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On 3 October 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chord Overstreet, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Hi Fetch, Thanks for the good work auditing Wikipedia content. "Darwish M.K.F. Al Gobaisi" is an article that was deleted and I am resubmitting it. Reading the different help articles/feedback to try and meet Wikipedia standards. Any tips/help would be appreciated. The article now is a work in progress - I hope to have it done in the next few days (hoping also that it doesnt get deleted immediately).
Thanks and Regards, V —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinayaka94 (talk • contribs) 07:40, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
I and Dr.K. (talk · contribs) agree that Inka 888 is ready for the rollback permission. I will contact several people and feel free to discuss on my talk page.--Talktome(Intelati) 20:51, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Can you direct me to the discussion about the deletion of this page? I understand that it sounded like adverstisement/self-endorsement, but the fact is that it was written by fans who took content from the radio show's website. The article was heavily flawed, but Lex and Terry are significant enough to warrant an article. A nationally syndicated radio show is pretty signifcant, I would think. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would like to see the deletion discussion. (I'm extremely rusty with Wikipedia.) Thanks. 71.170.58.183 (talk) 04:45, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Fetchcomms, recently you signed up to help with assessment on Wikiproject: United States Public Policy. This project is probably different than other assessment drives you have worked on, it involves more assessment of lower ranked articles, it has input and staff from the foundation, and specific goals to improve and measure content of public policy articles. It also involves collaboration from some university classes, we are using an experimental assessment rubric, and most articles will be assessed by multiple reviewers to get a range of scores for each article. It's a lot to digest, and totally understandable if it's not what signed up for. However, there are also some exciting perks to this project: 1) your assessments are part of research that is attempting to increase credibility of Wikipedia in academic circles, 2) there is a great group of assessors involved in discussion of what is article quality and how to measure it, 3) WP:USPP is also piloting the Article Feedback tool, so those involved in assessment on the project will be asked to help improve and rate this tool as well, 4) subject matter experts are assessing articles alongside Wikipedians and comparisons of results will provide some insight as to the rigor of Wikipedia quality rating, and 5) other interesting benefits you will find with participation.
The first group of articles requesting your assessment has been posted. I was hoping to do a preliminary comparison of the data on 8 October 2010. The second assessment request, which is part of the same comparison, will go out about the same time. To help with organization, if you haven't posted any assessment scores on your assessment page by 8 October 2010, I will delete your assessment request and you will not receive further requests. I hope the unusualness of this assessment research does not discourage your participation; if you are not interested working in the research I hope you will continue to assess articles within the project. If possible let me know on my talk page if you don't wish to be a part of the research, or perhaps if there was some confusion or bad communication; what the public policy team, and I, in particular, can do to make it more positive for volunteers. Remember, I am new to Wikipedia and trying to learn the best way to research this project, to hopefully integrate the amazing resource that is Wikipedia onto more university campuses and classrooms. Thanks, ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 22:36, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Not sure this is even worth bringing up but crazy issues sometimes get stuck in my craw. I _think_ the correct result of should be keep because after sources were found there were 4 keeps (3 of which I'd say are policy-based) and 2 deletes (one policy based though pretty clearly mistaken). The early !votes were all pretty much "no sources, so not notable" and so should be ignored at this point. After the last relist no one else commented, not sure if that was a TLDR problem or the error in the relisting or what. I honestly don't care about the article but the close seems off. Thoughts? Either way I think this is an interesting AfD and would make for a good RfA question--it's not trivial. Hobit (talk) 17:41, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Did you think to ask me or Smartse about the draft in the Incubator on Protest in the United Kingdom before deleting it? Luckily I have the tools so can restore it by myself to my userspace. Fences&Windows 23:24, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Congratulations for your edit (Difference between revisions) on Fly America Act article. You have removed Category:Article Feedback Pilot, all other categories and the link to the same article on the Japanese Wikipedia! Well done! Congratulations once again! Please, pay more attention next time! Thanks. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 15:34, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
How do you make a template similar to the one on my user page? Inka888Come yell at me! 01:28, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, you have been sent this notification because your name appears on the list of participants for the WikiProject Wikify October 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive yet you have not had any wikified articles.
