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Time Times (2008-03)

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Vaishnavism's relation to Vedic religion

Hello John Carter. I have added the above discussion (from the Krishna talk page) to the Vaishnavism Wikiproject talk page at, Vaishnavism's relation to Vedic religion. Please feel free to add any comments. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 17:04, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello John, if you'd like a clear scholarly perspective on Vaishnavism beyond all the pov disputes, then I would recommend Gavin Floods An Introduction to Hinduism, see: Chapter 6 - "The love of Vishnu". ISBN 81-7596-028-0. All the best, Gouranga(UK) (talk) 21:46, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Doug redux

The turn is yours, good sir. - Revolving Bugbear 19:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hope I did OK. I've never nominated anyone before. John Carter (talk) 19:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Awesome. I left the template for Doug. - Revolving Bugbear 20:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just logged on and noticed I had extra tabs! Wow! I was surprised with the unopposed promotion! I just want to say "thank you" to both of you. (BTW, do you consider it necessary to personally thank everyone? Seems a post on my talk page thanking everyone would be a bit less clutter but would it be huge faux pas?)--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 20:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Films coordinator elections

The WikiProject Films coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect five coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by March 28! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 09:40, 15 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know whether you agree but while I think the coordinator thing is good to operate films, I find the "Lead coordinator" thing and "elections" a little pretentious. Does it have to be so political?

Anyway I would deeply appreciate you taking the time to sort out the french commune banner -only admins are permitted to edit the french template. Could you please state to them what you are doing and get something set up like you have done for all those hundreds of other task forces? Cheers ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:02, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, well yes I fully agree that the more coordination a project gets the better its just the "lead" coordinator sounds a bit domineering -perhaps its just me. But I don't think it matters if it means that assessment in WP:Films is improved and made more reliable. I just tend to not approve of turning into a bureacracy though, where editors are seen as above the other project members (but if this is what it takes for everything to improve then I fully support it). It should work out OK though. I was amazed we have 10,000 new film article sin the last few months -I have no idea where they all came from as I rarely see a film in the new pages -its usually only Lugnuts' silent film articles and the occasional Indian film stubs I see. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:20, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Probbably just communes=yes would be the easiest I would think ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:28, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just learned that somebody has removed Category:Castles in France and merged it into Category:Chateaux in France where as you know a chateau is generally a distinguished stately home or palace rather than a tradional castle type building , instead we have a category named Category:Fortified French châteaux which sounds ridiculous. Would you support a move back to Category:Castles in France ? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Any developments on the french banner? I noticed you also commented at the Jimbo Wales resignation proposal. People blow things all out of proportion don't they with all sorts of allegations. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:08, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Real G-Unit BarnStar!

		The Fraternity/Sorority Barnstar
		For being apart of WikiProject Freemasonry! InvisibleDiplomat₆⁶₆ 05:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Copying pages to your userspace pending deletion

John, I know you've been copying several alleged portals/projects to userspace as part of the deletion process. I got thinking this may not be such a good idea. I'm not sure how you're doing it, if you're copying the history then fine (but why? you're an admin and can access the deleted page); but you can see from my comments to User:Abd when he recently decided to solve the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Chiism(Godianism) the way he and User:Obuibo Mbstpo are wont to do, that I consider this a bad idea. I realize he was doing it for a point, whereas you were doing it to preserve the data in case it was required later, but the issue is very likely the same. An ordinary copy/paste would destroy the history. Just something to consider. My comments to Abd are in that discussion and further at User talk:Abd#Please don't ever do this again. Your thoughts on this are desired as I may be completely out to lunch on this, your comments about my knowledge of copyrights notwithstanding.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 12:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Museums WikiProject

Hi! You expressed an interest in a Museums Wiki Project and after working in a number of articles and wanting to add a template that didn't exist, I went ahead and launched the project:

You have been invited to join the Museums WikiProject, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of museums. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading!

I'd appreciate any feedback you have (this is my first project} and any help in project related 'stuff'. Thanks TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 16:53, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LMAO! Aren't you honored to be in the scope of the project? TRAVELLINGCARI^{My story}_{Tell me yours} 21:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've replaced the invite template with the correct one.— Rod ^talk 13:40, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Red links

The coverage of List of Estonian actors is quite brilliant don't you think? That page would make a bull go crazy ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:41, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know it shows how little we cover things like this and evne the blue links we have are poor stubs mostly. Earlier I did a google search for about five or six names in it at random and I found each one to be what would be considered notable enough for wikipedia -e.g graduated from respected Tallinn drama school and was a performer in a major theatre etc or in some tv series. There is likely to be some names more notable than others in there. If some editor decides some are non notable then they can be whittled down later but this reveals gaping holes in the content of our project. I'm having an extremely productive and diverse day of editing today, I have been looking through categories in various foreign wikis and been astounded by the disproportion of articles -I've been looking at norwegian, swedish, danish, finnish estonian, latvian, romanian and slovenian wikis today. I roughly translated Carlos Conca , a Chilean scientist earlier but it will need proof reading and I've got the first Gabonese painter and poet started Aida Touré. I think categories on other wikipedia and entries should be checked for notability and then at least stubbed in english. This is what I intend doing in places. I went through the Romanian poets A earlier - we now have at least 6 or 7 new articles as a result which I hope any romanian speakers will expand. Can't fault me for trying through ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:56, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The way I see it is it that you have to look at the product of wikipedia across the various wikis and really take note of the articles generated by people in their native languages and countries and observe their articles. This way we can begin to think about setting out the articles or stubbing them into english in an even way and hope more native speakers who want to contribute to english wikipedia come along and expand them. I;ve seen it happen on many occasions -I remain optimistic21:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah the estonian list was quickly lifted from the estonian wikipedia -the List of Finnish painters also from finnish wikipedia category and the List of streets in Oslo which many articles on Norwegian wikipedia show that many of them are notable and can be written into full articles. I did check some of them earlier and there are some quite detailed articles - Niels Juels Street and Ring 3 (Oslo) are some examples of notable roads -(it blows my head though to think too much about missing content) Lists are a good way I think of revealing what is missing and serve as work pages for editors to hungrily attack (hopefully) . The sky is the limit really on how much everybody could potentially develop things. But yes overall I've put in quite a lot of work on various stuff today, particularly the Carlos Conca article. I still think the best way to highlight the articles on other wikipedias is to generate various lists and then at least they are linked ready for starting at a later date. This is better than hiding them I feel ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:14, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm yes I think it is a very good idea to generate missing article lists behind the main space by country in the various fields. I will keep this in mind - I would like to see more consideration by each wikiproject and the missing encyclopedia articles project of doing this, I think to accompany all of the wikiprojects you;ve set up each pages could have the section Missing articles and the page lists linked -e.g WikiProject Estonia with the /Missing articles and this done by country to sort of plan out needed areas of development and to identify just eactly what is missing. A sort of catalogue of missing articles is exactly what we need. I would be very grateful if you could help setting these pages up to at least give a basis to build upon ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If the missing articles are outrageously huge which for many countries there will be it could later be organized e.g

