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TLAs

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The E=MC² Barnstar

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contributions in astronomy.
--Gaff ^talk 19:50, 15 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey yourself

Hey Russ, Yeah I just started WPing not too long ago. Doubt there is a Multiverse High page, and I wouldn't want to start one (a little too obscure, y'know?). Good to hear from you again. Looks like some interesting work you're doing, based on the articles here. I generally stay on the cleanup side, but I did write a stub on my great-uncle: Ralph Holman. See you 'round the multiverse. BonsaiViking 04:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese emperors

The Japanese emperor double redirect that you fixed will actually be correct, once all of the articles themselves have been moved to the proper titles (about 100 out of 125 have already been moved). Anyway, there are a lot of such double redirects for the Japanese emperor articles, and I just want to make sure you don't waste any time on them unnecessarily. Thanks -Jefu 01:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Done

Sorry about that. A banned user was attempting to use IPs to edit articles contrary to the terms of his ban. It became necessary to lock articles to stop this. The problem has now been solved and the user now realises that he could not edit articles while banned. It is now up to the arbitration committee to decide whether they wish to vary the terms of his ban or even repeal it. I've unprotected the article. I hope it didn't cause you too many problems. FearÉIREANN\^(caint) 00:09, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Finances and Religion in Iraq

You tagged this article for merging with Iraq War on Oct 23. Personally, I think the thing should be deleted as it just seems to be the author's personal views.

Cool user name by the way. Reyk 04:46, 11 November 2005 (UTC) Ya, probably should just delete it. I was doing new pages and didn't know how to delete it. Thanks, by the way, my user name is my initials.--Rayc 05:37, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bessel function

Its the gamma function. linas 23:55, 15 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!--Rayc 02:40, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops

Sorry about that! I didn't mean any offense, just trying to get IPers to contribute :-) JHMM13 19:12, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject:Nebraska proposal

Sorry it's taken me this long to get back to you. I had given up all hope on convincing anyone to work on Nebraska-related articles; now, that seems like it might be a more realistic goal.

People who are or who could possibly be convinced to support such an undertaking:

If any further momentum builds, we can go about formally starting the project. –Swid 22:22, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Here is another list that you could check: Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Nebraska. No one has moved it over yet. ---Rayc 00:03, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, six months later, it still seems that you and I are the only ones interested in this project... – Swid ^{(talk | edits)} 15:39, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

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Asteroid deflection strategies won!

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Observatory

What kind of infomration are you looking for about UW-Whitewater's Observatory?

Just it's name, location, and webpage would help.--Rayc 01:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Home this helps. Tom e r ^talk 17:29, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for voting!

Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll ^{(Die pienk olifant)} 22:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

karl stephan

The picture was from a biographical article. The picture was released publically. He has been deceased for a considerable ammount of time I wouldn't worry too much about someone bugging you about the copyright. The site said it was copyrighted but released.

JJstroker 23:34, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiRPG

Do you want to be first WikiMaster ? ;) Here is a link to the new quest - Welcome Wikipedia:WikiRPG/Welcome If you want, write the narrator's note. Przykuta 12:37, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do people sign up if they want to play, or is it a find it, play it on you own type thing? We could include in the "Welcoming Quest" a mention of the game and keep the quest going until we have enough player to flesh out the actual mechanics of the rest of the game.--Rayc 15:55, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We have to find players. If they want to play, they will. Now we need a good tutorial - I cerrected quest - you are the WikiMaster and you give points for realized quests. Players only put links to their realization. I show you what a player should do ;) Przykuta 21:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of newspapers

Thanks for your interest in helping out with the list of newspapers. To answer your question...well, when I created the list, I really didn't have a notability in mind, so I simply went on the lists that were mentioned. I wouldn't really even know where to begin for a suggestion, and frankly I'm not sure if the notability information is available for most of the papers, but for a SWAG, lets say 5,000 circulation? That would seem like reaching enough readers to be significant. Weekly papers maybe more, say 10,000. Again, those are just best guesses, from an uninformed user who created the list because he likes creating lists. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 04:09, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

US Collaboration of the month

You have voted for Omaha, Nebraska on the USCOTM. It was selected to be this months's collaboration. You are invited to help to contribute in order to improve Omaha, Nebraska in any way possible.