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Greetings fetchcomms. This is Jordan again. I just want to ask you if the St. Louis and Kansas City article are close to feature article status. If no how can I contribute to it. Also I have just created Almost five St. Louis Working groups and for some reason, I can't get the category on the template to appear. How do you solve this problem? Please get back to me.(Jordan S. Wilson (talk) 19:10, 8 October 2010 (UTC))
For the categories, I updated Template:WikiProject St. Louis, so they should now show up. Hope this helped! /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 23:54, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
You're better then me :| I have to go learn new div commands to catch up =) ResMar 03:15, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
...But of course, your tactics will not succeed. I can't think of anything right now to do anyway, so back to Wikipedia for me! ^^ ResMar 02:36, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for being hard on me. Sometimes a slap in the face is just what I need.
The Show Me Award | ||
Thanks for being so hard on me. You really "Show me" how to do it. :) --Talktome(Intelati) 04:35, 9 October 2010 (UTC) |
Ok, so I'm no longer the first to jump on the log at 0:00GMT but at least I beat you to the relists today :) However, when closing this one you forgot to remove the {{rescue}} tag. When closing an AFD you should check to article to see if there is a rescue tag that needs to be removed as well as making sure the script removed the AFD tag, it doesn't always do it.
On the subject of closing a little early, there have been several AN and DELPRO threads about this issue so when you do the midnight "log jump", only close the "slam-dunkers". Let the "coin flippers" and the "1 voters" tick out the full 168. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:27, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Fetchcomms, may you please take a look at my first AfC review here and make sure I didn't miss anything? Thank you, Airplaneman ✈ 00:47, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
I suppose I should've timed this message at 10:10:10 too, but frankly, I can't be arsed. You know how it is.
Did you know... that tenten in Japaense writing are a little wiggly thing, a bit like a quotation-mark, which makes e.g. "ka" (か) into "ga" (が) or "fu" (ふ) into "bu" (ぶ) ?
So, take time out to have a bit of a giggle.
All the best, and 10-10 'till we do it again. Chzz ► 08:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
If you have the time, could you please take a quick look at the Neil Carlill article that I am writing here and possibly provide any comments that might help me to improve the article prior to submission? Thank you for any help. Doc2234 (talk) 15:56, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Please see my hypothetical example below. Is there a way to take two separate sortable tables and "stack" them, one on top of the other? (So that, really, it is one big table that is an aggregation of two smaller sortable tables.) In the example below, there are 12 rows (and 5 columns). Above Row #1, I would want to add a new row as a header entitled "These are the AM Stations". And in between Row #6 and Row #7, I would want to add a new row as a header entitled "These are the FM Stations". But, I still would want the AM stations sortable in the top half ... and the FM stations sortable in the bottom half. But, I would want this all as one large table, instead of two separate tables. Is this at all possible? If so, how do I do that? The charts below are just a hypothetical example, to illustrate what I want to do. Thanks. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 23:24, 10 October 2010 (UTC))
Should I be concerned? I'm not sure what to do in this case. :/--Talktome(Intelati) 02:32, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
As I understand it there is consensus that 7 days = 7 x 24 hours. If you close early, you forclose those people who do follow the rules from participating. DGG ( talk ) 04:21, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there Fetchcomms! You may be wondering, what have I done to sound the alarm this time? Nothing. I'm messaging you in regards to the adopt-a-user program, which currently has a backlog of users wishing to be adopted. This doesn't make much sense, as we have a considerable list of users offer adoption, so there shouldn't be any backlog. I've begun to eliminate this backlog myself through a matching program, but I need your help to make it work. Of course, adoptees and adopters don't have to go through there, but I believe it helps eliminate the backlog because someone is actively matching pairs.
