User talk:Phoenix-wiki/Archive for October 07

Thanks for my Barnstar

I really wasn't expecting it. My goal on WP was to get a barnstar...but I've only been registered for three weeks, and now I have two! Thanks again! NASCAR Fan24^{(radio me!)} 22:31, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

IRC cloak request

I am Phoenix15 on freenode and I would like the cloak Wikipedia/Phoenix-15. Thanks. --Phoenix 15 12:51, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
Complete To Do List Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a bishop a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a lawyer a military person a musician a photographer a saint a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references adding categories Review an article Romano Volta • Suzanne Carrell • Mullá Husayn • John Gilchrist (linguist) • Thomas Brattle • Answer requests for comments Work on the Portal Portal:Biography Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles Assessment Progress Biography articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Core Other ??? Total FA 34 1,592 1,626 FL 192 192 A 1 104 105 GA 41 8,083 8,124 B 92 37,308 37,400 C 37 159,780 159,817 Start 3 736,025 736,028 Stub 1 1,031,591 1 1,031,593 List 7,483 7,483 Category 2 210,322 210,324 Disambig 8,072 8,072 File 29,522 29,522 Project 1 197 198 Redirect 3 42,015 42,018 Template 12,678 12,678 NA 238 238 Assessed 215 2,285,202 1 2,285,418 Unassessed 32,552 32,552 Total 215 2,317,754 1 2,317,970 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,638,416 Ω = 5.39
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Thanks for getting it sent out

Thank you for sending out the newsletter. I have been quite busy on Wikisource lately, so I didn't have time to set up the IRC meeting and such. I'll be sure to make it for the meeting though. Psychless 23:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

RFA? Bionewsletter?

My RFA status is listed on my talk page, and how do I get one of those pretty WikiProject Biography newsletters? Miranda 02:31, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Propagada by Mussolini.JPG)

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RFA Thanks

Click there to open your card! → → →

My dear Wikipedian Phoenix 15,
Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 36 supports, 3 opposed, and 1 neutral. No matter if you !voted support, oppose, neutral, or even if you just stopped by to make a comment, I thank you for taking the time to drop by. Since I am a new admin, if you have any suggestions or concerns, feel free to inform me of them. Thank you and good day.

The Placebo Effect

Credits

This RFA thanks was inspired by The Random Editor, who in turn was inspired by Phaedriel's RFA thanks. So unfortunately this is not entirely my own design.

This end the usual RFA thanks spam. You may return to your regular editing now.

Welcome!

Hi, and welcome to the Military history WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to military history.

A few features that you might find helpful:

• Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
• The announcement and open task box is updated very frequently. You can watchlist it if you're interested; or, you can add it directly to your user page by including {{WPMILHIST Announcements}} there.
• Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
• The project has several departments, which handle article quality assessment, detailed article and content review, offline publication, article improvement contests, and other tasks.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the project coordinators, or any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Eurocopter tigre 20:56, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Tom Cryer

I posted the Cabal case before I realize you'd closed it. I think that closing it was the right thing to do. Frankly, I believe that Mpublius is simply forum shopping. He didn't get the result he wanted with the RfC that he filed, so he picked another dispute resolution. Consensus on the talk page is pretty clear, particularly Famspear's arguments which, while verbose, are very well reasoned. Anyway, thanks for taking the case. I appreciate your time. Into The Fray ^T/C 21:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

My recent RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA, which unfortunately didn't succeed. The majority of the opposes stated that I needed more experience in the main namespace and Wikipedia namespace, so that is what I will do. I will go for another RfA in two month's time and I hope you will be able to support me then as well. If you have any other comments for me or wish to be notified when I go for another RfA, please leave them on my talk page. If you wish to nominate me for my next RfA, please wait until it has been two months. Thanks again for participating in my RfA! -- Cobi^(t|c|b|cn) 01:53, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

