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Hello, InTheFlesh?, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Gflores Talk 20:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Copyedit edit

Nice work cleaning up and copyediting the Patriots article. Sometimes, those errors are overlooked; we could really use more good copyediting wikipedians like yourself :) Deckiller 00:40, 5 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Pink Floyd copyedits edit

Nice work copyediting the Pink Floyd article. I can't believe "recieving" (sic) went unnoticed for so long. I'm currently trying to clean the article up to the point of submitting it for featured article status, and the kind of copyediting a fresh eye like yourself brings to such a project is invaluable.

If you don't mind a bit of constructive criticism, try to make more use of edit summaries, even if it's just a quick "copyedit" or "typo" comment. I didn't use them for a long time, but now realize how helpful they are, especially for people keeping a close eye on a page.

Once again, great work - looking at your contributions, not just on the Floyd's article. - dharmabum 09:10, 5 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I agree you're doing a great job, although it might be a good idea to use the aforementioned copyedits and reply to comments so we can get some brainstorming or ideas folowing. Thanks! Deckiller 13:53, 5 February 2006 (UTC)Reply
Once again (Finding Their Feet section), you got my back. :) - dharmabum 08:48, 10 February 2006 (UTC)Reply
I don't mind the reversions, but "onto" is still not wholly acceptable in British English: see www.askoxford.com. Chris 42 11:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Copyedits edit

Nice job...out of curiosity, are you an English major? Deckiller 18:52, 6 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

No, I'm just really anal about grammar...had several teachers in high school who had a strong dislike for improper parallelism, split infinitives, etc. InTheFlesh? 18:56, 6 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

nonexistent article edit

No problem... everyone can have fun once. Dyslexic agnostic 06:04, 7 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject up edit

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars. Thanks! Deckiller 17:12, 11 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Anon image vandal edit

Sorry about that, we just had 5 image vandals in a row and I was blatantly slapping on warnings / reverts. I accidentally threw in a block on sight request on the CVU irc channel, I don't think you got blocked but if you do, please let me know or point an admin to your talk page. Tawker 21:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

The Game edit

People look at my user page? I'm astounded! Now I doubt you sat through my sub-page rant about userboxes (here, if I'm right but now you're interested), and I realize that this userbox does not fit into a category which i qualify as useful but it's just so.....good.....that I had to leave it in.

Oh, and sorry for making you lose again.--jfg284 you were saying? 23:16, 14 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Featured! edit

Pink Floyd is now a featured article! Thanks a ton for all your great work on the article that helped get it through, I had no idea what I was getting into, and your keen eye for grammar really had my back throughout the process. - dharmabum 22:54, 17 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Dammit! I just lost the game. - dharmabum 22:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Star Wars Wikiproject edit

Hello! Thank you for participating in the Star Wars Wikiproject. The participants section has recently been changed so it would be appreciated that you put the template {{User Star Wars WikiProject}} onto your Userpage so that you appear in Category:WikiProject Star Wars members. That way you appear in the listing of WikiProject Star Wars members. Jedi6 04:18, 20 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hey edit

Hey, a fellow Rhode Islander, eh? Cool. Deckiller 17:27, 21 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Ah, okay. Deckiller 19:00, 21 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Star Wars Selected Voting edit

Make sure to vote for the selected article for next week at Portal:Star Wars/Vote. Jedi6 03:06, 22 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Star Wars Collaboration of the week edit

Make sure to vote for the Star Wars Collaboration of the week for next week at Wikipedia:Star Wars Collaboration of the week. Jedi6 03:47, 23 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:Featured Music Project edit

I don't know if you'd be interested, but the FMP is trying to find participants. I joined them myself yesterday, as they really helped with the Floyd FAC... if you're at all interested, look at the status page to check out which categories still need participants and the gist of the project. - dharmabum 20:26, 23 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Star Wars voting edit

Please make sure you vote for the Star Wars selected article, list and picture by Monday. Jedi6 10:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)Reply


New Sports Wiki/Community edit

I noticed you were a Patriots fan. My friends and I started a sports wiki/community that you may be interested in. It uses Wikipedia's software but we made a lot of technological improvements to allow for more news, opinion articles, and better integration of sports statistics.

Linkspam removed: links available in history here: [1]

When you get the chance, let me know what you think. And feel free to use it.

