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Residential Gateway

I reverted your edit on Residential gateway because I do not believe "home computer networking device" is the correct term. Should just be "home networking device". Remember we are dealing with a very broad term here in "residential gateway". It doesn't necessarily have to be a networking device that serves a typical computer. Could be one for your WIFI enabled phone or whatnot. JeremyWJ (talk) 02:09, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

I see your point. Would it better if the term networking was linked to [LAN]? I'm going through articles that wikilink to Networking/Network, which is a disambiguation page, and then putting in a direct link. Mattg82 (talk) 02:22, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Probably not. Since a modem (or whatever device connects to the ISP) is considered a "residential gateway" device and can be part of both the local area network and the wide area network of the ISP (and the internet). JeremyWJ (talk) 03:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Side note: I really do not like this article at all really. Its way too broad and in my opinion not even correct. JeremyWJ (talk) 03:03, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, additionally I don't think its actually worthy of being a separate article. Also quite a few of other networking articles are really rubbish. Mattg82 (talk) 03:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. If it was up to me this article would not even exists. But since it does, I've been monitoring it trying to keep it as factual as possible even though again I do not agree with the majority of the article. Just not really fond of the "residential gateway" term really. JeremyWJ (talk) 03:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

AD&D 2E monster tables

Thanks - I like the look of the expanded tables better, but it's much more navigable to have them collapsed. BOZ (talk) 22:47, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

No problem; Much easier to navigate when tables are collapsed with an article that big. I think it is possible to change the colour of them to make them prettier. Also the {-D&D creature list-} tag is the article's main issue, if that was dumped and normal table syntax was used the article would be alot smaller than the 375K it currently is. Mattg82 (talk) 23:58, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Two thumbs up for the collapsible tables from my part, too! Daranios (talk) 10:13, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Mattg82 (talk) 23:07, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Rowspan

It's fine as long as you apply to the whole article, not part of it. Qampunen (talk) 22:49, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

I was just about to carry on and finish the whole article, but you beat me to it and undid my work :) Mattg82 (talk) 23:04, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Rowspan on List of Spanish football transfers summer 2009

Now that you added rowspan, it is impossible anymore to sort the table by any column other than the date it is already ordered on. So if I want to find all players who moved from or to, say, FC Barcelona, I have to go through the whole article and look at every row, instead of spending 1 second to click on the little icon in the "Moving from" column header. Really? Geregen2 (talk) 17:47, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

I was just trying to reduce the article's size. In hindsight I've made a mistake, I'll revert it back.Mattg82 (talk) 18:06, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

No problem! Thanks a lot. Geregen2 (talk) 18:13, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

List of RAF aircrew in the Battle of Britain

Thank you for your work on the List of RAF aircrew in the Battle of Britain. I do have one question though; with the collapsable tables, how does one edit a single section without editing the whole page? Your advice with this matter would be appreciated. Regards --KizzyB (talk) 03:54, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Before I changed things it was possible to edit each section separately, as each section had it own heading and edit button. Having collapsible tables, this arrangement didn't work aesthetically imo, but there isn't any need to edit the whole page as each section; A-E, F-J, K-0, P-T, U-Z has its own edit button. I understand this makes it harder to edit, particularly if its a small change but overall having collapsible tables is the way to go I think, as it makes the page much easier to navigate. Mattg82 (talk) 17:32, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

The list is nowhere near complete - I had taken a couple of months break in working on it whilst we relocated to Canada. If you could let me know how to change it back temporarily (for about a month) so I can work on the missing people, I would be grateful. I agree that, once complete, the new format is better. I forsee that this can all be done by the New Year at the latest. --KizzyB (talk) 20:44, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

You've beat me to it; yeah its not difficult to change between formats, so yes once you have finished by the New Year it can be changed back. :)

Crystal Tree Golf and Country Club

I added some references to Crystal Tree Golf and Country Club. You may want to revisit Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crystal Tree Golf and Country Club. – Eastmain (talk) 22:16, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

OK I'll have a look. Mattg82 (talk) 22:21, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Arthur T. Denzau - CSD on copyvio

The text match was good, however Wayback on the university site shows that the link to the bio page (the bio page being a pdf is not archived) appeared in March 2007, suggesting that they copied the data from here, as it was already here in January 2007. So I have removed the CSD tag.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 02:29, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I'll put it back on under A7 criterion then, person is not notable. Article is not encylopedic its just a CV as tag states. Mattg82 (talk) 02:18, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

KSM (band)

Hello! You were recently involved in an AfD discussion regarding the article KSM (band). I just updated the page and was hoping for some honest feedback. Note that I am not a fan or in any way connected to the subject, but I am rather new to Wikipedia and this is my first “blind” rewrite. Comments, criticism, and advice are all welcome. Of course, please do any additional editing to improve the article if you can. Thanks in advance. --Logical Fuzz (talk) 20:32, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

I've changed to layout but the prose is fine, I can't see anything else wrong to note of. Any other questions just ask and I'll reply as soon as possible. Mattg82 (talk) 16:18, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

I liked what you did with the layout! It looks better and seems to make more sense with the way you did the sections. I'm much happier without the list of bandmembers and their years of birth. I never liked that. I'm going to work on having the references properly formatted. Thanks for checking the page out. --Logical Fuzz (talk) 21:03, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

No problem, any other questions or help you need just ask. Mattg82 (talk) 00:06, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Article Rural Khmer House

Hi Mattg82 We are new in Wikipedia and tried to write the article Rural Khmer House. We tried to do a good job and to follow the guidelines. Now, we have these issues:

1. It does not cite any references or sources.
2. It uses first-person or second-person inappropriately.
3. Very few or no other articles link to it.
4. This article needs more links to other articles to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.

