Thank you for the support vote in my recent RfA. Although it wasn't successful I appreciate your vote of confidence.
Cla68 22:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)reply
RfA thanks
Thank you for your support on my
Request for adminship, which finished successfully, with unanimous support of 40/0/0.
I will do my best to serve Wikipedia and the community. Again thanks.
Mike_7, thanks for your support in my successful
RfA.
As the picture shows, the goddesses have already bestowed my new weapons,
which I hope to use to good effect. If you ever need assistance,
or want to give me feedback on my use of the admin tools,
please leave me a message on my talkpage. --Akhilleus (
talk) 17:17, 7 April 2007 (UTC)reply
KFP's RfA thanks
Thank you for supporting me on my recent
nomination for adminship, which passed with a tally of 45/0/0. Please
let me know if I can help with something or if I make a mistake. Cheers! --
KFP (
talk |
contribs) 14:59, 10 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks
Thanks a lot for your support in my RfA. It was successful.
J Milburn 16:09, 10 April 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks
Thanks for your support of my RFA. Please give me a shout if you need anything.--
Fuhghettaboutit 13:21, 14 April 2007 (UTC)reply
The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007
The
April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you
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WikiProject Biography is holding a three month long assessment drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unassessed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2007 – September 1, 2007.
Awards to be won range from delicacies such as the
WikiCookie to the great
Golden Wiki Award.
There are over 110,000 articles to assess so please visit the
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Just wanted to let you know that I opened an
RfC on myself in response to the concerns raised during my
RfA over my actions in the
Gary Weiss dispute. The RfC is located
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CLA 09:32, 2 June 2007 (UTC)reply
YechielMan's RFA
Thank you for participating in either of my unsuccessful requests for adminship. Although the experience was frustrating, it showed me some mistakes I was making, and I hope to learn from those mistakes.
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The November 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published.
Comments are welcome on this, as well as suggestions or offers of assistance for the December 2007 issue.
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The December 2007 issue of the WikiProject Good Articles newsletter has been published.
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Thanks
Thanks for your support in my successful RFA.
AliveFreeHappy (
talk) 07:33, 29 December 2007 (UTC)reply
Why did you delete the South View primary school post??
It was really a school built decades ago! —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
RacerzGTR (
talk •
contribs) 10:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)reply
The backlog at
Good Article Nominations has recently exploded to 236 unreviewed articles! Out of 264 total nominations, 17 are on hold, 10 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to
WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (47 articles), Film and cinema (25 articles), Television and journalism (16 articles), Art and architecture (15 articles), and Politics and government (14 articles).
If every participant of
WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated!
Reviewer of the Month
Dihydrogen Monoxide is the GAN Reviewer of the Month of December, based on the assessments made by
Epbr123 of the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Dihydrogen Monoxide hails from
Brisbane (which, incidentally, is almost a GA, kids ;)) and has been editing
Wikipedia since August 2006. He mostly likes to review articles relating to
music,
Australia, or anything else that takes his fancy! He also has two articles waiting, and notes that there's still a huge backlog,... so get cracking!
Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of December include:
This WikiProject, and the
Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
GAReview Template
Lots of you that frequent
WP:GAN have undoubtedly seen the articles under review, marked with "Review - I am reviewing this article. ...". The articles have been marked as being under review by an editor using the {{
GAReview}} template. The purpose of this template is essentially to prevent two editors from reviewing the same article at the same time, so it's essentially a common courtesy notice to other editors so that they don't pass or fail an article while you're in the midst of collecting and writing comments. However, just because an article is marked, shouldn't preclude another editor from contributing to the review. If you'd like to review it, go ahead; simply collect your comments and write them down on the article's talk page – but don't pass or fail the article – leave that to the other reviewer.
To use this template yourself, simply write "#:{{GAReview}} ~~~~" on the line immediately following the article's nomination at
WP:GAN. You can even leave additional comments as well (e.g. "#:{{GAReview}} I will finish my review in the next 24 hours. ~~~~"). Reviewers marking articles with this template should also observe some common etiquette; please don't mark more than 1-3 articles as being under review at a time, and please try and finish your review within 3-5 days of marking the article.
GA Sweeps
After openly requesting the community for more participants into the Sweeps, we have 3 more members on the board. They are (in no particular order)
Canadian Paul,
VanTucky, and
Masem. Canadian Paul will be sweeping "Middle East and the World" articles. VanTucky will be sweeping "Religion, mysticism, and mythology" and "Literature" articles. Masem will be sweeping "Television episodes". We're still looking for more reviewers. Interested individuals should contact
OhanaUnited for details.
At this moment, participation in the sweeps project is by invitation only, as we desire experienced reviewers who have a thorough and extensive knowledge of the criteria. This is to ensure that articles that have "fallen through the cracks" would be found and removed, and that additional articles don't fall through the cracks during the sweep.
Currently, there are 16 members working on the project, and we have reviewed 74 articles in December 2007. Of those that are swept, 275 articles are kept as GA, 126 articles are delisted, and 5 promoted to FA.
Did You Know,...
... that the total number of good and featured articles is now over 5000?
... that GA was formed on October 11, 2005 and was formerly called "Half-decent articles"?
... that many discussions were made over the years on whether GA should have a symbol placed on the main article space, yet at the end always removed?
... that there was a proposal to change the GA symbol to a green featured star?
From the Editors
Happy New Year, everyone! I'm just filling in for Dr. Cash as he's busy (or away) in real life. This explains why I wasn't prepared for a full-length article on GA process, and instead I resort to a tiny DYK for GA.
OhanaUnited
Happy New Year as well! I'm still here, and haven't totally disappeared. I had to cut back on editing and reviewing during the month of December as I made the transition from
Flagstaff, Arizona to
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But I should be about settled in the
Keystone State, so I'll be contributing more to Wikipedia again in the new year. Thanks to OhanaUnited for putting together much of the content for this newsletter! He's been working hard with the Sweeps, and the 'Did You Know' section is also a great idea, so I think that will become a regular feature now! I also figured out how to have a collapsible newsletter, so that will change our delivery options a bit. Cheers!
To check whether all of our members are still interested, we have blanked the members list, if you still wish to take part please add your name back on
the list. Please wait until the 4th January to re-add your name.
Hello, Mike 7! Your username, as well as the usernames of other members of Wikipedia: WikiProject Lemony Snicket, has been moved to the inactive members list, as part of a process for making the wikiproject active once again. If you would like to continue to be an active member, please follow the instructions on the top of
the participants page to add your name to the active participants list.
There are now 3,485 Good Articles listed at
WP:GA.