etc

But first things first . The missing article section andlink needs adding to each of the country wikiprojects first. If we want to increase the scope and coverage by country it would be a good idea to puruse this ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:35, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

E.g see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gabon ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes obviously several wikiprojects have something along these lines already but many of them are not developed yet. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia/Missing articles now -which is linked in the main project page. Providing these can only increase traffic to the missing pages and try to encourage editors who are from these countries or speak the language to try tackle one or two.

Care to join me at Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/Slovenia. I'm currently the only member ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:05, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unbelievable - Slovenia like many of those central european countries like Austria, the new Czechoslovakian and Yugslav states are centres for the arts and baroque architecture -you know the fine arts and classical music and buildings and such. The cities are absolutely plastered in cool buildings -have a look at the category for Ljubljana at the commons. Yet we didn't until a minute ago have one article on a palace or a gallery in Slovenia!! Ljubljana looks very much like Vienna, and we both know what that city looks like (in the real world not on wiki!) ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:22, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I rather like the look of Slovenia and Ljubljana -it looks cool I think -very stylish indeed and at present there is crap all about it and there wasn't a single project member. Tomorrow I think I'll create a a city template and red link over twenty articles on various notable buildings and landmarks and topics using the commons.

There we are I created Template:Ljubljana. I'll add the missing ones tomorrow or later perhaps ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:49, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I;ve developed Ljubljana today. Check out St. Nicholas Cathedral, Ljubljana, Sela Castle etc etc in the nav box -even Ljubljana Zoo lol. It makes such a difference when there is plenty of info in english and images!! Also see Mining in Burundi I'm thinking about starting a Mining in Africa series.

Will do, I'll create a foundation template later, mining plays a very important part in the African economy in many countries. I asked somebody to write the Mining in South Africa article when the core articles were highlighted back in late November but incredibly articles like Mining in Sierra Leone are still missing which is a seriously important African economic article diamonds, gold etc.

Evidently we both know the reason behind Mongolia's "unwillingness", if I'm not mistaken some "bird is showing up after hours" correct? This is the same reason why Kyrgzstan and Uzbekistan etc don't have any assessments yet because of somebody's stubborness?

Anyway I'm loving the baroque architectire of Lbjublana. Check my newest Gruber Palace -I'll reference it now ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:16, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well at least we have one Slovenian on the case User:Viator slovenicus ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:04, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

re: List of Avengers members

Thanks for the complement, but the section doesn't seem to have done what I'd hoped. I'd wanted both sides, especially Slam and Spshu, to step back and actually look at what they're doing. But it's seems to have just moved the SOSO from the section above down.

But I'll take a look...

- J Greb (talk) 22:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good article:Ali

Salam, I've nominated this article for GAR. I don't think it's a good article now but it is the only way which I found to improve it. There are 3 citation needed which can be removed easily. Please check the article and write your viewpoint in the talk page.--Seyyed(t-c) 04:50, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your review. I'd like you review the article and consider it as an A-Class Biography review. --Seyyed(t-c) 03:04, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Classroom coordination

That's an interesting idea that you posted at classroom coordination. I'm planning some teacher training workshops soon, some of which will probably involve a project at wikiversity. I'm going to see if there is any interest in a Wikipedia:Meetup/Providence. I noticed you are signed up on wikiproject RI, are you local? --mikeu (talk) 13:00, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Lead Paragraph cleanup#Relevant articles

Can you please take a look there please. Thanks. Sunder land 06 18:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your gracious gift

My dear Mr Carter, one must thank you for the 'barnstar', whatever that may be. Is it similar to something that James Stewart might have worn in Destry Rides Again? I am particularly fond of Mr Stewart, as he was of me, but therein lies another story.... I can assure you that a lady would never be seen wearing such a trinket as a corsage, but one appreciates the gesture.

By the way, you appear to have dropped the 'u' in humour, much as that blasted man Jago has just dropped the silver salver bearing my evening corpse reviver. Your mistake was entirely unintentional, I am sure. Jago, I am not so sure. It is the second time he has done it this evening, and he seems to spend an inordinate amount of time watching my maidservant Henrietta bending over to clear up the mess. I shall have to have words.

Princess Venetia di Cannoli (talk) 18:43, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Slovene mines

Check out the Slovenia project page now. I've created Template:Mining in Africa. Also see Zulu wikipedia. A whopping 139 articles. Even we once started like this lol ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:36, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiMoney

At Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals you added a very interesting comment in regards to a possible WikiMoney revival as a WikiProject. It would be greatly appreciated if you joined. We now have four members and you could be the fifth. --Uga Man (talk) UGA MAN FOR PRESIDENT 2008 04:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Project Banner

I have a question/reply at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Eastern_Orthodoxy#Regarding_project_banner Grk1011 (talk) 16:53, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have a question...