For issue 1): we do not know where or how to cite it. We are the source,namely: - Peter Truog, Raben, CH-7000 Chur, Switzerland, lunamedpt@bluewin.ch - Aldo Menegon, Rüfiweg 7, CH-7204 Untervaz, Switzerland, menegon@spin.ch For 2) ... 4) We will work on it.

How many time do we have to approve it? Or will the article be deleted?

Thank you for your help! I will read the answer here or if you prefer to mail. please use news@semikolon.ch --Cam42 (talk) 05:23, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Cam42,

For the last question, yes, it is possible it will be deleted if it is nominated as an article for deletion, as it contains Orignal research and it is unreferenced. You would then have 7 days approx. to improve the article.

Now to cite sources see WP:Cite; sources need to be reliable, published sources. You yourself cannot be the source, see WP:OR#Citing oneself. Also see WP:Rs for detailed information on this. Issues 3&4 is pretty much the same thing. You'll need to add links to the article which link to other wikipedia articles.

You may wish to leave a messages at WikiProject Cambodia and WikiProject Southeast Asiato get other people's views.

I hope this is helpful, any other questions just ask. Mattg82 (talk) 17:39, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

prod of Misha'el Kheshin

I have removed the {{prod}} tag from Misha'el Kheshin, which you proposed for deletion. I'm leaving this message here to notify you about it. If you still think the article should be deleted, please don't add the {{prod}} template back to the article. Instead, feel free to list it at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. Thanks! Ray^Talk 04:31, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Sourcing

It's great that you're adding sources to unsourced articles, but I question whether adding a single reference - the first you come across on Google Books or Google News - and leaving the rest of the article unsourced and unedited is a good way to go about it. Fences&Windows 01:01, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for moving WikiProject Unreferenced articles to the new name. The consistency will help folks long into the future, and although tedious maintenance is a somewhat unglamorous job, know that it is well appreciated! Thanks!!! --18:20, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Mattg82 (talk) 19:05, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Tag change

Hey Matt, in this edit you changed from {{Refimprove}} to {{unreferenced}} I am not sure why. There is a primary reference Official Website and secondary reference Live set List information on the article. I changed it back to {{Refimprove}} and added {{nofootnotes}}, I could have done more and formatted the references in the article body (third paragraph of History) and added a reference section, but choose to encourage other editors with the footnotes tag instead. Jeepday (talk) 11:17, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

I changed it as I thought the links didn't really verify much of info but I suppose it is a reference. I've now added an allmusic bio and chart references; I probably should have done that to start with. Mattg82 (talk) 16:32, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

here is another one, {{unreferenced}} is for when there are not ANY references. This article has both primary and secondary references. It needs more references which would be why I put {{refimprove}} on it. We are working at cross purposes here. I am reverting your edit, I am not sure why you are making these edits, if one of us is misunderstanding Wiki procedure lets talk about it. Jeepday (talk) 17:04, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Looking at WP:EL#References and citation, external links can be classed as references so you are correct, and {{unreferenced}} template documentation does say no sources at all. Maybe the {{unreferenced}} documentation could be changed to clarify external links can be classed as a source. Mattg82 (talk) 17:59, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

If you feel that is necessary you can bring it up at Template:Unreferenced/doc, I am not sure is needed as it pretty clearly explained at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Unreferenced_articles#Hints_and_tips " If the article has even one reference or external link (that is related to the article content) use - Templates {{Refimprove}}"... and it is the only group really working on these articles. Jeepday (talk) 13:47, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Unsourced BLP tag

Hi Mattg82. I saw you have been changing some template:Unsourced tags to template:BLP unsourced tags. You were entirely right to do so, but I thought a bot was set-up to change unsourced tags on articles marked as living people to the BLP unsourced tag (like the bot adds dates). That is the only reason I didn't bother adding them that way in the first place. Novaseminary (talk) 17:40, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah there is a bot doing that. I was just changing some tags from unref to unref section and decided to do a couple of blps as well, it helps to promote the Unreferenced articles project. Mattg82 (talk) 18:11, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Good. That means I'm not imagining things and you aren't wholesale trying to replicate a bot! Keep up the good work on the project! Novaseminary (talk) 18:14, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Removal of PROD from To Die For (song)

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Roxette & associated articles

Feel free to talk about my contributions on Roxette & associated articles here

Date of image

I notice you have some interest in Roxette. I managed to source the only legitimate image of Marie F on flickr from Mr. Evensson here as you know: File:Marie_Fredriksson_by_Thomas_Evensson_(1987).jpg

Anyway, I managed to find the exact date of the photo: August 5, 1987 after I contacted him today here: [1] . (I entered in this info today for her Commons picture. He licensed it freely without a 'Non-Commercial' restriction just this one time for Marie's wiki page) I wish my record keeping was as impeccable as his! From my previous contact with him last year, he said he manages Per's web site: www.gessle.com and the Daily Roxette. Evensson also donated an image for Per's Gyllene Tider band's wiki article. Without him, there would be no images of Marie or Per here which would be a disaster. I had checked and rechecked on flickr and only his images of Marie F were definitely taken by him. He even says so in the metadata. All the rest...were just flagrant copy vios. It is nice to see an image of Marie before she became famous. With kind Regards, --Leoboudv (talk) 05:47, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi, yes I became a Roxette fan when my parents always played Tourism in the car when I was small. I've been hooked ever since and still am.

