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My RfA

Thank you for participating in my RFA, which passed with 53-1-0. I will put myself into the various tasks of a administrator immediately, and if I make any mistakes, feel free to shout at me or smack me in my head. Aquarius • talk 17:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Hi Orfen, thanks for your support in my RfA, which passed unopposed. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance. --Seattle Skier (talk) 20:10, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Carioca RFA

Thanks for your support on my request for adminship.

The final outcome was (31/4/1), so I am now an administrator. If you have any comments or concerns on my actions as an administrator, please let me know. Thank you! --Carioca 20:27, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

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My RfA

Hi Orfen. I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA. It was closed at surprising 75/0/0, so I'm an admin now. MaxSem 22:18, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

My Rfa

Hello, Orfen. I just wanted to drop by to thank you for your kind support on my recent Rfa, it succeeded! I hope to live up to your expectations. Oh, and feel completely free to yell at me if I ever screw things up =) Have a nice day, and see you! Yours sincerely, PeaceNT 07:24, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Many thanks for your support at my RFA. It ended successfully and I am now a glorified janitor. If I can be of any assistance please don't hesitate to contact me through my talk page. Happy editing! Ocatecir Talk 18:05, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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MCR Newsletter

Looks good! I changed a few sentences around, but thats about it. Tell me when you'd like to send it out. mcr616 Speak! 19:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)


BTW, thanks for commenting on my editor review! mcr616 Speak! 22:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Sending it now... mcr616 Speak! 19:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Updated DYK query You supported my candidacy in my recently completed request for adminship. The debated ended 40/4/1 and I'm now an administrator. I'd just like to say thanks for taking the time to consider me, and thanks for the confidence in me. I hope your confidence in me proves to be justified.

Regards, WilyD

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Hi, I want to know why exactly you reverted my last editions at Talk:Green Day, I think that putting notices in "messageboxes" emphasizes its content to most users. --Andersmusician VOTE 22:15, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Happy First edit day!

Happy First Edit Day, Orfen/Archive 3, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

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Capital on Nimrod

Hi. I noticed that you are interested in Green Day, so I invite you to read my proposal to change nimrod. to Nimrod, at Talk:Green Day#Capital on Nimrod. I think there's no reason not to change it, but I have been waiting for responses due to the note at the top of the talk page about the capitalization. I appreciate any comments. Thanks. - Jon Stockton 13:09, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

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Hi! Im an English teacher in Toluca Mexico (west of Mexico City). My Advanced B classes will be contributing to Wikipedia as the focus of their English course for Fall 2007. I am looking for people who would like to mentor my students (who will be working in groups) as they do the following assignments: Edit and article (adding a citation), writing a stub with a citation, translating an English language article for Spanish Wikipedia and for the final project, writing a full article for English Wiki (they can expand on the stub mentioned previously). What I would like to do is put a list of "mentors/adopters" on my talk page as a kind of short cut for my students, who have limited time to get things done. The semester begings Aug 6, but the real Wikipedia work wont begin until the beginning of Sept. If you would like to add your name to my list, please go to my talk page and add it there, perhaps with a short introduction, if you like.

Thank you!

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hello!!

I need your helpppppppp !! I'm currently trying to understand how does wikipédia work and I may have articles to write... Could you help me to do that?

Thanks a lot.

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Hola Mentors!

Im sending you this reminder because you volunteered to mentor my students in English Advanced B as they become contributing members of the Wikipedia community. We start working with Wikipedia in earnest next week. I ask you to take a look at your entry in the Mentor Table at Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Mentors

Please update the information, esp. with what your technical and informational expertise is or, if you have decided that you no longer want to participate, please remove your information from the table. Please watch the pages associated with the project. Students will contact you via your user page and as soon as my students have user pages, I will put them on the navigation bar associated with the project.

I don’t need to remind you that your job is NOT to write their assignments for them, of course. I certainly will tell my students that… and the fact that you are volunteers that don’t have to help them… so be nice. If any students misbehave (tho I don’t expect it) don’t hesistate to contact me and I will take care of it. The goal of this project is to integrate successfully into the Wikipedia community. Anyway… what I really need your help with is helping students get oriented to Wikipedia, make appropriate changes and write about appropriate topics (see Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Syllabus for assignments). I also need your technical expertise… I am only an English teacher after all! I appreciate what technology does for us but I am no technical expert!

Again, thank you for volunteering and you will hear from us again soon! Thelmadatter 19:04, 28 August 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter

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Hi Orfen

Hi this is Karina, from Thelmadatter's English Class..And i'm here to see if you could help me in my group page..I'm a native spanish speaker so if you need any help just tell me...please come to visit me to my group page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Park_Lovers thank you Arezvik 01:16, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

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Toluca Article

Hi Orfen..this is Karina From Park_Lovers team, and we are going to modify the Toluca Article.. we would like you to check it and give us some ideas about it... thank you :D...you can check it in our talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Park_Lovers Arezvik 18:44, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

JoeRUBZ looking to be adopted :-)

Hello Orfen!