Sorting other backlogs

Hi, I proposed on the village pump proposal section that all active cleanup backlogs should be sorted by bot into X by date. They said I should ask you about it. Is there a bot that could do that?--Rayc 02:39, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I pulled the VP discussion to Wikipedia talk:Maintenance so it wouldn't get lost, and replied there. -- Beland 16:21, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Albion HS reply

Hey. Sorry for the delay in replying. Your idea sounds fine to me. I think if you were to either categorise or maintain a list of these pages as you went it would be very good.

Strangely, I think my objection to the Albion HS page served a purpose, articles very quickly appeared, as did a third Albion HS! Cheers, -Fermion 02:11, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

High School disambigs

You really expect people to create articles for all of those high schools? Most high schools are not notable. Some guy 05:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. Those pages hadn't already been created, and there's no reason to automatically assume they would be. It seems to me you are just encouraging the creation of non-notable pages. Some guy 05:43, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bowie High School

They're still schools after all, and categorising places the disambiguation article into a findable location for those who may not know the correct article title to begin with. We've done the same type of disambiguation for Andrew Fraser, an Australian name used by several people. It works ok for us. -- Longhair 05:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the Barnstar! Deep maintenance is usually pretty thankless :-) But in all fairness I should point out that clearing the backlog was a joint effort between myself and User:Gardar Rurak, we each did about oh... 600 pages or so. --W.marsh 15:55, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes - thanks for the barn-thingie. You just keep setting 'em up - we'll knock 'em down ;) Gardar Rurak 15:32, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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U.S. Senators

Exciting! 92.5% complete...the wholesale wikification and incorporation of entire reference works into this glorious encyclopedia of ours is incredibly exciting. Keep up the good work. Paul 21:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

not to cast a shadow on the procedings, but with regard to, say, Horace Fairbanks, the box you've added replicates information already included in the "Governors of Vermont" template, which already indicates his predecessor and successor. I would think the article requires only one of these templates, not both! - Nunh-huh 04:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't just look redundant, it is redundant. But as long as you're aware of the problem.... - Nunh-huh 05:10, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Daemonium

On April 8 you suggested that this article was split but you posted no reasons on the talk page. Please list your reasons for a split or remove the tag if you placed it there by mistake. Thank you. --– sampi (talk•contrib•email) 19:06, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see what you meant there, sorry. I used a dablink to indicate Anonymus' album and the band.--– sampi (talk•contrib•email) 19:27, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kensey Johns

There's nothing that a fast internet connection and obsessive tendencies can't accomplish :) Paul 22:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Starting over poll...

I started the poll over again because the first one wasn't official- it was an opinion poll. When I saw that the community would accept the proposal, I put it into an official vote. // ^The True _Sora 16:13, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Terrytown, Nebraska

Terry Carpenter ran for mayor of Scottsbluff and did not win in 1931, but he was elected mayor in 1947. See the following sources Source 1, Source 2, Source 3. --Jfitts 23:04, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

de K5ZC

I found the category you picked for your example on WP:MUPP interesting... Jay Maynard 23:36, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Marconi merger tag

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No problem with the Merger tag but I couldn't see how long it had been there. You should have also set up a discussion item on the relevant talk page (click the link resulting from the tag). I know it is an obvious merge but it does help for somebody to say yes I agree, let's merge and then do it. --A Y Arktos\^talk 10:09, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Succession boxes

Well, there isn't really any set of rules as far as I know, but I go by what I see. Succession boxes are everywhere, including in articles that already have templates which may make them redundant. I don't agree with the redundant argument, though. --tomf688 (talk - email) 00:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for handling that cleanup!!! Kukini 23:06, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -- thanks for your notes to the overdevelopment page. I wonder if you could give me some tips on Wikifying, as Iʻm kinda new to this whole thing. I read the link you posted and it was enlightening about many things, but Iʻm still kinda confused about what to do to the page. Mahalo!Laualoha 00:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Concetta Tomei

Sorry, didn't mean to step on your toes. Was just adding some cats when you made those corrections. Ckessler 23:58, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Internet slang