You may have noticed a week ago I merged Per's and Marie's individual pictures made by Evensson, so now Roxette also has a picture. Its quite sad there isn't a non-copyrighted picture of them together. I do like Marie's picture though, I bet she didn't know she & Rox would go on to sell millions of records. :) Mattg82 (talk) 12:14, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

• Yes it is unfortunate. It is strange you know: millions of people must have taken pictures of Roxette's tours in the late 1980's and the early 1990's and no one posts them on flickr. I saw your photo of Roxette. I was thinking too whether someone would create an image for them as has been done for ABBA and Ace of Base. The 1987 photo of Marie is indeed nice...and she is smiling. What more can one ask? Cheers, --Leoboudv (talk) 20:17, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Record Sales

Hi, I see you changed Roxette's record sales down to 60 million. Reading the cited sources, I think the articles mention just the album sales excl. singles. According to Roxette's official bio on www.roxette.se they sold over 55 million albums and 20 million singles. www.emimusic.de/roxette has 45 million albums and 25 million singles in their Roxette Hits bio.

Pumadog (talk) 11:56, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Pd, while my knowledge of Swedish is pretty much zero, I'm almost certain that the sources say records (ie albums and singles together). I've seen a few Swedish articles which use the word album rather than skivor when talking about sales, leading me to believe when the word album is used that is exactly want they mean.

Inline with other articles I wanted to change the figure to a overall number rather than albums and singles separately and cited that figure with 3rd party reliable sources. The sources you have given are primary sources and should be taken with scepticism, as much as I want to see Roxette selling 70m+ I am not convinced they have done so, as music labels like to exaggerate sales figures for marketing purposes. If you look at Roxette discography you will see all the gold and platinum certifications given to Roxette, adding these up comes to around 20m records. I'm aware that there are many certifications missing or certifications that are not publicly available information but does that add upto 50m records?

Emimusic.de was one of three sources given for 45 million albums and 25 million singles before I changed it, I think the other two (and many other pages on the internet) just copied this without any investigation to see if it is correct. It's the same problem for the official site as well, many people have copied this also. The BBC website even put 55m albums but did put the words Roxette claim... meaning they copied it as well but added those words to mean the BBC didn't come up that figure. The BBC could not be bothered to do proper research because it was only a quick interview and way down the list of importance, and if the BBC, a highly regarded news service could not be bothered you have to assume other news services can't be bothered also.

Sorry this is a long ramble but I just want to best article possible for Roxette, removing official and music label websites is part of that goal. IMO using primary sources cheapens the article and makes it look like no one has done anything to find high quality sources. If you can find two highly reliable sources which state 70m (and not 45m albums and 25m singles) then I might add 70m back to the article. Mattg82 (talk) 00:03, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Mattg82, thanks for your response! The problem with all the sources is, to my knowledge (talks with industry insiders) they all depend on info from the record labels. And even they have to estimate the sales partly, because there's still no global sales counter for all the local branches. So I think the article for all artists refer to numbers like this, for example the total sales for the Beatles or Michael Jackson vary very much. Now Roxette looks quite poor in comparison to other artists fantasy numbers. ;-) So maybe it's wise to write something like "sales between 60 and 80 million records, according to different sources"? If you like, join the "Roxette on Wikipedia" discussion I started recently for this matter at Run2Roxette forums!

Sascha —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pumadog (talk • contribs) 07:42, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Pd, yeah unfortunately adding up certifications is all we (we meaning the general public) have when estimating sales. Due to arguments at List of best-selling music artists about The Beatles and Michael Jackson's "fantasy numbers" hehe :), it was decided that all estimated figures and not just one figure for the top selling artists were included. So I'm in favour of changing it to "between 60 and 70 million according to sources" if some good sources are found. Thanks for the forum link I'll take a look it. Mattg82 (talk) 23:27, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Discography

THANKS for making my input on New Zealand a waste of time - FU, people here love them here too - and who the F are you to decide what countries are minor and whats not???!!!

Please be civil. There is a suggested limit of 10 charts that can be inserted into discographies, so it was originally removed as it is a smaller music market (according to IFPI, see Global music industry market share data) compared to other countries on the table. I will restore the article to the last version before it was edited and later today I'll remove US AC and replace with New Zealand if you agree. Mattg82 (talk) 13:58, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Award of a Barnstar

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This barnstar is hereby awarded for extraordinary scrutiny, precision, and community service, especially in regard to adding references to biographies of living persons. Awarded by PhilKnight (talk) 15:57, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Phil I'll copy it to my awards page. Mattg82 (talk) 00:04, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Banner

How does the banner count get updated on Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Banner? It has said 625+ for a long time, count is now at least 686. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 17:13, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

It has to be done manually for now. User:Erwin85/CatCount stopped updating the counts, so I tried PAGESINCATEGORY syntax ({{PAGESINCATEGORY:Wikipedia unreferenced articles improved}}) but it just says 0 when the entire project page is displayed :( Mattg82 (talk) 20:31, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Why is the count on it's own sub page Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/articles-improved instead of just being on the sub page Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Banner, all these different pages make it difficult to maintain. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 10:58, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

OK I've moved the table to /Banner. /articles-improved can now be deleted, what is the procedure for that? Add a speedy tag to it ? Mattg82 (talk) 13:46, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

You can put {{db-author}} on it. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 15:14, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Music Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for your constant assistance at List of best-selling music artists and your dedication to Wikipedia's music related articles in general.--Harout72 (talk) 00:04, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks :-D Mattg82 (talk) 00:37, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Re: List of Best selling singles

Thank you so much for the barnstar :D - Bluesatellite (talk) 02:45, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		For your work with sourcing articles and cleaning up stale tags as part of WP:Mistagged BLP cleanup, thanks, and keep up the good work! Gigs (talk) 04:05, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks :-D Mattg82 (talk) 14:54, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Alla Pugacheva

I'd appreciate your opinion and comments here. Thanks.--Harout72 (talk) 20:12, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

inre Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lauro Delgado

You might wish to revisit your AFD nomination and change your nomination statement from "I have found no reliable sources to verify this BLP" into "I have found no reliable sources to verify this BLP article" , as the actor died in 1977, this one is not a BLP isssue. Also, since the nomination sources have been added to verify the article, and there is ongoing work to find more. Best regards, Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 01:31, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

