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Yay for barnstars

Thankyou so much for my beautiful barnstar. I cherish it! - Dozenist talk 02:35, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Anime POV tag

May I inquire as to what portion of the anime article seems POV to you? I had thought the article was in good condition but it is mostly maintaned by crazed otaku-types (like myself...<_< >_>) so it may have veered in the wrong direction. What part of the article inspired you to add the POV tag? Finite 21:49, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, I wrote the above before you stated your concerns on the discussion boards, I'll try and fix some of that.Finite 21:53, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello again, Covington, I attempted to clean up the Anime article a bit. How'd I do?Finite 22:39, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Does that mean you think it can lose the tag now? Finite 23:02, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

OK. Finite 23:55, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

May the Force be with you.

Dear Covington/0050,

Thanks for voting on my RFA! I appreciate your faith in me, and was overwhelmed by the positive response to my RFA; for it shows that at least I'm doing something right. :) I've started working to improve myself already, and I hope that next time, things run better, and maybe, just maybe, one day we can bask on the shores of Admintopia together. Thanks and cheers, _-M o P-_ 21:53, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the support on my RfA!

File:Danavecpurpletiger.jpg

A belated thank you to you for Supporting my RFA! It passed 54/2/3, much better than I expected! I am still finding my feet as an Administrator, and so far I am enjoying the experience. I am honoured that you felt I was ready to take up this position, and wish to thank you formally! I hope I can live up to your expectations of me. Once again, thank you! --Darth Deskana (talk page) 19:14, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Hello Covington/0050, and thanks for supporting me on my recent request for adminship! It has succeeded with an unanimous support of 67 votes, so that I am now an administrator. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page should you wish to leave any comments or ask for any help. Again, thanks a lot, AndyZ t 21:57, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hello, Covington/0050, and thank you for vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 62/2/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. As I acclimate myself to my new tools, feel free to let me know how you believe I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! RadioKirk talk to me 05:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: The Tool

Thank you! Flcelloguy (A note?) 03:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for Storm, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. PDXblazers 23:49, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Education project userbox

Hi Covington,

I made a userbox for the project. {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Education/Userbox}} Rfrisbie^talk 04:17, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Please Help

Posted by (^'-')^ Covington 01:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC) on behalf of the the AID Maintenance Team

"Thanks for Choosing Belgrade"

It`s my pleasure. :) Djus 18:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:ESP/UPA templates

As you did the spamming last time, do you know what/where all the templates are? I know about Template:Upajudge, as you put it on my talk page last time :) The contest is starting again tommorrow, so feel free to sign up again, but either way it would be nice to know what the templates all are (and then we can link to them from the UPA page so we don't have this problem every time!) Petros471 08:32, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

We've now found some more (see Wikipedia_talk:Esperanza/User_Page_Award#Templates). Is the one at the bottom of your sandbox one that exists as a template or is that one you made? If so could you make that into a template as it would be nice to have one for runners up. Cheers, Petros471 13:22, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I've moved the message for you (as it doesn't really make sense out of this conversation thread). Yes, please do create a template for that. I've probably got a couple of minor wording change suggestions but that can be done after the template is created. Petros471 13:39, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Rome

Hey Covington, any idea why there's been such little improvement made to the Rome article? I've seen little done other than what I've done myself and a few minor grammatical corrections by someone else. Are we the only two working on it? Sicilianmandolin 17:13, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Timeline

Misza13 made it, not me! Computerjoe's talk 15:17, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Community Justice Newsletter

Welcome Previously, various notices regarding Community Justice have gone out to our members; though this is the first actual newsletter. This issue will contain information regarding decisions made on the first meeting, our new council, and more...! If you wish to unsubscribe to future newsletters, please add your name to Wikipedia:Community Justice/Do Not Spam. New Council Following our first elections, a new council has been elected.Computerjoe and Ian13 remain as chairman and chief executive (respectively); while Eddieh, Wiki alf and Xchrisblackx are replaced as councillors by Ilyanep, Osbus and Covington. The Giant Puffin and Pureblade remain as councillors. Member Conduct In the last meeting, the conduct of 4 members was discussed. Ethnopunk will be put on probation, supervised by Ian13, if he/she is incivil during this probation, he/she will be expelled from WP:CJ; the same was decided for Misza13 (voluntarily), and his probation will be supervised by Computerjoe. No action will be taken against Computerjoe. Barnstar The Civility Barnstar which our members have designed has been sent to Barnstar and award proposals. We'd appreciate your feedback! Also, we are planning to make a Community Justice barnstar to give to hard-working CJ members. If you're a budding designer, consider trying to make it, then post your proposal to WT:CJ! Name and logo change There has been no consensus reached regarding changing our name and/or logo neither at WT:CJ nor at WT:CJ/M/1. While suggestions are still welcome, no action will be taken at this time. Programs We are going to try to create programs to more actively involve our members. If you have any ideas, please drop a line at WT:CJ. We will try to work with WP:ESP on one of these programs, at some point in the future. Thanks! Thank you for your time. If you need anything, feel free to comment at WT:CJ or come into our IRC channel [1]. Computerjoe wishes to extend his thanks to User:Robchurch, a non-member who assisted in making {{tracker}} redundant, as well as Misza13 for his continued support and to the whole of this and the previous council. This newsletter was delivered by CJBot, written by Computerjoe, with technical help from Misza13. Computerjoe's talk 19:30, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

AID Rollover

No problem, what are fellow maintainers for right? I had a few minutes of extra time on my hand so I thought I might as well do it.--Steven 00:35, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza User Page Awards

Covington, thanks for signing up for the Esperanza User Page Contest. The judges have received the fifteen entries, and are ready to start judging. The judges will take a week to complete the judging process, and they will contact all the participants when the judging is done.