The backlog at
Good Article Nominations is 206 unreviewed articles. Out of 251 total nominations, 37 are on hold, 7 are under review, and 1 is seeking a second opinion. Please go to
WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (57 articles), Theatre film and drama (34 articles), Music (19 articles), Transport (17 articles), Politics and government (16 articles), World history (13 articles), and Meteorology and atmospheric sciences (13 articles).
If every participant of
WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated!
GA Sweeps Update
During January, 57 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 35 were kept as GA, 20 delisted, 9 currently on hold or at GAR, and 3 were exempted as they are now
Featured Articles.
Reviewer of the Month
Ealdgyth is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for January, based on the assessments made by
Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Ealdgyth, known in real life as Victoria Short, hails from Central Illinois, and has been editing Wikipedia since
May 26,
2007. In this short time, she has made significant contributions to 9
Good Articles, including
Baldwin of Exeter and
Hubert Walter. Her interests in editing are in the areas of the
Middle Ages,
History, and
horses. Outside of Wikipedia, she is starting her own
photography business, and owns three horses. She likes to read science fiction, history, and geneology books. Congratulations to our GAN Reviewer of the Month for January!
Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of January include:
This WikiProject, and the
Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
On Hold versus Failing an Article
This month, I thought I'd focus on a less technical and more of a procedural issue at
WP:GAN – determining what the appropriate course of action to take when reviewing an article. Currently, there are four options to decide what to do with an article:
Failing it – it does not meet the criteria; remove the article's listing from
WP:GAN and add {{
ArticleHistory}} or {{
failedGA}} to the article's talk page.
On Hold – The article meets most of the criteria, but might fall short in a few areas; keep it listed at
WP:GAN, add #: {{GAOnHold|ArticleName}} ~~~~ below the listing and add {{GAonhold}} to the article's talk page.
Second Opinion – Similar to the on hold option, except an editor is either inexperienced or not knowledgeable enough about a given topic and asks another reviewer to offer another opinion before passing or failing; add #: {{GA2ndopinion|ArticleName}} ~~~~ to
WP:GAN below the article's listing and add {{GA2ndoptalk}} to the article's talk page.
So how to you know when an article fails outright, or fails initially, but meets "enough" of the criteria to be placed on hold? The answer to this question probably varies by about the same amount as there are reviewers of Good Articles! Everybody treats this slightly differently. The most important thing to consider is that articles should not be on hold for longer than about one week. Although there is no hard and fast time limit for this, most editors would probably agree that five to seven days is enough time to address any GA-related issues with the article to get it to pass. Some editors have extended this a few days in the past, due to other extenuating circumstances, such as an article's primary editor being very busy with school or work, so they have asked for extra time. But as a general rule, a GA nominee that is placed on hold should meet enough of the criteria to be able to be passed within five to seven days. Some examples of articles that might be placed on hold would be:
the article is mostly complete, but might be missing one topic (subcategory).
minor copyediting is required (needs a few minor
manual of style, spelling, or grammatical fixes.
mostly well sourced, but missing maybe a handful of references.
a couple of images need to be tagged with appropriate copyright tags.
On the other hand, an article should be failed if it:
is missing several topic categories, or there are several sections which are very short (1-3 sentences per section).
contains numerous sections which are just lists of information, as opposed to written out as prose.
there's entire sections of text that have no references, or there are a lot of {{
cn}} or {{
unreferenced}} tags.
has evidence of an active
edit war in the article history.
has any {{
cleanup}} or other warning tags in various places.
Did You Know...
... that on
July 19,
2007, 1,548 good articles that have not been categorized at all were categorized in 15 days?
... that in Chinese Wikipedia, articles need to have at least six net support votes before they are promoted to GA?
... that the English Wikipedia has the most Good Articles, the German Wikipedia has the second most (at over 2000), followed by the Spanish Wikipedia (at over 800), the Chinese Wikipedia (at over 400), and the French Wikipedia (at over 200)?
... that Simple English Wikipedia has zero Good Articles?
... that "Sport and games people" category has the most Good Articles?
... that
Virginia Tech massacre (which is now a
featured article) was promoted to GA just only about one month after the shooting incident, but took more than seven months to reach FA status?
From the Editors
Originally, I wasn't planning to do "Did you know" other than as a fill-in for
Dr. Cash. However, I decided to continue writing this section until I ran out of ideas.
OhanaUnited
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue
here.
There are currently 3,647 Good Articles listed at
WP:GA.
The backlog at
Good Article Nominations is 185 unreviewed articles. Out of 237 total nominations, 42 are on hold, and 10 are under review. Please go to
WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (39 articles), Theatre, film, and drama (34 articles), Transport (23 articles), Music (21 articles), Politics and government (18 articles), Culture and society (13 articles), Places (13 articles), and World history (12 articles).
If every participant of
WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated!
GA Sweeps Update
Two members joined the sweeps team this month. They are
Jwanders and
jackyd101. Jwanders swept Physics sub-category quickly and is now sweeping "Astronomy and astrophysics". Meanwhile, jackyd101 is sweeping "Armies, military units and legal issues".
During February, 66 Good Articles were reviewed. Including those articles that were under GAR or on hold, 33 were kept as GA, 21 delisted, 17 currently on hold or at GAR, and 1 was exempted as they are now
Featured Articles.
Reviewer of the Month
Blnguyen is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for February, based on the assessments made by
Epbr123 on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Blnguyen is from South Australia and has been editing Wikipedia since 2005. He was also the reviewer for the month of December 2007, so this marks the second time that he has been GAN's Top Reviewer for the Month. Congratulations to our GAN Reviewer of the Month for February!
Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of January include:
In this issue, we will focus on one of the
requirements for good articles: a good article article should follow Wikipedia's
guideline on lead sections. So what does this guideline say, why does it say what it does, and how can good article reviewers help?
The lead section is particularly important, because for many readers, it is the only part of the article which they will read. For instance, they may have come to the article by following a wikilink in another article simply to obtain a quick overview before they continue reading the original article. They may only read the first paragraph, or even the first sentence. On the other hand, one of the joys of Wikipedia is the way that it embodies the endlessly branching tree of knowledge; if a lead is well written, it may encourage even such a reader to read on and learn something new.
This is reflected in the terminology: "lead" is a word taken from journalism, where it recognized that many readers will only read the beginning of a newspaper article, and so it is important to convey the key points first, before going into detail. Note that "lead", in this sense, is pronounced as in "leading question" and is sometimes spelled as "lede" by journalists to distinguish it from lead, the metal, which was once very important in typesetting. Wikipedia supports both spellings.