OK I've crossed it out. Mattg82 (talk) 01:47, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

You did not have to, but it is an appreciated courtesy. Thank you. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 03:03, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Contribution Team

Hi there! This is a message sent to all members of the Contribution Team. We're letting you know that there has been a rather major update - you can read more about it at Wikipedia talk:Contribution Team#Backlog Drive Update And Other News. Kind regards, Panyd and Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 23:25, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Lil' Love

FYI - RE:edit, I would have used a prod, see Soulreaper, Note that I liberal spread prod warnings. [2], [3], [4]. Jeepday (talk) 12:43, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

a-ha's video footage on You Tube

There is a discussion on a-ha's video footage at RSN which shows the band has sold 70 million records. If you find the time, your input would be useful.--Harout72 (talk) 03:57, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks :D Mattg82 (talk) 17:23, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of GetAdmin

I removed the prod on GetAdmin, which I think is notable as malware. I found substantial coverage in one reliable source (see edit summary or talk page), and there may be more. Microsoft's page can be considered a secondary source, too. --Pnm (talk) 18:14, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Synthkid

Can you voice your opinion on whether the article should be kept on the "Articles For Deletion" page on this article? It would help a lot thanks! :) (Goalswork (talk) 01:59, 12 January 2011 (UTC))

OK I will add my say. Mattg82 (talk) 02:10, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Mistagged BLP cleanup

What's the point in duplicating it? Gigs (talk) 15:53, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

If you are referring to Wikipedia:Mistagged unreferenced articles cleanup, then I don't understand what you mean. The list does not contain any BLPs. Mattg82 (talk) 16:47, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh, OK. Gigs (talk) 21:58, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem, I've perhaps made it too similar to BLP cleanup. Mattg82 (talk) 22:16, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Penina

I disagree with your opinion that "Penina" is a non-notable song. I think that most Paul McCartney songs are notable. In Wikipedia there are examples of album tracks, which did not chart. At least, why didn't you include it in the Articles for deletion-list, so other Wikipedia-users could discuss it and let their opinion be heard? The information about the song could be transfered to the album article "The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away" Mbakkel2 Jan 15. 2010 21:40 (CET)

I have now merged the info from Penina into The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away. As it stood I don't think it warranted a seperate article.

Per WP:NSONGS: "Notability aside, a separate article on a song is only appropriate when there is enough verifiable material to warrant a reasonably detailed article; articles unlikely ever to grow beyond stubs should be merged to articles about an artist or album".

For an example of "a reasonably detailed article" see "That Means a Lot" a song also from that album. I can still take it to WP:RFD (or WP:AFD if article is restored) if you wish. Mattg82 (talk) 22:39, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello, I see your point of view. I include the piece of information about "Penina" in the article about the album. Best wishes Mbakkel2 16. jan 2010 15:43 (CET)

Thanks

Thanks for your participation in this years fundraiser/contribution team effort. It's the first time we've ever tried doing anything like this combined, and it worked really well. We look forward to your help next year! Regards, ⇒DanRosenthal (WMF) 08:53, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

WP:URA

Matt, this edit makes it so you can't edit a section on the talk page. You have to open the entire page for editing then try and find the section you want to add to. Can you fix it with out having to add portal headers at each section? Jeepday (talk) 11:21, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

OK fixed. Mattg82 (talk) 18:40, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Talk:List of best-selling music artists

I have a suggestion posted at Talk:List of best-selling music artists. Your thoughts would be appreciated.--Harout72 (talk) 20:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Rox Centre of the Heart.ogg

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Thanks for uploading File:Rox Centre of the Heart.ogg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Courcelles 03:46, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Rox Milk and Toast and Honey.ogg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Courcelles 03:55, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Egypt Demographics

I would like to know why did you undo what I edited in the Arab league article. The population is not accurate because the source cited is 3 years old Egypt's population increased since then. The article is also not consistent because its Egypt population is different from one section to another. Here is a link to Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization And Statistics> I hope you undo your edit please. Thanks Here is the link http://www.msrintranet.capmas.gov.eg/pls/fdl/tst12e?action=1&lname= — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riuken (talk • contribs) 11:35, 17 August 2011 (UTC) --Riuken (talk) 11:52, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm confused, all I have done is fill in reference details, I haven't changed the article in any significant way. Mattg82 (talk) 14:22, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

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We Want Blood! deletion

I noticed you closed the AfD for this article with no discussion whatsoever. Lacking access to deleted edits, I cannot comment on the content of the article. I can only say that this seems to be incredibly bizarre and not in keeping with normal AfD procedure. I'd like to hear your take on the matter, but barring some sort of inarguable rationale I feel obliged to take the matter to deletion review. Note that I am not challenging your rationale (WP:NALBUMS), but rather saying that, as someone who can't see what the article was or was about, there's no way of determining whether that rationale was valid. In the absence of discussion, I feel a summary deletion is unwarranted. Throwaway85 (talk) 07:35, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Actually, given that your last edit was 10 days ago, I feel DRV is probably the better forum to address this issue. Throwaway85 (talk) 07:40, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

List of best-selling music artists

Now that we have the certified sales for all of the artists, should we consider listing it at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates? We both have work on it a lot, so if we decide to list it there, we both should include our names as nominators. What do you think? Is it in a condition to be listed at WP:FLC?--Harout72 (talk) 23:00, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

