User talk:Johann Wolfgang/Archive 4

This is an archive, please to not modify it, thank you. ~April 17th 2006 do November 6th 2006~

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Old Skool Esperanzial note

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Infobox

There is a consensus discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft#Infobox Aicraft consensus discussion on adopting a non-specifications summary infobox for aircraft articles. Your comments would be appreciated. Thanks! - Emt147 ^Burninate! 18:35, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey

How's things? Wanted to make sure you saw these Thnx :) Joe I 10:26, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Award

I award you this barnstar for welcoming me into the Wikipedia community. --TantalumTelluride^♪

Hey, I've noticed you haven't been really active lately. I hope you're not losing interest in the project. Anyway, I've been meaning to thank you for welcoming me into the community way back in Ocober 2005. If you're busy in the "real world," I wish you good luck. --TantalumTelluride^♪ 02:55, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Newsletter, Issue #3

Administrator Coaching The Administrator Coaching program is a program aimed at preparing Wikipedians for Adminship or helping them understand the intricacies of Wikipedia better. Recently, changes have been made to the requirements of coachees. Please review them before requesting this service. This would be something like the Welcoming Committee, but for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. Some might like suggestions about how to learn vandal patrol, or mentoring on taking an article to featured status, or guidance with a proposal they plan to make at the Village Pump, for example. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. Stressbusters The Stressbusters are a subset of Esperanza aiming to investigate the causes of stress. New eyes on the situation are always welcome! Note from the editor As always, MiszaBot handled this delivery. Thank you! Also, congratulations go to Pschemp, Titoxd and Freakofnurture for being elected in the last elections! An Esperanzial May to all of the readership!

The last AC meeting (full log) Posting logs of the Esperanza IRC channel are explicitly banned anywhere. Violation of this rule results in deletion and a ban from the channel. A disclaimer is going to be added to the Esperanza main page. We are humans and, as such, are imperfect. Various revisions have been made to the Code of Conduct. Please see them, as the proposal is ready to be ratified by the community and enacted. All members will members to have to re-confirm their membership after accepting the Code of Conduct. Referendums are to be held on whether terms of AC members should be lengthened and whether we should abolish votes full stop. Admin Coaching reform is agreed upon. Signed... Celestianpower, JoanneB, Titoxd, Pschemp and Freakofnurture 20:29, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Rhenania-RH-XX

I see you have created articles on some ships in the swedish navy under the names Rhenania RH-XX, for example the Wachtmeister class that is refered to as Rhenania RH-98. I have not been able to find any other article that refers to these ships by the name Rhenania. What is your source? --Dahlis 12:57, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

HMS Royal Oak

Hi

I am at present engaged in writing a series of definitive articles on British battleships of the Victorian era. You have already written a short article on HMS Royal Oak (1862), which Wiki have classed as a stub. Would you object if I erased your words and did a more extensive article? I will not do so without your approval. --Anthony.bradbury 21:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

HMS Royal Oak page done if you would like to comment.--Anthony.bradbury 19:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Eleventh-century battleships

Hello, Johann Wolfgang!

Thanks for correcting a most embarrassing typo in the HMS Swiftsure (1870) stub. Keep up the good work!

Regards, John Moore 309 16:22, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Royal Oak

Thank you for your kind comment.--Anthony.bradbury 21:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

A short Esperanzial update

As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Wikipedia:Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, —Celestianpower ^háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Esperanza

Happy wiki-Birthday

Hello friend. I wish you a very happy wiki-birthday on 25th June 2006. BTW, I learnt of the same from Wikipedia:Esperanza and i am wishing you a day in advance. All the best for the coming year! --Bhadani 14:54, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy first edit day! Kimchi.sg 10:17, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Joe I wishes you a happy 1st wiki birthday! And many more!

Oh, no! I'm late! Sorry, sir! All the best!--Tdxiang 11:17, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Maritime warfare task force

Hello, Johann Wolfgang!

Good news: Kirill Lokshin (talk · contribs) has recently created the Maritime warfare task force as part of the Military History project. Bad news: so far, it has only three members (the worst news is that one of them is me).

