst thing will work when pasted into a talk page. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 16:31, 22 June 2012 (UTC) It should work Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:34, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I believe it does. Do you want me to start sending the invites out? AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 16:37, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Go ahead; although, I'd limit it to people who could help develop the project right now. It is easier to retain participants in a fully developed project than a developing one. In fact, I'm going to create a parameter for a personal message. That way, you can type a message stating that assistance is desired in development. I would like to get a chance to have all of the articles tagged before a full scale invite is done. Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:42, 22 June 2012 (UTC) An invitation for you! Hello, Ryan Vesey. We are pleased to invite you to join WikiProject Baseball's Umpires task force, a group dedicated to improving articles related to baseball umpires. If you're interested in participating, please add your name to the list of members on the task force page. Happy editing!  Ryan Vesey Review me! 16:34, 22 June 2012 (UTC) If it won't interfere with your ability to complete the task later using your Bot, or whatever you were planning to utilize, I will start adding the task force tag to related pages now. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 17:44, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I'd prefer to run through with AWB first, the way I have it set up, it is a bit easier if none are currently tagged. Hopefully someone will take a look at my BRFA soon. I'll go make a message on the talk page of one of the editors who frequents it. Ryan Vesey Review me! 18:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Ok, I'll wait. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 18:15, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Actually, I lied, just so long as you remember to assess for importance using |umpires-importance= it should be fine. I'll just set it up to skip ones that already have that parameter. It would be great if you focused on project pages and category pages to start out with {{WikiProject Baseball/Umpires task force|class=Project|importance=NA|umpires=yes|umpires-importance=NA}} and {{WikiProject Baseball/Umpires task force|class=Category|importance=NA|umpires=yes|umpires-importance=NA}}. Tagging any other template pages in the same manner would be good too. I'm not set up to modify those. Ryan Vesey Review me! 18:24, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Alright. I shall try to take care of at least some of that. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 18:35, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I believe I have most of the category pages taken care of. I'd like to try my hand on the articles, but I wanted to know if a quality rating will also be necessary. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 18:53, 22 June 2012 (UTC) On second thought, I will just let you take care of the articles. Thanks for your help. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 18:57, 22 June 2012 (UTC) For the purposes of the task force, the only necessary parameters are |umpires= and |umpires-importance=. Quality ratings can be done later. If it hasn't been rated, it would be good for you to at least add |class= and |importance= with blank parameters. To be entirely clear |importance= is the importance to the baseball project as a whole, most umpires will probably be low. |umpires-importance= is the importance for the task force. I won't be assessing any articles for class, project importance, or task force importance, the purpose of the bot is only to add them to the task force. The next step will be going to the unassessed importance articles and giving them importance assessments. Perhaps you could write up a page on how you believe importance should be assessed. I'd assume generic major league umpires would be mid, generic minor league low, and then some other stipulations for how to assess high and top? I know that Umpires (baseball) is Top importance. Would umpires who umped a world series game be high? Ryan Vesey Review me! That is a good idea, I can write a page on that. However, it may not be for some time as I will be unavailable for most of the next week. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 19:23, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Actually, I have the page created now. Here it is. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 20:59, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I guess I'm going to begin assessing importance for individual articles now. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 21:11, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Okay, and thanks for the work you did creating this. Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:13, 22 June 2012 (UTC) No problem. One question though, does the task force itself have a class parameter? AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 21:17, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Nope, generally an article of a given class is the same class on every wikiproject. It wouldn't make sense for an article to be a stub in one wikiproject and start in the other, or C in one or B in the other. Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:19, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Ok. I shall start tagging the talk pages. Your bot won't overwrite any assessments I make, I hope. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 21:20, 22 June 2012 (UTC) That was specifically asked in the BRFA and no it won't. Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:22, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Sorry to keep bugging you, but I thought it would be a good idea to call to your attention that the talk page banner will state that the article is supported by Umpires Task Force, as opposed to being supported by the Umpires Task Force. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 21:26, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Thanks for letting me know, I put in an edit request. Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:32, 22 June 2012 (UTC) No problem. I don't know why this talk page is showing a red link. AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 21:37, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I'm unsure as to what caused the problem, but rather than digging through the template and making another edit request I just created a redirect. This is where admin tools would come in handy. Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:41, 22 June 2012 (UTC) I see. Thank you. When you do have your Request for Adminship, make sure to let me know! AutomaticStrikeout (talk) 21:44, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Try to keep this watched, I don't want to appear to be canvassing at all. Ryan Vesey Review me! 21:52, 22 June 2012 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Rape culture Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Rape culture. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — RFC bot (talk) 16:18, 22 June 2012 (UTC) WashPo Thank you for fixing the WashPo problem for Darrell Issa. The WashPo site used to redirect from the older WhoRunsGov links to the new Topics pages, but now none of them work. The CongLinks template should be changed and then each article manually fixed. You have to search within WashPo, click on Topic, then click on the actual Topic link. I can help fix them if you can get the template fixed. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 01:06, 23 June 2012 (UTC) How would you like the CongLinks template changed? I can't think of a way that will fix current articles. The relevant code in the conglinks template is: {{#if:{{{washpo|}}}| * [http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/{{{washpo}}} Biography] at ''WhoRunsGov.com'' at ''[[The Washington Post]]'' since the URL's aren't formatted in the same style, I can't think of a way that would work. Ryan Vesey Review me! 01:36, 23 June 2012 (UTC) Example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/darrell-issa-r-calif/gIQAaSzFAP_topic.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/{{{washpo}}} Collected news and commentary] at ''[[The Washington Post]]'' As I said, they all have to be fixed manually. Updating the template would just make that process easier than adding each new link outside of the template. And I'd put it after the similar NYT entry. DYK for Barry Stuppler Thank you from the DYK team at Wikipedia Graeme Bartlett (talk) 17:59, 23 June 2012 (UTC) Geometric Visions is Back Up Linky. I am also working on resurrecting the Linux Quality Database which at one time had been hosted by DotSrc.org. I expect to have the site posted at its new domain within the hour, with the old server performing an HTTP Permanent Redirect to the new server with a day or two. Talkback Hello, Ryan Vesey. You have new messages at Nathan2055's talk page. Message added 16:29, 25 June 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Nathan2055talk - contribs 16:29, 25 June 2012 (UTC) Please comment on Talk:Ambrose Greetings! You have been randomly selected to receive an invitation to participate in the request for comment on Talk:Ambrose. Should you wish to respond to the invitation, your contribution to this discussion will be very much appreciated! If in doubt, please see suggestions for responding. If you do not wish to receive these types of notices, please remove your name from Wikipedia:Feedback request service. — RFC bot (talk) 17:30, 25 June 2012 (UTC) Administrator's noticeboard Thanks for the helpful comments at WP:ANI regarding Wineries, breweries and distilleries of New Jersey. NJ Wine (talk) 02:49, 26 June 2012 (UTC) Talkback Hello, Ryan Vesey. You have new messages at Callanecc's talk page. Message added 04:25, 26 June 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Callanecc (talk) 04:25, 26 June 2012 (UTC) The Signpost: 25 June 2012 Op-ed: A call for editorial input in developing new Creative Commons licensing News and notes: "Mystical" Picture of the Year; run-up to Wikimania DC; RfA reform 2012 In the news: Wales enters extradition battle; Wikipedia's political bias Recent research: Edit war patterns, deleters vs. the 1%, never used cleanup tags, authorship inequality, higher quality from central users, and mapping the wikimediasphere WikiProject report: Summer Sports Series: WikiProject Athletics Featured content: A good week for the Williams Arbitration report: Three open cases Technology report: Second Visual Editor prototype launches Read this Signpost in full Single-page Unsubscribe EdwardsBot (talk) 07:17, 26 June 2012 (UTC) Posted a statement Hi Ryan, I posted a statement in response to your query. It's on the talk page of the proposal. :) Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 23:45, 26 June 2012 (UTC) I have to give you credit Hi Ryan. I've seen you around for a while now, but haven't had the chance to thank you for your support of