OK, yes I think we are close to it being an FL candidate, maybe we could get it Peer Reviewed first? Looking at other FLs we may need to add some images. Mattg82 (talk) 23:20, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Sure, Peer Review sound good. As for the images, do we really need them? I mean we don't seem to have space for anything more:). Maybe a few images of the most popular artists at the top of each section. For example, for 75 million to 99 million records, we can have small sized images of Eminem, Rihanna, Santana, I mean those with the most certified sales in each section. What do you think?--Harout72 (talk) 23:58, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

OK I've setup PR page here. As for the images, yes we could include an image for the top certified artist in each section and maybe images for the top three artists, Elvis, Beatles, Jackson ? Mattg82 (talk) 02:46, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

OK good, let's see what should be improved. Should we wait on the images for now, until the PR process is completed?--Harout72 (talk) 06:52, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

The images are not urgent, maybe wait until PR is over as you say. Mattg82 (talk) 02:41, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

I addressed some of the requests made by Peer Reviewer. I included images for each section as suggested and made some few other minor changes, see if you can help out on some others. Thanks.--Harout72 (talk) 16:55, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Alright I'll go through the suggestions. Mattg82 (talk) 17:16, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for your support of the list. I was wondering if you have an idea how to resolve the issue you commented about. I tried to use constant columns widths here and this seems to have the same effect. Best regards. --Muhandes (talk) 17:31, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Adding a fixed width to the whole table seems the best way

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Mattg82 (talk) 00:11, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I applied your suggestion and it seems to work. --Muhandes (talk) 18:41, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

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Fixes should fix

Thanks for the fixes made in [this edit. The only problem, is that they weren't all good fixes.

1. Template:Infobox musical artist#website indicates that you should "use {{URL}} as {{URL|example.com}}." I hadn't updated so your fix didn't make it worse.
2. WP:NUMERO reads: Avoid using the # symbol (known as the number sign, hash sign, or pound sign) when referring to numbers or rankings. Instead use the word "number", or the abbreviation "No."

You actually removed a correct value, No., and inserted the pound.

There are so many little guidelines that it's hard to know them all. I wouldn't have known the second if someone hadn't shown me. The former I discovered by reading the documentation for the template. I added the "No."s back and made the change to the infobox as well. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 03:29, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Ah, ok thanks, I didn't know that :/. So many guidelines, so little time to read them all. Mattg82 (talk) 03:43, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

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Jag borde förstås vetat bättre

Although I think the nomination was a little quick for article, I am not convinced you have fully established notability. May I suggest that you look for more details about the song to ensure it is notable. Something about the arrangement/lyrics of the song, maybe a quote from a critic's opinion on the song, another reference or two. At present it is little more than a discography entry, rather than an encyclopedic entry. Just my opinion. You may also like to make it clear that that you think the article should survive at the AfD. Hope all this helps. Cheers. --Richhoncho (talk) 14:59, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

I agree with Richhoncho, Matt. I nominated to keep this article myself, however it would be helpful for you to express your !vote of confindence at the articles nomination page. Stubbleboy 16:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

About your response

Hi there! This is Jedd Raynier. The problem with my userboxes is that whenever I get or choose a picture from Wikimedia Commons the picture does NOT appear. I've already tested ways to fix it, yet there's no way to solve it. Can you help me, Mattg82? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jedd Raynier (talk • contribs) 07:15, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Jedd, could you copy the userbox code and the picture here and I'll see what I can do. Mattg82 (talk) 13:42, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi again. This is one of the images I am about to use in my userboxes:

<pic removed>

With the description: This user likes to dine at KFC.

The problem is: The image code appears instead OR the image is too large for the userbox.

I was making the userbox, but since I DID NOT save my work (as the picture can't appear, instead the image location appears) the userbox code (?) cannot be seen here. Jedd Raynier (talk) 07:20, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

There you go, you need to add brackets and the size required. Mattg82 (talk) 15:27, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

{{userbox |border-c=red |id=[[File:KFC logo.png|50px]] |id-c=white |info=This user likes to dine at [[KFC]]. |info-c=white |float=right }}

This user likes to dine at KFC.

Thanks, Mattg82 for helping me! It is of great help because I am creating new userboxes for myself. It is something that I can use whenever I create new userboxes. Jedd Raynier (talk) 07:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for your help w/ that Hedgehog page! i've submitted it and now have my fingers crossed. Anyhow, i'm really happy to become what's imo the best website on the planet. But it really is a lot harder than i expected to post on Wikipedia. So... i take my hat off to you and all other contributors. Thx again!

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Chatham Vase

Hi, I noticed you redirected the Chatham Vase article to Chevening. You are far more experienced in these matters than me, so I'd appreciate the reason. I would have thought that in merging or redirecting, there should be no loss of information, but not only is the Chatham Vase not mentioned in the Chevening House article (only a photograph, which was first used in the Chatham Vase article), but the history of the vase, its connection to the Prime Minister, the inscription, and the accurate geotag have been lost. The Vase used to show up in Google Earth and the like, but that doesn't happen now. JBel (talk) 15:22, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, I redirected it at the time as it was unreferenced for a number of years and didn't seem notable. As the target article contained the photo of the vase, I mistakenly believed it also contained info about the vase also. Anyway I have restored Chatham Vase as it is grade II listed and added a reference. Mattg82 (talk) 22:06, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

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• The host lounge is open! Please take time to review the materials in the space and start contributing to the how-to pages. Your input is valuable. Not only is it great practice to get our minds thinking like hosts, but, you can also provide easy to understand instructions and sound bites for fellow hosts!
• Join the conversation by participating on the host lounge talk pages[5][6]. We also have an IRC channel now for hosts to get to know one another, develop your skills, and eventually the channel will serve as an additional help space for new editors!

• To visit the IRC channel: #wikipedia-teahouse ^connect (Feel free to ask me for help if you're having trouble connecting!)