Thanks! --Roblefko 01:43, 10 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hey this is the guy that tried to edit the Red Sox page and put that they require you to retire with the Sox. Actually, Fisk did retire/end his career with the Bosox. They hired him for 1 day as a "special assistant" to the Red Sox and Dan Duquette. I know the Sox site says that this is not required but I'm positive it is or else why would they ever hire Fisk?

WikiProject Star Wars newsletter edit

Project updates
Greetings, Star Wars editors! Deckiller here. It's the first edition of the WikiProject Star Wars newsletter, and yes, it's a semi-ripoff of the Esperenza newsletter. I think it's important to begin with some good news: Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and Jabba the Hutt have reached featured article status! Kudos to the editors who helped obtain these achievements!

WikiProject Star Wars is also on a mission to improve Star Wars articles using the following ideas:

  • An out of universe perspective versus an in universe perspective (see Wikipedia:Writing about fiction and the future ammendments to our manual of style)
  • Evolving lists into regular articles
  • Moving excess information and specifics to Wookieepedia (and providing links to Wookieepedia per the "see also" and/or "external links" sections)
  • Enhanced communication amongst WikiProject members
  • More to come

These should provide the basic steps needed to improve and "encyclopedia-fy" the Star Wars series of articles.

Things to do
There are plenty of Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Wars/things to do. An update to the page is coming very soon, and it will represent the new and exciting changes that Star Wars pages will be receiving!
Out-of-universe versus in-universe perspectives
Although details are forthcoming, I would like to take this time to explain the gist of this concept. Wikipedia has generally agreed that fictional articles should write about the topic from a "real world" perspective, focusing on real world issues and topics, with a section or two for plot synopsis and so on. Jabba the Hutt is a solid character example, and Clone Wars (Star Wars) is quickly moving toward an out of universe perspective.
Article evolution

As many of you know, lists of minor Star Wars-related themes are very common on Wikipedia; however, since these may be seen as violations of Wikipedia policy (and having seperate articles would breach even more policies), the tentative solution is to create general articles on a list's topic (for example, turning List of Star Wars devices into Technology of Star Wars, which allows us to cover everything from hyperspace to comlinks in a general encyclopedic fashion). This can be very tough for some broad topics, so the key is organization. I encourage all editors to list their ideas on the WikiProject talk page. It will be a very difficult — but tangible — effort.

For an example, let me point you to the Final Fantasy WikiProject. Some of us over at that WikiProject decided to turn various components of Final Fantasy X, such as Pyreflies, Yevon, and the backstory — into an article describing the world of Spira. Location descriptions were given a List of locations in Spira article, and the details themselves were placed on the Spira (Final Fantasy X) page. This is a decent template to follow — however, we will need to place priority on out-of-universe, "real life" topics and perspectives in realtion to the article.

Sounds confusing, eh? It won't, for examples will be popping up left and right in the near future!

Signed...
Deckiller 03:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Pink Floyd WikiProject edit

  Hi! I've seen you around on Pink Floyd articles... Would you consider becoming a member of WikiProject Pink Floyd, a WikiProject which aims to expand and improve coverage of Pink Floyd on Wikipedia? Please feel free to join us.

- dharmabum 08:39, 27 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Star Wars WikiProject Roll Call edit

" Hello! "

Thank you for contributions. You have signed as a member of the Star Wars WikiProject there is a Roll Call going on currently at the Star Wars WikiProject talk page. Please sign if you still want to help out.

Again, Thank you for your help! --Team6and7 02:38, 3 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

SW Collabaration.... edit

Hello just dropping in to let you know that I'm organizing a huge Star Wars collabaration, if you want just go to this discussion page..... Cheers, --Sadow (talk | contr.) 19:51, 17 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Poll at Syd Barrett edit

I have a poll going at the Talk:Syd Barrett page. Would you like to participate and help us solve an issue? TheQuandry 01:38, 23 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

NBA WikiProject Newsletter edit

     
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NBA WikiProject May Newsletter edit

     
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Volume 1, Issue 2 • May 5, 2008 • Written by: Noble Story
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Collaboration of the Month

Magic Johnson has been chosen to be our very first Collaboration of the Month article. Although this is article is already a Good Article, it still can be improved. The goal is to improve this article by the end of May so that it can be nominated for Featured Article status. In particular, free-use images should be found for the article, all Manual of Style guidelines should be followed, and a neutral point of view should be maintained throughout the article. If there is anything you can do to improve the article, then please help out.

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Unreferenced BLPs edit

  Hello InTheFlesh?! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 943 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

  1. John Harrington (baseball) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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