User talk:BusterD/Archive 3

Floating TOC

Thanks... I think that helps a lot... I hated how there was a blank section where the TOC is located... on the military brat article Balloonman 16:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

PS what did you think of the article? Any recommendations? Any places where you thought the wording could be improved? My goal is to get this to FA status... so I am open for even the most trivial of nitpicks.Balloonman 18:35, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm a big fan of TOCright when a long infobox or image interferes with TOC and page flow. BTW, I'm also a military brat (sold Navy Times on Pearl Harbor docks when I was ten), and my first instinct was to make changes, not give feedback. I was excited to see the article for the first time this am, and after some more careful reading I'd be glad to provide feedback. BusterD 18:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Excellent... feel free to make changes... I'm of the opinion that the more people who edit/comment on the article the better. Either way it's fine by me.Balloonman 19:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Your remedies

I have responded here. Although I appreciate your attempt at a suitable resolution which everyone can agree on, it doesn't seem to address the fact that the Arbcom has not come up with clear cases for desysopping. And I especially object to punishing MONGO for unprotecting a page he was not editing. User:Zoe|(talk) 16:44, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

If the ArbCom would care to provide evidence of the behavior they are condemning, and if they get rid of the punishment of protecting a page he wasn't editing (which can backlash against ALL of us), then we have grounds to talk. Until then, I can't see any middle ground. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:49, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Editor review

Thanks for having requested an editor review. A month has passed since it has been posted there, and it has been archived. You can find it at Wikipedia:Editor review/BusterD/Archive 3, where you may read last minute additions. We would really appreciate your help in reviewing a random editor. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 01:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

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A source in NY

Hi BusterD

Do have time to help the African military history project a bit? Mozambican War of Independence could be one of our next FAs, but it needs some more sourcing. One of the sources is in the NY public library, see here for more information. Thank you Wandalstouring 12:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Question

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Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of unassessed articles tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 20:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive!

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Thanks, Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy timeline

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Tally

Hi -- I saw here you're collecting data from a 1982 BLP sample. I think the results may well be informative. If I can help (e.g. by doing some of the legwork) please let me know. Avb 22:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Contribution

Hello. I am currently trying to contribute to a battle in respect to giving a reason why a Viking force had to withdraw from a native attack, which I think was instrumental to the article itself and since the person in question received her place in history for that act. Its my understanding that Wikipedia is meant for contributions, but the people at that region see fit to leave the situation vague. They have told me that I cannot simply copy and past from references and, in short order, I re-wrote the small addition in my own words. I don't see what the problem here is, however, they simply revert my edits and give me vague conclusion to why they have done so. The site is intended to be used for non-commercial reproduction so we have no problems in copyright infringement. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. InternetHero 22:58, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

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Re: ACW

You might want to consider sending the portal to WP:FPCAN at this point. :-) Kirill 17:13, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Mexican-American War

WP:PROT#Semi-protection might be an option here, as might WP:RFCU. Kirill 02:46, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Tor? Then checkuser would likely help quite a bit; editing through Tor is prohibited, so any nodes he's using can be blocked on sight anyways. Kirill 18:00, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Dominionism POV tag

Thank you for stepping in and doing this. Several POV-warriors like Odd nature and Felonious Monk are making life difficult for the serious editors there. Thanks again. --profg 03:11, 4 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)
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I just happened to sign onto Wiki after getting back from Gettysburg (I had a series of book signings today - very cool!) and noticed the bio page was CSA -1, so I checked out your Lunsford article. Nice start! I tweaked it a little bit with a couple of cats and several links. I like the portal, by the way! Keep up the good work. It is appreciated. Scott Mingus 23:06, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

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Saturday November 3, 2007 New York City Meetup

You have expressed interest in creating a meta:Wikimedia New York City. Please have a look at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC, the meetup for Saturday November 3, 2007, where it is hoped we can actually get a local chapter started.--Pharos 07:16, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Sock Puppets

No problem. I was just patrolling the user creation log (as I tend to do, among other counter-vandalism patrols, when I'm bored at work), and I saw those four usernames created in the span of about two minutes. This raised a red flag in my mind, but since there were no contribs, I wasn't sure if I should make a sock puppet report. I flagged down an admin who made the report. I guess the sock puppeteer was waiting out the four day time period before he could edit a protected article?

