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Welcome to Wikipedia!!! edit

Hello Tea and crumpets! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. You may also push the signature button   located above the edit window. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia. Even a short summary is better than no summary. Below are some pages to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! -- Kukini hablame aqui 18:41, 17 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
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Japoteurs (animated short) edit

  On 20 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Japoteurs (animated short), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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Since you helped create this, I figure you deserve credit, too. Wrad 22:29, 20 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

King Arthur project collaboration edit

The King Arthur Project has begun a collaboration to bring its main article, King Arthur, to WP:FA status. If you wish to contribute, please review the to-do list on its talk page. Let's make this article an FA! Wrad 03:28, 22 June 2007 (UTC)Reply


Fair use rationale for Image:Saturdays warrior.jpg edit

 

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Brigham Young University Wikiproject edit

This new wikiproject has been proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Brigham Young University. Please sign up in order to improve the quality of BYU related articles on wikipedia, including BYU-Idaho and BYU-Hawaii. Thanks. Wrad 01:13, 30 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Proposed Changes to the article Book of Mormon edit

Hello Tea and crumpets:

I'm putting this note here because I saw your name in the edit history of the Book of Mormon article. There have been two "batches" of changes to the article recently. As I explained in the Talk, I reversed these changes, not because of the substance of the changes but because of the "process". Talk:Book of Mormon#Reversal of Changes

I'm hoping you and others will look at the substance of these changes. I don't want the people who made the changes to think their efforts were reversed and then simply ignored. (And I'm not able to comment seriously on the proposed changes.)

The two batches of changes I'm referring to are the ones made on December 15 by 24.2.75.193, and on December 17 by DJ Clayworth. (Because the changes were reversed, the best place to see them is through the article history.)

Thank you, Wanderer57 (talk) 18:44, 17 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

PS You may find this amusing. I saw your note "I am an autodidact" and thought, "I wonder what that is, maybe that's something I should take up".

So I followed the link and realized that autodidactism was one thing I could not take a course to learn. W

DYK edit

  On 3 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1345 , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.
--Carabinieri (talk) 20:53, 3 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Help please edit

Hello! Can you constructively help me with this? I am slightly completely unprepared for it. I got the first question by my self, then the tough question that I don't know the answers to came, so that is why I need help... Thanks for your help! Sincerely, Sir Intellegence - smartr tahn eaver!!!! 21:07, 18 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Portal:Africa Image edit

Hi. I just wanted to thank you for your support on the Africa Portal image. I made it because i think portals have the potential to look more attractive. Of course some people totally disagree. User CJ for instance has been chasing my works on the base of copyrights for the wikipedia logo. Which I have found baseless since i am not using it for commercial purposes or outside the wikipedia. The logo is being added within the Wikipedia and i do not see how it infringes any copyright. I have some other images in the Asia portal and the Latin America portal. I will be adding more images to the other portals whenever I have time. The Europe portal became a controversy because another user wanted to add his. I lost the feud because some comments found my banner a little unreadable and I totally respect those opinions. Anyway thanks.Camilo Sanchez (talk) 19:51, 28 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Image:Redflags.svg edit

Bulgaria definitely has red in its flag. The red originates from the Pan-Slavic colours - red, blue and white, but in the Bulgarian falg the blue has been replaced by green. Could you possibly fix the image? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.36.9.144 (talk) 15:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for alerting me. I took care of it. -Tea and crumpets (t c) 03:40, 18 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Wikiproject homeschooling edit

Hi Tea and crumpets!

I noticed you were a member of WikiProject Alternative Education, and thought you might be interested in WikiProject Homeschooling. In this "WikiProject," we have been together working on the collaboration of Homeschooling-related articles. As a member, I really hope you can join, and let me know if you need any help signing up or with anything else. If you have any questions about the project you can ask at the project's talk page. Cheers! RC-0722 communicator/kills 23:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)Reply



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Issue One • Early March 2008About the Newsletter

