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He said that he decided to stop working together with Stakka because he felt restricted. He said it himself on his website's biography. What more reliable source do you need? --TylerDurdenn (talk) 21:35, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ah - I should have mentioned - we need something other than his autobiography to verify notability. If he's not covered by reliable third party sources, I doubt he warrants a Wikipedia article. Nothing personal, I promise! Airplaneman ✈21:41, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Could you link the webpage, please? I would preferably prefer three or more reliable sources, linked to the page you found them from. Airplaneman ✈21:45, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject Apple Inc.'s Backlog Elimination Drive
Graph of recent progress.As the coordinator of the WikiProject Apple Inc.Backlog Elimination Drive for May 2010, I would like to thank you for your active participation in the drive.
I am writing to inform you that we have made great progress in eliminating unassessed articles. Remember the drive ends June 10, so keep working!
Once again, thank you for participating, and we look forward to a meaningful drop in the numbers due to your hard work and efforts.
Well, as I don't have access to the bot, we'll have to live with it. I also like dab solver and checklinks as well as custom regex, which I use to fix dashes. Airplaneman ✈23:09, 29 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks in a large part to Ego Dodo and (yes, me), we've gone from over 500 unassessed to under 200 in less than 3 days. LET'S GOOO! :) Airplaneman ✈21:56, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations on your great work helping clear the backlog of unassessed articles for WikiProject Apple Inc.! It was a pleasure working with you, I would give you a shiny barnstar but I think Mono will take care of that . - EdoDodotalk16:55, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! You did great work as well, and so did the other participants and Fetchcomms. Next, on to B class checklists! (I think I'm going to do some work on Macintosh first, though). I, as well, enjoyed working with you. Airplaneman ✈16:57, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WikiCup 2010 May newsletter
We are half way through round 3, with a little under a month to go. The current overall leader is Sasata (submissions), who has 570 points. He leads pool C. Pools A, B and D are led by Hunter Kahn (submissions), Sturmvogel_66 (submissions) and White Shadows (submissions) respectively. Anything you worry may not receive the necessary attention before the end of the round (such as outstanding GA or FA nominations) is welcome at Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews, and please remember to continue offering reviews yourself where possible. As always, the judges are available to contact via email, IRC or their talk pages, and general discussion about the Cup is welcome on the WikiCup talk page.
Two of last year's final 8, Theleftorium (submissions) and Scorpion0422 (submissions), have dropped out of the competition, saying they would rather their place went to someone who will have more time on their hands than them next round. On a related note, a special thank you goes to White Shadows (submissions) for his help behind the scenes once again. There is currently a problem with the poster, perhaps caused by the new skin- take a look at this discussion and see if you can help. The competition has continued to tick over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. Good luck to all! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed1720:45, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
? What don't you get? I suppose you can't see any of it now... Well, if you look at the page history, all of the deleted revisions would help you to understand why that was funny. Except they were deleted. :) Hi878 (talk) 01:21, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It was funny that, after all that fuss that ended in most of the revisions being deleted, there was still some vandalism left. Hi878 (talk) 01:25, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Graph of recent progress.As the coordinator of the WikiProject Apple Inc. Backlog Elimination Drive for May 2010, I would like to thank you for your active participation in the drive.
I am writing to inform you that we have assessed all project articles. We thank all of our participants, as we couldn't have done it without you!
Once again, thank you for participating, and we appreciate the meaningful drop in the numbers due to your hard work and efforts. Awards will be delivered soon to our participants!
Hey again! When I was looking through the newly assessed articles I noticed that we'd both assessed some redirects as Redirect or NA. When I did a bit of research and asked on IRC it seemed to me that most other WikiProjects were simply redirecting the talk pages and removing project banners, so I went ahead and did that for the articles that I could find using this list (edits here). I hope that's all fine with you, and if it's not then I'll be happy to discuss it with you and other project members so we can reach an agreement over what should be done with talk pages of redirects. - EdoDodotalk18:29, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That is kind of a trade-off. I'm not sure about it; it doesn't exactly matter. I recommend using the banner, then adding {{softredirect}} to the other talkpage. mono18:35, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm... I don't think we should have the project banner on redirect talk pages at all, because that would simply make too many pages to "maintain" (there wouldn't effectively be anything to maintain but they'd still be getting in our lists, and so would waste the time of editors and bots who are making edits to ALL of our pages). Unless there is some reason why a redirect should have a talk page (eg. ongoing discussion about changing the redirect) then it shouldn't even have one – which is why almost all of the redirect talk pages I edited were for articles that were only made redirects after the talk page had been created, and still had the banner left over from before they became redirects. Once the user is redirected to the relevant talk page of the main article then he will see our project banner, and know that the page is maintained by us, I really don't see the need to put our project banner on the actual redirect. Anyway, that's just my opinion, would be nice to hear some more project members to see what consensus is on this. - EdoDodotalk18:51, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oh okay, makes sense a guess, I preferred to move all talk page content to the main talk page (if it was relevant) and then redirect. - EdoDodotalk18:58, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, I'd be happy to help out. By the way, how are you currently getting the list of articles that need to be checked for the B criteria? Are you just looking at all C articles and checking the ones that havn't been checked yet or is there a category for it? If there isn't a category perhaps we could add some code to the WikiProject banner template so that all articles that havn't yet been checked for the B article criteria and should be checked (C articles) get added to a category, shouldn't be too difficult. - EdoDodotalk11:38, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I've created an addition to the current WikiProject banner that would add articles to suitable categories depending on their B class checklist (categories for what issues there are, and if it is need for a B class check). It's at User:EdoDodo/TemplateSandbox and I'm ready to make it live if nobody disagrees (see project talk discussion). - EdoDodotalk14:11, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Screenshot...
