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Speedy deletion nomination of {{{1}}}

Hello Kaldari,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged {{{1}}} for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, Kaldari (talk)

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Change may have caused problem

Hi, someone has suggested that this change may be the cause of an edit box problem detailed at village pump. Can you comment on if this is the cause of the problems? Keith D (talk) 23:57, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Should be fixed now. Kaldari (talk) 00:21, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure what the issue is, but I have reset my preferences two or three times now, and I still have the Vector edit box. At this point, I have run out of ideas for fixing this. Can you give me any advice? ---RepublicanJacobite_TheFortyFive 19:22, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I will see if that works. Thanks. ---RepublicanJacobite_TheFortyFive 01:09, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, it has been more than 24 hours since my previous message, and nothing has changed. I am baffled and frustrated by this problem, and cannot figure out what to do to fix it. None of the steps suggested by others have worked. So, I am really wondering what to do next. ---RepublicanJacobite_TheFortyFive 13:45, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I can log-in on a library computer later today, in either IE or Firefox. When I do, I will let you know what, if anything, happens. If it means anything, when the edit box opens, it is Monobook, then it switches to Vector after a few seconds. Thanks for your message. ---RepublicanJacobite_TheFortyFive 17:43, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I have now logged in from two different computers --- one a Mac, the other a PC --- and used both Firefox and IE. But, in all cases, the edit bar is the same: Vector. What does that tell us? ---RepublicanJacobite_TheFortyFive 16:52, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that was the problem. I unchecked that box and everything is back to normal. Thanks for your help. It's hard to believe it was so simple. Cheers! ---RepublicanJacobite_TheFortyFive 13:18, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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If you have any other questions or comments, drop by my talk page or email me at wikiocaasi@yahoo.com. Cheers! Ocaasi^{t | c} 17:22, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Wikipedia pages

Dear Author/Kaldari

My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address recently edited an article on Endometriosis. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance. Hydra Rain (talk) 12:34, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Glad I could help. Here's a little something to spice up your talk page. See you around! Braincricket (talk) 22:06, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2012 July newsletter

We're approaching the beginning of 2012's final round. Pool A sees Cwmhiraeth (submissions) as the leader, with 300 points being awarded for the featured article Bivalvia, and Pool B sees Grapple X (submissions) in the lead, with 10 good articles, and over 35 articles eligible for good topic points. Pool A sees Muboshgu (submissions) in second place with a number of articles relating to baseball, while Pool B's Ruby2010 (submissions) follows Grapple X, with a variety of contributions including the high-scoring, high-importance featured article on the 2010 film Pride & Prejudice. Ruby2010, like Grapple X, also claimed a number of good topic points; despite this, not a single point has been claimed for featured topics in the contest so far. The same is true for featured portals.

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Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteer who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
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Please be careful --

Hello Kaldari, Just a friendly message but I wanted to point out you accidentally deleted a post I made to the Mars Space Laboratory talk page, or if it wasn't accidental please let me know at my talk page. Thanks.

user:Agradman editing for the moment as 67.182.25.41 (talk) 07:25, 6 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Vice presidential edit counters

They are a really fun and clever idea, but I felt like they increased the likelihood of unneeded edits, low-quality editing, and vandalism to a number of high-profile BLPs. I apologize for not contacting you beforehand, but I felt that it was more important to remove that line of thought from the articles quickly—particularly given their greater attention following the Colbert vandalism. If you would like to restore them, please raise the issue on one of the noticeboards first. I would be glad to have my decision to remove the counters reviewed.

Like I said, very cool idea under other circumstances, and I have lots of respect for your contributions on here. This just seemed to me like a bad idea at the moment. Best, IronGargoyle (talk) 06:40, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the those articles are already semi-protected, so I'm not sure there's a big potential for increased vandalism. I was actually thinking that the charts might help us to catch COI editing, and thus protect the quality of the articles, but I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on this. Kaldari (talk) 06:49, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Arg, I didn't know about the stupid Steven Colbert thing. I wish he would quit messing with Wikipedia already. Kaldari (talk) 23:24, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Upload Folger Library images?

What's up with that? Tom Reedy (talk) 02:10, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Non-free content review

I requested a non-free content review in connection with an image you uploaded. See the discussion at Wikipedia:Non-free_content_review#Images_of_Andrew_Wyeth_Paintings --SPhilbrick (Talk) 15:50, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of PageTriageProdTest

Hello, Kaldari. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, PageTriageProdTest, for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:

edit the page
remove the text that looks like this: {{proposed deletion/dated...}}
save the page

Also, be sure to explain why you think the article should be kept in your edit summary or on the article's talk page. If you don't do so, it may be deleted later anyway.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks, Kaldari (talk) 19:38, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of PageTriageProdTest

Hello, Kaldari. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, PageTriageProdTest, for deletion because it's a biography of a living person that lacks references. If you don't want PageTriageProdTest to be deleted, please add a reference to the article.

If you need help doing so, you can leave a note on my talk page.

Thanks, Kaldari (talk) 19:38, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mariana Pajon

Hey! just wanted to know the reason why you deleted Mariana's picture in the podium? Thanks!