<laughs bitterly>

I was on the IRC channel for about six hours that day. Not a single person went on. Apparently an IRC meeting is not going to work. I guess we're just going to have to talk about it on WT:WPBIO Psychless 18:10, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

The Cuff Links restored

This article has been restored after its deletion was contested at Wikipedia:Deletion review. As you nominated the article to be deleted via WP:PROD, you may wish to nominate the article for a full deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion.--chaser - t 00:52, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Template for Wikipedia:WikiProject History

I'm not really sure what you're looking for here. Do you want a normal assessment parameter and a checklist? Or an assessment automatically generated by the checklist? If you could come up with an example of (a) what you would put on a talk page together with (b) what the resulting template would say, it would be very helpful.

(There is no standard "C-Class", incidentally; I'd suggest using the normal "Start-Class" if you want to be compatible with the assessment-tracking bots.) Kirill 01:34, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Done, I think; please test it out and let me know if anything doesn't work as intended.

(Incidentally, if you'd like, I can change {{WPMILHIST}} to automatically place articles in the appropriate history assessment categories as well as our own; that would save you the trouble of having to double-tag everything.) Kirill 02:43, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the award!

And... enjoy! Kirill 22:05, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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RfA

Dearest Supporter,

Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed unsuccessfully with 39 supports, 15 oppose, and 1 neutral. I would have liked to gain some experience of being an admin, but it wasn't to be. At least I gained some valuable time there and will use my knowledge picked up to my next candidacy. I would like to say once again, thank you for voting and I hope to see you at my next request be it a nomination or self-induced, I hope I don't get as many questions! Rudget _{Contributions} 09:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

See your coaching page

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Trying something new

I've never nominated a page for featured status before, so I thought I'd give it a try...

See: Wikipedia:Featured list candidates#List of basic geography topics.

The Transhumanist    01:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Greeting on history project

Feel free to add your signature to the greeting above mine (since you are the main cheese, er, the head honcho, er, the top dog, er, our imperious leader!).  :) The Transhumanist    04:05, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Curious

Are you associated with C/158/101? (If you are, you'll know what that means). - Crockspot 17:55, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

• Left a reply on my talk. - Crockspot 18:05, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Newsletter for WikiProject Biography

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter no. 6 - October 2007
Project News Just a reminder, there is a new irc channel for WikiProject Biography, #wikipedia-en-bio. The Collaboration department has been restarted. The department will provide help in improving biographicle articles. New Collaborations and requests will be publiished here in the future Article News Newest featured biographies: William Shakespeare John Mayer Collaboration: This months collaboration is Woody Allen. Current requests are: Benito Mussolini Member announcements From now on members of this project make announcements or voice their opinions on anything	Members news Our new members: JPmaverick (talk · contribs) From the Editors As said before, the newsletter will publish new collaboration requests every month. If there are a large number of requests, only the most recent requests will be published. This newsletter will now be delivered on the 20th day of every month We're looking for new writers to help write this newsletter. All those who wish to help must do is add news to next months newsletter before release Contributors to this Issue Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
Complete To Do List Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a bishop a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a lawyer a military person a musician a photographer a saint a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references adding categories Review an article Romano Volta • Suzanne Carrell • Mullá Husayn • John Gilchrist (linguist) • Thomas Brattle • Answer requests for comments Work on the Portal Portal:Biography Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles Assessment Progress Biography articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Core Other ??? Total FA 34 1,592 1,626 FL 192 192 A 1 104 105 GA 41 8,083 8,124 B 92 37,308 37,400 C 37 159,780 159,817 Start 3 736,025 736,028 Stub 1 1,031,591 1 1,031,593 List 7,483 7,483 Category 2 210,322 210,324 Disambig 8,072 8,072 File 29,522 29,522 Project 1 197 198 Redirect 3 42,015 42,018 Template 12,678 12,678 NA 238 238 Assessed 215 2,285,202 1 2,285,418 Unassessed 32,552 32,552 Total 215 2,317,754 1 2,317,970 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,638,416 Ω = 5.39
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Re: A-Class reviews

Added the review and the task force links; please test and let me know if everything works as expected. You'll need to pick your own images for the task forces eventually; I've just used the base project image for the time being.