I would very fully support porting the whole thing to Wiktionary, since, as you say, WP:NOT etc. The links at the bottom have a couple of problems. Firstly, they aren't actually tied to any of the entries. One has to guess which might be where. More importantly, imo at least, Urban Dictionary, THe Internet Spam Dictionary and Jargon Wiki are not sources of any kind of repute and simply do not belong in the references section of any kind of scholarly work. None of them are peer reviewed and, let's face it, none of them take their task at all seriously. So I don't think the article had any references whatsoever, and also I strongly suspect that most terms cannot be verified from reliable sources, even where they probably do exist. An example of how things can improve with some 'firm' editing is List of sexual slurs or, even better, List of sexual slang. -Splash - tk 03:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't recall on the spot, no. But that's a good place to start. Let's do this at the article's talk, in case other editors want to join in. -Splash - tk 03:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Your comment at WP:UbxW

Um, you do know that the war ended two weeks ago with the implimentation of the german solution, right?--Rayc 18:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not nesscearily. Many users oppose this because they think it codones userboxes, which Jimbo explicitly opposes. So really, it has merely cooled off, as it has done in the past. Don't be suprised if it heats up again. Th e Gerg 19:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Internet slang

MUSH says all the supposed meanings for it are just backronyms. Transwikiing it to Wiktionary would be great (though they'd probably hate it as much as we do), but it could only really be accomplished in an AfD, which rejected it last time. --Rory096 20:00, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Do note that anything can be transwikied at any time without an AfD. It's just the subsequent possible deletion that requires an AfD. That is sometimes helped if it has already been transwikied, because it takes away that slight confusion that often arises and the fear that the 'useful' 'information' might get 'lost'. -Splash - tk 21:10, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

True, but it doesn't help when Wiktionary deletes it because they can't stand the thought of another List of cannabis slang there :o --Rory096 05:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Point well taken re wikification required of John M. Oesterreicher. I actually was about to slap on the appropriate category and also a stub designation. This is definitely a work in progress and requires significant expansion.--Mantanmoreland 01:34, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: YHBT

I replied on the article's talk, but on the list of reliable sources there it does have "...where it cites another reliable source", so the question is sort of dodged. I found a Microsoft link for YHBT (I put it on the talk page). See what you think. -Splash - tk 15:31, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ne unicam senators

I just live in the district and remember chip maxwell and decided to update the page. It was actually my first wiki update ever. I think, however, that there is a former ne legislators page on the unicameral website at unicam.ne.gov

also, the clerk of the legislature has a huge staff down at the Unicam. If someone called him and asked him to get his interns to update all the wiki sites, he probably would make it happen.

I noticed you've been creating a lot of pages for schools in Nebraska and tagging them as {{US-school-stub}}. Every state in the US (with the strange exception of South Dakota) now has its own school stub (following the format of state-school-stub - except Georgia, which is GeorgiaUS-school-stub). Could you switch to this format when you create to save some stubsorting work down the road? Aelfthrytha 14:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removed your wikify context tag from eCustoms

Go ahead and put it back if you feel I wasn't in the right when I removed it. BigNate37 06:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As mentioned on my talk page, I should have said I removed your context tag—not your wikify tag. BigNate37 15:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CTH merge

Hi Rayc. I was looking at your merge notice for Honduras Workers' Confederation and Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens. I'm pretty sure they're not the same union. They're not even in the same country! :) one is in Haiti and the other in Honduras. Although Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens could stand to be moved to the English translation - (presumably Hatian Workers' Confederation). Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 01:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi Rayc, I had started an article called Culture of Himachal Pradesh which was labelled copyvio by you. I have two questions:

There may also be some other articles in which I had copied some text from other sites though it is changed considerably now. What does one do in such a situation? Is it possible to just delete the past version of an article?
I do realise the above article is copyvio now that i have spent some time here. So what happens next? Can I just notify an admin to delete the article? In case you are an admin, can you do it please? Thanks -- Lost 01:47, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I think I just figured it out. I have put the speedy template to this one -- Lost 01:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AKU-94

Hey -- just a reminder; when you use the {{copyvio}} tag, be sure to remove the text that's a copyright violation as well. Thanks! Mango juice^talk 02:38, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding UNA Observatory

