User talk:Russia Moore

Welcome!

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Query[edit]

Hello, Russia Moore. As a confirmed Russophile, my eye was attracted to your user name, yet your user page shows no Russian connections. I understand you don't give out personal information, but can I assume this is your real name? JackofOz 14:28, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Russia Moore is a pen name, actually. It combines my love of Russian history and sense of humour--Russia Moore is meant to sound like "Rushmore" as in the National Park. It started as a joke that if I ever needed a job I could be a cheap romance novelist. Russia Moore 20:54, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. JackofOz 22:57, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Rien Poortvliet[edit]

Hiya Russia. I am Thor, a wikipedia of about 2 years or so. I am currently working on cleaning up the article on Rien Poortvliet, since it looks like a computer translation direct from something like dutch. I speak some dutch, and am gonna have a go on it. I understand you are aware of a lot more material about Him, but as you say on the talk page, its not in english. If you can direct me to the material you want translating, I will work on it and add it to the article once its cleaned up into readable english! Regards, Thor Malmjursson 22:29, 8 June 2006 (UTC) Thor's Icelandic Yak (Talk Page)[reply]

Thanks so much for helping! The Dutch page is here [1] and the museum seems to have a lot of info on it's web site... [2] Russia Moore 04:56, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar[edit]

		The Original Barnstar
		For many contributions with limited reward, I present you with this Original Barnstar. Sharkface217 00:57, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

which deleted article?[edit]

Hi, can you tell me what the name of the article was that got deleted? I'll look into what happened to it and then give you more specific advice on what to do next. — coelacan talk — 07:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I Believe I titled it International Raccoon Appreciation Day. I'm still not totally sure I have enough sources to go on (there is a website now at least), but I just remembered it was fun writing an article for the first time. Thanks for your help! Russia Moore 22:58, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, as you can see here, the article was deleted because it was believed to be a hoax. The admin who deleted it said, "non-notahle hoax; the text of the article itself puts it best: 'of questionable authenticity.'" So if you are going to recreate the page, you need to give convincing citations for it. The only cite I found is sitting in the google cache and will itself be deleted eventually.[3] That would not be enough to allow an article on Wikipedia to be kept. The article will have to adhere to the policies WP:Notability and WP:Verifiability. If it doesn't, it will be deleted again. If you think you can satisfy the requirements of those policies, you can try recreating the article in your userspace, at User:Russia Moore/International Raccoon Appreciation Day. Then when you have it verifiably referenced and cited, contact an admin, preferably the one who deleted it, at User talk:MarkSweep, and have them look at your userspace article. Ask them to consider allowing you to create the article. It is possible that they will allow it to be recreated at International Raccoon Appreciation Day and then immediately nominated for deletinon at WP:AFD. This is to see if the community thinks the article should survive and remain on Wikipedia. My opinion, ahead of time, is that it will not survive and you will be wasting your time. If you show some other citations besides the single one that I found in the google cache, I might change my opinion, but as it is, I recommend that you concern yourself with other things and let this one go. Sorry to say, it probably cannot meet our WP:N policy requirements. — coelacan talk — 01:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all your help! There is an actual website [4] but I'm still not sure it's up to standards. Maybe I can hold out until something more notable comes up? Or a casual mention in the raccoon article? Russia Moore 03:57, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that an external link in the Raccoon article might be appropriate. — coelacan talk — 04:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Like this:

External links[edit]

International Raccoon Appreciation Day

That would go at the very bottom of the article, after "See also" but before categories. It still might get deleted though. If it does get deleted, bring up the matter at Talk:Raccoon and see if you can get anyone to agree with you. It's not exactly "linkspam" because it's not a commercial site. Hope that helps, — coelacan talk — 05:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it does! Thanks so much! Russia Moore 05:58, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you for the barnstar. =) It's good to know that my help is appreciated. One more thing came to mind that I should advise you of. Your IRAD link is more likely to be accepted by the other editors at Raccoon if you also offer a handful of very informative links to go along with it. Like

University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

And other stuff like that. University websites, .edu, usually go over well. Two or three of those along with your IRAD link would be helpful. — coelacan talk — 06:31, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Raccoon appreciation[edit]

I have no particular objection in principle, but I really do think we need some wider recognition than a Geocities page before a link like that is something informative (which is what we want) rather than promotional (which isn't our purpose). I've never heard of it frankly. Is there at least a newspaper article or something? TCC (talk) (contribs) 02:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm looking about for stuff. I've found links to it from a few other websites, but nothing in physical PRINT yet... Russia Moore 01:20, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. Well. This Google search returns the Geocities page, the affiliated Cafe Press store, a leftover listing from an ad service now apparently expired, a discussion here at Wikipedia's Help Desk where IRAD was mentioned, and a single link from a blog. In a comment that you wrote, as it happens. (Mind you, that's an amazingly cute picture.) None of these really count. I can only deduce that, as desirable as this observance might be, it has not achieved anything like widespread recognition. TCC (talk) (contribs) 02:03, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tutor userbox[edit]

I noticed your request for a userbox regarding tutoring so I made you one:

Code

Userbox

This user is an English tutor, and still forgets grammar rules

--Theunicyclegirl 16:17, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Russia Moore 03:12, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Toesocks.gif[edit]

Hi. You uploaded Image:Toesocks.gif a while ago, and placed both a CC-by-SA-2.5 and public domain tag on it, commenting that you "want anyone to be able to use it and it seems simpler than placing it into the Public Domain." If you meant to place it into the public domain, just the PD tag that you put on it is good enough; then we ought to get rid of the CC tag, since it's rather redundant. This would have the additional benefit of letting us move it to the commons so everyone can use it.

I just wanted to verify whether you did intend to place the thing in the public domain before I moved it to commons. Please let me know. --Sopoforic 21:14, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, feel free to move it! It was the first picture I uploaded and wasn't sure of protocol. Thanks! Russia Moore 02:13, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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