Wikipedia:Lead section is written with all this in mind, and describes two different roles for the lead: first, it should introduce the topic; second it should summarize the article. This is not always as easy as it seems; indeed, it is almost impossible to write a good lead if the article itself does not cover the topic well. It has a side benefit that an article which satisfies this guideline is probably also broad: if the lead is both a good introduction and a summary, then the article probably covers the main points.
The good article process is often the first place in which an article is judged against this criterion, yet many current
good articles may not meet it. A common fault is that the lead is purely an introduction, while the rest of the article contains other information, which should be summarized in the lead, but isn't.
So, how can reviewers help to improve this? One approach is to read the rest of the article, and not the lead, first. Make a note of the significant points discussed in the article. There is usually at least one important issue in each section. Then, go back to the lead and ask the following questions:
Does the first sentence of the lead define the topic, as described in the article?
Is the most important information mentioned in the first paragraph?
Is the lead a suitable length for the article? The lead guideline recommends 2–4 paragraphs depending on the article length, but judgment is more important than counting.
Are each of the significant topics that you noted mentioned in the lead?
If the answer to each of these questions is "yes", then the article probably meets the guideline. If not, you may be able to fix it yourself by summarizing the article. If you can't, then it suggests that there are not only problems with the lead, but also the rest of the article. That is the beauty of
Wikipedia:Lead section.
Finally, there isn't universal agreement on whether the lead should contain inline citations. As long as the material in the lead is developed and cited elsewhere in the article, then inline citation is not required. There are exceptions, the most significant being quotations and controversial material about living persons.
Good luck helping more articles meet this important criterion!
From the Editors
Well, this is somewhat GA-related but at the same time not totally GA-related. However, I think this is important. Thanks to everyone who supported me at my
2nd RfA. It passed unanimously at 79 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral. As many are impressed by my work in Good Articles processes, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone giving me a very enjoyable time at GA. There are 2 people that I want to explicitly say thank you to. They are
Nehrams2020 and
Epbr123. They patiently taught me how to do GA reviews properly in summer 2007. I couldn't achieve better without them. Now that I have the mop and the bucket, some of my time will be working on reducing Commons image backlog. Nevertheless, you will still see me once in a while in matters related to GA.
OhanaUnited
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue
here.
There are currently 3,868 Good Articles listed at
WP:GA.
The backlog at
Good Article Nominations is 195 unreviewed articles. Out of 267 total nominations, 57 are on hold, 13 are under review, and 2 are seeking a second opinion. Please go to
WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (27 articles), Sports and recreation (25 articles), Transport (24 articles), Music (19 articles), War and military (19 articles), Politics and government (18 articles), Religion, mysticism and mythology (16 articles), Literature (14 articles), World history (14 articles), and Video and computer games (14 articles).
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of March, a total of 92 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 74 were found to continue to meet the
GA criteria, and 18 were delisted. There are currently 14 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions. Congratulations to
Nehrams2020 (
talk·contribs), who sweeped a whopping 51 articles during the month!
Jackyd101 (
talk·contribs) also deserves congrats for sweeping a total of 26 articles!
This WikiProject, and the
Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
To delist or not to delist, that is the question
So you’ve found an article that, on the face of it, does not merit its
good article status. What next? Especially where there are many glaring issues that need addressing, it’s tempting to just revoke its GA status and remove it from the list, but although we are encouraged as editors to be bold, this approach (known to some as "bold delisting") is not recommended good practice. There are many reasons why a listed article might not meet the
assessment criteria—it’s always possible that it never did, and was passed in error, but more likely the criteria have changed or the article quality has degraded since its original assessment. Either way, we should treat its reassessment with no less tact and patience than we would a fresh nomination.
This, in fact, provides a good starting point for the delisting process. Approach the article as though it has been nominated for
GA review. Read it and the GA criteria carefully, and provide a full
reassessment on the article talk page. Explain where and why the article no longer meets the criteria, and suggest remedies.
Having explained why the article no longer meets current GA criteria, allow its editors time to fix it! In keeping with the above approach, it may help to treat the article as on hold. There is no need to tag it as such, but give editors a reasonable deadline, and consider helping out with the repair work. Bear in mind that more flexibility may be required than for a normal hold—the editors did not request or expect your reassessment and will probably have other projects taking up their time. They may not have worked on the article for months or even years, and at worst the article may have been abandoned and its authors no longer active. As always, communication is the key. It sometimes helps to post messages to relevant WikiProjects (found at the top of the article talk page), or to contact editors directly (
this tool is useful for identifying active editors for any given article).
Only once the above process has run its course, and sufficient improvement has not been forthcoming, is it time to think about delisting the article. Communicate your final decision on the article talk page, even if there was no response to your reassessment and hold, and take the time to fill in the various edit summaries on the article talk and GA list pages to ensure the delisting is transparent and trackable. If you have any doubts about your final decision, you can list the article at
Good article reassessment or contact one of the
GA mentors, who will be happy to advise.
Article reassessment is perhaps the single most controversial function of our WikiProject, and the one with the most potential to upset and alienate editors. Yet it is one of the most necessary too, since without the ability to revoke an article’s status we would be unable to maintain quality within the project. However, if we approach reassessment sensitively and with the goal of improving articles to the point where sanctions are unnecessary, we will ensure that delisting is the last resort, not the first.
As we near the 4,000
Good Articles milestone, the project continues to grow and to gain respect in the Wikipedia community. Nevertheless, we continue to have a large
backlog. If every member of
WikiProject Good Articles would review just one article each day during the month of April, the backlog would be eliminated!
Please leave any comments or feedback regarding this issue
here.
There are currently 4,050 Good Articles listed at
WP:GA.
The backlog at
Good Article Nominations is 195 unreviewed articles. Out of 227 total nominations, 16 are on hold, 14 are under review, and two are seeking a second opinion. Please go to
WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (45), Sports and recreation (34), Music (18), Transport (15), World history (14), Politics and government (13), and Places (12).
Noble Story (
talk·contribs) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for April, based on the assessments made by
Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Noble Story joined
Wikipedia on
May 16,
2007. He is a big fan of the
Houston Rockets, and edits many related articles, as well as articles on
basketball in general. Congratulations to
Noble Story (
talk·contribs) on being April's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of April include:
This WikiProject, and the
Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
GA Topic
Do you know what a GA topic is? If you are not nodding your head, or don't know what I'm talking about, then you should pay attention to this article.
There are ten GA top-level topics (but you will spot the eleventh as this article goes along). These topics are: Arts, Language and literature, Philosophy and religion, Everyday life, Social sciences and society, Geography and places, History, Engineering and technology, Mathematics, and Natural sciences. Each of these topics are further narrowed down to more specific topics. For example, Arts can be narrowed down to Art and architecture, Music, and Theatre, film and drama. But let's not get into sub-topics in this article because of its depth.