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Recent Project News
  • A New WikiProject Homeschooling member, Basketball110 has been hired by Diligent Terrier (Project Founder and Newsletter Writer) as the official newsletter deliverer. When you get a chance, stop by his talk page and thank him for joining and volunteering at the project! This newsletter is part of the Newsroom project, which has been created to update our members on the latest news at the project and on homeschooling.
  • Project member count reaches 18 19 20 21 :) members! Keep inviting all your WikiFriends using our invitation templates. Remember to thank users Burner0718 and RC-0722 for helping to recruit users for this WikiProject.
  • Wikipedia user Sherurcij, currently not a member, has asked for support from our members at other Wikimedia projects such as WikiSource and Wikimedia Commons. This message can be found at the project's talk page.
  • Remember: The project is now accessible from new shortcuts, WP:HOME and WP:WPHS.
  • Birthdays: Wish RC-0722 a happy (late) birthday.
  • Collaboration of the Month Nominations are currently open for WikiProject Homeschooling's Collaboration of the month. You can nominate and vote here.
  • A Wikipedia Ad for the project will be created by User:Miranda. This user would like to know exactly what the ad should say. Suggestions should be left at Diligent Terrier's talk page.
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Issue Two • Late March 2008About the Newsletter

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  • WikiProject merger: Diligent Terrier has proposed that WikiProject Alternative Education be merged into this WikiProject. Although it is currently inactive, the merger may give the projects a chance to grow stronger. You can read the proposal at their talk page.
  • Collaboration of the Month nominations are currently open for WikiProject Homeschooling's Collaboration of the month. It is mandatory, well not mandatory, but highly encouraged that you, as a member, nominate and/or vote for the Collaboration of the month.
  • A Wikipedia Ad for the project has been created by User:Miranda. You can view it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling/Ad. Please include the ad in your userpage to show your support for the project.
  • The Userbox Discussion for the selection of our official and standard userbox has been reopened now that we have more members. The discussion was originally opened by Unschool last month, but was put on hold until our group had more users.
  • Assistant Coordinators Diligent Terrier has nominated two users to be assistant coordinators, User:Burner0718 and User:RC-0722
  • Project member count has reached 21 members! Several users joined following the publication of the previous newsletter.
  • Remember: The project is now accessible from new shortcuts, WP:HOME and WP:WPHS.
  • Birthdays: Wish RC-0722 a happy (late) birthday.
  • Wikisource collaboration has been proposed by Sherurcij, an administrator on Wikisource. He is seeking help putting the complete texts of Author:Charlotte Mason online.
Recent Homeschooling News
  • The "homeschooling convention season" (March - August) has started.  . Sorry — couldn't think of a better story.
  • Homeschooling has been banned in California by recent court ruling on March 6, 2008. As homeschool families protest, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked for the ruling to be overturned.
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Alternative education edit

There has been a proposal brought forward [1] regarding a merger of WikiProject Alternative Education, and as you are member of that project, I am notifying you. Thanks. Twenty Years 13:35, 12 March 2008 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Homeschooling Early April 2008 Newsletter edit

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Issue Three • Early April 2008About the Newsletter

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  • Collaboration of the Month nominations are currently open for WikiProject Homeschooling's Collaboration of the month. So far there have been two nominations. You can nominate and vote at April's Collaboration page (link).
  • The March 2008 Collaboration of the Month was a real success! You can view the before and afters at the project page. The following users contributed: Zginder, Wrad, E104421, Diligent Terrier. Stop by their talk page and give them a smile.
  • Peer Review: The homeschooling article is currently under peer review. Constructive criticism is welcome at the peer review page (link).
  • Project member count reaches 23 members! Keep inviting all your WikiFriends using our invitation templates.
  • A Homeschooling Portal may be created by User:WBOSITG. However, this user will soon be on a WikiBreak, so don't expect it anytime soon.
  • Remember: The project is accessible from the shortcuts, WP:HOME and WP:WPHS.
  • Note: User:Twenty Years has changed his name to "Five Years"
  • A Wikipedia Ad for the project has been created. You can view it at the project page.
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WikiProject Homeschooling newsletter for June 2008 edit

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WikiProject Years edit

In 2009, WikiProject Years developed a essay for the inclusion of events "recent year" articles.

Important policy discussions took place in January 2009 at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years.