the community. I believe you were adopted by WTT some time ago. WTT is an admin I highly respect and I wanted to let you know that I regard you very highly also. Specifically, I wanted to thank you for helping that IP in distress. I somewhat follow AN/I but don't post there because I'm an IP. I watched that thread, and it seemed obvious to me what she wanted help with. It was obvious to you too, but WOW, the AN/I crowd totally missed the boat and were focused on her IP address for some reason. I saw you post several times what the issue was, but everybody looked past your posts, continuing to focus on her IP address. Anyhoo, I'm glad you took the initiative and asked a crat for a rename and I wanted to thank you for that. And since I'm here. The Helping Hand Barnstar In grateful recognition of Ryan Vesey's generous help to new users, and for being a damn good Wikipedian, I'm proud to award you with the Helping Hand Barnstar. You certainly understand that Wikipedia is about collaboration with articles and with users. The Wikipedian community needs to recognize your generous help with the project and its users. Thank you ever so much for being part of our project. Your efforts are very much appreciated. 64.40.57.126 (talk) 05:26, 27 June 2012 (UTC) Wow, thank you very much. That means a lot. Ryan Vesey Review me! 12:27, 27 June 2012 (UTC) So... I've just turned Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ryan Vesey into a blue link. How do you fancy having a go? WormTT(talk) 13:12, 27 June 2012 (UTC) Oh my goodness, I saw this and my heart rate doubled. How long is that allowed to remain a blue link. I've got 52 articles I want to create and I'd prefer not to be bogged down in RfA or even admin related tasks until I get them done. In any case Skater stated that he would like to conominate me a while back. Would that be fine with you? Ryan Vesey Review me! 13:16, 27 June 2012 (UTC) I'd be honoured to co-nominate with anyone you wanted as a nominator. It can stay a blue link as long as you like, but once an RfA is going it isn't that much work. It's generally better that you don't spend all your time concentrating on it, just checking for questions every so often. There'll be a flurry of activity in the first 24-48 hours, and after that it calms down anyway. Your choice, of course. WormTT(talk) 13:20, 27 June 2012 (UTC) The articles will mostly be stubs, so if I get jump started on them it should take me about a week. I've got basically everything prepared for them. You are correct that I shouldn't spend all of my time concentrating on it. I'll let Skater know, I don't want to pass him up since he offered. On a side note, you Brits with your "honoured" and the like are going to cause me to fail school next year because I can't use American English anymore. I'm consistently writing organisation and using ou in various words. Ryan Vesey Review me! 13:25, 27 June 2012 (UTC) Right-o. Well, my bit's done, all I need to do is !vote when you transclude it. I'll leave the timing up to you. Don't leave it too long (I dropped you an email as to some reasons why). WormTT(talk) 13:28, 27 June 2012 (UTC) talk page stalker You'll be a great admin, Ryan, and if IPs could vote, you'd have my support. You have !voted in enough RfAs that I'm sure I don't have to mention this, but I will anyway. The unwritten rule of RfA is don't comment on oppose !votes. Some of the oppose !votes will be based on 100% incorrect information and you may want to comment. Please resist the temptation. Others will comment for you. Also, RfA is more a reflection of the community rather than of the candidate. Your RfA will probably not reflect the hundereds of hours you have dedicated to the project and all the good you have done. Instead, your RfA may very well reflect how critical the community has become. So please don't view it as a reflection of your efforts here if it doesn't go as planned. This is a much more accurate reflection of your efforts. Best of luck to you and thanks again for everything you have given to the project. Wikipedia is very lucky to have you as an editor. Kind regards. 64.40.54.164 (talk) 22:06, 27 June 2012 (UTC) I apologize I did notice that something I did upset you. For that I am sorry. I think it is a misunderstanding but I'd rather apologize because I know you are sincere. Other than that I know I messed up again, I hope you will believe it is simply trying too hard. On the bright side I really have learned a lot this round, you will see. My76Strat (talk) 19:11, 27 June 2012 (UTC) Hey, I think you're a great editor and I hope that, pending outcome of this RfA, you will be able to make some improvements and hopefully succeed in the future. I do think that you make good decisions and have a clear head; however, in a majority of situations your explanation is incomprehensible. Even in academic reading I have done, the reading was difficult, but comprehensible. Perhaps you should adjust what you believe your audience to be. Particularly when explaining something, your audience should be generalized to a high school student. In doing so, virtually any editor can understand you, no matter what their level of education is. That is the same reason that newspapers write at an 8th grade reading level. They want any literate person to be able to comprehend the material. Someone suggested a speech recognition software, I don't think that would be a bad idea. Using text to speech could also help you determine if the average editor will be able to comprehend what you are saying. Ryan Vesey Review me! 19:21, 27 June 2012 (UTC) Right My76Strat (talk) 19:59, 27 June 2012 (UTC)