• Let new editors get to know you by creating your Teahouse profile. Contribute your profile on the host page at the Teahouse! This serves as a fun way for new editors to get to know the people behind the usernames. You can post a photograph of yourself or an avatar, add a quote about yourself or something you enjoy, and share projects and activities you participate on wiki (with wikilinks).

Very exciting things are taking place, and we'll be opening the Teahouse no later than Monday. Feel free to ping me on or off wiki, and I can't wait to work with you to welcome new editors with a warm cup of tea :) SarahStierch (talk) 03:37, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

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	Thank you for taking the time to review my GA submission, and for the helpful suggestions you offered for improving the article. Cheers! 28bytes (talk) 00:03, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

The Teahouse is Open!

Hi Matt! Great news: The Teahouse is open for business! We're ready to start inviting new users, answering questions and inspiring one another. If you haven't already taken a look at the links provided in the most recent Teahouse update, posted on your talk page, please do! Don't forget to add yourself to the Host page if you haven't already. What's next? Inviting hosts and reporting your invitation information.

• Please familiarize yourself with this brief rundown of your responsibilities as a Teahouse host.
• Use the invitation guide to invite new users and report your invites.
• Make sure you have the Q&A page on your watch page and dive in when answers get asked! Feel free to ask your own questions - either seeking help or inspiring others to share their projects, ideas and inspiration for editing.

See you at the Teahouse! SarahStierch (talk) 18:53, 27 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi Matt! Just dropping by to let the hosts know about some new suggestions I've made based on interactions at the Teahouse thus far. Please take a look when you can! Thanks and I look forward to seeing you participate at the Teahouse! New suggestions regarding Q&A participation for hosts. SarahStierch (talk) 19:24, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

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Teahouse ping!

Hi Matt! We haven't seen you at the Teahouse yet since it opened and I just wanted to drop by and say hi and see if you were still interested in participating in the pilot -if so, great! And if not, that's fine too, but it'd just be great to know your status (or if you're busy and will be helping out soon!)! We need hosts to be helping invite and continue to answer questions on the Q&A page! Let me know if you're still interested in participating in the pilot, and hopefully we'll see you there :) Sarah (talk) 23:44, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

The Tea Leaf - Issue One - Recent news from the Teahouse

Hi! Welcome to the first edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

Spring has sprung! Stop by the Teahouse for a cup of tea under the cherry blossoms.

• Metrics are out from week one. Week one showed that the need for Teahouse hosts to invite new editors to the Teahouse is urgent for this pilot period. It also showed that emailing new users invitations is a powerful tool, with new editors responding more to emails than to talk page templates. We also learned that the customized database reports created for the Teahouse have the highest return rate of participation by invitees. Check out the metrics here and see how you can help with inviting in our Invitation Guide.
• A refreshed "Your hosts" page encourages experienced Wikipedians to learn about the Teahouse and participate. With community input, the Teahouse has updated the Your hosts page which details the host roles within the Teahouse pilot and the importance that hosts play in providing a friendly, special experience not always found on other welcome/help spaces on Wikipedia. It also explains how Teahouse hosts are important regarding metrics reporting during this pilot. Are you an experienced editor who wants to help out? Take a look at the new page today and start learning about the hosts tasks and how you can participate!
• Introduce yourself and meet new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. New & experienced editors to Wikipedia can add a brief infobox about themselves and get to know one another with direct links to userpages. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, they'll surely be happy to feel the wikilove!

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Removed your name from active hosts list for now

Hey Matt,

Just writing to let you know that I've removed your name from the list of active Teahouse hosts, because it looks like you haven't participated much since the Teahouse opened. This wasn't supposed to be some passive-aggressive swipe at you; we're really just trying to make sure the list of hosts (and the host profiles that new users see) reflects people who are actively working the Q&A board, inviting new users, etc. This is so new users who are browsing through the host list feel confident that the people the see there are available and engaged. Anyway, we'd still love to have you around and value your contribution, so feel free to come by and add yourself back in when/if you want to take part. Any questions, ping me. Cheers, - J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 22:02, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Yeah no problem, I haven't got the energy to be a host right now. Mattg82 (talk) 23:08, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Two

Hi! Welcome to the second edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Teahouse celebrates one month of being open! This first month has drawn a lot of community interest to the Teahouse. Hosts & community members have been working with the project team to improve the project in many ways including creating scripts to make inviting easier, exploring mediation processes for troubling guests, and best practices regarding mentoring for new editors who visit the Teahouse.

Springtime means fresh tea leaves...

• First month metrics report an average of 30 new editors visiting the Teahouse each week. Approximately 30 new editors participate in the Teahouse each week, by way of asking questions and making guest profiles. An average of six new questions and four new profiles are made each day. We'd love to hear your ideas about how we can spread the word about the Teahouse to more new editors.
• Teahouse has many regulars. Like any great teahouse, our Teahouse has a 61% return rate of guests, who come back to ask additional questions and to also help answer others' questions. Return guests cite the speedy response rate of hosts and the friendly, easy to understand responses by the hosts and other participants as the main reasons for coming back for another cup o' tea!
• Early metrics on retention. It's still too early to draw conclusions about the Teahouse's impact on new editor retention, but, early data shows that 38% of new editors who participate at the Teahouse are still actively editing Wikipedia 2-4 weeks later, this is compared with 7% from a control group of uninvited new editors who showed similar first day editing activity. Additional metrics can be found on the Teahouse metrics page.
• Nine new hosts welcomed to the Teahouse. Nine new hosts have been welcomed to the Teahouse during month one: Chicocvenancio, Cullen328, Hallows AG, Jeffwang, Mono, Tony1, Worm That Turned, Writ Keeper, and Nathan2055. Welcome to the Teahouse gang, folks!
• Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, as being welcomed by experienced editors is a really nice way to make new editors feel welcome.