On the list of adopters, I have modified the middle column to say "Interests." It's easier working with other users that have similar interests, so if it's not too much to ask, could you add your interests in the middle column? For example, if I was interested in hurricanes, computers, business, and ... reptiles? I would place those in the middle column. Counter-vandalism and the like can also be included (maintenance should be used as the general term). The more interests, the better, since adoptees can learn more about you and choose the one they feel most comfortable working with. The information about when you're most active and other stuff can go into the "Notes" section to the right.
Finally, I've gone around and asked adoptees (and will in the future) to fill in a short survey so adopters can take the initiative and contact users they feel comfortable working with. We all know that most adoptees just place the adopt me template on their user page and leave it - so it's up to us to approach them and offer adoption. So, please take a look at the survey, adopt those that fit your interests, and maybe watchlist it so you can see the interests of adoptees and adopt one that fits your interests in the future.
Once again, thank you for participating in the adopt-a-user program! If you wish to respond to this post, please message me on my talk page.
Delivered by MessageDeliveryBot on behalf of Netalarm (talk) at 05:15, 11 October 2010 (UTC).
Was this edit unconstructive? Wayne Olajuwon chat 14:19, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
I should have never made that mistake because I have used Huggle only for almost a month. Wayne Olajuwon chat 14:24, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
1: When did you become an administrator?
2: Do you know any semi-protected articles that are prone to vandalisim because I need something to do on here?
Thanks Pretend that a smilie face is here because I don't know how to make one --Thebirdlover (talk) 00:56, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
I didn't really want to write anything but I wasn't able to get it to just be the awards. --Thebirdlover (talk) 01:16, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
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Edit wars on both pages on the same thing, by the same IP's. Semi protect is needed, after that I will take care of what needs to be there. Thankyou. Tofutwitch11 (TALK) 01:14, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Fetchcomms, thanks for contributing to article assessment in WP:USPP. Your continued involvement would be very appreciated. There is a second assessment request posted. There will be weekly updates about the research for this project posted here, look for the first one tomorrow. The next assessment request will come in early November. There is a lot of expertise and discussion about article quality happening in the project, so if you have any thoughts on the metric, or any ideas keeping project research exciting please let me know. ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 01:33, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
Please block It's Now or Never (talk · contribs) (liked the name haha)... --Diego Grez (talk) 01:45, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
This looked like a "delete" to you and at first glance it looked like a "delete" to me. Imagine my surprise when this AFD was used as a question in a recent RFA and the candidate said he'd keep it. Taking another look at it, it looks like the keepers were making a decent case. Maybe that's why Cirt relisted it a second time.
When an admin re-relists what looks like a slam dunk "keep" or "delete" it gives me pause. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 04:21, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I tried to use it for my signature and it won't work. It says it's invalid. Click edit to see the code Inka888ContribsTalk
Inka888Come yell at me! 19:20, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
I put "helpme" on a sandbox page as I wanted to see how editors are able to find that page when "helpme" is added (the answer is that it puts one into a category). Sorry, I should have pointed out on the page that it was a test edit. ScottyBerg (talk) 01:54, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello, your nomination of Ike Robin at DYK was reviewed and comments provided. --NortyNort (Holla) 09:35, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, from some other articles that I have watchlisted I saw that you removed the links to INRA, because is had been speedily deleted as spam. INRA is a rather big research agency here in France and absolutely notable. I never saw that article, I think, and I don't doubt that it was overly promotional, but perhaps you can userfy it to my user space? I'd like to see whether I can perhaps make something useful out of it and it might be easier to pare this one down than to start from scratch (or course, sometimes the latter just is better). Thanks! --Crusio (talk) 08:23, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
User Rizzoli Isles, formerly Langston Bonasera - was reported and repeatedly counseled about doing this. After about 6 weeks, he has uploaded another image, and after it was tagged & removed, simply uploaded it again. You had left a message he would be blocked on both accounts for doing this if he did it again. Would you please check on this? Thank you. Trista (cannot log in at work) 24.176.191.234 (talk) 18:19, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to comment on your deletion of the Lucy Mangan article.