Hey John; I don't know if you remember me, I formed the WikiProject Kabbalah. I have a question about the way I edit. I see that you're an administrator now, but I wanted to know if you knew of an administrator who specializes in editing who could help me out. It could be anybody but if you feel your qualified than I could just ask you. But if you feel you're not could you refer me to one? By the way, I don't want to put myself up for review because that's part of the problem. Anyway, that's it; please let me know on my talk page. Lighthead ^þ 07:09, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Adminship

Current word count 999,817,000 words. Anyway I hope you'll give it some thought as to whether you think I should go for adminship and whether you know why the Mauritania parameter doesn't work in the Africa tempate. Cheerio ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 20:14, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

HI John. See the conversation on User talk:Shshshsh#Adminship and whether you think I should go for adminship. The lack of tools at times really inhibits me ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:58, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

P.S I've managed to get together 11 members for WP:Slovenia now -probably enough to constitue a seperate wiki project ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:59, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have you been to the library and found a gazeteer for UAE or something? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:29, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What? You are in the United Arab Emirates now??? Or did you mean library? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:34, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can only imagine if more people bothered to check these things out how much missing content we'd find. The library in my area has been under renovation since like 2001 lol and is pretty poor anyway. Anyway add whatever you can ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:39, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think SLovenia already has the assessment set up. One thing though -I couldn't get the Mauritania work group to work in the African banner earlier ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:25, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Its just I wish there was some way I could be elected to have more tools which would help me with me work on here. Sometimes the only way I could do it is to be an admin but I am indecisive as I feel I may get tied down with council stuff which is not what I am about ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:53, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I might consider it, but I doubt it although I have obviously done a lot of central work on the film project. I'm not dedicating so much time to films these days anyway like I used to, although this might change once I have made some headway with the africa/undeveloped world countries and cities.

By the way yesterdat I created

Template:HIV/AIDS in Africa

I aim to also create a Poverty series exploring the socio-economic effects of poverty in Africa and perhaps a UN aid series exploring the uNited Nations work in the lesser developed countries. Real world issues and serious ones at that -but don't worry I haven't turned into Bono .... yet . ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC) Oh and I think I am one of many who is having trouble with MC Bride or whatever his name is -he seems to be taking it upon himself to tag everybodys templates and categories for speedy -I had to salvage to of my cinema templates earlier ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

my RFA

Thank you!

Thank you for your support in my RFA. The final vote count was (73/3/1), so I am now an administrator. Please let me know if at any stage you need help, or if you have comments on how I am doing as an admin. Have a nice day! :) Aleta ^Sing 17:14, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merging WikiProjects

John Carter, I am curious to know why several WikiProjects have never been merged. I am referring to Wikipedia:WikiProject United Arab Emirates. You left a message on my talk page in early February here: User talk:Leitmanp#UAE work group. I responded with this message: User talk:John Carter#WikiProjects relating to the UAE. Since you never responded, I assumed you agreed to my proposal of merging Wikipedia:WikiProject Abu Dhabi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharjah, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ajman, Wikipedia:WikiProject Fujairah, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ras al-Khaimah and Wikipedia:WikiProject Umm al-Quwain into WikiProject UAE.

If you disagree to this merger, can you at least make several changes? By going to Talk:Dibba and clicking "[show]," you can see that both WikiProject UAE and WikiProject Fujairah (which has an incorrect flag; how do you change it?) are listed. I think that since Fujairah is a part of the United Arab Emirates, it should not be counted twice. I propose that by listing an article in WikiProject Fujairah, it should automatically fall under WikiProject UAE. In other words, I think each WikiProject should be a sub-project of WikiProject UAE.

Since I am not involved in WikiProjects as much as you are, I am not sure what the traditional actions are taken regarding WikiProject COUNTRY along with WikiProject LOCAL DIVISION. I would be interested do hear your thoughts. Also, If I did not express myself clearly, please ask me to rephrase. Thank you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 03:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for my delayed response. I have thought about this and might have a solution. We can leave both WikiProject Dubai and WikiProject Abu Dhabi alone due to their regional and international importance. The other five emirates (Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain) are not as widely known or influentional as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. Thses five emirates are jointly referred to as the “Northern Emirates.” Therefore, we could merge them into WikiProject Northern Emirates. How does that sound? As for WikiProject United Arab Emirates, it can be used for articles that deal with things that transcend the internal borders of the UAE or national issues. Let me know what you think. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 01:44, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know if you saw the above message, so I am just dropping a line. Let me know what you think about my above proposal. Thank you. Leitmanp (talk | contributions) 04:40, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:Central-America/Class

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:31, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Template:Central America/Task force categories

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:31, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: I have a question...

No I was just wondering if you could refer me to an administrator who specializes in editing; that's it... Lighthead ^þ 06:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I missed this comment, is this still relevant?

Many apologies, I missed the post to my talk page re User:Bishzilla until this morning. Is this still something you need my assistance with?--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 16:58, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mauritania

Oh yes could you correct it -it is Category:WikiProject Mauritania articles not Category:Mauritania articles ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

LOL. Yes I'll give it some thought. If I had to state a specialist area I would use the tools it would probably be new page patrol and speedy deleting spam. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:24, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Might be a good idea to make some flickr agreements to get some images for some of the pacific islands. I don't know if you have seen the solomon islands category but the amount of images we have is apalling. We must have one photo of a place anywhere. The rest are either black and white fuzzy WWII pictures or depictions of warriors from like 1890. Probably the same is for Nauru , Niue and some of the other places we talked about before. The most important thing I could be given is the ability to make a flickr agreement and officially OTRS it for wikipedia. I'm tired of having to wait for weeks on end and Ruiana never doing a thing about it and she is so "stressed" . If I was permitted to do that I could get us several hundred new images for places like this in no time. As it is some of my images ar eunder threat because nobody can be bothered to authorise it. WOuld you be prepared to help me get something done where I can have the ability to make flickr agreements and seal them? I;d probably need to be an admin in the commons which I've hardly done any work in, but something needs to be done ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:24, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've just checked out the admin requests page and I can't believe some of the editors who are up. Some have 5,000 edits or have created a whopping 52 articles and are somehow garnering support. Perhaps its time I was selected . ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:13, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Council roll call

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Re:Re: I have a question...