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List of best-selling music artists

I see you're not very active nowadays on wikipedia, but I'd want to ask you if you'd want to participate in listing the List of best-selling music artists for WP:FL. After all, we've both participated in the peer review, and you have helped in many aspects of it. Note that I've recently split the page into two, so my guess is that both would need to be listed separately on WP:FL.--Harout72 (talk) 15:25, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

OK I'll help out when I can. It might be best to leave the second page until the first has completed it's FLC. Mattg82 (talk) 22:20, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

I didn't hear from you, so I went again and listed it at WP:FLC. Feel free to add your name if you wish.--Harout72 (talk) 22:22, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

You may understand the request of the reviewer better than me. For the "Total certified units" column, the reviewer states You should ensure that when I click on the heading of the column of "Certified sales" that it sorts by the total of sales. Any idea what he's asking and how to do that?--Harout72 (talk) 15:53, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Never mind I got it.--Harout72 (talk) 18:06, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Host feedback needed at the Teahouse!

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Four

Hi! Welcome to the fourth issue of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter for the Teahouse!

• Teahouse pilot wraps up after 13 weeks After being piloted on English Wikipedia starting in February, the Teahouse wrapped up its pilot period on May 27, 2012. We expect this is just the beginning for the Teahouse and hope the project will continue to grow in the months to come!

Thank you and congratulations to all of the community members who participated - and continue to participate!

• What you've all been waiting for: Teahouse Pilot Report is released! We look forward to your feedback on the methodology and outcomes of this pilot project.
• ....and if a pilot report wasn't enough, the Teahouse Pilot Metrics Report is out too! Dive into the numbers and survey results to learn about the impact the Teahouse has made on English Wikipedia.
• Teahouse shows positive impact on new editor retention and engagement

• 409 new editors participated during the entire pilot period, with about 40 new editors participating in the Teahouse per week.
• Two weeks after participating, 33% of Teahouse guests are still active on Wikipedia, as opposed to 11% of a similar control group.
• New editors who participated in the Teahouse edit 10x the number of articles, make 7x more global edits, and 2x as much of their content survives on Wikipedia compared to the control group.

• Women participate in the Teahouse 28% of Teahouse participants were women, up from 9% of editors on Wikipedia in general, good news for this project which aimed to have impact on the gender gap too - but still lots to be done here!
• New opportunities await for the Teahouse in phase two as the Teahouse team and Wikipedia community examine ways to improve, scale, and sustain the project. Opportunities for future work include:

• Automating or semi-automating systems such as invites, metrics and archiving
• Experimenting with more ways for new editors to discover the Teahouse
• Building out the social and peer-to-peer aspects further, including exploring ways to make answering questions easier, creating more ways for new editors to help each other and for all participants to acknowledge each other's efforts
• Growing volunteer capacity, continuing to transfer Teahouse administration tasks to volunteers whenever possible, and looking for new ways to make maintenance and participation easier for everyone.

• Want to know how you can lend a hand at the Teahouse? Become a host! Learn more about what makes the Teahouse different than other help spaces on Wikipedia and see how you can help new editors by visiting here.
• Say hello to the new guests at the Teahouse. Take the time to welcome and get to know the latest guests at the Teahouse. Drop off some wikilove to these editors today, as being welcomed by experienced editors is really encouraging to new Wikipedians.

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Five

Stop by for a tasty glass of wiki-iced tea at the Teahouse, today!

Hi! Welcome to the fifth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Guest activity increased in July. Questions are up from an average of 36 per week in June to 43 per week in July, and guest profile creation has also increased. This is likely a result of the automatic invite experiments we started near the end of month, which seeks to lessen the burden on hosts and other volunteers who manually invite editors. During the last week of July, questions doubled in the Teahouse! (But don't let that deter you from inviting editors to the Teahouse, please, there are still lots of new editors who haven't found Teahouse yet.)
• More Teahouse hosts than ever. We had 12 new hosts sign up to participate at the Teahouse! We now have 35 hosts volunteering at the Teahouse. Feel free to stop by and see them all here.
• Phase two update: Host sprint. In August, the Teahouse team plans to improve the host experience by developing a simpler new-host creation process, a better way of surfacing active hosts, and a host lounge renovation. Take a look at the plan and weigh in here.
• New Teahouse guest barnstar is awarded to first recipient: Charlie Inks. Using the Teahouse barnstar designed by Heatherawalls, hosts hajatvrc and Ryan Vesey created the new Teahouse Guest Barnstar. The first recipient is Charlie Inks, for her boldness in asking questions at the Teahouse. Check out the award in action here.
• Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania! The Teahouse was a hot topic at Wikimania this past month, where editor retention and interface design was heavily discussed. Sarah and Jonathan presented the Teahouse during the Wikimedia Fellowships panel. Slides can be viewed here. A lunch was also held at Wikimania for Teahouse hosts.

As always, thanks for supporting the Teahouse project! Stop by and visit us today!

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Six

Hi! Welcome to the sixth edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!

• Teahouse serves over 700 new editors in six months on Wikipedia! Since February 27, 741 new editors have participated at the Teahouse. The Q&A board and the guest intro pages are more active than ever.

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• Automatic invites are doing the trick: 50% more new editors visiting each week. Ever since HostBot's automated invite trial phase began we've seen a boost in new editor participation. Automating a baseline set of invitations also allows Teahouse hosts to focus on serving hot cups of help to guests, instead of spending countless hours inviting.
• Guests to the Teahouse continue to edit more & interact more with other community members than non-Teahouse guests according to six month metrics. Teahouse guests make more than twice the article edits and edit more talk pages than other new editors.
• New host process implemented which encourages anyone to get started as a Teahouse host in a few easy steps. Stop by the hosts page and become a Teahouse host today!
• Host lounge renovations nearing completion. Working closely with Teahouse hosts, we've made some major renovations to the Teahouse Host Lounge - the main hangout and resource space for hosts. Learn more about the improvements here.