Free photos are always helpful, but it wasn't what I had in mind. What I meant was, it needs to be converted to use a standard template, hundreds of which can be found here. I'm not sure which one would be ideal, but maybe I'll take a look at it myself. —freak(talk) 18:46, Jul. 25, 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps Template:Infobox Historic building would be a close fit, otherwise you could create your own template. Just make it generic enough to be reused in other articles. —freak(talk) 19:04, Jul. 25, 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify

Hi Rayc. I know that you've been involved in wikifying articles in the past, so I thought I'd draw your attention to this new project. We currently have a backlog of over 6500 articles, so any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated, even if it's only one or two articles! Alternatively, if you know anyone else who might like to help out, please tell them about it. Thanks :) -Ladybirdintheuk 08:12, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

uncat-bio

I belatedly noticed this suggestion; I think it's probably a good idea, and I've made some related suggestions at WP:WPBIO, which may be of some interest. Alai 07:38, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia discussion for entry: Brian Giovannini

Hey! A friend pointed out to me that there is a wiki entry for me (Brian Giovannini) regarding my comic "Postage Due" and the discussion says I died in June. Are you the editor for that page? Since you said that you had heard I am dead, I'm curious where you got that info. I stopped my cartooning career in 2002 and am now pursuing a career in law. Cheers!

Also, do you want a sample comic or something to use as a graphic on the page?

~Brian Giovannini thecomicsdude@yahoo.com

Hi Rayc

Hi there Rayc

I note that you contributed to the XPLANE article at one point. If you're still interested, you might want to weigh in at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2006 November 24. I am not canvassing here, just thought you might want to know.Dgray xplane 04:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Nebraska

Someone (not me!) started WikiProject Nebraska. I thought you may be interested in participating. – Swid ^{(talk | edits)} 20:57, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Krasnoarmeysk

Hello. The spelling is OK according to http://www.mojgorod.ru/saratov_obl/krasnoarmsk/index.html . - Darwinek 09:37, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Clay Center High School

Hello! I'm just letting you know that I've proposed this page (which you created) for deletion. I've done this because this disambiguation page did not link to a single extant article. Let me know if you have any questions, Dar-Ape 23:30, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think Clay Center High School (Nebraska) should be moved to Clay Center High School. First of all, right now there is no Clay Center High School (Kansas) article, and I'm unsure as to whether there should be one as the school does not seem particularly notable. Also, if an article is created on the Kansas high school in the future, the disambiguation page may be recreated. Until then, though, this seems more practical as well as more aesthetically pleasing. Dar-Ape 17:06, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Clay Center High School (Nebraska)

A tag has been placed on Clay Center High School (Nebraska), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Dan0 00 05:17, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was just going on my own instincts. I figured that for a high school to be notable, a well-known person would need to have attended/worked there. If I'm wrong, I apologize. We'll just have to see what that admin says. Dan0 00 05:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Gabriel Spiro (from Wikiversity)

Editing others' posts

Rayc, thank you for your research on MSTing. But I must ask that you not change my posts, as you did for my Cluetrain Manifesto citation (which I have since reverted). Please review Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#Behavior that is unacceptable for why this is not a good idea. I know you meant well, but you left readers with the impression that I struck the ISBN and put a different one in. In this case, you made an understandable mistake, because the 2000 edition of Cluetrain Manifesto is ISBN 0738202444, a hardcover printing. But the citation I gave was for the 2001 paperback (which is why I took the trouble to provide the detailed citation). Page numbers usually differ between editions, so simply changing ISBNs renders the citation inaccurate and misleading. If you absolutely must make a change like this, at the very least you should (A) mark it with an editorial note, e.g., [Rayc]; and (B) insert a noticeably indented commment just below the end of the post to explain the change and beg pardon. Even well-meaning, accurate edits of others' posts are often considered quite rude because they effectively put words in others' mouths. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:26, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiquiz extension

I think wikiquiz is now ready to use and I can help you at any point if you want to insert it in wikiversity.