Now you will probably ask, "I already knew this, so what is your point?" What I want to illustrate is that some people often forget a step when they promote an article to GA. After they have posted their review in the article talk page, added the article name to the corresponding topic in the
good article page, increased the GA count by 1, and added the {{
GA}} to article talk page, many reviewers tend to forget to add the topic parameter in {{
GA}} or {{
ArticleHistory}}. You can browse the topic parameter abbreviations at
on this page as well as what each top-level GA topic means, because sometimes it can be chaotic and confusing to pick a topic. For example, should On the Origin of Species be placed under the Natural Science topic (because it's related to evolution), or under the Language and Literature topic (because it is a book)? The correct answer is to place it under Language and literature topic, because its categorization as a proper title supercedes other categories.
Let's go back to
the page that shows GA topics; does anyone spot the eleventh topic? Yes,
Category:Good articles without topic parameter is the 11th topic, only it shouldn't be there. Articles that do not have a topic parameter in either {{
GA}} or {{
ArticleHistory}} will be placed in this category. The topic "Uncategorized" is not very informative, is it? So if you have time, you can consider cleaning up the articles that are left in this category and move them to the appropriate category by adding a topic parameter.
That's it for this month, I hope you learned a little from it.
GA Sweeps Update
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of April, a total of 26 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 15 were found to continue to meet the
GA criteria, and two were delisted. There are currently six articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions. One article was exempted from review because it was promoted to FA. Two articles were exempted from review because they were already delisted by another member in the community.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and
criteria. If you are interested, please contact
OhanaUnited for details.
...that different languages have different symbols representing GA? (Alemannic uses , Bavarian uses , Czech and French use , Estonian, Icelandic, and Swedish use , Esperanto and German use , Polish, Spanish, and Turkish use , Portuguese uses , Russian uses , Ukrainian uses )
Note: Lithuanian and Serbian have their own symbol but only uploaded locally. Other languages not listed above either have the same symbol as english or they don't have GA process.
From the Editors
There is currently a
debate on adding a small green dot to the top right corner of all Good Articles that pass the
criteria, similar to the small bronze star that is added to the top right corner of Featured Articles. Members of
WikiProject Good Articles are encouraged to participate in the debate on
this page.
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There are currently 4,266 Good Articles listed at
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The backlog at
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The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film and drama (31), Sports and recreation (31), Transport (24), Music (13), and Art and architecture (11)
The GA Sweeps process is progressing nicely! During the month of May, a total of 82 articles were reviewed. Of that total, 71 were found to continue to meet the
GA criteria, and 11 were delisted. There are currently 15 articles that are still on hold in this process, awaiting revisions.
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and
criteria. If you are interested, please contact
OhanaUnited for details.
GAN Reviewer of the Month
Giggy (
talk·contribs) (a.k.a.
Dihydrogen Monoxide (
talk·contribs)) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for May, based on the assessments made by
Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Giggy had a whopping 45 reviews during the month of May! Congratulations to
Giggy (
talk·contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of May include:
This WikiProject, and the
Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
New GA Review Process - Review Subpages
In case you haven't noticed, we initiated a new process for GA Reviews at the end of last month. The {{
GA nominee}} template was modified to direct new reviews initiated on an article to begin on a subpage of article talkspace (e.g. [[Talk:Article/GA#]], where '#' is the current number of GA reviews conducted for the article, incremented automatically, starting with 1). The primary reason for this change is to address some concerns made by several Wikipedians that previous GA reviews are not easily accessible in archives, the way that featured article reviews and peer reviews are, since the review is conducted on the article's talkspace, instead of in a subpage of the featured article space or peer review space. The reason we opted to move GA reviews to article talkspace (instead of GA space) is to better maintain the personal relationship between editor(s) and reviewer(s) by keeping reviews done in an area where editors can easily access it. Nonetheless, we still desired to have better archiving and maintenance of past reviews, so that GA ultimately becomes more accountable.
When an article is nominated, the nominator adds the template using a substitution, by adding {{subst:GAN|subtopic=<name of subtopic for article at GAN>}}, as well as lists the article (as usual) at
WP:GAN in the appropriate category.
When a reviewer initiates a review of an article, all that needs to be done is to read the template on the article's {{
GA nominee}} template on its talk page, and click on the link to start the review. When the reviewer clicks on that link, they will also see some instructions on how to start a review of a GAN. For new reviewers, there's also a link to the
Good Article criteria, as well as to the
Wikipedia:Reviewing good articles page and the
mentors list. Once an article is reviewed, the GA review page should be
transcluded onto the main article talk page, by adding {{Talk:Article/GA#}} to the bottom of the talk page. This is to ensure maintain the transparency of the GA process, as well as to make editors of the article in question aware that the review is taking place. When an article is either passed or failed, there's really nothing different to do in the process, although reviewers are encouraged to utilize the {{
ArticleHistory}} template, linking to the GA review subpage with the 'action#link' parameter.
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There are currently 4,675 Good Articles listed at
WP:GA.
The backlog at
Good Article Nominations is 141 unreviewed articles. Out of 186 total nominations, 28 are on hold, 14 are under review, and 3 are seeking a second opinion. Please go to
WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance!
The categories with the largest backlogs are: Theatre, film, and drama (28 articles), Sports and recreation (27 articles), Music (22 articles), Transport (18 articles), and War and military (13 articles).
There are currently 4 articles up for re-review at
Good Article Reassessment. Congratulations! There really is no "backlog" here! :-)
GA Sweeps is Recruiting Reviewers
We are once again recruiting new sweeps participants. Candidates should be very strong and comfortable in reviewing GA and familiar with the GA processes and
criteria. If you are interested, please contact
OhanaUnited for details.
GAN Reviewer of the Month
ThinkBlue (
talk·contribs) is the GAN Reviewer of the Month for July, based on the assessments made by
Dr. Cash on the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. ThinkBlue had a whopping 49 reviews during the month of July! ThinkBlue was also one of our two reviewers of the month from June, and has been editing Wikipedia since
December 1,
2006, and is interested in articles dealing with
Friends,
Will and Grace,
CSI:Miami,
Monday Night Raw,
Coldplay.
Congratulations to
Giggy (
talk·contribs) on being May's GAN Reviewer of the Month!
Other outstanding reviewers during the month of July include:
This WikiProject, and the
Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all!
