AtionSong

TI-BASIC Wiki

I was wondering if you were planning on doing anything with the TI-BASIC wiki? The reason I'm asking is because I wanted to see if you would consider merging it with the TI-Basic Developer wiki. TI-BASIC wiki has pretty much died, averaging only a few edits each month, while TI-Basic Developer has lots of activity going on, as well as more than 400 pages of content. At the same time, it's very confusing to people wanting to learn TI-Basic to have multiple wikis covering the same information, when just a single wiki would do.

Please consider this offer, and reply back with a response. You can also email me at: t i b a s i c d e v (at) g m a i l (.) c o m. I look forward to your response. Thanks. Tibasicdev (talk) 09:10, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Broadway WikiProjects

Hi. You have listed yourself as a participant in one or more of the following wikiprojects: Wikipedia:WikiProject New York Theatre Wikipedia:WikiProject Broadway Wikipedia:WikiProject Off/Off-Off Broadway

I wanted to send out this bulletin to re-spark interest in these projects and hopefully advance their progress. Please contribute in any spare time you may have, in order to make this section of wikipedia even better.

If you know anyone who may be interested in working on this project, please say something to them.

Clarkefreak ∞ 02:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

1.0 Collaboration of the Week

Hi, I noticed you signed up as a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. Recently, a 1.0 Collaboration of the Week was created to work on essential topics that are in need of improvement, which will ultimately go in a release version of Wikipedia. You can help by voting, contributing to an article, or simply making a comment. Thank you for your support. :) Gflores ^Talk 07:59, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Darren Shan WikiProject

Hi, I noticed you both started and shut down the WikiProject on Darren Shan because he didn't approve of it. Was this of the article as a whole or the project, since I wrote the original article (for my sins - it was terrible) and had planned to help with this project? As a long-term DS fan and contributor to his boards, I'm not aware of any objection he had before now. Any clarification/quotes from DS would help a lot here. Many thanks. -Sir Ophiuchus 11:02, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, seeing as the project did not have many supporters (apparently), I e-mailed Darren asking if he could tell people about it using his website. I thought that he would be enthusiastic about it, but he sent me back an e-mail talking about how he doesn't approve of Wikipedia articles about his books because he feels that they give away too much plot information. So I decided that, based on that, I should shut the project down. -AtionSong 14:54, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Version 1.0 "Release Version Qualifying"

Hi, I'm interested in your feedback on Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Release Version Qualifying. It's essentially an idea to use a process similar to WP:FAC to identify and handle articles and lists that would go in a release version. Maurreen 19:41, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

WP 1.0

I thought since you are interested in this project you might be interested to see a CD version of en now exists see Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download & 2006 WP CD Selection. This is being discussed on the 1.0 project pages but progress breeds enthusiasm so I thought I would let you know. --BozMo talk 09:12, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

1.0 category vote -- minor edit

Hi AtionSong, on the 1.0 main talk page, I edited a word in one category label (language-->communication) per the last version mentioned on the core topics talk page. You and Martin already voted on that. If you disagree, I don't know what the step to revise is. I leave that up to you and Martin and whomever. Revert I guess.

By the way, I posted some ideas about expert review on the release version subpage and then I copied your passage from the main talk page about 3 step review there. Seemed to fit there too. I won't be working much on 1.0 for a few months. Perhaps sometime we can chat about ideas about expert review processes. Take it easy, --Vir 19:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

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I dont even know who you are, why did you leave that message? i dont vadilize.

Cooking Mama: Cooking with International Friends proposed for deletion

An article that you have been involved in editing, Cooking Mama: Cooking with International Friends, has been proposed for deletion. Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.  :) Dlohcierekim 14:39, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Pokémanics anon

If you are interested in Pokémon articles, you may like to join the Pokémon Collaborative Project, a group of editors who work together to improve Pokémon articles. You can help with our current collaborations (which are Pokémon and Marshtomp) and find out more information on editing articles, as well as discuss Poké-related information. We hope to see you there! Highway ^{Rainbow Sneakers} 20:29, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Backmasking

Thanks for adding that detail, but please:

Remember to mark your edits as minor only when they genuinely are (see Wikipedia:Minor edit). "The rule of thumb is that an edit of a page that is spelling corrections, formatting, and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a 'minor edit'."