I'm an owner of a small Internet service Provider business and over the past few years I found myself referring to some of the fine tech articles on Wikipedia. I thought it was time to give back by contributing, so I decided to start with a small topic, yet one that was interesting to me, so that I could learn the basic skills. This past summer, my family and I were enchanted by the singing of Julienne Irwin, a very talented young lady that performed on the TV program "America's Got Talent".

When I sent her a congratulatory letter to her MySpace page, I was pleasantly surprised by her kind and friendly personal response. She genuinely seems to like people and works hard to provide an entertaining performance. People like this are few and far between and deserve support.

Soooo I decided I could help by updating her Wikipedia page, and at the same time it would provide me a learning experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julienne_Irwin

Already existed. I'd like to make updates conform to the WikiProject Musicians standards, but I'm still scratching my head when it comes to how templates are included. I do have the draft of the rest of the text I want to add. Some of that will involve citing sources and getting permission to do so. I figure I'll take it one step at a time though.

For now, I got impatient and followed the existing format to add some content of names and songs that had been omitted, as you can see by viewing the edit history. I don't think I caused the world to end by doing this, but I would like someone looking over my shoulder before going further. In your "ad", you mentioned "music", and since you are generous enough to offer, I'm askin' ;-) Where do you suggest I go next ?? JoeRUBZ 03:46, 7 October 2007 (UTC)


Orfen, Thanks so much for the help and suggestions! I've been reading the Style pages and gotten a better idea of how links work and the various options to make them more precise. I am going to approach this in pieces so that I can manage my time on this, yet never leave an incomplete page while it is in the process. I completely agree with your point about the lack of references. I found that there is already an *excellent* page for AGT which is beautifully cross referenced. I think I will restructure J/E's page so that there is an introduction section, an AGT section, a biography section, and a career section. This way, I only need to reference the AGT/Julienne_Irwin section only once off of that section's title, instead of each step of the competition, though I will need to add my sources for the songwriter names. The tool you mentioned looks great, I'll have to see if I can add the references section at the end correctly. :-) Question1: Is there a way I can mark her page so that it essentially indicates, "under construction, please pardon the dust" so that others know what's going on ? Question2: If I use the information off of a site like: http://www.azlyrics.com/ can I just cite the reference, or do I also have to contact them for permission to use that information ? Question3: When a local link is available, (eg. "Crazy" by Willie Nelson) and I format it as one, do I still need to site a reference on that one ? Again ... Thanks for your time ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by JoeRUBZ (talkcontribs) 15:46, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


Hello, I ended up answering my question #2. Instead of that link, I can just use LOC: http://www.copyright.gov/records/ so that no permission is needed. JoeRUBZ 16:58, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

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Partial list of stubs/short articles created or rewritten by Adv A students

I know there are a lot here but many are very short stubs. If there are a lot of grammar mistakes, just tag it with a clean up tag. I did not require that they wikify the articles due to time. Final versions for grading purposes are due Tue Feb 5 so any help you can give would be appreciated.

Santa Clara del Cobre, San Felipe del Progreso, Villa de allende, Ixtapan del Oro, Zumpahuacán, San Juan del Río, Nautla, Santo_tomas_de_los_platanos, Tejupilco, Saint Vincent (island), Jilotepec, Tlacotepec, Palizada, Santa Gertrudis (This student wrote about the town in Oaxaca State but it redirects to Misión Santa Gertrudis in Baja California. The student´s stub is under the information about the mission), Álvaro Obregón (municipality), Zentla, Bernal, Querétaro, Temoaya, Acambay, Xpu Há, Chapa de Mota, Pasorapa, Huasca_de_Ocampo, Malinalco, Mexico State, Almoloya de Júarez, Polotitlan, Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexicaltzingo, Lagunillas, Michoacán, [Ixcateopan]], Benito Júarez, Quintana Roo, Jocotitlan, Ixtlahuaca, Temascaltepec, Teapa, Tabasco, Huandacareo, Zualcapan, México, Capulhuac, Xalatlaco, Boca del Cielo

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More stubs!!! (the last major batch, I promise!)

Malinalco, Valle, Tlalpujahua, Xonotla, Otumba, Aculco de Espinoza, Lerma, Tonatico, Luvianos, Tarimoro, Guanajuato, Tambopata - Candamo, Donato Guerra, Angangeo, Huixquilucan, Tlatlaya, Jiquipilco, Juchitepec

Again thanks! The students are taking your tagging their articles to heart. Thelmadatter (talk) 20:32, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Four more stubs

Otzoloapan, San Jose Villa de Allende, Temascalcingo, El Oro Thelmadatter (talk) 23:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

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