GA Sweeps Process
The GA Sweeps process has recently reached its first year anniversary. If you are unaware of what GA Sweeps is, it is a process put in place to help ensure the integrity of the ever-growing number of GAs, by determining if the articles still meet the
GA criteria. Experienced reviewers check each article, improving articles as they review them, and delisting those that no longer meet the criteria. Reviewers work on a specific
category of GAs, and there are still many categories that need to be swept. In order to properly keep track of reviews, a
set date was used to determine what articles needed to be reviewed (since any future GAs would be passed according to the most recent GA criteria).
The number of GAs that were to be reviewed totals 2,808. Since the beginning of Sweeps, the progress has reviewed 981 by the end of July 2008 (or exempted them). For a table and chart breakdown of the current progress, see
here.
With more than twenty editors reviewing the articles, progress is currently a third of the way done. At this rate, it will take another two years to complete the Sweeps, and active involvement is imperative to completing on time. We are always looking for new reviewers, and if you are interested in helping in speeding up the Sweeps process and improving your reviewing skills, please contact
OhanaUnited.
Did You Know...
... that the goal of GA Sweeps is to reviewed all articles listed before
26 August2007?
... that the entire category of, "Meteorology and atmospheric sciences" has been swept?
... that of all subcategories, "Recordings, compositions and performances" in the Music category has the most articles (240 articles in total)?
The Reboot of
Wikiproject New Jersey has certainly stirred up some new activity at the project. Discussion on several improvements and new initiatives have been going on at the
talk page. There has been an involved
discussion regarding our 88unassessed articles, especially those on municipalities. The current goal is to review and assess all 566 New Jersey muncipality articles by September 30. A suggestion has been made to intiate Wikipedia Takes New Jersey to begin clearing the large backlog of articles needing photos. Let's all grab our cameras and head out into the vast wilds of the Garden State. Town Halls, High Schools, Historic Places - every article deserves a picture.
The following articles may be in need of attention:
WPNJ member
Mm40 has volunteered to coordinate a new WPNJ Collaboration project. It's been a while since we used the
NJCOTW and new volunteers are needed. Join the
discussion to volunteer.
Battle of Trenton was recently proposed as a Featured Article candidate. It was not promoted, but has now been nominated for A-Class review through the
Military History WikiProject. Take a look at their
A-Class FAQ. As we need to set up our own process for reviewing A-Class articles, it may be worth watching
the process.
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
The redesign has been well received. There are still some things left to do. This newsletter was one big check mark off the list. Hopefully this can be continued on a regular basis. There are literally thousands of articles in
Category:New Jersey that have not been tagged as part of the project, and stub sorting hasn't been run in 10 months. We will need to identify some friendly bot operators to help with these projects. An outreach department (which includes the newsletter) needs to be formalized. Creating an invitation template for easy placement on userpages will also be part of that effort.
There are lots of best practices described at the
WikiProject Council with ideas of how to make our project more responsive, welcoming, active, and effective. Task forces? Peer review? Other ideas welcome!
I just wanted to say that the response to my
bold makeover of WPNJ has been gratifying, but nothing will improve the project as much as more activity, and that means more members. There are lots of things to do in this new setup, and everyone with an interest should be able to find a way to contribute to the collaboration. I want to thank you all for the patience, the appreciation, and the effort. -
Jim Miller
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The
Maryland WikiProject has put together a great chart comparing the growth of several state WikiProjects, including WPNJ. Take a look at
the chart to see how the growth of WPNJ compares to some of our peer projects. Please remember to place the {{
WikiProject New Jersey}} tag on the talk pages of any New Jersey related articles you create or come across. You can also add the
new articles page to your watchlist. Some updates have been made to
the NJ Portal, but much more needs to be done. If a few volunteers can put together
Featured Article summmaries, we can automate rotating the portal content. The same can be done for DYK items. Please
take a look and see if you can assist.
The following articles may be in need of attention:
Selection is an automated process based on article assessments. To help avoid vandalism and POV concerns, specific versions of articles can be tagged for inclusion in the downloadable release. See the
New Jersey section of the bot results to recommend a production version. The process ends on October 20, and then a bot will select an appropriate version if none has been recommended.
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
Both
Jon Corzine and
The Sopranos were promoted to Good Article status in the past month. No WikiProject New Jersey articles were promoted to Featured article status.
Battle of Trenton was not listed as a Featured Article, and may need more editors to complete the remaining work to be promoted. Also, in an item that was missed last month,
Thomas Edison was delisted as a Good Article in July.
The WPNJ Assessment Drive is ongoing. Please help
assess all of the articles about
places in New Jersey. There are currently 88 articles that have not been assessed.
Fall has arrived, and with it will come a rush of new Wikipedians. Inviting new editors to join WPNJ is easy to do, and can help us improve our New Jersey articles. Keep an eye out for editors who work on NJ articles who can help the project. The Wikipedia Release version project is in its final stages for the next version. Take a look at the article lists, cleanup where you can, and nominate articles that should be included on the DVD version of WP. Lets make sure that those who end up with a downloaded copy of WP get solid articles about New Jersey. -
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A
new bot is patrolling Wikipedia workflows to let WPNJ members know when any of our articles may be in need of attention. Any article tagged with the WPNJ banner that has been added to one of the major workflows (AfD, FAC, GAN, etc.) will be added to a new project page. The bot runs daily, so add the new
Article Alerts page to your watchlist, or just check the
main project page to see the updates. See the
Article Alerts project page for details on how the bot works and which processes it covers.
The following articles may be in need of attention:
WPNJ received the following request for assistance with
New Jersey Devils articles: "The
WikiProject Ice Hockey is currently looking for editors to help update team articles about the
2008-09 NHL season. If you are interested in the NHL, please consider helping us keep these article current. To sign up, go to
this page and add your name beside the team or teams you wish to particpate in." See the
WPNJ talk page for more information.
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
No, not the state - the battleship! On October 15,
USS New Jersey (BB-62) was the Featured Article on the Wikipedia
main page. Featured articles receive heavier traffic when they are on the main page. Improving WPNJ articles to featured status can help drive more editors to our project.
Seems like a pretty light month in terms of activity at WPNJ. Personally, your editor was doing a lot of travelling and went on a wiki-free vacation for nine days. Time to dive back in and create some new NJ articles. - Jim MillerSee me |
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cookie! Cookies promote
WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cookie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy munching!
Spread the goodness of cookies by adding {{
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Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am sending you this message since you are a member of the GA WikiProject. I would like to invite you to consider helping with the GA sweeps process. Sweeps helps to ensure that the oldest GAs still meet the criteria, and improve the quality of GAs overall. Unfortunately, last month only two articles were reviewed. This is definitely a low point after our peak at the beginning of the process when 163 articles were reviewed in September 2007. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. All exempt and previously reviewed articles have already been removed from the list. Instead of reviewing by topic, you can consider picking and choosing whichever articles interest you.