←{{Cite mac}} is ready for use. All users should add
Not working; I usually don't use the enhanced editing toolbar, but I turned it on and it doesn't work then either. Oh, and what am I supposed to look for? A button? I purged my cache as well. Airplaneman ✈02:52, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Screenshot with Cite mac enabled.
On the toolbar it has a drop down menu (first advanced, then special chars, then help, and then there is a "cite" menu. After that, click the templates menu and select your template. mono02:57, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
←Somehow your formatting got scrambled. Make sure that your code above looks exactly like what's in the edit box. Then, WP:BYC and try again. mono03:18, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not working for me either, I copied the code and purged cache but the "Cite Mac" button isn't showing, only the other citation templates. - EdoDodotalk18:51, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. I'm afraid I decided to decline your speedy deletion nomination of this article because when I googled the name I found sources indicating that the subject had been an Olympic athlete. It's always a good idea to quickly google names such as this, even if the article has very limited content, as notable individuals from developing countries are poorly covered by Wikipedia and, often because of language difficulties, their articles may start from very small beginnings. CIreland (talk) 01:53, 2 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey I noticed that you are a candidate in the election, as am I, and wanted to say hello. I also wanted to ask you if you knew when the election is going to begin. I noticed that the project seemed a little dead and I was wondering if they are even going to have one.Tetobigbrotalk03:08, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, nice to meet you! Yes, the project leaders have been busy in real life, and I think the election has been postponed indefinitely until the project gets rolling again. When I saw that the elections were to begin soon a few months back, I threw my name in a few days before after seeing that nobody else had volunteered. I'm focusing on WikiProject Apple Inc. right now and don't have the time to revive the project, although I have talked to Sadads about it; maybe he could work with you to get it going again! (I'd help too, but I can't guarantee 100% of my Wiki-time). Regards, Airplaneman ✈03:13, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I understand completely, at the moment I've kind of got a few things going on with Militar History and I don't even really have time to work on the novel articles that I have going right now. I'm trying to get better time management, but it's hard... even if it is only on the computer. And thanks, I'll talk to him.Tetobigbrotalk03:18, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, do you think I should run? Not that I want to compete with y'all, but there are several positions. Oh, and no, I don't know Cross's middle name. I'll look around a little and see if I can find it. PrincessofLlyrroyal court03:23, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I do. You'd have my support :). You're more active in the novel scope than I am these days, anyway, so you'd fit the position better. Airplaneman ✈03:27, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Airplaneman. Since you were active in the MBP gan, you know what to expect and also (likely) some reviewers. Could you look over MBA a little more and possibly enlist the reviewing help of another editor? Thanks, mono02:29, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'll look for some - O helpful talk page stalkers, the above needs your attention :). I added a few comments a while back; try to work on those. I'm busy tomorrow but am quite free for the next three months, so I will add additional comments as well. If you haven't already, try to convert every tech spec and everymac tech spec to a single Cite Mac (still can't get that to work). Airplaneman ✈03:01, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for welcoming me to wikipedia! I am a new user, and I have a question about my first entry, named Burnaby Hospital. I used may references and abided by the Wikipedia guidelines, but when I google it in the search engine, it appears only on the 4th page. Usually, the Wikipedia entries are the 2nd or 3rd thing that shows up on Google. What can I do to make it more Search-Engine-Optimized?
(talk page stalker)The point is not to make the page search-engine optimized. The point is to make it useful to the world, to inform others. It will probably climb up the ranks as people read it more often, so don't worry about it. Brambleclawx17:31, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome to Wikipedia; I think I remember patrollingBurnaby Hospital a few days ago! As for search engine optimization, you and I have no control over that (as Brambleclawx said above). I believe Google's complex search algorithms do, so we can't change that unless you go to Google and help them write the code for their search engine (or Bing or Yahoo! search, for the matter). Many references don't count, sadly; just make sure they are reliable. All in all, it would be good to look at the good article criteria to see how you can improve the article you wrote, as well as the huge manual of style (read it in increments!). Oh, and you can sign comments by typing ~~~~, which will magically produce your username and talk page link when you save. Please ask any other questions if you have any. Happy editing, Airplaneman ✈18:19, 5 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Some more suggestions:
See my changes to the article for formatting tips and other things
Burnaby Hospital Foundation could go as a subsection to the Burnaby Hospital page
On your editing toolbar, click the "cite" button. Choose your template, for example Cite web, and fill out the fields. Add the reference, and it should be similar to the way you manually cited it. It's faster and has more features, so you might want to consider using it for future referencing.
Overall, this is one of the best new articles I've seen (especially from a new user!) Most are in dire need of attention or aren't articles (for example, "My friend is cool", etc.) Great work.
Hi, thanks for doing the Reflinking properly on Jack Mitchell (jockey). I must admit I wouldn't know how to do this - is there a guide, somewhere? Also, one of the links has come up as a dead link, but is working for me (The times online one). Could you possibly fix this, or tell me how I would fix it? Much appreciated. SmokingNewton(MESSAGE ME)15:16, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! Reflinks is a tool that fills in bare links using cite templates (you can also do this manually, but it takes some time). WP:REFLINKS is where you need to go. I have it bookmarked because I use it on a regular basis :). I'll check out the dead link (it was tagged by the tool as such) and if it works, I'll fill it out manually. Airplaneman ✈15:25, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! I believe you were the first Wikipedian I ever spoke to, nice to see you again. :). I've been away for a couple of months with a job abroad, but I'm back and more active than ever. SmokingNewton(MESSAGE ME)15:28, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