I think this would be a good forum for discussing of maritime warfare/naval history, exchanging ideas and establishing best practice at a more general level than the Ships project. If you are interested, can I suggest you pay a visit and, if you like what you see, sign up?

Regards, John Moore 309 16:45, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Coaching

Hi Johann Wolfgang. Are you free to coach me? My admin coaches are inactive...if you can, thanks a lot. Do inform me.--Tdxiang 08:03, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

from Gifford...

Dear Johann,

I left a message on the "Web Portal" talk page for you.

Cheers,

Gifford Watkins

Admin Coaching

Here is where you go to sign up. Thank you so much! I was worried I would be unable to find a coach. I hope we can work together to continue in our quest to develop the Free Encyclopedia. My page is here, so that you can reply if you want to answer my questions. See you soon.--Tdxiang 07:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Numismatics

Just something to keep ya busy!  :)

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Collaborate : Finish Assessment, Expand and reorganize style guide, New category structure, Infoboxes: designing and adding to pages, more... Expand : Coins of Australia, Half sovereign, 5 yen coin, Canadian Silver Maple Leaf, Coins of Ireland, Series of 1928 (United States Currency), Royal Mint, Achaemenid currency, Elymais, Roman provincial coins, Seleucid coinage, Nabataean coinage, South Vietnamese đồng, more... Featured article candidates : Peace Dollar, more... Merge : more... Stubs : Brockage, Cistophorus, Coinage Act of 1849, Zuz (Jewish coin), Polish Mint, more... Wikify : Twenty pence (English coin), Canadian Silver Maple Leaf, Chinese Silver Panda, Common coin errors, Gold standard, Coin grading, Euro, History of the English penny (1154-1485), Petrocurrency, more... Others : Requested Images: English coin Three Farthings, Commemorative coins of Poland, more... Improve to GA: History of money, Numismatics, Roman currency, Money, Ancient Greek coinage, Fiat currency, United States Mint, Canadian Silver Maple Leaf, Banknotes of Zimbabwe, more...

 Joe  I 21:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Maritime military history

Hello! As I see you have an interest in old naval ships I just wanted to let you know that a Maritime warfare task force has been established under the WikiProject Military history. Why not take a look? :) Inge 11:27, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much.

I thank you very much Johann. However, due to real-life stress. I am unable to continue with admin coaching. Please forgive me. I am really dead beat and stressed out. It has been nice wokring with people like you, Johann! I hate to go.--Tdxiang 09:53, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Need your support

As a member of the Project Philately I would like to make you aware of a discussion about the Category:Philatelists that some of us have recently come to a consensus about. The discussion is here, but essentially a decision was made to try and remove all the subcategories that grouped the philatelists into country categories even though there are only just over 20 pages referenced and some of the subcategories had a few as 1 listing. Besides which, I would never go looking for a philatelist based on a country of origin, even if I knew it, I would look at the category for his/her name. Anyway, this is up for discussion now at a CfD, categories for deletion, page and I would appreciate if you would weigh in on the matter having first looked at the original discussion. I am sure you will see the benefit and logic of getting rid of these redundant subcategories and vote a Support for this. By way of reference, one of these subcategories was up for deletion a short time ago and basically all the non-philately people won the day, overriding the philatelic viewpoint. I am sure you would not want that to happen again. Do not delay as CfDs get dealt with fairly quickly. TIA ww2censor 20:09, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

German unit

You wrote "I don't see anything wrong with that. I will help you if you want.". I'm not sure which "that" you were talking about. Is it

1. The current status
2. Changing them to upper case

Anyway, I am going to carry that on in a day or two. I know that the assessment thing is going on. But I would also like to make the German unit transition as quickly as possible. I will also notify Dove1950 and Nightstallion, for they care about the naming convention too. --Chochopk 09:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Discussion going on Talk:German mark. --Chochopk 15:31, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

August Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: To-Do List The Esperanza To-Do List is a place where you may list any request, big or small, for assistance. If you need help with archiving your usertalk, for example, all you need to do is list it here and somebody will help you out. Likewise, if you need help with some area of editing on Wikipedia, list it here! Again, any matter, trivial or not, can be placed on this page. However, all matters listed on this page must not be of an argumentative nature. You do not need to be a member of Esperanza (or this program) to place or fulfill requests on this page. If you don't have any requests, consider coming by and fulfilling a few! This program has not been very active, but has lots of potential! What's New? In order to help proposed programs become specific enough to make into full-fledged programs, the In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals that are promising, but need to be organized in more detail are listed here. Please take a look at what is there, and help the proposals turn into programs. To improve both the layout and text of the front page, in an attempt to clarify the image of Esperanza, the front page is going to have some redesigning take place. Please take your creative minds to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Front page redesign to brainstorm good ideas. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) In order to make sure all users who join Esperanza are welcomed, a list of volunteers who are willing to welcome new Esperanzians is at Wikipedia:Esperanza/Members#Esperanza_welcomers. Please add yourself if you are interested; we want to make sure all new Esperanza members are welcomed! The In development section of the proposals page has been created. Proposals page: Some proposals have been moved to the aforementioned "In development" section, some have been left as a proposal, and others have been archived. For those proposals that were a good idea but didn't necessarily constitute a program, General Esperanzial Actions has been created. Two small pieces of charter reform will be decided on in a straw poll at Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Governance. One involves filling the position of any councillors who may leave, the other involves reforming the charter. Until cooperation with the Kindness Campaign is better defined, it remains as a proposed program. There is a page for discussing the front page redesign. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 05:03, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

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Admin coaching

I've now formally assigned you to coach Tdxiang, as was requested. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for helping out :) Petros471 15:02, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Antarctican dollar AfD

Sorry to spam if you are already aware. But I had to resort to personal message. Someone is trying to delete Antarctican dollar, I tried really hard to make a point at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antarctican dollar. Now I need people to support the "keep" side. Thanks. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 05:24, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

September Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Barnstar Brigade Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors! What's New? September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves! Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there! The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The proposals page has been updated, with some proposals being archived. Since the program in development Appretiaion week is getting lots of good ideas, it now has its own subpage. The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself! The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it! TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly! Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, Freakofnurture, and Titoxd 04:04, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Although having the newsletter appear on everyone's userpage is desired, this may not be ideal for everyone. If, in the future, you wish to receive a link to the newsletter, rather than the newsletter itself, you may add yourself to Wikipedia:Esperanza/Newsletter/Opt Out List.

Carter Glass

You are right. In the 1964 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, the "M" volumn under Money, Page 594, there is a chart listing U.S. currencies. Second from the bottom of the chart lists:

    Denomination      Front Portrait    Back Embellishment
  
       50,000.............Glass...........A Spread Eagle  

I don't doubt this chart appears in many other editions of the World Book.

      hsftennis@cfl.rr.com 

P.S. This is my first visit to Wikipedia. I hope I did it right.

suicide of ex PCOG member

On a forum of sorts is an entry by "Searchme" aka "Joe I" (I think) where he makes reference to the suicide of one John Briggs.

I am part of an organization that monitors and counsels people out of that cult, and really need to get more details on this, but have not been able to. I was also unable to find a way to contact this "Searchme" person, but your name is listed on his bio page. Would you please contact him and have him get in touch with me.

Bill Hohmann

wmhohmann@peoplepc.com Exit and Support Network

Thanks

Esperanza Admin coaching - October 29 - Pending

You are receiving this message because you are currently listed as a coach in the 'Pending' section of the coaching box.

• If the coaching has started and is ongoing please move the entry to the 'active' section of the box'.
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Thank you for helping with admin coaching! Highway ^{Grammar Enforcer!} 22:49, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

November Esperanza Newsletter

Program Feature: Admin Coaching (needs coaches!) Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach. Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins. What's New? The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one! A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts. Many thanks to MiszaBot, courtesy of Misza13, for delivering the newsletter.

The last AC meeting (full log) The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived. There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia. The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested! In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias. A discussion of Esperanza's role in Wikipedia is being held, with all thoughts of all Esperanzians wanted! Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello. Signed... Natalya, Banes, Celestianpower, EWS23, FireFox, The Halo, Shreshth91 and HighwayCello 20:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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This is an archive, please to not modify it, thank you.