We are always looking for new members to assist with the remaining articles, so if you are interested or know of anybody that can assist, please visit the
GA sweeps page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. If only 14 editors achieve this feat starting now, we would be done with Sweeps! Of course, having more people reviewing less articles would be better for all involved, so please consider asking others to help out. Feel free to stop by and only review a few articles, something's better than nothing! Take a look at the
list, and see what articles interest you. Let's work to complete Sweeps so that efforts can be fully focused on the backlog at GAN. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or
OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing!
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Hello, Mike 7 and thank you for your contributions on articles related to the works of
Lemony Snicket. I'd like to invite you to become a member of the Lemony Snicket task force, a task force aiming to improve coverage of
Lemony Snicket and related articles on Wikipedia.
If you would like to help out and participate, please visit the task force page for more information. Thanks! —
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Category Deletion Discussion -- Italian Americans
Pls note that there is a category deletion discussion re Italian Americans afoot at
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You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the
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Please note: This is an automatic notification by a
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Self-published book
I'm working on compiling a book containing information about almost all Non-indigenous ethnic groups living or working in Pakistan. The population of a particular ethnic group would be obtain respectively from their diplomatic missions in Pakistan including regions with significant populations, languages spoken and religious affiliations. I'm not very good with writing so it would be great, if you would like to collaborate with me.--
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Help with deletion box
I have contacted numerous admins and not one of them have replied hopefully you will, A article i wrote that ties in with
The ShakList Of The Shak Episodes has a deletion box above it, I fixed the problem with the article and three weeks on I'm still waiting on a reply. Yours Sincerly
User:Matt-tastic
Education Task Force - The conversion of the former WikiProject Education is New Jersey has been completed. New Jersey education-related articles are now supported by the Education task force. The
project banner has been updated to fully support the task force with independent importance ratings.
No More Comments - A proposal at the
Village Pump has resulted in the
deprecation of comments subpages. These were usually found at Talk:Article title/Comments and contained little more than assessment notes. These pages were not widely watched, and are often a hidden location for vandalism and
BLP violations. WPNJ has 104 articles that used these pages. A complete list of them, along with their contents, can be viewed at
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Deprecation of comments. It is up to the members of WPNJ to decide what to do with this information.
The following articles may be in need of attention:
Municipality template compromise; School Districts (almost) complete
New WPNJ members
Legislative templates in municipal articles - A rather lengthy
discussion ran from the end of August until the end of October regarding the use of our legislative district templates in articles about local municipalities. Many WPNJ members commented on the concept, and a
proposed compromise seems to have been reached. The templates will require some adjustments to fit the new wording, but should result in more directly relevant sections about County, State, and Federal representation in our articles on cities, towns, villages, townships, and boroughs. Hopefully, more dicussions like this can result is some kind of Manual of Style to bring greater standardization to all of these articles.
School District articles now comprehensive - WPNJ Founder
Alansohn recently reported that almost all of New Jersey's school districts now have articles - "I have created the article for the last missing (non-vocational) school district in the state." Congrats to Alansohn, who I am sure would love more members at the Education task force to help maintain these articles!
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
Editor's news. OK, so I am going to try this again. It's been a little over a year since our last edition, and activity at the project was a bit slow during that time. Things have picked up again over the last few months, so once more into the breech I go. I will try to produce this newsletter on a regular basis (bi-monthly?) to see if we can get some more activity going at WPNJ. Help is always appreciated, and there is plenty to do. - Jim MillerSee me |
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New Statistics Table There has been an upgrade to the
WP 1.0 bot that updates our project's
summary table. The new table lists all page classes including Portal-class, Redirect-class, and Disambig-class. We now have a better picture of the scope of the WikiProject and the pages that we cover. New York Times to charge for accessThe New York Times is an invaluable resource for properly referencing articles, but especially due to its extensive archives and coverage of New Jersey issues.
The announcement that metered content will be started in 2011 has the potential to make article sourcing much more difficult. It also causes a need to update linked sources in articles before all of the NYT links go dead. Any link can be archived on demand by
using WebCite. We can help avoid
dead links by archiving any article sources from the NYT.
The following articles may be in need of attention:
BLP Issue Boils Over There are discussions all over the 'pedia about deleting close to 50,000 unreferenced Biographies of Living People. We won't get into a rehash here, but let's just look at what we can do. There is a new item on the
project task list for sourcing BLPs. All articles that are in both
Category:People from New Jersey and
Category:All unreferenced BLPs are now available on
this work list. These articles need to be sourced,
PRODded, or sent to
AfD.
An ounce of preventionUnreferenced BLPs are one of the catgories regularly listed in the WPNJ
Cleanup listing. New articles are also a prime location to find articles that do not yet have references. You can keep an eye on the
New Articles list to help prevent the workload from getting any larger. Can we do more? There are bots that will automatically add the WPNJ Project Banner to all articles in our
designated categories if we have consensus to request it.
Join the discussion here.
Please welcome the following new members to WikiProject New Jersey:
No new WPNJ members since the last issue!
In NJ, politics means article updates
Help Wanted
New Leaders in NJ Government Over the past 2 weeks, new legislators have been sworn in, the legislature has new leadership, the 55th
Governor of New Jersey has been inaugurated, and we have our first
Lt. Governor. All new members of the Legislature have at least stub articles, and many of the templates have been updated.
Updating templates Many New Jersey articles utilize
stadardized templates to convey information. With elections happening as often as they do in this state, January is always a good time to review these templates and update them with new information. Does your town or county have new elected officials? It's maintainance time on many of our articles on
municipalities and
counties as well.
Outreach Run across any new editors on New Jersey-related articles? Invite them to join WPNJ!
Editor's news Must have been some winter holiday season in New Jersey, because the project
talk page has been unusually quiet. I thought with all that snow, many of us would be inside and doing things here at WP. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying a healthy and happy 2010!! - Jim MillerSee me |
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I have nominated
Jami Floyd, an article that you created, for
deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jami Floyd. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Sandstein 09:25, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
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April 2010 GAN backlog elimination drive
WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of April. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 200. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. Hope we can see you in April.
My name is Jonathan Obar
user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community
HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
So a few things about the interviews:
Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.
Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name
HERE instead.
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.
Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
While the parent organization (
Key Club) is reasonably notable, this particular district of it (one of 30) completely fails the
notability criteria for organizations. I have been unable to find any sigificant coverage of it in independent reliable sources
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your
edit summary or on
the article's talk page.