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Hi Mattg82! The Teahouse has recently went through some design changes in order to improve it's usability for new editors and for our Hosts. As a former Host, we'd love to see you back. A few changes have taken place about hosting: A new and improved Host Lounge which features calls to action and resources. A simplified Host sign up process. It just takes a few simple steps to add your new profile to our new Host profile page. Concerned about how much time you have to contribute? Don't be. With our new automated Host check in system Hosts can feel less pressure to participate outside of their volunteer capacity - only participate when you want. Teahouse invitations are currently automated! We encourage you to keep inviting, but, there is no pressure or quotas as HostBot does the task for the you. I hope you'll come back and join us, your skills at making new editors feel welcome and appreciated are invaluable to the Teahouse, and the Wikipedia community. See you there! EdwardsBot (talk) 17:31, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

New suggestion at the List of best-selling music artists

Hi, I know you're not active nowadays on wiki but if you see this message, I have a new suggestion on raising the bar on the required certified sales. Let me know what you think about it here. Thanks.--Harout72 (talk) 15:50, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Removing Orphan tag with AWB

I notice on Wikipedia:WikiProject Orphanage under your name that you are active removing tags using AWB. I have been trying to get this to work but have not so far succeeded. How do you get AWB to check for links to a page and remove the orphan tag? --Traveler100 (talk) 06:07, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven

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Hello again! We have some neat updates about the Teahouse:

• We’ve added badges! Teahouse awards is a pilot project to learn how acknowledgement impacts engagement and retention in Teahouse and Wikipedia.

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The Tea Leaf - Issue Seven (special Birthday recap)

A celebratory cupcake from the Teahouse Birthday Badge

It's been a full year since the Teahouse opened, and as we're reflecting on what's been accomplished, we wanted to celebrate with you.

Teahouse guests and hosts are sharing their stories in a new blog post about the project.

1 year statistics for Teahouse visitors compared to invited non-visitors from the pilot:

Metric	Control group	Teahouse group	Contrast
Average retention (weeks with at least 1 edit)	5.02 weeks	8.57 weeks	1.7x retention
Average number of articles edited	58.7 articles	116.9 edits	2.0x articles edited
Average talk page edits	36.5 edits	85.6 edits	2.4x talk page edits
Average article space edits	129.6 edits	360.4 edits	2.8x article edits
Average total edits (all namespaces)	182.1 edits	532.4 edits	2.9x total edits

Over the past year almost 2000 questions have been asked and answered, 669 editors have introduced themselves, 1670 guests have been served, 867 experienced Wikipedians have participated in the project, and 137 have served as hosts. Read more project analysis in our CSCW 2013 paper

Last month January was our most active month so far! 78 profiles were created, 46 active hosts answered 263 questions, and 11 new hosts joined the project.

Come by the Teahouse to share a cup of tea and enjoy a Birthday Cupcake! Happy Birthday to the Teahouse and thank you for a year's worth of interest and support :-)

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Back in 2010 you PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has now been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:51, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

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Backlog drive

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WikiProject Orphanage is holding a month long Backlog Elimination Drive to de-orphan articles which have orphan tags!
The goal is to eliminate the backlog of orphan articles. There are currently 58839 articles which have orphan tags. The drive is running from April 12, 2014 to May 12, 2014.

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deOrphaning script

Hello everyone! I was just working on responding to a couple bug reports for a script that I worked up as part of a request from this project, and I noticed that only a couple people (who weren't even on this mailing list) are actually using the script. A little history on the script: In March of 2014, Jim Cartar came to my user talk page and said he needed some help in acquiring a script for a backlog drive that he was working on that could keep track of and score deOrphanings for a scored backlog drive. I took that request to the project's talk page (BackLog Drive "DO" (De-Orphaning) script proposal) and there was near unanimous support for this. I thought about the proposal and decided the best way to do it was to build a new script (which is still no where near as comprehensive as Manishearth's OrphanTabs) and build into it a mechanism that will make BLD scoring easy.

What I'm wondering at this point is, since there appears to be only two people using the script, should I continue to develop this script with a goal of using it for scoring BLDs or just debug the existing script and leave it at that. Thanks for any replies or comments.

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Reliable source in the list of best selling music artists

I appreciated that you try to make a reliable thing for that list, I've been handle all of the source in the list for over 5 years. So I understand which is reliable source of not, let me tell you that we already use CBS News as source for Genesis and I put tribune democrat to make the source more variable in the list. And if you think the daily telegraph is reliable. you should READ THIS http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/9450131/Singer-Adele-babysits-for-a-strangers-child-at-high-street-cafe.html adele sold 21 album around 220 million?, we should avoid any source from the telegraph. I see telegraph often cited from Wikipedia for artists sales claim. Thanks Politsi (talk) 14:42, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

While I like your efforts in sourcing this list and making sure it remains accurate, I was heavily involved along with Harout and others in the editing the page back in 2010-2012 before I took a wikibreak. I know what is considered a WP:RS and what is not when editing this page, that is not to say your source is automatically bad or unreliable but it is to give readers (and other editors who are not usually involved with the page) confidence that what is on the list is accurate. I would prefer we keep using well known sources until declared unreliable by the reliable sources noticeboard and not use local newspapers who is paper form only get sold in small areas. Yes more mainstream sources can get it wrong in which case of this list, an alternative source is found and discussed on the talk page if necessary. Also there is nothing wrong with using the same news outlet twice or more as long as the overall use remains low imo. I see you put a note on the List's talk page I'll put a reply there as well to see what other editors think. Mattg82 (talk) 19:28, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

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