Λυδαcιτγ^{(TheJabberwock)} 22:36, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

WP:PCP

Welcome to the Pokémon Collaborative Project, we hope you have a fab time editing Pokémon articles. If you have any questions about the articles, style, content or simply what our favourite Pokémon is (it varies, trust us) leave a message on the project talk page. Cheers and happy editing, The Raven's Apprentice (Call) 15:51, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Musicals

Hi! I'm leaving you this message because your name is listed as a participant in WikiProject Musicals (previously WikiProject Broadway) or I feel you may be interested in the project. It seems that the project has laid dormant for quite awhile, but I would like to work toward getting it up and operative. I have a few ideas that I've outlined on the talk page, and would love your input. Working together, I think we can signifigantly improve the quality of the articles relating to musicals on Wikipedia. —  MusicMaker 06:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Longest Poem

You really think you can get 1.8 million words? How many subpages would you need? bibliomaniac15 21:26, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Darren Shan Spoilers

Hey, List Of Characters From The Saga Of Darren Shan is my artical. Keep the spoilers up. That's why I put a warning. BECAUSE THER WOULD BE SPOLIERS!!!

Did Darren say that?

Did Darren say that? Harkat is a main character. They spent all of the Lake Of Souls tring to find out who he was. And The Vampire Prince was mainly about Kurda so I think he should have an artical.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Darren Shan

I note that the project listed above has a tag on it saying that you were "shutting it down". I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I have nominated it for deletion on that basis, as well as its inactivity since that date. If I'm wrong, please respond to that effect on the discussion page. Thanks. Badbilltucker 23:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, it's fine if you shut it down. Thanks for checking in with me first. -AtionSong 23:20, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!

I hereby award AtionSong the Surreal Barnstar for challenging Wikipedia to write the World's Longest Poem! NauticaShades^(talk) 13:23, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

/World's Longest Poem nominated for deletion at MfD

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I nominated your user subpage /World's Longest Poem for deletion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AtionSong/World's Longest Poem. Nothing personal, it's just not something that belongs here. —Doug Bell ^{talk•contrib} 00:49, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

MfD Nom

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AtionSong/World's Longest Poem (second nomination). — Whedonette (ping) 20:44, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I'm part of Wikiversity's garbage detail, and I think the "World's Longest Poem" would be a good learning project for people at Wikiversity. If it is sucessful, it could also bring some publisity. As it might get deleted over here, I sugest that you could move it to Wikiversity's site. I'll talk to people over their to see where it might go. What do you think?--Rayc 04:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

AtionSong, I would personally recommend this. Really, the page is violating many policies, and Whedonette's argument is strong. If you don't want to see the poem go for good, this might be your best option. Yuser31415^@? 22:24, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I think we're on the losing side here. You may want to save the text on your computer before it gets destroyed for ever. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:25, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry about that. If it is deleted and you want to get the text, I will provide it to you if you ask. —Doug Bell ^talk 22:34, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the World's Longest Poem

Hi, AtionSong, would you agree to moving the said poem to the sandbox? That way, we could get a larger scope of contributors, and we could possibly avoid the deletionists hounding us. bibliomaniac15 01:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Done. Probably for the better. -AtionSong 22:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Man, they overhauled the whole page and changed pretty much everything. bibliomaniac15 04:14, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't happen to know you in rl, would I?

Sorry if I don't, but I think a friend of mine has a similar user name. -- Chris is me 03:25, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah Chris, it's Aaron. Good to hear you're coming back this summer. -AtionSong 00:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Holy crap! I'll be there next summer. I'm guessing you'll be back also? -- Chris is me 21:21, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

(unrelated) will you still be doing a KTIM podcast? -- Chris is me 21:43, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I dunno. I sort of have this problem. See, I'm an idea person, but usually I don't actually do anything. So, probably, no. Sorry. -AtionSong 22:37, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Thanks

You are very welcome, kind sir. Random question: Are you a part of Unfiction? --Quadraxis 20:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah. Under the same username. -AtionSong 20:30, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Duke Nukem Forever

I made some improvements to the "Plot" section after you failed the GA nomination. I'm really at a loss for coming up for a better structure - can you give any further suggestions in this area? Hbdragon88 01:32, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Welcome

Hi, AtionSong. I wanted to say thanks for welcoming me a while ago. Also, sorry about accidentily deleting a huge chunk of the World's Longest Poem; It was one of my first edits ever, and I really don't know what went wrong. I think that that's a really cool project; you definately deserved the Barnstar. Thanks again. FerralMoonrender 00:24, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:RFF#Destination ImagiNation

I saw your request for feedback regarding the above article. I have given it an initial precis and done some minor editing in the process. My initial impression is quite positive, on the whole. There were some things that needed sorting in the grammar department. Slang is too informal in tone for an encyclopædia, so I replaced uses of kids with children. You may wish to change some or all of those for students or pupils (if that term is used in the U.S.). Be careful about incorrect use of plural verbs and adverbs: sentences that use team should always be singular, yet many such instances were pluralised. For example: the team was given a challenge is correct, but the team were... is wrong. References and notes need improvement, specifically in their formatting and the information available. You have used hyperlinked URLs, but you should have much more info. Here's an example:

1. Title of article/page example.org, September 20 2006. Retrieved on April 22 2007.

In this instance, the link is incorporated into the article's title, followed by the website's name, then the date of publishing if available (ie, for a news article) and finally, the retrieval date. You don't need to use templates (in fact, they make for more typing) but they are useful as a formatting guide. Different sources obviously have their own requirements. Use Template:Reflist to provide small text in the Refs section.

I like the structure of the article: it is balanced, factual and well quite well laid out. I would rather see note #3 incorporated into the text of the article, right where the ref has been placed. It is directly relevant to that section, but is does work as a note. Notes are supposed to be brief contextual clarifications of statements, rather than statements in their own right.
There are two noticeable weak areas: the Criticisms section absolutely needs to be sourced as a priority; if that cannot be sourced, it should really be removed. What the article obviously lacks is any form of conclusion: I was left wondering what, if anything, this program has actually achieved.

I hope that helps you in your effort to improve this article. If I think of anything else in the meantime, I'll let you know, and if you have any questions or would like further help, feel free to contact me. Adrian M. H. 20:23, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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Peasants quest

I merged it, because it seemed it would be a non controversial merger so a formal merger wasn't needed. Also, the article has no information on how the game was created, it has no reviews or commentary from external sources on what people thought of the game, and probably no hope of getting any of those things. So, I merged it into World of Homestar Runner, where perhaps as part of this article, it will be able to reach Good Articles status. For the relevant policy explanation, see WP:Fiction Judgesurreal777 18:49, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Come party with us!

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Actually, I did create the article Show Choir

A while ago you posted saying that I did not create or contribute to the article Show Choir. But in actuality, I did create it, here is proof:

[[1]] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jakewater (talk • contribs) 00:26, August 22, 2007 (UTC).

What the hell?

How the Hell was I mean to you? I didn't swear or anything! You're waaaaaaay too sensitive.

You also jump to conclusions way to easily. Why the Hell did you assume that I did not create the article without even checking the history.--Jakewater 01:40, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Hell isn't a swear... It's a name of a place. All I wanted from you was an apology for jumping to conclusions, and now you're making a really big deal out of it. All you have to do is apologize, and this whole little "tiff" will be over with. --Jakewater 01:40, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

At least I can admit when I'm wrong, unlike you! And how the Hell could you say that there is seriously something wrong with me??? You don't know ANYTHING about me! Even if you did know me, and you thought that there was something wrong with me, then you should keep those nasty comments to yourself!--Jakewater 01:50, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, you did make me cry. Are you happy now, knowing that you made a little boy cry? I don't think I've ever met anyone on the internet as mean as you before. Tell me, does it give you pleasure to hurt people's feelings? Does it raise your self-esteem? Please tell me, I'm actually interested in knowing.--Jakewater 02:06, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

You seem to always be on Wikipedia. I think that you should take this test, maybe it will make you realize how addicted to Wikipedia you are, and then you will quit, and go out into the real world: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~merphant/cgi-bin/wikiholic.cgi --Jakewater 02:16, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

WPMT Roll Call and COTM

WPMT Roll Call and Collaboration of the Month!

You're receiving this message because you are currently listed as a member of WikiProject Musical Theatre. Please post at the talk page to let us know if you're still with the project. Feel free to post on the talk page about what musical theatre-related work you're doing or to weigh in on the current discussions on the talk page.

Nominations for our Collaboration of the Month are currently being accepted. What should we focus on for the month of November? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks much, folks! Happy editing! —  MusicMaker5376 04:48, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Demonata Book 7

Just want to tell you that I can't cite the reference to Bec narrating Book 7. At the Edinburgh Book Festival, Darren Shan said that the first line of book 7 is 'It's strange, being alive again', and I'm not sure whether or not there is any official source of this on the internet.--Andy mci 21:54, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Kah-Gash

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D&D articles for Wikipedia 0.7

Hi there!  :)

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Yo.

Bet you cant figure out who it is. Anyway, what's up? Are you still semi-active here? Chris Picone! 03:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

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DYK

Hi AtionSong, this is just to let you know that I nominated an article you wrote (Walt Disney's Riverfront Square) for featuring on the Main Page in the Did You Know? section. If you want to see how it is doing, feel free to go to Template talk:Did you know#Walt Disney's Riverfront Square. Congratulations! Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:30, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Walt Disney's Riverfront Square

Materialscientist (talk) 16:03, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Are you still around?