(You haven't told me if you're interested in having {{WPMILHIST}} automatically generate history project assessment categories, incidentally.) Kirill 20:58, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Ok, done. Kirill 21:09, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

I've added a basic description of the syntax; you guys can add in more detailed documentation, links, and so forth if you want them. Kirill 21:16, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion

If I may make a suggestion to you regarding membership at the History Project: Perhaps it would be a good idea to note on the mebership page that those members whose names are listed on subprojects of the history project are considered members of the history project, while asking other history subprojects to note that members listed in those projects are automatically considered part of the history project. In this manner you may be able to cut down on the membership list by allowing Users whose interested are not already represented to sign up on the parent project page. Just a thought. TomStar81 (Talk) 22:57, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Rebellion

Since you've already decided that the British POV pushed by Jos is Neutral - how do you expect me to let you be part of a mediation framework?

DemolitionMan 06:32, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia: The Missing Manual

Yes, it is me. The book is based on the index I've been working on for a while.

(If I had a prize to offer for connecting the dots, you'd win it.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:53, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Re: Help with Template:WikiProject History again

Ok, done.

I'd suggest, incidentally, that you may want to make sure that all these new pages that are being set up are linked from the navigation template in some sensible way; otherwise, people are likely to get lost in the infrastructure. :-) Kirill 20:12, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Accessibility

I noticed your move of Wikipedia:Accessibility to Wikipedia:Article accessibility and for the moment have undone it. This was because a) though you seem to have intentions to create a new page you hadn't done so in 2+ hours, and b) the move created lots of double redirects. I'll be interested in your ideas and have no problem with you performing the move again when you are ready to write down your ideas. violet/riga (t) 21:54, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

History banner

Let me know when the history banner is done, and I'll make up all the categories and whatnot for the various aspects of the project once I know the exact terms used in the banner. John Carter 22:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

RfA thank-spam

Thank you! Thank you for your help in my RfA. It hammered home a few things I need to keep in mind while admining and passed with a final tally of 40/0/4; two people forgot to vote in time, leaving me short of that exquisite number :-(, but I'll just have to fudge the next vote about me. Adminship feels slightly august but not particularily exalted, so I shall endeavour to consider it a toolkit and make sincere efforts to know what I'm doing before using it. If you later on have something to say or want to ask for -- MESSAGE EATEN BY BEARS --Kizor 23:10, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

RFA

I believe that I have addressed your concerns at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/RyanLupin#Discussion. Bearian 20:22, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Revise wise cover.JPG

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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Propagada by Mussolini.JPG)

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Nomination for adminship

Sorry I did not respond to your comment of 29 September. I have been away. If the offer still stands, please not at this time. After talking to an admin via-email, I do not (and he thinks so too) that I am not ready. Thank you so muck through. Please keep in touch! Pat^{Politics rule!} 03:50, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Rebellion of 1857

Hi

Have you taken a decision on the 1857 Rebellion issue?

DemolitionMan 03:53, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Phoenix!

Thanks for the awesome picture and the hello, I replied, with regards to the text alignment, on my talk page, I'd love to fix it if you can give me some more details. Ariel♥Gold 13:53, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

RE: Moral support

Hello! Thank you for such a nice response on my Administrator-application. I'll think for a while whether to withdraw or keep the application. Thanks! Ilyushka88 17:33, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Preity Zinta

Hi Preity Zinta is currently up for A nomination. Could you review it and state your opinion of it cheers ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 12:11, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Here at biography thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^"Talk"? 12:15, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

wikiproject history

Hi Phoenix

I'm a former coordinator of the military history project and I would enjoy helping you to get the history project on track since I don't have many articles to edit right now. Greetings Wandalstouring 13:18, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't care about positions as long as work gets done. Wandalstouring 14:12, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that the task force system you created is likely to work. My approach is to mothball them all and to create task forces if there is interest in a topic. We may keep some geography based organization for the task forces, but this is hardly a requirement at the current level, however, I can try. Wandalstouring 14:33, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