This article was listed for deletion in AFD in bad faith by an administrator who had a personal beef with me over a comment I made on an article talk page that was directed at his recent edits on the page and decided to plaster it with boxes, stalk my page for any further comments and so on.
I believe This Wikipedia admin User:Toddst1 is violating WP:GAME (by following the rules to their advantage when they feel like it) and WP:ADMIN (by personally involving themselves e.g. making AFD's out of spite (as already suggested) and blocking me because I disagreed with their behaviour) and WP:HA by Wikihounding. For example, despite it being very early in the morning, this administrator made a knee-jerk reaction when I posted something on my userspace User Talk:Badanagram disagreeing with his tactics. The fact that this admin did this within minutes of my response shows that this admin was actively toting for a reason to block me whilst giving the impression to others that this was passive.
I know that I probably cannot ask for this article to be put back - but I would like someone to review the Admins recent decisions made and also make the admin community aware of his over-the-top behaviour in relation to an isolated incident that only required a deletion of the comment in this instance. Instead this admin decided that I had sockpuppets, I had created my IP address to be abusive to him (one comment) and making AFD listings on one of my articles, blocking my IP, making boxes linking ALL my identities DESPITE my change of name request being accepted for very good reason then changing his reasons for the block when he realised it was too weak - to add insult to injury the admin bullied me in to accepting some kind of deal on my userpage as if he was some kind of LAPD cop!
This admin is completely over the top in exercising his admin tools and I do not beleive he is fit to hold these tools if he continues to abuse them in this manner. Behaviour like this will make most casual editors like myself beleive that Wikipedia is nothing more than a meritocracy Badanagram (talk) 18:51, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for that - I think it looks fine with the field used, and without. :) (that was one of the only combinations I didn't try, lol!) Is there a general place to go for template fixing help? --Malkinann (talk) 21:44, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
On 17 October 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ike Robin, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
I found you have deleted the page created by me for K.V.Dominic. He is a reputed living writer of India English Writing. He has published nine books, innumerable articles, both critical and creative. He is also the chief editor of a journal IJPCL ( Indian Journal of Post Colonial Literature). I think such personality should possess a calibre to enlist in Wikipedia. If the article on him needs any more addition to cope with Wikipedian Category, it should be tagged with a comment. But I don't think deletion is theonly way to clean up any article. I hope you should again post it with any suggestive comment tag for clean up. Thanks for your effort for Wiipedia.Kanu786 (talk) 01:07, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
This is the first time I have seen a closer double close himself :) --Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:51, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to point out that I added some references to the article Turbo (Gobots) after the nomination, and the original nominator agreed that it proved the character was more notable than he thought and he revoked his nomination. Most of the votes to merge it also took place before I added the references. It really should stay now that the nominator is happy that the reason it was nominated has been fixed. Mathewignash (talk) 16:55, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
According to the time stamp I added the last new ref at 17:20 on the 10th of October. After that time only ONE redirect vote occured. With me and the nominator voting to keep the article now, that's 2 keep and 1 Redirect. Mathewignash (talk) 23:25, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, why did you delete Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ? If you look at the list of contributors, you surely can't be accusing all of them of collaborating in a five year exercise to promote INRA, an organisation which has no need for promotion given it has no funding concerns. John Vandenberg (chat) 03:18, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, fetchcomms, I'm looking for a mentor. I'm part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy comprised of graduate students across the United States who will be adding to the public policy knowledge available on Wikipedia. I'm at Indiana University and my class is focusing on local economic development.
Thanks!
Speon (talk) 12:30, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! Yes, I'm mentoring Kcahlber. For Syracuse coordination, one thing you could do is try to make sure all the possible DYKs happen, and remind mentors to help the mentees get there.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 12:32, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Greetings from the Guild of Copy Editors Backlog Elimination Drive!
