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Romania Help

Hi - I'm working on a split of Category:Communes and villages in Romania because someone made a lot of stubs. I based some edits on previously created categories for communes, but I am not so sure that make sense now that I've looked at it more deeply. Do you think it would be better to make categories for communes, for localities, or for communes and villages? There are all three types in the category. Whatever is best, it should be done in a uniform way. I know I made a lot of edits already, but if you (and Romania wikiproject) think something else is best, don't worry -- I'm willing to change it all back. Looking forward to your opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aelfthrytha (talk • contribs) 01:25, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter January 2008

WikiProject Food and Drink Newsletter January 2008
--Chef Christopher Allen Tanner, CCC (talk) 05:36, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

RE: Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject European history

Welcome, sorry for the delay in getting a message out. The project is slowly reorganizing. The Project page is a bit out of date and needs updating badly. Please check the talk page for more current information and please Tag, Tag, Tag, the talk pages of any article in this topic so we can start trying to coordinate work on articles and give us some suggestions on the talk page for how we can get this Project moving again. Currently there are hundreds of related articles that are not tagged yet. Thanks and again, welcome!--Doug.(talk • contribs) 03:27, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. I will tag any untagged articles I come across. --Merovingian (T, C) 13:26, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

M-1 Carbine Revert War

The M1 carbine article is currently on lock down. An administrator has requested some discussion from memeber of the Firearms Wikiproject. Can you take a look? Sf46 (talk) 19:07, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue XXII (December 2007)
Project news
Articles of note

New featured articles:

  1. Battle of Albuera
  2. Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
  3. Battle of the Gebora
  4. Constantine II of Scotland
  5. Francis Harvey
  6. Vasa (ship)
  7. Wulfhere of Mercia

New A-Class articles:

  1. 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing
  2. Evacuation of East Prussia
Current proposals and discussions
Awards and honors
  • Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles.
  • Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic.
  • For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.
Tag & Assess 2007

Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows:

1. Bedford — 7,600
2. TomStar81 — 5,500
3. Parsival74 — 5,200
4. FayssalF — 3,500
5. Roger Davies — 3,000
6. Ouro — 2600
7. Kateshortforbob — 2250
8. Cromdog — 2,200
9. BrokenSphere — 2000
9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000
9. Maralia — 2,000
12. MBK004 — 1,340
13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250
14. Sniperz11 — 1100
15. Burzmali — 1000
15. Cplakidas — 1000
15. Gimme danger — 1000
15. Raoulduke471000
15. TicketMan — 1000
15. Welsh — 1000
15. Blnguyen — 1000

Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes.

We'd like to see what lessons can be learned from this drive, so we've set up a feedback workshop. Comments and feedback from participants and non-participants alike are very welcome and appreciated.

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Note: This newsletter was automatically delivered. Regards from the automated, Anibot (talk) 23:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:EH

While I was on an informal wikibreak several new members joined European History, but no changes really since we last talked so things are still badly in need of work. I've added some things to our strategy discussion, changed the "collaboration of the month" unilaterally, and generally tried to clean up a bit, but I could really use some thoughts.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:47, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely. I'm on vacation right now so I will be a little slow for the next couple of days, but I will check it out.
Cheers - Revolving Bugbear 21:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I've left an advertising proposal on the project talk page. linkage. - Revolving Bugbear 22:03, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey what was this about?

I wasn't logged in, and I made this edit [1] which you reverted before I could even fix a redlink in it. What was that for? I don't really care as I was still there and I wanted to sign anyway but it seemed like an odd reversion without any edit comment. Please respond on my talk page (unified discussion if you don't mind to much, i.e. cut and paste this there). Thanks.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 15:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

sorry, thought you were a vandal--Heliac (talk) 15:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello. You may have seen that some Wikipedia articles lack sources to given dates, timelines and chronologies.
If you feel that you could like to help in making all articles more reliable and well sourced in this regard, we would like to encourage you to use, as part of your daily editing and when {{fact}} is not enough for requesting clearly and specifically a citation or source for dates, timeline or chronology, the following inline tag:

{{Timefact}} displays {chronology source needed} for requesting timelines, dates and chronology sources. Click here for more information


At WP Timeline Tracer, we thank you for using these tools and for helping to make Wikipedia articles more accurate and reliable.