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

Thanks for the Barnstar! Keep editing! (2200 and counting!) MindstormsKid 13:54, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

merging

have you written to all the small and rather specific history projects to convince them of merging into a larger project with a better infrastructure? they could be real task forces. Wandalstouring 14:58, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

What comes to my mind, is that we do have bulky task forces without participants and no infrastructure where we can list common guidelines and templates and we can hardly integrate them as task forces because of the existing ones, so beforehand we should restructure the whole project. Wandalstouring 15:03, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

My RFA

Thanks for supporting my on my RFA, even though thinks don't look so good for me right now. I appreciate your contributions, so thanks once again! Icestorm815 16:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Epic Barnstar
		For your work on Benito Mussolini. Squee23 22:47, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks very much for supporting my RfA. Unfortunately it wasn't a success, however, I appreciate your support all the same! —— Ryan (^talk/_contribs) 23:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Many thanks for the barnstar, I'm honored at being seen! Ryan Postlethwaite 00:00, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Balilla.JPG

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wP:bio nEwz

could u plz stop cending me bio newzlettrz. k thx. Miranda 21:08, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw you left earlier--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 21:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Military history

I note that you requested Kirill to place all the Military history articles in the History project statistics. He just told me as much. If you honestly believe that they should all be included in the History project's stats, well and good. Personally, though, I think the project would be best served if we only listed those articles the project itself actively deals with. That would allow for greater focused attention on them. I think MILHIST does a good enough job dealing with the articles it already deals with. John Carter 18:41, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

The articles are already tagged for 1.0 by Military history. I really can't see how it benefits the history project itself to have articles appear in its statistics page which are not directly related to the actions of the project. I can't see how we would really be likely to improve the military history articles in ways that Military history already can't. The fact that the History Project banner isn't there basically means were taking some degree of responsibility for content which we can't use as advertising for ourselves as well. I honestly think that, considering we have more or less decided we'll let the MILHIST project work on their articles without our input/interference, that it doesn't make much sense for us to have them show up in the stats box at this time, as it basically makes it harder for the membership to focus on those articles which the extant history project has indicated in its scope that it will deal with. Later, if the scope of either project changes, banners can be adjusted again. That's been done rather a lot. But I can't see how it benefits us to list articles we're not going to necessarily deal with. John Carter 18:53, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia:WikiProject Agriculture

You walked into a firestorm, hopefully you only had to observe the carnage. The little attitude I may have given you at Wikipedia:WikiProject History was nothing compared to what those folks put out. Please look around the project page and discussion for things you can do and add ideas of your own. I look forward to editing with you for the improvement of Agricultural articles (and history for that matter, but that's another story).;)--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 00:20, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and on the issue of sources you mentioned, that's fine, that's what the project is for, if you need assistance sourcing tell us on the project talk page what you're working on and there may be others who are able to meet you at the specific article talk page and help out in that regard.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 00:20, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

I received a personal welcome some time after joining WP:LAW and thought it was a good idea. It's been easy so far, since we just got started and I was initially just thanking people for signing up and so were some of the other early members. Now it seems to just be me, but it's still small enough to manage and others are always to welcome to take up the banner and send the welcome message instead of me (or in addition, the larger the welcoming party the better!) --Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 04:06, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Email

Replied. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H₂O) 07:47, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Technology project

Several projects assess on both quality and importance. I think it might be useful if the above project would do so as well. John Carter 21:34, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Adminship

You're like #7 who's asked me that, actually. Right now, I regret to say that being an admin would probably take away from some of the time I spend elsewhere. If and when I ever finish my self-appointed tasks, though, then maybe I'll reconsider. Thanks for the offer, though. John Carter 23:08, 31 October 2007 (UTC)