The Wikipedia Guild of Copy-Editors invites you to participate in the November 2010 Backlog Elimination Drive, a month-long effort to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy-editing. The drive will begin on 1 November at 00:00 (UTC) and will end on 30 November at 23:59 (UTC). The goal for this drive is to reduce the backlog by 10% (approximately 500 articles). We hope to focus our efforts on the oldest three months (January, February, and March 2009) and the newest three months (September, October, and November 2010) of articles in the queue. Sign-up has already begun at the November drive page, and will be open throughout the drive. If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a message on the drive's talk page. Before you begin copy-editing, please carefully read the instructions on the main drive page. Please make sure that you know how to copy-edit, and be familiar with the Wikipedia Manual of Style. Awards and barnstars A range of barnstars will be awarded to active participants, some of which are exclusive to GOCE drives. More information on awards can be found on the main drive page. Thank you; we look forward to meeting you on the drive! |
Hi Fetchcomms! First, I do not know if I am replying to your message correctly... I hope that I am, though! No, I do not yet have a mentor. With how busy things have been around campus, I must admit that I have not gotten to that step. So yes, please, sign me up as an apprentice! I believe our final draft is to be submitted on October 28, so I clearly have some more substantive work to do as well as some (re)formating. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nerdpenguin (talk • contribs) 16:41, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
Opps! I did not sign in.... Nerdpenguin (talk) 16:44, 20 October 2010 (UTC) I am nerdpenguin and I was replying to your message on my "my talk" page re the wiki public policy initiative on the NDP in Egypt.
Hi,
On ANI you comment "Too many controversial edits this frequently?" I would be interested to know which edits you find controversial, and how frequent you think they are. Rich Farmbrough, 23:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC).
Thanks for getting that. I was actually making the same edit and was surprised that the page existed when I hit click. You work fast. Now, of course, it's going to be a bit harder to finish the closing, but I can do the last two steps the long way. I would have had to anyways, I suppose. Thanks again, Sven Manguard Talk 02:55, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Tim Song/afchelper4.js');
. Then, bypass your cache, and you should see either a new tab or a new drop-down menu choice saying "Review". Click on that when looking at an AfC page, and then you'll see a box come up at the top with choices of how to review the article, plus a comment box. /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 02:21, 23 October 2010 (UTC)Hi Fetchcomms/Archive 12,
We're starting to get into the busy part of the semester for Online Ambassadors, and we want to check in and see how you're doing, what your opinions about where we are now, and any feedback you may have.
Please answer these questions either on my talk page or send them to me by email.
1. How many mentees are you currently working with?
2. Have you reached out to students who don't have mentors yet? If not, would you be willing to?
3. What do you think of the content of messages on the Google Group?
4. What do you think of the volume of messages on the Google Group?
5. Do you participate on the Google Group much? If not, what would make you participate more?
6. Are there any problems you've experienced so far?
7. Is there anything else Sage or the rest of the Public Policy Initiative team could do to make your experience as an Online Ambassador better?
8. Are you okay sharing your username with your answers to our Public Policy Initiative team, or would you prefer to remain anonymous?