Regards. Lrbabe 20:36, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Installing wikiquiz

If you have admin rights, it is simple :

Add this line at the end of the LocalSettings.php file of wikiversity.

require_once 'extensions/wikiquiz.php';

Add the following files to the extension folder :
- wikiquiz.php

(just rename it as wikiquiz.php)

- wikiquiz.js

And this is the License. Lrbabe 07:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Extensions folder

At home, the extensions folder, named "extensions" is at the root of the mediawiki folder (same as "bin", "config", "docs", "images"...). If it isn't there, it may be in the "wiki" folder. Please contact me at gmail : lrbabe. Lrbabe 17:37, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiversity

Hi, Rayc,

you left a message on my user page concerning wikiversity. I am indeed very interested. My problem is lack of time, but I hope I can still contribute something. I have been looking arround on wikiversity a little bit and somebody has just started an interdisciplinary school on African Studies. I am intending to start something about African Philosophy and African Music. How can I start a project on African Philosophy an let it appear both in the philosophy school and the African studies school. I anderstand there is something called a portal, and that is probably what one has to put under African Studies. However, I have not yet had the time to really look into the rules and structures of Wikiversity. Nannus 17:06, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kevin Beary AFD Vote

The article on Orange County, Florida Sheriff Kevin Beary which you have previously edited has been nominated for deletion. Please feel free to share your thoughts on this matter. --TommyBoy 03:34, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You : Mills Observatory

Dear Rayc, Thank you editing Mills observatory page, I have added reference. Thanks again, --Cyril Thomas 13:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Dear Rayc, Thank you for the information, actually I was trying to merge the page...then thought it will save the time. I have never tried "move" before, I should learn it. Thanks again, Rayc. Warm regards, --Cyril Thomas 12:43, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikifyig pages

Please remember to remove the Wikify tag from the page after you have finished wikifing it. 193.62.251.32 11:31, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed that bad link. Thanks for pointing it out.

Thank you

Thank you for linking to my article on the Iran-Iraq boundary. I wrote it to help understand the current events, and I am glad to see that it was noticed. Danny 03:56, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thanks

Thanks for fixing my user page. :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by W1k13rh3nry (talk • contribs) 00:49, 3 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Talk:Mount Suhora Observatory

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DDO

I noticed you added most of what was in the David Dunlap Observatory, so I thought you might want to go take a look! Would you be interested in helping me take it to GA? Maury 13:57, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

William Fields

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Are you interested?

Rayc Hi! You were recently contributing to articles that are in the scope of the new project WP:KRISHNA, I thought you may want to check the proposal of merger and cast your vote in relation of the additional section to article Krishna. Thanks. --Wikidās -ॐ 14:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Scope, update and voting

Whats new at Krishna's project

Wikipedia:WikiProject Krishnaism - whats new and happening!

Discussion on the scope of the project: Krishna-worship.
First DYK of he project Radha Ramana 22nd May 2008
Pages under construction Radha Krishna, Bala Krishna, Krishnaism.
Consensus is now reached on the proposal of merger of the new article Krishna Vasudeva into a separate section of Krishna here:

Please note the results of the vote on the proposal of merging new article on early worship of Krishna Vasudeva to the main article dedicated to the Hindu deity Krishna.

Krishna Vasudeva may have been worshiped in 4 century BC as a monotheistic deity.
This article is to be incorporated in a separate section of Krishna article.
Also, if you are ready to help with editing and assessment of the scope, please see the project page, and add your name to the list of participants.

While the name of the project is WikiProject Krishnaism in common language many seems to prefer a wider term "Vaishnavism", which however appeared to relate to Vishnu. Krishnaism is more of an academic term. On the other hand even one of the first Indologists to use the term, Albrecht Weber was to consider that that the essence of Krishnaism, bhakti or the principle of "God is love", was pre-Christian. There were and are many traditions where Krishna is worshiped and His names revered.

There was a discussion (and a heated one) on the scope of the project and the term here. Currently the scope is quite wide and aims at improving articles related to Radha-Krishna and associated traditions where they are worshiped: Manipuri Vaishnavas, Bhagavata, Gaudiya Vaishnava, Nimbarka sampradaya, Swaminarayana sampradaya, Vallabha sampradaya; If you see a need to widen or restrict the scope please voice your opinion - it is wanted!