Thank you, Mike 7, for !voting at my successful RFA; I am humbled that you put your trust in me. I grant you this flower, which, if tended to properly, will grow to be the fruit of
Wikipedia's labours. —
Crisco 1492 (
talk) 11:33, 3 June 2012 (UTC)reply
You recently speedily deleted the article
Love Machine (dance troupe). While I realise its notability could be a matter of opinion, I do not believe it met the criteria for speedy deletion as it did include a significant claim to notability, in that they did have a significant, if brief, role in a very well-know British TV programme.
PatGallacher (
talk) 23:51, 16 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Thank you for your message. In reviewing the speedy deletion proposal and the article, the primary concern seems to be the lack of assertion of importance for the group. Do you believe you could possibly merge relevant information concerning this group into the article for The Benny Hill Show? I noticed there is no mention to Love Machine on that article, yet there is to the troupe that superseded Love Machine.
Michael (
talk) 08:04, 17 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Thanks, Mike. I looked over the user's contributions again and reduced the block to expire within 24 hours. The personal attack was indeed the reason for the block, and I cited vandalism due to edit summary vandalism, though citing personal attack as the reason would also have sufficed. Thank you again for your message.
Michael (
talk) 22:52, 17 June 2012 (UTC)reply
File deleted in error
Hi Mike 7
Yesterday I requested that a number of artciles in my workspace be deleted. It appears that
User:Martinvl/sandbox was deleted in error. Is it possible to restore this page?
Move a copy of a deleted article into a user's userspace?
Hi Mike! I'm writing on behalf of a user contesting a speedy on
Duotrope,
User:Rick Norwood. He's requested that the article be re-added so he can work on it and find sources. I didn't really find anything when I searched, but I have no problem with a copy of the article being moved into Rick's userspace so he can work on it and look for sources. I didn't know if you could do this or if he had to go through the undeletion request board. Rick wanted it readded to the mainspace, but I think it might be better for it to be added to his userspace so it doesn't get tagged for a speedy, prodded, or put to an AfD before he's finished.
Tokyogirl79 (
talk) 03:46, 20 June 2012 (UTC)reply
I, and most of the writers I talk to, find Duotrope a valuable resource for writers. It is useful, stable, and has been around for a long time. I am not connected with Duotrope, except that I use it to find markets for the stories I write. It certainly seems noteworthy to me. It is mentioned in 44 other Wikipedia articles and gets 274,000 hits on Google. I'd appreciate a chance to do more work on the article.
Rick Norwood (
talk) 12:49, 20 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Thank you both for the messages. Rick, I moved the article to your user space at
User:Rick Norwood/Duotrope so that you may continue working on it and locating sources. I also referred to the
What links here page and was only able to find three pages (including our two talk pages) linking to
Duotrope, so I'm not sure if you were looking at a different page, but it does not appear we have a large number of red links for the page. Links to Duotrope articles used as sources don't appear as red links on the pages on which they appear since they're typically not linked to our article space. Also, we can't determine something to be notable based on cross-referencing to other Wikipedia articles; we definitely need external sources. Best of luck as you continue to work on this article!
Michael (
talk) 06:46, 21 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Mate, Why did you revert my user talk page? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
60.242.91.165 (
talk) 12:23, 21 June 2012 (UTC)reply
ANI heads up
Hi, Mike. One of your deletions is under discussion (such as it were) at
ANI. Just letting you know. :) --
Moonriddengirl(talk) 12:29, 21 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Thanks for letting me know!
Michael (
talk) 03:26, 25 June 2012 (UTC)reply
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Indef block of Helvitica Bold - "vandalism only account"?
I noticed after seeing the deletion of revisions in the
Abigail and Brittany Hensel article that you also blocked Helvitica Bold(talk·contribs·block log) indefinitely, as a "Vandalism-only account"; but from the user's contribution history it appears that only the last one or two contributions could be labeled as such, the rest appear to have been constructive (maybe the account was left logged in somewhere or the password was broken?). An indefinite block with no prior warning to the user seems to be skipping a bit of normal process.
John Darrow (
talk) 06:48, 27 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Perhaps I should have selected "Vandalism" as opposed to "Vandalism-only account" in the block rationale dropdown. In addition to the edit to
Abigail and Brittany Hensel article that required revision deletion due to its content, I noticed additional edits that made the account suspect:
12 In addition to these, I'm not sure if you had access to the following, but this is an excerpt from the userpage, which was deleted following the block:
"She does still date occasionally, but Helvitica has high moral standards: she only dates very good, upstanding, clean-looking, familiar long-time titty-bar customers. Or anyone she doesn't think is a cop or a shill for her boss making sure she isn't selling her "two nipples, [nicely-trimmed sex organ], and your little smart-whore ASS hole again and putting my business in peril from the law god dammit".
Finally, if this user page distracts you, do what the Shaman of the New York Algonquin tribe did when physical desire became unendurable:
MASTURBATE!"
The user also concludes on her userpage by stating the following: "[She is] eager to read this when she's sober to see WTF she posted on the internet THIS time." I'm not sure if the most recent edits are an instance in which the user may have been inebriated (the userpage reads very sarcastically throughout, however) or if you are correct in that the account may have been compromised (in which case we would definitely not want to go ahead and unblock the account, least not without an appeal from the user, who would then need to take steps to then ensure the account was secured, were the unblock granted). In either case, the user has the option to request that she be unblocked.
Michael (
talk) 07:50, 27 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Just to let you know, this user has incurred escalating blocks previously of 31h, 1 and 2 weeks, so I'm not sure that 72h will deter him much this time. I forgot to tick the box, but he resumed editing within 24h of block release.
Elizium23 (
talk) 08:25, 27 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Ah, thank you, Elizium23. Prior to blocking, I only noticed the block shown on the talk page. Upon closer inspection, I saw the other two in the user's block history. In light of this IP's continued disruptive conduct over time, I've increased the block to 21 days.
Michael (
talk) 08:34, 27 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Excellent of you. Thanks much.
Elizium23 (
talk) 08:47, 27 June 2012 (UTC)reply
You're welcome! Thanks for cluing me in.
Michael (
talk) 08:48, 27 June 2012 (UTC)reply
Thanks!
Thanks for participating in my RFA! I appreciate your support.
Zagalejo^^^ 06:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)reply
SYSTRAN or Systran
Hi Mike 7, may I have your attention
here?--
Narayan (
talk) 18:30, 6 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Thanks for your message. I'll comment on the linked page.
Michael (
talk) 05:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Could you please provide a copy of deleted article.
Hello. I wish if you could provide me a copy of
this deleted article or userfy it to my space. I shall be obliged to you. Thanks VIVEK RAI :
Friend? 08:25, 18 July 2012 (UTC)reply
I have moved the article you were editing to
User:Vivek Rai/Ram Kishore Shukla for your reference. In order to make edits pertaining to the subject of the article, it would be best to expand upon the existing article at
Ram Kishore Shukla.
