Welcome! edit

Hello, SenatorSteve! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, 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 by clicking   or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! X MarX the Spot (talk) 04:06, 6 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
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Obama's Timeline edit

Your updating of the timeline is great and very much appreciated. Buster7 (talk) 20:50, 6 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Edit summaries edit

Hi, Senator. I hope you don't mind a friendly request from a colleague that you give edit summaries with your edits. It helps you fellow editors tremendously in tracking changes and rationales for them. Thanks. With regards, -- Tenebrae (talk) 15:14, 11 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

Mark Waid edit

Hi, Steve. Welcome to Wikipedia. One suggestion: Please make sure you either use the Preview function, or check your edits to make sure that they came out correct. If your edits accidentally malform a table or other formatting, as they did with these edits of yours to Mark Waid did with this table, be sure to either revert it, or ask someone else for help. If you have any other questions about editing, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks, and Happy Holidays. :-) Nightscream (talk) 09:04, 10 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Square Enix edit

Hi, Senator, and thanks for your interest in the Square Enix WikiProject! I hope to see you around there and on Square Enix-related articles! --PresN 04:35, 18 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

Lincoln Memorial/Legacy section edit

We are currently attempting to bring the Lincoln article to FA status and are trying to establish consensus regarding images. Your consensus and opinion is needed on the Abraham Lincoln talk page. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 01:34, 25 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

'Steve, thanks for your imput, however we need to gather consensus on images in the Lincoln Memorial stamp section. We are collecting opinions (for or against) a Lincoln image being restored, or returned, to the page. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 06:50, 25 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Israel edit

Hi SenatorSteve! I noticed that you re-added yourself as an active contributor to WikiProject Israel. I appreciate your interest and hope that you contribute to the project! Please note however that the list of participants refers only to active participants, and editors who do not actively contribute to the project are moved to the inactive contributors list. This is not meant to offend or understate the efforts of these editors, but to give us a more realistic idea of how many contributors we have at a given moment and who they are. Again, I appreciate your interest and look forward to your contributions to the project. Cheers, Ynhockey (Talk) 19:20, 28 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to MISH! edit

Thank you for joining the Michigan State Highways Project (WP:MISH/WP:MSHP). We're a small, but mighty, subproject of WP:USRD, the U.S. Roads WikiProject. MISH is in the process of continuing to improve the articles that cover the state and county-designated highways of the Great Lakes State. We use our parent project for basic project standards, assessment and media support. Editors at WP:USRD/MTF, the Maps Task Force, and WP:USRD/STF, the Shields Task Force, create and update maps or highway markers ("shields") for our articles. WP:USRD/ACR is the project A-Class Review process for reviewing and upgrading articles to A-Class status, which is usually one of the last stops before WP:FAC, the Featured Article Candidates.

If you look at WP:USRD/A/S (or the "live" version at WP:USRD/A/L), you'll see all of the various states, territories or subtypes of roads listed in a table with statistics on the article assessments. The last two columns are the two "WikiWork" numbers. The ω figure is the cumulative WikiWork, which is a measure of how many total classes of improvement are needed to reach the theoretical goal of having every article Featured. The Ω is the relative WikiWork, on a scale of 0 (good) to 6 (bad). Michigan is currently leading all other states with a Ω around 2.5 on a 6-point scale. Every one of our articles has been improved to at least a C-Class on the scale, and over half of the project's articles are Good Articles, A-Class or Featured Articles now. (In fact, Brockway Mountain Drive was just promoted as an FA this morning, the third in 2011 alone.)

The next article to be nominated will probably be M-185 (Michigan highway) after we revise it to the current FA standards. We will probably discuss avenues of improvement (yes, pun intended) on Talk:M-185 (Michigan highway) if you're interested in joining in. The goal will be to make an engaging article about a truly unique "highway", and then nominate it for promotion later this summer. Imzadi 1979  15:39, 1 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

 
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UOJComm (talk) 23:14, 19 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Your opinion would be appreciated edit

As a member of WikiProject Countries, I'm seeking your opinion on a possible issue identified at List of sovereign states. If you have some spare moments, please contribute a comment at the Discussion of criteria. Best regards, Nightw 06:47, 20 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your response! Could you answer either "yes" or "no" in the survey section? This is for the reference of participants to identify whether or not there is a problem with the arrangement of Kosovo in the list. Thanks, Nightw 16:50, 21 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Suggestion for WikiProject United States to support WikiProject US Presidents edit

Greetings, It was recently suggested that WikiProject US Presidents might be inactive or semiactive and it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. I have started a discussion on the projects talk page soliciting the opinions of the members of the project if this project would be interested in being supported by WikiProject United States. Please feel free to comment on your opinions about this suggestion. --Kumioko (talk) 13:22, 21 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

July 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States edit

 

The July 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 13:33, 24 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft edit