I'll be watching this case on and off, but I will be out of town this weekend and I'm not sure I'll have reliable internet access. --Tckma 13:21, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I am not an admin, but I am the one who made the report on behalf of User:Tckma. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this one. - Rjd0060 14:37, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Lots of eyes open now. Hope we get to the very bottom here. Thanks to all non-admin concerned wikicitizens. Don't need a mop to clean up. BusterD 14:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello from DonDesignJr

Hello BusterD, Sensei48, TabascoMan77, Golbez

BusterD you do make me feel welcome. However we have unintentionally stepped on a few toes (I should say fingers, typing fingers). We have suspended our Wikipedia activities. We will corporate even without the threat of banishment. We believe the other editors are as supportive to tenderFoots (tenderFingers) as you and Sensei48 are, even though they did pounce pretty hard, and rightly so.

SPAM DEFINED. BusterD and Golbez thanks for explaining spam as it pertains to Wikipedia. I knew of the common definition of spam but not this meaning. I was surprised. If TabascoMan77 or Golbez had used the term WikiSpam or used BusterD's link to spam, it would have made me investigate the meaning, and I would have found it instantly in Wikipedia. Whereas spam left me puzzled: "What spam? I didn't spam!"

Why use the word spam? I don’t see a sufficient connection to share the word. I declare a misnomer. I can think of several more relevant, descriptive names.

WikiSpam I DID. I saw the ability to add links and thought that implied permission. At the very least, it implied adding links was not totally taboo. It didn't occur to me that links in the body of your articles link only to Wikipedia articles. Sorry.

RE-WRITES. Sensei48, of course you are correct about the re-write. When searching for information, my first click is on the big "W" on my bookmark bar, because I know Wikipedia's information is enormous and not tainted with bias such as mine and has links to "Points-of-View" sites such as ours. However, I dedicate most of my time to achieving the Goals set forth by Ideas4Humanity.com (see External Links) and am driven by forces that appear daily without warning, so I may not return to The Little Bighorn for sometime, especially not knowing that it will be approved. But foremost, I don't have the skill to switch from writing on one side of the fence to walking on top of the fence with my bias lean. Perhaps that is a reason for the original research rule.

MODIFIED OUR COPYRIGHTS. We have several articles that may interest your readers as excerpts or External Links. For our List of All Articles see our External Links at the end of this message.

And since it would be beneficial to your readers, Wikipedia editors, and aid in accomplishing our goals, we have decided to modify our Copyright Reprint Permission to offer Wikipedia editors our information to use or not use as they see fit (see External Links). If there are any changes you want, let us know.

If one of the Wikipedia pros edits in some of our material, there would be no original research violations.

LINKS BACK AND FORTH. We have been adding links from our articles to Wikipedia. We will add many more. Wikipedia is a powerful resource, thanks to you folks.

Would it be OK for us to add links from your External Links sections to our articles, with link deletion being the worse action your editors take?

ALL EDITORS. Would you pass this message to all Wikipedia editors? Or tell me how to do it, if it is permitted.

MORE THAN WELCOMED. We feel more than welcomed. We feel honored to be known by the Bakers of Wikipedia's Bread of Knowledge.

EXTERNAL LINKS:

• Goals: [1]
• List All Articles: [2]
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Cheerio! Don.

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NYC meetup change of schedule

You've expressed an interest in the upcoming New York City Meetup for Saturday, November 3. I'd like to update you on an important change of schedule.

• It's been agreed that we should have a 2-hour formal meeting period to start organizing meta:Wikimedia New York City, and this will be held at the Pacific Library (note this is different from the Brooklyn Central Library, which was discussed earlier) from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.

This will be in addition to the previously scheduled roving activities at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (this activity has also been cut short a bit) and at the Brooklyn Museum. For full details, see Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC. Ask any questions at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/NYC. Thank you.--Pharos 21:04, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello badge

Hi. I made a Wiki Hello badge in case anyone's interested in using it for the Meetup. It's on the Meetup page. Nightscream 16:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

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