Please drop by the contest page for contest updates and questions. Take care, and good luck! - Pureblade | ^Θ 15:12, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

The third month

I wish you all the best on entering the third month of your wiki-editings. --Bhadani 16:36, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

After a lenghty, but much-needed Wikibreak, I'm happy to announce that version 1.2 of VandalProof is now available for download! Beyond fixing some of the most obnoxious bugs, like the persistent crash on start-up that many have experienced, version 1.2 also offers a wide variety of new features, including a stub-sorter, a global user whitelist and blacklist, navigational controls, and greater customization. You can find a full list of the new features here. While I believe this release to be a significant improvement over the last, it's nonetheless nowhere near the end of the line for VandalProof. Thanks to Rob Church, I now have an account on test.wikipedia.org with SysOp rights and have already been hard at work incorporating administrative tools into VandalProof, which I plan to make available in the near future. An example of one such SysOp tool that I'm working on incorporating is my simple history merge tool, which simplifies the process of performing history merges from one article into another. Anyway, if you haven't already, I'd encourage you to download and install version 1.2 and take it out for a test-drive. As always, your suggestions for improvement are always appreciated, and I hope that you will find this new version useful. Happy editing! --AmiDaniel (talk) 02:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Covington. Fellow Esperanzian.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 06:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Covington/0050, from the Wikipedia Birthday Commitee!!! Have a great day!

Steveo2 10:51, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Smile

Sergeant Snopake has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

I was just thinking about you, and what a nice person you are, and I just thought I'd smile at you and your constant niceness. I wrote this message using touch typing, but it is so hard, isn't it? I wouldn't have the patience to teach myself to do it properly, I have to concentrate on it so much, I can barely remeber what I've just written! I'll stop now. Have a nice day! Sergeant Snopake 18:54, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Oh! And I've just noticed! It's your birthday! Happy birthday! :) Sergeant Snopake 18:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Please help on Mathematics

Posted by Pruneau 21:42, 23 May 2006 (UTC), on behalf of the AID Maintenance Team

Ancient Greek Wikisource

I understand from your userboxes you're interested in Ancient Greek. I've submitted a proposal to add an Ancient Greek Wikisource on Meta, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me by either voting in Support of the proposal, or even adding your name as one of the contributors in the template. (NB: I'm posting this to a lot of people, so please reply to my talkpage or to Meta) --Nema Fakei 20:08, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

CJ Vote

I have set up a quick vote, as a counciler, may I ask you voice your opinions. Ian13/talk 14:26, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza

Hi Cov, I noticed your name on the Esperanza alert page. While it wasn't exactly clear what was on your user page that was bugging you, I think it's a safe bet to assume that it's the shake up at CJ/Concordia. Just wanted to leave a note of support, thanking you for what you've done to try to improve Wikipedia. I agree with some of the criticisms, but I also find some of them over-the-top and excessive. Regardless of what happens to the project, I hope that you'll keep sight of your goal of maintaining civility and a cool head in editing. Let me know if I can help in any way. Tijuana Brass^E@ 22:06, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Editor Review

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We currently need help in getting going, and making the community understand our aims. We work for civility. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Thank you for your comments in Lar's RfA!

We are here to build an encyclopedia!

Hi Covington, and a "full" thank you for your supportive comments in my request for adminship! With a final tally of (109/5/1), I have been entrusted with adminship. It's been several weeks since the conclusion of the process, so hopefully you've had a chance to see me in action. Please let me know what you think! Thanks again, and I will do everything I can to justify the trust you've placed in me! ++Lar: t/c 03:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

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userpage code

Just FYI, I copied some of your userpage code to possibly use on Wikipedia:WikiProject Figure Skating (I'm messing around with it here, but don't look at that.. it's just random code right now. :) --Fang Aili ^talk 21:02, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Re: your P.S., that is sort of complicated. I am part Japanese, but I pretty much consider myself a basic "white" person. And I have studied Chinese, which is why I have a Chinese name. Confused yet? :) --Fang Aili ^talk 14:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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UPA spammer

Do you still want to be spammer for this (new) round of the userpage awards? Your name is listed as a comment in the spammer sign up section. Just sign up if you want the job :) Petros471 14:28, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Not quite sure if you actually signed up for if someone did it for you. Anyway you're listed as the spammer so if you want the job you can go ahead and do it (all ready). Let me know if you don't want to or if you have any questions. Petros471 18:08, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

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