Yeah, that's what I meant, I realized in what way I was vague way later... sorry. Thanks. Lighthead ^þ 22:46, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually my specific query is that I don't get a response when I edit an article's talk page, for example I feel like I leave good ideas but then no one responds; is it that I don't get enough people together to respond. Like, is there something on Wikipedia, that can help with that? Lighthead ^þ 22:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much, I'll refer myself to your message whenever I have a problem. Again, thanks. Lighthead ^þ 23:02, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council

I have a question (since I saw that you were the only person to remove the asterisk from their name!) about removing that asterisk. I didn't see any place to edit that information. Please help me out. Thanks. Lighthead ^þ 23:52, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I should have figured that out. Oh, and I saw her page...primitive...(LOL!!) Lighthead ^þ 0:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

RThank you for the advice on my proposal to start a group to do with "Religious programmes".I have, as you suggested, added my username, and many apologies that this entry was initially not in the correct place - you can now check it appears where it should do, i.e. to maintain alphabetical order. I had in mind a group to do with religious programmes covering all the world's major faiths, as I hope my recent edit clarifies. Thank you again for the message. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:19, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Have you taken a look at Portal:Scientology/Wikimedia?

The logo's for each image are extremely expanded. I saw that you were the first one to edit it; but it's been messed up since that time. I think you should take a look at it. Lighthead ^þ 0:21, March 25 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm not even part of that project but I was just browsing... Lighthead ^þ 0:32, March 25 2008 (UTC)

Milhist tagging

I've responded with some suggestions here. I'm sorry it took me so long but I've been swamped, both online and in real-life (we have the builders in!!) and I had it in mind that your drive was due to start at the end of this month. What is the best way forward now? I'm reluctant to modify the drive page as it would somewhat take over. What I've done, I hope, is provide the components which some kind soul at Biography can use on the drive page. Suggestions welcomed, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 07:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Banner question

Over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Middle Ages/Crusades task force they may want to convert from task force to project. Can that be done with ease, or will all articles need to be retagged? -- Secisek (talk) 08:03, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Proposals page

Unfortunately, anyone can and often does create projects on their own without even listing them on the proposals page. I know of one, Indianapolis, which was I think created out of spite when I proposed making it a work group of Indiana. Your statements to the effect of "oppose" are ones I'm not sure how to deal with. Personally, I rather like them, as they seem to be causing some people to not create silly projects as quickly, but technically opposition isn't relevant to the proposals. But, like I said, they do seem to be causing at least some people to not create half-baked projects when they might have before. I guess I would have to say, basically, keep it up, although people might at times object to seeing your comments there. Unfortunately, it might be one of the few ways to keep Wikipedia:WikiProject (one-hit wonder) and Wikipedia:WikiProject (TV show cancelled halfway through the first season) from coming into existence. So, basically, if you ever get "called" on your comments, maybe respond politely, but, otherwise, keep it up. It seems to be working, when other methods haven't. John Carter (talk) 00:33, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Unfortunately, it seems as if WikiProjects, like much of Wikipedia is currently out of control. In my opinion, many of the current WikiProjects are poorly managed because they have very small numbers. While editors may be passionate about their topics, they really fail to see the value of collaboration in article improvements. As I mentioned to another editor, I believe that most of the projects proposed are better fits as Task Forces in projects that already exist. To take it one-step further I believe we should look a proposing several existing projects merge into their parent projects as task forces, but I know that is not the role of the Council. I really believe that would help make things better, but…that is just my opinion. On the subject of dissenting voices: I was contacted by two; both who had proposed Projects. One started his project anyway (I didn’t really care enough to start a lame edit war about it). Since there is no real format outlined for comments on the page and Wikipedia:Consensus doesn’t seem to currently be in practice, terms like Oppose, Support and Neutral may be foreign to many. I guess, in truth, the page could probably use some major cleanup and overhaul. Final note: I’ve noticed your edits not just on the Council space, but in other places. Thanks for doing such a good job. We need more Gnomes!!!! -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 14:37, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth, there are going to be quite a few merger proposals made in the next few weeks. Trust me on that. ;) Also, as soon as the new updated directory is done, I think we might try to formally make some sort of statement to the effect that most of the major topics are already covered. That being the case, it would probably make sense to say that most of the proposals should be task forces. I don't know how popular such a statement would be, but it does seem to be one of the few ways to prevent the glut of templates and the like. John Carter (talk) 14:43, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cities

If we could get a list like List of cities, towns and villages in Turkmenistan started for every country this wopuld be the first step toards getting them started. This way I can also dab the places which have the same name ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:48, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested photographs in Guam

I created Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Guam to better aid those in Guam to locate articles needing photos of particular areas within Guam. -- GregManninLB (talk) 18:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Celts

I wonder if we jumped the gun in the creation of this one. I was eager, creating templates, inviting and tagging, and after some early contention, it has fizzled. :( Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 20:54, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Religious programmes as Wiki Project Council(my suggestion)

Thank you for putting your name forth as another interested Wikipedian for my proposal to start a new project group on religious programmes. Twice before I have proposed new project groups, once on gerontology and once on transpersonal studies, but I had no response to these, so thank you for being the very first Wikipedian to take an interest in one of my proposals. A case of "third time lucky" for me, and we could be the two co-founders of this one! I take your point that this could be a sub-project group within the group on religion. I would object to this becoming a sub-project of the Television project group, though, as religious programmes could form part of radio as well as television. Perhaps the title ought to be broadened to "Religious media"? Just let me know what you think.Thank you again for your interest. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Crowley/Krishna debate

Glad to see that we (by which I mean all of the editors involved) are finally beginning to reach a peaceful compromise on the subject, as opposed to the potential edit wars and blocks I had feared. --Shruti14 ^{t c s} 05:53, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Question

Sure - will keep it on my watchlist and start soon. The WP India assessment dept. hasn't found the need for formal A-class reviews (like GA and FA) on its articles as yet, as it's only awarded the grade at its discretion, or has presumed that a formal review at another WP project dept. (like Films or Biography) has dealt with it. Still, in the cases where are any requests for WP India articles (outside of these other projects) that want to be considered for an A grade, I'll definitely let you know. Ncmvocalist (talk) 02:08, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AFD die another day

You seen the afd?? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:47, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Check out the images I uploaded to Taravai, Aukena and Akamaru Island‎ . I founded them lurking on french wikipedia. The color is out of this world isn't it ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:00, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Messianic Judaism

If it is possible please write your opinion on my topic on Messianic Judaism page about Daniel Zion. Thank you. Vladislav1968 (talk) 08:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)Vladislav1968[reply]

Re:Ali

Hi, Thanks. But it's not a good time for it. Please wait until the copy-editing is finished. Can you please write your idea about the article here. I think there are some disagreements between me and reviewer.--Seyyed(t-c) 17:56, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Much thanks!