I noticed that you have edited recently(ish) and I wanted to let you know that, if you have the time, your help would be appreciated over at the Myst wiki. I figured I'd try bothering you here, since you have been active more recently here. You seem to know a lot about Myst, and even though I sort of stole the wiki from you, it would still be great if you could become active again! ~~ Hi878 ^{(Come shout at me!)} 18:55, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 1

The Help Project Newsletter Issue I - May 2012
Project news the wub has been appointed as a Wikimedia Community Fellow to lead a data-driven improvement of the English Wikipedia's help documentation, and will be working closely with the Help Project. You can read more about his plans at Wikipedia:Help Project/Community fellowship or in this Signpost article, and he has just released a first report on progress so far. The project's pages have had a major redesign, introducing tabs in order to make them more usable. If you haven't stopped by recently then check them out! A table of statistics is now available for all pages in Category:WikiProject Help Project, this includes page views, word counts and a variety of readability scores. This should be helpful in prioritising improvement work and finding redundant pages. {{Breadcrumb2}} is a new template for making attractive navigational breadcrumbs. This may be useful for linking help pages. This newsletter was started :-)	From the editor Hi, and welcome to the first issue of the Help Project newsletter! This is a new monthly initiative to keep project members and the wider community informed about our work to improve Wikipedia's help pages. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. I've initially sent this to all existing members of the project, if you don't wish to receive the newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. Conversely if you've just stumbled on this newsletter (perhaps through talk page stalking) and want to receive it in future then please feel free to sign up! the wub "?!" 16:03, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Tasks Help:Diff needs to be updated for the new diff styles.

Help Project newsletter : Issue 2

The Help Project Newsletter Issue II - June 2012
Project news Progress on the help redesign fellowship continues apace. In-person usability testing is due to start next week, watch this space for results! A large survey about help pages was conducted. Responses are still coming in, but preliminary results are available. A new gadget has been proposed to make it easier for new- and non-editors to leave feedback about help pages. Please test it and leave your thoughts. In somewhat-related-project-news: the Teahouse has wrapped up its pilot phase with an extensive report. Planning and discussion is underway for phase 2. A discussion is taking place about the purpose and future of the venerable Community portal.	From the editor Hello from the Help Project, and welcome to the second issue of our newsletter! The biggest project I've been working on this month has been a large survey of users to find out what they think of our current help pages. Preliminary results from this are now available, although there are more responses trickling in from the lower edit count groups since a batch of email invitations were recently sent out. Finalised results and further analysis should be posted next week. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. the wub "?!" 18:39, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
Tasks Calling all CSS and template gurus: Help:Diff and {{wiki diff}} need to be updated to match the new MediaWiki diff styles. Why not wander through the lower reaches of Wikipedia:Help Project/page statistics and see if there are pages that can be cleaned up or merged.

Help Project newsletter : Issue 3

The Help Project Newsletter Issue III - August 2012

Project news summary Final results and conclusions from the help pages survey were released. The wub gave a presentation at Wikimania 2012 about help pages, and the slides are now on Commons. A discussion is taking place about the purpose and future of the venerable Community portal. New designs for tutorial pages have been proposed, comment from project members is welcome.

From the editor Welcome to the (slightly delayed) third issue of the Help Project newsletter. The past month has once again been a busy one for my fellowship. The full results and conclusions from the extensive user survey on help pages are now available, and make interesting reading. These do confirm a number of our suspicions about Wikipedia help, and suggest that the current plan for the remainder of the fellowship is a sound approach. Also last month I was fortunate enough to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC, where I gave a presentation about help pages and the aforementioned survey results. You can find the slides from this on Commons. Wikimania was also a great opportunity for many discussions with staff and community members, and these brought up some interesting ideas which I hope to follow up on. One of the things much discussed was the planned tutorial pages. I've been working on a new design for them which can be seen at User:The wub/sandbox/1, please let me know what you think (especially if you spot any bugs!). Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. the wub "?!" 13:31, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 4

The Help Project Newsletter Issue IV - September 2012

Project news summary The in-person usability tests from the wub's community fellowship have been written up. Three new introductory tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. The Article Feedback Tool has been deployed to pages in the Help namespace, and can be added manually to help pages in other namespaces. Read more... Page statistics were updated for the month of August.