Deilvered by §hepBot (Disable) at 01:33, 11 January 2009 (UTC) on request of WradReply

File:Jungledrums2.JPG listed for deletion edit

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Jungledrums2.JPG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 06:24, 26 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Request for tagging WP:Energy categories edit

Hi. As a participant of the WP:Energy, I would like to ask you to comment the request for tagging WP:Energy articles by bot. The list of potential categories for tagging is located here and the discussion about which categories should be excluded from this list, is going on at the WP:Energy talkpage here. Your comments are welcome. Beagel (talk) 12:03, 16 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Homeschooling Roll Call edit

Hello, Tea and crumpets! You are receiving this message because you are on WikiProject Homeschooling's list of members. WikiProject Homeschooling is holding a roll call to identify active members. All members will be listed under "Pending". Please move your name to "Active" or "Inactive" based on your ability or interest in contributing to the project. After two weeks all names still listed under "Pending" will be moved to "Inactive". If you are actively interested in participating, we are in the process of trying to revive the project and would welcome any help. Discussion can be found at the project talk page. Cheers! 21:00, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Volcano1.jpg edit

 

A tag has been placed on File:Volcano1.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, contest the deletion by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". Doing so will take you to the talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Gobonobo T C 01:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:WikiProject Years edit

Hi, since your name's down on this project, I'm just writing to let you know that there's a discussion going on at the moment on how to format events – and in particular, events that go on for multiple days – on year pages. Your input would be appreciated. — Smjg (talk) 18:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

Upcoming Wikimedia events in Missouri and Kansas! edit

You're invited to 3 exciting events Wikipedians are planning in your region this June—a tour and meetup at the National Archives in Kansas City, and Wiknics in Wichita and St. Louis:

Kansas City
Saturday, June 16, starting at 9 a.m.National Archives in Kansas City
  • This full-day event will include a tour of the facility; presentations from National Archives Wikipedian-in-Residence, Dominic McDevitt-Parks, and Exhibit Specialist, Dee Harris; and time in the research room to work on projects. The focus of the projects will be scanning, writing articles, transcribing, or categorizing images on Commons.

    Wikipedians from St. Louis and elsewhere in the region are encouraged to make a day-trip of it and come to Kansas City for this special opportunity!


 

And two local editions of the Great American Wiknic, the "picnic anyone can edit." Come meet (and geek out with, if you want) your local Wikipedians in a laid-back atmosphere:

Wichita
Saturday, June 23, starting at 1 p.m. — Central Riverside Park
  • Join the 1st annual Wichita Wiknic: The Sunflower State blooms Free Knowledge!
St. Louis
Saturday, June 23, starting at 11 a.m. — Forest Park Visitors' Center
  • Join the 2nd annual St Louis Wiknic: The Gateway to the West is now The Gateway to the Wiki!
 
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Request for help concerning energy... edit

Hi,

I noticed you listed yourself as a participant of the Energy WikiProject.

There are 2 new outlines in this area that attempt to consolidate Wikipedia's coverage of their respective subjects, gathering and organizing the articles about them into one place and including descriptions for convenience. The purposes of these outlines are to make it easier for readers to survey or review a whole subject, and to choose from Wikipedia's many articles about it.

The new energy outlines are:

Please take a look at them, and....

if you spot missing topics, add them in.
if you can, improve the descriptions.
add missing descriptions.
show parent-offspring relationships (with indents).
fix errors.

For more information about the format and functions of outlines, see Wikipedia:Outlines.

Building outlines of existing material (such as Wikipedia) is called "reverse outlining". Reverse outlines are useful as a revision tool, for identifying gaps in coverage and for spotting poor structuring.

Revising a work with multiple articles (such as Wikipedia) is a little different than revising a paper. But the general principles are the same...

As you develop these outlines, you may notice things about the articles they organize. Like what topics are not adequately covered, better ways to structure and present the material, awkward titles, articles that need splitting, article sections lacking {{Main}} links, etc.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Outlines.

Thank you. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 00:57, 2 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

P.S.: see also Outline of energy

Come to the First Topeka Meetup, January 15! edit

 

Come celebrate Wikipedia Day with other Kansas Wikipedians sponsored by Wikimedians Active in Local Regions in the United States (WALRUS) and hosted by the Topeka and Shawnee Public Library. Come chat, hang out and enjoy good company while find out more about Wikipedia in our regional community! RSVP at Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka/Wikipedia_Day.

If you can't come, but still want to find out about events in the greater Topeka region (which may include KC, Manhattan, Lawrence, Salina, or other places where volunteers are interested) sign up for future notifications at Wikipedia:Meetup/Topeka/Invite list.

Hope to see you there Sadads (talk) 20:21, 18 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

File source problem with File:Jungledrums1.JPG edit

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I've added a generic source for this. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 08:03, 10 May 2014 (UTC)Reply

Better source request for File:The underground world still.JPG edit

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Population update project edit

Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the {{sigfig}} template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

kwami (talk) 02:13, 4 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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