User talk:Matthewedwards/Archives/2014/12

This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Nominations for the Military history Wikiproject's Historian and Newcomer of the Year Awards are now open!

The Military history Wikiproject has opened nominations for the Military historian of the year and Military history newcomer of the year. Nominations will be accepted until 13 December at 23:59 GMT, with voting to begin at 0:00 GMT 14 December. The voting will conclude on 21 December. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:36, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2015 is just around the corner...

Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.

• We would like to announce that Josh (J Milburn) and Ed (The ed17), who have been WikiCup judges since 2009 and 2010 respectively, are stepping down. This decision has been made for a number of reasons, but the main one is time. Both Josh and Ed have found that, over the previous year, they have been unable to devote the time necessary to the WikiCup, and it is not likely that they will be able to do this in the near future. Furthermore, new people at the helm can only help to invigorate the WikiCup and keep it dynamic. Josh and Ed will still be around, and will likely be participating in the Cup this following year as competitors, which is where both started out.
• In a similar vein, we hope you will all join us in welcoming Jason (Sturmvogel 66) and Christine (Figureskatingfan), who are joining Brian (Miyagawa) to form the 2015 WikiCup judging team. Jason is a WikiCup veteran, having won in 2010 and finishing in fifth this year. Christine has participated in two WikiCups, reaching the semi-finals in both, and is responsible for the GA Cup, which she now co-runs.
• The discussions/polls concerning the next competition's rules will be closed soon, and rules changes will be made clear on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring and talk pages. While it may be impossible to please everyone, the judges will make every effort to ensure that the new rules are both fair and in the best interests of the competition, which is, first and foremost, about improving Wikipedia.

If you have any questions or concerns, the judges can be reached on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, on their talk pages, or by email. We hope you will all join us in trying to make the 2015 WikiCup the most productive and enjoyable yet. You are receiving this message because you are listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk), The ed17 (talk), Miyagawa (talk), Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Figureskatingfan (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

L.A. edit-a-thon this Sunday, December 14

L.A. meetup: December 14 edit-a-thon at the California African American Museum

Dear fellow Wikipedian, East of Borneo's "Unforgetting L.A." edit-a-thon series continues this weekend at the California African American Museum! Please join us this Sunday, December 14 from 11am to 4pm. Beginners welcome! You'll learn to create new articles that improve Wikipedia's coverage of African American art in Los Angeles, past and present. Please click here for full event details and to RSVP if you plan to attend. I hope to see you there! Calliopejen1 (talk) - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:25, 10 December 2014 (UTC) Join our Facebook group here! To opt out of future mailings about LA meetups, please remove your name from this list.

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
5		Evan 'Jonesy' Jones (talk)						Add sources
12		Ellen (season 4) (talk)						Add sources
964		Winx Club (talk)						Add sources
5		Mark Jacobs (Blue Heelers) (talk)						Add sources
4		McLeod's Daughters: Songs from the Series Volume 2 (talk)						Add sources
112		Rachael Carpani (talk)						Add sources
44		Bonnie Greer (talk)						Cleanup
18		Hawaii Five-O (season 3) (talk)						Cleanup
63		Danny Cannon (talk)						Cleanup
81		Mason City, Iowa (talk)						Expand
2,345		North Carolina (talk)						Expand
7		Inge King (talk)						Expand
11		The Mary Tyler Moore Show (season 7) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
78		Saturday Night Live (season 2) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1,218		House of Borgia (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
24		Unusual Suspects (TV series) (talk)						Merge
18		Revelations (Stargate SG-1) (talk)						Merge
51		Flag field (talk)						Merge
67		Move (Little Mix song) (talk)						Wikify
95		That '70s Show (season 3) (talk)						Wikify
105		That '70s Show (season 5) (talk)						Wikify
4		Lud, Zbunjen, Normalan (season 1) (talk)						Orphan
3		Airport-to-Airport Mutual Aid (talk)						Orphan
3		Alphonse Rebière (talk)						Orphan
13		Village United F.C. (talk)						Stub
7		Nanda Kyaw (talk)						Stub
7		Standup in Stilettos (talk)						Stub
5		The Larry Sanders Show (season 2) (talk)						Stub
6		Jo Parrish (talk)						Stub
20		Plastic Memories (talk)						Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 15:59, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for:

• Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
• Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
• Pelican Books - ebook monographs
• Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:25, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

This message was delivered via the Mass Message tool to the Book & Bytes recipient list.

Editing several articles at once because of a template

How can I edit parameters of a template that are containe in several articles. For example, if I edited an infobox by changing a parameter, how can I easly replace this parameter in all articles that are using this infobox? --46.35.133.141 (talk) 13:58, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue CV, December 2014

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new Featured and A-Class content Book reviews: Hawkeye7 on armoured reconnaissance and German scientists, Nick-D on time travelling historians Op-ed: TomStar81 looks at the World War I Christmas truce Timeline: This month in World War I

The Bugle is published by the Military history WikiProject. To receive it on your talk page, please join the project or sign up here.
If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 12:51, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

The Center Line: Fourth Quarter 2014

—MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of Imzadi1979 (talk · contribs) 10:38, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot

Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation and please get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.

Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
2		Always Greener (season 1) (talk)						Add sources
10		Casualty (series 8) (talk)						Add sources
6		Teresa 'Tess' Gallagher (talk)						Add sources
6		Nick Schultz (Blue Heelers) (talk)						Add sources
2,771		Bob's Burgers (talk)						Add sources
19		Rib Hillis (talk)						Add sources
23		Hawaii Five-O (season 1) (talk)						Cleanup
20		London Underground in popular culture (talk)						Cleanup
1,033		The White Queen (TV series) (talk)						Cleanup
20		Threads (Stargate SG-1) (talk)						Expand
17		All Saints (season 2) (talk)						Expand
15		Tamara Johansen (talk)						Expand
289		Peter Gunn (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
38		Overacting (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
76		Floating timeline (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
15		Hayes Line (talk)						Merge
23		Electrical CAD (talk)						Merge
66		Shirley Bellinger (talk)						Merge
75		The Word (TV series) (talk)						Wikify
104		That '70s Show (season 1) (talk)						Wikify
100		That '70s Show (season 7) (talk)						Wikify
4		Abraum salts (talk)						Orphan
1		Acmosara (talk)						Orphan
3		Aethelred Eldridge (talk)						Orphan
9		Living in Your Car (talk)						Stub
4		Alex Kirby (Blue Heelers) (talk)						Stub
3		Black Tie Affair (TV series) (talk)						Stub
9		Moira Delia (talk)						Stub
3		Agelaia (talk)						Stub
8		Patrick Joseph 'P.J.' Hasham (talk)						Stub

SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. We appreciate that you have signed up to receive suggestions regularly; your contributions make Wikipedia better — thanks for helping!

If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please let us know on SuggestBot's talk page. Regards from Nettrom (talk), SuggestBot's caretaker. -- SuggestBot (talk) 13:36, 27 December 2014 (UTC)