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Amateur radio

Hey there, I recently saw you created the amateur radio discussion page at wikiversity. Also i noticed you're involved in amateur radio yourself. Please look at wikiveristy or inmediatelly at this article to review my suggestion on making a cheap DIY IRLP amateur radio system

Looking forward to your findings, KVDP (talk) 13:47, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Brian Giovannini

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AfD nomination of Brian Giovannini

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Senator Beau McCoy

HI. Thanks for the compliment on adding the photo of Beau McCoy. I have never done anything like this before. I tried to add some important professional and personal information and it was deleted because it wasn't sourced? So I went back and put in links to all of the organizations that had written about him, which is where I got a lot of the information. They deleted it again. I don't know who is deleting it or why. It's really dissappointing to me, as I'm not cyber-blessed and really worked hard to just put in a paragraph or sentence, cite the reference and BOOM...it's gone the next day. Any help in ordinary english? Anglswings6510 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anglswings6510 (talk • contribs) 14:02, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ray.... Patrolers hunh? I think the one who eliminated my posts should change his name to "god-o" since he believes he can pass judgement so easily. I'm not political, I don't read campaign fliers. I read about Senator McCoy on the internet, in the local newspapers and saw him interviewed several times on TV. I am also proud to know him from real life and what you see is what he really is and what you get. A very honest, patriotic, old-fashioned, non political man who just happens to be a 'Politician' because he believes in America, the constitution, her history, her past and her potential.

Thank you for re-inserting some of the posts the way the 'patrolers' think they should be posted. As for me, I find you a breath of fresh air...and I find those who delete others posts without any 'talk' are just egotistical control freaks. I posted nothing that was gossip or false, and I found the exact quote to the children of why he became a senator and his encouragement to reach for their dreams to be truly inspirational. But I guess that's not acceptable either. From now on I'll stick to newspapers articles, TV interviews, Radio interviews, public editorials etc...and leave Wikipedia because of the "patrolers". It's not worth the time and effort. BUT again...Thank you Rayc. Thank you for having patience and being willing to teach others, and work with them...instead of obliterating their first amendment rights. Good luck and God bless! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anglswings6510 (talk • contribs) 17:47, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for helping with the Beau McCoy article. Per her request, I have not left any further comments for her even though I strongly disagree with several of her statements about me. Oh, well. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 19:49, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Paroling is a thankless task, and I admire your persistence. Thanks for the help again.--Rayc (talk) 02:53, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Beaver Meadow Observatory

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please try and see if you can find some substantial 3rd party sources, if in fact there are any that are not just local notices of open days and the like DGG (talk) 16:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

==Proposed deletion of Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory==

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I really do not see how these amateur observatories are notable. If you really think you can show they are, we can try afd, but I suggest you think first whether they're defensible. DGG (talk) 20:10, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Sandy Creek High School (Nebraska)

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Unreferenced BLPs

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Speedy deletion nomination of Sisk Observatory

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Speedy deletion nomination of Crescent Moon Observatory

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Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject Nebraska

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Nomination of Vega-Bray Observatory for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Echo Valley Observatory

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Rayc, I'd like to invite you to an upcoming edit-a-thon:

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Proposed deletion of John H. Witte, Jr. Observatory

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Proposed deletion of Palisades-Dows Observatory

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Help, making updates to University of Nebraska – Lincoln Independent Study High School

We are currently looking for help in getting our Wikipedia page updated with correct information. In short, the name for the online high school changed to University of Nebraska High School over 5 years ago (it was formally University of Nebraska – Lincoln Independent Study High School). We’ve had no success in getting this corrected and it’s presented some challenges when people google us. I was wondering if there’s any way you could help us or direct us to where we can get this corrected.

There was a request left here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Nebraska

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

Here is our official website: https://highschool.nebraska.edu/

Quynniex3 (talk) 20:38, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Living Quest

Dear @Rayc: I quested to the Washington, DC Spy Museum and took the photograph of Sandra Grimes, CIA spy. The better photo is illustrating the article about her. Here is a photos of Sandy holding a paper copy of the Wikipedia article. Sandy autographed the paper copy for me.

I flew to Dandong, China looking for a photograph of Ri Sol-ju and [all I got was a picture of her grandfather in law] and was interviewed by the NYT.^[1]

^ . New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/arts/design/museum-welcomes-wikipedia-editors.html?_r=0. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Does that give me points in the Ministry of Fun Living Quest game? Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:16, 1 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 US Banknote Contest

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Nomination of Axtell High School (Nebraska) for deletion

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