From the editor Hi, and welcome to the fourth issue of the Help Project newsletter. It's been another busy month in the world of Wikipedia help. The results from the in-person usability tests conducted as part of the help pages fellowship have been released. There are no great surprises here, the tests confirmed that people have trouble with the existing help system, and people looking for help on the same topic often end up at wildly different pages. Editors who experienced a tutorial and/or edited a sandbox as part of their learning were noticeably more confident when editing a real article. Drawing on that, three new "Introduction to" tutorials for new users have been created: referencing, uploading images and navigating Wikipedia. These join the popular existing introductions to policies and guidelines and talk pages. Feel free to edit them, but please do remember that the idea is to keep them simple and as free from extraneous details as possible. All three have been added to Help:Getting started, which is intended to be the new focal point for new editors, and will also be seeing a redesign soon. In other news, the Article Feedback Tool (AFT) can now be used to collect feedback on help pages. By default it has been deployed to all pages in the Help: namespace. It can be disabled on any page by adding Category:Article Feedback Blacklist, or enabled for pages in other namespaces by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 Additional Articles. Once a page has AFT applied, you can add feedback using the form which appears at the bottom of it. Feedback can be reviewed by clicking "View feedback" in the sidebar, or the "Feedback from my watched pages" link at the top of your watchlist. I'm now entering the final month of my fellowship, and will be focusing my efforts on making much needed improvements to Help:Contents, the main entrance point to our help system. It's been a pleasure working as a fellow, and I just want to thank all the people who have helped me or offered advice over the past months. That definitely won't be the end of my involvement in the Help Project though, I'll be sticking around as a volunteer and continuing to write this newsletter. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. -- the wub "?!" 20:00, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 5

The Help Project Newsletter Issue V - January 2013

Project news summary Help:Contents and Wikipedia:Contact us have seen a major revamp. Page statistics were updated. Alerts are now available for discussions related to Help Project pages Many more Help Project pages now have the Article Feedback Tool (v5) enabled. GettingStarted is an experimental feature to guide new users with their first edits.

From the editor Hello again from the Help Project! In the last newsletter (which was quite a while ago sorry!) I talked about my fellowship and the plans for improving the main portal page, Help:Contents. Well I'm sad to say that my fellowship is now over, but very happy to say that the proposed improvements to that page have been completed and implemented. Do check it out if you haven't already. Another important and frequently used help page, Wikipedia:Contact us, has also seen a significant revamp. You may recognise the design inspiration from the new tutorial pages. In project news, we now have a subscription to the "article alerts" service. Any deletion nominations, move discussions, or requests for comments on pages within the Help Project's scope will now show up at Wikipedia:Help Project/Article alerts. So that's definitely a page which project members might want to watch. Any comments or suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. -- the wub "?!" 23:34, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Help Project newsletter : Issue 6

The Help Project Newsletter	Issue VI - April 2013
Open Help Conference The Open Help Conference will be taking place June 15-19 in Cincinnati Ohio, USA. The conference includes two days of presentations and open discussions, followed by team "sprints" - collaborative efforts to write and improve documentation. It has been suggested to send a team from Wikipedia/Wikimedia: to share our own knowledge about help, learn from others in the open source community working on similar problems, and to carry out a sprint to improve some aspect of Wikipedia's help. There may be support available for volunteers to attend from the Participation Support program (and your editor is certainly hoping to be there!) Please join the discussion in Meta's IdeaLab if you're interested, and/or have suggestions about what we could work on.	Other news The Article Feedback Tool (v5) has now been changed to be opt-in for all pages. It can be enabled for specific pages by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 to them. There are also a number of new features. It has been proposed to merge the questions forum of the New contributors' help page into the Teahouse. Discussion is taking place here. The help menu at Help:Contents/Browse and its subpages have been largely cleaned up. User:Moxy has created a descriptive help directory. A project on Video and Interactive Tutorials has begun, supported by a Wikimedia Foundation grant. Suggestions for subjects are invited on the talk page.
If you don't wish to receive this newsletter on your talk page in future then just edit the participants page and add "no newsletter" next to your name. Suggestions for future issues are welcome at Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter. the wub "?!" 16:22, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:04, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, AtionSong. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of History of alternate reality games for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article History of alternate reality games is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of alternate reality games until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Power~enwiki (talk) 05:19, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

A revival

I'm some kid on Wikipedia but I noticed that you are a part of the wikiproject for Alternate Reality Gaming, which is something that I know a bunch about. The page says that it is dead, and it certainly is. Wondering if you could help me revive it if I get some others that I know would love to help. Thanks in advance Notabimbo (talk) 23:47, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Bec (novel) for deletion

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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bec (novel) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Skeletor3000 (talk) 23:36, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Riverfront Square Concept art.png

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