Thanks for signing up for this project. It is a very busy and active project with lots going on and we can always use more help and especially a fresh set of eyes. If you haven't done so already you might want to add Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft to your watch list as this is where much of the background discussion occurs. You may also want to watch Wikipedia:New articles (Aircraft) as this is where newly created articles get listed for peer review. Having a look over these new articles is a great way to get a feel for how things are done on the project and also most new articles need reviewing anyway. If you have any questions you can leave me a note or post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft, either way you will get a quick response. - Ahunt (talk) 15:09, 2 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Notice of RfC pertaining to List of sovereign states edit

Please join a preference survey on how to divide our List of sovereign states. All responses are appreciated. Thanks, Nightw 13:38, 3 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States edit

 

The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumioko (talk) 01:16, 7 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects edit

 

The January 2012 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

 
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 19:41, 16 January 2012 (UTC)Reply

USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2012 edit

Volume 5, Issue 1 • Winter 2011 • About the Newsletter
This edition is going out to all USRD WikiProject members (current, former, or potential) in addition to other subscribers as part of a roll call to update the participants list. Anyone that would like to continue to receive this newsletter in the future needs to update the subscription list if they are not already subscribed.
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Imzadi 1979  22:16, 4 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Animal rights edit

You are receiving this semi-automated message because you are a participant of WikiProject Animal rights. If the project is not on your watchlist or you have not visited the WikiProject recently you will not be aware of some of the changes that I have made to the pages, or aware of an a issue that has been raised about my attempt to re-categorise some of the project related articles. Please revisit the project talk page to add your input. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:26, 9 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle edit

Decemmber 8 - Wikipedia Loves Libraries Seattle - You're invited
 
Seattle Public Library
  • Date Saturday, December 8, 2012
  • Time 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
  • Location Seattle Public Library Meeting Room 1 on Level 4, Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue, Seattle WA, 98104
  • Event An editathon on Seattle-related Wikipedia articles with Wikipedia tutorials and Librarian assistance on hand.
  • Hashtag #wikiloveslib or #glamwiki.
  • Registration http://wll-seattle.eventbrite.com or use on-wiki regsistration.

Yours, Maximilianklein (talk) 03:42, 1 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

RfC:Infobox Road proposal edit

WP:AURD (Australian Roads), is inviting comment on a proposal to convert Australian road articles to {{infobox road}}. Please come and discuss. The vote will be after concerns have been looked into.

You are being notified as a member on the list of WP:AUS

Nbound (talk) 05:58, 6 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library! edit

World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!
 
Hi SenatorSteve! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the World Digital Library, a project of the Library of Congress and UNESCO. I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about history & culture to participate in improving Wikipedia using the WDL's vast free online resources. Participants can earn our awesome WDL barnstar and help to disseminate free knowledge from over 100 libraries in 7 different languages. Multilingual editing encouraged!!! But being multilingual is not a necessity to make this project a success. Please sign up to participate here. Thanks for editing Wikipedia and I look forward to working with you! EdwardsBot (talk) 14:31, 25 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

Invitation to a Wicnic in Gainesville on Saturday, June 22nd edit

Greetings!

Seeing that you're a member of WikiProject Florida, on the off chance you're in our neck of the woods, I'm inviting you to the North Central Florida 2013 Great American Wiknic that will be on Saturday June 22, 2013, commencing at 1:00 pm, ten blocks north of UF campus in Gainesville.

If you're able and inclined to come, please RSVP at at this URL.

Type to you later, Vincent J. Lipsio (talk) 13:05, 2 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

Invitation to WikiProject Invention edit

 
Hello, SenatorSteve.

You are invited to join WikiProject Invention, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of inventions and invention-related topics.

To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 10:03, 29 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Wikiproject Invention members' update edit

To post the following user box on your user page, copy {{WikiProject Invention user box}}, which creates:

 This user is a member of
WikiProject Invention.

Thanks for joining the project! Northamerica1000(talk) 08:41, 1 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open! edit

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) 13:55, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Invite to the African Destubathon edit

Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! So it would be a good chance to win something for improving stubs on African sportspeople, including footballers, athletes, Olympians and Paralympians etc, particularly female ones, but also male. Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing a few expanded articles on African Paralympians, Olympians and committees etc, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:12, 6 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Asian 10,000 Challenge invite edit

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:33, 21 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite edit

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge edit

  You are invited to participate in the 50,000 Challenge, aiming for 50,000 article improvements and creations for articles relating to the United States. This effort began on November 1, 2016 and to reach our goal, we will need editors like you to participate, expand, and create. See more here!

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 8 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia edit

Hi, Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

US Presidential Timeline work edit

Hi, I saw your name on Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Presidents/Active participants. The newly created presidential timelines on Template:US Presidential Administrations need work! They're pretty easy to work on! I can't do them alone! The timelines provide great reading material for many Wikipedia readers. All your contributions are greatly appreciated. Ethanbas (talk) 06:56, 19 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Findagrave as a reliable source (2017) edit

Hi SenatorSteve, Your help is needed. I'm having trouble with User:32.218.40.184 who is deleting my Findagrave as a reliable source. An example is John Bohn. I am aware that Findagrave is a reliable source to be included in the External links section. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Death#Findagrave_citation_.282017.29 Need your help in dealing with this situation. SWP13 (talk) 07:15, 10 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!