Daoken 11:03, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Some-bot-y loves you

User:SineBot must think you're hot [2]. You might want to add Category:Wikipedians who have opted out of automatic signing to your userpage to prevent this in the future. Good luck! --12 Noon 2¢ 22:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Transylvania Portal

I added one current event, from where more can be found at a Romanian newspaper called Romania Libera. This is the link: [3]. The story is not the one I added on the portal. I left a similar message on the Portal's talk page. Basketballoneten 15:48, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

LeeRamsey (talk) 04:03, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:MEDCAB case

Are you working Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-01-18 Political positions of John Edwards? I notice you marked up the case page but the case still shows as "needing a mediator" rather than "open". If you are working this case, would you mind if I joined along with you, I've participated in several WP:DR matters before but never a WP:MEDCAB matter and I'm trying to do more work to help people resolve their differences and focus on building the encyclopedia. (If you respond on my talk page, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd move the whole discussion as I prefer unified discussions). TIA. --Doug.(talk • contribs) 04:38, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

No, I am not handling it. Didn't seem like the parties got the idea of mediation (I interpreted that they wanted to change policy on how 'pedia handles political candidates). Also, I'm a huge Hillary Clinton fan and a life-long Conservative (go figure) so that has COI written all over it. I'll help out (fact checking, sourcing, etc) if you want to co-mediate it, but I'd rather not take the lead. MBisanz talk 04:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
OK, let's do it. I can't stand Hillary, BTW, but I'm a New England "Liberal Republican" so I've got no horse in this race. You'll have to give me some idea though how this all works. I know the suggestions say to just start talking on the talk page for the article. Additionally, I'd appreciate it if you'd keep an eye on me and don't be afraid to whack me, if I do anything silly.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 05:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
I've opened the case, listed us both as mediators and posted a comment on the article talk page. Based on the discussion on the case page it doesn't look like there is much likelihood of them coming together to work on what we're all here for, but we'll give it a try.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 06:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Well a user declined and its a voluntary process, so I closed the case. Downt he road, once the issue gets more defined they may be back. Good job commenting in the case though. MBisanz talk 07:32, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank You

I'd just like to express my gratitude for your sending me the Wikipedia:Law template, and for not only telling me how to use italics on Wikipedia, but actually editing my user page and placing the italics where needed. Stuff like that means a lot to a user who hasn't even been on a full two days yet. Consider this your 'barnstar substitute'. :-}LeeRamsey (talk) 05:09, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiAdoption

I'd be thrilled if you adopted me (in the Wikiverse, that is). If all else fails, as a member of Wikiprojects Law, Mammals, and Firearms, you'd probably know whether or not it's legal to shoot animals tresspassing onto private property...which is debated more often than I'd care to admit at family gatherings. (In my defense, I return them to their owner when feasible.)LeeRamsey (talk) 04:07, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

All right, cool. I'm now adopted.LeeRamsey (talk) 05:57, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I now have the 'This is a user page, not an enclopedia page' warning at the top of the page, and have installed a sandbox. Now all I have to do is keep the neighborhood cats/WikiTrolls out of it.LeeRamsey (talk) 02:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Nancy Reagan MedCab request

Thanks for watching this. I do intend to complete this request but haven't the time. I will complete this request tomorrow evening. Thanks again and have a great day. 207.237.228.83 (talk) 05:44, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Have begun cabal request but got pulled into conference call that ran very late. Will complete in the next few days. Thanks again for your patience. 207.237.228.83 (talk) 07:28, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Doug, there seems to be a good volume of detail in my challenges to the NPOV of the Nancy Reagan article with many references, including detailed conversations found on all involved party's talk pages, other user's talk pages, the Nancy Reagan discussion page, the promotion process of the article to FA status, and on the discussion pages of related articles...exactly how much detail am I to use when filling out this form? Should I provide links to examples of the problems I have found, or do you want just a brief summary that will be questioned later? Please advise. Thanks so much. 207.237.228.83 (talk) 07:49, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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