Thanks for your feedback! --Ldavis (Public Policy) (talk) 19:24, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Fetchcomms, I recently added information to the Steve Ferrone and Warren Cuccurullo pages sourced from Modern Drummer magazine. The information about their having formed a group was sourced from a late September Modern Drummer Web News update. When I sourced the information, I added the retrieval date in my annotation of the reference. It is apparent that Modern Drummer revises information on their Web News update page without revising the URL. The information about their group has been just recently replaced. I am trying to source another good reference to cover the group. I am also currently involved in an edit war on both pages with an unregisterd reader/editor who is deleting the information. I have asked that the unregistered reader/editor discuss the issue on the talk pages before making any further edits. I would like to know if my reference with the retrieval date is still proper, although that information may no longer be available. (I have a copy of the full posting at that time, and I have removed the URL from the reference on both pages.) Also, if the reader/editor does not discuss the issue and continues to edit war, can his activity be curtailed so that I may search without distraction for another source this weekend? Doc2234 (talk) 03:04, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
moved Margareth Tomanek W55 Record to Template:Margareth Tomanek W55 Record [without redirect] (AN request)
Alright so there are references, but are they actually legit references? One of them is just it's location on google maps, another is a truck show page, and another is an internet radio. Not sure about the other one, but most of the references are bs, I think the deletion request should be reinstated, what do you think?NexCarnifex (talk) 00:07, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Are you going to go edit the article to make it verifiable then? Since from what I know and what other people will, it's not notable and to top it looks like garbage. I don't know how to use the Afd process.NexCarnifex (talk) 00:34, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank youNexCarnifex (talk) 00:50, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi, recently I found this image was deleted. Plz I do not understand what the point behind this !! My friend this image has high significance to the article -- "Rajinikanth" in para "Politics". We/myself as a true wikipedian after researching many times whether an image will be suitable to an article based on merit only, we upload it. I beleive Our efforts must be given some consideration. Constantly reviewing it as an violation of non-free media is not fair and by itself it violates. Please see that, this image was a published one in news-article in 1996. It deserves the mention there. Reviewers please do take care more on these kind of images which has high significance and done neutral way to make the article more informative & complete.
Point is wiki - over a period of time has to grow, and article construction also need to grow. So it should be allowed if done a good work satisfying it rules. I did a good work there. Please reload it.
--Ungal Vettu Pillai (talk) 03:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
There is no critical commentary of the image itself in the article. If anything a fair use image of "Rajinikanth riding a bicycle from the film Annamalai" would make much more sense as it is discussed in the article.
As such fails NFCC 8 as the image does nothing to aid in understanding the text it is supposedly representing and NFCC 1 as the subjects are still living.
User:Mono/TB Ⓢock 22:49, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Nolelover It's football season! 04:48, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Another one. :) Nolelover It's football season! 05:05, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I am interested in volunteering at the Arbitration elections, mostly out of a desire to help Wikipedia, but also out of an intellectual curiosity spurred on my my academic training in political science. I have three questions.
Please use a talkback to inform me if you respond.
Thanks, Sven Manguard Talk 22:39, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Not that I don't like Fetchcomms, but coordinating outselves on his talk page might not be the best idea. I looted the relivent material from his page and set up a workspace for us at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2010/Coordination. I do believe we should keep our future communications there, or elsewhere in "Wikipedia:" space, for transparency, posterity, and efficiency reasons. Sven Manguard Talk 01:20, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Fetchcomms, This relates to my "Reference problem with edit war" post a few sections above. History - In an edit, I used a quote from a reference that showed the quote, and I linked to the site and identified a retrieval date in my reference annotation. The quote was taken from a news posting. The administrator of that referenced news posting page subsequently deleted the information including the quote, and provided new information on the page (exact same URL). The administrator does not maintain any archive of the old information (per my discussion with their site administrator.) I searched an archive internet page site and found no alternate source to use for a link. I subsequently have removed the link to the site in my reference, but have kept the quote in the text, along with the reference showing the source and retrieval date. Question - Can I maintain the quote as I originally wrote the edit with my reference as it is currently displayed, or should I delete the quote and the reference? The reference is reference 2. on the Steve Ferrone page. (I have a personal copy of the page as it was when it was a valid reference.) Doc2234 (talk) 23:22, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey Fetchcomms, the- from IRC referred me to your http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fetchcomms/fr page saying you were looking for help in translating the article. I myself am interested in updating an English language article using info from the equivalent French language article, and was looking for guidance on how to go about it (hence the visit to IRC). I have read the Wikipedia:Translation page, but as a relative newbie (whose only edits so far have been minor spelling/grammar changes), I was hesitant to tackle such a project on my own.
I would be glad to help out with the translation of the Meat Preservation article (although I must admit, that some of the french terms have got me stumped as to a translation), and would very much appreciate your guidance in how to go about translating another article.