Thank you for your vote of confidence! I appreciate the support. :) —Erik (talk • contrib) - 20:36, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A question

Dearest John!

How can I read this article about Messianic Judaism in English?

http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%94%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%97%D7%99%D7%AA

Vladislav1968 (talk) 21:39, 30 March 2008 (UTC)Vladislav1968[reply]

Another Rollback

Hi John, as discussed I would like to have rollback permission - if you would do the honours? docboat (talk) 00:03, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stuff

Sorry to hear you are tied down with that. I was slightly concerned I had offended you with my purported lack of interest in the film coordinator roles which isn't true. I genunely think it is a great idea for project coordination as long as responsibility is shared and not a form of hierarchy which I disapprove of. I have just been busy with articles to look too much into it, I'll have a good look into it tomorrow. Times can be difficult on here, I can't believe Sarvagnya went and commented on the die another day lfd (with a strong delete of course like he did with the zinta nomination-an obvious reason as to why. That editor never ceases to amaze me. Trying to remain patient and "civil" with that particularly editor is one of the hardest tests on wikipedia. Anyway off to bed now. Buenos Noches ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

SLovenia

Hi there I recently created some articles on some towns and villages in SLovenia and am currently adding the maps and some details. I uploaded some images on Gažon from slovene wiki but their license OVL -I have no idea what this is. It clearly is free to use but would you be able to shed any light on it? I'm not certain it is GFDL ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:51, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

here. I;ve just looked at the category there and it looks like non free fair use BUT there is nothing to indicate that it is copywrighted no copysign or nothing. I doubt they would create a template like that. Perhaps its released into the public domain or something -but I saw a Bealtes logo in their category so am unsure. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The difference is the beatles image has a copy logo on a different tag but images like this are marked as creative commons on the other tag to to me it looks like we can use them ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 22:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

These images are lacking description, license or source. They're mostly not free so don't upload them to the English Wikipedia without providing additional information to verify that. --Eleassar ^{my talk} 08:10, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see. John any idea what the minimum requirment for a fully fledged project is? WP:Slovenia now has 15 members and loooks like it will continue to grow. Given that projects like Wikipedia:WikiProject Montenegro have roughly the same sort of membership I think it should be moved out of the task force ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:38, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well it wasn't so much about a seperate banner -it was more the "taskforce" categories and general setup. I think it should be moved to WikiProject Slovenia . I'll leave a notice at the WP:Europe page and see what they have to say ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:02, 2 April 2008 (UTC) What I always found astonishing was that there doesn't seem to be a WP:Hungary project or even a taskforce. Any idea why this is? I would have thought there would be enough editors interested ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC) Uh well yes!!! I last looked about 6 weeks ago and there was nothing. I see it was only created about 4 weeks ago- for such a large country I found that rather peculiar it took so long to start. I mentioned it at least a year ago when I did some work on Hungarian villages and regions but it didn't exist!! Cool. Glad to see it has finally begun. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Directory

Hi, I have noticed your modification of the WikiProject directory. I think it is counter-constructive as it makes it longer to load (44,362 more bytes!) and the fact that there are more sections makes it seem disorganized. A lot of subsections are not even needed as they only contain one WikiProject. Can you consider self-reverting and probably discuss in the talkpage before making such major modification? Thank you.--Jerrch 19:40, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really mind, it's just that the sudden increase of 44,362 seemed too urgent. I thought the new version was disorganized, but I guess I could accept your explanation. After all, I think some minor edits could make it more organized.--Jerrch 20:30, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chronological order and proposals

Since you appear to be the head administrator of project proposals May i put the proposals in Chronological order. Iwilleditu ^Talk :)^{Contributions} 21:44, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bryant

When I posted the alarms about the Arthur Bryant article, I hardly dared hope that help would come as energetically and quickly. Thank you so far, and (time and energy permitting) do keep on going. (Please don't bother to respond, other perhaps than on the article's talk page.) -- Hoary (talk) 01:09, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Little context in Category:Adelie Land

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Warriors portal

You appear to be a person who knows what is/isn't appropriate with portals so I wanted to hear your opinion on Portal:Warriors. Based on Category:WikiProject Warriors articles, there are just under 30 articles that would fit within this portal. 3 are self-assessed as B-class, 1 is start-class, and 16 others are stub class. Do you think this would be an appropriate portal topic? It feels pretty narrow in focus and doesn't have a lot of quality to present. It was only started a few hours ago, but I was wondering what your thought on it would be before they get too carried away with designing this if it probably wouldn't stand for too long. Metros (talk) 02:44, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXV (March 2008)

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The Amazing Race task force

Thanks for all your work! ♥Shapiros10 Wuz Here♥ 11:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Caution

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Messianic Judaism. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. Tb (talk) 20:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So noted. Please note I requested clarification on the talk page, and indicated as much in the summary. Perhaps you could pay a bit closer attention to what is being discussed before issuing such warnings in the future. John Carter (talk) 20:51, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All I note is that you and two others have each made three or four reverts in a day on the same page. Requesting clarification is good, but the idea is to stop the reverts while the discussion continues. Most important is that this is done whether the other guy stops or not. Tb (talk) 20:54, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And I apologize, for counting your edits incorrectly. Amidst such a flurry in the history, my eyes played tricks on me. I'm sorry. Tb (talk) 20:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To date, I have reverted one truly bizarre addition to the intro, reverted it again, and reverted my own unfortunate removal of previously restored content. That makes two reverts, with a request for clarification made on the talk page. Personally, the quote added, as indicated on the talk page, seems to me to be, as phrased, completely unreliable. I have no intention of further edits, but am very curious how American Jews apparently integrate in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shinto better than they do Christianity, which is what that source seems to state. And no apologies necessary, under the circumstances. Sorry for being a bit abrupt there myself. :) John Carter (talk) 20:59, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Africa