Michael (
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Hello Drmies - Usernames that could be reasonably perceived by users as belonging to users who are somehow affiliated with the Foundation may be blocked. However, the user is free to request a new name.
Michael (
talk) 23:52, 25 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Unblock
Hello, Mike. After thinking very long and carefully, I have taken the (for me) unusual step of unblocking a user you blocked without consulting you first. You blocked
Helvitica Bold indefinitely, giving the reason as "Vandalism-only account". I have looked at a sample of 20 of the user's 153 edits excluding their user page, and did not find a single one that I could conceive of anyone calling "vandalism". Even if there were vandalism edits somewhere among them that I missed, this cannot possibly be described as a "vandalism-only account". The user page contained some silly editing, and it might be debatable whether to call it "use of Wikipedia for inappropriate humour" or "vandalism", but at the most it might have justified a warning. An indefinite block on a user with a significant history of positive contributions because of a silly user page seems dubious, and for such a block to be imposed without any warnings is surely unacceptable. If I have missed something which puts the block in a different light than that in which I have seen it then please let me know.
JamesBWatson (
talk) 12:09, 25 July 2012 (UTC)reply
Hello JamesBWatson - The block actually came following the need for revision deletion on the
Abigail and Brittany Hensel article (on June 24th) due to content inserted by
Helvitica Bold.
John Darrow had inquired about this block on my talk page on June 27th (see above). I laid out my reasoning there and explained that perhaps instead of "vandalism-only account" I should have simply selected "vandalism". Given the editor's history (with the exception of that which was mentioned on the user page), it seemed possible that the account had been compromised.
Michael (
talk) 23:14, 25 July 2012 (UTC)reply
My RfA
Thank you for participating at my
RfA. I appreciate your sentiments and hope I'll continue to see you around on Wikipedia. Take care. =)
Kurtis (
talk) 16:18, 17 August 2012 (UTC)reply
Bussetti - page reinstatement
Hi Mike 7 - I am going to reinstate a page you deleted back in 2007 - that of a band called Bussetti, who are no longer together. Disclaimer - I was their bassist. There are now several pages that mention this band, including
this one,
this one, and
this one, plus there are several external sites that reference the band and their work (e.g.
here). I hope this is OK - do get in touch if you disagree.
HenryScow (
talk) 17:26, 2 September 2012 (UTC)reply
Deletion of Beta Sigma Theta
Mike,
I discovered today that on 24 June you deleted the article Beta Sigma Theta, and on 25 June left me a note on a potential conflict of interest regarding edits I've made over the years on the page.
I would like to open a dialog with you to have the page undeleted. I am unaware if a deletion discussion initiated, though I expect from the CSD A7 label one was not. I am on the surface unable to differentiate my recollection of the page content against most of the other local fraternities listed in
List_of_social_fraternities_and_sororities#Local_organizations. I would like to ask on what criteria you deleted the page, offer mitigation to those points, and outline further evidence of notability, with the ultimate result being the undeletion of the page.
Thanks,
Matt
(As a sidebar, I appreciate your dedication to the ethos of Wikipedia with the NPOV comment. I would like to note that I take the NPOV seriously, particularly in relation to subjects with which I am familiar, as I hope is evident in the body of edits and contributions I've made to Wikipedia over the years.) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Wolfraem (
talk •
contribs) 22:15, 4 September 2012 (UTC)reply
Hi Matt - I apologize for my delay in responding. If you refer to those links, the vast majority lead to sections on individual school's pages (or pages concerning Greek life at those schools), so if you believe the organization is relevant enough, there's no reason not to merge it into the school article.
Michael (
talk) 06:11, 27 September 2012 (UTC)reply
Hi Mike, not a worry, I appreciate hearing back. I hope you'll forgive my continued perseverance. The organization is one of the oldest local fraternities at Michigan Tech and the last remaining chapter to survive after the schism of chapters from Beta Sigma Psi in the early 1970's. The organization has been significant to student life through its tenure, and is notable as a part of regionally and nationally relevant activities at the university. Sourcing and citing is difficult due to the unique conditions the Upper Peninsula presents—the region is very poor outside the three Universities—regional newspapers still do not have reliable internet-accessible archives and other non-periodical news sources are often still distributed purely in print. There are independent sources of information available, however—in library archives, etc.—they just require time to collect and verify.
I note relevant deletion discussions which resulted in "Keep" determinations:
Alpha Chi Alpha,
Adelphikos,
Talk:Chi_Heorot. All three have similar regional importance and were Kept in order to allow improvement to sourcing and expansion of content. Beta Sigma Theta is at least as relevant as those three organizations are to their respective universities and communities. Topics related to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan region are important, but by the nature of the region they are less likely to have the volume of potentially interested contributors a topic from populous regions would have. These topics are still important, however, to the quality and breadth of Wikipedia as an encyclopedia.
I would therefore request the opportunity offered the editors of those other local organizations, to allow contributors to add independent references and improve on the significance of the organization. Thanks again,
Wolfraem (
talk) 02:53, 15 October 2012 (UTC)reply
To give you an opportunity to work on expanding the article (with sources and assertions of notability), I have restored the page and moved it to your userspace. To view and edit it, you can go to
User:Wolfraem/Beta Sigma Theta. Please let me know if you need anything else or have any questions.
Michael (
talk) 02:17, 18 October 2012 (UTC)reply
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Wolfraem (
talk) 19:28, 20 November 2012 (UTC)reply
Thank you
Thank you for taking the time to participate in my RfA. I hope that I will be able to improve based on the feedback I received and become a better editor.
AutomaticStrikeout 22:14, 16 October 2012 (UTC)reply
HiSilicon
Hi, you deleted the article about HiSilicon, a company creating
SoC for
Huawei, a major worldwide telcommunication company. They was 3rd party sources in the Article (ARM.com and some other sources), so it doesn't seem to fill the {{
a7}} criteria. If necessary other reliable source like
EE Times can be added. Could you then explain me why for you deleted it? Thanks
Popolon (
talk) 21:00, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
Here are some notables references :reply
An editor has asked for a
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HiSilicon. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.
Hi Mike 7,
Delaney and Manuel are different persons. They are not 1 same person. Caren is only credit it for winx (4Kids) and Delaney credit it for Rouge. Delaney it's a real name of a actress not a alias of Manuel.--
Maxie1hoi (
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Age?
When you were you born? July 19 or 20 in 1990? I prefer George H.W. Bush administration on your page than Generation Y. --
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