Let me know how I can help. Joe Cotugno (talk) 03:56, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi fetchcomms, how are you today? I was hoping that you would be my mentor in the final weeks of our wikipedia public policy initiative. A final draft should be available in my sandbox tomorrow morning, and I've already gotten a substantial start. My sandbox is the place to be! Thank you! Nerdpenguin (talk) 21:12, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
User:Fetchcomms has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, Peace, A record of your Day will always be kept here. |
For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it.
For a user ribbon you can use, see — Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 28 October 2010 (UTC)On 29 October 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Thermization, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
You have been invited to comment in a special Request for Constructive Criticism page. I am looking for areas in which I can improve. I have identified you as both an experienced and trusted Wikipedian, and as someone that has had sufficient contact with me to able to recognize areas in which I can improve.
Please feel free to visit and post any comments or criticism you have. At a certain point, I cannot improve if no one tells me what I need to work on. Thanks in advance, Sven Manguard Talk 00:27, 31 October 2010 (UTC) |
Hi fetchcomms, The 12th amendment stuff was just so I could practice putting things in wikipedia format. I'm putting the workforce development article on wikipedia now and two of my classmates are planning on filling the holes. I know the article is probably considered a stub as-is but we should be working on it more this week. Thanks, Speon (talk) 05:26, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Seelbach Hotel at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Demiurge1000 (talk) 09:18, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Please, try to help sort that out.
I really really am 'away' now; but it's a shame if that does not make DYK. Chzz ► 18:27, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Hey Fetchcomms! I just wanted to say thank you for cleaning up the references section and the article article in general. It looks a whole lot better! Amfarr21 (talk) 19:10, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
{{reflist}}
) and embed the links under the titles, like you have under the "Notes" section (so it looks like Title rather than http://example.com). You can, use {{cite web}}, {{cite book}} etc. for that list, too, if you want to convert that whole list, which will take a while. Again, it's not a big deal, but just something you might want to do later if you think it looks better. Cheers, /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 21:22, 31 October 2010 (UTC)The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to TonyTheTiger (submissions), with 2260, and third to Casliber (submissions), with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists – White Shadows (submissions), William S. Saturn (submissions), Staxringold (submissions) and ThinkBlue (submissions). Also, congratulations to Sasata (submissions), who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.
Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is Casliber (submissions), for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is Staxringold (submissions), for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is Jujutacular (submissions), for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is TonyTheTiger (submissions), for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is Candlewicke (submissions), for nineteen articles in the news in round three.
The WikiCup has faced criticism in the last month – hopefully, we will take something positive from it and create a better contest for next year. Like Wikipedia itself, the Cup is a work in progress, and ideas for how it should work are more than welcome on the WikiCup talk page and on the scoring talk page. Also, people are more than welcome to sign up for next year's competition on the signup page. Well done and thank you to everyone involved – the Cup has been a pleasure to run, and we, as judges, have been proud to be a part of it. We hope that next year, however the Cup is working, and whoever is running it, it will be back, stronger and more popular than ever. Until then, goodbye and happy editing! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn, Fox and The ed17 03:04, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks Fetchcomms for your suggestions for my wikipage "Brian Hinman". I have made some updates per your suggestions but need to find some more non-work info. If you have any other suggestions, I'm all ears.
Jamesedwardlong (talk) 20:27, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Fetchcomms for your help and suggestions for my wikipage "Health Security Express". I have posted more information. Thank you again for your offer. I wish I knew how to use wikipedia better. You guys should offer a class at The Learning Annex for computer dummies like me so we can be more useful and independant :-) HealthSecurityExpressBusTourRider (talk) 23:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
On 2 November 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Siege of Kandahar, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Hi, thanks for your comment at the AR talk page, Signpost. I'm in between clients on a hectic day. I wonder whether it would be worth providing links to the three related threads at at each of those ?four locations. The plagiarism issue is fundamental, and the DYK thing needs to be cleaned up apart from this incident, IMO. Tony (talk) 03:32, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
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