See this Now what percentage do you think are covered? ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:51, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I know. I'm still looking for a plain list where I can start the articles in bot mode. I;m sure it could be done fairly easily but as it is I can't find a list, why on earth Maplandia haven't got an index I don't know . The problem with the falling rain gazetteer is that they list duplicate and even quadruple names for places in the A-Z so some towns may be listed at least four times. I spent a while trying to filter through User:Blofeld of SPECTRE/Missing Settlements/Tajikistan earlier. I to be honest hate compiling lists like that. If somebody presented me with a list of 30,000 red links in a list however I would start to tackle it! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:34, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've found out that they do list them but only in about 15-20 at a time in a given district. This is useful in that I can copy the list in stages and add them at about a rate of 1 a minute using maplandia purely. As they are in the same districts, all I have to do is change the name in the external link, retrieve the coordinates and save article. Tajikistan now has nearly 100 articles, this morning it has less than 15 . This is the most methodical and quickest manual way of doing it ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 16:28, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We now have 161! ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 21:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Messianic Judaism

LisaLiel (Talk | contribs) (91,361 bytes) (Moved fringe view by Cohn-Sherbok to Jewish objections section. Putting it in the header is highly POV.)

We had consensus before. Lisa is Orthodox Jewish (according info on her page) and haven't neutral position. It is Wikipedia but not Orthodox book.

PLEASE HELP PROTECT AN ARTICLE!Vladislav1968 (talk) 18:58, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

HEY

Hey, as you are a member of the Michael Jackson wikiproject I have some very important news for you. I will be nominating the Michael Jackson article for FA shortly and the Thriller album article is currently on the nomination list for GA. We need your help with both articles....

The Michael Jackson artice is currently on a peer review (which you can see on the articles talk page). It also really needs its references formatted correctly.

The Thriller album is going to be reviewed in the next couple of DAYS its sources need formatting.

These are the most important articles on michael jackson here at wiki, 2008 has been an excellent year for michael jackson, lets make it a good year for him here at wikipedia too. If these articles get a GA or FA statues it could make news outside of the wiki world. What a great way to celebrate the 25th year of MJ being the KING OF POP.

Please help with the sources of both these articles and in any other way you can. If you know any other people at wiki that might want to get involved let them know.Realist2 (talk) 22:33, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ali:Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Collaboration

Hi, one of the wikipedians has chosen this article as Current collaboration, I hope you can help us more with it.--Seyyed(t-c) 02:11, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

race egyptians

hi john carter i would like to report clear eveident trolling comments on the race and ancient egyptians disscusion page thank you if you could check it out--Wikiscribe (talk) 16:03, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

okay thank you--Wikiscribe (talk) 02:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Novels WikiProject banners in the Shannara articles

Please don't forget to add importance tags!!! (See Talk: Border Legion (Shannara), Talk: Shannara.) Thanks! the_ed 17 20:36, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, thanks--I'll try to put some of the importance tags in myself though. =D the_ed 17 01:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vera Caspary

Thank you for the article to B-Class, it was most kind of you. But you have left me confused with your commentary on the article's leadin. I have looked at many many other articles and leads are hardly ever more than 1 or 2 sentences; including the one for Claire Clairmont which is shorter then my own. What do you feel I should include, or perhaps you can refer me to an example that you think I should emulate? Thanks. EraserGirl (talk) 17:55, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Quillen

Thanks for pushing Robert Quillen out of stub class. For what it's worth, I've now added section headings. Thanks again,John Foxe (talk) 18:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

disruptive editor

hello john ,there seems to be a problem on the kiss song article I Was Made for Lovin' You a particular editor zakkmann has been removeing the disco tag from the genre for this song for a while now it is sourced within the article its self as a disco song and has been disscused in the talk page about the genre of the song if you could check out the situation for me and let me know am i wrong or right i have changed the article back a few times over the last few weeks but he keeps doing it and i dont want to get into an edit war if you could check it out thank you--Wikiscribe (talk) 18:18, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

sorry to bother you again but he just reverted your revert,it has already been explained to him the disco genre is for the song and is not calling the band disco its self but just that song--Wikiscribe (talk) 18:32, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Screenwriters

I can't really call it a project, I haven't been able to drum enough interest to even call it a task force. I would like to create lists of screenwriters and have been looking for opinions other than my own regarding list sorting. Do you have an opinion for or against the creation of lists of screenwriters by decade for television and film? There may be some bleed over from decade to decade of individual writers, but rarely would they be active for more than 2 or 3 decades, William Goldman is the rarity, not the rule. I haven't had much luck creating pages, nearly every one gets challenged, I think they get points to delete things the moment after creation. I can do some intense population of the lists before creation, but it would be easier to get them up and then increase population afterwards. Does this sound reasonable to you? EraserGirl (talk) 15:06, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Christianity Newsletter

- Tinucherian (talk) 10:28, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TfD nomination of Template:Lists of Slovenians

Template:Lists of Slovenians has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 14:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Any ideas on what I should do. I'm afraid just as things were going well and I was making good progress I run into these people ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:07, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Man for an editor who is trying to develop wikipedia on here I sure get some trouble for my efforts don't I. I acknowledged as I was adding some of the more obscure lists such as "bassoons" it would be best to merge them into a musicians list which I have now done. The topics now in the template are notable branches of the encyclopedia. I don't know why none of the editors while agree with me to moving the lists to the project space as project work pages if they fear red links. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Patriot Guard under Wikiproject Christianity?

Why is the Patriot Guard page under the purview of WikiProject Christianity? As I understand it, it's an inclusive organization that welcomes everyone, regardless of age, gender, national origin, vet status, and religion.
I asked that question on the Patriot Guard Talk page last week, and early this morning (after almost a week had gone by without further comment) I decided to be bold and removed the WikiProject Christianity banner. Since you were the one who put it up there in the first place, and as per a suggestion from Vidkun, I thought I'd ask you directly on your Talk page. —Micahbrwn (talk) 20:46, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:AfricaProject

Hi. I was wondering if you could tweak Template:AfricaProject so that the "importance" parameter is overriden when "class=Template" or "class=Portal", similar to how it currently works for "class=Category" (see e.g. Category talk:1980s in Angola). Thanks, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 02:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rhodesian Bush War to Second Chimurenga name change?

There's currently some discussion going on the talk page Talk:Rhodesian Bush War. One user has proposed changing the name of the article Rhodesian Bush War to second Chimurenga. There appears to be some support and some opposition. Sf46 (talk) 11:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Peace Love and Happiness to You!

Ok, so are you having a totally groovy day? I hope you are. Have a wonderful wonderful life! Because its like my goal to be friends with everyone in wikipedia. Will you be my totally awesome groovy wiki-friend?

216.229.227.142 (talk) 15:35, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Burkina

Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso/Provincial templates scared? Ideally templates like these shuold be created for all of the african countries on the provinces and communes and to add the settlements in them like I've done to the first one. This is the best way we can get africa onto wikipedia geographically in an organized way. What do yuo think -I haven't completed them yet many are still ghost templates but its a good foundation I think ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 17:52, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mmm well most of the provinces have around 5-7 departments so it shouldn't be too bloated. If it gets too big then they can be shrunk. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See also Slovenia/Municipal templates ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:38, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vaisnava-Sahajiya and Vaishnavism

Please note the discussion on Vaisnava-Sahajiya and Vaishnavism, per Sri Ramananda Raya article. The discussion is located at, Vaisnava-Sahajiya and Vaishnavism. Any thoughts you have would be appreciated. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 21:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Novels WikiProject Newsletter

(Wassupwestcoast suggested that I turn to you, I hope you don't mind.) Since Kevin has taken a hiatus and his bot is usually the one to send notices for The Novels WikiProject Newsletter out, could you suggest another course of action? Do you know of another user with a bot that can send it out to the 300+ members? Since it's nearly mid-April, I thought we should try to get something out, especially if we want to remind people that we've got a few things that are changing and/or updating. María (habla conmigo) 17:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Eek, I wouldn't want you to "hand deliver" 300+ newsletters! Talk about tedious. I split it with you, or maybe we can post something to the general forum and get a small group of volunteers together and divide the task alphabetically? María (habla conmigo) 17:31, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Novels Newsletter

Thanks for the newsletter, John. Lighthead ^þ 22:37, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you! :) Hopefully the bot will behave next time, but I appreciate your hard work. María (habla conmigo) 00:11, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to Indian Christianity Wikiproject/workgroup

Upon discussion and consensus ( see here) , The following changes and decisions were taken w.r.t to Indian Christianity workgroup :-

The scope of workgroup will be limited to Indian region only for now.
The workgroup will be renamed to Christianity in India instead of Indian Christianity.
The changes will effect the project pages, Portal and the templates.
The templetes will be replaced by a Indian map instead of Tricolor flag picture.

This is FYI - Tinucherian (talk) 04:47, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Don't Forget the Sex Work Task Force!

Hey, haven't seen you around in awhile! Please head to the discussion board on our project for a bunch of posts. Also can we make a user box that people can post on their pages? Let's talk about the symbols we want for it. Love to hear your input and see your work!--NoMonaLisa (talk) 05:24, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Antisemitism project

Thank you for the organizational advice. However, although I would like to see a Project Antisemitism and would be interested in participating, I would be among the worst editors to lead the effort to organize it because:

1. I do not have enough time, and

2. I was already bounced out of Wikipedia (by a member of the Arbitration Committee) over an argument involving antisemitism while editing the Alice Bailey article. Someone more wiki-respectable, would be needed. Malcolm Schosha (talk) 11:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template:TelevisionWikiProject

Hey John, I had to revert your changes on the 2nd to Template:TelevisionWikiProject. Something in the code caused it to break horrible if infobox=yes was checked. I can't decipher the new code enough to figure out what it was. Can you take a look and see if you can get that fixed so we can get the taskforce stuff back? Collectonian (talk) 13:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. Bigglesworth

I see that Mr. Bigglesworth has obtained his new account. There is also a User:Sceptre -pretty suspicious isn't it. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Didn't you create task forces for Madeira and Azores? I thought I recalled you created these ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:08, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would you consider setting up a Portuguese islands task force to include Madeira and Azores? The problem is Madeira is closely tied to Portugal, much more so than Africa ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And the Azores? They have a population of 245 million. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:27, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah 244,000 is more like it I thought it seemed a lot!! The mind boggles as to how much could be covered. I;ve just been starting rather meagre stubs like Baía de Angra do Heroísmo and that red links template but on Portuguese wikipedia most of those links are B-class articles. Theres like a truckload of amazing articles like this missing. There could easily be a seperate wikiproject for the azores -its such a shame there is so few english speaking people who would be likely to work on these places. I'm in regular contact with several Portuguese editors such as Husond who I could suggest it to. I'll leave a request atWP:Portugal for Wikipedia:WikiProject Portugual/Azores. There appears to be a fantastic amount available pictures wise for the azores. It looks great but we need to translate the portuguese!! As for Africa I kindly asked an editor to start Mining in Nigeria earlier. He has also created pages on many of the african politicians which could be started soon enough. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:41, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Template?

Your opinion, please? Nyttend (talk) 14:36, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RFA thanks

Thanks for your support in my RFA, that didn't quite make it and ended at 120/47/13. There was a ton of great advice there, that I'm going to go on. Maybe someday. If not, there are articles to write! Thanks for your support. Lawrence § t/e 17:53, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for an outsider opinion

As part of the discussion on Krishna page edit we are trying to arrive at NPOV where one party keeps adding unnecessary references to the supremacy of Vishnu in the page of Krishna. I would appreciate if you had a look at it in the light of this false allegation [1] and to consider if the proposed compromise for the second paragraph is acceptable. One one side we are trying to follow WP:COOL and on the other side some users try to land some personal accusations, which are are going too far. Thanks for you support and experience on board. --Wikidās ॐ 12:48, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hey!

Hello John! Long time.. Thank you so much John for your willingness to extend a helping hand, even after helping so much in the past. Yeh I'll nominate it once the article is out of WP:PR. User:SandyGeorgia gave me only two samples of sentence which can be tightened. One I agree with, but the other sounds a bit odd. Her dussestion is:

(on the article now) The column turned out to be a success, and became one of the site's top 10 most widely read stories on the day.
- (her suggestion) The column was a success, become one of the site's top 10 in readership.

How does it sound according to you? Regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And does it sound better than the original sentence? Shahid • ^Talk2me 17:24, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Terrorism Newsletter

The Terrorism WikiProject
April 2008 Newsletter

News

1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was made a Featured Article
Omar Khadr has an ongoing peer review as it begins the slow crawl towards Featured Article status

Trials have begun this month in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, Benbrika affair and 2006 Toronto terrorism case, each article could use a good vetting, and the articles on specific alleged terrorists are desperately in need of some clean-up.
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein had his case overturned by the Iraqi courts and was ordered released, although the US military says they will not release him.
China announced that they had disrupted a plot targeting the 2008 Summer Olympics, while detractors claim it was fabricated.
The bail hearing for Abdullah Khadr, fighting extradition to the United States, is scheduled for April 29
Former Turkish Member of Parliament Leyla Zana is sentenced to two years imprisonment for praising Abdullah Öcalan.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Guantanamo detainees missing from the official list needs votes on whether or not it should be kept on Wikipedia.

Archives • Discussion

Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 05:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

New edit on Krishna page

Dear John Carter, Hey, I think that the new edits to the Krishna page are really good and unbias. I think it is great and actually better than before. Thank you for what you did. . And, I agree with what you said about the conflict of interest post.NamaskarGovinda Ramanuja dasa USA (talk) 17:05, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Media franchises participation

John...Just so that you don't think that I am completely gone from it, I am working on something in my user space for the project, a list of media franchises based on my favorites which can be added to later after I transfer my work to the project, if it is wanted. - LA @ 23:00, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PS. If you see anything that I missed, feel free to add to it. It is fairly long and full of holes at the moment. - LA @ 23:02, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you see favorites of yours on that list which is incomplete, would you please help me complete them? - LA @ 23:49, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

About what the wikipedian saw

Sorry about the trouble. The page was actually meant to be on the department of fun group but I didn't have time to add it's link. It was not meant to offend anyone. I apologise for this taking your time. Please send me a message on your view via my talk page. This same message will be sent to the other nominators. I am sorry about all this. If this causes too much trouble I will delete the page myself. Sorry about not adding the link so you could find this message quickly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkside2000 (talk • contribs) 17:38, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

article length

hey john i was wondering are there exact guide lines for length of edits of article sections and if so could you point me in the right direction to find out about these guild lines thank you--Wikiscribe (talk) 18:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

yeah edits done on the Race of ancient Egyptians article made by big dynamo seem to be to long and is drowning out the rest of the articles sections,i had left him a message if he could keeps his edits more short and to the point which how the article has been being edited in the past im not complainig about content just the length of the edits--Wikiscribe (talk) 18:43, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

okay i will just revert all bigdynamo edits and site on the talk page most of them are irelevent and dubious and edits and are to long winded also--Wikiscribe (talk) 19:06, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

a user had reverted your revert i reverted it back but this seems to be going no where, bigdynamo is left me a message people are trying to hide facts etc claiming the page is biased, maybe the page should just be protected because it seems they dont want to compromise--Wikiscribe (talk) 14:42, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

john i made some argumenst on the talk page please come check them out you being an administrator and all i have also made some suggestions to thank you--Wikiscribe (talk) 16:49, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think the issue here is whether the article as titled really addresses the topic. If the intent is to discuss the debate, then it should say that. Otherwise, the article really has no purpose other than to rehash a debate and I don't see where it really provides any value. The point of saying don't waste my time is that it takes time to research and reference the appropriate facts and if facts and evidence are not what is "desired" in this article, then what is the point? Sure, some sentences may be over winded, I agree, but you removed everything, which makes it seem less about specific details than a specific agenda. Big-dynamo (talk) 18:29, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for courtesy

Though I'm sure we'll have plenty of disagreement in the future, I would like to thank you for trying to work with me in a civil manner to resolve issues. KV(Talk) 19:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rollbacks

Hi John, I'm writing to request rollback rights per seeing your name in this category. I'll be straight with you, i've only 550 odd mainspace edits so far and have only recently started using VandalFighter to start removing vandalism from Wikipedia but i'd be grateful for the rollback ability to make this even easier. I'd quite understand if you were to deny this request. Regards, CycloneNimrod (talk) 23:14, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's quite understandable, thanks for your help, i'll get round to using Twinkle now.. CycloneNimrod (talk) 21:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AGF Challenge

The best answers yet! -- Dlabtot (talk) 01:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Miguel Barnet, gay?

Any chance of getting a reference on this: Miguel Barnet? The article makes no mention of it, and although I can find a lot of LGBT lit referencing him as a source, I can't find anything that actually outs him. Zelmerszoetrop (talk) 03:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

werdnabot

Werdnabot appears to be archiving to your old username still. Is this intentional? (Obviously it doesn't matter, as long as you're aware of it.)

Cheers! - Revolving Bugbear 21:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Want to close this MfD?

Hey John, I was about to close Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:GTA_Ganxtaize/Blog, when I noticed that I asked a question and probably ought to pass off on it even though I didn't take a position still don't have one. Any interest in closing it out? --Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 00:28, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, could you take a look at my question at the bottom of WT:MFD regarding finding a bot? Thanks.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 00:30, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Moved pages

Well, I was trying to take your advice, I hadn't dealt with such subpages before. As an admin, could you delete the original userified pages and move them back there? KV(Talk) 03:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]